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At this point, Terry is not on the hot seat this year or next year. It would be the end of the 2026 season when something would happen, and that would ONLY be the case if he has a bad next two years with more lost recruits. He has plenty of time.

Man I miss rep comments in three ways. First it was so therapeutic to unload on someone. Second, it was great getting comments. Third, it was hilarious when people would post the comments they got. There are some hilarious people on this site and their comments are gold.

Is there a scenario where the Dems get control of the house before November and can pass real legislation? Or will committee leadership somehow thwart that? Or would committees get new leaders?

Did they say she’s already started chemo? She might be wearing a wig in that video if so, although it does usually take awhile to lose the hair.

It’s great that Texas won, but let’s not ignore the fact that Colorado State shot like crap most of the game, a bit of it due to good defense but mostly just missing shots. In addition, it was glaringly obvious that Texas was more talented, despite also shooting like crap for parts of the game. It was a very ugly game and Texas was fortunate Colorado played so poorly. I expect the Tennessee game to go very poorly. But if it doesn’t, that will certainly be a positive data point regarding Terry.

Ok RT go out and beat Barnes and turn this thread into explosive diarrhea.

Jesus their guy in the paint is just plowing into Texas with offensive fouls and they aren’t calling it.

WTF is Disu doing taking so many 3’s. And why does Horton play so much?

Texas is physically way more talented and they still look like ass.

On the ASR thing, I live far up in Northwest Austin/Leander and people all over are dealing with this. It sounds badddd.

I have a very strong opinion on why Barnes teams underachieved in the tournament quite a bit. If you go back and look at the last five minutes of close games, he tended to slow his team down on offense, put it in the hands of a few guys, and try to carefully eek out a win. The problem with that approach is that you end up with close games and don’t take advantage of your player’s natural athletic abilities that are better than the opponent. Compare that to Terry during last year’s tournament. He let his players loose. Even Shaka would let players loose which is why they would occasionally catch fire and upset North Carolina or Kansas. If Barnes wouldn’t have had his teams playing so tight down the stretch I think they would have gone deeper in most tournaments. I have no idea if his Tennessee teams are different. I don’t watch them.

I guess we could do that, but because there is timed entry to the park, I was thinking we’d want to keep coming back to an area in the park in between hikes. Otherwise, it would really be difficult to come back to during the day because you can’t leave and re-enter the park easily. It would be a pain, or maybe not even possible.

As I’ve mentioned on here before, I got a real estate license six years ago because I was sick of incompetent lazy realtors. I now do work for my own deals, and do several deals per year for friends and family. They like having someone who used to run companies represent them. There are a few critical elements to being a good agent, and 90% of them out there just don’t have the experience, skills, or makeup to do the job well. I’ve been shocked at the incompetence I’ve found. I’m in the middle of a deal, and the other realtor had a $3000 exposure for their client that I’m sure the client wasn’t even aware they had. And this was a client that had to scrape for every dollar to get the down payment. This agreement will have a substantial effect on the industry. It will provide more power to push commissions down. As Gil mentioned, 6% is often high unless you are selling a very low priced house, like $300-400k or less. What amazes me is that $1M-$2M homes are getting sold under 6% commissions. That’s ridiculous imo.

That’s true. But there is also a fundamental culture difference between (most of) the Japanese car companies and the rest of the world. Mazda, Honda, Toyota, and Subaru have implemented the world renowned Toyota quality system, and ingrained it into the culture. They are large enough to get the advantage of that quality system. I worked in one of the largest non-auto maker companies that implemented the Toyota quality system and it really does make a big difference. It was interesting to see a non Japanese person take over Nissan and basically run their quality into the ground.

This is pretty unusual. I know some folks don’t like Consumer Reports but it’s still one of the best resources out there for measuring car reliability. I’ve been an owner of Toyota and Lexus vehicles for over 40 years. We’ve owned 8 Toyota or Lexus vehicles, and a few other brands along the way. Without question, the Toyotas and Lexuses were of substantially higher quality for a long period. We try to hold cars for 8-10 years. Some of the non-Toyotas were real crap. There was about a 7 year period a few years ago where Toyota quality dipped, and there were problems with some vehicles. In the last few years the Toyota leader reemphasized quality and they’ve improved again. But the most important factor for us was that we had several Toyota/Lexus vehicles that went 8-10 years without requiring a single repair. It was amazing. Others required a specific repair that was a common issue for that model/year, but always affordable. There were two repairs required (across all those vehicles) out of warranty that were expensive and every one ended up getting covered by Toyota because they said that wasn’t right for the owner to pay. My brother has been a mechanic for 40 years and said there is no question whatsoever that Lexus’ were the best quality of any brand. Interestingly Consumer Reports doesn’t value the brand as highly as in the past. I think they have a few models these days that are of slightly lower quality, pulling down the overall quality rating You will get several recalls typically, always paid by Toyota, because they are more likely to do them than the American car companies. I am an unabashed Lexus fan. The only thing I didn’t like is that some models had weak designs but the stuff coming out right now is great

