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  1. Harrison and Dumont are such shitheads. You know Davis is only going to play one game for the Mavs and Luka will drop 20# and win four NBA championships for the Lakers. It will be like Kareem leaving Milwaukee, except that Kareem actually wanted to leave Milwaukee. So idiotic. If they had called into a radio show suggesting such a trade, their call would never be put on, for being so stupid.
  2. In terms of athletic appeal, it is very much a regional school, just like TCU is. Or Tulane. SMU (soon to be CFP participant) played TCU (2022 CFP finalist) on Sept. 21. Viewership was 350K. Nationwide. There were possibly more DFW viewers watching Texas play ULM on the SEC+ app.
  3. I think he’s top five all time. I will argue against anyone who says he’s not the best FIBA rules player of all time- quantitatively and qualitatively. The FIBA 3PL is placed exactly where Durant would put it if he were allowed to choose. For such a great scorer, he’s different. Funny stat- Westbrook is the same age, and has taken hundreds more shots in his career (and probably missed thousands more). KD just has never been that guy to take lots and lots of shots. Oh, he will if he’s hot, but within reason. He is just always chasing the game, more than the stats.
  4. KD is great. A lot of people want to criticize him for not being what they want him to be. They think he should have built a legacy as the guy who stuck with a franchise for better or worse. Others think he should have been like LeBron, building a legacy as an icon of dominance. They wish he was like Curry or Kobe. KD has made it very clear, in word and deeds, what he wants to do in his career. He wants to play basketball, at the best level he can. When the league was on strike, he famously went to Rucker to get a game. Every four years, he plays for the U.S. team. Why? Because that lets him play high level games in the summer. (I will always remember the 2021 Olympics- the first time a U.S. team of all stars turned to one guy and said, “We need you to win this for us, KD”. And he did). He has had two injuries that could have ended a career. He came back from both. His whole career, he has played more minutes per game than it would be wise to. For his whole career, he has sought to expand his game, his defense, his off the ball play, his understanding of offense. I don’t think KD is going to be one of those guys that retires on top. I think they’re going to have to wrest the ball from his hands and change the locks to the gym. What is his career about? He wants to play high level games and he wants to be the best in them. He’s not Jordan, with the drive to beat others. He’s not LeBron, with his drive to build legacy. He’s KD. He plays great basketball, when and where he can.
  5. So, rather than criticize his opinions and stands, you mock his disability? Every year, I give my daughter, on her birthday, a “wisdom saying”. One year, it was “you can’t lift yourself higher by putting someone else down”.
  6. I have never understood why the governor, a Texas Ex that has done nothing but support the school, is mocked with a nickname that makes fun of his disability on a Texas website.
  7. The Texas AD had $270 M in revenue last year. SMU raised $159 M last year ($100M after the ACC move was announced). This is cute
  8. The point is- we are talking about the attraction of SMU’s AD job. It is limited. You’re trying to fill a 32k stadium and you have games on the CW(?) channel. You play games on a Friday night. He captured what I meant when I said SMU was # 4 in Dallas, exactly. It’s ok. TCU is #4 in Fort Worth.
  9. SMU needs to know its place and stay in its lane. Last time it didn’t, it fucked itself over for decades. (And saying that with an MBA from Cox) SMU is a regional private school. It’s nice that its rich alums want good sports teams. They are still, even at peak performance, #4 in Dallas, after Texas, TAMU and OU (and when not at peak, they are behind TT, OSU and Arkansas)
  10. Is he the foot guy? Or is that Rex?
  11. Besides the teams that play ASU, there are two B12 teams playing a team from the 2025 CFP: TCU and BU play SMU. There are no B12 teams that have a game scheduled against a team that finished in Sagarin’s top 12. I will give the B12 this: they have designed the schedule so as to at least not have nothing but dog shit games the first few weeks. ISU plays KSU in Ireland in week 0. Cincy plays Nebraska the Thursday before Week 1. They have 2-3 P4 on P4 games the first four weeks. Nothing too compelling, but they have to work with what they have.
  12. ACC, struggling to hold together, is considering adopting unequal revenue sharing. They have extended their ESPN contract to 2037 (set to expire in 2027). Their path to holding together had two elements- placate Clemson and FSU, and don’t let the media deal expire (like the PAc-12 did). (Also- hope that the SEC and B1G are taking a break from expansion) The B12 deal goes through 2031. I don’t think any of the teams are a threat to jump to another conference. The threat to the B12 is that their next media deal may be based on viewership numbers. Colorado is a ratings draw, or more precisely, Deion is a ratings draw. I don’t think you’ll see any extensions to the B12 media contracts before they’re about to run out.
