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  1. 16 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:



    I could SO raise UT's photography game. 

    I think what we need is some sort of still photography version of The Volume. A huge video wall with side walls and a ceiling. Give the recruits the choice of what amazing background they want their visit photo to be. For Photograph it's infinitely easier since it doesn't have to camera track or even animate.

  2. So would you guys recommend the “classic” environment at Gregory or the new experience at Moody? She has only been to a couple NCAA games at Stanford (vs. Texas) and a couple at St. Mary’s in the town where we live and maybe a game at Cal she might have gone with a friend.

  3. On 6/4/2025 at 9:21 PM, someguy said:

    The Stanford VB match will be at the Moody Center - should be a fun scene.

    I want to bring my family (and my younger daughter who played her first year of club) to a combo FB and VB weekend. I know Moody would be a unique experience but I’m wondering if Gregory might be worth it for more of the regular home scene. We have been to a couple of the Stanford games here at PA but I’d love to do a combo weekend.

    I need her to get hyped on Texas volleyball because right now her favorite player is *gasp* Harper Murray despite me telling her the awesomeness of Maddie Skinner. She asked to watch a Nebraska game on YouTube the other day and you can guess which game I chose to play. Haha.

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  4. 39 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Maybe he meant rescinded 

    Even that doesn’t really make sense. They can’t just “take back” their contract with him. If they want to be rid of him they’ll have to buy him out like normal. Or are they expecting him to resign without his severance because he underperformed like some of those idiots suggested Jimbo was going to do out of the goodness of his heart and Aggy Honor.

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  5. 4 hours ago, PTINS said:

    Good for you. For coming back and finishing.

    But sorry dude, you blew it.

    My favorite story about UT having big classes:

    I took Government as a freshman ('74-75), like you're supposed to, with about 250-350 other undergrads in Burdine Auditorium. That was long enough ago that the Prof (not a TA) did a lecture on each US President. Jefferson & Lincoln were inspiring. He did FDR from a wheelchair.  I told my friend about this guy and told him you have to come hear his last lecture on Nixon. I wasn't the only one. The 500+ seat auditorium was packed, standing room only. "Nixon was the most corrupt ... The end." got the Prof a standing ovation. In a freshman Government class.

    It would have been criminal and a huge waste of resources to have him speaking to a group of 20-25 students. His lecture inspired me to go see all of Nixon's cronies that went on the speakers tour at LBJ Library. The last one being Senator "Sam" Ervin, Dem. NC, (chair,  Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices, also known as the Senate Watergate Committee). That was also a packed house so I knew to get there early.

    That's my bookends on taking Government at The University of Texas v. ACC or High School credit.

    What I heard cemented my beliefs on HS recruiting, and my disdain for all things OU, A&M & from what I knew, Alabama.

    Little known fact. Burdine Hall resembles a ForTran computer punch card.

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      My scholarship paid for the Freshman Orientation week; yes, I slept in Kinsolving for a week. Hasn't everyone? UT did a multi-media slide/video show at Burdine Auditorium to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, a cloud of sweet smoke waifing though the air, and afterward we went to Nothing Strikes Back for ice cream in their Black Light/day glow dark room ("When the munchies strike... Nothing Strike Back").

    Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
    You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
    Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
    Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

    Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
    And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
    And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
    No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

    Every time I hear Pink Floyd takes me back to 1974.

    Good Times & fond memories.

    Yeah. What can I say? I screwed up by living off Riverside immediately in the Freshman year. I lived with my brother but an 18-year-old kid needing a 45-minute bus ride to get to a random assortment of 8am classes was never going to work out well. I just flailed around for the first couple years and went on SchoPro twice. I was just happy to still be in school and not getting beaten with wooden cooking spoons for failing out.

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  6. 10 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    I feel ya, man. A friend of ours just moved here a few years back from a former Soviet bloc country (if I say the name, the memes will get outta hand). He was a lawyer there, and he's gone to USC night school plus studying for the bar. He's coming up on attempt #3 soon. So take your problem, add a decade in age, and sprinkle on some "not my first language" fun in there, and you've got yourself a fun ol time.

    California Bar Exam is evidently no joke at all.

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  7. 1 hour ago, txexlonghorn23 said:

    They didn't say that to us in 2016 at my transfer orientation. They just said take the transition serious, it won't be like your previous university among those lines.

    Haha. Well, my Freshman Orientation was 1988. That line's been around a long time.

  8. On 4/24/2025 at 6:40 AM, txexlonghorn23 said:

    Damn, they really said that? Lmao. Did they curve engineering physics in the 90s like they do now?  The class avg in dynamics and e&m was in the 50s for all sessions but every professor does a curve. I was a CNS student though. 

    That was the quote they gave us during Fteshman orientation day one. 

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  9. 53 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I believe Ol'Tito has done some sponsorship stuff in some form. The alcohol prohibition for NIL meant some form of maneuvering, if memory serves, as collectives are not prohibited from taking money from alcohol companies even though the athlets are. I think that was all public and that's where those buffoons are placing "the blame" for Texas NIL. Or, maybe I am misremembering and those rubes really do think that an alcohol company is able to legally fund Texas athletes directly. 

    The corporate NIL stack for Texas is now somewhere at $10M plus if you include Red Bull for Manning. That just basically replaces a chunk of the Dr. Pepper stuff for Ewers. Regardless, the corporate stuff continues to grow.

    I am guessing the aggie clowns will continue to do the thing where they focus on just one villain to bitch about, whether it's Tito's or Red Bull. Meanwhile, Texas will have the single largest NIL position in the brief history of NIL for the 2025 calendar year. They're not in a battle with a fucking Austin-based vodka company. They're losing a war being advanced on multiple fronts in which the enemy's armaments and fortifications are actually growing as ATM and the rest of the landscape take on bullets virtually daily. 

    Can’t wait for Arch to be in the paddock with Verstappen during Austin F1 and the Aggies losing their shit over the coverage. 

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  10. 41 minutes ago, Etexhorn13 said:

    That’s a pretty sweeping generalization that I would challenge. I’m 33 and have been visiting shag/surly since I was in college.  Purely anecdotal, but I have several younger cousins/in laws that at least lurk on their respective teams’ message boards if not actively post. Like fresh out of college age.
     

    At least for football stuff, football nerds will find other football nerds. That and reddit is a real bitch to navigate. 

    If immamac for some reason decided to migrate Surly to Discord I’d probably have to off myself.

    I have no idea how that place works. I’m a veteran of everything from dial-up BBSs with ASCII art to AOL Communities to message boards.

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  11. 2 minutes ago, CastHorn said:

    I’m 27 and I’ve been observing you olds for quite some time. I think my first recruiting thread was the 2012 class thread. Might have been a freshman in HS. I remember landing Dalton Santos late and you guys crying about how fat he was. I also remember you guys posting the strangest built women to celebrate commitments. Like the letter “P”, but flipped. 

    Fucking hell. I literally have t-shirts in my closet older than you. I feel old.

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  12. 5 hours ago, Chopper said:

    Discovered during my trip to Europe that if you're in a non-English or Spanish speaking country, you don't get those loud and annoying injected ads in US sporting podcasts. At least for CFB. This week I've made sure to turn on the vpn set to Portugal on my cell phone when I dl or listen and it's worked like a charm. I hear ads, if any, set for the beginning of a podcast, any that are read during the course of the podcast, and commercial breaks established by the podcast producer. But no injected ads that break into the middle of dialogue. YMMV. 

    Thanks to today’s sponsor, Nord VPN. Hit that like and subscribe button. It really helps out the channel. 

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