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It has to be the mixture of hoping to find an under-estimated guy like Fine and the prospect of a Bailey Zappe type guy moving up from Texas FCS level. It is hopeful fandom.

Grandson of HOF Quincy Armstrong - Colt Mahan

I really want him to find some joy at the end of this playing career - but that place. 🤔 For a graduate student with a wife (and kid?), I don't see how that town meeting the needs. 😞

I think you should actually read what I wrote. I never claimed that, nor that unvaccinated Covid ICU patients not getting treatment because they can't pay.. i didn't even remotely claim that. I never brought up Covid patients at all. To get an organ transplant, you have to have financial means to afford post transplantation. Period. If you don't and you can't get a charity or church too st et p up - you are bypassed. If you have cirrhosis and need a liver, if you're still drinking or taking prevented medicines, you are bypassed and likely removed from the list completely. If you go in with active Covid and need a vent, smell like whiskey, cigarettes weighing 250lbs - yes, you'll get treatment for your symptoms. You will not get a new liver.

You are completely wrong. Completely. There are medical "orders" - quit being pedantic. You can obviously ignore them. There is freedom in choice, but still consequences. If you think poor people get the same rate of care, you're naive. You can deny treatment on ability to pay. At the ER they'll stabilize you and then kick you out to the Dallas county ER. There, you'll end up on a wait list for an outpatient clinic to run the tests to diagnose the root cause.. but in the meantime you get on a payment plan for the ER bills and it overwhelms you and your family. So you never show to your appointment five months later at the clinic. That person is *not* getting an organ transplant.

Dude, get this - you won't believe your eyes. Since it is a private industry, listen for real, people are denied transplants because they can't long term financial meet the commitments of life POST transplant. That includes thousands of dollars a month in treatments and medications. It goes way beyond just being denied a transplant because you are a risky individual who ignores medical orders/advice. But yes, all the time surgeries are postponed and cancelled because a patient has failed to uphold their end of the bargain to meet the requirements of surgery. This isn't only for transplantations - it is for routine operations like hernia and orthopedics. True story. I know you are shocked that private industry can do such things.

I'm saying that tax dollars going to some safe house to do drugs safely in a monitored environment to prevent OD deaths - serves the same purpose as denying a (riskier) person a very precious and rare organ transplant that has hundreds of people in line behind them. The ultimate goal is to save lives. That's the only tangential relationship between the topics Lifer is bringing up - as if they are even remotely similar topics. I agree with both courses.

You get removed from a transplant list for not taking medical advice from the surgeon performing the transplant. Post transplant you will be very very immunosuppressed.. vaccinations are required. Shocking. Trying to increase survival for the person that does end up getting the organ. You are comparing stupid things - not even related. However, if they were related it is about the "drug house" shows deaths from ODs go down. Since brushing the drugs underground don't help.. They are both measures to increase survival of people involved.

No doctor would look at their BMI and be confused or concerned. But if they lose 20lbs unexpectedly, it's a data point on health... Weight plays into cancer risks, diabetes, etc. It is not a wild body shaming social construct. The hate for the BMI because it's imperfect is akin to hating a vaccine because it's not 100% prevention. Can you be healthy and "overweight" - sure. But should we even call it that based on how a basketball player would be in the overweight category? Yes ... 99% of the people coming into clinic are categorized correctly and it's a simple way to talk about risks within ranges. For that 1%, the doctor knows it doesn't apply.. When I saw this article earlier this week, I told my friends that we need a "don't ask about my drinking" card. How dare they try to shame me for my sixer every night?

No ride through Denton ... No rides through Texas at all. I've done every scenic they offer. The best local'ish is the ride through the Gilman Tunnels in NM. https://lobolife.unm.edu/the-gilman-tunnels/

I wish them well - they seem like nice young men. I certainly can't blame them for trying to maximize their opportunities in this small window of their life. If they can parlay this into some nationally recognized and academically excellent private school education AND get on more TV sets at the same time? We'd be fools to not take a look if given the same situation. Certainly sucks for us people back at MG fandom-land though. I hope we get some good JC DEs.

You don't even read the articles you link - you just grab one paragraph and try to mic-drop. It is embarrassing. Your link says it is complicated and CDC numbers can be off a bit. Yet my link is using many data sets, not just CDC. Your link says Baby Boomers are the largest reason for the high divorce rates and since they are dying off it is leading to these declines in divorces. Read this section of your article. Divorce in America: The Baby Boomer Factor One of the biggest problems with national divorce averages is that they include baby boomers, a group that, statistically, is very prone to divorce. That if this trend continues - divorces will be 2/3rd of what they were when the boomers were around. Very interesting read - thanks!

