Sandbagging Steve

Aren't you the Creator of all that exists? If the Second Coming started with your presence on Surly in August 2019, why does Texas still suck in football?

Why are you still posting this? It has been explained to you by at least a dozen posters over the last two pages. Both of these posts are wrong.

Did the PAC take notes from Putin on how to die a slow death in front of the general population? The delays and reports over the past year are embarrassing to the member schools. This guy idolizes John Canzano

Reading some of the posts above, I would agree with CTJ on the bioluminescent bay. It's why I listed it last on my list.

I'll chip in since this thread isn't getting much attention. I would definitely take CTJ's rec and rent a car. I think the rest of Puerto Rico is prettier than San Juan. It's too bad you don't have a few more days. The islands and beaches south of SJ are the way to go. I used to go there with work and we'd sometimes take a plane ride to the Virgin Islands. You get to see the Caribbean/Atlantic split, it is something else. It's only a 15-mile plane ride away, but I don't think you have enough time for that. You may see if it is worth it to take a trip to Vieques or Culebra. It would be rushing things, but you should be able to pull it off. Get up early, drive to Roosevelt Road, and take the short ferry to the islands. 1 or 2 days in San Juan (forts, food, architecture, etc) 1 or 2 days on the islands, 1 day at El Yunque and back One day, you could drive as far south as you can go and back. I've gone all the way down the coastline to Ponce checking out beaches and historical places and then came back late that night. If I only had four days, I think I would do this: 1 day in San Juan 1 day in El Yunque 2 days for Vieques/Culebra (some of the best beaches in the Caribbean!). You will still have nights in San Juan to possibly eat and walk around the city. A couple of other possibilities: cave tubing or ziplining. The cave tubing is an adventure! If that's your sort of thing, go for it. kayaking in the bioluminescent bay. There's one in a lagoon south of SJ and there's another on Vieques.

Just found this thread and you guys have a great list going... I drive back and forth from the ranch out on 71 and back to Austin on the weekends and I like to stop at Jersey Giant Pizza for quick, cheap pizza on the go. You get 2 massive slices and a drink for $7.99. It's nothing special but always consistently solid and the owners work the place daily. The crust has gotten a bit thin in the last year or so but it's still worth the price. It's the only pizza place I didn't see listed in this thread.

And he's an Arizona alumnus. He's an AD, which means realignment is above his head. He blindly believes the PAC is invincible because it's all he's ever known. Ignorance without awareness leads to blind arrogance.

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At the beginning of the season, I thought this team could win it all. I thought not only is Texas one of the 2 or 3 best teams in America but that they're built for the NCAAs. Beard was the coach to get them over the hump. It's the best mix of talent and experience I've seen at Texas since TJ Ford led us to the Final Four. Since Beard was removed as the head bb coach, this team has regressed; they're a few bounces away from a few more losses. The drop-off was immediate, even during the winning streak. The whole situation sucks, but I'm proud of the players for keeping it together and making the most of it. I hope they go deep in the tournament. It doesn't change my opinion of the need for a big-time basketball coach to lead us in the future.

Old Big 12: "I'm no longer slinging vitriol because we will be taken care of and everything is good now. I don't think you should accuse me, Al/Big 12, of vitriol. You see, I take it back now because I found out later we are going to be okay! If we weren't going to be okay, well, FUCK YOU!!! IT'S YOUR FAULT!! But you need to stop abusing us Texas. GROW UP! HYPOCRITE! Even though UT was just responding to our temper tantrum, we didn't mean it because we now know we are going to be just fine! Please stop responding to us when we throw out vitriol. Only we get to do that. YOU'RE A HYPOCRITE TEXAS!" This is one of the few reasons we are leaving this conference. When you blame someone else for your own problems instead of looking in the mirror, it finally just becomes too much of a distraction. When you have multiple personality disorder, it's not a healthy environment. We have to concede everything to the Big 12 or you run to the media and spread a bunch of fucking lies. It's been happening for 25 years! There was so much vitriol by the other members of the Big 12. Efforts to gang up on mean ol' Texas! Everything is always UT's fault! When you get your way, it's all good. When something goes UT's way...OMG, BULLSHIT!! BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! Whether you got a seat at the table or not has nothing to do with whether you should be here blaming Texas. You don't get to take back your previous actions. If you would have been relegated, you would be on here blaming Texas when we did nothing to you. And many of us here told you people (especially Al) that you would have a seat at the table and yet you kept whining and crying like a little child. And then you come here and blame us for calling YOU out for your behavior. On a TEXAS board.

