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pyrohornIII

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  1. No first those brown students are needed to help the athletics teams get to district or beyond, then they can disappear into the woodwork once their eligibility runs out.
  2. I agree that's a big part of it, my brother is a member of one of these type churches. But I think part of it is the rural churches feeling less important than their urban and suburban counterparts. Lots of little churches in Possum Piss have reverted back to circuit riders of the past, partly because they can't afford a pastor dedicated to solely their church anymore. It's all tied together with the deterioration of the rural communities. The Pentecostals are just a magnet for the MAGA/Misogynistic crowd. Big into patriarchy and keeping the women barefoot in the kitchen. Probably also strong white supremacy stuff taught there too.
  3. Something interesting in Possum Piss is the decline of the denominational churches (Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian) and the rise of Cowboy churches. The Pentecostals (at least in east Texas) are one of the very few denominations growing. How many of you have seen Branded for Jesus Church north of Huntsville on 45? No real theory here, just an observation.
  4. necro bump to report the latest stats: Does NIL calculate into this? https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/texas-reported-athletic-department-revenue-of-271-million-in-2023-a-record-for-ncaa-schools/ar-AA1n8edW?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9caa743365d7431face7721b704d190c&ei=67#:~:text=Follow-,Texas reported athletic department revenue of %24271 million in 2023%2C a record for NCAA schools,-Story by Steve Texas reported athletic department revenue of $271 million in 2023, a record for NCAA schools The University of Texas athletics program – always among the nation’s most financially powerful – again has gone to another level: It had just over $271 million in operating revenue during its 2023 fiscal year, according to its new annual revenue-and-expenses report to the NCAA. The report, which USA TODAY obtained the report Wednesday through an open-records request in partnership with the Knight-Newhouse Data project at Syracuse University, means that Texas increased its revenue by nearly $32 million over the total it reported for 2022. For now, the new total stands as the largest single-year total since the NCAA began its current financial reporting system in 2005. Ohio State reported $251.6 million in 2022. (Oregon reported $391.8 million in 2020, but that included more than $270 million as a contribution for the renovation of its track and field stadium.) By category, Texas’ largest year-over-year increases were: -- $11 million in contributions, which rose to nearly $86 million. -- $10.2 million in money from sponsorships, licensing, royalties and advertising, which totaled $54.7 million. -- $5.7 million in ticket sales, which moved to $63.3 million. Schools had to provide their 2023 reports to the NCAA by Monday, and, so far, only a few schools have released them. Penn State, LSU and Tennessee all have reported exceeding $200 million for the first time – but those totals trailed Texas’ by about $70 million. Texas will be joining LSU and Tennessee in the Southeastern Conference this summer. Kansas State, which currently is in the Big 12 Conference with Texas, has reported $102.3 million in revenue for 2023.
  5. I think it's funny that national media still uses Jimbo as the face of A&M football.
  6. But control everything. I posted about Yass in the Abbott thread and I've always wondered the marginal pleasure gained from making money after you've made your first billion. But then I look at Soros v. Yass and think financial titans who duke it out like gods on Olympus fighting over helping humankind or using them for entertainment purpose. Much as in the brothers in Trading Places. Soros is demonized, but why isn't Yass? I think of the Pace picante sauce commercials from decades back "New York City?!?!" How dare Yankees pretend to know anything about hot sauce? But Abbott can take $$ from some guy in Penn, because he knows what's best for Texas schoolchildren? But then we live in a time when the Texas Roadhouse originated in Indiana.
  7. The Dems need to call out this Yass fellow like they do Soros. They are both Jewish billionaires who donate heavily to political entities. One on the right, one on the left. Politics do make strange bedfellows, but you have to wonder how many of Abbott's staunch supporters would appreciate his taking funding of this size from some guy in Pennsylvania.
  8. I can't think of the last AD or head coach from A&M being poached for what seems to be a upward move. Other than the tennis coach who UT went after?
