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  1. The book about SMU Pony Express days cheating, “A Payroll to Meet”, describes how the payouts were funded by whales like Edwin Cox. Those guys never met recruits in person, had no formal connections to them. They met in person with the bag men, trusted younger grads close to the program, who would take the money and distribute it to desired recruits (names coordinated with coaches). I assume the modern dirty (pre-NIL) programs operate similarly. That level of giving, the “whales’” contribution, is built into their funding model already. Their new source for funds are the little guys, but you get a lot less from them (and have to work a lot harder). At Texas, Bellmont has been very effective at raising donations, for legit purposes. Texas’ whales have been giving to get suites, preferential seats, access, names on facilities, personal birthday notes from CDC, etc. Funding NIL requires them to either divert current donations or increase donations. Texas is lucky in that we have sucked recently, and that has suppressed recent donations below their maximized potential (when Texas is winning, the money it draws/makes is incredible). As for the small donors- few schools have as many as a winning Longhorn program. I would like to think there is a future where Bellmont isn’t going to the same wells, hard, as TexasOne, but it’s going to take some work to get there, I think. It’s unnatural for organizations like Bellmont to reduce begging because another part of the program needs the funds more.
  2. So raising the most money gets him the win? Is that like who has the biggest rally attendance automatically wins the election? JFC folks, I'm on your side. I busted my fucking ass to raise nearly $200k for Biden in futility to show that Texas would be vulnerable to the GOP in 2020. We can all exchange pissing contest political resumes. I'm just saying Paxton, Patrick, and Cruz are not going away in the next 2-8 years. They're just not. The blueprint is just pissing away money that can be spent on the 2-4 competitive US House races from Texas and at least swing away a GOP super-majority in the State Senate. Everything else is just fucking panacea noise. Neg rep all you want, this fucking thing isn't going anywhere until 2032, at best. Not saying my idea is foolproof but it's got some agreement from some moderate Republicans. Yeah, it has a very low chance of happening but at least it humiliates these asshats and makes them more awkward than they already are. Nobody wants Ted on the SCOTUS or their cabinet. And we know he can't be nominated as President. So we're literally stuck with him for 30 more fucking years unless somebody primaries his ass. Ken Paxton cannot be taken out by the cartels as long as he holds office. And that guy can work the fuck outta the legal system and the impeachment process. So he ain't going anywhere for 20 years. Dan Patrick is either gonna be our Lt. Gov or Governor for 20 years as well. Unless he's beaten in a primary by a non-raging lunatic. There are competitive races to be won. And those folks need resources. But we're just pissing up a rope right now thinking we're gonna Rock the Vote our way to victory in 2024/2026 in Texas. Fucking send the money and effort to Arizona, at least it'd make a fucking difference. We're all just gonna be back on here in 9 months time wringing our hands saying, "But Guitierrez/Allred raised so much money, how could this have possibly have happened. And oh yeah (checks notes), we lost a couple House races from South & East Texas and even a few more State Legislative seats...but we raised so much money against Ted...how could it possibly be?"
  3. Well yeah, we need to throw them a bone/glimmer of hope. You gotta get one that hasn't gone off the bat-shit deep-end and enable/engage them with some tease of support/votes/money to go up against one of the Big 4 Douchebags. Look man, my long diatribes aside-it's simply "The lesser of two evils" tale. You get some bipartisan support around some lesser shitbag R on their name who could possibly pull it off a primary upset. Maybe they don't exist in your world, but that doesn't mean they don't exist in reality. The system allows for them to pull off the upset with the correct/strategic broad-based support at primary/run-off levels. The icing on the cake that makes it worth it is you can then kneecap them in the general for your Democrat of choice by causing an astroturf grassroots campaign to the RPT and hardcore Texas GOP'ers to stay home because this primary challenger winner of Cruz/Paxton/Patrick is a pussy RINO who'll open the border back up or whatever the fuck. I mean, that candidate's family will also probably be murdered by a MAGA lunatic, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. If there's another way to get rid of Cruz or Patrick or Paxton besides death or a miracle, I am all fucking ears. Otherwise, this state is just pissing away money on Beto or Wendy or Allred that could be better spent trying to win the 3-4 U.S. House races from the Lone Star State that are actually competitive.
