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one more sack, on 3rd down, here and Tenn puts some serious doubt in Georgia's mind. I mean to start the 2nd quarter.
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Texas ...42 UTEP 16 289
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I live in SA. Randomly tuned into the KENS 5 news the other night and found out UTSA was having a blood drive at Rolling Oaks Mall, and the prize was a t-shirt and 2 tickets to today's game against my alma mater, Texas State- (After two years at SWTSU I dabbled in academics one year at UT). So this was a chance to hear the modern version of the Bobcat Band I was part of for two years, and the first time attending a D-1 game since the Charlie Strong era. My dad was given some tickets to a butt-kicking that we knew was coming, probably Kansas or Kstate, late one year. From an old man's(60) perspective: Getting to the game via Via Transit was painless, and then comes the fun stuff. Standing in line before the gates open, thinking how lucky I am it is only about 88 degrees, compared to the normal 95+, and of course there were some interesting little bits to me, like the young men dressed in BDUs who tried several times to get inside the dome, and I told my wife they had to be color guard and it was going to be interesting to have no color guard because the person in charge kept sending them somewhere else. They didn't open the doors until just before one o'clock for a 2:30 p.m. game, which I found slightly annoying. I was thinking more like 2 hours would be good. If there were really old people there and a normal 95+ temp there could be health issues. By the time we got in after one there were a lot of people standing in line. I don't think UTSA is used to a large crowd at all. But wow, when they opened the doors and the AC hit us while we were still in line. I don't remember anything like all of this in-game productions stuff. Professionally done, obviously, games at every timeout, etc. Nothing too irritating, but there is no way I could put up with that stuff for a season's worth of games. Both bands were totally defeated if they tried to compete with the PA announcers, but I honestly think the in game productions crew may have run out of things to do in the extremely long 2nd half. Good seats for the price, goal line 3rd deck. I had a perfect view of the safety in the first quarter. UTSA long snapper blew it, big time. Bobcat band showed up late, started entering their seats with about 12:00 left in the first quarter. Insert joke about the band being hung over as to the reason they couldn't get there in time. Halftime was a blast from the past for me. Bobcat band stood on sidelines and played while the dancing girls(Strutters) stole the show at half. OMG! So much skill and legs. High kicks and splits from 20 to 20. Both bands were equal at marching to one song, both moderately average, I suppose. Game, bobcat D-coordinator gets something of a special award, because he kept switching out D-lines to keep people fresh. There wasn't a whole of D played on either side. Final score 43-36 Bobcats, and it is one thing to watch it on TV, but this was so much better in one respect. Coaches nowadays just don't like to punt hardly at all. Under a more normal situation, this game would have been over much earlier, but UTSA went for it on 4th and 8 or so around midfield, converted, then the next play was a TD run, followed by a 2 point conversion to tie the game. If this is a typical game, UTSA should strip all scholarships from punters, they're next to useless. Looked to me like the offenses got tired of scoring. I know the bobcat kickoff guy got tired. He hooked a kickoff out-of-bounds pretty late in the game after consistently nailing kicks to mid-end zone before that. Crowd- polite, nobody taking it too seriously, and the women! Completely different than anytime I have been remotely near a crowd anything resembling this, 45,000 plus. The huge difference is so many different shapes, any and everything from skinny to fat, they all show as much skin as they can. Honestly not too many skinny ones. We are talking San Antonio. Charles Barkley was not lying, that is for sure. And the best for last, the AC inside the dome. Fantastic!
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NFL Friday night: Chiefs v. Chargers in Brazil, 7:00 on YouTube
JGrayDBU replied to shadow_operative2.0's topic in Football
as far as I am concerned the group should do Super Bowl halftime. I couldn't stop watching that girl. -
Only two serious questions: 1. On fourth and goal at the one, if the QB comes to the line and there are two men on the center, is the QB supposed to check out of the sneak or not? Had he done that and run right, I think he could have gotten into the end zone. Whole different ballgame. 2. Arch looked so uncomfortable in the first half, it kind of reminded me of Vince his 1st year, true freshman year, I think. Is this a case of first game of season jitters or does the coaching staff need to "Let Arch be Arch", just like our QB problems were solved 20-21 years ago by "Let Vince be Vince"? And of course like everybody else I am sick of the opposing team being so perfect that they have 0 yards of penalties through 3 quarters, and like somebody said, "here's the obligatory holding call after the game is done" thing to make the yardage look close. The bright side is we have a kick ass defense and a kick ass punter. Easily best punter since Dickson, and since I consider myself an expert on the best Texas D ever, the 1983 D, I would say this D is right up there. If this Texas D had stopped OhioState on fourth down, it could easily be considered top 3 best D ever, up there with the 1981 and 1983 D, assuming this D continues to play this well throughout the season. Without seeing other teams play, my guess is one loss, maybe two more, and a top 12 rating
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I like the idea of one weak and one strong so much, I think I will start the debate now to go to playing 10 SEC games. 2 OOC games is a perfect match with idea of having one weak P5 and one strong P5 game. No cupcakes needed. Strongest league in the country should not need cupcakes.
