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  1. 2 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Big Star Bar, The Shiloh Club, and Tall Texan are actual, real dive bars and still going strong. 

    Oh, I know my man. I've got too many Big Star blank nights to remember, and quite a few at the Tall Texan. Doesn't mean I still wouldn't have liked to have bellied up at the Dutchman. C&F Drive In also fits that description a little further east. 

  2. 2 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Concern? More irritation that these fucksticks are going to back their way into a generational back. Cancers in the locker room come from lack of playing time and losing. He’ll be an immediate starter, and their schedule is high school level until November.  Add that to Demas and they’ve got a very solid duo.  And NS connection opened up to boot.  I’d be much happier if they got the most non-cancerous highest moral 3* nobody over a potential bad apple who’s been talked about as the best back since AD. 

    Satya sock confirmed.

     

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  3. 6 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    Hmmm, our offense didn't fail miserably this past...season?

    No, just the team as a whole, including morale, etc. 

    Your points might be fair in the real world, but it doesn't matter, because in THIS reality that Herman has stated repeatedly is he hates being HC and OC, he doesn't think he has the time to do both effectively, and he's basically not going to fucking do it. So wish casting seems foolish. And at times our offense suffered tremendously this season under this dynamic. If you haven't figured out with his initial comfort hires, his reticence for firing anyone despite obvious systemic failures over the course of years until being forced to do so, and what looks like a new round of comfort hires, Herman is smarter than you, has it all figured out, and isn't all that open to change. So good luck changing his mind, sir. 

  4. 1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Flying Dutchman is long gone now. 

    Sigh. I always meant to check it out but never got around to it.

    At least I have what I assume is it's spiritual kin nearby, in Shady Acres saloon. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, Fud said:

    He got wrecked at camps while trying to play corner. Remember clips of Bijan beating DBs for touchdowns? Anyway, supposedly he didn't have a great senior year. 

    So far they've trapdoored like eight kids, and this is the second or third Louisiana kid. They've also trapdoored a Lancaster and a Shadow Creek kid; two talented big time Tex programs. Next up is supposedly Demon Clowney, with their lowly ranked TE as another potential trapdoor if they need to create room. Orgeron just doesn't give a fuck at this point, and if he wins a national championship, Louisiana locals won't give a shit about trapdoored kids. If their coaches get mad, the locals will run them off. 

    Supposedly, recently a highly rated WR committed to another school reached out to them, and they'll likely flip him. Guesses have been Georgia commit Rosemy and Oregon commit Johnny Wilson; both have teammates committed to LSU. 

    They're en fuego, although Clemson is flipping an LSU safety commit that they actually want. 

     

    Thanks.

     

    Someone above posted that Johnny Wilson is giving Arizona State a serious look. God I wish we could get Antonio Pierce. 

  6. Interesting addition to Patrick's Hood. That area already is pretty unique, and it's wonderful that the brewers and occupants all seem to loosely get along. There's Greater Heights and now Walking Stick, which has a great space. Next to Greater Heights there's a wine tasting room with a solid space for kids that the wife enjoys. You can do a really nice little afternoon crawl between Petrol Station, Walking Stick, Greater Heights, and the winery. Lots of food options between the places. And if you're a young, you can go to Wakefield Crowbar. Now a Distillery? Great little area. 

    Is the Flying Dutchman bar still around, or whatever that tiny bar was on that street way back? Also, Catty Corner bar till I die. 

  7. 11 hours ago, Homesickhorn said:

    It was initially inked to be an Irish Pub/Beer Garden. The (original) tenant made a name for himself over in the UK as a pub guru. Developer was stoked about this idea because of the potential tenant’s street cred over in the UK, so he was onboard.

    Fast forward to Lease execution; Plans are drawn, lawyers are cozy with each other, rent is agreed upon, and contingencies are waived. Then, at zero hour (literally at lease execution), the tenant informed the owner that he’s gonna do a completely different concept.

    Developer was livid, but had already spent so much on the tenant’s build out, TI allowance, and permitting that he was ready to just get the fucking thing signed (plus, the tenant’s credit is immaculate and his payment history with his UK stores check out).

    I might have been the first one that property owner/developer called when the tenant called no-joy after a whopping 4-5 months of operation.

