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Posts posted by pyrohornIII
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I hope CDC figures out some way to feed Bohls some false shit that he'd be too gullible not to break. I anticipate a Texas Hate tell all coming out by Bohls. That's what he'll use to retire on since the 12th men will all swallow that shit hook line and sinker
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3 hours ago, LCHorn said:
It’s also probably worth repeating (yet again), that these sacrificial lambs are a byproduct of absolutely terrible state party leadership. There is no one telling Allred, “hey man, you’re doing great work in Texas 32nd and we’re going to flip the house and give you the opportunity for a plum committee leadership position. Let’s let you simmer a bit more and then run for something state.”
He’s only 41 and clearly lacks the personal charisma to draw in voters. It need not be a career killer, however, if he’s continuing to build his resume and acquire chits for a future campaign. Who knows, maybe there was a deal made and the Biden campaign told him “you’re probably going to lose but we’ll get you a good role in the admin to run off for something in the future.”
The DNC played a very big part in tapping Allred. It wasn't so much state leadership.
2 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:It's almost as if he's a plant and not a serious candidate. Not even trying to be funny, I don't think most know who he is.
Roland was all over the state leading up to the primary. He logged like 8-10k miles in those last two months. I fully anticipated it would be a run off between he and Allred. Allred blew his doors off without even trying, which was truly surprising since Allred had no presence in the field. He blames that on Congress being in session and there's some logic to that. But since they got out of session, he's been AWOL as well.
I think the DNC and Allred are trying to appeal to those Rs and independents who just won't pull a lever for a "radical progressive" over Cruz. They are looking for that crossover vote and not going for the progressive one that Roland appealed to. And with the D's dismal turnout record in the past decade, DNC seems to be putting its money behind someone that doesn't come off as this great threat to go in and start demanding a bunch of change. This is why he does a lot of preaching about working across the aisle and bi-partisanship. Hoping to draw that cross-over vote. That's the only explanation I can come up with.
There are those who seem to think he sounds at times like Eric Johnson.
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3 minutes ago, ruitxn said:
Don’t know who we will hire, but it will be an improvement.
I'm glad we finally have an AD that allows us to say this with confidence. That post DeLoss Dodds era was brutal.
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On 6/23/2024 at 9:05 AM, Longboard Horn said:
Wtf are they singing? "March t'wards the corndogs?"
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You know MTG will count that tip as part of her business dinner write off.
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Let's just say it's much easier to believe negative stories about Sanders because of all the things he's been caught out at already.
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Bert went on scholarship this month too. Good on him.
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38 minutes ago, markstanco said:
Curt bowls says hi.
I meant in B/CS where no one goes against the cult.
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On 6/19/2024 at 1:54 PM, royiv said:
If the local small town TV news guy isn’t toeing the company line, it must have been really bad.
Exactly. This is pretty unheard of, someone from the local media calling out any bad bull.
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7 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:
I hope they send (a picture of) one to Yormarks office.No need to waste money on that fool.
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9 hours ago, Helobious said:
What a stupid list. How many years was the wishbone even a popular offense? I can’t even remember the last college team to run it.
Didn't Hatfield run it at Arkansas and Rice?
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12 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
I know this seems petty, but since when did led become lead? Aren't the doing the same with pled and plead?
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I'm surprised Yeoman's Veer wasn't mentioned. The Run and Shoot was under the Mouse Davis, but I figure Yeoman deserves some credit here since this list seemingly is to denote teams that came up with innovative things that changed the game. But a lot of these teams like OU simply took others' ideas and were more successful with them on bigger stages due to better athletes (at the time being recruited in questionable ways).
Also have no idea why VT gets a nod because they had Vick. Could have said the same for Johnny Football and aggy, but the latter had one year of success, the former two. Unless it's silently marking that Vick's success marked the acceptance of black QBs, that they could master high power offenses that required them to use their heads as much as their athleticism?
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Not sure where to put this, so settled on here. Is there another university program out there as reviled as UT? Maybe ND? Fucked up and left stuff outside the quote. Too lazy to correct. Apologies.
QuoteAfter Destroying Two Leagues & Triggering Conference Realignment, Texas Meets Its Match
By Rock Westfall,
1 day agoBy Rock Westfall
Last week, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte lamented that college athletics lost its voice regarding the current emphasis on NIL , the transfer portal , and the loss of focus on education.
