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Anyone who thinks this is anything other than a huge deal is very disconnected. Charlie Kirk was massively popular among young men, who everyone knows skew increasingly conservative. This is going to radicalize a lot of them and further entrench them in their views for years to come. The fact that it came right on the heels of the Ukrainian girl's murder, which itself seems to be mobilizing people is not good. At all.
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God help me, I have to spend a night in Fayetteville!
HookEm replied to locodos's topic in Food and Travel
3/4 of the students at Arkansas are from Texas. As such, Fayetteville is very Texan friendly in my experience. My daughter goes to school there. There whole area hits above its weight with quality of restaurants. On the downside, there are no nice hotels that I’m aware of. We always end up at the Hyatt Place (which is decent as far as that chain goes). Geraldi’s is probably my favorite place to eat. Right by campus and legit Italian. Atlas is a good high end spot downtown. Giusinger Cocktail Club is a great cocktail bar on the main square. Buttered Biscuit is a good breakfast. Wood Stone pizza is a nice local pizza chain. I could easily retire up there. Prices are reasonable and it is beautiful. We need nonstop flights from Austin. -
I’m here to talk about the current season. The constant pics are annoying.
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What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
HookEm replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Football
This is the correct take. The thing that separates UT unis from the other schools is our super clean burnt orange and white. And there isn't a spec of black on it. A beautiful burnt orange shirt with black on it just ruins it. Orange Nike shoes with black on them are ruined. C'mon this isn't difficult. Two colors. Burnt orange and white. -
Once Mark moved to point guard in the postseason, he averaged 3.8 assists per game. That isn't great, but he was definitely distributing the ball better from that position. Also, Mark, Pope, and Weaver can all shoot the ball. None are amazing, but with continued improvement it should be enough to keep the defense honest. Mark shot 37% from 3 in conference last year and 36% across 50 conference games the last 3 seasons at UT, Arky and UH. Pope struggled from 3 in conference last year (31%), but shot 37% on 5+ attempts in 40 PAC10 conference games at Oregon St. Weaver barely took any 3s in conference last year, but is a 36% shooter from deep over his career (on low attempts) Additionally, we have: Cam Heide - He is a career 40% 3pt shooter, admittedly on low volume. Declan Duru - Shot 36% from 3 in 7 games for Germany U19 world cup (on ~3 attempts per game) On another note, I think the lineups above by Gerry are completely missing Lassina Traore. He may end up being our best player. He was set to one of the 1-2 top players at Xavier last year before his injury and is a 2x 1st team all conference player. Assuming he is healthy, he is going to be a big factor for us. I would like to see him get 25+ mpg. I think it will be less common for us to go with small lineups given the number of big bodies who will need to see minutes. Swain, Duru and Heide all need minutes and can play SF or PF. Traore and Codie can play PF or C. Vokietaitis is a pure C. I doubt that John Clark and Lewis Obiorah are going to get much playing time. I will also be surprised if Nic Codie earns more than 10 mpg unless he has improved a lot. Duru looks like he is physically ready to come in and contribute immediately. Here is a possible rotation: Starters: Wilcher, Mark, Swain, Traore, Vokietaitis - An imposing lineup to set the tone physically Rotation 1: Wilcher, Weaver, Heide, Swain, Traore - High energy unit to change the pace Rotation 2: Mark, Pope, Heide, Duru, Traore - Our best shooters with Traore to clean the glass Rotation 3: Mark, Pope, Duru, Codie, Vokietaitis - Another big lineup Closers: Mark, Weaver, Pope, Swain, Traore - Most experience together and our most mature players. Plus good ball handling and FTs.
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Wait just a second here. You aren’t allowed to compare a white player with a historic black player. Or vice versa. We have rules!!! Jordan Barnett is a decent comp. Can’t think of too many more. I think Heide is a better rebounder than Barnett. Last year, Heide averaged 11.1 rebounds per 100 possessions, which is pretty solid.
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That was some Usain Bolt level incredible human achievement by Lutkenhaus. Unreal time. My mind can’t even comprehend it.
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Yeah. I assume this year we will finish in the 6-10 range in the SEC. Any better would be a big accomplishment in year 1 given the strength of the league. That means we will wind up with a team like Notre Dame, NC State, Virginia, Syracuse or Pitt. We are going to have to improve a lot to get matched up with Duke or UNC.
