Leaderboard
-
in Posts
- All areas
- Events
- Event Comments
- Articles
- Article Comments
- Articles
- Article Comments
- Articles
- Article Comments
- Articles
- Article Comments
- Articles
- Article Comments
- Articles
- Article Comments
- Articles
- Article Comments
- Sticky Posts
- Sticky Post Comments
- Commitments
- Commit Comments
- Files
- Topics
- Posts
- Status Updates
- Status Replies
-
Custom Date
-
All time
March 25 2018 - August 18 2025
-
Year
August 18 2024 - August 18 2025
-
Month
July 18 2025 - August 18 2025
-
Week
August 11 2025 - August 18 2025
-
Today
August 18 2025
-
Custom Date
01/19/23 - 01/19/23
-
All time
Popular Content
Showing content with the highest reputation on 01/19/23 in Posts
-
So- for the mouth breathers on this thread bitching incessantly about our portal strategy. We had needs at CB, S, LB, EdgE, WR and Punter. as of right now we will have signed a top 5 CB, the best S, a top 3 WR (Iβd argue best one to transfer) and a top 3 Punter. So- we havenβt (yet) signed an EDge or LB, but we did sign 5 LB in high school recruiting, including the best LB in the class of 23 so maybe LB was a spot the staff specifically decided not to try their hand at in the portal. In the last two years theyβve taken like 7 eDGES so the thought process there might be the same. After signing the #1 QB last year along with probably the best CB transfer and the best WR transfer (damn that injury), it almost appears like this group has an idea of what they want and are executing it.26 points
-
23 points
-
I did my research. Prime is all about academics. Even started his own school23 points
-
Getting to a baseline in football is going to remain elusive for some time. Other sports not named football or men's basketball will actually get to a baseline much sooner and some are damn near there. This is due to the lack of star value across the board for most of the others sports. What I mean is that there isn't a big market for even the best female point guard in the country, or the best libero, or golf star. That's not to say there cannot be outliers or that some money isn't available, because there is some money and shit does happen. Paradoxically, the greater the star power on a football team or basketball team, the harder it is to get to an overall baseline for the roster. The battles for the standouts are happening at really expensive levels right now, and the incumbent schools are mostly winning on the retention side, but not without a lot of pain. More than what a baseline of $50k per 85 players has been committed in this cycle on less than 25% of the roster at Texas. This isn't unique to Texas. Some of the premiums will get knocked off by the general unsustainability, even for very rich people, of what's happening now, nationally. That will help. Then more maturity in the base itself and the familiarity with the concept will grow, and more crowdfunded money will come in. Then corporate work will continue to develop. So 2025 probably looks a lot different, and not coincidentally, for Texas in a positive way. But to address the rest of your post, yes, I believe the portal has now become an extremely convenient way for coaches to dump dead weight. That's the case already. When Blue was making it clear he was going to look, they encouraged it, allegedly. Not to get rid of him, but to get the bullshit out of him. Either he'd land a badass deal for himself somewhere else or he'd realize he has it pretty good where he's currently playing and schooling. Caveats for the thinking in this post: 1) Baseball is a weird one. LSU allegedly spent like $4M in the last cycle to put together this super team that they're entering the season with in 2023. Texas lost bids on like 6 guys to them. That's just not super sustainable for anyone, much less LSU alums. Texas has won a number of battles lately. There are enough schools that care about baseball that there will always be some high dollar activity, but not close to the levels of football or basketball. 2) There may never be a "floor" for basketball. It just may be about whatever the market bears for the stars and if there is anything left and the program is doing well, program guys get whatever that is that's available when the dust settles. I would expect Duke, Kansas, UNC, Kentucky, and maybe someone like UCLA or Michigan State to have a floor, but that would be about it. Maybe UH too since Fertitta and Mattress Mac, among others, are putting a lot of resources into that program. 3) Hot females, irrespective of sport, who are willing to market their hotness, will get paid corporate money that dwarfs almost everyone else except QBs and star basketball guys. That will either make them completely fluid when it comes to program allegiances or make them totally disinterested in ever pondering a transfer. The better the weather and local scenery, the more likely a program is to attract and retain this type of athlete. Austin being incredibly "Insta-friendly" has legitimate monetary value for various females considering a school. 4) A transfer rule change making it hard to leave after one transfer might be coming from the NCAA and would, again, dramatically impact ongoing market decisions for players and programs.23 points
-
Poland needs to start hitting Germany where it hurts, which is its exports and sales. Because Germany badly wants βEuropean defense solutions.β Poland needs to tell everyone that βwe went for the European solution and bought Leopards. And now that we want to dispose of them, instead of having a European discussion, Germany insists on bringing in the United States as a party to those negotiations. Next time we will just buy American and talk to the people we bought from, since Germany canβt make decisions on its own.β18 points