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Annual buttfucking with no lube, 2025 Appraisals
JGrayDBU replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
Wow! You earned your money! I am almost certain the old men in Collin County gave me half of what I wanted. I wonder what the escrow dollar amount would have been 15 years ago. I probably didn't have it. I was definitely a poor teacher back then. Teacher salaries have come a long way. -
Annual buttfucking with no lube, 2025 Appraisals
JGrayDBU replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
1/1, so the airtight way to do it would be to close on 12/30.(avoid holidays) That is the question. Especially on a home with a 40k difference, hypothetical 240k appraisal 01/01/2026 on sales price 199.9k vs an unknown appraisal on 01/01/2027, is it better to close on 12/30/2026 or 01/02/2027? Right now there are houses listed 40k below appraisal in Bexar County. -
Annual buttfucking with no lube, 2025 Appraisals
JGrayDBU replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
Thanks, but I would never pay someone to do it anyway. It was a small summer job that one year when I was grinding so hard, and I honestly could have made some really good money had I started a protest business. The real secret is that you don't have to grind hard every year, because of the 10% limit. Just grind hard every other year, keep your eye on the ball, and be ready to move forward to the next step after meeting the old men. I never tried to go further than the old men, but I found the procedures when I did my research. -
Annual buttfucking with no lube, 2025 Appraisals
JGrayDBU replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
I am hoping you agree with me that the "value only known at the time of property conveyance" should be the appraised value because of the calendar wrt when appraisals are figured. In my case, example: if I buy a property for 190k and close on February 25, imo that should be the appraised value, because that is about the time appraisals are figured out. Am I about correct there? Maybe from then to the end of March? The lady on the phone did not have the expertise or experience to know exactly how they come up with an appraisal, so I am hoping to find some information so specific I can remove all doubt that the property should be appraised under 200k. Once I get the magical under 200k appraisal, the wife will be 64 years old at that time. Once we file the homestead exemption correctly after closing, we would just need to wait until her October birthday to file for the 65+ exemption and at the same time the ISD taxes will be frozen at $0. In the meantime, I look at realtor.com about three or four times a week and prices are still going down because supply is up. Worst case scenario, if I were to purchase and have to protest, I know exactly how to protest to old men that are now my peers. Pictures estimates, and the sales price. In fact, going in to a protest I would look older and poorer than the old men. My objective is to get an appraisal under 200k on a 190k purchase price without having to protest, but that may be too much to ask for. -
Only read the first page, but am interested in coaching moves. Are you saying we hired Alina? For real? He's gotta be at least 70, which is fine for a head coach, but a position coach is more of a grind job I would think. And what about the king of bad charma, Gideon? Is he gone yet? I will never forget the craziness of Gideon. If he dropped the one he caught, and caught the one he dropped, chances are 90% plus we have two more national championships. Everybody remembers Tech, but some people forget the BCS game against Alabama, when he did a wonderful job of catching the interception, but it was fourth down. Drop it dude! Much like January 1984 with Craig Curry and Jitter Fields, it will always be too soon.
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Annual buttfucking with no lube, 2025 Appraisals
JGrayDBU replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
Collin County, back in the day. As a teacher, I had time in the summer, so I became an expert protester, about 12 to 15 years ago. I remember one summer, I was grinding hard, asking for an appraisal to be reduced way down. Had people come out to give me estimates on repairing everything that needed fixing. This was before online protests. I arrived to meet the old men on the committee and they looked at my evidence and met me at least halfway. I had to have been the most successful protester in McKinney, mostly because everybody was so busy working and commuting that they didn't have time to go through the exercise. It was basically a small summer job for me. That summer was worthwhile because the following years the increase was limited because of the 10% rule. A few years later I took my foot off the brake and let the appraisal increase, because I knew we were going to sell. My last year of paying the taxes, I paid $3700, and the lady investor who bought the house paid $5000+. Sold in 2018. Now, as a renter in SA, am looking at the homestead exemption and trying to work the system. My wife turns 63 in a couple of months and she would be on the deed. The new homestead exemption for age 65 or better goes to $200k very soon. If we were to buy a property at under 200k in the calendar year in which she turns 65, theoretically we would have an air-tight case to pay $0 in ISD taxes forever.....or so I thought. Some taxes are also frozen at age 65. I called Bexar county appraisal district in April: Me: "if I buy a property in February of a certain year under 200k you have to accept the sales price as appraised value, correct?" Lady "No, we do our own, but you can protest." Me: "but it is based upon market value, correct?". Lady would not comment further, just repeated previous statement. Based upon my previous success protesting, I could handle that pretty easily, but it would be a lot easier if there were generally accepted rules the appraisal district must follow. -
THE 153rd OPEN: 13 - 20 July 2025 ROYAL PORTRUSH
JGrayDBU replied to LTtxfan's topic in Other Sports
I think feel for the game in the moment is where Scottie is similar to Jack. There are numerous stories about Jack having a feel for the game in the moment that nobody else had. Example a. I believe Jack said he adjusted his swing mid-swing, because of a sudden change in the wind to hit that famous one iron or two iron in 1972 at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach that rolled to within five feet or closer that nobody else could come close to. Two others I have heard are that during the famous 1986 Masters final round his son Jackie was caddying. There was one hole, 16 or 17, the par four, and Jack and Jackie are looking at the putt, the putt reads a certain way, but Jack doesn't believe the read, and tells Jackie he thinks it breaks toward the creek. Birdie putt.... And the best for last, the famous par 3, is it 16? Jack hits a perfect shot, Jackie says out loud "Be the right club" and Jack replies "It is" and of course the ball rolls to within 3 feet of the hole. Think about all of the begging and pleading that players do now and I contrast that with every time I watched Jack, I do not remember a single time he begged the ball to do x, y or z. -
With Lake Travis now about 670 feet, is there any problem with the lake going above 681? It has been at 700 before, correct?
