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  1. The Hill was a good story, but done in that cheap Hallmark sappish kind of way.   But the story was good enough to warrant sitting through the poor production.  

    A story about a kid from Texas who fights off a lot of disabilities to make it to the Majors.  Just don't expect Brenham to look like Brenham.  

  2. On 11/10/2023 at 10:57 AM, MrBig said:

    The Texas Democratic primary for U.S. Senate will be State Sen. Roland Gutierrez vs U.S. Rep Colin Allred. Two minority candidates who each represent a place where a mass shooting occurred (Uvalde and Allen). They are also against the Texas abortion law. 

    I think James Talarico would have a better chance at beating Ted Cruz. He’s a smart, deeply religious man who uses logic and reason instead of arguing like a little bitch to get his way like Ted Cruz. 

    Well, we are where we are now with our primaries set.  Allred leads in funds collected, but Gutierrez is working the campaign trail hard and gaining recognition and support every day.  I have met 6 of the 9 candidates, and Allred isn't one of them.   I'll just say he hasn't been as available as most of the others.  I really admire those I have met and all would be a step up from Cruz, but to be practical it will come down to a runoff between Allred and Gutierrez.   Gutierrez reminds me of Beto with a personality.  He is humble and available and speaks with a genuineness that Beto seemed to lack.  Allred is running a Hegar type campaign it seems.  Maybe it will pick up, but I think he is saving his treasure chest for the runoff, and then the general.

    I really suggest you get out to see Roland when he gets into your neck of the woods.   He's a good speaker.  I feel he and Talarico are two of the best rising stars on the Texas Dem bench presently.

     

    Watch for the debates.  There is one hosted by the PAC134 already online.   PAC 134 Texas Dem Senator debate

     Most senate hopefuls made it, but Allred and Gonzalez both missed.  There is one coming up sponsored by the AFL CIO, and it will be streamed on their Facebook page.

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  3. On 1/21/2024 at 8:12 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:

    The guy who tweeted is running against Cuellar in this year's election. His treasurer is based in DC, but he's only just filed his PAC forms in the last month or so. He's a retired vet I believe.

    Here is the link to his Plan Alamo.     Dead solid perfect fascist.  He's justifying all this by predicting that the Texas border will be invaded by armed masses of immigrants, organized in some sort of Pancho Villa uprising, I suppose.

    https://commanderfurman.com/plan-alamo/

  4. 11 minutes ago, MrBig said:

    Aggy is using state money allocated to TAMU College Station and using it to pay for operating expenses for its “satellite” branch TAMU-Qatar. This money is then paid back to TAMU through gifts from the Qatar Foundation. So no there is no oversight with how they are using their money at all. 

    And it's doubtful we will in the future, due to all the legislators who have roots in A&M.

  5. 13 hours ago, ABSR said:

    See bold below.  Anyone else surprised that aggy waited until Texas reported before making up a larger number in any way possible, including using loans and donations as a “revenue” source….yet again, in order to over inflate their numbers.  There is no ncaa standards around this, but I would think they do have to get their books audited.  So which former student mom and pop countin’ firm is certifying this?
     

    The Texas A&M athletic department had $279.2 million in operating revenue during its 2023 fiscal year, its new financial report to the NCAA shows.

    The document was obtained by USA TODAY Sports through an open-records request in partnership with the Knight-Newhouse Data project at Syracuse University. 

    It comes days after the University of Texas’ report showed just over $271 million in operating revenue for 2023.

    Guess if they included the money they had to raise to make Jimbo's payoff down payment, it might be close.  

    13 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


    Well, I watched “We are Marshall” and they had to be taught by Bobby Bowden.

    That was the veer Bowden taught them.  

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  6. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    This.  And that drowning (purposefully making public schools worse) is done for two purposes in mind:

    1) those who can afford to get out of the shithole schools end up in private schools that are generally more likely than not to indoctrinate students into the Christofascist beliefs of the current Ruling Party, and 

    2) those who can't afford it can get fucked, and be the low-income wage slaves that the Ruling Party wants them to be.

    White Christian from a middle class and above family?  Step right up and enroll at Freedom Eagle Gun Jesus Academy!  Get some basic education of decent quality, and all the indoctrination you can stand and more!

    From a poor family, especially a minority family?  Get fucked, mud people.  You exist to mow our lawns and bus tables, so you don't need any book learning anyhow.  Get to work! (See also the fact that the same folks pushing school choice are pushing for relaxed child labor laws).  Brown kids belong at the chicken processing plant, not at school.

