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  1. I think another thing Bama is concerned with, as college football has trended more towards resembling the NFL this offseason, is that Bill O'Brien will find a way to trade their best players for literally nothing in return.
    37 points
  2. Regarding Manning, some things to consider: -He hasn't committed yet because he's got concerns about the competitiveness of where he wants to go. If he wanted to go to Georgia, he'd have gone to Georgia already. There are family members who think that's the best choice. -He's going to have insane alumni and corporate NIL deals wherever he goes so that's actually a completely irrelevant issue now. Everyone thought it mattered, but everyone underestimated the depth of $$ interest in NIL for the big name players. -If Texas lands Addison, it sends the best signal yet that Texas will do whatever it can to land whoever it needs to land in order for the team to have all of the weapons a QB could need. Other stuff: -Not much. Anyone predicting anything for top 200 players that have "open" recruitments is just wild ass guessing. NIL has changed everything. It comes first, then everything else in recruiting follows. The guys that won't be commanding a bunch of dough for a signature are a lot more predictable. -Texas is "in on all of the right guys" so that's good news. -If Texas doesn't get guys they're on in this cycle, it isn't because someone beat Texas on money. There might be an isolated idiot somewhere who let's someone like ATM frontrun everyone else and lock them up, but almost everyone is getting wise to the wait. Until you know your market value, leave everything open. Bama: -This landscape is not attractive to Saban and he's not going to wind up with an outright competitive advantage against the market when it comes to money and recruiting, which he's had for 15 years. The dude is getting old. There's a shot that this is his big run and when he wins it all again, he's out. -Bama was the perfect choice for the Mannings. Archie Manning views Bama as a no brainer. Rumor is that Saban would not give assurances that he'll still be coaching Bama in 2025. Clemson: -There's a legitimate shot that Swinney is fucking lost at this point. Head up his ass level naïve about NIL and the portal. There are a lot of people around the sport wondering what in the fuck Clemson is doing, because they're mostly acting like this is still 2015.
    25 points
  3. I've finally had the chance to catch up on some stuff with some friends. The money is there for Addison. My view is that he's been Bama or USC the whole way, but a lot of people think Texas has the most compelling case and the money differences aren't material. More quickly than even I believed, and I've been touting the transformation earlier and louder than anyone, NIL has shaken the sport to its core. This is turning into MLB. Small market programs like Wyoming and Pitt (the A's, the Brewers) sign and develop players that become high quality FBS starters and then big market programs like Texas, OSU, Georgia and USC (the Yankees, the Dodgers) come along and fat stack the player in the portal. Texas will build through the portal as heavily as it builds through recruiting in the future. It will all hinge on NIL before it hinges on much else. This has occurred. We are seeing it right now. The great and hilarious irony is that ATM went so over the top in 2022 on the recruiting front that it expedited the current reality. There is a limit, even for billionaires. You can't out moneywhip other billionaires, and even if you do, you can't do it forever when there is no monetary return. There are other philanthropic mouths to feed and constantly throwing new money at 18-23 year old guys that not only don't say thank you, but think you're lucky to be paying them at all, gets old. It's already getting old. That implies a limit that all capable entities will settle around in the future, if not in this 2023 cycle. The logic of the black market is also fading rapidly. $50k to an uncle for a guy working on a multimillion dollar deal starts to look silly to everyone but one guy and he'll eventually figure out how to just grift it from the player like the hangers on do in the pros. The guys that aren't worth 6 figures aren't worth a dime for most schools. That's where an actual floor for the other 60 guys on a roster becomes a competitive advantage for whoever can create such a thing. I'll post some other thoughts in the recruiting thread. Anyway, my prediction on Addison is that he winds up at Bama, and if not them, USC. I also predict a fucking ton of ignorant indignance on this thread when a choice is made. Or, if he chooses Texas, we're all happy and some dildo tells me that I'm an idiot for deigning to question the pro-Texas people being "confident". BTW, all of this unfolding the way it has unfolded has been eye-opening to Bama. Turns out, the price of poker going up to unforeseen levels, rapidly, can pinch alumni bases without comparable liquidity to the big market programs, even if they've been dominant on the field. Funding $5million/year in portal money is something maybe, MAYBE, 10 alumni bases can support. It's even tougher when HS recruiting may match that kind of stack.
    25 points
  4. Billionaire business owner laments American workers wanting an actual work/life balance instead of working until they die in an early grave and miss important moments in life because it might make him slightly less richer.
