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LCHorn

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  1. Just to clarify, Herman wasn’t fired for on field performance reasons, he was fired because he had substance abuse issues that poisoned his relationship to the AD, recruits parents, and high school coaches, and he had made too little effort with rich alumni for there to be a push against his firing. That’s likely some part of why Pierce is still here-he might be an asshole but not on Herman’s level.
  2. Re: Chaisson, I actually don’t think he was all that great, but UT fans are disposed to overrate him because played fantastic against us. The NFL drafted him on measurables and potential.
  3. Ticket prices are set by demand, not labor costs…
  4. This is what I think-in the short term it’s all going to be donations because most universities aren’t sitting on $20m they have freedom to distribute. Maybe this helps rich private schools and large public schools with established networks of donors and hollows out the middle class. It’s definitely gonna to create drama as stakeholders fight over it-particularly if it’s football taking from non-revenue sports.
  5. I don’t know why PE would get involved unless it was in exchange for a piece of the media rights, and that would be at the conference level.
  6. It might end up there but in the interim we’re going to see a TON of experimentation and that’s going to make college football overall a lot of fun. You’re going to see low revenue schools try out all kinds of strategic program building methods. Maybe it’s hiring a Deion type at a small school and cutting costs elsewhere, maybe it’s only targeting kids that would go to a service academy. Maybe it’s running really specialized offensive/defensive schemes that de-emphasize athleticism for soundness and BYU style 24 year old men. All of it is poised to have cinderellas pop up annually.
  7. I did after college-I finally stopped going after a menu change and because the staff, to a (wo)man, would ask “would you like to add a tip?” with such undisguised hostility that I was afraid to eat the food.
  8. What's truly sad is that a well-run and properly resourced Texas Democratic party would be in an ideal position to capitalize on this. They clearly need a Ben Wikler type who recruit county chairs and grab onto rural voters pissed off about vouchers. I doubt there's enough of those to matter in local races but they could be a big factor in a close state race.
  9. Congrats, you got me to laugh out loud in a public restroom.
  10. Thirded! The first time my sheltered young self saw actual blue water in Pensacola beach my jaw dropped. “You mean ocean water doesn’t have to be brown and filled with tar balls?”
  11. I have no idea of his professional acumen, but former Tiger Beat cover model and lead actor in “Airborne” Shane McDermott is an agent in Galveston.
  12. Honestly I’d far less quick to judgment, regardless of performance, had Luhnow made the hire…
  13. I’m putting 60% of the blame on Espada, 30% on Dana Brown and 10% on Valdez. This is repeating what @Wulaw Horn has already said, but a championship contender shouldn’t be breaking in a rookie manager.
  14. I bet we start seeing leaks that the pitchers don’t like throwing to Diaz…
  15. If I gave up that many homers in one inning I’d be beaning Angels left and right.
  16. If you could be convinced that Tucker will re-sign would you still want to trade him?
  17. When I was a teenager I saved all of my Copenhagen tin lids because there’s nothing cooler than trading 10,000 lids for a pool table emblazoned with Copenhagen across the felt…
  18. Glen Powell was the best thing about "Everybody Wants Some" (and that was a typically strong Linklater cast), but he's not had the opportunity (or chased it) to show versatility. I still vote for Chalamet but Emma Stone is worthwhile for the same reason--they are both willing to take very big swings. A worthy suggestion but he's following the Cruise career path where his preference is to not disappear into the role entirely. Cruise, particularly after Eyes Wide Shut, just got risk averse. She's still really young and is always the best part of whatever she's in.
  19. My personal worst dining experience that I can recall is eating at the Red Lobster in Mishawaka, Indiana in January at the behest of the Marines with whom I was training at the AM General plant. I don't even remember the food or service, just that it was bad. What I do remember is looking around the mostly empty restaurant and seeing utter despair, both in the faces of the obese diners and the harried waitstaff. And yes, all the result of running out cheddar biscuits...
  20. I’m not a well read religious scholar, but I do think it’s worth adding that Islam was entirely compatible with science, epistemology, and finding compromise between the faith and earthly concerns, including being able to coexist with non-adherents, for a thousand years. It’s only been in the last 200 that the Wahhabists have so successfully taken a fringe belief mainstream and created an environment in which the clerics feel like they have to one-up each other at being the biggest assholes to be the “true” faith.
  21. I haven’t really dug into this but I have a suspicion that the offensive struggles from the second half of last season are caused or exacerbated by a change in personnel and approach that lowered team contact frequency (selling out for power?) and that maybe didn’t result in a cumulative loss of runs scored, but it made the for streakier output. We end up with too many 10-5 wins and 4-0 losses and the Pythag looks like we should be better than our record.
  22. In my somewhat limited experience, all of the production side itinerant labor (and even though they are on camera I’d put stunt performers in this category) are just really happy to have a job.
  23. Good, a team full of dudes playing at their peak is ideal from a resource allocation and team building perspective 🙂 Or, do you think we should be selling off an outfielder and he’d bring the most in return? I used to espouse that kind of fantasy baseball stuff, and maybe you can do it on the margins but it’s also a great way for a GM to get fired.
  24. Not to be a dick but I answered your question in my post-maybe it’s not in him to copy Beto, but try running as a man of the people, going town to town, speaking to independents and Republicans, run against Washington, etc. If you have the charisma it’ll get you publicity. At this point he’s poised for a trouncing because no one knows who he is and he doesn’t have anything to offer besides his bio. The uncomfortable truth is that he’s a lackluster and underbaked candidate in the first place. The Texas Dems, however, don’t have anyone willing to run that’s clearly better so here we are.
  25. I’d like to think we’re on the elite side when it comes to maximization, but if you look at other teams you’ll see a lot of guys that outperform their prospect pedigree. My point was that Loperfido isn’t Wyatt Lankford or prospect Kyle Tucker, and in whom at bats at the expense of a veteran might be justified because the expected ceiling is so high once they’ve gotten comfortable.
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