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Dbeasy

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  1. 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 B’s under the radar so as to not tip off other schools, then get it. It makes sense. As long as the plan B’s close. But if they really don’t have plan B’s, or didn’t do enough grooming of the plan B’s, then that’s just some stupid ass management. It shouldn’t even be 10 days before we see that. Given the criticality of the OL, plan B’s should be done by the end of this week.
  2. I guess we will learn in the next ~10 days whether Sark and Harris can manage this complexity on their own effectively, or whether they’ve ended up with a roster of 55 players and a bunch of cripples.
  3. Dammit Satya, you gave me less than four hours of sunshine before reverting to form.
  4. If even Satya doesn’t think we missed out on good OL here, then it must be true, and he has brightened my day.
  5. And it proves he’s doing nothing in this thread but trolling. He’s unfunny, unknowledgeable, and his dog hates him. He should get a timeout from this thread for being a chode.
  6. 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. It’s ridiculous. Oh, and Mayo costs are as low or lower than any other provider on Texas so it doesn’t even financially make sense.
  7. In regards to the current OL portal situation, I see that the pollyanna crowd is now at this stage:
  8. 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.
  9. Jesus. What state are you in?
  10. 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.
  11. The depth at C is so bad, they need him even if they bring in another combo IL
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. If Cam Coleman picks that, he’s insane.
  15. Is a CB required? Don’t they have enough there, and pretty good?
  16. A few thoughts from this train wreck of a thread: If you’re hung up on ā€œall-inā€, 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.
  17. The posters in this thread who are either too pessimistic or too pollyannaish this early in the portal period are annoying.
  18. That was really the basis/fear for my earlier question.
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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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