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Well kiss my ass and call me shorty. I still won't believe it until we see the vids of Uke's killing Orcs with American weapons. But at least this is some glimmer of hope.
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Agreed. Regardless, it appears this team is going to be loaded.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I believe the Rivals 300 is the On3/Rivals rankings since both recently merged. So basically we now have three sites that rank recruits. -
The idea that any one conference or a pair of conferences should be in a position to dictate things to the rest of college football in large part is the reason why things have gotten as fucked as they are and why I really don't have much hope for the direction of college football. At the end of the day Sankey is more worried about doing what is best to keep him in that job than what is good for the direction of the sport and at some point there is going to have to be a single entity with some control.
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Speaking of stress levels... I did some executive coaching earlier this year thinking I wanted to be a VP at my company. But after 6 months of coaching, I decided that I'm perfectly happy where I am and the VP responsibilities will get in the way of family time. I don't really account for it, but my parents have alluded that their brokerage account which I've been managing for the past 12 years will come to be at some point. That should get us to $12M by the time I'm 63 with both kids finally off the payroll. My wife and I aren't exactly frugal, but we easily live within our means. The difference with that amount of money would be we fly in economy plus for the extra leg room.
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You’re hiding your metrics. What do you consider “elite” or “top,” on a percentile basis? I went to UT in the 90s and I believe I was the highest ranking student in my very large high school class to do so. I was somewhere between top 3-5%. The kids ahead of me went to places like Rice, Duke, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, etc. Most of my high school friends who ended up at Texas were well below that range. UT had some ridiculous sliding scale for admissions back then, too. I remember that based on my SAT score (which was good, but not Ivy League good), I could get in with something like a C average. Here’s another data point: in the 1990s, UT had generous merit scholarship programs. For example, National Merit Finalists received full tuition scholarships. This was done to attract top students who otherwise would go elsewhere. Elite schools do not offer NM scholarships, because they don’t have to. Don’t fall into the same trap as suburban nitwits do, convincing themselves they’re on the same team as billionaires because they leased the top of the line F150 and bought a bass boat on a 30-year note. UT provided a great education and attracted some very good students, for a variety of reasons. But it was not remotely “elite” in the 1990s and in many ways still isn’t.
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Weird/fun/outlandish/blinding shit >>> boring shit Imo, every year there are ~5 great core unis, ~10 more good ones, and the rest land somewhere between boring and GAH. In a perfect world, every team has a kickass uni that is simple and unique and makes sense without an accompanying handbook written by marketing, but that's not real life. Instead, we just get iterations of this season's Nike template. Mocking the hackery of chokelahoma gray and tech's Texas flag bullshit is most of the fun.
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We’re pretty much hitting on all cylinders defensively. The one negative is that it’s not ideal to have to hit the portal for DT depth. But in today’s environment it is easier to fill that depth via the portal. I have not observed it directly but most information points to the fact that our guys are being pushed towards their maximum potential. Wins, accolades, presumably money, exposure/NFL opportunities are at an all time here. All those things make it an easy sell for those willing to work and compete.
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This goes into the "shit I'm going to cook this weekend" file: Thomas Keller's scrambled eggs. I make very, very good scrambled eggs. Like, people we have over for brunch rave about them. Not complicated: low heat, eggs well-whisked, cooked in lots of butter. Fluffy, delicious. BUT....yesterday, we had brunch at Bouchon in Vegas, and my plate had scrambled eggs that were the best I've ever had. The only thing different is the addition of creme fraiche right before the eggs set, but holy shit....what a difference. Ingredients: 4 eggs 1 tsp. kosher salt 2 Tbs. unsalted butter 1 1/2 Tbs. crème fraîche Directions: In a small bowl, beat the eggs with the salt until they are homogenous. Heat a 2-quart (2-l) saucier over medium-low heat and add the butter. When the butter has melted, strain the beaten eggs through a sieve into the pan. Cook, continually whisking the eggs, until they thicken yet are still very creamy and not completely set. Whisk in the crème fraîche and cook for a few seconds longer. Spoon the eggs onto warm serving plates and serve immediately. Serves 2. I'll see if I can pull it off this weekend and will report. But jesus, such a simple thing, and they were so good.
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Trump claims he’s going after Russian trade partners https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-patriot-missiles-kellogg-ca8cda9b417737188c471390bc312a5d He needs a huge distraction right now, even bigger than a few days ago.
