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Satchel

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  1. Stop being so sensitive. You’re acting like there’s some comparison to made between Austin and Lubbock. I guess you really don’t want to be told about Texas Tech on a thread about Texas Tech. Go figure.
  2. Relax. Big cities can handle the criticisms that often come their way because they accept the fact that they are many things to many people. Even after putting in my time in Austin, it’s still just okay to me. Its trying too hard to become uber cosmopolitan while many of those 30,000 millionaires from Dallas and elsewhere are taking up residence there. It’s congested and not as ethnically or culturally diverse of similar size. It’s okay but just as it is Calcutta, it’s not Shangri-La either.
  3. Even if one takes your post at face value, it hard to understand why schools similarly situated in (what are to some) unappealing places don’t get the same kind of smoke. East Lansing, Ann Arbor, Stillwater, West Lafayette, Stark Vegas come to mind. You have to know this. While many of us think Austin is it own version of Shangri-La, others of us think it’s Calcutta without the cows. It all about the eye of the beholder: “Author James Michener described the Spanish Renaissance-themed Texas Tech as "the most beautiful west of the Mississippi until you get to Stanford."
  4. That so much of the bagging on Tech has to do with location is particularly telling, imo. Listening to the recruits, you have people dragging Lubbock who’ve never been there. It strikes me as a sign of desperation when your negative pitch is reduced to that. The Georgia guy provides some insight here: https://atozsports.com/college-football/joey-mcguire-did-what-again-inside-texas-techs-shocking-five-star-commitment-and-why-it-might-not-be-its-last-ladamion-guyton-joey-mcguire-james-blanchard-cody-campbell/
  5. But then there’s the current national champion, Ohio State. Sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes, the bear eats you.
  6. That was kinda my point.. Since my earlier post, I’ve learned Tech is going head to head with Texas for this QB: The Red Raiders would also position themselves well for other elite targets, including Rivals’ No. 1 quarterback Kavian Bryant, who lists Texas Tech and Texas in his top two, and Rivals Industry five-star offensive tackle Cooper Hackett.
  7. Yeah, boy. They’re out and proud: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/politics/video/texas-republican-redistricting-digvid
  8. What is it with all these Sec coaches wanting to become maga politicians? Tuberville has dumbed down the senate. Now Bruce Pearl and Derek Dooley are looking to join him. Why?
  9. Ten of them should schedule elective surgeries that require weeks long convalescence.
  10. His first three years at Tech were better than Briles’ first three at Baylor and Briles was a genius .
  11. Texas has gobs of money. But it doesn’t have all the money. Could very well be.
  12. Georgians are pissed. They are reporting that Tech will sign the #1 edge and. the #3 OT prospect in the 2027 class who is currently a Georgia commit. Looks like they’re following the Texas model - spend lavishly on linemen and fill in everywhere else. Surprised they haven’t upended the QB market to date.
  13. Flicka and Silver.
  14. Agreed. The owners of my local pro sports teams have caused me to lose interest in all of them. Now, I can see the college game slowly slipping away as well. Damn shame.
  15. Can they accept “loans”?
  16. It’s a non criminal “probe” designed to screw with Smith and cost him money. This is petty Betty doing his thing.
  17. Cody Campbell will have his close personal friend issue an EO admitting Tech to the Sec and nobody will have the balls to do anything about it. Watch.
  18. Trump has fundamentally changed us as a country. Based on our collective non response, I fear the change may be irreversible.
  19. After all these years, finally some moral clarity from the Western democracies. Notably, the US is not among them. France, Canada and the UK have decided to grant statehood to the people of Palestine.
  20. Because The U.S. Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid gerrymandering for partisan advantage, maybe the time has come for such an amendment to be passed.
  21. Senator Warnock reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. What’s most amazing about this is that it wasn’t that long ago that voting rights bills were approved almost unanimously. WTH happened to us? https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/sen-raphael-warnock-reintroduces-john-lewis-voting-rights-advancement-act/85-52089c4f-9226-47c6-8d7b-74518ba01d90 Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia unveiled the measure, titled the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, with the backing of Democratic leaders. The bill stands little chance of passage in the Republican-led Congress, but it provides the clearest articulation of Democrats' agenda on voting rights and election reform. The legislation would reestablish and expand the requirement that states and localities with a history of discrimination get federal approval before changing their voting laws. It would also require states to allow same-day voter registration, prevent voters from being purged from voter rolls if they miss elections and allow people who may have been disenfranchised at the ballot box to seek a legal remedy in the courts. “Democracy is the very house in which we live. It is the framework in which we get to fight for the things that we care about,” Warnock said. “These last seven months have reminded us that we ought not take any of it for granted. We are literally in a fight for the life of the republic.” Warnock was joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, as well as Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Alex Padilla of California. The senators were flanked by dozens of activists, including voting rights advocates, environmental campaigners, faith leaders and union organizers. The reintroduction comes at a precarious moment for the Voting Rights Act. The enforcement mechanisms of the law have been removed or hampered by two decades of court rulings and lapsed congressional reauthorizations. And an unusual push by Republicans in several states to redistrict congressional maps five years ahead of schedule has also raised questions about the effectiveness of the law in protecting voters
  22. Black voters are pragmatic because we have to be. The two most loyal blocs in the party black men and women, would vote for Pete in roughly the same percentages they vote for all Dem standard bearers. I’m all in for court right sizing.
  23. What I don’t understand is why we re-enact this tortuous ritual of heartbreaking remembrances of gun victims when we refuse to do anything about curbing gun violence, other than shaking our heads? It’s macabre.
  24. If only we could reason together:
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