@futureman has already admitted his trolling of this thread is purely motivated by him being vocal about wanting Urban way back when and getting shit in by other posters for it, while now everyone (including said posters) are all about the Urban train. He doesn't know shit and shouldn't be on the list of people who have truly "called shots," but his dedication is quite impressive IMO. Also...
Welp, off to dinner and unfortunately relinquish flight tracking duties for the night. Will be checking in late night many drinks deep so please do me proud, we’re all counting on you.
To be clear, I subscribe to your theory that he’s meeting with UT people at the TX stops prior to Austin. I’m just saying they’re not with him currently (in LA).
And for what little it’s worth, my theory on the Vegas plane isn’t that UT people are on it. It’s that it’s the plane Urban has been using since his stop in Vegas earlier in the week, and that he (an possible person(s) from his circle) are using it now to go to Texas and meet with and/or join groups with UT people there.
Some players were bought into Charlie. Don’t make a shit. But @hornfromdallas, don’t you have intel from non-player sources? If so, what’s their temperature/intel on the situation?
Yeah, I like this one. And not that I'm not watching closely for direct flights, but the plane in question also having multiple stops in Vegas (in addition to Columbus, OH, and being at Van Nuys currently) aligns with what we're hearing from ironclad sources such as FCB and the Squid.
Nope, I tried digging into it and I believe the listed owner is actually NetJets - appears that their fractional-ownership model is different from some of their competitors such that NetJets shows up as owner even though behind the curtain 2+ actual people own it (not NetJets). At least that's what I've gleaned.
Edit: Unfortunate consequence of that is no individual's names listed in the registry, and registered address are all NetJet offices/locations. That info is what has given enough breadcrumbs to track down on other flights we've identified owners of.
Checked real quick and only other was Reggie, who had his Fox-Sports-branded Surface up. Urban had his personal iPad.
And yes I realize this is scraping the bottom of the barrel, just thought it was mildly interesting. In b4 futureman.
Funny enough that reminds me, could have sworn I noticed that (at least at one point) Urban had a tablet in front of him on the round-table while no-one else did, and that he appeared to be kind of keeping it in his peripheral while totally tuning out the jabber of others on the panel. Not sure if that happened or I'm making it up (or, if it happened, whether that's even unusual practice for him).
You can tell when they're misdirection when, for example, the destination for Flight 1 doesn't line up with the departure location for Flight 2. You can piece it together though. That's not what's happening here.
Assuming for the sake of the argument this plane is involved in the coaching search, the flight path suggests to me that they're rounding people up from each location to bring them back to Austin for an aligned purpose. Otherwise, why fly out of the way to Dallas first instead of going directly to Austin having whatever BSDs are Dallas get their own plane to town?
Also, the plane I posted about earlier this week that went Las Vegas --> Bermuda Dunes (Palm Springs/La Quinta area) is back to being of interest. It's at Van Nuys in LA right now. Tonight's flight log shows Van Nuys to Houston. Tomorrow's shows a trips to Sugar Land on to Dallas, then final leg to Austin with touch-down late afternoon.