While Del Conte’s comments are fine on the surface, and he is not to blame for college football's current state, his employer is a major culprit dating back to the 1980s and the breakup of the Southwest Conference.
For as long as anyone can remember, Texas has always had its way when it came to dictating the way business was done in college football. Along the way, it destroyed the SWC and the Big 12 because of its selfish, overbearing ways. Furthermore, through its conduct, no other school in college football is more responsible for the continuous conference realignment of the past 15+ years. But if Texas thinks it will run roughshod over the SEC , it is in for a rude awakening.
The Capo of a Lawless, Renegade League
The University of Texas likes to think of itself as above the other members of any conference it has been in. It has a haughty attitude regarding academics and culture. In fact, it seriously considered joining the Pac-12 Conference in 2010 because of its supposed academic and cultural superiority. But despite its aloofness, Texas has a shady past.
The Texas football program made its fame in the now-defunct Southwest Conference. In the 1970s and 80s, the Southwest Conference was utterly lawless, in a less sophisticated sort of way compared to now.
Back then, it was alleged and assumed that all of the SWC schools were giving players cars, cash, girls, "tutors," and other inducements. SMU was the most famous transgressor, getting the NCAA Death Penalty in 1987. Eric Dickerson, who was an SMU star, took a gold Pontiac Trans Am gift from Texas A&M and kept it after signing with SMU. Dickerson said that when he left SMU for the NFL, he took a pay cut. He wasn’t kidding.
That outlaw culture forced the SWC to fold after the 1995 season. Texas, along with Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor, became refugees who found a home in what was previously known as the Big Eight Conference. After the merger, it became the Big 12.
A Hostile Takeover
Despite arriving as immigrants from a folded, outlaw, renegade conference, the new Texas schools, led by the University of Texas, made themselves right at home in the Big 12.
First, they demanded that Prop 48 partially qualifying students no longer be accepted. Such players were a major staple in the Nebraska dynasty led by Tom Osborne . Next, they demanded that the league office be moved from Kansas City to Dallas. The maneuvers continued until the old SWC teams quickly achieved a hostile takeover of the Big 12.
In reality, then-Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds emerged as the Absolute Dictator of the Big 12, although frontmen such as Dan Bebe posed as the commissioner (in name only).
One of the great mysteries in college football history is why the Big Eight schools surrendered so meekly. It was not their league that turned into ashes over lawlessness. It was a shameful, unconditional capitulation.
As the years progressed, Texas formed the Longhorn Network in partnership with ESPN . In turn, the Longhorns were hoarding much of the Big 12 money. Nebraska, Texas A&M, and Missouri deeply resented the situation and left the Big 12. Colorado did, too, although the move was based on its cultural snot. Ironically, Colorado has since returned to the Big 12 after the Pac-12 imploded in 2023.
Finally, in the summer of 2021, Texas convinced Oklahoma to join them in the announcement of a move to the SEC. After damaging the Big 12 beyond repair, Texas felt the league they ruined no longer had enough prestige or revenue. In a bit of karmic justice, the Longhorn Network was a flop that never caught on.
It Just Means More
The University of Texas is used to always having its way in everything. But in the SEC, their arrogance will not be tolerated. Texas is about to discover what it is like to be treated as an equal. It will be fascinating to see how Texas adapts to its new home. The past bullying of Texas won’t work in college football’s best league. Yet old habits are hard to break.
Enjoy your new home and circumstances, Bevo. You made the bed you are about to crap in.
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8 hours ago, troph said:
you and I will be dead so I won't find it funny.
I have a guy who always asks me why I don't build up a personal armory and my response is "if the world is going to be run by the people with the biggest guns and not the biggest hearts, pretty sure I'd not like to live in that world".
Can you imagine how colorless and bland that world will be?
Plus P2025 will hit its brick wall when they ban online porn. And I don't mean just hardcore, but even the soft stuff like we see in IPIHB.
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2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
i’m thinking that her bank account is good either way
Always exceptions to the rules. Still have to think a lot of kids' shots are screwed up permanently because of this.
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6 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
same thought. she comes cocked and loaded on several leverals
She has a great singing voice as well. During her speech, she sang a bit of an one of her sorority's songs, and she can definitely carry a tune too.
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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:
This needs to be on FoxNews ….
