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Poor, poor Alabama is all in their feelings because mean old Texas is poaching their players. "Texas just declared war on Alabama?" Uh, you started it buddy. Fucking hypocrites with their heads in the sand about how things went down pre-NIL. If only we could go back to the good old days when recruits were bought and sold under the table with a push from sleazebag street agents and uncles with their hands out. I think Deboer is a really good coach, but I am rooting hard for him to fail miserably and get crushed under the weight of Alabama expectations and weak NIL backing. https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2024/01/goodman-texas-declares-war-on-alabama.html

Speaking of Alabama and tampering… After watching them dominate the sport for over half my life, I can’t get enough of this shit.

New motto material, here.

Who the fuck looks at the aggy athletic department and says give me that?

Jerrin Thompson to Auburn

Should totally hire an assistant the players want in order to hold the team together. Just ask Texas basketball.

I don't have Thujone level talent, but here's my attempt at MS Paint artwork:

T-shirt Bama fans (living here in Georgia for the past 40 years, I know many) have turned uncharacteristically somber. Part of that of course is from the loss to Michigan, but it's more a realization of the future. Talk has gone from "Texas has no idea what a bloodbath they signed to for in the SEC" to "College football used to be fun." You love to see it.

Who TF prints a boarding pass out these days when flying? I do, all the time. It’s objectively less of a headache and when I’m slowed boarding a plane, it is inevitably some dickhead in front of me who is having app problems or forgot to have the phone unlocked or whatever, just stealing seconds off of everyone’s life around them. Check bags in, print boarding passes while doing it, tuck in back pocket, show to Clear or TSA, show to board plane, throw in trash, done. Substance over style and it wins.

I went with the pouch/mitten covers this time around as those have come off in the past for me. These pouches have been more secure but maybe not as good as those plastic covers. I had to go out this morning and thaw out (hair dryer) two of my faucets ( even though I had dripped both but they are exposed on N side of house). I think I'll go with a combination of both covers (plastic and pouch) next time around. As far as pool pump stuff....with Snowpocolypse '21 and then Icemageddon '23 (both times losing power for long stretches) I tried to be a little more proactive and build an insulated shed around my pool pump so I wouldn't have to worry quite as much about it this year. First test happening now, and while it isn't quite perfect ( I forgot to put a thermometer inside as of yet) but with the pump running and a small ceramic heater in there now, it's nice and toasty. When the weather warms up a bit, I'll start the same for my well pump that sits just down the outside wall from it.

To those accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression.

Nahlin reporting that Jabbar Muhammad will visit Texas Weds/Thurs. Nahlin adds that if Texas loses it won’t be because of NIL. Thinks it’s 50/50 right now.

It would be insane considering that it wouldn't be 21 personnel

Huskies cratering. I feel really bad for their fans.

Interesting

Bangers

i mean...this a perfectly fine resume. did very good at UTSA after Traylor brought him on board, Cristobal brought him to Miami, DeMeco brought him from Miami to the Texans. it isn't a light resume. dude busted his ass at the FCS level (SHSU), G5 level (UTSA), moved up to P5 and then got poached by a fantastic NFL coach. idk if Wright is the guy or not, but he has put in the work for sure.

Iowa dude on MSNBC just now: "I like Trump because he can't be bought".

Please God no.

Oh man... Bjork taking Ohio State down to the depths would just be incredible.

Okay, but if our elected officials focused on that, who would ban literature and whitewash history books to protect our youths?

