The Texas fans appear to have forgotten how badly they wanted to hear the words "If we win out, we control our destiny and have a good (or at least decent) shot at achieving goals this season". The seeds of unreasonable Longhorn entitlement seemed to have sprouted and bloomed handsomely this season.

I am loving this season. I am hoping we win a NC. I think we have a shot at it. I know it is not a lock. But I greatly prefer this ride than what we had for almost the entire last 15 years. About 95% of the college football fans would love to put up with the 'problems' the Horns are now facing.

When I was a young tax attorney, I learned from a wise law partner that "Pigs get fat and Hogs get slaughtered." I like being a pig...how about you?

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***DISCLAIMER***
This is not a projection of what the CFP rankings will be as of this week … this is a projection of what the CFP will look like at the end of the season.
***END OF DISCLAIMER***

We’re getting closer and closer to nut-cutting time for the college football playoff.

The elimination process has already begun and the field will continue to narrow down over the last two weeks of the regular season.

Tennessee rolled into Athens, Georgia and left with an L. Who’s the real UT now? Based on likelihood to make the playoffs, it would have to be Texas because Tennessee just got castrated.

The Vols loss drops them down in the rankings and they don’t have a marquee game left on the schedule to prop themselves up again (they play UTEP this week). Plus, I’m not entirely convinced they beat Vanderbilt next week. Losing to Vandy would be a triple blow. It would eliminate them from the SEC Championship game contention, the playoffs contention and it would also bolster Texas’s résumé.

What about you Indiana? Can you avoid a similar fate in Columbus, Ohio this weekend? I’ve maintained all along that a one loss Big Ten team will make the playoffs, but that theory goes out the window if the Hoosiers get boat raced by the Buckeyes. If that were to happen, the CFP committee could easily look at IU’s schedule and decide to put a two loss SEC team in over the Hoosiers (which could be the breath of life needed for Tennessee).

The same thing goes for BYU and Colorado this week. The Cougars stubbed their toe last week and now they face an Arizona State team which has very quietly put itself in position to make the Big 12 Championship Game.

Side note – ASU winning the Big 12 would be a disaster for the conference because the Sun Devils are likely to be ranked so low that if they do win, the conference may be shut out of the CFP completely. The automatic spot for the conference champions could then be filled by:

SEC winner (Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Tennessee)
Big Ten winner (Ohio State, Oregon)
ACC winner (Miami, SMU, Clemson)
Mountain West winner (Boise State)
AAC winner (Army, Tulane)

That's five conference champs who would be ranked ahead of the Big 12 winner (if it ends up being Arizona State) and Brett Yormark's head would explode.

Side note rant over, back to the Big 12.

Colorado has to avoid an upset against Kansas. Kansas has, for much of the season, played like the Jayhawks of old. But they have turned a corner late in the season and strung together back-to-back victories against Iowa State and BYU. If they pull off a third upset in a row, that would knock Colorado out of the Big 12 title game and end its playoff chances.

For all of the talk about Texas’s lack of a marquee win, Penn State has just as bad a résumé as UT, if not worse. Penn State plays Minnesota this week and they should beat them, but we see games every week where a team that should win doesn’t. If Penn State doesn’t handle its business, it would be almost impossible for the Nittany Lions to make the CFP field over a two-loss SEC team.

Finally, we have Notre Dame who already has a glaring loss this season (losing at home to Northern Illinois) taking on Army at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. A loss to Army (or USC next week) may be more crushing to the Irish than the potato famine. It certainly would end their hopes of making the playoffs.

So with all of that to look forward to over the next two weeks, here are this week’s CFP projections.



1) OHIO STATE

I have kept Ohio State as the projected winner of the Big Ten and they have shown me no reason to knock them down. A rematch with Oregon in the Big Ten title game remains the most likely scenario and despite the Buckeyes loss to the Ducks in Eugene, I still think Ohio State is the better team.

