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SuckitKevin

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  1. Let me preface this by saying I love BJ Foster. Foster needs to sit until his shoulder is better. Having a shoulder injury when your best attribute is thumping the shit out of people renders his effectiveness as minimal. We would be better off starting a 4th stringer than relying on a guy who physically can’t get it done right now.

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  2. Just now, staboner said:

    offense desperately needs more self scouting. we are having our routes jumped like crazy out there. 

    again, same deal different week - dominate the LOS and just barely winning. thats coaching failing us

    We need crossing routes, it’s the weakness of this defense and we keep throwing to the sidelines.

  3. I’m 48, just dropped off my oldest at college a few weeks ago. My wife was having borderline panic attack’s about it for months. I didn’t think it would be a big deal until I walked out of her dorm leaving her sitting on her bed. I kept seeing her as a 3 year old sitting on her bed at home. I cried like a baby all the way home. 

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  4. 24 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Maybe I'm not looking at the same #s you are, and possibly not the same schools, but a quick search for "tuition" shows:

    Rice:  $43.9K

    Vanderbilt:  $45.6K

    Washington University:  $49.8K

    Northwestern:  $50.9K

    Amherst:  $56.4K

    Carlton:  $54.8K

    Washington & Lee:  $52.5K

     

    Seems to me that would put "all in" at $55K - $67K, perhaps excluding books.  Are we talking apples to apples?  Not that any of this is inexpensive, but I just want to level the conversation.  Maybe I'm missing something.

    Trinity is definitely not cheap, it’s one of the more expensive private universities in Texas. Southwestern was another consideration, they were right at 57k COA.

  5. 34 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    Can any other people speak to Trinity?  The boy and I are visiting in October.  I know they have super generous merit aid if you have good grades/test scores

    Trinity’s merit based scholarships are good but overall COA is 59k, so even with a 25k scholarship it will cost you 34k a year. I’m impressed by the quality of faculty and faculty to student ratio. My daughter isn’t super outgoing either so I believe a smaller setting will be better for her.

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  6. 2 hours ago, Spaulding Smails said:

    Subscribed.  I have rough plans drawn up for one of these.  Would love to hear your thoughts and feedbacks.  Biggest variations I am planning are a cable counterweight system over a pulley and a flat top instead of the angled or rounded top.  

    Honestly if this top ever needs to be replaced I’m going to build a flat top myself. Just make sure to keep it covered so rain doesn’t sit on it. The lid is heavy as hell do a counterweight with a pulley should work better than what I have. 

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  7. Honestly I’d seen some of the pits used by Germans in the hill country for years and thought this one up in my head. I had a guy doing rock and mortar work on my house and told him what I wanted with dimensions. I poured a concrete slab and let him go to work. It’s lined with firebrick and holds heat well but I usually have to use a fan initially at the firebox because the wind isn’t always right. The mason didn’t follow my plans as well as I would have liked because it’s a little too tall but I manage. I welded an inside frame and took it to a friend to have the top made. I also had him make the firebox door. It coos outstanding and I can do 6 briskets easy at one time. 

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