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  1. Believe it or not, that's Livingstone repping at DT
    49 points
  2. What did I fucking tell you shitwads? Disney Adult.
    27 points
  3. Yeah yeah, I'm sure that 10 year old looked at you with watery, pleading eyes and said "Pappa, Pappa, will you please wear a 'Grumpy' dwarf shirt for my Snow White themed Magic Kingdom Birthday Party? It's all I want in the WORLD" and your three-sizes too small heart just burst and you said "Of course son, I will grant your VERY specific wish for a Magic Kingdom themed birthday party group, and not because it was totally my idea in the first place."
    23 points
  4. He must be factoring in a significant Parker Livingstone injury before the season opener.
    22 points
  5. Asked a buddy from Midland about this. He graduated from Lee in the late 80s, went to UT. He said reality is that Midland was founded in 1885, had no slaves, and the inhabitants were mostly midwesterners from Kansas and Missouri. R E Lee was built in 1962, and he believes the locals were highly motivated to name the school RE Lee specifically because of the desegregation battle going on at the time. The other HS in town - the black HS - was named George Washington Carver. Definitely a "separate but equal" vibe there. For anyone in 2025 to claim it was about "heritage" and renaming is a "woke" act, ignores this history. So racists gonna racist, just a couple generations down the line.
    21 points
  6. My daughters and I talk about this. I’ve always been puzzled about where the idea of on-campus indoctrination comes from. I don’t think humanities and liberal arts faculty are any more or less tolerant of dissent than they ever have been, and so also frankly don’t think curricula and professors usually have the ability to dictate a point of view to their students. My daughters have said they think it’s just a matter of exposure to other students and new places, because the only kids they have seen do 180 ideological turns in college are kids from sheltered, homogeneous environments who see the world outside for the first time and realize that things are not as they were told. There’s a prog-left version of this too, but the Republican small city kids learn that cities aren’t dangerous, liberals don’t hate the free market, people don’t get third term abortions other than in medical emergencies and white Christian political conservatives are the discriminators more often than they are the object of discrimination. And it is not extremely important also that college is where the gay kids from those environments finally have the space to accept themselves for the first time. And then they come home from college, and the parents blame woke indoctrination, when it was really just seeing the world outside the cloister for the first time.
    21 points
  7. 👀 👀 👀 KJ Edwards to visit Texas (and LSU). ************************************************************************************* Elite Texas A&M commit eyeing fall visits to Texas, LSU Hank South (Horns 247) Edwards' father: "I said are you going to Texas for a game, I asked him yesterday, and he said yeah dad I still want to go. My whole thing — and I know they got the other running back committed, but we don't really focus on none of that — with him is if we need to go make some more games, I want to make sure when that time comes that you really feel like you made the best decision considering everything. "I actually talked to him this morning, it's a few games that Texas has that we're going to see about going." FULL ARTICLE
    21 points
  8. So you want Texas, which votes about 56% Republican, and is currently gerrymandered to predetermine a 66% Republican outcome, to increase the number of safe seats to 79%? That does not square with your repeated insistence that you think it should reflect how the state votes. The fact is that if we just had 38 competitive districts drawn without regard to partisan lean and reflected actual communities it would play out closer to the natural break than anything else. Designing districts around actual places on the map where people have important things in common is called “representation,” not “gerrymandering.” So you support efforts to hugely overepresent Republicans? I don’t have a side, I have a community. You do have a side, and your side is doing this in Texas. I don’t care about states where I don’t live. I care about Representative from Austin who have a reason to pick up the phone when someone from Austin calls.
    21 points
  9. This is more for @Ag with kids, but one reason Bozo keeps picking on you is that you're a good representative of the kind of thinking that's confused the present, dysfunctional system as working for you. Millions of Texas Republican voters would be, for example, shocked to find out that their business friendly, low tax, low service state is taxing their household more than they would pay in blue or purple states.
    20 points
  10. My dude. Is everything you post 13 chapters long
    19 points
  11. This right here is how the cow ate the fucking cabbage....
    18 points
  12. I think what you should do in this situation is stop listening to and reading content from that fat sloppy pig Ari Wasserman.