  4. So last year, when Crane was handing out bad deals, it was all on him, right? Now that Dana is here and the highest ranking member of the organization, we see Caratini 2/12 (great pickup), Hader 5/95 (pricey but awesome) and Altuve 5/125 (cheaper than expected), all good deals for those players, it's still Crane getting all the credit? C'mon man... He has got to be involved in these negotiations, he just needs Crane to approve going into the tax, which Dana should also get credit for doing. He had to sell Crane on the fact that this team can win another ring next year and it's worth spending into the tax to get it done. Maybe Jim has reached his "I'm old and I can't take my money with me" phase of life, but either way someone had to convince him it's worth spending a lot to win now and again.
  5. We really needed you guys to beat Baylor. We don't get a rematch in Ames with them this year. I see plenty of potential future losses for Baylor, but this is one thing I really don't like about the lack of double round robin. Winning the regular season will come down more to the luck of the draw going forward.
  6. I’m not sure what going 1-4 at home to date leads you to conclude we win out at home. Seems like it.
  7. We can still win this game. Let’s go horns
  8. Yep, you are 2-19 on the road versus Texas I guess maybe we could schedule you in 2025 to keep the every 10 year ISU win in Austin going?
  9. Aah,…Tyrone Swoopes. During the 2014 Texas Bowl, against Arkansas, I watched the LHN broadcast, with VY, Studdard, Robeson watching the game and commenting. In the second half, with it clear that Texas was going to score, wasn’t going to get first downs, or even positive yardage, Studdard glumly looked down and muttered, “Hell, he never won in high school; I don’t know how we expected him to win here”. That may have been Studdard’s last LHN appearance.
  10. Home: ISU WV KSU OSU OU Road: UH KU Tech Baylor Scary, but not impossible to go 5-4 there. I hope we don't live to regret blowing the UCF game at home or the WV game in Morgantown. 5-4 gets us to 9-9 (20-11) regardless of Big 12 tournament 4-5 gets us to 8-10, which probably gets us in (19-12) if we win 1 Big 12 tournament game
  11. without linking literally dozens of videos here, i’m just going to say that for the last 24 hours my twitter feed has been nothing but videos of EPL managers celebrating like madmen, with probably 90% of the clips being jurgen klopp going absolutely apeshit in celebrations on innumerable occasions. all of this in response to yet another round of widespread criticism of arteta/arsenal for celebrating another huge win. these attacks on arteta and arsenal players for celebrating, attacks which have been going on all year, are the dumbest, pettiest, most small dick, loser mentality shit i’ve ever seen from sports pundits and fans. that the majority of the criticism keeps coming from liverpool fans and former players is embarrassing for these people. the stance itself is indefensible loser garbage, but the fact that it keeps coming from members/fans of the club with the most over the top HC in world football makes it insanely pathetic. rant over…..until the next time we have a reason to celebrate and jamie carragher and co. get all pissy again.
  12. Sorry, as I was compiling the list I forgot about the whole out of state thing and just listed the replacements. Hookfin was in-state too. But the original point about going OOS was a big theme with Bru, Floyd, Smith, etc. The spin was about going national after the sugar bowl win, but really we were just missing on guys. And without NIL and the SEC, we weren't even really making in-roads to southeast.
  13. This. Not only will there not be people in positions who will be willing to refuse orders, the people who will be in those positions will be fucking rabid to exceed whatever orders are actually given and issue insane orders of their own. They'll start with rounding up immigrants and people who look like immigrants. Any lawsuits against this will have a good chance of landing in front of a Trump judge and even if one or more don't and a judge grants an injunction they'll just ignore it. The actual federal officials charged with complying with those orders won't give a shit if they're illegal. Probably at the same time, they'll start going after trans people. They'll find some legal pretext(s) to take trans kids from their parents, ban trans people from federal employment, and strip them of protections against discrimination. Then they'll do the same for gay people. States will start investigating parents who have gay or trans children for fabricated charges of child abuse and the like. They'll find dozens of ways to wield state power in ways we can't even predict against every minority group. They've been planning it for years now. Meanwhile, Trump and his lackeys will be not-so-subtly telling his supporters that they won't face any consequences for violence inflicted against their political enemies. First that'll come in the form of pardons for everyone convicted of 1/6 offenses, then promises of pardons for patriots who defend the country from the liberal vermin traitors. You'll see similar promises from GOP officials at the state level too in states they control. They want to encourage unrest to justify invoking the insurrection act and deploying the military in American cities. Before they do that though, they'll have made sure to purge the military of officers they expect might refuse those orders. Remember, all of this is conditioned on if Trump wins. At that point, if Trump has won, his followers will no longer be disillusioned and unmotivated. He won't have any Republicans at all publicly opposed to him. He'll be seen on the right as a conquering champion who took everything the deep state could throw at him and beat them at a game they rigged. And his political opposition will be splintered. Everyone left of center will be scared and disillusioned and bickering over whose fault it was. There will be no real institutional constraints remaining on his ability to wield power as he and those around him see fit, and literally all they want to do is hurt everyone they hate.