    25 points
  5. So, as already mentioned, Ricardo Vega is majority owner of Lamborghini Austin (confirmed here, fourth paragraph). Tried to dig into him through the usual avenues, dude is a fucking GHOST. Only thing I think I've pinned is that his name might actually be Ricardo Antonio Vega Serrador. He doesn't show up in public records, no real estate owned is his name, no social media presence I can find beyond LinkedIn, etc. The house mentioned in the article linked above, and his Lambo and Ferrari dealerships, are all owned by different entities -- none of which he has any public association with. Though based on the associations that can be dug up (registered agents, officers, affiliated entities, etc.), there is a strong link to San Antonio. Then there is Bruce Knox, the co-owner and managing partner of Lamborghini Austin (link here) and former Executive Vice President of Circuit of the Americas (link). Knox was "installed into the [COTA] project by minor investor Red McCombs" (link) as President and CEO of Formula United States starting in 2011. At that time, he was also CEO of McCombs Partners (link). He got his foot in the door with McCombs Partners when back in 2005 when it acquired a company that Knox was CEO and co-founder of (Interactive Remarketing). Someone upthread mentioned Red might be throwing money around with one foot in the grave, this seems like a connection that could be done through.
    22 points
  6. 2015 Poe It Up: "Look, if you think a joke of a reality TV show host is going to win the Republican nomination, I just don't think it's very healthy." 2016 Poe It Up: "I mean, sure he won the nomination and presidency, but if you think McConnell, Graham, Cruz, and others aren't going to keep him in check, you're just being fanatical! Trump will fall in line and isn't going to take over the whole party." 2020 Poe It Up: "Trump may be rough around the edges, but he'd never get away with extorting and leveraging foreign aid to Zelensky in exchange for election interference. You're just overreacting!" Also 2020 Poe it Up: "If Trump loses a free and fair election, he'll accept defeat and there will be a peaceful transfer of power as there always is. Nothing to be alarmed about, lefties!" Not sure why, but I guess I just don't trust Republicans when they say, "Sure, some people in our party are nuts and are suggesting crazy shit, but cooler heads will always prevail."
    22 points
  7. "Hey I got a guy from TCU whose numbers aren't great and doesn't have a history of big numbers. And he's not going make our bad-to-mediocre defense actually turn a corner; it will still produce no excitement and mostly piss us off. Want to throw hundreds of thousands of your dollars at him!?" vs. "Hey, I got a Biletnikoff winner. Literal #1 in the nation at his position and basically a guaranteed first round draft pick to add firepower to an offense that already looks awesome. He'll make our superstar Worthy look even better and shore up the massive investment we made in Ewers. Want to throw hundreds of thousands of your dollars at him?!"
    21 points
  8. 1. If it is to save the mother from risk of serious injury or death (which you do qualify in your question, so that is fair), then IMO there is no restriction. 2. If at any point there is an indication that the baby will have significant developmental challenges or birth defects, then no restriction should be placed. 3. If at any point in time, it is obvious the pregnancy will not result in a live birth, then no restriction (remember, some of these proposed laws would require a mother to continue with a dead fetus). 4. If everything is all good, the mother is in no danger, and the baby is developmentally "normal", then I think the viability decision from Casey, which is 24 weeks, is the right answer.
    19 points
  9. Wherever Addison goes he is going to focus on improving his draft stock as much as possible. The biggest hole in his game is his blocking ability and we have a shit Oline so he can get some cross training in at left tackle. It’s a win win.
    18 points
  10. Unrelated, but talk on OU boards is that this is indeed the last year in the big12. Some croots are starting to leak it.
    18 points
  11. You're not wrong......but dig deeper as to why that is. Loyalty to employees, taking care of them, fairly compensating them, treating them as assets to be invested in instead of expenditures to be minimized or disposed of......those things have dramatically declined. When the employer-employee relationship becomes brutally transactional and transactional only, we shouldn't be surprised when the labor side of the equation takes that to heart and acts accordingly. If management doesn't give a 1/10th of a fuck about taking care of its employees, why should its employees give 1/10th of a fuck about helping management's business any more than the minimum required to earn their paycheck? Every day at work is a separate transaction. Management doesn't advance the employees. Employees have no interest in advancing the business. I turn my wrench, I get my check. Repeat. Don't expect anything else. And I will do as little as I can to get that check, because you have made it clear you'll pay me as little as possible to turn my wrench. Treating employees as opex instead of capex is a bad move, but it's the dominant culture now. And we're reaping what we've sown.
    18 points
  12. I honestly don't think it's a generational thing. Not wanting to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week does not make a person lazy. Working 72 hours a week makes a person miserable. Not wanting to work a normal full-time job makes someone lazy. There are lazy people in all generations. I did the 12x6 thing for about 8 years of my life. I was overseas, so the family life thing was already out of sorts, but it still fucking sucked. I got out of that about 9 years ago and haven't looked back. I also haven't been back into the office since covid started. I've also changed jobs and my current employer doesn't even have an office. I now work between 45-50 hours a week, but I'm also at home. Bottom line, there are lazy people in every generation. There are also hard workers in every generation.
