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  1. 39 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    "The Austin Chronicle"

    Roma, you're bringing back some great memories! 

    After finishing my Friday afternoon office hour as a TA in late 80s, I damn near always grabbed an Austin Chronicle.

    -- Read it while at Texadelphia for cheesesteak/chips/salsa/iced tea and downing a couple of carafes of coffee at Les Amis.

    -- Loved the "News of the Weird" section. Hard to believe those people and their descendants became fascists and might well run the country.

    -- If I did not meet some artsy-fartsy brainy lefty chick at Les Amis and go drink/dance for rest of evening, I would head to the PCL to take advantage of near empty library on Friday nights. Got a lot of grad research done on Friday nights. As a bonus for me, the single dude, it was quite surprising how many good-looking brainy cool single women were at the PCL on Friday nights. 

    -- After PCL, I (and the cool women I would sometimes meet) headed to a bar for some late night tequila. 

    Good times! 

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  2. 5 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I've said it elsewhere, but I don't think these people do shit.

    Unless this election is some kind of massive blowout win for Kamala, there will be trouble. And even a blowout might not be enough.

    Of course, we know Trump is going to contest a loss. Any loss. 

    Maybe it is because I am not religious, not patriotic, not worshipper of the military, that I see a huge problem coming. 

    For Trump to attain power and impose their worldview, many in MAGA-GQP will help or enable the killing of Americans. How do we know? They have already done it. 

    1. By not wearing masks, not vaxxing, and not caring when they helped kill a million Americans during a fucking deadly global pandemic.

    -- Let's be clear: COVID empowered Americans to enact random violence against fellow citizens. ("Ultraviolence" in Clockwork Orange). Hospitals stacked to the rim with dead bodies. Sure, they killed a lot their own. But COVID is the lesson: They do not care if Americans die for their worldview. In fact, COVID proved that's the case.

    2. The mass shooting of American school kids does not concern them enough to restrict gun access. Their guns and worldview are more important than school kids living. Or the brown people at an El Paso Walmart. 

    3. They are enacting medical violence against women by restricting reproductive health care. Some have already died or will die. MAGA-GQP do not care. 

    4. How would 14 million people be deported without violence?  MAGA-GQP are primed for violence. 

    Repeat: They do not care who dies for their worldview, steeped in violent Christian fascism. History is clear on that.

    So we are supposed to think they will mind if Americans have to die to get Trump in office and their worldview back in total power? Would we be surprised if many cops and some military will support them? We know Fox, Wall Street Journal, NY Post and other lackey media will back Trump.  

    Bottom line, many in MAGA-GQP are willing for Americans to die for their worldview and world. And Trump is the Fuhrer of their world. 

    What that political violence looks like, I am not sure. But it's likely coming to get their Fuhrer in power. 

    Hope I'm wrong.

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  3. 12 minutes ago, ITHorn said:

    3 losses is likely? Holy shit put the drugs away man and hit a meeting. 

    I said: 1-3  is likely (not certain). Which means it could be 1, 2, or 3 losses. If QE is bad and it could cost a game or three. Sark's game plan could cost a game. Arky and Aggy will be dogfights, losses are possible. 

    Learn to comprehend what you read. 

  4. 10 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    We are 6-1 through the hard part of the schedule.

    Hard part? UT played one tough team (Georgia) and got their ass kicked all over DKR. Laughable performance. 

    Arky and Aggy will be total dogfights. TOTAL. Especially on the road. 

    Other ther SEC teams will be fired up like hell. Why? Because we're fucking TEXAS and everyone gets fired up to beat Texas.

    -- QE starts slow and that could cost a game or three.

    Sark has not proven he can get through a season without blowing leads (many times), getting blown out or schooled at DKR, or just lame inflexible game plans that fail (Washington playoff and Georgia, most recently).

    It's amazing that the Burnt Orange Glasses crowd are blind to these facts. 

