Curtis Lowe

re: Unconfirmed reports that LSU athletics made a private equity deal.

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 8/3/26 at 8:15 pm to thetruthisnotkind

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Is there an example of a PE deal benefiting the customer? One?

Every one of the big Tech companies that are household names (including but not limited to: Tesla, Google, Yahoo, Intuit, AMD, Paypal, etc., etc. etc.). Do some investigating on the Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park Private Equity firms, that are sources of pre-IPO funding for start-up tech firms to get from idea to implementation of the technology. Private Equity drives technological advancements. Hell, Spaht's firm was instrumental is driving and advancing "block-chain" technology.

Conversely, there are "vulture" PE firms which give the whole industry a bad name and I think that that is what is driving the negative views of a possible deal between LSU athletics and PE.

If this is true, it will be interesting from a tax point of view how this deal shakes out and if LSU athletics and TAF can continue as not for profit entities.

re: Eyanson to the Orioles

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 8/3/26 at 6:23 pm to Double Oh

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Wow the Red Sox got destroyed on that trade

Looks that way. Rutschman not having the greatest of year and to give up supposedely Eyanson in the deal makes you scratch your head.
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That is the price of quality starting catching with an additional year of team control. The trade market for quality starting catching was almost non-existent and those two players would command a high price in return. Rather easy to understand.

re: TIL former Jazz Center Greg Ostertag is the mayor of Mount Vernon, TX

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/31/26 at 5:52 pm to Tigerpride18

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re: Santarelli Sauce

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/29/26 at 2:59 am to chadr07

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Give us some sauces on Logan Schmidt man

Schmidt turned down $1.725 million that the Guardians had available to offer.

LSU Recruiting

re: Santarelli Sauce

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/29/26 at 2:54 am to PP7 for heisman

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beat his pro offer.

Well in order to do that, LSU needed $16,000, so that wasn't too difficult.

Seattle had a little over $601,000 (including the $150,00 that did not count against the bonus pool) to offer as a signing bonus to either of the two flyers that they took in the final rounds of the draft (Santarelli and/or Shouse).

LSU Recruiting

re: Who are the greatest option quarterbacks in CFB history?

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/21/26 at 5:55 am to Y.A. Tittle

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John Bond

F*@#k John Bond.

re: Who are the greatest option quarterbacks in CFB history?

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/21/26 at 5:51 am to Hamma1122

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Tommie Frazier discussion over

The first name that come to mind as an answer to the question. Admittedly, I read through only the first page, but one name I have not seen mentioned for consideration is Thomas Lott the mid to late 70s Oklahomo QB.

re: List of things more gay than grown men standing in a circle playing hacky sack?

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/10/26 at 10:35 pm to SuperSaint

Number Five: Rolling Toomer's Corner

Number 4: Being in the Texass Band

Number 3: Coaching the UF football team

Number 2: The Hotty Toddy Grove

And the Number 1 thing more gay than grown men standing in a circle playing hacky sack: Going to college at aTm.

O-T Lounge

re: Social Security Summary

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/10/26 at 7:42 am to Ryan3232

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Let's say you withdraw an even $3,000 per month. $36,000 a year. Lets say 40% is taxed and you actually receive $21,600 a year. We're gonna need you live util around 87 for you to not take a total loss

There is a serious issue with your calculations and understanding of how income is taxed.

1. You are not paying a 40% federal income tax rate on Social Security. 40% or higher may be subject to income taxes depending on other taxable income, but the tax rate will be much less than 40%.

2. Total benefits of $36,000 annually will be subject to medicare part b payments of $2,220 per annum to be covered by Medicare. Assuming no voluntary federal income tax withholding, monthly net benefits from Social Security will be (3000-165) $2835.

3. The following example comes out of tax return prep software.

Single 67, taking standard deduction. and also withdrawing $5,000 from Qualified IRAs and 401ks per month.

Total income would be 96,000 (36000 + 60000)

$30,600 of the 36000 social security benefits would be taxable....so adjusted gross income would be $90,600.

less standard deduction of $17,750 and less $5,064 of enhanced deduction for seniors (max is $6000 but limited to 5064 by adjusted gross income exceeding $75,000).

Taxable income would be $67,786 ($90,600-17750-5064).

Federal income tax on same is $9825. The effective tax rate is slightly over 10% in the given example (nowhere near the 40% you were claiming).

ETA: The highest federal tax bracket is 37% and a single person's taxable income would have to exceed $626,350 to reach that tax bracket and then only taxable income in excess of $626,350 would be subject to the 37% tax rate.

O-T Lounge

re: What’s a word that people use that annoys you even though it’s technically valid?

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/8/26 at 5:22 pm to UFFan

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I also get annoyed by the word systematic. Systematic would be an annoying word of and in itself. And, to make it all the worse, whenever the word systematic is used, it's almost always followed by the word racism.

I believe the word you are referring to is "systemic" and not systematic.

