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Posts posted by immamac
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1 minute ago, statsman said:
Thanks. I appreciate that LHF and TexasOne have different structures, and purposes. My concern was with the one commingled funding source- donors. The Big Cigars (all of whom probably have suites) are the ones the school calls upon for special funding- new facilities, fleeing a crappy conference, firing a coach and signing a five star WR. My concern was that, as a fan, I don’t want that big donor to say he is tapped out from paying for a new swim center weight room, and can’t help with the roster.
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1 minute ago, Native Horn said:
I always love a good fundraising catfight.
Who the fuck cares? We ARE the Joneses.
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is it just me or is it a bit insulting at this point for some of these questions that keep getting asked. It seems like there's some type of entitlement from the press pool to not do their fucking jobs and ask questions that are not offensive and focused on the actual work the Fed does.
I think Powell did a great job staying focused and his guidance was deliberate and narrow so that people don't over react. There wasn't much to read into from his remarks today and he expanded on them very well.
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35 minutes ago, DaggerHorns said:
They aren’t the same. There’s no conflation here.
You said the fundraising mechanism is now same same. It’s not at all. They do completely different fundraising methods. The LHF isn’t throwing a concert event at the stadium. The Texas Box Office is for the Longhorn Foundation.
The Texas One Fund is not commingling. Again, the first link I posted in this thread is doing things completely separate from the Longhorn Foundation as a quick example.
The Longhorn Foundation does not give to NIL. When you donate, it also asks if you also want to donate (separately) to The Texas One Fund.
lol okay dude.
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1 hour ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:
I gotta be honest. I'm hardly following recruiting any more. I'm just assuming that we're getting 90%-ish of the top targets and then they are going to backfill any roster misses through the portal.
It's great being the Joneses and all, and lord knows that we took it in the ass from Ohio State, Georgia, Bama, LSU etc. for far too many years and it feels good to turn the tables on those fuckers... but the ins and outs of recruiting isn't all that interesting to me any longer. Is that just me?
Recruting hasn't changed for the people who get excited nationally about players. There's a lot of things that are going on that make recruiting harder to follow, and a lot of that has to do with the way this staff operates. They are in a position where they offer late and only the people that actually want to be here are coming to OV and unofficials etc. With NIL it's also a lot more muted on weird purely emotional decisions, there's too much at stake for these guys to fuck around and go to some dumbass coach who smooth talks them.
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It is unconditionally true that people would have been pissed if Quinn went as late as he did coming out after last year.
It is also unconditionally true that he came back in 2024 and 1) did not win a conference championship and 2) did not advance to the NCG/Win the NCG
When you combine those things and we don't have the 2025 results yet (what if Arch actually does suck? and Texas misses the playoffs and goes 8-4?) we are left with Quinn's final impression being worse in almost every way than if he just left in 2024.
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2 hours ago, DaggerHorns said:
This is incorrect.
The Longhorn Foundation is specifically for student athletes costs. Think anything from wardrobes, travel, books, meals, etc. This is to support the athlete with direct payments.
Texas One Fund is only for NIL. This funds media exposure, endorsements and direct payments to the athletes.
Although they are similar in some ways for loyalty point purposes, they are completely separate.
I appreciate the ease of conflating "well LHF is just doing all the stuff now" with what I said, so I appreciate the clarification that these are still completely functionally different. What I meant by my statement wasn't that they were functionally the same - which I specifically clarified and said they serve different purposes etc. I was saying that the fundraising mechanism is now same same. There isn't 2 fundraising efforts running in parallel. LHF asks for money, some of it goes into the traditional bucket and some of it goes into the NIL bucket. The tight coupling of TOF to the AD and it's "business" arm, also allows for really seamless, nice and well organized corporate involvement. Lets say a corp wants to do a deal with Texas, but they also have ideas that involve using some of the student athletes in promotional materials, events or spokesperson. The university can now one stop shop that and fulfill those obligations with TOF and LHF at the same time albeit on different "paper".
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5 minutes ago, nnm said:
@immamac, did you lift the ban on linking X posts? I posted this morning using the protocol above, and the non-surlyx-link brought up a direct link to the X post:
Until I improve surlyx to replace it yeah.
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Just now, statsman said:
Aah, so this Deathstar is fully operational. Now we see that Bevo, not Nandi, is the bull god that is the faithful mount of Shiva, the destroyer. Or, maybe Moloch.
Exactly.
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3 minutes ago, statsman said:
That is fantastic! I didn’t know that- is that a new development?
This year. Also notice the not tax deductible language and there still being a tax deductible option?
They are still separate entities serving separate purposes, but the management has moved under the same umbrella. There's a lot of reasons for it, but a big one is in the new post settlement NIL world collectives fulfill a different need.
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4 minutes ago, statsman said:
This is a terrific topic, as this (financial means) is one of the key pillars of the program.
Bellmont has decades of experience in raising funds from football boosters (the other big extra revenue source is marketing t shirts and other stuff to rank and file fans). These donations funded other athletic programs, facilities and occasional coach contract buyouts (to avoid taking on too much debt).
Bellmont fund raisers (there is a dedicated professional group assigned to this function) have not asked donors to fund player pay. In the past, other programs would have informal cooperation between a coach staff and boosters to fund disallowed player pay, typically five to low six figures, often in cash. Texas didn’t do that.
Current disconnect- does anyone disagree that TexasOne needs should be a higher priority than Bellmont-LHF needs? I don’t know that TexasOne should roll into Bellmont, or vice versa, but I do think coordination between the two is needed, especially as the competition with other well funded programs increases. Are we moving in that direction?LHF and TOF are same same.
