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  1. I am also in Austin. And will take the other two. Bang bam
  2. Let me know
  3. What part of Houston?
  4. And have down-to-the-wire games with inferior opponents week after week. BC himself points out time and time again that Herman is a magician at preparing and delivering in the spotlight games, when his team is the underdog, but week-to-week and when they are the favorite they consistently underperformed. This shouldn't be anything new to anyone who has watched Texas play the last two years, or followed Herman's time at Houston, that is Herman's (too this time, very short sample size as a HC) team MO. Trying to statistically model a team that is so schizophrenic is not easy.
  5. Are you dense? You do realize the majority of those employees work in FCs, ie they are blue-collar warehouse workers? If not there, in another part of the logistics arm. If their primary goal was to extract as much benefits from governments to build places to ship existing employees they would have chosen the places that were offering even more incentives. Amazon's primary objective was growing a presence in markets where existing talent is located, and centers that have the amenities to continue to attract talent. They can't hire any more people in certain fields in Seattle, they just don't exist. Plus they can hardly get people to move to Seattle, because it's Seattle (weather kills them for people not from PNW).
  6. I would guess a very high majority of those figures will be new hires of local talent (95%+). Of course they will send some established executives to lead teams/divisions, but Amazon isn't shipping people out of Seattle to stock up these new offices.
  7. What exactly are you talking about? One of the biggest factors in the CodeNEXT debacle was the ANC/preservationist/NIMBY wing of connected and concerned citizens that for the last few decades controlled the direction of Austin politics. Adler attempted to walk a tight rope in his "bargain" or "compromise" or whatever dumb thing he labeled it, in trying to update the code while also giving the anti-growth forces things he thought would placate them into supporting a code rewrite. The result was an ever-growing, ever worse CodeNEXT document that got longer, more confusing and in my view worse (and drastically more toward the status quo we have now) which each draft. These same people then also used the petition and Prop J to try to further hinder any ability to make land use changes. Unless you are referencing a different group of people/stakeholders, in which case, I again ask, who are you talking about?
  8. Haha. If you want that from this coaching staff you'll need to pony up a few million more. And they will need 10 more QC assistants.
  9. They don't have to be that fast. I can guarantee the Iowa State guys wouldn't meet your qualifications for speediness. Playing fast and being fast are two very different things.
  10. That said, Iowa State doesn't seem to have the gaping hole at line backer that Texas has. But the recipe for giving that offense fits is in a well executed 3 man front, multiple quarters look.
  11. For those hating on the 3-down look, you do realize this is the exact recipe Iowa State used to destroy the very same offense Texas faced today: https://www.footballstudyhall.com/2018/10/19/17999866/how-iowa-state-obliterated-west-virginia-matt-campbell-dana-holgorsen-will-grier-pump-fake-purdy
  12. S&P sucks. WVU didn't even cover that
  13. These the same tickets that were $40 before?
  14. Buy a $20 or so screen and fix it to trade it in. Should be an hour of work for $280 in net payoff. I am dusting off my old cracked OPO to fix it for this very reason.
  15. Yeah, that was a fun game.
  16. If they are going to in-house made tortillas I will stop my smear campaign against them.
  17. We can just hope other teams don't watch the OSU and both Maryland game films and get any wise ideas about how to attack an Orlando defense on the ground.
  18. Not near as stupid as taking a TO with you to halftime when you HAVE THE BALL at midfield. The strategy and execution of the particular onside we can all agree was trash. But giving yourself an extra 20 percent chance of getting the ball back isn't something I would get super pissed about.
  19. Yeah, I can get the hate for celebrating an "almost sack" and some of some of the other things he does personality wise, but pay attention to what Texas' 3-2-6 base dime defense is trying to do and give credit where credit is due. Gundy picked it a part, yes, could Hager do a better job about breaking down, getting his head up and adjusting to the ball and play, of course. But Hager is not responsible for the QB keep on those plays, he just isn't. He is executing with intensity what he has been called to, and coached to, do on most (if not all, though I would assume like all players he made a fair share of execution mistakes during the game as well).
  20. Not sure where, or who, finds it infallible. Anyone treating any model as gospel is silly, especially when it's creator will publicly and consistently admit it's shortcomings and tease out why those might apply in particular cases. I think it gets the credit it deserves, because Connelly (and the properties he publishes, or partners with) provide it as accessible and open information. The only thing that is funny is when the team you follow happens to be one of the outliers in a model, and fans start to feel like some computer model is an enemy that shouldn't just be addressed, but attacked.
  21. Just curious, I looked up past Herman teams to see how they fared in the eyes of Connelly's model: 2016---Houston finished 9-4, and was ranked 39th in final S&P+ 2015--Houston finished 13-1, and was ranked 46th in final S&P+
  22. Which is why it's crazy to determine any model, or set of model's, legitimacy based on a single game (the ultimate of small sample size). What some people here were arguing is that the model is fundamentally flawed because it gave Texas such poor chances to win against teams like OSU, WVU, ISU and TTU, when in fact I think any reasonable fan that has watched Texas play every quarter of every game this year would say, "Yeah, I have concerns that if they continue to play the way they have all year, and not just in a half of TCU, USC and OU, that they will struggle to win all of those games." We can do this every week and cherry-pick results where these models look prophetic or aloof, but it doesn't address the underlying issues of why Texas is not getting love in these models. They are not getting love because when you step back and look at the pure inputs they don't do things as well, consistently as teams that win all (or most) of their games.
  23. Systems that take into account every single play (minus truly garbage time snaps) are as unbiased of an arbiter you will find in this sport. Those systems, which do have their faults and blind spots (many of which we have addressed in this thread), didn't believe Texas was anywhere close to a top-10 team, and tonight is just another data point to confirm it. Before you argue that some (insert officiating call or no call here) would have changed the outcome, and Texas sneaks out of Stillwater with another close win, realize that Texas doesn't play consistent enough football to be a top 10 team---something that many here, and Connelly have teased out ad naseum. The Herman coached team narrative continues to be oddly true.
  24. Yeah, but we can still stop them. It's easy to go back and retroactively figure things out this way, and we can all do it on two handfuls of plays... But so can the other team. It was a bad call, but the refs didn't force our safeties to live in concrete the entire game. The defensive game plan to try to cover up for the two freshmen corners was picked apart surgically by Gundy and Co., as they diagnosed the loose zone schemes and attacked the lack of force on the edges (something that is impossible with your corners sagging so deep, not to mention they were slow to react and overmatched). How Texas came out and played in the secondary with their two starting corners on the sidelines is why they got in a huge hole, and why they lost that game. Yeah, there were some bad calls, but that is every week in the Big 12.
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