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On 3/3/2024 at 8:29 AM, Thiefery said:
i never worn a pair of those but I have in Reefs.. best shoes around the house or in general. I never heard of hey dudes til I moved to the Houston area in '21.. in VA Reefs were the popular flip flop/slip on shoes
I remember when Ocean Pacific was the serious flip flop. They don't even make them anymore.
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The idea we went from 0 picks two years ago to potentially 9 this year is incredible. And yes, Sark didn't recruit all of them, but his staff did develop them.
And the fact that no one is shying away from Horns for being soft is another check for Sark and his change of culture.
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I'm probably late to the party on Brooklyn Nine Nine, but damn that show is funny.
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4 hours ago, miguelito said:
Yes, but Stormy had a much ... shorter issue to deal with.
But it could mushroom into something bigger.
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RG3 ahead of Colt is silly too. Anybody who played for Briles should have an asterik by their name when it comes to awards.
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More of Harmon's unique insight into everything UT related when it comes to football. This guy truly has it all figured out. He's pierced the veil of the BMOC. Not only should they pick the venue, but also the date of the game. Doesn't the TV contract have the most to do with date and time choice? And T'day isn't the "traditional" day for the game? What a maroon.
QuoteWhy Texas A&M football playing the Longhorns on Thanksgiving 2024 is a bad idea
The Longhorns never lobby for something like this unless it will materially benefit them. Here's why Texas A&M football should be cautious about this idea.
By Graham Harmon | 1:45 PM EST
Texas lobbying for Thanksgiving date with Texas A&M football: why this benefits the Longhorns and harms the Aggies
Texas A&M football fans knew this would happen. The Longhorns aren’t even in the conference yet, and they’re already playing the PR and underhanded politicking game.Recently, Texas held a media availability session where their athletic director, Chris Del Conte, spoke about the future of their athletic programs. One of the chief things they discussed was the rivalry with Texas A&M football.
Among several other things, the Longhorns said that the game will be annual. This was assumed by most who follow the conference; despite the “1-7” model the SEC has adopted for 2024, it appears that they will move to a “3-6” model moving forward, or something similar that can preserve multiple rivalries on a yearly basis.
The other thing that the Longhorns said at this point is that they want to play the rivalry on Thanksgiving day, rather than that weekend. The game has been on Thanksgiving day in the most recent installations of the rivalry, but it is not a “traditional” day for the game in the sense of it having always been played on the Thursday holiday.
This seems benign at first. What issue would there be with returning the game to Thursday rather than having it on Saturday, especially when that has been the recent pattern?
In a vacuum, that wouldn’t be an issue. However, there’s more context that needs to be explored. Any Texas A&M football fan who has followed the program for some time can tell you that the Austinites don’t do things like this without there being some benefit in it for them.
That is again the case here. The week before the rivalry is renewed, the Aggies travel to Auburn. The Longhorns host Kentucky. Neither of these teams are projected to be conference title contenders, of course, but one is certainly more of a headache than the other, and it is the one on A&M’s schedule. Who, then, does a short week benefit more? Clearly, the answer is the team in burnt orange.
This is a game with massive narrative implications going forward. Both sides understand this. Therefore, while such a decision doesn’t necessarily advantage the Horns every single year—we don’t have the schedule for 2025 or beyond yet settled—winning this first game is important enough for them to try and get every advantage they can.
However, the Aggies should not abide this chicanery. This is a game that should be played on Texas A&M football’s terms: the Longhorns were the ones who childishly cut off the rivalry in the first place. This was, of course, prior to them eventually awakening to their own foolishness and begging to follow the Aggies to greener pastures. They should not get to dictate any terms here.
