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  1. I would have leaned toward Helton. He was a part of the first 2 seasons at WKU when Brohm started that turnaround. He was then hired by his brother to be QB coach and passing coordinator at USC. First season at WKU, they improved by 6 wins over the previous year. Helton's contract pays him $900k per year. Brennan was making about $2.3mm at SJSU. Fwiw, $2.3mm in San Jose goes about as far as $900k in Bowling Green, KY. Looks like Brennan will make around $3.1mm next year w/ $200k raises each year. They could have gotten Helton for a bit less, I presume, but no one asked me.
  2. He was the DC at Indiana in 2019 when DeBoer was the OC. Smells a little like Herman filling out his staff w/ all of his buddies, but he had some success at South Alabama. Applewhite to get promoted?
  3. Public school guidance - even at strong public schools - is going to be severely lacking. My older kids went to a very competitive NW Austin school and the counselors were responsible for a couple hundred kids. They did their best, but your kid's higher education interests and exploration is low on their list. They want your kid to graduate and be interested in college. Youngest kid went to a smaller private school and the guidance counselors - starting junior year - were about 80% focused on your college plan. Unsolicited advice - you and/or he should take some initial steps ASAP - even if you decide to hire an advisor. At least you've narrowed it a bit and you'll have a good enough understanding of the landscape to ask informed questions. You and he might be able to get about 75% of the value of an advisor by spending a few hours a month searching. The resources available online, esp. post-COVID, are amazing.
  4. Unsolicited advice - have her take an SAT prep class. She'll get more comfortable with the test process, etc. And, it will help to mute any asymmetry between her grades and her standardized test scores. In Austin, we used More Than a Teacher and were happy with the outcome, fwiw.
  5. BTW - laughing at the "punch a bitch" comment, not the other stuff. One of my daughters (no pics) teaches at RR High School. Another is a student teacher in AISD. Yes, do not forget the gloves...
  6. Many of those dipshits are now screaming at the clouds that their kids are delayed. So they'll be part of the cluster...
  7. At 6:30a tomorrow (when the first buses likely get fired up go start picking up elementary kids), it will be 14 degrees in Austin. At 8:30a tomorrow, it will be 16 degrees. The main difference: all chaos will be seen in full daylight. Any and all ice will still be there. Silly decision.
  8. Regarding attendance and makeup days.... As of a law change in 2016, Texas schools are required to provide 75600 minutes of instruction per year, where lunch, recess and other "intermissions" are considered part of that. At a "standard" 7-hour school day, that results in 180 days of class. Well, RRISD (and I suspect others) have changed their days to 7 hours, 20 minutes. That way, they have spare minutes set aside in the event of inclement weather.
  9. Aside from Perkins, Fran, and Price, every coach between Bear and Nick was handed some form of NCAA sanction. I guess Nick was just clean.
  10. While this is true, a little context is needed. Vikings last (of 4) SB losses was in 1977. For reference, the BeeGees were relevant. Jimmy Carter was president. 1977 is closer to Pearl Harbor attack than it is to today. The Vikings final game in Met Stadium occurred on Dec 20, 1980. The high that day was 33. The low was -3. And they got 0.5 inches of snow. That is objectively fucking miserable. They moved to the Metrodome in 1981 and have been indoors ever since. Their mediocrity since then has nothing to do with venue. If nothing else, they saved many lives.
  11. Just getting around to this thread now. Work and all got in the way, Visited Columbus 2 times for kid college visits (kid #3 and kid #4) of tOSU. Both times, I reflected the following (in no specific order): Columbus near campus "feels" like Austin 20 years ago. My goodness, all of the folks I have met at tOSU are great people. Where are all of the fucking assholes I met when Texas and/or Purdue played tOSU Their micro-brew scene is pretty solid Easy to get in/out to the airport (not really like Austin 20 years ago) I *could* possibly tolerate living here In 2023, their largest employers were tOSU, State of Ohio, JPM Chase, etc. There are some city, county employers, L Brands, Progressive, and so on. Intel is building 8, yes 8, fabs in New Albany, OH, a suburb of Columbus, investing near $20B. It's about to boom in tech, too.
