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Showing content with the highest reputation on 12/17/21 in Posts

  1. This isn’t occurring in a classroom. The ground is shifting on the way this market has functioned historically and it’s doing so in real time. Classroom gibberish and laboratory hypotheticals are useless when a dynamic macroeconomic market is being impacted by black swan changes. In short, NIL money will swamp bag money. Economic incentives for all parties are shifting rapidly. Human emotions are involved. Black markets will still exist after a clean and legitimate market emerges, but the participants will be filtered down to corner case level shit. Moonshine still has a trade network that avoids the IRS and gets harassed and tracked by local and federal authorities, but not a fucking one of us on this giant board is buying our liquor from a shack at the end of a dark road in rural Tennessee. You and I go to Spec’s or the like, charge our purchase on credit and debit cards that our banks are aware of, and say hi to the random neighbor that we see while walking out the front door. Engaging in this debate with frequency and attempting to guide it in some form is a tedious fool’s errand and not advancing the discussion topic of this thread at this point. I’m at the point where I’ll let the naysayers and know-nothings vapidly wax on and handwring and dismiss when it comes to bag game potency vs NIL into the future. So far, this year, I’ve been told: 1) NIL won’t matter. 2) NIL won’t matter for 2022. 3) Money for NIL won’t be there. 4) Players and recruits will not care about NIL money until years from now. 5) Texas fans and boosters are sitting on their hands. 6) Bag games will not be impacted any time soon by NIL. Every single one of those premises has been hilariously shit on by real world dynamics in real time. The rest of the bag game debate will be laughed at in the future when we look backwards as well. ATM was lucky on their timing. They chose to go really big this cycle, which I have been telling this board for 11 months, and all of the counter possibilities couldn’t be unlocked after the world changed on July 1 in time to stymie their efforts. Every cycle going forward is going to look more and more different though.
    42 points
  2. 31 points
  3. My dad had a stroke on December 1 and he passed on December 4th after we (mom, sis, & I) made a very hard decision and chose to remove him off the ventilator that was keeping him alive. His service was held today. He was a lifetime Longhorn (‘57) and was part of the taxi (practice) squad while at TEXAS with Bibb Falk coaching. He was also good friends with Gus and some of you may have read the story that I wrote on here about my first UT baseball [emoji461]️ game (and the last at Clark Field). Dad bled burnt Orange and ignited my passion for UT sports, especially Baseball and Football. I’d like to think that we gave him a fitting service for 20yr Navy Veteran & UT Grad. A lover of the hill country, he’ll be interred with full honors at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen mostly likely after the New Year. The little guy in the pic is his great -grandson that my daughter named after him. I hope you’ll have a shot in his memory. Hook ‘Em Dad [emoji869] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    29 points
  4. There's a post in the hunting thread about a wife who managed to set a riding mower on fire.... reminded me of Mrs CL earlier this fall. She had decided that she no longer liked the plastic cattle troughs on our property and wanted to replace then with galvanized because they "look bad and are bad for the environment." OK, whatever, but I can't help until next weekend. This is not a pressing need and I'm booked up with other stuff. So she gets our farm truck and drives to Tractor Supply herself and gets two galvanized water troughs and then decides she'll go drop them off in the pasture before it gets dark. I warn her that's not a good idea so late in the day. Three hours later, well after dark, she calls me to come get her. The truck is stuck in a ditch out in the pasture and she's really sorry. She's crying and she's covered in mud and she lost a boot trying to walk through the mud to get back to her car and her phone. I tell her that I'll pull the truck out with the tractor the next morning when it gets light. Shouldn't be too difficult. She's still crying because she doesn't want me mad at her and she's really really sorry etc etc. I actually kind of feel sorry for her by the end. The next morning as we're heading back out there, we're talking and I offhandedly mention that it must be really stuck if she couldn't get it out with four wheel drive. "It has four wheel drive?" I'm starting to think I'm not going to need the tractor. Took me about 15 seconds to get It out.
    22 points
  5. FYI on TE, we are probably getting a VERY good TE from the portal after the MNC. Who knows what numbers look like next year but burnt ends probably get a raise. Sure would be a shame if other non burnt end members got shamed enough to where we could give them all 20k each instead….
    20 points
  6. It's entirely possible that he's unaware Quinn Ewers transferred to Texas.
    20 points
  7. The dude came to Texas despite his dad being an OU legacy, and stayed throughout the Sam years. He has earned my respect. He and his dad may have gotten a little chippy at the end but they are competitors and wanted to play. That’s what competitors do. Good luck dude. You’ll always be a Horn to me.