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14 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:
Agree with @immamac that Quinn needs to clear out his team and start anew. Ron Slavin, his Southlake-based agent, has been certified by the NFLPA since 2004, but has only negotiated about 17 contracts in that time. Here are the ones I could find.
He makes reference to Miami and Notre Dame - and the timeline. Miami was likely tampering both Quinn and Carson Beck and might have said, "we'll get $4mm to the first one to sign." Notre Dame's QB room looks a little weak right now. That said, I wonder why no NFL teams were giving "if you are there in round N, we are taking you" advice to his agent. Or perhaps he was not getting the pre-draft feedback he needed.
Nothing he is saying at this point is helping Quinn. He needs to say things like, "Quinn is confident in his abilities and willing to do whatever it takes to excel at the NFL level. We believe Miami is a great place for that to start." And move on...
Agent is a reflection if the client yadda yadda.
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13 minutes ago, ztejas said:
Is this the thread where people that don't know anything about the NBA confidently comment about the NBA?
The current playoffs are doing very good numbers and are delivering an excellent product.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=NBA+ratings+year+over+year
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18 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:
You really think @immamac caved to "demands" and it wasn't just the fact that Twitter embeds are trash, slow as boiled piss, and fuck up thread anchors and shit when there are multiple loading on a single page? I know I personally complained about that shit loooooong before Elon Musk lost his mind.
He didn't ban Twitter embeds, he disabled them and tried an alternative to make the site run better. Unfortunately, the alternative kind of sucks. I'm in favor of maybe trying a different alternative rather than just turning them back on.
This is correct, this got the people who wanted off Twitter off and now it was just kinda shitty. I'm working on a permanent fix that just works, but is light weight and high performance.
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I think this deserves its own thread for discussion for now and going into the future as I think this is the beginning of a trend.
Beyond the title, which is not inflated or bullshit. Texas Football by itself was responsible for over 204M in revenue and the next closest SEC school was sub 150M.
Football by itself operated with a 139M surplus.
Absolutely fucking staggering numbers.
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In tired of your schtick. It's wearing thin and it's not funny or additive. You are agitating people in a non productive way constantly.
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You. I'm tired of your shit lately.
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34 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
If the end of the civilization comes about because of Patels and Khans, this will be such a let down.
Shut up holy fuck. They aren't even fucking close to nuking each other yet. We haven't even gotten into anything beyond metaphorical jabs.
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The off season sucks, especially now with how tight everything is locked down, but let's at least try to keep it on topic please.
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8 minutes ago, Born to Run said:
My Cousin came out of his house with a gun and caught three kids breaking into his truck. Finger on the trigger aimed at some teenager doing stupid shit as he had done himself, he lowered his gun and told them to run, and never come back. After they left he broke down crying, knowing he almost killed someone over a petty crime.
After that he started leaving his truck unlocked and ceding the castle doctrine and some loose change to kids that might steal change from his cup holder. Because, he's actually a hero, and not a psycho looking for vigilante justice.
The pew pew crowd love films like Tombstone, without understanding that the Wyatt Earp character, was most masculine and confident without the need for guns. Guns got More people killed.
Your cousin sounds like a beta cuck soy boy. /sarcasm
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3 hours ago, Ricky Butler said:
Why wouldn't the NBA just create an expansion team in Vegas if the desire is so high?
Because they don't wanna add 2 more teams and dilute the payout from TV.
The next TV contract for the NBA is gonna be a fucking trainwreck disaster. The ratings are ass.
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Quinn should fire his entire "team"
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25 minutes ago, Post Oak said:
David Roberts from Volts says he wishes the Dems would run on a platform of "We can have nice things". Energy abundance, manufacturing, clean environment, healthcare, economy, housing etc and all we have to do is tax billionaire hoarders. Then go out and do it. Quickly.
Its impressive how stupid people are about things.
Even if they took all the billionaires money (impossible) it would barely pay for a single year of the debt service on the national debt. For those who forgot how go count a trillion is 1000 billion.
Tax receipts have risen from 3T to 4.7T in a decade with the majority of that coming post covid stimulus with the wage increases that went out during that time. The US Government is running on a pretty hefty deficit and on track to spend 6.75T this year.
Fed balance sheet during same period.
The problem is not one wants to face the reality of covid. The fed chart is actually so fucking absurd it's hard to believe its reality and thats the fantasy world everyone lives in.
4T poofed into existence out of thin air.
Everything is fucked up and broken right now and the only reason everyone isn't feeling it is because of the insane debt apparatus here in the US. One day those debts need to be repaid, you can't continually go further and further into debt as a person, a business or a country.
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23 minutes ago, kibbles said:
That is a funny coincidence. I think this product is a thing. Reminds me of solar in 2000.
I interviewed with the founders, super sharp and dedicated. They have raised enough money to grow for a couple years. They are laser focused on central texas.
I was only half kidding with my comment earlier.
These look interesting, but I wonder about the cost economics.
30k for 250 gallons a day and let's call it 1KWh per gallon in electricity to produce (per tech spec sheet @ 240Wh/liter) avg electric cost in Texas is $.15 per KWh that's $37.50 a day in electricity for 250 gallons of water.
So if you had a family of 4 and used 3,000 gallons of water a month it would cost nearly $450/mo in electricity plus the amortized cost of the unit, let's say they gave you a 12% loan for 15 years (co term with warranty period) that's $360/mo
So for $900/mo you could have less water than a normal family of 4 is budgeted to use daily.
I must be missing something, because 1k/mo buys a fuckton of water from a truck + a tank to put it in.
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This is some good shit.