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  1. If true, seems a little underwhelming when the $9.95 reports have been "a hire on the level of a Bo Davis".
  2. They are overlooking the obvious best available candidate.
  3. LCHorn

    The Boys

    Banshee is such a rich premise and setting and they did a great job of building up the cast beyond the lead. My only criticism is they had Odette Annable as some kind of Indian ninja and she was gone too soon.
  4. You might know more on this particular circumstance than I do, but I’m more presuming that Arch has far better endorsement potential from corporate sources than probably anyone in college football. If that frees up the guys donating to the Trey Moore fund then it’s an advantageous use of resources.
  5. This is super speculative, but I wonder if our NIL donors (the few doing most of the heavy lifting) are being asked to commit extra this off-season with the understanding that Arch won’t need individual contributors backing him and that’ll mean less requested from them next year (in other words “help us this year and we won’t need so much next.”) Not that this should be a big worry, but I agree that the guys like Cook are poised to be the biggest casualty-the portal transfers push his NIL optimization back a season unless he can beat them out.
  6. I think he’s playable as an outfielder if he can hit (which he can’t), but he’s not going to be a defensive replacement candidate on this team, even with his rocket for an arm.
  7. Leon isn’t a MLB ball player on offense or defense.
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    Asian

    So I had my first rave Austin restaurant experience in years (for context, I think most Austin restaurants have an outsized reputation, are expensive so should be good, or both, so it’s rare to be surprised). Went to House of Three Gorges the other day; Sichuan style Chinese, a couple of store fronts down from the original Ramen Tatsuya on 183. It was fantastic-large portions, super spicy, and different flavors for each dish (that’s one complaint I had with Thai-Kun-everything tastes the same). It’s not very large and was crowded with Asians, who presumably know good Chinese. I’ve been pretty bored with Chinese food for a long time but this was exceptional-definite recommend.
  9. I know he looks a little younger but he's 62. That's pretty old for the hustle and I don't know that his LSU resume carries a lot of weight with a 17 year old. I'm not for Okam or Rod Wright but at least they aren't eligible for social security.
  10. I haven't read Habib today because I'm pretty much only using the site to observe MBS changes, but yeah, that looks dumb. He wasn't saying in January 2023 that he forecasted a debt default. He said inflation would moderate and that rates would fall in turn.
  11. You're right, I'm not being entirely clear with my distinction. Austin, for the record, isn't absorbing all of the graduates UT produces, either. Where they go (primarily Houston and Dallas if they are leaving Austin) helps broaden UT's prestige to those cities and media markets. Ohio State doesn't have a Houston or Dallas--it's appeal is more limited.
  12. Don't be obtuse--Columbus isn't absorbing 11,000 new grads annually. Presumably most of them are going to Cleveland, Cincinatti, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, etc. My point was that schools like USC, Texas, and Georgia, have prestige advantages because LA, Austin, and Atlanta have a prestige advantage (over the rust belt cities mentioned) in drawing corporate NIL as it matures.
  13. Bear in mind that NIL at all schools doesn't appear to have matured into something that's independent of a small number of donors. One of the crucibles that must be contemplated by our donors is that they are getting us over the hump between no-NIL and corporate NIL (which is where this needs to go for it to be sustainable). And by our donors, I mean the small number that are contributing 90% of the football money. Florida is a pretty similar school to UT, albeit lacking a Houston or Dallas sized city to feed grads into (and Austin at this point is capable of standing on it's own feet in the greater competition for graduates). That said, it's got the Jacksonville-Orlando-Tampa triangle and feeds grads into Atlanta and Miami, too. They have a better academic reputation than Florida State and that matters when it's Meta or Kellog's or someone sponsoring a player and they want to be appealing to the economic class that's the highest earning in the market.
  14. MBS is up, 10 year T note is flat, DOW is down .30%, S&P is down .42% as I write this. That's not "we're unhappy" at all, in my opinion. That said, sounds like Google did a smaller round of layoffs last night--let's see if the other tech firms decide to follow.
  15. I think you've got to tier them based on proximity to population centers and overall desirability. Fundamentally it's all about the reward for the student athlete and that's probably a combination of NIL or whatever form athlete compensation ends up being 5-10 seasons from now, NFL preparation and student quality of life (i.e., facilities, education, not being surrounded by thousands of preposterous entitled fake Army officers). This is going to mean that UT, Georgia, and USC win out when corporate interests can obtain good value on NIL participation (each is in also in a population centers that has a gravity that's not tied to the university). Ohio State could arguably be including but I've been to Cleveland. Unless Cincinnati is loads better then I think their appeal is ultimately too regional and there's too much competition for the Chicago market for anyone to own it. Florida has all the potential to be in the first tier but probably lacks the coach capable of exploiting their advantages off the field. LSU, A&M, and OU in particular are hindered when UT is up. If schools like Miami, UCLA, UVA, and one of the Arizona schools decided to really prioritize program building they'd have aptitude to move up.
  16. Put me in the camp that has never heard that, and my next door neighbor is a Michigan State grad that wouldn’t miss a chance to share an insult.
  17. I feel asleep 15 minutes in; granted I had just finished the wholly unpleasant Saltburn so the change in tone was appreciated.
  18. My seven year old and I do the 5 mile loop every Saturday morning (I run, he bikes). I guess now I get to encourage him with "you better ride faster or Machete Man will get you" when he struggles up the hills.
  19. I think all of that sounds prudent. Unless the loan is a Fannie Mae Homestyle loan (sounds like your budget is too high for that) pretty much any bank is found to require 20% down before doing any type of remodeling money additional to the purchase.
  20. So the Kingcast guys just had Matt Fraction on to discuss Wolves of the Calla and they pointed out something I hadn’t really considered-his writing differs a great deal pre-and post accident. It sounds like you prefer the latter.
  21. This isn’t very charitable of me, but in Austin the commercial property bros have been living large compared to those of us in residential banking that have to actually earn our money. I’m taking at least a little satisfaction they are getting to feel a small measure of our pain finally.
  22. I think they are smartly picking their battles rather than making it rain like a euphoric Aggie. Trill isn’t getting Alfred Collins money.
  23. Almost all of the physician loan programs not originated by depository banks have gone away and those that remain have been crippled (in other words, there’s a lot less competition or diversity of options for physicians than two years ago). The only real question you should be asking is if a physician loan is necessary-if you have the ability to qualify otherwise you can likely get the cost of financing below those terms. If you need the 100% financing then it’s probably your only option.
  24. That not entirely it; Fincher is expensive and Netflix already let him make his baby so they don’t have that as a carrot to entice him into accepting a lower fee. I also think Netflix has learned what the networks already knew-they can produce hundreds of hours reality television for a fraction of the cost of scripted programming and viewers will tune in because it’s new or unseen.
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