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  1. Not for me, but I care about this person. Traffic stop. There may be some evading, or not. This is a person I want to help.
  2. Let the students at Prairie View vote on whether to move the school named after "the gallant Texas negro killer" into the A&M system. They have some knowledge of the experience. Personally, I believe if the legislature is intent on having a public university system dedicated to perpetuating white supremacy, having the public university named after a virulent white supremacist in that university system makes sense.
  3. Then why doesn't CDC talk honestly with the "rank and file" and say what you said? If CDC wanted to "cut dead weight" from the bloated Bellmont staff, why did he not chose the "honest communication with those affected and with the alumni" option? I don't want a chickenshit AD. I want and honest AD who sets an example for others to follow. I want an honest person in that million dollar (plus) per year position of responsibility. I want an honest AD who will talk openly with those who are supposedly engaged with University of Texas athletics. Many of us aren't in the "Million Dollar Public Employee club" but many of us are the exact individuals UT athletics desperately needs to fund its athletics programs. The biggest crisis UT athletics is faced with is the need to connect with young alumni donors who will (hopefully) fund the various programs over the next generation. Not being open and not being honest with the alumni will have massively negative ramifications. If Chris Del Conte doesn't understand the need for transparency, honesty, and open communications with the alumni base, UT athletics is in very deep trouble. Right now, I'm not comfortable he does. And as increasing numbers of alumni get the same impression, (hopefully) increasing numbers of us will come to the conclusion transparent, open and honest communication from the University AD is something we value. The pandering to every whim of the "BMDs," regardless of what misguided coaching hire the BMDs insist on (our BMDs have a HORRIBLE track record) and the dishonesty with alumni is a cancer. UT athletics will never do well as long as CDC continues to feed that cancer and ignore the long term interests of the various athletics programs.
  4. I’m comfortable with people objecting to my posting a longform piece on this site. I have no problem with posting my longform posts elsewhere.
  5. My question while analyzing the aggy financial reports is whether aggy's white supremacist problem has gone completely out of control. Are the aggy white supremacists crippling the football program via their refusal to donate until the future existence of their Sul Ross white supremacist shrine is guaranteed such that Jimbo has no chance whatsoever of succeeding at A&M? Yes, A&M has seen a major reduction in contributions. Easily the highest of any program I have looked at. My belief is that the end of their facilities capital campaign has their overall revenues falling back to historical norms. The alternative explanation is that aggy is dripping in wealth and the anger of the aggy white supremacists over the prospect of their shrine to "the lying four-flusher" aka "the gallant Texas negro killer" might be relegated to the same fate as their "tradition" of promoting Klan rallies during home football games (the ash heap of history) has their racist anger inflamed to the point they will so hinder Jimbo that he can never be successful at A&M. An example - they aggys can only to afford to spend about 50 cents on the dollar of what Alabama spends on recruiting. Spending 50 cents on the dollar as compared to a division rival will make recruiting against that division rival difficult, to say the least. What is more important to the aggys, defending their on-campus shrine to white supremacy, or defeating Alabama in football? Stay tuned. I'm working on the longform piece on my analysis of the financial reports of the various programs. I'm still working on the rough draft, but I think its safe to say the white supremacists aren't going to be pleased. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.
  6. I finally received aggy's 2020 athletics dept financials. I'm working on a longer piece that details the effects of Covid on college athletics that will go into the report in detail. aggy finally dropped their out-sized phantom "revenue" associated with their capital projects. Their debt is still in the stratosphere (over $300 mil), but they refinanced it last summer, to extending the final debt maturities out another seven years, and locking in a lower rate helped with their annual debt service. Jimbo's total salary and benefits were a whopping $8.9 mil. Much more to follow
  7. When Deloss took over UT athletics , gross revenues were $1mil. Then he stepped aside, gross revenues were at $200 mil. At this point, the AD at UT Austin can tell any “BMD” to go fuck themself. UT athletics is essentially self funding. No one “BMD” has the ability to demand their individual agenda matter.
