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  1. interesting info. here. I live out-of-state, but no vehicle in Alaska. Only auto, no homeowners. Two cars live in Texas (with full coverage, a 2022 Hyundai Kona and a 2016 Hyundai Accent). 3 drivers on the policy including me. One is a 24 year old son. Renewal with Germania was scheduled for January 9. Germania raised the rate from about $3200 for the year to over $5000 per year. The broker told me she would requote it and expected a more reasonable number. Nope. So she went looking and the best she had was Progressive, at $1173 for six months. Wow! I am sure this is a low ball quote that will go up significantly in July. I like the idea of an entire year quote at one time. Hartford quoted me slightly better than the Progressive number, contingent upon me joining AARP(I am 58) Not enough savings for me to dump my broker...probably $40. I will look into Hanover.
  2. I have also been reminded that my niece attended School of Mines for a couple of years, long enough to build up $120,000 in debt. Gave up attending during COVID. She allegedly wants to be an engineer, and is now living rent free at her aunt's house in SA, working as a shift supervisor full-time at a truck stop. She might be debt free by the time she retires.
  3. How is my $70 million stadium looking these days? I was part of the serious opposition to the most expensive stadium, PER SEAT, in the history of North America. 70$ million divided by 12,000 seats!!!! I left McKinney in 2018, and sent a goodbye email to the superintendent of MISD. He was so happy I was leaving he responded to the email with a positive message.
  4. I don't think after our offensive struggles in the 2nd half the entire season you magically play 4 quarters of football, but I do give us a decent chance to put 2.5 to 3 quarters together of quality offensive football. 3 quarters might lead to 42+ points, which is still not enough considering we literally struggle to guard the green turf in the secondary, especially in the 2nd halves. 4th quarter lead for us has to be at least two touchdowns.
  5. four quarters of football? From us? Have you guys watched the games this year?
  6. Nevada senate race? This might be a key. I think we're headed for 50-50 again.
  7. This is the post of the week. The Big 12 gave us the week off, in their minds. They actually called a few penalties against our opponent the other day. The standard was set by OSU. The frogs will have 0 to 2 penalties called against them all game, and of course 0 offensive holding calls. Add to that we literally cannot cover against green turf, that leaves our D having to create 3 more turnovers than TCU to win the game. I don't see that happening.
  8. TCU - 28 Texas 27 yards 444 Best memory of TCU game in Austin. Freshman in high school "Euphonium Fever Day" 1979. Free tickets to the game for us euphonium players, probably 200 of us, miserable cold wet weather. We played halftime with LHB, "The Way We Were". but the highlight was before our part of halftime. The Frog dancers wore white tops.....in the rain.....no rain ponchos.... no covering...so the Frog band finishes playing for the frog dancers and the LHB Sousaphone player gives a standing ovation.. I mean jumping up and down excited....and his buddies were laughing at him. I just wish I had pictures of the frog dancers.
  9. I totally disagree about deep balls becoming more catchable. Just with the eyeball test, the long balls are not any closer to being caught. The closest one to being complete I remember was the OSU game, And it seems like we are throwing away more downs than before.
  10. The over-reliance on throwing the deep ball is the major problem, imo. Someone said QE can throw a deep out better than just about anybody. If that is true, then the coaching staff has rocks for brains. I didn't see any deep outs yesterday. I saw at least a half a dozen throw it deep and hope X catches it, and none of them were completed. I like the highlight shown where QE did check down and threw to a player on a shallow crossing pattern. I would like to see mostly crossing patterns, deep outs, button hooks, square-ins,and old-fashioned screens to RBs. If someone is in love with the deep ball, let him throw one per half, to keep the D honest. In fact X can run himself silly all game with that because on one occasion it seemed as if there were three Kstate defenders back there with him. The really good news is that the final three opponents would expect half a dozen long balls, so they should be playing deep. It's already on film, so the rest of the field is open. I'm not a fan of the stop and go, if we haven't completed a short pattern, which we mostly haven't. With our quality running game, there is so much out there that is probably wide open, it is a shame QE/coaching staff has reduced us to throw it long and hope Way, way, way too often.
  11. Thanks. Even though I didn't win I like to look back and look at what I wrote. This team is very predictable at this point. When I said 21-0 lead, that perfectly matched the halftime lead. The Rojo comment was nearly spot on as well. After Rojo fumbled, he might've had one more carry. I am very happy I was incorrect about the winning team. Our coaches are getting very close to over doing it with Bijan. He was fresh off a bye-week, yesterday, so it didn't matter. I look forward to more Krob and Rojo going forward. The offense has to learn to fake to Bijan and throw the other way. Guaranteed there are plenty of wide receivers wide open going across the field, when you fake to Bijan.
  12. Because of the history of blowing leads, it seemed obvious to me that the defense was very intense in the 2nd half. For the most part the d contained Deuce in the 2nd half. My takeaway is that the players outfought and overcame the weak schemes developed by PK. How many fumbles did the d cause? So, the d knows they will be handicapped by their DC's schemes. I predict doom for next week, because the offense cannot overcome the schemes and play calls from their 2nd half play caller. Obviously PK needs to go, but I have no idea how to fix the offense. There has got to be a way to convince someone to have QE throw short patterns instead of so many long throws. At this point any throw other than a super long route has a decent chance of success. I wonder how many plays we wasted tonight vs. how many we wasted against other teams. No improvement in wasting downs imo.
  13. You guys are welcome. I held off going to the bathroom, and finally went during 3rd down. What happened?
  14. ok weird. refs actually called something against Ksu, and we score 3. I think D coordinators have figured out Ewers. He goes for the first read down the field and that is all he can look for. Go back to that...we needed help from the refs to get a FG?
  15. they simply don't want to win on the road that bad. 3rd and one..come on!
  16. We're due to have another possession up 31-24 at the end of the 3rd quarter. We need to be able to at least try to throw short and then give it to Bijan.
  17. The good news is that Sark knows deep down in some place that we have to respond with a TD drive on this possession...and most likely every possession, now that the refs have entered the contest. Texas 31 Kstate 10 Refs. 7
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