Football recruiting news

[Oldmanastro]

Well, it was a good news, bad news scenario over the weekend. Got one, but lost one.

TE 3* Landen King committed last night to us.
DE 4* Landon Jackson committed to LSU.

Would have really liked Jackson.

 

[westx]

Would have really liked Jackson

LSU pays a lot more. Jackson said “no” to a paycut.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

Every time I see Landon Jackson he looks like a cancer patient survivor on steroids. He really needs to let his hair grow back.

 

[DHHorn]

Texas picked up WR Tarik Black who is grad transfer from Michigan. Should help fill the hole left by Collin Johnson.

 

[Oldmanastro]

Horns get a nice pick up from CB Jahdae Barron 4*. He a actually signed with Baylor but was granted a release after Matt Ruhle left.

This is a good get. It also helped us jump a spot in the rankings to #9 ahead of Florida.

 

[oldhorn2]

Barron is a 2020 class recruit...

 

[Oldmanastro]

Has anyone heard from @Bwilk55 at all lately? His last post was way back before Coronavirus and he is pretty good with recruiting stuff. Isn’t he a doctor? Maybe caught up in the middle of all of this. Hope he is safe.

 

[Bwilk55]

Has anyone heard from @Bwilk55 at all lately? His last post was way back before Coronavirus and he is pretty good with recruiting stuff. Isn’t he a doctor? Maybe caught up in the middle of all of this. Hope he is safe.

Thanks for thinking of me. Life has been a bit hectic with coronavirus (in New Orleans no less) and a 6 month old baby. Fortunately I work as a PCP and we are relatively safe. Biggest change has been moving over to telemedicine for almost all of our visits right now. Still following recruiting but haven't been able to post much.

 

[Bwilk55]

Every time I see Landon Jackson he looks like a cancer patient survivor on steroids. He really needs to let his hair grow back.

He probably would if he didn't have alopecia.

 

[weevilcatch]

He probably would if he didn't have alopecia.

I was thinking that since he didn't have eye brows either.

 

[clob94]

Thanks for thinking of me. Life has been a bit hectic with coronavirus (in New Orleans no less) and a 6 month old baby. Fortunately I work as a PCP and we are relatively safe. Biggest change has been moving over to telemedicine for almost all of our visits right now. Still following recruiting but haven't been able to post much.

You're a GP aren't you?

 

[oldhorn2]

You're a GP aren't you?

OB posters....ya gotta love em…..we cant remember to put the toilet seat down, but we remember every damned personal detail anyone has ever mentioned.....

 

[Bwilk55]

You're a GP aren't you?

Trained in Internal Medicine, working currently as a primary care physician. Side note, I work in Chalmette, Louisiana, the location of the recently popular Netflix documentary "The Pharmacist".

 

[clob94]

Trained in Internal Medicine, working currently as a primary care physician. Side note, I work in Chalmette, Louisiana, the location of the recently popular Netflix documentary "The Pharmacist".

Saw that. Right outside of New Orleans. That dude became obsessed. He was straight up casing all those pop up pharmacies that were selling opiods at all hours of the night. The freaking cops were providing her with security. Unreal.

 

[TX1972]

Amazing to me that the pain management specialists and the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals have escaped blame in the opioid crisis. Because they are responsible. The pain guys developed a theory in the 90s that pain was a snowball, if nipped in the bud (with local blocks and more narcotics), it could be eliminated. By 2003, the JCAH bought the theory and mandated pain scales, threatened to discipline doctors who didn't give adequate analgesia. Whatever that is. Turns out that taking narcotics for as little as 3 months LOWERS your pain threshold. The worst part is that the public now believes that pain is unnecessary, that there is an optimal dose of narcotics that will relieve pain without consequences. Anybody else notice that Europe, Japan are not having an opioid crisis?

 

[clob94]

Amazing to me that the pain management specialists and the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals have escaped blame in the opioid crisis. Because they are responsible. The pain guys developed a theory in the 90s that pain was a snowball, if nipped in the bud (with local blocks and more narcotics), it could be eliminated. By 2003, the JCAH bought the theory and mandated pain scales, threatened to discipline doctors who didn't give adequate analgesia. Whatever that is. Turns out that taking narcotics for as little as 3 months LOWERS your pain threshold. The worst part is that the public now believes that pain is unnecessary, that there is an optimal dose of narcotics that will relieve pain without consequences. Anybody else notice that Europe, Japan are not having an opioid crisis?

We really have outdone ourselves as a society. We have criminalized and outlawed a plant that grows in the ground because big pharma hasn't quite yet figured out how to control the marketplace, and yet doctors can prescribe chemicals legally that will literally get you hooked on heroine.

There are days that I truly love my country, yet despise what it has become.

 

[TX1972]

We really have outdone ourselves as a society. We have criminalized and outlawed a plant that grows in the ground because big pharma hasn't quite yet figured out how to control the marketplace, and yet doctors can prescribe chemicals legally that will literally get you hooked on heroine.