    1-3 more regular season losses are likely...especially if QE is the QB.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

    Abyss was referring to the QB position, of course. Bradley immediately went to D and immediately starred. Played it for the Eagles for a few years as I recall. Great athlete. Wasn't he also a punter? Little James Street was a running QB and he was a sight to behold. Wasn't he the QB who threw that bomb on 4th and 3 to Randy "Big Play" Peschel, with two Razorbacks draped all over his back? The jaw of every Horn fan in the nation hit the floor. Late in the Game in "Shootout #1". (Horns were ranked #1. Ark #2. Last game of year. ) Texas won 15-14. Nixon announced we'd won the Nat'l Champ that day, I think. Pissed off a lot of opponents. Then we went on to Beat Notre Dame on New Years Day.

    This is correct. Bradley was All-Pro a couple of years with Eagles, I think. 

    My points being:

    1. DKR rolled the dice with the wishbone and Street. Paid off huge. 2 national titles.

    2. Sark needs a QB who can run his offense, as did DKR.

    3. Sark needs to roll with Arch and shoot for the title next year, if not this year.

     

  6. 1 hour ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

    Sark the QB whisperer. Lmao.

    This right here. 

    I'll say what should be obvious. UT was so bad during late-Mack-Strong-Herman era, we got a Big 12 title and anointed Sark as some kind of QB whispering, play-calling, play-designing guru. Sark ain't all that. 

    True, he beat Bama in Tuscaloosa and deserves the credit for a massive win. Beat bad Michigan team, which is still great. 

    He's wiped out two historically bad OU teams (so bad they might be worse than Blake era). Great satisfying wins after the Mack beatdowns, but it's not like he was beating up on Stoops or Riley. 

    Somehow got UT to #1, mostly on the Michigan beatdown. Still incredible.

    Then got exposed by Georgia.

    Sark coached against Deboer twice and never even led in the games. 

    AND: In the 2 biggest night games since Mack era, Sark was schooled by Kirby Sharp and Sonny fucking Dykes. Sonny Dykes!!!!

    -- Offense put up 7 points v. Bulldogs and 3 points v. Frogs. The other TDs were defense.

    -- DKR was ready to rock and explode with noise, and Sark put up 10 fucking points total offense ... in the biggest night games in over a decade. National TV laughing stock.

    -- Ewers was terrible in both games. 

    Sark is a "good" coach, but he ain't no guru or genius.

    He might get much better, but right now he ain't no big game, title-winning coach. Not with QE.

    He needs to roll with Arch now.

    UT history: Royal gave up on highly-touted "Super Bill" Bradley to run the Wishbone, turned to James Street (and later Eddie Phillips) and then won 30 games in row and 2 national titles. 

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  7. So far, after 3.5 seasons can we dispense with two notions?

    1. Sark is some kind of all-time play-designing, play-calling genius. He's not. At least not more than 50% chance in BIG games.

    -- No doubt, Sark delivered v. Bama in 2023 and deserves the credit. 

    -- But, as of now, his 5-6 record is below 50% in big games, and that includes 3 BIG wins on over bad OU and Michigan teams. Otherwise, he is 2-6 in BIG games v. good teams.

    -- In the 2023 playoff, had 4 shots v Washington inside 20 in final seconds, did not come close to scoring. In two bowl games v Washington, Sark has never even had the lead. 

    -- He is likely to get outclassed ... as out-coach and our-scheme the other coach. Kirby Smart and Sonny fucking Dykes schooled him on national TV. Kalen Deboer beat him twice and never trailed.

    -- Put up a laughable 18 points combined in the two biggest DKR night games (TCU, Georgia) since Mack era. And one TD came on 9-yard drive!

    -- And if QE can't deliver on his genius play designs, then it is Sark's responsibility to give Arch a shot. 

    2. QE is some kind of nut-dragging "big game" QB. He's not.

    -- He delivered v. Bama in 2023. No doubt deserves credit for huge win.

    -- He won big over 1 bad Michigan team with no Harbaugh, 2 wins over terrible OU teams (as bad as the Blake era)

    -- Terrible v. TCU in 2022, Georgia last night.

