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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. It's a big FUCK NO to being in a conference with Baylor, Houston, TCU, and Tech again, no thank you!
  2. 100%. Specifically in China and India. I was in Hong Kong about 12 years ago, and was in a very nice hotel on the 87th floor, I had a great view of the city. Right across from me were workers building an even taller high rise, and they had bamboo scaffolding going all the way to the top. I asked some of the team I was consulting with: "that looks dangerous, is that stable, do the lashings break and have people ever fallen?" and their response was shocking to me. They said: "Oh yeah, all the time. Every week a couple of the workers fall to their deaths, but it's no big deal. We just get a few more (Chinese) mainlanders, they're lined up to come to Hong Kong." When I consulted in India, I was in an all-day meeting in a conference room. They had a guy dedicated to holding the door to the meeting room open. That was his job. All day, the whole day, holding the door open, to a meeting room mind you not like the doorman at the front of the building or anything. I asked about it later and the manager joked it was cheaper than buying a doorstop. I think about these experiences often and how thankful I am to be born and live in the U.S. We bitch and moan about stuff here but we have it so, so, so much better than 99.99999% of the world. They'd feel rich on 2% of our income.
  3. I already hated Notre Dame, but this year is icing on that cake. Fuck ND, why are we playing them in out years? If we lose, we are fucked from the CFP. If they lose to us, it's a "good loss to a quality team" and the committee justifies it by them beating Navy and Stanford by 40.
  4. Yeah but Ohio State beat the #1 team in the country*! *On week 1 based on pre-season rankings
  5. Need to be at least 10 thou right?
  6. mid for Texas standards. I realize your comment wasn't directed at this, but also top quintile isn't enough to be top 10 and make the playoffs, either, the topic of this thread.
  7. Fine but this makes the 2nd time in 3 years that Sark is playing an injured WR over several highly recruited and demonstrably productive other WRs (e.g. Livingstone got limited looks at Georgia while Wingo was watching half of his targets go through his hands). Same with Worthy, only we had fewer options then. And we can't say it's because of Wingo's other attributes like blocking, because he is poor at that. No reason we couldn't run out Mosley, Moore, and Livingstone and if we need a 4th and 5th we have a deep bench. Sark's stubbornness hits again. Sarkenness.
  8. The opt outs and transfers if we are not in the CFP...will we have enough to play in a bowl game
  9. Seeing Kirby’s fat fucking grin again and again and again and again as he turbofucks Texas into eternity really sucks.
  10. I can’t take this pain anymore. See you in the next life.
  11. Aggies are locked for the playoffs. They don’t need the game against us so we ain’t spoiling shit
  12. Fuck Draymond, get shit on Bitch
  13. Jfc. Thank you I keep forgetting that is an option
  14. Is the game not on TV tonight? I don’t see it on FanDuel either
  15. I wonder how those advanced stats would shift if you took just the past 3-4 weeks and removed the stinkers earlier in the season when Arch was misfiring.
  16. Username checks out. Welcome to the fam.
  17. Minimum security is no picnic. The key here is kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch.
  18. I really like this Waters III guy
  19. God I love beating the Rockets! Also im fucked up on old fashioned #3, carry on! GSG!
  20. Beautiful. But is the logo not centered? I can't unsee that.
  21. Yes, and that building was a 1000 years old so they probably jumped at the chance.
  22. Rod Babers has a good quote he pulls out from time-to-time about football being a constant struggle between who you want to be and who you need to be in order to win. Whoever said that is right and it applies to Sark and every coach. We're witnessing sunk cost fallacy unraveling. This is not unique to Sark, every coach, and every one of us has succumbed to it: "They're only offering how much for our house?! Let's let them walk and hold out for a better offer..." "My raise should have been larger, but the benefits here are good and finding a new job in this economy is tough..." "We've put $1M into this project and it's now 18 months behind schedule with little to no hope of finishing. Let's try putting just a few more months of time and money into and see if we can turn it around." "We made this acquisition of a company whose product should be an easy upsell for our sales team. It's been 5 years and it's not working. Let's keep trying, we paid so much for it." The difference is that 1) Sark gets to go through it in front of all of us and 2) we get to be neutral outside observers who don't have the sunk cost to trap us. The sunk cost for Sark is his belief in himself and what he thought the team was, and all the work they put in during the Spring and Summer install to get there. Turns out that didn't work and now it's adaptation time. The adaptations are working, for now. But just like the couple who really really really wants to hold out for the better offer on their house (which isn't coming because they overpriced it), Sark is having trouble letting go of his vision for this year's team. Hopefully seeing the offense come to life will cause him to shrug his shoulders and say "welp, they apparently can't do the stuff I wanted but they can do this other stuff, so let's do more of that." UN-fortunately, the reason Sark wanted to stick with his original install is because it gives us more chess moves against high-end competition. The current version of the offense works vs. Vandy and MSU; it won't work the same vs. UGA. But partially working is better than doing nothing at all so...
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