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  1. Me too. Me too. I'm a thousand miles away and was so disconnected yesterday that I never heard of any of this until just before bed. My sister's down there at an HEB Foundation camp but thankfully well off the river. She missed the family 4th because she couldn't get out of Kerrville, but that's nothing. I've avoided this thread and board for the most part, but finally decided to check in because I realized the Surly community would probably be fairly well plugged in. I'm stunned by the extent, though. Annabelle, whoever and wherever you are, you're a hero. Thank you and everyone else for what you're doing for all our loved ones.
  2. Yep ... Tech came damn close to taking it in two games. If Canady didn't screw up that intentional walk, Tech may very well have done it, and basically with one purchased player. We may never see a more clear indication of how to buy a championship, and that's saying a lot after decades of watching OU and SEC football. My biggest question in all of this is not so much how things shake out athletically over the next couple of years, but how colleges and the public react to the realization that we've torn down the last big walls between higher education and complete professionalization of sport. Not many folks talking about that right now, but it's a sea change. I wonder how it's impacting things at Tech, where Campbell, as chair of the board of regents (who's also got a business to run) seems to put most of his concern and time into athletics. When the enrollment numbers really start dropping in the next couple of years, a lot of schools will be reassessing. The SEC and BIG won't suffer as much -- they'll just siphon off folks from the other schools. Tech and other second-tier schools will face interesting scenarios, as will all those lower-tier institutions.
  3. Riverfront Rendezvous in Stevens Point, WI. Bluegrass with Armchair Boogie, one of many great free bands to go with local beer over three days of festival. Happy Fourth to all.
  4. I'm torn between seeing this question as a serious one or trolling. Because of your post numbers, I'm leaning toward the idea that you're poking the bear here, but it's not a strong lean (and apologies in advance whether you're serious or if I've just let the joke fly over my head). Regardless, here's a link showing NCAA athletic revenue and expense data from 2024. Using $50 million in revenue as a cut-off figure, there were only 69 US universities who had at least that amount in 2024. Regardless, virtually every school listed the same expenditures as income. I suspect that once a school is anywhere below $100 million in revenue, sharing $20 million of that with the athletes directly is going to take some serious and painful shifting. That part won't be painful for Texas or Ohio State. Probably a lot more painful for Tech, Arizona, Arizona State and Kansas, all ranked in the 35-40ish range in revenue (likely BYU in here, too, but as a private, it wasn't listed). And once a school gets down to around $50 million total revenue, I'd guess they start taking a much harder look in the coming years at what intercollegiate competition means to them.
  5. That is a great read ... thanks, @Firemans4Horn. Having moved north well before it opened, I've not heard of Peticolas, but now it's on my list. Definitely need a Velvet Hammer run when I pass through Dallas again. Liked this quote from the founder: Michael is visibly mentally back in El Paso as he says this, sitting on his mother Jaque’s porch, drinking her homebrew. “And that was my first realisation of the experience being what it's all about when it comes to beer. It's not just the taste. It's the experience, everything that's going on. Good settings, good friends, family. That's why a terrible beer in Manaus tastes fantastic. ‘Cause you're there for the World Cup.”
  6. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    Seriously not looking for anything in particular -- just whatever is meaningful to Surly folks. But it's not my thread -- I just thought it would be a good one to start, so I'm trying to be sure it gets on a good solid footing. If someone wants to make a case for "Baby Shark" or "Let It Go," more power to 'em. I mean, the last lyric of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" is pretty subversive: "As for me and Grandpa, we believe." Even jazz, and certainly the blues, have a lot of that "bring it" to them, but often more scalpel than machete. Here are a couple of songs that some of the discussion has brought to mind -- especially your suggestion above, @dcar00. The first is a lot more subtle. Some will see it as mostly spiritual, but for me there's a lot in there about who's in charge (and here's a nice review for anyone who cares enough to read it). This one is a little more direct. Classic protest song.
  7. I had a solid meal and some decent beer at HOMES Brewery there this spring. It's about two and a half miles northwest of the stadium. Other than that, I got nothin' and know nothin' about Ann Arbor, but from the map below, it's clear you can also find a Salvation Army Store and some laser hair removal.
  8. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    Great album. My take is that pretty much any genre of modern/popular music will have strong elements of resistance, anger, outrage, defiance and other traits that count as "bring it." Or at least the potential for that. A lot of it's going to be louder, in-your-face messages. A lot of my favorites have that, but sometimes quieter, sustained resistance is better for survival and sanity. In the situation I referenced in the original post, we have to write a lot of stuff -- reports, complaints, requests. We draft stuff and then most often work at toning it down and being more subtle but thorough. There's some pretty heavy-duty accusations and implications involved in much of what we do. Lots of scalpel use, but occasionally bringing the machete. More machete music in here, but I bet folks have some fine scalpel songs as well. Again, that's the fun of seeing what everyone else has as their "bring it" music.
  9. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    Interesting to read the history of that song and how "coarse" the lyrics were considered, as well as the ultimate outcome of the lawsuit. Seems pretty tame for what would come a decade or two later, and what you see on X every day before you even finish your coffee.
  10. Lots of us rockstars in the Midwest. We all go down to the basement to hide from the other people who look and act normal most of the time but might really be wackos. Practically a full-time job. Edit: Jeez, was being facetious, but I just watched that interview with his "roommate." Wow. I'm headed to the basement.
  11. Yep ... thanks. Here's an entry on Wikipedia. The chart on that page starts with the 2010-2011 school year, which apparently is the year the C1 cup started. IIRC, Texas men, I think, won something similar in one of the previous couple of years. The chart shows Texas women winning in 2021-22 and 2022-23. It's apparently still being awarded. But I could swear I had an Alcalde magazine from around 2008-2009 that had a cover story on the men, or maybe both, winning the competition. May take a while to figure out what the heck it was.
