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Ojo Rojo

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  1. I didn't have a dream job when I was a kid. Maybe astronaut because I liked Star Wars so much and I knew NASA was a thing. Probably the first job I actually wanted was to be a doctor because my grandfather was a doctor and he was probably the biggest influence on me when I was old enough to start thinking seriously about such things. I had an uncle who was a doctor and I knew some doctors' kids and they all seemed to have more and nicer shit than we did and they got to do more fun stuff than we did. My grandfather once told me, about money, "Money can't buy you happiness, but it's harder to be happy if you're poor." I took that to heart. One of my best friends had decided early on that he was going to medical school, largely for the same reasons I wanted to go. So that was my initial direction. Little did I know that college was going to be a lot harder than high school and it was nearly impossible to work 30-35 hours per week to make enough money for tuition and living expenses and make straight A's, which is pretty much what it took to get into med school. My grades after my first semester at UT pretty much cast the die. I wasn't going to medical school. After that, I had no direction whatsoever. I was pretty devastated that, for the first time in my life, I wasn't going to get to do what I wanted to do. That, and losing the girl who I thought was the girl of my dreams during that same first semester, was a double blow that took me out. Maybe I'm an overly sensitive pussy, but it took me a while to recover from those things. I picked a major at UT that I thought would at least allow me to get a degree. Something that I was interested in and that didn't involve physics or organic chemistry. So I got a degree in anthropology. It took me a while to finish it, for a lot of reasons. I thought it would be a non-event. The funny thing is that when I finally got that fucking piece of paper I felt pretty good about it. Right around that same time something happened at work that caused me to have to use the court system. My boss told me to go to small claims court to sue a customer who hadn't paid their bill. I walked it through, awkwardly, but I eventually got the constable to seize this guy's property and the very next day he showed up and paid his bill in full. That was my first taste of the law and how it worked. I was absolutely hooked. I immediately looked into whether my GPA was good enough to get into any law school. It was, barely, if I did well enough on the LSAT. I studied my ass off and got into a decent law school. I treated law school like my second chance. I worked really fucking hard. I wasn't top 10%, but my grades were good and I even excelled in the advocacy program (mock trial). Turns out, I was a natural. Looking back, I should have known, given my skill set and what makes me tick. There are days when I absolutely love being a lawyer. There are days when I absolutely hate it. I've never seriously thought about walking away from it though. I know for certain that this is the best use of my natural talents I could have possibly found. There might be other jobs where I would be happier, but I don't think there's anything out there that would give me the combination of things the law has given me. So, I don't have any regrets about where I ended up career-wise, for sure. I just wish I had found it sooner and that the journey had been less painful.
  2. Yes, exactly the point I was trying to make. And it's not just the paying of players then versus now, under the table or above board. The stakes are SO high and the results are almost totally dependent on recruiting that it just seems like a desperation game and just a dirty business altogether trying to convince these high school athletes that they should go to U of X. Negative recruiting has always happened, probably, but it just seems worse today. Now we have "handlers" and the whole "I'm taking my talents to..." thing; I just absolutely hate that. Maybe all of it has always been there. Either I just didn't know about it before or it's being spotlighted and exploited as content like never before. Regardless, it takes away from CFB for me and is slowly driving me away.
  3. Interesting thread, even though OP is disqualified from having a valid opinion on anything, in my book, due to his taste in women. I'll chime in with a couple of thoughts: 1. No one knows what's going to happen. The transfer portal and NIL might drastically change everything. It might create greater parity...or it might not. It might cause some teams to rise and others to fall...or it might not. It's going to take at least a couple more years to truly see the effects. 2. I agree that CFB has been more formulaic over the last few years. A bunch of stuff happens during the regular season and then the same four schools are in the playoff at the end. I have been genuinely surprised by this. I sure would have thought that we would have seen more different teams in the playoff than we have. But, it's pretty simple - if there are only four slots every year and the same four teams keep getting in, then that is going to affect recruiting, which perpetuates the concentration of talent in those four playoff schools. Recruits generally want to go where they can win and get the most exposure and accolades. The four playoff teams offer the most of those things. Like others have said, my interest in CFB has waned significantly. These days, I'm lucky if I get to catch the Texas game each week. It's rare that I watch any other games, certainly not a whole game involving teams other than Texas. But, that could be due to aging and caring about other things more, more responsibilities (kids), etc. than anything to do with CFB. I feel like even if I had the time and no other constraints that I still wouldn't consume as much CFB as I used to because it just feels "different." Also as others have said - and this is probably extremely naive on my part - it just seems like CFB had more integrity across the board than it does today. Guys not playing in bowl games to get ready for the NFL? Guys changing teams through the transfer portal like they change underwear? Coaches bailing on their teams before they play their last game of the season? Huge money everywhere? Recruiting dirtier than ever? I don't know, maybe it's because I'm an old now and "get off my lawn" or whatever. But I know for sure that a lot of that stuff didn't used to happen.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaJQq4K-byw
  5. Would download.
  6. It's piss.
  7. Does anyone of consequence (recruits, players, coaches, administrators) give an actual fuck what any of the paysites say? I would be very surprised (and disappointed) if they did.
  8. Kylo?! JFC.
  9. Jesus. I'd hate myself for a year if I ate that.
  10. Curious - has anyone heard of anything like this at other any other school?
  11. Lawyer here and deal with collecting judgments regularly. The only way this judgment would attach to the property would be if the judgment holder abstracted it in the county where the property is located. It doesn't happen automatically. Unclear if the title company found the abstract or just the judgment by searching the seller's name. If it's abstracted then it has to be cleared to close one way or the other. Abstracts are only good for ten years then they have to be renewed or they expire. So you just need to see what is actually there - abstract? How old? If it's not abstracted or if the abstract is expired then the title company should move forward.
  12. I don't know if I can like a guy with that bad of a haircut, but I'm willing to try.
  13. Wow. Brass ones on that dude.
  14. Same.
  15. This is the correct answer. This is absolutely 100% what we should do. It's too simple and obvious.
  16. What's going on here is that AB and his wife went to Vermont to get away from this exact thing. They were found by the papparazzi. They understand this is part of the gig, but they are still pissed off about it. The kids are crying in the car because they were being chased by the papparazzi. The goal of AB and his wife was to get the papparazzi to stop following them. AB knew that the only way to do it was to answer their questions and give them what they wanted (or as much as he could without jeopardizing himself). His wife was letting her anger interfere with dealing effectively with the papparazzi in the only way possible - to give them what they wanted. Again, all with the goal to calm their children.
  17. Makes me weep for humanity watching Black Friday videos of idiots busting down doors and trampling people. This. I'd rather take an ass whippin' than go on a cruise. Some have told me that the smaller lines are actually cool. I don't think I will find out. I like to do my own thing.
  18. Fair enough. It's been eleven years since that championship game. We had a year where we didn't suck. Still ten years, not contiguous.
  19. One decade. We played for the NC in 2010. That was the last time we didn't suck.
  20. Mets, Rangers, Angels haz the dumb.
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