    17 points
  13. These lazy kids need to bust their ass just like we do, arguing for 9 hours a day with strangers on the internet.
    16 points
  14. Fuck Musk and fuck China. These people are going to lay on their death bed like sorch and wonder if they wasted their lives working so much.
    16 points
  15. Good thing OU didn’t hire a dude who learned from Swinney and has many of the same beliefs about college football. That would be really bad news for OU fans.
    14 points
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  17. 14 points
  18. Yeah, I've been posting on these boards for a long fucking time. I have argued with a lot of you for 20+ years now. Most of you disagreed with me about gay marriage back when I first started posting about it on Hornfans. Y'all are still the same people, you were just presented with evidence that your opinions were incorrect and you corrected them, much as I have done on many topics over the years from listening to you imbeciles. The difference between those of you that are still around, and people like Ag with Kids, who used to be a great poster, is that he didn't let facts get in the way of his opinions. All those so-called conservative posters that went away did so because they knew they were wrong, they knew they couldn't win the arguments they were making intellectually anymore, and they didn't want to be reminded of that fact. All the rest of us have gone on being fiscally conservative, we've gone on being for personal liberty, and we've realized that we can't be Republicans if we believe in those concepts, because Republicans do not believe in those ideals, despite the fact that they don't ever stop yelling about how much they believe in them. I feel sorry for people like Ag with Kids who couldn't use the brain God gave him to look at reality and adjust to it. It must be a really shitty world where you have to spend so much of your time trying to fake reality to match your beliefs. I'm sorry for your loss, Ag with Kids. And to prove that I have also changed my opinion on things based on what I've read here, you have proved to me that there is an exception to every rule. I no longer think OU grads are 100% sister fuckers. Now I'm only certain that 99.9% of them are.
    14 points
  19. Are you writing this stuff in the hopes that Addison is reading this thread? Your entire position hinges upon the notion that there are above replacement value players in the portal for these spots right now. There are not. Texas is not fucking around in the portal. If they see someone that improves the depth chart, they're going after them. Those guys are available currently at one spot - wide receiver. They wanted the safety from Purdue but he hasn't made enough progress towards his degree and he played all of last season with a broken bone in his shoulder that still hasn't been operated on, so he's out.
    13 points
  20. Looks like the guy who runs the Austin Lamborghini dealership had a company bought by McCombs and then went to work at McCombs Enterprises. Ol Red is still pulling strings
    13 points
  21. 12 points
  22. if you are loyal (and I mean loyal, I don't mean possessing of basic integrity) to your employer in 2022, generally speaking you are a fucking sucker. We can talk about laziness and how modern society and the internet and attention spans and etc etc etc but a big part of this is motivation, and if you stop at "workers are shitty" when trying to understand why people are unwilling to do what they were more willing to do 50 years ago, you are stupid, a natural bootlicker, or very likely both.
    12 points
  23. While the 80 year view backed that Patton was right, the simple fact is, in July 1945, Russia had 12.4 MILLION armed soldiers, they also had at least 13,000 functional T34 tanks. meanwhile the U.S. had about 2.4 Million soldiers in Europe & Africa, England had something like 2 million soldiers in Europe, Frances' army was obviously ass at the end of 1945.... so the Russians would have had a 3:1 DEFENSE ratio against a combined attack. Including 13,000 tanks that were easily the best mass produced tank of the war. unless we decided to nuke Russia (and we would have needed 50+ nukes), we had NO FUCKING CHANCE to push Russia out of Eastern Europe. this is a totally moot what if.... while we had the better overall technology, and would have clearly had air supremacy, we would have easily lost anywhere from a half million to a million soldiers trying to attack Russia. *didnt pull that outta my ass, we fully expected to lose 1M invading Japan, and Russia defending home soil was almost as fanatical as Japan. and lets not forget, Russia literally didnt give a fuck about throwing bodies into the maelstrom to sacrifice people for time and land. we "only" lost roughly 500,000 men in the whole fucking war. The public would have never accepted losing an additional 2-3 times that number to attack a former ally (that most of America wouldnt have understood how fucked and cruel Russia and Communism were).