-
This shit right here. If they really want to be on a winning team, they're going to have to get over this type of thing. On a smaller scale, I had to go through it when I swam for UT. Men's swimming only gets 9.5 scholarships to divide amongst the entire team, so full-rides weren't really a thing. Because of that, the scholarship guys on the team only had a partial scholarship which meant there was constant comparing of who had 75% vs who had 25% etc. As an upperclassman, you may be an established asset on the team and then find out an incoming guy is going to be on a bigger partial scholarship than you. The older guys had to be mature enough to realize "Hey, that kid is going to help our team win, so I'm glad we did what it took to get him here". I know this is nothing compared to the millions of NIL dollars floating around, but the concept is generally the same.18 points
-
Interesting take given the workday traffic on this site17 points
-
15 points
-
There just needs to be a general re-education in what the free market means. Starting with βthere will always be intervention and regulation, itβs only a question of who benefits.β So point oneβ when someone takes a job, gains experience, then looks around and says βI think I can do this better, I want to strike out on my own.β THATS THE FREE FUCKING MARKET. Thatβs the American dream. Thatβs how we get competition. Thatβs how prosperity grows and consumers benefit. And sure, if you own the first company in town you donβt like it, but thereβs no reason government should be allowed enforcing your attempt to create a cartel at the expense of consumers and workers and prospective competitors. If a plumber in Abilene refuses to take an apprentice unless they promise not to open their own shop, and the apprentice can take the deal or move to Midlandβ thatβs a shit deal for everyone in Abilene except the plumber and a market failure and distortion. The idea that a free market means that the government enforces whatever contract you can sucker someone into signing is a childish form of libertarianism and the opposite of a market economy.15 points
-
14 points
-
this story really is incredible. i mean, you couldn't make up a story about a person who spent years lying about themselves in public, grotesquely trying to grift in any way possible by lying about the stupidest things, like, oh, being in emergency management or making a lingerie football team, who has done questionable sexual stuff online including cosplay, webcams, posting supposed private messages between her and a very public local figure, then posting nudes of herself after soliciting advice on whether or not to get boob implants, and then got elected to a very public office? i mean, that would be some crazy bullshit, right?14 points
-
NCs when someone is selling their company to someone else are an entirely different thing from a market perspective and ethical perspective than NCs as a condition of employment at a company. ESPECIALLY when employees are employed at-will. Combining at-will with an NC is complete bullshit, that means itβs only βat-willβ for their boss and not the worker.14 points
-
Wordle 579 3/6 β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©β¬π¨β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π©14 points
-
Non-competes enforced by courts are antithetical to an actual free market and should be banned, as you mention itβs actually a dispute over trade secrets (which can be enforced separately) or itβs a bullshit tactic to try and keep workers who could make more elsewhere from leaving. Non-enforcement against low-level workers is fine but even representing to workers that they are bound by one is an abusive practice, especially as they are the workers least likely to be sophisticated enough to understand they are unenforceable or willing to take the risk of challenging them.13 points
-
Wordle 579 4/6* β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬π¨π¨π¨ β¬π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π©13 points
-
*dips wing into gallon of blue cheese then points it at victim* βHey sweetheart, tell me every detail of you getting rapedβ12 points
-
Wordle 579 5/6* β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π¨β¬π¨β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬π¨β¬ β¬π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π©12 points
-
11 points
-
I laughed, but in all seriousness, this hits at one of the most valuable and least understood lessons Iβve learned as an earner. People always talk about hard work and βthe grindβ and that it takes a ton of effort and energy to rise above the crowd in the workforce. Okay. Maybe. But ditch diggers and busboys, and I have literally been both of those in my life, work really fucking hard and donβt make much above minimum wage. The notion of hard work unto itself is wholly misleading. What does that have to do with the portal? Well, for young Maurice, how hard he works may not matter. He may lack the raw materials necessary to rise above the competition nonetheless. Then his choices will also define his outcome and fucking around and finding out in the portal might be a valuable life lesson after all. I think thereβs a shot weβll see this in the May period for him and a few others at Texas, just like weβve already seen with Blue. Itβll keep happening everywhere for a while, but weβre all ratcheting up the learning curve on this one and I think player and program behaviors will look a whole lot different a few years from now, even if rules donβt change. Every program will have cautionary tales for players considering it and NIL will continue to develop into a more concrete component for each org. Guys are going to have a pretty clear picture of what they stand to lose ahead of taking the next step.11 points