  14. Remaining schedules of the top 5 teams: OU: TCU, @ISU, Baylor, @WV, Cincinnati, OSU, Texas, @Kansas KSU: OSU, @ISU, UCF, WV, @KU, ISU, @Tech WV: Tech, @Baylor, @TCU, OU, @KSU, Baylor, @OSU, TCU Texas: @TCU, @UH, ISU, Tech, @UCF, @OU, BYU ISU: OU, KSU, @Texas, @UH, BYU, @KSU, Cincinnati Texas has the easiest schedule remaining - 2 games versus the top 5 of the conference (1 home, 1 road) and 4 games against the bottom 4 teams. Texas had a more front-loaded schedule considering we have played Baylor twice, KSU twice, @ Tech, @ WV, KU, @ OSU and hosted OU. Texas has only played, so far, 2 games against the bottom of the conference (Cincinnati and TCU). Our schedule gets exceptionally easy on the backend. OU has to play ISU, WV, Texas, Baylor, Kansas (3 games left against the top 5 and two more mid-pack teams) and only 1 bottom of the conference team KSU has to play ISU twice, KU, WV and go to Lubbock (3 games left against the top 5 and two more mid-pack teams) and only 1 bottom of the conference team WV has to play Baylor twice, OU, at KSU and go to Stillwater (2 games left against the top 5 and 4 against mid-pack teams) and only 1 bottom of the conference team ISU has to play OU, @ Texas, and KSU twice (4 games left against the top 5 and 3 against the bottom teams) For reference, OU has already played UCF, BYU, Cincinnati (their first 3 Big 12 games) and UH. They now get the tougher portion of their schedule. KSU has played Cincinnati, UH, UCF (Their first 3 games), TCU was a forfeit and BYU. Both ISU and KSU got free wins against TCU's forfeit.
  15. The team building issue started in 2019 when they went "all-in" to get KP. That deal is still killing them from having any meaningful draft assets to use. Then they traded Harrison Barnes, who could have been a very good 3rd option, for cap space and then proceeded to not do a damn thing with it. Then the Brunson mishap. They've just stacked so many bad choices on top of one another that there just isn't a good way out. An underrated one was not getting a fucking draft pick when Carlisle went to the Pacers. We just let him walk to another team without any compensation. Then, to make things even greater, they decided to hire a mediocre coach with a mediocre track record and, shockingly, they are getting mediocre results. The roster mismanagement is not Kidd's fault, but he is a clown and this team should have a way better record than it does despite the injuries. I think Nico is doing a decent job with the hand he was dealt. Lively is a huge win and I think OMax will be a player in a couple of years. The roster is better than it was last season, there just isn't a quick fix to this. They're going to have to keep drafting well and make decent upgrades via trade. They actually have young, tradeable players now which is a huge upgrade compared to the past few years. The only thing that's fixable this season is the coach. That needs to happen.
  16. first off, if trump wins, nothing will happen to any of his political enemies, including biden. no chance. second, he’s not going to win. we fixed the last election, we can fix this one too.
