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11 minutes ago, texifornia said:
This underwhelms you? Really?
Compared to the offensive side, yeah I think so. Which of those guys is a true difference maker other than Perkins?
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Gerry's best case scenario class seems a little meh on defense outside of DB.
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32 minutes ago, utfan87 said:
It’s because he has 7v7. He announced he was committing on July 4th months ago because he already knew where he was going. This changes nothing. Damn pussy
Good call. Recruits never set a commitment date without having everything already figured out.
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That Gucci thing might be the ugliest piece of shit I've ever seen in my life.
8 hours ago, Superhero said:This thread makes me feel poor. Curious what the household income range is for you guys. 100K - $200K, $200K - $300K, $300K+?
My wife and I make good money, but I'd find it hard to pull a trigger on anything > $3K for myself without a LOT of hemming and hawing.
Like @Sam Lin said, a lot of it is personal priorities. I'm not nearly the collector that some in this thread are and I'm not Surly 1%, but I have a couple of nice watches that most people would consider "expensive". On the other hand, the TVs in my house are 15 year old 720p LCDs, whereas some people want to have the newest 4K OLED. I drive a Toyota, other people want to drive an Audi.
The other thing is that lots of people that are into watches buy and sell them pretty frequently. Few people have a drawer full of $10k watches collecting dust. The right kind of watch will hold its value fairly well, so it's different from spending $10k on a vacation and then that money is gone forever.
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10 hours ago, Incredulity said:
Too much money chasing too few assets. Inflation, how does it work?
Fed says it’s NBD. Don’t you believe them?
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There’s always an uncle
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2 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:
Good job. That frees up space for your wife to get more crap.
Hell yeah. To be fair to her though, I am the crap-keeper in our family. Not pictured above is her standing just out of frame rolling her eyes. She just doesn’t understand that I NEED to keep all 4 boxes of my late dad’s water-damaged baseball card collection.
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Fuck everything, I’m going to start panicking regarding Banks.
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First Bear, then Perkins. Very interesting. I'm half expecting a surprise Kamari Wilson visit now.
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52 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:
Looking at all the OV's scheduled this month it looks Anderson and Banks are really the only two head-to-heads we're going up against aggy for. Throw in Bama' on the Anderaon recruitment.
Then you have a bunch of guys that we kinda know where they may be leaning like Hutson, Dewberry, and Harris.
Sweet baby Jesus I hope I’m wrong but Banks is starting to feel like one of those recruitments where our $9.95ers tell us nothing but Texas leads for months on end and then he commits somewhere else “out of the blue”.
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Just remembered I never wrapped this thread up. I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for the big conclusion.
Attached 3/4” plywood decking. My joists weren’t perfectly spaced so I had to cut the plywood which I was nervous about getting straight but it turned out fine. Trimmed the excess plywood all the way around after I screwed it down.
Putting in the attic stairs was probably the hardest part of the whole thing. I kind of went crazy with the Simpson hangers in framing out the opening. Actually walked over to a house under construction in my neighborhood to cheat and see how they were doing it. Lots of measuring and cutting to get the hole size just right. Damn near dropped the entire staircase unit through the hole one night. In retrospect I should have used one of the joists as one side of the frame for the stairs. That occurred to me way too late. Next time.
Final thing was tacking a 2x2 all the way around the edge to keep shit from sliding off and cuz I like the way it looks.
This thing feels sturdy as hell and as you can see we’ve already loaded it up with a ton of crap. Thanks all for the pointers.-
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19 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:
Had no idea he only played in a single NFL game and has been waived by 5 teams in 2 years.
Don't worry, he made a fortune selling #WRTS t-shirts.
