From the AP, in case you were interested.

AUSTIN, Texas -- — Freshman Justice Carlton and senior Shay Holle each scored 15 points and No. 4 Texas defeated Lamar 95-58 Wednesday night.

Holle converted 3 of 4 3-point attempts. Carlton added three steals.

Madison Booker of Texas (2-0), an AP preseason All-American, missed the game with a sore hamstring and her status is day-to-day.

Freshman Jordan Lee started in place of Booker and scored 12 points. Bryanna Preston, also a freshman, added nine points, four assists and two steals.

Point guard Rori Harmon finished with eight points, eight assists and five steals in 18 minutes. Harmon, who missed the final 26 games last season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, limped off the court in the third quarter after tweaking her ankle. She later returned to the game.

Akasha Davis led Lamar (1-1) with 14 points. Sabria Dean scored 13.

Takeaways

Lamar: The Cardinals, defending Southland Conference regular-season champions, trailed Texas 51-14 at halftime. The Cardinals matched the Longhorns' 44 points in the second half.

Texas: Laila Phelia, an all-Big Ten guard at Michigan last season, made her debut for Texas. She had eight points in 21 minutes as a reserve. Phelia averaged nearly 17 points last season.

Key moment

Texas outscored Lamar 20-3 during the final 7:12 of the first quarter. The Cardinals made only three free throws during the span. The Longhorns, using full-court defensive pressure, coaxed 10 turnovers in the quarter, seven of them steals. Harmon made four of the steals.

Key stat

Lamar committed 22 turnovers in the first half, allowing Texas to take a 51-14 lead at the break. The Longhorns made 14 steals in the half.

Up next

Lamar plays at SMU on Nov. 22, and Texas is at DePaul on Sunday.

…while making them 21.4 percent of the time? That’s an abysmal percentage for anyone, especially a volume shooter.

…on 62% shooting (50% from three) was obviously fun to watch as a Spurs fan, but the more important thing is that the Spurs improved to 6-6 on the season. For context, they didn’t win their 6th game last season until January fu$&in’ 10th. It’s amazing the difference having a real point guard makes (even if he is pushing 40), and Harrison Barnes and Stephon Castle have also proven to be big additions. This isn’t an elite team by any stretch, but they’re at least now playing competitive basketball that’s enjoyable to watch as a fan.

SIAP. This article is cracking me up.

Poor, pitiful aggy. So picked on by those meany SEC schedule makers. Not sure ive ever read something so sad. LOL

Dear Lord. Already setting the stage…..

I’m more focused on the actual outcome for the real estate market and insight you guys may have (not the politics of the situation). I’ve included the excerpt below


“Real estate was the worst performing S&P 500 sector, shedding 2.6%. Real-estate developers rely heavily on debt financing, and borrowing costs look set to climb with rising bond yields.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, rose to 4.425%, its highest level since early July.

Home builders were also among the worst performers, with investors expecting higher mortgage rates to dent demand.”


So is the idea that mortgage rates will rise sometime later in the next couple of years ? Also a big issue has been home affordability - how do you imagine it will change during the Trump admin? It’s hard to imagine prices coming down in the Austin area - so will affordability change any?

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.” —Andre Gide

I believe we all have our comfort zones or in today’s nomenclature “safe space”. To venture away from them can create anxiety and fear.

I grew up in Ohio in a high school that had only one African American family and had never been south of my home state where I grew up through high school. It took my older brother and my Dad to prompt me to consider moving to Texas where my Dad went to college to move and establish residency in the hill country before starting school at UT Austin.

Living in a one bedroom apartment with my brother exposed us to all kinds of people in our roach infested apartment complex. I could write a Seinfeld type sitcom to describe all the characters we met and lived with during most of our college career. At first it was intimidating, but I’m a much better person for expanding my perspective of people who I may have had biased opinions of prior to moving to Austin.

Don’t be afraid to venture out to new places and people that are different from you. It can change you for the better.

Be careful out there!

