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PK was good. Will Muschamp is elite. We are better today than we were two days ago. If you think otherwise, that’s fine, I guess, but that objectively makes you a highly ignorant football fan. You should be ignored.
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It does make a shit because his premise is wrong. Those teams would have actually been in the playoffs in the system that he is arguing against. In fact, Boise State would have been in several times that decade. They weren't the equivalent of George Mason - more like Gonzaga.
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csb: My dear friend from Liège would take offense at either of those proposals. However, she did have a really cool Luxembourgish buddy. The aforementioned Belgian chick, a French gal, that Luxembourg guy, this Texan, and a whole bunch of their classmates all got drunk at an end-of-the-school-year party in a barn somewhere south of Namur in the Ardennes. Then the four of us hit the road to buy weed in Amsterdam. None of the other three spoke English well, so they wanted me to serve as their translator, knowing all those herring-eaters would speak perfect English. They did, and it was a real good time. Now I’m old, and that makes me sad. ~Fin~
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Was Katy nuking that thread for no reason other than to be awful the impetus for everyone's migration from hornfans, to the creation of shaggy?
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If you have Amazon prime and the Luna games app, there is a free version of exploding kittens that has like 10 or 12 different gameplay for anybody who wants to give it a try. It's better to play with the real deck, but the Luna ones at least give you an idea of the game and it's variants.
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Oh thanks. Posting the same thing twice now makes me believe it. Awesome.
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Blake Gideon will be ready the passing of the torch
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Billy and April are probably part of this fucking Cabinet the way the simulation has fucked with everything.
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Frozen Pizza - Because sometimes is just sounds good.
SurlyGator replied to Landomatic's topic in Food and Travel
Their blue box 4 for $12-ish version, for what it is (thin crust pepperoni, no frills), is absolutely no slouch. Hard to think of a better use of funds for a cheap heat and eat. -
You always hate to see a bleach blond team win state but the defense has been impressive. And for fuck's sake get #71 an undershirt and jersey that fit.
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Agree they have not found their footing on the next big arc. I do wonder if the combination of having to reset with Krang plus covid factored in. A lot of things got delayed / shuffled / canceled right after Endgame. Spider-Man did numbers right after endgame. Black Widow would have killed it in theaters I think. It was a good movie and was passing the baton to Yelana and Red. Then things shut down for 2 years. Momentum lost, direction changed. Shang chi was not a bad movie and I think keeps things moving solidly if it wasn’t the first MCU movie in theaters since the pandemic. And again, they weren’t all bombs, just nothing to carry the franchise and narrative. Spider-Man 3 was great, Guardians 3 was great, Thunderbolts was very good (great? Such a different feel and I like it). Thor 4 was a big let down. I’m convinced Natalie Portman kills franchises as much as I lover her. They probably should have built around Guardians, Yelana, and SpiderMan before the excitement around them cooled, but I think they were hoping on Krang and Thor and thrown a curveball plus Antman 3 was awful.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
Dahobbs replied to Nueces River Rat's topic in Football
Muschamp's defense aren't "completely irresponsible" either, so I'm not sure your point. -
That reminds me. 82, 81, & 80 ... Hans Stuck in a BMW 507 at the Freiburg–Schauinsland hill climb in 1958. He was a BMW brasnd ambassador at the time. The same car later, after some young American servicemember bought it to replace his VW Beetle ...
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His handle says Master of Education, not business. I 'member the aggy genius that, before T+1, showed aggy with matchup wins vs Texas at almost every position group. Anyone recall how that worked out?