    18 points
  13. This recruitment could be fascinating. Both schools passed on approaching ATM’s offer. He’s not supposed to be even talking to other schools as part of how they allegedly structure those moneywhip deals. If I were betting on outcomes here, my money would be on ATM going bonkers on him right now and him coming out with a “shutting it down” tweet within the next 48 hours. If not, awesome. After Texas flips Henderson, LSU can always go nuts with a counter offer to Edwards as well.
    18 points
  14. Tyanthony Smith is going to be a star. He showed playmaking ability as a true freshman who was playing light. He’s now added good weight. My brother in law coached him at Jasper during Smith’s first two years of high school. He raves about Smith’s character, work ethic and ability.
    18 points
  15. Here's the entire article: Wednesday - Bobby Satya will be disappointed in the results from the starting OL group and CTJ is going to vomit in his mouth, yet again, at the final two sentences.
    18 points
  16. Bobby update this morning on the OL: The offensive line is always one of the last things we hear about following a scrimmage.It’s only natural since most folks are focused on the skill positions and following the ball. But I was fortunate to text with someone yesterday. First, the basics: - There were no pre-snap penalties from 1s. There were from other groupings. - The 1s on the OL committed just one penalty, a holding call. - The D may have started out strong, but eventually the OL got some good, solid runs in the Red Zone portion in the second half of practice. - The first unit remains, from left to right, Trevor Goosby, Neto Umeozulu, Cole Hutson, DJ Campbell and Brandon Baker. - The results of the second and third units on the OL were a little more mixed, with multiple pre-snap infractions.
    18 points
  17. Fucking pieces of shit.
    16 points
  18. I agree that random fly-by-night twitter tik tok hot takes shouldn't be part of the discussion. It distracts from what is actually happening - that our current POTUS is using the military against a civilian population for political gain with false and manufactured justification. It makes me ponder on what happened to the folks worried about overuse of federal powers or the folks behind no gestapo in bastropo.
    16 points
  19. Most college offenses have the QB in shutgun or pistol on early downs and bolt RPOs onto their run games. It’s much easier for the QB because he’s not putting his back to the defense and the RPOs are typically easy defined reads; sort of guard rails for college QBs. The QB being in shotgun limits some of the potential run plays based on timing/geometry, although lining up in pistol mitigates some of that. Under center keeps every possible run on the table, and it allows the OL to be more aggressive blocking at the second level. The playaction is more effective because the defense has to honor the run more aggressively, and it’s more difficult to see the handoff Some of the best offenses in the NFL by advanced metrics are under center on early downs for a reason, although there are also some great offenses that aren’t. There’s an interesting career trend where as high end QBs become more senior, they prefer to pull the strings from shotgun so they can keep eyes on the defense at all times, although that probably hurts the run game and offense as a whole This is all even more effective when the defenses are sitting back in coverage to take away the easy button TD passes by alignment, and also if you have a mobile QB
    15 points
  20. Your beliefs are obviously opinions so not necessarily wrong, but I’ll provide some counterpoints. I reference PFF quite often for several reasons. It allows for measurement relative to peers. Keep in mind that their overall pass blocking and run blocking grades include all persons not just the Oline. And with that consideration, our TEs based on what I’ve noted in the past are not great relative to their peers. Last year, Texas graded out number 2 in pass blocking, number 46 in run blocking. In 2023, that was number 3 and 54, respectively. For 2024, let’s take a look at the opposing Run Ds. We played 3 of the top 5 then 4 of the top 10 graded Run Ds. Then UGA twice at 12. Then 3 others in the top 20. Overall our blocking grade 4th in the SEC one spot behind Georgia. Our SEC schedule may not have the toughest, but we had OSU, Michigan and a 2nd game versus UGA to counter that. UGA graded 17th in pass blocking to go with 45th in run blocking. The Ohio State was 102nd and 41st. Both teams had several Olinemen drafted. Only the Texas pass coverage rated higher relative to its peers than pass protection. I’d wager the Run D grade for respective DBs trails their pass coverage similar to the run blocking. Also relatively speaking, our offenses job was more difficult than the defenses last year. You see it in the numbers, relative OFEI, DFEI, and sheer number of draft picks. You can certainly make an argument were a better pass blocking unit. Every player out there has relative strengths and weaknesses so you do have to pick a preference as to your strength. Those guys were pretty damn good. And likely one of the best units in the country with some limitations/injuries in the skill positions behind them.