2) TEXAS

The Horns feel as likely to win the SEC as anybody else. If I had to guess, I would guess that we’ll see Texas vs. Alabama in the SEC Championship game. Winning the league in its first year would make this season a resounding success no matter what then happens in the playoffs. Beating Bama would also shut the traps of all of the pundits who are saying Texas hasn’t beaten anyone.

3) BOISE STATE

I admit I’m out on a limb here and it could easily come back to bite me in the arse. But in this scenario, I have SMU winning the ACC and Colorado winning the Big 12 and I think both of them would be ranked lower than Boise State whose only loss was a road trip game against Oregon in week two.

4) SMU

My gambling ways continue with this pick. SMU doesn’t look like a world beater to me. Certainly I don’t believe the Mustangs are one of the four best teams in America. But I’ve got them beating Miami in the ACC Championship Game and that would give them the automatic CFP berth and a round one bye. The Ponies are already ranked ahead of Colorado (who I have projected to win the Big 12) and given that a win over Miami would carry more caché than a Colorado win over BYU or Arizona State, I’m going to keep SMU ranked higher in these end of season projections. In fact, I think it’s more likely that SMU would be ranked above Boise State in this scenario than them being ranked below Colorado.

OREGON VS. COLORADO

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It’s a rematch of the “clicks versus wins” game from last year.

If, as I believe, Oregon loses the Big Ten title, they will still end up being the highest ranked non-conference champion and will host a game in week one.

Colorado gets the 12 seed as the lowest ranked conference champ and has to travel to Eugene.

I’m now projecting Colorado to win the Big 12 for one very simple reason. They have the best quarterback and the best players of any team in the Big 12. Up until now, BYU has gotten by on moxie and a little luck. That luck ran out during a quick kick in the game against Kansas last week.

PENN STATE VS. INDIANA



Which Big Ten team is the third best and which is the fourth best? We’ll find out in this matchup.

I just can’t look at Penn State and see a team that I think is one of the best in the country. But it doesn’t matter what I think, the CFP committee seems to like them. Considering the Nittany Lions aren’t likely to lose again, they will end up being 11-1 and will be rewarded with a home playoff game.

Again, as long as Indiana doesn’t get embarrassed this week, I think they are in. I have them as the lowest ranked non-conference team to make the CFP (ahead of Tennessee and Texas A&M).

NOTRE DAME VS. GEORGIA



After being Tennessee fairly soundly last week, Georgia is rewarded by being back in the playoff projections this week. But their penance for losses at Alabama and Ole Miss is that they are ranked below those two teams in the CFP and have to travel to South Bend in round one.

I kind of view Notre Dame in the same vein as Penn State ... good but not elite. Still, the Fighting Irish are in as long as they win out and I’m not sure they’ll be ranked much lower than eighth or ninth. I’ve got them in as a seven seed in these projections.

ALABAMA VS. OLE MISS



These two teams avoided each other this year in the regular season so this isn’t a rematch, but it will be an incredibly fun game in Tuscaloosa.

I’ve got the Tide making the SEC Championship game and where they lose to Texas. I don’t believe the CFP committee will punish them too harshly for losing in the title game of the toughest conference in the land. Hence, the Tide still make the CFP and host a home game in round one despite having three losses.

Ole Miss isn’t going to lose again either so their spot in the CFP is all but locked up (they play Florida and Mississippi State to finish the season).

Can't wait, so many great memories with kiddo watching these!

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Some of the talking heads are saying this could lead to WWIII. Do y'all think this is a good move or bad move?

Nov. 17, 2024
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President Biden has authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials said.
The weapons are likely to be initially employed against Russian and North Korean troops in defense of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of western Russia, the officials said.

Mr. Biden’s decision is a major change in U.S. policy. The choice has divided his advisers, and his shift comes two months before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office, having vowed to limit further support for Ukraine.
Allowing the Ukrainians to use the long-range missiles, known as the Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, came in response to Russia’s surprise decision to bring North Korean troops into the fight, officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine did not confirm the permission to strike but suggested on Sunday that more important than lifting the restrictions would be the number of missiles used to strike the Russians.