    19 points
  8. Damn - RIP John ... Some of my favorites: ...an awesome "inside joke" made public:
    17 points
  9. Well if that doesn’t push QJ into the portal then nothing will.
    16 points
  10. 16 points
  11. lolno, this isn't a thing at all. And the way NFL teams work is they get their gamechecks the location where the game is played. They have an impossibly complicated tax situation which you oversimplified and they don't give a fuck because outside the season many athletes live where they want. You obviously don't make enough to "pay a significant amount in taxes", because you don't know how it works and think your friendly JD or CPA is what helps people like that out, you also think that the main motivation for charitable giving is to avoid the tax man, which is hilariously stupid. Everyone stop talking like a big cigar unless you have fucking skins on the wall or are working on something massive. Evan Stewart is a fucking moron for going to TAMU and taking a bag. It's a bad football decision and it's an even worse financial decision. That doesn't mean we wouldn't take him in a heartbeat.
    16 points
  12. 15 points
  13. DEVO Clarington transferred to 3 or 4 JUCOS and then entered as a supplemental draft prospect in 2019 and was not drafted. Tim Irvin flipped to Auburn and eventually ended up at East Carolina. Cecil Cherry went to Grambling and then to Tennessee-Martin. Had 83 tackles and 4 sacks in his one year at Tennessee-Martin. Now a trainer in Florida. Gilbert Johnson played football at Mars Hill. Davante Davis played in 48 games at Texas and started 26. Went undrafted and signed with Seattle after the draft.
    15 points
  14. Nobody will ever able to take away the first quarter of the 2021 OU game from us. Godspeed Casey...
    14 points
  15. I love the guy. He patiently worked, bided his time then took the starter's role. The year would have been much worse without him. There should be a program where he can take the lead. I hope so. I don't get the vindictiveness against a player like Casey. He can only control how he conducts himself and how hard he works. As far as I can tell, he's aces in all of that.
    13 points
  16. No - Sydney is the guy that follows CTJ around and lifts him up when he needs stuff off the top shelf.
    12 points
  17. https://twitter.com/insidetexas/status/1471952125148205058?s=21
    12 points
  18. Met and ate at Johns places on several occassions. Any time I would head down to Austin I would make sure I ate there. First time was when he had just started his own trailer and was over on the west side of town which evenutally turned into the original LA BBQ it was John and John Lewis working then I believe. I can still remember my first time and how the smoke hung in the air on a cool Saturday. The food was incredible. Then he made his way over to East Austin and had his smoker and trailer set up. I walked in wearing a Lockhart BBQ shirt and he called me out for wearing another BBQ joints shirt to his place and told me I shouldn't have done that. I order my food sit down and start eating, he waits a while and comes over to my table and sits down and ask me how the food is (It was damn good and I told him so) he laid a shirt down on the table and said "here is a better looking shirt for you to wear next time, and don't tell anyone I gave it to you because I'm supposed to be an asshole". One of the best moments of my going to BBQ joints I've ever had. I went back to that same location a few more times and each time there was something off or missing and you could tell that business wasn't long for being around. I think I have watched every youtube video of John Mueller stuff I can find. I have always been fascinated with the man. We would tweet and DM back and forth and he would always tell me he appreciated me being a teacher. Just a good good dude to me on the occassions we interacted. I saw him in November at BBQ Festival and he looked frail. I will remember the man the myth and the legend that was John Mueller. He would tell you he was a cook, damn sure not a pitmaster. Rest in Peace John Mueller.
    12 points
  19. He knew his cue. He always treated me and my family well. He had his demons. A good number of them. Peace, John.
    12 points
  20. He did not go gently into that good night, I have no doubts. RIP brother. There’s no tax man in heaven. Probably lots of them in Hell though.
    12 points
  21. Anyone who says that Texas can’t leverage NIL until recruits are on campus hadn’t been paying attention. Texas has always been ahead of the NIL curve.
    11 points
  22. From the 2012 Shaggy Alamo bowl tailgate
    11 points
  23. He was decent until he hurt his thumb. Maybe even better than decent. But shit went south with his thumb from then on. He became scapegoat. I appreciate his efforts and time put in but he needs a new start. Card and his goofy mustache can just gtfo.
    11 points
  24. 11 points
  25. 10 points
  26. Gee whiz, guys. Think about how swell it would be if we could magically spend some other asshole’s money when they showed up shockingly correct. What a great world that would be for us and not them. Ummmmmm, no. Fuckface can pay me when his bet is absurdly shown to be a bust in June.
    10 points
  27. There’s probably a good reason Worthy changed his profile pic to Ewers the day after he hit the portal. I don’t think he would have done that if he respected Thompson as a leader or thought he was a good QB.
    10 points
  28. A favorite pic from his old place, my kid photobombing Bourdain. Hard to believe that was 10 years ago.
    10 points
  29. Took out a gentleman this morning that is paralyzed from the waist down. This is the 4th year I've been able to take him out. He is the cousin of some high school kids that come out to help brush blinds before the season to be able to come out to hunt.
