Just took a tour of the lake and evidently we have a huge Tech fan who bought Matthew McConaughey’s old house, which is really bad ass. Does anyone know who it is?

Anyone else impacted by the outage? This is what I thought Y2K would be like.

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Has anybody ever tangled with this company?

I just moved my business to a new platform and without knowing that DocuSign was already provided as a part of my tech package, my assistant signed me up for corporate annual DocuSign subscription. I did sign the contract, however, I emailed the rep 11 days afterwards to tell them that I am already paying for their service under my tech package.

They keep billing me and threatening to send me to collections for $2840. I've kindly explained the situation and they keep sending the bills and emails.

My concern is my credit will be ruined and I'll have to report it on my professional ethics reporting.

I have never in my life dealt with a company that behaves this way.

Open to opinions.

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Fellers and ladies, gather round. Let me put you on game.

The Cracker Barrel Beesting chicken tenders might be the best chain meal I’ve ever had.

I’d been a die hard chicken n dumplings guy at CB for over 20 years. They dropped a summertime (hope they keep it) hot honey chicken tenders. Sensational. I get mashed potatoes and fried apples as my side. Of course, a few cornbread muffins with apple butter, too.

What’s your favorite run of the mill chain meal?

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As you can probably tell from my postings in the other threads, I’m hardly a Joe Biden fan. I fully and clearly see his cognitive declines and realize he isn’t running the day to day operations.

That being said, I don’t think he needs to be removed from office 106 days before the election. I feel like opening that door will lead to 4 years of the Dems doing that to Trump, saying “We did it, so should you.” I always don’t want Kamala to have the chance to raise false policy flags about “things she’ll do.” Removing Biden actually calms the waters for the Dems, keeping him in office keeps things more volatile.

Curious to hear everyone else’s thoughts, especially since there is no precedents on this matter.

I posted this in the Expansion thread but it probably deserves it's own thread.

Article from Ross Dellenger

WhitlocksSafety said:

Revenue Sharing is capped at 22% of revenue. "They took three of the four most significant revenue streams in an athletic department — TV contracts, ticket sales and sponsorships (donations were not included) — to generate an average for the 69 power schools."

IIRC, Tech's revenue minus donations was about 85M or so. That's 18.7M. However, the article makes it sound like every school has to distribute $20M a year as the cap. The cap increases 4% per year for first 3 years then is re-evaluated. New TV deals and other new revenue will increase the cap. So UT has to pay 20M and Tech has to pay 20M. So does UH.

What about Title IX?

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But there are perhaps ways to circumvent or, at the very least, attempt to bend the Title IX rules by skewing more cash to football and men’s basketball players.

The first involves the classification of the revenue-sharing deals that schools strike with athletes. Though left up to the schools’ discretion, many of the deals are expected to be classified as agreements to purchase the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL). NIL deals are widely based on the value an athlete brings to a team or school. The more valuable, the more money.

This is a potential way for schools to defend a plan to pay male athletes more than female athletes. Some officials are even discussing the use of a “Q-Score,” which is a measurement of a person’s brand appeal. Others are seeking data on “fair market value.”

“What if you are buying NIL rights from players and those rights have different market values for men and women?” asked one power conference administrator.

There is, of course, a second way around Title IX: Have an outside third-party entity share revenues with your athletes.

Such as, a currently existing booster-backed NIL collective."

What about NIL Collectives?
Can still exist. Will be used to add more money to those athletes that are worth it. Unclear on how it will be regulated.

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There are other ways the settlement could police this issue. The document includes:

- A reporting mechanism that will require athletes to report their third-party NIL deals — possibly a mandatory measure tied to a player’s revenue-share pay from the school and their eligibility.

- A requirement that third-party NIL deals must be what is termed “true NIL,” according to settlement documents.

- A definition of “True NIL” as based on to-be-developed “fair market value” data, said two people with knowledge of the concept. In the simplest terms, true NIL is real marketing NIL-based contracts with a corporation or business — not a booster.