If the game does end up shifting to Thanksgiving, it will represent a small win for the Horns. However, they may end up biting off more than they can chew, here: as I’ve written, the grind of an SEC schedule is no joke, and Texas is not a program acclimated at all to the demands it will place upon them. When all is said and done, they may come to regret stumping for this date being moved.
https://gigemgazette.com/posts/why-aggie-football-playing-longhorns-thanksgiving-2024-bad-idea
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On 2/23/2024 at 10:39 AM, 'stache said:
Bill Haisten: First SEC adjustment for OU fans – lowered national expectations
Before most of the last 25 seasons, the perception of the OU football team was extremely positive.
In the majority of those years, the Sooners were favored to capture the Big 12 title. In 14 of those years, OU did win the Big 12 title.
Usually, OU was on everyone’s short list of predicted national contenders.
Because there is a year-round appetite for football content, there already is an abundance of 2024 Southeastern Conference prognostication. For OU fans, the first adjustment to the Big 12-SEC transition would be a look at February expectations and seeing the Sooners picked to finish seventh.
There no longer is an SEC West-East division format. There is a 16-team league, and the Dec. 7 championship game in Atlanta matches the top two teams in the final regular-season standings.
Released one week before the retirement of Nick Saban, and several weeks before any FBS programs roll into spring practice, Athlon’s SEC 2024 predictions had Georgia at No. 1 in the SEC, with Alabama at No. 2, Texas at No. 3 – and OU at No. 7.
The Athletic has LSU finishing with a regular-season record of 12-0, with Georgia and Texas at 11-1, Alabama and LSU at 10-2 – and OU at 7-5, with losses to the Longhorns, Ole Miss, Missouri, Alabama and LSU.
Also different in 2024: the retooled College Football Playoff, expanded from four teams to 12. Last week, Oklahoma native Brett McMurphy of the Action Network formulated a 12-team bracket.
His top four seeds: Georgia, Ohio State, Florida State and Big 12 rookie Utah. Seeded fifth is SEC rookie Texas, followed by Oregon, Notre Dame, Missouri, Penn State, Alabama, Michigan and Boise State.
In the McMurphy semifinals, Georgia beats Texas while Ohio State eliminates Oregon.
McMurphy didn’t stop at the CFP; he crafted projections for all bowl games, and it’s on that list where you’ll find OU (matched with Iowa in the ReliaQuest Bowl at Tampa, Florida) and Oklahoma State (matched with Kentucky in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl).
McMurphy shared with the Tulsa World an emailed explanation of what he expects from the 2024 Sooners: “I think OU ends up with less than eight wins. The schedule is brutal. Hello, SEC! Based on our Action Network power ratings, OU actually ranks 19th nationally, but we’re projecting OU to be an underdog in six games: at Auburn, against Texas, at Ole Miss, at Missouri, against Alabama and at LSU.
“It doesn’t mean OU will lose all six of those games, but you probably have to go back to the John Blake days for the last time OU was an underdog in six regular-season games. Of course, those lines could change during the season based on the success or lack of success of OU or its opponents.”
In six of the seven years since Bob Stoops retired, Las Vegas oddsmakers set OU’s preseason over/under win total at no fewer than 9.5 wins. In 2019 and 2020, it was 10.5. In 2021, it was 11.
Before Brent Venables’ first season in 2022, the Sooners’ win total was 8.5.
The FanDuel Sportsbook’s current over/under win total for the 2024 Sooners: 7.5.
FanDuel has Georgia as the national championship favorite, with Ohio State as the second favorite and Texas the third. At plus-6,000, OU is on the same long-shot line as Utah, Miami (Florida) and Kansas State. At those odds, if you were to bet $100 on the Sooners to win it all, you would net $6,000.
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Whipping them into a frenzy to buy tickets for the 24-25 roller coaster.
5 reasons Texas A&M football will far outperform the Longhorns in 2024 (gigemgazette.com)
Quote5 reasons Texas A&M football will far outperform the Longhorns in 2024
Here’s why Texas A&M football will establish dominance over their rivals in their first season in the SEC.
