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  1. 3 hours ago, victory88 said:

    I think aggy having a good season and being top 5 combined with ou most likely winning the conference again is going to get our BMDs off their ass.  Our fan base is okay with being mediocre but they’re not okay taking a fucking backseat to both ou and aggy.  Good luck raising money to fund all of the projects when the guys with money get fed up.  That and empty stadiums will force their hand.  Even with this bullshit 3 game winning streak, no one is buying the bullshit Herman is spewing.  We look so fucking terrible.  We hired a fucking “offensive mastermind” and our offense is a fucking abortion with a 1st round tackle and a 4th year QB.  How?!?

    It’s because we lack dudes on offense at the skill positions. And in general, really. We have solid players at most every position, but recruiting rankings don’t really lie. We play like a team stacked with 3 and 4 star players, but we don’t have many 5* guys who can really house it at any time. We are loaded with complimentary players who don’t have anyone to compliment.

    For years now posters on various sites have said things like “Good WR recruits in Texas are a dime a dozen”, and they are so wrong. Texas produces enough talent to bring game changers in every year. Water is wet. OU sucks. This shit is obvious. Brockermeyers are headed OOS. Every year we take fall backs at nearly every position. It’s not rocket science. Herman is a good roster builder for depth, but got damn you have to have some studs and we just don’t. Ossai is as close as we come right now.

    But you know all of this. You’re a good poster and a knowledgeable fan.

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  2. I apologize beforehand: I feel sorry for you poor bastards. That’s maybe the worst thing anyone can say to a sports fan in my book.

    I grew up a cowboys fan. Hell, my grandma was a paralegal for them and I always had signed memorabilia on my walls as a kid.

    More importantly, I’ve always been a Texas fan. I could barely stomach Arky Jerry, but the wins were scintillating though they came at the hands of pinche Jimmy Johnson of U fame.

    And then that dude hired the antichrist of my childhood, Barry F’in Switzer. And I was done.  The cowboys of my childhood were dead. 
    I feel sorry for you dudes.

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  3. 6 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

    I want to say that I have heard that stockpiles like this are self monitored by companies for the ATF since OKC

    This is more or less true in my experience. You self-monitor and keep your own records of quantities and usage and then the ATF shows up for inspections every 3 years and audits those records and your magazines for compliance. And that's pretty much it. Ammonium nitrate, however, is an oxidizer and not even considered an explosive by the ATF. All that is required by the ATF is that oxidizers are kept a certain distance away from actual explosives (determined by a table of distances and the quantities and nature of the explosives and oxidizers being stored).

  4. We have two kids. Our daughter just graduated high school (no pics, assholes) and our son will be a sophomore. One of our son's friends killed himself the other night.

    Through this whole thing, we have been pretty good about distancing and things. Not too long ago, the boy's club baseball team started up again. We let him do it, and I've been feeling guilty about it ever since. Then this kid killed himself, and sent out a picture of himself with a gun to his head right before he did it. 

    I don't feel guilty about club baseball anymore. We are all social animals and if teachers are willing to teach, I welcome it. Kids need adults to keep an eye on them. Teachers and coaches notice things that we as parents don't. It's hard to tell with teenagers what is normal angst and what is a brewing problem that needs dealt with. There have been plenty of posters on here who have talked about the mental health aspects of this ordeal all along. I want our kids in school this fall. Looks like I won't be seeing my parents for at least a year, and that sucks.

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  5. 1 hour ago, CHEF DIESEL said:

    Hot spots in Dallas County are University Park/Preston Hollow in the affluent part of the county which might mean SMU students or just wealthy folks access to health care. Or they travel a lot and brought it home with them. Interesting it is skewing towards wealthy neighborhoods in Dallas County:

     

    The worst offenders I know are my wealthier friends and their kids. Purely anecdotal, obviously.

    Many of them had travel plans for spring break and kept them (while things were still open March 9-13).

  6. We closed down Natural Bridge Caverns yesterday. Laid off 20 seasonal employees we just hired to help out with the spring school group season, too. We are going to pay full-timers as long as we can, and we plan on getting some projects around the park done over the next couple of weeks. We are set up pretty well financially but nothing will last forever.

