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  1. The funnier part is that they think that they're really close to being where Texas is on NIL. You see plenty of media putting schools besides Oregon above Texas as well. Ummmm, no. Wish I could say more, but it's kind of scary where things sit today compared to what we know about the landscape.
  2. Well, the guy's been a silent for months, so it's good to see that Scruggs is really plugged in here.
  3. That’s probably a solid choice for him.
  4. I've been a part of a number of bachelor parties in Vegas and many other gatherings with 8+ people. My view is the same as others - plan on going out with groups of 6-10 at most, outside of the strip club/stripper event. In doing so, if you start now, you'll have no issues booking the restaurants of your choice along the strip.
  5. Yeah, @torre reminded me about the injury offline yesterday. Here's hoping that JW can go at some point this year and be found money for the baseball program. Seems doubtful, but sure, no harm.
  6. I didn't have "The Father on ALF will commit to play at Texas." on my radar for 2025, so this is a surprise for me.
  7. Good shot that this is the case.
  8. Wait, what? This guy tried to murder his ex-wife? I need the full story. No wonder he hasn't seen his son, who I am sure is super pleased that his dad tried to commit murder.
  9. Was he the guy wearing pleated blue jeans?
  10. I agree wholeheartedly about GW Fins, as its proximity to Bourbon Street makes the people watching entertainment almost a certainty. That said, going to the far end of the bar is the key. When the overweight fatty wearing only lingerie and a tiara stumbles through that door to order a to-go cosmo, you do not want to be her target of opportunity seated next to the door. Or, fuck it, having read a bunch of you peoples' takes on women on this board, maybe that would work for some of you.
  11. Are you drawing those conclusions because they're 2 of the most idiotic posters on this site? They're not idiots due to inexperience. They're idiots because they've got room temperature IQs. At least Helobious is entertaining with his absurdly stupid takes.
  12. That schedule looks appropriate. Tech is an outpost of a program. It makes sense that they'd schedule poo in the non-conference. The Big 12 schedule, and I guess every team's Big 12 schedule is like this, looks like a bunch of bum fights versus some of the saddest try-hard brands known to CFB, with Tech of course leading the pack. I assume Tech goes somewhere between 5-7 and 8-5 as always.
  13. Jesus Christ was only 33. I doubt there is a poster on this site younger than JFC.
  14. I'm curious about what anybody here thinks of Jonah Williams for this season. He's obviously a true freshman and the team is stacked, so I assume he's not expected to play much? Does anyone know whether he's being worked on as a pitcher? Or OF?
  15. All of this is really grim. I just assumed he was in his 70's, if not 80's.
  16. Until I saw the non-edited post quoted where the dildo comment was made, I didn't understand where the "homophobic slur" reference was pointed. I read your quote of his 3 times trying to understand what I was missing. "Great, is there some new way of using an old word that I now have to stop using?" Phew. You might as well be kicking the old guy's walker out from underneath him. Just put him on ignore and he can verbally vomit all over this board with impunity as the septuagenarian version of spyder2yguy. Trust me, it's an easy fix. I'm not sure about the dildo part of this as I'm admittedly happily inexperienced, but I do know I apparently feel this way about sunglasses and umbrellas, as I seem to lose 20+ of each product to the public domain each calendar year.
  17. My wife and I thought this would be fun to watch. Turned it off after 15 terrible minutes and started watching season 2 of The Night Agent.
  18. Donnie Brasco is overrated tripe. I've tried to watch it 3 or 4 times in my life and have wound up finding better shit to do and never finishing it. That includes turning it off at least once and turning the tv over to a Chopped or something else like it. The Untouchables gets knocked because it's not off-broadway enough for a lot of you guys who fancy yourselves as enlightened movie critics. Capone beats the literal brains out of a guy with a baseball bat. Ness throws Frank Nitty off of a fucking building to his death (I know this factually didn't occur, but it's a satisfying ending). It's set in Chicago at Capone's height. There are several iconic movie scenes and lines with great fucking actors in them - the blood oath scene with Costner and Connery; the mounty border raid "The surprise is half the battle." "Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."; Ness confronting Capone in his hotel; and of course the train station with the stairs, the shootout, the stroller - "You got him?" "Yeah, I got 'em." .... "Take 'em." bang! It's a movie about Al fucking Capone and Elliott Ness, was written by David Mamet, directed by Brian De Palma, and Connery won the academy award for Best Supporting Actor. It is about as gangster as a movie can get and it was really well done. I don't expect it to be in many gangster top 5's, but deriding it is silly. ********* Also, for everyone who obsesses about Goodfellas being at the top of the heap, I don't even think that's Ray Liotta's best gangster movie. Copland is one of the most underrated movies of all time. The cops were the gangsters, Harvey Keitel was terrific, a coked out Liotta was fantastic and Stallone was actually really good as the buffoonish foil to Keitel's menacing mob of miscreants. Oh, and DeNiro had an amazing scene while literally eating a sandwich and going on a tirade with his mouth full.
  19. This is a certainty. I don't have any special insights on that happening, but I have fairly decent common sense, I hope, and it seems obvious that that would have a generally negative impact on "giving". Without going into details for hopefully obvious reasons, I can say that as of last week, there are two things I feel fine with the board knowing: 1) There's a C-corp in existence under TOF lying fallow. It was requested by some of the larger donors for ease of transition in the event of the IRS rescinding the 501(c)3 status. Folks want to ensure competitiveness for the different UT sports programs regardless of tax benefits. The tax benefits absolutely help, though. 2) While a recent development, Del Conte and the powers-that-be throughout the AD and UT admin have a clear understanding that there is going to be an ongoing need to an active and helpful external NIL program long after the AD is able to start sharing revenue. Thankfully, some of these other dumbass institutions cannot keep their mouths shut and have stated quite clearly that they're going to use NIL collectives as a topper to win talent acquisition after the House Settlement "makes all things otherwise equal". Most of the money isn't doing this for tax purposes, but that certainly helps. Like I said, I think losing 501(c)3 status would have a generally negative impact on giving, but I don't think it would be some sort of crushing blow. The past, present and future scenarios have been hashed and rehashed with the bigger donors.
  20. One of you dorks is tracking silent commit/Hi stuff, right? I know they've had like 2-3 for awhile and some of that would have gone public but for Sarkisian being ill for JR Day.
  21. I had the idea, did a quick search and then typed something out in 2 minutes before a call. Obviously I meant Boyz N the Hood.
  22. @SquishMitten can offer a better opinion. The day has always likely been coming, but there's safe harbor for everyone who participated before anything gets rescinded, I believe.
  23. I don't see how either of those guys carries the day at QB3 through the draft. A lot of people expect Milroe to do well at the combine, but I could see him being a disaster in the throwing drills.
  24. Somebody thought enough of you to marry you and have your baby? Is she a goth/emo type that thinks the world is always about to end? Congrats on both, regardless. I'm actually amused at the notion of some chippy, happy-go-lucky woman discovering sarvanash in their company's accounting or engineering department and thinking that she can fix him. Or maybe in real life, sarvanash is like the funnest, chirpiest guy at the office. It's only on Surly in which he shows his deep, dark, "it's the end of the world as we know it" self.
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