    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.

  7. 17 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I think it makes perfect sense, and is in no way surprising.  Similarly to the way the Southern Baptist convention makes it damn near impossible to imprint any kind of requirements or guidelines about individual churches, moving away from an actual spiritual church/organization/denomination means you have freedom to say whatever the fuck you want is in the name of Jesus. Sort of like what the Moms of Liberty plan on doing with their charter "school." Except instead of education, it's "Faith." 

    You know all those quotes of people saying the teaching of Jesus are liberal bullshit so their church should stop teaching them? This is the next step. 

    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.  

     

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  8. 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.  

  9. 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.

     

     

  10. 58 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


    billionaires want to pay zero taxes  

    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.  

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  11. 22 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

     

     

     

     

     

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    School voucher supporter gave Gov. Greg Abbott $6 million in December

    The contribution is the largest single campaign donation in Texas history, according to Abbott’s campaign.

    BY PATRICK SVITEK

    JAN. 16, 2024 UPDATED: 20 HOURS AGO

    Gov. Greg Abbott received a $6 million campaign contribution last month, which his campaign is calling the “largest single donation in Texas history.”

    The check came from Jeff Yass, a national Republican megadonor whose priority issues include school vouchers. Abbott spent 2023 unsuccessfully pushing for a voucher program and is now targeting state House Republicans in the March primary who thwarted his agenda.

    Abbott accepted the $6 million donation — dated Dec. 18 — in a little-used account, suggesting he was setting it aside from funds raised for his reelection campaign.

    Yass is a billionaire from Pennsylvania who is co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based investment firm Susquehanna International Group. He is also a top proponent of “school choice,” or programs that allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize private school costs.

    The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors. Become one.

    Abbott has long been known as a fundraising powerhouse, but the $6 million contribution takes him to a new level. Abbott has previously made headlines for getting single donations of $1 million.

    He raised $19 million total over the last six months.

    Yass has been called the richest man in Pennsylvania, with an estimated net worth of nearly $29 billion, according to Forbes. His firm was an early investor in TikTok, the social media platform that Abbott banned on state phones and computers in 2022.

    When it comes to politics, Yass has also been a multimillion-dollar donor to the Club for Growth, the national anti-tax group that has boosted Texas Republicans like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Austin.

    The $6 million is not Yass' first donation to Abbott. Yass previously gave Abbott $250,000 in October, as Abbott was still battling for school vouchers in the Legislature.

    Abbott identified “school choice” as his top legislative priority for 2023, and spent months traveling the state trying to build public support. But he kept encountering resistance in the House. After a measure failed in the regular legislative session in May, he called two special sessions for lawmakers to hear voucher proposals. The fight came to a head in November, when 21 House Republicans joined Democrats to strip a voucher initiative out of a broad education bill.

    Abbott has since endorsed primary challengers to seven of the anti-voucher House Republicans who are seeking reelection.

    In addition to giving a total of $6.25 million to Abbott in 2023, Yass also cut a $500,000 check last month to AFC Victory Fund, a pro-voucher super PAC that is expected to be similarly active in the primaries.

    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.  

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Jeff Yass
    Born    Jeffrey S. Yass
    1956 (age 67–68)
    Nationality    American
    Education    Binghamton University (BA)
    NYU
    Occupation    Money manager
    Known for    Co-founder and MD, Susquehanna International Group
    Political party    Republican
    Board member of    Cato Institute
    Spouse    Janine Coslett
    Children    4
    Jeffrey S. Yass (born 1956) is an American billionaire business magnate. According to Forbes' list of the richest people in the world in 2023, Yass has a net worth of $28.5 billion, placing him as the 48th richest person in the world.[1]

    He is the co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and an early investor in TikTok. In 2001, he joined the executive advisory council of the Cato Institute.

    Yass is considered the richest man in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. An influential political figure, he is one of the 10 largest political donors in the United States. [2]

    According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, he is a major supporter of Israeli right wing think tanks.[3]

    Early life
    Yass grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Queens, New York.[4] He is the son of Gerald Yass, and his "childhood sweetheart" Sybil, who was at his bar mitzvah.[5][6] Gerald has a sister, Carole.[6] Gerald graduated with a BS from LIU Brooklyn in 1951, and worked as an accountant, rising to chairman of Datatab Inc. He later co-founded Philadelphia Trading, which became SIG.[6] As of 2018, he still worked for SIG, as a senior executive and advisor.[6]

    Jeffrey Yass was educated at public schools in Queens.[7] He earned a BS in mathematics and economics from Binghamton University.[8][9] He pursued graduate studies in economics at New York University,[9] but did not graduate.

