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  1. 1 hour ago, tokamak said:

    I think I'm more interested in portal CBs than DTs at this point. At least we have a lot of bodies at DT. We're thinner than a 90s supermodel at CB.

    Against Alabama, our starting safeties were Catalon and Thompson. Our starting corners were Watts and Brooks. All are gone now. 
     
    I think we could have had three, and maybe four, back, if we wanted them. 
     
     

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  2. I have to think that two teams know better than the others just how good Williams is, and what kind of difference he can make-Texas and OU, from playing TCU the past two years. If Texas feels we really need him, I’m sure we will get him. 
     
    (I can’t believe I am actually making what amounts to a “trust the coaches” post). 

  3. 1 hour ago, Mole said:

    In terms of luck, let’s not forget being a big toe away from nocking off Milwaukee in their championship run. What an amazing clutch shot that came less than an inch from being so much bigger.

     

    When he retires, they’ll show this, along with the two shots over LeBron in the Finals. 

  4. First-I really appreciate all info. Thanks very much!

    Update- last week, I disputed the issue to the bank, and reported to the local police and the post office. I am supposed to get a call from a police officer and a postal inspector in the next couple of days. 
     
    I have a new account number with the bank. There was a second issue, of a low three figure e-charge made to Verizon, for a customer that doesn’t share my surname, and Wells Fargo reversed that in short order (why did they even pay it? Why do they not automatically flag the account?). They said my dispute on the check could take 10 business days to resolve. They are in for one hell of an argument, and legal action, if they don’t resolve it in my favor. 
     
    So, I will be paying bills online now. Question- why are checks printed with the routing number and account number? Before this incident, I thought that was a risk; now I realize that it’s an absolute offering to lazy thieves. 

  5. So, there is something like football played in Ireland, so maybe they’re naturals for this. I’ll tell you what, Dublin is awesome. Honestly, it really exceeded my (already positive) expectations. I encourage everyone to go sometime. 
     
    That said, I never saw any need to eat the mashed peas that were a side dish on every damned meal. 

  6. I notice when they “washed” the check, the washing bled into the line where I wrote the amount in cursive. In reconstructing it, the thief omitted the word “thousand”, so I’m hopeful that helps in getting the money back from the bank. 

  7. 27 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    Stay away from the US postal service for any payments by check.  I handle business affairs for my church and we ended up moving our mail delivery from our physical address to a P.O. Box due to all of the mail theft and check-washing that we experienced.

    I put it in a drop box, at dawn, on the way to work. Who is going to steal from a drop box in broad daylight?, I figured. Lesson learned. 

  8. 12 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    So you wrote a check to Citi, and someone besides Citi cashed it? Or you just mean someone got a hold of your check book and has been writing fraudulent checks? Do you have images of the fraudulent checks? 

    Wrote it to Citi, and somehow an individual put their name in as the payee. Yes, I have an image. Not my script. 

  9. Could use advice. 
    I pay off the credit card balance monthly. Got a call from Citi asking why the payment is six days late. I said, “You’re crazy.  I paid and you cashed it”. They said nuh uh. 
     
    Checked the bank app. Someone else’s name written instead of Citi. Not my handwriting. 
     
    Also- a check payment made today to Verizon. I do no business with Verizon. 
     
    Called the bank- filed disputes, froze account and opened new one. Resolved to only pay online now. 
     
    I asked the bank if I should file with police, and if so, who? They wouldn’t answer. 
     
    So, Surly-world- advice? Report to local police? Postal inspector? Anyone have any functional experience? Thanks for all advice. 

  10. 15 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

     

    Intrigued by this as a possible final outcome of the next round of realignment where whatever version of the 2-4 "power" conferences do whatever they want and the Sunbelt, AAC, MWC, MAC, CUSA need to figure out a way to be relevant in their own way. Think its an uphill push right now because there are enough left behind schools in the AAC like Memphis that think they should be in some reformulated ACC or Big 12 but save that gotta think the other members of the G5 conferences have got be up for trying something other than just taking the 9% of table scraps offered up by the new CFP deal and liking it. 

     

    Well, it’s becoming more and more clear that the non-CFP bowls, with opt outs and transfers, are almost totally exhibition games, marginally more interesting than scrimmages. The G5’s need to do something 

  11. 42 minutes ago, Harrison Stafford said:

    Trev Alberts fired 18 employees in the Texas A&M athletic department today.  Among those released  were Justin Moore, executive deputy athletics director and chief operating officer, as well as Chris Park, deputy athletics director for external relations and business development, and Tyler Pigg according to a source with knowledge of the situation  No comment by Trev.  This is what happens when you have to pay someone $60,000,000 to not work there.

    I think Bill Byrne did something similar when he took over, moving out long time, established hangers on. 
     
    I remember he fired this really old guy, who had something to do with stadium upkeep. People were upset, because he had been there forever, and his crotchediness had become endearing to some. The very next year, we started reading the TexAgs complaints about the bat shit everywhere at Kyle Field. I think that old guy was killing the bats before they fired him. 

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  12. Oh, the possibilities,…

    “A group of middle school students, after a big win, use a goalpost to assault middle aged fans wearing maroon”

    ”A large girl eats a list that was used to organize a queue outside a stadium”

     

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  13. The problem with restructuring college football, per the proposal, is that it only solves problems for the M2 programs (the problem being- “How do we get to keep telling our alums and boosters that we’re big time, so they keep buying and contributing?”). 
     
    It doesn’t solve problems for the P2. 
     
    It doesn’t solve problems for the networks. As a matter of fact, they really want college football to be more like the NFL, where they need less crews to broadcast to more people. 

  14. 17 hours ago, Tired Horn said:

    That's the basic Aggie problem in a nutshell. They're so convinced that they're great that they need immediate vindication. It's not enough that averaging 8-4 over the years makes you a pretty decent team, or that every team has down years from time to time, or that this is Elko's first year in a bit of a rebuild. They so desperately crave affirmation of their greatness that they try to will it into being based on nothing but hopium.

    Every school has its overly hopeful fans, but Aggie takes it to a whole other level of psychosis. 

    So yeah, Jimbo knew the right chicken to pluck. 

    It’s even worse. They also constantly believe “Texas isn’t so great”. In the years where Texas puts it all together, they don’t amend that belief, and chalk it up to “Texas is lucky and the system is rigged”. They convince themselves that the secret isn’t to make the team as good as possible, and the program as strong as possible, but instead to seek out that easy path so they can get lucky, too. 

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    but I could see passing on GT (markets not as big of a deal anymore

    Markets may not be as big of a deal anymore, but to the Big XII schools, recruiting territories are. Most of the schools in the Big XII lack them. In the last 25 years, the number of NFL players originating in Georgia has mushroomed, and there are only two P4 schools in the state. 
     
    GT has won a MNC as recently as the last B12 school to do so. They are like Stanford- they are mid because they don’t emphasize being better, and not because they can’t be better. 

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