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I consistently interject Malort into mine's algorythm. Highly amusing.
The high school rankings definitely mean a whole lot less, on their own. Have to factor in transfer portal and rarely do those actually get combined, they are viewed separately. Theoretically you could get a HS class of a lot of raw but super talented 3* type guys that you know will be your three and four year type of guys and have a lower ranked class, but have a lot of money to spend on your portal and have a great portal class that is your immediate contributors. So, the whole is a different picture than the parts, obviously.

As you said, just need to have a strategy and stick to it as best you can. Can't just wing it and sign talen that you don't have a concrete plan for just to boost rankings.

re: HSA Question

Posted by GoCrazyAuburn on 6/16/26 at 10:46 am to
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Mainly to save $17K per year tax free versus $8750.


How would you do this? The max a family can contribute to an HSA is $8,750 (including employer contributions), regardless if one person contributes all of it or you split it.

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This is my main question. She can contribute tax deductible to an IRA. Assumed any HSA contributions would also be tax deductible. We can get the accountant to setup pre-tax withdrawals to the HSA account.



She wouldn't be able to do any pre-tax deductions to an HSA account since she does not offer an HSA qualified health insurance plan, as far as from her payroll. However, if she is on your plan, she can contribute to her own account and your accountant would be able to make an above the line adjustment for those contributions, which would save some taxes but she wouldn't save on the payroll tax deductions.

Either way, you wouldn't be able to contibute more than the $8,750 for family coverage. So, it would still be best for you to contribute the full $8,750 to get income and payroll tax deductions. This is how me and my wife do it, as her employer offers one and mine does not. She contributes that max to the HSA account that we both use.

re: HSA Question

Posted by GoCrazyAuburn on 6/16/26 at 10:10 am to
You can both have your own HSA account while on the same health insurance plan. Though, I don't know of much of a reason to do so since you can use the same HSA account to reimburse for either of your expenses. Also, since she does not offer health insurance witht he business she owns, she would not be eligible for pre-tax deduction contributions to a separate plan. However, it generally works like this:

If your spouse's employer does not offer an HSA program, she would not be eligible for payroll deduction contributions and would have to contribute to her account separately post tax, and you cannot contribute to her account via your payroll deductions. So, it makes more sense to me to have whoever is eligible for the payroll deductions, just do the contributions for both of you to get the tax savings, and just figure out the split on the backend if needed.

If your spouse's employer does offer an HSA plan, then they can get with their HR department to do payroll deductions into a separate HSA account, even though they are on your health insurance plan. This would be the only scenario that it might make sense to do so, if you both want to manage your own contributions and account investment strategies separately.
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Ah college football in the era of NIL.....


Yea, I know its been a contentious topic when it comes to depth pieces and everything but it is definitely becoming the reality of roster management. Most of the big SEC schools just don't have the unlimited pockets we sometimes think we do. I read a while back that had said Alabama may even be signing a high school class of like 15 at most. So, their ranking will obviously be down just because of the class size, but even still, that is an absurd number.
I’d say with how much shite our fan base has given Cohen for how conservative he’s been with NIL (I think warranted at this point) and then Golesh for his comments on how they are structuring NIL to reward performance over flat checks for unproven talent, I’d definitely lean more towards we aren’t just buying commitments to have on paper.

Point is still valid though, in today’s landscape, what happens in the summer is even more irrelevant than it has ever been pre-NIL.
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From a story telling standpoint I like the idea of Ruth being Lauren’s secret mom, but I don’t think they’ve laid the groundwork.

I still wouldn’t mind if it was a big reveal. But the show is pretty
meticulous with its foreshadowing.
I feel like they would have mentioned her parents or something


I think with how much they doubled down on Ruth having no children in the last episode, can't have much longer to live, etc, they've set up a secret child pretty well. I mean, having just one geriatric citizen being the last person remaining that will eventually end the curse if they just wait a little longer probably is way too simple for the show.

It was interesting she was the only member of town that didn't make it to the bunker. Would for sure be interesting if she is aware of everything, so knew she'd be fine. Obviously her just being old is just as likely an excuse, but just something I thought about.

Also, we still have no idea what is in Loftis' basement. I need ansewrs :lol:

re: Calorie counter app

Posted by GoCrazyAuburn on 6/15/26 at 10:42 am to
MyFitnessPal is fine for a free app. Once you get your typical schedule planned out and understand kind of the reality of where you fall, I find i'm not using it that much on a daily basis because I know where my general numbers are. The free ones can be a paid to get meals and things set up initially witout barcode scanning and stuff, but once you have your usual items added, its easy to log daily.
His posts have been great. His chips and salsa one was pretty hilarious too.
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Hell their old system was arguably worse. The old system didn't look at what you actually earned at all. The government just assumed a fixed percentage return on your total assets (the "flat-rate" or "fictitious return") and taxed you on that number regardless of reality. So if the assumed return was, say, 4% and you had €200,000 in assets, you'd be taxed as though you earned €8,000 even if your investments lost money that year.

The new system is trying to fix that by taxing what you actually earn.


The new system clearly does not do anything to tax you on what you actually earn.
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I'm equating unrealized gains to unrealized gains.


Property taxes are nothing like an unrealized gains tax. Silly comparison. They are a wealth tax, yes. Unrealized gains tax they are not.


I feel like we are always at this point, please god lets just finally put together the product on the field to keep our momentum going.

Really like the class composition so far. I do feel there is more intent with the guys we have so far, a lot less guys where i'm sitting here thinking I don't know how we are going to use him, but he is talented :lol:.

To whoever posted Crumb above, I have seen some CB's for us last week or the one before with him. So he may be next. Though don't know if he is top on the board or what not.
Looks like we may have gotten a commitment from somebody on the DL.
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Patricia admitted she lied about the killer coming after her.


I thought she said she only lied about getting phone calls.
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But again, no one "suppressed" middle and lower incomes.


I mean if we want to get technical in the nitty gritty here, the biggest reason the middle class has shrunk is because more people have climbed into higher class levels. That isn't convenient to the narrative though :lol:
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Have you seen a bell curve? I think you're under the impression that there are only three tiers: lower, middle, and upper.

If we're talking specifically about income, the entire tail on the lower left, the outer left, and part of the middle left would make up the 30%.



Surely you are just a very good troll, becuase you have now argued against the very terms of your own bell curve.