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  1. Word is the Quinn Ewers back and forth has heated up substantially. The staff is talking about the need to get a lot bigger and stronger in the trenches as quickly as they can. Seems kind of Bama-spoiled, but I get it. The dude out of Bremond is going to qualify. He's got a year and a half and being able to take standardized tests orally is actually an advantage and one that worked out well for the like of Casey Hampton and Leonard Davis. Lots of aggies around him, but he's not a redass thus far. Saban wants nothing more than to fuck up every high value target he can for Texas in Texas, starting with Denver Harris. Saban doesn't like getting beat by his ex-employees. I hope this motherfucker's head explodes on the sidelines on live tv. The ground shifted on the Matthews front at some point, no clue why. Anywho. Nothing much else happening but it's the calm before the storm in June.
    20 points
  2. Pull yourself together, sir. Fuck Nick Saban. He has no fucking rights to Texas recruits. When Texas wins, he can feel free to start looking elsewhere and fuck off.
    17 points
  3. This is devastating. As a Chicago native who grew up with the great Bears teams in the 80's - Steve McMichael was my football hero before I even knew Texas football existed. McMichael was an All-American DT for Texas before being drafted by New England. He was cut before his second season and ended up being signed by the Bears. He spent the next 13 years in Chicago - terrorizing QB's as part of Buddy Ryan's '46' defense. He was a huge personality who went into Pro-wrestling after finishing his football career. If you're into that sort of thing - say a prayer for Mongo. Also - consider donating to his gofundme. https://gofund.me/526d272e
    16 points
  4. Fuck that, any system that creates byes that can be persuaded by subjective opinions and pre-season polls shouldn't exist. The answer is and will always be the following: 8 5 p5 conference champions 1 g5 highest ranked 2 at large bids
    15 points
  5. This is the dumbest fucking argument. If you don’t want to play the song, then don’t go to The University of Texas and join the band. If you do join the band, you have to play the song. It’s the school song, it should be played. Also, to the band members that want to be part of the band but don’t want to play the song, leave the band and find another marching band to play in. You’re not owed anything and you’re not special. “Now, Son, how do we get people to do what we want? Tell them, “I’m offended.” That’s right.” - Family Circus
    13 points
  6. I just want to post somewhere how grateful I am to be fully vaccinated. I started going to the gym this week for the first time in over a year. I have seen some flagrant disregard for mask protocol (not too many, but one or two is enough to get you upset) but I am comforted by the fact I have been vaccinated. And today I'll get a well needed haircut also for the first time in over a year. Simple things, but knowing I am doing them safely just means everything. Just a grateful Friday.
    11 points
  7. Here's my Kentucky scouting: They are athletic as hell, BUT they are not as tall as Wisconsin or Nebraska. Their block should not provide huge issues in terms of intimidating Fields/Eggleston. Their OHs are 6'0, 6'1 and 6'2 - Skinner sisters and Stumler. They have a 6'4 freshman MB and a 5'10 MB - yes, a 5'10 middle blocker.... Texas should absolutely feast on her block. Tealer is a smart hitter though, but undersized at really any position (not that we didn't do well with a 5'9 OH for years). Texas already dealt with taller blocks with Nebraska (6'2 Sun, 6'4 Stivrins, 6'3 Sweet, 6'3 Kubrick) and Wisconsin (Robinson 6'2, Retke 6'8, Hart 6'4, Loberg 6'3, Haggerty 6'1). NPOY Madison Lilley is 5'11, so a good size for a blocker at the setter position, but nothing we haven't already dealt with (Hames was 5'10, Gabby Blossom is 5'9, Hilley is 6'0). She's just an elite setter, but so was Hilley (First Team AA) and Hames (Second Team AA). Gabby Curry is good, but she's no Lauren Barnes, the greatest defensive player in the history of college volleyball. They've faced some size with Florida (2-3, 3-0 split), Purdue (3-0 sweep) and UW (3-1). But they are going to be facing VERY ATHLETIC 6'2, 6'3, 6'4 and 6'5 with Texas. The only comparable team, athlete-wise, they've faced is Florida, but Texas is better than Florida. The three most athletic teams in the tournament were Texas, Florida, Kentucky. Texas hits .335. Kentucky hits .361. Both teams average 1.6 aces per set. Negligible difference in aces allowed - 1.1 for Texas, 0.9 for Kentucky. Texas has 159, Kentucky has 125. Digs are about even - Texas 13.3 per set, Kentucky 13.4 per set Texas wins the blocking battle - 2.8 pet set, Kentucky 2.4 per set.
