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A lineup of Tramon Mark, Chendall Weaver, Cam Heide, Dailyn Swain and Lassina Traore would not be what I would consider slow. Weaver will likely be the most athletic guy on the court. I wonder how much better Xavier would have been last year if Traore wouldn’t have gotten hurt. I think he is going to be awesome for us.
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FYI - Here are the international players on the roster Lassina Traore - Abidjan, Ivory Coast Matas Vokietaitis - Marijampole, Lithuania Lewis Obiorah - London, England Declan Duru - Munich, Germany
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That pic reminds me that I don't have to watch Kadin Shedrick ever again if I don't want to. Thankfully.
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Next week, I'm heading up to Alaska to visit my son who is running tours out on the Matanuska glacier. Should be fun. This is the glacier he is working on: And here is his home for the summer:
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Firefighters ambushed by gunman while responding to brush fire in Idaho
HookEm replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
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The state needs more good schools that don't put you $300K in debt.
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Tristan Thompson and Avery Bradley also had decent careers, but Tre should easily surpass them.
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Wondering how this would play if I did a Yelp review on my wife and gave her 5 stars. Need to workshop it. This may have legs.
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See below 2024 Presidential election results. By my maths, it was a spread of 32 pts between young men and women voters... If you don't see the ideological difference between young men and women right now, then I just have to assume you don't interact with very many people in that demographic. The difference between my daughter's female friends (at Arkansas), and my son's male friends (at UT) is staggering. And that doesn't even account for the fact that the overall population at Arkansas skews conservative and the population at UT skews liberal.
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This thread is something I think about often. I have a 20 yr old son, 19 yr old daughter, 17 yr old daughter. Here are the big contributors in my view: 1. A wide ideology gap that is growing wider Young women are far more liberal than they have been in my lifetime. I can see this in my kids and their friends. Young men are trending the other direction and the divide in ideology between the two is increasing. And when the ideology is that different, many women view men as "monsters" and are afraid of them. And the men view the women as "men haters" and want nothing to do with them. My son was routinely attacked in high school and at UT for offering up even moderate opinions. I'm sure you all have seen this chart before, but it definitely tracks my personal observations: 2. Women won't date less educated men This is another big one. Women are more educated than at any time in world history. For thousands of years, women have been socially programmed to want a guy who is at least as educated as themselves. And if the men are less educated, then they better be very successful / rich or they have zero shot. Well, now colleges are 60% made up of women. Who are all of these educated women going to date? Is a female engineer or boss babe going to date an auto mechanic? Not in my experience. So the women devote themselves to their work, rising in their organizations while collecting "bodies" in their casual dating, all the while becoming less attractive to the increasingly conservative young men. 3. Increased social isolation People are spending more time than ever alone. Remote work, remote school, decrease in social activities, decrease in faith-based and community activities, etc. have reduced the intersection points that fueled dating for previous generations. So people turn to dating apps, and only the top% of people end up getting all the action. This all starts when people are young and just gets worse as they get older.
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Upgrading our coach is the biggest win of the offseason. Regarding Heide and his 3P%, his low attemps are partly a result of his low minutes. In the postseason, his attempts climbed to 3.2 a game (hitting 62%), and in games where he played more than 22 minutes a game he averaged 3.6 per game. To put it in perspective, his 6.8 3P attempts per 100 possessions puts him in the same range as Matt Coleman, and a little more than Brock Cunningham. Not a TON of shots, but enough to matter if he can hit them.
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Angel Reese: Fair pay, anti-sexualization, side eyes, and Missed Buckets
HookEm replied to Iceman's topic in Basketball
Rodman had one skill? I think you are forgetting the part where Rodman was 2x NBA defensive player of the year and was 1st team all defense for almost a decade. -
I have a different view on going to UT as a person of faith. If faith is important to you at Texas, you can definitely find groups that share your faith. Catholic, Nondenominational, Baptist, Methodist, Muslim, Mormon, whatever. And when you find those people, they will likely be serious about their faith, because they have decided to follow it in a place that is neutral toward faith at best (and often quite hostile). In contrast, at many "religious" schools, the average student has no more faith than your average student at UT. Many go there because it is smaller, or because their parents think it is more sheltered. I dare say it is easier to find a SOLID group of Baptists to connect with at UT than at Dallas Baptist or Baylor. Because they are congregated in a small number of organizations. Just my anecdotal experience, but I have seen it play out across generations at UT and other large state universities.
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I seriously doubt many people will move because of this nonsense. Instead they will just change where they vacation and bring home stockpiles of weed. And they will stock up over the next few months.
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With his length, he should be a much better defender. A year under Chris Beard would have done wonders for him. Hopefully he goes somewhere good.
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