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  1. Not really. I left out the part where I die penniless.
  2. Stephenville is smack dab in the middle of the devil's triangle, or if you prefer, the epicenter of American evangelicalism. Nobody knows how to cover up sexual assault like that crowd, not even the Catholic Church.
  3. Surely you're aware of the countless number of southern baptist ministers who got away with diddling kids for years before the SBC released their names after they died. A metric shit ton of christian men get away with pedophilia solely because they are christian men.
  4. lol, no. But I'm not too keen on driving one of them across town for school at the same time another has to be driven somewhere else. The FAA has never been deemed an official magnet program, because they would then have to provide buses for the kids if it were a magnet program. One of many little wrinkles or our underfunded system. We've been hauling them to Lamar and back every day for three years due to no buses, and I'm not super keen on continuing it for another four, especially if it's to two different schools.
  5. It's a bummer. I've got two 8th graders at Lamar through the FAA. They both desperately want to go to McCallum with their friends. My fear is that one of them gets in and the other doesn't. In that situation, I suspect we'll just put them both at St. Stephen's and be done with public school altogether.
  6. Only if you could somehow convince the community that football is the preferred sport of dirty liberals.
  7. Cancel football.
  8. No doubt. Games there feel more like a pro game crowd than a college one. There is a relatively simple explanation for it, though. Their location prevents alumni from easily attending games. At least 80%, but probably more, of the folks in the stands never stepped foot in a classroom at Tech. They rely on the local community (the county has 330k with a trade area close to 1M) to fill seats. A ton of them are blue-collar folks whose company bought up a bunch of tickets and handed them out to employees. It's a rough crowd, and often a very drunk one. There isn't another major school in Texas that has this issue. The percentage of college graduates at UT games has to be north of 70%. It's a different vibe, for sure. It's kind of cool how much support they get from the locals, imo, but it does make the gameday experience less than family-friendly. When you bump into Tech people at away games, they tend to be alumni and normal people, not discernibly different from UT grads. I personally find the Aggie gameday atmosphere much more uncomfortable, but for very different reasons.
  9. Campbell isn't even their biggest donor, he's just the most vocal one. Tech will not be running out of money anytime soon. More than that, and what people seem to have trouble seeing, is they've built up the entire program. The facilities, the management, the coaching, all of it competes with the top programs now. The only thing they lack is skins on the wall. We'll see if that's enough to keep them away from the big boy table, but whining from fans of traditional blue bloods who don't like the new money walking around in the wrong pair of shoes isn't going to stop it. I find it funny that Tech fans suddenly sound just like UT fans did when the Horns were in the Big 12, with the "fuck the Big 12, get us out of here" talk. They've got the target on their back now, I guess. As for them getting to the SEC, I don't think it's going to shake out like that. Whatever super league is eventually formed may well include Tech. They're certainly more deserving than at least half the programs in the SEC and Big 10, even if they're not a historic blue blood.
  10. That would be quite the matchup between the two defenses.
  11. I agree with this, but some of you should probably take a look at what Tech is doing on the recruiting trail beyond the portal class from last year. They went heavy portal to help close the gap, but they're landing some whales now and winning recruiting battles against blue bloods. I don't know if they will successfully pull off this transition from mid-tier-also-ran to consistent contender in time for the big shake-ups coming in a few years, but they are doing everything right to make it happen. It will be fascinating to watch. The old school way of looking at college football doesn't apply anymore, and Tech is playing this new game as well or better than any other program in the country at the moment. It's shocking, frankly. Anyone who hasn't watched the Tech defense play yet should do so, especially if you understand and appreciate what good defense looks like. That front seven is as good as any team in the country, I don't care what conference they're in. And they're not all portal guys. If Tech doesn't go deep in the playoffs, it will be because their starting QB is a middling game manager who fancies himself a gunslinger. This doesn't look like a one-off season for them, either, so they're going to be in the discussion, and likely the playoffs, for a while. The gap between their program and the rest of the Big 12 is large. History tells us they'll find a way to fuck it all up, though.
  12. This is what complete defeat in a fanbase looks like. I don't blame you, as an OSU fan, for this state of mind. Here's hoping things turn around in Stillwater.
  13. Easy. One thing MAGA is very good at is generating sound waves of sufficiently large amplitudes.
  14. Perhaps it was on the list, whoever comes up with that, but it was not that difficult to get into UT in 1996, relatively speaking, and was really easy in 1985.
  15. It will be interesting to see the impact on Austin's economy over time. The tech industry has been here, in part, due to the easy availability of an educated workforce. When that no longer exists, or the quality drops significantly, how long do they stick around? If executives start sniffing this out and think long term, they might cut bait fairly quickly. The best hope there is that executives rarely consider the long-term consequences, so maybe this can drag out long enough for some of us to get some equity out of our homes. So we've got AISD crumbling (with all public schools following close behind), universities becoming a single-party training ground with no access to quality faculty, and a state government entirely bankrolled and controlled by fundamentalist evangelicals who will eventually get around to bringing back more stringent blue laws once they've got the womenfolk completely under control. It will be interesting to watch, hopefully from afar, when almost anyone who doesn't fit a specific mold has left the state behind. What will a state like that look like? Do Mississippi and/or Alabama already give us that answer?
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