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  1. [Hidden Content] I suspect this isn't the only legal loss in the cards for UT over the months ahead.
  2. If Memorial ever plays Cedar Park, I will find a way to be in the stands rooting for Memorial. I would love nothing more than to see a Golden Triangle team take them to the woodshed.
  3. Actually, I got it from a Democrat consultant I took a class under at UT.
  4. "The Butch Bowl" has too nice a ring to it to totally disappear. Unity seems to be the new theme in BISD. It would be nice if they could come up with someone fondly remembered in Beaumont - on both sides - to name it after. "Memorial Stadium" is too easily confused with PAISD's stadium.
  5. Man, I don't know what kind of sauce is it is they use on their fajitas adovado, but I've been hard pressed to find anything as good anywhere else. Also haven't found a flameado as good as theirs anywhere else.
  6. Well, it's good to see the Dove is still trolling like a pro. No matter how much you hope, some things never change. Just remember, Dove: all the data shows that once Hispanics start making $55,000 a year, they start voting Republican.
  7. It doesn't look like you're watching any games in Port Arthur, but if you ever do, the Tequila's on Gulfway (not the one on US 69) would top out my list of recommendations.
  8. Two words: processed foods. Also, at least among adults, it probably has something to do with how much more complacent our lifestyles are these days. Testosterone levels are boosted by physical activity. In a society where men are confined more and more to office jobs when they used to be out in the fields with the crops, or in the shipyards and factories, or working on the railroads, or digging trenches on the front lines, there isn't quite as much physical activity going on.
  9. “Two wrongs DO make a right, as long as the second wrong was done by the first party wronged.” - BearEssentials97, probably.
  10. Ah, yes. The "history of oppression" argument. Because Lord knows that when you're mad about somebody else doing something that isn't right, it's a justification for you to do the exact same thing, yourself.
  11. I have no objections to mandatory military service, and I see no reason to relegate it to one year as opposed to the ordinary four. Germany does it and with our return to great power competition against a reemerging Russia and an emerging China, there's an argument to be made that it's in the best interest of national security. It would cost a lot though, and I can't imagine DOD keeping the GI bill in that situation. And generally, you're absolutely right. The veterans returning from military service are older and wiser than the high school graduates. They're not as susceptible to social pressure and typically more skeptical of the professor babble.
  12. It's not clear to me what their goal is. And I should be, though I may drop out from time to time as work picks up.
  13. We beat Nederland 41-21 in 2016, Larry Neumann's last season.
  14. I remember how they kept shaking those things to try and drown out Cherokee, but every time the band played it, they were shaking the ball bearings in beat to Cherokee by the end of the song. It made for a neat effect.
  15. I've grown up watching the Indians play. I've watched the Indians take the field in the Astrodome, the Alamodome, Reliant Stadium and beyond. Over the last twenty years, I've seen Indian squads with much less talent than this one play tougher district schedules and still find a way to claim a share of the district championship. I've also watched an arguably tougher Barbers Hill program lose to a lesser PN-G program five times in four years. Nobody in this district should be overlooked, including Barbers Hill. Crosby is stout, no doubt. And we always have to play a lights out game against Nederland, even if they're 0-9 going into Mid-County Madness and we're 9-0. But I know my Indians, and I know when the rest of district should and shouldn't be wary of them. As I said in my last post, the top three are the top three.
  16. 1. PN-G 2. Crosby 3. Nederland 4. Barbers Hill 5. Vidor 6. Dayton 7. Santa Fe 8. Baytown Lee Your top three and your bottom two are all but certain, though the line-up could change among them. The real fight will be for the last of the playoff spots, which I could honestly see going to Barbers Hill, Vidor or Dayton. Top to bottom, this is the toughest district in 5ADII. There will be two teams sitting at home at the end of the regular season that will easily be better than teams that made the playoffs from other districts.
  17. The site is having a problem with Japanese spammers getting through our registration process and posting dozens of threads at a time. We're cleaning them up as fast as we can.
