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5 minutes ago, Octavian said:
Given that MBB is playing today, would think that any announcement (if it is coming today) probably doesn’t happen until the game against Villanova is over.
Oh yeah, that’s going to be the thing that holds things up for announcing the firing of Tom Herman after Urban Meyer came back and said “yes”. For reals.
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2 minutes ago, UTEX_ME said:
I'm just curious what this thread will look like late Thurs. early Fri. if its business as usual all week and not a peep from Urban's camp.
At some point between here and there, this thread will transition into a pure tinfoil hat thread. An objective non-participant could arguably read the last 100 pages and conclude that right now.
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11 minutes ago, TotallyLegit said:
To be fair, CeddyB said Herman could be fired Monday morning.
Who the fuck is “CeddyB”? Where in the last 100 pages did a new twitter handle magically arrive to push dates forward?
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2 minutes ago, Octavian said:Has anyone DM’ed Larry recently to ask if timeline has changed? I remember someone did that before. I would but I’m not allowed to have a Twitter due to work policy.
Going back to the doomsday cult comparison for ol’RapGameLarry - there’s a phenomenon that occurs when a guru misses their proclaimed date for the end of the world or the aliens taking them into outer space - some of the followers rightly get disillusioned and head back towards reality and deal with the ramifications of their prior behaviors, but a good chunk of the followers just accept the newly stated date for exit and push even harder that this one is for reals for reals the right date.
Anyone posting a fucking thing about the twitter dipshits after today unless something actually happens today is part of their silly cult and should be ashamed.
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33 minutes ago, Teryor said:
Honestly really surprised by CTJ/Cadddox's optimism, I've been keeping myself in check as to how much I believe our odds but if both of them say it's done I'm a lot more positive
To be clear, my optimism on this one is blind and I am not saying it’s done because I don’t know jack shit. It’s clear to me that virtually no one knows anything on this.
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Just now, nunna yo bizness said:
Well if he's just fucking around he's got a lot of money to burn as he's put down around $1000 on bets as to this taking place.
The guy can’t leave the rap game alone, the game needs him. Accordingly, he’s got fuck you money. He uses $1000 bills as kindling. Those bets are nothing.
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14 minutes ago, GTNY said:
RapGameLarry has always said today. It’s early. I’m not worried that we haven’t heard anything until 5pm today.
I believe RapGameLarry got doxxed recently. His real name is Marshall Applewhite. I’d be pretty, prettaaaayyy cautious about taking too much of what he predicts for a given day to heart.
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17 minutes ago, Babytime said:Do you see it happening at all at this point?
Sure. Frankly, I’m convinced it is happening, but I’m also convinced that the UT ecosystem has a pathological need to fuck things like this up, so I can’t get excited.
Anyone pessimistic or leaning that way has every reason to see silence moving forward while Fuckface is on the job as confirmation that “Oh no! We suck again!”
Honestly, not firing this stumblefuck after OU was a mistake. He’s a cockroach and I’m sure finishing the season by blowing two teams out, no matter how shitty they are, is going to cause people in the admin to shit themselves and try to fuck up anything that is real as an alternative to keeping him.
But I’m an optimist. Until something forces me to believe otherwise, I choose to believe that Urban Meyer is marshaling his resources for taking over; isn’t concerned about SD1 because he’s going to raid the transfer portal to find some tackles, a rush DE, and some WRs, while everyone on campus is saying that Hudson Card could compete for a Heisman (that’s being said by many these days); and Herman will be straight up shitcanned on the tarmac in Kansas after blowing them out in a very Herman way to the tune of 37-7.
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1 minute ago, victory88 said:
Welp, when are we going to start the meltdown? Did we fuck this up or are they waiting till Kansas?
I don’t think it’s ever too early for this board to panic and start shitting all over itself.
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How much bad acid has RapGameLarry and that Squid fucker been feeding this thread over the past month? There isn’t a fucking thing happening today or tomorrow.
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10 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:
I know BJ quit once during the season already, but do you think he's portaling / opting out? Anyone heard anything?
Injury is the word.
Basically, the Texas front 7 is in tact and everything else is trash for this game. The OL doesn’t even look like a D-1 unit. Ehlinger has the accuracy of a sling shot without a go-to WR and a bunch of terrible deep balls. The safeties are gone. Turtle Tom will not allow this game to get lopsided for Texas even if the team plays up. (Given everything going on with the program, there is no way the team plays up.) Cade Brewer will still be stealing snaps from a future NFL TE and missing blocks while averaging 4 ypc. The game is in the hellhole of Manhattan, KS. Many players on the team faked corona in order to miss some practice this week.
Doesn’t KSU get a bunch of guys back today?
Yeah, things look good for a big Texas win today. Holy fucking shit.
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17 minutes ago, phdhorn said:
I doubt if anything whatsoever will turn up on pregame, so watching it for some clue is kind of a waste. Urby sure isn't gonna spill any beans, and the other hosts have no impetus to sabotage their own show. My 2¢ is that you won't get any help there. So e.g. if Urby isn't wearing an orange tie, or gives some discreet hook'em symbol, I can see where 2--3 people on here are going to panic, "oh noes!". Whatever is afoot, nothing on that show is going to give any hints whatsoever.