  8. Fuck you. Just saying. I'm working on my response. What are you working on?
  9. I've talked with CDC. I still believe in CDC. I understand that anyone who takes over the UT Austin program will have a very steep learning curve. I still don't think Chris is comfortable asserting his vision onto UT athletics. I have a good relationship with the TCU staff. They have a deep respect for what CDC did for their program. People don't give the TCU "BMDs" credit for what they have done over the past 20 years. I have a deep problem with Chris taking money from 200 staff member because of "financial necessity," then in less than 90 days finding "unlimited funds" to fire Tom Herman and hire Sarkisian. In my mind, he needs to address that issue. I want to believe CDC. I sincerely believe he has the potential to exceed every athletic director at UT. The South End Zone project wasn't funded by alumni, it was funded by the corporate interests coming into Austin. The thought that one big donor has the ability to influence UT Austin athletics is fantasy. The program self funds. When I get the financial reports, I will set out why I feel this way. We don't need "lucky sperm club" donors making yet another wrong hire. We need to find someone who knows how to run a quarter billion dollar collegiate program through the next round of conference restructuring. Chris Del Conte needs to up his game. He needs to tell the donors with a shit record of hiring head coaches their services are no longer needed on the 40 Acres. He needs to restructure UT athletics. I think he is the right person, but that window is closing. He needs to start delivering soon. Personally, I need him show me how the UT baseball experience draws the fans back in. I need him to explain how the programs that have competed for national championships (*cough*swimming/diving*cough*volleyball*cough) are going to be supported moving forward. My personal goal is at least one national championship each year at UT Austin. Stanford has longed kicked our ass in that respect. I'm tired of that. Austin has become a national destination for relocation. It is time UT Austin becomes a national university. I'm tired of dealing with aggy. We need to start competing against the likes of Stanford.
  10. The bloat is the salary drain from the political hires. As I’ve said, I’ve requested the 2020 financials for about 40 schools. I’m interested to see those numbers. I stand by my earlier comments that CDC was wrong in taking money from employee pay, and then magically discovering unlimited funds to confer inter-generational wealth to yet another football coach, with no consideration whatsoever to fulfilling the obligations to the staff we desperately need to “up their game.” The one who needs to “up their game” is CDC.
  11. Tom Herman's buyout isn't a lump sum payment, it will be paid out in monthly installments out of cash flow. I get that. UT athletics generates enough free cash flow in normal times to easily handle what Herman is owed. I also appreciate almost everyone inside Bellmont is overpaid. The salary reductions reflect a far more reasonable pay. The positions eliminated were bloat that the athletics department didn't need, but could easily fund. My concern is that winning a championship in football requires a lot of people doing a lot of small, seemingly insignificant things, right. While justifiable, the salary reductions had to cause some discontent on the part of people we desperately need to step up their game. Falsely representing the financial position of the athletics department to rationalize taking money from the paychecks of the staff was wrong. It was despicable. I filed an Open Records Act request to get the 2020 calendar year financials from a number of schools, including UT Austin. I am working on an analysis of the finances of a number of programs. That should be ready next month. I just wish we could have some trust in the words of the people being paid millions to run the school's athletics program. I know many will disagree with me, but I think integrity matters. Integrity seems to be missing from how Chris Del Conte is running the athletics department. I wish it were otherwise. But it is what it is. I am shocked and deeply disappointed in Chris. I expected better from him. I never thought I would question his personal integrity. Personally, with the underlying lack of honesty and integrity, I don't see UT Athletics doing well over the next few years. The lack of honesty and integrity on the public stage makes me believe there are far deeper problems that we aren't yet aware of.
  12. I don’t personally care about the employees other that for the fact it takes a lot of behind the scenes work to win a championship. Taking money from the staff and missing debt payments under false pretenses doesn’t do much to motivate the behind the scenes individuals. I would have preferred honesty and integrity.
  13. Probably not.
  14. I think he knows. His issue is taking money from employee paychecks and skipping debt payments supposedly to keep the lights on, then increasing spending by tens of millions on new coaches. Face it, Chris Del Conte lied to all of us about the necessity to institute staff pay reductions. He skipped a debt payment without good reason. The blatant dishonesty bothers Randolph. At least that is what he told me.
