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Snake Diggity

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  1. I think over time it’ll shake out in Texas’ favor. I expect the rules to change to tamper the chaos; even if they don’t Texas resources will outstrip all others, like you said. But in the short term there may be a period where there’s a combination of other teams spending beyond their resources, players operating with false/incomplete info, and Texas not having their NIL operations totally refined yet. That could all combine to Texas’ detriment.
  2. One complete unknown for me is how much of Texas’ NIL resources are going to be taken up by retaining current players. If every player is essentially a free agent every year, it sure seems like spending could get out of hand in a hurry. My worry is if we are giving 9 figure deals to every one of our players who makes an all-conference team, the money will eventually run out and there may be less for recruits and portal adds.
  3. If the number is 5 then my guess would be 1 WR, 1 DL, 2 LB, and a P.
  4. Trying to assess what the portal needs will be after 6 games: Current Weaknesses: Edge/OLB Expected significant losses: RB: Bijan, Roschon WR: Whittington OL: Jones DL: Coburn, Ojomo, Oghoufu, Sweat LB: Overshown, Dorsey DB: Jamison, Cook Are we ok with a RB room of Keilan, Brooks, Blue, Baxter, and Wisner? Neyor coming back along with returning talent and recruits should be fine at WR. The young talent can likely serve as an upgrade over Jones. I think we will need at least one DT and one Edge/LB from the portal. There’s a lot of young talent on the DL and a couple of good recruits at LB, but we lose a lot of talent in Coburn and Overshown. If everybody else comes back (Barron, Watts, etc.) combined with the recruits (especially if we get Toviano) then I think DB is fine. So for now I think the shopping list will be short: an Edge to upgrade the position, a LB to replace Overshown, and a DT to replace Coburn.
  5. Had mine done 2 weeks ago. Procedure was quick, total time in the office was <45 minutes, total time doc actually working on me was <10 min. I used Shaw partially based on the recommendations in this thread. Good experience although midway through he made a joke about making a mistake that I did not appreciate at the time. I would compare the procedure to having a tooth pulled, pain wise. Basically felt like 5 minutes of somebody thumping your nutsack hard. Never would have rated the pain higher than 4/10. The finality of the baby making phase of my life being over hit me during the procedure and that affected me more than I expected. I took celebrex and iced my balls the first 2 days and pain was minimal. I didn’t wear a jock strap the first week after and in hindsight I wish I would have. I didn’t have sex for a week and thought I took it pretty easy overall, but a week after surgery my balls swelled and righty developed a lump. Not all that painful but certainly uncomfortable and disconcerting. The googles tell me it’s either a sperm granuloma (can last days or up to years) or hematoma (usually lasts a couple weeks). Called the office and they told me to give it a week and come in if it doesn’t go away or if it gets worse. I’ve had sex several times this past week and nothing different of note other than minor discomfort that I expect to go away completely over the next couple weeks. All in all I wished I’d pushed back on my wife and tried harder to convince her to get back on the pill, but I’m sure once this lump resides and everything goes back to normal that I will have no ragrats.
  6. That’s something I don’t understand about the Democrats. Why aren’t they playing off people’s fear the way the GOP does?! ”They want to take away your Social Security.” ”They want to let you get raped and force you to have the baby.” ”They want to arm school shooters with AR-15s.” ”They want to overthrow the government and send us into a post apocalyptic wasteland.” (Sadly, they are all true and the last one is most true.”)
  7. Wages have lagged inflation (hourly up only 5% yoy). They are part of the equation but there are other key drivers. I am starting to believe lower productivity is an underrated factor. Of course oil supply (Russia, opec, stateside limits) is also a major major factor. I do not believe unemployment will get high anytime in the next decade, regardless of what happens to rates, inflation, or the stock market.
  8. Abbott would be +8 in normal times. You can give Beto a point because of Dobbs, maybe another because of Uvalde, maybe 2 more because he’s campaigning so hard/effectively. Then take away 2 from Beto because of inflation and the stock market. Abbott is going to win by somewhere between 4 and 7 points. It’s hopeless for Beto. It always was.
  9. So far this thread has been all “pathetic man” and not much “downfall” wtf.
  10. This has all the makings of Beville starting then being replaced by Evers who runs all over us while Card shrinks from the moment like a scrotum in ice water. Fuck me.
  11. Rep not enough. Excellent post.
  12. If Walker, Masters, or Oz becomes a Senator, we are turbofucked. Each of those would start off their career as on the list for worst Senator ever.
  13. Aint too Christian running round the village cuttin off heads and shit
  14. We will go 3-1 at home against WV, TCU, ISU, and BU We will go 1-2 on the road against KSU, OSU, and KU We will beat OU. 7-5 going into the bowl for an 8-5 finish. Enough to keep Sark around and the recruiting class from tanking. PK gotta go tho.
  15. Then I am assuming going 3-9 in year 2 would qualify as a scandal.
  16. Losing to Tech just puts more pressure on the remainder of the season. Now if we lose to WV, we go to Dallas as 2 TD underdogs to OU with a 2-4 record and the national narrative starting to be about who replaces Sark, and the recruiting wheels start to shake mightily. Coming out of OU 2-5 probably means Sark is done. That said, nothing regarding expectations has changed since preseason. Oddsmakers pegged us for 8 wins, which means 5 losses, and one of those would have had to come to a team we were favored against. Losing a road game to a team likely to go bowling doesn’t have to be a coffin nail. If by some unexpected turn of events we beat WV and OU, we will be back ranked and firmly back in the mix for the Big 12. I still expect us to win 7-8 games, with 9 wins being more likely than 6 wins.
  17. The idea is that we suck because of our school’s culture. Wealthy meddling donors and fair-weather, fickle fans leading to spoiled entitled players (and coaches).
  18. Card falls somewhere between Case McCoy and David Ash.
  19. I understand it, but calling for Sark’s head after this game is stupid. Nothing has changed since the end of last season. 6 wins or less and Sark should be fired. 7 wins and he has to fire PK and is on the hot seat for 9+ wins next year. 8-9 wins and he gets another year. 10+ wins and we all line up to suck his dick. That is all still possible. If/when we lose our 7th game this season, then we can call for Sark to be fired. Also, people saying this is program related and not coaching, I won’t buy that until a coach gets fired from Texas and goes on to have success elsewhere.
  20. In terms of expectations nothing has changed since preseason. Seems pretty simple to me: 6 wins or worse: Sark fired 7 wins: PK fired and Sark on hottest of hot seats 8 wins: unacceptable but you get another year 9 wins: ok 10+ wins: raise/extension
  21. This post makes you seem like a real piece of shit.
  22. I think corner infield and how quickly Witt comes back will determine how the season goes.
  23. That is a good point that I didn’t mention. Technology will certainly mitigate the labor supply issue, but that’s 5-10 years away at best. And since we didn’t start pulling the immigration levers 5-10 years ago, we could be in for a decade of pain; not the kind where people are out of work, but the kind where shelves aren’t stocked, services aren’t available, and investments take a beatin. Gonna stay weird.
  24. People retiring early is a big one but I also think a lot of prime working age people are working less (or are just less productive).
  25. Some got old, others got less productive. Why destroy wealth when you can redeploy it?
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