sunset87
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Viewing Topic: Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
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2022 Volleyball - Stacked as Hell
Off tonight. Lots of tips. Serve receive rears its ugly head. Logan seems a bit off.
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Game Week West Virginia
Maybe get Milton more involved as well. He made a helluva catch on the sidelines in that last 21 second drive.
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2022 Volleyball - Stacked as Hell
I don't see a big difference between Caffey and Bergmark. Caffey is certainly the better athlete but she is shorter than Bergmark and likely not quite as effective blocking. I think Bergmark is better on the slide and Caffey is better on the quicks and middle sets in general. The thing about Caffey is she can get really heat up and bring some energy when she starts hammering the quicks. However, against a good blocking team, they will start timing up the block on the quicks which can limit Caffey's offense a bit. They both have the strengths and weaknesses and I personally like the energy Caffey brings. It's nice to have those 2 as options.
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2022 Volleyball - Stacked as Hell
The quick to Caffey is lethal. Texas has rarely run quicks with the middles for several years now. Never understood it, but now that Caffey is playing they’ve started running them. Even some with O’Neal. There hard to stop when run correctly.
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2022 Volleyball - Stacked as Hell
Minny is playing fast. Block is consistently late when Minny is in system.
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2022 Volleyball - Stacked as Hell
Looked pretty strong overall. Still need some work on middle opposite of O’Neal.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2023: Strippers, Monkeys, and 5-Stars
I guess, if you say so. But isn't he pretty similar to Ethan Burke in terms of size and weight. Watching the two play last year Vasek was every bit as good if not better than Burke, and looked a little bigger or at least not as skinny. If there's better options than I get it but if not, seems like a pretty good take.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
And that neatly sums up what's it all about to be an aggie. They are the undisputed national champions of, delusions of grandeur.
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Greenville Super Regional: Texas @ East Carolina
Playing really tight today. Better wake up.
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Greenville Super Regional: Texas @ East Carolina
Is that 3rd time in row Faltine has watched strike 3?
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Buying a New Vehicle in this environment
I bought a new car in Dallas about a month ago. After I finished the deal I asked the finance guy how business was going since things have changed. He said they were selling a little more than half the amount of cars (pre-Covid) but were making more money. Charging full MSRP, no negotiating. Also, almost all of the dealerships are putting on a bunch of after market crap and making ridiculous profits off of that stuff. This is what really pisses me off. I mean, Nitrogen in the tires $300, door guards (cheap tape) probably cost them $10/car, $300; Lojack systems you can buy for $50 using an app on your phone, $900, window tinting, etc... It's ridiculous what they are getting away with right now. He thought they would never go back to the old sales model. Why would they, there making more money and the sales are much easier. Shitty for the consumer though.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
"I'm a little teapot short and stout here is my handle here is my spout..."
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Texas vs Purdue - Sunday, 7:40pm on TNT
He's plenty athletic. He's shown a few glimpses of it during the season. He's just not playing with any aggression on offense, or at least very rarely.
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Texas vs Purdue - Sunday, 7:40pm on TNT
Yeah I don't know about that. You see lots of freshman, first year guys, show up ready to go with no hesitation whatsoever. He's still shell shocked on offense, it's pretty obvious by all the shots he passes up. When and if it clicks with him, it will be easy to see. And I definitely think he has time for that to happen.
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Texas vs Purdue - Sunday, 7:40pm on TNT
He played at a Mater Dei high school in California so a pretty big time program. I guess he left early to go to Kentucky. His numbers for his Junior year in hs were pretty solid but nothing exceptional (16 ppg and about 6 apg). He's smooth and a good athlete so I'm sure he projected quite well for the college level. It's all in his head. He's afraid of making a mistake on offense which takes away aggression and confidence. That's why he is playing hot potato when he has the ball. I mean, mentally he just wasn't ready for the jump to big time D1 basketball. The bigger question is, can he get past it. I think he can, but if it takes him too long he's going to get passed up. I'm betting Beard will be patient with him and it will pay off down the road.
