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Laxtonto

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  1. So it’s sorta like inbreeding? Once it happens the first time and they weren’t ostracized and ran out of Katy for it, it is that much more likely to happen again for the next generation? Maybe those idiots and Bama are more alike than we thought….
  2. As I sit here drinking my morning coffee and get in the mindset to go teach Indian MBA students about Supply Chain Risk Mitigation, it makes me think about the back and forth around the summer offensive. It has been active for about a month and now it is becoming easier to understand both sides initial strategies and the first counter moves. It is pretty easy to look back and figure out that the UKA was/is planning to keep broad pressure across the front with occasional large scale assaults intermixed at perceived weak points across an extremely long front. This is to both stretch the RU troop dispersal as well as put stress on their supply chain. RU, knowing that the long front is something they can’t defend easily built significant defensive emplacements off and the front in set areas that would have overlapping artillery coverage and mined the shit out of everywhere else. Then, in a move to the UKA did not expect blew the damn and moved a large portion of the troops eastward to set as a blocking force to help reinforce the front and allows the RU to shade their reinforcements eastwardly. The mines and artillery play into their strengths and blunt large offensives. Now the UKA does limiters assaults and then wait until the RU artillery are either out of ammo or have been indicted by counter battery fire and leapfrog forward again. Now, as the flood waters recede and the ground dries, the RU and the UKA both have new options after RU did the short term route to shorten the front. The UKA either can keep going and hope for a break though or have used the last few weeks with limited tank combat to attempt to mass armor in Kherson and attempt to hop the Dniper into the Crimea.. Either way, the short term use of the troops in the Crimea as a blocking force is now over and either the RU has to pull them back to the Crimea nearer to Kherson or hope that the UKA is going to only stick to the current area of approach… Moves and counter moves….
  3. Rumors floating around that the Kerch bridge may have been hit and all traffic has stopped…. If so, let the slow strangulation of Crimea begin and expect greater probing over the Dneiper River…. Crimea is already under supply pressure as the offensive creeps forward and puts the major E/W train routes under fire. Now if the Kerch bridge is out and how ammunition supplies have already been scarce, it is easy to surmise that there is limited ammunition stores that haven’t been shipped East to the front.
  4. This is something I have been curious about as well. With the viewing habits of college football fans generally tiered as "their team", then the "top ranked team match ups", then "conference foes that somewhat matter", then "fuck those guys I will laugh if they lose", and then "shit I need to find another game and another beer", how does losing texas and ou out of the viewership pool impact this? Texas fans now have much bigger reason to watch the random mid tier SEC matchup instead of the same B12 level game. Outside of an occasional "fuck those guys I will laugh if they lose" game for TT, TCU, or Baylor how many of the B12 games will now fall into the "shit I need to find another game and another beer" tier? How many Texas fans will now tune in to watch say KY vs Auburn now instead of a random ISU vs UCF? It used to be that Texas, OU and even A&M fans would pay at least some attention to the B12 2nd tier game because it impacted the conference standing and if Texas and OU made the title game. Now, since the 1st and 2nd tier SEC games are guaranteed premium slots on TV, how many of those fans will be migrating from the #2 B12 game to the #3 or even #4 SEC game of the day? Once the SEC move is done, I might occasional catch a B12 game (especially if realignment brings in a few additional fun rivalries), but for the most part if it isn't a top ranked matchup, the B12 game is going to be competing with everything else. When conservatively 1/2 of the total current B12 viewers are tied to Texas or OU, doesn't losing them have a much greater disproportionate impact of the 2nd and 3rd level of B12 broadcast (and in truth even the top ranked B12 game but that has been beat to death) than anything else? People have talked about the SEC bringing in A&M for the Texas market, but in truth the major shift in viewership will now happen because now A&M, Texas, and OU have no real reason to track the non-premium games in the opposing conferences. There is no reason for aggie fans to watch B12 games anymore. Outside of a few ""fuck those guys I will laugh if they lose" games, how many games will the non-diehard Texas or OU fan watch now on for the Big 12?
  5. I could tell you, but them I would have to kill you.... I get away trying to blend in every day... Shit, did I say that out loud?
  6. So, reading through some of the articles and they talk about him leaving just across the bay of the dump sites. My question is it on the water so he can could just sit on the back porch and admire his handiwork with his morning coffee? He has the money and means to dispose of the bodies in a variety of ways (why not buy a boat and drop them in the middle of the ocean as an example) and yet he kept burying them in a fairly specific location. Serial killers fascinate me because in the end when they get caught, regardless how hard they try to blend into society, it is some aspect of their compulsion or desire for power that ends up leading the cops to them.