By Graham Harmon | Feb 23, 2024
Why Texas A&M football will outshine their in-state rivals in first season with both in SEC
This season is of huge importance for both Texas A&M football and the rival Longhorns. For the latter, 2024 will be a proof-of-concept season after making the College Football Playoff in 2023.They stand to show that such a result wasn’t a fluke, and Steve Sarkisian will make a run at establishing himself among the ranks of the elite in college football coaching. All this, and they have to show that all the hemming and hawing about relative conference strength that has taken place over the last 12 years was all for naught.
Texas A&M football also faces a huge challenge—and a huge opportunity. After the failure to reach their ultimate goal during the tenure of Jimbo Fisher, the Ags are hoping to capitalize on the formidable talent still left in the program even after Fisher’s departure. The Maroon and White faithful feel as though they have the man for the job in former DC Mike Elko, who made an instant impact in College Station on defense when he arrived, and an instant impact in Durham as the Duke head coach.
He has built a talented staff, worked the portal, and filled roster holes ahead of spring ball. This is the easiest Aggie schedule in some time, and they hope to take advantage of all four of their biggest games being within the friendly confines of Kyle Field.
Of course, each program is also facing down the prospect of the renewed rivalry once again playing out on the gridiron. Longhorn fans are hoping to pick up where they left off, with the dominance of the 2010s still fresh in their minds. Texas A&M football fans remember the late 80s through the 90s, when they were able to rack up wins under the last defensive-minded head coach they have had before the current man.
So, who stands to come out on top here? Who will take the first step towards establishing dominance in the rivalry and in the conference, with Bama now looking like they will take a step back? My contention is that it will be the Aggies. Here are five reasons why Texas A&M football will begin to dominate the Longhorns going forward.
New Texas A&M football OC Collin Klein will unlock Conner Weigman’s potential
I’ve spoken some about this before, but Klein’s hire is perhaps the most encouraging of the offseason. The former Kansas State quarterback, Heisman finalist, and rapidly-rising coach is one of the most innovative minds in the sport. The way he can mesh different styles, adapt to the way the game is currently going, and confuse defenses is nothing short of special.Klein has achieved stellar offensive results with decidedly less-than-stellar talent. Manhattan, Kansas has never been a paragon of production when it comes to freak athletes, and that was certainly the case when Klein was scheming up offenses there. Even so, he produced the #2 red zone offense by touchdown percentage this previous year, and the 10th-ranked offense overall per SP+.
One of the more impressive results for Klein this previous year actually came in a game that the Wildcats lost—coincidentally, to Texas. With the Longhorn rush defense effectively stuffing what had been a potent smashmouth running game for KSU, Klein switched tack and began to throw the ball much more often. Even with this left-handed approach, the Wildcats were still able to generate 7.6 YPA (more than the Horns’ average allowed of 7.1) on the day.
That’s versatility and adaptability. And when those are brought to bear on the skill talent that the Aggies have in the pipeline, things will be scary for the rest of the conference. I think even Texas A&M football fans will be shocked at how much the offense was being held back by the schematic approach here previously. This will be a deadly offensive unit in 2024.
Texas will struggle with their first SEC schedule
Anytime an SEC team is able to get Vanderbilt as part of their conference slate, you can chalk it up as a lower-half schedule as regards difficulty. The league office was kind enough to offer the Longhorns the Commodores as part of their initial slate. Even so, I still think the Horns will struggle to win consistently in their first season in conference.Take a look at this past year. Texas found themselves in fourth-quarter dogfights against Wyoming and Houston. When the Horns brought their A-game, they were a decent team, dominating the likes of Baylor and Kansas. But there were far too many times last year—and really over the entirety of Sark’s tenure—where the team just didn’t play up to what they should.
You can squeak by on that when your down games come against the Houston Cougars, of course. But say they have an off day against the Kentucky Wildcats, or at Arkansas, or against Jeff Lebby’s Mississippi State. Will they be so fortunate then?
