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horn4life

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  1. Well it is going to be very interesting to see how the Portal closes for us this season. Right now, no matter what factors you use to grade Sark and Co, the grade is not a good one. What I am a bit concerned with is that the lack of success is now working negatively against us in multiple ways. 1) The unexpected defections at LB for example. 1) Might kids seeing that from the depth chart, they are now starters and deserve starter money? IF you were in a business where there was great scarcity for your position, and you were elevated into a high earning position of the former employee, would you NOT expect comparable compensation? Then we dick around thinking we have some badass on the hook and then the position gets even thinner. Making the existing LB's even more valuable, from a negotiating standpoint. 2) For whatever reason we did not hang onto near as much depth on the team as anyone here expected. I think that's a very fair statement. In sales for example every sales guy wants the giant account. But it's the small and medium accounts (with less competition) that pay the bills day in and day out. The elephant can put you over the top, but if you lose that elephant and don't have enough steady small and medium accounts you get fucked in the end. That is sort of where I see us now. In that it would have been cheap and easy to secure a fair amount of the kids that hit the portal. COMPARATIVELY, to where we are now. Bidding for a smaller and smaller pool of players. 3) We now seems are more desperate for warm bodies than we have been? And that makes us look more desperate. Which again drives up the costs of acquisition in a market with rapidly shrinking supply. With no Spring Portal there is no time for make ups, if we can't close quickly on some warm bodies we better have the most talented group of incoming freshmen we have ever seen to fill the potential gaps. Now it's possible that we close strong, fill the gaps and have some of the young incoming guys really step up. But right now, I am not in my usual "in Sark I trust" mentality. Mainly because there is no makeup exam, spring portal opening anymore. I hope that my fears are completely unjustified in a week. However, my concerns about retention of existing players is something I think going forward Sark and Co are going to have to get a better handle on. Continuity and Culture are truly the foundation of great teams. Right now we are very weak on the continuity aspect IMHO.
  2. Oh as an aside. I made a good deal of money playing with some old ass (fitted) garage made cavity backs. If I really wanted to bank I would wear my golf sandals, to complete the "bad news bears" look. Left my driver in the bag mostly and fucked them up with a strong short game, and good putting. We also gambled using "dots" which could have you standing over some putts that would have gotten you a new set of clubs, fairly routinely if we had a couple carry overs near the end of a round. I think my biggest pocket was like $590, after being up over $1000. I let off the gas as to not lose a friendship. But also to keep the guy on the hook for potentially another bit payday. He had taken little bits of money off me for years before lessons, lessons allowed me to beat the shit out of him and choose to lose holes, to be able to press the bet. Mainly I didn't want to look like I could play, and I was playing to win money. Not overall low score. Losing, can make you win more sometimes if you have control over pressing the bet when it gets big. I would often sandbag the hole before a water carrying par three. Let them have the honors, and then press the bet as they stood looking at the water. Fucking evil, but effective. Lessons, fitted clubs, and PROPER practice. I lost most of my playing partners years ago as they moved away from Austin. The original reason for even picking up clubs, was because my fututre wife's family was super into golf and they had a big annual family reunion, that began with a golf tourney at Landa Park. Once I stated getting good short game my goal became to get a hole in one. Once I got that, and they guys moved away, and FIL got old I just did not play anymore. Plus coaching two travel soccer teams wiped out all my time for a decade. The other thing I think is cool about golf is course management. Knowing how to make the course fit YOUR game. That's a couple strokes a round, for free. I was always a good putter, but probably because I was a damn good pool player before golf. Read this book if you gamble playing golf (which is everyone right?) toss it in the bathroom. Great golf gambling stories!
  3. What do you think about the Trump administrations floating making it illegal for large corporations to invest in single family housing? ReutersUS will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami...U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration is moving to ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes in a bid to reduce home prices, a potential blow for private-equ
  4. Might be a spelling error? "The Port Hole Pirate" seems to make a bit more sense.
  5. Don't laugh. A punter can change the game. I mean just a few years back Shane Lechler provided more of A&M's field position gains than the Aggie offense, and thus was the most important piece of their offense... File it away under strange but true!
