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11 minutes ago, nnm said:
In most employment situations you can’t do this. It’s called constructive discharge. Removing significant and meaningful duties, responsibilities, and supervisory authority is construed by the courts as the same thing as termination, in which case the employee is entitled to the same damages as in an actual firing.
In both those cases, I remember being mad as hell about one of them (Mackovic) because he kept his salary. I'm sure that McWilliams did too, but I wasn't as mad about that one. If they pay you the same and just give you different job responsibilities that's like making them work for their buyout, which neither of those coaches had, because Dodds didn't believe in including a buyout in his coaches' contracts.
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On 11/11/2025 at 8:51 AM, Tex Long said:
I've asked, but never seen an answer, whether coaching contracts do or might contain language allowing the school to assign the head coach to another position (keeping the salary, of course) and/or to assign another person to a position of authority over the head coach?
I mean, you know, like like like, you know, not "you're fired" but like "you aren't running the team any more, asswipe, go stand over there and keep your mouth shut."
Somewhere in the Contracts there are clauses relating to insubordinate behavior...no? Probably within a page or two of the Morality clauses?'
If memory serves, we did this for 2 coaches in a row. David McWilliams moved over to support the Texas Exes and we reassigned Mackovic to something facilities related I think. McWilliams ended up thriving and stayed for a long time and provided great service to the university. I think they did it for Mackovic to soften the landing. I don't think he stuck around very long afterwards, but my memory is hazy.
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Daily conversation in my house (we are YTTV subscribers):
Him - there's absolutely nothing on TV
Me - (switches over to Youtube) - oh look here's that guy that goes to various Japanese hot springs towns that has fantastic cinematography. Let's watch that.
Him - yeah that's way better.
He wants to watch the news on KVUE every night. I figure I could get by with Apple TV, Netflix, Amazon and Youtube just fine, but I have to solve for the "I don't want to change modes on the TV to watch the news" challenge before I can drop YTTV completely. I also don't have enough time in my day anymore to sit around and watch football, except the Horns game, but my blood pressure appreciates that I typically will only watch the Horns game after we win. If I look up the score and we lost, ain't nobody got time for that. If I see we won, I'll watch it Sunday morning. For a game like this weekend's game, I might go to a bar to watch it live. Oh, and if we are doing nothing on a Saturday and the Horns aren't playing, I usually will have the Youtube 4 team stream going just to have it on in the background.
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Oh look at the big brain on aggy! It takes real intellect to make gay jokes, and we are all finally put in our place because we are shamed that you accused us all of being gay.
In reality, leave the jokes to the funny people, aggy. Y'all aren't comedians, as your cheerleaders make clear every week during football season. Y'all are funny though, as your continued ineptitude in all things makes clear on a regular basis. Go back to what you are good at, being a failure.
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2 hours ago, ZanTheFan said:
Genuinely curious.... Why is it that Disney is catching all the heat for this and Google escapes scot free?
Isn't one read that Disney is valuing their shit appropriately, and Google is being stubborn refusing to relent?
Why wouldn't Google just give in and raise their prices? Seeems like a better move for them as a business imo.
I've read that part of this is that Google isn't just trying to negotiate a better price on the channels, but also to get more access to some of the ESPN+ content and other content from Disney that they can seemlessly integrate into the YTTV experience. Apparently they were able to make something like that happen with Comcast and NBC which apparently got YTTV subscribers access to something that was heretofore only available on the various apps, but I don't know, we mostly use YTTV for local news, sports and then we're on Youtube or Netflix or Amazon or Apple TV+ for everything else. If that's what's actually going on here, then Google kind of is the good guy in this particular instance, even though they are the bad guy in a lot of instances.
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22 hours ago, RomaVicta said:
One of my least favorite players ever. Hot dog. He, Jerry Jones, and Barry Switzer made it easy to cease caring about the Cowboys. Then Bud Adams moved the Oilers which allowed me to give up the NFL altogether.
If he stays in coaching, only another desperate program will hire him. He won't want the come down.
Fuck Bud Adams. Rest in Piss, Bud.
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1 hour ago, Horndog said:Tech was undefeated and would have been the South Division champs if they beat OU leaving us on the outside looking in. We needed Tech to win to force the three way tie. One of the only times in my life I rooted for OU.
If we are ever in a position where I have to root for OU to win anything, I'll go ahead and say "my team should've been a little better. Oh well, there's always next year" and then I will hope that OU is involved in an asteroid strike. Failing that, I'll root for them to lose in a humiliating fashion. Fuck them.
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2 hours ago, linux said:
Well, our secret's out. At least he hasn't figured out what we're really trying to keep under wraps, that we have Bigfoot sitting up in the box stealing signals.
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To be fair, I didn't like Tech (except the band) growing up because I grew up an hour south of their campus and Tech bullshit was shoved down my throat my entire childhood. I begrudgingly became a mini-Tech fan because of Leach, and then was proven that I was right to hate Tech with the way they fucked him over. Until they apologize for that, Tech doesn't really deserve any respect. They'll drum up excuses to fire someone to avoid paying them a well earned bonus and then hide behind state immunity to avoid the consequences. Fuck them with whatever is the most uncomfortable and least fun for them possible.
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I'm going to say much the same thing that Alot said. I grew up in Brownfield, about 50 miles south of Lubbock. Everyone I knew that had ambition and drive was ready to leave town by the time we were in middle school. We scattered as quickly as we were legally allowed to. Before my parents moved away to Midland, I only had 2 friends to visit when I'd go back home. Everyone else was gone. And most of them in the "I'm not coming back unless I have to" kind of way. I went back once since my parents moved, and that was for my dad's funeral. I'll go back one more time whenever it's time to bury my stepmother. Otherwise, I'll never ever be back in that town again. I did like the South Plains Mall, though. At least the 80's version of it was fun.
For what it's worth, Midland is even worse than Lubbock if you want to talk about a desolate setting.
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