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Looks like surgery for cervical myelopathy may be in my future. Neck issues have been getting worse over time and I have opinions from both an orthopedic and a neurosurgeon on the issue and both agree in principal on the nature of the problem and the possible solutions which involve either an anterior or posterior surgical approach.
Won't bore you with details, but after a lot of soul searching, consultations and personal research it looks like posterior laminectomy is going to be the best bet.
Everyone agrees it's not going to be fun, and I've heard lots of good and bad war stories involving each.
There is a lot of age, wisdom and experience on this board and I'm wondering if anybody with personal familiarity with this procedure would like to share or offer any advice.

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does the CFP Committee put them above Texas next week. It really will not matter if we both win out since we will meet in the SEC Playoff game but I'm thinking Tennessee could make a pretty good argument for the switch.

Believe or not I have some good friends that are Aggies. One of them, Randal Ford, is a professional photographer and he has photographed Bevo. Prints in various sizes are for sale.
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For the TLDR crowd, Trump will make the call or else life will be tough for Gov. DeWine, a moderate Republican. It’s probably going to come down to Jane Tinken or Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy.

so many differences between right and left in this country


the Right is built on individual responsibility, the belief in self determination, rule of law, Constitutional adherence , equality but not equity (Capitalism)

the Left is built on America is largely imperfect and needs to constantly change , divisiveness and a reliance on a large central bureaucracy to fix things ..everyone should be equal (Marxism)

so many threads of Democrat ( party) inconsistency and hypocrisy , seemingly unimportant to the larger prize of total control


i'm wondering for the board Liberals how you justify just 1 of your many inconsistencies and that is illegal immigration ... how do reconcile that in your mind ? Or like so many Democrat undertakings, because its rarely discussed/debated, is it just understood somehow what the overriding message/intent is ?


consider

• Biden administration continually lied for years saying the border was secure
• Biden administration physically assisted with open borders/processing illegal entrants and flew many directly into our country ...that's not some right wing conspiracy this actually happens
• purposely allowing illegal entrants form over 109 countries many criminals and worse
• we (taxpayer) thru Democratic leadership, are paying housing, food, medical , clothing, schooling, transportation and living expenses and processing dollars
• the flow of Fentanyl continues as part of this effort killing over 110,000 Americans every year ( that's 2 Viet Nam war casualties every single year ) that's difficult to comprehend
• the displacement of American workers ( smashing the old Liberals concept of the excuse of "jobs Americans just wont do")
• how many trillions of dollars spent on this "program" that could either 1) spent on American issues 2) reduce the federal budget from unneeded expenses
• Democrats refusal to spend 1/2 Billion on building a wall for us but can spend trillions on Ukraine to help them defend their borders
• the trillions of earned dollars annually sent back to the respective host countries that do not enrich the communities they live in
• we'll dispense with the child, slave and sexual predators that swarm these groups, especially children ( 350,000 of them lost the last 4 years) that is always just a journalistic priority of importance when Republicans are in office

How do you liberals justify this 1 category ..or do you even try ?

I think this and other similar actions , largely Democrat, is what has deteriorated the party and caused migration (pun) to the Republicans

i just would like to hear from the board Liberals on how they justify the actions and misrepresentations here

PS
did you ever think about what happens when jobs are not available? when the economy slows down ? what then ?

all for future votes ? isnt that surreal ?

After watching Ole Miss bitch slap the Georgia O line and D line , I just can't buy into Texas being the # 3 team in CFB .I hope I am wrong , but I think the Texas offense is soft .It basically reminds me of a Lincoln Reiley offense for OU .Lots of bells and whistles , but soft in the running gm and interior o line .

- We'll hopefully have more notes later from intern Robert who is a student in attendance currently.

- In an open practice that hosted a pretty dinky crowd of one-half students and one-half random fans of the program, the Texas media relations department still banished the credentialed media from attending any of the scrimmage periods of practice. After warmups, the DJ came over the stadium speakers and yelled "Are you ready for some football?!?!," which drew lots of yelling and clapping from all, but was apparently the cue for media relations to promptly escort all credentialed media out of the stadium.

- Members of the media would have been better off showing up as random observers like the others who got to stay in the stadium and watch practice. I've quit trying to rationalize the Texas media department's rationale for doing things like this to make the jobs of reporters and analysts harder and purposefully create contentious attitudes among them.

