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  1. 4 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Fastest guy on my HS team in Houston was a Mexican national...And he could juke you too. He was like a Mexican Gale Sayers and he fucking hated getting tackled so that made him really hard to catch up with. I would bet he was a 4.4 guy. But he would admit he was very much an exception and said that there were more Mexicans who could run for three days straight than dudes like him with blistering speed. And that Mexican baseball was full of great pitchers but not too strong for position players. 

    Anyway dude is living the dream now, or at least pre-covid. He owns an Irish pub in Monterrey and it is always full to the brim with absolutely smoking chicks. 

    There’s easily going to be 5-10 RGV players each year that are more than capable of contributing at the FCS level. Key will be for UTRGV to sign almost all of them to keep local interest in the team high. 

  2. 6 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    McAllen and other cities in the RGV really get it when it comes to economic development when compared to other border cities like Eagle Pass and Laredo. Their officials are really easy to deal and have helped a lot on deals I have worked on. RGV has great potential in attracting jobs and have the right people in leadership to make it happen. McAllen did a really nice job with their new convention center and hotels. Nice retail and restaurants right next to it. Great place to have smaller conventions. Went there for a diocesan conference and was impressed. One thing I don't understand is the airport situation. I don't know why they have McAllen, Harlingen, Brownsville and Valley International airports having commercial service. They would be much better off if the cities agreed to do one big airport serving the entire RGV like a much smaller version of DFW. It would be a lot more convenient and open up more destinations.

    The three valley cities just can’t handle not each having an airport, it makes no sense at all, I agree, but no local official is going to win re-election with a message of “I’m going to close the airport.” 

    Quick clarification though, Valley International is in Harlingen, there’s only three airports. It’s the only one that makes sense as a local hub due to runway size, infrastructure and location. Right in the middle of the Valley, airport to Island is 50 minutes and airport to McAllen or Brownsville is about 45 minutes. 

     

  3. Just now, txhorns said:

    Any clue as to which other Texas school the WAC might be targeting as a member?

    They’ve already officially added ACU, Stephen F., Sam Houston, Lamar, and Southern Utah and are returning to football at the FCS level.

    Hurts my head to think about, I still think of the WAC as a fun and gun FBS conference that always had crazy scores from schools like BYU, Colorado State, New Mexico, and UTEP.

  4. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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    Always the victim and lol at “conservatives”

    Googled the clip and watched 15 seconds, the “push” is a student petition. College students being liberal is catnip for their demographic.

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  5. 8 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    I lived in the RGV in the early 90s when I lived with my dad, who worked for Shell Oil.  If you like the outdoors, it is a hell of a region.  Some of my dad's friends had a ranch near La Joya and I hunted there during dove season pretty much every day in high school.  Kept a shotgun in the trunk of my car and went straight from school (Sharyland HS). It was a place you could get a limit standing near the barn in a white t shirt in 20 minutes because there were thousands of birds.  Laguna Madra is my favorite fishery.  And there is excellent deer hunting.

    I loved my time down there.  Back then Mexico was safe and we usually went there every Friday night for dinner.  Dad would let me have two beers. My favorite restaurant was La Fogata in Reynosa. I loved living in the Valley.

    Walking across the Las Flores bridge for dinner and drinks, cutting class to get to the Island on good weather and surf days, all your friends have leases or boats....the Valley was an excellent place to grow up. 

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    You can get huge brand new homes in very nice subdivisions like Sharyland in McAllen for $250-300K

    You can go cheaper if you are less selective about your neighbors (not bad/dangerous or even rude/unkempt, just not gated community) and if you can do without the restaurants and shopping in McAllen.  For my money, the lower RGV from La Feria to Los Fresnos and Laguna Vista is a nicer place to live especially factoring in proximity to the coast which is my main plus. 

  7. Just now, Nueces River Rat said:

     

     

    The 1993 through  1995 Offensive lines for which Mayberry was a member  had four of five that ended up in the NFL.    I recall it was Dotson, Mayberry, Jorge Diaz and one other player who all were starting for NFL clubs .   I swear to this day, those two teams probably could have beaten Rice, SMU, and TCU back and maybe given Houston and Tech hell.   

