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  1. Yes, it’s often the case that 20 year old men are romantically interested in 14 year old girls because they are looking for a soulful meeting of minds.
  2. Well, she was in junior high school when they met. He had graduated HS.
  3. I was in junior high. We’d stay up late (11:30 in Georgia’s time zone) and watch, and then I’d rehash it with buddies in home room on Monday. WRT Shuster- she explains the Michaels relationship, which the Wiki bio details just make sound more creepy. Lorne Nichaels is six years older, and she was 17 when they married. He was a 20 year old dating a 14 year old.
  4. It is so incredible: -their basketball team blew a 22 point lead, and… -what really has them upset is a comment from an announcer.
  5. They are so precious. The TV announcer said nice things about the home team in a college basketball game. Like all announcers do about all home teams in all college basketball games. Including A&M’s. And they are convinced that the nice things said at their home games are the truest of true, and things said when the Ags on the road, about the home team, are insidious comments designed to hurt the Ags.
  6. Jamail was Mack’s lawyer, a huge donor to the university and, yes, he insisted on better terms for Mack than his contract called for.
  7. I’m repeating an earlier post, but here goes: Darrell Royal was encouraged to retire. He accepted the emeritus position after UT hired his successor at HC and AD without listening to input from DKR. Yet, over the next three plus decades, Royal worked as needed to help UT (the school even more than the football program). Several university presidents remarked on how delighted they were that Royal was never working his own agenda, and only offering input when asked. Brown’s collapse as an effective HC happened at a bad time for the university. Perry was trying to transform UT much as he was doing to TAMU. Powers, the president, was in a tough spot, trying to keep his position while not acceding to the governor’s (and the most recent Perry selected regents, some of whom were booster of other schools) demands. Instead of working with Powers, or even staying out of the political squabbling, Brown actually took advantage of the bickering to try to leverage more time. It damn near worked. That’s the problem with Brown. We know how he sees his importance with respect to the program and the school. We know what he will do and sacrifice to advance his personal interests. He has shown us. Sure, the program is in a good spot, now. Sure, a place can be made for Brown. But, what if things change? What if there is a rough patch or a big issue? Do we want Mack Brown, with all his interpersonal skills and connections connected to the program, helping with decisions? Even if he could be managed, is it worth the effort? What does Texas get from this attachment?
  8. Sagarin’s routine assigns ratings based on a least squares evaluation of games played. I looked at your schedule, and expected to see some real ass whipping in the ISU losses, but there really weren’t any (B12 CG came closes). Then, I expected to see that KSU had a tougher schedule, but, per Sagarin, they had a slightly easier schedule. So, I don’t know.
  9. Final Sagarin’s are in. http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm Top B12 team is ASU (#13), then BYU at 18 and KSU at 27. Sagarin notes how teams do against his top 10 and top 30. Two B12 teams played as much as one game against a final Sagarin top 10 team- ASU (Texas, in Peach Bowl) and WVU (against PSU).
  10. Isn’t Les Wexner (Victoria Secrets and others, and big buddy of Jeff Epstein) a big Buckeye NIL funder? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html
  11. I keep coming back to- how can they be so cheap with the victims’ families, and then build a memorial to the victims? I can get the idea that they are supposed to be tight fisted with the university funding; but then to spend on a “look at me and how special I am” display? It’s like they really don’t care about anything substantive, and only the window dressing.
  12. I thought they capped their payment at $50k each, but it turns out the families sued and got a little more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna27422100 What is $2.1 M, less attorney fees, divided by 12? I’m pretty sure the Ags paid more for the memorial to the collapse.
  13. TAMU used sovereign immunity to avoid paying damages to the victims’ families.
  14. I’m a right wing reactionary (no Cloak Room), and I still get very annoyed by Clay Travis. (but thanks for the info!)
  15. I think the key detail is “daughters”. There were probably some tears as they convinced their father that they really needed and deserved it. Of course, he’s a shitheel for changing an agreement with his wife without telling her.
