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  1. 4 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

    Yea it fucking sucks and I’m tired of mfers telling me about authentic Mexican shit. Bitch I’ve lived in Monterrey and Guadalajara suck my nuts on authentic, good food is good shit good is shit. Sorry kind of airport bar tipsy and my Uber driver to LAX this morning wouldn’t shut up about the Mexican food here vs Texas. 
    Also on COL and other shit has some wild claims here, not surly top 50% but 130k in little elm was boring, meh and shitty compared to 160k in LA (okay Monterrey Park) but close. Yea I’m not on the coast but close to it. Don’t listen to the morons and try it out if you can I regret nothing

    $130,545 is top 20% for US household income ($71,100 media)
     

    I’d say one needs to be at that level or higher to live comfortably in California. 
     

    Sister lives in Santa Monica less than a mile from the beach. I’d live there in a heartbeat if I could afford it, I think most would. 
     

    The outdoor environment and experience is incredible 

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  2. On 3/9/2024 at 8:23 PM, joe dirt said:

    faithful ipad safari user here. something’s been fucky with both the swipe left and back button on the browser lately. sometimes works as normal, sometimes it just kind of hangs there for a second and reloads the same page. been happening bout two weeks now 🤷🏽‍♂️

    Same on iphone/ipad

  3. 1 minute ago, Reality Check said:

    Again, Shaka Smart put a shitty product on the floor. 

    ShadowOp's argument is that Texas fans have never supported basketball and that somehow Chris Beard's pixie dust changed 118 years of history. That's flat out not true. 

    Additionally, Beard's arrival coincided with the opening of the Moody Center, which was specifically designed to improve fan engagement, which it has.  

    The previous season had an average attendance average of 9,779 per home game.  In 21, at the Drum, in Beard's first season, attendance rose 26.8 % to 12,398 per game.

     

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  4. 41 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

    The Abe Lemons years were equally as raucous, though not noted because of the cavernous Erwin Center. His post-game fetes at the Red Tomato were the hottest ticket in town.

    If a single sellout is your barometer for changing the culture, then the same thing happened for the Texas-Texas A&M game in Spring 1985. Credit Bob Weltlich for that one. 

    The Erwin Center was regularly sold out for conference games in the early Penders years. And -- even though to fans in the mezzanine it looked like 10 Ken dolls fighting for a peanut -- they were loud if something exciting happened.  

    The sold-out student section stormed the court against Iowa State in an early-2000s win courtesy of Rick Barnes. 

    Again, you can't claim Chris Beard changed the culture when the pattern is the same -- half-empty Moody Center in November and December, packed house for conference games now that the team is good. The only difference between now and 1990 is the university has a basketball arena instead of a multi-purpose center that was LITERALLY designed more to accommodate for a Ringling Bros. circus (the tunnel entrance had to be large enough for elephants) than college basketball.

    The article posted was from 2021. The last home sellout before that was in 2016 vs #1 Kansas. 
     

    So after the second sellout in 2021, Near had doubled the number of home sellouts over the past 5 years. Lmao

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

    Again, I'm not sure how Beard gets credit for the UT Regents decision to blow up the Erwin Center and build a new facility for basketball, but you keep doing you. 

    When it comes to student attendance, Chris Beard is slowly but surely changing Texas basketball culture – The Daily Texan

     

    Finance senior Spencer Van Gelder was one of the students denied entry. Saturday’s game was the first time that he was turned away from the Frank Erwin Center. 

    “We went to the student section entrance,” Van Gelder said. “At that gate, they told us that they weren’t letting any more students in.” 

    For Texas, a full student section is almost unheard of. The last time a men’s basketball game sold out was in 2016, when Texas hosted No. 1 Kansas. 

    After Saturday’s 52-51 win over Tennessee, Beard thanked the fans that sold out the Drum for affecting the outcome of the game. 

    “Today’s crowd was the best in college basketball,” Beard said. “There might have been one as good, but there wasn’t one better and they helped us win the game.” 

    Beard has gone out of his way to incentivize students to show up to games and build a home-court advantage. The head coach visited multiple fraternity houses in the preseason,  hosted a party at the UT tower for the student body in November and hosted an event on campus called “Coach Beard and Coach Beard,” interviewing actor Brendan Hunt from the popular TV show Ted Lasso. 

    The program also continues to provide freebies for students that show up to games. Free breakfast tacos were given out to the first 500 students that showed up to the Jan. 22 game against Oklahoma State, which had 13,203 people in attendance. The Erwin Center’s total capacity is 16,540. 

    Beard is slowly but surely building up a basketball culture at Texas that aims to compare to blue blood programs like Kansas and Kentucky. He and his team have already experienced the environment of a “basketball school” — loud and sold-out student sections. 

    Texas’ game against Gonzaga was a “tent city” game for the Bulldogs with students camping out days in advance of the game to secure their seats inside the arena. 

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  6. 33 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:


    Chris Beard won 0 conference tournament games and 1 tournament game

    Rodney Terry won a conference tournament title and 3 tournament games.
     

    The whitewashing of what a wife beating coach accomplished here is impressive.  

    I get confused, do we give all of the credit to RT for last season, or are we still calling him a first year coach?

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  7. 22 minutes ago, HookEm said:

     

    He experiments with lineups and the team seems to get better as the year goes on.  Most of our players have developed pretty well, even if Hunter can be frustrating.  He isn't an egomaniac and seems like he respects and leverages his assistants (and they are all pretty solid).  

    -the team has regressed since RT put Horton back in the lineup and reduced Weaver's minutes.  

    The main problem we have had is consistency.  At times, the team looks like a Final Four caliber team.  -

    -Nonsense.  You are being fooled by the handful of times we hit the terrible 3s we are taking.  When the shots stop falling for the role players, the team crumbles (see Tech - lasted two halfs, and Baylor, Kansas KSt etc where we could only keep up the lucky shooting for a half.  We don't shoot well often.  We are also so poor at perimeter defense, in games where we shoot out of our minds (Baylor 1st half), we can't break away due to open 3s.

    The blowout win at Tech was extremely impressive in that environment.  The first half of Baylor and K-State were about as good as any Texas team has looked in 20 years. But then some adversity happens, like Disu getting hurt or getting in foul trouble, and the rest of the team fails to pick up the slack.  They are not mentally tough like some of the teams we have had in the past.  But on the flip side, pushing players to the breaking point constantly also has its risks, like the late season collapse by some Barnes teams.  Or the heavy attrition under Beard just about everywhere he goes.

    "Good" is relative anyway.  I think we can agree he hasn't been good enough.  -Average is the word you are looking for

  8. This team has two high level offensive players, the rest are unreliable at best, inept at worst. 
     

    Abmas looks bad some games because we can’t punish teams offensively for over playing him. He is successful in spite of the roster. 
     

    Disu is basically the same, and when he goes out Max is 5 on 1 offensively. 
     

    And RT fucked up putting Horton back in the starting 5. Our best chance for high level wins is to surround Disu and Max with our three best defenders and Brock. 

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