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BurdineBandit

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  1. Look here you sonsabitches, this is all about me but it wouldn't be about me if I didn't make it about you all making it about me making it about you making it about me.
  2. Last Wednesday I got a chance to try City Market in Luling and I was impressed. I had heard some rumblings about quality decreasing, but the brisket was solid and sausage was good. I'd give it a 7.5/10 overall. The ribs were probably the low point, maybe a 6/10 pork rib, not tons of meat on them, and nothing really stood out. I usually try to take the "back roads" to the RGV when I drive from Austin, which means I've made a lot of stops at either Black's or Smitty's in Lockhart, but City Market earned itself a spot in the rotation.
  3. I will walk over to Sanchez and punch every man in a graduate COE class right now. Just in case this is a shenanigan.
  4. "It's basically a CBS show with a few more curses per minute."
  5. That's definitely the only way an aggy is getting laid in Austin.
  6. When was the last time we won an off-season? Why are we comparing the way that PATFO works to the rest of the league? We're not ever going to win an off-season through free agency because nobody wants to live in San Antonio. Morriss left bc he had an easy decision to make to live somewhere better than San Antonio. Why is that PATFOs fault?
  7. Am I in the minority in not really caring that we lost Bertans? He was unplayable in the playoffs for two years and I agree it's not PATFOs fault we lost Morris.
  8. As far as I've read it appears many media outlets are mischaracterizing this as a scholarship, not necessarily UT. It's not a scholarship by any means, and won't be classified as a scholarship through UT's financial aid office because there are no scholarship funds. They will be grant funds (funds not based on merit, just need) added to whatever Federal/State grant funds are already awarded to cover the full tuition cost.
  9. Pssst ...... https://financialaid.tamu.edu/Aggie-Assurance I was pretty sure I heard about this at aggy years ago. And I'm pretty sure I heard about a similar program at Texas State first. I'm surprised nobody's brought this up yet in the public, but we're not exactly ahead of anything or breaking new ground here. It's a very low-risk program on a school's part. They can count heavily on Pell & Texas grant to cover a LOT of these promised funds.
  10. This thread and a thread on someone asking about moving to Austin have really opened my eyes to who posts on this board. Y'all muhfuckas rich as shit. "Can I really be expected to live somewhere around Austin with a meager $150,000 income between my wife and I who don't have kids yet but plan to soon?" If you don't get the f on....
  11. I'm happy this is happening, glad to see the University make a commitment to the poors (which I would've benefitted from when I attended), but it's not a full scholarship. Most (or at least a big portion) of these families making under $60k will be receiving some form of financial aid from the Federal or State governments already. The Pell grant is usually $5500 a year, and Texas grants are pretty sizeable (the state's income-based assistance), so UT is just offering gap coverage to cover whatever (if any) is needed to reach the tuition amount. For the poorest among these families, UT will be covering very little. Other universities already had programs like this in place. I thought it was a cool idea until you actually read it and realize the universities are just offering gap coverage. And as I'm sure many of us on this board that actually spent time on the 40 acres can attest, tuition is probably not even half of the total cost of attendance.
  12. Yes, we will get another commitment before the end of the recruiting cycle, probably.
  13. He looked like the best player on the floor. Apparently the Raptors' summer league team is pretty terrible, but this is 2 games in a row for Lonnie. He just glides past everyone out there. Still got caught in the air with no plan 2 or 3 times last night, but usually finds a way to finish. And his shot was ON. I hadn't had a chance to watch the Summer Spurs yet, was surprised that Drew Eubanks was the 2nd best player on the floor last night. He looks quick and springy and nimble at the rim. Also made some dumb passes/turnovers though.
  14. I will never underestimate what two plus (plus-plus) defenders at guard can do. The Rockets want to run back another season of Harden-ball with 35 year old CP3? Not scared. The Jazz want to run 32 year-old Mike Conley and Jamaal Murray at us? Not scared. I would be a lot more confident if the Splash Brothers were healthy and we had to play them too. Not scared. Two solid guards on defense with an improvement from DJM gets us extra wins this year. I was counting on extra wins last year since LaMarcus had to carry us during Kawhi's holdout year, but that was also assuming our only defensive stopper was going to be on the team for at least one regular season game. He wasn't. Now we have a healthy rotation on the bench and hopefully LW to replace Marco. This organization's identity is centered around solid defensive play, and we haven't been able to get that for two years because for two years in a row our best defensive player has missed the year due to injury. Let's try it again.
  15. Complete with "eyebrows too big like a russian, wouldn't bang" towards a teenager. What a bunch of clowns on this thread now. Commenting on this clown's thread. Let him go, fuck him. He's 18 and making stupid 18 year old decisions with a girl much hotter than what you pulled at 18. Who gives a shit.