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There seems to be a disconnect here. I'm comparing Flagg as a prospect to who he reminds me of. The only other wing/forward that young with that good of an all-around game was LeBron. I don't feel the need to pretend otherwise but I get why the LeBron comp is sacrilege to most people. I think Flagg will be a high-level franchise player and probably have a great career. That doesn't mean he's going to score 40,000 points and win 200 playoff games. It's more likely that Flagg winds up as good as Pippen or Hill or Tatum or whoever (Havlicek) and not LeBron. That doesn’t change the fact that at 18 he is better than all of those guys.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Jesus fucking Christ. Go back through the top backs by recruiting sites every year over the last decade. See how many are busts in the NIL sense of the word. The whole point is if you evaluate a guy to be in the elite area then pay him the big NIL out of HS. Anyone else is going to need time to develop and better off spending less NIL and relying on evaluation and development at that position. So you don't have million dollar RBs sitting the bench for 2+ years. -
You used that term with respect to doctors. Dude. You and I both know that docs are often idiot savants with dunning kruger: smart about exactly one thing, but they then extrapolate that to believing they're geniuses about EVERYTHING: medical issues outside of their field of expertise and experience, issues entirely outside medical field, etc. What do those assholes think they are, lawyers? I respect and have genuine empathy for your experience, and yes, this doc's timing and language were shit. But in the end, what makes me most ragey is 1) stacks of dead Texans created by a culture and governance that leads to body counts (El Paso, Uvalde, Uri, Kerrville) that either didn't need to happen at all or didn't need to be that large, and 2) the knowledge, with dead-solid certainty, that we're going to continue with more of the same. We will demonize "the other," we will denigrate anything and everything that might help the common good as evil communism ripped from the pages of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate file, and more shit like this - and deaths - will follow. "How dare we politicize" this from the exact same crowd that attacked California and its officials while an uncontrollable fire was still raging pisses me off (then, layer on the fact that the "failures" they tried to point to were nonsensical -- there was no massive spigot of magical water that could or would have gone to Pacific Palisades, for example). Every disaster needs real, open, failure analysis after-the-fact. What went wrong, what could have gone better. Sometimes, the answer is "well, this thing here and there could have been done better, but in the end, this outcome was largely unavoidable." Other times, the answer is "the flood/winter storm would have happened no matter what, but several things could have been done to reduce the hell out of the body count." Not only will we not get that, we won't change our approach in general to, you know, maybe plan for such things in advance.
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I wish more would go towards Camp Wood and the Nueces River up there.
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The first major wave of tariffs on Liberation Day seemed to at least follow Trump’s own dumbass flawed logic regarding trade deficits. Yes, they were completely ridiculous, but there was a method to the madness, even if most reasonable people disagreed with the method. These newer tariffs seem completely arbitrary and punitive. We have now progressed to Trump lashing out at countries because he is frustrated the world didn’t line up to make deals with him. When Bessent is acknowledging the TACO nickname, it’s obvious that Trump himself is aware, and this time he will want to shake that label. Didn’t Canada make a trade deal with Trump a couple months ago? And now they have a fresh 35% tariff to show for it. Why would anyone make a deal with him? I don’t know where we go from here. It’s wild that the stock market hasn’t imploded.
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Jane, you ignorant slut! (see, Dan Aykroyd). I agree with much of your post. Certainly, we should be able to all agree that the language used by this doctor was inappropriate. The highly offensive part (to me) is that it appeared the doctor was using this horrific disaster as a platform to broadcast her political view at a time when hundreds of families in Texas were at the height of their fear. THAT is not acceptable. If this doctor knew about the flood (and she said she dead), and watched any news reports from the morning of July 4, that should have been a strong sign to keep your MAGA statements to yourself until we know so much more. Because she did not, the potential damaging impact on families was far greater. Now, if she came out today, with an intelligent post (much like your post Brisket, only just toned down a bit to make it look like all people could get behind), it would have had a much stronger impact. It was also questioned, why this doctor? Because I have been fighting back against medical and mental health incompetence for a number of years now. A doctor in Colorado came out with a theory on "Terminal Anorexia." it took me almost 2 years before I got that doctor to not just back away, but refute her initial opinion. Therapists and idiot doctors coming up with treatment protocols not backed by research or medical science. The eating disorder field being taken over by militant fat activists. It has been maddening. We should expect and demand more from the brightest and best in our society. Ok... rant over.
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Probably not much. I think that song has been a mainstay on the setlists for all of their tours going back to 1987.
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It’s our go to mindless show. They don’t yell at each other like most reality shows. For several years it was #1 in Australia. We’re on S10 of Australia now. Seasons are about 45 episodes each. There are 15 seasons of Australia, 5 seasons UK, 3 seasons New Zealand, and 3 of South Africa on Amazon. there was a terrible U.S. version years ago, with celeb cooks and cat Cora as a judge. It was only like 8 eps and a horrible show, never to return.
