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    Okay thought it would be more inflammatory…but I agree with this and I figured the Big 12/ACC/Big East would too with quality bubble teams all being in the outside looking in. The SEC, notably, didn’t have a real quality team miss out this year (17 win LSU or #90 NET Ole Miss). We have too many DI conferences which means too many AQs. DI is too big need to be split in half like the NCAA president was trying to propose. Is anyone actually upset by this, or is it just fun to point and laugh at the SEC’s shitty basketball?
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    Can someone post his comments please?
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    Was he doing shit talk? If so that’s dumb.
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    I’ve had these same thoughts. All those programs could be options if they go to 24, but if they go to 20 it’s FSU, Clemson, UNC, and one of UNC’s buddies (UVA, Duke, NCSU). UNC’s less lucky pals plus Kansas, West Virginia, and Virginia Tech would be in the next set if they go to 24.
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    True. I know if won’t happen due for a myriad of reasons (including the difference in TV dollars) but if FSU/Clemson land in the SEC and UNC/UVA are locked down due to in state politics, which means the B1G/SEC are both at 18…it would make so much sense for the ACC/B12 to swap SMU/Cal/Stanford for WVU/Cincy/UCF. Logic and reality need to get their shit together.
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    I’m fine with the 2025 schedule. I didn’t like that we were playing Arkansas and aggy both away in 2024, because not only did were the last times we play each of them both away (at aggy in 2011, at Arkansas 2021) but if we switched to a 9 game 3-6-6 schedule in 2025 one of those would have likely got to host us again meaning 3 straight home games in the series. I didn’t care all that much about playing two in a row away in the series (that happens when schedules change, we hosted Okie State in Austin in back to back year during the previous realignment in 2011) but 3 times would have been outlandish. Now when/if they go to 3-6-6 in 2026 we’ll get to host one of either Arkansas or aggy two times in a row and I can only imagine how upset it will make them.
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    They said the same thing about the exit fee being exorbitant as FSU, but the twist is Clemson is saying that the GOR was only enforceable while they are conference members and once they leave the conference the GOR is no longer applicable. So they want to pay a reasonable exit fee and leave with their rights as free agents. If the court rules their way expect many others to follow quickly.
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    Where do I sign?
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    He should start a junior college in Houston and put Cougar High out of business.
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    Yes. That is a perk of being a season ticket holder. Once you have them they are yours as long as you always renew and assuming they don’t get have to reassign your seating due to construction (even then they’ll give you new seats for the same price).
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    Nebraska has never won a game in the men’s basketball tournament. Very nice no win situation for aggy. If they win then it was expected because Nebraska has never won. If they lose they go down as the same that finally got Nebraska over that hump.
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    It was fun to point and laugh at sleepy sherm but I’ll admit that he was the only coach I was happy they fired. I truly believe that he was building a solid foundation that could have made aggy a competitive program for years to come. I’m not sure they would have been national title contenders but I suspect they would have won more games than sumlin if they had kept him.
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    One of my favorite aggy goal post moving lines was after they won the women’s bball title most of their insiders started talking about the college national championships in the “Big 4 Sports” but then had to stop using it the very next year when Baylor won their second women’s basketball title so they wouldn’t get lapped by the Baptists.
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    I’ll disagree that it’s not important as pro-Palestinian groups and government actors including even Biden are using them like they are official to make a point and win hearts and minds. Still we agree that a single civilian death is too many but that is war. When Gaza voted Hamas into power it was never going to end peacefully. I don’t like or condone Israel’s actions nor the US funding them. I can keep these thoughts in my head while also acknowledging that Hamas is making this as deadly and painful as possible for everyone intentionally and we should not reward that tactic as it will only lead to more pain and suffering. It’s a giant shit sandwich, and we’re going to eat it one way or another.
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    I don’t think it’s denial to question numbers that have evidence that they are problematic. Remember the rocket that bombed a hospital (reported by the same organization that is calculating these numbers) that the whole media ran with? Turns out it was a misfired rocket from Hamas that hit a parking lot. If a hospital was hit by a rocket and 100+ people were killed there would have been evidence of it. But those numbers were included in these totals despite any evidence and that is problematic.
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    We got quarries all over. Digging up/blasting rock ain’t easy but it’s not impossible either. It makes the lake more usable and increase water storage is a win win.
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    Not kidding. Have you seen the water reclamation projects that have been proposed, including desalinization and force pumping into old aquifers? The money proposed on those efforts also only equals a fraction of a percent of Lake Travis. It seems like they could deepen/widen the existing reservoir and be cheaper than many of these other water projects to capture more natural run off…and it also would help out those that use the lake for recreational purposes at the same time. I’ve fucked up a few props out there on a rock that came out of nowhere. Something like this would have multiple public benefits.
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    I’ve never understood why they don’t try to dig up sometimes island and increase the capacity of the lake. When we get those once a decade type rainfall seasons which fills the lake past 100% and they just open the flood gates all the way it just seems so wasteful, when we know within 5 years we’ll be back to worrying about the water supply. It seems like that is a relatively easy an obvious way to increase capacity especially while the lake is low, so I’m assuming their must be some other reason why it hasn’t been done.
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    https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2024/03/nick-saban-rails-on-pay-for-play-how-chaos-contributed-to-retirement.html I know it’s been discussed but… aggy starts paying illegally, and now Texas starts legally paying where Alabama is going to struggle to keep up, so he retires and goes with the Bama AD to Capitol Hill to whines to Ted Cruz…
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    I don’t like that either BUT governors, senators, and congressmen have NATIONAL implications and impact. A local race like say with the district attorney, city, council, or mayor is not the same. I wish we’d roll back all these dumbass dark money super pacs but that’s likely a conversation for the CR which even I wouldn’t want to read.
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    KXAN interviewed the Sylestine the other night on his block walk who stated that 40% of Garza’s funding came from out of state. The ONLY reason I heard that is because it came directly out of the candidates mouth. You’d think someone would have fact checked that statement and made a bigger deal out of it one way or another. Since it didn’t get coverage I’m going to think it’s likely true and it was not covered intentionally.
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    Where did Garza’s funding come from? Multiple news orgs covering the “10 donors who have a history of contributing to Republicans.” but very little coverage on anything Garza related. It’s always great when local media goes all out in their investigatory duties to cover issues only in a single direction. But seriously, Austin voters are idiots. Nothing new here.
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    I’m not annexed by the city. We pay our own trash, Travis county does the roads, Travis ESD1 provides fire, Travis sheriff covers police, Co-opt electric, but we do have Austin city water.
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    No city taxes mainly.

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