There are days that I truly love my country, yet despise what it has become.

It's the government. Read P. J. O'Rourke's PARLIAMENT OF WHORES. Or, a lone humorist attempts to explain the entire U.S. government.

 

[oldhorn2]

If you want to see exactly how the govt works, watch Eddie Murphy’s movie.....The Distinguished Gentleman....

It would be required in school curriculum were it not so accurate.

 

[weevilcatch]

It's the government. Read P. J. O'Rourke's PARLIAMENT OF WHORES. Or, a lone humorist attempts to explain the entire U.S. government.

Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[weevilcatch]

If you want to see exactly how the govt works, watch Eddie Murphy’s movie.....The Distinguished Gentleman....

It would be required in school curriculum were it not so accurate.

Get elected on name only, because people are happily ignorant, then attach yourself to some career politicians to get yourself reelected and rich.

The movie of course gives a happy ending that never actually happens.

 

[oldhorn2]

yeah....but the main message was when they were working out his positions on the various items....:

are you for or against sugar price supports?.....uh I don't know what do you think?....What do I care?...but if you are for them I can get you $500,000.00 from the farm Lobby....If you are against them I can get you $300,000.00 from the candy Manufacturers....Oh!....I guess I am for them....Good choice!

 

[weevilcatch]

yeah....but the main message was when they were working out his positions on the various items....:

are you for or against sugar price supports?.....uh I don't know what do you think?....What do I care?...but if you are for them I can get you $500,000.00 from the farm Lobby....If you are against them I can get you $300,000.00 from the candy Manufacturers....Oh!....I guess I am for them....Good choice!

Lol, exactly. Had this convo many times. Get rid of lobbyist money, servely cap campaign donor/fundraising dollars and then we may start to scratch the surface. But our nation is a money whore, and despite what some politicians say, they don't want to lose the golden goose.

The only real solution is to split our country in two. Even then, you have too many states that are purple and how would jobs/housing/etc. work out?

So instead, we're going to continue to be taxed like a mother effer, continue to have small bits of the BoR stripped, continue to see our FedGov grow bigger and bigger and continue to see the Exec. Branch outgrow the other two. Radicals from the far, far left and right will continue to grow because people can't chill the eff out and leave others alone.

 

[clob94]

Lol, exactly. Had this convo many times. Get rid of lobbyist money, servely cap campaign donor/fundraising dollars and then we may start to scratch the surface. But our nation is a money whore, and despite what some politicians say, they don't want to lose the golden goose.

The only real solution is to split our country in two. Even then, you have too many states that are purple and how would jobs/housing/etc. work out?

So instead, we're going to continue to be taxed like a mother effer, continue to have small bits of the BoR stripped, continue to see our FedGov grow bigger and bigger and continue to see the Exec. Branch outgrow the other two. Radicals from the far, far left and right will continue to grow because people can't chill the eff out and leave others alone.

Jefferson said something about the tree of liberty needing to be watered with the blood of patriots from time to time. What he should have said was "with the blood of career politicians".

 

[oldhorn2]

true about the blood.....but remember what Patton said...you don't win the war by dieing for your country.....you win by making the other SOB die for his country....

 

[westx]

Get rid of lobbyist money, servely cap campaign donor/fundraising dollars and then we may start to scratch the surface.

I want to add to your list-How about the "foundations" that are being set up by both sides of the political isle. Lobbyist are able to get the Congressman/Senator's ear by contributing to their spouse/family's foundation. The spouse draws a pretty handsome salary and gets many travel expenses covered. You would think that a foundation serves a noble purpose to fill a need that isn't being met in society. However, when comparing the long standing foundations that stand the test of time vs the foundations that are run by the politician's spouse/family that fold as soon as the politician exits his/her political career. And then the gravy train doesn't stop, because the politician can simply be a lobbyist/consultant after leaving office. It is no wonder these people are so out of touch with the majority of Americans.

 

[weevilcatch]

I want to add to your list-How about the "foundations" that are being set up by both sides of the political isle. Lobbyist are able to get the Congressman/Senator's ear by contributing to their spouse/family's foundation. The spouse draws a pretty handsome salary and gets many travel expenses covered. You would think that a foundation serves a noble purpose to fill a need that isn't being met in society. However, when comparing the long standing foundations that stand the test of time vs the foundations that are run by the politician's spouse/family that fold as soon as the politician exits his/her political career. And then the gravy train doesn't stop, because the politician can simply be a lobbyist/consultant after leaving office. It is no wonder these people are so out of touch with the majority of Americans.

Non of this is what the founding fathers envisioned. These people are supposed to serve the citizens, not be served by the citizens.

 

[Belldozer1]

Trained in Internal Medicine, working currently as a primary care physician. Side note, I work in Chalmette, Louisiana, the location of the recently popular Netflix documentary "The Pharmacist".

@Bwilk55 I have posted a question for you in the Governor Abbott thread, I din't want to post it here since this is about recruiting.