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  1. On 3/28/2021 at 11:15 AM, The Earl of Texas said:

    You know they just make that shit up, right? Their job is to sell subscriptions, not report the facts or be investigative journalists.

    They can't even fuckin' spell "jorunalist."

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  2. 27 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

    didn't he do the same thing earlier in the game on 4th down and they picked up about 10 yards right up the middle?

    That was before we put Stoney Clark in at DT. Or was Casey Hampton? Or was it before we put Nobis in at MLB. I forget . . .

  3. 37 minutes ago, Machinator said:

     

    In a perfect world, Sark would have done everything he could to keep BC. (He may have; who knows?) Dress it up any way you want, Carrington's going to SC  to recruit. We're going to miss him a hell of a lot. You can point to all the rainmaking coaches we hired, but why not couple them with a proven off-the-field guy like BC? Hate to lose him.

  4. On 1/27/2021 at 11:28 PM, honolulu horn said:

    Similar for me, although in the surf. It was an unusually big day on the south shore of Oahu and I was surfing a break at Diamond Head called Cliffs. I ate it on the first wave of a big set I had no business on, and just got pummeled and held under the ensuing several waves. I couldn't tell up from down, everything was white foam and chaos, and I was losing my breath. That was scary. 

    Yes, I'm a shitty surfer. 

    My banal contribution: Six of us were canoeing down the Guadalupe in three rented aluminum canoes. No experience, no equipment, no common sense. Plenty of drunk. We hit some rapids that tumped all three canoes over. The current was so swift it bent one of canoes around a rock. Ruined it. We had to buy it. The current grabbed me and rolled me helplessly like a bowling ball underwater. The only thing that saved me was getting spun out the other side of the rapids. We were coughing and spitting on the bank when two pairs of semi-professional kyakers walked past us--spandex, life jackets, knee pads, elbow pads, helmets. They were porting around the rapids we were just stupid enough to try and paddle through in open canoes. They looked at us and just shook their heads.

    Yes, I'm a shitty (former) canoer.

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    This was also a year after Kinne's dad (his coach at Canton HS) was shot by a player's father. Kinne had good reason to want to leave Canton.

    Kinne's dad recovered, albeit without a portion of his digestive tract, and was hired to coach linebackers at Baylor, with the unwritten assumption that son Kinne would sign there. Instead, he signed with us. As I mentioned earlier, I sure wish he'd stayed on the Forty.

  6. 22 hours ago, USMCHorn said:

    What? I’m sure it has much more to do with his ability to coach. He was a major success at Gilmer.

    Little-known fact: Traylor coached G.J. Kinne, a pretty fair little QB who signed with us in 2007 but was stuck behind Colt. He transferred and performed very well at Tulsa. He had a few cups of coffee in the League and played Canadian ball for a year. I wish he'd stayed and waited it out with us because in 2010 we had Squints, Connor Wood (who?) and Sherrod Harris. What a cluster-fuck.

    Traylor recruited Kinne (literally) after his junior year at Canton, where he'd shown great promise. Gilmer was the Alabama of ETex at that time so I'm sure to Kinne the grass looked greener there. Kinne is now the OC and QB coach at Hawaii. 

    One of TH's many, many mistakes was not keeping Traylor. Oh, well . . . 

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  7. 40 minutes ago, RichUT said:


    He’s retiring.

    Do we still have anybody with close ties to the HS coaches? We didn't retain many from TH's staff (which is a good thing). I know Carrington's still here and that's good, but I was hoping we could have "one of them" to interface with the coaches around the state.

  8. 15 hours ago, NTVTXN said:

    I’m assuming your Grandparents lived a pretty decent life in retirement. I truly hope they did and if so that’s awesome.
    If I retire with between $4-$5M and end w/ only $100K when I move on to the next plain = Success.  

    Lord knows you can’t take it with you.

    Jack Benny sent it on ahead.

  9. Yeah, it worries the shit out of me that Sark, the guy who's supposed to lead us back to our rightful place in CFB royalty, didn't have sense enough not to offer bob fuckin' stoops. Thank God somebody stepped in and stopped it, hopefully the AD. If CDC himself signed off on it and somebody above him had to nix the idea, then God help us, 'cause we just bought us a metric ton of iron pyrites.

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