    -- Could not come close to scoring v Washington with 4 shots from inside red zone. 

    -- Way too inconsistent, so far, to win enough BIG games to win a title.

    Bottom line: If Sark and QE are "on," then UT has great chance to win BIG games. If not, then little chance. 

    Right now, that's a less than  50% proposition.  

    Can Sark + QE win enough BIG games to win the title? Will Arch help do it?

    Time will tell....

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  8. As an addendum to my post above, here is a point of comparison on BIG Games with 3 best UT coaches so far. 

    Note: These do not include all ranked teams played against. Just what were the BIG games: bowls, rivals, big name teams, titles on the line. 

    DKR
    OU:  12-7-1
    A&M: 17-3
    Arky: 15-5
    -- a combined 44-15-1 against these three rivals!
    USC: 0-2
    UCLA: 2-0
    Bama: 2-0-1
    Bowls: 8-7-1
    Title Games: 2-1 (lost to Irish in 1971 Cotton Bowl, but already had UPI title at end of season)
    3 National Titles
    TOTAL: 58-25-3
     
    MACK
    OU: 7-9
    A&M: 10-4
    Arky: 0-1
    Huskers: 8-1
    Tech/Leach (when ranked): 3-1
    Bowls: 10-5
    Big 12 Title: 2-2
    1 National Title
    TOTAL: 40-23
     
    AKERS
    OU 5-4-1
    A&M: 5-5
    Arky: 7-2
    Penn State: 1-0
    Auburn: 2-0
    Bowls: 2-7
    TOTAL: 22-15-1
     
    SARK
    OU: 2-2
    Bowls: 0-2 (including playoff)
    Big 12 Title 1-0
    Bama 1-1
    Michigan 1-0
    Georgia 0-1
    TCU (ranked #4 unbeaten): 0-1
    TOTAL 5-7
     
    HERMAN add-on for the lulz!
    OU: 1-4
    Big 12 title: 0-1
    USC 1-1
    Bowls: 4-0
    TOTAL: 5-6
  9. Sark's record, so far, in BIG games at Texas:

    OU: 2-2

    -- No doubt, those 2 beatdown blowouts were awesome; even over very subpar OU teams. (South Carolina even smashed OU in Norman.)

    -- Could be 4-0 but choked away 2 games.

    Bowl Games: 0-2 

    -- Lost twice to Washington, Including playoff loss in a totally winnable game. 

    Big 12 title game: 1-0 

    -- Great win against Gundy

    Bama: 1-1

    -- Sark's best win at UT was in Tuscaloosa 2023

    -- Let late lead slip away in 2022 at DKR.

    Michigan: 1-0

    -- Great win over, what is clearly a very subpar Wolverine team (already with 3 losses).

    Georgia: 0-1  

    -- Totally out-classed at DKR on national TV with Game Day there (One TD drive of 55 yards, one 9 yards)

    TCU 2022: 0-1

    -- TCU was unbeaten, ranked #4, night game, national TV, DKR ready to rock, and offense put up 3 points.

    -- Just like last night, terrible offensive performance.

    In the two biggest night games at DKR since Mack era, Sark has been completely out-coached by Kirby Smart and Sonny fucking Dykes. Putting up a total of 18 points. 

    Total in Big Games: 5-7

    Time will tell if Sark can win all the big games in a single season.

    Or at at least lose only one and win out in the playoffs. 

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  10. Below is the sacred text for early wannabe Sov Cits.

    20 years ago, a friend in Austin was raving about this book. So I read it.

    Basically it is this: The internet and info tech and transportation industries (airlines, roads) span borders and nations and economies, creating possibility for true global individualists, liberated from laws and outmoded rules of nation-states. 

    And you know what?

    If most people were not so damn tribalist, patriotic, domineering, exploitative, religious, racist, misogynist, territorial, and warrior simians (etc etc etc) .... it could present a viable partial element of a planetary society. But getting in the way are all those Gods and flags and borders and bibles and guns and non-evolved simians.

