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  1. Beard is still with his “fiancée” (of how many years affianced?), Trew. That disqualifies him as a coach at Texas, even if you believe the narrative where he is a victim. Not because Texas is “too Buttoned down”, like perhaps with Abe Lemons. This is about Texas not paying millions to a wheels-off, loose cannon. Not entrusting its second most important (sorry, baseball) program to a guy that stays in an abusive relationship, whether or not he is the abuser, despite being given a ton of support and opportunities to extricate himself. I’m sure he will be incredibly successful at Ole Miss, and other places. I’m banking on it. The University of Texas isn’t getting on that ride, nor should it. We’re not fucking Baylor.
  2. Thanks to y’all for sharing. This is coming down the pike for me. Observation- for older couples, usually (it seems) one is stronger, more vibrant and active than the other. For my in laws, it was MIL and for my parents, it’s my dad. It’s tougher if they die in the wrong order (stronger one goes first), because then you lose the years of the stronger one caring for the weaker. That didn’t happen with us, so we got more years delay from having to really jump in. But, it’s coming.
  3. Wait- does TexAgs have anything to do with their NIL collective? Beyond helping to raise funds?
  4. Well,…firing Fisher cratered their financial standing in athletics, driving their AD away to tOSU and leading to them hiring Alberts, with a directive to slash costs everywhere but football (where he was to merely “trim” costs). That led to Schlossnagle’s departure and now Buzz Williams is clearly trying to bail. So, maybe she’s right?
  5. How about the Stanford TE and PK?
  6. Texas has four football NCs. Each came with 50 stars on the U.S. flag. Aggy has one, and it came under a 48 star flag. Recently, an Ag friend tried to chide me about the ‘70 MBC (UPI award, before the bowl game loss). As if the Ags wouldn’t absolutely claim such a NC, and build statues to it.
  7. “Goldfinger” is awesome. Shirley Bassey seems like the most terrific kind of broad.
  8. My understanding is that Paul Simon isn’t crazy about covers of his songs. With one exception. “Mrs. Robinson”, as covered by Frank Sinatra. I read that when he is feeling good, he likes to hear that cover. I had my Alexa play it. It is awesome and it is bonkers. Evidently, the lyrics didn’t make sense to Frank, so he had Sammy Cahn redo them. That’s how we have “The PTA is not OK with how you do your thing. Ding ding ding.” It has become a regular in my playlist. I encourage you to give a listen.
  9. Payments don’t begin until they enroll. Their choices- finishing senior year in HS, try to stay in shape, maybe get a summer job at Whattaburger, or enroll early and start receiving four figure checks.
  10. I’ve been picking up old Texas football game programs along with the old bowl watches. Usually get them from online auctions. Observations: eBay is an honest auction. They only work on real bids, and if the second highest bid is 1/10 that of the highest bid, it stops at one increment over the second highest bid. Live Auctioneer and HiBid offer the opportunity for good deals (they are online consolidators of local auctions around the nation), but they are not honest auctions. If you put in a max bid, the auction knows what your max is, and they will shill bid up to just under it, so they get the most money. I have learned on those sites that you have to wait for the “live bidding” part to get something. Also, a lot of sports cards and memorabilia are auctioned by Mynt Auctions, on the Live Auction site. They definite shady- ungraded cards going for max price, other items going for more than they should. They definitely use shills to get prices up. I’m not sure what else they’re doing- money laundering, maybe? (I think their owner moved from the U.S. to Cyprus or Albania or something)
  11. “Did you ever read ‘The Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad?”
  12. Texas is a Nike school. OU is a Jordan Brand school. (That’s why their football uniforms have a silhouette of a guy dunking a basketball)
  13. “Buddies”
  14. So,… https://www.skysport4.com/texas-immortalize-coaching-legend-r-c-slocum-kyle-field-statue/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJOgi1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeTXtQaXtS1iyGrMBinVnEcCrs992bXXH4CHwArhv1lEbsx2H5z4T7lDkw_aem_XYSSRyQcRRC-nuKIWii1FA a statue of RC Slocum. Now, to be fair, he coached a team that went 49-6-2, from late ‘90 through early ‘95 season. That’s over an 88% clip. That stretch formed a generation of Ags’ perceptions of what their program was, and could be again. Trouble is- they really didn’t play anyone good. I think they only beat five teams in that 56 game stretch that finished ranked in the top 25. They beat #22 BYU in ‘90, #9 Stanford in ‘92, #24 Louisville in ‘93, #23 Texas in ‘94, and # 25 LSU in early ‘95 (all final rankings). That is how the legend was made. Maybe the Ags calling for a move to the Southland Conference are on to something.
  15. What exactly are you saying was the cause of inflation in the U.S., then? Do you agree that the (painful) raising of U.S. lending rates, by the Fed, was needed to reduce it? If not, why did the Fed do that?
  16. I don’t think you understand what that lane is for. You see, there is no lane to the left, so a driver that wants to check his smart phone can slide in, knowing he doesn’t have to pay full attention to the traffic around him
  17. Excuse me, but it is well documented by empirical evidence as well as modelling that the most efficient way to merge traffic is the “zipper”, where the cars merge at the last moment. Sorry is that’s too stressful for some of you.
  18. When Nahlin posted in IT a couple of months back that Beard was still with his “fiancée”, I cleansed my head of all “what could have been” thoughts. Waste of time. Can’t work.
  19. On their boards, Baylor, TCU and SMU fans like to call Texas out as “welfare U”, as if athletics were funded by the state. It’s bullshit, as we know, since UT runs a profit on sports. However, with the Ags, they may have a point.
  20. Really? I know we really yuk it up about those hayseeds, but, come on. That AD is repaying a loan to the (state funded) university, and is about to start cutting checks to athletes (and it will probably pay over the required $20.5M). At some point, doesn’t the state have to provide adult supervision?
  21. We all kind of had to be, since fucking SMU was on probation again and barred from TV. Saturday afternoon, at Texas Stadium, I learned that a stadium could be surrounded by freeways on all sides and it still could take an hour and a half to get out of the parking lot.
  22. Remember the Akers team’s players walking around campus with those t shirts, with “TEAM” in huge letters and “ME” in small letters.
  23. Damn! How many of us were there? I was there, too.
  24. 1981 SMU game. #10 Texas playing at (Texas Stadium) #8 SMU. SMU had Dickerson and James in the backfield. Texas won 9-7, holding the Mustangs to 205 yards (70 came on one pass play for the sole Mustangs TD). Sims had 11 solo tackles and four assists for 15 total tackles (SMU only had 68 plays, so Sims tackled over 1/5 of them). He had two sacks (McIlhenny went back to pass 23 times, but was only able to attempt 15 passes as he was sacked eight times), and four other tackles for loss. He forced a fumble and recovered a fumble (I can’t remember if it was the same play). https://stats.texassports.com/custompages/sports/m-footbl/archive/stats/81/ut-smu.htm He got hurt against TCU later that year, but there was a reason he was the number one draft pick.
  25. Baylor is a pissant program that had been freeriding on UT for decades, hypocritically claiming to be of higher morals while demonstrating it was happy to break any rule or law if doing so brought more wins. Its basketball program paid players illegally for decades, going sometimes to criminal lengths to hide it. Its football program paid tens of millions of dollars to buy rape victims’ silence, so it wouldn’t have to admit that the program’s greatest teams were built on a culture of gang rape. Is that logically coherent?
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