  17. Steve Sarkisian believes his career would not be possible without Nick Saban by:Nick Kosko•02/03/24 Steve Sarkisian resurrected his career under Nick Saban at Alabama at one point. Eventually, it led him to Texas where he became the Longhorns’ head coach. Now a Big 12 champion and College Football Playoff participant, Sarkisian joins an elite class of coaches in the SEC in 2024 as Texas and Oklahoma make the move. Once upon a time, it was hard to imagine Sarkisian in this type of position. Well, Saban believed in him and Sarkisian learned well during his time as Alabama’s offensive coordinator. “He believed in me at a time when I was having a hard time even getting an interview,” Sarkisian said, via ESPN. Sarkisian was sure to remind Saban of that after the two faced off in Week 2 earlier this season. “None of this would’ve been possible without you,” Sarkisian told Saban at midfield. Texas knocked off Alabama, which spearheaded the Longhorns’ run to the College Football Playoff after winning a Big 12 title. “As great as it was for us to go and get that win, that would never have been possible without Nick Saban, ironically,” Sarkisian said. “To think that was where I kind of resurrected my career, in that stadium with him, to have that moment — which was our biggest moment in three years here — was something I won’t forget. I’m forever grateful that he and Miss Terry were both there for me at a tough time in my life.” Sarkisian was open and honest about his recovery as an alcoholic. Once he confronted his demons, he received his second chance in the coaching ranks. Sure enough, he wasn’t the USC version of Sarkisian, he became a new version of himself, aided by Saban. Texas is hoping they can sustain the success from 2023, even moving into the SEC. Sarkisian hopes his two mentors, Saban and former USC and Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, can come to the 40 Acres to support him. In return, he wants to be a highlight of their respective coaching tree. “My goal is that we can play in some big games down the road and those two guys can come and support us,” Sarkisian said. “I think that’s part of leaving a legacy. Other coaches that have worked for you, what have they gone on to do? Now that they have a little bit more time on their hands, hopefully, they can come down to Austin, and watch us play.”
  18. I’ll say it: I was nervous about this one, esp with Jesus out. What a performance outside of the final 30 seconds of the 1H. We scored all four. Should have scored at least two before the break. Withstood their push to start the second, Martinelli got a beautiful winner, then we saw out the remainder of the match before Trossard’s clincher. All around, a damn good performance and exactly what we needed. 100%. Cry, bitch. Carra when Liverpool win: “Look at Klopp’s passion! You have to love it!!!” Carra when Liverpool lose: “You must silently walk off the pitch so as to not hurt my feelings any further.” Rice and Jorg were outstanding today. Bossed midfield. Let’s go, you Gunners!!! Lets. Fucking. Go.
  19. Moving to Spain... OK, to be fair that's our plan regardless of what happens in November after we retire; but that will make it a certainty. We currently don't have grandkids, and Mrs. MO says that might change our plans. i've said if Trump wins we may be living apart after 40+ years of marriage, because she can stay here but I'm going with or without her.
  20. Did not have that one on my bingo card. Glad we got we got out of there with a win. Any Big 12 venue not a death trap? Murderers row going through this conference.
  21. I think everyone knew TCU was going come back in this game. Road wins don’t happen that easy in this conference and we have been on the other end a few times.
  22. man this would be such a nice win to add to the resume if we could get it. i wouldn't say i'm terribly confident that is going to happen however.
  23. The handwringing over the pause in permitting new LNG export facilities while we still double our capacity in the next few years seems even more like an overreaction now, AND new projects that will also export from Mexico won't be affected. All the while, our NATO/EU allies look to be set. So, again, depending on the length of this pause, I don't see this as being that big of a problem. How the U.S. Became the World’s Biggest Gas Supplier In just eight years, the United States has rocketed from barely selling any gas overseas to becoming the world’s No. 1 supplier, a remarkable shift that has profited oil and gas companies and strengthened American influence abroad. But climate activists worry that soaring exports of liquefied natural gas could make global warming worse. Last month, the Biden administration said it would pause the permitting process for new facilities that export liquefied natural gas in order to study their impact on climate change, the economy and national security. Even with the pause, the United States is still on track to nearly double its export capacity by 2027 because of projects already permitted and under construction. But any expansions beyond that are now in doubt. At the core of the debate over whether to allow more exports is a thorny question: With governments across the globe pledging to transition away from fossil fuels, how much more natural gas does the world need? America’s gas export boom initially caught many policymakers by surprise. In the early 2000s, natural gas was relatively scarce at home, and companies were spending billions of dollars to build terminals to import gas from places like Qatar and Australia. Fracking changed all that. In the mid-2000s, U.S. drillers perfected methods to unlock vast reserves of cheap natural gas from shale rock. At the same time, natural gas prices began spiking elsewhere in the world, especially after Japan shut down its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima reactor meltdown in 2011 and began demanding more fuel. That led to a stunning reversal. American companies, led by Cheniere Energy, began spending billions more to convert import terminals into export terminals, and shipments of U.S. gas to other