MarkInAustin

So what?

Saina piques my curiosity. I have never seen him play. Have any of you?

The Bowl game is an exhibition that allows for multiple weeks of practice for the returning players, some of whom have not played significant minutes. It does not matter if Texas wins, although we would prefer that outcome. It only matters that returning offensive linemen who haven't played get to work out together for two or three weeks. Win or lose, seeing the "new": interior linemen, say Kibble, Cruz, and Brooks, working smartly together as a unit would be worth it to our team. Seeing them screw up again and again would be a lesson, as well. We get to watch and learn.

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I would not underestimate Vandy in the true NIL marketplace. Nashville is a city with opportunities for media and corporate publicity and appearances, and the school has very wealthy alumni. Down the road: when collective bargaining comes, if state employees are prohibited, then Vandy and Stanford and Northwestern and Notre Dame and USC and SMU and even Rice will actually have an advantage. That is the kind of political mess that could lead to permitting state employees to collectively bargain across the board!

The agent on a contingency should take no part of the initial offer by the college, but only a percentage of his negotiated improvement of the offer.

Dude's chicks finally grow up despite Dude's attempts to plant them. Some of then get sick and he fears they have Newcastle, which could wipe out his flock. So after strangling one he sends the hen off to the A&M lab for diagnosis. The lab reports back: this chicken died from a broken neck.

Why do they have astroturf at Kyle Field? To keep the cheerleaders from grazing.

Two Aggies had bagged a deer and were dragging it by the rear legs back to the truck. But the antlers kept getting stuck in the mud. One says to the other, "This is tough but we only got about 1 mile left to reach the truck." A third hunter saw their dilemma and told them, "If you drag the deer the other way, the antlers won't stick in the mud." So the Aggies give it try and it works! The first Aggie says, "That hunter was right! This way is a lot easier." The second Aggie says, "Sure was, but now we're two miles from the truck."

Dude graduates from Texas A&M school of Agriculture, goes into a farm supply store and orders two hundred chicks, explaining to the owner that he wants to start a chicken farm. Two weeks later, he returns to the store and buys another two hundred chicks. The owner is curious, but doesn't say anything. The same thing happens when the Aggie returns in another two weeks for another two hundred chicks. When he returns for the fourth time, the owner's curiosity is too much for him, so he asks the Aggie why he keeps coming back for so many chicks. The Aggie says, "Well, I guess I must be doing something wrong, but I don't know what. I think I'm either planting them too deep or too close together." Bemused by his lack of success, the Aggie sends off a report of what he has done to Texas A&M, asking for advice. Three weeks later, the reply comes back, saying simply, "Please send soil sample."

basketball?

We need a thread for the Rider game tonight.

The personnel being the return of Taaffe and Jelani, and the potential upgrade over Guilbeau?

But he’s alive and healthy and doing well. And that’s what matters. Amen.

Found an OL with Hutson at LG and Robertson at C.

From the highlights, he didn't take many treys. He worked in the paint and inside. That is what he should do. I don't know if he will continue to resist putting up 10 shots from out, but if he does, count that as growth, whether it was his sole decision or whether the coaches or his time with Olajuwon influenced him. The highlights also showed Castle to advantage. They have something going together.

UF and UT are very comparable academically. Not really. US News' rankings are not simple ACADEMIC rankings and neither is Niche's. Academically UT has more top thirty programs than anyone but Berkeley or Michigan - more than even UCLA and Virginia and Wiscy. Texas has the 14th strongest faculty in America, and that includes the Ivies and the national elite private schools. Florida is not even close. US News does do straight academic ratings it calls peer rating, business rating, and engineering rating, on a 5 point scale. Texas rates above 4 in all three, Florida in none. And as for McCombs and Cockrell? From USNews: McCombs Undergraduate Program Rankings #6 Overall #2 Accounting U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #2 Entrepreneurship Princeton Review/Entrepreneur Magazine 11/ 24 #3 Marketing U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #5 Finance U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #6 Management U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #6 Entrepreneurship U.S. News & World Report 09/ 24 #6 Business Analytics U.S. News & World Report 09/ 24 #6 Insurance U.S. News & World Report 09/ 24 #7 Management Information Systems U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #7 Production / Operations Management U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #8 Real Estate U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #9 Quantitative Analysis U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #10 Supply Chain Management / Logistics U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 #15 International Business U.S. News & World Report 09/ 25 Cockrell Undergraduate Program Rankings #11 Overall #2 Petroleum Engineering #5 Chemical Engineering #5 Civil Engineering #6 Environmental Engineering #8 Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering #8 Computer Engineering #9 Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering #10 Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering #11 Mechanical Engineering U.S. News & World Report 2025-2026 Undergraduate School Rankings More than 300 accredited engineering schools exist nationwide. Florida isn't close. I have twin granddaughters hoping to get into the B School and the Engineering School, respectively. They are great students, but being accepted at UT does not equate to being accepted to McCombs or Cockrell.

And collective bargaining, which was always the ultimate position for the athletes, must follow closely. Aside from a time eligibility rule it can remain professional yet college sports if the athletes are required to attend and pass classes. It only becomes a joke if like at UNC Chapel Hill not so long ago classes were completely optional. We have been there before. Paying guys who are actually matriculating is OK in my eyes. They are still student athletes.

Against OU last week and Michigan last season Texas committed to short, quick, easy passes and outside zone runs. That worked well. Other stuff eventually opened up. We saw none of that tonight. Why?

I have been ever since I started watching this game.

Pavia stops short of end zone on his back breaking final run so that he can run the clock out on four victory snaps. Awareness.

Vandy's gamble of stacking 8 on the line of scrimmage worked better earlier. Now when there is a hole there are no backers and LSU's superior speed shows. The stacked front pressured Nussmeier but they may not have as much energy now.

He is aware of everything around him, throws accurately short on the move, evades tackles, runs like a RB and never slides, never gets hurt...nearly perfect college QB who will never start an NFL game. Maybe CFL, the way he runs.

I remain a Diego Pavia believer. It's not his talent, it's his leadership and confidence. Vandy will be tough for us. They are killing it on defense.

My SEC+ telecast is a few seconds behind your score keeping. Where are you watching? In Greg?