  13. Thanks. I am glad to hear we plan to keep TexasOne going. (Suggestion- on the online donation site, provide an option to donate “in honor of (someone)”. I was disappointed last October to discover that I couldn’t make my donation “in honor of Kirby Smart” (I was a little pissed at Kirby) funny thing- the “rules following” trait of Texas athletics, as near as I can tell, began with Darrell Royal. He was the guy who wanted to play by the rules and get alumni out of recruiting. He did a great job of reforming the program. Prior to Royal, DX Bible built the program by instituting “The Bible Plan”. That was the name for Bible dividing the state into 23 regions, with a different Texas booster assigned to each region, to lead efforts to get top players signed. My point is- there is no reason to recoil from this new era.
  14. That makes no sense? Because, as great as Jeremiah Smith is, those funds could be applied to getting 4-5 other great, proven players. (it would be like trading Jokic for one second team all-NBA player, when you could easily get at least two for him).
  15. “Goodfellas”? ”The Big Heat”?
  16. Perspective- the Russian total population for WWI was 160M. They had 2M KIA in WWI (WWII was worse). The casualties from Ukraine are horrific to a modern, free country, but don’t expect it to drive change in Russia.
  17. My larger point stands. This league is just fine with generational talent finding its way to the Lakers.
  18. “NBA justification in approving this trade”? Easy. It’s the Lakers. Wilt finished with the Lakers. Kareem finished with the Lakers. Shaq spent most of his later career with the Lakers. LeBron is finishing with the Lakers.
  19. NCAA enforcement always relied on the schools submitting to it. That worked for decades. Then, Auburn (Can Newton) and TAMU (Manziel) said, in response to (well substantiated) NCAA allegations of cheating - “we’ll see you in court”. The NCAA has always been toothless without the schools willingly submitting. If there are ever to be rules, again, the enforcement body will have to be submitted to, willingly. My guess is that the rules will have to be set and enforced by whoever is distributing the money.
  20. Cutting the workforce (although- I would be in favor of a constitutional amendment barring unionization of any federal employees, including the postal service and military) won’t solve the budget issues. the dollars aren’t there. Cutting defense, even in half, won’t do it, either. The $$ aren’t there. It will take entitlement reform. That won’t happen until it has to happen, politically. (The GOP proposed a SS plan in 2005; the Dems used that as a scare to win the mid terms. The Dems have an announced SS plan involving minute increases in FICA and phased delays of retirement- they have never proposed it as legislation). The U.S. has one “get out of budget spiral hell free” card. The U.S. government is unique among nations in that it (the government) owns a ridiculous amount of land. It can sell some prime location military reservations and national parks and raise a couple trillion, when the shit hits the fan.
  21. If there were an NFL style draft of college football players, would Colin Simmons would go in the top 5? I think so.
  22. Georgia will be OK. Resource and alumni-wise, they are in the upper echelon of the SEC, plus that state is producing a ton of elite talent now, compared to 25 years ago. They don’t have Aggies, and their neighbor state rival doesn’t have to poach recruits from them to stay competitive. It is fun to see Texas approach its potential, though.
  23. Yeah, clearly, OU’s recruiting hasn’t taken a step up, nor has Texas taken a step down. Is it because OU doesn’t know how to allocate the funds, yet, between sports and players? Have their donors said they are out once AD money is in? I don’t know and am hoping someone can shed light on
  24. On Sooner Scoop, they are reporting that tomorrow’s OU regents meeting has a vote to approve transfer of funds from the AD to the OneOklahoma NIL fund, pursuant to the Okie governor’s executive order.
  25. I can’t argue with you, and I am very disappointed in where the U.S. seems to be on this. Ukraine needs Europe to step up, but I don’t know that they can. Internal politics makes it hard for the UK, Germany and France to make the required commitment and EU budgetary requirements (designed to support the Euro as a currency) gives all but the UK an excuse to not mobilize. You could argue that they are behaving worse than they did 1936-1938. Mark Twain is said to have stated, “History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme”. It’s certainly rhyming now. The only saving grace is that Russia has a schitzkrieg, instead of a blitzkrieg.
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