The grind of the SEC schedule is what teams outside the conference don’t understand about it. It’s winning week in and week out against squads that have enough talent to jump up and bite you—there’s absolutely no room to coast in this league.
I feel confident that, as Texas fans look at their schedule, they feel as though they should win every game outside of maybe Georgia and Michigan. But, I’m warning you now, Horns fans—there will be a game like this for you at some point. You won’t know which ahead of time. Trap games are trap games for a reason. But one of these weeks you will find yourself down 11 in the fourth quarter against a far less talented team and wonder how it got to this point.
Texas A&M football begins to play up to their talent across the board
It’s not a secret that the past two years have been flush with underachievement in College Station. The Aggies, despite pulling in the highest-rated recruiting class of all time in 2022, have only 12 wins across two seasons since that point to show for it.Of course, they’ve been competitive in a lot of games, but that’s not quite good enough when you are supposed to pack the kind of punch that the Aggies’ talent composite would suggest they should. The time is now for the Aggies to begin living up to their talent.
Luckily, Mike Elko has assembled a Texas A&M football staff that should begin to get the absolute most out of their players. That starts with strength and conditioning legend, as well as three-time national champion with LSU, Tommy Moffitt.
Moffitt is building a monster in College Station. With his modern approach to the science of S&C, stellar resume, and connections throughout the industry, all accounts are that he has revolutionized the offseason workouts for A&M.
More than that, this is a staff that has produced players at the highest level, and guys who have gotten more out of less. OL coach Adam Cushing oversaw a high-quality unit for two years in Durham. WR coach Holmon Wiggins coached up some of the top receivers currently in the NFL. Elko himself created a formidable defense with Duke’s talent level.
I have no doubt that the staff in place will start to get more out of this Texas A&M football team. Once they begin to play up to their potential, the rest of the league is on notice.
Texas loses too much defensive talent at key positions
The Longhorns boasted some considerable star power along the defensive line this past year. T’Vondre Sweat and Byron Murphy were PFF darlings, and the toast of the town on Texas broadcasts.Sweat and Murphy are both moving on to the NFL, now. The Texas fanbase, while admitting that they won’t be quite as dominant as if those two were still around, are still confident in the talent that they do have along the defensive line.
The top-line talent is one thing, of course. However, when it comes to a conference like the SEC, it’s not just the starters that determine a team’s quality—it’s the depth. And it is there that the Horns will be found deficient.
The Big 12 offensive lines won’t test the first through third strings of a program with the talent that the Longhorns have. It just doesn’t happen that way: there are only a couple of “body-blow” teams in the entire conference, and even those are composed of much lesser talent than what the SEC averages.
This is not the time to be breaking in new starters in the middle of the defensive line, especially when your second game of the year is a trip to Ann Arbor. Granted, the Wolverines are experiencing massive turnover, so that’s not even a game I would necessarily predict the Horns to lose at this point (too many unknowns), but the point stands. Georgia will impose their will up front. The Aggies have the talent to do so as well.
The back end of the defense is an issue here as well. Similar to Texas A&M football this previous year, the Longhorns could be had through the air when facing dynamic passing attacks. It didn’t happen often, but it was enough to draw concern—and now, they’re losing a fair amount of guys from that back end. Transfer Andrew Mukuba helps, but can he plug all the holes that will be left? They’ll have to figure things out quickly.
Transfer players for Texas A&M football fill the talent gaps on the roster
Mike Elko’s robust first transfer portal cycle has done wonders for the morale of the Texas A&M football fanbase. He not only replaced all the outgoing players numbers-wise, but he did so in strategic and effective ways, finding guys who weren’t just warm bodies, but fit the needs of the roster.The depth in the defensive backfield has long been a question for the Aggies. Elko brought in no fewer than seven quality defensive backs to address that issue. Some star players left along the defensive line. Elko brought in the Big 10 leader in sacks.
