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Thermos H Christ posted:Texas is a dreadful place to live. Austin’s about as good as it gets down there, though. And god it used to be incredible before all the drat grownups arrived. I don’t know; I’d happily go back and retire in Waco. Midland/Odessa has its own charm.
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kayakyakr posted:Peaked around 2014 and then fell hard after. By 2017 I would no longer recommend. 07-10 was a wonderful time to be in Austin. Transitional years and just so much fun. Things hadn't quite blown up to what they are now.
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kayakyakr posted:Peaked around 2014 and then fell hard after. By 2017 I would no longer recommend. Peak was more like 2005-2007 in my book
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Sep 20, 2023 20:43
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Declan MacManus posted:does a&m end with petrino as hc If Jimbo is bought out in the next few seasons I’d bet on Elko coming back.
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General Dog posted:If Jimbo is bought out in the next few seasons I’d bet on Elko coming back. There’s no way Elko is big enough of a name.
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Adun posted:There’s no way Elko is big enough of a name. At A&M he is, I think. A number of them miss his defenses and think of him as the one that got away. Also they may not be in a position to money whip a bigger name right after they shell out like $80m to fire Jimbo and his assistants. Thermos H Christ fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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I think Michigan State will hire Narduzzi. I hope so, anyway
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Adun posted:There’s no way Elko is big enough of a name. Elko has been getting a ton of buzz as a Future Guy and in a couple years he’s probably at the right level. Plus the connection.
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Yeah if we’re talking a couple years down the road and Elko has put together a couple of 8 or 9-win seasons, he’s going to be red hot
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Declan MacManus posted:does a&m end with petrino as hc Hmm what school has Texas A&M traditionally been known to share with/poach from in coaching
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Thermos H Christ posted:At A&M he is, I think. A number of them miss his defenses and think of him as the one that got away. Also they may not be in a position to money whip a bigger name right after they shell out like $80m to fire Jimbo and his assistants. aTm’s short a lot of things (sense, architecture, enjoyable surroundings) but money ain’t one of them
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Thermos H Christ posted:Peak was more like 2005-2007 in my book Franklin's trailer didn't open until 2009, so the town couldn't have peaked before then. The brick & mortar opened in 2011, so you could set that year as the peak, if you want. Alamo Drafthouse, South Lamar reopened in '14 so you could mark that as the start of the decline. Black's BBQ opened their outpost in '14 as well, so that's giving more credence to that being the start of the decline.
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kayakyakr posted:Franklin's trailer didn't open until 2009, so the town couldn't have peaked before then. The brick & mortar opened in 2011, so you could set that year as the peak, if you want. i remember when the thought of waiting 30 minutes in line for bbq at the trailer was insane and the person who took me for the first time reassuring me it was worth it.
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:aTm’s short a lot of things (sense, architecture, enjoyable surroundings) but money ain’t one of them Some of the architecture at A&M is good  its just that the biggest expansion came in the era of brutalist stupidityAnd yes having lived in Austin from 4th grade til I was in my late 30s it sucks terribly now and I was happy to get out
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Why is it that Austin sucks now? I lived there from about ‘04 to ‘11 (not including college at OU) and liked it quite a bit. Is it just tech assholes coming in and ruining things or is there more to it?
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Why is it that Austin sucks now? I lived there from about ‘04 to ‘11 (not including college at OU) and liked it quite a bit. Is it just tech assholes coming in and ruining things or is there more to it? that and it's gotten super bougie -- there's a gd soho house here now. lots of fun stuff to do, but a v different place now.
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Wasn't Austin one of the cities that passed RV parking restrictions because people were using those as affordable housing solutions? Saw the proposal a while back about a guy wanting to build 300sqft homes for 100k+
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Why is it that Austin sucks now? I lived there from about ‘04 to ‘11 (not including college at OU) and liked it quite a bit. Is it just tech assholes coming in and ruining things or is there more to it? Housing prices went insane and chased out all the artists. Corporate interests came in and distilled the "Austinness" of everything down to a cookie cutter build. The restaurant scene that gave us Chi'Lantro, Torchy's, Franklin, Ramen Tatsuya, etc has become saturated s.t. you either need major backing or are driven out of business. Good examples of this are Veggie Heaven and their attempted relaunch, Shady Grove, that one Irish Pub that was open near Shady Grove for a year or so, even Hutts Hamburgers. Music scene went from the place where a new band came to be discovered to just another trendy thing for people to do. Small venues died. Twitter actually ruined SXSW day parties, taking it from a day of discovery while you walked around looking for music that sounded good (or followed the bands you liked around) to a case where you chase whoever is giving out free poo poo. Which also died a death of a thousand drunks. And the town became overrun by Tech Bros. Who aren't bad in their own right, but need to be a balanced demographic within a city. I will say Emerald Tavern and Vigilante created an exceptional nerd space, and there was a vibrant scene and group that sprung up around those venues. That didn't happen until, what, 2017? That's why I mark 2017 as the peak.
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For me even if nothing else changed the skyrocketing housing prices and rent made it untenable even though I actually do have a tech job. It would take a loving lot to offset that, like, New York level public transport and culture, and Austin doesn't have it. Its about half as expensive to rent an equivalent well-located nice apartment in San Antonio as it is Austin as far as I can tell
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Austin became no longer cool when I moved away in 2013.
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fast cars loose anus posted:Its about half as expensive to rent an equivalent well-located nice apartment in San Antonio as it is Austin as far as I can tell If I had to go to anywhere in Texas for a weekend, I feel like SanAn would be the best bet. Go have some churros with them big ol' women down by the dirty creek.
