Everything posted by Dbeasy
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
Medicare for all sounds interesting, but the one thing the system has today is a high level of competition for large businesses. So insurance company rates for large companies are significantly lower than other segments. A lot of them are self insured. So whatever is done needs to make sure there’s competition that providers care about, because if it’s just the individual negotiating for themself, then all companies will just raise rays with no governor because they can withstand losing an individual rather than a company. It allows the providers to essentially price fix.
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
Jesus. What state are you in?
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academic fuckery at aggy
I am really concerned about the future for Texas public universities. High quality faculty and professors don’t teach or do research at Texas or Texas A&M because they pay the best. They come because it’s where they want to be and live. State dipshits making it unappealing to most, if not all faculty, will create a very significant brain drain.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
The depth at C is so bad, they need him even if they bring in another combo IL
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
With The Wyoming guy not panning out and Texas wanting Robertson back, I think that’s going to work out. Should be some good news coming.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Just reviewed the roster again. The OL, and guard/center position in particular, is one of the worst situations I’ve seen in Texas roster history. They can’t even field the position. It’s ridiculous. I can’t believe there aren’t five other OL in play right now, or maybe there are. It’s the worst management of a position I’ve ever seen.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
If Cam Coleman picks that, he’s insane.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Is a CB required? Don’t they have enough there, and pretty good?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
A few thoughts from this train wreck of a thread: If you’re hung up on “all-in”, did you not watch that exact same thing happen with the Cowboys? Jerry said all-in and got roasted. It probably wasn’t the best term to use by the 9.95rs but don’t read too much into a generic hyphenated term. As to all the bickering, as I posted elsewhere a few weeks ago, that is part of the charm of surly. I’ve developed pretty thick skin over the years. However, when the bickering starts really causing reasonably good posters to not post their thoughts because of fear of being lambasted not for a stupid post but for a different viewpoint or innocent thought, that’s not productive or good for site content. And we want good content. With that said, I’ve been an ass many times over the years because of what I felt were stupid takes, but I decided to be a little more civil going forward, because it’s good for site content. A little. Not a lot. Finally, I’ve met Bobby, Sydney, CTJ, and others on this site, and know who scramblyn is, and the shit that erupted this morning isn’t helpful. These are all good people as far as I know.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Thank you for that.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
The posters in this thread who are either too pessimistic or too pollyannaish this early in the portal period are annoying.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
That was really the basis/fear for my earlier question.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Given all the special teams and TE commits, does that mean Banks has got his shit together better than certain others on the coaching staff?
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
I’ve spent several years following corporate, small business, individual, and Texas based ACA/Obamacare plans. Most people have no idea how bad the situation is for a significant segment of our population, including small business, contractors/self employed, and retirees under 65. If you’ve had any sort of medical issue, including cancer, asthma, diabetes, the common cold, etc, you will not qualify for individual plans, which aren’t too bad on premiums. The problem is many people don’t qualify. On most corporate plans, they are covering typical 70-80% of the costs, occasionally 50%. So most people employed by larger companies are fine. Very small business and Obamacare are extremely expensive, but at least the small business plans are PPO’s. Everything on Obamacare in Texas is HMO’s and EPO’s, which provide terrible doctor networks. I haven’t checked 2026 rates, but last time I checked an Obamacare plan was $2500 per month for two older people aged below Medicare, with deductibles >$12k. So before insurance covers hardly anything, you are in for $42k per year. How does that sound? Oh, and that’s shitty HMO’s or EPO’s.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Along those same lines, I assume the agents lie about the actual offers they’ve received for clients? That seems very difficult to navigate if you’re the Texas staff. The NFL has a salary cap so they can dial in a range for a free agent. But with the portal, the amount of money systemwide might be much higher than Texas realizes. Are they able to estimate what a player will sign for, roughly, in the marketplace? As an example, they didn’t want to pay $1m for Wisner based on their resources and their estimated value for him. What if the RB pay is going up across the marketplace substantially? Do they know market rates, at least roughly? I realize a name like Coleman is difficult to estimate.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
I posted that yesterday. I’m just going to assume Bobby is following all of my content and repurposing it for his readers.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Baugh would have entered by now, I would think.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Your ability to discern sarcasm, or have any sense of humor whatsoever, is breathtaking.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Anyone getting a little nervous of a scenario where Texas signs nothing but nine punters?
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
I’m sorry that’s impossible. I know what’s best for everyone in every circumstance.
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
I’m Shocked he can’t get a better gig than that.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
SIAP
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Sean Miller is already losing me
Is Miller a huge upgrade over Terry? Because Terry couldn’t put together a good roster, and Miller’s first roster is shit. Terry couldn’t field a strong D, and neither has Miller. This team looks to be on the level of a Terry team.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Here is how I’m thinking about it. He has the opportunity to play with Arch, probably one the best QB’s in the country and a certain top 5 NFL draft pick. Plus, Coleman knows that Texas is pushing all their chips in to make a run at a title next year. Neither USC or A&M is anywhere near that situation. Reed is a terrible throwing QB, and USC still has rebuilding work to do. If Coleman wants to go join those situations over the Texas situation over a few NIL dollars, then he’s too stupid to have been successful here anyway. A successful year at Texas would push him way up the draft board as compared to those other situations where he could actually end up dropping down the draft board and cost himself a lot of NFL guaranteed money.