  16. Consensus on Spurs twitter and PtR seems to be that Carroll is a great fit and not just a replacement for Poindexter/Cunningham, but a big upgrade. I didn't know much about the dude, but he appears to be a PJ Tucker type of player that averages a couple more ppg than PJ ever did (granted low offensive usage in Houston). I like it. The only real big splash I was intrigued by would've been Bojan, nobody else really seemed feasible/likely.
  17. They are definitely great, and seem pretty cool. I've seen them a couple times around town (sxsw) but really wish I could've made the album release show at Antone's Friday. Got lazy on pre-ordering the album. They were also sold out on Friday afternoon. Good for them. Going to try to catch the show at Mohawk in August.
  18. Austin's own. Dropped their debut album last Friday. Song is over a year old but just found some partners for the album release and got the video treatment too.
  19. The revisionist history about the 2014 team is probably more annoying than the sudden Kawhi perception shift re: the injury. The playing fields are so uneven it doesn't even make sense. If Kawhi wins a title that shouldn't mean shit about his injury. He's playing at less than 100% right now, and has been on restrictions the entire regular season because that thigh ain't getting better, like the Spurs' doctors originally said. If 5 years from now he plays 75+ games a season and never reaggravates it and becomes the next Lebron, then you can call the Spurs' staff full of shit, but that isn't likely to happen since he only played 60 games this year.
  20. Do we get to live through Anthony Wright, Clint Stoerner and Quincy Carter too? I'm down, let him walk, we'll luck into a franchise QB really easily, probably. Everybody does it. There's tons of them all over the NFL right?
  21. P Terry's has never cooked, sold, dropped, accidentally synthesized, or premature ejaculated a burger that's anywhere near a Hil-Bert's regular ol' cheeseburger. I feel your pain my greasy compadre. Well, shit. I'm not usually moved by random fucks' tastes on message boards, but I might have to try Hill-Bert's after that. I'm a P Terry's fan. Maybe not as much as WB or Dan's, but they're in my Top 3 fast food in Austin. I know where that location is, just never tempted me being fast food behind a strip mall next to a Taco Bell and across from a gas station. To stay on topic: sucks. Cool place, food was alright, been there sporadically (maybe a couple times a year) over the past decade.
  22. Convince you what's correct? The policy or the fact that Carlson & some right-wingers agree? I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what his play is here, because I don't really think he does anything in good faith, so I'm with you on that, but I'm not going to ditch my interest in her policy just because he thinks it's worthwhile. Because he won't actually be voting for it come next November. (ir)Regardless of how much he agrees with it on-air.
  23. This guy knows what he's talking about. As bad as Tyson was (was he bad? somebody sad he was bad), he's remembered for knocking out a bunch of random faces before meeting the past-his-prime Larry Holmes and then the only other true greats in Lennox Lewis and Evander. Heavyweight isn't a great division to see great fighters all the time. Tony Tucker, Spinks, Frank Bruno, are any of those guys even talked about these days other than being Tyson fodder? Nobody will remember them. I use that same logic to temper the "legacy" of GGG a bit as well. He came up in a shitty MW period that is just now starting to overlap with Canelo's rise. It's not completely his fault, but I can't help but think whether he would've earned his place in the HOF as easily during the MW era of 2008-2012, where names like Jermain Taylor, B-Hop, Kelly Pavlik, Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez, maybe even Arthur Abraham, etc. He's actually the age of taylor/pavlik/martinez/williams but just didn't come over to the USA in time.
  24. Lol. Fuck Joshua and fuck their fight. That's their problem if they didn't get it done. Calling Ruiz Butterbean is laughable too, he'd smash that 4-round clown. He took Joshua into the 7th round and finished his ass off and somehow appeared to be in better physical "condition" since about round 3. Ruiz has fast hands and knows how to time a counterpunch, and that's why he's at this level. From a boxing standpoint, that first knockdown was a thing of beauty, the bob to the left and load up the left hook, dropped it like a hammer. Otherwise I was surprised how unprepared Joshua was for the rage combos Ruiz fired. It seemed like a couple (if not all) of the knockdowns came off of Joshua landing a big punch and missing a follow up and Ruiz just getting pissed and letting 5-6 punches go (pretty fucking fast at that). The only thing Joshua could've done different is be more cautious after landing a big one, which isn't really a strategy (you want to follow up and keep him hurt).
  25. We needed wider polynesian ties apparently. He could be dumb as rocks, or he could've checked out a couple months ago, we will never know.
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