Everything posted by Chuckie Finster
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
I think not considering a player committed if they’re taking secret trips is a reasonable conclusion, given the definition of the word. But if you can build a relationship with a player where they let you know about trips before they happen, I think that’s about as good as you can hope for in this era of college football.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
If we don't get a bye, this is up there with the best case other scenarios.
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2025 NFL Draft
They might not be the highest rated prospects, but I have as much confidence in Barron and Helm as pros as I have had with almost any prospect we’ve produced in a while. Convinced they both will excel in the NFL.
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Trap. Or "Why does M. Knight Shyamalan keep getting allowed to make movies?"
There’s a decent Shyamalan premise in here somewhere. Either make Harnett the killer in a big twist at the end that nobody sees coming or make everything think he’s the killer and it end up being someone else. But to broadcast that Hartnett is the dude IN THE TRAILER and then… just… make that the movie is so dumb. And that doesn’t even take into account the countless inexplicable choices made by every single character. When I saw the decent RT score I figured there had to be a decent twist in there… oops.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
texags rumor that Quinn reinjured himself in practice yesterday and might be out Saturday. I’ve seen no confirmation that he even practiced yesterday so I’m sure it’s bullshit (also lol texags) but figured this thread needed a new direction beyond the same three posters arguing past each other.
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Wicked, the movie...
I hate that I know this, but Idina played Lea’s mom on Glee
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
And tomorrow comes the discomfort.
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2025 EDGE Lance Jackson
Of 2023.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I do enjoy the repeated fact that the team that won last year at night in Tuscaloosa, plays annually in the Cotton Bowl, and has playoff experience is incapable of handling a stadium full of maroon losers.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
If I was a collegiate football player, i would do everything in my power to keep my parents from posting on message boards. “LOOK AT MY SWEET SON DOING HIS FOOTBALL HOMEWORK” gotta be one of the most embarrassing things I’ve seen.
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Game week 13, 2024, Texas at aggy
The stupidity with narratives: If we win, aggy will fall out of the rankings and “Texas hasn’t beat a ranked team!” will still be alive and well. If we lose, “Texas lost to the only two ranked teams they played!” will surely be repeated by talking heads everywhere.
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Road to the SEC Championship
I applaud the amount of alcohol you must have ingested last night to still be drunk enough at 10am to imply that there’s a realistic scenario where the SEC only gets 1/12 playoff spots. Regardless of records, there is no universe where SEC gets less than 3 teams. Period.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
You can point to the lack of great wins, but we are the only SEC team without a bad loss. At some point, “taking care of business” has to matter.
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Non Texas Recruiting 2025: Look at the poors trying so hard
That 2027 game might be a fun one.
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Texas -- a failed state
My wife optimistically questioned if Katy ISD would embrace their diversity (my son's school is genuinely very diverse) and decline to opt into this. Then I showed her how every single Board member (seriously, every one) mentioned extensive Church volunteer experience. We're cooked.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
It's very weird to me that most of the sportswriters would seemingly have a much better opinion of our team if we beat Georgia but lost to, like, Mississippi State.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Took me a good month after he committed to realize that it wasn't some kid with the last name "Smith-Orogbo."
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
I've become convinced that the main purpose of JD Vance, at least in Trump's eyes, is assassination deterrence. "Do you really want THAT GUY in charge?" is a hell of an argument against someone taking out Donald. The fact that he picked JD two days after the Pennsylvania attempt only strengthens this case in my mind.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Jackson is now rated higher than either Anthony Hill or Colin Simmons, and I feel like it's flown completely under the radar.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Outside of Georgia, we've trailed twice this year. 0-3 to OU and 0-7 to Vanderbilt. Both times, we immediately went down and scored a TD on the next drive and never relinquished the lead. I understand we have not been perfect, but we have played 540 minutes against teams not named Georgia. For less than 8 of those minutes, the other team has been able to look up at the scoreboard and see a lead... and never in the second half. The complete collapse of the "good" teams on our schedule is forcing our fanbase to overanalyze a season that has genuinely been pretty remarkable.
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I Unplugged and You Should Too
Look I get it, but we do not have an uninformed electorate. We have an electorate actively hostile to being informed. Politics is a team sport now, hat and flag out front shoulda told ya. Yeah, it's this. The plane is headed into the mountain. You can continue to read your book or you can look out the window and scream. Maybe the pilot corrects the plane and everything is okay, maybe he doesn't, but either way you aren't getting in that cockpit to affect the outcome in any way.
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I Unplugged and You Should Too
When I woke up last Wednesday, I felt a lot of emotions. Anger that we put him back in charge. Sadness, obviously. A little bit of fear about what was to come. Confusion as to how my perception of what was going to happen in the election was so wrong. But soon, all of those took a backseat to an unexpected one: acceptance. Acceptance that my current view of the country differs from the majority. Acceptance that no matter how strongly I feel about something or how "informed" I think I am, it has no impact on the outcome. Acceptance that vibes matter more than concrete ideas in an election. Acceptance that people decide who they are voting for and THEN rationalize that choice, not vice versa. I decided that morning to delete my Facebook and Twitter accounts and have not returned. I have purposefully avoided any news sites. I used to trick myself into believing that I was just staying informed, but if I was so informed then how the hell did I not see Tuesday night coming? I thought I had done a good job of curating my feed to generally unbiased outlets, but nobody still on Twitter is unbiased in any way. So I decided to get my life back - and you would not believe how much better everything has gotten. No doom scrolling. No "somebody should do something!!!" pleas from the very people capable of doing something. I periodically check in here to get updates (quite the Cabinet being developed!) because I can't go full cold turkey, but that's really it. And you know what I've realized? We are not meant to know all of this. No regular citizen should know the name of the White House Press Secretary. None of us should care about some new Government office being developed by the stupidest billionaire to ever exist. Nobody outside of congress needs to have any insight to the election process of the Senate majority leader. And the bigger realization: this is how most of America already lives. Nobody normal knows who fucking Matt Gaetz is. Hell, most of them don't know what an Attorney General even does. So what is to be gained by endlessly scrolling news about that appointment? He might one day enact policies that negatively impact our lives, but until then there is absolutely. fucking. nothing that we can do - so stop caring. No matter how many facts you gather on how this is a bad thing, 1) anyone who can do something about it will not listen to you and 2) anyone who will listen is not capable of enacting change. Treat politics like hurricane coverage: do your best to protect your family from the one headed directly your way, but don't let every possible tropical disturbance dominate your life. Yes our lives will likely be impacted by the choices these stupid people ultimately make, but unless you are actively planning to run for office, there's no point to worrying about any of this. Enjoy your life, keep your shit together, and hold out hope that he fucks things up enough for the unplugged folks to feel the vibes of necessary change. But until then it's time to focus on the things that really matter, like beating the fuck out of Arkansas tomorrow.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
It is funny how this argument just absolutely breaks the brains of anyone who tries to relay the stereotypical weak schedule talking points. "They plan in a weak conference!!!" - cannot be said about a team that just voluntarily moved from the Big 12 to the SEC "They didn't schedule anyone OOC!!!" - cannot be said about a team that scheduled an away game at the defending champs (and a team that has made 3 of the last 4 playoffs) Yes, we have had an easy schedule. But any complaints beyond "damn, they got lucky" are just people whining about things they cannot control.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Feel fairly confident that in any random sample of Americans, 8/10 couldn't tell you what the Attorney General does and I guarantee you that 9/10 have no idea who Matt Gaetz is. There's no payoff to paying this much attention to this stuff. None of it matters, we can't change it, we all need to log off and just hope there's a nationwide "vibe" necessitating change in 2026/2028.