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Dbeasy

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  1. Ha. Despite him being a pretty highly ranked recruit with good offers, I wasn’t very excited about his high school film as compared to others. Or his high school prom photo.
  2. A few years ago I started mentally tracking RB’s who had been thru ACL and Achilles surgeries, partially because I’ve been through two acl surgeries myself. I noticed a very clear trend of much better performance in the 2nd or 3rd year after coming back, as compared to the first year. The Cowboys Williams is an example of that, who finally looked good again in year three. Along those same lines, those that didn’t comeback strong by year three were permanently worse. Don’t know if we are seeing that 2 year performance bump with Clark, but he looked like a completely different player. What I can’t reconcile is that before he got hurt he didn’t look very good.
  3. Whew! I was worried they were all against our extra point holders. Let’s not worry then.
  4. Yup it’s coming. This is why it’s so critical for leaders of the United States to be grounded in morally sound, ethical, and legal policies and behaviors as much as possible. Otherwise, you encourage enemies to feel justified in performing illegal, unethical or immoral actions of their own. The current US administration’s behavior in acquiescing to Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, plus US actions towards Venezuela, Canada, and Greenland are far more damaging than they may seem at first glance. And those that think Ukraine and Taiwan are the last actions by Russia and China are naive.
  5. People need to realize we are watching the guy who might go down as the best QB in Texas history. “Wait, what did you just say dbeasy? That’s preposterous!”Let me clarify. Vince and Colt were obviously incredible, with Vince being the best ever AT TEXAS. But from the perspective of being a complete QB that ultimately plays at a high level in the NFL for an extended time period, Arch has a chance to be in the discussion with Bobby Layne, who is the best NFL QB in Texas history. Obviously Arch has a long way to go, but he has everything you want in an nfl qb: arm, size, attitude, speed, brain, etc. Let’s enjoy next season. He may not have the talent around him that Vince did, but maybe they can be good enough with some key portal additions to give it a go next year towards a title.
  6. Stop being so pedantic.
  7. It’s too difficult imo to be fully happy with Sark or fully out on Sark. The last three years have been a mix of really good and a fair amount of not so good. Next year should be pretty telling.
  8. He is pretty slight of build too. Of course so was Worthy.
  9. Sark teams are pretty weird. They rarely blow teams out, but they do play the full 48 minutes, and mostly win. Maybe that’s college football today. Arch was a huge part of the success tonight. Short of his spectacular play, every Sark team every year feels the same on both offense and defense. The offense struggles to run, and the passing game always includes a lot of lower percentage throws, combined with a small set of short passing plays they run over and over. Arch tonight enabled a lot more points. He was fantastic. The defense is usually vulnerable to giving up long drives that mix the run and pass effectively. I hope Muschamp brings something to help the defense get some more 3 and outs and limited drives. I have no idea what this team does next year. A lot depends on the portal, obviously.
  10. Wasn’t Phillips the one who we wanted at safety originally and he wouldn’t come to Texas because he wanted corner? Because he seemed very good in coverage most of the time.
  11. Wow, with Arch at QB, all we need for next year from the portal are RB's, WR's, OL's, and TE's. Otherwise, we are set!
  12. Christian Clark. Future NFL Hall of Fame RB.
  13. Cancel the portals offers for RB!
  14. Thank you for that wonderful compliment. I’m touched.
  15. Michigan was over-rated this year and didn’t look very good most of the time. However, getting a toxic head coach out of there and managing to retain most of their roster for this bowl game means they ought to be well motivated and potentially much better . Couple that with Texas losing huge chunks of the roster today probably means a potentially tough matchup. If Texas wins today, it will be a very good accomplishment. Fans ought to care about this game.
  16. A lot of threads on surly get designated as terrible threads. But this thread has got to be on that medal stand.
  17. Thank you for posting on Surly. I’ve included a link below to tip me for reading your post. Http://www.tipmeimlazy.com
  18. That’s exactly what my two friends were complaining about with the Samsung.
  19. I wasn’t talking about Wisner, nor did I say I was talking about Wisner. I was providing an example of the absurd nature of this board to come to rock hard conclusions about NIL numbers based on nothing more than some hearsay and no real knowledge at all of the actual NIL or portal situation.
  20. I’m amazed at all of the hot sports opinions in this thread. Surly - $1m is too much! How the fuck would any of you know? You don’t know the value of the players. Surly - Sark is failing in the negotiations! How the fuck would you know? We have no idea what value Texas has placed on various players. Surly - Texas is cheaping out on NIL! How the fuck would you know without understanding the whole financial picture. The entire NIL and portal process is a business. Hard decisions have to be made. Evaluations must be made. You roll the dice based upon this and try to construct the best roster you can. Will Sark blow it again like he did with the OL? We will find out next fall. It isn’t clear yet whether major mistakes are being made in portal management or NIL this cycle.