CYA: unless he makes an announcement on the show, which wouldn't totally stun me.
I do believe he has not decided yet though, because TommyBoy would be canned 30 seconds after it happens. No reason to stall recruiting with probably the most unimportant game and final stretch of UT football since I've been alive.
I've been hearing UT played all its aces, and Meyer is counting his ducks to see how it works out and everyone is on hold until he does. I believe it'll happen one way or another after this game and a day on the set for him.
And there's no way in hell I'm watching more than a few portions of the game, mostly to see if KSU is getting back to pre-Skyler competence (probably not yet but better). I got stuff to do, people to see, places to go.
Meantime I'm offering up incense to Jobu and although he's no help in getting me to hit a curve ball, he might have some pull with the football gods.The FOX avoiding the subject is the actual tell. They messed with him about the rumors 2-3 weeks ago and it was awkward. Something like that today, he couldn’t play it off. If they don’t let him address it, that’s good and it’s because he doesn’t want it discussed. If he were set up to address it, there is only one way that goes - negative for us.
The premise of Meyer announcing anything about actually taking a job that isn’t currently open, on live national tv, is fan fiction silliness. That one keeps popping up on this thread and even in a world as fucked up and looney as 2020 has been, that would only be the action of an insane person.
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12 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:@immamac can we ban him from the football board. Never post here just a CR fgt troll
The Stiglitz guy is the most glaring example of the rampant dipshittery that is the Cloak Room. That guy’s actual contributions anywhere else on this site are a firm net negative worthy of a rapid crowdsourcing. It’s fucking laughable.
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I said this yesterday morning, but nothing good could have come out of yesterday or the FOX show today except an obvious gag order on that set in which they awkwardly skirt around addressing anything about Texas with Meyer. If we see that today, plus a shit ton of other logical elements already just sitting there on this, then wow.
One thing that’s floating is that even with such a recruiting animal as Meyer, staff assembly is more important. If he takes the job, it may be a situation where letting the string for Herman get played out through the Kansas game makes as much sense as anything while all of the administrative and staffing loose ends begin to get tied down. The transfer portal will be used to solve gaps left by this recruiting cycle.
I don’t personally believe that, and I don’t want that, and this board would implode on itself and there’d be nothing but dead bodies and useless assholes like the HugoStiglitz guy left to pic over the football board after hiding out with this his dipshit rep pumping buddies on the political board, but I guess it’s vaguely believable.
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12 hours ago, ApocalypseTexas said:How is it that we have so many connected posters here on Surly and yet none of them are close enough to have solid information
While the odds certainly favor the premise that someone posting on the boards will be or become a BMD, I don’t see that as the current case, thankfully.
The big money couldn’t contain itself or its arrogance when going after Saban. Their loose lips sank that ship and they were shamed by the embarrassment. That created an opportunity for Steve fucking Patterson to hire a search firm and wind up with Chuckles.
Do people want something like that again? I don’t. I hope nobody knows shit until everything happens at once if Meyer is coming here.
Besides, there’s also shit that cannot be posted without wrecking some relationships for folks and some of us would prefer to avoid doing that people as well.
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40 minutes ago, RGBIII said:
I’m a big pappasitos guy if we are talking chains, or the original Ninfas on navigation
My favorite job I've had so far was waiting tables at Sito's while attending UT. Loved everything about it. The worst texmex I've ever had was so good I couldn't stand it, so I like all kinds of texmex, but my favorite texmex restaurant above all of them remains Sito's. I know that's probably heresy, but fuck it.
15 minutes ago, derpyhorndog said:Well, catching up was a beating. Anyways, about carl's plane. Here's the photo he posted earlier this week, passengers supposedly being BMDs.
After he posted about it, surly aviation experts (not me) did analysis and concluded it was a smaller jet model likely produced in the 80s or 90s. I believe it this model year 1991 Dassault Falcon 50, Tail No. N98DH. As you'll note, it was in Manhattan, KS yesterday, in Austin this morning, and is now headed to Bermuda Dunes airport - the same airport the plane I was discussing yesterday went last night from Vegas. As mentioned, Urban was reportedly in Vegas yesterday, and Bermuda Dunes airport is 8 miles from Phil Knight's house.
Back to the plane itself, here are the photos that plane from a website where it was listed for sale - it appears to have been purchased by its current owner in 2015.
Compare those photos versus the one carl posted. It's clear that the current owner refurbished/renovated the plane since purchase, but the bones are still the same. On the interior, notably the medium dark wood paneling throughout, the 4-place club seating arrangement in the front, the forward-cabin galley, the window shape and the gold-plated air vents. On the exterior, note the 6th-window exit and how that aligns with where the exit sign in carl's photo (top right-hand corner).
If you're still with me, now to whose plane this is. The FAA records show it is TOSGO F50, LLC, FAA-listed address of 9108 Zyle Rd, Austin TX (which looks to be a residential address with a very large plot of land/house). And the same one listed as the registered address with the TX SOS, which shows registered agent at that address is Trey Owen.
