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Wulaw Horn

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  1. 1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

    Congrats on the big month!

    Send him an invoice for the credit report and credit repair 😂 

    Thanks. 
    If ever there was a time to get fired twice in the span of 2 days it was this time for sure. 
    It’s just startling to me that someone would go ingrate over $10 a month in a 9 month relationship and that the other person would throw away certainty to close. 

  2. Just got fired twice in the last 2 business days. 
    one a guy I’d worked with on a new build (so I was expecting fuckery) for about 9 months- got the credit up- for him qualified when they couldn’t blah blah blah, and he left over $10 a month. 
    the other guy that just fired me was turned down a couple different places until I got him approved (had a lender make 2 exceptions about some difficult stuff while we were shopping and that got his debt ratio down to 49.8) because he got offered 1/4 of a point better. Now- his wife was on the job self employed 18 months and they are a super slam dunk easy loan once they file taxes in 25 and I told him I’d pay all his fees and refinance him for free at my cheapest lender at that time. 
    $924.00 on his timeline is what it will cost him. 
    I never get fired. I was on my way to the biggest month I’d had since early 2022 so it’s not that big a deal (the other 10 people I’ve got locked for May haven’t fired me yet!) I’m sitting here with a bemused smile on my face. 
    Question for the board (if this guy who’s been turned down multiple times comes back should I close him?  

  3. 9 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

    (And we stand to be even better in that area cutting the dude that was responsible for 10% of the team’s Ks when he was demoted)

    We have the human K machine Joey Loperfido sporting a 45.5% K rate. It didn’t get better. I like Loperfido and think he will get the K rate down, but that won’t be an improvement from Abreu. 

  4. 8 hours ago, SamMan said:

    Tiny quibble here. Respectfully, Bobby actually did say this very thing. I believe it was one of the morning shows, probably late-March. Something to the effect of “guys, I’m just telling y’all, this team is literally a big time, difference maker at DT away from being a legit championship contender next year. Without it, I’m not sure that they are. That’s the only impediment they have right now.” I remember it because I remember thinking, “that’s a bold statement—the last time I saw that secondary they looked like dog shit, and they are sporting a years long track record of underperformance.” 

    The rest of this is long, it is spoilered for space:

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    @JFKFC gets it half right when he says what he heard and was told was horseshit. The problem is it isn’t NIL and the big swinging dicks that let him down. His blame is ill-placed. OTF shoulders some of the load here.

    That said, I never took Bobby’s hyper fixation on that singular issue too seriously. The man readily admits that he is a compulsive worrier and tends to focus on the negative. This isn’t the first time this sort of thing has happened, either. He spent the entire offseason last year looking under every rock to find a way to get Jake Majors (suggesting either Conner or Hutson take over repeatedly) out of the starting center position he had competently held for two years because he was simply too damn small and had snap infractions. [Ironically, now he has changed course and thinks Cruz should move to guard..because Majors and Robertson are good. I’d rather not discuss Conner’s struggles or why Ian thought Campbell (lefties can’t snap!) lacked the mental acuity to play anywhere on offense, ergo he should be a NT.] Likewise, Gerry has been expertly trained in striking the perfect balance between what his audience wants to hear, and what his audience needs to hear. In my opinion, they bear some responsibility for the schadenfreude going around right now. They pushed narrowly-tailored narratives that fit preconceived notions/outcomes, and those things did not come to pass.

    Bobby bitching about the tone and tenor of the secondary discussion turning caustic is amusing to me, considering they (other than Rod) hardly covered it with anything more than cursory explanations as to how and why they will be better (“faster, more athletic”) and platitudes about the coaches (“they didn’t have the guys”). They downplayed or dismissed any and all concerns expressed until after the spring game. It took Brooks (starter, presumed leader) completely blowing a coverage for them to mention a thing about him. Then we learned he showed up overweight (definitely heard about Mitchell’s weight and his illness at the start of camp) and hadn’t been cutting it on the field all spring (definitely dissected Collins, Broughton, and Bryant’s abilities and camp performance extensively in that same period). Suddenly, everybody (including the entire informed class of Texas commentators, apparently) realized the DBs were nowhere close to the competitive standard we were assured existed everywhere but DT…and the criticism was fierce.

    Bobby ripped a true freshman for getting beat by another true freshman and a third true freshman making a great throw. A competitive rep. Not a blown coverage. Suddenly, Kobe Black is behind schedule, his move to safety has all but been made for him, and Ryan Wingo is a top ten lock for the 2027 draft. Likewise, a third or fourth string CB matches up against WR1 (more on him in sec) and gets beat on a competitive rep (not a blown coverage) with no pass rush, and Bobby rips him, too. You think his audience isn’t going to take that and run with it? Who coaches the guys he is suddenly criticizing quite harshly? “Terry Joseph wasn’t a punching bag until Brooks hit the portal and the secondary sucked..” No shit, dude. Look in the mirror. You control the conversation. It was hardly discussed until right now.