-
Lucked into the solution on Wordle today. The point of my third guess was more to just eliminate as many unused letters as I could -- didn't seriously expect it to be the answer. Wordle 579 3/6* β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©β¬π¨β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© Daily Quordle 360 6οΈβ£7οΈβ£ 3οΈβ£4οΈβ£ quordle.com β¬π¨β¬β¬π¨ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬π¨β¬β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©β¬π¨β¬π¨ β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬π¨π©β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© π¨β¬β¬π¨β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬π¨β¬π© β¬π©β¬β¬π¨ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬π©π¨ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© #Worldle #363 1/6 (100%) π©π©π©π©π©π βββπͺ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr11 points
-
Wordle 579 4/6 [emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834][emoji834]π¨[emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834]π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π© Joining several others with the unlucky third guessβ¦11 points
-
Wordle 579 5/6 π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬π©π©β¬ β¬π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π©11 points
-
Wordle 579 5/6 β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©β¬π¨β¬β¬ π©π©β¬β¬π© π©π©β¬β¬π© π©π©π©π©π©11 points
-
Got news my wife has breast cancer. She felt a lump right before Christmas and fortunately had her annual female exams scheduled right after New Year's Day. Biopsy was done on Tuesday on the left side and lymph nodes. Fortunately nothing in the lymph nodes, but confirmed in the breast tissue itself. We will be going up to MD Anderson to get this taken care of. Her Doctor down here thinks we got it in the very early stages, but it's a potentially a more rare form (Medullary) that is related to the Triple negative. Needless to say this is kick in the gut for all of us. She's 53, we just saw one out our sons get married a month ago so she was already looking forward to being Grandmother sometime in the future. We have a high school Junior and a year and some change from now she is gone and we will be empty nesters. And with that, opportunities to travel the world and possibly locate up to the Hill Country in a few years and build a home on a couple of acres. It brings things into perspective. She's a strong women for sure and I have my faith in God this will be defeated. But it's put a scare into me to get back to a somewhat healthier lifestyle. I used to workout ( and was in the best shape of my life) up to when Covid closed down my Gym and I let my diet go to crap and never really got back in the mode. One of her ultimatums is for me to remain strong and get healthy. It's a shame fricken cancer had to wake me up to this.10 points
-
Sigh. You arenβt the guy to have this conversation withβ¦Iβm a capitalist. I support profits. But guys who refused to pay to weatherize their pipes, fucked up the supply, but still made billions because of their willful neglect crested a massive shortage during high demand caused the prices to skyrocketβ¦thatβs not seeking a profit. Itβs something else. power generators are incentivized to keep supply scarce. Itβs a problem.10 points
-
It would be the most expensive ingredient in any of their food.10 points
-
10 points
-
10 points
-
10 points
-
10 points
-
In California? Not much will prevent that. Non-competes are at least generally unenforceable. DOL or was it DOJ had to intervene in the tech industry a number of years ago with the non-solicitation clauses between tech companies. I agree with you 100%. Legal advice is unfortunately a luxury. So once an employee signs, the burden is on them to get the advice and then withstand the possible nasty lawyer letter. I donβt send lawyer letters without a willingness to back it up but plenty will send a cease and desist on a NC agreement everyone (except the employee) knows is unenforceable. Iβve yet to study the proposed ban but selling a business is where a NC makes perfect justifiable sense. Thatβs obscene. This is my experience too. as a corporate lawyer Iβll draft the NCs when a client wants them, personally I donβt like them at all. I think a non solicitation of customers and employees is all a business really needs. You can leave and work in the industry but donβt take what you know about us and raid our customers and steal our employees. These are generally thought of as the more reasonable NC clauses and I hope they remain enforceable.10 points
-
That motherfucker hasnβt talked to anyone unless he happens to have a family member who was a victim. Can you imagine being a victim, who has been shamed by her school and peers to keep quiet, opening up to Jabba the Cunt about their experiences?10 points
-
Wordle 579 4/6 β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬π¨π© β¬π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π©10 points
-
Lame solution today. Wordle 579 5/6 β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬β¬π© β¬π©β¬β¬π© π©π©π©π©π©10 points
-
Goodbye to my stepdog Louise aka Weezy aka Weezers. Love this girl. My boy loved her just as much. We were the only family crazy enough to take her in when our friends would vacation. Hell we hated giving her back when they came home. Only 2.5. She started having seizures about a year ago and they kept clustering and happening more and more frequently. She was dosed up on phenobarbital and everything else but nothing could stop them. Her quality of life grew too poor to allow her to keep suffering after another mega cluster today that would subside for an hour and then repeat. Her Dad is unfortunately overseas currently so my wife had to be emotional support at the ER. Yet I am the one crying. I hate having to say goodbye to these creatures so much. There are worse things in life I just can't currently think of any. Devastated for her family. RIP Weezy.10 points
