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  1. 1 minute ago, A-Tex Devil said:

    It’s like a good portion of the country wants us to just ride this Covid19 thing out and accept the massive hospital overruns and death that comes with it like we would bad weather, to misquote Clayton Williams.  
     

    It didn’t/doesn’t have to be inevitable.  But so it goes. 

    Even in New York, they never reached hospital capacity.  And their death rate is 1,116 per million.  Texas is 78.

  2. 3 hours ago, sidis said:

    I absolutely fucking hate, hate, hate to say this (especially with how the horns set up for this year relative to the rest of the big 12)...but at this point, based on summer outcomes thus far, I am of the belief that anyone that thinks we are going to have college football this fall is delusional. Which sucks. Fuck. 

    I think you seriously underestimate how much ADs want TV money and how little 18-21 year olds care about the virus.

  3. 2 hours ago, Sejjr said:

    The key quote for these sheeple thinking that they have no risk in stadiums, protests or whereever if they wear masks:

     

    "“...I actually got sick the day after the march,” said Turner. “I could not move out of the bed. I was in the bed just sighing.”

     

    According to Turner, several of her friends with her at the march also tested positive for the Coronavirus. Turner says they were all wearing masks...."

    You get in a mass crowd, you are dramatically increasing your risk.

     

  4. 22 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


    You couldn’t say anything bad about the guy when he was hired without hearing that.

    When you pointed out how awful he was on Shaggy the first two years the "racist" card was always thrown out.  A lot threw it out when he got fired.

    Although I suspect some of that was their desperate attempt to show that Mack Brown was the worst coach ever as they had been claiming for 10 years and not being able to stand being wrong.

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  5. 4 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

    Waivers.  Lol.  They could solve the great 2020 toilet paper crisis on their own.

    Keep your scholarship if you don't sign, but if you don't sign, you don't play.  Just have an "expert" design your safety procedures and follow them.

  6. 20 hours ago, markstanco said:


     

     


    Our floor employees work from 7a to 330. Found out around 230.

    I think I mentioned I have a follow up doc visit for my rotator tomorrow, but Tuesday I will talk to a handful of employees that work with him. I've made my mind up already but it still would piss me off if TWC enabled a racist and gave him unemployment. So it may take a few days on my part to do this correctly.

     

    Takes a pretty big ahole to fight unemployment benefits for someone who does at least show up for work and try, regardless of how big an ahole they are.

  7. 30 minutes ago, Bartles said:

    This is life in 2020-21, it will be dangerous. Even besides the jobs defined as essential this spring, there's not an extremely safe way to be a bartender, server, teacher, student, and the list goes on.

    I think sports in general have laid out pretty good plans, though colleges have it the hardest due to the vast number of athletes and varying budgets. With pro sports, I think the athletes and staff are probably just as safe playing under their protocols than they would be living their lives back home. I'd like to think colleges can pull that off, but it's gonna be bumpy.

    A lot of things are just going to have to move forward. A bunch of people like to cry "Lawsuits!" and yeah, that's a thing but you'll need a good lawyer and even then, get in line because there's like 2.5 million people who got sick and can probably argue some government or company put them at risk. If you watched "Dark Waters" you saw how difficult that slam dunk case was to pull off, and how many years it took. And the guilty company still thrives.

    You always sign waivers when playing sports.  The colleges have almost certainly modified their waivers.

  8. 23 hours ago, Veerbone said:

    My thoughts as well.

    Add to that the “saggin pants” trend.  Ties back to the slavery days and was a message that an unruly slave had been “broken”.   “Broken” slaves had been sodomized by the plantation owner or associates as punishment for their aggressive misdeeds.

    Reasoning via  analogies that should hit home may not have any effect though, we are talking about 18-21 year olds on a mission.   At that age I fought as hard for a lot less & was often blind and deaf to any opinion other than my own.
     

     

    I remember having vigorous polite discussions with people who had different points of view when I was at UT.  Of course that was almost 40 years ago.

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  9. On 6/20/2020 at 2:51 PM, Goodman said:

    Agreed, happens when one side of a conflict is leaderless. 

    When this list was posted Rod Babers had a great observation. Said it could be healthy if the coaches had a heads up. If the players did not have enough respect to give the staff a heads up it was a very bad sign...

    Think its a generational thing.  First stop is twitter.  Talking to actual human beings is much later in the process.

    And to some extent its maturity.  As people get older, they are more likely to learn you shouldn't lob grenades before a discussion.

  10. On 6/20/2020 at 2:07 PM, JerryHubbard said:

    I don’t see how this ends well.

    Admin and CDC view this as a discussion/negotiation. The players view it as a list of demands. Not requests or suggestions.

    Any attempt to barter or seek compromise will be viewed as a continuation of the unacceptable status quo.