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Texas basketball '21-'22: Welcome Chris Beard
I've seen Morris play. He's an athletic freak with a ton of upside, but his overall game still needs plenty of development. Carr has his issues but his overall game is still ahead of Morris's IMO. Morris brings a little different skill set than Carr so it's not apples to apples. I don't know what people's expectations are in regard to Morris but I don't see him coming in and immediately taking Carr's spot, assuming Carr comes back next year. He'll obviously play a ton and will be fun to watch.
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Texas vs Purdue - Sunday, 7:40pm on TNT
I think this is definitely it for Askew. You can tell that he is not looking for offense or to score when he has the ball, unless he has absolutely no choice. As soon as he touches the ball he's looking to pass or to dribble to pass. Some how Beard has to get him to be a more selfish offensive, attacking player. I think he has the skill set he just has to get over the mental hump.
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Big 12 Tournament
I know Barnes supposedly didn't like him. There are some posters here that know the back story about Drew, but I don't know specifics. I was under the impression that he pissed off a bunch of the Big 12 coaches during the Barnes era when he was building their program. He always, and I mean always has a couple of enforcer types on his team that seem to get away with murder during games, but don't foul out very often. He can coach and assemble a team, I'll give him that.
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2022 Transfer QB Quinn Ewers
We use to affectionately call those fisharitas, because the pitchers and glasses they were served in were cleaned in some skanky dishwater which gave them a nice fishy odor. This was especially the case when it was crowded at happy hour and the bar back would dip the pitchers and glasses in the skank water for about 2 seconds. They were in such a hurry that they didn't change the water very often. Always figured the everclear would disinfect... made sense at the time. We didn't notice the smell after a few anyway. Oh, and the picture of Ewers looks like some of the dudes that used to work there.
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2022 Transfer QB Quinn Ewers
I think it was across the street from Uncle SuSu’s, where Centennial is now. I think it was torn down with other buildings so they could build the condos. Probably in 82’ or 83’. SuSu’s was opened a little later.
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2022 Transfer QB Quinn Ewers
Nah, Valentine's was either on San Antonio or Nueces, north of 24th. They tore it down sometime in the mid-80's, as I recall, and built condos, maybe Centennial Condos.
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Texas @ Baylor - 11:00am ESPN2
I guess whenever we play a top 25 team on the road they are going shoot lights out.
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Texas at Texas Tech Tuesday Feb 1st, 2022 ESPN2 8pm CT
Tech fans are outraged at Beard for they way he left. Ok fine. I also know there's always two sides to every story and we are only hearing one side being screamed in our ear. The entire fan base seems to have intimate knowledge of every detail of how things went down. Maybe, maybe not. Color me skeptical. I do know the Tech fan base has the biggest chip on their shoulder of any group I've ever encountered (trust me on this I live in West Texas). They are the stalker ex. Also, Beard took the Tech job after already accepting the UNLV job. But hey, fuck UNLV, right Tech. I mean Beard was assistant at Tech prior to that so that's perfectly fine I guess. And spare me with the, it's not remotely the same situation. I know that, but I think it's funny that bit history is conveniently swept into the corner. Wonder how UNLV felt. He might do the same to UT at some point. He does have a history of trying to climb the ladder and he has apparently stepped on a few people along the way. Gee, that never happens. Somehow we'll have to put on our big boy pants and deal with it if it does.
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Energy Transition
Well Tinker is the director of the BEG which is the oldest research unit of UT. It’s the state geological survey of Texas. He worked for O&G in the past. But to say he’s is an “oil company shill” and the referenced presentation he did has been “debunked”, is flat out wrong. I’d love to hear about all this “debunking “ supposedly done. The guy has a pretty impeccable reputation and was asked to be the Assistant Secretary of Energy under Chu in the first term of the Obama administration. Not sure that would happen for an “oil company shill”.