A simple way to distinguish the two is: systematic focuses on how you do something (methodical and deliberate), while systemic describes something inherent to the whole structure (widespread and holistic).

O-T Lounge

re: HOF level players that slipped through the cracks in big time college recruiting?

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/6/26 at 5:36 pm to thegambler

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Kurt Warner. University of Northern Iowa. Sat the bench til gis senior year and was named conference MVP that year. Turned out to be a pretty good NFL player.

Even better grocery bagger.

re: Angel Laya to LSU baseball

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/3/26 at 7:14 pm to lsubatman1

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s it pronounced Angel like a girls name or Angle like the side of a shape?

ahn - hell

re: Why does Baker struggle with Mobile QBs?

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 7/2/26 at 12:43 am to cajuntiger1010

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Why does Baker struggle with Mobile QBs?
cajuntiger1010
Can anyone who knows ball here give a good answer?

I was always told to never answer a question with a question, however sometimes that is the only way of illuminating a situation.

Go back and look at Nick Saban's losses after he got Bama rolling. A single common element of these losses were mobile QBs.

Why did Nick Saban struggle with mobile QBs?

re: First LSU game I attended

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 6/30/26 at 11:41 pm to semjase

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1982 LSU vs Florida Tiger Stadium. Wayne Peace was UF QB

He probably got hit with an Orange Missile and never saw it coming because of THE MYSTERIOUS FOG THAT ROLLED IN DURING THE 2ND HALF. (One of my Top 3 GBFTL games in authentic Tiger Stadium)

Dude, that was Fla. St. with the fog and oranges flying, not the U of Fla game earlier in the year that the poster that you responded to was referencing.

re: Stay classy ole miss

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 6/30/26 at 8:37 pm to Missouri Waltz

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Hotty Toddy is the most embarrassing cheer in the history of college football.

Hotty Toddy is second only to the aTm chantfags on the gayness scale.

Geaux to hell Ole Miss, geaux to hell.

re: Who was biggest missed basketball recruit of the Dale Brown Era?

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 6/29/26 at 6:44 pm to Lsuray70443

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Probably boring everyone but Lawrence was 7-0 center from WO Boston HS and signed with Mcneese. Drafted by Cleveland. Parrish signed with Centennary drafted by Boston. So two true 7 footers in year one, both signed with in state schools.

Parish was drafted by the Golden State Warriors in 1976 (#8/1) and played from them for four seasons before being traded to the Boston Celtics in 1980. Celtics traded 2 1st round picks to the Warriors (including #1/1 and #13/1) for Parish and the Warriors sent Parish and their 1st round choice (#3/1). Celtics drafted Kevin McHale, while the Warriors picked Joe Barry Carroll and Rickey Brown.

This trade alone teamed Larry Bird (in his second year) with Parish and McHale. Red Auerbach :bow: :bow:

re: RIP Ron Abernathy Asst. Basketball Coach 1976- 1989

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 6/24/26 at 10:30 pm to SloaneRanger

Excerpt from the New York Times NYT Article 5/3/1982

SPORTS WORLD SPECIALS

By Thomas Rogers

May 3, 1982

Money Matters

Being robbed of $2,000 is a traumatic experience for most people, but a recent loss was particularly bad for Ron Abernathy, an assistant basketball coach at Louisiana State University. Last month, not long after Coach Digger Phelps of Notre Dame had charged that many universities were paying college basketball players as much as $10,000 a year, Abernathy was robbed of $2,000 in cash while on a recruiting trip to Gulfport, Miss.

re: Kade Anderson with another gem!

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 6/20/26 at 4:46 pm to Tiger1988

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Well, baseball is complex with so many rules, statistics and of course $$$$$$ to drive decisions. It isn’t a “now league” until it is in nut crunching time at the trade deadline and 40 man roster expansion.

No such thing as 40 man roster expansion, there is an active roster expansion at the MLB level that begins September 1, 2026 that runs through the end of the regular season when the active roster goes from 26 to 28 players (all of which are on the 40 man roster).

re: So we still getting out bid in the baseball portal…

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 6/9/26 at 1:41 pm to vidtiger23

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Maybe you’re just a bitch?

There is no maybe, he/she is definitely a bitch.

re: Why do you think Shaq didn’t win a Natty at LSU?

Posted by Curtis Lowe on 6/1/26 at 4:24 pm to MSGulfTiger

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Indiana ultimately won the game 77-76 on a last-second shot by Bill Laimbeer.

Wow, way off on this proclamation:

1. Bill Laimbeer played college basketball at Notre Dame.
2. Bill Laimbeer was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1979 draft.
3. Bill Laimbeer was a member of the Detroit Pistons in the 1987 season.

Bio at NBA.com

Ricky Calloway had the put back that won the game for Indiana against LSU in 1987.

YOutube 1987 LSu v Indiana start around the 24:00 mark