  12. DeBoer is good; no dispute. However, after 1 game against Texas and 1 game against Michigan, 2 of his top offensive players (QB, RB) got injured and his RT (backside protection for Penix) had PTSD. No way this Washington team makes it through the B1G, SEC, or the mighty Big12 unscathed. The PacX was competitive this year, but they were far less physical than the other top conferences.
  13. This was a common theme when I took Kid #1 on a college vistit to Bama in 2012. We talked to the head of the ECE department 2:1. After a really great discussion and my observation of the significant number of new and upgraded buildings, I asked, "where is all the money coming from?" He said, (1) tons of federal money moving from UA-Hunstville to UA-Tuscaloosa (2) massive increase in non-resident applicants and enrollees. The latter jumped dramatically because (1) very strong scholarship incentives (2) tons of auto-admit rejections to Texas (who did not want to go to A&M) and (3) kids who want to go to a place with great football. I questioned #3 and he said, "Yes. Believe it or not." Fwiw - Kid #1 could have gone to Bama for free, but went to Texas.
  14. Penix is quite fragile, it appears. That RT is getting worked by the spin move.
  15. At least 2 plays on that drive would have drawn penalties on Texas last week. Mich hitting the WR below the waist. Mich holding the WR. "Letting them play..." SMH
  16. Y’all wanna hear the WORSE reason on why to trade Fields and take Williams yet? Emmanuel Acho thinks the Bears should draft Williams bc they might get TOO MANY first round draft picks w a trade and in doing so more chances to “miss”. He's seemingly a moron. More chances to miss. How about more chances to hit or more chances to dramatically improve your team's roster? The replies on on-spot. Best combining two: "Didn't we just get DJ Moore, Caleb Williams, Darnell Wright, and Tyrique Stevenson for Bryce Young?" That said, they could have stayed at 9 and drafted Jalen Carter (instead of Wright).
  17. I was mistaken. DeBoer was only Penix's OC in 2019. DeBoer was at Fresno for 20 and 21 season. '20 was Penix's best season at IU. His top WRs were Ty Fryfogle and Whop Philor. Both have had cups of coffee in the NFL. His TE was Peyton Hendershot, who appears on the Cowboys roster. Hendershot was IU's top receiver in '21, but Penix was injured for around 1/2 of that season. IU's offensive roster was not totally devoid of talent, but it's definitely beneath UW's roster.
  18. Agree with this. I think there's something to be gleaned from just about any financial book, even if it is as basic as, "dude's a charlatan, but at least I will know why when someone talks about it at the water cooler." I suspect neither Ramsey nor Kiyosaki wrote their books with the belief that they'd some day they'd be worth 9 figures and treated (by some) as deities. Kiyosaki does seem like a piece of shit and, as @Snake Diggity notes, there are some interesting concepts in his book. Ramsey tells his personal story and how he changed the way he deals w/ money. The 7 steps are reasonable. Emergency fund; debt snowball of all non-housing debts; more emergency fund; invest into retirement; college funds; pay off house; build wealth. Some people disagree w/ his debt snowball approach, noting that people should pay off the highest interest debts first. Makes sense from someone who has debt under control. For someone in a bad situation, the positive psychological impact of seeing a debt go to zero is high. Pay off your house? Depends. etc.
  19. In 1992, a buddy was planning a bachelor party for another buddy. He wanted to hire a couple of strippers, so we went on a scouting mission to Yellow Rose. Decided to hire one , "Jessica", and she agreed to bring a friend. Jessica's real name was Stephanie Martin. In 1995, she and her boyfriend murdered the boyfriend's roommate and tried to burn the body. https://www.austinchronicle.com/books/2000-12-01/79590/. So, "knew" is questionable... HS friend's grandmother, Mildred McKinney, was murdered in her home in his/our neighborhood in 1980. Henry Lee Lucas originally confessed to the crime, but the confession was discounted based on late 1980s DNA. In 2012, Williamson County investigators arrested 53 year old Stephen Alan Thomas, who would have been 22 at the time of the crime. https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-man-arrested-1980-murder-elderly-woman/story?id=16846922 He's on death row now: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/thomassteven.html
  20. RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman. What a freaking great actor.
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