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LCHorn

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  1. I like both the leads but zero chemistry.
  2. This-at least OB has Steve Hicks leaking anything that gets to the BOR level. I’m sure CDC is well aware that there are candidates previously thought unavailable that don’t come out unless the position is available.
  3. I think you’re referring to their communication medium and potential messaging. I have something different in mind, which is they need to resolve to fix the problems faced by loser young dudes that aren’t of their own making. Otherwise they are going to continue to be a voting block that votes “asshole” by default simply because the Democrats seek to elevate every group but them.
  4. Given how much maintenance those take to keep on the road I doubt it gets much use aside from being photographed in their parking lot.
  5. Sign of a healthy program, imo. We should be getting a couple of coaches promoted up every year.
  6. I was actually going to include that but thought it was a little presumptuous considering no one I talk to has mentioned it. I think Rodney Terry would have been fine raising funds from white folks* but his program looks disorganized, his resume isn’t there to tell a different story, and the performance of the team is underwhelming. I think all of those are more material than race in the NIL donor calculus. Honestly, that’s probably what gets him canned, not missing the tournament (although everything is connected). Kind of like Herman, CDC is going to see via donor disinterest that recruiting is going to be tough and it’s downhill from here. *I’ll add that connecting to black parents and selling the “I can be a mentor” in a more natural way because of race and cultural connection is partly why Rodney Terry was hired as an assistant. The template donors are used to is the head coach as the CEO and the assistants as big brothers, in part because that’s how they run their orgs, and Terry being good at that part but not others kind of reinforces the idea that he’s peter principled as a head coach.
  7. I think they’ve been withholding for the same reason @SL Xpress and others have gone over-they’ve been expecting Terry to underperform and will be more willing to stake the next guy, who CDC will sell as a veteran program builder. This is beating a very dead horse, but Beard had the folks I know involved with football NIL very excited and as basketball will be starved unless the program has a coach that can compete with Sark on performance and/or personal charisma.
  8. That’s a little surprising considering his career has been made off his recruiting ability.
  9. I prefer this one who’s only 45* *obviously this photo is from when she was younger.
  10. I grew up around rice farmers and can’t understand someone looking at those old men and saying “yeah, I want that to be me.”
  11. I'm still watching but it's diluted Ted Lasso. At least for me, Ted Lasso (the show and the character) seemed so much more sincere. Maybe it was just a little easier to suspend disbelief because of the inherent weirdness of the setting (American in the UK, a football coach coaching soccer) and that made it a little easier to digest the ridiculous.
  12. Seconded. Even more humid than Houston.
  13. The defense has really been atrocious over the last couple of weeks, too. I’m guessing we’re getting played differently with Smith out and it took a couple of weeks for the league to figure out how to do it. Or just general health and nagging injuries everywhere are hindering team D.
  14. Voice does not match the face, he sounds like he should look like Aziz Ansari.
  15. Just to add some nuance, I think McConnell would have done it if he had the votes. I’m more upset that Merrick Garland and the Biden administration seemed to fantasize that Trump would just fade away. Instead, if NYT columnist Brett Stephens is to be believed, they convinced a portion of the low IQ swing electorate that the Biden admin was just as corrupt as the GOP AND too weak to take him off the chess board.
  16. I think if Green was a rookie after three years in college and with these stats he’d be the favorite for ROY. He’s kind of in contract limbo (not good enough for the max and with too much potential to sign something long). On board with upgrading there but I’d feel a lot better about it two years from now and presuming he’s not improved in the interim.
  17. Keith Law top 20 Astros prospects write up.
  18. Maybe? I’m a little reluctant to give back ALL of them. Let’s remember that we have OKC and (to a lesser extent) San Antonio all in about the same part of the success cycle but with ample draft capital left remaining. I don’t want to end up like the pre-Luka trade Mavericks with not a lot of ways to improve over the next three or four years aside from internal player development. I think (and have to imagine Stone thinks this) there is some chance the Suns implode even with Booker. The fact the Suns appear open to trading Durant and adding Butler is a good indicator that they don’t feel great about the current trajectory.
  19. Man, I know Booker is good but that’s a lot to trade for anyone.
  20. Decision making in the last three minutes fell apart.
  21. Pascal sounds kind of weird at the start of the trailer.
  22. I used to get super butt-hurt about it when I was originating about 3 loans a month back in the early 2010’s. Once my production increased to more like 10 a month in 2017 (before it went really bonkers), I stopped caring. In other words, the resentment was more about scarcity, and that’s kind of a burden to put on a friendship (and selfish of me). I do really appreciate when friends come to me for a loan but @Wulaw Horn is right, maintaining privacy and the ability to fire me for poor performance are very valid reasons (and I tell people that because it’s pretty unusual for someone to not have a friend that’s a lender and sometimes borrowers feel obligated to use the friend).
  23. I don’t really have any great savings ideas, but what I would recommend is to take out a HELOC on your residence. It’ll potentially be a source of down-payment money for the next purchase, you won’t be paying interest on it if you do nothing (it’s just an untapped line of credit), the interest is 100% tax deductible if you convert it to a rental property, and no bank will approve it unless the property is owner occupied (in other words, you would need to do it now and not when you’ve moved).
  24. One of my all time favorite closing scenes. Showed this to my girlfriend (now wife) when she suggested we watch to “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” so she would know what she was signing up for. I think I liked all of your recs more than Goodfellas.
  25. He’s getting a raise of $800k or getting his total comp above $800k? The latter seems more likely…
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