  12. Yeah, I'm reconsidering my take on the dude's guideposts (which was still, to be fair to myself, an early take). Looks like maybe he kept his guideposts, and that may have been the major problem. His family and friends also appear to have been under the influence of a view that will cause the world a bit of grief in the near future, from the looks of things. Some of us would consider ourselves spiritual and/or religious. Virtually all of us have friends and family who are spiritual and/or religious. And most of us are going to be in the very uncomfortable position for a while of trying to figure out what the hell that means in the context of a time of serious reckoning. I'm really struggling with it and am now heading to the basement for a workout and then out to the patio for a beer.
  13. Wikipedia has a fairly good look at the history and the scoring system for NACDA, including suggestions for other potential ways of scoring. The system for the NACDA award was changed in 2017. UT first won a few years later and has since done well, but this chart makes it clear that only a few schools have a shot (chart from Wikipedia and obviously still needs an update since yesterday). UNC won the first and Stanford won the next 25, until 2021: But there was another major trophy similar to the Director's Cup, because if I recall correctly Texas got it at least once or twice back in the late 2000s and perhaps before. Don't have time to look that up now, but I'm sure somebody else will. Edit: Although it could have been that we gave more attention to the split for men and women, and maybe UT won one sex/gender -- no CR -- or the other in various years.
  14. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    A lot of culture and history to unpack in those two songs.
  15. My vote for beer-post picture of the year so far. All of your pictures from Japan, @4th&Five, are making me wish we had rolling 24-hour-a-day posts from every time zone.
  16. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    This is how I know I have too much music. Couldn't even remember that I have "Stone Cold Believer." Good one, though.
  17. One of the interesting parts of Wisconsin life is the prevalence of summertime "polka Masses" during the fundraising-carnival season. A polka Mass is usually held in the beer tent, which is always the biggest one if there are several tents. And the only tent if there's just one. Hymns with a polka beat, and beer's waiting when Mass is over.
  18. That Tukwila sham was a clear provocation. Looks for all the world like a deliberate attempt by ICE to start a conflict.
  19. It's hard to follow the rules, but this is exactly the kind of courageous Surly patriotism that we need to see in these difficult times. Well done, @wood. Surly commends you.
  20. They played the CCR version of "Fortunate Son" at the induction of my son's company into the Army at the end of basic training. This was in early fall, 2021, at Fort Jackson, SC, so after January 6. It was one of several other songs they played while some units were standing at rest waiting for other units to straggle in from their final overnight training exercise. I got the impression that it was a purposeful choice, with a full awareness of the class ramifications in the lyrics, and it made me appreciate the willingness of the fort's command to allow it to be played. I get the impression that this is a bit of a different matter. Wondering why it's an awful knockoff instrumental and whether anyone in the administration had the good sense to vet the musical choice. As a matter of optimism, I'm going to see it as a possible small act of rebellion, maybe even messaging, among military brass who have their patriotism in the right place.
  21. Our pretty-small Wisconsin city had somewhere around 1,000. No law enforcement or counterprotests, no hostile responses. Almost all cars driving by honked in support. Lots of older folks, but a good mix. Attendance probably helped by the Pride festival a few blocks away. I saw someone in a turd costume hug someone in a unicorn costume. Probably a good metaphor for where we are, or need to be, or something.
  22. Agreed. The link I gave from the Star-Tribune mentioned that he also had a wife and kids, but that doesn't sound like a wife-and-kids household. The article didn't reconcile the info, but the S-T is also probably in full-blown panic mode trying to process all the stuff it's got coming in from whoever was available to work on a Saturday. Bottom line is he sounds like a real piece of work whose life may have been falling apart. His guideposts may have all been pulled up -- lost his income, might have lost his family, probably never had a good sense of what his church and his god even meant because he may have never put independent thought into either. Tragic all around.
  23. Yep. If I'm either of those guys, I'm already looking for an attorney. It's telling that they read the text to reporters; that sounds to me like a couple of guys in panic mode. I'm skeptical that roommates of a probable political assassin are typically anything but critical of "mainstream media."
  24. There are nine teams ranked ahead of Texas in that poll who have either one or two ESPN 300 commitments. Texas has eight. Not even trying to disguise its nature as clickbait. I am increasingly convinced that his "work" is AI generated. It tends to be near perfect in terms of grammar, style and spelling, but so vapid that it seems to be the response of a bot based on standard fan-board fare. Graham Harmon was not a journalism student -- seems like it's this thread that has a good look at his background, which I also checked out myself -- and if I recall correctly he was not an A&M undergrad or grad. But he was/is in Waco and probably saw a good market. BTW, Google's AI says "stymy/stymie" has two acceptable spellings, but typical of AI, it isn't always completely accurate. I've gotten two different responses from it that say there are two spellings, but the two different references it's given me (Merriam-Webster and Collins) don't appear to accept "stymy." Dictionary.com does, and it's based on Random House, which it bought: Regardless, I teach writing classes for college students and have in the last year really needed to start figuring out what's done by my students and what's AI. The telltale signs are still being figured out and argued about, but usually I can sense the difference, especially if I have specific items to compare. His stuff looks as fake as all get-out; it's laughably formulaic and virtually anyone with 5,000 or more posts on this board who also reads Texags.com could probably predict most of what his "work" says based on headlines alone. If I get really bored, I may take a closer look at his articles and see if I can delineate why I think it's AI-generated, but I'm not there yet.
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