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  1. Annual profit is of vital interest to tax accountants, and not many others. It is an accountant’s job to try to show as small of an annual profit as possible. One of the ways to do that is to depreciate assets, so that you can show them as expenses, reducing profit. I’ll also bet you that when Cuban bought the Mavericks from Perot, there was a nine figure sum called “Goodwill” that he has been amortizing. The Adelsons are now amortizing a ten figure number called “Goodwill”. Both of these can be true: The Mavs annually showed a loss. Cuban made a bunch of money off the Mavs. America, fuck yeah!
  2. That “Direct Institutional Support”- is that the university subsidizing athletics at TAMU?
  3. To be clear- I was not blaming the girls or suggesting they didn’t do enough to protect themselves. I was just throwing that out there as something to tell girls to do as a protective caution in the future.
  4. Something for girls to ask Uber drivers picking them up from party scenes- “What is my name?” Or “What is the name of your assigned rider?”
  5. Stopped at Ribbee’s last week, on Seminary just east of the interstate. They have a simple menu- pork ribs and seasoned fries combos, and beef ribs (old style, not huge with prime rib) with seasoned fries combos. I enjoyed it.
  6. 20 years ago, for Aggie schadenfreude, I skipped past TexAgs to go right to AgTimes.com, for the hard stuff. There was a poster there who would go to some chicken wing place in CS every week, to be at the live taping of some local radio show called something like the “Belliucci Hour” (sadly, Agrimes is defunct, so I can’t find the right name), and relate inside team tidbits and provide “analysis”. Evidently, young Liucci teamed with some other guy with a name like Beliota(?) for weekly program insights. (Where is “Beliota” now? The College Station equivalent of wherever Ryan Secrest’s co-host from the first season of “American Idol”, I suppose). The point is- the guy has spent a ridiculous amount of his life sniffing jocks and describing the smell to hayseeds for pay. It’s a choice, I guess.
  7. There was a dynamic with the old SWC and Texas-based B12 schools (except the Ags), that is so old (over a century) that we took it for granted, and didn’t recognize how odd it was. That was how we would play regular away games in sites like Waco, Lubbock, DFW and Houston, where if the tickets were sold in an open market, Texas fans would easily dominate the attendance. Yet, because we shared a conference, they were allowed to limit Texas ticket allotments to a few thousand (and benefit from Texas fans seeking more tickets on the secondary market). There is no reason to do that anymore, and we shouldn’t do it anymore. A few years ago, TCU and LSU agreed to play a game in DFW, but LSU insisted it be played at ATT Stadium (Jerryworld). That made sense- LSU fans easily bought half the tickets. There really isn’t a reason Texas should play any games in this state in a stadium smaller than that, or Reliant.
  8. Do you have a point? You clearly don’t understand the conversation. We were talking about UH Bleachergate, after which, Texas stopped playing UH, because, fuck them. Until the B12 invited them in, and absolutely made sure Texas would have to play them, there in Texas’ final year. I can link articles where Tech has complained to the governor about Texas not wanting to schedule them. Economics studies by Baylor about how vital those games are to Waco. I have no idea why you are upset by our off season talk.
  9. …as Brent Venable’s “Soul Mission” becomes “Sole Mission”.
  10. And then the fun really begins- a coaching search where it is clear that the HC shares authority with Nagy.
  11. Sure, but time will pass. University presidents have short tenures. ADs have even shorter tenures. Time will pass and some new AD at TCU or Baylor will get the idea of seeing about a home and home, you know, for old time’s sake. The appropriate response by a UT AD should be, “Our fans will need 50k tickets at your place. How do you plan to manage that?”
  12. My folks were dirt poor as kids in the depression, in Texas. My mom’s dad hopped a train to Oregon to pick fruit- it was work, and it was easier for other people to give them stuff if he was away. Neither family owned property. My dad’s dad made things worse by being a drunk, too. Grandma used to buy “sweet meat” (the internal organs that would otherwise be thrown away) from the butcher, because they were cheap. Dad, his two sisters, brother, parents and Grandpa Otto all lived in a two bedroom home, without running water. They kept chickens, of course, and when they killed a pig, they ate all of it (including the head cheese). Flour came in big bags, with floral patterns on the sides. Moms would pick them out for the pattern, because they would make clothes from the bag material. Dad said that whenever a drifter knocked on the door asking to work for food, Grandma would give him some (chore and meal). The food wouldn’t be any better than what the family ate, so it might just be bread drug through refried beans. The war made things a lot better. Grandpa enlisted in the Navy and they taught him to make x-rays in the Seabees. My mom’s dad moved them all to L.A. and got work in the shipyard.