-
Theyβre playing by the rules they put in place due to insane lobbying, campaign contributions, and the laws they ghost wrote for the legislators and governors they bought, in a state that is gerrymandered to the point of pointlessness. having some perspective matters. Your take is overly simplistic to the point of warranting immediate dismissal.9 points
-
Maybe. But I wouldn't be astounded if they parked them all hub-to-hub in a field within HIMARS range, or even better, fed them one-by-one into a Javelin-infested city fight. To paraphrase Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of modern Russian generals.9 points
-
The Poland DefMin made noise today about doing exactly this. Hard to say precisely without knowing the specifics of their deal with Poland, including industrial cooperation. But youβve touched on the pressure points, which will be maintenance and sustainment of the rest of Polandβs Leopard fleet. Not to mentionβ weapons that Ukraine gets are far more useful if they are able to get parts and send them back to factory depots when damaged. And of course, ordinarily youβd realize that breaking the agreement would ruin your chances of future business. But for Scholz, if Poland called the bluffβ heβs in almost worse shape. Enforce that contract provision and stop maintaining the remaining tanks and now youβre not just blocking Ukraineβ youβre actively degrading the readiness of a NATO Eastern flank Ally while Russia is at war next door. And the way heβs going about this is damaging German defense industry competitiveness. Holding your own political line is one thing, but linking your decision to inaction/action on the part of the U.S. is entirely another. All our customers know that it may be a PITA to get Pentagon or Congressional approval but we are never going to tell you βletβs wait and see what the UK does.β Youβre negotiating with us. Scholzβ stance is one thing. His tactics are another. Itβs truly bizarre to see the leader of a major European country publicly surrender his decision making to Joe Biden. Heβd be better served by doubling down and standing on principal or by leading by example. This just makes him look weak and flailing.9 points
-
Not sure if popular or unpopular but the recent trend of "What the fuck is wrong with you..." titles in the DT is fucking stupid.9 points
-
9 points
-
Wordle 579 5/6* β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©β¬π¨β¬β¬ π©β¬β¬π¨β¬ π©π©β¬π¨β¬ π©π©π©π©π© Nice and orderly Daily Quordle 360 5οΈβ£6οΈβ£ 4οΈβ£7οΈβ£ quordle.com π¨β¬π¨β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ β¬π©β¬β¬β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬π¨π©β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬π¨π¨ β¬β¬β¬π¨π¨ β¬π©β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬π¨β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬π©π¨ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π©9 points
-
i liked my first two answers better... Wordle 579 5/6 π©β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©β¬π¨β¬β¬ π©π©β¬π©π© π©π©β¬π©π© π©π©π©π©π© Daily Quordle 360 4οΈβ£6οΈβ£ 5οΈβ£7οΈβ£ quordle.com β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬π¨β¬π¨ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π¨β¬π¨β¬π¨ π©β¬β¬β¬π© π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬π¨π©β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© π¨π©β¬β¬β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ π¨β¬β¬π¨β¬ π©π¨β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬π©π¨ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π©9 points
-
Bad slangy Wordle word today. Wordle 579 6/6 β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬β¬π© π©π©β¬β¬π© π©π©β¬β¬π© π©π©π©π©π© #Worldle #363 3/6 (100%) π©π©β¬β¬β¬βοΈ π©π©π©π©π¨β‘οΈ π©π©π©π©π©π βββπͺ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Daily Quordle 360 6οΈβ£7οΈβ£ 4οΈβ£3οΈβ£ quordle.com β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬π¨β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©β¬β¬β¬ π¨π©β¬β¬π¨ β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬π¨π©β¬ β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© π¨β¬β¬β¬π© π¨π©β¬β¬π¨ β¬π¨π¨β¬β¬ π©β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬β¬π¨π©β¬ π©π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π© β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬9 points
-
Yeah it pisses me off how the normies think baseball is some chump team just because the football team is. They finished #7 for fuck sake. How often in baseball does the #1 preseason team win the CWS? The only team that was #1 and dropped like a rock was Tennessee in their Super Regional. This whole self loathing misery is completely ridiculous for Texas Baseball Fans. 38 College World Series Appearances and 6 National Champions and 6 National Runner ups and punks talking like where we are ranked in the preseason means anything? No. It means nothing. The expectations are simple: Texas is going to go to win the Big 12 and go to the College World Series just like every other season. They could rank us #1 or #300 it don't make a shit.9 points
-
Wordle 578 5/6 π¨π¨β¬β¬β¬ β¬π¨β¬π¨π© β¬β¬π©π©π© β¬π©π©π©π© π©π©π©π©π©9 points
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... π€«995π€« ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... COOKIE MONSTER!