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  1. The thing I enjoy most about watching how talented Mahomes is, that Tech had him for three years and they managed one winning season!
  2. Sorry Slacks, but I'm going to disagree with you, slightly. If he is a bad interview, he may never get a HC job and it's really nothing more than that. It's not reasonable to expect to ever be the face of a billion dollar operation if you can't make it through an interview with the people who will be your bosses. A couple of side stories, one of my buddies asked me to meet a woman that was interviewing for a job where I worked. Foreign language skills were such a plus that you would almost be a shoe-in if you were a half decent speaker. She knew French. So I meet her for lunch and I'm giving out some pointers that the interviewer will likely be looking for as well as what I know about the job and the company. At one point I ask a question about how she was preparing for the interview, she responds with "Oh, I don't want to be over prepared". I tried to be as helpful as I could, maybe I should have said what I was thinking. "I DON"T KNOW WHAT OVER PREPARED IS!" But I didn't and I doubt it would have helped. She wasn't over prepared. All I heard back was that she didn't get the job. A while back, a guy comes in to interview with us where I work. No suit, wrinkled shirt, unshaven, missing some documents that he was supposed to bring. Still had an attitude, something like -I'm so qualified/deserving that NOTHING else matters and I'm a shoe-in. Claims that his suits/documents were in his car that got flooded down in Houston (reasonable, since the flooding was recent). Still no reason you couldn't shave, iron your shirt and drop the attitude. I can't remember what the starting pay was, but it pays $200- $300K by year three, live anywhere you want, 12-18 days off a month, pretty sweet deal. Yeah, he didn't make it either despite the company being desperate to fill the position. Probably too Freudian, but if you aren't willing to do everything within your power to show well in an interview, deep down you don't want the job or doubt your abilities and it's best for everyone involved that you don't get hired.
  3. Teletubbies all grown up!
  4. I don't really care who wins, we are pulling for K.C. in this house because youngest daughter (the one at UT) thinks Andy Reid looks like the Lorax.
  5. Oh I'm a believer in that. It's easier to plan the home games, I have 4 different hotels that have become my "go to" spots. But even in Austin I try to have all my hotels booked and plans made. Some restaurants only go out a couple of months, so that gets a bit sketchy and hopefully we won't see a home game overlap with F1 weekend again.
  6. Yeah, never had any desire to go to Manhattan or Morgantown. Never really cared for Lubbock, never even went to a Baylor game that wasn't at DKR.
  7. I've been pondering future trips to away games, I didn't realize that most of the cities were so small. I've been to Baton Rouge, Knoxville, Nashville, and Lexington for work. Passed through Gainesville while moving back to Texas. College Station a handful of times. The airports are acceptable, but a lot of times it looks like hotels are going to be 30-50 miles away. Not a deal killer, but most likely would cause you land at Columbus,Ga or Montgomery for an Auburn game. Or Memphis for an Ole' Miss game. Looked at Knoxville as an example of one of the bigger SEC towns but even they have limited hotel space. If you look at their downtown Hyatt Place for their game against Aggy, it's asking $1100/night. I have friends that will fly in for the game and fly out right after, but I've gotten to the point of wanting to be a bit more relaxed about the weekend. Oxford, Knoxville, and Gainesville are high on my list. Maybe Nashville, Tuscaloosa, Columbia, SC and Auburn just a step behind.
  8. How many teams on that list are better than Appalachian State? I can see one that wasn't.
  9. Perhaps not. Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin 'discovered after' he left office- senior Biden offi….webloc
  10. Ehh, his squadron mates are going to give him endless crap. Even if they used a C-130. This could earn him/her a new callsign and it isn't going to be "Maverick" or "Ice Man". Something more along the lines of "Clown" or "Mr. Fredrickson".
  11. Might not have been a fighter, could have been, but F-18, F-18E/F, F-22 and F-35 are not exactly optimised to shoot down balloons.
  12. I had a buddy that got cornered by a politician in an ops area demanding to be brought up to speed on Intel regarding a situation. The congressperson was basically spitting mad my buddy wasn't bending over backwards to follow their requests. At one point yelling that they had clearance for the high level intel. My friend informed the congressperson "I know you do, but I lack the clearance level to divulge said intel." Politico when off in a huff. Not sure if they ever got what they wanted, but my buddy didn't end up in prison so there's that.
  13. Car crash when she was in High School, probably still safer than hanging out with Joe Mixon.
  14. Yeah, I said "chase them down and try to ruin their lives." If you have stepped up and said "i'm out" how bad is excommunication? I'll grant you that if you stay in Utah you might be persona non grata, but you'd probably be okay if you move to say, Port Aransas. Either that or your can find some small hotel in south Utah, you know just a small mom and pop, and mom and mom and mom.
  15. I won't consider them a cult until they start chasing down ex-members and detractors and try and ruin their lives like these guys...
  16. So what are/should be the trophies for these budding rivalries? Kansas/KSU - Easy/boring-bronzed sunflower. OSU/Tech -Another easy one-get Tech to rework the boots they made for a rivalry they wanted but won't be using. Tech/WVU - John Denver Bowl Trophy centered around a fuel selector valve. (I know it's in poor taste, but it's Surly and I'm iced/snowed in with nothing better to do) BYU/TCU/ Baylor - I envision a trophy with some element contributed by each school. From BYU a deep hat with nothing in it and a pair of "magic" glasses, alternately some magic underwear and a bowl big enough to hold two years of food. From TCU maybe a plaque explaining that they are very Texan, not Christian anymore and barely a University. Ahh Baylor. Maybe a section of the trophy with a dead basketball player a gutted stray cat and a rape going on in the background while Art Briles and associates have their backs turned to it.
  17. I'm assuming we don't escape the Big 12 this year. So here are the assumptions I've been making for my hotel planning. 9/2 is Rice 9/9 is Bama and 9/16 in Wyoming and unlikely to change. 10/13 should be OU. 10/20 is F1 (good luck getting a room if you haven't already booked). Probably a game after Thanksgiving 11/24 (maybe they will even screw us with a short week). Everything else is a guess for me, but I'm assuming we will get no consideration for scheduling cadence, so long road stretches or home stretches are a possibility.
  18. Well, the Marriott family anyway.
  19. If this is valid, I'm willing to bet that we have a close approximation of the obverse side of the coin. So we will get Tech,Houston,Baylor, KState and likely the most unfavorable of those (If not all) on the road. The Big 12 striking a balance between squeezing the last dollar, answering the pleadings of the "left behind" to get one more sellout, and screwing us over wherever the opportunity avails itself.
  20. So sorry to hear it. May peace be with you and your family.
  21. Hang in there brother, you are doing the right thing for both of you by spending what time you can with him. Sounds like he was a good dad that raised a good son.
  22. Really? I watched it 8 times before I realised she had a head, I'll never notice the hat!
  23. Katchum vs. Engal not exactly clash of the Titans
  24. Well, they stuck with communism for 75+ years so yeah they aren't real quick on the uptake.
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