Trey is Co-Founder of Austin-based real estate private equity firm JLM Financial Partners. He's not a UT alumnus, but the Managing Director is. Couldn't find the alma mater of the firm's Chairman. So other than the MD, no direct connection between JLM and UT, though they're obviously in Austin (real estate nonetheless), looks like Trey has attended UT galas, etc.
Another person that was listed as (might still be, unclear) registered agent for the entity is Billey Meyer of Waco, with registered address tied to Texas Aero, a general aviation facility servicing the Waco Regional Airport. Billy is famous drag racer who built the Texas Motorplex in Ennis. Don't know if there's anything to tie out to UT there, but thought it was interesting that he mentions on his company's website how the company did business with President Bush when he'd stop through Waco on the way to Prairie Chapel Ranch.
So, Austin-owned plane that I believe is the one in carl's photo and is on its way to the same airport as the one last night speculated to be carrying UM.
Someone should research the Trey Owen guy. There's an outside shot that he's the dude who led the purchase of Inside Texas recently. Not sure if it's public. Obviously, if it is him, holy fucking shit. If not, my bad.
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3 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:
you do realize, this puts you in an elite, very exclusive cohort of you, and Randolph Duke.
Anyone looking at it for what it is views it as sadly ironic idiocy. A broken clock is right twice a day, so RandolphDuke getting something right, somewhere, at some point in time, isn't incredibly surprising.
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1 minute ago, Native Horn said:
"Aggy" is the preferred nomenclature, my dude.
No, it isn't. I think it's the most aggie shit that you guys do on the board when you go out of your way to misspell their name. It's pathetically ironic and I've never once been interested in participating in that witless shit. The jokes on us when y'all do that.
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2 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:
I don't get the reasoning of why Mullen would leave Florida, for Texas. This smells of Mullens agent floating shit to get his client a big raise.
There isn't a clearer path to the CFP than in Austin. The Big 12 sucks, the recruiting advantages are built-in, etc. The path to the CFP for someone at UF vs UT is night and day. Nevermind the rest of things that can be compared - a robot like Mullen could convince himself on that alone that it's worth it. That said, sure, it's probably his agent.
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1 minute ago, UncleSonny said:
Perfect. I'll add there is often an optional step between 5 and 6 where the mask is ripped on Scooby Doo style and on their way to their banning they post some variation of:
"ahaha, you stupid gullible sips! The sleeping giant is awake! Derp, gigem, whoop!"
Another thing I forgot that this guy did, of course, is use terms like "natty" and "faggots". Aggies will just keep doing what they do with stupid or offensive shit and be oblivious to how much that sticks out to the rest of us. I hear someone use the term "natty" or read it on here, and I immediately think "well, here's a fucking aggie alright."
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5 minutes ago, Meyer said:You right I was wrong. I was there I was young I’m 30 now. I grew up a Texas fan. 3 graduates from Texas in my immediate family I’m a pipeline welder. I was in 9th when we won our natty. We are mediocre at best when Baylor took it over Texas has gotten no better
This kind of aggie trolling is as old as BBS forums. The recipe has been the same since I started posting and reading in 1997.
Step 1: Sign up and drop in a somewhat random post in the middle of a discussion like you've been there the whole time.
Step 2: Wait to see if anyone notices. Nope? Then start firing the fuck away.
Step 3: Tell everyone how big of a UT fan you are, going back x-decades, while getting basic shit wrong in the process.
Step 4: Start telling us what we want won't happen and start making idiotic negative comparisons to the shithole in BCS as though anyone will buy it.
Step 5: Start telling us how bad Texas is, getting more and more overt in the process.
Step 6: Banned.
Also, there will certainly be a lack of actual wit or proper spelling and grammar in the posts.
I'm always at a loss at how these rubes can simultaneously think that anything they're doing is productive or subversive or non-obvious, and also how fresh and new what they're doing is on the board.
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Just now, Queen Bitch said:
Is this bit supposed to be clever?
I'm going to neg every post of his that I see. I'm lost as to how that handle has pos rep. Everything it's posted has been unfunny and insipid.
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17 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:
Shutout with Vince Young and Cedric Benson in the backfield. Holy fucking shit.
11 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:I have never eaten a McRib in my life.
Carry on.
I haven't either. After reading @Newy25's rant on it, I guess I'm never going to, either.
1 minute ago, Austx said:Herman knows he's done at the end of the season and he's just focused on winning out and leaving on a high note which may land him a job sooner rather than later (Vandy, S. Carolina).
Narcissists don't behave the way the rest of us do. There's a pretty good shot that Herman thinks he's fine. "Win the next two plus a bowl and all of this noise from the fanbase goes away." Not saying that's the case, but it wouldn't surprise me and shouldn't surprise anyone.
Urban Meyer or bust
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I’ve had quite a bit of fun this morning. Ground at least some of your post in actual logic, be humorous, or be unintentionally entertaining. Your last post did none of those things. You don’t have to be mad at me for it. Just focus on getting better. You’ll get there if you work on it for awhile.