    Back to WR1, the guy who came to Texas claiming to be a first round pick. Why do they feel the need to provide a catalogue of excuses for a veteran receiver having “the yips” or otherwise not being able to catch a perfectly thrown ball? We heard it was “anxiety” or “people in the stands” or Gerry’s latest “he has kinda always dropped the ball early.” What the fuck is that about? If we’re going to say the DBs he was up against were trash, why are we making excuses for his inability to do what he is paid to do? Hold him to a standard in accordance with his own fucking claim.

    Thing is, they went from saying:

    ”Jabbar Muhammad—too short, they like what they’ve got.” 

    to “Brooks’ departure was anticipated. They have a plan in place. They are going to prioritize speed and length. The WRs in the SEC are bigger, stronger, faster, better than everybody else. Gotta be able to hang with the X receivers in that league. They are going to go big game hunting. Davis will definitely get on campus for a visit.” [Credit to Rod here. Gerry tried to get him to vibe with this narrative (boundary corner bs), and he pushed back against it.]

    to “peep this 5-10 175 lb corner who did nice things against UNLV while at SJSU for a year.”

    That’s the issue—not failing to sign a guy, or going after inadequate talent, but leading your audience in one specific direction, toward one specific outcome, and then drastically changing course when that outcome doesn’t happen. When that occurs, blame is often assigned to the wrong parties. It makes the coaches seem incompetent and the money men appear to be gun shy. Look, I like those guys. I’ve followed Bobby and Gerry’s work for over two decades now, and they are two of the best in the industry. But they aren’t infallible.  

    Quite frankly, I’m not too worried about either position. There is enough talent available that is capable of stepping up in those rooms, and there is more than enough talent capable of stepping up around them. I like Alex January and Wardell Mack was my favorite prospect in the previous cycle. If anybody is going to step up and start challenging guys for snaps by mid-to-late October, my money would be on those two. I think we’re going to be alright, but I’ve been wrong before. It’ll definitely be entertaining to watch.

     

    I love Bobby. He’s great people. I sponsored his you tube show for 6 months. He’s a prince of a guy. 
    there’s also this:

    he’s a giant gaping flaming vagina when he talks about UT and is the most conservative dude ever.
     

    Before this year he was like- I love talent level here I think Texas can go 10-2 if everything breaks right. They might have as many as 7 or 8 draft picks on the roster if guys go early  and stuff.  I was like Bobby/ we’ve got a minimum of 8 or 9 draft kids- if guys go pro we’ve got 12-15 (this was before the year and we both thought Barron, Collins and Ewers would leave so it would have been 14) and 10-2 is a floor not a ceiling if this team plays well. 


    read that asinine statement you quoted in your Bobby translator as him saying- if we land a disruptive war daddy tackle we won’t have any holes and will be the odds on favorite to rampage through the playoffs and shit all over the big 10 and SEC, while winning the national title by acclimation, and you will have the sense of what he’s saying. 
     

    in other words- read the context and don’t be a literalist dude. 

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  5. 1 minute ago, ConferenceRoom said:

    If you love baseball, it's a fun and unique way to add even more enjoyment to the game. My wife and I are very much looking forward to teaching our daughter the art of scoring. 

    My son is going to watch training films to learn how to score with your daughter. 

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  6. 32 minutes ago, Josef Pwag said:

    Kelvin Banks is in his last year. Same for QE. Veteran o-line and an experienced QB from a team that was 13 yards from the national title game. A reasonable argument can be made that these circumstances won't be seen again for many years. There may be nothing like this season again while Sark is coach. If there was ever a time to go all-in, it is likely now. 

    This isn't just about the TCU guy. If anyone's NIL deal will upset the locker room, then just pay everyone more. This is not the time for belt-tightening. I would hope that someone could convince our major donors that this year is special and this is the time to write checks if you want a title. 

    You aren’t paying attention if you think this year is going to be a last chance or special compared to those in the future. We are going to have like 15 guys get drafted and be better in 25 than 24. If you don’t do stupid shit you will be in the playoffs like 3/4 years on this trajectory 

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  7. 2 hours ago, JFKFC said:

    We just got beat due to money by our biggest rival. Everything in Sark's tenure has been building up to this year. This is our moment. Everyone with 2 brain cells to rub together feels we are an NFL caliber defensive tackle away from a national championship.

    I don't want to hear that paying this guy what he wanted would have been out of profile compared to others on our roster. If that is the case, then give everyone a fucking raise. We have one title in the last half century because we didn't want to cheat and pay players. Now it is legal to pay players. Now it's about money. When it came to wallets, we were supposed to be the big swinging dick. That's what I was told and I believed it. It was all horseshit.

    So laughably wrong and clueless. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Apparently getting IRS installment agreement plans are the hardest thing to obtain in history 

    thank you government 

    Or W 2 transcripts. Or zero paid balance or some such. I don’t know what any of those things are but they’ve both been brought up by my ops manager lately as a reason why UW doesn’t have us clear to close. 

  9. 26 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

    When do we get Urquidy & Javier back?  I'm definitely tired of seeing Brown & Arrighetti start games.

    Arrenghetti was pretty good last night and there’s stuff inside his numbers that are promising. 
    Javier should be back Sunday. 

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