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Xminus6

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  1. 53 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

    I get the appeal of more money but at some point a lot of money, even if more is available, is enough, especially if other factors are in favor. 

    The other factor is job security. Dilly could probably ride this CFP run for a good ten years at ASU at $6mm/year without being at risk. He’s a native son and they love him. They’re going to be pretty generous with him if they hit any downturns.

    Sure, a $12mm/year job seems like the ultimate goal, but those jobs come with very high expectations and short fuse.

    Be a coach at ASU for, possibly, the rest of your career at 75% of market rate or take the gamble that you can turn around a big name program but get probably 3 years to do it?

  2. 1 hour ago, Not a cat said:

    NIL doesn't come from endowments.  You need to look at the schools with the most passionate affluent alumni (e.g. Texas, Ohio st., Mich) or with one mega alum (e.g. Oregon). 

    Places like Stanford and Cal are going to have lots of wealthy alums who don't give a fuck about football.

     

    Haha. I was just hanging out with a friend of mine who’s a Cal grad. He’s basically given up on his fandom. I told him “You’re a lawyer. There must be a bunch of rich Cal alums that can be convinced to an NIL fund.” He was surprised that the whole Texas NIL initiative was just a bunch of dudes on a message board. /Paul Rudd/ Look at us now!

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  3. 2 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    Quinn in last five minutes of game & overtime:

    11-14 
    161 yards 
    2 TDs

    Both TD's were perfect throws. Because the first OT TD throw saved the season, less has been said about the throw to Helm, but it was truly perfection. 

    How do you like that, Sam Leavitt? 

    The throw to Helm happened so suddenly. It almost seemed like a replay. It was a great play actually that seems to have been lost in the discussion completely, ironically because it’s actually the game winning throw.

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  4. 16 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    At one point didn't he almost always overthrow it?

    I feel like he’s overcompensated for overthrowing In the past. This is a his who has a TikTok video throwing it 75 yards in high school. He’s obviously got the arm strength but seems to rainbow long passes when he has too much time to think about it. 

  5. 4 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    The TE and back were eligible receivers. The back was right in front of Ewers after he got hit and fumbled. Fire it right at his feet and it's not grounding. That's shit a 4th year QB has to be able to realize and get done. 

    Meh. I’m as critical as anyone on Ewers but that’s asking a lot at that speed. He saved 5 points.

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  6. 8 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Well, let me stop you at non-gambler. These threads get derailed for cheese, so why not some gambling? Although, let me try to explain it in other terms. It’s not so much ridiculing his risk aversion, it’s ridiculing his fucking income to risk.

    The point of gambling is thus:

    A) To make money

    B) The excitement of the risk 

    C) Both A and B 

     

    That fat slob makes millions of dollars, he’s not making any meaningful money (for him) playing $10 chips, and therefore there isn’t much of a rush for winning/losing. So he’s wasting his fucking time drinking free Coronas. If he doesn’t like gambling that much, fine, then why isn’t he doing something else like fucking game prep? or eating at a nice fucking restaurant, as clearly he likes fucking eating and boozing. 
     

    He makes millions of dollars, we’d also ridicule him for dressing like a hobo, eating nothing but $1 Jack In The Crack tacos, driving a used pinto, etc. The guy is a John Daly/Matt Rhule level boozer and we’d also make fun of him for drinking a cosmopolitan. 
     

    Signed, 

    A guy who only plays $10 chips at $25 dollar tables. 

    Right. So even if he goes on an amazing, historic run of Anti-Martingale betting at a $25 BlackJack table he’d hope to have a nice run in the $15-20k vicinity and that’s very rare. A good win that’s not outside the norms at that betting level is $5-10k. That’s a huge win for most folks but it’s different for a guy who makes $7mm/year.

    I’ve seen people go on those runs but 99% of the time you’re losing that money. They don’t build the casinos by giving money away. The risk to wealth ratio makes this sort of a boring game. I’ve played lousy $1 tables with I’ve been downtown and it’s hard to actually care about it because you’re not going to win a lot even if you do well.