Yeah, but Hillary's crimes were real, Trump's were/are fake news
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23 hours ago, Red Five said:
The problem is willful ignorance. Half the country thinks we're in a recession. Half the country thinks unemployment is at a 50 year high.
Saw where Trump leads people who don't follow politics at all by 26 points. There's your problem.
There are a bunch of MAGA types who aren't ignorant. It's just that they choose to remain ignorant when it comes to this stuff. And on top of that they are arrogant about it.
18 hours ago, softlynow said:Even if you think Biden wins, you should be amplifying the Trump could/will win message.
The easiest way for Trump to win is a lack of a sense of urgency. Clinton made a bunch of mistakes in 2016. But Trump looking unelectable, IMHO, had to affect turnout and allow for some folks to feel OK about "sending a message" and voting for Stein or even Johnson. Over 4.5% of voters chose someone other than Trump or Clinton. In 2020 that dropped to about 1.8%. 2012 saw about the same percentage vote for neither Obama nor Romney.
Trump could win should be all you say to anyone you know who understands the stakes of this election or otherwise will not for for Trump. They need to be scared to stay home or vote for RFK or some other joke candidate.
I agree with this. I think something is coming out of the Biden campaign that is sowing seeds of doubt to a) increase donations and b) fight apathy. Here's an article in Politico yesterday. Of course, most is attributed to anonymous sources:
QuoteDems in full-blown ‘freakout’ over Biden
One adviser to major Democratic donors keeps a running list of reasons Biden could lose.
There have been few moments in Joe Biden’s term as president that haven’t been second-guessed. | Susan Walsh/APBy CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO, SALLY GOLDENBERG and ELENA SCHNEIDER
05/28/2024 05:00 AM EDT
A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, even among officeholders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with Donald Trump.
All year, Democrats had been on a joyless and exhausting grind through the 2024 election. But now, nearly five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation, according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives. And the gap between what Democrats will say on TV or in print, and what they’ll text their friends, has only grown as worries have surged about Biden’s prospects.
“You don’t want to be that guy who is on the record saying we’re doomed, or the campaign’s bad or Biden’s making mistakes. Nobody wants to be that guy,” said a Democratic operative in close touch with the White House and granted anonymity to speak freely.
But Biden’s stubbornly poor polling and the stakes of the election “are creating the freakout,” he said.
“This isn’t, ‘Oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president.’ It’s ‘Oh my God, the democracy might end.’”
Despite everything, Trump is running ahead of Biden in most battleground states. He raised far more money in April, and the landscape may only become worse for Democrats, with Trump’s hush-money trial concluding and another — this one involving the president’s son — set to begin in Delaware.
The concern has metastasized in recent days as Trump jaunted to some of the country’s most liberal territories, including New Jersey and New York, to woo Hispanic and Black voters as he boasted, improbably, that he would win in those areas.
While he’s long lagged Biden in cash on hand, Trump’s fundraising outpaced the president’s by $25 million last month, and included a record-setting $50.5 million haul from an event in Palm Beach, Florida. One adviser to major Democratic Party donors provided a running list that has been shared with funders of nearly two dozen reasons why Biden could lose, ranging from immigration and high inflation to the president’s age, the unpopularity of Vice President Kamala Harris and the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Donors ask me on an hourly basis about what I think,” the adviser said, calling it “so much easier to show them, so while they read it, I can pour a drink.”
The adviser added, “The list of why we ‘could’ win is so small I don’t even need to keep the list on my phone.”
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey implored a room of high-dollar donors and local Democratic leaders to “think long and hard” about the stakes of the election. | Domenico Stinellis/AP
On the day after news broke that Biden had trailed Trump in fundraising last month, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey raised the pressure on donors as she introduced the president to a crowd of 300.
The cluster of fundraising events Biden attended in Boston that day were expected to bring in more than $6 million for his political operation. But Healey said that wasn’t good enough.
“To those of you who opened up your wallets, thank you,” said Healey, a Democrat in her first term. “We’d like you to open them up a little bit more and to find more patriots — more patriots who believe in this country, who recognize and understand the challenge presented at this time.”
Laughter rippled through the room. But Healey’s voice turned serious. With unusual urgency for Healey, the governor implored the room of high-dollar donors and local Democratic leaders to “think long and hard” about the stakes of the election.
