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LCHorn

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  1. Not to belabor the point but I think you're looking for the exceptional where adequate can still result in a football program on a different trajectory than we were on with Herman. If our measure is current Bama, then yes, a "buck stops here" level of leadership from the AD would be advantageous but we're a mile away from that and I think CDC is satisfactory for what we need now if a) leadership above him carries the water on big decisions and b) Sark can install a program that's more consistently not in need of AD leadership. I think what most fans don't get is the AD/Head Coach dichotomy of personalities and how they mixed in the past. When I talk to UT athletic alums they tend to be fond in their praise for Deloss as a "nice guy who cared about us" and on the football side, "Mack was a lot meaner than the media portrayed". In other words, the public presentation of both was wrong and yet they won a championship together and absent a freak injury would have won two. Regardless, I think we can both agree and be thankful that regardless of your opinion of CDC and/or his deficiency of leadership, we're in a far better position going forward than if Patterson was still the AD.
  2. I think some of ya’ll need to reorient expectations-this description IS the job. It’s frankly what Deloss did and I think the idea that we must have some ruthless yet brilliant CEO type as AD isn’t how it typically exists out in the universe. And you know what, I’m okay with that-let the President and head of the BOR kick this thing into gear. They are enormously more powerful anyway and I’d dispute that running some aspects of UT athletics is below their paygrade. Let CDC raise funds for capital projects, which he’s great at.
  3. A lesser man would have cried…
  4. It’s been a couple of years but my Brewtorium experience was okay beer, German pizza is whatever and it had the ambiance of an airplane hanger. Haven’t gone back. I used to like Blackstar a lot but it really doesn’t have a great vibe if it’s empty and that’s probably my number one date requirement. Not every place needs people (The Tigress, for example, is just fine or even better if it’s empty) but a beer place needs the background noise.
  5. If I’m trying to impress a lady I’d favor uchiko over all of those options (and trying to stay central but out of downtown).
  6. We (my circle) are all UT grads with a shared “don’t fuck around with science” understanding of the value of vaccines. My point is behavior is still being altered. There isn’t a vaccine for the fear you’ll get sick, or that my two year old might be one of the rare exceptions and contracts a terminal case, or that someone’s parent gets it from us.
  7. Cases still matter in as much as they result in behavior changes. A lot of our friend group is back in qualified self-isolation and social events scheduled in the next couple of months are getting canceled.
  8. I don’t read it as an insult-reads to me like he’s sharing that his health had been declining and Wayne was concerned about him.
  9. Personally I think all of the rate stuff is bullshit and I think Barry Habib is about as accurate as Joe Morgan was about baseball (in other words, a proliferator in lender myths disguised as wisdom). If the bond market participants think that bonds should be trading higher, why aren’t they there now? I’m happy to make a CTJ style bet to anyone on the board that the Fed doesn’t institute three rate hikes in 2022; it’s an election year and we’re too addicted to cheap money.
  10. That was my first exposure to him, Major Applewhite I think was a GA and was at a table next to me with Greg Davis and the rest of the offensive staff. He had two kinds of sauce back then, a sweet thick sauce and the spicier sauce that was his house sauce on all the future iterations. The sweet was my personal favorite.
  11. No kidding, not a healthy amount of weight, either. I almost had him cater my rehearsal dinner until my wife put the kibosh on it. He was always friendly to us and I’m glad to be able to tout that my son’s first bite of brisket was from his place in Georgetown AND it was on a day when he was on his A game.
  12. I don't think they are saving a ship for him regardless. I bet they'd rather grab someone in the portal and address some of the needs overlooked when all the lineman starting falling our way.
  13. I tend to presume that when another lender is lower on price it’s not because they have access to cheaper money, it’s because they are running skinny on their margins. They are finding out what the survivors from a decade ago learned-you have to offer value beyond a good rate. All of the really successful origination teams I network with really make it a point to not treat a particular loan as the beginning and endpoint, it’s just the start of an ongoing relationship. If I’m going to loan you $500K on the most expensive thing you ever purchase I want you to know I’m not disappearing when the loan has closed and you have a problem-a $20/hr customer service rep in Durham just doesn’t have the same sense of obligation.
  14. LCHorn

    W Anderson Lane

    I tried Tony C’s last weekend and it’s basically Double Dave’s quality. Desano’s and Buffalina are miles better (frankly Whole Foods pizza is a measure or two better and cheaper).
  15. I’ve lost refi’s to them, never on a purchase. They are essentially a trawler for cheap refinances and once those waters were over fished they couldn’t adapt (or maybe they are and the layoffs are the adaptation). Good riddance-years from now I’m sure their bones will be picked over by the depository banks like in 2008.
  16. I’ve got a buddy with a similar pedigree that said the same thing about Garrett Gilbert when he almost single handedly curb stomped our former high school team in the state finals.
  17. I think it’s Harris’ older brother but that’s just because I’ve figured out Nahlin’s technique is to take out the older brothers and daddies for appletinis at Chili‘s to better infiltrate the family.
  18. Nice! Throw down that fucking gauntlet Nahlin! @BarbacoaIs it possible Nahlin might know of an alternate source of matching funds that yours?
  19. A fight night style celebrity boxing match between CTJ and Nahlin might be a lot of fun. It would still be on the undercard of a Ketch vs Chip Brown fight to the death.
  20. I drive an 8 cylinder 4 runner so I’m accustomed to 15 mpg. Hard to get much worse on that front and I’m not sure that any of the other “heavy” trucks are materially better, i.e., touting “best in class” because you can squeeze out 18 mpg isn’t really saving me a lot of $$. I just don’t understand why the editors at motor trend , edmunds, or car and driver don’t use the same logic and it makes me think I’m missing something a smart shopper should be catching.
  21. Used if I stick with Toyota (part of the appeal with the brand is that you don’t need it to be new to expect reliability). I’ve driven both a Chevy truck and a Jeep from 100k to 150k on the odometer and the needed to put them in the shop for something probably every two or three months and it’s always bad timing.
  22. Any first hand opinions on Toyota Tundras? Reviews from the car websites are consistently mediocre but also ding Toyota for shitty gas mileage and absence of features like Appleplay that are low or non-existent on my needs list.
  23. I need to do a full recap of my trip, or at least the dining part of it, but in response to @closetohumping’s point, I was really surprised that New Yorkers were mostly pretty nice and friendly. Agree that midtown near Rockefeller certain is madness but it’s not worse than the crowd exiting DKR and the tourists were a lot more congenial than our fans after the Kansas loss.
  24. I did South Rim with a 70 lb load and is was brutal (same route as @thrillhammer described). Highly recommend packing light or make your boy carry everything.
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