    But, the current Sovereign Citizens are mostly religious fanatics ready to be ruled by the Bible, not the laws of sinful humans--especially seculars and liberals.

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  11. On 9/17/2024 at 5:24 PM, Satchel said:

    It is simply outrageous that it is mostly men writing these statutes that imperil the lives of women in ways that none of them will ever have to worry about experiencing.

    It is not all kinds of men. It is 100% religious men, Bible-thumping Christian men. At least in America.

    These are the misogynist men threatened by strong, smart, successful, educated women with equal rights and equal standing in society -- and in the household! Their goal is a return to medieval times, the very legal era cited by Alito in overturning Roe to terrorize and demonize women using their inherent reproductive rights.

    And don't cherry pick some lame ass passage from the Bible to say they are not real Christians or not real religious men. They are. History is 100% clear on that. 

    It is the same as in all societies controlled by male religious fanatics -- insecure pricks using prescientific myths to dominate women. The goal is to colonize women, control their bodies, and conquer their consciousness into submission. Same as it ever was. 

    And MAGA-GQP is fully on-board. 

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  12. On 10/16/2024 at 6:26 PM, Pimphand said:

    The highs get shorter and the lows get lower just look Mack Brown didn't return us to DKR+Akers levels and instead put us on a downward spiral that left us worse off than when he arrived.

    If the height of the lines is the criteria for seasons of Longhorn greatness .... then DKR's three national championships did not rise to the visual greatness of the Akers regime, which had zero titles. Same with Mack's 2005 team, one of the greatest teams of all time as was DKR's 1969 team.

    Suggests to me that chart is visual BS.... or at least deeply flawed.

  13. 12 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    In the eyes of the news, you could also say that it's merely an issue on the same level of Walz' location during Tienemen Square, tarriffs, or Kamala working at McDonald's which is run through the tired mill of "how will this affect the voters?"

    As you suggest, the existential threat of a candidate who has spoken aloud and more than once about suspending the Constitution, using the Army for domestic tyranny, elections being rigged, and the roadmap to tyranny that is Prop 2025 should be the issue. 

    I'm getting boring with this, I know, but I can't keep my mouth shut both in shock and the will to say that the biggest news story since the Civil War is right in front of these talking heads and they won't see it for what it is. They don't dare say aloud what they can see with their own eyes. 

    Mentally Unstable Fascist Seeks and May Regain the Presidency

    Only Harris Stands Between the US and Proposition 2025: Fascism

    Their template does not allow for this. Their indolence is immovable. Their failure could be fatal.

    They could actually find themselves before a tribunal explaining how they're not traitors. It's ironic that the TV newsmedia may as well be traitors for how they're letting the fascist train roll right down the tracks without inquiry.

    Let's go to our panel who will present their guesses on how the battleground states may vote.

    That's. Not. The. Story. Dumbass.

    100,000,000% spot on.

    This also a massive indictment of our university education system, since the TV news media all have college degrees -- yet most can't think clearly or deeply and apparently know next to nothing of history. And they naively assume their celebrity status will protect them in a fascist-Christian takeover.

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  14. 5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    when other nations write their history books about how the mighty US came crashing down, the Citizens United decision will be the point-of-no-return in that story.  It is proving to be the poison from which we couldn't recover.

    The Bible thumping theocrats/fascists are the single greatest force crashing American democracy. There is nothing even a close second.

    The point of no return was the marriage of Reagan, Falwell, and the GQP. Fundagelicals/GQP have attacked and eroded secular society ever since. Social media idiocy, rulings like Citizens United, cowardly journalism, and insane conspiracy theory (celebrated on TV and in movies) only hastened the demise into sheer lunacy, sure to be backed by violence and guns and lots of bibles shoved down everyone's throats.

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  15. 28 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    the thieves have quit once in the lifetime of everyone reading this

    Sooners basically quit in 1970 and 1998.

