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  1. 4 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    Tried out Piper’s BBQ today on Shepherd. Got there at 11:20, one guy in front of me. Place is nice as far as seating and what not. When I went to order, they said they didn’t have any fatty brisket. I found that odd, but did t feel like going somewhere else, so I relented (see above posts). I also got some pork sausage. And by some I mean too much.

    The brisket looked dry but actually wasn’t and tasted very good. Not top tier but certainly good. Nice smoke flavor. I also enjoyed the sausage.

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    No fatty brisket at a Texas BBQ joint?  Are they transplanted New Yorkers?

  2. 2 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

    Did it cost $40 million to make the hire happen? I don't think so.

    Spending $40 million on a coach, just 14 weeks after letting 80 people go and instituting pay cuts on 300 others (claiming financial necessity) and declaring "money is no object" to hire someone as controversial as Urban Meyer would be inexplicably bad management.

    UT Austin may well have to cut the number of teams fielded. We haven't begun to see what will be needed done to fill the financial hole COVID has created.

    Cutting programs and taking money from well over 350 athletics department staff (between firings and pay cuts) to pay Urban Meyer to coach football would create such a firestorm of ill-will we might as well just give up on athletics.

    The first priority has to be to get Bellmont's financial situation stabilized. Those alumni who insist their individual choice of football coach must be the highest (and only) priority can fuck off.

    There comes a point when the demands of "certain alumni" need to be subordinated to the interests of the athletes, students and those alumni who care about the long term best interests of the university.

    What, then, are the parameters defining when Herman should be fired?  And how does that decision fit within the “long term best interests of the university.”

    Not trolling. Legitimately interested in how one makes these decisions and when

  3. 13 hours ago, Nivek said:

    So our coaching search lacked foresight, and we rushed in to CUM and didn’t have a Plan B, so now we are forced to live with this abortion or carry Tom Herman to full term?

    Like when we rushed to Saban, didn’t have a Plan B and wound up with Charlie Strong?

  4. 10 minutes ago, AustinMT said:

    I don’t do them whole, but have made pork belly burnt ends several times (including this past Saturday).

    Cut in cubes (1 inch-ish), cover with a pork rub

    Place on a cooling rack on the smoker, smoke at 225 for 3 hours.

    Put in aluminum tray, cover with squeeze Parkay and agave (or brown sugar). Cover tray with foil,  Cook 1 1/2 hours at 225

    Remove from the liquid in the tray, toss in a sweet/spicy sauce (I use cherry habanero), put in a clean tray and cook uncovered at 225 for 20 minutes

    Enjoy.  A lot like Killeen’s STQ version, except they do a quick flash fry before doing the final sauce

     

    One revision — the final cook is 30 min not 20 — typo

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  5. 13 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

    I am smoking a pork belly for the first time

    Planning on doing like a "Sweet and Spicy" rub

    with Brown Sugar, Smoked Paprika, Chili Powder, Black Pepper & Salt

    Never done one before but it's getting colder and it seems like it would make a great snack

    Anyone smoked one before? Any tips/advice?

    I don’t do them whole, but have made pork belly burnt ends several times (including this past Saturday).

    Cut in cubes (1 inch-ish), cover with a pork rub

    Place on a cooling rack on the smoker, smoke at 225 for 3 hours.

    Put in aluminum tray, cover with squeeze Parkay and agave (or brown sugar). Cover tray with foil,  Cook 1 1/2 hours at 225

    Remove from the liquid in the tray, toss in a sweet/spicy sauce (I use cherry habanero), put in a clean tray and cook uncovered at 225 for 20 minutes

    Enjoy.  A lot like Killeen’s STQ version, except they do a quick flash fry before doing the final sauce

     

  6. Chuck Carlton’s article in the DMN.  He compares CDC to the Simpson’s huckster pushing the monorail (which, by the way, I did in a post many pages back...):

    Texas AD Chris Del Conte is a great salesman, but his pitch for keeping Tom Herman was confusing

    After the last couple of months, the easy part for Chris Del Conte should have been announcing Tom Herman was back for 2021.

    Nevermind the pursuit of Urban Meyer or the controversy over “The Eyes of Texas” or a disappointing 6-3 regular season. If you’ve decided as athletic director at Texas that Tom Herman is back as your football coach for 2021, then you say it.

    Clearly.

    Unambiguously.

     

    Instead, Del Conte’s statement Saturday left way too much room for interpretation. Was Texas bringing Herman back? Was it the dreaded vote of confidence? A way to calm the recruiting waters?

    It was way too confusing for an AD whose strength is supposed to be communication – and sent the wrong message when decisiveness was needed.

     

    Given the targeting of Meyer, the national championship coach who chose to stay put at Fox Sports because of health concerns, this was bound to be awkward. But before going after Meyer, Del Conte needed a solid Plan B.

    If that was Herman, a logical choice given his buyout, limited success and the global pandemic, then you embrace Plan B. Del Conte already gave Herman an extension after the Sugar Bowl. So own this and express confidence, not a half-hearted, confusing statement that seemed to give Herman a stiff-arm.

    The episode exposed that Del Conte still is growing into the job at Texas after two years since coming from TCU.

    What Del Conte brings to the table is backslapping, my-man salesmanship turned to 11.

    There’s a classic early episode of “The Simpsons” where Springfield gets $3 million because of EPA violations at the nuclear power plant. A salesman named Lyle Lanley, voiced by the great Phil Hartman, shows up and convinces Springfield it needs, yes, a monorail.

    That’s Del Conte. Need a pile of cash to finish the south end zone expansion at DKR or a deal-maker for new basketball arena or some other project, yeah, he’s the guy. He’s fine to converse with boosters, donors, businessmen, people he’s never met and convince them to commit cash.

    On the meatier side of the job, we don’t know if Del Conte is the next coming of DeLoss Dodds, like people hoped when he was hired.

    At TCU, he benefitted from a pretty narrow world view. People and media loved the narrative of Gary Patterson and BCS buster making it to the Big 12. That was about it, outside of Tarrant County.

    At a sports business forum, Del Conte once bragged that he didn’t care what a casual fan in Plano thought of TCU. That’s not halfway around the world, it’s barely half the way across north Texas.

     

    At Texas, the fish bowl is more like the Pacific Ocean.

    Everything is magnified, especially football.

    For all his faults, Herman seemed to thread “The Eyes of Texas” needle pretty well this summer until the Sam Ehlinger pictures from the Oklahoma game surfaced. Del Conte needed to have acted long before he did to avoid his coach becoming a lightning rod.

    And while most fans understand waiting for the end of the season to pass judgment on a coach, then make it a statement with teeth, for good or bad.

    Texas, Del Conte and Herman could very well be at this same spot in a year or less, given the talent outflow at Texas.

    At that point, Del Conte needs to handle that moment more decisively than Saturday.

  7. On 12/4/2020 at 12:33 PM, Firemans4Horn said:

    I’ve learned the hard way that to go bbq is never as good as on-site. 

    Agree, though I have them just give me an unsliced slab of brisket — places are generally pretty good at cutting, say, a 1 1/2 pound chunk, which I then slice at home.  Same on ribs — just tell them how many you want but tell them not to slice them individually.

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