Definitely not football related and definitely not true. The divorce rate is at a 50 year *low*. Nice judgements though.

Some articles indicate he was benched anyhow - low production in special teams and doesn't show enough route running to demand playing time. In the game a couple weeks ago that he started because the whole WR corp was out, he didn't put his mouth guard in on running plays and only seemed to care when he was going deep. As a coach, that would be enough to kill off his time. IMO. He needs to regroup in the off season.

Definitely that can happen, which is why the rapid antigen tests come with two in a package. You are supposed to do the two, statistically eliminate the that small FP chance. PCR is the gold standard, obviously. However, I was being pedantic with "FP and asymptomatic" - since obviously a false positive will not have symptoms. But again, that is why you take two rapid tests in the box. A (good) lab rapid test covers that in house though.

This isn't a thing.

Thankfully the omicron strain is looking to come and go quickly in South Africa - even without vaccination rates like we have here. New York is seeing a big surge, but without the level of destruction as two years ago, still way worse than the flu or "just a cold." You know - this is how communicable diseases work. The disease is not out to kill you, it wants to keep you alive and continue to thrive. You die, it dies. Over time the variants tend to get more communicable and less deadly. Hopefully Omicron is just the step in that evolution to making just just a "common cold" and it can be treated that way. If people are playing a bit close to the vest with Omicron and be cautious, that is good. If/when this does end up being a not-as-lethal variant (unlike Delta), that doesn't mean the WHOLE ordeal was in error. If the logical fallacy of a mask not protecting 100% against spread, so therefore masks are useless. Or the vaccine isn't 100% effective, so it means it is useless. However, on the note of "people with active communicable diseases" playing a football game - I think it is common sense that even with a cold you shouldn't be "playing." You shouldn't even go into the office to work. This isn't rocket science. Until then, how about you leave your (personal) opinions out of it and let the people who run this stuff run the show? I mean, it is a free market, right? You think A$M wants to lose money and not play?

Where the majority of jobs (and population) are located? 😱

Missed that one in all the shuffling... thanks

This move - to me - made it seem like GH is going to stay at USC. He may have been the one that made the move to hire TC.

Why would an FDA approved vaccine be political? That's interesting for sure. Initial reports were it was some injury.

It's kind of funny you link that article, because it lays the blame on the crap schools that they previous CUSA prez added and the vast underperforming of those crap schools (UNT is in that list). If the prior board has added those SBC schools and UNT stayed in the SBC, we'd still be in the exact same turd conference situation. The schools didn't execute. No national rankings to speak of, no darlings in the media, just an pure underwhelming football that can't lure TV deals or College GameDay to even care. Judy's judgement will be in this next realignment - can they capture some lightning in the up and comers? We'll see. Hopefully she gets a personal shopper at Nordstroms, like my wife uses.

Make no mistake, I'm not saying she's great.. the CUSA is a turd, but we knew that going in. This board was just ignoring that all the good and interesting schools had bailed under someone else's reign of crap. Unfortunately, SBC got some real up and coming teams that started winning at the same time and had some national following... The MWC has real teams, MAC has stable regionally known teams all centered in a very populated region. But all you can guys blame Judy for everything under the sun - half the commentary centers around her looks. I was shocked to see that UNT AD spends more on Administration salary than it does on scholarships. That's just a side note. That was surprising. Must be Wren's round face ammirite?

CUSA has a similar sized budget to UNT. Yet UNT is nearly doubling the salary of Wren - but looking at UNT's revenue against the FBS, we have not been keeping pace. On the outside, it can look ok, even good.. up 27% over the last 6 years or so? Yet FBS on a whole is up nearly 30%. The cash cow of UNT has been pretty bad in.. the smaller sports are doing well. It's not some juggernaut of a program that's on cruise control... the expenses look close between UNT and CUSA. But I've never heard pot shots at Wren's appearance nor at the UNT president who is a leader in CUSA. CUSA is a dog, not because of negotiations skills, but because of the schools themselves.. hard to sell a 4 win team playing Incarnate word.

You think she is passing up good money that is just sitting on the table? You think there's a high demand for those 1000 people that watch an FIU v UNT game? Advertisers are just lining up? Cable (that's losing subscribers left and right) want to pony up a large amount of money on a product that doesn't sell? Must be her butch hair.