countries began to surge. ‘Major demand growth’ Natural gas is most easily transported by pipeline. To send it across oceans, the gas must be chilled to 260 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, turning it into a liquid. The process of making and shipping liquefied natural gas adds complexity and cost, but if the difference between U.S. natural gas prices and overseas prices is big enough, it is profitable. “It comes down to economics,” said Kenneth Medlock, senior director at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University. “Production just keeps growing in the United States, which keeps prices low. And then we keep seeing major demand growth in the rest of the world.” The export boom has transformed America’s role in energy geopolitics. Europe has become the biggest importer of American gas in recent years, enabling the continent to slash by more than half its reliance on Russian gas since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In the future, Europe is expected to curb its appetite for gas by adding more renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. The main growth markets for natural gas are expected to be fast-growing Asian countries such as China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam that want to use the fuel for electricity, heating or industrial purposes. But as U.S. exports keep skyrocketing, critics have raised concerns about the climate change impact of transporting and selling more gas around the world. A complex climate question The last time the Energy Department studied this issue, in 2019, it concluded that U.S. liquefied natural gas often produced fewer greenhouse gas emissions than other types of coal or gas used around the world. That meant that more exports could actually be beneficial for climate change if U.S. gas replaced those other fossil fuels. (When gas is scarce, some countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh have recently opted to burn more coal instead.) But some environmentalists have disputed those conclusions, arguing that the analysis didn’t fully account for all the planet-warming methane leaks that can accompany natural gas production, and that it didn’t study whether a glut of gas might displace cleaner renewable energy rather than coal. The Energy Department is expected to study these questions while it puts permits for new projects on hold. In the meantime, the U.S. gas boom is far from over, even with the permitting pause. Since 2016, U.S. energy companies have built seven large facilities in Texas, Louisiana, Maryland and Georgia that can export around 11.4 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas per day, according to the Energy Information Administration. Another five projects along the Gulf Coast are already permitted and under construction and will be able to export an additional 9.7 billion cubic feet per day by 2027 — nearly doubling America’s export capacity. Three more facilities are currently being built in Mexico that will receive U.S. gas by pipeline and then ship it abroad. The pause, however, could affect nearly a dozen proposed projects in the United States and Mexico that, if built, could boost export capacity by another 10 billion cubic feet per day, according to research by Clearview Energy Partners, a consulting firm. Whether those projects ultimately go forward remains to be seen. With so many projects locked in, experts say it will be crucial to ensure that methane leaks from gas production are kept as low as possible. (The Biden administration has put forward several new regulations on methane.) “This is an area where we can actually deliver an emissions win, maybe more so than delaying or even killing a future supply project,” said Ben Cahill, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Because it’s what we do with the emissions on the projects that we know are with us today.”
  24. As a follow up to previous story, had turned $1000 into $300. Favorite hand during the downturn I have AA2s3s6. I raise preflop and get 2 callers. Flop is 4s5s7. I’m trying to figure out how to get them all in and they pot and repot ahead of me. I repot and all three of us are all in. turn is a 3, river is 6s, giving me straight flush and nut low. First guy turns over A2 and second guy turns over 7s8s. So nut low, straight flush gets me 1/4 of the pot. So it’s about 2am and the game is breaking. The hold em game going on happened to break right before us and 3 guys, 2 of which I know are complete idiots say they will play big o. The other guy who came over turned out to be really bad at big o but had a horseshoe up his ass and ran $500 up to $3000. Favorite hand I had with him I had AAJT3. He raises $30 pre flop and 2 of us call. Flop AJ3. Other guy in hand pots, idiot raises to $200 and we both call. Turn is a 5, they pot and repot and I’m out. What did he raise preflop with? K9742. Other guy had 42 too and they chop. we end up playing till 7am and I turned the $300 into $999, so I ended up playing 13 hours and lost $1. played the big o tournament at the lodge Monday and finished 4th and won $644. played the double board bomb pot tournament Thursday and fired two bullets and was out just after the first break. Drove down to bullets for the big o and ended up winning $250 came up to TCH for the Friday PLO. First buy in didn’t win one hand out right, just chopped one hand. Chip leader had $200k and I had around $20k. He raised preflop and I called with KdQsJd9s. flop is Td9dTc. I jam and he instantly calls and shows T9. Turn is a small card and I stand up assuming I’m drawing dead. Turns out I wasn’t as the Qd hits giving me a straight flush. Got going hitting straights and flushes and ran it up to 150k. Other big stack kept knocking people out. We got down to two and first payed $1275 and second $850. He had around $400k and I had $150k in chips. I offered him $1125 and me $1000 and he took it. now playing hold em waiting to degen it up playing at the plo bomb pot table
  25. Hopefully beating K State this weekend, I think we go on a little winning streak. \m/
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