The PAC 12's very slow descent into madness pretty much broadcast out in the open for everyone to see is just too much fun. They deserve it. I bet Stanford is still in complete denial of their own incompetence and hatred that stretches back decades. They are the #1, #2, and #3 reasons the PAC is in this embarrassing freefall. I've never seen anything quite like this.

All these universities look for any way possible to bloat the budget in order to keep from paying the actual employees.

Highly ranked with legit times posted. Texas lands very few of these types.

I agree with the scheduling and never said otherwise. I was responding to someone pointing the finger at the SEC without looking in the mirror. B1G started it and ND is still clinging to an Independent schedule that allows them to just choose half of their schedule. Like politics, there are no innocent parties here. It's hard to point the finger without looking in the mirror. SEC gets better players because they have a massive recruting footprint, a bunch of large state universities that care about their programs and they aren't afraid to pay their employees. With the rise of the internet, they can now take their philosophy national. There are very few programs outside the SEC willing to pay. It's been a cakewalk. Bear Bryant came before Nick Satan. The rest of college football, including Texas, could help the competitive balance by simply paying the players what they are actually worth and then let's all line up and play each other. Pay the players a percentage of ticket sales and TV revenue. All the big programs that can offer competitive wages should play each other every week. Even since NIL, most of the players are going to 3 or 4 teams. It's not competitive. And now Ohio State (one ofthe biggest pay4play programs) looks like they are running from competition. Maybe the B1G is going to a 10 game conferences schedule or Washington is joining the B1G. It's the only two things that doesn't make them look bad. Their conference schedule is a joke. 1. Pay the employees what they are worth. 2. Every game should be a conference game. No team should get to determine who they play. BTW, all this conference expansion has been 40 to 50 years in the making. There's only so much a commissioner can do to stop the inevitable.

I didn't word that the way I wanted to. I'm talking about since expansion. Before 1990, teams lined up and played each other. Many of these matchups happened OOC or as Independents. Since the era of modern expansion, too many try to avoid one another; and that includes OOC. B1G expanded first in 1990. SEC played 8 conference games and a championship. B1G played 8 conference games and used an excuse to not change a rule to get a championship game. Either increase the conference games or change the rule. B1G's conference slate is an issue because they have way too much dead weight. Add to it their cutthroat mentality of trying to get as rich as possible while making excuses to keep from paying the talent. They're not alone in that mentality, but you can't blame the SEC for it. It's hard to believe that some of the worst academic schools in the country are the only ones willing to share the riches and run a business like a business. Universities in America have turned into capitalistic enterprises. They should at least just admit it.

B1G aka the Slow 10 shouldn't be talking so much about unfair advantages. First, the B1G started the whole expansion game over 30 years ago and continues to be the most aggressive in the business. Second, the B1G was the original conference to come up with the idea of not playing everyone. This is the conference that only played 8 games in an 11-team conference without a title game. They could have easily played all 10 teams in the conference or raised enough attention to get a title game added to the league. The fact of the matter is they avoided competition. They invented the idea. Not to mention nearly half the teams in that conference aren't even worthy of P5 status. And half of the teams worthy of P5 status refuse to do what is necessary to remain competitive in recruiting at a level that makes them truly a national player. Now we have Ohio State, who is guaranteed 10 wins, even if they suck, backing out of a game with Washington because it is too hard! They just can't play USC or UCLA, Michigan, AND Washington in the same year, even though the majority of the rest of the schedule is full of cupcakes. This is an era where the SEC is on the verge of setting up a schedule where most of the top programs will play FIVE games per year against the top 15 recruiting programs in the entire country, all within their own conference. In fact, the majority of those teams are top 10 in recruiting. And this doesn't include tough outs like Ole Miss, etc, nor does it include OOC schedules. PAC hasn't been relevant in nearly a decade. It looks like high school football out there these days. How can you argue about unfair advantages when you are on here admitting over and over that you don't want Oregon and Washington in the B1G because that will make things more compettive? That shouldn't be goal, BTW. ACC has two programs worth paying attention to. Even the Big 12 has looked bad the past few years. It used to be the most competitive top to bottom. Honestly, since the pay4play programs were introduced to national recruiting during the internet era, no conference looks all that great anymore. All the elite talent lands on the rosters of 3 or 4 programs.