There have been few moments in Biden’s term as president that haven’t been second-guessed, and his aides have made sport of sneering at grim predictions, compiling dossiers of headlines and clips in which the president was underestimated. Biden campaign aides and allies point to some positive polls, including in the battlegrounds, and Trump’s comparative lack of campaigning and infrastructure in the key states, including staff, organizing programs and advertising.
Biden claims Trump is going after DEI nationwide
A Biden campaign adviser granted anonymity to speak freely stressed that the president’s team never made any indication that Trump’s hush-money trial would help — or hurt — him. Instead, the adviser contended that Trump will be forced to defend cutting back abortion rights, attacking democracy and advancing corporate interests as president.
“Trump’s photo-ops and PR stunts may get under the skin of some very serious D.C. people as compelling campaigning, but they will do nothing to win over the voters that will decide this election,” Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz told POLITICO. “The work we do every day on the ground and on the airwaves in our battleground states — to talk about how President Biden is fighting for the middle class against the corporate greed that’s keeping prices high, and highlight Donald Trump’s anti-American campaign for revenge and retribution and abortion bans — is the work that will again secure us the White House.”
Biden supporters who remain optimistic say they’d rather be him than Trump, before rallying around abortion and issues of reproductive rights, which Rep. Dan Kildee, a Michigan Democrat, called “a fundamental game-changer.”
“We have to run a campaign, where honestly, we drive home the message that Donald Trump takes us back to the 19th century. Biden takes us further into the 21st century,” Kildee said.
He did not remark on whether such a campaign is being run, or run to his satisfaction.
“A lot can happen between now and then,” acknowledged Rep. Ann Kuster, a Democrat from New Hampshire, who is retiring after the fall election. She, too, pointed to eroding abortion rights under the conservative-led Supreme Court remade by Trump. “I know a significant number of voters are going to be motivated by the Dobbs decision.”
But Democratic critics of the campaign’s approach — while agreeing that abortion should be a winning issue — said they’re challenged when pressed by friends to make the case for why Biden will win.“There’s still a path to win this, but they don’t look like a campaign that’s embarking on that path right now,” said Pete Giangreco, a longtime Democratic strategist who’s worked on multiple presidential campaigns. “If the frame of this race is, ‘What was better, the 3.5 years under Biden or four years under Trump,’ we lose that every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”
In the swing state of Michigan, Democratic state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky suggested Biden’s standing is so tenuous that down-ballot Democrats can’t rely in November “on the top of the ticket to pull us along.”
“In 2020, there was enough energy to get Donald Trump out and there were other things on the ballot that brought young people out in subsequent elections.”
She said, “That’s not the case this time. I worry that because we’ve had four years with a stable White House, particularly young voters don’t feel that sense of urgency and might not remember how disastrous 2017 was right after the Trump administration took over.”
Whatever the Biden campaign has been doing over the past two months — and it’s a lot of activity, including $25 million in swing-state ad spending, according to AdImpact — it has had only a limited effect. According to FiveThirtyEight, Biden’s average job-approval rating on March 7, the date of his State of the Union Address, was 38.1 percent. As of Friday, it’s 38.4 percent.
And his standing against Trump has also changed little. On April 22, the day Trump’s criminal trial began, the presumptive GOP nominee held a 0.3-point lead in national polls, according to FiveThirtyEight. Trump is up about a point since then, currently leading Biden by 1.4 points in the FiveThirtyEight average.
Asked about polling, Munoz said: “The only metric that will define the success of this campaign is Election Day.”
Trump, meanwhile, has already started his incursion into safe blue states. His campaign’s psychological warfare in New York, California and New Jersey — where House districts will determine control of Congress’ lower chamber — is spiking Democrats’ already-elevated blood pressure.
“New York Democrats need to wake up,” said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. “The number of people in New York, including people of color that I come across who are saying positive things about Trump, is alarming.”
Biden’s weaker numbers bear that out. A Siena College poll released Wednesday showed Biden leading Trump in New York by only 9 points — 47 to 38 percent among registered voters. Four years ago, Biden won the state by 23 points. The president is under water with every demographic delineated in the poll — other than Black voters. Fifty-three percent of Latinos and 54 percent of whites reported having an unfavorable opinion of him. To that end, Biden released TV and radio ads in the Empire State on Thursday, ahead of Trump’s campaign rally in the Bronx.
