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  1. 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.
  2. 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)
  3. “Did you ever read ‘The Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad?”
  4. 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)
  5. “Buddies”
  6. 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.
  7. 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?
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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?
  13. 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.
  14. Remember the Akers team’s players walking around campus with those t shirts, with “TEAM” in huge letters and “ME” in small letters.
  15. Damn! How many of us were there? I was there, too.
  16. 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.
  17. 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?
  18. Naw. Arkansas is a rival, and their flame to a 1964 MNC is the FWAA vote (Alabama won the wire polls, I believe, before losing to Texas in the 1965 Orange Bowl). Look, the FWAA did that vote every year, and even awarded a MNC trophy. Is a school that just had a great season supposed to say, “Naw, Dawg, we can’t accept that, the UPI voted for someone else”? I scoff at the MNC claims based on after-the-fact ratings (usually many years later).
  19. No, the point is that context should matter, and the dumbest way to pick a MNC is loss column bias. Example: BYU in 1984. The SEC in the ‘50s and early ‘60s was not the SEC of later decades. It was a bunch of little white guys that rarely ventured out of Dixie for a game. Again, the FWAA saw them play and voted them MNC. Why do you want to argue against that?
  20. LSU was an all white team that never played a game outside Dixie. Iowa arguably played a tougher schedule, was integrated and played other integrated teams. If contemporary sportswriters were willing to vote them MNC, I have no problem with it.
  21. You’re right, Bolverk. I have nothing to offer to this discussion. Won’t make the mistake again.
  22. Let’s not get carried away. France and Germany are still buying Russian energy, three years after Bucha. (Others may be, too, those are the ones I googled). I know, energy is a commodity, but I have to think that rejecting Russian energy would allow Russia’s remaining customers (China, India) to start screwing them on terms. The EU has issued a white paper on how a renewed Euro interest in defense could manifest in spending nearly a trillion Euros over the next few years. The EU has suggested that budget restrictions, keeping them from borrowing to spend on defense, could be lifted. I don’t think they have enacted it yet. (The UK is not in the EU, and they could be increasing spending on defense right now, but aren’t. Does it take a vote in Parliament? I really don’t know). The WSJ had a sourced news article this weekend. After the disastrous Oval Office meeting, Zelensky flew to London to meet with the European leaders, where they affirmed their support for Ukraine. Then, Macron and Starmer told Zelensky he needed to go back to the U.S. and make nice. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/inside-the-frantic-european-negotiations-behind-ukraines-cease-fire-deal-f4ad538c?st=7JFhED&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink Is the U.S. acting childish? Sure. Are the Euros acting like adults? Well,…sort of, almost,…we’ll see. Russia rolling into Crimea in 2014 didn’t spur them to wean off Russian energy or increase their defense spending, going into Ukraine again three years ago didn’t spur them. Let’s hope they do so, now.
  23. Perspective- China has killed nearly as many Ukrainians on accident as Russia has on purpose (and many millions more worldwide), and no one is (or will) holding them accountable
  24. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare#
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