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2026 Fiesta Bowl - Miami vs. Ole Miss (CFP Semifinal #1)
Rooting for Old Miss to win it all now quite frankly. Mainly so that with a little more luck Lane Kiffin misses out on his what could have been his championship! Plus I like a group of guys abandoned by their leader coming together and winning in spite of the abandonment. The more I think about Kiffin crying over his spilled milk, the more I am feeling more excited rooting for Old Miss. And the sooner we can get Micheal Irvin off of TV making a spectacle of himself the better!
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Transfer DL Zion Williams
good get thankfully
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Well it is going to be very interesting to see how the Portal closes for us this season. Right now, no matter what factors you use to grade Sark and Co, the grade is not a good one. What I am a bit concerned with is that the lack of success is now working negatively against us in multiple ways. 1) The unexpected defections at LB for example. 1) Might kids seeing that from the depth chart, they are now starters and deserve starter money? IF you were in a business where there was great scarcity for your position, and you were elevated into a high earning position of the former employee, would you NOT expect comparable compensation? Then we dick around thinking we have some badass on the hook and then the position gets even thinner. Making the existing LB's even more valuable, from a negotiating standpoint. 2) For whatever reason we did not hang onto near as much depth on the team as anyone here expected. I think that's a very fair statement. In sales for example every sales guy wants the giant account. But it's the small and medium accounts (with less competition) that pay the bills day in and day out. The elephant can put you over the top, but if you lose that elephant and don't have enough steady small and medium accounts you get fucked in the end. That is sort of where I see us now. In that it would have been cheap and easy to secure a fair amount of the kids that hit the portal. COMPARATIVELY, to where we are now. Bidding for a smaller and smaller pool of players. 3) We now seems are more desperate for warm bodies than we have been? And that makes us look more desperate. Which again drives up the costs of acquisition in a market with rapidly shrinking supply. With no Spring Portal there is no time for make ups, if we can't close quickly on some warm bodies we better have the most talented group of incoming freshmen we have ever seen to fill the potential gaps. Now it's possible that we close strong, fill the gaps and have some of the young incoming guys really step up. But right now, I am not in my usual "in Sark I trust" mentality. Mainly because there is no makeup exam, spring portal opening anymore. I hope that my fears are completely unjustified in a week. However, my concerns about retention of existing players is something I think going forward Sark and Co are going to have to get a better handle on. Continuity and Culture are truly the foundation of great teams. Right now we are very weak on the continuity aspect IMHO.
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I need to buy golf clubs
Oh as an aside. I made a good deal of money playing with some old ass (fitted) garage made cavity backs. If I really wanted to bank I would wear my golf sandals, to complete the "bad news bears" look. Left my driver in the bag mostly and fucked them up with a strong short game, and good putting. We also gambled using "dots" which could have you standing over some putts that would have gotten you a new set of clubs, fairly routinely if we had a couple carry overs near the end of a round. I think my biggest pocket was like $590, after being up over $1000. I let off the gas as to not lose a friendship. But also to keep the guy on the hook for potentially another bit payday. He had taken little bits of money off me for years before lessons, lessons allowed me to beat the shit out of him and choose to lose holes, to be able to press the bet. Mainly I didn't want to look like I could play, and I was playing to win money. Not overall low score. Losing, can make you win more sometimes if you have control over pressing the bet when it gets big. I would often sandbag the hole before a water carrying par three. Let them have the honors, and then press the bet as they stood looking at the water. Fucking evil, but effective. Lessons, fitted clubs, and PROPER practice. I lost most of my playing partners years ago as they moved away from Austin. The original reason for even picking up clubs, was because my fututre wife's family was super into golf and they had a big annual family reunion, that began with a golf tourney at Landa Park. Once I stated getting good short game my goal became to get a hole in one. Once I got that, and they guys moved away, and FIL got old I just did not play anymore. Plus coaching two travel soccer teams wiped out all my time for a decade. The other thing I think is cool about golf is course management. Knowing how to make the course fit YOUR game. That's a couple strokes a round, for free. I was always a good putter, but probably because I was a damn good pool player before golf. Read this book if you gamble playing golf (which is everyone right?) toss it in the bathroom. Great golf gambling stories!
