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Hermanator

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  1. The Panamanians came to really resent the US control over the canal by the mid 20th century. There were several instances of skirmishes costing some soldiers their lives, the biggest and most well known being the 1964 Panama uprising that killed 4 US soldiers. By the 1970s it had become much more like a hostile occupation, and it wasn't worth the cost in finances and human lives to continue to fight over it with the Panamanians. It was also on the verge of being a major diplomatic black eye on the US back when our political leaders cared about being perceived as hostile bullies. Military officials advised Carter it could take up to 100,000 US troops to adequately occupy the canal and defend against a full blown uprising. Imagine what to would take now to invade Panama and hold control against what will surely be a full scale uprising against enemy invaders. All for what? Because trump doesn't like shipping costs?
  2. The reason Carter turned the Panama canal over to Panama was because it was costing the US, not only a ton of money, but also a lot of lives to maintain control and operate it. It wasn't worth the hassle anymore. That was a US that's far more financially solvent than today. So of course, let's spend another trillion and more dead American soldiers occupying Panama. Not to mention, this immediately sets the world stage for every power to fight over any lands close to them they wish to invade. Taiwan being the most obvious. Just incredibly stupid and potentially nuclear holocaust level dangerous.
  3. Yet played in a dome because they're too scared of cold, rain, and snow for their precious TV ratings
  4. The state has become one for many reasons, but this isn't one of them. Would be incredibly stupid to allocate tens of millions to DFW for equipment and staff to clear roads when this happens once every couple of years. At most one or two days a year on a heavy year. Way too infrequent to justify spending on it.
  5. I still remember that 2010 one. Had pictures from outside my 2nd floor apartment window that showed every inch of ground, trees, etc covered with snow. Remember trying to drive right down the street, about 1/4 mile, to pick up a pizza and was going 5 to 10 mph because I couldn't see what was road and what wasn't. If it gets like that Thursday things will still be crazy on Friday all day.
  6. Take a couple days off work and drive in Wednesday. Drive back Saturday. Snow/Ice isn't supposed to get here until Thursday, and Saturday looks to be sunny with a high in the 40s
  7. The defense will show up. Question is will the QB and offense show up so the defense doesn't have to put in a super human performance against 100 fucking snaps again.
  8. I don't think he'd leave after this season even with a title because I don't think he'd do that to the Mannings. If you want to coach in the NFL probably best to not screw over one of the most influential and high profile families in the sport. Honestly, in the NFL he's just another coach. His greatest asset in college isn't his play calling. It's his program building abilities. He wouldn't have that in the NFL. You're at the mercy of how good your GM is, and how quickly you can get a game changing, play making, franchise level QB. Your culture in the NFL is as good as your QB is. Bad QB? Going to be bad culture no matter what you do. Coaching for Jerry Jones? Going to be bad culture no matter what, doesn't matter how good your QB happens to be.
  9. Of course he'd take it. The complete morons would be any team offering a QB that limited that much stupid money. It would have to be someone who did zero investigating into why a guy who was the Heisman front runner after week 2 was nowhere near being invited to NY. Ewers should get as much college money as he can because he's likely to not be a first or second round pick, and his game's got NFL bust written all over it.
  10. So just like women from Ohio
  11. Watch the Mack interview with Bobby on OTF. He and Sally are moving back to Austin and he's going to be a part of whatever Sark wants him to be a part of with this program going forward. Or so he says. Said at this point in his life he's the same age DKR was in 1998 when Mack arrived and he wants to give back like DKR did to him. Mack's a politician though, so we shall see.
  12. Americans are really in the running for dumbest collection of people on earth. Of course not all of them, present company excluded (except that Ag asshole), but a very large proportion of this country are complete idiots who don't have the first clue how the society they live in every day actually works.
  13. From what I've seen of Tessitore he's always shilling for the underdog. Which means he's always biased against us. He used to be solid years ago with Teddy Atlas calling boxing on ESPN, so he's capable of doing quality calls, but his open bias in games is going to piss off the fans he's biased against. I remember in the Arkansas game he openly yelled out a pig sooey after the only TD we gave up to those chuckle fucks. Then on any of our TDs he just called it generic "Touchdown Texas". We're still early on in this world where the tons of money UT has can actually be legally used to buy players, so we the fans still have mid 2010s mindset. We have to adjust now because we're the boogey man in CFB along with OSU, Oregon, Georgia. We're going to be hated by everyone that isn't one of us. Just have to get used to it.
  14. Saw this, seems like he works for a mortuary company? I don't have an account so can't see his posts
  15. Cecil Cherry was the epitome of a late Mack/Charlie level football program. No balls at all and fake toughness. Then Herman's teams were tough as nails but dumb as a box of rocks and mostly unathletic. Whatever happened to Cecil Cherry?
  16. I think a lot depends on what kind of money is there for basketball at this point. Not much sense in changing coaches if the NIL isn't there for a better coach to start competing next year. If he's back after only winning a few conference games and missing the tournament, I think that signals CDC feels he needs more time to get the money allocated for basketball to get a proper coach and build a team that competes in the suddenly extremely stout SEC. Football is the big money spender, but CDC has also recently gotten the money in to get the expensive Schloss hire in baseball and get that program off the ground. There's no doubt he wants to do the same for basketball, but the question is when will there be enough big money support for the sport to get there. With so many mid tier NIL level schools that make basketball their priority over football, it's quite a bit more expensive than baseball to get up to the top level.
  17. Is it? Right now I don't think it is. It has become very very expensive to field a top level football program in this climate, and I don't think the money is being allocated for basketball right now. Maybe that changes with a new HC, but at the moment it doesn't appear to be there. I'd like to see the numbers on it. I couldn't bring myself to watch this game. I knew what was coming. The season through the UCONN game was all I needed to see to know where this is headed. This is a poorly developed team in every facet.
  18. They'll just want that 38 percent completion percentage because it'll remind them of Ewers throwing more than 15 yds down field.
  19. Which major Texas donor is this jabroni's uncle?
  20. If he really is that versatile then it makes more sense. I just know Sark likes a "take the top off" speed guy, and that will become a weapon again with Manning at QB. To me you basically get rid of the nonsense by going to this system: -5 years from the day you graduate HS to get a maximum of 5 seasons playing in. No more redshirts, medical redshirts, JUCO nonsense, etc. 5 years is all you get no matter any circumstances. -Everyone gets 1 free no penalty transfer in the portal. Players who graduate college get another free transfer as a grad transfer. Players on teams where the head coach leaves for any reason get a 15 day window from the moment the coach leaves to enter the portal and get a no penalty transfer. Every other transfer sits out 1 year from the date of enrollment in the school. That knocks out a ton of the problems right there.
  21. This would be different for Sark going with so many tall receivers and without a straight burner. That receiver corps would make more sense for this year's team with a QB that's best suited for underneath and intermediate possession receiver throws. Arch has already shown he's a great deep ball thrower. Bond's production in Arch's 3 games was way higher than any of the other games. It may be close to his total production from all the other games combined. Gotta think Sark wants speed coming in to pair with Wingo and Moore. Although this dude would be hilarious to add, especially if he bails on Aggy and becomes a star here next season.
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