- If an outside NIL deal is struck with a booster — a business owner, perhaps — the burden is on the school and/or athlete to prove that it is “true NIL,” with significant risks (eligibility maybe) if the deal is not."

What about FB roster limits?

"In a plan socialized with coaches and administrators this month, football rosters could be set as low as 85, which is the NCAA maximum for scholarship positions. Such a move would eliminate all walk-on spots. This was met with pushback, enough pushback that conversations are continuing about how to create either more spots (possibly 90 or 95?) or create a non-scholarship practice squad."

What about Transfer Portal limits?
"The portal is not addressed in the settlement. However, the new revenue-sharing model gives schools the opportunity to sign athletes to potentially binding, multi-year contracts. Most athletic administrators who spoke to Yahoo Sports believe this will decrease player movement."

"Officials are discussing a range of possibilities for athlete contracts, including implementing buyout clauses that are often found in coaching contracts. There is a possibility as well to tie academic performance to contracts.

As part of the settlement, a school is expected to have the ability to purchase a player’s exclusive NIL rights — a significant and possibly binding deal and one that would eliminate all third-party payment as well."

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Tech has 12 mentions in the Shrine Bowl 1000.

CB Bralyn Lux
WR Josh Kelly
DT Quincy Ledet Jr.
TE Jalin Conyers
RB Tahj Brooks
OG Caleb Rogers
OG Vinny Sciury
LB Jacob Rodriguez
S CJ Baskerville
OT Sterling Porcher
TE Johncarlos Miller II
TE Mason Tharp

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This story is crazy but Keep Austin weird I guess.

Texas Monkeys and Stripper girlfriends

Maybe I’ve missed it but I must know the latest on the neighbor feud with @IMDUMB

I was thinking about commitment signals used by some Tech sports. Not all the teams have a signal. So what would be signal be these teams.
Football has Bat Signal
Women's Basketball has Bling Bling
Baseball has Put it on the Board
My choice for other teams except tennis and golf (only about 2 commits a year so not included) are :
Men's basketball--Slam Dunk
Softball--Out of the park or Homerun
Soccer--- It's a goal
Volleyball--It's a kill
T&F--Finish line
What are your ideas for commitment signals.

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@Williermo

Missed this one the other day. Son of former NBA guard Rafer Alston.

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Got 30 years in the federal pen. Isn’t nearly enough time. Good riddance.

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Trump speaking at Bitcoin2024 this weekend. Rumors of Elon musk possibly being there

I’m a big documentary fan. Anyone have any recommendations for me?

I love true crime, but am open for anything.

I have Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount Plus, and Max.

Thanks!

Wes Kittley lands an absolute burner here, a significant win in the transfer portal. Reportedly pursued by Alabama, Texas A&M, Florida, Arkansas, LSU and Florida State, among others.

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Here are just the numbers on July commits that are known.
Football 2
Softball 8
T&F 3
Baseball 2
Men's Tennis 1
Soccer 2

At the end of July I will list all the commits. Good month so far. There could be good news for football and softball.

Madi Patterson a forward from Lewisville Marcus has committed to Tech.

Thankfully everyone is okay but I had a real sh1t my pants moment this afternoon. I was riding bikes with my five year old son on our street today. He's still learning and on training wheels so not too fast and was following behind me. We get to the end of our street which is a circle and I turn around in front of him and was heading back and he's slowly turning behind me. I hear a woman yelling and look back and there's a full grown German shepherd making a beeline for me barking his head off. The lady (probably in her 50s) is yelling "He doesn't bite! He doesn't bite!" right before he gets me right on the ankle. I kick at him and yell at the lady to come get her dog and he turns back but now he's headed for my son. My son was froze solid (which was probably a blessing) and I'm turning back as fast as I can and see this dog twice his size bearing down on him. I yell as loud as I can at the dog and he puts the brakes on right in front of my son and then runs off back towards their house. The whole time this dumb old hag is still standing in the same spot, hasn't moved an inch. The lady is still yelling "he doesn't bite!" as I ride up to their yard and yell at her "he just bit me lady!" and show her my ankle. About that time another lady in her 30s or so comes out of the house and the old bat tells her "he says the dog bit him", I tell her "look, I didn't bite myself!" and show her my ankle. The old bat snaps at me "don't yell at me!" I was so hyped up with adrenaline and pissed off I yell back at her well you're sitting here yelling that your dog doesn't bite while the damn thing bit me and ran at my kid and you didn't do anything. I tell the younger lady "if that dog woulda bit my kid it'd be dead right now" and she gets pissed and tells me to leave.

