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  1. 10 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    we might have played like shit, but at least we didn’t spend the entire match flopping around like cunts (porto) or rewarding those flopping cunts for being floppy cunts (the officials). i pray that they all flop like that again in London only this time the officials never reward them for it.

    The corner around the 41st minute was the most egregious.  Literally 5 Porto players hit the deck on that one.  On the following one Ben White simply side-stepped his defender, who promptly fell down and got up looking for a call.  Fucking ridiculous.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said:

    This was the fascinating thing about the DeBoer hire. From strictly a coaching standpoint, he might be the best football coach in the country. He’s won everywhere he’s been with elite offenses, well-coached defenses, and routinely overcome talent disadvantages. The guy’s 101-9 for his career if you take out the Covid year with Fresno State, and he’s 34-6 his last 3 years at a D1 without coaching stacked programs. 
     

    But his recruiting abilities and program management are massive question marks. He’s never shown he can operate a D1 program successfully long term. UW was in for a huge step back next year, and he didn’t do a good job of restocking the cupboard for Year 3 before he left.
     

    Now he’s tearing down one of the best rosters in the country so he can restart it the same way he did at 4-8 Fresno State and 4-8 UW. Maybe it will work because he’s a great coach, but he’s essentially lighting on fire every advantage that came with taking the Bama job after Saban.

    Whether or not he wins there, I’m all for DeBoer turning Bama into a well-coached but less talented team, a la Oklahoma State with Gundy. Maybe we should send him some nice OAN fishing shirts while we’re at it. 

    Just spitballing here but maybe that's the thought process.  He knows he's borked from an NIL perspective so why not turn the roster over early in his tenure and try to instill the culture he knows how to win with?  It's been said repeatedly that 80-90% of the Alabama roster was there because of Saban and took less money in the process because they knew they'd have a genuine shot at the league.  Subtract Saban, $$, and add Deboer and you get a completely different dynamic.   He's obviously won with this approach before.

     

    Or maybe he's dumb as fuck.  Who knows.

     

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  3. 5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I *almost* feel bad saying this. Evan Stewart going somewhere and sucking and not getting drafted or drafted really late would also be a really helpful recruiting tool in the age of NIL. This guy was a 5 star, in our backyard, and we needed him desperately. He and his family chose somewhat more money (this part is a bit of poetic license) over being developed. Do we took other guys instead of him. Our guys are high draft picks, that guy is struggling to make a practice squad.  

    Understanding Stewart is a shit-heel and your original point is about draft stock/NIL dollars; If he does have some type of longer term injury, doesn't taking more money early make sense?  He has all the physical talent in the world but injuries can derail just as fast as being considered a raw prospect.

  4. 37 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Beau Baker is an unmitigated piece of shit, and if he still posts here, which I hope for his weak mental health he does not, it’s definitely as a new handle or a lurker because he was run off for doxxing surly posters and choosing A&M ahead of UT and posters here. 

    Ha!  The Bakers are my cousins.  I could just call Blake and see if he's the hire.

    Edit: @SydneyCarton You'll have to fill me in on the background regarding Blake's posting or shit-posting proclivities.  

  5. 1 hour ago, Vertigo said:

    Plus Dabo has never shown an ability to field an above average offensive line, but has fielded great defensive lines. They just had that guy, now they would pony up another Jimbo level contract for another?

    None of that matters.  It's too perfect of a hire.  The only thing that matters is what is the total cost of the buyout for Dabo.   

    Its the same fucking playbook as the Fisher hire.  Why would they not do it?

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    I don't think there was any doubt about that.  This whole process is happening because Texas is coming into the SEC with all of the momentum - and aggy is going to try to do everything in there power to stop it.  The worst thing that could happen, in their minds, is to lose that game in Kyle Field next year.

    The problems with that team aren't going to go away overnight.  I don't care what size war chest they have.  

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  7. 27 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    You worry too much. I don't need a longwinded rebuttal or a barrage of them on this. Find something else to wring your hands over.

    You spend a lot of time following the $9.95ers. It's clear that Gerry and/or Bobby caught up with the key staff member for Sark that they needed to speak to regarding positions they'll be looking for in the portal. Then they definitively state that TB isn't one of those. And yet here you are, ignoring that, and presuming a TB take from the portal. 

    You guys are going around your asshole to get to your elbow.

    I prefer to think they are "wiping before they poop.".

    In addition to that - Brooks didn't have the most affluent upbringing.  It would be silly of him to chase "maybe potential" money vs. what he has guaranteed here at Texas.  Also - as it was said earlier, the kid enjoys being here.

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  8. 15 minutes ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    I don't know about getting there from Texas, but Pagosa Springs is such a pain to get to from the East Coast.  My in-laws built a place about 45 minutes out from there and it is more expensive and takes a lot longer to get there for holidays than it does when we just go to Europe...

    Thats because Durango airport only has 4 gates and you usually have to go through Phoenix, Dallas, or Denver.  We usually drive it from Austin.  Takes about 11 hours without kids, 13 with.

    21 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    It is not cheap.  But I think Whitefish is a really, really solid investment that will appreciate.  And is nothing like the crazy prices you see in Telluride, Aspen, and Jackson Hole.  You are also close to Kalispell and its airport.

    I was paying $30 for a burger in Aspen last summer.  It has always been expensive.  I have been going there forever.  But in the last  6-7 years it has gotten absurd.

    Sounds like the burger spot next to the weed store I saw Dwight Howard at a couple of years back. 

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  9. 9 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    Colorado locals hating Texans and out of state property owners has been a thing forever.  I remember complaints going back to the early 80s when my family first bought property there. The proliferation of short term rentals has exacerbated the problem, so I can certainly understand them being pissed about not being able to live in the towns they work in while staring at $10 to 50 million dollar giant houses that stay empty 90% of the time or all the condos that are short term rentals.

    There are still some cool mountain places that are affordable.  If I was looking for a place in CO at today's prices, I would consider something in or around Salida.  But most of the resort towns have gotten stupid expensive. I am actually looking now at Montana.  Found a place in Whitefish that could be perfect. On the verge of permanently noping out of Texas summers.

     

    Check out Pagosa Springs, CO.   45 min from the Durango airport and 45ish minutes between wolf creek and purgatory.  Still relatively affordable by Colorado ski town standards.

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  10. 17 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

    I've never understood why people from Colorado seem so angry. This is true for the little pussy in this thread, but also for Buffs fans in general - there's a lot of weird anger in that fanbase. They always seem pissed off and combative with a weird chip on their shoulder. 

    Colorado as a place seems so nice and laid back. Every lawyer in my firm who lands a national client moves to our Denver office and immediately starts phoning it in. They WFH at their "mountain house" and let the junior partners do all the work. They know they've got it made so why sweat it out on the bayou?

    The weather in CO is pleasant if you don't mind the cold (and it's miles better than Houston in any case), cost of living is modest compared to CA and NY, there's great skiing and hiking, great breweries, weed is legal, etc. etc. etc. 

    So why so angry all the time? 

    It's a housing affordability issue.  They blame out of staters buying second, third homes there as the reason why they can't live for cheap in the more scenic mountain towns.  We bought a summer/winter home outside of Durango last year and all the locals do is bitch about how they can't afford to buy or rent homes because of guys like me.  My response to them more often than not - "Stop being poor.".

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