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So I've known that my work was going to land me at the Final of the Club World Cup for awhile. I didn't even want to talk about the possibility of Chelsea making it there for fear of jinxing things. I know this cup is fledgling at best, but I'm glad it exists as this will be my first opportunity to cheer the boys on in person. I know we will be underdogs to whoever wins today, but I'm hoping the fact that it's a final between two top flight Euro clubs will at least draw a respectable crowd for a good match day experience. BTW, I'm totally using this as justification for buying one of our 2025 away shirts. I don't think anyone has mentioned those yet on this thread, but they might be my favorite away shirt since I started following the club ~12 years ago.
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"Impressive" list of names at #10-12. Curious how much money has been spent by those 4 programs during that combined 53 seasons without 1 10-win season.
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We sure dodged a bullet with this guy.
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We know that the owner of the KC Chiefs niece was a victim. And I wouldn't doubt your question at all...maybe someone can confirm.
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Do we factor in white?
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I got $1000 per year for being an engineering student who maintained a 3.5 or higher GPA. I got $5000 per year for being a Hispanic engineering student who maintained a 2.5 or higher GPA. While my mother had grown up on dirt floors and without indoor plumbing to two Spanish speaking only parents whom she taught English, she had absolutely busted her ass to fight her way out of poverty using education. She went to school even when her mother told her she was wasting her time bothering to graduate high school. She graduated from UT and owned her own successful business by the time I graduated high school. That lowered expectations Hispanic scholarship I took every year wasn't intended for someone in the upper middle class like I was by that time. But fuck you if you think I wasn't taking it. I have no illusions that I'm the badass in my life story but she certainly was and fuck you again if you think I'm not going to save her $15,000 (I got married before my senior year and paid for that myself). Everyone has a story. If you qualify and complete the form accurately and honestly and receive the funds then everyone else can mind their own business. How they word it is not your problem. Hell I have no issue with white South Africans applying for African-American scholarships. That's on the awarding entity to clarify.
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I am out. I am packing to go to Hickham. @West Kerr Horn link him up with Connie pls. C
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
ApocalypseTexas replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Haha these recruiting analysts literally take their readers by the hand build up a recruit walk them to the ledge and when it don’t go the right way have the nerve to say some need to step back from the ledge. I find this amusing since they are the ones that build up all the hope of a player committing. Personally I am not at all concerned about recruiting with the transfer portal. Just remember some of you need to step back from the ledge lol -
That’s exactly right. The governor and the rest are already shielding the Kerr County judge and commissioners. They’ve been openly defiant when pressed for answers and cry any attempt to question the timeline, the decisions, or the failures is just “politics by losers.” We’ve seen this playbook before in Uvalde. Greg Abbott — the guy who never hesitates to point fingers when it suits him, suddenly thinks accountability is off-limits when it lands on or near his doorstep. He’s more worried about controlling the headlines than missing children. We know how this ends. He’ll quash any criticism or findings of fact that don't suit his needs.
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"Wrong! We love the Ukraine. I'd just love to help them and put the resources in to rebuild. We just love building. It's great. We're talking about the best place to do it and I think they want to provide the location. That's gonna be fantastic, we love good locations."
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Minor fix. I have never been to Russia so my experience is based on Russian Nationals or immigrants I've met through my life and in my travels. In HS a couple of my friends immigrated with their mother. I never got the full details of their youth, not even sure they knew their whole story but their outlook would mirror a lot of other Russians I ended up meeting. That long ass preface to say, while you might find hope in parts and pieces there always seemed to be an underlying bleakness to everyone of them I knew with depth. It wasn't out front in their personality but the more you go to know them the more it tended to surface. A sort of a "fuck it" rebel without a cause sort of view. That's the only thing I can add to mindset and I fully acknowledge its certainly not an in depth or vastly knowledgeable one.
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@InkaUtexas I'm in the experienced and capable of physically helping group. I worked in La Grange in 2017? and to a lesser extent in Wimberly. I Have the tools, gear and knowledge I know how to be self-sufficient and not create issues My company will even pay me for a day of volunteer work I just need to know when is the right time So please keep people like me informed because it does take planning on packing, getting others to go with you and making sure you have the PPE and other supplies you need. If there is another thread or group for work parties let me know. Edit: I can get off half of Friday and work through the weekend. Edit 2: I'm not in the recovery group but the debris removal/cleanup group. When it's time to get the houses cleaned out, remove debris, etc. Sometimes you have to wait for insurance green light and other times you just need the pictures to document before you start cleanup.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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And what is the last thing to go through that bugs mind as it hits the windshield? It’s asshole! -
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not Clemens, only had back to back seasons of 20 wins
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Tex Long replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
We just need to have all HS students who intend to participate in Intercollegiate Sports take an AAT - Athletic Aptitude Test. Besides collecting physical and mental test results, AAT would also assign minimum and maximum dollar value to each student-athlete, and schools would not be allowed to pay more than maximum nor less than minimum. Test scores and valuations would be publicly available. To maintain scholastic standards, schools would be required to deduct all of its normal student tuition and all other fees from the amounts paid to each student-athlete. No more "scholarships" for athletes, just real educational benefits like every other student. This might affect expensive schools negatively, but that only serves to level the playing fields. Straight NIL would probably belong to the employer, the school, but not necessarily exclusively - actual name/image/likeness payments could be split between school and athlete, and non-NIL employment (ditch-digging, vinyl siding sales, etc) would be none of the school's business other than any restrictions on all students in general. And, best of all, Deloitte could be entrusted with the AAT. -
If that were to be the case then my next question would be what is the role of the Longhorn Foundation going forward.