    11 points
  8. 2017 he’s diagnosed with lung cancer. Has part of his lung removed and gets through chemo. Is feeling better and 2 years later he goes in for double bypass heart surgery and they end up doing 5 of them. So he has that and gets through it and is feeling better finally and then they find another spot has come back on his lung. so at the beginning of the year he started chemo again and then that started giving him side affects. Especially in his gut. Couldn’t keep anything down and they thought it was colitis. A month or two goes by and he’s still having issues eating. At this point he’s lost a shit ton of weight and is laying down so much he’s losing use of his legs. anyway, they end up removing 2 liters of fluid off his stomach and of course that came back cancerous. He didn’t even make it a week after that diagnoses. Came home for home hospice and was only home a day and a half. We all thought we had longer with him but I’m glad he didn’t suffer long. That was 2 weeks ago. Just wanted to get that out there and in writing. Still doesn’t feel real and I still haven’t really broke down about it yet. He was only 65. Nobody ever had anything bad to say about him. love you, dad nobody has to say anything on here. I’ve only met a handful of y’all.
    10 points
  9. And my very last note is that Elliot said in this pre-game press conference that everyone is coming back. If that means O'Brien back for another year, this team will playing in Columbus next year. Add in a fully healthy Madi Williams and god damn, Texas is LOADED. *Yes, the NCAA is going Omaha-Columbus-Omaha. We finally leave B1G country in 2023 for Tampa and 2024 for Louisville. Then 2025 in Kansas City.
    10 points
  10. We don't have a lot of rules in this house, but one is that Newfies eat ribeye on their 12th birthday.
    10 points
  11. “God damn this announcer keeps calling the B1G a giant conference of pussies. And really fucking railing Nebraska during this match they aren’t playing in”
    9 points
  12. We've talked a ton about how "the divide" is the problem, and how we can't even agree on facts, or have an honest discussion about facts that isn't about getting dubs or becoming the victim when you get posterized. At this point I think the issue is self perpetuating based on how far the gap is, and how hard it actually is for anyone to come to terms with holding a bunch of beliefs that are demonstrably false. I changed "stupid" to "false" to not be a dickhead, but really the "stupid" is the key part. People typically don't think they are stupid (and you don't even have to actually have a brain that is incapable of functioning to act really stupid/have a bunch of stupid beliefs). When someone demonstrates you are being stupid, it is the natural response to turtle up and get defensive. And many peoples' reality has drifted so incredibly far away from facts and reason that they are just not fucking able to overcome it. It's not a nagging amount of "holy shit, that was completely wrong and i thought it was right", it's a debilitating "but that can't possibly be right, these people are insane". It's also why this forum, full of moderates and plenty of center "right" folks who were GOP just a few election cycles back, seems like this hive of dangerous extremists to people who are either never going to make it back or are going to have a rough time coming to terms with reality.
    7 points
  13. Let’s go further with this line of thought. Trump won the 2016: a generally agreed upon, non-political statement of fact. The foreign interference issue is related, but not the same. It’s about politics, but it’s a basic fact. Obama won in 2012. Also a simple statement of fact. And so on for basically any election prior to 2020. You’ll get some pushback on Bush/Gore, but not even close to the extent of 2020 and still, the statement, “Bush won the 2000 election” would mostly be accepted as a statement of fact about politics rather than a political statement open to debate. Biden won the 2020 election. For a substantial portion of our population, this is a controversial, debatable, political statement rather than a simple factual statement. COVID killed 500,000+ Americans: another fact that is now politics. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power (insurrection), killing a number of people in the process. Cops were beaten with flags and crushed in doors; the mob claimed to want to execute leaders of government and were searching the halls of the Capitol looking for them; the paused in ransacking the Senate chambers to pray “in Jesus name;” they did all of this because the outgoing president repeatedly lied about the results of the election. This also somehow a debatable (hyperbolic) political statement rather than a simple recounting of facts. And on and on. When everything is political, there is no longer agreed upon reality. Growing up in conservative communities, I often heard about the dangers of post-modernism and moral relativism; how “my truth” is replacing objective facts with opinion. Even in recent years, we’ve heard that “facts don’t care about your feelings.” And yet the very same voices that decried the downfall of objective truth are tearing or limb from limb. There’s room for debate on taxes or abortion or immigration or whatever. There’s no room for debate on basic reality. Anyone who disagrees with me on taxes or abortion just disagrees, no big deal; the real problem is anyone that won’t engage in reality. Cry all you want about trans athletes suddenly dominating women’s sports or whatever latest fear I’m supposed to have, but anti-reality and right wing have become synonymous.