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Fucking this. And I can guarantee you that Doctor will face more consequences, and is more likely to change, than ANY of our leadership/power structures/culture. We will continue to charge full speed-ahead down the "fuck the common good, always and all the time" path, against all evidence and reasoning to the contrary. And we will not just not punish leadership for their decisions that lead to suffering and death, we'll REWARD them with re-election. A doctor who made a shitty comment will suffer consequences (and she should). Elected officials who decided not to install flood warning systems because "treasonous communism" will suffer zero consequences, and will actually be rewarded for their decision.
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This. While the full story is complicated, parts of it are pretty simple. Society as a whole had a great increase in opportunity post-WWII. For around 30 years, almost all of that expanded opportunity was provided to white males (women weren't in play, minorities were kept as second-class at best). So, relatively mediocre white dude could get a college degree and get a job that provided a path to a good life, even prosperity. Then, the economic opportunity stagnated and even contracted some. AND.....mediocre white guys had competition for those good jobs. Smart, well-educated women jumped in the pool. Smart, well-educated minorities jumped in the pool. Used to be, there were 100,000 good jobs out there, and 95,000 went to white dudes. Now, there are 90,000 good jobs out there, and 40,000 go to women, and 20,000 go to minorities.....leaving 30,000 jobs for white dudes (yeah, the numbers are totally made up to illustrate the point). These numbers aren't exact proportions, the point is that a pool of good jobs and prosperity that used to be 95% for white dudes is now a much smaller percentage for white dudes. And.....having lost a historical advantage that was NEVER rightly theirs to begin with (sorry, it wasn't exactly fair to have largely frozen black men out of the professional world for over a fucking century after we ended slavery)....white dudes are PISSED. They want it all back. And, if they can't have it....better to destroy it, so nobody else can have it.
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So fun story on that: nearly a century ago, we had a Great Depression. Many are saying it was the best Depression. It came at the end of a half-century of nearly uninterupted Republican government. Many people don't know that. Anyway--I digress. My family has had a few tracts in Bell County for a very long time. I didn't really know how long. I knew it was family land and that was it. Cotton farming, mostly. But Cotton is hard on the land; for the last 20 years it's been corn. And corn doesn't make very much money. So we leased the upper tract to a solar outfit to build a solar farm. A few months ago, Oncor came asking for an easement to run transmission lines across the lower tract. There was some family discussion, but at the end of it we decided to go ahead. There was some discussion about the fact that my grandparents had kind of envisioned that as the bug-out property. Papa worked for the DOD and figured it might be good to have a place of last resort if the end of the world came about. And these days, . . . . But in that discussion, I asked how it came about that the family owned this random property (or really set of properties) in Bell County. And it turns out that my great-great grandfather was a soon-to-be-retired teacher in the very early 1930s, and as local farmers went bankrupt he would buy their tracts for virtually nothing from the local bank (which itself was about to (and ultimately did) go bust). So yeah--we leased out that tract to Oncor. It paid for my son's first car: a new BMW. There's plenty left over for his sister's car in a couple years. And along with it comes a lesson in family history. And why the family's crest ought to feature a vulture.
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I've already quoted this wondrous quote, but it bears repeating: Kerr County Judge Robert Kelly said at a news conference on July 5 that “no one knew this kind of flood was coming.” “This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States, and we deal with floods on a regular basis,” he said. “When it rains, we get water. We had no reason to believe that this was going to be anything like what’s happened here. None whatsoever.” I know what he was trying to say, but it really does make him sound like an idiot.
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For 2014 we had a solid core of upperclass defensive players but depth was pretty sparse. That repeated in 2017 to an extent. Gone in 2018 were Poona Ford, DeShon Elliott, Malik Jefferson, Hilton Hill. The 2012 defense had a pretty significant contribution from guys that were factors in 2014. The depth probably had too much reliance on underclass guys then progression until their final years. Then the core guys left, and you start over. Specific to Diaz and Orlando, they aren’t great coaches that can sustain but are capable of bigger years when it hits right.
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It will be interesting to see if they can get to the land. And also interesting to see what happens to the value of land with river access. I suspect some rich folks, like the ones on oceanfronts everywhere, are going to build things squarely in the danger zone, regardless.
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Joc seems like he has always been a very streak-based performance guy. When he's hot he's on fire. We just need to see that version more often when he gets back. Proximity to Jerry Jones, maybe.
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