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  1. 18 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

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    Yeah, the biggest brand in college sports . . .

    "Nobody ever goes there any more, it's too crowded."

    Good place for Finebaum's article.  The headline is misleading for whatever reason.  Should be "STFU Aggies."

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    Paul Finebaum explains how the SEC completely screwed Texas A&M

    Story by John Buhler

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    The SEC is expanding to 16 teams this summer with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas from the Big 12. The last time the SEC expanded to 14 teams, it poached two other schools from the Big 12 in Missouri and Texas A&M. Back in 2014, it was all about acquiring media rights territories. Gaining major cities like Houston, Kansas City and St. Louis were incredibly important to the SEC at the time.

    Flash forward a decade later, and here we are. Texas and Oklahoma are undeniably massive brands in college football. While the SEC did not have a program from The Sooner State in its league, A&M had sufficed that from The Lone Star State. Although A&M has a massive little brother complex, it is Texas after all. Then again, Texas A&M may have felt they were promised something to come aboard initially.

    Here is what ESPN's Paul Finebaum had to say on "The SEC Podcast" about Texas A&M's "plight".

    “They felt that they had been promised Texas would never come in and they were promised Texas would never come in, but things change. It’s A&M’s fault. A&M was so successful in the SEC that Texas said, ‘We want some of that!’ Texas in 2010 was heading to the Pac-12, they had already commandeered a bunch of schools because they wanted to be more in line with the Pac-12 academics, the Stanfords, the Cals, which are now in the ACC."

    Texas may have wanted to go somewhere more academic in nature, but football drives the bus...

    “They finally realized that we need to do something. Texas could’ve gone to the Big Ten, ACC, all this nonsense that we heard. The SEC did nothing but answer the same phone call that everybody else got. The were on the prowl to leave and were going to go somewhere.”

    Texas A&M may feel marginalized with the addition of Texas, but trust me, this is better for everyone.

    Texas A&M may feel slighted that SEC decided to add Texas into league

    For as much as this may stink for Texas A&M, Gig Em Nation needs to get over it. Texas is coming into their league, whether they like it or not. In the latest wave of conference realignment, the Big Ten and SEC are operating at a level of strength. While the new Big 12 may come out of this okay, everybody's eyes are on the ACC, hoping it is not the next league to collapse like the Pac-12 did after last season.

    What you have to remember is that while Texas A&M has a massive fan base, its brand is nowhere near as strong nationally as is Texas'. If an opportunity presents itself for a top-10 brand to come to market, you better believe any conference with a pulse will try to acquire it. The next wave of realignment may be triggered by North Carolina, but Florida State and Clemson are soon to follow.

    See, I suspect that for as much as Florida and South Carolina may not like seeing their in-state rivals from the ACC come and join their league, I think they get the bigger picture. The Sunshine Showdown and The Palmetto Bowl being conference games only add to the game's appeal and overall marketability. The Lone Star Showdown between Texas A&M and Texas ended for pettier reasons.

    While the SEC made a promise it couldn't keep, Texas A&M still took the money and benefited from it.

    This article was originally published on fansided.com as Paul Finebaum explains how the SEC completely screwed Texas A&M.

     

  2. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I wonder how many Texans, especially young ones and transplants, know that the deadline to register is like a month before the election?  I missed out in 96 because I didn’t inquire about registration until my birthday in mid October, and it was past the deadline. 
     

    of course knowing Texas, I probably wouldn’t be allowed to register at 17 for an election that would take place after I turned 18. 

    Actually, you can do this in Texas.   They just don't advertise it.  Same lack of advertising that people who committed crimes but have completed their sentences and gone 'off paper' can vote as well.  

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  3. the little things -  It was decent but had some plot holes.  It was set in the mid 70's LA, so it was interesting to see how they did the period stuff like no cell phones but digital pagers, etc.    I enjoyed it enough to sit through it, but that's about all I can say.   

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  4. On 4/2/2024 at 11:02 PM, Bullneck said:

     

    image.thumb.png.1a5e3172c2d75f7a378dc0f91ba059bd.png  No way this model got paid a penny in royalties for this.   Probably isn't even aware her picture was used.

    On 4/3/2024 at 12:44 PM, Horn Dog said:

    We missed Valentines Day but how about we make some heart candy but only with messages like "MAGA" , "Trump #1",  "No Immigrants".  Buy for $5 and sell for $19.99.  Make it so!

     

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    Make them in the shape of crosses and you'd quadruple your sales.  

  5. 53 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Right, and thanks for confirming my point that it’s just one additional layer of bullshit and barriers for women athletes.

    Try to imagine a world where some local reporter snaps a shot of a 17 year old boy track star and within weeks it’s all over every sports message board with grown ups talking about his body and attractiveness. It doesn’t happen.

    And then when attractive women athletes accept it and try to turn it into a positive like Olivia Dunn, people shit on them for that.  Even though they’re going to be ogled and sexual used no matter what. 

    I don't know.  Lots of talk on the football side about forearms and calves.  

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  6. 7 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Kid missed 5 days last year for a trip to Hawaii because he was the ring bearer in a friends wedding. 
    Not going to have them miss out on potential once in a lifetime things like that because they need to practice writing their spelling words.

    I don't think kids spend as much time learning to actually write vs using a keyboard.   My youngest was never taught cursive and even 3 years into college his handwriting is about like a 4th grader.  But then lots of kids his age are at the same level.  But he can hammer out texts on a phone in record time.

