Everything posted by LCHorn
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What's happening in Iran?
I'm getting flashbacks to this guy... "The Iraqi people will welcome US troops."
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Sen Mark Kelly
This-I like him a lot but my time in Arizona was a single weekend in Scottsdale for an annual meeting. Why I am asked to donate money to him is beyond me.
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OU Recruiting 2026: Burnt Vegetables
I think the fact this isn’t happening is fair evidence there isn’t the value in it on either side. #1, the athletes don’t want to do anything that requires work when they see their peers getting paid for nothing and #2, most of the players lack the kind of fame that would justify a legitimately made agreement. Where there are exceptions to this, imo, it’s mostly in women’s sports. Someone like Madisen Skinner with HEB, for example.
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2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
Which one of you wrote Shaune’s IMDB bio?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Fwiw, Banks does a lot of communication directly with NIL stakeholders and it might have been easier to line up financial commitments on his dudes before the season ended. Some of this is “you want $300k? Let me put something together.”
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
I’ll be very interested to see where he’s drafted because he checked a lot of the Kyle Flood boxes, wasn’t prioritized by Texas, and was presumed by pretty much everyone here to be wildly overrated at the time of his commitment. Obviously anyone voluntarily going to A&M, particularly a non-Legacy unsteeped in their weird rituals is of questionable character, so maybe he wasn’t a personality fit…
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
I mean, come on, it’s been clearly headed this way. Not even the eternally optimistic and current whipping boys at OnTexas have been suggesting otherwise.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
@MrPhlegm is alive!
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What's happening in Iran?
This--I wouldn't overly rely on @Macklemore's Pahlavi affection as broad based. Reza Pahlavi was basically deposed and it wasn't because the masses loved Khomeini, it was because the middle classes were weary of inflation, the elites were tired of the security apparatus, the military was looking to us and the Brits for cues (which were withheld for lack of consensus and the misunderstanding that Khomeini was more moderate), and Reza Shah was weird, superstitious and played his poker hand terribly. Modern Iran is basically the textbook example of why we should all be afraid of surrendering the levers of legitimate power to revolutionary groups.
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
I think you’re thinking of infamous (or his bathroom is, anyway) tackle Walker Little.
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$9.95 worth every penny
They aren’t hard to skip past, at least on a mobile. My complaint is they still sound like 3-5 guys in mom’s basement and they need an emcee with a broadcast background to lubricate the machine. Blake Munroe sounds like someone doing a bad Justin Wells impression and should be a panelist and not the host.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
I expect Disney is paying more attention to the $266m-$300m domestic compared to Way of Water’s $650m. Bear in mind the exhibitor share of ticket profit grows the longer a film plays (to incentivize them to keep it in theaters) and foreign sales aren’t as profitable as domestic. I don’t know how much they spent on P&A but rule of thumb it’s an additional 30%-50% of the production budget (and this is a world wide release) so it’s not insignificant. Anyway, I’m sure it’ll make a profit but I can see how Disney would be risk averse at spending another $500m.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
I have a suspicion that they aren’t getting made, partly a combination of Cameron’s age and interest in moving on and Disney looking at the books and seeing part 3 didn’t really make THAT much once all the bills are paid.
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$9.95 worth every penny
I only see three updates on Spotify, fwiw, and they are pretty clearly described so you have a summary before you turn in.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
I was referring more to his throwing it out there without making a case for it. I would have thought he or Gerry would at least try to give some lip service that it would be a good move for the team.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
I think he’s gotten it, it’s probably late first/early 2nd and he’s deliberating on whether another year improves his draft position versus getting started on his pro career (and the march to that second contract). Almost any other case is more clearly binary on whether to stay or go. Jeez, I would hope Sarkisian is thinking about where all the pieces go. The players have their own goals and aspirations, money is finite and it’s pretty clear that an average tackle doesn’t automatically become an above average guard. To @tokamak’s point, it’s prudent to have a back-up plan for a Goosby departure and I would think a commitment from him is evidence that Goosby is gone or Baker is.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Also, reading the tea leaves, Gerry doesn’t believe anyone can play tackle unless they have the wingspan of a mountain gorilla and Bobby is happy to report whatever Flood leaks to him. Seems like the whole idea is wishful thinking and I agree with you-Baker is looking to move to the left once Goosby departs, probably is willing to accept RT, but anything else is tantamount to pushing him into the portal. I mean, he used those words on the podcast yesterday.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
I like how Bobby and Gerry floated this Baker to guard idea totally unsupported by any pretext besides the fact he’s already here and has been the recipient of big NIL commitments already.
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$9.95 worth every penny
Online way too much, imo. Look at the way Quan handles it-he talks to him like you would normally off-line.
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
They are excited by anyone who will talk to them.
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The Lost Generation essay
I’m not sure there is more action to be taken here than just acknowledgement (that there are losers in our efforts to promote diversity). I think the appeal of his argument to people like me is that too many progressives tend to have a real blind spot, almost an arrogance, about the utilitarian merits of their policy preferences and then are wildly confused when the electorate picks candidates opposed to them. “What’s wrong with you idiots? Quit voting against your self-interest!!!” What @Bozo_Casanova has repeated more than once is that those policies may indeed be good overall, but it doesn’t FEEL like that if the you’re on the losing end and those people are going to vote against you AND tell their friends.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Yeah, but props to him and guys like Hutson and Travis Shaw for playing in the bowl game instead of bailing to work on their 40 time or whatever.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
- 2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
Anyone penciling in poor Lance in the rotation must have been in a coma since 2021. - 2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
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