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  1. 5 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    This will do as good as anywhere to drop this.

    But perhaps such views are merely overheated samplings from super-red MAGA pockets, and the heartland voters are more sensible. No such luck. In Iowa, 19 percent of 502 likely GOP caucus attendees said Trump’s statement that he might have “no choice” but to lock up his political opponents made them more inclined to vote for him. One out of five might not seem like a lot, but another 43 percent said they didn’t care one way or another. Trump’s ranting about “terminating” parts of the Constitution made only 14 percent more likely to vote for him, but again, 36 percent didn’t care. What a triumph: Only one in eight Iowa GOP caucus voters supports trashing the Constitution.

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    Strings of losses, including the 2018 Democratic-wave election, Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and the “red wave” that never happened in 2022, forced MAGA voters to construct an alternate reality in which the patriotic, hardworking majority has been repeatedly thwarted by schemes so complicated that SPECTRE would have struggled to execute them. Worse, a culture (especially in the media) that for a time was desperate to understand their views now either ignores them or treats them as dangerous curiosities.

     

     

    Well, other Americans are to blame. They voted for other people.

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  2. 21 hours ago, Voldemort86 said:

    This is what some repubs are saying now that it looks like Trump will get the nomination.
    now, you will have a vast cohort of first time voters who were 10 years old when Trump took office. anyone think those are going to vote Trump by a majority!?!

     

    I desperately wanted this to be incorrect but this will be true of at least some 18 year old voters. Not really a "massive cohort" but really the point is I feel old as fuck.

  3. 20 hours ago, LonghornBreeder said:

    This is great and all, but I kinda hope we get the Stanford TE. I don't want the 'Horns to be the team that won an NC with a bunch a Bama defectors.

    I mean... I'll take the NC either way and cheer. Just stating a preference. 

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    If Texas had won this year it would have been with several starters (QB, WR, CB, off the top of my head) that "defected" from various schools. Not to mention Kelvin Banks, who basically fell into Texas's lap out of luck and decommitted from Oregon only after Mario Cristobal left Oregon. Worthy also had to ask for a NLI release from Michigan.

    Do you think Michigan didn't have key transfers? Georgia the past couple years? Washington? TCU? 

    It's an essential part of the game now.

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  4. On 1/15/2024 at 2:29 PM, 6th Street said:

    If nothing else just come out and talk tough about the issue and say he's going to increase border security. That would help Joe's cause.

    You are talking about trying to appease a group that thinks building s 1,900+ mile wall is a good idea and that the country on the other side will pay for it.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

    Or maybe Sark starts to rotate more and we have fresh players in?  We can hope atleast, if he keeps it like he has been definitely losing some guys.  

    Never really been a thing he's liked to do. 3-4 guys has typically been the limit, though it's worth noting Golden's got a track record of missing time to injury.

    They brought in Milton in 2022 and he barely played, Neyor barely played, Cain played in 22 but barely played this year when Mitchell came in. He sticks with his guys at WR, pretty much the anti Herman in that regard. I am excited to see who the 3-4 guys are after the spring. I assume it'll be Cook, Golden, Bond, with some Bolden gadgetry but there is a lot of young talent to push. Wingo's skillset and build is pretty unique too. It may cost them some talent but they should end up with a stacked WR room for Ewers this year, which had to be the priority. Texas reloading at WR was really one of major conditions for competing for a championship again.

     

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Golden, Bolden and Bond are going to Cook

    I'm honestly surprised they took three portal receivers. Have to think that may drive a DeAndre Moore or a Ryan Niblett away after spring (hopefully not Wingo); but I agree reloading the WR room with the best talent available is the move with Ewers coming back.

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  7. 5 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

    The fact that Trump was begging people to show despite it being non competitive says a lot.  They knew this was going to be a turn out shitshow, weather or no weather.  

    Weather or no weather, noncompetitive primaries/caucuses always have low turnout. Honestly, it can just as reasonably be framed as an accomplishment to get almost as many voters out as you did in 2016 in a negative 12 billion degree snowstorm to vote in a race that's already decided. I really would not spike the football over primary turnout.

  8. On 1/11/2024 at 6:53 PM, Voldemort86 said:

    Not sure where else to ask this,  but I’d really like for Biden to catch up to Trump on judge appointments.  How are we doing on that front?  I wish we could end the blue slip policy or whatever. It’s holding up a bunch of nominations.

    https://www.heritage.org/judicialtracker

    https://www.acslaw.org/judicial-nominations/on-the-bench/

    For most of his term Biden had been ahead of Trump and had confirmed the most judges since at least Reagan (as far back as this tracker goes). He has now fallen slightly behind Trump and Clinton. His admin remains more efficient than Trump in terms of getting hearings, cloture/roll call, etc. I am hoping the White House and Senate dems can see the writing on the wall for 2024, realize it's very unlikely they control both pieces of the equation after this year, and really prioritize confirmations this year.

