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was Big Matt's BDay a week or so ago..............

Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule has been in coaching for a long time now and has seen a lot of other coaches in action. During that time, one coach who has stood out to him for his ability to do more with less is Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State.

During an appearance on The Herd, Rhule explained why he thinks so highly of Gundy.

“I don’t know him personally very well, but I always thought Mike Gundy did more with not as much as everybody else,” Matt Rhule said. “Never had, like, the four- and five-star recruiting classes, but like, he was gonna find a way to win nine, 10, 11 games every year, and every game that you went into, you know, you thought you were a step ahead of him and then bang, he was a step ahead of you. I think he’s one of the great coaches in college football that doesn’t get nearly enough recognition.”

While Rhule doesn’t know Gundy personally, he has competed against him directly. That goes back to when Rhule was reviving the Baylor program. In those years, Rhule’s Baylor teams were 2-1 against Gundy’s Oklahoma State teams.

I just got around to watching Ford vs Ferrari.  It was excellent.  I thought Matt Damon was excellent as Carrol Shelby but I wondered why they didn't cast McConaughey since he is a native Texas.  
What did you think of it uTEE?

I liked the whole cast and thought the production was top notch.

I remember the GT40's placing 1,2,3 but that is all I heard about it.  Nearly all our racing news came from car magazines (mostly focused on drag racing) and an occasional Wide World of Sports on ABC where we would hear Jackie Stewart's nasaly "Annnnd they're off!".

Did you ever hear Bill Cosby's 200MPH routine about his Shelby Cobra 427?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JQksYxgM0

We have a lot of granite (really gneiss) around these parts.

The granite that was used for the construction of the Texas capitol building in Austin was quarried at Granite Mountain in Marble Falls.  Granite Mountain is an 866-foot dome of solid pink granite that covers 180 acres and is the largest quarry of its kind in the U.S. A special track, visible in this 1880s photo, was built to haul the granite to the rail line in Burnet. To this day, granite from Granite Mountain is still being used for state building construction in Austin.

Classic gub'ment bureaucracy.  From Marble Falls, Burnet is actually the wrong direction away from Austin, so of course they had to bring it there first.  

For barely more than it cost to build the MF/Burnet temp line, they could've built it directly to the Cedar Park main line and still avoided having to cross the Colorado River.  

We have a lot of granite (really gneiss) around these parts.

Yeah we have several massive granite domes, out in the Hill Country.  Granite Mountain was one of them, and Enchanted Rock is another one.  Granite Mountain has been heavily mined, of course, but Enchanted Rock is preserved as a hiking/camping/naturalist area, owned by the State of Texas.

It's a nice drive out to Enchanted Rock. 

The whole Fredericksburg area is nice, imo.  I'd live there, except I have no idea what people do for a living there, and everything shuts down at like 3 pm.