“Today, many in the media are talking about the fact that we have received permission to take appropriate actions,” Mr. Zelensky said in his nightly address. “But blows are not inflicted with words. Such things are not announced. The rockets will speak for themselves.”

Mr. Biden began to ease restrictions on the use of U.S.-supplied weapons on Russian soil after Russia launched a cross-border assault in May in the direction of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.

To help the Ukrainians defend Kharkiv, Mr. Biden allowed them to use the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, which have a range of about 50 miles, against Russian forces directly across the border. But Mr. Biden did not allow the Ukrainians to use longer-range ATACMS, which have a range of about 190 miles, in defense of Kharkiv.

While the officials said they do not expect the shift to fundamentally alter the course of the war, one of the goals of the policy change, they said, is to send a message to the North Koreans that their forces are vulnerable and that they should not send more of them.

The officials said that while the Ukrainians were likely to use the missiles first against Russian and North Korean troops that threaten Ukrainian forces in Kursk, Mr. Biden could authorize them to use the weapons elsewhere.

Some U.S. officials said they feared that Ukraine’s use of the missiles across the border could prompt President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to retaliate with force against the United States and its coalition partners.

But other U.S. officials said they thought those fears were overblown.

The Russian military is launching a major assault by an estimated 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean troops, on dug-in Ukrainian positions in Kursk with the goal of retaking all of the Russian territory that the Ukrainians seized in August.

The Ukrainians could use the ATACMS missiles to strike Russian and North Korean troop concentrations, key pieces of military equipment, logistics nodes, ammunition depots and supply lines deep inside Russia.

Doing so could help the Ukrainians blunt the effectiveness of the Russian-North Korean assault.

Whether to arm Ukraine with long-range ATACMS has been an especially sensitive subject since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Some Pentagon officials opposed giving them to the Ukrainians because they said the U.S. Army had limited supplies. Some White House officials feared that Mr. Putin would widen the war if they gave the missiles to the Ukrainians.

Supporters of a more aggressive posture toward Moscow say Mr. Biden and his advisers have been too easily intimidated by Mr. Putin’s hostile rhetoric, and they say that the administration’s incremental approach to arming the Ukrainians has disadvantaged them on the battlefield.
Proponents of Mr. Biden’s approach say that it had largely been successful at averting a violent Russian response.
Allowing long-range strikes on Russian territory using American missiles could change that equation.
In August, the Ukrainians launched their own cross-border assault into the Kursk region, where they seized a swath of Russian territory.

Since then, U.S. officials have become increasingly concerned about the state of the Ukrainian army, which has been stretched thin by simultaneous Russian assaults in the east, Kharkiv and now Kursk.

The introduction of more than 10,000 North Korean troops and Mr. Biden’s response come as Mr. Trump prepares to re-enter office with a stated goal of quickly ending the war.

Mr. Trump has said little about how he would settle the conflict. But Vice President-elect JD Vance has outlined a plan that would allow the Russians to keep the Ukrainian territory that their forces have seized.

The Ukrainians hope that they would be able to trade any Russian territory they hold in Kursk for Ukrainian territory held by Russia in any future negotiations.

If the Russian assault on Ukrainian forces in Kursk succeeds, Kyiv could end up having little to no Russian territory to offer Moscow in a trade.

Mr. Zelensky has long sought permission from the United States and its coalition partners to use long-range missiles to strike Russian soil.
The British and French militaries have given the Ukrainians a limited number of Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles, which have a range of about 155 miles, less than the American missile system.

While British and French leaders voiced support for Mr. Zelensky’s request, they were reluctant to allow the Ukrainians to start using their missiles on Russian soil unless Mr. Biden agreed to allow the Ukrainians to do the same with ATACMS.

Mr. Biden was more risk-averse than his British and French counterparts, and his top advisers were divided on how to proceed. On Sunday, some Republican lawmakers praised the move but said it had come too late.