    7 points
  14. It’s no coincidence that Texas started playing it’s best ball when Morrison arrived to Texas from his coaching stint with USA’s inaugural Professional Volleyball League (Athletes Unlimited) that ended in March. The improvements in blocking and floor defense and overall ball control are quite significant from the Fall season. Texas may have lost to Rice, but they were still testing out a different line-up with Parra on the left, Skylar on the right, and Iosia at libero (which I think has upped her level of play as a DS). I agree that Elliot needs to whatever he can to retain Jamie on staff, whether that be throwing the bank at him or creating a role on his staff....similar to what Chris Beard has done with the Basketball staff like making Ogden “Managing Director” and Donewald “Special Assistant” - essentially adding more experienced coaches to the coaching roster.
    7 points
  15. this guy (the head of the committee) says it a lot better than I could:
    7 points
  16. 6 points
  17. His work with retards was something that made me stop and think there was more to him than just a great smile.
    6 points
  18. lol, a collection agency? really lends new credence to the phrase "he's just like us!"
    6 points
  19. If you engage BT, you deserve the shit & mud you get on you.
    6 points
  20. Latest Hot Teacher Has Sex with Student
    6 points
  21. You know we still have the original post, right? I get that you admitted that you were wrong. I truly appreciate that. But now you're trying to rewrite history and deflecting from any questions about what, if anything, you've learned. Your post doesn't say "I heard differently." It doesn't say "I thought that law allowed water so long as. . ." No, what you did was directly assert a falsehood. This is a statement of certainty and it leaves little room for hedging or doubt. The problem is that you made no effort to verify prior to making your assertion. The problem is that you don't see why millions of people acting similarly, ignorantly espousing easily disprovable positions, is a serious issue. The problem is that you've refused to learn anything from this event. You chalk it up as no big deal rather than doubting your source or learning to verify information. It is clear you aren't going to change your habits. It is clear that you'll make the same mistake over and over again. Most of those times your falsehoods will not be caught and corrected by someone. And so they'll become ingrained as truths for you and millions of others. My hope is that at some point, maybe not today or tomorrow or even this year, you'll learn the value of skepticism and that you'll the value of verifying information rather that parroting it. And I really hope that you'll learn not trust everything or even most things you hear from your "radio program."
    6 points
  22. Still can't believe this fucking retard was elected President.
    6 points
  23. The only thing Shapiro knows about that piece of lumber is that it has a higher moisture content than his wife.
    6 points
  24. ...In a clinical trial in Burkina Faso, the Matrix-M vaccine -- developed by the University of Oxford's Jenner Institute -- was found to be 77 percent effective after 450 infants inoculated in 2019 were followed up for a year, the Oxford researchers said in a statement. No serious adverse events were reported. It is the first candidate vaccine for malaria to surpass a target set by the UN's World Health Organization, for researchers to create a jab of 75 percent efficacy by 2030. A broader "Phase 3" trial involving 4,800 children will now be carried out in four African countries, in collaboration with the Serum Institute of India and the US pharmaceutical company Novavax... ...He pointed out that vaccines against Covid-19 were approved rapidly while the first trials for one against malaria date all the way back to the 1940s. Ahead of World Malaria Day on Sunday, the UN health agency has insisted that elimination of the disease that kills some 400,000 people each year around the globe is a "viable goal for all countries"....(snip)
    5 points
  25. 5 points
  26. I'll give him this, @Onboard 2.0 and @workswithseed are about the only ones who don't always scurry off to DT when the going gets hot.
    5 points
  27. No self-respecting southerner uses instant grits. Or so I've been told.
    5 points
  28. 5 points
  29. Yeah, that was the next season's spare at LB. Kaci Seegars - he's at Liberty. SCREAMING TAKE. WATCH. THIS. TAPE.
    5 points
  30. Let's be honest.....affirming ANY law from Mississippi is probably facially erroneous.
    5 points
  31. Spray some Roundup in her garden, then tell her how shitty it looks.
    5 points
  32. He has an immense following across the globe. As such, he has an immense obligation not to say things that intentionally stoke division and fuel more hatred of others. can anyone else think of someone else who fit that descriptor? Hint: you all fucking loved it when he did that shit.
