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  1. Has any program had such great sustained success leading to such an outcome recently? So is recruiting gonna get boosted by 3 playoff appearances? 4? Will it even get a boost with a title? Its clear the money is tied up or Texas decision makers don't want to commit money this summer out of fear. We need to cleanse our minds of any success at all helping anything at all into the future.
  2. Amidst all of this sometimes I have to stop and think about those poor teens who were acting as counselors at Mystic and the nightmares and guilt they are going to carry forever. And while I do imagine they come from privileged and affluent backgrounds, still to be placed in a position of life or death for people who trust them is not a place to put those kids. There are a thousand ways that could have been different, but there is no reason for a camp that charges that much would not have a trained adult assigned to those cabins. To have to live with the questions about whether you did something wrong, or missed some announcement, or ignored some part of a lecture on emergency response is a lot to ask those kids. Those who survived, that is. I saw a segment on CBS online Tuesday which called out the commissioner's court hard. They had quotes from Buster and his picture, explaining how he has since passed. But there was no doubt they had done their research and were casting blame on that group. I have also seen other media reports that stop just short of accusing, but lead the viewer to answer the hanging questions. Unfortunately, that just isn't enough for lots of people. They have no critical thought process.
  3. He loves it, though it has its trade-offs of outdoor experiences vs usual college stuff. He'd spent so much time there growing up that it already felt like home. Doing their 5 year outdoor industry MBA. I think my younger son would love to go there as well, but "Wasted State" probably isn't the choice over the front range schools for pre-med. And it's a great excuse to go visit up there. I'm more of a summer mountains guy than winter sports, and yeah, the fishing and river stuff is fantastic. In the spirit of the thread, if anyone wants suggestions on some good places to stay in Gunni or Salida, feel free to PM. I'd rather not put them on blast, since I'd still like to be able to book them...
  4. I mean he’s proving the point of what’s broken, he’s purchasing players within the current wild west landscape. I absolutely hate that we’ll have to compete with that going forward but how can anyone criticize someone buying players for his alma mater when it’s completely legal? The article was tldr but I did browse and his primary proposal is that media rights be pooled instead of sold by conference. I think it would broaden the overall pie significantly. I would assume distributions would be based on ratings though so the more popular programs still end up way ahead. At least that’s a valid metric.
  5. If we are ceding our leadership role, glad the Brits and French are picking up the slack.
  6. blacklab

    Colonoscopy

    you're only supposed to eat clear jello sorry, go ahead and abort and reschedule
  7. @Chewbacca that's awesome, my nephew is starting there this fall as well. Good point about the rafting trip for @mdleast or anyone else wanting to start their kid off right -- my older one's "orientation" was a 3-day float trip on the Green. Don't miss out on those opportunities to jump-start things. And yeah, my younger one learned pretty quickly to say he was from "around Austin" (OK, it's within an hour) on his tours. College talk not going away.
  8. 8-yr old (going on 18) girl-dad checking in.... now that fucking song is stuck in my head
  9. North of 113k now. i believe btc was 13k in Sept 2020. Not sure I would have believe that we would be adding a 1 in front of it 5 years later. Wonder if we will add another leading 1 by 2030.
  10. Evans has 82 catches for 1105 yards (13.5 YPC) and 5 TDs that year. He had 5 catches for 40 yards in the Bama game that basically cemented Manziel's Heisman. A great year for a freshman receiver, to be sure, but he was used more as a possession receiver in Kingsbury's offense. It wasn't until the following year that Johnny and Spavital very transparently put an emphasis on staying behind the LOS and proving to NFL scouts that he could throw the ball down field...and many turnovers ensued. In 2012, Johnny had 1400 rushing yards and 21TDs on 7YPC to go along with his 3700 passing yards. Before Lamar Jackson came around. There are plenty of valid reasons to take the shine off Johnny's Heisman (the SEC being down with utter garbage QB play that year being tops among them), but the narrative that he was just throwing up jump balls to Evans all year is just lazy and factually wrong.