  13. A lot of programs used being in the same conference as Texas as justification for thinking they were equivalent to Texas in program status. When the SWC folded, Texas was willing to play the “Left Behinds” located in Houston, for recruiting reasons. These games with UH and Rice were set up as two games in Austin for one in Houston. Then, UH showed in Bleachergate that they didn’t know their place, so they were dropped from the rotation. I know no one wants to play the UH’s, Baylor’s, TCU’s and TT’s anymore, but I’m sure after time passes, there will be talk about it again. My hope is that Bellmont insists that any game played in this state must be played in a stadium large enough to hold all the Longhorn fans in the area that want to go.
  14. This is an awesome listen… https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oklahoma-breakdown-with-ikard-and-lehman/id1509884894?i=1000702438423 The first part is the usual recap of spring practice- lines are more explosive off the ball, amazing S&C gains, young players about to become stars, the usual- but then, Castiglione comes on. He describes the plan for Nagy and Venables to cooperate. He describes how OU plans to cope with the landscape evolving in college football. It will warm your heart
  15. I don’t know that we were that poor, but we sure as fuck couldn’t afford braces. Also, I found the old FAFSA from when I was applying to UT- it was workable because of my National Merit Scholarship. My folks had $550 in savings, in 1981. Shit, I almost had that much, from working at Gatti’s. I remember realizing that almost all of my classmates grew up knowing they were going to go to college, and that it really wasn’t a big deal to them or their families. It was expected.
  16. We’d go for family “drives” on the weekend, supposedly as something for us all to do together. But we always ended up by some remote cornfield and dad would go into it and come back with an armful of corn. I think the family was with him for cover.
  17. It’s crazy. Ewers’ draft stock may have been higher last year? There were so many top rated QBs last year-Williams, Penix, Nix, Daniels, McCarthy, Maye- that he decided to return, but is it possible he would have been drafted in a higher round last year?
  18. Yeah, I’ve got the damned thing in my car. I figured on dropping by and trying. I was hoping someone had some insight like “yeah, they’ll take it”, or “no, you have to take it to another drop off”
  19. Naw. I’ve assembled a bunch of IKEA stuff, and am familiar with backtracking and redoing things the right way. This is a poor design (my wife selected and ordered it. When looking at the Amazon reviews, I see that a few people had the same issue). It will be a real pain in the ass to disassemble. I’m really hoping I can just haul it in as is.
  20. Buying tennis shoes from Kmart. They came out of a big bin, with no shoebox, just the laces tying them together. They were called “buddies”.
  21. Ordered a motorized raising/lowering desk from Amazon. The drive rod to work the other side won’t extend enough to engage, so only one side goes up. I want to return it. Will Whole Foods take it without me disassembling it back into box first? If not, is there another drop off that will? Thanks.
  22. Hey! They used to have Bill Byrne, their greatest AD ever (plus, he hated Texas). They can always steal his son, Greg Byrne, from Bama.
  23. It will be fascinating to watch OU recruiting. The idea is that Nagy is supposed to decide what athletes they need, to fit Venables’ schemes, with Nagy having final say on offers, but Venables and his staff doing all the recruiting hosting and visits. Can’t see any problems with that working out! Can’t see any rivals telling a kid, “Nagy picked you, and I hear that Venables really doesn’t want you as much as Nagy does”. That wouldn’t be fair.
  24. It has been pointed out that Venables recruits like Mack - he makes a “get” list early and tries to get them committed ASAP, hoping to build more momentum. One thing about Sark- he takes his time building his class. He doesn’t freak out if the top targets want to take their time.
  25. Yeah, but he was talking about how great he was, because he kept Dan costs down. He misses the point.
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