    You can't really compete with Trump's 3 SCOTUS confirmations unfortunately but overall I think the Biden administration has been a plus with regard to the judiciary. They've played the hand they were dealt pretty well.

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  9. 13 hours ago, immamac said:

    I don’t even understand this. Is 6-10AM hot water heater time or something? What cranks up at that time I guess breakfast cooking with an electric stove? 

    Beyond HVAC and water heating, anything like a coffee maker, toaster, space heater, etc uses a ton of energy. At a fundamental level, generating heat is very energy intensive, though modern heat pumps are getting really good (we as a state refuse to incentivize these).

  10. 1 hour ago, BornAndRaised said:

    Curious if "NFL guy," is a clever guise for Okam. Didn't he get fired twice in the NFL before going back to CFB with Toledo?

     

    1 hour ago, Mother mopar said:
    1 hour ago, Teryor said:
    Sorry guys real news here
    Roach off the board and disappointingly staying at Bama

    The DL hire is done and it's someone in the NFL perry Bobby.

    There's no reason to delay and honestly they need the hire in place ASAP for recruiting. If it was Okam he'd be announced and working already.

    Rod Wright is an NFL guy and still coaching with the Texans winning yesterday. 

  11. 3 hours ago, BornAndRaised said:

    I can't remember him being vocal about being under utilized, especially playing as much as he did as a Tree Freshman. That being said he's been very vocal about being supportive of the incoming Golden and Bond

    To add to what other posters have already said on this, Golden missed multiple games in both 2022 and 2023. It's likely injuries open up some time for others. And I'm not sure they roll with an obviously limited Golden, Cook, or Bond over what's behind them in the same way they have with Worthy the past couple years.

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    19 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    You're right, I'm not being entirely clear with my distinction. 

    Austin, for the record, isn't absorbing all of the graduates UT produces, either.  Where they go (primarily Houston and Dallas if they are leaving Austin) helps broaden UT's prestige to those cities and media markets. 

    Ohio State doesn't have a Houston or Dallas--it's appeal is more limited. 

     

     

    15 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Sure, but broadening the "prestige to other media markets" wasn't what we were talking about. We were talking about cities most attractive to major colleges for NIL purposes. Those other media markets have plenty of other opportunities for local business endorsement. It's why Austin is attractive. A UT player sponsoring something is more attractive in Austin than it is in Houston or Dallas, for all the obvious reasons. You're actually proving my point. 

    To add to @SydneyCarton's point - really an Ohio State player has the localized NIL value he is talking about for a UT player in Austin across the whole state. LeBron James is the only athlete in Ohio's history to be categorically bigger than Ohio State stars - and he's a a fucking Ohio State fan, a vocal one.

  13. 2 hours ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    Criteria (in order): prestige/history, access to talent (location is biggest but not only factor), NIL capabilities, in-state competition (if access to talent is predicated on that)

    Tier 1 (no particular order within tiers): Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, USC

    Tier 2: A&M, Notre Dame, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Rutgers, Penn State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State, Tennessee

    Tier 3: Miami, Washington, Clemson, Nebraska, Michigan State

    Nebraska is an awful job only worth considering because they will pay well and being a fired coach coasting on a buyout is great.

    2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Columbus, OH, is as big or bigger than Austin, TX, from a population perspective. It's the biggest city in the state by far and fucking dwarfs cities with pro teams like Cincinatti and Cleveland. I'm not super familiar with the kind of business and industry in Columbus, but I'm betting it's fairly decent. 

     

    3 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    @SydneyCarton Not being pedantic and I'm not sure how this is even relevant, but according to the googletrons the Cleveland-Akron-Canton MSA is 3.7 million people. Columbus - Marion - Zainesill is 2.6 million. Cleveland is significantly larger. Both are significantly shitholes.

     

    In terms of MSA size all three of the big Ohio cities are essentially the same size at a little over 2MM. Cleveland has been the biggest historically but has also been shrinking. As it stands now Cincinnati is the largest, but Columbus will soon pass (as in the next couple years) as it is growing much faster.

    Yes, if you go CSA and lump Akron-Canton in with Cleveland, NE Ohio is still by far the biggest market/economic region in the state. It's also culturally distinct from the rest of the state to a small degree (both my parents are form Ohio so I've had the misfortune of spending quite a bit of time there).

