Everything posted by utee94
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
I mean, I always have at least a week's worth of food on-hand and ready to go. And that's not even counting the deep cuts in the chest freezer I can pull out of storage if necessary. Who are these people that are so poor at planning they're terrified of 1.5 days of cold weather? Anyway, I hit HEB yesterday morning and the traffic was picking up but still manageable. The good news is that the Randall's is a lot closer to me than HEB and nobody ever shops there. I honestly have no idea how they stay in business but at least I can get in and out with any extra essentials, in about 4.5 minutes.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
Of course not. We're at the lake having our servants drive us around in our $300,000 wake boats. Anyway, back to surlyites who were begging for a cold front 2 weeks ago complaining about the cold front that is coming in 2 days.
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Soup, Stew, Chili, Gumbo (Cold weather eats)
Yup, exactly. I've made the "real" stuff and my kids just don't like it. They don't like most restaurant lasagna either. But making the cheap version with canned tomatoes, sauce, and cottage cheese-- BAM-- second helpings, plates practically licked clean.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Agree, Tech had a heck of a season and deserves the accolades. Staying near the top makes it easier to stay near the top, know what I mean? In hypothetical matchups I think Tech would beat the Ags.
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Soup, Stew, Chili, Gumbo (Cold weather eats)
Everybody getting primed for this weekend's 2.5 days of winter in central Texas? On the menu, I've got Texas red, Irish stew, and a 70s Betty Crocker-style lasagna (my mom's go-to recipe for my siblings and me growing up). We'll supplement with hot chocolate, s'mores, and plenty of bourbon. Whatcha got?
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms HBO Max
PM shaggybevo.com
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms HBO Max
I could have done without the poop scene as well, but otherwise it was a really enjoyable watch and I'm looking forward to more.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Those idiots worry about the dumbest shit.
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Formula 1 2026
Yup it's not bad. Clean.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
He's not wrong, he's just an asshole.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
Completely agree. I'm not sure what it would take to change that. Perhaps if the wild wild west continues and some of the more powerful schools decide that all of the NIL/portal unrestricted free agency is actually detrimental to them, they might change their tune. For the athletes though, they're sort of having their cake and eating it too. I don't know if there's any upside for them, to act as employees and engage in collective bargaining. It's a complete mess.- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
I understand what you're saying and I completely agree with this part. It's absolutely crazy. My point is, that it's not going away. The only thing that can fix it, would be all of the players willingly engaging in collective bargaining. And I just don't see that happening. Any move to limit it made by the schools or the conferences or the NCAA, without consent of the players, is going to fail in court. That is, if it's not actively legislated over by the state legislatures themselves. And sure, federal laws might be able to address it, but I don't have much confidence they'd stand in court either.- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
They are being paid for playing at the university. It's exactly the same as the "inappropriate NIL" that you protest agasint. If they weren't playing at the university they wouldn't be getting the money. You are dicing semantics for some reason of your own, but it's irrelevant, because it's still pay-for-play. And it's legally allowed. You can call it what you like but it's no different. And the only solution to all of it, would be collective bargaining that the players opt-in for. But I don't see much advantage to them doing so.- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
The $20M from House can be paid to any athletes, it's not football restricted. Why would it be laden with incentives? It's not structured the same as NFL contracts because it's not the NFL. Doesn't change the fact that it's direct pay to athletes, for playing at that university. It is pay for play. I'm not sure why you're trying to play semantics with it.- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
No, House settlement allows up to $20M direct pay revenue share. That's not NIL.- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
House settlement mandates that this is an untrue statement. Direct pay-for-play under the House settlement is legal, with its stated limitations. I understand your sentiment regarding NIL but realisitcally there is no governing body capable of making the distinctions between "true NIL" and NIL pay-for-play. Any bodies that attempt to do so are going to be challanged every time, and will almost certainly lose every time. Only collective bargaining could possibly solve that.- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
The rules prohibiting it for NCAA athletes were illegal, which is why they all got struck down.- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
Yeah I'm not saying it's wise or efficient to use NIL for pay for play, I'm just saying it's inevitable. Only collective bargaining could limit it. And I don't see why the players would choose to limit themselves in that manner, unless the "legitimate" salaries just became so high that NIL dollars became noise.- NIL Recruiting News Megathread
For sure. There are a handful of players doing what I'd consider to be actual "original intent" NIL deals, like Arch's association with Red Bull and Warby Parker. But for the most part, it's just become a way to funnel money for pay-for-play. Which is of course why it has been against the rules for all these years, everyone knew what it would become if allowed. -But the problem is, that it's illegal to restrict income in that way for one class of citizens (college athletes) and not for everyone else, and the courts are ruling so every single time it comes up. So it was inevitable that the rules would get struck down, and that NIL would be used as pay-for-play. But there's just no way a 3rd party like the NCAA or the CSC clearinghouse can legally restrict the incomes of private citizens. Those attempts at control are going to get legislated past by state govenments, and/or struck down in court, every time. The only solution I can see would be collective bargaining, willingly entered into by the participating athletes, that would set a salary cap for actual revshare as well as NIL. But I'm not sure why the players would sign something like that, and I think the schools/conferences/divisions are so fractured and disparate in college athletics that I'm not sure it could ever work logistically, anyway. College football is far less organized than the NFL or any other pro sports leage in the country.- Surly kids who can't get into UT
Yup, that's why it dropped from top 10%, to top 7%, to top 6%, to whatever it might be this year and going forward.- Surly kids who can't get into UT
We had Dr. Cogdell serving that purpose for EE upper division. He was warm and supportive with such statements as this one, uttered to my friend. "Son, you have a 2.5 GPA. This is where we like to urge you to quit and go away quietly." My friend did not, instead he powered through, and had a very successful career. That kid's name? Albert Einstein. But seriously, Cogdell did actually tell him that.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Honestly it's pretty embarrassing that the shitastic ag offense scored that many on us. That alone was probably grounds enough to fire PK.- Surly kids who can't get into UT
I considered the complete lack of handholding or really any oversight or help at all at UT, to be a feature, not a bug. Learning that I was nothing more than a social security number to the administration was invaluable in helping me navigate the post-graduation world where nobody gave a shit about looking out for me and I had to do everything on my own. One of my high school girlfriends had gone to Saint Stephen's for private high school, and then went to Princeton, and was hand-held the entire time. When she graduated she had no idea how to work for a company or operate in the real world.- Surly kids who can't get into UT
$90K for 4 years at an Ivy isnt bad at all! 🤣 - NIL Recruiting News Megathread
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