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ryanlsu
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He’s not saying surgeons should quit now. But even if he is off by 5 years it is still good advice. If you are thinking about going to med school and being a surgeon you are years away from performing actual surgery. And then you need to start making money to pay back your loans. And even if robots just take over the “routine” surgeries there will still be less demand for surgery.
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4 of our lineman have signed with teams that have been in the playoffs the last 2 years
I think everyone agrees that we would like better OL out of the portal but saying that Tennessee and A&M are vertical moves just because of some quirks of scheduling defies logic.
Everyone agrees the Brian Kelly era was a failure at LSU. But LSU as a program has a ceiling and a floor so high right now that we fired the winningest coach in Notre Dame’s history for going 34-14 (Giving him Wilson’s 2-3 record 36-17). Over the same time period Tennessee is 38-14 and A&M is 31-20 and this is considered golden years for them.
Their playoff appearances were lucky scheduling. A&M went 0-1 against the top 8 teams in the SEC by losing to the 5th place team and 7-0 against the bottom 8 teams including 3 games they easily could have lost. They had 1 good win the entire year with a 1 point victory over Notre Dame.
Tennessee’s playoff appearance was similar as they played 3 good teams all year and went 1-2. Also throwing in a loss to Arkansas. Their best victory that year was over 9-4 Alabama team which finished in a 6 way tie for 4th place in Knoxville. They went 5-1 against the bottom 7 teams in the SEC and 1-1 against the rest of the conference.
By contrast, LSU played four playoff teams this year with three of them on the road and played 5 of the top 7 teams in the SEC.
TLDR: Tennessee and A&M as programs are at absolute best a lateral movie and most likely a move down but due to scheduling quirks some people greatly inflate their program’s status.
re: Outgoing transfers are not making vertical or even lateral moves in the portal
Posted by ryanlsu on 1/9/26 at 11:52 am to JimTiger72
I don’t think either of those teams are that good but A&M especially played an atrocious schedule.
They beat
UTSA 6-6
Utah state 6-7
Auburn 5-7 fired their coach
Miss State 5-8
Florida. 4-8 fired their coach
Arkansas 2-10 fired their coach
LSU 7-6 fired their coach
Missouri 8-5
USC-e 4-8
Samford 1-11
They played three good teams. Notre dame, Texas, and Miami and lost 2 out of the three.
If you consider the SEC standings they played 1 team that tied for 5th place and lost. The next best team in the SEC they played was Missouri who tied for 8th.
If you think Tennessee is better than Missouri than the only team in the bottom 8 of the conference that they didn’t play was Kentucky. Their 7 conference wins came from the worst 8 teams in the SEC.
They beat
UTSA 6-6
Utah state 6-7
Auburn 5-7 fired their coach
Miss State 5-8
Florida. 4-8 fired their coach
Arkansas 2-10 fired their coach
LSU 7-6 fired their coach
Missouri 8-5
USC-e 4-8
Samford 1-11
They played three good teams. Notre dame, Texas, and Miami and lost 2 out of the three.
If you consider the SEC standings they played 1 team that tied for 5th place and lost. The next best team in the SEC they played was Missouri who tied for 8th.
If you think Tennessee is better than Missouri than the only team in the bottom 8 of the conference that they didn’t play was Kentucky. Their 7 conference wins came from the worst 8 teams in the SEC.
It would be pretty tough to form a union when over 50% of your members will be gone in two years. The current cba in the nfl was for 10 years and they negotiated it for a couple of years.
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Read his Farewell Address. It's incredibly isolationist.
It was pretty easy to be an isolationist in 1796. It took 2-3 months to cross the ocean back then. It is incredibly intellectually dishonest to think isolationism in 1796 and 2025 are even remotely comparable.
Are you at LSU law school?
I left school for a great job with about 18 hours left to graduate. Didn’t like what I was doing any more in my 40s so went back to LSU to get my undergrad. It was much easier this time around. It seems the kids in school now do the absolute minimum that the professor requires. Became friends with my professors and did any extra work for credit that they allowed. Got above a 4.0 for those last 18 hours and then decided to go to law school.
Now I’m an attorney making more than I was before with a much better quality of life. I would recommend going back to school for anyone who is unhappy with their career. Life is too short to wake up every day hating what you do.
Now I’m an attorney making more than I was before with a much better quality of life. I would recommend going back to school for anyone who is unhappy with their career. Life is too short to wake up every day hating what you do.
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pull all funding/military support.
I’m all for that as long as we pull all funding and support for the Islamist governments in the region that combined get more money from us than Israel.
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For crying out loud, we saw videos of Tianeman Square and that was 35 years ago.
Tiananmen Square protests lasted 7 weeks and had over 1 million people in the square at some point. Some factory workers demanding back pay, no matter in how many places, is not the same.
