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Bill Lumbergh

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  1. I'm just going to assume you missed that VY is in the picture. It's ok, we all have oversights.
  2. When the iconic symbol for your town that you include in your "lit" graphic to hype up high school students is...a water tower. What could go wrong?
  3. I heard he walked on the grass (not the kind that got him arrested).
  4. That graphic will never not be funny. Captures aggy's empty hubris so perfectly. Blustering buffoons.
  5. With practice paused for now, are we allowed to carry spring ball later, or does it simply have to be shortened?
  6. Wonder how many subs will be cancelled from this tweet?
  7. If your job is recruiting football players to college station, do you feel better or worse about your chances if the recruits never set foot on campus or interact with the locals?
  8. Maybe since he gets injured like the ghost, he'll end up having healthy years like the ghost at some point?
  9. All this debate about whether cspd should be arresting for that amount of weed or not...take one look at his mugshot and tell me that guy wasn't going to be arrested from the time cspd encountered him, weed or not. That's why you don't spend your college years in CS, chef.
  10. Interesting topic. My wife and I both went to public schools and are both reasonably successful. I went to private for one year and hated it, went back to public. The private school I went to was relatively small, a lot of the kids there had been in the same building with the same kids since kindergarten. For me, it felt really strange. Didn't like anything about it. Because of that experience and both of us doing well coming out of public school, we intend to send our kids to public as well. We both also had parents highly engaged in our education, and are already engaged heavily in our kids at home. The desire to have them in public has impacted a lot of decisions we've made. We currently live in one of the best school districts in the state. If we didn't, we would move. We have thought over the past year about moving, and looked at several areas we would like to live but will not consider bc of the poor public schools. I'll also say, we would like to start our kids in public and work with them to try to make it work, but if there's a safety or academic progress concern that we can't address, I won't hesitate to send them to private. My job is to make sure they get a good education and that they're safe and developing socially at the same time. If those things are not all happening in public, we'll deal with it however is necessary. On the topic of the article, our thoughts on relocation highlight a lot of the problems with fixing public school systems. Where we live now is fairly affluent. High property taxes = good funding for schools = schools that are rated highly = desirable areas to live with high house values and high property taxes. The cycle feeds itself. On the other hand, if we moved to some of the areas we like that have poorly rated schools, we would send our kids to private, and not engage in trying to improve the public schools. I'm willing to bet that's how nearly all people with the means treat this situation, and as a result, the public schools don't improve. I have no idea how you fix that. You're not going to convince parents with means to send their kids to poor performing schools. That is also indefensible. Last thought on this, there is a very large, popular, and expensive private school in our city with the highly rated public school system. That part I do not understand at all. Property taxes are really high here mostly to fund the public schools. If you live here, you're paying those either way. Why live here and pay those taxes for the great public schools, but still send your kids to an expensive private? If we decide to go the private route at some point, there are a ton of areas where we'd be excited to live that would suddenly be an option. I don't understand moving to an area that's expensive largely due to the school system and then but taking advantage of not needing private school. But, it's not my $.
  11. I believe it would more accurately read "a former science teacher."
  12. The "Texas can't be counted out if they were to extend an offer" seems really weird. Are they preparing to claim victory in a head to head that could have happened if we had offered?
  13. If Reggie Real Deal McNeal can recruit half as well as he played, consider Thompson a lock to Clemson.
  14. It really is funny watching what's happened with other sec fanbases over the last few years. I'm sure when aggy joined, they took the feedback from Texas fans with a grain of salt. Every flagship state school thinks their little brother state school is backwards and weird, so I'm sure they assumed it was just rivalry talk. Even when they released their hilariously and unintentionally awful welcome video, I'm sure most fanbases just said "ok...that was weird." But prolonged exposure will always bring out the truth, and I think most of them now understand why we said no takebacks. The fact that so many years into this experiment, years where they've managed to beat the top teams in the west exactly once, they're now proclaiming that saban's reign is over is just so perfectly aggy I can't explain it. They really are a fun bunch of freaks to observe so long as it can be done safely, from a distance.
  15. Something has to distract the defense so that the tight end and rb get open.
  16. I love the fact that they're now relying on bama to win recruiting battles on their behalf, too. Is there nothing these idiots won't ride saban's coattails on? Don't answer, I already know. Also, rep x 1000 to texifornia for doing the lord's work in this thread. Glorious tears to behold.
  17. When I was on the urban hype train, the number 1 reason why was that our recruiting had imploded and it seemed critical to turn it around quickly. I was certain urban would, and my only real hesitation when sark was announced was whether he was a big enough name to do it. Then alabama absolutely schooled osu's defense, giving sark a nice sales pitch to offensive recruits. Then he hired this staff. I'm no longer concerned from a recruiting standpoint. Let's fucking go.
  18. I have confidence that Sark, who has put in an unimaginable amount of work to rebuild be his career and now has the keys to one of the best jobs in college football, and whose return to head coaching is going to be evaluated very closely based on how he starts this season, is not going to bench the qb who he believes gives him the best shot to win quickly because he's not from Texas. If Card starts, it will be because Sark thought he gave us the best chance to win. Likewise for Casey. Sark knows he needs to hold momentum and not lose it with a disappointing season. There's no time to waste on state politics. Just win.
  19. Yeah, if he's opposed to starting qb's who aren't from Texas, he's making same strange recruiting decisions right now.
  20. Isn't it obvious? When a recruit jimbo offered commits to aggy, it's because they were coveted. When a recruit jimbo offered commits somewhere else, it's clearly bc they were offered but not coveted. Jimbo might not land every prospect he offers, but he always lands the ones he covets. 60% of the time, it works every time.
  21. What do I do if I do not respect their decision despite being instructed to do so?
  22. It is that kind of tub and faucet, and this makes sense. Is it just coincidence this happened around the freeze? Bizarre, if so. I'm not going to try to open up the tub to see, so will just wait until a plumber can come. I assume there's no risk from this in terms of leaking/damage, it just won't provide hot water for now? Thanks guys, I did a ton of searching online but the problem is specific enough that you find a lot of other, not applicable problems when trying to find answers for this. This is the only thing I've seen that makes any sense for the symptoms observed.
  23. Yeah, the block would make sense for pressure, but I couldn't figure out how that would impact heat. Just tried it again this morning, shower and both sinks in the same bathroom have hot water, tub gets none. To make things more confusing, it is a separate h/c handle faucet. Seems more likely that something could get messed up on a single handle, but this is a separate handle. The cold handle produces much stronger pressure and very cold water. The hot handle produces 50% pressure and water that maybe is not as cold, but definitely not even warm. Single tankless heater for the entire house, so given I have hot water in every other place in the house, the heater is fine. Will call a plumber today. Again, not hopeful anyone will come out soon, but it's also not an urgent need unless there's some damage happening somewhere that we can't see. I've walked every room of the house looking for damage, though, and saw nothing.
  24. I think you're confused. Florida did not pay in a bowl game. Dan Mullen said so right after they got beat the fuck down. A team called florida, wearing florida uniforms, being coached by Dan Mullen and featuring many of Florida's players played in a bowl game, but Dan Mullen told me that Florida was a very good team and the team that played ou looked like warmed over dog shit, so it must not have been Florida.
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