  21. Caution, long answer in case it helps others looking for a fridge: Thanks for all of the input. I am now much more knowledgeable on fridges than I was a week ago. Did a ton of research, and a few things I learned along the way: Consumer Rports shows heavy customer disatisfaction and weak reliability for every brand, with Bosch being the least offensive. They didn’t test the luxury brands like sub zero. I ruled those out because I don’t want to spend $10k and the selection was too limited. Bosch required ordering and they didn’t have the style we need. Otherwise we would have bought Bosch 800 series. We bought a Whirlpool that we thought would be good enough, but the ice dispenser wouldn’t work due to a poor design and manufacturability. But more concerning was that the temperature struggled to work well. We took it back and bought a GE fridge that had what we wanted and was the competitor to the Whirlpool. The GE fridges have the highest consumer reports ratings, but also the lowest customer satisfaction ratings. Given our experience with other GE appliances, we are expecting problems. But if it goes south, I’ll have a plan C ready for ordering a better fridge. The top, bottom fridges are more reliable because of their simplicity. We use a top freezer model for our garage fridge. Next most reliable are the side by sides because they don’t have multiple compressors and evaporators. We’ve had, and still wanted, a side by side because of space limits on open doors (damn kitchen island), and not liking freezer and ice on the bottom. French door types are the least reliable but most bought. And the most choices, by far. As said earlier ice dispensers are a source of problems. However we use that function every day, multiple times per day, so we bought one with it anyway. The Korean brands are controversial. Samsung and LG had serious quality issues as recently as a year ago, compressors and ice makers. However, theoretically they are improved. Repairmen still hate them. There are debates about why. The fridge ratings are all gamed by social media marketing companies putting in fake ratings. So you need to adjust the ratings. A 4.0 rating implies a lot of problems. A 4.5+ rating might indicate a reasonably good fridge. We looked at Costco but they didn’t have a type and model that would work for us. Ended up going with Lowe’s because we were able to buy it and have it delivered a day later. And every fridge was on sale. Saved quite a bit on the one we bought. Summary of brands IMO Bosch - pretty good quality, limited design options, longer deliver intervals. Not a bad choice if looking for a French door type. More expensive. Whirlpool - heavy volume sales, basic fridges, some ok some not. We liked the one we bought if not for the quality issues. GE - tested well but that bad customer sat has to come from somewhere. Probably will break prematurely. Samsung - ice maker problems behind them supposedly. Felt a little more solid than GE, Whirlpool or Frigidaire. Some interesting features. More features for the price. If quality issues are improved and repairmen are biased, maybe not too bad. I know a few owners who are unhappy with theirs. LG - same as Samsung except it was compressor issues. Almost bought an LG, if not for annoying ice door buttons. Fridgidaire - didn’t look too closely primarily because their consumer reports ratings were generally lower across the board. KitchenAid- overpriced for cosmetic features. It’s not the higher quality brand it used to be GE Profile - a little nicer than GE, better ratings. Potentially decent choice but harder to find and order. If Lowe’s would have had the model we wanted we would have gone with it Cafe - a GE upscale brand. Looked interesting but wasn’t able to touch one . Other brands - there were others but they were too hard to find or there were too few choices, indicating low market share. We wanted a brand where parts and repair were straightforward. One other the biggest surprises is that there aren’t really any great appliance stores in Austin anymore. We were interested in that to see a wider variety of lesser known models. But, since we couldn’t find a store we liked, we prioritized getting a fridge fast that we could touch over ordering one from one of the appliance stores where we weren’t able to touch the fridge. The whole process sucked.
  22. The problem with the high-end brands is that I have a tight space due to kitchen configuration. But, I'm still looking at fridges from $2-5k, and they all still suck.
  23. KitchenAid refrigerator bit the dust on Christmas Day. We had gotten it in a house sale ten years ago. When we got it, it was already 10 years old, so it lasted 20 years overall. Solid. Holy shit today’s fridges are crap. The quality and customer satisfaction ratings on all of them are terrible. I spent hours trying to find one that “might” be good enough. The construction quality is cheap. Terrible products. Finally we gave up and bought a Whirlpool that was supposedly “good enough”. After three days, the ice dispenser has never worked, the temperature varies way too much, and everything on it feels like it will break if I touch it. This sucks. Taking it back today.
  24. Just catching up on this thread after a busy holiday. Jesus. Do we have a bunch of posters that have never played sports? This mindset is ridiculous. And if they did play sports and still think this way, my guess is they were giant pussies on the field, court, ice, diamond, sand, grass, concrete, wood, ropes, or lane. Good grief.
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