  7. I just can’t get over that it is July 11th, approximately 50 days until the start of the college football season and there is no Pac12 deal yet. At some point this is going it move beyond just the politics of conference realignment, the bickering over stratus and schools getting hammered in recruiting and start getting to the point that ADs are going to have some serious issues regarding trying to sign any form of long term contract or propose any true capital improvements. No media deal means no real budget and I don’t care how well of a relationship you have with a school, no one wants to enter into a new contract without something showing what the future entails. How the fuck have they let this drag out this long? It’s insanity at this point
  8. This is rage inducing for me... This poor idiot has no idea where he is, who he is fighting, what the goal is or even a basic grasp of simply military concepts or terms.. The Ukrainian interviewing him is just absolutely at end because of how do you reason with that? How do you show them the folly of their ways? He is interviewing a guy that from day one was determined as cannon fodder and the poor guy has no clue that in the eyes of Russia he is completely expendable. The lack of basic knowledge, even simple ideas about the world is disturbing. How can he make it to the front and not at least know the basic military objective of the operation is taking Kyiv? So he did 9 years of remedial school, gets ordered to go to the front, has no idea where he is, what the objectives are, any basic concepts of strategy and then put on the front.. I guess the grand Russian strategic view is that he either he gets killed or he gets captured and is a drain on the Ukrainian system, but until then they can use the overall numbers as a way to slow down the Ukrainian advance... When you have one side flooding the battlefield the dregs of their society what recourse do you have but the wholesale slaughter of fools?
  9. So let me get this straight…his regular attorney is progressing through the needed steps to make sure he can receive all of his deferred compensation and retirement package due to him being retired, while his new other labor attorney realizes that since his reputation is already destroyed they are now going to try and leverage a forced negotiated buyout (even though most likely he could be fired for cause) by hiding behind his addiction and a potential interpretation of the process which could have a greater potential value than the retirement package? So worst case he retired and gets his package, best case he gets a buyout that will be more $$ and probably a negotiated version of his retirement package and only at the cost of attorney fees and any goodwill left from the people of WV and the university? Does Huggy real hate WVU deep down or is he broke and needs $$ more than a legacy? Why don’t they just instead fire him for cause and take the bad PR at this point? They have already let this out for public consumption so why should WVU deal with this asshole unless he knows where some major skeletons are buried.
  10. So he’s reclassifying to redshirt a year… Sounds like the QE program at a smaller scale without the NIL cash to drive it. I am curious if we see this happen more often. If you don’t think you are going to blow up to epic hype level status, why not get out of hs early and into a college SC and nutrition program and see what happens in 2 years. Worst case for him is he gets 2 years of college at UT paid for and transfers down a level with all sorts of potential upside.
  11. If he is transferring that means Baxter (or potentially Blue but that seems less likely) has moved into at worst the 1b spot at RB, which would outstanding. I think he is going to surprise some people with his numbers running behind the big boys up front and he has enough athletic measurable to get some looks as a late day 2 early day 3 guy if his testing at the combine check out. Hes listed at 6 foot 204 and if he can run a decent 40 and continue to show pass catching ability, hes got a decent shot at the NFL.
  12. Connelly talks about how shit we were on 4th down defense rate and it makes me wonder if anyone has done any studies about how that correlates to skill level/experience at positions. I would almost bet you money that having shit at S and most of the LB positions is a much bigger impact of that rate than a meh Edge group… There was so many times that having just one competent safety or LB could have shut down a simple pass tree by having basic recognition skills last year…
  13. The more things change, the more things remain the same…
  14. Also as a side note, my schedule got changed a little so I can got to VIT in Mumbai to do some glad handing/recruiting so I now have a full day in Mumbai. One of my about to graduate doc students is from there so I will probably have a driver as well. Only drawback is that I have a 2am fight out of Mumbai to AMS, so it can’t be too far or crazy of a spot…
  15. IMG_2239.mov No real travel issues, Delhi at 2am local time as the international point of entry wasn’t too bad. Hardest part was retagging my bag from international to domestic. Haven’t gone too far from campus yet and have my first set of classes tomorrow to teach. I’m off Wednesday so I might try the mall then….
  16. So, no real media deal and no leaks yet about the structure or framework presented to the presidents? So the real question is did they present anything specific framework-wise and they are clamping down on who has access or did they show so little that there is nothing to leak?
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