    15 points
  21. Five players ascending in fall practice (6:33am CST) - Gerry TL;DR Smith (LB) Williams (S) Baxter (RB) Clark (RB) Washington (TE)
    15 points
  22. 14 points
  23. We're gonna be racist and you can't stop us.
    14 points
  24. So redistricting has to be done right now? A little over a year before the midterms? Seems strange, right? Almost like the party in power knows their policies are unpopular and will likely lose the House. So they’re panicking and scrambling to do the bidding of the president who wants to continue his power grab. You support that?
    14 points
  25. You should see how fast his little legs run. It's hilarious.
    13 points
  26. Very glad to see that my local school board is one of the few entities with any balls left in Trump’s America. Last night they voted to reject compliance with Trumps anti-trans executive orders Ironically I bet most of the people with balls who voted this way were women, which seems to be the case at the national level as well. https://www.loudounnow.com/news/loudoun-school-board-again-bucks-federal-pressure-on-title-ix-compliance/article_ba0bad16-de62-4f10-9c63-3c23d4cdcf63.html
    13 points
  27. 13 points
  28. My head canon now is that the sports writers that cover Texas absolutely know CTJ hates Livingstone, so they keep mentioning him positively to slowly drain his sanity away, update by update, until the season opener.
    13 points
  29. I did the math for our family living in Colorado versus Texas, and we'd save about $7k a year. We're pretty fortunate income and asset wise, so I re-did the math using a hypothetical $100K household income and the median value house in Denver and it's a savings of $6K living in Colorado. That's $500 a month, or a car you wouldn't have otherwise, or the prorated deductible on a high deductible insurance plan for a family. It's a really nice vacation, maybe two, or after school care for kids so a family can manage their household. It's a quality of life upgrade for most and all the good people of Colorado had to do is get it is not vote for incompetence and corruption.
    13 points
  30. I gave a book report on The Stand in 5th grade. My teacher stopped me about a minute in to it.
    12 points
  31. This whole 3-2 thing has me so upset I had to call in sick.
    12 points
  32. Yep, the actual tax burden in California is lower for most people than in Texas. And then when you start figuring in things like cost of health insurance that are directly impacted by a state's political policies, the non-real-estate cost-of-living in Cali is even or cheaper than Texas.
    12 points
  33. To clarify, Elko is a dead man walking because he's morbidly obese and hates salad.
    11 points
  34. His bit is to post stuff he doesn't actually believe in order to get a reaction out of people. What exactly do you think trolling is?
    11 points
  35. I'm agnostic on whether I personally think Manning should have replaced Ewers. I can see reasonable arguments for and against. What I am not agnostic on is whether or not I think Sark is in a better position to make that decision than I am (or anyone else on this thread). He knows more about football than we do, he knows more about the players than we do, he knows more about the locker room than we do. He's not under any meaningful outside pressure to make a decision that is detrimental to the team as a whole. Sark isn't perfect, but I think he's at least earned a little trust in how he manages his roster and his team culture. We can speculate all day about why Sark stuck with Ewers, but we won't know. It could be misplaced loyalty or concern about Sark's image as a QB developer, and I can't definitely say it isn't, but it could be a million other real and substantive concerns indicating that Ewers was the better choice. And there's no counterfactual for us to use in order to prove the issue one way or the other - we can't go back in time, have Sark start Manning, then compare how the season went. To be clear, I'm happy to speculate and I'm happy to talk about Ewers' level of play. But the conversation loses all value when you become dug in to a position and are unwilling to keep in mind what I've just said - we can't know one way or the other what the right choice was, and that reasonable people can have different opinions. Having a different opinion doesn't make the other person malicious, arbitrary, or stupid. For my bit of speculation, I also am surprised at how few people have mentioned a very basic reason that Sark may have gone with Ewers - coaches play the players they trust, and people tend to trust someone they know well. In other words, not only is Ewers more experienced than Manning, but Sark is has more experience with Ewers. As I've noted several times, Ewers has his flaws but Sark knows those flaws. He can coach around them. That's not just a Sark thing, that's most coaches. Saban going to Tua over Hurts is so remarkable because it was so unusual. I'm just never surprised when a coach goes with a veteran. There usually has to be a compelling reason to switch to the younger guy.
    11 points
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