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  1. On 5/1/2024 at 8:36 PM, YGIFS said:

    ...I innocuously said a few times in a lecture "you guys should know this" or "you guys should read up that."  And a student told me that "you guys" is an offensive term because it's gender exclusive...

    I know a better word you could have used.

    Karl-Urban-as-Billy-Butcher-in-The-Boys.

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  2. On 4/16/2024 at 3:22 PM, SimonBolivar said:

    That's what clickbait has to be.

     

    I love me some CDA but yeah it's probably going to be a 3-9 or 4-8 season if I had to guess and there's no way he survives that again. 

    Aranda's a nice guy. Here's the problem:

    5 hours ago, 'stache said:

    OSU hasn’t had a true “spring game” in years and I’ve hardly noticed. I always think it’s dumb when Bama fills the stadium for a practice and all the middle aged Bubbas rush the field to let an 18 year old to sign their hat. Baylor sucks though for much bigger reasons.

    The problem on this is that Aranda has been demonstrating he's incapable of managing even the routine aspects of running a program. Spring games are a pain in the ass for coaches, but they're advertising for the program.  But to announce a spring game and then cancel it the week the game's supposed to happen is not good. There are dozens of examples of simple stuff falling through the cracks. (True story) After the 2023 spring game, Aranda said they'd decided on the starting QB, but wanted to talk to them before releasing the name. I asked him how he'd let the press know. He looked at THREE marcom people, turned around and said, "I don't know." That's about as simple as it gets. Send a press release. Announce it on twitter. Whatever.

    As far as middle aged guys getting an eighteen year old to sign their hat, pretty sure there are some okie lites that regret not getting Barry Sanders autograph after a spring game. From the spring games I've covered, most of the people getting autographs are fifteen and under. Don't know about Bama and who's getting autographs there. 

     

  3. Not that anyone cares, but Baylor isn't having an actual spring game. Aranda announced they will be having a regular practice with no scrimmage, but people can still come and watch. No 11 on 11, just drills. 

    This season is going to be brutal if they aren't even organized enough to have a spring game. 

    I worked with Drake (in the video) some. He's a Baylor alum and is getting really pissed.

     

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  4. AI is good, but NYT put their thumb on the scales for this one. In the original post #'s 8 and 9 are listed as real, but I'm pretty sure they've been run through an AI image enhancer that smoothed the skin. #3 is all kindsa fucked up, and it's supposed to be real. The eyes are shifted to the right. Check how much further the eye on the right sticks out over the mouth than the eye on the left. The nose and mouth appear to be from a straight on "mug shot" type photo, but the head and jawline look almost 3/4 "portrait" style. 

    This is not to rag on the capabilities of AI, but if you run a photo through a program like Topaz AI, you are dealing with something that doesn't neatly fall into the category of real or AI. It's a little bit of both. 

  5. Drew has to take the Kentucky job. It's more pressure, but the NIL money and network contracts with the conferences are too much of an advantage to pass up. He'll probably double his salary, also. Even if Baylor offered to match salary,(doubtful, since the only reason Aranda is still there is because the BMDs didn't want to pay his buyout) the admin sat on their hands and got years behind on NIL. 

    Drew was always a good recruiter, but recruiting is now more transactional than persuasive, he's going to get better players at Kentucky.

    There are two drawbacks for him. His family has been raised in Waco, and the pressure is intense at Kentucky. He stays at Baylor, he gets a statue when he retires. He'd have to miss the tournament several years straight to look at getting fired. At Kentucky, his last two years of going out in the second game of the tournament would have rumblings going on about him being fired.

     

  6. 21 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Wasn’t the story that she didn’t like how much more the AD deferred to Drew over her for basketball stuff? Like location of the new arena, the naming rights, etc. and AD called her bluff? 

    Nobody knows for sure, except the people that were in the room. Story I got was that she wanted the new arena on campus between the Ferrell Center and the baseball/softball fields, and I know she made several public statements on that. There was serious money (the Foster Pavilion was over $200 million) from City of Waco & Investment groups to put it on the other side of I-35 for part of downtown renovation. Supposedly, she pissed off some of the money people at the meetings with her antics, & Rhoades figured with Drew winning a national title they could afford to part ways with Mulkey. 

    I never heard that Rhoades was deferring to Drew, but I had heard that Mulkey did stuff like demanding the women's team get first pick at practice times, etc. I could see where that would seem strange to Rhoades, coming from another college. 

    As far as the stuff about her bitchiness goes, yeah, she doesn't get any nicer away from the microphone. 