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45 minutes ago, gmr548 said:
That seems to by the staff’s approach. Two and three really aren’t that different depending where you draw the “worth the time” line. It’s not like Oklahoma doesn’t feast on transfers, and this staff is obviously utilizing that option aggressively. It’s the extremely dirty and naïve ends of the spectrum that stand out.Yeah I don't understand the difference between CTJ's #3 and #4. Seems like there's only 3 options:
- play the game balls deep
- play the game but be cool about it
- don't play the game
Regarding NIL, maybe I just fundamentally don't understand what it is, but I think recruits are being sold a bill of goods there. Not just by us, but by everyone. Starting QBs will do well, plus maybe star WRs, RBs, and DBs. But ain't nobody going to be lining up to pay OL for their likeness or cast 2nd string sophomore DL in HEB ads (when they're open). Am I a dunce and it's actually just a (wink, wink) way to funnel otherwise shady money to players on the team? Like Big Red Autos or whatever OU was doing, but in a gray area instead of strictly forbidden?
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36 minutes ago, FunkSoulBrother said:
Not sure if I should ask this in this thread or the 2023 one but how confident are we that we’ll land one of Ewers or Manning?
We're not getting Ewers. The $9.95ers are just keeping that alive for clicks.
People seem to feel legitimately pretty good about Manning. Apparently the family likes Sark a lot. Let's be realistic, though - there's at least 18 months left until he can sign, and all the national powerhouses will be recruiting him. If someone told me that we had like a 25% shot at this juncture, I'd feel pretty good about that.
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Fuck it, I hope we jump into the Bear sweepstakes. Show everyone that this battle station is fully armed and operational, Sark.
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So we're just glossing over TFB claiming that Gatson is a silent?
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I feel like this right now.
Y’all got any of them commits?-
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Williams looks really good in those clips but his size is definitely not ideal. Also apparently no one has ever mentioned to the OL at that camp that it’s ok to move their feet a little bit.
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15 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:
lol at Aggy getting into a money fight with GA, I thought the SEC recruited like gentlemen
I'm legit curious how this works. It's just a straight up bidding war until the ink is dry on signing day? What's any program's incentive to purchase a commitment if the player is going to keep shopping around?
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17 minutes ago, Bevo said:
I am a simple farmer. Guilbeau says that he is recruiting Mr. Anderson and a $9.95er says that Mr. Anderson is recruiting Guilbeau. Guilbeau is said to now be locked into Texas. Anderson is taking visits. Anderson may be likely to end up at Texas, but he isn't visiting SEC just because he wants to see Ala-fucking-bama. I guess that means nothing is set until the ink dries, but it doesn't necessarily give me the warm fuzzies either. Not being a pussy, but I think it just kind of spells out that recruiting this year is kind of precarious - a bad year or a strong monetary push by Alabama could have a huge impact on our class.
I read it as Anderson is a silent. Sounds like he and Guilbeau are bros and are mutually recruiting each other to Texas. That jibes with rumors of Anderson being a silent for quite a while now.
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Was reading a Washington Post article from December saying the lowest 30yr fixed rate was 2.67% last year but I swore it got lower than that around August.Could you have gotten 2.5 somewhere if you got people with good pricing to compete hard and paid a little to of points at a couple points in time last year? sure. But not For any appreciable amount of time. 2.75 was pretty common for much of the year. 2.625 was attainable for a short period of time. 2.5 would have been a huge fluke.
http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms
Those are national averages. Looks like the bottom was about 2.65% right around the new year. I personally was able to get 2.5% right at the end of February by paying something like half a point. I think there’s tons of people out there that either don’t know they can shop around, or don’t care to. -
16 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Being over a generational type QB recruit is idiotic. Imagine being “over” a Trevor Lawrence or a Vince Young.
Obviously we should all care a great deal where he ends up, but I'm firmly in the camp of "wake me up on signing day" regarding Ewers. There's going to be a constant stream of these little rumors and innuendos until the ink is dry. There's no point in following every little thing, it's all just to generate clicks or Twitter likes due to the nature of the situation.
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So y'all are saying the secret to success is to only make good deals? By God, you just might be onto something there.
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Caption contest, go.
"Jaydon, how much would you say you like football?"