HERE YOU CAN READ OB INTERN ROBERT LARKIN'S REPORT ON THE PRACTICE WITH NEW INFORMATION.

- As for the student turnout, it was poor. As mentioned, it seemed like there were as many random, middle-aged people there as there were students. If any cool events or contests occurred with the students on hand, the media will not be able to report on them.

- RB Kirk Johnson, S Jason Hall, RB Toneil Carter and P Michael Dickson were all guys working on the side with trainers. Toneil Carter is in a walking boot.

- TE Andrew Beck is back on the field practicing but is still limited and did not take part in team periods the media was allowed to witness.

- Keep an eye out for a Texas Football tweet or snapchat coming soon that will show Deshon Elliott bodying some dude in the circle drill.

- Brandon Hodges has not been in attendance for two straight practices. Media relations has had no information on Hodges any time I have asked. He's not on the side working with trainers and he's certainly not practicing - at least since Thursday. I'll keep digging around about it and have some calls out since no one at Texas will help with any information.

- This meant Tristan Nickelson at the RT with the same starting group as always OL-wise. The second group Saturday was (L to R) JP Urquidez, Elijah Rodriguez, Terrell Cuney, Pat Hudson, Denzel Okafor. Disappointingly, Jean Delance, Buck Major, Tope Imade and Alex Anderson are all working third team. Anderson has actually been bumping out to RT instead of guard and they've been giving Garrett Thomas a look at his RG spot when doing so. Thomas and Major seem like the most "buried" scholarship OL on campus at this early time in the spring.

- Kyle Porter was the first RB out with the first team. Chris Warren was with the twos. I've been hearing behind the scenes that through the first two days of pads that the running backs have been one of the biggest disappointments on the entire team. Tristian Houston has actually been the RB who's looked best through the first two padded practices per a source. I see that as praise for Houston, but it also sort of has to be an indictment on the performance of the rest of the group.

- Starting wideouts were Collin Johnson, Devin Duvernay and Jerrod Heard. Garrett Gray was working with the first team at TE and lining up as a 4th WR more often than any fan would like seeing. When the team goes to a four-wide look, it would be optimal to have a guy like Foreman, Mapps or Curtis in there.

- A small depth chart ruffle on the defense: LB Erick Fowler looks to be trying to take the job of Edwin Freeman as the second-team mike linebacker next to Anthony Wheeler. The LB unit of Fowler, Wheeler and McCulloch was the grouping with the second unit for all drills during the "open" portion of practice (to the credentialed media, the practice was 'open' to all others for the entire portion, as mentioned numerous times).

- At Thursday practice, CB Davante Davis looked to be cracking into the first group by taking snaps away from Kris Boyd. On Saturday, Davis was in with the first group for Holton Hill opposite Boyd. As originally predicted, the musical chairs at the two outside corner positions between Hill, Boyd and Davis will continue to be one of the sources of great intrigue through the spring and possibly fall camps.

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At least for us on the winning team!

And those still on the losing team crying

With so many commitments coming off the board (for now) in June and July, this thing needed a major overhaul. Some percentages were changed, a couple new players were added and a ton of guys were moved into the "committed elsewhere" category.

Biggest takeaways ...

Still LOTS of work to be done at wide receiver. Let's see how that picture looks heading into September.

Not many options at all at D-tackle, unless Texas is able to get a couple of flips there.

Texas has two LB commitments but really needs more than that after a one-man class last year. Not many options left on the table there either.

A four-man OL class is solid, but Texas needs that anchor piece, ala Michael Fasusi.

QB, RB, TE all look very good. Nothing to see there.

I like both of UT's DB commits and Texas could still land guys like Nate Tilmon and/or Aidan Anding, but we're talking about multiple three-stars and one four-star who isn't in the Rivals250. This group isn't nearly as top-heavy as last year's class.

Link: 2025 Recruiting Board

Sark should be starting up in a few minutes. I'll post live notes in this thread once he gets going.

Do you know anyone outside of Houston who has said those words?

No, you don’t.

Houston is a place that, from the outside, you can’t understand. And from the inside, you can’t explain.

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