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Oh, no, you see....there were sinister lights over New Jersey right before the election, which were obviously the Biden administration collaborating with aliens and the chinese to spy on us via chemtrails. And that story went "poof" and went away literally within minutes of the election being over because....reasons. But it was TOTALLY a real thing, trust us.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Frank Drebin replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Most times you do not need a lawyer. Just show up. If the cop does not show, which happens maybe 30 percent of the time, it will get dismissed. If he does show up, just cut a deal with the prosecutor for deferred. Whatever you spend on a lawyer is usually a waste unless they can get it dismissed. Even then you're probably breaking even as the spend on attorney will be similar to the cost of deferred. I don't show up. I just call the prosecutor and ask for deferred over phone. Usually works. I don't want to go down to court for a traffic ticket unless I have to. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
IDIOTsavant replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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Every time I see him, it’s because he blocks out the Sun! He is our solar system’s 10 planet! Pluto is a planet, change my mind!
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The road to the AL West Championship travels through Sugar Land
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he doesn't want to win manager of the year by a landslide, wants to keep it close and build up some suspense
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Gut Wagon replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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Only thing I can think of: Are you taking the snap and moving directly back with the QB? Usually the throw is "off balance" since you are moving backwards. If that makes sense. you can't take the snap, stand there and get it off. The OL is moving out of the way too quickly. Gotta run backwards immediately. I played last night and was thinking about this thread. Used the screen a few times and had about the same level of success. Better teams are more likely to shut it down though.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Frank Drebin replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I know Matt Davis well. When I was a baby lawyer my firm lent out associates to muni court to prosecute traffic citations to give us trial experience. He wrote thousands of BS tickets per year and he and his buddies were scamming taxpayers with overtime. I wrote about it at the time on Hornfans. He and his buddy would write a massive amount of tickets at speed traps. Often putting each other as witnesses. So they would be called to court multiple times per week. They would sign in at 8 am when court started in multiple courts. Then give the bailiff there phone numbers. So they would be earning OT pay starting at 8 am. Then they would disappear to go work side security jobs, and when we would try and call them as a witness the bailiff would say they were unavailable or in another court. In the off chance we could get them to show up, they would say they needed their other cop buddy listed on the ticket as a witness to make the case. They would never be available. So we would end up having to dismiss all their tickets. These guys were fleecing the city for hundreds of thousands of dollars in OT. Everyone in the court knew exactly what these assholes were doing. One assistant DA reported them. Matt Davis stalked the assistant DA and found out where he drank. Gave him a DWI charge in retaliation. That scared most off. It was Davis, an asian cop I cannot remember his name, and another cop named Running. The Chronicle finally reported on them and noted they had fleeced the city out of a million in OT. It was more than that. Davis was writing about 10,000 tickets per month. So many of us probably were ticketed by him. He pulled me over on Allen Parkway once with a line of other cars with his buddies. I was not even speeding. You can recognize the prick because he always wore Oakley sunglasses. -
does texags ever acknowledge or quote graham? does billy have an embargo on urls for graham's stuff, or his name, like he used to do to prevent mention of the shag? way to go graham now elk is going to get grilled on this ad infinitum +++ https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/texas-aggies-texas-longhorns-rivalry-18661302.php 240211 Texas A&M football: New coach Mike Elko sparks UT rivalry Brent Zwerneman 6–8 minutes Sam Craft/Associated Press COLLEGE STATION — Mike Elko pushed the right buttons in keeping five-star playmaker Terry Bussey of Timpson on board in Texas A&M’s class of 2024. Then Elko, the Aggies’ new coach who’s also new to the state’s grandest rivalry, pushed one more button for fun Wednesday. “We’re the flagship program in this state, right?” Elko said during the traditional signing day. In unexpectedly opining on an oh-so serious subject in Texas, the Ivy League graduate and history major used the most common word in English to fuel the hype of this state’s collegiate version of the Super Bowl. To wit: Though minuscule via vocabulary, the difference between “the” and “a” in Elko’s sentiment is wider than Big Bend National Park. Take what then-A&M athletic director Ross Bjork said when he first adopted the stance that A&M did not want Texas and Oklahoma to join the Southeastern Conference from the Big 12. “A&M is a flagship university, and with the size and scale of our place, we should have our own stand-alone identity in our own conference,” Bjork said in July 2021. Bjork and much of the rest of the Aggie brass got in line with the rest of the SEC, however, when league commissioner Greg Sankey informed A&M it didn’t really have any say in the matter. UT and OU are now set to enter the SEC in July, and A&M and UT are finally scheduled to play football again for the first time since 2011. The Aggies’ consolation prize in the whole deal is hosting the first game of the reunion on Nov. 30, despite also hosting the last one 13 years ago. Elko, who was A&M’s defensive coordinator from 2018-2021 under now deposed coach Jimbo Fisher, has never been a part of A&M vs. UT. Neither has fourth-year UT coach Steve Sarkisian, although his personal rivalry with A&M runs much deeper than Elko’s with Texas. Sarkisian set the single-game passing yards record by an A&M opponent as BYU’s quarterback in 1996. “I didn’t know that was still true,” Sarkisian said with a grin during an appearance last year at the Touchdown Club of Houston. “But thanks for the reminder.” The “flagship” volley of Elko, hired from Duke to try to lead the Aggies to their first SEC title as the Longhorns and Sooners give the powerful league 16 programs, quickly received backing from his new employer. “Texas A&M is the state’s oldest public institution of higher learning, the only land-, sea- and space-grant university in Texas, and educates more people every day than any other school in the Lone Star State,” A&M boasted via social media not long after