Starting to firm up our activities in June in and around Winter Park. One day we want to go to Rocky Mountain National Park, entering from the West side near Grand Lake City. We will have a pretty big group, with a range of hiking skills, from none to hard core, and everything in between. So, I'm kicking around the idea of finding a place where we could all congregate and hang out in the park, and then have groups of similar hikers branch off and do hikes that match their hiking skill. Non hikers could either hang at the meeting point, or maybe find a nice area to drive through, or go to a site that doesn't require hiking. Any thoughts about an area that might be convenient for this that is accessible from the West side of the park?

According to the Dbeasy Name-Based Recruiting Ranking System (NBRRS), we have a problem here. The name John Mills had an outstanding chance of being a great interior lineman name. The problem is that face and hair does not match the name. I’ve thus lowered his projected success (PSF) factor accordingly. In other news, Kelshaun Johnson has a sky high rating and projected success factor, with the only concern the slight similarity to Keyshawn Johnson. However his hair is perfect. Get him asap.

The other truth of the matter is that insurance company stocks are at all time highs. If the struggle for them was really that bad, their earnings and stock prices would be under a lot more pressure than they are. This industry is pulling some sort of pseudo price fixing under the guise of Covid inflation.

Yes. By the way, watched a Netflix or Prime documentary on the history of the National Inquirer and it was a mob-owned early precursor to propaganda and was partially responsible for blowing up Gary Hart and elevating Trump. Trump used to even call in his own stories about himself.

That’s what I thought. Your percentages for 5 stars seemed too low. So has Saban had a higher hit rate on 5 stars, or just basically average?

I already posted this same point above, so I don't know if your post is directed at my post or someone else's. It seems to be at mine, so I'll respond. Also, I've spent many years working in China and running a large organization there, so I have a pretty good understanding of what's going on there. Everything you've posted is obvious. I don't disagree with any of it. Frankly, the banning won't "reveal" anything. Everyone already knows this is the situation that is happning. But, this is not the real issue. If we ban Tik Tok, it's just like banning Chinese semiconductor chips. Probably warranted. As I said above, the real issue is the creep of these types of government actions against products and services that affect in some way free speech, and the rules of comerce for those products and services. Because if there is one thing US citizens have learned over the last 200 years is that unchecked government power tends to abuse. There absolutely is a first amendment and commerce question/issue. There's no need to run some thought experiment. We already have countless examples right now where, because of national security concerns, China and the US are banning or requiring alterations to products: semiconductor chips, software, etc. The point with Tik Tok is where is the line drawn? Is this the line? Is there another line? Because theoretically every single software product produced by both countries could get banned in the future because of national security threats. And that gives the US government the ability to control free speech of any software product that they deem being used as a weapon to influence the minds of citizens, or collect personal data, or spy, etc., or unfairly ban any product for any reason under the guise of national security. So as my post pointed out above, right now we are either on a path to potentially banning everything in the future...or maybe there can be ways to establish rules, requirements, and laws that hit at the heart of the security and free speech issues. One could argue that the banning of Tik Tok is essentially the beginning of a ban on any Chinese software product ever. Maybe that's the right decision. But it will have significant consequences for US companies operating in China that are having some level of success. And oh by the way, because I've been a pretty strong anti-China advocate on this board since the beginning who has seen the worst of China's behavior over and over in the past 20+ years, my personal inclination is to absolutely believe the US government when they say this is all about national security. BUT, given our government's track record for being nothing but bought politicians, I would not be surprised at all that a big part of all of this is also because some powerful tech interests are damn scared of Tik Tok's potential to take control of billions and billions of dollars at stake via social media applications. Facebook sucks, YouTube has matured, SnapChat has plateaued, and Tik Tok is it right now. It's naive to believe it's all about just national security. Just seeing Trump flip to supporting the app because of his relationship with a Tik Tok minority owner tells us everything.

Awesome video 4th. This was a great tournament to watch. What a Sunday comeback.

I’m really excited about this draw. Terry could end up playing one or two games against high quality coaches. If he beats them, then maybe it’s a statement about Terry’s long term potential. If he loses, maybe it’s a statement about Terry’s long term potential.

What’s the neg rep number for destroying a user? Reality Check has to be close and his relentless idiocy has been enough to where I’m ready to join a good ol’ fatwa if someone wants to declare it.

This is probably the beginning of the end for Pierce, imo. It’s coming 3 years later than I thought it would happen. As I posted earlier, the cracks in the program have been there for awhile, but to Pierce’s credit, a few times he managed to turn the team around and get to the CWS. I hope CDC’s patience does not extend past the end of next year.