“For months I have called on President Biden to remove these restrictions,” Representative Michael R. Turner of Ohio, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement. ”President Biden should have listened to President Zelensky’s pleas much earlier.”

Some of Mr. Biden’s advisers had seized on a recent U.S. intelligence assessment that warned that Mr. Putin could respond to the use of long-range ATACMS on Russian soil by directing the Russian military or its spy agencies to retaliate, potentially with lethal force, against the United States and its European allies.

The assessment warned of several possible Russian responses that included stepped-up acts of arson and sabotage targeting facilities in Europe, as well as potentially lethal attacks on U.S. and European military bases.

Officials said Mr. Biden was persuaded to make the change in part by the sheer audacity of Russia’s decision to throw North Korean troops at Ukrainian lines.

He was also swayed, they said, by concerns that the Russian assault force would be able to overwhelm Ukrainian troops in Kursk if they were not allowed to defend themselves with long-range weapons.

U.S. officials said they do not believe that the decision will change the course of the war.

But they said Mr. Biden determined that the potential benefits — Ukraine will be able to reach certain high-value targets that it would not otherwise be able to, and the United States will be able to send a message to North Korea that it will pay a significant price for its involvement — outweighed the escalation risks.

Mr. Biden faced a similar dilemma a year ago when U.S. intelligence agencies learned that the North Koreans would supply Russia with long-range ballistic missiles.

In that case, Mr. Biden agreed to supply several hundred long-range ATACMS to the Ukrainians for use on Ukraine’s sovereign territory, including the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. Those supplemented the more limited supplies of Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles that the Ukrainians received from Britain and France.

The Ukrainians have since used many of those missiles in a concerted campaign of strikes against Russian military targets in Crimea and in the Black Sea.
As a result, it is unclear how many of the missiles the Ukrainians have left in their arsenal to use in the Kursk region.

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THREE THINGS WE LEARNED

1. Texas continues to chip away at Michael Fasusi’s OU commitment

Five-star offensive tackle Michael Fasusi has been committed to Oklahoma since August and he’s always maintained that he feels really good about that decision. Despite that early pledge, the Longhorns have stayed on the Lewisville standout and Fasusi has always kept the lines of communication open. Now, Texas is trying to get him in for one last visit before he signs in December.

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hadn’t thought about it this way but he’s right.

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Who will be the new OU OC? Seth Littrell fired. Joe Jon Finley just an interim.

Names thrown out:


Joe Craddock (Tulane OC, former SMU OC)
Ben Arbuckle (Washington State coach with Texas ties)
Mike Shanahan (Indiana OC)
Shannon Dawson (probably only bucking for a raise at Miami).
Jeff Nixon, Syracuse OC

Yes some idoits say Dan Mullen, but forget that.

I don't think they can get Andy Kotelnicki of Penn State

I doubt they want Zach Kittley of Texas Tech

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4 tickets for A&M game. Section 413, row 37. I purchased these through LHF, so in the Texas section.

$800 each. Hook'em.

We gotta beat the brakes off of our remaining schedule. Let a naysayer know, son.

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Add: I have never and will never take a booger seriously.

I come to you with a warning: Right here in Texas, there are trolls among us. And they are everywhere.

They are your local business owners. They are CEOs. They are your spouses, your grandparents, and your children’s teachers. But online, they wear different masks. They adopt new identities. They risk everything—and for what, exactly? Go ahead. Check your loved ones’ internet search histories. You’ll find a pattern that some might consider troubling.

Longhorn fans on Aggie message boards.

Aggies on a website called Orangebloods.

“I’m not going to lie,” one Texas A&M alum told me. “During the peak of the season, it could be fourteen hours a week that I spend on those sites.” (This source, along with many of the other fanatics interviewed for this story, asked to remain anonymous. Some wished to avoid scrutiny at work, some didn’t want to hear about it at home, and others said that blowing their identities could risk their ability to troll rival message boards.)

“Here I am in my forties,” said one Longhorn. “I’m a company president, and I just cannot get enough of trolling Aggies. I love it. It’s my favorite thing to laugh at. It just brings me joy.”

