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  1. 38 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    You and IT horns below average are the scariest teams left in my opinion. Of course anything can happen, but I really didn't want this side of the bracket. 

    Yeah I'm pretty satisfied with the way my team has rounded into form late in the year. I'm really hoping the Dolphins with nothing to play for and Achane a little banged up don't start managing his reps.

    Definitely anything can happen. All 6 playoff teams are separated by less than 100 total points over the course of the regular season. It's like a 7 ppg difference between #1 and #6.

  2. I decided to go with Pitts over Kelce at like 7 pm last night. This might be the first time in my life that a fantasy football decision has gone my way.

    Now fully expecting the rest of my team to fumble on their first touch, sprain their ankle, and sit out the final 58 minutes of their games. 

  3. 26 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Every $9.95er and in the know poster in here has been consistent in saying they will go after multiple OL and remake the line and you find that interesting? 

    The certainty about the number 3 is what I find interesting. For Sark and Flood to go from "we have never taken a portal OL in our time at Texas" to "we will get 3 starters from the portal this year" is a big leap that I won't believe until I see.

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  4. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    Explain to the rest of us how you're viewing Vasek as "depth". I don't mean selling us on potential, because that shit doesn't pay the rent. How is this dude "depth" from your perspective?

    If Texas wants to add actual depth at Edge that has a history of production and, you know, being able to play in most games, they very well can sell their rotation to quality targets in the portal. The notion that they can't is flatly debunked by the reality that they have already done it. 

    I'm not saying that anything is certain until someone actually gets in the motherfucker, but if Vasek has a 6 figure ask, I wouldn't blame Texas for encouraging him to go find it and then bringing in someone else in his stead. If the dude is free? Sure, keep him and get another guy anyway if you're worried about "depth". 

    Texas will likely have 40+ guys on its roster from last season (2025) on there next season (2026), plus transfers and true freshmen. That's plenty of depth that isn't just "starters or true freshmen". Some of you guys are handwringing like middle managers who might have to fire someone for the first time.

    Vasek's just an example. If they feel like he's not over the injury stuff, or he's not actually good enough to hold the fort in the event of a Lance Jackson injury, then sure cut him loose. But it's interesting to me reading this thread and others around Surly, and you'll find damn near every player who isn't a surefire starter or a freshman discussed as a transfer possibility. And on an individual, player-to-player basis, that makes total sense. But we do have to fill out a depth chart, whether it's with guys that are already here or ones from the portal.

    I mentioned Vasek specifically because I was looking at our depth chart at edge the other day. You've got Simmons and Jackson as your starters. Great. Spence mixing in, that's good. Then Zina, who I feel like I haven't seen much about, and Orogbo who I'm almost certain I saw something along the lines of "promising but not ready". I'd say you need at least one more body in that mix. You can go to the portal and get the edge version of, I dunno, Cole Brevard, to come in and join the rotation and it likely works out OK. But it's not free; by definition you have to pay that guy more than what his current team is willing or able to pay him. Not to mention you don't really know what kind of guy he is, don't have a great handle on his medicals, etc.

    The post I responded to was concerned with losing the sort of "middle class" of our roster. Guys that probably ain't gonna end up stars but can fill out the depth chart. To be perfectly honest, I don't remember Vasek hardly at all this season but the official stats claim he played in all 12 games. Seems like he could fall into that category, unless, as you say, the ask is nonsense.

  5. 2 hours ago, LCHorn said:

    I know we're supposed to think these guys are super jaggy, but we're also losing a lot of depth/development pieces in the secondary.  

    Right now our in-house options are Jonah Williams to replace Taafe and true frosh Zelus Hicks.

    2nd string nickel is a walk-on who's major contribution is making the honor roll twice.  In the Big 12.    

    Obviously this exaggerates things because we can move guys around (Gerry and Bobby think Kobe Black goes to safety, for example), but I think it's going to be hard to recruit back-ups into programs, which basically means you're churning through portal dudes every season and selling them on playing in a rotation (and then they portal back out when it's clear they don't have the athleticism/experience to start).  

     

    I had some of the same thoughts about Vasek, as he's come up some on here recently. Obviously there's injury concerns in his case, but to me that seems like a guy you'd like to keep around because you need depth that you feel good about playing. The roster can't just be badass starters, freshmen behind them, and nothing else. As you say, getting experienced guys out of the portal to fill out your 2nd string probably isn't going to be very easy.

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  6. 1 minute ago, Baboontyme said:

    I think Runaway Railway is permanently closed fyi. 

    The Christmas party should be a blast. We did Halloween one year when my kids were like 8 and 5 and they loved it. 

    Yeah everyone says the Christmas party is cool, but we did Disneyland for spring break this year and my 8 year old never made it all the way to the fireworks. She crashes hard. We'll see.

    Not seeing anything about Runaway Railway at first glance. I do know that Big Thunder Mountain is gonna be closed while we're there, which is a bummer.

  7. 21 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Easy to give you info knowing your kids ages and if they'll ride anything. all of WDW is easier without height restrictions lol

    theres no any real true strategy of single ride, you buy and pick a time, then be in that part of the park close to that time. I try not to criss cross parks(easier said than done). You can get by with it at MK and HS because theyre not very big in terms of land mass. plenty of shortcuts. but AK and Epcot are huge so try to keep the criss crossing to a minimum or you'll wear out.

    for single ride strategies: 

    MK: I wouldn't buy a 7D single pass if you rope drop 7D. our last MK day back in April, we rope dropped 7D and we were got in line around by the teacups. when they started letting us in we were off the ride in like 25 minutes so still had 10-15 min of rope drop. I'd buy Tron- you cant technically "rope drop" tron. you can line up either inside the queue or outside of the ride entrance, im not sure...but Tron doesn't start operating until park open.