    Career
    While at the State University of New York at Binghamton in the 1970s, Yass and five fellow students became friends and later co-founded Susquehanna International Group (SIG), the largest trader of liquid stocks in the US.[5][10]

    The billionaire trader Israel Englander sponsored Yass for a seat on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and SIG was initially run from an office at the Exchange.[5] His father, Gerald Yass, also helped to found the company.[5] Prior to this, Yass was a professional gambler.[11]

    Political activities
    Yass became a member of the board of directors of the libertarian Cato Institute in 2002[12][13] and now is a member of the executive advisory council.[14] In 2015, Yass donated $2.3 million to a Super PAC supporting Rand Paul's presidential candidacy.[15] In 2018 he donated $3.8 million to the Club for Growth, and $20.7 million in 2020.[16]

    Yass and his wife, Janine Coslett, are public supporters of school choice, with Coslett writing a 2017 opinion piece for The Washington Examiner in support of then-incoming Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's views at school choice.[17]

    In November 2020, it was reported that Yass had donated $25.3 million, all to Republican candidates, and was one of the ten largest political donors in the US.[2]

    In March 2021, an investigation in Haaretz said that Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik were behind a large portion of the donations to the Kohelet Policy Forum in Israel.[18][3]

    In November 2021, he donated $5 million to the School Freedom Fund, a PAC that runs ads for Republican candidates running in the 2022 election cycle nationwide.[19]

    In June 2022 ProPublica claimed Yass has "avoided $1 billion in taxes" and is "pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers".[20]

     

  12. 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.    

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  13. 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)

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    Welsey McGriff was expected to coach defensive backs on Mike Elko's staff at Texas A&M in 2024. Apparently, he's changed his mind and returned to a familiar area code. 

    According to multiple reports, McGriff is headed back to Auburn in a similar on-field assistant role under Hugh Freeze. McGriff coached under Freeze in 2023 in the same role. 

    McGriff, who held the title of “pass game coordinator/defensive backs coach” for the Aggies, was hired by Freeze prior to the start of the 2023 season. 

    In early October, Freeze announced that McGriff was dealing with a “personal issue” and shifted roles to the "chief of accountability and in-house recruiting" rather than his on-field stats. 

    Prior to his arrival on the Plains, McGriff spent over three decades coaching in college, making stops at Kentucky (2001-02), Baylor (2003-06), Miami (2007-10), Vanderbilt (2011), Ole Miss (2012; 2016-18), Auburn (2016; 2019-21; 2023), Florida (2021) and Louisville (2022) in various roles. 

    One of the critical reasons for Elko's decision to hire McGriff was likely due to his relationship with defensive backs coach Ishmael Aristide. The two worked together at Auburn (2016) and Ole Miss (2017-18) under Gus Malzahn and Matt Luke.

    With McGriff's departure, the Aggies have nine on-field coaches currently employed entering spring practice: Collin Klein (offensive coordinator/quarterbacks), Trooper Talyor (associate head coach/running backs), Holman Wiggins (co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers), Adam Cushing (run game coordinator/offensive line), Patrick Dougherty (special teams coordinator/tight ends), Jay Bateman (defensive coordinator/linebackers), Sean Spencer (co-defensive coordinator/defensive line), Tony Jerod-Eddie (defensive line), and Aristide. 

    Elko could hold a search or promote senior defensive analyst Bryant Gross-Armiento. Gross-Armiento served as secondary coach for the Aggies last season and was retained by Elko as part of the previous staff. 

    The Aggies open the 2024 season at Kyle Field against Notre Dame on Aug. 31. 

     

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  14. 49 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    Exactly.  Saban wants no part of a world where a kid can make just as much money in LA or Austin as he can in Tuscaloosa or Baton Rouge.

    This is a changing of the guard moment.  The future of college football is the schools with the deepest pockets and the sexiest destinations for a kid to build a brand.

    And Saban knows it.

    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.

    37 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Ray Perkins
    Bill Curry
    Gene Stallings
    Mike Dubose
    Dennis Franchione
    Mike Price
    Mike Shula

    Good luck to the next asshole that takes that job, especially operating at an NIL deficit relative to the other powers across college football and in their own conference. I'm sure the Bama fans will temper their expectations accordingly.

    Career. Suicide. 
     

    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?  

  15. 22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Why would the Waltons donate to Mizzou?  They're a stone's throw from the pigs.

    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.

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