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
What do you think about the Trump administrations floating making it illegal for large corporations to invest in single family housing? ReutersUS will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami...U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration is moving to ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes in a bid to reduce home prices, a potential blow for private-equ
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Might be a spelling error? "The Port Hole Pirate" seems to make a bit more sense.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Don't laugh. A punter can change the game. I mean just a few years back Shane Lechler provided more of A&M's field position gains than the Aggie offense, and thus was the most important piece of their offense... File it away under strange but true!
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Markets still falling like whoa
Yeah- I got a fantastic deal on 2020 Silverado 4x4 with the 5.3 L and tow package I wanted. I got it for $37,500, or $600 below employee pricing, with a list of $42,900 if my memory is correct. Now that same truck, that same truck in 2026 has a list price of $60,000+. BUT the dealers are all heavily discounting now. There are $10K in incentives on that $60K truck that bring it down to just over $50K. The fact I am considering buying a new 4x4 at a minimum 30+ percent price increase in 5.5 years is crazy. But then I go to Costco and see the meat prices continue to shoot upward, I worry what will the cost be in two years when my truck might hit 85-90K in mileage? My problem is that I am now pushing 70K miles, and I had planned on having the mileage in the mid 50k, but I put on a lot of extra miles taking care of my folks, and dealing with their stuff. In fact I bought my wife a newer Subaru so I could rack up miles on her 2020 Sonata. To try and keep the miles off the truck. So I pay an extra chunk on insurance, and am trying to shift the miles onto the Sonata. But part of me says go ahead and sell/trade in the truck, and the Sonata and a new payment for that 35% more expensive (now that there are heave dealer discounts). Prices have actually retreated on the dealer discounts and with all the incentives But better than the 40% price increases I was looking at pre year end incentives. Right now I am going to rack up the miles on the Sonata and hold onto my great deal truck. But the idea of how much more it might cost in 3 more years when I might NEED to replace my truck? That has me thinking along the same lines. But damn it's hard to bite off a 30-40 percent price increase over 6 years. But WTF will it be in a couple more years? Hell I sound like a wife with an armfuls of clothing explaining how spending so much on sale today was actually saving...
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
For some of you this is going to be the only cure for stopping the portal bleeding. I did search a second to try and find a burnt orange version. I think I did well. In both color and shape symbolism...
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
FANTASTIC!!!! And expected. HaHa! I guess the greatest thing for Texas fans is that we will get endless fucking laughs at the "A&M to the Big 10" meme video on that "courageous move towards independence." We ARE the SHADOW, to your sunshine, from which you cannot hide.
- Texas Roster 2026
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Parker Livingstone
Not making a decision is making a decision. If he did not want to leave, he should have signed the offer. End of story. He wanted more money. Did not accept the offer on the table, and his value was such that without a signed offer, he was expendable. The choice not to sign was the only choice made. What is interesting is that in negotiating ANYTHING the only real power you have is to say no. But you must also understand that saying no, also comes with risk of no deal at all! That's where the balls come in. Parker quite simply overplayed his hand, and was forced to fold at Texas.
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Houston Texans 2025 Season Thread
Maybe my long and painful love affair with the Oilers throughout my youth might have been different... If only they put packages in place of the ladies panties in the original uniform illustrations... And Fuck you Bud Adams! Even in the beyond!
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Parker Livingstone
There was a lot of discussion earlier in the year about losing some of our young quality WR bench riders to the portal over in $9.95. Kids want to play. And they want to make bank if they can. I cannot fault a kid on either. And if that means a move, and a raise then that makes sense for Livingstone. He has has some clutch plays for us for sure, he has had some costly drops as well. Two sides of the same coin. The problem is the same one CJ Baxter and Wisner had, looking to next year where do they fit in the competition at Texas? And if you want a big raise, usually you have to change jobs. That's true in life, and the NIL. I guess the only thing I would be really curious about is how the talk with Arch went down? Assuming there was one.
- 2025 Citrus Bowl - Texas vs. Michigan - 2:00pm on ABC
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