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No surprise

For the record I am very concerned about how the PRC uses students to spy or steal tech. That’s a real thing. But most people just want a good education to either stay in the US and contribute or to return home and make it better there. I prefer the latter, but understand that our country often needs the former.

If they go to only conference games, why have bowls?

Yes there are problems with student visas. I have issued them. It is a tiny percentage that try to commit fraud and most are caught by State Department officers. Pro tip: DHS does little to protect you or stop illegal immigration. US universities rely on international students. They pay a LOT of money in general to attend our schools. Some NT program could fail without international students. Anyone here proud of our tennis team? It will cease to exist.

Why? Firing both coordinators is never a good sign and the highest paid coach in the conference should not have multiple non-bowl years.

I am slightly concerned about the amount of time you might have dedicated to thinking about Kram’s porn preferences.

Me too. But that is where we are this year. No OL and new QB with little meaningful game time. The good news is that our newer players are theoretically more talented - with the exception of the OL.

Just so I don’t post only bad news

Here is a good read that has some limited stats and anecdotes from Houston. The TL;DR version is that at home deaths and emergency calls for cardiac arrest are up. Some verified as COVID, but no data available on most. Heart attacks are up and often related to COVID. Other deaths seem to be up due to people not seeking care earlier, although some later confirmed COViD.

New one or doesn’t matter?

No one dies or is hospitalized for season allergies. You are intentionally being obtuse at this point. People aren’t sneezing and getting the sniffles and then dropping dead. Although COVID can cause heart and kidney issues, the most reasonable barometer of estimated excess deaths would be the pneumonia deaths. Where I am there now about 9000 confirmed COVID cases, but they are now releasing that pneumonia cases over the past couple months are in excess of 3500 and over 30-40 a day are dying from bilateral pneumonia even though many of those have negative tests. But false negatives are common and there are no other flu bugs going around here. The pneumonia cases are 2-3 times the norm. So they are just now starting to treat these as COVID cases and acknowledging their numbers have been off.

Definitely would draw from potential Biden votes if it draws any.

I am down with being smug.

Fap?

@Censored by Laurie have we established which camp I fall in yet? I don’t feel comfortable being called liberal but overlord seems kind of appealing.

@UNTLifer is this where you got your medical degree?

Your first and third comments are spot on. But I think this guy would disagree with your MUTS comment: https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4374350/asher-ohara 2600 passing at 62%. Over 1000 rushing. He is going to be a challenge.

Apparently also a good recruiting trip for us too given our interest in that Vegas school of late. I like it.