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  1. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm not sure there's a list.  Look at the Sears Cup winners since he hit campus:

    Stanford

    Stanford

    Texas

    Texas

    Stanford

    Texas

    Texas

     

    Yeah, it was a tight race this year but I don't think I'd put Stanford or USC's AD in the conversation if we're talking the current state of college athletics.

    My only counter-point is that not all Universities have the size to legitimately compete for the Sears Cup. Success in the AD role there would look like outperforming schools of similar size, or resurrecting a sport that has been a long-time doormat, or winning a championship as a serious underdog, etc. 'Outperforming your peer group' is the real measure, I guess. I'm not deep enough into the world of college athletics to compile that list, but there's probably a few out there that have some skins on the wall through that lens, who don't have CDCs endowment or donor base to pull from, so I wanted to leave some room in the list.

    Still a short fuckin' list :).

  2. 21 hours ago, Zeus said:

    we are also lucky to have CDC that a genuine dude

    This is the gods honest truth. Look at the upward trajectory the entire Athletic Department is on since his arrival ... it's really incredible. There might be someone better at the AD job than him, but it's a short fuckin' list. 

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  3. 3 hours ago, Hank Chinaski said:

    I remember seeing Ricky Williams for the first over by the old social work building one day, just in passing. I remember thinking that I’d never seen anyone that looked anything like this guy ever in terms of his body proportions. Like, to the point where the pattern-recognition conventions my brain had invented to identify humans as human weren’t really working. I hadn’t felt so physically inadequate since the day I tried to pick up a teenaged lifeguard at Splashtown when I was 11. 

    Fucking same; during my freshman year, my schedule overlapped with Ricky's in a way that I'd pass him walking to class at least twice a week. His thighs were as big around as my waist, and his neck was close. He wasn't ALL that much taller than I was, but I swear he looked like the players we'd design in those early versions of Madden, with 99 speed and 99 BRK or whatever it was. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

    outstanding things I see in him now is his willingness to own his fuckups, and learn from them.

    The story about him building our culture, and realizing that he needed to be first through the door so he called a team meeting and laid bare his troubles with alcohol, and what he does on a daily basis to stay ahead of it, was inspiring as FUCK. I feel like I'd run through a wall for a coach who showed that level of humility and vulnerability (while still clearly demonstrating excellence on the field, and requiring same from me and my teammates). 

    The cynic in me feels like there's always another shoe waiting to drop, but I can't remember this level of excitement that I have for Texas Foootball since about 2004. I guess specifically, the 2001-2002 season where I felt like we were finally on to something repeatable, which 204-05-06 proved. 

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Whatever.   None of that matters going forward.  There's a material chance that he's going to serve a third term, no matter what.  He can do it, for reasons.....wholly-owned SCOTUS out front shoulda told ya.

    Shitbird lawyer: "He hasn't served two consecutive terms yet, which is clearly the only thing that the Amendment, which is really dumb and a terrible deal which the states never should have approved, means, because reasons."

    Roberts: "Flawless argument, no notes, go forth, Dear Leader."

  6. 4 hours ago, Parliament said:

    It's worth reminding eveyone that AI right now is just really, really, really advanced auto-complete. It can only present answers based on situations that it's seen before, that it's been trained on. There's quite a bit of very advanced science that makes it LOOK like AI is thinking, but it's really not - it's just Deep Blue finally beating a chess grandmaster because it can logically search the entire possible set of outcomes of any chess move faster than a human can do it.

    AI gets dirty when pressed because that's what humans do. And generally, in case you haven't noticed, humans kinda suck.

     

    edit: my grammer is very much not good.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    I guess it is probably better than an exit social media post. 

    I'm legitimately curious as to what you get out of all of this? Not in terms of social structure or global gains ... you, specifically. How are you better after all of this? Do you think you're making valid points? You don't seem to want to debate policy. You aren't raising counterpoints to the dominant narrative in these parts. You don't seem to have an opinion of your own or even a voice, really. You just seem to live on the margins, throwing barbs when it suits you and disappearing as soon as the conversation goes one click below surface level. 

  8. 1 hour ago, Daichee Bell said:

    While I’m grateful to Malik for committing here and Malikemas, I don’t ever remember thinking of him as dominant. More of a reminder of our inability to develop at the time.

    This is a fair assessment.  Our talent was so thin that dude was a day1 starter because he was a legit talent, and not a JAG or a 4* we were trying to convince ourselves was a 5* in sheeps clothing.  I will say that at the time, I was entirely, totally convinced that he was the keystone recruit to fully unlock our return to greatness. Alas.

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  9. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    For all the tradition, I can only think of a few Longhorns with raw athletic dominance akin to men playing against boys- Nobis, Campbell, Ricky Williams. Maybe Derrick Johnson?

    Are we talking about 'as freshmen', or just at any point in their careers at UT? Because Ricky needed some seasoning. He was damn good as a freshman, no doubt, but he wasn't Ricky Fucking Williams until his Jr. year.

    Jeffcoat and Hicks showed up D1-starter ready, and just got better. Malik Jefferson, too. Orakpo's final year here was something else, along with many years in the league.

  10. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    For all the tradition, I can only think of a few Longhorns with raw athletic dominance akin to men playing against boys- Nobis, Campbell, Ricky Williams. Maybe Derrick Johnson?

    On this team, I think Collin Simmons is in that category. Is Anthony Hill? These are the good times. 

    Cory Redding showed up on campus as a fully-grown man, and played like it too.

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  11. On 4/1/2025 at 4:09 PM, Superhero said:

    I got mad at my daughter for not contributing around the house, so I gave her the task of loading the dishwasher every night.

     

    She complained about not knowing how to load the dishwasher, at which point I yelled at her saying "Figure it out! Your not stupid! If you still don't know, ask mommy, she'll teach you how to do it!

     

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    Take heart, because even if you've showed them 100 times how to load the dishwasher, they'll still claim to not know how to do something. Or, on a different given day when you try and have them arrange things slightly differently, you'll get "DAD, I know what I'm doing," or my other favorite, "NO, mom told us to do it this way."

  12. 12 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

    Texas Kolaches are a bastardized version of a Czech sweet bread breakfast / desert. We put sausages in it first to make it Texan. Then bc of an influx of Cajuns in east Texas they figured why not use Boudin? Cajun food is a super bastardized version of French food. So the Boudin Kolache is like a 6th level of crazy cultural mixups.

    AND THEY ARE FUCKING DELICIOUS

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  13. Sophomore year in college, walked into a buddy's dorm room and asked "hey, where's your tiny-ass roommate?" To which my buddy replies, "right there, sitting on his bed."

     

    I think I managed to apologize through the red haze on my face, but I'm not sure. 

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  14. 1 hour ago, msucolt45 said:


    It’s never been openly publicized by staff or player, but I really think Arch was concussed after he ran for the 1st down. When TV was reviewing for a fumble, they should’ve called “Targeting” from the booth officials. Once Arch stood up he even staggered a little bit, as the hit to his helmet was behind his left ear hole. That will always be my opinion.

    RZ 1st and 10 and he wasn’t even looking at going in, which I really think he should’ve been right next to Sark for his package of run or pass plays.

    Hook’em!!!

    He was 100% concussed. If you watch the ball on the slo-mo replay of the hit, it comes out as if he dropped it, and it comes out just before he hits the ground,  without being hit by the defender at all. It comes out because Arch's hand went limp, and Arch's hand went limp because he got knocked out. 

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