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utee94

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« Reply #6104 on: October 14, 2025, 10:25:24 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 14, 2025, 10:21:59 AM
just wait for the NCAA version of Jerry Jones or Al Davis
We haven't seen him yet, but it's always possible of course.

At Texas we have too many big boosters for any one of them to dominate.  So they like to mess everything up as a group.

The most money is concentrated in two cities-- Dallas, and Houston.  And those two sets of boosters have a bit of a rivalry going.  They don't always see eye to eye.  Which is bad for the program.
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« Reply #6105 on: October 14, 2025, 10:30:09 AM »
I'm sure there's some of that for most programs

guys like them have big egos and are used to getting their way
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« Reply #6106 on: October 14, 2025, 10:33:07 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on October 14, 2025, 08:59:08 AM
Yeah, I honestly think it's possible that the man is holding on, just so he can see Oregon win a football national championship.  It's interesting how much pure will can be associated with longevity, and also, once that will is gone, how quickly a person can pass away.

Like aging spouses, when one of them finally passes away, and then the other one dies within months or even weeks.
Yep. That's especially true when the wife dies first.
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« Reply #6107 on: October 14, 2025, 10:44:31 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on October 14, 2025, 10:10:54 AM
Sure. But to date, I don't recall any single mega-donor doing it, at any school of note.
I don't know about screwing things up, but the late T. Boone Pickens at oSu had the school making personnel decisions it otherwise would not have made. Elevating the golf coach to the A.D. position was an example.

Mike Gundy is a butt-head, not a schmoozer, and Pickens liked to be schmoozed, so that caused some tension.
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« Reply #6108 on: October 14, 2025, 10:49:17 AM »
Quote from: CWSooner on October 14, 2025, 10:44:31 AM
I don't know about screwing things up, but the late T. Boone Pickens at oSu had the school making personnel decisions it otherwise would not have made. Elevating the golf coach to the A.D. position was an example.

Mike Gundy is a butt-head, not a schmoozer, and Pickens liked to be schmoozed, so that caused some tension.
Sure but until recently, very recently, Gundy and the oSu football team had plenty of relative success.  They're not a blueblood and never will be, so their level of achievement was at least somewhat elevated compared to their historical levels and expectations.

So I certainly wouldn't accuse Pickens of "running the program into the ground" which was the wording Fearless used with respect to fears about one single donor running the whole show.


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« Reply #6109 on: October 14, 2025, 10:57:51 AM »
utee were you able to attend the ou game this year?
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« Reply #6110 on: October 14, 2025, 11:09:07 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on October 14, 2025, 10:57:51 AM
utee were you able to attend the ou game this year?
Nope didn't make it this year. Crazily there was no marching band contest for my kids this year, but none of my normal crew were going to be able to go, so I'd have been flying solo.  So I stayed at home.

Next year we'll be done with marching band so I'm definitely making plans to be up there for it.
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« Reply #6111 on: October 14, 2025, 03:23:40 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on October 13, 2025, 12:10:59 PM
Preach on brother.

Did everyone get off my lawn?  My old fart eyes can't always tell.  
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« Reply #6112 on: October 14, 2025, 06:01:02 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on October 14, 2025, 03:23:40 PM
Did everyone get off my lawn?  My old fart eyes can't always tell. 
Ha, I just aksed my assistant if the envelope I just printed was blurry.  Nope, it's my eyes.  My response, "good, I can't fix a printer."  Time to stockpile readers.
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« Reply #6113 on: Today at 09:07:54 AM »
My need for readers struck extremely quickly, in a matter of about two months.  I went from never thinking about such a thing to completely worthless without them and requiring them to read at all.  Happened right at my 45th birthday.  

Weird thing is I've spoken to several people who had the exact same experience--right around when they turned 45.  It seems to be the magic reader age.  
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« Reply #6114 on: Today at 09:21:46 AM »
'Bout age 48 for me, but same same.
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« Reply #6115 on: Today at 09:35:42 AM »
there's a grumpy old man thread somewhere
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« Reply #6116 on: Today at 12:15:06 PM »
Mine seem to be worse at the end of the day, depending on how many nicotine mouth pillows I've gone through.

But damn, I sure do like them.  It's worth having to reach over to the bookcase at night for glasses to doom scroll clearly in the recliner at night.
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« Reply #6117 on: Today at 02:21:08 PM »
I was extremely near-sighted my whole life (literally couldn't read the Big E in the chart) and had Lasik at age 42.  Had mono-vision done.  They told me I would probably need cheaters within 3-4 years, but here I am at age 49, barely hanging on.  

Interestingly, I heard there is a muscle of some sort in your eye socket that squeezes the eye, ever so slightly, which is what makes you able to focus close up.  Essentially, as you age, this muscle loses it's ability to perform, thus the need for readers.  

My wife is super pissed, she always had great vision, last few years has to have the cheaters and I don't, and I always wore glasses.  
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