Elko’s signing day press conference. The responses to the A&M post were colorful from both sides, with one UT fan chiming in, “Awww that’s cool, now let’s talk championships.” That is indeed the part where A&M has some serious catching up to do in coming years, particularly in football. The Aggies last won a national title in 1939 and haven’t played for a national championship since. Their highest finish since ’39 came under Fisher — No. 4 four years ago. Fisher’s A&M program peaked at that point and was a combined 12-13 over the last two seasons, leading to his firing in November. UT won national titles in 1963, 1969 and 2005 and played for a championship in 2009. The Longhorns also made the four-team College Football Playoff this past season for the first time, something the Aggies have not accomplished (although they were a debatable fifth following the 2020 regular season). The CFP is expanding from four to 12 teams this coming season. In a prime example of an offseason topic as fans already are missing college football, there was some social media debate on Elko’s exact wording on the flagship front, but there is no mistaking his “the” instead of “a.” Elko was speaking at the time about the importance of building relationships with Texas high school coaches. “If we’re one of those (flagship) programs, there’s a certain relationship we need to have with the high schools in this state, right?” Elko explained. “And a part of that — and I’ve said this to all these (coaches) — a part of it is recruiting, but a part of it is just being a resource for high school coaches in the state of Texas, right? It’s part of our obligation to pay it forward.” Webster’s Dictionary defines “flagship” as “the best, largest or most important one of a group of things.” Writers across the state for decades have described UT and A&M as Texas’s “two flagship universities” in sidestepping any unwanted missives from either side via snail mail, e-mail and, for the past 15 years or so, social media. Elko chose a more singular route by ignoring the other “flagship” altogether, along the way helping add a little offseason spice to the overdue return of a rousing rivalry — one that includes the dissecting of two words totaling four letters.
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I don't think I have perfected it, but it has been working for me: Keep in mind, I am usually starting dynasties with 3* or worse teams, so not much experience with recruiting with more dominant teams. Let's say I have 8-10 guys who have me as their NO. 1 team. If I have 450 recruiting points total, I will only add the amount of guys which allows me to spend 50 points on them week one. (This is after I've already offered them scholarship 5 points when I am setting up my board.) In this scenario, maybe I have left off 4 guys who have me as their top school. To me, that is ok. If they are not on my list and with no scholarship offer, they USUALLY still keep me as their no. 1. I have no science to prove this, but adding a recruit to your list makes them wanted more by other schools. Moving on: those initial recruits that I have added and spent 50 points on, they USUALLY sign with me. Maybe 1-2 don't, it really depends on their rating. 1-2 stars are obviously easier to get than 3-5 stars. Once more points become available, I will spend those on the other recruits who still have me listed as their top school. You'd be surprised at how quickly your class can fill up just by doing this. Also, some guys will add you later in the season and make you their top school. When you are late in the season, be sure to see which recruits are still available. The ones who have not signed are way more likely to sign with you, especially when you throw 50 points their way in week 11. Again, not always a sure thing, but it does work. If you are a crappy school, sign whoever you can. Doesn't matter if they are a bust or not IMO. You just need bodies. A "bust" 4* at Akron/Buffalo/etc etc is better than a 1 or 2-star IMO. These "busts" are usually the guys who are available later in the season. Especially the higher-rated ones. The postseason portal is kind of the same thing: Find recruits you want/need and give them 50 (or whatever max points you can give them) points as soon as you can. Those initial recruits are likely to sign with you. Again, I don't think this is a fool-proof plan, but it has worked for me.
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Well Written Content OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I may be misremembering, but I also think it was a 2 for 1. I actually really like the strategy of scheduling 2 for 1s with programs located in fun destinations. Tulane, UCF (probably wouldn't do a 2 for 1 and I know people loathe Orlando, but those of us with kids could make it work), SDSU, UNLV, probably some others. The indefensible part is Philadelphia. Of every big city I've been to in the US, which is most of them, Philly is far and away the place I least enjoy visiting. Maybe that's because I was dealing with a couple of nasty people at Comcast as part of most trips, but, yeah, fuck that place. -
ABQ sci-fi starring Kim Wexler https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_Vince_Gilligan_TV_series
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This isn’t transparent at all. Just keep releasing random shit until something catches fire. If the week ends with nothing on UAPs then that entire thing has been horseshit.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Js1 replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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I mean, you right. He left the door open to say that when August 2025 comes and goes. "Oh, did you assume I meant this August? Well that's on you"
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Astros love signing old dudes how about JD Martinez?
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Vito Andolini replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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It is truly a blessing that he doesn’t remember Hudson Hawk. The lord works in mysterious ways.
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Goes great with "why did I walk into this room?"
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Why you went there instead of "starts a degrading OnlyFans page" baffles and disappoints me.
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This is the CR thread, so consider where we are making drastic changes/cuts... FEMA: helps citizens survive disaster NOAA: helps citizens be prepared for disaster CDC: helps people survive diseases and pandemics FDA: ensures our food and drug supply are safe for human consumption USAID: helps impoverished/desperate people worldwide It seems like we are already acting on the conclusion that unbounded population growth is no way to run a sustainable planet. On the plus side, job market contractions from AI automation won't seem as bad when you also are contracting the pool of human workers needing jobs.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Incredulity replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
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