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boilerhorn

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  1. I will admit that I was one who suggested that Caldwell should potentially play more - and maybe even start a game. Manning looked injured, frustrated, and even appeared to have the yips. I will also admit that it was a foolish (or even stupid) suggestion. He needed to play through adversity and get more comfortable. He's done just that. [Not to mention the impact of benching him to recruiting, team dynamics, etc.] Because of Arch's play, Texas was eviscerating Vandy until the defense went a little softer and the refs put their thumbs on the scale. Texas crushed Arkansas yesterday, and Manning was a primary reason for that. It's an even bigger win without a small handful of miscues. Looking forward to kicking the crap out of Aggy.
  2. All great points. As for McCasland's choices about timeouts, etc., some coaches (esp. early in the season) do things subtly different just to see how the squad responds. Not sure if that is what he was doing... The standing around and watching the top player has driven me crazy in watching Texas in the past and Purdue w/ Glenn Robinson. 2-edged sword when you have a player of Toppin's capability. You want the guy making things happen, AND you want his teammates to move around finding a seam for an assist, etc.
  3. Ha. Cut-paste’d too soon after the game. I do not want to get too optimistic, but this might be one of the best Purdue teams I have seen in over 30 years. Guys like Matt Heide and Myles Colvin transferred (to Texas and Wake, respectively) because they were not going to get much playing time. Heide is getting light minutes at Texas but put up 20 recently (yes, against Rider). Colvin is getting 27 mins and 13 points per game at Wake - and hit the game winner against Memphis. Heide saw around 20 mpg and Colvin 18 for Purdue last year.
  4. Purdue and Matt Painter doing God‘s work. 😊
  5. It was Dan Mullen's house in 2022. In 2022, it appears that he sold it to Scott Melker for $100 https://qpublic.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=1081&LayerID=26490&PageTypeID=4&PageID=10770&Q=1832894977&KeyValue=04427-111-336 I suspect the $100 is incorrect and is a proxy for undisclosed, etc.
  6. "Hasn't been cooperating" could also be code for "refusing to hand over personal property without a warrant." If that place serves high-profile customers, it would make sense to wait for a specific request of the security video. "Video including person X, Y, and Z between times..." Etc.
  7. https://nypost.com/2025/11/16/sports/kris-boyd-left-trendy-nyc-hotspot-with-2-other-jets-over-bad-vibe-just-before-cornerback-was-shot-sources/?dicbo=v2-0i9Ypkd A second car followed through the barrier and also sped off, they added. Sources previously said the shooter fled in a BMW X6 SUV, followed by a high-end silver Mercedes-Benz Maybach, both with out-of-state plates. Sei Less reportedly hasn’t been cooperating with police and refused to hand over any security footage it may have, the sources revealed.
  8. 3 drops in a row on this drive after the 40 yard pass to Mosley. Excepting the pass to Washington, the other two would have been first downs. The subsequent drive had an INT, which looked like it might have been assisted by a UGA hold or DPI. Regardless, Texas showed signs of life on 2 consecutive drives in the 2nd quarter. They looked somewhat competent in the 3rd quarter, but one drive was stalled due to a Texas holding penalty. The 4th quarter was bad. Up until then, poor execution and mental mistakes...
  9. Indiana and Notre Dame.
  10. 33 of Texas' 23 total rushing yards came in the first drive of the game.
  11. YTTV - full boat - $83.99 YTTV - sports only option - $81.99 problem solved! Alphabet/Google itself is valued at $3.34T; it's YouTube subsidiary is valued at around $400B. Disney is valued at $192B. I have little sympathy for either company in this slap-fest. That said, Google, Amazon, MS, etc. own a better means of distribution at present. Even if DIS could put together a perfect app at competitive pricing, they would still need the datacenter capacity to distribute the content. Google, Amazon, MS, etc. are still involved. They'll make money no matter what happens. And they can squeeze the media companies...
  12. Fort Point IPA Trillium Brewing Company Boston, MA
  13. Participating too much (??) in this thread… Juice Bag NE IPA Clover Road Brewing Company Hudson, MA
  14. Bay State Brewing Company Worcester,MA Sinshine NEIPA
  15. Guiness Stout Grand Central. Manhattan one of the meetups for Texas games in NYC
  16. 11 Pins WC IPA Fifth Hammer Brewing Co queens, NY
  17. Guiness The Office Bar Upper East side Manhattan
  18. Theta IPA Hudson Valley Brewery Yum…
  19. This. Regardless of the place on the income spectrum, there is always someone willing to take unnecessary and foolish risks to bag a few extra bucks. The question is typically, “Why would someone with $XXX do that for $Y?” Various reasons. Hubris, ignorance, stupidity, and bravado. And, perhaps, they are blowing through their $XXX on hookers, blow, and gambling. An acquaintance dated a forensic accountant years ago. She was hired by large companies to search for unusual spending. She’d occasionally find a mid to upper level exec at a medium or large company who was cheating around $50-$100 on travel expense reports. These fools were risking $250k-$300k per year jobs (10 years ago) to pocket an extra $500 per year. Insanity, hubris, stupidity.
  20. I was referring to the number of Wingo fingers required for a catch. Not the O/U of the game.
  21. Just saw this thread get a bump, so I cannot resist a random stream of consciousness... Comparing Appetite to UYI is somewhat unfair, IMO. In some ways, it is 2 different variants of GnR; in some ways it is not. Appetite was far more angst. The Ritz live show might be one of the best live shows of all time - def for GnR, but top-100 all time of all live shows. Appetite was released summer of 1987. Joshua Tree was released 4 months earlier. The 2 releases could not be more different, but both produced anthems of the age. Def for me. Not a bad track on either record. I first heard November Rain (NR) in 1988 or 1989. I was living in South Florida - part time - as part of a co-op program in college. There were *many* CD/record stores in the area that had access to bootlegs. I overpaid for a GnR bootleg and it contained a version of NR and I was amazed. According to Matt Sorum and Tracii Guns, Axl had been working on that track since ~1984 or 1985 - just 2 years after he left Lafayette, IN to head to LA. I have many strange memories of Appetite. I bought it a few days after it was released and played it for my family. Dad was not a fan. Brothers were. I still can see my mom (RIP) dancing a strange jig to Mr. Brownstone. What a fucking awesome song.
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