Everything posted by 927 E. 41st
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
So damned incredible to lose to Kansas. I was glad it meant we would be rid of Charlie, but damn. I thought Mackovick was a tool, but he at least fielded some teams.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Oh no, I want them to fight over this for the next 20 years and even then I don't care who wins!
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
Turns out to be true, but I remember some guy being loudly accused of being a racist for saying something similar back when he was hired here.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
I agree, and I'm disappointed that more folks don't understand that this is a moving target. I have to be very flexible with my decisions at work or a lot of people could get hurt or die. I really don't have time to sulk over "that's not what I was told before" when the situation is changing, sometimes by the second. But it's easy for me to forget most people don't do things like that at all, much less on a daily basis.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Daughter had a suggestion for the aggys, one that we may use it for the joint graduation party at our house (with her friend that its going to A&M). We will likely have an inflatable "Sully" in our back yard decorations. It will just be Sully from Monsters Inc.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
You say you are a liberal, and I am conservative. yet, there are areas where you are my brother!
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
So Charlie was cheating and his team still looked like that? Wow.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
I believe that is "Battered Aggy Syndrome". Maybe "Beaten"?
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
My daughter's best friend chose A&M. Complicated story, but I can see some of why she made that call. It has less to do with A&M than with her situation. So, while we do the online orientation for UT (6 weeks of videos on the parent side!). Daughters friend is getting e-mails telling her that they will still have "fish camp" but that they are looking into moving it to campus. WTF? We can't possibly have a new group of freshmen come in without putting them through (reeducation) camp? They are willing to take the risk of making a bunch of kids sick (I can see a sovereign immunity claim on the horizon), or even spreading it to the whole university/ local community for the sake of indoctrination. This girls mom has a serious underlying health issue, yet the kids are led to believe that this is not optional. Just when I think I'm jaded to them and they can't surprise me, there they go again.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
Yep, a mandatory 3 man front should keep anyone from exposing the QB's.
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Tell me about TCU
Careful, you may be talking about our next head football coach.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
I have become less optimistic as the weeks have gone by. About 2 months ago I was hoping this stuff would mutate out to a lesser form by now. Or at the least we would start to see a few positive signs in the data. Some of the data I've seen looks like a second wave that will be worse in some ways than the first, and now China is doing more lockdowns. I don't want to get it, but I also don't want to give this to anyone. Especially someone who could get really sick or die. All because of a football game? Nope, not feeling it. I've missed about 12 home games since 1970, but it's not worth that.
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Tell me about TCU
My source said they were saying they had 30%+ budget shortfall. I'm a little surprised, they were on my daughters final three so I went along to an on campus honor college get together just a few months ago. They specifically mentioned how they had such a strong endowment, something big changed.
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Tell me about TCU
Yeah, it's 11.5 down to 8 plus some other cuts. I found this after some digging. Chancellor Victor Boschini last week announced a reduction in the percentage the university contributes to employee retirement accounts, from the current 11.5 percent to 8 percent. The reduction starts in June. The university also recently said it is reducing its contribution to health insurance for retirees. Previously, retirees received $225 per month toward purchasing health insurance. Starting in January, employees 45 or older will continue to be eligible for that benefit, but younger employees will not. Instead, they may only contribute to a defined contribution model for retiree health benefits. “This news is difficult to deliver, but this reduction will result in significant cost savings to our overall budget and will allow TCU to still maintain competitive employee benefits for current and future employees,” Boschini said in his email to employees. “We know that some universities are wholly suspending, offering significantly lower contributions, or requiring an employee match for retirement account contributions during this time.” Texas Christian earlier announced a set of voluntary coaching and executive salary reductions, hiring freezes, and a planned 20 percent reduction in the coming fiscal year’s operating budget.
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Tell me about TCU
A distant associate of mine that does some associate prof work at TCU is telling me they just cut everyones retirement contributions by 50%. According to him, It is temporary for the Administration, permanent for the faculty and staff.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
It's starting to look like the Paramount theatre will have to be torn down.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Well, true. I would have laughed harder if they had graffitied the dog. (hair dye only of course, the poor dog has no choice in the shit show)
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Juwan Mitchell
I hope you don't think I like what I'm seeing.
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Juwan Mitchell
Well, you're right about that. But don't doubt that Miles will have them ready.
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Juwan Mitchell
Well, yeah but this year they will make it official. I hear no "noise" about them. Les has them studying, training, getting ready. His team feels lucky to be there. (at freaking Kansas!) We have a "Herman culture" where players are apparently punching coaches and going to meetings over building names and songs. I just accept that (right or wrong) Football has become job "none" under Tom Herman.
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Juwan Mitchell
Compared to the last 10 years or so? We better hope that Covid -19 is the 2020 National Champion, with this lack of focus we will get our asses kicked. Yes, we will lose to Kansas again.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
It's an interesting position to be in, isn't it? There you are walking around A&M and basically trying to not laugh at things like "dead dog plaza" or the drama in the guides voice when she says things like "THIS is where the Corps assembles and THIS is where you will get your Aggy ring". I did fail one time. Not loud enough for anyone other than my daughter to hear. When the guide said "and WE have the second highest ranked Petroleum Engineering program in the whole WORLD!", I leaned over to my daughter and said "gee,I wonder who is number one?" When she laughed, a few on the tour turned around, but nobody asked why. She put more weight on campus beauty than I would have, but it was commented on with every University. She thought A&M was ugly, and asked why they have a water tower as a center piece. Speaking of the water tower, we refilled our water bottles at the student center (yes I complied with their wishes and took my cap off). I'm assuming they teach a class in water treatment and let some students have at it. It was WAY over chlorinated (knock a buzzard off a gut wagon). None of it escaped my daughters notice. But probably the best thing from my perspective, is the "street cred" I gained after the tour guide basically verified everything I told her the night before. As we waled back to the hotel, we passed near one of the signs that says "Please don't walk on the grass around the student center" She wanted a picture of her next to the sign, stepping on the grass". Yep, she's my daughter.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Speaking of tools, nothing like a tool with a spray paint can to raise the level of discourse. Vandelism isn't going to help anything.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Okay, the guy seems like a tool. But what's wrong with that?
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
Well, safety and cleanliness have always been hallmarks of the State Fair... right?