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  1. It’s crazy. Ewers’ draft stock may have been higher last year? There were so many top rated QBs last year-Williams, Penix, Nix, Daniels, McCarthy, Maye- that he decided to return, but is it possible he would have been drafted in a higher round last year?
  2. Yeah, I’ve got the damned thing in my car. I figured on dropping by and trying. I was hoping someone had some insight like “yeah, they’ll take it”, or “no, you have to take it to another drop off”
  3. Naw. I’ve assembled a bunch of IKEA stuff, and am familiar with backtracking and redoing things the right way. This is a poor design (my wife selected and ordered it. When looking at the Amazon reviews, I see that a few people had the same issue). It will be a real pain in the ass to disassemble. I’m really hoping I can just haul it in as is.
  4. Buying tennis shoes from Kmart. They came out of a big bin, with no shoebox, just the laces tying them together. They were called “buddies”.
  5. Ordered a motorized raising/lowering desk from Amazon. The drive rod to work the other side won’t extend enough to engage, so only one side goes up. I want to return it. Will Whole Foods take it without me disassembling it back into box first? If not, is there another drop off that will? Thanks.
  6. Hey! They used to have Bill Byrne, their greatest AD ever (plus, he hated Texas). They can always steal his son, Greg Byrne, from Bama.
  7. It will be fascinating to watch OU recruiting. The idea is that Nagy is supposed to decide what athletes they need, to fit Venables’ schemes, with Nagy having final say on offers, but Venables and his staff doing all the recruiting hosting and visits. Can’t see any problems with that working out! Can’t see any rivals telling a kid, “Nagy picked you, and I hear that Venables really doesn’t want you as much as Nagy does”. That wouldn’t be fair.
  8. It has been pointed out that Venables recruits like Mack - he makes a “get” list early and tries to get them committed ASAP, hoping to build more momentum. One thing about Sark- he takes his time building his class. He doesn’t freak out if the top targets want to take their time.
  9. Yeah, but he was talking about how great he was, because he kept Dan costs down. He misses the point.
  10. Cuban is such a shithead. You would think that he, out of all the owners, would realize- you pay fans with wins, not dollars or promotions.
  11. That was the year that the Big 12 ran through Lubbock?
  12. Zach Robinson is a coach? Amazing. The last I remember Robinson was the Halloween night game against Texas in 2009. A lot of people pointed to it as the potential for a replay of the TT game the year before (it wasn’t). Halfway through the third quarter, after Earl Thomas had baited Robinson into throwing his second pick six of the night, the camera showed Gundy and Robinson talking on the sideline. Clearly, Gundy was asking him the “Tell me what you saw” question and Robinson answered. Gundy was silent for a moment as he pondered what Robinson said. Then, he called running plays for most of the rest of the game.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Wait- does TexAgs have anything to do with their NIL collective? Beyond helping to raise funds?
  16. 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?
  17. 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.
  18. “Goldfinger” is awesome. Shirley Bassey seems like the most terrific kind of broad.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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)
  22. “Did you ever read ‘The Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad?”
  23. 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)
  24. “Buddies”
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