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2 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:
I did this.Caught a stray from an asshole who think a thread about donations is the same as talking tragedy. But it’s been done.
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1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:
I realize the massive amount of rain to took fill that much of the lake, but man, it feels like it didn’t make much of a dent.
It’s not hard to find threads. It’s also easy to ignore threads that hurt your feelings because politics. But it’s impossible to change minds or even mildly persuade people of anything when you can’t confront people where they WILL post under the guise of “news” and “politics” as if those things aren’t the fucking same 80% of the time these days.
If you go look what I left you will see the difference pretty easily.
I was also talking about if someone wanted to make a new thread for this event in DT they can easily do it.
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21 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:
No one is stopping anyone from making threads. I didn't delete anything yesterday and the conversation wasn't stifled of even impacted based on the move of about 3 pages of posts that were clearly easily a standalone topic.
Its not hard to find threads.
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14 minutes ago, bonnieblue said:
Just found out our very good friends lost their toddler while their river house was ripped apart in Kerrville. Mom saved the older child. Absolutely devastating.
This is so fucking terrible.
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2 minutes ago, Cajun said:
My drone flyover of the flood waters and debris field moving into Canyon Lake right now...
Rename files to .mp4 before you post and it'll embed for everyone.
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1 minute ago, Tonesky said:
lawsuits > bankruptcy > land sold to real estate speculator/developer....
Well they are also dead so there's that.
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Just now, royiv said:
I’ve contributed a bunch to this thread. I was the first person to post about the summer camps and have added a bunch of content related to it.
Then fucking shut up about other shit.
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Just now, royiv said:100% agree. That’s what I’m attempting to do.
You are done with this thread or you will take a ban.
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Are there any chances it's not the worst case?
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1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:
mexican tire shop
cash
Best and final. Lock it up?
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5 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:
You literally negged 10+ posts and are now crying about neggers
New motto?
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1 hour ago, elfenix said:
are recent images something which can be hidden? don't really want ipihb images showing up on my phone while surlying in line at chipotle
No one cares in line at chipotle.
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1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:
I do feel like we've avoided the absolute worst case scenario, which would've been all the ICE shit being popular enough for long enough that they were able to go full nazi without really facing much organized resistance. I know it doesn't seem like it, but there has been at least some degree of effective organized resistance (though mostly not from Democratic officials, which would be fucking nice to have) and we've had some small wins here and there. And ICE's kidnappings are incredibly unpopular. But now, what is probably realistically our best chance basically looks like this:
1. Super-ICE keeps doing the shit ICE has been doing and turning more and more people against them. Thousands die in their concentration camps while Trump hires millions out as slave labor.
2. Dems take the House (and Senate, maybe) in 2026 and stop the bleeding, but probably won't be able to actually substantially reduce ICE's funding or restrain their criminality in any substantive way.
3. Trump runs again (and gets the GOP's nomination) and SCOTUS doesn't object.
4. This pisses off enough people that a Dem wins like 55/45 in 2028 and we have to hope the military's leadership acknowledges the Dem as the new President.
At the end of all of this, we've still got to deal with whatever the fuck ICE has become by 2028, which will likely be an insurrectionary military force that we'll need the army to put down. Then we're going to have to actually prosecute tens of thousands of fascists to the fullest fucking extent of the law, not some piddly one year or time served bullshit, to ensure that they're too scared to come out of their mom's basements for another 100 years.
Trump runs again and Obama wins 540-0
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Watch trump veto it and tell them to try again.
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20 minutes ago, utfan87 said:
Where are these schools getting the money to pay players because according the USA Today revenue only something like 30 schools made money and that was not anywhere near an extra 20.5 million.
How did the other 95 schools field football teams posting losses? Where did the losses get made up from?
Revenue sharing != Profit Sharing.
Revenue is money in through the AD. Not money through and paid for everything then what's left.
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7 minutes ago, Lonestar88 said:
Gotem.
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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:
There is a market for fucking celebrities? How is the first that I'm hearing of it? What are going rates? I assume someone like Melissa McCarthy is probably pretty inexpensive, but your basic Sabrina Carpenter is a bit pricey. Is there an arbitrage opportunity related to maybe age (like, say, Jane Seymour or Halle Berry) or psychosis (Britney Spears)?
