Llewelyn Moss

My assumption is that this is 100% not related to the NCAA or their rules, or any state’s rules—but that as an international student, he isn’t authorized to work in the US. His beef is with federal immigration policy, not NCAA.

Noooooooooooooooo I won’t quibble, as Isabel’s has its merits. But I preferred Manuel’s. That is super sad to hear. The guys who ran it were always super nice and friendly. Disappointed for them.

Manuel’s for breakfast

Is Ben Wheeler close enough to Tyler to fit in this thread? Los Pinos is a nice little spot. For the three weeks a year it’s comfortable to eat outside in Texas, you get a nice view of the little lake it sits on. Food was strong to very strong—definitely not the 7-page menu some folks are used to for Tex-mex. Anyway, would definitely recommend if for some crazy reason you are near Ben Wheeler, America.

I put the dad tax on my daughter’s stash of these all the time. You tried the green apple kind yet? Pretty good too.

Got a three pack of Yellowbird and have really enjoyed the Serrano most of all. Nice kick. The Blue Agave and Habanero are both a bit sweet on the aftertaste. I’d expect that for the agave. Anyway, still good, just limits its uses. I’d like to try the Ghost Pepper after seeing its approval here.

This is amazing. Mary Shelley would be proud.

Mine is easily Game 6 in 2011. I had to travel during this one and listened on the radio. I’ve never watched the replay. Still hurts. My others have been repeated here: 2008 Tech, 2009 MNC. Also, this one will put me in the minority, but when KD signed with Golden State, I was crushed, as a huge Thunder fan. It was so obviously a rejection of not just a team but a community. Hurt deep.

I’ve put multiple people on to this show and all have loved it. I’m ready to get a T-shirt with Ted Lasso’s face on it and put a “BELIEVE” sign in my office

Anything juicy in that Humidor this week on Herman era? Or same old same old

I ordered my regular #1 but subbed that smokehouse cheddar or whatever it is for American and it was strange. Texture and taste just didn’t seem right. It’s my fault for messing with a classic.

Work of art

He’s gotta go beyond his Rolodex, to quote Scipio. CDC himself already said he’s excited about who Sark will bring with him, but as long as it’s not just his homies or people he happens to know then I think the odds of success go up. The benefit of working with Saban is you get to see what good looks like: good players, good personnel, good organizational systems. Comfort hires = bad. Non-comfort hires may be bad, too, of course—but not automatically bad like bringing dudes because you know them rather than because they can transfer their skills to Texas.

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1) Win every game in which we’re favored. B) No more delay of game/unsportsmanlike/procedure penalties. 3) 10-2 4) Don’t lose to forking TCU 5) Stop the burnt toast/stale biscuits garbage gimmick (was Herman still doing this crap the last couple of seasons? I don’t remember hearing much about it, but of course I just hit middle age so my short term memory sucks)

Max with a perfectly reasonable, clear-eyed, thorough analysis here. He is a national guy but knows the Longhorn program well.

It *was* another game they were referring to. The announcers said nothing about Sam arguing with Herman this game.

Sweet pair of Strands my man!

My grandpa did this with but with buttermilk. I couldn’t even watch him eat it. Just too off putting.

My pet peeve is the label “unsweet tea”. There is no such thing. There is, however, “tea” or “iced tea”. The default needs no marker. Also—whenever it may have originated in Texas—sweet tea is undrinkable for me. The people who really crack me up are the ones who say, “Oh, I quit drinking soda years ago”...and then order sweet tea.

Does anybody else always quote Ed O’Neil, “Nothing burps better than bacon” from that 90s movie Dutch? I must have seen that flick 30 times on HBO back in the day. Highly underrated film.

I’m a father of a kindergarten girl, which means all my Whataburger trips come with a side of at least one chicken tender, usually kids fries, too and yes, their bacon is mediocre, but of course they make up for that in multiple ways

Princeton can use a guy like Charlie

Just letting you know I check this thread about once a month. Thanks for letting me live vicariously. Keep living the dream

From Andy Staples’s article on Texas this week at The Athletic: To understand what great alignment does for a program, look north across the Red River to Oklahoma. From December 1998 to June 2017, that school had one president (David Boren), one athletic director (Joe Castiglione) and one head football coach (Bob Stoops). Boren and Stoops have since retired, but Boren was still in place when Castiglione tapped then-Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley to succeed Stoops. The alignment all the way up the chain has continued unabated. Since Stoops took over, the Sooners have won or shared the Big 12 title 13 times. Meanwhile, Texas hasn’t been aligned since Brown began to falter in 2010. Athletic director DeLoss Dodds and president Bill Powers were busy pulling strings in conference realignment, and Dodds’ retirement in 2013 brought what might be the single most disastrous hire in Texas athletics history: Steve Patterson, who served a hellish 22-month tenure as athletic director beginning in November 2013. Patterson was supposed to streamline a bloated athletic department but only made it more dysfunctional. Attorney Mike Perrin stepped in to steady the ship — he wound up firing Strong and hiring Herman — and Del Conte’s charge when he was hired in 2017 was to bring the Texas athletic department into the present. Since 2010, Texas has had three presidents (Powers, Greg Fenves, Jay Hartzell), four ADs (Dodds, Patterson, Perrin, Del Conte) and three head football coaches (Brown, Strong, Herman). That isn’t an environment conducive to alignment, and it should be cause to redirect some of the criticism leveled at Brown, Strong and Herman. That’s 10 leaders in a decade vs 5 at ousux (2 coaches, 2 presidents, 1 AD)