  11. No, but Big Jim (Chris) is why we were there. We also went up for a month in summer 96 - insane collection of football players at CU then. I didn't go to LP, Shaun and I grew up in Bible Way church together, our dads were in camp together in Oakland and maintained a friendship and worked out together. To this day, having played with and against some incredible ballplayers, Chris is one of the best athletes I've ever actually been around. I wish he would've locked in. Neuheisel took the players' coach deal a little too far and had no controls on that team.
  12. Damnit America! We just cannot shake our addiction to slavery. Granted, not that we are trying very hard to do so.
  13. I mean Campbell is a dickhead, but I don't blame him. The $EC and perennial cheaters should own the blame for this mess we have. If these cocksuckers didn't cheat for decades then we wouldn't have all these shenanigans in the first place.
  14. Shit. That is going to be how this issue is solved isn't it? Slave labor from prisons.
  15. Yeah, I think the anonymous stuff is premature. I'm working on a comms plan that will likely include either just text messages or an app like Telegram or Signal but it's too early for that. Right now I need to know the things I listed above, more specifically. Do you know a contact at locations that need cleanup. I'll start reaching out to Churches and civic orgs if we don't get contacts through our personal relationships. These contacts don't need to be posters here. These are the people that live in or have ties in the areas that need help. Volunteers to do the work. Right now your surly handle is good enough. I'm taking notes and later I'll get your contact information and reach out. If you send me a PM great, if not I'll reach back out. Posting here something like "I'm in for a work crew, I have a little/lot/no experience" is good enough. If we get 4 people who volunteer then I won't work as hard to find places to go as I will if we have 20 people. Later I'll get people matched up with partners, sites, dates and set up some way to communicate so that if we have 3 teams in an area and one needs a surge of help for something we can coordinate. If you message me let me know: home base (i.e. S Austin, San Marcos, Round Rock) level of experience with this kind of cleanup any special skills you have like plumber, electrician, construction knowledge, equipment operator any notable tools you have access to
  16. Man, go watch an outages compilation from P&R. Chris Pratt might be one of the few guys to get Nick Offerman to break character.
  17. My heart tell me the Eastlands were good people. People who loved the camp and the children entrusted to them. And if Mr. Eastland were here today, I believe he'd be doing the exact opposite of what we’ve seen from city, county, and state leaders. He would raise his hand and say: “I’m sorry. I should have done better.” Just look at the difference between someone like Mr. Eastland and Ingram City Councilman Raymond Howard. One died in his car on what amounted to a suicide mission to save several young women. The other stood on the bank and shouted to a child being swept downriver to “grab a tree or something.” Both bore responsibility—one as a camp owner, the other as an elected official who ignored ample warning—and both failed to meet the standard of care expected of them. Their failures didn’t start when the river rose; they began long before the first drops of rain. Why wasn’t someone at Camp Mystic awake and monitoring conditions that night? In the aftermath, there have been references to a longtime maintenance staffer who, in years past, would stay up overnight during storms to monitor the river. When did that practice stop—and more importantly, why? Maybe it didn’t. Maybe someone was there and fell asleep to the droning of a weather radio. But if that’s true, it only compounds the tragedy. The cabins along the riverbank were known to be vulnerable, even under less extreme circumstances. And when you're housing 750 children on a property with limited elevation, that should demand not just caution, but heightened, even obsessive vigilance—especially during storms. That level of care shouldn’t be optional. It should be institutionalized. I haven’t even started allocating accountability to county or state officials. But after six days, I’ve grown weary of the deflections, the self-pity, and the contempt for legitimate questions from the media and the public. This isn’t about politics. It’s about basic human decency. It's about wanting to know why so many people—so many children—died. Evasion and hostility aren’t damage control. They’re accelerants. We shouldn't still be asking for answers. We should be demanding them. Not just for the sake of accountability, but out of respect for Aidan Heartfield, Chloe Childress, Jane Ragsdale, Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence, and the many others who lost their lives. Because the truth is owed—to them, to their families, and in particular, to every parent of a child that isn't coming home.
