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mdmost

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  1. Supposedly the yearly salary is below the TJ Watt amount. It's a higher guarantee but below what Watt is getting per year. But honestly, I wouldn't believe a single word coming out of that Arkansas hillbilly's mouth. The thing that pisses me off about the Netflix stuff is all it shows is how good things were and how far we are from ever having anything remotely like it with that dipshit family in charge.
  2. She got her college essay done and it's pretty good. Meeting with our guy on Wednesday to polish it up and look at which college applications to tackle first. She's going to take the SAT a 3rd time in early September as she wants to increase her math score. Our neighbor is a math teacher and offered to help her prepare. So I think we're looking at the end of the month to start applying. I wouldn't mind her applying to UTD but I really want her to get out of this city for college so she can experience someplace new and not live in the same city for 22 years. UTD is a great school but I would only want her to go there if that was her favorite option.
  3. Hey Pep, how many goals did Tottenham score on you?
  4. Make those permanent
  5. I see you Tottenham, shaking that ass.
  6. All things being equal, if she gets into UC-Irvine and UTSA, she's more likely to go to UTSA if UC-Irvine isn't kicking in anything to make it competitive. They most likely won't but it's worth a shot. The Common app and the CA variant of it make this less of a worry. Then it's just paying application fees and some aren't even asking for that like Trinity so why not apply?
  7. The ratings and interest in the NFL say otherwise.
  8. Good thing you're not a couch.
  9. I think they'll flip home and home with each team in 2 year segments. So we wouldn't play Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and Mississippi State again until 2028. Someone is going to skip us as we haven't played 7 SEC teams yet (Bama, LSU, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mizzou, and Auburn) but we've recently played Alabama and LSU. Of those we owe LSU a trip to Baton Rouge. I'm not sure they would want to skip Texas and Bama playing again until 2028 but who knows. That might be where balance comes into play for both sides.
  10. I'd imagine this will be a consideration for Texas, OU, Florida, and Georgia. The SEC doesn't want those to go home and home.
  11. I already said the idea is cast a wide net and see what she gets. Maybe she gets into some of these, maybe she gets into none. Maybe some give her money. Maybe none of them do. Honestly, she may just end up at a small private that has some good merit money. Maybe she ends up at UTSA. We'll crunch numbers and see what's reasonable. There's not just a ton of great affordable schools in this state that I'd like her to attend or think she would enjoy attending. If an out of state private with merit money is close to what we might be able to spend in state then we're going to look at it. If Colorado State wants to give her some money to make it comparable, that's going to be a huge plus in their column. At this point, we just don't know.
  12. No but they were in the Big 12 and are a blueblood. They are still fairly marquee compared to others in the SEC.
  13. We don't really know yet what the 6 random matchups will be but it makes sense if it is flipping around in some fashion the teams every school hasn't played the last 2 years, especially to get Texas and OU to play all the teams we haven't yet as SEC teams. For us our 2026 schedule might be: OU in Dallas (we're the away team I believe) @aggy Arkansas Auburn @Tennessee South Carolina Ole Miss @LSU Mizzou I'm not sure balancing the 6 random teams everyone faces won't take effect until 2028. To me, the balance criteria is so you don't get 3 traditional SEC powers as rivals. LSU, Bama, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and OU would be in that category. Next tier is upstarts/decent teams like Ole Miss, Auburn, aggy, you could move Florida to this tier I guess. The final is the lower end of the SEC: Kentucky, South Carolina, Arkansas, Mizzou, Miss State, Vandy. It makes sense to give each team one of each. Again, this is all spitballing. We'll find out more later.
  14. Of course not but you can't ignore geography for putting teams together. It won't all be money and ratings because you can't ask some teams to play 3 marquee opponents as their permanent rivals. There has to be balance and some degree of regionality. There's also the weird ones like Florida, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Kentucky that don't just have 3 ready made rivals that you can easily name. The balance portion is pretty key. If it was all money and ratings, we wouldn't be playing Arkansas. We'd get LSU, Bama, or Georgia.
  15. This is the criteria Ross Dellenger spelled out. Ratings obviously play into it but geography could also mean in-state rivals or cross border matchups.
  16. Do people not get angry when their playoff bound NFL team loses to a conference teammate, possibly costing them home field advantage? Do those game mean less?
  17. Auburn is absolutely getting Georgia and Bama. Auburn-Georgia have played 121 times and it is the oldest SEC rivalry. Then Auburn gets someone shitty like Mississippi State. I don't think they'll give them Florida too. That's played less frequently. The criteria will be 1) geography, 2) rivalries, 3) balance. It's not just ABC that the SEC needs to fill out. It's ESPN, ESPN2, SECN as well. Auburn Georgia would go on any one of ABC/ESPN/ESPN2. Auburn-Miss State or South Carolina goes on SECN.
  18. Cregger said Magnolia was a big influence on this movie. He said Magnolia showed him you can make bold epic movie that don't apologize or try to walk the audience through the meaning of it. There's also the trait that both share a story of interconnected characters. Paul is basically John C. Reilly's character even down to being a cop with a moustache. I've seen it twice now and enjoyed it just as much the 2nd time because you pick up on subtle things that you gloss over like Gladys being with Alex when the cops are talking to him early on.
  19. Well we certainly don't want the Justice Department to be weaponized like it was under Biden. Oh wait, what Trumps does makes no difference to hypocritical assholes.
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