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  1. That’s valid, but I think a greater area of improvement is that someone with his physical attributes should be open more and that’s going to come with experience.
  2. This has certainly come up previously in the 500 pages of this thread and it’s predecessor, but almost every purchase I’ve been party to in which a borrower tried to go without an agent ends up being a shit show, including my own. Maybe it’s worth it when reflecting a few years later, but it’s definitely a roll of the dice.
  3. Because relying on that is a great way to underperform. Imagine a WR room this year without Golden and there’s probably another couple of losses. Plus, the one thing most freshman WR fail to do adequately is block worth a shit, and that appears to be a necessity in Sark’s offense given how how much they run screen plays.
  4. Fwiw, the service academies and ROTC selection officers do put a lot of weight in sports, especially team sports, as an extracurricular.
  5. I’m pretty sure there‘s regulatory barriers but there’s also clear conflict of interest issues. As a lender we work for the bank, and you as a borrower are a customer. I want to look out for you because that’s good customer service, but if I don’t put the bank first I’m going to get fired. A realtor is contractually obligated to represent their side of the transaction and has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the client.
  6. I’d like to know where the hiring is coming from because it’s not in real estate/banking and it’s not in tech. Google is signaling to their staff that more “right-sizing” is coming in ‘25.
  7. What’s shocking is reported Federalist Society All-Stars viewing behavior engaged by a private citizen and convicted under state law as under the purview of Federal review.
  8. Boyhood couldn’t live up to that fantastic trailer. She’s fine and in a more challenging role, but Ethan Hawke gets the fun part and just RULES in that film.
  9. Disney isn’t paying them just to maintain awards eligibility. They are using Shogun as their centerpiece for promoting Hulu like Netflix did with House of Cards and HBO did with The Sopranos. If there’s any chance they can put together a second season they will want to take it. I’m also sure the series does bonkers money in international sales.
  10. Sadly, I was a little hopeful he’d be back (but not if he was going to pitch like he did in ‘24).
  11. Not to take anything away from Casey Hampton, but I’ve had personal or professional relationships with a bunch of those guys who played 2000-2010 or so and they’ve all been surprisingly kind, almost gentle (I would have expected them to be more like my USMC brethren and constantly acting like overgrown adolescents). I figure at least some of that is playing ball at UT can be a good maximizer of social skills if you let it. Too late, but would have been a perfect thread name for the 2023-2024 recruiting class.
  12. I just figured he was trying to show off his SAT verbal bonafides like @closetojumping
  13. This. Also, I think Dodds was overly praised for running no better than a competent AD's office, but I know from talking to players that they felt like he really cared about them personally, i.e., their development as humans would be important to him and losing is certainly a teacher. Eh, I think with the benefit of hindsight you may judge him too harshly. Mack is like an old pitcher who lost his fastball but couldn't adapt and kept pumping diminished heat. I think he was confused at the time and retreated to a safe space that was a little self-centered. Its kind of a rare trait for anyone to be capable of unprodded self-reflection, least of all an athlete/coach making $5m annually.
  14. Did they? I think they’ve performed pretty admirably beginning with CSU even if they didn’t rack up a lot of counting stats. How do you parse out the credit between four years with Davis and one with Baker? Frankly, given the bust rate of even high four and five stars prospects, I’m not sure what the standard for evaluation should be, aside from the obvious (coaching three or more year players into NFL draft picks). One might be success recruiting the four and fifth year senior transfers using UT as a finishing school for the NFL, as they are presumably evaluating programs for developmental acumen (and depth chart) rather than a pure NIL auction.
  15. I think the jury is still out on whether Baker is a better than average developer, but making sure you have a four deep of 4th and 5th year players with a decent baseline of talent is a good way to get credit for it.
  16. The fact I know this or have an opinion is something of a character flaw (because Awards season is stupid), but the Globes always go for international co-productions.
  17. This is probably a decade stale, but I had a friend working for the Austin Chamber of Commerce that got data on a lot of payroll for restaurants in town and discovered the Austin Arboretum Chang’s head chef was one of the highest compensated in town. It seemed sort of intuitive at the time-they were a hot restaurant, tons of tables and big kitchen, always full, and had lunch and dinner services to manage. In other words, cash-cow. You go in there now and it’s empty like Highland Mall before it was sold to ACC.
  18. Eh, fuck OSU and their bitch ass stickers. Otherwise you are correct.
  19. As an Oilers fan this hits close to home. We went through like 5 kickers in the run “n” shoot era that were great for a season or half a season only to get cut soon after.
  20. He basically plays Lobo in everything else, why not officially?
  21. Anecdotal, but that’s actually not the problem and it seems like policy makers make gestures in this direction because it SEEMS like it would be helpful. I bet 75% or more of my purchase lending over the past two years has been to first-time homebuyers. Caveat, I’m not stealing deals often from the KB Homes of the world and they are building the housing stock priced more affordably for working class first-time homebuyers and that are larger users of down-payment assistance, seller incentives and rate buydowns. Anyway, I can’t think of anything on the demand side that doesn’t have predictable consequences I don’t like. Bear in mind, too, that a lot of the ways that the government addresses affordability end up a tax on middle-class or more mature buyers/borrowers, it just doesn’t get publicized that way. That doesn’t make it a bad deal on the face, but it does give me a little heartburn knowing someone selling a home and buying a small upgrade is subsidizing a first-time homebuyer, and they are both otherwise identical in terms of wealth, income, and credit qualification.
  22. I’m sure this has been discussed but the non-conference schedule takes several years in the making, right, I.e., this is basically the Beard non-conference schedule? Because it’s straight garbage and if it’s CDC signing off on it then he needs some criticism.
  23. I don’t think I want Verdugo at the major league minimum. Pretty much every teammate he’s played with has leaked to the press that he’s lazy and bad in the clubhouse.
  24. My kids just put their bathing suits on and just jumped in the pool.
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