China does allow some protesting to blow off steam. I took a couple of Chinese history classes a couple of years ago and we watched some videos that were smuggled out. They let them protest for a little bit, then round up the leaders of the protests, claim that they are corrupt (usually corrupted by capitalism), then shoot them for being enemies of the state. The protests kinda dies down after that.
re: 162 people in TX killed by people released on bond during a 4 year period
Posted by ryanlsu on 5/3/25 at 11:58 am to SlowFlowPro
Statements like this are why no one takes you seriously anymore
re: Chili’s CEO Breaks Down the Changes That Turned the Restaurant Around
Posted by ryanlsu on 4/23/25 at 1:45 pm to Paul Allen
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Wow I didn’t know this. Do you remember the exact year that you heard that?
I think I started working there in 98. Seigen was already open and some of the corporate managers were doing some kind of “audit”. One of the younger managers came out with us after work and was talking about how far our sales had fallen percentage wise and that triggered corporate to take a closer look at the store. He said no one was getting fired bc we were still in the top 25% of stores but we used to be number one. He said they were looking at how adding chilis within a certain distance affected high performance locations.
Also the GM had plaques on the wall of his office that said #1 in sales. We routinely had an hour+ waits on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights and the old-timers said it used to be like that every night before seigen opened.
Another thing I just remembered was when I was waiting to move up to bartender, we had a guy graduate in engineering but stayed at chilis to bartend for another year to save more money to buy a house before he started his career.
re: Chili’s CEO Breaks Down the Changes That Turned the Restaurant Around
Posted by ryanlsu on 4/23/25 at 9:40 am to Paul Allen
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In the late 90’s and early 2000’s the Chili’s off College Dr and Constitution in Baton Rouge would have an hour long wait on Friday and Saturday evenings.
I was working there at that time and it was great. The regional manager was there one day and told me that before the seigen location was built, that the chilis on constitution was the number one chilis in the nation.
re: My parents are claiming my online degree from LSU "doesn't count"
Posted by ryanlsu on 4/21/25 at 4:53 pm to LSU Tiger Grad 2002
Didn’t read the whole thread so maybe someone has already said this but the online school at LSU used to be run through LSU-Eunice.
I left college for a real job about 25 hours short of graduating. Around 2018 I looked into getting my degree bc I had promised my mom I would graduate and was going to do the online option so I could continue to work. I read the small print and asked the counselor about it. I was going to be paying LSU prices for tuition but my degree was going to say LSU-Eunice.
I left college for a real job about 25 hours short of graduating. Around 2018 I looked into getting my degree bc I had promised my mom I would graduate and was going to do the online option so I could continue to work. I read the small print and asked the counselor about it. I was going to be paying LSU prices for tuition but my degree was going to say LSU-Eunice.
re: La Tort Reform dead for 2025
Posted by ryanlsu on 4/9/25 at 4:57 pm to Tall Tiger
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Just ten years earlier Bill Clinton won the state for the second time.
I hate that I have to defend politicians, but Bill Clinton of 1996 would be considered a far right extremist by the Democratic Party of today.
re: Retired from the Army today after 24 years. AMA.
Posted by ryanlsu on 4/9/25 at 11:30 am to Florida_Man1981
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There's a great documentary from the late 1990s called "Balkans in Flames" that lays it all out from ancient history to modern times.
Thank you for your service. If you decide to read in your retirement, The Bridge on the Drina is a great book with a lot of history of the region.
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I don’t think anyone really wants Conor McGregor in charge of anything important anyway
Or you could say how fricking bad must the Irish government be that Conor McGregor would be a massive upgrade.
re: Madison Brooks Rape Trial- Its been over 2 years
Posted by ryanlsu on 3/28/25 at 1:12 pm to SlowFlowPro
I had heard that they had filmed some of the sex and had admitted to it but said it was consensual. And that lines up better with the things the defense attorneys are leaking. If the defense is going to be that nobody had sex with her, why are they leaking that she grabbed somebody’s junk or that they asked her if she wanted to have sex and she said yes, or that she called one guy a fig for not having sex with her? Wouldn’t she be calling everybody in the car a fig if everyone refused to sleep with her?
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Her having sex the night before seems very relevant
It is not. Her sex life is not relevant and her injuries are not needed to prove the type of rape the defendants are charged with. The prosecution is not saying that they held her down as she was yelling please stop and the two guys raped her against her will. They raped her bc she was too intoxicated to give consent.
re: Madison Brooks Rape Trial- Its been over 2 years
Posted by ryanlsu on 2/25/25 at 3:34 pm to lsupride87
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I think the videos show she clearly isn’t blackout drunk
So you even know what blackout drunk means? It is when you are so drunk that you don’t remember anything. Tell me in your expert opinion how from that video you can say she would have remembered that?
re: Madison Brooks Rape Trial- Its been over 2 years
Posted by ryanlsu on 2/25/25 at 3:11 pm to Mr. Hangover
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That’s an incredibly strange point to try to make, but ok
It was in response to someone saying even if she hadn’t gotten in their car and gotten dropped off on Burbank she may have still died bc she was walking around tigerland
That was my point. Burbank is much more dangerous than tigerland. Someone was arguing with me saying tigerland was more dangerous. I agree you may be more likely to get hit around tigerland but you are more likely to die getting hit on a dark highway where people drive 60-70 mph.
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