    Another thing that is weighing on this generation is actually finding something they can do as a career that isn't destined to be impacted to some degree by AI or robotics.  That also leads to pretty much everyone already in the workforce too.  The old ways of doing things are rapidly changing, and the valuation of what an individual can bring to society will have to change.  Humans have the capacity to produce and that's what has given purpose to our lives for centuries.   But what happens when that production is done more efficiently by robots or AI systems?   Then what do humans do with their time?  What do they have coming in to support themselves and their families?  

    Or do we scale back from the efficiency of those systems in order to keep humans viable?   All this plays into the apathy too for a lot of these kids.  A shrinking job market, no company loyalty, unaffordable housing, etc.  

  7. So much class and scrap in this team and it's been coached into them.  I liked his comments about playing with an edge and AMo talking about being the villain.   There's a difference between playing with and edge and playing like thugs and outright trying to humiliate the other team like Mulkey's crews have always done.  Mulkey counts on her players getting into the other team's heads.  Vic wants his getting into their passing lanes, on their boards.  

    I hate to think about losing Muhammed too, she always brings a certain focused energy with her when she comes in.

     

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  8. Only way for lots of them to be able to stomach being in college station.  Being high.   Can't honestly imagine what life would be like as a black female athlete in that backasswards racist town.  Especially one that is taller than most of the other students, like bball or vball players.  

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  9. 28 minutes ago, ousux said:
    34 minutes ago, texasdago said:
    Went to Isla Mujeres with some good friends who happen to be aggy.  While there the husband made a comment to me about how Longhorns are always wearing UT stuff.  I didn't bring anything Longhorn related on the trip.  Meanwhile, he wore aggy flair every single day.  

    The worst is when they do it in Europe. And no, they aren't random young Europeans who like the colors and logo. I do see a lot of young Europeans wearing Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Columbia etc...and then when it comes to non-ivies you get ND and I've even seen a few Longhorn hoodies and tshirts on what I don't think were American tourists.

    You remember a few years ago something showed up on the internet where some ignorant TAMU fan had scratched graffiti into the Colosseum or some other venerated site?    Like they expect people who visit from around the world to recognize their symbol and say "yes, it is now complete, Texas A & M has been here."

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  10. 4 hours ago, texasdago said:

    Found the picture when I spotted them at the bar.  They had aggy layers under their aggy layers...

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    I have a cousin who went to TAMU, and his 3 kids went too.  I have never seen them in anything that isn't black, white, grey or maroon for at least 20 years.  It's astounding.  

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  11. Somehow the use of the word 'ain't' in that very precisely written response just doesn't fit.   She can't pull off the   'Aww, shucks' delivery like DKR, Bum and others did.  But usually they would break into that when they wanted to appear humble.  This woman has no idea what humble is.  

    It just rings so false, like the rest of her.   I would shudder to hear Sark or Vic or any of our coaches speak like that.  

  12. Probably the fact he conceded before the polls were closed?  Maybe they do it differently there, and release count as they come in, and not wait until after the polls close.  Doubtful.  He might have been going off of exit poll results?

     

  13. Don't forget Liz Carpenter.

    https://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/the-funny-feminist-liz-carpenter-knew-how-to-1708575.php

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    The funny feminist: Liz Carpenter knew how to wield a joke
    March 25, 2010
    Speaking to University of Texas students, Liz Carpenter once described how, after graduating from UT in 1942, she headed straight to Washington, D.C.: “I had my journalism degree and my virtue still intact.” She paused: “I still have my journalism degree.”

    Carpenter, who was 89 when she died Saturday, would approve of a tribute that began like that. “Start funny,” she advised would-be speechwriters, drawing on her own experience in the Johnson White House. (Lyndon, she'd clarify. Not Andrew.)

    Like her friends Molly Ivins and Ann Richards, she used humor as a tool, a way to charm people who disagreed.

    People like her boss. “Why don't you use your head?” Johnson once yelled at her. She yelled back: “I'm too busy trying to get you to use yours!”

    But Carpenter wasn't just funny. As LBJ's executive assistant, she traveled with him to Dallas in 1963 and was a few cars behind President Kennedy when the shots rang out. A police car hustled her to the airport to board Air Force One — the plane that would carry JFK's body home to Washington, the plane on which LBJ would take the oath of office. In that police car, she scribbled the simplest, most serious speech of her life.

    “I will do my best,” the new president told the nation after the plane landed. “I ask for your help — and God's.”

    Eventually, laughter returned to the world. In the '70s, campaigning for the Equal Rights Amendment, Carpenter was the funniest of the feminists. “I personally am going to go to that Great Precinct Meeting in the Sky kicking and screaming if I'm not in the Constitution of the country that I worked for, paid taxes to, tried to be a total thinking citizen in,” she wrote.

    She lost that fight. But she moved on, and when we picture her at that Great Precinct Meeting, she's not kicking and screaming. She's cracking jokes, working the room, using her head — or at least, busy trying to get heaven's powerful to use their own.

    March 25, 2010

     

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  14. 16 minutes ago, softlynow said:

    What you're talking about is reputation. Reputation is like culture, in the sense that it is organic and resistant to the stifling hand of regulation or inartful leadership. Many of our journalists have spent the last 2-3 decades chasing soundbytes, headlines and clicks. They're not interested in reputation, because they answer, more and more, to the MBAs looking at the next quarter's earnings.

    As with so many things these days, the problem is the primacy of capitalism in every aspect of our culture.

     

    Disclaimers would only amplify the appeal of the bad actors in media. A stamon media as "bad for you" would work the same way a warning label on cigarettes or the parental advisory on an album, game or tv show. Hell, water in a can called Liquid Death sells for precisely because it has a dangerous sounding name.

    Yep.  Was actually thinking integrity.   But you are right, it's a mindset away from capitalism, consumerism and material wealth.  

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