Dbeasy
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
What about priapisms?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I think most reasonable fans can understand missing on players in the portal, and losing guys off your roster because they can attract higher offers than the value given to them by the staff. Wisner looks to have been a good call. And the Texas strategy of going after Michigan talent made/makes a lot of sense given the coaching situation. However, everyone, especially coaches, should damn well know that teenagers are fickle, the portal is chaos, and anything can happen. The backup plans need to be in place and being executed. If the staff is pursuing plan Bās under the radar so as to not tip off other schools, then get it. It makes sense. As long as the plan Bās close. But if they really donāt have plan Bās, or didnāt do enough grooming of the plan Bās, then thatās just some stupid ass management. It shouldnāt even be 10 days before we see that. Given the criticality of the OL, plan Bās should be done by the end of this week.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I guess we will learn in the next ~10 days whether Sark and Harris can manage this complexity on their own effectively, or whether theyāve ended up with a roster of 55 players and a bunch of cripples.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Dammit Satya, you gave me less than four hours of sunshine before reverting to form.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Why is Ole Miss in flux?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
If even Satya doesnāt think we missed out on good OL here, then it must be true, and he has brightened my day.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
And it proves heās doing nothing in this thread but trolling. Heās unfunny, unknowledgeable, and his dog hates him. He should get a timeout from this thread for being a chode.
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
We have the same issue. We both get care at Mayo Clinic, and no Texas ACA plans accept it. So despite being pretty well off financially and no need to work, my wife works so we have access to Mayo. Itās ridiculous. Oh, and Mayo costs are as low or lower than any other provider on Texas so it doesnāt even financially make sense.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
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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 thereās competition that providers care about, because if itās 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 donāt teach or do research at Texas or Texas A&M because they pay the best. They come because itās 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 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
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 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
With The Wyoming guy not panning out and Texas wanting Robertson back, I think thatās going to work out. Should be some good news coming.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Just reviewed the roster again. The OL, and guard/center position in particular, is one of the worst situations Iāve seen in Texas roster history. They canāt even field the position. Itās ridiculous. I canāt believe there arenāt five other OL in play right now, or maybe there are. Itās the worst management of a position Iāve ever seen.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
If Cam Coleman picks that, heās insane.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Is a CB required? Donāt they have enough there, and pretty good?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
A few thoughts from this train wreck of a thread: If youāre hung up on āall-inā, did you not watch that exact same thing happen with the Cowboys? Jerry said all-in and got roasted. It probably wasnāt the best term to use by the 9.95rs but donāt 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. Iāve 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, thatās not productive or good for site content. And we want good content. With that said, Iāve 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 itās good for site content. A little. Not a lot. Finally, Iāve met Bobby, Sydney, CTJ, and others on this site, and know who scramblyn is, and the shit that erupted this morning isnāt helpful. These are all good people as far as I know.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Thank you for that.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
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 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
That was really the basis/fear for my earlier question.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
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
Iāve 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 youāve had any sort of medical issue, including cancer, asthma, diabetes, the common cold, etc, you will not qualify for individual plans, which arenāt too bad on premiums. The problem is many people donāt 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 PPOās. Everything on Obamacare in Texas is HMOās and EPOās, which provide terrible doctor networks. I havenāt 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 thatās shitty HMOās or EPOās.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Along those same lines, I assume the agents lie about the actual offers theyāve received for clients? That seems very difficult to navigate if youāre 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 didnāt 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 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I posted that yesterday. Iām just going to assume Bobby is following all of my content and repurposing it for his readers.