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Regarding schedules, we typically have 9 home OOC games, plus 0-2 away games, plus a tournament or two. Not sure how realistic it is, but this is how I would design the OOC schedule from a fan perspective: An elite tournament - Ideally Maui invitational or Battle 4 Atlantis. That likely gives us: a top-50 game + a top-25 game + a top-10 depending on how many we win One elite home and home against: Kansas, Duke, UNC, UConn, Michigan St, Gonzaga, UCLA, Michigan One ACC challenge home and home against a team in the top-half of that conference: Duke, UNC, Virginia, Louisville, Syracuse, FSU, Miami, or NC State One 2 for 1 against a strong Texas historic rival: Baylor, Tech, Houston One 2 for 1 against a solid small conference team: Creighton, Seton Hall, Wichita State, VCU, UNLV, George Mason, Marquette, Belmont, Davidson, etc. 4 home games against other UT-system schools (most in the 100-200 range): UTSA, UT Arlington, UTEP, Stephen F Austin, UTRGV 3 home teams against bottom feeders with preference for Texas schools (all in the 300+ range): Houston Christian, New Orleans, whatever. I would try to arrange it such that when we are away for the ACC challenge, we get an elite home game from #2 above. And I would stagger the H&H against the solid Texas schools with the solid small conference team so we always get at least of them at home, and sometimes two.
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My bad. Misread the chart. Still, it was our best 3 year stretch with a Final Four and two sweet 16s. And we played almost no good OOC teams at home over that period. Here are our OOC home opponents since 2000 that finished with a top-100 computer ranking. Top 10 is orange. Top-25 is blue Rick Barnes = 12 top-25 and 27 top-100 teams in 16 years 2000 - Arizona (13), San Diego (70) 2001 - Illinois (4), Cal (35), Utah (67) 2002 - Arizona (10), Providence (86) 2003 - 2004 - Wake Forest (16) 2005 - Memphis (51), UNLV (79) 2006 - Villanova (4), Tennessee (16) 2007 - Arkansas (41) 2008 - Wisconsin (6), Oral Roberts (76), St. Mary's (51) 2009 - UCLA (14) 2010 - Michigan St (19), USC (63), 2011 - UConn (5), Arkansas (87) 2012 - Temple (40) 2013 - North Carolina (21) 2014 - Michigan St (6), SF Austin (76), Vanderbilt (90) 2015 - Stanford (38) Shaka Smart = 5 top-25 / 12 top-100 teams in 6 years 2016 - North Carolina (3), UConn (31), Vanderbilt (36) 2017 - Alabama (58), UT Arlington (77) 2018 - Michigan (6), Ole Miss (90) 2019 - Purdue (11), VCU (57), Providence (66) 2020 - LSU (35) 2021 - Villanova (15) Chris Beard = 3 top-25 / 4 top-100 teams in 2 years 2022 - Tennessee (8) 2023 - Gonzaga (2), Creighton (19), Louisiana (99) Rodney Terry = 1 top-25 / 1 top-100 team in 2 years 2024 - 2025 - UConn (18) Sean Miller (projected) = 0 top-25 / 1 top-100 team in 1 year 2026 - Virginia (~90) Barnes, Shaka and Beard all played about the same number of elite and top-100 teams on average. The only tenure that really stands out was Rodney Terry. Not only were there almost no elite or even average opponents, the dregs of the schedule were truly bottom feeders. It looks like more of the same for Sean Miller's first year. Time will tell if this is a result of the new NIL / SEC environment or if it will adjust back to the type of scheduling we had from 2000-2023.