    12 points
  24. why the fuck would you want a pumpkin pie when you can just eat the watermelon
    12 points
  25. Given the choice to vote against christofascism or abstain, you choose to abstain. That is a strong signal to me that you're ok with what the right is doing generally, you're just too socially embarrassed to raise your hand in support right now. Only because it's unpopular right now. But you'll keep on voting to separate children from their parents at the border, give billionaires a trillion in tax cuts, to ban books from schools and libraries, and to cut away at voting rights. Just be fucking honest about what you are and what you support.
    12 points
  26. Conversely, PK and Choate will get to spend all summer working with the defense.
    11 points
  27. Wrong. There is more benefit from going from Good to Great, or Great to Amazeballs in winning games than there is in going from shitty to mediocre. If we score 50+ every game (except Bama) we are going something like 10-2 at worst. And yes- I know our defense sucks. And I know our OL is either the worst trash ever or aspires to mediocrity or is average depending upon your POV, but lining up those skill guys is going to overwhelm everyone on our schedule that isn't really really really good.
    11 points
  28. I was already too old to really enjoy following recruiting but this ridiculous shit of having to re-recruit the entire roster every fucking year is totally ridiculous and unsustainable.
    11 points
  29. 11 points
  30. Oh and by the way, to be serious here for a second. Let's look 10 years down the road, shall we? 1. Because of Roe being overturned, contraceptives have been outlawed 2. And because of shit laws like they passed in Florida, gay kids are once again ostracized to the point that they will hide their sexuality until later in life. That's going to have a 2 fold negative effect on life for EVERYONE. #1, more gay kids are going to end up fathers (or mothers) before they figure things out, which will wreak havoc on those gay kids and their whole fucking families in a way that coming out never can. And of course, let's not forget #2. We are voluntarily giving up one of the best tools for fighting STI's while at the same time pushing people into closets where they are MORE likely to partake in risky sex anyway, and guess what is going to come back with a vengeance? If you guessed HIV rates to skyrocket, you are a winner! Fucking A this is depressing.
    11 points
  31. Are you serious? Do you think there’s a bunch of women waltzing up to abortion clinics at 33 weeks pregnant getting abortions because they just really can’t hold out any longer without a margarita? And do you think there’s a huge volume of people that support abortion rights because they want to conjure that into reality? 93 percent of abortions are performed at or before 13 weeks from gestation - so not even from finding out one is pregnant, not even from conception; we’re talking likely just a few weeks after the single most life altering revelation you can have - and 99 percent are performed at or before 20 weeks. The status quo was fine. Contemporary identification as pro choice essentially means being against going backwards. Myriad public surveys back this up. FOX News is a hell of a drug. Goddamn.
    10 points
  32. Holy shit, should be marked sensitive. From the start of the war, Russians gunning down civilians in the back.
    10 points
  33. It doesn't matter where Addison goes. In this moment, he is a Longhorn. If he is a Crimson Tide (?) or a Trojan later, who cares? Right now, he is a Longhorn. Enjoy it. Drink alcohol. Eat chicken fried steak. Life is too short to be correct. To know people. To have connections. This is the way of the Sunshine Addict. Drunk and stupid is the ONLY way to go through life.
    10 points
  34. Hahahaha. Oh come on. The notion that our BMDs are a problem is a lazy media canard and you know it. The fucking BMDs do such terrible shit as: give whenever asked; let the school leadership make the calls; and hope to win while enjoying suites they paid to build. The days of Jamail or McCombs "meddling" are long past and even then, those guys were invited by Dodds and Brown to be involved. Every school should be so lucky to be cursed with that kind of billionaire donor support.
    10 points
  35. Addison is a projected 1st round pick and a Belitnikoff winner with what... 17 TDs last year. Mathis was projected to go undrafted this year and had what.... 3-4 sacks last year? Maybe the people shelling out over half a million dollars for players want their money to go to actual guys that are difference makers. If Mathis was an elite prospect, I definitely didn't see the schools that are making CFP appearances really make a run for him. He ended up at fucking Nebraska where guys like Casey Thompson ended up when they couldn't find a decent landing spot. Mathis is taking the money now because the dude knows there's a decent chance he's an UDFA or very low draft pick at this point.
    10 points
  36. I recently saw someone on twitter call him Sitler, which may be the best nickname I've ever heard.
    10 points
  37. I treat decent people decently. I sure as fuck celebrate the death of shitty fucking people who spend every waking breath spewing hatred, lies, and vitriol all the while trying to takes peoples rights away. That is the difference many don't seem to grasp. You are treated the same way you treat others. Once you have revealed yourself to be a massive pile of shit, you don't get cry foul and invoke the pearls of decency. Republicans cry decency and decorum after taking a massive shit on the very concept. So no, I will not abide. I will root and celebrate all their deaths, and hopefully one day piss on their graves.
    9 points
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