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everytime i see a huge self driving car traffic jam it's somewhere in austin
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Neil Armbong posted:This. Texas sucks, as a whole, due to the state government. Austin used to be incredible and is the best place you can choose to live in this state. We’re leaving next year. We’ve had enough.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:We’re leaving next year. We’ve had enough. Left last year. Do recommend. I miss a lot of people from there and I miss the food but in general I do not miss being in Texas nearly as much as I thought I would, even after I felt it was time to get out.
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Mike_V posted:everytime i see a huge self driving car traffic jam it's somewhere in austin and thanks to state government fuckery cities can't regulate self driving cars. i saw that vw self driving vans have shown up the other day.
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Thermos H Christ posted:Left last year. Do recommend. I miss a lot of people from there and I miss the food but in general I do not miss being in Texas nearly as much as I thought I would, even after I felt it was time to get out. For me, 25 years. Aside from a couple of years at the U of New Mexico, my wife has been in San Antonio, Austin, or Dallas her entire life. We’re so tired of this place.
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Where did y’all go/are looking? Texas has broken me because it’s not great here but the thought of leaving is just fuzzy noise in my brain
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Biloxi/Mobile/Pensacola is cheap as hell. Smaller cities, but the culture and food kinda box above their weight claass
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Democratic Pirate posted:Where did y’all go/are looking? Same but San Diego
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PJ Fleck come on down!!
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Nah. Fleck is always good for at least two  losses per year and another couple escapes, with one exception (which was just a fuckton of escapes)17: 4-8 Maryland, a combined 70-0 to NU and Wisconsin to end the season 18: 4-8 Nebraska (53-28), 4-8 Illinois (55-31) 19: 4th quarter comeback (and a pick 6) to beat South Dakota State at home, last minute pass to tie and double OT (game saving heroics from Winfield) to beat Fresno State, 4th quarter comeback (TD pass with :12 in the 4th) against Georgia Southern, and still ended the season by pissing away their first division crown by losing to their biggest rivals as favorites at Iowa and home (in a slaughter) to Bucky. This was his good year 21: Bowling Green, 5-7 Illinois 22: the most defensible year... 3 straight to Purdue, Illinois, Penn State to open conference play and then only dropping 31 on the Scarlet Knights, which counts as 4 straight imo Definitely helps that he replaced Tracy Claeys after Tracy tearfully shared his pride in and support of the whole team announcing a boycott of the bowl game in protest of a group of their teammates receiving slaps on the wrist for sexually assaulting a cheerleader and then destroying evidence and intimidating witnesses... who himself took over from the abusive and seizure prone Northern Illinois (and now New Mexico State) legend Jerry Kill, who took over from the TE Coach GOAT Tim Brewster. Minnesota's happy with cringe Glen Mason no matter how embarassing the annual egglaying gets.
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Things are going to have to change quickly for the now-Big Ten West teams if they are going to compete in the division-less conference. Iowa, as bad as they are, could make the Big Ten championship this year if they upset likely division winner, Wisconsin. After this year, none of these teams in the West will sniff the conference championship or playoff, except maybe Wisconsin
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Not a surprise to anyone but Tucker is officially gone. https://twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1707066051752497647 Some fairly strong language that adds up to 'you loving dumbass' in there.
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Who are Michigan State's reasonable candidates? Will Lance Leipold leave Kansas for a middling Michigan State or would he wait on a better job? We know MSU will pay, especially now that they fired Tucker with cause. Narduzzi seems like an obvious candidate but seems like a perennial 8-4 type of guy. Pitt's poor start this year might diminish him somewhat.
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Leipold is the hottest name by far. I think they should give Chris Creighton a serious look especially if they are trying to go back to the identity of the Dantonio era (overlooked recruits playing above their rating, grinding it out, playing slightly dirty). Split Zone also did a good bit on how they aren’t necessarily going to spend the way people think. It’s a misconception that Ishbia is footing the bill for everything. $71 million of Tucker’s contract was supposed to be coming from normal boosters.
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Democratic Pirate posted:Where did y’all go/are looking? Rural CT here. New England is much, much nicer than I expected. If you can find good prices on housing, CT, Mass, RI, NH, VT, and Southern ME are all up there in best places to live. Providence metro feels a lot like Austin circa early 2000's, but their housing prices have risen with the rest of the nation as well. We were looking at Colorado, going so far as to have toured houses there. It was close and we were redirected thanks to the pandemic. We had also started considering Washington state, but hadn't visited, and we had a short flirtation with Nova Scotia as well (and having now visited, I'd live in Halifax)
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kayakyakr posted:Rural CT here. New England is much, much nicer than I expected. If you can find good prices on housing, CT, Mass, RI, NH, VT, and Southern ME are all up there in best places to live. Providence metro feels a lot like Austin circa early 2000's, but their housing prices have risen with the rest of the nation as well. Same. We felt Colorado or the West Coast would be more our vibe, but among other factors those places are on fire much of the time and that seems unlikely to improve a lot going forward. Rural CT is chill and friendly and pretty and there are four full actual seasons. You can easily drive to beaches in the summer and skiing in the winter. The public schools are generally great. The dispensaries kind of suck, but there are quasi-legal cannabis farmer’s markets that smell as good as any place on earth, where half ounces of the dankest poo poo ever go for like $35-40. Other than the pizza (New Haven represent) and the ice cream the food is subpar compared to Texas but then again going to NYC and back for a date night is viable if you’re willing to spend some time on trains.
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Komet posted:Who are Michigan State's reasonable candidates? Kleiman's apparently declared himself out after being named as a possibility. Which...I don't know how much of a possibility he actually was but saying so right off the bat is odd. Like I have no interest in dealing with that smoke. As it is odd that Michigan State would possibly be looking at both of the coaches for Kansas schools, not saying either would be the worst hire it's just weird historically.
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