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  7. 8 hours ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

    Imma be honest, unless she was slapping players with bricks this will lead to nothing. If you know how scummy LSU fans are, this will just make her more popular and give a “us vs everybody” edit in Baton Rouge 

    For some reason, your post reminded me of the old sportscaster, Vic "the Brick" Jacobs, who was on KTVV (now KXAN.) You had to have been in Austin quite a few years ago to remember Vic throwing foam rubber bricks at the camera. 

    Anyway, on to something vaguely related to the thread. Baylor folks are still pissed that Rhoades ran Mulkey off. When LSU won the national title, somebody put a billboard up next to campus with her picture, LSU, and "National Champions" on it. Only things I heard on her at Baylor was she was a stone cold bitch, constantly ran over budget, and regularly threw tantrums during meetings.  

  8. 21 hours ago, thunderlounge said:


    Went through a drive-through last year or the year before for a quick lunch while out. Total was $16.37, or there about. Hand over $21.37, expecting a $5, and I already had too many singles on hand.
     

    Got back $1 in change, and $4 in singles, all while the girl running the register looked way too confused about it all.

     

    What? The? Fuck?

    True story: I went to a McDonald's and bought a meal that was $5.37. Gave the girl a ten and reached into my pocket and pulled out .37 cents. She'd already entered $10 into the register. She looked at me blankly. I said, "Just give me two fives and a ten." She started getting it out of the register. I had to stop her, and explain it was a joke, and to just give me a five. 

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  9. On 3/6/2024 at 7:29 AM, Armybrat said:

    An old farmer had three beautiful young daughters just starting to date so every Saturday night he would open the front door with a double barrel 12 gauge in hand so the boys would understand he was all business when it came to his daughters….

    Saturday night came and there was a knock at the door and when he opened it there was a nice looking young man who said, Hello my name is Joe, I’m here to pick up Flo, we’re going to a show so I hope she’s ready to go…..The farmer figured the boy was clever and ok so he told them to have a good time……A short time later there was a knock and it was another boy who said, hello my name is Eddie and I’m here for Betty, we are going out for some spaghetti so I hope she’s ready……Again the farmer thought the kid was ok and told them to have fun….

    Soon there was another knock at the door, the farmer opened it and the fellow said, Hello my name is Chuck and the farmer shot him dead……..

    Formerly, he was named Sneed. 

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  10. 14 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    In the 80s, Gattis had a centralized call center with one phone number to order pizza anywhere in austin: 459-2222

    (you will recall - if you were born - that 10-digit dialing did not become mandatory until '94 - before then you could dial a 7-digit number within an area code)

    Sophomore year Jester East #507, telephone number was 495-2222

    We averaged 5-ish misdials a day and got sick of it, so we started answering "Gattis" and taking orders

    If you didn't get your pizza from august 85 through may 86, welp, now you know why

     

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  11. 5 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Well it's a last gasp swing by Aranda to keep his job, really hoping Patterson does to Baylor what he did for us, I guess. 

    Here's my perspective from a guy who quit covering the program last July, so info may be out of date. Baylor didn't want to pay Aranda's buyout. That's why he's still there. Not sure this is Aranda's decision, or if he even makes any decisions. Impression I got in 2022 was that he didn't run the program, but the program ran around him. Patterson has a hard on for the Frogs, so he may just want to go to a team they utterly hate and try to screw them over. If Baylor beats TCU and Patterson goes to SMU, he'll be going for the trifecta. 

    No clue if he's going to run the program like Barzini ran the mob, but there's an insane leadership void on that team right now, and if Patterson is there every day, he'll get sucked into having to be a leader, whether he wants to or not. 

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  12. 1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

    He’s taken them the furthest the Lions have been in our lifetimes. Dan has done a great job. Goff was left there for dead. It is what it is. Could he have taken 3 earlier yes? Did he no? Doesn’t make him stupid. He’s outcoached the majority of the teams. They are the third or fourth best team in the country. That’s an accomplishment. I didn’t see either the Lions nor the 49’ers winning it all because the AFC is just better and KC has picked the right time to be hot. 

    Yeah, and the NFL paid Taylor Swift a lot of money to fake that romance and go to the games. They're not going to let that investment go down the drain. 

    https://themessenger.com/sports/taylor-swift-generated-331-5-million-chiefs-nfl

  13. 16 minutes ago, Reese Bennett said:

    si has been dead to me since they put a soccer guy on the cover the week the Rockets won their first championship--and we all know the Knicks would have been on the cover if they had won. I had been waiting my whole life--including the first year I got a subscription for Christmas at age 9--to have a Houston championship team on the cover and they fucked me.  Just look at this shit. Rockets championship below soccer and on par with an old-ass Ted Williams fishing. Since then, I haven't even picked up an issue in a doctor's office waiting room. Fuck them. And good riddance. 

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    From Hell's heart, I stab at thee

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