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  1. 1 minute ago, Cajun said:

    And for Chief >>> Advantages of having no Mrs. Cajun.

    I fessed up, but got no grief. Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. I think she is going to do a little night hunting as well. She has never been shy on slinging some lead. But yeah, having a no Mrs. Cajun makes for nicer toys.

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  2. I've been blessed. My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told her two things. I have a sub, Arturo, that owes me about $6k, he is always struggling financially, he is overweight, and in poor health. He drives a truck for a living, and runs a concrete business out of the truck at the same time. About to loose his sister to COVID. For Christmas, I want as a gift to me, to forgive $2500 of his debt. 

    Ismael was my parents lawn guy. He works sunup to sundown 6-7 days per week. I am serving as GC on a small one bedroom, one bath carport he is converting into a barndominium. He is moving his wife and son into it, then, will build on as he makes more money. I want to buy him a bistro table for the smaller space he will be moving into.

    Materially, I am at a place where I don't really need anything, and their needs are more important than my wants. It has been this way for at least four years now. Anybody else in the same boat?

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    Oh, and two chicks at one time.

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  3. 32 minutes ago, LebongJames said:

    I don’t know shit but when does it stay 24 degrees for 24 hours in Austin?

    Never. It might happen once every 2-3 years, here, in North Texas. If you know how to do your own winterization there probably isn't a reason to have someone winterize your boat in Austin. Just watch the weather for an abnormally cold front and do it the day before.

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  4. 18 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    My mom went into labor with me while watching the Sons of Katie Elder on tv. I was then born on Super Bowl Sunday many moons ago. So you see I have no choice but to like both westerns and football. 
     

    I really hope Shelley is one of our many lurkers! Come on down! I’ll make you a nice gift basket, Mrs. Meyer! 🤘🏼
     

    The all quiet on all fronts to me is very encouraging for at the very least knowing they are exploring all options for Texas football HC. 
     

    More paintings: 

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    CSB- When my parents lived near Clifton, they were real good friends with Bruce Greene. Bruce has an art degree from University of Texas. We were talking about our times in college once. He said that he was flunking an art class, and was in downtown Austin painting for a grade. The art professor was really critical of his painting. He told the professor if he flunked him, he was going to burn his house down. The next day, he had a solid B in the class.

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  5. 1 hour ago, blacklab said:

    We probably won't have time to take the boat out the next few weeks, but will again in January on any day above 70. 
    Should I do anything to winterize?

    Fill gas tank and add some stabilizer?

    Yep the Marine 360 Stabil. Use the 24/24 rule of thumb for the engine block. If it stays 24 degrees for 24 hours, any water in the block will probably crack it.

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  6. 15 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Oh come on! I served up a volleyball for y’all to spike with the pie pictures (yes I bake and yes I made) and not one of these?

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    Don't worry, I'm sure there is a suck...a mean, a good guy on here that is marriage material, or at least steady boyfriend material. They are awful thirsty anyways. 

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  7. 55 minutes ago, Octavian said:

    At this point, it definitely does feel like we are generating the news to some extent

    If you are Infamous, you're still fucking famous.

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  8. I've got a 1987 Kawasaki Bayou 220. Haven't ran it in years. Daily driver is a 2013 Polaris Ranger 800 single cab. Drive it to the shop and back. I buy a service kit from Amazon each year, has oil, transmission fluid, and two new spark plugs.

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  9. Ahhh....Westfest. Only time I have ever had a cop walk up to me and sing a line from a Who song: "son, you can sleep at home tonight, if you can get up and walk away". I mean, he actually sang it.

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  10. Gilmer, Texas put five players in the NFL that Jeff Traylor coached. Five players from a small 3A East Texas town. He is the "Urban Meyer" or "Nick Saban" of Texas high school football. That is probably a greater rate than any place not named American Samoa. What does that say about his player development? He has created a dynasty at the high school level already. How much harder is it to do that here? Bill Snyder was a high school coach, with little experience at the college level, and his KSU teams always punched way above their weight. I would definitely consider him for Plan B if Meyer somehow doesn't end up here. But I'm not off the Meyer train by any means.