Its a lot cheaper than you think.
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1 minute ago, Texas Wahoo said:
The reason why there is a huge market for “fake NIL” is because the schools have artificially limited the amount the players are able to be paid to the House settlement amount. It’s certainly not their corporate NIL value, but it is their market value in college football. Schools/collectives are trying to find ways to pay the players their market value in other ways, because the rules prevent them from doing it directly.
God damnit. Stop conflating NIL with pay for play, everyone. Stop it.
They get paid to do commercials, tweet stuff, bring people to events and do meet and greets etc. They do not get paid to play football.
There is absolutely a well established market for fucking celebrities and influencers who charge money to do those things.
Could you pay anyone to come do a meet and greet 750,000? Sure you could, you would also charge probably 30k a chair for that dinner.
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22 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:
Been open a while. Fun if you are there with a big group.
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3 minutes ago, tokamak said:
I know this is a website for Texas fans, and specifically we're on a thread dedicated to Texas football recruiting, and we're supposed to be rooting for only what's best for Texas football and yadda, yadda, yadda. But one thing that really fucking pisses me off is that it seems like everyone, from the ADs, to the conferences, to the NCAA, to apparently even the federal government is absolutely bound and determined to prevent college football players from receiving what the free market determines that they're worth.
So the problem here isn't the players etc.
Its that none of the people paying money actually give a shit about the players NIL, they are doing it because they like the team, not because the skill or market demands it.
These kids are making more than Tom Brady for some things. Than Patrick Mahomes for state farm. Stop acting like this is some fair market value discussion and pull your head out of your ass.
Theres a reason corporate NIL, you know the real stuff with an ROI happens at places and with players that it happens with. Those deals continue post college and are often long term partnerships with brands.
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58 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:Yeah, the terminology gets awkward. There's a $20.5 million cap on NIL provided by the schools. There's no cap on third party NIL, but all deals over $600 are supposed to go through a clearinghouse that determines if they're legitimate. If the NIL deal is determined not to be a market rate NIL deal based on an algorithm, the deal is supposed to be blown up.
Right now Texas is deciding on an administrative level to not do booster led NIL deals for the 2026 class. So they're counting on the $15 million or so out of the $20.5 million allotment the school has put forward specifically for football, plus whatever NIL deals the metro area of Austin can produce for local athletes - plus whatever national brands want to get on board - to compensate athletes. Other schools don't seem to be following the same formula, so for the 2026 class other programs appear to have more money to throw at athletes than Texas does. That's a bit of a question, but that's the appearance.
Like I've said multiple times, the ink isn't dry on the House settlement, so we'll have to see how it all works out. But I can say that if Texas abides by this, and other schools choose to add more booster led NIL deals, then Texas isn't going to just have a tough time recruiting in football. They'll have a tough time recruiting in any sport where booster led initiatives are being used to acquire talent. That will become very obvious very quickly. I just don't see how Texas allows that as a long term situation.
But the House settlement is not college sports' final form. Not by a long shot. We are in a phase of complete chaos, where the rules will change regularly, and programs that value winning will have to constantly adapt.
How many NIL deals have you done or been a part of or read or seen anything about other than the news?
Compliance has always existed, just because it's delloite who can torpedo the deal doesn't mean there hasn't always been someone who could torpedo the deal.
What you are seeing now is SCHOOLS being able to offer money in addition to the collectives that were already going, and in many cases in lieu of the collective (many have been shuttered or combined with the internal AD) the reason a lot of the parity is happening now is because schools that didn't have their NIL shit together all of the sudden have millions to throw around. Its going to be terrible for them, they are going to mismanage rosters, overpay for players that aren't high enough impact, do really stupid shit to be part of the Joneses etc.
Texas already has a machine, it has discipline, it has a roster retention plan, it has depth, and it has the resume for a program developing players into NFL players.
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6 minutes ago, bolverk said:
If at all possible, please make plain-text pasting the default setting, so that those of us who use dark mode don’t have to see a bunch of janky posts from carried-over formatting. Thanks.
I'm pretty sure this is also fixed.
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
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Hope is a dangerous thing.