  9. I still think that if CDC and Beard would have worked out a compromise that would have given time for things to settle, for Beard and everyone involved to go through some counseling, then Texas could have come out looking alright for having tried, instead of just ducking out entirely. Treat it like a Second Chance U sort of thing. This shit goes on all the time in so many different ways in all levels of all sports. And all is forgiven (or never spoken of), like in the case of Tyreek Hill and Joe Mixon. Texas could have said, we're not going to kick this can into someone else's backyard, we're going to try to help this man improve his life, and we'll stick by him until he proves he is incapable of doing the work.
  10. What a clown show. You have to wonder what promises are made, or pictures painted to these potential hires that turn out to be shit. Wesley McGriff Reverses Course, Leaves Texas A&M Wesley McGriff Reverses Course, Leaves Texas A&M (msn.com)
  11. Only the finest kind of people.
  12. This advantage is one reason why I don't fear losing Sark to Bama. He's knows future UT has more recruiting and portal offerings for kids than Bama. So assuming that football at Bama starts wondering the wilderness like we did for over a decade, will that affect their overall NIL package that feeds the other sports too?
  13. I think that a branch of the Rockefellers tied into piggy long ago with the WinRock Enterprises set up initially by Winthrop Rockefeller, 37th governor of Arkansas. Winrock International - Wikipedia Probably some deep seated animosity there between the upstart Waltons and old UA money? You read what all Winrock is into now days, and it's fairly the opposite of what the Waltons do. About Winrock - Winrock International But then I despise the Waltons, so I could be biased in this assumption.
  14. Came across this. Would like for Abbott supporters to explain how these moves (or lack thereof) make any sense other than trying to score political points by increasing chaos. I imagine the responses would be along the lines of "Texas doesn't get time to prepare, neither should you." Which is of course bullshit. This man cannot believe in an afterlife where he might have to pay for some of this, can he? I mean this stuff is borderline psychopathic. Prime example of how Texas Reds operate. Don't take advantage of a bad situation by showing how you can work with others to make it better, but make that bad situation even worse to win votes from the dumbs. How Texas officials stymied nonprofits' efforts to help migrants they bused to northern cities By Manuel Bojorquez, Chrissy Hallowell Updated on: January 9, 2024 / 8:55 AM EST / CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-texas-officials-stymied-nonprofits-efforts-to-help-migrants-they-bused-to-northern-cities https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-texas-officials-stymied-efforts-to-help-migrants-they-bused-to-northern-cities/
  15. We use the term "the poors" now and then on the site. I'd like to add a new class: "the dumbs." The dumbs aren't all necessarily in the same Venn circle as the poors. There are some pretty wealthy dumbs out there, and there's a lot of bright poors out there as well. But the republican party started fucking with our education system years ago, basically dumbing America down. And now they are reliant on those peoples' votes to maintain their offices. They can only speak dumb stuff, they can't do anything that's brilliant or they are considered too progressive, loo liberal. They've built a machine of voters who elect people like them, dumb people. And if one of them does speak out (Cheney, Romney, hell even McConnell) they are shouted down as socialist commies by MTG, Gaetz, et al. or pushed into retirement or primaried. We used to have Republicans who wanted to fix things, but in there overarching drive to build a malleable voter base to support them, they have wiped all common sense out of that same base. And then here comes Trump with his coup de gras about fake news, which really messed with their minds. In the meantime, the dumbs hooked up with Q types and worked so desperately hard to appear intelligent, parsing hidden agendas from water bottle labels. The Republicans of old would have wanted to solve things, and might could have. But the ones we have now were voted in by the dumbs, and the dumbs were a product of the machines of Gingrich, DeLay, Limbaugh, etc. So even if they wanted to fix things, their base won't allow them, because they are too dumb to understand.