  18. I see the burnt orange god complex is alive and well.
  19. I may be a little jaded after seven years of living in two different major university environments, but I am of the opinion that college campuses are bubbles. The nature of a college campus demands that it be dominated by the views of 18-22 year old kids with little to no real world experience, many of whom have never had to hold a real job or actually support anyone other than themselves on anything but the cash their parents hand them. Most of them come from similar, upper middle class, suburban backgrounds, most of them have never had to worry about having a place to stay or food on the table, and most of them have never had to deal with a real crisis on their own because they've always had their parents or somebody else around to handle those for them. For the vast majority of them, this is their first experience living away from home. When they're confronted with a real conflict for the first time, their first inclination is to look around for someone else to handle it like their parents would - hence why you see so many college students demanding that college administrations overreact to issues most would consider relatively benign or inconsequential. Most of them are also looking to establish an identity of their own apart from their family or their parents - it's sort of the ultimate culmination of teenage rebellion - and attempts to do so can reach levels the average Joe considers eccentric, absurd or obscene, because the normal adult authorities that are present in every other facet of our society aren't around to keep that in check. As you might expect in an environment dominated by adolescents, these spheres in our society are probably the most susceptible to being overtaken by the latest fads and trends in everything from fashion to politics; social status is just as much a factor on these campuses as it was in high school, if not moreso. And when these kids hear or see something new and thought provoking from a professor or another student, they don't have the real world experience necessary to really critically analyze what they're hearing, accept the premise of whatever's been proposed more easily just because it sounds facially reasonable, and take some pride in the fact their individualism is being reinforced by the unpopular viewpoints they now hold. So, when more and more students adopt what the real world would deem a crackpot theory or stupid idea or illogical opinion out of hand, and more and more students are hearing more and more of their peers repeat these crackpot theories, you get, in essence, unfettered groupthink, completely untempered by any of the normal dynamics present in ordinary life that would keep it in check and reinforced by a sense of superiority stemming from the belief that they are the "higher educated." One might call it "elitism," and I would agree from my own experience that many university employees out there arrogantly assume that their own views are morally and intellectually superior to those held by the "less educated," but I prefer to think of it as the natural side effect of being far too sheltered for far too long. The more time people spend in those bubbles, the more removed they become from the real world. Your typical four years for your average college student are bad enough, but the lion's share of those students graduate and get jobs in the real world; by the time they're 30, most of those kids have, to some degree, been brought back down to reality. But living in the bubble never stops for your career academics - they're there every weekday for decades on end. Some of them will only leave that environment in a pine box. It doesn't take long for those folks to lose all their sense of reality, and after years of exposure, it becomes almost impossible to get that back. That's how you get academics who are outraged that Donald Trump would get caught on tape saying something you'd probably hear in every middle school boys' locker room in America. It's how you get academic officials who demand that persons of one anatomical sex be admitted to the bathroom reserved for the other anatomical sex, never bothering to consider, much less recognize, how that right of access can and likely will be abused by immature teenage boys or bad people with ulterior motives on the side of town that college professors never go into. Generally speaking, it's why employees of universities across the country totally overreact to what 80% of Americans experience on a daily basis and consider completely normal, and make crazy statements with little factual basis which the rest of society finds, at the very least, counter-intuitive. Some universities are worse than others. UT is far, far worse than Alabama would ever dream of being and is likely worse than I'd imagine A&M to be. I'd argue that schools which are more liberal arts-oriented are generally worse than schools which focus more on business, science, engineering, history or law. Trade schools hardly suffer from this problem at all. But it's out there, and as social media becomes more of a mouthpiece for people in our society, you can expect to see a whole lot more Twitter rants and YouTube videos of people doing and saying things on college campuses they'd be immediately dismissed or ridiculed for anywhere else on the planet.
  20. As an Alabama fan, the SEC West team I’m most concerned about from the 2019 season forward is Texas A&M.
  21. Ohio State is the least of UT’s Title IX concerns right now.
  22. Then if Urban knew and they can prove it, he’s done.
  23. Was Smith's wife also employed by Ohio State? Or Florida, when they were in Gainesville? I keep hearing different answers and that may be the deciding factor in whether Meyer had an actual responsibility to report anything or take any action at all.
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