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Well, one is Spanish, one is Murican. One has "more" Penelope, and doesn't have the Murican' stupid splainin' going on. I know which of the 3, including Open Your Eyes, I like most, but I'm gonna shut my keystrokes and stop completely derailing this thread.
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Let's fucking go.
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Yeah, and we're still tracking above the 3-decade average, so let's not go too crazy over this "good" news.
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It's been announced that ICE is coming to our little area of NOVA. There's a high hispanic population in the area so here we go.
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I usually rely on that automatic "grounding" feature of my Mavic along with word from my neighbor who is a retired SWA pilot and professional drone operator giving me the 411 on what's GO/NO GO. looks like I need to rethink those protocols. I DO NOT want a sit down with the FAA. Ever.
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I had ChatGPT whip up a summary of everything published about how the Fair Market Value test will be applied. Spot checked the sources and feel good about the accuracy, but take with a grain of salt. What we actually know so far about Deloitte’s fair-market-value (FMV) test Level What gets checked How it works Key references Trigger Any third-party NIL agreement worth $600+ and involving an “associated” payor (booster, collective or other donor-linked entity) Athletes must upload each qualifying contract to NIL Go no later than three business days after signing. Non-associated or sub-$600 deals skip the FMV screen. (nilrevolution.com, swimswam.com, cbssports.com) Step 1 – Payor Association Verification Is the company/individual primarily supporting the school? Have they donated ≥ $50 k? Do they employ a trustee, coach or collective officer? If “yes,” the payor is deemed associated and the deal moves to Step 2. (nilrevolution.com, burr.com) Step 2 – Valid Business-Purpose Verification Does the payor have a genuine commercial reason to use the athlete’s NIL (ads, appearances, content, etc.)? Schools must examine payor identity, invoices, deliverables and timing; blatant recruiting inducements are flagged. (burr.com) Step 3 – Range-of-Compensation Analysis Deloitte applies a 12-factor matrix (see next section) to see whether the payment falls inside a data-driven “reasonable range.” Past college and pro-athlete deals supply the comps; roster value and recruiting bounties are explicitly excluded. (nilrevolution.com, laborandemploymentlawcounsel.com, burr.com) Outcome labels Cleared · Information needed · In review Anything short of “cleared” lets the athlete ① renegotiate, ② cancel, ③ proceed at their own eligibility risk, or ④ appeal to a neutral arbitrator (target 45-day turnaround). (nilrevolution.com, essentiallysports.com) The 12 factors Deloitte says it weighs Athlete’s individual marketability & social-media reach Athletic performance and overall public profile Type, scope and frequency of deliverables (posts, appearances, etc.) Geographic market size and local demand Deal duration Any exclusivity terms Possibility of renewals or extensions Comparable market benchmarks for similar athletes and activations Degree of donor/booster involvement Timing relative to recruiting, transfer windows or eligibility decisions Quality and completeness of supporting documentation Red-flag indicators of inducement or sham purpose (laborandemploymentlawcounsel.com) A handful of practitioner memos bundle those into three broader buckets—athlete metrics, deal mechanics, and market context—but the raw dozen above comes straight from the settlement guidance Deloitte circulated in May. (elawfirm.org) What hasn’t been published Weightings & formulae. Deloitte calls its scoring model “proprietary” and has not disclosed how the 12 inputs are weighted or what percentile constitutes an “outlier.” Exact comparables database. We know it blends Opendorse, INFLCR and pro-athlete licensing data sets, but not the relative proportions. Arbitration precedent. No FMV decision has reached arbitration yet, so there is no public case law to show how often NIL Go can be overturned. Bottom line Everything public to date points to a three-step gateway focused mainly on associated (i.e., booster-funded) money rather than mainstream brand endorsements. The 12-factor grid is meant to mimic how talent-valuation firms price professional sponsorships, but until the first round of deals (post-July 1) cycles through NIL Go and the new arbitration track, the real-world thresholds remain an educated guess.
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I will say, since several visitors have mentioned this to me, that the sketchy areas adjacent to Union Square and Moscone are night and day from what they were a few years ago. Yes it’s a performative push by the new mayor /no CR, but downtown is finally beginning to get some real momentum going.
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I wish all I had was a tire sensor issue. Fucking rats ate the fuel injector wiring harness on my truck. There's a grand. Next day truck's throwing multiple codes. Turns out the EVAP system is F'ed. I go back and forth and back and forth with the dealership. Got them down from $1,300 to $820. Still not fixed. Have to find the time to take it in. Such an asswhip.
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