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  11. 15 minutes ago, JPETERMAN said:

    And expecting Yurcich and Ash to stay on and work for Traylor when he has a lot less experience is a big F you to them.  So again, I just think that would lead to a nightmare even if those guys did take more money and stayed on.  I'd think there would have to be some underlying resentment.     

    Yurcich has never been a head coach at any level, Ash went 8-32 and was fired from Rutgers. Traylor has never been fired from a job (only let go through staff changes), and would have probably been retained on this staff, if he had wanted to stay. Only one year of college head coach experience, but turned bottom feeder UTSA into a contender. It's a sales pitch going both ways for sure:

    "Jeff, we think we have a pretty good staff, and would like to retain some of them if you agree?", start there.

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  12. Why does this keep going back to Coordinators? Keep the ones we have, just replace Hand. If someone wants to leave, add Samples. Offer everyone the chance to be retained, if they leave it is on their own accord, so no buyout.. Just remove the head of the snake (Herman) and go from there. Yurcich has had enough success as OC, I think he is capable of going to the CFP, Ash ain't no slouch either. Offer them another $500-750k to stay on board with the savings from Herman. Offer $3mm for the head coach position. Traylor would probably agree to that arrangement.

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  13. Humble and likable. Smart enough to know he doesn't know all the answers, invites input, and picks other people's brain. He is the guy to get if we can't get Urban. I guarantee you he doesn't hold himself above the Texas High School football coaches, he puts off an "I am one of you" vibe.

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  14. 8 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

    You can talk much further than 100 miles with just a piddly CB in a car under the right atmospheric conditions.

     The phenomenon is called "skip" but it's surprisingly difficult to find a simple but comprehensive description of it anywhere online. 

    http://cbradiomagazine.com/idiots-guide-to-shooting-skip-cb-radio-11-meters-skip-conditions/#:~:text=Welcome to the world of,even from country to country.

    There were a couple of times, when I was living in Durango that I got to listen to WBAP 820 up on the mountain at Purgatory. Kinda cool getting to listen about all the piddly shit going on back home.

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  15. 8 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Agree with all of this. Of course Urban's the best possible hire, but of all the rest, only one stands out with the potential to be a Royal / Mack type hire, and that's Traylor. 

    You want a good ol' boy who can coach. That's Traylor. That was also Mack and Royal. Hell, Traylor is even a Texan, too, and a legend in our most fertile recruiting grounds.

    I don't get this idea that the job would be too big for him -- pressure is pressure, the same at Gilmer as in Austin. It doesn't matter, relatively speaking, if you are being hassled by reporters from Longview or Gilmer boosters or hacks from ESPN or our own BMDs. There are 24 hours in the day either way and the phone rings just as often and the stakes are the same for you personally if your job is at risk at the HS level or in the Big 12. 

    Yes Dodge and Morris were HS coaches who failed. So was Gerry Faust, to kick it old school. Bum Phillips also a HS coach, and so were Bill Snyder, Lovie Smith, Chip Kelly, David Cutcliffe, and Dirk Koetter. 

    For every type of resume, there are corresponding lists of failures and successes. Some gold-plated P5 coordinators soar and others flop; the same goes for G5 HCs stepping up and P5 coaches moving up to a more prestigious team. I may be wrong, but I think in the history of college football, only Urban and Saban have built dynasties at two programs, so if you can get a guy like that, you jump on him, obviously, but even then it's not a guarantee of success. Hell, Mack is just a shade below those guys and his last four years here were so terrible we are still digging out from the crater he left behind. You can't say with 100 percent certainty Urban wouldn't mail it in like Mack did but it's a pretty safe bet he wouldn't. 

    But barring that, this program needs to find a guy like Traylor and actually commit to a five year plan. I think as a fan base we should be prepared to tank for a couple of years with the promise of a dynasty to come on the back end. We need to get back to where we were redshirting even good offensive linemen and DBs in instead of just rolling them out there and hoping for the best. I doubt we as a fan base have the patience for that, so whoever we hire is going to have to try to balance roster management with the necessity of bowl eligibility in year two (at the latest) and competing for the conference championship by year three (at the latest). I think Traylor can pull that off.

