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  1. a quick update on our journey to 1,000 for the 2020 thread....last year's thread on 2019 recruiting didn't get started until March 25th. That means we are at page 160 with a month to go until we started page 1 for 2019. why did we wait so long last year? I wasn't on here yet....
  2. anyone have the new 247 article on Evans?
  3. By any chance did you start out life as a Japanese woman?
  4. I thought Chris Simms was highly underrated. He won a ton of games for us and seemed like a really good guy. I loved Applewhite too, but i thought people expected less of him because he didn't have the stature or pedigree of Simms so they gave Applewhite more credit than he deserved while simultaneously giving Chris less credit than he deserved for the inverse reasons.
  5. I refuse to take someone else's page 900 spot.
  6. is anyone willing to post the two graphics that show how the UT recruits were adjusted in the rankings as well as the one that shows how aggy recruits were adjusted during recruiting? I want to have access but digging through hundreds (or even dozens) of pages is something I would rather not do.
  7. dang it...was that fake?? i believed it.
  8. sorry about this....didn't know someone had already pointed it out.
  9. except the Lord's prayer was originally recorded in Koine Greek....not Latin. : )
  10. Are you for real? I can't tell if you're just making fun of the believers.
  11. Jordan Moore, DB from aggy, transferring. this s interesting
  12. have the new plans come out? I just saw something come across the 247 update.
  13. ok, i have been watching recruiting for decades now....i have a few questions from those who have analyzed the entire process in a more systematic way than I. 1. Do you think a player committing early tends to end up in them either not being moved upwards in the recruiting rankings due to the fact that they are "taken" and the shine is off of them for "clickbait" purposes? 2. my implied point in question 1 notwithstanding, how does a player committing to a particular school or conference help them move upwards? Someone showed how many of age's recruits had skyrocketed upwards after committing....do you believe those same players would have skyrocketed upwards in the same trajectory had they committed to the University of Houston?
  14. Speaking of this, why aren't we already breaking ground on the new project? wouldn't 8 months of work ahead of next season be better than starting in the summer? i am sure they have it all timelined out quite nicely, but I found that a bit bizarre.
  15. also, if Evans is as good as they are saying he is, not getting Cain or Sanders could end up being a blessing in disguise. I know that the best backs always say they don't care, but I don't believe that is true for most of them. If you can go to a great school like Texas and have the bonus of having less competition so you know you get to dominate the depth chart, that has to have some appeal.
  16. one thing that hurts us in the rankings is our JUCO transfers, but i really love them. you get guys who are more proven and ready to go. you lose their first year or two of eligibility but that's when they aren't as big or mature. I see it as a win/win honestly.
  17. Ok, I am going to say it....if we land Sanders, McCoy and Johnson, I sure hope Leal gives us another look.
  18. knowing human history.....what do you think the chances that this tribe somehow rises above every other culture in the history of mankind? do you think that it is a possibility that 50 to 150 stone age tribespeople are not practicing incest? What about rape? do you think that rape never happens? i have no idea if it is happening daily (and the original comment was not mine) but it is sort of my assumption that when we men are involved....there is going to be a certain amount of men who rape, commit pedophilia and practice incest. not one of those practices has ever made sense to me....disgusts me beyond belief, but we all know how prevalent those are, so why would we cast these tribesman as some strange anomaly to all of human history?
  19. this is my new favorite thread! I am obsessed with buildings.
  20. by the way, here are some of the books John read on the Andaman Islands and on North Sentinel Island in particular: Cannibal Isles: Time Traveling in the Andaman Islands Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story Sentinelese T N Pandit The Wreck of the Andamans Mini-India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands Death in the Andamans Guardians of Fire:
  21. what a thin superficial view. your depictions of John are a caricature. he wasn't going in preaching. how could he? he didn't know their language. he was going there to live with them, to become one of them. he wanted to learn the language, culture etc. his desire that they would one day experience salvation was no doubt what drove him to this, but he was there for the entire process.
  22. John went out of his way to be vaccinated against a host of diseases. He also spent a week alone before going to the island and was thereby quarantined to a degree, though certainly i don't know how he interacted with the fisherman. he was aware of the potential dangers of bringing pathogens and took fairly extraordinary measures to avoid that, though clearly there is only so much you can do. his heart was to go and live among them, learn their language and culture and, in time, introduce them to Jesus. He didn't have any delusions of grandeur. He read over 100 books in the 21 months leading up to going, prior to this he took a special course in linguistics so he could know how to learn their language. he also spent years learning outdoor survival in various ways so that he would be prepared to live on an island without any modern conveniences. Again, you don't have to agree with him, but to try to turn him into a genocidal maniac is so far beyond the pale it should embarrass you. As for those quoting from Romans 13, I can't tell if you are serious, but that is a shockingly thin Biblical analysis. Paul himself regularly disobeyed the laws to not preach the gospel. Peter escaped prison in Acts 12....which I am fairly certain was against the law.
  23. Was William Carey wrong to bring his faith to India? Was he wrong to help bring an end to Sati and to help make child sacrifice illegal? How about the schools and the hospitals that were started as a result of his theological belief that all people were equal and deserved care regardless of which caste they were in?
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