  15. Below is attached a ruling in the aggy "12th Man" copyright infringement case. Basically, a writer from Alabama wrote a draft of a book about E. King Gill (aggy's '12th man"). He sent a copy of the draft to A&M for their comments. They filed the draft away. When the Wall St. Journal article based on my 12th Man debunk was published just before the 2014 Super Bowl, aggy freaked out. To "defend" their fraudulently derived trademark, they took the guy's draft from the file cabinet, removed the copyright info, and emailed it out to their alumni as a work the school produced and that the school owned the copyright on. The writer sues. aggy claims sovereign immunity. The shithead in the aggy athletics department who stupidly busted the writer's copyright is Brad Marquardt. He is the subject of the order below. The writer is at the 5th Circuit on the question of bringing aggy back into the lawsuit, subject to the DMCA. That opening brief is attached below. Depos in the underlying case in March. Unless they are sealed (they shouldn't be), I will post them here when I get them. Grab your popcorn. The descendants of Klan 48, Realm of Texas, may be slowly losing their grip on a lawsuit that could really turn interesting. Bynam aggy frivilous.pdf Bynam Opening Appeal Brief.pdf
  16. Without as much as a whiff of consideration toward addressing such matters as Ross' own daughter explicitly stating his motivation for murdering people of color was the establishment of white supremacy, John Sharp makes it official that there shall be "Sul Ross, today...Sul Ross, tomorrow...Sul Ross, forever." Officials: Texas A&M to keep Sul Ross statue on campus https://theeagle.com/news/a_m/officials-texas-a-m-to-keep-sul-ross-statue-on-campus/article_894b8794-60fd-11eb-953a-939b0ef2f28d.html
  17. The first D1 baseball ranking of the 2021 season is out. 10 S!E!C! teams are ranked in the top 25. For 100 points, and a commemorative 2019 “Century of Excellence, 100th Anniversary Texas A&M Football National Champion” t-shirt, guess how many of those 10 S!E!C! teams are Texas A&M. Get ready to hear very little of aggys supporting an aggy team. aggys are stuck (yet again) having to convince people rooting for a conference is more meaningful than rooting for one's alma mater. https://d1baseball.com/top-stories/2021-d1baseball-preseason-top-25-rankings/
  18. What I said regarding the upcoming legislative battles for higher education funding in the legislature is accurate. There will be serious discussions about which school are and are not truly in need. On Sept 1, UT athletics instituted salary reductions for about 200 employees out of “financial necessity” (if we take CDC at his word). Yet, while the money isn’t there to pay the staff or keep the lights on, there is limitless money to hire and fire coaches. And you can’t see where I’m going with this line of thought. I’m not sure I’m the one being obtuse here, and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to help you future out your problem. It’s despicable that any money was paid to make a coaching change before a very public announcement was made that the Sept 1 financial cuts were reversed. I’m hardly the only one with this opinion. Bellmont couldn’t even make its debt payments last year, yet they had millions for a new football coach. That’s not a well run program in my opinion.
  19. Lol. I wasn't sure I ever mentioned the Legislature has to appropriate funds for college football coaches, but of fabricating such nonsense is important to your narrative, I guess you gotta be you. And yes, I was wrong about the positioning of the Hall of Fame. And I admitted that major faux pas and corrected myself. As for your insistence that Bellmont doesn't hide the influence of donors from accountability, or try to control the flow of information surrounding the management of the athletics programs, I think you might be a bit off base. And by "a bit," I mean "completely." Not holding donors who insist on involving themselves into the hiring.firing of coaches and ADs accountable for their idiotic decisions is a major problem for a number of programs. It is especially problematic for the UT Austin program. Fabrication a narrative to the contrary might be your way of cooping with the situation, but it doesn't do anything to solve the problem. As long as CDC continues the practice of trying to control the flow of information, there will be outsiders charging $9.95 to exploit the information vacuum. (Jimmy Sexton and Nick Saban's wife's realtor both say hi, by the way) Deal with it. Or not. Your choice.
  20. A significant problem within the UT athletics program a lack of communication between the athletics department and the fanbase. That void gives room for "insiders" to insert whatever "information" they choose. Often, that "information" is to the advantage of the writer, not the reader. All too often, information is intentionally from outsiders to protect large donors with little ability in managing college sports programs from accountability. Going back before the Deloss/ Nick Voinis fiasco(s), Bellmont has created its own problem by trying to control the flow of information, both good and bad. The responsibility for handling the problem belongs at the moment to Chris Del Conte. Whether he solves (or at least mitigates) the problem remains to be seen.
  21. Technically, CDC was brought in to help clean up the football program and CDC does do the hiring and firing in the athletics department. Sark certainly hasn't eraned the right to unilaterally make all decisions regarding the football program. If not CDC, who should we hold responsible for the oversight of the athletics programs on campus?
  22. This. No way in God's name we want Mike Stoops on the UT staff. Someone needs to explain to Sark the saga of Tom Herman's Casey Horny mistake. There are certain individuals the alumni cannot and will not support being on the school payroll. And not all are deemed odious for the same reason. Fuck Bob Stoops. And the entire "Stoops family" brand.
  23. Always bet on the person who has proven he can do the job and has something to prove the rest of the world. A healthy dose of "fuck you" has a lot of value. College football coaches are usually extremely egotistical people. Not sure of the future, but I understand the hire. I don't think the aggys understand it. They are working on the "if he won a 'natty' somewhere else, he can do it here" school of thought. We will see which approach pays dividends.
  24. Imagine the excitement in the aggy fake military fraternity dorm this morning. Not just dick pics of each other being passed around this semester. In all seriousness, when you see a former member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, remember to thank him for his service. They say "war is Hell." College Station, Texas is as close to Hell as I could imagine (assuming, of course, Hell has a running river of effluent through its on-campus golf course that those stupid fuckers still haven't figured out how to turn into an asset).
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