    I love the location, but the parking is a joke, and I’m pretty sure the property has a grandfather clause that allows all of the six “street parking spaces” to count as coded parking for the square footage of the actual improved property (which is jack shit).

     

    TLDR; developer thought he was getting an authentic Irish Pub from a proven operator, but instead, the Irish operator went all hands on deck and committed conceptual suicide.

     

     

    I have a hard time imagining any concept being successful their, and that's before you take into account the indoor square footage for an irish pub as others said. There's zero parking, 90% of the space is outdoors which is prohibitive without shade and a motherfuck ton of fans and misters. The coverage that does exist is very high up, which means less actual shade. But the big glaring issue is that it sits right on top of a very busy, very fast moving Durham road. People don't want to bring their dogs there, and they don't want to sit at a table 8 feet from an SUV doing 40 mph through a curve while they eat their lunch. It's not a place I'd just chill and want to hang out at at street level. It was better off being a fucking car wash. 

  8. 14 minutes ago, Fud said:

    He was definitely trapdoored 

    That's an interesting trap door. Kid was underrated when aTm was all over him, but he blew up later. I haven't looked at his tape, but he's a highly ranked kid. Seemed like he was LSU good, plus from the boot. 

  9. 3 minutes ago, alphahorn said:

    This is interesting, Chip Long rumored that he's exploring other options and won't return to ND as OC

    https://footballscoop.com/news/sources-chip-long-unlikely-to-return-to-notre-dame/

    Welcome to Yesterday

    19 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

     

     

    19 hours ago, DanTheHorn said:

    Do not want the article reads like a Herman presser. Throw the players under the bus.

     

     

    Some folks say interesting. Other folks say Stagnant, predictable offense that beats up patsies and sucks against anyone with a pulse. Which sounds awfully familiar. 

  10. I think I hate Chip Brown less than I hate Wescott Eberts. And I'd like to see Chip Brown flayed alive and then slowly set on fire a bit at a time. Maybe extinguishing the fire with some acid at times. 

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  11. I'm not sure I saw it mentioned already, but in their last free update (which means it's probably a couple days old donor update) from yesterday, they said they believed if Harrell wasn't announced by Wednesday it would be time to move onto another candidate. I wonder if that's realistic or not, but hey, lets go ahead and throw some fucking gas on this tire fire. 

  12. 6 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    We just never chased him until like the season had already started and he'd been a tOSU commit for months.

    You might notice that our whole offensive staff except for Hand and (mystifyingly) Warehime has been fired or demoted, so, yeah.

    I’m not sure losing a stud player to tOSU when Texas  has been shit for years, they’re a perennial playoff contender, and have been successfully raiding Texas for the last 5-8 years or so qualifies as a fireable offense. Anymore than losing another stud 5* WR to them from the Austin area was a fireable offense. 

    But losing THIS guy, well fuck, that’s a bridge too far! At some point we need to fucking win. 

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  13. 2 hours ago, RGBIII said:

    Yes, I mean recruiting wise. I can’t think of any other backs that we were tied to that would be considered misses. We got our number one choice in Ingram in 2017, we missed big in 2018 with sanders and Cain (brown was unfortunate) and we hit big with Bijan (miss on Jordan). I’m not defending Drayton but it’s not like he has been a complete non factor. Maybe I’m too big on Bijan but the kid looks like an absolute monster. He also took rojo and made him a legit running back

    Maybe you’re counting your unhitched chickens 

  14. 3 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

    wouldn't say he had a great season...nevertheless, from all accounts he was an absolute horse's ass while on staff at LSU.  damn near everybody hated him.

     

    4 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Well he stood up to Orgeron and look where that got him.

     

    2 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    You've overstating how he did at LSU.  He was basically publicly castrated by Orgeron a game or two into the 2017 season

    I mean. Now I really, really, really want him to be the OC at Texas. Is that wrong?

  15. 4 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Another interesting Mizzu note:

    Missouri: At his presser, Eli Drinkwitz notes that he will serve as offensive coordinator and play caller, and that he will also have a special teams coordinator that exclusively coordinates the special teams units.

    I don't believe it. Calling plays and being a head coach is really, really....really really really hard, guys. 

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