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  1. 1. Georgetown girl on winter break from college who disappeared 300 yards from her front door after a jog in 2002.  This and the yogurt shop case are probably the two biggest unsolved local cases.  

    2. Yes.  He's rich too - won the lotto as a I recall.  

     

  2. Godammnit, I thought I was a negative Nancy. You guys are depressing the fuck out of even me. 

    But I agree with most of what's being said. 

    What's more troublesome than having a fuckstick offensive staff is that Herman hired these fucksticks in the first place and continues to employ them. During the Mack years, I used to delude myself into thinking "if we just dumped assistant coach x and hired super duper assistant y, we'd be set."  But the last decade of being kicked around as fan has taught me that it always, always starts at the top. If you have shitty assistants, it means you have a poor decision maker at the top. If you have a poor decision maker at the top, well then you likely have a shit program, recruiting be damned. See Strong, Charlie. 

    But I don't really want to think about this all too much because it takes me to a dark place. 

  3. We cut the cord 2 years ago and haven't missed cable a bit. We use vue and it's pretty good.

    Dropping all the time warner shit on their desk when I cut the cord was incredibly satisfying. I felt like I was in the movies throwing a cheating spouse's shit out the window.

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  4. 1 hour ago, icanhazLHN? said:

    I drive for Uber some weekends. Drove last night and gave Carter a ride from west campus to 6th. From the way he was talking, I would not peg him as a transfer candidate at all. I asked him if he was gonna take the starting job this year, he said it's already done and gave me the shhh.

    Also had Burt and Kirk Johnson in my car last weekend. Couldn't get a lot of info out of them, but Burt did say they don't expect Herman to be calling plays this season and that Herman has lightened up quite a bit this year compared to last. Johnson said he is healthy now and he expects to have a better season than Foreman did in his last year and that he plans on getting drafted after this season. He's got the confidence thing going for him at least.

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  5. 32 minutes ago, Rick Blaine said:

    The following is the text of those parts of the interview that I found particularly telling when it comes to last year's Tim Beck-called offense. You hear this and you say, "Herman gets it. He's got to have seen how bad Beck was fucking things up. Why in the hell didn't he step in earlier?"

     

    "get's it" is not really what I think of when I hear this. Gets it would have been avoiding an obvious and predictable outcome (that Joe Fan warned him about) in the first place.  

  6. Tim Beck quotes from 995:

    tl;dr Beck sucks, but takes his emasculation like a pro.  

     

    Texas offensive coordinator Tim Beck addressed the media for the first time since speaking before last year’s bowl game. Here are the highlights of his media availability:

    - I asked Beck how he handled Tom Herman’s decision to call plays in the bowl game, and if he is comfortable with his current role. Beck said, “Well, I think it was one of those things that Tom just felt like [he wanted to do] to get involved in the game. We kind of collaborated quite a bit in that. I don’t know if it was direct. I didn’t take it that way. I didn’t take it like a direct we’re not going to do that. It was more like, ‘Hey. I can help. Let me get involved. Give me your eyes up there kind of deal.’ That’s just how I took it. Hey, I’m a professional here. Coach is the head coach, and he makes those decisions. My job is to go do whatever he asks me to do, as hard as I can do it, and that’s what I did.”

    - In addition, Beck said there has not been a discussion this spring about Herman calling plays again.

    - Beck on Herman understanding the offensive challenges after deciding to call plays: “There were probably situations through the course of the game that it was true for him. More like, ‘Now I know.' I think that could have been true. I’m pretty sure that was true for him during the course of the game.”

    When asked to assess his quarterbacks, Beck said Sam Ehlinger and Shane Buechele play like older guys. Beck said both quarterbacks are calmer that last year. Meanwhile, Casey Thompson and Cameron Rising’s heads are swimming, according to Beck. However, Beck said he is impressed with the freshmen quarterbacks, and said they are talented and smart: “But when you get out here, and the bullets fly, they struggle a little bit.”

    - Beck said if one quarterback runs away with the quarterback competition this spring, a starter could be named. He does not believe Texas needs to name a starting quarterback by the end of this spring.

    - Beck said play-action could be a big part of this offense if Texas has success running the football.

    - Herman added offensive line coach Herb Hand in the offseason, and Becks loves working with him. Beck described Hand as a positive guy who is knowledgeable.

    - Beck said Hand has good thoughts about the run and pass game. Hand will have input in the game plan, but Beck noted offensive assistants share their ideas each week that implemented.

    - Beck said the offensive line is a little older, have experienced a season with a new staff, and understand practice expectations. The coaches are able to focus on fundamental and technique since the foundation was laid last year.

    - Beck said Jerrod Heard was forced to move around last year (quarterback to receiver), hindering his development. Heard has shown a lot of improvement this spring because he has been able to focus on one position, according to Beck.

    - Devin Duvernay is playing harder and making big catches during practice, according to Beck.

    - Beck said everyone can coach differently because the leadership within the team has improved: “If a guy doesn’t have good ball security, the players are on the player, not the coaches on the player. [That is when] your program, culturally, is getting to where it needs to be. There’s much more of that. Guys not running off the field. We got Lil’ Jordan (Humphrey) telling this player, ‘Hey, that is not what we do. Turn around, go back to hash and run off the field.’ That would have never happened last year. To have guys that are actually doing that, that’s good. It does change you a little bit because they’re policing themselves a lot more in some of the detail work.” 

    - The biggest offensive goal this spring is running the football better, according to Beck. That is Beck’s greatest emphasis right now. Protecting the football is another important goal: “We were 5-1 when we won the turnover battle. We were 1-4 when we lost the turnover battle. The old adage of if you don’t hang onto to the football, you lose games is pretty real for us. Penalties. A lot of offensive penalties, especially in the fourth quarter. A lot of them. I want to say we had 52 offensive penalties, and I think 25 of them were in the fourth quarter just on offense.”

    - Beck said they evaluated every running play and made tweaks this offseason to improve. That includes blocking schemes, reading defenses, alignment. In addition, Beck said having big tight ends this year will help the run game.

  7. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I remember the transgressions of Andrew Jackson and how he killed all those Native Americans.

    I can’t believe he got away with that.

     

     

    Mary Jo Kopechne never scalped any settlers.  

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