    Kevin Dogins! That was the center’s name.

    Those teams  with Joe Menchaca at QB were lit, if he hadn’t been suspended I think they’d have beaten North Alabama the second year.

  8. 6 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    Yes and no....  I did my Undergrad there back when it was A&I and most of it's roster was from  Houston/ East Texas and San Antonio areas and complemented with JUCO and D1 transfers from all over the country.  In fact I was there when they got some of the OU and Miami players who were kicked off their teams for participating in criminal activity (lol).    They did manage to get a some of the better valley kids who could have very well played at larger schools, but because the big boy schools did and still do not consider most of south Texas and especially the RGV a good recruiting area, the Javs were able to snag those guys.  I knew a few of them pretty well like Manny Gomez who is the HC at Harlingen.  He was a stud LB at A&I.  He could have played at number of D1 and D1-AA schools in Texas or even out of state.

    More recently, they've been attracting more valley guys only because other programs have stepped in and taken market share away from TAMUK and much to their determinant,  TAMUK has let it happen.    Programs like UIW, UTSA, Tarleton, Sam Houston, etc.    They did nothing to upgrade facilities.   They hired crappy coaches the last decade and gave the job to Michael Salinas who is a former Javelina and one of those outstanding valley guys that deserved a shot elsewhere, but he went to TAMUK and did well.   His last coaching job was at Edinburg Vela  (he did some assistant work at West Texas and Sam Houston) and from what I understand, he got the job by default because the other finalists withdrew thanks to lack of administrative clarity on what they were going to do to help the recruiting process.  He wasn't even coaching when he got the job.  He was regional sales for a big sporting goods company which sold direct to school districts.  

    I've heard some suggest this was by design by the A&M system to force the merger and then come in and reestablish the program.   I don't know.   But the program that has produced the second or third most NFL Hall of Famers in the state of Texas (more than aggy) is dead or close to it.

    Manny was a hoss for that 1989 Harlingen team. And damn, that Jav program was something to be proud of. I went to football camp there in the mid-1990s, Juan Castillo was the “name” associated with the camp. Some of the players were camp counselors, I remember him telling us to listen to them because they would be in the pros one day. He wasn’t wrong, Jermaine Mayberry went in the first round and there was another OL who put together a nice little career.

    On the other hand, the dorms we stayed in had no AC and after a week in Kingsville in July with no AC I was cured of ever considering TAMUK as my college destination./csb

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    I have actually seen the Aviators play against the WhiteWings (?) in Harlingen.  I'm just trying to figure out why someone would choose Robstown as a site for a pretty good minor league stadium.  Especially pre-WB Field...

    Yes, it was the WhiteWings if it was in Harlingen, they were the Texas-Louisiana league franchise for years. The stadium in Fair Park is pretty cool, it was built in the 30s I think for what was then the Giants. The local high school teams had a near facility to play in.

    I think the county gave the Aviators tax breaks to build on that site, but I could be wrong. 

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  10. +1 for “should have kept the Broncs”, that name had some recognition and loyalty but no one ever cared about anything UTB ever did. Also, I liked the name “Pan-American” much more than UTRGV, just had a better ring to it.

    If they want to make a go at football, they need to recruit some local players and then scour the country to fill out the roster with size and speed.  The local kids will be key for FSN support. I also like the idea of playing in a smaller stadium that is full, it’s better energy and fun than playing in cavernous McAllen ISD stadium with a light crowd. 

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  11. 50 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Hey, it's Franklin! But Holly has it covered:

     

     

    Peaks and valleys in every Presidency. Sometimes you’re working on a tax package, sometimes you’re successfully inciting a mob to attack the Capitol to try and kill the Speaker and your own VP.  Don’t see what the big deal is, don’t judge a guy by his worst moment.

  12. Guatemalans uber alles.  I have never met one that was not just an absolutely wonderful person.

    Have a friend whose ass was saved by some Salvadorans in Najaf Province in a fire fight and he will tell you they are the bravest, noblest people on earth.

