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No fatty brisket at a Texas BBQ joint? Are they transplanted New Yorkers?

Arrived this week

Double negative = positive

What, then, are the parameters defining when Herman should be fired? And how does that decision fit within the “long term best interests of the university.” Not trolling. Legitimately interested in how one makes these decisions and when

Is it too late to apologize to Oliver Luck?

Like when we rushed to Saban, didn’t have a Plan B and wound up with Charlie Strong?

One revision — the final cook is 30 min not 20 — typo

I don’t do them whole, but have made pork belly burnt ends several times (including this past Saturday). Cut in cubes (1 inch-ish), cover with a pork rub Place on a cooling rack on the smoker, smoke at 225 for 3 hours. Put in aluminum tray, cover with squeeze Parkay and agave (or brown sugar). Cover tray with foil, Cook 1 1/2 hours at 225 Remove from the liquid in the tray, toss in a sweet/spicy sauce (I use cherry habanero), put in a clean tray and cook uncovered at 225 for 20 minutes Enjoy. A lot like Killeen’s STQ version, except they do a quick flash fry before doing the final sauce

Second only to Chest Rockwell

Chuck Carlton’s article in the DMN. He compares CDC to the Simpson’s huckster pushing the monorail (which, by the way, I did in a post many pages back...): Texas AD Chris Del Conte is a great salesman, but his pitch for keeping Tom Herman was confusing After the last couple of months, the easy part for Chris Del Conte should have been announcing Tom Herman was back for 2021. Nevermind the pursuit of Urban Meyer or the controversy over “The Eyes of Texas” or a disappointing 6-3 regular season. If you’ve decided as athletic director at Texas that Tom Herman is back as your football coach for 2021, then you say it. Clearly. Unambiguously. Instead, Del Conte’s statement Saturday left way too much room for interpretation. Was Texas bringing Herman back? Was it the dreaded vote of confidence? A way to calm the recruiting waters? It was way too confusing for an AD whose strength is supposed to be communication – and sent the wrong message when decisiveness was needed. Given the targeting of Meyer, the national championship coach who chose to stay put at Fox Sports because of health concerns, this was bound to be awkward. But before going after Meyer, Del Conte needed a solid Plan B. If that was Herman, a logical choice given his buyout, limited success and the global pandemic, then you embrace Plan B. Del Conte already gave Herman an extension after the Sugar Bowl. So own this and express confidence, not a half-hearted, confusing statement that seemed to give Herman a stiff-arm. The episode exposed that Del Conte still is growing into the job at Texas after two years since coming from TCU. What Del Conte brings to the table is backslapping, my-man salesmanship turned to 11. There’s a classic early episode of “The Simpsons” where Springfield gets $3 million because of EPA violations at the nuclear power plant. A salesman named Lyle Lanley, voiced by the great Phil Hartman, shows up and convinces Springfield it needs, yes, a monorail. That’s Del Conte. Need a pile of cash to finish the south end zone expansion at DKR or a deal-maker for new basketball arena or some other project, yeah, he’s the guy. He’s fine to converse with boosters, donors, businessmen, people he’s never met and convince them to commit cash. On the meatier side of the job, we don’t know if Del Conte is the next coming of DeLoss Dodds, like people hoped when he was hired. At TCU, he benefitted from a pretty narrow world view. People and media loved the narrative of Gary Patterson and BCS buster making it to the Big 12. That was about it, outside of Tarrant County. At a sports business forum, Del Conte once bragged that he didn’t care what a casual fan in Plano thought of TCU. That’s not halfway around the world, it’s barely half the way across north Texas. At Texas, the fish bowl is more like the Pacific Ocean. Everything is magnified, especially football. For all his faults, Herman seemed to thread “The Eyes of Texas” needle pretty well this summer until the Sam Ehlinger pictures from the Oklahoma game surfaced. Del Conte needed to have acted long before he did to avoid his coach becoming a lightning rod. And while most fans understand waiting for the end of the season to pass judgment on a coach, then make it a statement with teeth, for good or bad. Texas, Del Conte and Herman could very well be at this same spot in a year or less, given the talent outflow at Texas. At that point, Del Conte needs to handle that moment more decisively than Saturday.

In Ames. Right behind Ames High School

As long as he doesn’t want the Cincinnati-style crap

Impartial or not, they are correct

Tonight’s offering. Celia Welch is a great winemaker, and this is a really nice wine and an incredible QPR:

CDC is a (a) huckster (b) charlatan (c) flimflam man (d) all of the above

I say we put it in the loss column and then fire him. The last 9 months have been alternate reality, so we can make our own rules.

Agree, though I have them just give me an unsliced slab of brisket — places are generally pretty good at cutting, say, a 1 1/2 pound chunk, which I then slice at home. Same on ribs — just tell them how many you want but tell them not to slice them individually.

Watched the first episode last night. Bryan Cranston was awesome. I can’t imagine this is going to end well.

The McRib predated the Mac. And, yes, I remember its initial incarnation.

FIFY

Nope, youngster, I am old enough to remember. There was no “I” back when the MacIntosh came out. It was “Mac-“ everything — MacPaint, MacWrite, etc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPaint

Ah, Mr. Jobs, for you that reference would have been MacPaint, not MS Paint.