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  1. 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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  2. On 2/23/2024 at 10:39 AM, 'stache said:

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    https://tulsaworld.com/sports/college/ou/bill-haisten-first-sec-adjustment-for-ou-fans-lowered-national-expectations/article_7319d090-cd45-11ee-af47-cf90bbdbd9cf.html

    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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  3. On 2/21/2024 at 11:43 AM, hookem2010 said:

    You don't say?

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    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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  4. 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.

     

     

     

     

  5. 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.  

  6. 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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  7. 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.  

     

     

  8. 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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  9. 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.  

  10. 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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