    I used to play a lot of Blackjack. I went to Vegas a lot with a friend of mine. He sat down at a table with some old lady at the Golden Nugget. It was a $100 table but the lady was betting $10k minimum per hand. This goes on for a while until she losses maybe $100,000, gets up and leaves. My friend is just kinda shocked. When she leaves the dealer tell him that the lady is Ray Kroc’s widow.

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  7. 5 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    They should push into YT shorts, IG reels, TikTok. Also “clips” content which is basically highlights of their content for the day or week or whatever time frame they choose are big time. A lot of the larger content creators have those channels setup with their editors. They just name the channel OTF clips. 

    I agree. Make very short single-topic clips. We all want to consume the media but might not want to watch a whole 20 minute video. 

  8. On 12/4/2024 at 2:20 PM, Gil Bang said:

    Laguna Niguel is a great place to live.  Perfect weather, good schools, low crime, etc.   That whole area (Dana Point, LN, San Juan Cap) is pretty great. 

    Dana Point has gotten stuck in my head as a place I’d like to retire to. We drove through there once on a weekend trip down to OC. It’s just super pleasant.

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  9. On 12/2/2024 at 3:27 PM, hookem2010 said:

    We wanted to remain in the Austin area for my wife's work and to be near family, so we bought a house in Round Rock 2 years ago. While it will be nice to have my parents around while the kids are young (currently 2.5 and newborn), we can't wait to ditch the state. This isn't financially feasible at the moment, but it is likely that our financial outlook becomes much more positive before the kids are out of elementary school.

    We're a mixed-race family (Asian-White), so diversity would be great, want good public grade schools and decent options for college, easy access to nature, hospitals for wife's job, cooler temps and obviously a better political climate (as much as can be expected for the next 4 years).

    Initial thoughts have been NC, Oregon, Washington state, Colorado (wife grew up in the Springs, doesn't want to return there) and possibly Minneapolis. Thoughts?

    I don’t know what your wife does in a hospital but California is one of the best locations in the world to be a nurse evidently. The state limits the patient/nurse ratio and hours to reduce stress/improve care. Also, I believe the Union is very strong and they make more money here than most other places. I live in the East Bay Area and it fits all of the requirements you’ve mentioned (Asian-White mixed couple as well). Our local schools in Moraga are significantly Asian and mixed-Asian. It does get pretty damned hot out here though and housing prices aren’t cheap.

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  10. 3 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    I'm not a big fan of NIL. It changes the nature of college sports in irreversible ways. But in the last twenty years I've been screaming for kids to get off my lawn on the subject, I've always stated declaratively no program in the country will benefit from opening that pandora's box the way Texas will. And that was before 20 more years of Austin growth and still no professional sports team in any of the 3 major sports on the horizon. 

    It didn't happen by accident, but I'm very appreciative of the Longhorn alums who got off their ass and actually did something to move NIL forward rather than being a keyboard warrior like me. 

    Watching programs like Alabama, OU, Georgia, Clemson, LSU (I guess A&M? they never did anything with it, though) et al have their advantage in their willingness to provide under the table inducements to players and their families, oftentimes at unprecedented game changing levels historically, be completely annihilated through the Supreme Court eviscerating the NCAA's ability to enforce...well...just about anything, has led to a golden era in UT sports. Add in we're not going out of our way from an administrative level to put competitive obstacles in our path - or at least not as much as we used to - and it just feels like we're in the midst of seeing something really special. It can still all be screwed up with the wrong coach, but thankfully that doesn't appear to be our issue. 

    For me this feels like a big fuck you to all the paying of players and their handlers to grab instate talent that otherwise would have naturally signed with Texas that happened over the past 70 years. It's an even playing field in that regard now, but like the pigs say at the end of Animal Farm, "We're all equal here. We're just a little equaler."

    Sort of there with you on the whole thing. But the money was always there for the kids and Texas *trying* to play honestly was just hamstringing us. The Aggies ‘22 class probably pissed off a lot of folks and I’m also grateful for the dudes on here who got the whole Texas NIL machine up and flattening the competition.

    My joy about being in the CFP two years in a row, winning the B12 championship and playing for the SEC championship are is not dampened by the realization that the players are “in it for the money.” At some point when coaches are making 8-figure salaries and 100s of millions are being spent on facilities and being earned in merchandising, it’s only fair that the players who give the brand its value are able to benefit from it.

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