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No sweat, and good for him. I’m still scarred by Robert Heard proclaiming Shane Rink as the better every down prospect over his teammate, Sam Adams. Whoops

There’s a thousand ways to play recruiting classy, and he chose poorly. So, well, I ain’t gonna mince words. Fuck that kid. Looking forward to embarrassing him for 0-6 years, depending on how long he makes it on campus over there.

That's so accurate. Random awesome Austin shit. I was a poor and frequently worked on my truck in our garage in a north campus condo. One night I took my buddies catfishing and forgot to throw away the extra chicken livers when we got home. The next week I was working on the truck again, and the garage was filled with this awful smell. Obviously I forgot to throw away the chicken livers from the week before. But because I'm sort of a negligent dick, I blamed my girlfriend for farting in the garage. Bye bye girlfriend, but it was all for the best. That's when I remembered the chicken livers. So I walked the ice chest full of rotten chicken livers out of our garage and along an alley next to yards full of future Austin assholes behind our condo. They were tech people who had just moved in from California, no shit. Anyway, I dumped that ice chest out in our dumpster and the smell was honestly horrific. The California folks had been having some wine and cheese deal in their backyard. Obviously I nuked that shit. They literally ran away screaming. I suppose the whole point of this is that if a monkey named Kong had appeared right then, it would not have been an aberration. That was a huge part of what I loved about Austin.

Preach. What’s happening now is proof positive that we were NOT doing the same stuff as the other guys. If we had been, it would have looked like this for all these years. You nailed it: fuck em. Time to pay the piper, bitches.

I got the Pfizer booster at the beginning of December in anticipation of holiday gatherings. I didn’t have any side effects, and I’ve had them from every previous vaccination. So that was nice. There are so many great people out there. There are some shitheads too. There is a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram when it comes to sickness/vaccination behavior. The only part that bothers me is that so many peoples’ default is not “This might help, and it’s not a huge burden, so I’m gonna do it.”

Yes.

Super excited for this season. April 16 circled on the calendar. My son is a true freshman OF at UTRGV. Right now it's looking like he won't redshirt. He's the fourth or fifth OF on the squad. Recruiting was a rough experience with the Covid years. In a "normal" year I think he would have had chances at some other schools, but we are really proud of him getting on with a D1 baseball program. We like the coaching staff at UTRGV quite a bit. No matter which way the game goes in Austin, we can't lose. Hook 'em

I hope the portal/NIL has changed things significantly for Texas at the wr position. Because for years people have said stuff like, “Receivers are a dime a dozen in this state,” and “Not worried at all about pass catchers”. And then when a real receiver finally shows up it’s like a complete revelation.

I’m up in the air on this dude. I hated it when the Cowboys got him. I don’t think they needed him, and I think it that it was nothing more than Jerry Jones hubris that brought him to Dallas. After a few more years of that, I’m no longer a Dallas fan. Hell, I feel sorry for Cowboys fans. They have an owner who wants to make a lot of money and be on the front page, but he doesn’t really give a shit about winning it all since he’s done that before. I thought Deion was a pussy in the run game. When it got tough. He was real good at what he did: cover and make big plays on defense and special teams. He was a highlight video. But man, when it was him, mano y mano against some really big dudes, he pussed out. I know. Nice story bro. Prime Academy showed some more of the same for me. All flash, little substance. I would be more impressed with the dude if he had stayed at a HBCU and turned things upside down. It would have felt more genuine to me. Deion is real good at what he does: self promote. And to be fair, that extends to his kids. I can’t blame him, I promote my kids all the time. I don’t think it’s going to work, in the end. It might be pervasive racism, it might be just the “system” holding him down. He’s trying to be a change agent, but having watched him as a player I just don’t think he has the fundamental toughness to get it done. It’s good that he’s doing what he’s doing though. Maybe it’ll make it easier on the next dude.

I am not a Deion expert or hater by any means, but Prime Academy was certainly an example of results in the wrong direction. The dude is entertaining as hell though.

Haha fuck that guy

Really? It’ll be a relief, as others have said, to play against more than one team (OU) on the schedule who doesn’t 1) take advantage of the money that we bring to the conference (and then light on fire, which would be more fun than donating it to you fuckers), and 2) then bitch and moan 24/7, 365 about how we want to run things. In the immortal words of Tex, “Goodbye and good luck.” Still like you, slorch. Along with most raider fans. Wish it was a different world, but it’s not.

“Brand”. No.

You make a decent argument on the big three sports, but that’s about it. In terms of brand and overall athletic department success, Florida is not our equal. No one is.

I can still remember Inside Texas newsletter proclaiming that Rink was as good or better than his teammate, Sam Adams. Adams went to aggy and eventually the NFL. Rink not so much.

Clint Haney wasn’t enough for you?

I’m curious about recruiting dynamics for aggy this year. Last year they brought a jihad upon themselves by breaking the mold on paying players, by Jimbo’s running his mouth on Saban and NIL denials, etc Is the jihad over? Or is this still going on?

Kyle Richardson?

Kevin Watler, Jim Bob Evans, and Doug Livingston still just doing their thing.

I am, admittedly. In that segment the guy is saying that military hospitals in Germany won’t admit guys wounded in Ukraine. I get it, it just sucks.

https://podcast.silverado.org/episodes/interview-this-american-spent-10-months-fighting-in-ukraine Posted by Schulz2.0 above. This is a pretty decent listen. The portion towards the end about the difficulty in getting medical treatment for Americans wounded in Ukraine is infuriating. I can understand (but not agree with) withholding certain weapon systems from Ukraine for fear of escalation. I can’t understand not treating vets who are wounded in Ukraine. There’s no way that leads to any sort of escalation. It’s bullshit red tape and anyone responsible is the very worst sort of pussy.

Bob Lilly

It was a very good interview. The same pastor said, at the end (paraphrasing) "I'm not going to watch it, and I hope that people stop seeing black death as theatre." Made me think. I'm still thinking about that statement.

Yeah. Old school lunch pail type. And so well spoken.