  16. Is he asking $5M per year? Or $5M spread over the remaining two years he will be in “college”? aLincoln?
  17. Found it- https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/hes-70-and-fairly-wealthy-i-met-the-love-of-my-life-three-years-ago-how-do-i-politely-ask-that-he-include-me-in-his-will-ddaa3ef6
  18. The story repeats time and again, because the fundamentals are ubiquitous- people are intensely attuned to their own needs. Elderly women, more than men, are acutely focused on “how will I be taken care of?” I wish I could find the link, but one of the newsfeeds pushed at work had a financial advice column where an aged woman wrote that her similarly aged boyfriend was the love of her life. He had a lot of money, with two children that had plenty of money on their own, but didn’t have her in his will! How should she talk to him about that? You see in that question all the markers- -She deserves the money -The children don’t need it Neither is for her to say. She doesn’t know the details of the children’s finances. They may be well off, but in incredibly stressful careers where having the option to retire earlier could be a life changer. I doubt she cares. She was around for maybe five percent of the life of “the love of her life”. The children were around for about 60-70%. She believes she deserves the guy’s life savings. Should she get it, I’m pretty sure in short order she will decide her children need and deserve to inherit it more than the guy’s children. It’s human nature. (the guy answering the column told her, basically, that she had no claim on the money and that she should focus on enjoying the relationship. I doubt she takes that advice, and bet that in short order she will be crying and explaining, through tears, that she is scared and doesn’t understand why he won’t do something about it, if he really cares about her).
  19. TAMU has never played a postseason game for a NC, or towards a NC, not in the Alliance Bowl Series, the BCS, the four team CFP nor the 12 team CFP. I count 28 teams that have: Miami, FSU, Florida, UGA (who really took a while to get there), Clemson, VT, PSU, tOSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Auburn, Alabama, LSU, OU, Texas, TCU, SMU, USC, ASU, Tennessee, UW, Oregon, BSU, Notre Dame, Indiana, Michigan State, and Cincinnati. Is that right? For all Ag delusions of stature and grandeur, that’s where the Ags slot- the bottom half of P4.
  20. Expected. I’m starting to fear that we’re not going to get that Biden-Trump golf ball driving contest that we were promised
  21. This isn’t a memorabilia item that I expect to appreciate, but it’s something I like. Bill McLanahan was an editorial and sports cartoonist for the DMN, and he did a weekly SWC cartoon. This is the original artwork for the one he did before the 1971 Cotton Bowl. I’m going to have it framed for my study.
  22. “Cult” it isn’t just a pejorative. It’s actually a pretty apt term. Years ago, my church offered a class on mind control cults- think Scientology, Hare Krishnas, that weird Church of Christ offshoot on campuses for a while. Anyway, it explained the traits and methods of mind control cults: Emphasis on conformity Lots of chanting (something about the constant expulsion of air from the lungs creates a near-euphoric state where the mind is more suggestible) Lots of jargon (using words in a different manner than their regular use also makes the mind more suggestible) Sound like anyone we know?
  23. Thanks. I listened to a clip of OU AD Castiglione explaining that a cap is coming, with enforcement mechanisms. I don’t know- I see some huge obstacles to work through… 1. Are teams from smaller conferences really going to accept smaller allowed revenue share with players? 2. Schools have to allocate the revenue share among athletes. If it is anything other than a “peanut butter even spread” among all sports and sexes, won’t someone be upset? 3. Castiglione says there will be an independent firm reviewing NIL deals for legitimacy, with significant penalty power. How will that work any better than the NCAA enforcing its rules against Auburn (Can Newton) and TAMU (Manziel)?
  24. I expect a slow (at least for UT) transition where funds raised by ADs end up being raised by NIL collectives instead. The LHF has 30+ years of experience in getting boosters and fans to contribute. I know the LHF and Bellmont do not want to let that money go, but I think competition will force it to. I think college ADs will have to become leaner and more efficient, now that the labor isn’t free.
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