    1970: Eddie Phillips/Steve Worster/Jim Bertelsen had the wishbone rolling 41-9. Peak DKR over OU. Utter domination. Sooners were never in it.

    -- Fun fact. OU debuted the wishbone in this game and it failed miserably. According to my dad (RIP), either the Dallas Times Herald or Morning News ran this headline for the story: "Sooners try wishbone, Longhorns show'em how to run it."

    1998: Ricky was running wild and the Blake era bottomed out. That game was over by mid 3rd quarter.

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  16. 29 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    It's a fucking racket between the banks who own Congress and the colleges and universities. We can make tuition anything we want it to be and you, my friend, can borrow to come here.

    It's criminal...

    This is 100% spot on.

    I will add that skyrocketing tuition is the morally bankrupt legacy of:

    -- the mostly liberal Boomers running the universities the past 25-30 years and building up layer upon layer of highly paid bureaucracy (however good the intentions)... far out-pacing the hiring of actual faculty. 

    -- and the mostly conservative Boomers-GenXers who are anti-intellectual politicians who hate/envy/sneer at higher ed, don't want to fully fund it ... and want to penalize those who desire to attend college. (Like those poor women who can't get an abortion and are forced to give birth and then get no financial help from the govt.)

    Plus, college campuses now must have lots of bells, whistles, and cool media things to attract the screen-worshipping student born into consumer, entertainment, book-free society.

  17. 25 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    I mean, yeah they’re MAGA Youth and you know are racist as fuuuck. But I’m offended at just how shitty and unfunny it was. Like, come on guys, put in a little effort 

    25 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    i’ll guess that trump is at least 90% with frat bros and former frat bros ….

    SEC! SEC! SEC!

    Nothing more than the Southeast Confederacy for the fascist frat boys.

    Fuck the SEC! 

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  18. On 9/28/2024 at 12:01 PM, BrickHorn said:

    That’s not how non-religious works. The non-religious are not a coherent group, defined by a common identity and creed. It’s just a bunch of individuals who look at groups that meet weekly to reinforce their shared delusions and think “Fuck that weird shit.” We don’t sit in some massive hall every Sunday and talk about how much we all don’t believe in fairy tales or discuss plans to evangelize for critical thinking. We just each wake up and do our own thing, individually going about our days without wasting time thinking how best to confirm our lives to the perceived commands of some boring work of fantasy fiction.

    The non-religious will always be at a distinct organizational disadvantage compared to pretty much any cult. 

    Oh, I agree completely. Maybe I should have elaborated. 

    In a MAGA-Christian ruled America, the non-religious may have no choice but to organize politically before it it too late -- if they want to live peacefully in America or even stay alive. The clear pattern is already set with women fleeing states for their lives to get reproductive health care. A total abortion ban will have women fleeing the country, if they can afford it. Get out of the country is one of the express goals of MAGA-Project 2025.

    Next up are mass deportations of immigrants from anywhere on Earth south of the Rio Grande. Out of the country! 

    The MAGA-Project 2025-Seven Mountains goal is a Christian-fascist theocracy 100% bent upon obliterating what's left of the "Wall" between Church and State (as spelled out in the first right in the First Amendment). It's a 21st century Medieval America, where the First Amendment gives way to the Second Amendment.

    Thus, it should be no surprise when the Christian fascists come after other non-conforming, non-Medieval groups -- including atheists, agnostics, and the non-religious -- with their violence-backed Bible thumping. Believe in God or get out of America! So they will want to deport the atheists, too. Or just string'em up and be done with them. The hangman's rope on January 6 out front should be the warning.

    [ Don't tell Merrick Garland, though. He's busy going after Google... Apparently a digital advertising monopoly is more dangerous than a religious monopoly. ]

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  19. 11 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I think that NYT article nails it:  whites are fragile and those who feel marginalized react severely, whether they're actually marginalized or not, and the targets of their reaction are minority groups.

    Nope. The NYT article fails to nail it. 

