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  • Originally posted by Green Monstah View Post
    To strong arm the networks.
    If true that was an incredibly foolish and naive move.

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    • Originally posted by New Mexican Disaster View Post
      If true that was an incredibly foolish and naive move.
      Well, I expect no less from these clowns anymore.
      Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
      - Howard Aiken

      Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
      - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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      • Some advice for you all. Stop probing the wound. Let it go. The problem can't be fixed. If you need therapy get it. But it's time to move on.
        When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

        --Jonathan Swift

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        • Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
          Some advice for you all. Stop probing the wound. Let it go. The problem can't be fixed. If you need therapy get it. But it's time to move on.
          Speaking of someone who can't move on and needs therapy...
          Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

          Dig your own grave, and save!

          "The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American

          "I know that you are one of the cool and 'edgy' BYU fans" -- Wally

          GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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          • Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
            Some advice for you all. Stop probing the wound. Let it go. The problem can't be fixed. If you need therapy get it. But it's time to move on.
            This is my easiest call yet: irony.
            "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
            "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
            "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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            • Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
              Some advice for you all. Stop probing the wound. Let it go. The problem can't be fixed. If you need therapy get it. But it's time to move on.
              Still looking for that Boy Scout degree?
              Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
              - Howard Aiken

              Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
              - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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              • Championship game will pit 1 vs 2 after 9 game round-robin. So exciting!

                http://www.espn.com/college-football...ence-standings

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                • These guys are such idiots.
                  Will donate kidney for B12 membership.

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                  • Right thread?

                    http://religionnews.com/2016/10/28/m...ampaign=buffer
                    When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

                    --Jonathan Swift

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                    • A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Mohammad Ali

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                      • Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
                        Yes! Much better. Thanks.
                        "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                        "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                        "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                        • Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post

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                          • Bonus points to SU for keeping the thread going. In the end, this thread might be more of a monument to him than anything else.

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                            • Fertitta is not happy with UT and the Big 12... I guess when you are a billionaire you can just tell people how you really feel.

                              Tilman Fertitta calls Big 12's expansion vetting process 'a sham'

                              Houston board of regents chairman Tilman Fertitta had some strong words for the Big 12 in the aftermath of Texas' hiring of former Cougars coach Tom Herman.


                              Houston experienced immense success in Herman's two-season tenure there, going 22-4, including a 13-1 season in 2015 that included a Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl victory over Florida State and six wins over top-25 teams. Texas hired Herman on Saturday, hours after firing Charlie Strong.


                              Fertitta, appearing on "The Michael Berry Show" on KTRH-AM in Houston on Tuesday morning, took exception to the fact that a school in the Big 12, which explored expansion but eventually decided against it, hired Herman.


                              "It's disappointing that the University of Texas -- who wants to open a campus in Houston and said they would never do anything to harm the University of Houston, with all the football coaches in America, who said that they would stand up for us to get into the Big 12 and then didn't even vote for us when they met with the commissioner and all the schools -- had to come take our little football coach," Fertitta told Berry. "But that's business and it's a great opportunity for Tom and I wish him the best. I hope they all do well, but I just hope we do better."

                              The Big 12 will play a conference championship game starting in 2017. When discussing the interview process that potential expansion candidates engaged in with the Big 12, Fertitta was critical.


                              "You know when I knew we were in trouble?" Fertitta said. "There were three [university] presidents who were on the [Big 12 expansion] committee and when we went to the interview, they weren't even part of the interview process. I walked out of that meeting and said 'Wow, this is a sham. There's no intention of doing anything.'


                              "It was one of the great shams in college football, and college athletics, and just college period. ... It was a total sham and I sit here today and I laugh at the Big 12 and their leadership."

                              [...]
                              http://www.espn.com/college-football...ing-tom-herman
                              "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                              "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                              "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                              GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                              • Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                                Fertitta is not happy with UT and the Big 12... I guess when you are a billionaire you can just tell people how you really feel.


                                http://www.espn.com/college-football...ing-tom-herman
                                I laugh at the Big 12 and their leadership.
                                Comments about leadership are a bit much from a guy who reports that on behalf of his school, he's looking for "more clarity" on what happened with Briles. That said, the Big 12 business was a travesty.

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