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Magus Ossis

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  1. In all fairness, the notion that the best way in the year 2026 to share the exact same information with a group of 5 or 20 or 200 adults is to assemble them in person and transmit it by word of mouth is a bit silly. There are times when in-class participation is important enough and sufficiently complicated by remote meeting techniques that in-person sessions are warranted, but much of undergraduate education as implemented is hopelessly obsolete and/or worthless.
  2. I guess it is lucky that the average SAT score of the latest class at Texas was 100 points higher than at A&M. All those stupid people that almost got into UT probably only like Texas because they don't know how many games Texas would have lost to aggy had we played them on different days, not on the ones when we got lucky and won.
  3. NCAA should change its participation cap to one more objectively measurable. No redshirts, no injury waivers. As soon as you take the field in a sport, you have used 100/X percent of one season of eligibility. X is the number of games your team ultimately plays that year. When your total participation in any one sport hits 400%, you are allowed to finish the season, but you are done with all college sports. Forget age and NFL experience. College is 4 years worth of play, period. Nothing Is perfect, but there would be much less gray area and risk of subjectivity in eligibility decision making.
  4. The dead are easier to hurdle than are the living, but they almost never false-start.
  5. 5 (+1 based on injury) to play 4 is a clear rule, but NCAA is vulnerable IMO to a line of attack on being arbitrary and capricious if they deny our request. They have made exceptions for various physical injuries and for COVID, so in what way is, e.g., a mental health issue not equally meritorious of a waiver? Hopefully the relative cost for us to litigate is obviously small enough compared to for them that they see the light and just give us the green arrow. I am excited we are doing something to cover guard, even if it is signing a WKU guy who is out of eligibility. Imagine the effect of this sense of purpose and urgency applied not just after failure but earlier as well. Also-- please keep at it, Flood et al. One more promising IOL possibility would be great for injury insurance if nothing else.
  6. I hope the premise is faulty. If our program is so terribly managed that we literally don't have the resources to talk to agents for more than a handful of portal prospects in a year, we need to clean house now. And same for funds-- if we didn't have enough dry powder set aside and dedicated to getting ourselves OL upgrades and backups, considering all the other places money goes every year, it is criminal mismanagement. I am much less worried if (as I hope and currently assess) this merely represents incompetence at the level of our OL portal management rather than total systemic failure.
  7. I generally (a) choose optimism-- if the future will be bad, I might as well enjoy false notions of it until they are dispelled rather than adding present suffering unnecessarily to future misery and (b) extend the benefit of the doubt to our coaching staff-- I don't have access to information other than what is public. I remain optimistic about our prospects in 2026. Barring significant new information, I think it will be in SPITE of our OL coach and OC (HC, at least as far as regards the OL). To a football layman such as myself, our struggles on the line were obvious and painful. The platitudes and absence of aggressive responses were nauseating. The continued absence of public acknowledgement of that weakness and of evidence of well-directed and well-managed urgency in addressing it are alarming. Flood seems to have shown some acumen in developing tackles, but Texas should not be waiting beside UNLV for random portal crumbs to ensure next year's OL starters/ key backups. Good stinking night! I have, btw, had the chance to assess the quality of instruction and value of degrees from a number of institutions. With the usual statistical caveats about populations and exceptions, Texas teaches. Texas degrees have meaning.
  8. This is truly a worthy paean to the clarity flowing from diction, structure, and punctuation. I praise you, and I thank you.
  9. If you are (trying to be?) a big enough boy to be paid 6 or maybe 7 figures in the grown up world, you had better take responsibility for the commitments you forsake in pursuit of riches. I will cry few tears for guys who leave their teams because they chose to align themselves with slimy agents rather than to communicate and to work with their teams.
  10. Haha I'm a misquoter. A magnum opus is someone's great work. A magus ossis is a correction of the grammatically incorrect Latin pun "wizard"-magus (of) os, meaning wizard of (the) bone.
  11. Not sure if serious. "Whom" is correct for objective case interrogatives and relatives. EDIT and of course "whom" is in EH's famous usage.
  12. Also, feel free to play around with the multi-quote function. Cheers!
  13. Which way do you think the money flows between The University of Texas at Austin and its Athletic Department?
  14. ND has zero 2025 wins over teams ranked top 15 as of the most recent polls. While it is true that there is not an absolute absence of evidence that ND could hang with a team in the top 12, there certainly is some evidence that ND would (as they already have) lose 100% of such games. Texas, by way of contrast, went 3-2 against teams in the most recent top 15. Crying on the Texas interwebs about ND's unfair exclusion is one way to demonstrate intellectual affinity to the team that sent ND plummeting to its barely-but-OMG-still-ranked 0-2 start. The chutzpah-laden suggestion that a team that started the season 0-2 is being unfairly excluded from the chance to prove that it is the best in the land does make me smile, I must admit. BTW, that A&M team that beat you in South Bend has no other wins against currently ranked teams. Both Texas and ND were left out, and neither of us can objectively say we deserve to have gone-- the best we could do (were such a worthwhile endeavor) is retroactively mine the data for criteria that support us over other teams with similar or better records.
  15. Sir, they did NOT lose to tee-yew; the Fightin' Texas Aggies merely ran out of time. Fortunately for the sake of the amusement of the tea-sips, the ags never "run out of stupid."
  16. He Bru through several programs in rapid succession.
  17. OK, so two Surlyites walk into a Bah... Sorry, but the Bah was already set pretty low.
  18. Yes, but there is a substantial degeneration gap.
  19. Burn pain is bad. Worse than the average person can imagine. Pretty much every person with burns like this also immediately has PTSD. The early surgeries are typically to undo the tourniquet effect of rings of char on limbs and to scrape off dead material. Later come (maybe transfers of muscle first and then) skin grafts. Later may be trying to "unclaw" joints scarred bent and graft again to fill the gap made by straightening them. The fact that Ship could make a Hook'em with his right hand and that there appears to be some healthy skin inside that glove is definitely a positive.
  20. ND was still ranked after starting the season 0-2. The two teams that beat ND have proven to stink. ND fan thinks beating their slate of patsies + a 3rd quarter comeback against mediocre USC is a resume that warrants putting them in a tournament to select the national champion? No, I think we are being trolled. He isn't that daft.
  21. Did you forget the same one that used political blackmail to ride our coattails into the B12?
  22. Us 11/4 and 11/11 2000. Some guys handle the tag team match solo.
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