    10 points
  30. There were two things that would piss him off: 1. Get beer out of his cooler. He would always bring you one eventually 2. Walk behind his pits. And if you raised the lid to take a look you would get stabbed. I'll never forget him chasing off this hipster douche in a fedora. The cunt went behind the pits, raised the lid and started poking brisket and licking his fingers. "Get the fuck out!!" Here comes John with a butcher knife.
    10 points
  31. This is a great class. On campus next month: Ewers, Murphy, Allen, Brooks, Finkley, Blue, Guilbeau, Hutson, Bryant, Bledsoe, Brice
    10 points
  32. You are pushing my thinking, which is awesome; I’ve been wholly focused on destination and rifle when there is so much more to consider. Yeah, destination and timing will partially dictate equipment and clothing, but it’s got to be on the radar. Bean Maine hunting boots and Academy silks might not hold up on this trip, for example. Plus, a new pack is always fun. I use V-Tac padded slings on all my rifles (but I’m willing to learn), and I have decent Vortex and Zeiss glass, but I need a harness. I assume guide will have a rangefinder, but I can pick one up if needed. Good to learn DSC will offer opportunity for serious gear. I’m planning on spending 2 days there at this point. Please keep it coming. These right here. The extended family ranch is 3.5-4 hours away, and dragging my nuclear family (kids are 5 & 7) there is tough. My farm is 1.5 hours from our home, and we can go there almost every weekend. I can make day trips to check on things while using modern technology to conduct business/work and be home for dinner. The fact is that the more accessible (read: closer) the property is, the more you will use it. This matters everywhere and can’t be emphasized enough. If not living there full time, we are visitors, and hopefully guests. And it’s critical to have local resources to help when needed and with which to socialize. csb/ Not long after we bought our farm, against my recommendation, Mrs. Sola (no pics) tried to mow some very dead 5 ft hay with our riding mower instead of the tractor. Hilarity ensued. Well, if you consider a melted mower and grass fire as hilarity. But the local volunteer fire department showed up to save the day. Now we are all friends/acquaintances, and that has been a great avenue into the community. This year I got to ride with the VFD in the local Christmas parade. That was awesome. /csb
    10 points
  33. I'm trying get my head around the fact someone named Thad Turnipseed worked with a guy named Dabo Swinney on anything other than Hee Haw.
    9 points
  34. Cases don’t matter. Hospitalizations do. And before someone responds with cases lead to hospitalizations, meh, it’s a little more nuanced than this these days. Vaccines/Boosters and omicron being less lethal are keeping hospitalizations down. Is Omnicron also blocking Delta out? Who knows. But cases are less important metric these days
    9 points
  35. You just talked shit to a guy about money who stands to make more than Steve Sarkisian in 2022. We’re all happy that you got your CPA certification, and so if your mother. That said, you’re wrong on this shit and it’s going to be fun watching you take it from here.
    9 points
  36. My friends, you are looking at this in a framework way too small. This isn't a political gaff that alienates anybody he cares about. This is strategy. We've seen it before. And even recently. This is part of the existential threat that Trump embraces to return himself to power and avoid accounting for his crimes. Media will miss the bigger picture as well with comparatively trivial analyses of the harm this will do him politically (none, but they don't know that) and how it's bad to be intolerant of the Jewish. Few seem to be seeing the obvious because they can't handle the shift in paradigm. The old model of Dem vs GOP is a blinder. It's racist anti-democratic forces vs defenders of the republic. "Republican" is the sheepskin over the wolf of totalitarinism. Opinion leaders cannot make this shift. It's too rude, or too extreme, or too lonely to do so. Or maybe I'm crazy. It sure feels like it some of the time. We're plunging towards the spilling of blood or complacent acceptance or both. It's a sickening show to watch even having witnessed it once less than a century ago.
    9 points
  37. Ha Ha, this reminds me of my first ex when we lived in Denver. We lived on an acre and had a pretty big shed with a cement floor. We kept the riding lawnmower in the shed. One Saturday morning she comes upstairs and wakes me up saying that she got up early and decided to mow the yard, but there was a small problem. Apparently, she had filled the riding lawnmower up with gas, spilled a little on the shed floor, set the gas can down beside the mower, and tried to start it. The mower backfired igniting the gas on the shed floor which then spread to the gas can. By the time I got outside the entire shed was a massive fireball. We didn't even have to call the fire department because they could see the blaze from the firehouse. We ended up with two pumpers at the house, but they just ended up letting the shed burn itself out while making sure it didn't spread to any houses. In the end, we were left with only the slab with a large mound of solidified molten metal that used to be the riding lawnmower.
    9 points
  38. Fuck. Y'all remember the Eat for a Cause event he came down to Houston for back in like 2014? That's the John Mueller I chose to remember.
    9 points
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