My kid is scared as hell and I have to go calm him down, he just had a dog run right in his face that probably looked like a damn grizzly bear to him and then saw his old man screaming at two dumb broads in the street. I got him calmed down enough to ride back to the house about the time my wife pulls up. I tell her what happens and she's ready to go take a couple scalps. My neighbor came outside about that time and I told him what happened. He's got two little girls about my kids' ages and they're all always out playing in the street and he told me that dog had gotten out before. That sealed the deal for me I called animal control and filed a bite report.

The bite isn't too bad it broke the skin but not bad enough to need stitches or anything. Just disinfected and trying to keep from getting infected and wait to hear from the bite investigator if it has anything. Worst part was seeing my kid so scared and being just far enough away to not be able to get a foot on the dog before it got to him. It could have been very very bad. I'm still shaken up a little and can't stop seeing the thing run at him. Hope I can get him back on his bike. He might not want to for a while. I walk every morning and carry for this very reason. Didn't have it on my at the time but it wouldn't have done me much good because my son would have been right in the LoF. Anyone have similar experiences and have any advice? I'm not the type to make a problem for people but I don't want any of our kids getting hurt that's what I care about the most. Lady with animal control said there would be an investigator that will go talk to them and talk to me and the dog would be quarantined.

6/3 UPDATE: I did report the dog to animal control and they have contacted the owner. Dog must be quarantined with them or an approved shelter/vet for 16 days. Vaccination status unknown owner is "looking for the records". I don't give a crap about this dog and will do whatever I can to make sure this dog goes and lives (or doesn't, I don't care either way) anywhere far away from my kids and the other neighborhood kids that play outside all the time and not lose one minute of sleep over it. Lots of good advice in the thread. Thanks to all!

Not knowing the protocol for the rabies stuff I reached out to my Dr. and he wanted me to come in as a precaution (he's a good dude). Said I'm all good on the rabies since the dog is quarantined and they'll let me know if it starts exhibiting symptoms. Said everything looks fine but would prescribe me some antibiotics if it starts showing signs of infection. Since it wasn't a deep puncture he wasn't too concerned about that.

Also, my son obviously isn't too traumatized...he's been obsessed with brackets ever since March Madness and the last couple days he's made a dog bracket and the German Shepherd is making a deep run. It drew the pug in the first round and made short work of it.

7/22 UPDATE: Animal Control finally got around to the process of designating the dog as a "dangerous dog" based on it being loose and biting someone off their property. The AC officer called me Saturday and said he went to visit the owners and let them know that there was a dangerous dog case filed and get a statement from them. He has to present all the information to the AC Supervisor and see what they decide. If AC decides to rule it a dangerous dog the owners have the right to protest it and it could go to court. They don't want to give up the dog and also don't want to deal with the dangerous dog requirements so they said they would protest it if they had to. They're also now claiming that the dog came up to sniff me and I kicked and caused it to bite me which is an outright lie. I kicked at it after it bit me to get it away. I was kind of over it, just wanted the dog hopefully removed (or at least something done so these people take it seriously) so nobody in the neighborhood had to worry about it but the fact that they're lying about what happened is ridiculous. There have been several instances when I've had to walk down the sidewalk by their house and the dog is going crazy jumping on their fence (6' privacy fence) which is in very bad shape. I've sent videos to AC so hopefully that helps the case. I thought it would be black and white based on what the city code says but I guess not.

Is it a big deal yet? Will Calum Scott have some suitors offer up big money to transfer? Does Texas Tech golf program pay NIL money?