At this point, the biggest question for the Aggies is receiver depth. Even so, A&M boasts some top-level talent at the pass-catcher spot in Moose Muhammad, Noah Thomas, and Jahdae Walker. Transfers Cyrus Allen and Jabre Barber will be coming in alongside redshirt freshman Micah Tease to compete for playing time. That’s not to mention freshmen Terry Bussey, Izaiah Williams, and Ashton Bethel-Roman.
Elko identified and addressed the needs on this roster. He has this spring and summer to begin to mold them, getting them to coalesce as a team. I feel confident that he will do so—and that his work will pay huge dividends this fall.
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Selma Diamond's delivery was impeccable.
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They probably targeted you off your voting history and used your name and address to link you to another source that had name, address and phone.
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On 2/21/2024 at 11:43 AM, hookem2010 said:
This fool is on both the Dem and Rep primary ballot for this seat. He's done this before and they tried to pass some legislation to close that loophole, but the republicans were too busy writing suppression laws to pass something to fix something actually broken. The kicker is, if he wins one or the other, then he can't be in the general at all. Seems there is legislation for that. Just not enough to help out those running the primaries.
Dr Ortiz is a good candidate though. She's an educator first and she is solid. But like most people in these races, they are getting into them as good people hoping to serve. They really have no idea the pit of vipers they have jumped into.
On 2/21/2024 at 9:28 AM, royiv said:I also voted Gutierrez knowing that Allred will likely win. It was a bit of a protest vote for Allred pissing me off for going along with some of the GQP border stunts. I’ll obviously vote Allred in the general and if his relatively inconsequential bullshit is a play to rope in some of the Republicans that hate Cruz, then so be it.
I think Gutierrez is going to surprise some folks, particularly Allred. He's covered over 9,000 miles of Texas meeting people this campaign. And unlike Beto, he comes off as sincere, there's actual discussions, not just photo ops.
On 2/21/2024 at 9:18 AM, Pescado_Rojo said:I'm in Williamson County, but not Round Rock. My Democratic Party Sample Ballot is Ballot 55 (TX31, HD52) I haven't spent much time on the judicial races yet (kind of surprised there's more than one challenger for a few of them), but here's where I'm going on the Federal and State races..
President - Biden (Duh)
Senate - Roland Gutierrez, but Allred will probably win
TX-31 (R+15) - Stuart Whitlow. The other two candidates are unserious people
Railroad Commission - Bill Burch has the money and endorsements lined up behind him. Either candidate would be an improvement
State BOE District 10 - Dr Raquel Saenz Ortiz. DC Caldwell is an aggie weirdo libertarian that somehow snuck onto the D ballot
HD 52 (R+11) - Angel Carroll has the money and endorsements, Jennie Birkholz is a fine candidate, and either would be a huge improvement over Caroline Harris
Burch is the real deal. He's a third-generation driller and earlier served as an oilfield firefighter. He knows his stuff and is great at explaining it from old oil patch guys down to laypeople like me. He says he's the only Dem in the race, because his opponent is from somewhere on the east coast and has a history of voting/running republican. He also is traveling the state like Gutierrez. He does a lot of soc med stuff on IG, Threads, X.
11 hours ago, Js1 said:Let’s go Amanda!
Thierry needs to go in a big way, Houston voters.
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I get them because I have had to use my phone number for all things doing with my mother, like medical, financial, etc.
I don't opt out because once in a while I get one that is pushing a local event like when Abbott was on his way here to stump for vouchers the first go around. Gave us enough of a heads up to get together a little protest outside.
Been getting a lot from Don Jr lately, which is kind of weird, since TFG is the one everyone worships.
Also get a lot of red junk texts for my ex, who hasn't lived her since 2014 when she moved back to Canada. She was never a voting citizen anyway, so I keep her opted in, because now and then they waste money on junk mail to her.
And yeah, Allred has no problem bomb texting us. But I think Beto was even worse. Still, Allred has time to win that aggravating race between now and Nov. Another reason I like Gutierrez.
