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  1. Same and it was pretty dead in the morning. Didn't feel super crowded until after 10AM. Got into the stadium really early but hung out under the stands due to the heat. Wife has instructed me to get shade seats this year...Hmmm we shall see
  2. Kai Money
  3. Anti-drone tech is getting better and better every day, but it's always going to be chasing. Directed microwave and laser are probably the best shots against this type of attack and I'm sure we're rolling that out at high risk facilities. Our B-2's are only based at, what like 2 bases? B-52's only a handful and the B-21 Raider is just coming online. Most of the China wargame stuff I've seen says that if China got serious, the majority of our USAF losses would be planes sitting on the ground in Guam, Kaneda, etc. We are not built for a long attritional war like Ukraine is in, we don't have the raw materials or resupply industrial base like we had in WWII. Right now we are as vulnerable as we have been in decades. Golden Dome isn't a bad idea, we should have it AND anti-drone tech as well. But if China rolls up to the port of SF or NY and pops open a container of 10,000 suicide drones to fly into highrises, nobody has a defense for that. And that would be a warcrime and very different than hitting a military target.
  4. Not sure how I have missed this one. 20 years after D-Day, Walter Cronkite interviews Ike at Normandy.
  5. Not sure where this would go, so I guess Daily Texan. A good/interesting article on the Texas Rangers participation in the U.S./Mexico war in the mid-1800's By the fall of 1847 Scott’s occupation challenges had dramatically increased with his inexorable march west and stunning capture of Mexico City. The strained American army of approximately 24,000 men now relied upon an embattled chain of fortified outposts to govern conquered territory, stretching 260 miles from capital to coast. As negotiations failed, Mexican aristocrats along the line of invasion enthusiastically embraced the call for “War without Pity” as the guerrilla resistance transitioned to a wide-spread insurgency. To remedy this untenable scenario, Scott called for the deployment of a specialized counterguerrilla force to compliment his pacification strategy. The general needed cavalry unlike any other, a cadre of irregulars forged in the crucible of frontier combat. For the hard task at hand, he needed Texas Rangers. This essay explores how federalized Texas Rangers, officially designated the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers, supported the U.S. Army in Mexico in 1847 and 1848 by providing critically needed counter-guerilla capacity. It investigates the Texans’ contributions to the American governance program, enabled by their singular mastery of repeating firearms and horsemanship, by pursuing two lines of inquiry: How did they achieve consistent tactical superiority over Mexican mounted forces, and how did their kinetic activities both support and undermine American pacification plans? The answers to these questions will reveal the Texan regiment as a controversial, yet overall beneficial, component of American victory in the decisive campaign of the Mexican-American War. https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/05/30/fighting-fire-with-fire-texas-rangers-tactical-innovation-and-counterinsurgency-operations-in-the-mexico-city-campaign-1847-1848/
  6. Putting Venables and Bielema in the same bracket is malpractice. That's a finals matchup, semis at worst.
  7. This is the least worst way to do 16. Still has value in the conference championship. The final step is to move the quarterfinals on campus and we will achieve perfection. That leaves 6 games for the hollowed out husk of the bowls and then the championship, which should be permanently put in the Rose Bowl.
  8. I'm sure he was doing his stupid circular gesticulations with his hands while making noises about "player safety" all while rapidly shifting his recruiting to suit the new world.
  9. "Here comes Texas, destroyer of the SWC and Big12, trying to throw their weight around to get an advantage with an earlier kick!" Fuck everyone. I hope we did.
  10. That guy is king of the whiners
  11. There is zero good things that can come out of this. Saban isn't working in Texas best interest here. He wants to roll back the clock. The TTech guy definitely isn't working in our best interest. Both would love to create a new system that is a super-league (that just-so-happens to include TTech), with caps on player movement and earnings and an anti-trust exemption. That requires a CBA and congress to pass a law. Oh and the best part, the Double Eagle guy wants the super-league geographically divided, which would push Tceh back onto our schedule every year. Let's be clear: the current wild west NIL situation is the perfect setup for Texas. Paying players is legal and above board, so we don't have compliance getting their panties in a bunch and we don't have donors and administration clutching their pearls about dropping bags. The House settlement will only raise the floor via rev sharing, we'll still set the ceiling with our NIL efforts. The NIL clearinghouse will either get defanged or sued out of existence. You can see why most of the schools want to go back to the old way, or put a soft/hard salary cap on players: it was much better for them. Saban can feign ignorance but he had bag men dropping illegal cash to buy players and everyone knew it. Because that was under the table the amounts pale in comparison to what those players are getting today. Now NIL can be up to NFL 3rd round type money. There are only a handful of schools who can keep up in that world: Texas is at the top of that pile. We should look at any change as negative because the current situation, while broken and imperfect, sets Texas up for success better than any other post integration.
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