Levine has been something of a Paul Revere in New York, sounding alarms two years ago when a Trump-aligned Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lee Zeldin, appeared to be gaining on Kathy Hochul, the moderate Democratic incumbent. Hochul narrowly held him off.
“I’m worried it’s going to be a 2022 situation, where everyone wakes up in the last seven weeks and has to scramble,” Levine said of his state, which hasn’t swung to the GOP since Ronald Reagan in 1980.
“The number of people in New York, including people of color that I come across who are saying positive things about Trump, is alarming,” said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. | Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images
This cycle, Democrats also have to contend with the war in Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which has deeply divided their ranks and contributed to a sense of chaos. Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat known for his ardent defense of Israel, was similarly concerned for his party, though he pointed to the higher cost of groceries and goods that started during the pandemic and has yet to abate.
“The greatest political challenge confronting the president starts with an “i,” but it’s not Israel, it’s inflation,” Torres said. “The cost of living is a challenge that we have to figure out how to manage.”
He said Biden should focus on issues around affordability and continue to tout his success in capping insulin costs in areas with high rates of diabetes, like his Bronx district.
“The election is more competitive than it should be, given the wretchedness of who Donald Trump is,” he said. “In a properly functioning democracy, Donald Trump should have no viable path to the presidency. The fact of a competitive race is cause for concern.”
Trump has railed against blue-state officials, starting with the justice system in New York. In California, he dispatched his daughter-in-law, Lara, and one of his sons, Eric, to hold up the West Coast’s Democratic heavyweight as a cautionary tale.
“I’m sorry you have to live in communism,” Eric Trump said Wednesday at the Stampede, a country music venue in Temecula, an inland community between Los Angeles and San Diego. Trump casually dismissed California Democrat Gavin Newsom as the nation’s “worst governor.”
“Make no mistake,” Trump said, “there is a war happening in this country.”
The elder Trump is set to appear in early June at the San Francisco fundraiser hosted by tech investor David Sacks and his wife, Jacqueline, a clothing brand executive, along with venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya.
Palihapitiya’s past political donations run the gamut, from Elizabeth Warren to a super PAC supporting Kennedy Jr. He also gave to the recall committee against Newsom in 2021 and briefly considered running for governor. Silicon Valley’s red pilling has brought even more unwanted national attention on issues of open-air drug use, homeless encampments and gangs of thieves who ransack retail stores across the Bay Area.
And as in New York, California Democrats are bracing for more incoming from Trump.
“San Francisco has changed with the taxpayers, the job creators, the tech CEOs who want to engage with the city and its politics,” said Harmeet Dhillon, the RNC committee member from California.
Dhillon was reflecting on her run-ins with Democrats in the city, where she spent years leading the local GOP before her law firm represented Trump in legal fights to remain on state ballots. Few Democrats are willing to confide in Dhillon about their fears, she conceded, but no one is sharing a sense of enthusiasm for Biden, either.
“The most diplomatic thing I hear from Democrats is, ‘Oh my God, are these the choices we have for president?’”
Lisa Kashinsky, Steven Shepard, Daniella Diaz and Nicholas Wu contributed to this report.
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7 hours ago, SimkinsMan said:
Seems like a Ffrench commit might open the door to some tasty ffromage puns. We would have an abondance of riches at the position. We could easily go brie, ffour, or ffive wide at the position with studs.
Had to rep this for the eFfort.
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On 5/27/2024 at 7:18 AM, bschoolprof said:
What a dumb question at the end: "What pitch are you most comfortable with as your go to when you need that K?" Like she's going to self scout herself right before the WCWS. They stopped it before we can see how she responded. Hope she said something like, "I have confidence in all my pitches, it really depends on the batter."
Edit: And could VIvi had had a better day? Great bat and great fielding. She was fire.
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Schlossed and confused: When panic leads to an Earley hire
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I contend that Bohls had the story for several weeks and wanted to break it, but CDC told AAS to hold off. Bohls then took it to the Chronicle which leans more aggy and used it to ink a contract with them. If Z prick or any other Chronicle contributor had broke it, it wouldn't have gotten the attention that it did coming from Bohls. Schloss was probably more upset about it being leaked than the actual question.
They have more than enough grackles to suffice. Not crows, but close enough.