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I also wish this analysis hadn’t been done on such a precious and prestigious and stressed field, as it’s led to some lazy and stupid takes: “poor white man thinks he’s entitled to a TV show” or “all the movies suck because of DEI hiring.” Factually: from about the mid-2010s peaking in the early 2020s I personally observed hiring and employment practices that were facially illegal and yet aby concerns were dismissed as “not relevant because we are prioritizing diversity.” Eventually, the message was received, processes were changed to silently implement directions without the need for the facially illegal implementation. Specific examples from personal observation, across different orgs and industries. This is anecdotal, but not just one anecdote in one place. - Directions to “select the diverse candidate in the event of a tie,” while two diverse candidates in a tie would be given an additional interview or other screening before a final selection. On its face, a direction to use protected status as a hiring/promotion criteria. - Senior leaders re-ranking short lists based solely on names (gender markers), without also reviewing any other parts of the files or notes. - Specific instructions that gay men should not be considered “diverse candidates” for the purpose of advancing DEI principles. - Specific instructions to “maintain a diverse balance” or “improve the diversity in the office” when multiple jobs came open. - In academia, internal decisions by committees that a spot must be filled by a non-white male, with preference for non-white candidate. Here is the rub from my end: this happened in the absence of legislative changes and instead came down as a mandate to ignore existing EEO law in favor of a greater interest. And maybe, socially, that is the right call. But the net effect was a lot of double talk: “we don’t discriminate on the basis of race or sex, and when we do it’s for the right reasons. And this did lead to a well-founded suspicion that things were not what they were said to be and made it impossible to really measure impact in either a good or bad way. And I think naturally people tend to believe they got screwed and it colors decisions made in good faith as well. Maybe society did need a few years of positive, re-balancing discrimination that proportionally disadvantaged a population that in earlier generations was privileged. But we didn’t ask that or discuss it or say we were doing it. We just tried (and failed) to gaslight everyone and pretend that we weren’t making important decisions about hiring and promotions based, in part, on race and gender. And that lack of honesty is creating a lot of resentment. From my personal experience, the impact did fall mainly on millennial men at the beginning or early middle of their careers. The mandates and decisions were frequently passed down by established white men in leadership.
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It’s the cfp and not everything is about what’s on paper. It’s hard to beat a team twice in a season. I’m sure you know this with all the experience as a fan watching tech play in all those massive cfp games.
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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
TexasRenegade replied to RaysBoomBoomRoom's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
No i have you confused with someone who associates competence with success. The same issues that lead to Vandy making us look like keystone cops on defense in the 4th quarter got us beat by Florida and Georgia. -
Some of this is the danger of trying to make quick changes. When a company states of a goal of diversifying in say three-years rather than gradually, you're necessarily going to lock out others from the less favored pile. But there are some things in his statistics that still reek of privilege. For instance: Non-Hispanic white men (whom I presume his article intends to address) only make up ~28% of the population. I get that his point is that those in culture industries didn't move elsewhere, but he also seems to be implying this unfair effect his plaguing other industries too. I'm not convinced of that. I'll also note that he appears to be ignoring a pretty significant data issue: unknown race/ethnicity is common and prevalent choice in the data. And frankly many people that may be described as "white males" when looking at them may be claiming other ethnicities from their family background. I look white (mostly). But my grandmother was from China, and I often rotate between putting Asian, White, and prefer not to say on surveys.
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Just took the Syracuse OL coach job
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Dead man walking, no head coach making $11 million a year says he wanted a head coach for the defense so he can coach the offense during games. That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard in my life. At least the next coach will take over Texas in a solid place much like Richt to Smart. Texas needs to find their Ryan day or Kirby smart next.
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I guess as an old I'm wired a bit differently, but I just find I am more productive in the office. There is an energy and a shared experience that just focus (as I type on surly from the office). Of course, since we own primarily office buildings, we encourage people to work from the office. But on a personal level, I just prefer it. Of course I've always had my own decent sized private office. If I had a cube or some shit, maybe I'd feel different.
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I have to admit that I admire Mr. Pavia. Yes, he is an asshole, but at least he's authentic, unlike so many people who hide their nastiness (I'm looking at you, Sherrone Moore) He wouldn't have been on the stage for a Heisman if he wasn't an asshole, because that is what drove him from his nothing background to college football success. As the old joke goes: "He's perfectly balanced. He has a chip on each shoulder." Like Baker Mayfield, he has a, "me against the world," attitude that he uses for fuel. Ultimately, he will be the greatest force in his own destruction, and he seems to be well on his way to failure. Finally, say what you want, but at least he is always entertaining, and I'd rather be entertained by his Surly-fueled antics than all the boring folks.
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We all knew guys like Andrew in college. The world was a better place when they were just weirdos behind a table on the west mall instead of driving public policy for the President.
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