    Or we can hire Fickell or Campbell and run them out of town and watch Traylor win big and poach our recruits from his gig at Baylor, TCU or even Tech, because "We're Texas" and only hire coaches with proven track records. At schools like fucking Cincinnati and Iowa State. 

    Outta rep.

    Put Traylor on the Dabo 7 year plan. Suffer through the growing pains. I just don't think the fanbase can do it, they are there own worst enemy. It is the best plan, and makes the most sense, if Urban is off the table.

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  16. 42 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    Don’t let him bring in comfort hires. Traylor is the main guy on Chuckles’ staff I wanted Herman to retain. 

    I would be all for keeping Ash and Yurcich, just let them do their jobs, they are better than he can probably get. Traylor's job would be glad-handing THSF coaches, running the administrative duties of a head coach and being a recruiting witch. Find a position for Carrington and Samples, then, get the best position coaches available, guys with serious skins on the wall and known for player development. It looks like that is the approach he has taken at UTSA. If Traylor ends up not working out, at least the cupboard won't be bare and would entice a better coach.

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  17. 10 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Ryan Day was handed the keys to a Ferrari. I'm not sure what we've got here.

    Obviously we have a pretty damn talented group, 4th in the nation according to that stat poll I am too lazy to look up. The problem is that it is all upper classmen with a sharp dropoff coming. There are really only two people that can get recruiting back on course. Urban Meyer, the other, I believe, is Jeff Traylor. I'm not sure he is as good of a coach, at this time, than Matt Campbell. I'm just not sure Matt Campbell has the recruiting chops and history to get the talent to come to Austin. Urban is the only guy that can turn the program around to a 10 win season in his first year. I could see Traylor going 8-5, 9-3, for a couple of years before getting to 10+ wins. The problem is, Texas fans are too impatient. If you can't get a GOAT, you have to have patience and be willing to sit on the cusp for a few years. Briles had some mediocre years at UH, and he would be a slam dunk candidate if not for the Baylor fiasco. Traylor could possibly "out talent" most teams early, before he becomes a bonafide great coach. 

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  18. Just now, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    If you are going to roll the dice on someone with this little college experience, he checks off a lot of boxes:

    1. He will recruit like a motherfucker. 

    2. He's at least spent some time in Austin and has to have at a minimum, a cursory understanding of the landscape.

    3. He seems willing to check his ego and hire coordinators outside his comfort zone who aren't yes men.

    4. He's a decently competent x's and o's guy.

    5. He knows what it's like to be a head coach -- at least from a "buck stops here" perspective.

    Honestly, if you can recruit and hire good coordinators, how fucking difficult is this job? Glad hand a few boosters, money whip the best strength guy you can find and don't let the inmates run the asylum. Traylor looks like an Art Briles starter kit minus the rape. Fuck it, I'm in.

    Yep, I expect him to be on the same trajectory. It would be a cheap experiment. Who knows? Maybe third time is a charm. If he ended up being really good, he is young enough to lock down the state for a decade or two.

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  19. 2 minutes ago, Eggo said:

    I hear what you're saying, but Urban Meyer was a pretty big long shot itself. I'm just saying that you can't overlook a guy who spent 15 years at the Texas HS level. The dude is a legend in this state. He probably wouldn't come in and win us a CFP championship in year one, but he'd develop the relationships to truly contend year after year like we want to do.

    You know he would get the talent, maybe not in year one. But all the Texas high school coaches would love him, and would push their athletes his way. He is a great X and O's coach, but would need help on the administrative side with such a big program. Would be interesting since he is at a UT System school. Wonder if you could reassign him to Austin, and reassign Herman to UTSA.

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  20. 6 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    if you can't trust your new head coach to hire the right coordinators, you're hiring the wrong head coach

    if we learned ONE THING from Strong and Herman, we should've learned that

    I'm not saying he wouldn't hire good coordinators, I'm just saying I'm not sure he has the clout to pull off hiring ones as good as we have. It would be up to him, but we have those guys under contract. Herman is the cancer here, his meddling, antics, and turning off recruits.. All he had to do was get out of Yurcich's way, we saw that against KSU. Tom is the governor on the Ferrari. I know Yurcich doesn't have head coaching experience, but I think he would be better than Tom as HC.

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