    5 points
  33. I work on these cases regularly. I've worked on several resentencing cases since Miller v Alabama reversed mandatory juvenile life without parole (JLWOP). From Roper to Graham to Miller (all SCOTUS cases) we saw an encouraging and humane trend away from putting juveniles on death row to not allowing mandatory JLWOP sentences. This ruling flies in the face of that 16 year trend. It's disgusting. To be clear, though, it's not like Kavanaugh and SCOTUS made it possible for juveniles to be sentenced to life without parole today. That's been on the books for decades. They just made it easier. They lowered the threshold needed to impose that sentence. Reprehensible and totally out of step with the rest of the civilized world. Of course, when you have states like North Carolina prosecuting 6-year-olds for picking flowers and not appearing in court, well...that's the United States for you. https://journalnow.com/north-carolina-sends-6-year-olds-to-court-why-some-say-its-time-for-change/article_e2a15a82-8383-11eb-91ee-43ce7c88753b.html
    5 points
  34. I could write a book about all the shit that I went through but it would be boring as hell. They treated us like complete shit. We worked ungodly hours and would go days with minimal sleep. My boss made a comment a few weeks ago about how I never complain about anything job related and I said yeah, I spent 6 years of my life being treated like absolute shit, so this is a breeze. I'm sure most of you will find this hard to believe, but I got in trouble a lot for being a smart ass. There were two groups of people on the sub. "Nukes" who ran the power plant and engine room, and "coners" (pronounced like ice cream cone) who did everything at the front of the boat (the cone). Nukes got an extra $100 a month. When we were in the shipyard and doing nuke plant testing the nukes worked 7 days a week, 13-16 hours a day for 8 weeks strait. We did 5 rounds of this. Coners were working about 20 hours a week, coming in at 8am and leaving by noon most days. I made around $1000 a month, and averaged below $2/hour many months. We were sitting around bitching about it in the electrician shop one day and the XO walks by and interjects "But you are paid extra for that". I let out a big exagerated "pssssssshhhhhhhhh" and he goes balistic and starts yelling at me. I tell him I'm making about $2/hour and working around 400 hours a month compared to the coners 80 hours and the $100 is not worth the 300 hours. I tell him he can shove the $100 up his ass and send me to a surface ship to be a regular electrician. He finally realizes I'm not going to take any shit from him and he scurries off. He wants to send me to captains mast for insubordination and the CO tells him to fuck off. A few weeks later the boats pick up truck goes missing. It was about 10am and we had just come off a 6pm-6am shift and were about to leave when he declares no one can leave till we find the pickup. There is no way in fuck I'm going to walk around the shipyard looking for a pickup when I can barely stay awake so we just sit in our office and dick off. I tell one of the guys to get a small carton of milk from the vending machine, and we cut a picture of a very similar truck from an auto trader we had laying around and taped the picture of the truck on top of the "Have you seen me" kid on the side of the milk carton and put it in his inbox outside his office. He came out and saw it and went crazy, yelling at everyone to find out who did it. Finally a wise old senior chief tells him it was obviously the nukes because it was smart and funny, and he should learn to laugh about shit like that instead of being a real life Frank Burns. Other than the day I got out the day that cock munch left our boat was my favorite day in the navy I was the top ranked E5 on our boat, but also the only E5 who hadn't reenlisted. They constantly begged for me to reenlist but I kept telling them to fuck off. At that time the guys who ran the diesel generators at the white house were navy nuke electricians. It was a very hard job to get as they only took the best, but it was a cushy gig with a lot of extra pay. So I told them I'd reenlist if I got to go there for my shore duty. So the Chief of the boat and the CO make all kinds of phone calls and pull in all kinds of favors and get me the billet. They present me with the paperwork and I tell my chief nah, I'm getting out. He laughed about it and then went and told the CO. We were in the shipyard on a barge at the time and we were on the bottom deck and the CO was on the 3rd deck. You could hear him yelling at my chief from our office 3 decks away. I was not very popular on the boat after that but was getting out in a month so I didn't give a fuck.
    5 points
  35. just a reminder that this was the original post. then this asshat proceeded to veer into blatant falsehoods that are easily disproven. THIS is how we got here. @OnBoard had another pristine example of disseminating verifiably false information, and doesn't really seem to be all that concerned about it. he cared enough to post the falsehood with certainty, and then when shown he was wrong, just kind of shrugged it away. THAT'S how we got here. fake news is the opiate of the republican party. didn't always used to be that way. it's a shame, really.
    5 points
  36. I really, really like Casey. He seems very easy to root for. Dude is a son of a former Oklahoma QB and yet he stuck with us knowing he was not going to get a chance over Sam. Hope he gets his shot this season to show what he can do.
    5 points
  37. I'm shocked and confused that all of these transfers want to come play for Beard and not the true mastermind behind all of his success, Mark Adams.
    5 points
  38. I hope you bit it in half and put the half almond back in the can
    5 points
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