    That story is what utterly convinced me that the GWOT and coalition of the willing was completely bankrupt. As glad as I am that the Salvadoran commandos helped him out, WTF were those guys from a desperately poor country doing fighting our war in gotdamn Najaf Province? And then we elected a POTUS whose entire platform was basically a middle finger to El Salvador.
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  13. 1 minute ago, Lobo said:

    Holy shit, the way Costa Ricans view Nicaraguans.  That shit will keep you up at night.  I think the only reason Costa Rica doesn't have a standing army anymore is because they know they'd use it commit ethnic genocide against Nicaragua.  I've never seen two neighbors so at odds with one another and my great grandfather killed Poles for a living.  

    Croats and Serbs laugh at your petty conflict conflicts from their mountain. 

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  14. 47 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    anecdotal but a hardcore MAGA on my facebook has announced she's leaving the GOP because they didn't stand up for Trump. From posted photos, it looks like she's traveled to a couple of Trump rallies in the past and has said that she was going to DC for Trump's Inauguration on Jan 20th.

    In the long run, the GOP needs to purge MAGA but it could hurt them in the short run if their voters are mad at them.

    I kind of feel bad for these people. How unhappy must you be to travel anywhere at all just to see Donald Trump? 

  15. 49 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Oh....you think that Asians can't be racist AF.  How adorable.  I know a fair number of Vietnamese who are pretty damned racist, particularly against black folks but also against hispanics.

    Of course, the irony is that among asians (as I understand it), Vietnamese are often treated as "bottom rung."  @Pescado_Rojo has an anecdote about fishing with a friend of Japanese extraction, and as they were discussing various asian foods or somesuch, PR mentioned the Vietnamese, and his friend spat "psssh.  Vietnamese -- asian n---ers."

    Traveling and getting a taste of racism/chauvinism among other cultures is eye opening for how damn stupid racism is. It’s like the elaborate hierarchy that Russians have for post-Soviet nationalities. 
     

    For the record, it goes:

    Russian, Baltic nationalities, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Moldovan/Romanian, Georgian*, Armenian, Azeri, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Roma, Muslim Roma.

    *This order changes post 2008 depending on who you talk to.

    ** Jews are also first or last, depending on who you talk to and their mood. 

     

     

  16. Guess it’s kind of 2021.  Cornerback Myles Jones, DT Jayden Peevy, and LB Aaron Hansford all electing to return for next season. 
     

    Defense will be the team strength next year, DL in particular. Probably a sigh of relief over Hansford, he and Andre White will bring experience to offset the loss of Buddy Johnson.

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  17. 16 hours ago, Grandioso said:

    Fox News is, veeeeeeeery slowly, realizing that gigantic fucking lies can be fatal. Killing their viewers with misinformation about Covid was one thing, but the bullshit about election fraud provoked a deadly response that you could watch on the evening news. (Maybe not Fox News, but other stations aired it).

    Think about it: if you really BELIEVE that the election was stolen through massive fraud, and no one in power is going to stop it, insurrection/force is an appropriate last-resort measure.

    If Trump ordered the military/feds to swoop in and take over the vote counts in swing states, and then declared himself the winner, and no branch of government put a check on that, and Congress just said, "well, this was corrupt and stolen and democracy isn't real but we're going along with this," I would full-throatedly defend anyone willing to put their life on the line to stop that charade. If you believe the lie, what happened on the 6th was morally justifiable and nothing less than an attempt to save democracy itself. If you really believe Trump and what you see on Fox News, and don't deep down know that all the "stop the steal" shit is just about Trump and the GOP trying to save face and play political games, that revolt was heroic

    And now Fox, along with all the other grifters who pushed that shit, is realizing PEOPLE TOOK YOU SERIOUSLY. PEOPLE TAKE TRUMP SERIOUSLY. Even if you weren't as direct as Trump in saying the election was rigged and you were "just asking questions" about "election integrity," you were part of the steady diet of garbage these people consumed. Based on the information you gave them, they reacted accordingly. 

    This is the correct take. All these shitheads are basically saying “come on, you weren’t supposed to BELIEVE what I said.”

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