  16. There was a pre plan for this type of incident. I am sure it was founded on having a large force of defenders to maintain the peace once everyone reported and would most likely call for non-lethal methods of control. Once it became apparent to the Capitol police that the calvary wasn't coming, then the plan changed to include lethal, and apparently even then there were lines of demarcation whereby once broached, defensive measures escalated. The real failure of the day from the defense side comes from whoever did the inside work for Trump to fuck up the plan. But I also seem to remember some reports that said early on, even days before, that requests for support were already being denied, so their adjustments were on the fly since they didn't know who would actually show. If the plan would have been followed, it would have ended up much differently.
  17. Makes me think of Kent State. Except everything is reversed. Instead of the establishment of rich white power brokers sending the police or military to subdue a protest, they backed the protestors while they attacked the police. Maybe this is one of the lessons they came out of the late 60s and early 70s with.
  18. Reading Bevo's dung like tea leaves. Kinda surprised this hasn't been done yet.
  19. While I agree there might be better places on this site to discuss this, if it were started anywhere but CR, I doubt it would ever get much play. It would just be shouted down, and probably would have been relocated here anyway. Just from the response of Incredulity and then later on Slorch, the odds of rational discussion being engaged by both sides was not going to happen. That's why I started the thread to begin with. To hopefully discuss it here and get some idea how to approach it here, then maybe on a larger scale, like Neon posted above. So is this a political topic or not? Maybe not, but not sure where else this could be discussed with any modicum of success. I disagree. This is a board for UT sports first and everything else finds its place behind that. I have to give props to blacklab and Immamac for taking on the headache and trying to allow everyone a place to speak. Just as easily they could just kill off CR and end a lot of headaches for themselves, I imagine.
  20. Odds are the dog feces stunt was done in house and attributed to the left, much like they push the Antifa theory. More likely Chik-Fil-A. Since it wasn't a Sunday, after all. I wonder how skewed our vision of the national Dem party is skewed living in a state that hasn't had much Democratic success for over three decades. Have to think the overall judgement for the blue side is better in states that have been successfully blue for some time, like California or NY. Where I do feel the NDC fails is in messaging for everyone in the party. It's like they leave some states to flounder by themselves. But then maybe some of those states don't want to play ball, so they just get less funding? In short, is our view of Dems overall sourer because our Texas Dems have been stumbling for at least a decade?
  21. Thanks for finding this. There's a lot to digest there. The trend in displeasure has been rising since '01 with the normal setbacks from the hope instilled by new administrations. But it's interesting that there's steady rise in each Red presidency and the Dem ones fluctuate, but don't steady rise. But the biggest thing to me is this is a charting of how people feel about the direction of the country, not so much a grade on the President and their admin. So that rise could just as easily be disappointment in the House for its part in all this, as it is in Biden. I'm not so sure about this since we've been introduced to so many Karens on both a state and national level. Though other countries have had success with this method, see New Zealand. Nobody did this, at least not any of the CR regulars. You've just made my point.
  22. Has anyone seen anything about a celebration of the team once school is back in session? Maybe a parade or some sort of event at Moody? I wouldn't think Gregory could handle the crowd.
  23. I'd like to think we're past the days of Koolaid and moving towards some fine sippin' whiskey. That we can read the reports out of spring and fall camps without thinking "zero sum." It's been forever since we've had a coaching staff that could evaluate talent and then develop it. Add that to the culture change and we don't have that feeling it's all a house of cards. Not only do players want to be part of this, but coaches and staff apparently want to be part of it as well. Sark is the next Saban, as far as building a dynasty. He'll do it differently, he won't be as gruff and irritable while doing it. Watching all this come together and play out will be glorious. Quinn obviously found himself lacking in some areas at the end of his freshman season. He worked hard to make the necessary changes. It could be he didn't feel right in trying to sell himself as the leader until he proved to himself he was capable of being that leader. That's what happened this season. Now I feel he has the confidence in himself to be that leader, to ask the team to follow him. He wants to be genuine, not just a bunch of hot air. So here's to hoping the new Quinn takes those steps and assumes that fiery leadership role.
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