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boilerhorn

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  1. This - don't care if Heupel's Sooner, fat, 1-1 against Texas, illiterate or whatever. Immaleave is not bigger than the program. That said, he'd be perfect at OU or Texas A&M.
  2. Their fanbase is dumber than we thought. Their defense, esp. DL, was fantastic. Here's the Opponent Adjusted OFEI and DFEI for teams that made the playoffs last year. Nico was not the reason Tenn was there.
  3. I'll admit to being naive about Iamaleava's mediocrity until today. He was a press darling early in the season last year, esp. after the TD pass that put Tennessee up over Bama in mid October. Against good defenses, he kinda sucked. And I actually hypothesized that he was lured into this by tOSU or Oregon, but @closetojumping properly set the record straight. He's (below?) average and should have worked on his craft and deposited large checks.
  4. Yeah - my comments about Cook being poor in one post and trickle down in another post was conflicting. He was definitely trickling up To further take this thread off topic, a friend of mine who did a lot of volunteer work with people across the wealth spectrum would say, "Poor people spend money; middle class people manage money; rich people invest money."
  5. Good point. I never took you for a supply-sider
  6. Honestly, I am surprised more of these guys don't act like selfish idiotic lunatics in similar circumstances. At 18, he just had $1mm dropped in his lap. He's never seen cash like that, and it reinforces his belief that he's God's gift to football. His work ethic slides, and his production slides. He gets less playing time because he's inferior and now unreliable. He freaks out, and blames everyone except himself. 3 months ago, Cook was on a path to being a career criminal with zero self-awareness or respect for others. That path has taken a turn and it looks like he's on a positive path. Great! He now appears to be on a path to being a productive member of society - or at least off the criminal malcontent path. Perhaps sitting in a FW jail helped. Yes, he lit $1mm of booster money on fire; that's part of the risk of funding NIL, and I suspect it stings. He has zero chance of returning to Texas and lighting another pile of Texas booster money on fire. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. In similar selfish-jackwagon news, Nico Iamaleava wants to renegotiate his NIL deal - just 5 days before the spring portal opens. I see Nico landing in Oregon or at tOSU.
  7. The conventional wisdom, rumors, or whatever was that Alberts was brought on board with a primary goal of cutting costs. He is serving in is 2nd year of a 5-year, $11mm totally guaranteed contract. For many people, that would be "if I can survive 5 years, I can either go to bigger and better things - or retire." Perhaps that's where he is. The outcome of cost cutting remains to be seen, as 2024 saw the largest expenditures in Texas A&M athletics department history: $243.7 million at 25% increase over 2023. Only 60% or so of that increase was the payment to Jimbo. It's a lot more difficult these days to find the data (5 years ago, it was the first or 2nd hit when doing a google search). Here's what I was able to deduce from and article on 247. I found revenue summaries from FY22-FY24 on The Eagle (behind paywall)
  8. Funny headline this AM: Stocks plummet as tariff-pause euphoria gets reality check Reality check = people realizing this shit will happen again in 3 months and do not want to deal with the volatility. Retirees moving $$ to safer havens. People moving the Jr/Sr in HS college funds into cash, etc. Just my opinion, worth what you paid.
  9. This is how tariffs are fucking Russia over.
  10. Not a patent attorney; have many patents; worked at a company that filed 100s. What @jimmyjazz said and what @TwiceHorn said is my understanding - of course, Twice is correct, as he's an attorney. IMO, the only way to extract some cash from this is to say that you are available to review and sign the document for $300 (or more) per hour, minimum 2 (or more) hours. You need to review what you are signing, etc.
  11. Agree. That said, it is even more amazing that he amassed that many goals with scores like Messier, Kurri, Nicholls, LaFontaine, McTavish, Robataille, etc. with him. Gretzky's goals per year dropped notably when he left Edmonton, but he remained as prolific in getting his teammates involved. And, the focus on defense increased dramatically in the early 2000s to present. Ovechkin had the likes of Backstrom, Semin, and Kuznetov with him over the years, but none of those guys are household names like the ones Gretzky got to collaborate with. Also - Ovechkin has a lifetime +/- of 63, or 3 per 82 game season. Gretzky was 520; 29 per 82 game season.
  12. FWIW, Gretzky had 1963 assists. Ovechkin has 724. Nsiap.
  13. For me, it is really simple. If I was playing a game of 2-on-2 where the outcome had significant impact for me and my teammate, who would I choose as my teammate if I had the first choice? It would be close, but it would be Kobe, MJ, then Bird. Each of these folks wanted to destroy their competition. If I chose Kobe (or MJ), I knew that he'd ignore me if the game was on the line. Up 10, pass to boilerhorn and see what happens. Close or down, f- boilerhorn, we need to win. I do not give a shit about the stats. If you want to win, you choose Kobe then MJ. Kahwi is not in my top-10.
  14. I agree with the take from @Rimbo Had the day off from work, so I went with my youngest, who is a so-so gamer and was a fan of MineCraft. Plus, he's my "go to" for movies that are likely to be action/adventure with low expectations for acting, writing, etc. The great part about Jack Black - he does not really take himself seriously, while appearing to do so. Momoa was also quite good. He actually pulls of the comedy side quite well. it was a great experience for us. We both laughed out loud at things together; chuckled at things; said "WTH" at the same things. It was entertainment. And it was fun. I was not expecting any academy award performances, etc. It was a different form of art and it was worth my the $20 I spent for tickets. My only complaint surrounded Jennifer Coolidge's role in the movie. She's basically played the banal blonde female in every movie since American Pie. She does the same here, but it is discontinuous. I like her as an actress and in her normal role, but it seemed forced. That said, who carees? I, too, will watch again.
  15. These guys must have just looked at this chart on wikipedia under United States Balance of Trade And concluded.... TARIFFS! NSIAP
  16. Guy's fucking delusional. Just 3 days after tariffs are imposed, $5T in factory manufacturing is committed. Ok. Yeah. Right.
  17. Of course. My bad.
  18. Does this set up Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. economies to crash so they go open handed to Uncle Joe Vladimir? These countries finally have reasonably functional market economies and are going to be crushed by this capricious behavior.
  19. It will be difficult to leave the politics out of it, as you've observed, as this policy has been largely one-sided, if not from a single person. At the end of the day, the tariffs are being imposed, seemingly at random, by a person who does not appear to have a middle school understanding of economics and history. He just uses a bludgeon, which is common for a primate with a primitive mind. 2 good examples: (1) applying tariffs EVERYWHERE, even on uninhabited islands and (2) elasticity constants that are integers.
  20. It would be great if the CAD/state/taxing entity was compelled to pay 95% of appraised value to purchase your property at the homeowners choosing. If the appraised value was accurate, they’d break even after paying 5% realtor fees to sell it to an actual buyer. CAD figured it out…. They’d rather than have us flail at appeals when talking to functional morons at the hearing. And they’ll just say “no”
  21. He has the 8th grade history class understanding of tariffs. What a stinking moron. Looks like he's poised to kill the economy just so he can save it again. Our populace is just dumb enough to believe it, too. "I've removed the tariffs because they worked. A, B C companies will increase their investments in USA, etc." He'll cite some BS metric and declare victory. The amazing thing is this is so foolish that it was able to get China, Japan, and S Korea to align on a shared response. They all hate each other. The only silver lining - TSLA stock price crash seems to be ahead of the others...
  22. Did she portal from OU?
  23. I am aware of one small town that uses these to pick up leaves from the sidewalk/street, weekly in spring and fall.
  24. She's on Instagram and Youtube.
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