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Thanks for the update. It's been years (obviously) since I discussed this with any Catholics.
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You really can't deny that until the past 100 years or so, most women were chattel more than people. Society cast them in the role of mother/wife and placed their value on how well they functioned in each. That's a lot of culture that's been accepted norm for a long time to be bucking.
I think some of these women do it to increase their value to the men in their lives. It's like that overrides everything else.
Tie that to the religion that's been drilled into them for generations. A mighty duo. But it is interesting to see so many protestants begin to use the argument against recreational sex that the Catholic church has been using for ever against birth control.
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And a pretty good documentary hit either Netflix or Prime recently that cast a much better light on Grant.
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Did Evans have any eligibility left? Would he take a bag? If the answer to either of those is no, then Sumlin knew what the score was and how valuable JF was without Evans to bail him out.
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Now THAT I would love to see at the bottom of every Dem ballot!
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The props are basically a free straw poll the Republicans do with their voters that is paid for by the Secretary of State and the counties. Also, it's a helluva propaganda tool to gin up their masses and give them free fodder they can scream about.
On the other hand, the Dems quit putting theirs on the ballots starting in 2022, I think. They determined the long lines in the polling booths were partly because of people reading the platform. So, in the interest of speeding up the process and reducing the frustration of those waiting in line, they were omitted after Covid.
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1 hour ago, tokamak said:
For those of you elsewhere in Texas, the Houston area has several interesting primaries happening on the D side:
- US Rep Lizzie Fletcher (TX-7) is getting a well-funded challenge from progressive activist Pervez Agwan. There's been some allegations of abuse within Agwan's campaign which has caused a lot of groups to back off, but he was a darling of the left for a hot minute and has spent a bunch of money.
- Sheila Jackson-Lee is getting her toughest primary challenge in a long time from Amanda Edwards. Edwards had been seen as somewhat of a rising star in Houston politics, but dropped out of the mayoral race when SJL entered, endorsed her, and announced a run for her House seat. If SJL had won the mayor spot, Edwards would be a shoe-in for this race, but she lost, so here we are.
- State Senate District 15 (my district) is having a competitive open primary between 6 candidates. This was John Whitmire's long time seat that he resigned after he won the Houston mayor election. I have no idea who the frontrunner is, I've been getting mail and texts from almost all of the candidates.
- Unpopular DA Kim Ogg is being challeneged by her former deputy Sean Teare. Ogg has managed to piss off basically everyone in town and it looks quite possible that she'll lose.
And the incumbent Shawn Thierry in HD 146 needs to go. She's our own little Sinema. All her funding comes for far right groups. She's a blight. Lauren Ashley Simmons is the right person for that seat.
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4 hours ago, YGIFS said:
I honestly had no idea how many Democrats were on the ballot for U.S. Senate. i think it was 7 or 8. Wonderful use of resources.
I have met and visited with the bulk of those. Allred, Gonzalez and Hassan are the ones I haven't met. I'll preface it to say that ANY of them would be better than Cruz. While there's not a nutcase in the bunch, there's a definite horse race at the top. I don't know why some of these good people wouldn't run for smaller races like House districts or Congressional Districts. But I guess they feel the need to cut their teeth on something, might as well be the biggest bone. T
Sadly, there is no mechanism in place to build a bench, which is what we need. There are different camps, but not one central alliance that charts a course. I won't deny there are power players, particularly in DC that push money into certain campaigns, but again there's not a lot of Texas influence going into those decisions. We are seeing that in the Senate race.
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Strays made me truly laugh out loud several times
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I don't mind Sark doing the narrating here. I want him to become the voice of UT when it comes to excellence and football. Might as well start now, since it's his voice the recruits are going to be hearing more than the MoC.
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Anyone who watched Parade's End on HBO want to explain it to me?
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Kim Ogg playing games in Houston. I wouldn't doubt this wasn't done deliberately,