    But really it doesn't matter because Ohio State's market/recruiting backyard is the entire state. Everyone from Ohio is an Ohio State fan. My uncle played D1 football at a smaller school in Ohio and still wears OSU gear on Saturdays. That's really their advantage. Georgia or Michigan are probably the closest comps in terms of having a large, talent-rich, football obsessed state on lockdown like that but neither has their state locked up quite as much as Ohio State does their home turf and Michigan doesn't produce as much talent as Ohio. You could add Penn State but interest in HS/college football wanes in Philly. LSU is close too - Louisiana is small but produces a freakish amount of talent. That's about it. Ohio State is in rare air for that factor alone.

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  14. Glad he is coming back and I think he made the right decision for his individual future as well. Improve the finer points of his game and he will be a first round pick next year.

    Side tangent - Man the clumsy forcing of the phrase "with that being said" into these announcements will never not make me laugh.

  15. 1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

     

    How'd that work out for both of them? He was fleeing the consequences of NCAA sanctions of his own making.

     

     

    And Mackovic didn't exactly rip it up here. And Ty Willingham sucked at Notre Dame. HEY WAIT, MAYBE... if you're a shit coach, it doesn't matter where you are?

     

    What the fuck. Bama has been a top 5 job since I've been following college football. Bama, Texas, USC, Michigan, Notre Dame. Those are your top 5.

    Sure, a couple of those schools have rivals who have had more recent success (tOSU, OU), but that doesn't make them better jobs; they've just been better about hiring good coaches. We, in particular, have sucked shit with our hiring. We kinda backed into a decent coach with Mack Brown and the jury's still out if Sark was lucky (2024 is the year we'll really start to see if he's a keeper, in my arrogant opinion). Bama hit the jackpot with Saban, but he wasn't significantly better at Bama than at LSU; but he had a better program to work with.

    Those 5 schools don't generally hire well because they don't have to make good hires to have a lot of success. When they somehow luck into it... they win 6 national titles.

    The thing is, the landscape has shifted pretty dramatically from what it looked like for most of that period. Bama is not going to be a top tier job in the era of NIL. As I list them out it's clear sing the top 10-15 description was a stretch; it's solidly top ten, but I think the following are a cut above: Georgia, USC, Texas, Michigan, Ohio State.

    And Alabama moving forward probably falls into that Tier 1B group - albeit at the upper end - with Oregon, Oklahoma, ND, LSU, Penn State, etc.  

  16. 17 hours ago, Hermanator said:

    It's not a big assumption that Caldwell's main relationship here was with Davis. He was waffling back and forth on a decision for the last 3 days since his weekend visit when some people were expecting him to decide Monday. Can't imagine he ends up here now unless we just pay the most. 

    Even accepting your premise for sake of argument, said waffling has been between Texas and Oregon. Perhaps you may have heard of a possible shakeup on the Oregon staff as well?

  17. 8 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

     

    Alabama's a great job but more like a top 10-15 job than a top 5 job. For Sark specifically, he just bought a ton of good will here and stringing together some 9+ win seasons with a couple CFP berths over the next five years will keep his seat from getting seriously hot. At Alabama that would get him fired as the guy after Saban. Assuming Texas is willing to commit to a hefty raise, I really do not see the upside of the Alabama job in his shoes. Maybe that's just burnt orange tinted glasses.

    30 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

    Drew Kelson made a good argument for both Okam and Rod Wright on the IT live stream. He admitted he was biased but apparently they both have turned into pretty damn good DL coaches. Coached all conference players, got lightly recruited players drafted, set team sacks and TFL records etc.

    Made me feel better about both of them if they're the choice although I doubt they will be . 

    I think the first call should to be Freddie Roach, Alabama's DL coach since 2020. He may turn you down as an Alabama alum but you have to make the call. Maybe it's Lanning at Bama and he wants to bring Tosh Lupoi and Tony Tuioti (who also has a tangential connection to Sark through working under Justin Wilcox at Cal for a couple years), at which point Texas is a really attractive landing spot for Roach.

    Beyond that, obviously Tosh Lupoi is a potential candidate if he ends up looking for a job in the wake of the Saban retirement. I could see also see Tuioti being a candidate if Lanning goes to Bama and does retain Roach. Sark likes his west coast guys, and he also has a couple years of NFL experience and was Harbaugh's player personnel guy at Michigan for a year.

    That said, I think Okam or Wright would be serviceable at a minimum and it is always cool to have an alum on staff. Just not sure they are more than fall back candidates.

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