  6. Yeah- I got a fantastic deal on 2020 Silverado 4x4 with the 5.3 L and tow package I wanted. I got it for $37,500, or $600 below employee pricing, with a list of $42,900 if my memory is correct. Now that same truck, that same truck in 2026 has a list price of $60,000+. BUT the dealers are all heavily discounting now. There are $10K in incentives on that $60K truck that bring it down to just over $50K. The fact I am considering buying a new 4x4 at a minimum 30+ percent price increase in 5.5 years is crazy. But then I go to Costco and see the meat prices continue to shoot upward, I worry what will the cost be in two years when my truck might hit 85-90K in mileage? My problem is that I am now pushing 70K miles, and I had planned on having the mileage in the mid 50k, but I put on a lot of extra miles taking care of my folks, and dealing with their stuff. In fact I bought my wife a newer Subaru so I could rack up miles on her 2020 Sonata. To try and keep the miles off the truck. So I pay an extra chunk on insurance, and am trying to shift the miles onto the Sonata. But part of me says go ahead and sell/trade in the truck, and the Sonata and a new payment for that 35% more expensive (now that there are heave dealer discounts). Prices have actually retreated on the dealer discounts and with all the incentives But better than the 40% price increases I was looking at pre year end incentives. Right now I am going to rack up the miles on the Sonata and hold onto my great deal truck. But the idea of how much more it might cost in 3 more years when I might NEED to replace my truck? That has me thinking along the same lines. But damn it's hard to bite off a 30-40 percent price increase over 6 years. But WTF will it be in a couple more years? Hell I sound like a wife with an armfuls of clothing explaining how spending so much on sale today was actually saving...
  7. For some of you this is going to be the only cure for stopping the portal bleeding. I did search a second to try and find a burnt orange version. I think I did well. In both color and shape symbolism...
  8. FANTASTIC!!!! And expected. HaHa! I guess the greatest thing for Texas fans is that we will get endless fucking laughs at the "A&M to the Big 10" meme video on that "courageous move towards independence." We ARE the SHADOW, to your sunshine, from which you cannot hide.
  9. At 388 you can indeed clog the line a bit. At 360 you can clog, toss rag dolls, and destroy opposing OL psyches. Something to think about at breakfast this morning....
  10. Not making a decision is making a decision. If he did not want to leave, he should have signed the offer. End of story. He wanted more money. Did not accept the offer on the table, and his value was such that without a signed offer, he was expendable. The choice not to sign was the only choice made. What is interesting is that in negotiating ANYTHING the only real power you have is to say no. But you must also understand that saying no, also comes with risk of no deal at all! That's where the balls come in. Parker quite simply overplayed his hand, and was forced to fold at Texas.
  11. Maybe my long and painful love affair with the Oilers throughout my youth might have been different... If only they put packages in place of the ladies panties in the original uniform illustrations... And Fuck you Bud Adams! Even in the beyond!
  12. There was a lot of discussion earlier in the year about losing some of our young quality WR bench riders to the portal over in $9.95. Kids want to play. And they want to make bank if they can. I cannot fault a kid on either. And if that means a move, and a raise then that makes sense for Livingstone. He has has some clutch plays for us for sure, he has had some costly drops as well. Two sides of the same coin. The problem is the same one CJ Baxter and Wisner had, looking to next year where do they fit in the competition at Texas? And if you want a big raise, usually you have to change jobs. That's true in life, and the NIL. I guess the only thing I would be really curious about is how the talk with Arch went down? Assuming there was one.
  13. Sorry got here late. With 8 fingers and two thumbs, I just now got home. What the chicks really liked was my Hook'em, Shocker, Mr Spock hand sign combomatic...
  14. Those first two play calls reminded me of the Ghost of Greg Davis...
  15. I hear yah. But my option has been to downsize my reels onto longer surf rods with as low as 20lb braid to get distance. One setup I have adopted that works especially well if I am trying to get out a larger bait (or farther period) is a pulley rig. Basically it allows you the put the mass of the bait and weight together for a smaller less wind resistant profile, AND then makes a shock leader that also pulls the weight up off the bottom while fighting the fish. Without having the bait fluttering creating drag on the long cast you really can gain quite a bit of distance. only difference for me is I use these clips as they are smaller, and bait slide rather than a swivel to form the pulley. I have a wire leader one I made for shark fishing that works really well and I think the bigger slide works a little better overall on the heavier leaders. Try it, I bet you will like it. And easier to lug around than a kayak. ;-)
  16. I just want to see some one step up and begin becoming their own "Longhorn Legend" today. All the roster evaporation creates opportunities for every kid this season that felt like they should have gotten more playing time. Now is a change to show what you got. Who do you guys think is going to be the kids who step up to make an impact today?
