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Js1

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  1. Wow this pbp announcer is so bad in the SMU-aggy match. “You can’t take your challenge with you” it’s set 1. Then she said you get 2 per set. That’s incorrect
  2. I am assuming, based on baseball, we will keep OU (permanent rival) and get the teams we missed last year (aggy, bama, Georgia, Arkansas, ole Miss, south Carolina). Since the SEC is odd numbered (no Vandy), someone from last year besides OU will be a repeat team. Florida or Tenn, probably, is my guess.
  3. One P4 team and a good G5 program in fall ball I like that Mike ain’t afraid to play them both in fall ball and the regular season (assuming we get aggy this season…..)
  4. She's not even hitting in warm-ups. Just tips and dumps. I don't think her arm is ready.
  5. The only thing I've read that makes sense (or did in my head) was this was his wild oats phase. Which eventually leads to his post-TOS purging of emotions. The will they/won't they Chapel stuff was soap opera-y. The La'An thing is almost pointless because we know she's either dying or it fizzles out.
  6. Neither am I. But I am smart enough to know what I do and don't know and defer to experts. That's their problem - their Facebook PhD does not make them smart in XYZ, yet they believe they are.
  7. Also based on our stats (and against the toughest schedule so far, so it is skewed), we look decidedly.... average, at least on paper. I don't even think our hitting %, blocks per set or digs per set are in the top 50 for any category. But we are 4-0 with 3 top 25 wins (and 2 were sweeps).
  8. Yep. It's not unimportant, but when they only generate 1-2 aces and approach or exceed 10 errors, that usually leads to a loss for them. Then again, they had 10+ aces on Sunday, put us in passing hell and lost, so whatcha gonna do about it? But on the flipside - Texas has been a particularly conservative serving team so far this year. I think a lot of teams will have decent passing numbers against us, but our block and floor defense makes up for the lack of serving pressure. Teams are .956 in serve reception against us. It was .933 last year and .919 and .918 in our back to back champ years. I do hope we turn our service game on though. 14 aces to 24 errors isn't terrible (Stanford is 28 to 66). But 2.13 blocks per set and 14.73 digs per set as well - just because teams are in-system doesn't mean they're scoring against us.
  9. Yes But also kind of lame we don't have any back to back home weekends, but we did get consecutive road trips to SC and aggy
  10. The younger people killed tablecloths, cursive, printers and copiers, alcohol and sex Most powerful
  11. LOL "hey uh, anyone know what was happening culturally, politically and societally in this country around 2014/15/16? Nobody? Hm.... can't put my finger on it"
  12. From what I've seen, the complaints are: Too much "humor" when you only have 10 episodes (and that gets into a whole different whining about 10 episodes streaming vs 25 network episodes) - so a holodeck murder mystery feels like a "waste" when it is 10% of the season, whereas holodeck baseball game was 4% of the season Too much romance (mostly Spock, but also Uhura and Chapel) Not enough Pike (Anson Mount was sidelined in s2/3 due to having a kid, and good on Paramount for letting him go be a father) Too much Kirk (duh, they already said they want to transition SNW into a new show based on Kirk and his crew, like lost episodes of TOS) To be fair, they did do: Rescue mission Q episode Zombies Holodeck murder mystery On-planet horror Rescue mission again Documentary Wacky species "swap" Solo survival episode Tonally, it has been all over the place. I do hope they will tighten up season 4, and explore more strange NEW worlds, but there's already so much complaining about the Muppet episode.
  13. Yep. The issue is Gen Z men, not Gen Z women
  14. https://www.theringer.com/2025/09/09/nba/kawhi-leonard-los-angeles-clippers-steve-ballmer-aspiration-salary-cap-circumvention Teams sometimes connect players with team sponsors or local businesses to help facilitate an individual endorsement deal—a practice that is indeed common and fully within the rules. Stephen Curry, for instance, does commercials for Rakuten, which has a sponsorship deal with the Golden State Warriors. The HEB supermarket chain, a longtime sponsor of the San Antonio Spurs, has long employed Spurs players to star in its cheeky TV commercials. But these sorts of deals generally pay in the hundreds of thousands or, at most, “the low six figures,” per multiple sources, and they require the players to actively promote the brand—via commercials, appearances, or social media posts. According to Torre’s reporting, however, Leonard’s deal with Aspiration did not require him to do anything—and Leonard, by all appearances, indeed did nothing. Yet Aspiration agreed to pay him $28 million, of which it still owes $7 million, per the bankruptcy filing. Leonard also had a side deal with the company providing an additional $20 million in (now worthless) stock, according to the Boston Sports Journal. Also of note: The entire deal would be void if Leonard changed teams, according to documents reviewed by Torre. None of this is normal, according to people around the league. “It reeks,” said a former player who has also worked in a variety of front office roles. The dollar figures alone are “extreme,” said another former team executive, who added that the “no-show” element was “a huge red flag” and “smells the most in this whole thing.” No one we spoke to said that they had ever witnessed or even heard whispers of anything quite like this during their years working in the NBA. This is a cynical league in which a number of below-market contracts for star players have raised suspicions over the past two decades. But an assertion that “everyone is doing it” was emphatically dismissed. “Everyone is doing it?!” said one current team executive, adding, with a laugh, “No. Everyone is not funneling $48 million under the table through sham sponsorships.”
  15. k, gross
  16. Yep. Dance with Fox and the mountain/west coast, you get what you get
  17. The Big 12 knew it would get 10am games when it decided to partner with Fox and expand into the mountain time zone
  18. That is and has been Stanford’s MO under Hambly. They don’t mind 20+ errors if they get 10+ aces and force opponents into abysmally bad passing. It’s when they have 20+ errors but they do not exert enough pressure in forms of aces and taking teams OOS
  19. There hasn't been a lot of middle ground this season - either people love it or hate it. (It's me, I am in the middle, there were some good episodes, some great ones, and some meh ones) Hope they nail the finale.
  20. Stafford 1.81 41% GP (42 attempts) Halter 1.94 44% GP (16) Gary 1.90 47% GP 15) AVW 1.43 29% GP (7) Vintage Texas to win a match with no single player passing above a 2 Stanford had 3 (Etzler 2.01, Rubin 2.44, Kurt 2.09)
  21. So…. Beanie Babies?
  22. It is only 8 episodes and none of them are particularly that long. I thought it ended much better than it started - some really good stuff they put in, and set up a fun season 3
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