Everyone knows that the UT-Texas A&M rivalry hasn’t been settled on the football field since 2011. But online, particularly on team-specific sites like Orangebloods and TexAgs, the flames of the feud have remained ignited for more than a decade. Not once have the embers gone cold.

“Sometimes, when you grow apart, you grow together,” said a Longhorn whose monthly subscription fees to team websites (three for UT, one for A&M) total $47. “Other times, the hatred grows with the distance between you. That’s what happened here. The rivalry is probably stronger today than it’s ever been in my lifetime.”

For the uninitiated, these websites might be most easily understood as message boards where Longhorn and Aggie die-hards discuss topics ranging from the team’s recent performance to restaurant recommendations. But they’re more than just online forums. After Texas or A&M students graduate, these are the communities in which they gather to celebrate their alma maters. So yes, there’s plenty of sophomoric humor. But over the past decade, these websites have transformed into big business—and sophisticated media operations.

“Some of these websites have three, four, or even five beat writers covering the team,” said Bobby Burton, an industry veteran who has worked at the college recruiting websites Rivals, 247 Sports, and On3, and is now the publisher of On Texas Football. “That’s more than the Austin American-Statesman has.”

Burton calls the sites “virtual barstools,” and Texans visit these internet watering holes just as much as the real ones. TexAgs boasts one million daily page views. Orangebloods users have posted more than seven million comments on its message boards since 2001. Both sites employ editorial teams who attend press conferences and often break news. They’ve turned college football recruiting, especially, into a legitimate industry, with parent sites like Rivals (the network of team websites that hosts Orangebloods) sold to Yahoo years ago for a reported $100 million. Access to the message boards and exclusive articles is restricted behind a paywall, and fans fork over anywhere from $50 to $275 a year for subscriptions. In some cases, those subscribers happen to be powerful business and government leaders. Over on TexAgs, a poster known as “Ranger65” was revealed to be former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. UT president Jay Hartzell, for his part, is known to scroll through Orangebloods. If this is all news to you, ask any serious college football fan in your life which board they read; they’ll know what you mean.


“It’s from all walks of life,” said Burton. “And the commonality that brings them together is Texas football or Aggie football. I mean, you could have the CEO of a bank talking to a guy that works as a valet, and guess what? Neither one of them are worried about what they do for a living. They’re worried about if the Longhorns are going to have a quarterback that can get it done.”

Online, each fan base has developed inside jokes and shorthand. On TexAgs, Longhorns are “whorns” or “sips” (as in, fancy-pants “tea sippers”). Over and over, you hear the word “entitled.” When I asked one Longhorn if those insults poked any buttons, he laughed. “That’s cute,” he said.

On Orangebloods, A&M is taunted as UT’s “little brother” and is almost exclusively referred to as “aggy,” always singular, always intentionally misspelled with a ‘y,’ and always lowercase. Remarked one Aggie, “There are guys on our side that have MBAs and PhDs, and they let ‘little brother’ and lowercase ‘aggy’ drive them bonkers.” One Orangebloods poster recently objected to the “aggy” nickname, saying that the lack of respect was behavior more befitting of the Aggies themselves. A user named “Jefferyb31” responded: “Clearly you come from an aggy family or are married to an aggy and are either an aggy troll or a self-hating Longhorn fan who secretly roots for those sheep humpers.”

While the team-centric websites are mostly filled with their corresponding fans, there are scores of more nefarious actors lurking deep in the comments—poking, prodding, stoking the flames. These are the trolls: the Aggie fans who subscribe to the Longhorn sites and vice versa, partially to laugh when things go wrong and partially to lob grenades and watch the wreckage. “It’s an art form,” said one of these chaos agents. “A subtle art form.”

Talk to Aggies who have crossed enemy lines, and you’ll hear similar reports. Horns fans are “cocky” and “arrogant.” They brag about Texas’s all-time accomplishments but get quiet when confronted with the program’s more recent shortcomings. They’re hypocrites who claim the Aggies can only get a good recruiting class if they buy one—and then go and park Lamborghinis outside the football complex during a recruiting weekend.