  17. This is the beginning of next year, and a sendoff to seniors as their last game day in Burnt Orange. Play like it!!!!! Have fun and kick their fucking ass! Hook'em
  18. Pomp is great, jack is bait. Wintertime is a good time to catch Pompano in the surf. Pomp is probably as good an eating fish as you can catch from the shoreline. Meat sort of reminds me of lobster texture.
  19. Yeah, I have never seen scheduling spilled milk pointed to as often in my life. If you schedule shit teams you can win most of those games. But if you play a shit team that the SEC schedules, and you lose. THAT is NOT the problem... That's why some guys prefer to not to ask out hot women. They don't want the potential disappointment. And that's just a difference in perspective. Some of us realize that you just might hear a no or two along the way to banging hot chicks. But sure things are perfect for some guys. But sure things were always boring to me....
  20. I understand that like many I have not been satisfied with play calling. But the singular reason we are not in the playoffs is we lost to Florida. And if you are honest, with the talent level we had this year how did that happen? How did we so underperform after such an amazing performance versus Ohio State? While I would love to say that is coaching, I tend to blame the players. I circled Florida as out trap game this season in the Spring. But that was before Florida imploded. They rallied to try and save Napier, as we were fucking sure that our talent would eclipse effort. Big fucking mistake. We were GROSSLY overrated going into the season. Hell what other team do you know of that has a backup QB proclaimed the Heisman front runner. Don't you need to show some shit on the field before such lofty proclamations? Hell CJ Baxter was going to be the second coming of (insert your Ricky or Earl overestimation) In the end, you can coach the shit out of kids, but if they think they are clearly more talented, sometimes (oftentimes) that expectation leads to a lack of urgency. Which opens the door to potential disaster. Taking field goals, instead of TD's is sort of the canary in the coal mine. Right now we have to figure out how to get our OL to block well for whoever is in the backfield. The yearly ability to renegotiate NIL money is something that structurally will need to change over time. But right now the end of season is like a hand of Texas Hold'em from a negotiating standpoint. And for Texas that is a good and bad thing. So when folks say something like keep "so and so at any price!" You have to understand, how upping the paycheck of some, tends to drag up the paychecks of those less worthy. And at some point, you have to decide how much money you can allocate to what positions within your budget. Or can we just decide we can pay more than any team out there at ever position and pay our third stringers Ohio State level starter pay? I like the off season coaching moves, as I think the team needed to see some accountable heads roll after underperforming. I certainly don't like losing any potential pieces of the puzzle from the player side. But it's now part of the money landscape of college football. To be honest this off season/transfer portal is probably the most critical of Sark's time at the wheel.
  21. Unfortunately, not anymore...
  22. Yeah I have been buying a ribeye roast at Randalls for well over a decade now. And last week the Ad came up, and damn the price was $8.97 in Austin, and $5.97 in Houston! That's 30% difference in price. The good news is that sometimes HEB or Randall's will do select instead of choice, but obviously choice is better. Luckily we went into Houston Saturday for a party, and I decided for 30% savings I would drive 10 minutes out of the way. Because sort of nice to see the $171 price at the $16.99/lb I would have paid at Costco, turn into $60 on my Randalls receipt! First time in a while I haven't bought a big dog roast, but only hosting a handful this Christmas, rather than the 25+ we have been hosting the last half decade. It's sort of nice... to be honest, just hosting a handful for a change. Only addition this year is going to be making homemade rolls, to pair with the glorious "blood meat" as my youngest daughter used to call rib roast. The ONLY sin you can make in cooking a rib roast is allowing it to cook past medium rare. Then... you have truly fucked up...
  23. Longhorn cheera, and Aggie Tears... ...who is to say which is sweeter?
  24. that reminds me of... and Aggie joke. Aggie is in bed having a smoke, with the gal he just banged. The he excited says, "You don't have AIDS do you?" The gal replies "Hell fucking no!" Aggie replies, "Whoo, glad to hear that! The last thing I want is that again!"
  25. Just hire folks stand in line in front of the truck. And get a few bots to give you continual great reviews. The line means exclusivity in the minds of many passers by, and thus they feel compelled to try and get a bite of this clearly in high demand product. You may be on to something here! I am sure that there used to be folks scoffing at $8 to go coffee.... 😉
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