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TKthunder2

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  1. Yep they just need to move the border to the river. Once Ukraine wins they and Romania just need to roll into Transnistria and end that insurgency.
  2. That’s where my brain went.
  3. TSU? edit: Texas State, got it, I never see them listed as TSU (TX St)
  4. IIRC the State of Arizona had to do something similar.
  5. http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/college-football/big-ten-after-dark-fox.html
  6. They are charging $4million for a single acre lot in Northwest Hills. $23.5m/acre adjacent to UT that can connect the baseball fields and graduate housing to the main campus is a great deal and is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
  7. We all know Texas has underachieved. Brown’s final years followed by Charlie Strong really set us back. Herman was basically average and just not ready for a big job. Not taking anything away from TCU/OSU but having a solid coach in place while Texas was down was great timing for them. But like bullet said, the last 12 years also don’t erase the last 120 years. I’m curious to see if TCU after Patterson’s players or OSU after Gundy will sustain their success or revert to the mean. TCU/OSU/Texas all won a single Big 12 title in the past 10-15 years, played for another and lost in the last 5 years (TCU played for 2, you could argue Texas played for a 2nd in 2013). Yes, they both have recent head to head over Texas but let’s not act like their success has been very different outside of TCU’s playoff win last year. These will go down as some of the best years EVER for TCU/OSU while these are the worst for Texas and they aren’t all that significantly different.
  8. You might want to check your match on K State, but yes congrats to TCU and OSU for their wins while UT was wondering in the desert that began when Colt got hurt in the Rose Bowl against Bama.
  9. BYU/UH/UCF/Cincy weren’t a part of the renegotiated CFP deal. I think it’s logical to question them getting full shares ESPECIALLY while the PAC4 is still influx. If the PAC4 invites the 12 teams from the MWC, do they get full shares? In a vacuum it is greedy, but you really don’t want to set that precedent right now.
  10. 4 for P4 1 for highest G5 champ in top 15 7 at large
  11. https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/08/28/texas-steve-sarkisian-responds-to-big-12-commissioner-rooting-against-longhorns
  12. Most years the Big12 and ACC will have a team in the top 12 too, but in years where they have a #15 champion they’ll be displacing a SEC/B1G. I can’t remember where I saw this but the difference between getting into the CFP versus and regular NY6 bowl is over $50mil in marketing and brand recognition which leads to future enrollment, donations, tickets, etc. The BCS suffered through horrible autobids from the Big East for year, and they don’t want to see this again.
  13. Yeah, there’s no way they do that to USC.
  14. No idea, ERCOT said plenty of supply so it must have been localized, was out for about 90 minutes.
  15. Yes, because a Longhorn was in the governor’s mansion Texas was able to make this move. To say that no politician was actually going to get involved pretty much ignores the our state heavy handed involvement in the past. Just because they COULDN’T do anything this time doesn’t mean they would not have tried. The SEC move not leaking until after the regular session and Abbott is what allowed this to go through. To claim no one would ACTUALLY try to block this is purposely disingenuous or ignorant, feel free to take your pick.
  16. Yeah Texas politicians NEVER get involved in conference realignment… https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/2021/08/16/texas-longhorns-football-join-sec-expansion-southwest-conference-harvey-schiller/5515187001/ https://www.si.com/college/2016/08/16/big-12-expansion-oral-history-big-8-swc-merger How do you think UH got in the Big 12? They didn’t need more Texas schools… https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/10/inside-university-houstons-political-push-join-big/ How do you think aggy was able to leave the Big 12? Do you honestly think it had nothing to do with Rick Perry sitting in the governor’s mansion? Texas and OU moving to the SEC just so happened to be leaked AFTER the regular session of the State Legislature had completed. The only way they could have stopped this move would be for the governor to call a special session specifically about that topic. While I know most people here dislike (kind way to put it) Abbott, he was informed of Texas moving to the SEC and with his support behind it the Legislature couldn’t do much more than a dog and pony show. This year’s session was the only chance the lege had to try and block it but by now tempers had cooled and with Abbott still at the helm with veto power, along with the political good will from letting cougar high join, plus the renewal of the UT/aggy game it all worked out. But you are a dipshit if you think there was a not a real possibility of political shenanigans that could have occurred. Perry politically facilitated aggy getting into the SEC and Abbott did the same for Texas.
  17. ACC in 2031: Stanford, Cal, SMU, Wake, Duke, Syracuse, Boston College, Tufts, Brandeis, MIT, Boston U, and Emory
  18. Okay I see where I fucked up, slight mea culpa. My dad is 67 about to be 68 (65 was just stuck in my mind somehow probably just because that was the last big birthday we did together and retirement age and whatnot) and he started mid year so he has 46 years of service. 46 x 2.3 = 105.8 and yes he apparently grandfathered in… *An individual who, as a TRS member on Aug. 31, 2005, was at least 50 years old, or met the Rule of 70, or had at least 25 years of service credit should use the three highest years of salary for this calculation. https://www.tcta.org/professional-resources/teacher-employment/benefits/trs-retirement/how-to-calculate-your-standard-trs-benefit
  19. I agree with everything you said I come from a family of teachers (all 4 grandparents, dad, sister, and 2 aunts all teach/taugh) and I honestly think I should have been a teacher but I knew the money wasn’t great so I went into tech. Still I don’t understand how people think TRS is not sufficient enough when properly utilized. If cost of living in Austin is high (which it is) the how is paying into both TRS and SSI help with that problem.
  20. Wake Forest is 31,500. I don’t think this will be an issue. Not ideal but it won’t stop anything.
  21. Not sure why anyone thinks TRS is not enough to live off of. I literally just went with my dad to TRS and helped him file for retirement. He started teaching at 22 years old. At 62 he started teaching summer school for his last 3 years. He just retired at 65 with 105% of his highest 3 year’s salary (which was his last 3) that’s is good until the day he dies. I’m not sure what you mother fuckers are smoking but there is no reason someone like him would need social security. He was a career teacher doing exactly what the system was designed for. It was NOT designed for people who only teach for 20 years (and neither is social security for that matter).
  22. What the ever living fuck. Teacher’s Retirement is more than enough to live off of, why the fuck would they pay social security????? and yes one of the “proposals” for splitting up AISD into the other 9 local ISDs that border it which sounds like a fuck you Austin plan at first glance but actually might help spread some of the wealth and reduce the recapture total for the area while providing better facilities for the kids. Based on who proposed this plan I wouldn’t trust it at face value but I’d be curious to see debate on its merits.
  23. This is a horrifically bad take. I could buy it if it was just against the Big Ten (especially pre UO/UW) but against the SEC you are a fool. What the fuck do you think the definition of top heavy means? The Big12 with UT/OU was top heavy. They literally divided conference media days with one of us in each day because they knew if they put them both on the same day a sizable segment of the media wouldn’t show up for the other day. When HALF of the SEC has national titles in the BCS/CFP era you can’t call it “top heavy.” Even if we buy your ridiculous argument and we remove the “top heavy” teams you still have aggy, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mizzou, Mississippi St, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Vandy line that bottom half up against the bottom of the new Big 12: Colorado, Tech, Iowa St, Arizona, Arizona St, Cincy, Houston, and Kansas (note Baylor and UCF are in the top half lol) You’re opinion is bad and you should be ashamed for making everyone who reads it dumber.
  24. Because you’ll have at least 80,000+ people in the stands and the game is OTA on FOX. If it was on the Longhorn Network we’d just push the time, no “delay” needed.
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