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Let's not kid ourselves, our home schedule is always trash. As an example, lets look at the 3-year stretch from 2001-2004 that was our best in program history (Final Four and two Elite 8s). This is who we played outside of conference those years. 2001-2002 Home: Arizona (10), Providence (86), McNesse St (138), UT RVG (161), Wash St (203), Jacksonville (206), TAMU CC (245) Away: Stanford (12), Utah (55), UNLV (75) Neutral / Preseason Tourney: Indiana (6), Gonzaga (25), Oregon St (109) 2002-2003 Home: Princeton (139), Louisiana Tech (172), SFA (181), UTA (211), McNeese St (215), Mt St Mary's (299) Away: Arizona (1) Neutral / Preseason Tourney: Georgia (13), Notre Dame (17), Seton Hall (58), George Washington (128) 2003-2004 Home: George Washington (64), New Orleans (156), Centenary (182), Brown (203), UTA (222), Wofford (270), SHSU (274) Away: Providence (28) Neutral / Preseason Tourney: Duke (1), Arizona (29) That's right. ONE home game against a team in the top-50 over that 3-year stretch. Granted, we played more teams in the 100-200 range, but I hate that. You can lose those games and it kills your seeding, but you get no credit for the wins. On the plus side, we played a good number of elite teams. But they were hardly ever at home.
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We aren’t the premier public Ivy
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Today we went on a 6 hour boat tour of Kenai Fjords National Park. It was spectacular. We saw a group of 11 humpback whales feeding. And two groups of orcas.
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Today we drove down to Seward. Beautiful drive. Going on a boat tour of Kenai Fjord National Park tomorrow.
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Up in Alaska for a week. First part of the trip was at Matanuska glacier where my son is leading tours. Pretty awesome place. Last night we went up to Talkeetna and caught a glimpse of Denali. At first I was annoyed that the clouds were covering the mountain… the I realized it actually WAS the mountain.
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A lineup of Tramon Mark, Chendall Weaver, Cam Heide, Dailyn Swain and Lassina Traore would not be what I would consider slow. Weaver will likely be the most athletic guy on the court. I wonder how much better Xavier would have been last year if Traore wouldn’t have gotten hurt. I think he is going to be awesome for us.
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FYI - Here are the international players on the roster Lassina Traore - Abidjan, Ivory Coast Matas Vokietaitis - Marijampole, Lithuania Lewis Obiorah - London, England Declan Duru - Munich, Germany
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That pic reminds me that I don't have to watch Kadin Shedrick ever again if I don't want to. Thankfully.
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Next week, I'm heading up to Alaska to visit my son who is running tours out on the Matanuska glacier. Should be fun. This is the glacier he is working on: And here is his home for the summer:
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Firefighters ambushed by gunman while responding to brush fire in Idaho
HookEm replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
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The state needs more good schools that don't put you $300K in debt.
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Tristan Thompson and Avery Bradley also had decent careers, but Tre should easily surpass them.
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Wondering how this would play if I did a Yelp review on my wife and gave her 5 stars. Need to workshop it. This may have legs.
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See below 2024 Presidential election results. By my maths, it was a spread of 32 pts between young men and women voters... If you don't see the ideological difference between young men and women right now, then I just have to assume you don't interact with very many people in that demographic. The difference between my daughter's female friends (at Arkansas), and my son's male friends (at UT) is staggering. And that doesn't even account for the fact that the overall population at Arkansas skews conservative and the population at UT skews liberal.
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This thread is something I think about often. I have a 20 yr old son, 19 yr old daughter, 17 yr old daughter. Here are the big contributors in my view: 1. A wide ideology gap that is growing wider Young women are far more liberal than they have been in my lifetime. I can see this in my kids and their friends. Young men are trending the other direction and the divide in ideology between the two is increasing. And when the ideology is that different, many women view men as "monsters" and are afraid of them. And the men view the women as "men haters" and want nothing to do with them. My son was routinely attacked in high school and at UT for offering up even moderate opinions. I'm sure you all have seen this chart before, but it definitely tracks my personal observations: 2. Women won't date less educated men This is another big one. Women are more educated than at any time in world history. For thousands of years, women have been socially programmed to want a guy who is at least as educated as themselves. And if the men are less educated, then they better be very successful / rich or they have zero shot. Well, now colleges are 60% made up of women. Who are all of these educated women going to date? Is a female engineer or boss babe going to date an auto mechanic? Not in my experience. So the women devote themselves to their work, rising in their organizations while collecting "bodies" in their casual dating, all the while becoming less attractive to the increasingly conservative young men. 3. Increased social isolation People are spending more time than ever alone. Remote work, remote school, decrease in social activities, decrease in faith-based and community activities, etc. have reduced the intersection points that fueled dating for previous generations. So people turn to dating apps, and only the top% of people end up getting all the action. This all starts when people are young and just gets worse as they get older.
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