     

    Or are the players using this as a starting point in negotiations?

  11. 4 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    Right. Still shaking my head wondering if I dreamed that crap up.

    When I first saw it referred to here I was just glancing through different posts and threads while at work.  My first thought was "some dumbass needs have their ass kicked for joking around like that, it's not a damned bit funny.  Then when I went back to read posts in their entirety, I had to read it more than once because I was in a state of disbelief. Truly some of the most evil shit I've ever heard of.

     

     

     

    The "undefeated" is not exactly a major source of information.  The act is incredibly evil.  If it was actually done, I would think a bunch of those hunters would have ended up mysteriously dead.

    And there's a lot of stuff people believe.  Look at how many people believe the moon landing was a hoax.  Even more people believe anything they read on twitter.  Some people believe National Enquirer.  And some people even believe CNN!

  12. 4 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    “Outreach program for the inner cities”.

    What about the Neighborhood Longhorns program I’ve been donating to through the LHF for decades? Are they not aware of that long established outreach program?

    There's programs helping Austin city schools as well.  There is or used to be an elementary program run by the School of Education.

  13. 7 hours ago, alincoln said:

    There is a large black ghetto in every city in the country. Most upper middle class and upper class suburbs remain overwhelmingly white/Asian.  This won’t change during our lifetimes because it will take decades to change the education provided to the poor.  It will improve but not materially for at least 30 years

    Again, maybe that's true in Austin, Portland and Seattle.  Either that or you have a rather low bar for defining "overwhelming."

    Things can change very quickly.  There's a reason Blacks were so fond of Bill Clinton.  Look at the chart in this link:  https://blackdemographics.com/households/african-american-income/    Black income went up nearly a 3rd while average US went up only 10-20% during his presidency.  Gwinnett County, a nice suburban area NE of Atlanta has gone from 90% white in 1990 to 50% today and still has many of the top rated schools in the Atlanta area.

    And most poor people are white.   Obviously higher % of total for Blacks, but they are not all poor and all poor aren't Black.  If you live in a big inner city you get a distorted view of the real world with really wealthy white people and really poor Black people.  But the suburbs are not so segregated by income and race.

  14. Sounds like its all being played, but nobody has worked out the details.

    Schools don't want to give up the TV money even if they have to leave half or more of their stadium empty.

    If it wasn't all about the money, they would move it to Spring when there's a decent chance they could put more people in the stadium.

    I'll stick to TV this fall.

  15. 10 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    It is always a danger whenever you honor actual people with a statue. They are people with imperfections.

    Which is why we should only have statues of horses, maybe mustangs, on campus. Nobody is going to say how that horse once stole oats or knocked over a fence or something.

     

    No Mustangs.

    Longhorn cattle is ok.  Hey, maybe even a few Owls.  But no mustangs, bears, frogs, pigs, cougars or collies.

  16. 13 hours ago, JohnnyRage said:

    Instead of donating to an amalgamation of groups under the politically divisive BLM umbrella, with that kind of money why not start a new - communities of Texas centric - foundation? Giving back through housing, infrastructure, mentoring, scholarship and celebration for African American communities. And if a national blue chip commits, it can be extended to the community that he wishes.

    Or even better use the money to establish the preeminent police deescalation training program, where officers from poor and all communities would be honored at the opportunity to attend.

    An extra offer, match every scholarship given to an African American athlete for another non athlete, maybe even surprise the recipients on campus.

    I don't know, fuck it. I'm retarded

    None of that has anything to do with the university's purpose.  The university should not be spending its money on that sort of thing.

    Now if they want that money to recruit and support African American students or for research programs to help in those issues, that is totally different.  That falls within the purpose of the university.

    Why should the University of Texas be donating to some town in Florida?

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  17. On 6/8/2020 at 12:07 PM, alincoln said:

    Herman is entirely accurate that there is a double standard in college football but it resides in how he and his staff are compensated compared to how the players are compensated.  This quote sounds exactly like something IR at an S&P 500 company would release right now.  The narcissism it must take to lecture the fans while he makes $7 million a year off of the unpaid labor of an overwhelmingly black workforce. 

    In terms of putting your money where your mouth is as suggested above, Tom should suggest that all college football staffs will contribute 50% of their annual compensation to a fund that will be distributed to the student athletes.        

    Nothing is meaningfully changing in this country unless and until a significant portion of the resources of the 1% like Tom are used to create a greatly expanded and racially diverse middle class.  His self-serving hectoring of football fans isn't going to change shit.  

    This sounds like political board stuff.  But you must live in Austin or Portland or Seattle if you don't think there is a racially diverse middle class in this country.  Outside the really progressive white towns, there are a lot of successful African Americans.  Percentage wise not as many, but quite a few.

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