    White Christians (especially Evangelicals, etc.) are fragile and know that overall religious belief is declining significantly in America, especially among younger people. They feel marginalized and react severely -- moving to seize total power as they fear their free pass and unchecked reign may be challenged severely in the coming years. So they target explicit minority groups. and marginalized peoples. 

    Will Christianity be seriously challenged in the coming years? It remains to be seen if the non-religious become an explicit political force. If so, they will be explicitly targeted, too. 

    But that is an underlying existential fear deep inside Evangelical-Fundamentalist Christianity and their power play for a Christian fascist nation-state.

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  20. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I'd say a major driver of that is wealth and income inequality, which has been increasing, not coincidentally, with the rise of what underlies Trumpism:  a fundamental mistrust of government and society.

    Let's correct that.

    "... a major driver of that is Christianity and intellectual inequality, which has been increasing, not coincidentally with the rise Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, which is what underlies Trumpism -- and generates a fundamental mistrust of government and secular society. .....

    And generates mistrust and disdain for that which makes up the rest of non-Christian society -- like facts, evidence, logic, academia and education, science and scientists, doctors and vaccines, intellectualism and philosophy, education and expertise, art and artists, non-fascist technology billionaires (like Bill Gates), economics and the free market, and anyone or any institution in society that is secular and not religious."

    It ain't all about economics.

    But now you add on "trickle down" etc.

     

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  21. Since we're talking about fave UT professors, mine was TK Seung in the Philosophy Department. 

    Blew open my mind on the reg .... and took me down a quite a few notches where he subtly suggested I did not know as much as I thought I did. A true eye opener for a cocky "new wave" kid from the Dallas burbs. In so doing, he changed my intellectual life and entire career. No, not a cliche, but for real!

    I took two courses from him. I recall we had to drop by his office hours to present a proposed term paper topic. I thought I had some super groovy genius idea about a paper on Mill and Utilitarianism. So I wander over to Garrison Hall, knock on his door at the end of the hallway. He welcomed me in, stopped typing on his computer, took off his glasses and said "Have a seat, what's your paper idea Mr __________?" (He called us by our last names).

    I begin describing my obviously genius idea ....  I am not three sentences in, when he interrupts me. "Now Mr. __________, I thought you might have an original topic, but I have read that paper many times and I am not reading it again. Go find a truly unique topic and let's discuss it. Now go on." He dismissed me with a brief arm wave toward the door. 

    He put on his glasses and returned to typing on his computer. I was stunned and walked out of his office, feeling like my brain got a gut punch. But it was my ego that got decked! I then proceeded to walk down the long empty hallway ... every step, I was shrinking down, like a tiny mouse. "Squeak! Squeak!"

    Distraught, I called my girlfriend (shacking up at my pad like a true poor Art major) from the pay phone and told her he thought my idea sucked! I was a failure. I will never pass this course! 

    We decided to meet at Trudy's for margaritas. 

    En route, I swung by the PCL and searched his name (late 80s, no internet yet) and saw he had written books and monographs on Kant, Nietzsche, and many others. Me, the mouse, shrunk down even further. 

    That was when the humility began to appear ... that's when I began to truly respect knowledge and wisdom. That's when I knew my UT professors knew massively more than what might appear in the classroom. 

    Met my girlfriend for margaritas ... and with every one .... I felt like the guy at the end of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Getting tinier and tinier.

    The next two weeks in class, I was far too tiny to even speak. Finally, in one of the readings on aesthetics, I saw a footnote that said something about "aesthetics, law/regulations, and public art." I summoned up my subatomic courage and approached him after class was over. He listened to my pitch, smiled and invited me to his office, where he explained that this topic had potential and gave me tips on how to approach it. And in that topic, it changed forever my intellectual interests, my career, my life. I never forgot that moment or that course.

    Sadly, he passed away in 2022 at 92. I should have looked him up when I passed through Austin in later years, but I did not. What stupidity!

    TLDR: UT professor gives cocky kid the spot on, absolute lesson of a lifetime. And the kid needed it 1000%. 

     

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