billfromlaketravis

I think they’ve done the triumph thing. End of Season 2. A bad or mixed review is probably a more interesting show. The show is basically about a dysfunctional family. A possibly toxic family. Maybe a bad review causes the family to break up so individuals can achieve happiness. Syd would almost certainly leave. Richie might bounce too. Cicero would pull whatever money he has left out of the restaurant. Carmy would have to retool everything including his personal life. Maybe this causes him to reconcile with Claire and finally find some work life balance.

I guess her music career is going well and again she’s starring in Wicked. Selena Gomez has climbed the backs of Steve Martin and Martin Short to give her career a second life, but she’s probably more famous right now. I wonder if they invited her back because she was a good sport about all the Pete Davidson jokes. Lorne has a long memory.

Fair enough, but a written summary would be nice.

These “columns” drive me nuts. IT does the same thing. It’s just a list without any analysis. It wouldn’t kill Gerry to provide one sentence per recruit to summarize Texas’ chances.

Klatt came out SWINGING to defend Riley on his Monday reaction podcast. Gave the Bobby Bowden rationale: lose close, win close, and then you win big. Riley is in Year 3. I think it’s undeniable they should be more advanced as a program. They’re still losing close.

Yeah. Gerry thinks it was more OU deciding to move forward with Arnold for ‘crootin’ and forcing Gabriel out. I think it’s muddled enough that Venables can coachspeak his way around it, for now.

While I don’t think it’s a perfect comparison, Charlie Strong - Venables is fair right now. He has 2 really bad losses to Texas in 3 years. It’s well documented that they hate us more than they’ll ever love themselves. Their fanbase is convinced they have an elite defense so I think he has a good amount of rope. But if they get smoked again in the Cotton Bowl next year, I think there will be some chirping. While OU is undoubtedly a blue blood, it’s a difficult job given their recruiting footprint. They have to recruit and evaluate lights out in Houston, the Metroplex, Florida, Vegas, and Fresno. Unfortunately, for them to keep those pipelines open they have to retain subpar coaches like Murray. New conference doesn’t help. A difficult schedule doesn’t help. Mics in the helmets really don’t help. I think they go all in a portal QB, and Venables asks for and receives a 2025 mulligan because they couldn’t hold on to Gabriel + adjusting to a new conference.

I kind of wonder if the bloom is off their rose? I liked their movie, but it didn’t do very well in theaters and the reviews were horrible. It had to lose money.

It feels like Napier pushed all his chips in last night and it almost worked. I don’t think he could have saved his job, but beating Tennessee probably keeps him employed until December. I’ll give him credit. Florida played hard. I think Riley’s salary + perks will get him another season. His last appeasement card to play is to give up playcalling. A bitter pill from to swallow, but he’ll do it for $10 million+ a year. A lot of smoke that Venables is going to throw Littrell under the bus. Most A list OC hires are going to want to bring their own OL coach with them. Will Venables dump Bedenbaugh too? I doubt it. They’ll hire somebody safe from Dabo’s coaching tree and things won’t improve unless they get a star QB out of the portal. Kiffin needs to get the hell out of Oxford before everybody figures out he’s full of shit, again. He can’t do better than Florida, and they need a splash. I think he could have some moderate Dan Mullen like success there.

I don’t have any ill will towards the kid. His mother is legitimately insane. That’s hard enough on its own.

Stevie looks perfectly alright for 76 years old and she can still perform. Good for her. I’m glad she surprised us with that second song.

Ariana Grande sucks. I said it when they announced her and she did nothing to refute that. Again, I get it right before Wicked comes out, but there is absolutely no reason to give her a hosting gig 6 weeks before the movie comes out. Especially in the coveted 50th Season.

This. I’m around aggys way more than I would like in Houston. In every interaction, I’m polite and I state facts. We had a good team last year. We have a lot of of guys coming back this year. We added some nice pieces in high school recruiting and the portal. I think Texas will beat aggy because we have a better team. If we lose because of some Chef Patel food poisoning bullshit, them’s the breaks.

The silver lining of Sharp leaking to Brent Z was Texas could tell every recruit from 2022 onward that they would play in the SEC. It certainly helped. Like ctj always says, these idiots can’t stop pulling the bookshelf down on themselves.

Where has this been for Mario Edward’s pro career?! My goodness. He’s playing like a man possessed out there.

Dart running though LSU like a rancid gumbo.

Jesus Christ. We brought ass kicking and bad officiating to the SEC.

Regarded Big 12 QB reminds regarded in the Big 10.

Insanely cute playing and clock management. They deserve whatever comes.

On more meth than Jesse Pinkman.

If Mack performed seppuku at midfield, I might forgive him.

The Stefon reference made me laugh my balls off.

Do you live at the Four Seasons Scottsdale? Respect

I put the puppies in their icy white Texas bandanas this morning. I never doubted we’d win.

How did FOX fuck this up? Why is fOSU at Oregon on NBC?