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Dbeasy

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  1. Actually I was just thinking about what an incredible pro career he had and flat forgot how good his junior year was. edit: just to add to that, he was a third round draft pick. I think most were surprised by the difference between college and pros. He had a very very good college career but surprised as a pro. I think Worthy does the same.
  2. There are assholes everywhere, but generally firefighters are regarded as pretty high quality people. They also, according to the Washington Post six days ago, have the most physically demanding jobs in the country. I’ve only noticed your existence by the sheer volume of terrible viewpoints you express on this site. So your comment is no surprise and says way more about you than it does the firefighter community.
  3. Stay with me for this comparison, but he reminds me of Jamaal Charles. He has tremendous speed, like Charles, who also showed flashes of greatness while in college. Both guys left the forty acres leaving us wanting more and believing they didn’t quite demonstrate their full potential. But both had the mindset and confidence and work ethic to be great in the NFL.
  4. Correct or incorrect, the perception is that Texas has the most NIL money. I just saw a media story on it yesterday. Every big name player wants to visit so that they can use Texas as a bargaining chip for whatever program they are trying to get money out of.
  5. I always wondered why Owens wasn’t successful given all that speed and athletic talent. I guess it’s because he has a brain the size of a walnut. That doesn’t work well for the safety position.
  6. When I say prep, I refer to the whole gamut of options, from just basic cleanup, to significant renovations, and everything in between. Some clients may end up with more money if they take on some improvement (paint, carpet, etc), but they may not have the time or temperament to deal with that. So I lay out all the options and we select the best for their situation. Heavy renovations is rarely the best strategy but sometimes doing more than just a cleanup pays off big time.
  7. Setting aside the Porter drop, it’s ridiculous to just declare that coaching has nothing to do with fielding.
  8. I know that area well. Lived there for several years. What I’m seeing in the market, buying and selling, is that good/great houses well prepped for sale sell well at good prices. House with a smaller buyer pool or an unattractive attribute can sit for 6-12 months plus. The key is the right positioning and prep of the house. I had a client that wanted to sell quick so I laid out the optimal prep plan to maximize money in his pocket. It went under contract in two weeks, while comparable properties sat for a year. What was interesting was that the seller had another friend who was a realtor and she was giving him bad advice while I was trying to get him to make the right decisions. I would have thought a long term realtor would have a better handle on selling in an unusual market environment, but I guess since Austin had been such an easy market to sell in for so long, these agents didn’t have to figure anything out. I sold in Dallas and Houston too, which had different dynamics than Austin.
  9. There has been a lot of defending of Pierce in this thread, which I understand. The 3 CWS appearances and Big 12 titles look okay at first glance. But when you look at his team more closely, cracks have been emerging throughout his tenure. The inconsistency, the roster gaps, the pitching and hitting ups and downs, the performance in the CWS, the performance against good teams, the coaching hires and fires, the recruiting. He’s benefitted from the reputation of the program and that’s made his lack of performance more difficult to discern.
  10. Why do Twitter embeds now take so long to load when scrolling a thread? They take about 5-8 seconds to load.
  11. I was talking to my electrician Monday. He and his parents were fleeced for $460k by a crooked contractor who was building two homes on a plot of land, one for him and one for his parents. The guy poured two foundations, half a wall and then took off to Dallas where he fleeced others, and then onto Arizona where he’s fleecing people now. I don’t know all of the details, but the electrician said because of the new law, it’s made it almost impossible to collect on judgements from the guy.
  12. I can’t deal with this camera angle. It’s making me nauseous.
  13. I think the mental challenge is the fact that the program historically had very good success getting to the CWS, and when Augie let the program slip for several years, Pierce hasn’t quite gotten back to where it was. As other posters have mentioned, maybe it’s unrealistic in today’s sports to get back to that, but it’s still a hard pill to swallow.
  14. I had to delay it because I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer. I’m going to try it in the next few weeks.
  15. Yea I stand corrected. I was going from memory and his similar six year stretch wasn’t the last six. It’s a few years off. The point I was trying to make is that Augie at the end was not leading a competitive program, and Piece still hasn’t returned it to the stronger performance of the earlier Augie and Gus years. Maybe the program never gets back to that.
  16. Pierce’s six years have been pretty similar to the last six years of Augie, which was a drop off in the program’s historical performance. The program has slipped. It’s no secret I have never liked Pierce as the coach. Pierce has this year and next year to demonstrate improvement, or will likely be looking for another job imo.
  17. In the movie Speed, made in 1994, Keanu Reeves references the Arizona Wildcats, saying, and I quote, “They are a good team.” The offensive coordinator of that team? Duane Akina. And now you know the rest of the story.
  18. 1. Jason Kidd as head coach was a bad decision. 2. Hearing Brunson say he wanted to stay but Dallas ghosted him during the season was disconcerting, for sure. 3. Wasting Luca is frustrating. 4. I highly questioned the Nico hire primarily because of his lack of experience as an NBA GM. 5. I never liked the long runs of Don and Donnie. 6. Disassembling the championship team immediately was puzzling. 7. The constant lack of focus on defense is frustrating. 8. The long term worthless or missing draft picks outside of two Euro stars is concerning. At some point you have to wonder if Cuban is nothing more than an internet bubble baby who lucked into a $2 billion exit on top of a fairly worthless business built with funny money, and once loaded simply used his incredible wealth and influence to make more money, like all billionaires can do pretty easily. I like Cuban but I don’t think he’s nearly as smart or effective as his wealth and reputation implies.
  19. There’s your issue. Any young person who says yes sir no sir is either a Boy/Girl Scout or a deviant. The odds run 50-50.
  20. Dbeasy

    2024 NFL DRAFT

    I’m feeling better about my proclamation on surly during worthy’s freshman year that he would be the greatest WR in Texas history. He didn’t quite make it during his college career but I think he’s going to be extremely good in the NFL.
  21. I’ve assumed the Spurs org has purposely not focused on winning this year because they have several draft picks. But at some point Wemby’s play is just too good. This OKC win is a strong, surprising one.
  22. People are actually thinking Texas might make the sweet 16? While a spectacularly lucky set of circumstances makes anything possible, thinking that the sweet 16 is reasonably attainable at this point is laughably stupid.
  23. The art museums there are really good, if you have a mild interest in that type of thing. Also tapas tapas tapas.
  24. Al Franken - "I liked Ted Cruz more than my colleagues liked Ted Cruz...and I hate Ted Cruz."
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