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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. The SEZ looks completely different than the rest of the stadium in its design. I don't accept the footprint issue - as the new football training facility shows, is if there's a will there's a way to overcome that, it's just money and the AD has loads of it. Money is the reason we got the SEZ we did and not the master plan in the model: the current SEZ adds a bunch of luxury boxes vertically on the edges that wouldn't be possible under the master plan version above. Those lux boxes generate millions of dollars of additive yearly revenues to the AD that closing the stadium into a bowl would not.
  2. It's too bad b/c that looks about a billion times better than what we got.
  3. I loved it, great twists and psychological thriller. Loved that KS's role was super paranoid and how that informed the story. Charles Dance was great as usual.
  4. This is a PITA problem I've been dealing with in our house. Your options: Do nothing - find another spot. Least expensive and most likely to create wife issues Install TV above mantle - Expensive! Not only do you have to run power down behind the rock wall and poke it through (special wire too because it's next to the chimney flu), you probably also want to run an Ethernet cable for streaming (because wifi sucks). Then you have to mount the TV into the rock, which means permanently destroying that nice rock wall. Even when all that is done, as many have mentioned, you have a TV that you have to crane your neck to watch. One place this is OK: if your kitchen it behind the couch and you're going to be standing up in the kitchen doing stuff then the TV will be eye level. Do a drop down screen + projector - probably less expensive than you think assuming you don't already have the TV to install. Plus it tucks away nicely when you're not using it and you can retain the nice mantle + fireplace for times you're not using the TV. Downsides: if the room gets a lot of natural light, or if you have a strong breeze in there with a big ceiling fan it might not be as good. Also some people just don't like projectors. This is kinda a best-of-both worlds solution. You'll still need to run power and internet but sometimes that's easier through the ceiling if it's a single story... There's no good solution, you're in a "choose the least-worst" situation here...gl
  5. Nike's B1G footprint TV advertising spend isn't going to move the needle. And if he threatened to pull apparel deals with B1G schools, I'm 1000% sure that Adidas, UA, etc would be waiting in the wings to snap up those brands.
  6. Ladies and gentlemen, your Big12 ref and local PD recruiting pitch, right here! #NoCR
  7. Isn't that the ref who talked in an interview about how important it was to him to be jacked as a ref so he'd "look the part" and coaches wouldn't intimidate him? Much better to be swole than good at your job!
  8. A deeeeeep 10-part series on distributed naval ops in the SCS area: https://cimsec.org/fighting-dmo-pt-1-defining-distributed-maritime-operations-and-the-future-of-naval-warfare/ Haven't read all of it yet but if you geek on this stuff it's interesting.
  9. The sovereign immunity thing as an out for GoR's is a joke/meme pointed to by smooth brain lawyers. If it could have been used, it would have been used at this point.
  10. Y'all freaking out over this aren't seeing the long game that CDC is playing here. Every AD is concerned that money that used to exclusively come their way is now splitting between them and NIL. Did you see the announcement about United Texas Circle yesterday? In case you missed it: There's a reason why this all came out simultaneously. I agree that the rendering is...underwhelming. More likely they want to catch the eye of some BMDs so that the AD can go cry poor and get more money where they believe it rightly belongs...in the AD.
  11. QE somehow looks both better than last year but still nowhere near where he needs to be.
  12. That was the right decision in a spring game 😅
  13. Is Anthony Hill playing today?
  14. K. Woods is the best looking guy I haven't heard much about on the team, impressed w/ how he's moving.
  15. Has anyone done the pre-spring game team fire sale? Do they have anything good or is just clearance rack shit?
  16. Probably safer to assume that they both can't and won't try either. Let's call it the Maginot Line strategy.
  17. Interesting article from Capt. Joshua Taylor on countering China's illegal activities in the SCS through a persistent low-end presence vs. the high end FONOPs we run today. Smart, less costly, and less escalatory. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/august/campaign-plan-south-china-sea
  18. Maybe marginally. 4-5* recruits care about 1 thing above all else: "what is going to put me in the best position for the NFL?" The SEC and B1G are both doing great in that regard and will continue to pull away from the pack. If FSU shows up looking for an OL and can give quick playing time and a demonstrated NFL-path whereas the SEC offers that recruit is getting don't, the sunshine vs. snow argument won't be a major factor. Still a bit but not as much. I think the "ease of recruiting FL factor" in realignment is being overblown. Good SEC teams are going to get talent no matter what. Money will be the main and most important driver for realignment, unless you're the braindead PAC in which case "academic snobbery" is also a factor apparently.
  19. Sure, FSU is easier to recruit against when it's "not SEC" but you can't treat that question in a vacuum. Because the question going forward is not "will they be SEC or not?" it's "Will they be SEC or B1G?" I don't know how much easier FSU will be to recruit against if they were B1G...
  20. This. Kobe and Jordan are the only ones (maybe Tiger in golf) who cared about nothing, NOTHING except beating everyone else and being the alpha, and combined the God-given talent with the work ethic and drive to back it up. Durant may have the first two but as long as he's jacking off on twitter he'll never get there. Jordan and Kobe would never have been on twitter in their primes. Too busy making up the next perceived slight to provide motivation to destroy.
  21. The 12-team setup creates a situation where there's no enticement for ND to join a conference, ever. UNTIL the B1G and SEC start to become AFC/NFC and schedule each other nearly exclusively, then ND will find it hard to get enough top level games. That might do it, or a revenue difference compelling enough that they need to join to stay competitive for coaches or paying players from TV money, which make no mistake will happen in the next 20 years.
  22. I had to do this for a project car recently. There's no penalty fees, you do have to sign an affidavit that you didn't drive it, and that you haven't received any tickets for lack of registration. The major PITA is that you can't do it online (or at least couldn't do it online when I did it for WilCo), you had to go into the Tax Assessor/Collector office and do it in person, which means burning a few hours sitting on your ass. At least now mine does online appointments to cut down on the wait. You'll want to bring your title. They may not need it but good to have it.
  23. OK but even assuming that's true and yes as noted above there is plenty of "creative" accounting in many AD's to show breakeven or a loss every year...promotion/relegation only works if everyone agrees to do it. It's pretty obvious why SMU, UTSA, or UH would sign up for that. What motivation does Georgia, Texas, Ohio State or Bama have to sign up for a system where they could get relegated? I can't think of any.
  24. It's fun to think about but also completely unworkable for college football. Most athletic departments outside the top 20 are breakeven at best and many actually require subsidy from the university to be solvent. Texas is far outside the norm here with the revenue we throw out of the AD. Since football is the #1 revenue generator, if a more marginal school was relegated, their revenues would tank even further. Imagine being an Iowa State or an Arizona St., or Purdue or Ole Miss and you string together a few bad years and relegate down one or two levels. All of the sudden your conference schedule is what we know today as MAC, Sunbelt, and AAC teams at best. Your TV revenues tank, your gate tanks, and now your whole AD is insolvent. You have to cut a ton of headcount out of the AD and, probably, cut a bunch of other sports too. Especially women's sports, and now you have a Title IX issue. It's a death spiral. In european soccer a rich owner plugs that gap and invests to move up. In CFB, the "owens" are the donors, much more fickle. Also worth pointing out: in this system how far down would Texas have relegated from 2010-now? 2 levels? 3? Interesting to think about
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