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  1. 9 hours ago, Hermanator said:

    No one thinks we should maybe retire the OU trans cheerleader bit? Since the fact the cheerleader is trans is the part we're insulting. Just feels like punching way down

    IDK. In all the years I've read this board, including time on shaggy, one of the best things about the community is the judicious use of transgressive, irreverent and outright offensive material.

    On the other hand, this particular meme is pretty brutal to an individual who didn't do anything to deserve it. I would hate for the board to draw negative attention for a meme with that is meaner than it is impactful.

    All that said... username checks out.

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  2. 8 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

    It’s cool. I enjoy reading the perspectives of people actually doing it. I’d like get some acreage and give it a try, but thanks to everyone here, I’m confident it’s a terrible idea. 

    I encourage you to do it. I love it - wouldn't trade it for anything. My girls get to grow up seeing where their food comes from, their yard is massive and has a pond, a stream and dozens of trees. And I get to provide for my family the same way my grandpa did.

    All I'm saying is my wife and I both have good day jobs to pay the bills.

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  3. On 2/23/2023 at 1:15 PM, Spaulding Smails said:

    So, I'm definitely in the watching from the sidelines crowd here, and I don't have any first hand experience on any of this, but I'm curious if a change in the typical model helps to mitigate some of the skinny margins.  I completely agree on the land being the determining factor in making any of this even remotely feasible.  But, I wonder if a more vertical model to integrate the entire process combined with ancillary cash crops and other livestock creates more profit opportunities along the way.  Granted, it takes the cap ex needed on the front end to another stratosphere, but I have half a mind to run a pro forma on it eventually.  Probably a pipe dream, and I couldn't do it on my few hundred acres in rocky, arid Kimble County, but I'm curious how much of an impact eliminating the profit margins of everything from the feed lot to the packing plant to the retailer have on the overall feasibility of running a cattle operation from a profitability standpoint. 

    You'd think that with all the specialized levels in the cattle industry, that you could cut cost by vertically integrating your small operation. Unfortunately the math never works - the big boys at each level are too big and too efficient and control too much of the market for you to be able to pinch your pennies and turn a profit on beef.

    We have 5 cows on 20 acres in Austin county and after we pay for hay and maintenance, and we sell our calves and put a side of beef in the freezer, we are happy to be break-even. We just got pedigreed Longhorns that we are trying to turn a profit with, but haven't put any up for sale yet. We'll see how that goes.

    Unless you have a square mile of quality grass and tons of heavy gear, you're a hobby farmer and you should treat it that way.

     

    Edit: Just noticed that I responded to a question from 7 months ago. Just ignore me, don't neg me.

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  4. Outside of one team on this list, I will not miss, think about or hate on any of them. I'm sure we will all occasionally stop on a game while flipping through the Saturday lineup and see that they are challenging a superior opponent late in a game. But the draw will be how sad the superior team's performance is (think Al v SFU). These teams will fall to the waste bin of semi-relevant D1 football with the Fresno States and Coastal Carolinas.

    That said, I'll actually miss Tech. They really fucked us with one particular defeat, but that's football. Their fans have always been fun to interact with and they gave us The Pirate.

    I hope we have rivalries like that in the SEC, but I'm worried we're walking into a conference full of Aggies. The pigs hate us more than any team in the poll and their toothless fans are worse than Aggies - we just don't have to interact with them as much. Maybe LSU has hope to be an enjoyable rivalry. I have at least bonded with several LSU grads over the insufferability of Aggies and pigs.

  5. 5 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    I didn't really pay attention because the spot was so egregious and the stoppage of play made me think it was definitely getting overturned. 

     

    Maybe it didn't come through on the Longhorn Network feed but I was listening to Craig Way. At the end of the quagmire the referee clearly said that the spot of the ball was not reviewable. It made zero sense. They had just reviewed the spot of a ball for a similar situation a few plays earlier.

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  6. 3 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

    And the Rodgers injury just didnt have anything to do with field surface imo. He got tackled in a weird way and his ankle planted in the wrong direction. I just dont see how the turf made a difference there.

    Rodgers' age, pre-existing injury and long standing douchiness aside, this actually the exact kind of injury that could be reduced by playing on natural grass. His ankle/Achilles was likely injured because the artificial surface didn't tear or sheer to release pressure on his foot like grass would have.

  7. 39 minutes ago, Horn117 said:

    Shut your piehole

     

    Just keeping it real (and sarcastic) for my inaugural post.

    My highest hope is that we play FSU in the championship game this year. That way, win or lose, all my Aggy cousins will be absolutely miserable. But after the last ten years, a face plant is just as likely.

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