    HS: Rise is either a rope drop or single pass. if you single pass you can either rope drop slinky or my personal favorite: single pass rise, multipass LL slinky as your tier 1, and then rope drop rock n roller coaster, tower of terror and either runaway railway or toy story mania. probably could get those 3 done in 45 min. Everybody is either going left to Rise or right to slinky for rope drop

     

    Epcot: Id rope drop guardians and buy a single pass. You want to ride guardians more than once if you haven't been on it. Id even close out the night and ride it 3 times so long as you get in line 1 minute before park close. so 8:59 if park closes at 9. 

     

    AK: Everyone in line rope drops flight of passage. Id single pass it as it has ridiculous standby times almost all day, and rope drop expedition everest(2nd best ride in WDW after guardians). you could ride everest 3 times in 30 min easily then head over to the safari. Id book safari LL for the morning. they say animals are more active so I just roll with it. sometimes ive seen people say they get active towards park closing and AK is a ghost town about an hr or 2 before close.

    what resort are you staying at or are you offsite? 

    Thanks. You and @mdmost crush this thread.

    We're staying at Wilderness Lodge. Four days in the parks but I think we're skipping Animal Kingdom. Maybe two days in Hollywood, can't remember what my wife said. We're also doing the Christmas party one night. The mouse fucking owns my ass right now (but it's gonna be awesome, I'm pumped).

    edit: for MK and HS, the strategy I came up with on my own is pretty similar to what you have. I've got Epcot fucked up though. Didn't realize that Guardians is the best ride. The plan I came up with was to rope drop Test Track, get a multipass for Remy's, and buy a single pass for Guardians. What do you think?

  8. 13 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    LOL i wouldnt go that far, Im still perfecting my craft. 

    @tokamak check out ear scouts on youtube. search "ear scouts LL multipass  strategy videos" Make sure youre not watching genie plus, thats the old system.  Hes made a video for each park going back the last 10-14 months. i agree with a lot of what he says on them. 

     

    Without boring you with a wall of words, our main strategy with the new(well newish, it was implemented in  summer 2024) is after we rope drop, our first LL we book will be in the area we rope drop. so magic kingdom you can only do fantasy & tomorrow land for rope drop. when its 9AM (official park open time 99% of the time) have a LL ready for 9AM. usually on a burner ride in fantasy or tomorrow land. what i mean by burner is not a popular ride so: tea cups, small world, mermaid, dumbo, barnstormer etc. once you key into that first LL, you can start booking other tier 1 rides.

     

    So just hypothetically a MK morning for us could be: rope drop 7 dwarves from 8:15-8:45, go to pooh or peter pan 8:45-9:05ish, and go to tea cups to scan in and then pick a tier 1 ride from list below. IF YOURE PARK HOPPING YOU CAN BEGIN BOOKING RIDES FOR NEXT PARK. you can't mix rides from differnt parks at initial booking, all 3 have to be from the same park. 

     

    when you book out your LLs 7 days before your trip if youre at resort, you can only do one tier 1 ride(popular rides), and 2 tier 2(not so popular). again theres so much to this, I could write for paragraphs on scenarios.  I have no idea how well acquainted you are with the parks and if you know where everything is. if you do thats a plus, if you dont, this is going to be very overwhelming.

     

    start with ear scout videos and go from there. may need to watch twice to get the gist of it all. 

    Once you kinda get whats going on from ear scouts, youll need to know the rides and tiers.

     

    https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/lightning-lane-passes/?ef_id=Cj0KCQiArt_JBhCTARIsADQZaymW0_ZUo_ZWXGwFaZ_Dm-Ms6btFSvOg73tm1jWgXSk_0pj5umYQtTcaAnYBEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!5060!3!715803514235!b!!g!!disney world lightning lane!14930568130!167044770366&CMP=KNC-FY26_WDW_TRA_EROC_W365_SCP_LTLN_Lightning_Lane|G|5261213.RR.AM.01.01|MGGLB5H|BR|715803514235&keyword_id=kwd-1671044360314|dc|disney world lightning lane|715803514235|b|5060:3|&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=14930568130&gbraid=0AAAAAD_M-kZvoOjIr-TK5_3DHuUHe2Nwx&gclid=Cj0KCQiArt_JBhCTARIsADQZaymW0_ZUo_ZWXGwFaZ_Dm-Ms6btFSvOg73tm1jWgXSk_0pj5umYQtTcaAnYBEALw_wcB#drawer-card-drawerMagicKingdom

     

    the single pass attractions are rides you pay to ride, they arent available for LLMP, but you buy it and pick a time,  you use hte lightning lane ride and go to the front. 

    sorry for the rambling, im still holding back so much more.

    Thanks. What’s your strategy with the single pass rides? Do you just book those for whenever, or is it better to rope drop those rides so you can ride them for “free” and then do a LL later in the day if you want to ride it again. 
     

    My kids are 11 and 8 btw but are down for any ride Disney can throw at them (coasters, etc). 

  9. 3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    None of that matters. More money is more money. People who base their entire worth on having more of it, even at a school like Texas, will take it. This is just some simple human psychology and how greed will inevitably lead to Texas doing this. It won’t be right now or even in the near future, but as sure as the sun rises everyday it’ll happen. Aggy is the one I am eagerly waiting on with this. They’ll take the money and try to make the Tackle Box seat 200,000 fans.

    Individual seats? You sound poor. It is high time that some forward-thinking visionary builds the first ever luxury suite-only stadium. Think of the monetization!

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