Craig Tipton

Homeschool Salutatorian, I outkicked my coverage when getting married. Allegedly too young to have BAS. I’m mostly on this site to learn from y’all.

[l feII in Dior @LIRIO_AG]

“Ay no, tarjeta gris otra vez”.

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

“Yes sir, I do believe the wine compliments the steak quite nicely.”

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

Honestly I kinda wanna buy this to add to the confusion every time I introduce myself.

[insane facebook marketplace items @insanemrktplace]

Solid brass belt buckle “GREG” ($20)

[nile @nileandah]

this is my version of an egot

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

I’m watching a woodpecker on the top of a metal electrical transmission line just constantly keep trying to break through.

Feels like that’s some sort of metaphor. Sometimes the task actually IS impossible to push through.

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

Another funny story, several years back we had a Masters student write a thesis about NASA's relationship with Texas and Aggie, and they described the working philosophy as "you shoot the Aggie into space, but you have the Longhorn do the math. And don't switch those roles." -OS

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

lol nope

[CJ Vogel @CJVogel_OTF]

Texas is currently on a stretch of non-conference series against LSU, Alabama, Ohio State and Michigan with Notre Dame to follow and hollow heads want to complain about a series 7 years from now getting canned.

I know it’s the offseason but surely there are more useful usages of our time.

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

@AmandaMAtwell Pretty sure this is one of the reasons God brought noise cancelling headphones to the world.

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

@FortyAcreVibes I had just graduated the previous year and meeting freshman in 2012 was so funny. They had absolutely no perspective and I loved it. Envied it. My fandom being forged by Fran and Sherman… probably explains a lot.

[Ghost of Texas Football @FortyAcreVibes]

That A&M team would’ve beaten Vandy by 40.

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

I just overheard my three year old twin daughter just asked her twin brother to pull her finger.

People said being a dad would be awesome but I was still not ready for how awesome it is.

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

Starting Goff, ARSB, Pickens, and Woody for 32.68 in the ship against Henry’s 45.6 is only made worse by the fact that I traded Henry away this season and then that’s compounded by the fact that starting him for his 6.7 in week 15 last year helped eliminate me in round 1.

[Underdog @Underdog]

Derrick Henry managers, congratulations on your fantasy championship 🫡

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

@MikeHerndonSk1 I need to stop reading these things before fully waking up. I skimmed the first sentence and my brain read it as “seven seasons” and I was like “oh is this comparing Phillip Rivers and Josh Johnson?”

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

@ChrisDzdw8scq2r @carebearkieran Sure, but Klein’s jump was from OC to HC at his Alma mater. I’m not sure if I’ve heard of someone willingly taking a demotion to go to their Alma mater.

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

@ChrisDzdw8scq2r @carebearkieran I get that being the DC for the horns is a step up from being the DC at GT, but wouldn't being a co-DC anywhere be considered a slight demotion?

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

@ChrisDzdw8scq2r @carebearkieran Now he’s assuming the role with an off HC, the last time he did that was 2015 Auburn.

I feel like it’s valid to think this is likely a step down, all that to say.

[Craig Tipton @CraigTipton]

@ChrisDzdw8scq2r @carebearkieran Boom:
That first NC was 22 years ago. The other two were as co-DC with the other being the guy who has now been there seven years. The co-DC role was while not calling plays.

And all 3 were under two of the greatest defensive minded HCs in the history of the sport.