Good choices on all that. Hopefully the evening you’re at McDonald Observatory is a star party night. Ernst Tinaja is very cool. I’m surprised it doesn’t get more attention compared to some of the other hikes. I guess because not everyone can get to it. I wouldn’t take a Honda Civic down there or anything like that but any truck with a little bit of height should do fine. I took my old 2wd Tacoma down there a few years ago. And if you’re down there for that hike you’re not far from the Boquillas border crossing, the boat ferry and horse ride into town for lunch is a nice way to spend the afternoon.
There’s not a single team in the nation whose fanbase doesn’t think their coach has mismanaged a few games that were closer than they should have been. Sarks got plenty of room for improvement but so does everyone else.
Ohio state has a couple single digit wins. Geargia almost lost to Mizzou and had close games against Auburn and South Carolina.
Florida State barely escaped Boston College, Clemson, and Miami. Washington struggled against Utah. Oregon almost lost to Tech.
None of that is an excuse for Sark, but on the national scene our struggles don’t stand out at all. It’s the same everywhere. Michigan is about the only team actually kicking the shit out of everybody and I wouldn’t trade Sark for Harbaugh.
Our team today would kick the shit out of every Texas team since Colt last played. We aren’t perfect but I’m happy.
This dumbass I work with just spent 3 days telling me about the $80k he lost to an Amazon and Walmart drop-shipping scam and his legal woes trying to sue the Canadian drop-ship management company with Caribbean bank accounts that took his money and then closed up shop.
Just a random reminder that Spring Game performances don’t mean shit and never have and all those that claimed MM might be better than Quinn after the last one should be kicked in the balls.
Nederland kicks ass. Nobody’s comparing it to Breck but if you want to be an hour or less from Denver, have bad ass mountain biking right out your back door and a small mountain to snowboard on that won’t be overrun by Texans then it’s a fine spot. If you want tourists and souvenir shops, 5-star restaurants, and resorts full of out of towners it’s not for you. And Boulder is half an hour away if you need city shit.
Goddammit, if you’re about to put Nederland on blast we’re gonna have issues. I need that place to stay under the radar and affordable for a couple more years.
That’s the thing. In that party you either get steely resolve or unity, it’s not possible to have both. You either have principles with a splintered party full of chaos or you have a united party with a complete lack of moral character.
“That’s some catch, that Catch 22.”
Our back up receivers are better than our starting DBs. And yes, blind hope pretty much. Nobody knows what to expect and anyone who claims to is just manufacturing some shit to believe. Nothing wrong with that, but for me it’s just general optimism not based on much.
I’m optimistic about Maalik and the next few games, but not because of any Spring Game footage. Those passes were thrown against the backups on a pass defense that currently ranks 62nd in the country. You can’t infer a damned thing from that.
My favorite posts are the ones that take one post and label it as collectively from “Surly” and then take a different post with the opposite opinion from a completely different poster and label it also from “Surly” as if they never expected different takes from a group of 10,000 or whatever assholes.
Them doing well in the pros helps, but us being emotionally invested in their pro careers doesn’t. I’m in the “Wish them well and smile if I noticed they are doing good things” camp but I’m not actively following any of them and don’t care too much. Of course I feel the same about recruiting. I want us to have good players but not to the point I want to follow it and keep track of that shit.