I asked a Texas Ex to describe the A&M commenters on TexAgs. They replied with a short dissertation on how the other side lives. “TexAgs is this bastion of hardcore, die-hard Aggies, and you’ve got two different sets within that,” the Longhorn explained. “You’ve got the ‘sunshine pumpers,’ which are the fans who think every week they’re going to win by fifty, the coach is the greatest to ever live, the quarterback is going to win the Heisman, and are perpetually believing the Aggies are on the cusp of greatness. And it never, obviously, happens. Then, you have the ‘pot bangers.’ That’s the other side of the coin. Those are the Aggies that have what’s called ‘battered Aggie syndrome.’ Everyone knows about that—‘B.A.S.’ They’re so sick of falling on their faces that they’ve just come to terms that failure is inevitable.” The Longhorn laughed. “It’s like catnip for me.”


“When you boil it down,” said a former Aggie track athlete who now lives in North Carolina, “you truly just have two high-class, high-powered educational institutions that put out a great product in the workforce, in athletics, and in the world. I mean, both schools have changed the world for the better. But you get online, and you’d think you had two damn Neanderthals going at it.”

Part of the fun is the witch hunt, sniffing out the authentic fans and the posers, a way to prove that you know the enemy so well that you could never be fooled by a fake. Although sometimes, it’s hard to tell the difference between a poster who’s trolling and one who’s just a disgruntled fan worked up after a disappointing game. After all, anybody could be on the other side of that screen. If an imposter gets caught, the website moderators might ban their account—which often just means the troll needs to create a new email and start over again.

“Somebody will post something like, ‘aggy actually has a decent team this year, and I think we should be worried about them.’ Pretty innocuous stuff,” said one Longhorn. “But if it’s even slightly positive about A&M, people come after them, asking moderators to ban them, because they think, ‘How could you be on here and say something nice about the Aggies unless you are an Aggie?’ ”

Now is the part of the story where we should expand the scope and let some air out of the balloon by saying something like, “It’s all in good fun!” But that would be a lie. The animosity on these sites is not expressed in good fun. It’s not just another joke. There is actual bad blood between the two schools and fan bases, and the hardcore types who congregate online do so to revel in the other side’s failure. “It’s almost friendly,” one Aggie poster told me, “but not quite.”

Over the past thirteen years without a football game, the Longhorns and Aggies might have drifted apart. Their mutual enmity could have dissipated. Both sides’ schadenfreude might have given way to grudging respect for the other. But that’s not what happened. Instead, Aggies and Longhorns have spent more than a decade talking trash. They got clever; they twisted the knife; they sometimes got downright mean. Often, it was about recruiting battles over top high school talent. Other times it was just laughing at their rivals’ expense about poor coaching hires (Tom Herman? Kevin Sumlin? Take your pick), bone-headed losses (Texas losing to Kansas and A&M losing to Appalachian State are frequent points of emphasis), and low-hanging fruit (Texas is back! Jimbo Fisher’s buyout!). Some might call it bad sportsmanship. Those who understand call it gamesmanship.

On the phone this month, after listing all the ways Longhorn fans drive him crazy, an Aggie took a breath. “Man,” the Aggie said, “wouldn’t life just be so dull, though, if we all pretended like it didn’t matter?”

So when you confront your husband, or when you check the credit card bill and see that your Longhorn daughter purchased an annual subscription to TexAgs, or when you peek into your boss’s office and see that their computer isn’t actually open to emails—don’t be mad. Don’t feel betrayed. These keyboard warriors are wasting neither time nor energy. They’re doing a public service. They’ve kept the rivalry alive when the football teams could not. And now that the game is back, we all will reap the rewards of their efforts. Thanks to the battered Aggies and tea-sipping Longhorns who have logged on every day to do battle in cyberspace, the rivalry remains even richer for the rest of us.