    My daughter is a high school senior who is starting to realize that her senior year might be over. I don't have the heart to confirm that. With everything going on and the benefit of some age under my belt, I know that not having prom is not really a big deal. But for her, no prom, no graduation ceremony or party, no more soccer, no soccer playoffs, no chance to say goodbye to teachers and friends... it's gonna be a lot. Time for her and my son to gain some perspective on things, I suppose.

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  7. 1 hour ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

    Currently debating with Mrs CL about whether to cut our spring break vacation short and go home today. We have been in South Padre for the past 4 days and have been planning all along to go to San Antonio today (Thursday) through the weekend in advance of the crowds of crazy college kids that will descend on this place tomorrow.

    I'm of the mind that it's probably more responsible to just go home today and get ready to hunker down and limit our contact with other people. Her reasoning is that we might as well enjoy this week since there are going to be lots of changed plans in the future (like not going on our Princess Alaska cruise this summer). 

    Can't believe we are the only ones having this kind of discussion right now. 

    I work at Natural Bridge Caverns. Spring Break is our biggest week of the year, typically. This year, the majority of Texas school districts are on break this week. The rest will be off next week. The split is pretty even, though, so there will be almost as many people on vacation next week as there are right now.

    We are open, and there are plenty of people here. Not what it would be without the virus running amok, but we are still busy. We are running down 25% or so compared to what we were expecting before this thing got loose. For context, we usually see 2500-4000 people per day during Spring Break. For the life of me I can't imagine why anyone would think "Virus? Sure, I'd be happy to place me and my family in a group of 50 people in a warm wet environment". But they are. 

    We are doing all sorts of planning, as most all of us are. Suspending spending on projects, planning for laying off hourly employees if we are forced to close. Our best advice will probably be for our hourly folks to take unemployment in the worst case scenario. We do offer health insurance, but no way are hourly hourly folks going to be able to afford COBRA if we let them go. I think that CTJ is right, the travel industry is going to get pounded by this thing, and it might take a couple of years for things to settle down.

    At some point soon, tourist destinations will likely start closing for two weeks. As soon as that becomes "industry standard," we will too. I think most places are trying to get Spring Break $ in the bank before choosing to do that.

    I can understand a beach vacation at this point. Stay in a condo, be on the beach away from others. I'd avoid theme parks like the plague, so to speak. And I wouldn't come here, either. I sort of have to, but you shouldn't.

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  8. I would love to have a drink with W. Most of us would, and I think he was a good guy in over his head as President.

    I feel sorta the same way about Switzer.

    But then I remember that he was the antichrist to me as a child growing up. And then I recall that I was always a Cowboys fan, until the moment that fucking Jerry hired him. Fucking Switzer. And my love and enjoyment of pro football was over, to this day.

    my love for Texas comes first. Always. Fuck that guy. And fuck Jerry. I’m on the CTJ team on this one. He might be fun, but fuck him.

    How anyone can praise and respect DKR and what he did here and the legacy that he left and still have no perspective on Switzer is beyond me. That dude sucks. He may be fun, but he sucks.

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  9. Agree on your points. It's something that they sell to recruits over there, I'm sure. Fewer snaps, less wear and tear, preserving bodies for the League. It's a good argument for them because it can exist outside of the "our record is better than yours" sort of discussions.

  10. 1 hour ago, sushihorn said:

    Not much difference in the play count.  Texas played one more game but the 7 OT rob job was almost 2 games worth of snaps.  Both teams were close to 100 offensive plays each.

    Texas defended almost 200 more plays last season than aggy. That defensive plays stat is really the biggest single reason why Jimbo had a decent first season over there.

  11. I worked with some buddies in the Physics Lab in RLM. We used to go in there after hours and play Doom deathmatches all night long. Had to scoot out of there real quick when the profs started coming in the next morning. This was early 1994, when networked computers weren't so common. It was sweet

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  12. 22 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    Winning conference and playoff loss is a lot better than losing conference and winning Sugar Bowl.  There is something to be said that winning a lessor bowl could possibly be better ending than losing a higher up bowl assuming neither team won their conference and the bowls aren't too far apart in prestige.  Playoffs and hardware trump that stuff though.

    These arguments brings us full circle to the FUPM years.

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