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  1. 1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Deadass like 5 years after high school we found out our DARE officer was arrested for selling drugs.

    Talk about a great cover but terrible marketing and sales strategy.

  2. 36 minutes ago, Sock Monkey said:

    Anybody wanting to fire Pierce is being an emotional woman. None of ya know the bigger plan or who he doesn't trust in the clutch. 

    If we had won, we would have done it with a doubled hit count. That's not going to get it done.

    I'm cheering for Vandy. I'm sick of pretenders who think they can put the horns down in our face. Very few teams can get away with that shit.

     

  3. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    My daughter applied for Teach For America and on the question about ranking where she'd like to do the work, her reply on the application was "Place of Highest Need", thinking she'd wind up in an inner city school of somewhere like Los Angeles or Detroit. Nope, she got accepted and sent straight to the place of highest need - the Mississippi Delta.

    Teaching 3rd grade there, she got punched twice and stabbed once by students. Her whole class got to witness one of their classmate's dads get murdered in front of the school at pick-up by another student's father.

    You have to be able to pass a statewide reading exam in the 3rd grade there or you can't advance. She had a 13 year old, several 12 YOs and a bunch of 11s and 10s. I flew in directly once to visit her in the shithole tiny town she was in before her stint was over and spent half the day in the class with her kids. These people are flat out fucked for life. There's not a single redeeming thing about that state's rigged school system. "Attendance" is legitimately one of the main goals of the public system there by 6th grade, so it seems apropos for a school name.

    My daughter's class had 90+% of the kids pass the exam in each of her two years, and she's nuts, so she volunteered for a 3rd year mentoring stint and did the same. I couldn't fathom staying there for any stretch, much less 3 years. 

    Tell your daughter that we thank her for her service.

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  4. We've done a good (potentially great) job at filling our biggest position group needs of edge rusher and linebacker. Also, roster limits set a cap on how many transfers you can pursue and Sark clearly had a priority and I don't think we missed in many players we went hard for. I haven't gone through the top 50 list, but are there many we should have tried harder to get?

  5. On 4/22/2021 at 11:33 PM, Blackcat00 said:

    Yikes that tattoo looks awful. 

    I think I can tell what he is going for with the tattoo, but it is only half a verse as well. “nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you."”
    ‭‭Luke‬ ‭17:21‬ ‭ESV‬‬
    https://www.bible.com/59/luk.17.21.esv

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Longhorn94 said:

    i HATE the concept of keeping eyes on the QB while trying to relate to routes and changing coverages based on route combinations. I think that philosophy is what leads to busted coverage more often than not. IMHO, the DBs should check QB at snap, if his hands are up, go to your reads, but if his hands are down,  keep eyes in the backfield to determine if its run or PA. Its almost impossible to relate to routes and change responsibilities while looking in the backfield the whole time...

    I'm sure he teaches the appropriate nuances and exceptions.

  7. 9 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    It really does make the stadium feel so much bigger at field level. That silly longhorn head has really grown on me, too.

    Arial shots show that this addition is still much shorter than the rest of the stadium, but the vertical design of it all is very imposing. I can't wait to see it finished and in HD for a night game. 

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