Hello, all.
My son is considering spending a semester in Beijing at Peking University.
Anyone have experience/advice with spending a semester in Asia/China? I think it would be a phenomenal experience, but that’s where my advice to him stops. Thoughts? TIA

to assist in downsizing this bloated, corrupt monstrosity

start with selling this "asset" for trillions to the public market and simultaneously stop losing $10 Billion annually


its a win win template for the country

our government no longer has the need to be in control of our mail

they are not good at it, they do not improve their service, we get the same bad service for annual increasing costs


the department ignores what the private sector has to endure , and its time we treated modern government like the large behemoth business it is




On Tuesday its the Department of Education and PBS


so all of you doing the math at home and why we can slash government and make more money here is your formula

sell the business for trillions to a more efficient company (FedEx /UPS/DHL) or a new company that buys the asset

stop the billions of annual loss


so the post office line item for F 2025 would be say +2.25T (sale) and +$10 Billion loss eliminated

we can do similar with PBS/ federal lands /federal buildings ( report says 40% are vacant) get rid of them


and then apologize to the American people for all of our politicians and administrative state for accepting and expanding the staus quo fro yourself or your donor class

I think we should start looking at something besides 4 or 5 Star player, KState showed me that with Vaughn, being from Round Rock, man that was a miss, That was Pop Snyders thing, and they still are doing it, and the Brock Boys , he knocked us down when didn't get them and the 5 Star QB, this guys a crazy guy for sure on building a team...

Learn to speak Spanish and you can laugh at this title.

Morning dudes. Shake it off. I drank half a bottle of 20 year old single malt and I'm here at 7am doing this sh!t..... so you can get off your ass and buck up too.

Arkansas sucks. We all know that. This "rivalry" goes back a hundred years. 55 years ago we beat their ass in the "Game of the Century" while Tricky Dick watched from the press box. We've been there, done that, and they haven't.

Here comes your history lesson......

The University of Arkansas was founded in March of 1871 as a land grant school. Surprisingly, the first black student enrolled at the school in 1872. This means Arky was WAY ahead of the rest of the reconstruction states when it came to allowing blacks into their school. Oddly enough, in 1905, the president of the school, John N Tillman, was a former politician that proposed the Separate Coach Law of 1891- a law that said while riding on a train, blacks had to be in different rail cars than whites- I didnt even know that was a thing.
Considering all it's rich alumni- Arkansas is poor as fvck. Their endowment is a measly $1.8 billion. That tells me their alumni base doesn't donate anything at all.
There's a sidewalk that winds 4 miles through campus that has the name of every Arkansas graduate ever on it--- over 200,000 people.

In it's 1st year, two students were arguing over how to solve a math problem and one whipped out a knife and stabbed the other student. True story.
The first artistic rendition of the "razorback" was drawn by a member of the Choctaw nation.
There has been 5 medal of honor recipients that attended Arkansas. Aggy has them beat with 7.
The Fulbright Scholarship was started at the University of Arkansas.

Arkansas has only won 1 national title in football- in 1964.
Today will mark the 80th time Texas and Arkansas have played with Texas holding a 56-23 advantage. There's never been a tie in this game. Weird......
Notable alumni-
Charlie Rich-- country singer. Look him up. John Daly-- everybody knows who he is. William Fulbright-- for you nerds. Everyone's favorite NFL team owner Jerry Jones. Everyone's favorite Dallas Cowboy's coach Jimmy Johnson. Everyone's favorite OU coach Barry Switzer-- all went to Arkansas.
Every member of the Walton family-- you know- the folks that own Wal-Mart..... consequently, the Walton family have made the single largest donation to Arkansas ever-- $300 million dollars.
And of course, last and least- Bill and Hillary Clinton-- they did NOT attend Arkansas. Nope. They taught school there. Well, Hillary taught there- Bill just fvcked the co-eds.

So folks-- to mark the 80th time this "rivalry" has been played, here's to hanging 50 on wooo-pig--

From my upstairs couch because I was running a fever last night and don't want to get everyone in the house sick--

TEXAS!