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gurt

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  1. AAS said they asked each player with eligibility left if they are coming back
    Weaver: said he is coming back
    Chris Johnson: said he is coming back
    Devon Pryor: said he is coming back
    Shedrick: said he is coming back
    Onyema: Did not comment
    Mitchell: wasn’t available for comment but said previously he will likely “undergo the NBA evaluation process”
    Hunter: Same as Mitchell

    Hey Dillon, I don’t think the NBA is looking for guys you forgot are on the court the majority of the time they play
  2. 46 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    In Texas, universities literally used to have to get legislative approval (not from just some committee, the whole legislature voted)  to raise tuition, which absolutely no one liked. 

    When the lege voted to allow schools to set their own tuition, they traded that for lower funding.  

    Yeah, I remember my dad saying everyone was protesting back in the 70s when it went from 4 to 12 dollars a credit hour.  

    Where did the school administrations fall on this issue?  Were they in favor of setting their own rates?

  3. Honestly, I thought the defense played pretty well at first glance.  There were no coverage busts and hardly any soft coverage giving up easy 10 yard outs.  The deep shots were all absolute dimes by an NFL starter level QB.  We generated decent pressure I thought as well.  Against any other QB that doesn't have the elite pocket presence and quick release that Penix has, we would've had half a dozen sacks.  Maybe I'm being too soft on PK, but I think this was a case of solid defense being beat by elite offense.

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  4. 7 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    I think he actually needs to be more of a gunslinger.  The arm talent is real, but he can get risk averse and robotic at times.  Both this year and last year there have been lots of plays where he throws too early before the WR gets their head around, or he goes from primary read straight to check down. He doesn’t throw on the move a lot when he has to leave the pocket - it’s usually just full run mode.

    There is kind of a weird dearth of off schedule plays or throws like the one to Sanders in a tight window up the seam from the OU game last year, considering he actually does have the arm to hit those tight windows.  

    Granted, the fact that we didn’t see him even attempt any bullets like that in 4 downs from the 12 when needing a TD might be unduly influencing my take.  But it’s still weird to see a rocket arm QB that doesn’t really ever gun it.

    yeah my thoughts as well.  Have we ever seen him throw a ball with the speed and trajectory as Penix's 2nd quarter dart between the safeties?  I have never seen him throw a fastball.  It's weird that he can comfortably throw it 60+ yards but also not appear to be able (or at least never tries) to throw a frozen rope.  Might be his low throwing mechanics.

  5. What technological breakthrough has there been in the past twenty years that has markedly improved daily life? I’m sure there are medical treatments that have gotten much better, but otherwise I struggle to think of any. Is my life really better by having the internet in my hands at all times, leaving me with the attention span of a goldfish? Social media we know conclusively is bad for society. Has data analytics done anything except reduce everything I like into a number and taking away any human touch? Will machine learning/AI do anything but allow companies to do things more efficiently at the expense of human interaction?

    I find myself slowly turning into Ted Kaczynski, minus the whole sending bombs in the mail part. The galling part is that I work in software…oh well it pays the bills.

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