  18. Just don't be like my MIL, who is visiting us right now. Every fucking store we go in, she feels the need to tell everyone she talks to that she's from Texas. We can't figure out why she does that.
  19. My youngest is going to Ft Lewis in Durango in the fall. He grew up in CO and wanted a smaller school (knocking out DU/CU/CSU) that had a lot of outdoor options. And he didn't want to be too close to us (Winter Park) that knocked out a few more. But the outdoor programs these schools offer are amazing. Free equipment rentals to go camping or backpacking. Free season pass to Purgatory for freshmen students (they used to also have a free shuttle every weekend but apparently that got cut recently). Free bike and ski tuning equipment to use. He's going a week early for a rafting trip with other students. And the faculty they can attract because they are in the mountains is impressive. Kids that don't take advantage are nuts.
  20. The message I received was equally as blunt about how this will play out. I get the sense that for my buddy and other dad's with surviving daughters the mindset is going back and forth between incredible sense of relief/feeling lucky and disbelief/anger at the level of negligence involved at all levels including the camp itself.
  21. THIS. I keep hearing people saying, "this hasn't happened to the Guadalupe up here in a long time" but everyone in these river communities knows what happened on the Blanco 10 years ago. We can't use ignorance as an excuse. They were talking about it in 2016. They just didn't like where the money was coming from and the inconvenience of sirens.
  22. So, to sum up, the richest state in the Union cannot afford to make sure people don't die in flash floods (which have been known to occur pretty much every summer), cannot afford to make sure people don't die in freezing conditions (which have been known to occur pretty much every winter), and cannot afford to place in the top half of state education rankings. But we can afford gazillions of dollars to block Central Americans from coming here to paint our houses and bus our tables. And we can give gazillions of dollars in tax breaks to crypto bros. What a fucking embarrassment this place is.
  23. We spent last July in Coal Creek area, just outside of Golden Gate St park. We did many hikes around Eldora and Nederland. During that month, we saw too many moose to count. There was a heat wave for much of the month we were there. Every weekend, 72 from Arvada and 119 from Boulder were packed with cars from Denver going to the mountains to escape the heat. We saw so many younger families with kids and toddlers in the cars and on the trails. It was pretty cool to see. If I had it to do over again, I would've raised my kids in Colorado. That state is f'ing awesome. I do understand their disdain for Texans.
  24. Or maybe meet the question head on if the truth really is “those proposals have not occurred during my time as mayor so I can’t speak to what prior administrations did”… goddam it ain’t that hard, just be honest and sincere. And if the answer is I don’t know at this time, but it’s something we’re going to investigate fully then just say that… but the bitch fit and tough guy bs should result in a public ass whipping even if they are old as fuck.
  25. Man, quotes the whole sequence, but this is the answer. Start asking questions now. If you don’t know the answer, “we’re looking into it” is a fine answer. But you start NOW. Competent failure analysis is the #1 way to avoid future failures. There isn’t even a close second. Failure analysis, in detail, asking hard questions, is non-negotiable. But let’s be honest, this is what Texas Fight is lobbying for: avoid full accountability, because his “team” is the only one in the crosshairs (because they’re the team that’s been in charge of literally everything in Texas for over a generation). Avoiding responsibility is a religious rite for them, and they won’t be denied that holy privilege. Thankfully, we still have SOME actual press that says “fuck your feelings” and will dog and get some truth: Texas Tribune, etc. Texas Fight doesn’t want that. He’ll rage against it for as long and hard as he can. But this one is too big to duck. But don’t worry, even when we find that the failures are because of total political and cultural rot, nothing will change. The party in charge will GAIN votes, and we’ll get more of the same, for at least another generation.
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