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That makes sense and coincidentally enough, I taught school in a far north Dallas area, which was served by Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD. This was much later than Pettis Norm's influence of course, from 2001 to 2010. Our school consisted of a strange combination of high-end homes, regular apartments, and one very unusual apartment that was right across the street from school, government housing. My last week at that school, a power greater than us was telling me it was indeed a good decision to leave that school at that time. Within the week we had a. school vandalism over the weekend b. a bomb threat before school and everybody did a fantastic job evacuating the building, to the very rear of the property. and c. Mother against the other woman violence in the parking lot, and Dallas police had to be called to the scene.
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I don't. What is the story?
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I read online that Pettis Norman died the other day at age 86. A Dallas Cowboy in the 1960s, I remembered that my dad once told me a story about meeting Pettis during National Guard activities, in the mid 1960s. My dad is 89, and no longer drives so when I visit, I drive him to the grocery store, dr visits. We were driving the other day and I mentioned Pettis dying and he remembered the Annual Training in the Guard in the 60s when he put 6 Dallas Cowboys through the gas chamber. It was my dad's first Annual Training with the 36th Infantry Division and he was the chemical officer in charge of the gas chamber and other things. My dad is mentally very sharp and also talked about spending five days in flamethrower training. He said that was one of the summers when they put everybody in the entire division through the gas chamber. Anyway so we're talking and Dad remembered Pettis as a tight end and remarked that he remembered one other Dallas Cowboy, but not his name. Dad said he was that "really fast guy". "Bob Hayes?" I asked. "You put Bob Hayes through the gas chamber?" "Yes, Bob had a little bit of trouble, didn't put the mask on correctly". Got me to thinking, wondering how many old Dallas Cowboys are left from the 1960s. Obvious two big ones are Roger Staubach and Bob Lilly. .
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and we have a two man playoff. Curious how many times PGA tour has had playoffs in back-to-back weeks.
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Totally different cash of characters and totally different result wrt getting the ball to the hole on the putts. This weekend's heroes have no problems getting the ball to the hole. Very refreshing change. And it looks like we are headed to another playoff, 2 or possibly 3 man playoff. Good stuff.
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a few observations from today, without reading any of today's posts 1. I don't remember the last time I saw such great accuracy on the drives from the top contenders. wow. 2. As awesome as these guys are, NONE of them can come remotely close to holding Jack Nicklaus' putting glove, especially wrt getting the ball to the hole on a putt. It was almost comical at a couple of points. Ironically the man who did the best job of the three at getting the ball to the hole did not win. Greyserman. 3. I like the sudden death playoff, but why the strange choice of holes? I say start on a number, either 15 or 16, and go from there to 18, and most playoffs will be done by then. Today was the exception of course. After 15 through 18 for example, then go back one, 14 through 18. etc. Has the PGA ever been in such great shape before? I don't think so.
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how much slack do they give him? Will be interesting if the first batter gets on.
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alright coastal, if it's gonna happen, it needs to happen now. Pitcher is running out of steam.
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no doubt one team looks incredibly nervous, and the other team looks like they've been there before and expect to win.
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working out pretty good. It looks good for CC for Arkansas to win tonight, and then the Ark/LSU winner tomorrow has depleted their pitching staff by playing one more game than cC. CC wins in two games this weekend.
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hmm, an assumption on my part about Arkansas being the favorite because their entire pitching staff took yesterday off save for Wood. True or not?
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