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https://tylerpaper.com/sports/college/commentary-fifty-years-later-the-long-lost-nixon-plaque-that-he-gave-to-texas-finds/article_56b9eb16-f152-11e9-ac11-bbc2ca7c291f.html AUSTIN — To this day, no one knows where it is. Not an inkling. But anyone who is a college football fan knows its roots. Moments after Texas had beaten Arkansas in the Game of the Century in December 1969, there in the din of a delirious, cramped visitors locker room bursting with joy, was President Richard Nixon presenting Darrell Royal and his Longhorns an official plaque commemorating their milestone victory and proclaiming them the No. 1 team in college football. Said so right there on the 12-by-15-inch plaque. An iconic black-and-white photograph chronicled the special scene with Nixon and Royal and Texas quarterback James Street and tailback Ted Koy looking on, a historic sports moment in time that capped the dramatic 100th season of college football. There may have been no bigger football fan than the late 37th president, the deep-jowled, swarthy-looking politician who was a backup lineman for his Whittier College team and was so enamored with football that he sent recommended plays to NFL coaches like George Allen and Don Shula and once considered Vince Lombardi as his vice-presidential running mate. In the hubbub of the presentation in 1969, Nixon eventually retrieved the plaque from Royal, who had taken it and tucked it between his arm and side. Nixon said he would take it back with him to Washington and have it officially engraved with “Texas Longhorns” burnished on it for all time. And then it was gone forever. Lost in the dustbin of time, a treasured relic from those heady days of the 1960s, when Texas flexed its muscles as the powerhouse of the decade with two national championships and a third on the way in 1970, had disappeared. That 1969 team will be recognized during Saturday’s Kansas-Texas game, but on Friday night they will be feted in the new $17.1 million north end zone Longhorn Hall of Fame. “This is awesome,” said Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, who was only 1 in 1969 living with his parents in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City. He didn’t see his first college football game until 1983. “Darrell Royal was the ultimate gunslinger. You talk about cojones. The national championship. The president was there. You can’t make this stuff up.” The ’69 team will tour the glitzy, high-tech hall among the 392 championship trophies, including the one earned by Bruce Berque’s men’s tennis squad last summer, the school’s 55th national champion in all sports. But that original Nixon plaque will not be there. “No one’s seen it in 50 years,” Longhorns historian Bill Little said. Little was there that cold, dank wintry day in Fayetteville, Arkansas, when the two teams battled before a transfixed crowd at Razorback Stadium that included the world’s foremost Christian evangelist, Billy Graham, and the first sitting president to watch a Longhorns game in person along with Congressman and future president George H.W. Bush in attendance as well. Little was a 27-year-old assistant sports information director for Texas, serving under the legendary Jones Ramsey, and he had been assigned to gather quotes in the victorious locker room. Everyone in the room was physically and emotionally spent, Koy remembers. “It was one of those surreal atmospheres,” said Koy, who stood behind Royal as one of the three team captains.”The Secret Service guys were back off in the corners. It was just an unbelievable thing.” Koy said he distinctly remembers Nixon telling Royal that he’d return the plaque to him. “And then,” Koy said, “it evaporated.” Email* Select Newsletters to Sign The epic game had been one for the ages. Originally the brainchild of television commentator and football historian Beano Cook, the game was moved to the final week of the regular season in December, and Texas and Arkansas obliged. They entered that week ranked No. 1 and No. 2. The Razorbacks controlled the game for the duration of the first three quarters, but the momentum tilted in Texas’ favor when Street ran forever on a touchdown scramble to start the fourth quarter and bring the Longhorns to within a single score of the hosts. Then, on the most famous fourth-down play in school history up until one of similar magnitude involving the No. 1 and 2 teams in the country in the Rose Bowl some 36 years later, Street found tight end Randy Peschel behind two Arkansas defensive backs with the most perfect pass of his career. Koy ran for 11 yards on the next play to set up Jim Bertelsen’s winning 2-yard score for a heart-pounding 15-14 win. The victory came against a backdrop of war protesters on a surrounding hillside clamoring for Nixon to end the Vietnam War, but the president stood oblivious to the noisy distraction and even said during a halftime interview to beware a spirited Texas comeback before game’s end. He’d gone to the losing locker room as well that afternoon and told the sullen Razorbacks that he understood losing, but coming back as well. Contrary to popular belief, Nixon did not proclaim Texas the national champion that day, but the No. 1 team in the land. It might be a small point of distinction, but the gist of the matter was lost on the Penn State faithful. The Nittany Lions, also unbeaten, bristled at Nixon’s crowning of the Longhorns and made their displeasure well-known. Years later, a still irate Joe Paterno would add his strident voice in opposition to Nixon’s grandstanding and clamor that, “I don’t know how the president can claim to know so much about football and so little about Watergate.” Cotton Speyrer, the standout receiver on that Texas team, had kidded that “some Penn State fan had probably gotten the plaque and thrown it into Lake Erie.” The plaque supposedly made its way back to the Texas camp, but no one can confirm that. It’s not in the Longhorn archives. Edith Royal, Darrell’s widow, has no idea of its whereabouts but swore Nixon never sent it back to Austin. Only Fred Akers, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, remains as the sole living survivor of Royal’s coaching staff. Little searched high and low for it and thought he once saw it hanging on the wall in the coaches’ lounge in the Gregory Gym complex. The shiny piece of sports memorabilia, however, was gone. With a celebration of the 50th anniversary of that 1969 team looming, he and his wife, Kim Scofield, dined with Del Conte and wife Robin on the Thursday night before this season’s Texas-Rice game. The topic came up, and Little came up with his brainstorm. “What if we recreated it?” he posed. That following Sunday night, Little went home and googled the plaque. “And it went straight to the Nixon Library and a picture of the plaque,” Little said. “I about jumped out of my chair.” He contacted the White House about gaining access to the presidential seal to apply to the reproduction. He talked to director of marketing Joe Lopez at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, about authenticating and copying Nixon’s signature because Nixon signed very few documents. Lopez recited the exact verbiage on the plaque, and Little got Longhorn Trophies, a local company founded in 1969 of all years, to mirror the same font and same spacing. They went with a dark walnut instead of the less-available oak on the official plaque. They received a digital version of Nixon’s autograph. Little found the college football centennial medallions — the two sides of the coin are flanked on the lower portion of the plaque — on eBay and another website. On Friday, at least 56 members of the 1969 team will gather to tour the new Hall of Fame. They’ll have a reception, they’ll share stories and sit down for a dinner. And then Del Conte will unveil the plaque before it takes its final resting place. “Until Chris created the Hall of Fame, the plaque had no place to go,” Little said. “Now we can give it a home.” Home at last.

I was mostly joking with that post, but reminded me about something. It is strange to me that everyone assumes we won't have a target on our back in the SEC like we did in the Big 12. I'm not sure I can get on board with that notion. I lived for a big part of my life in the southeast. Those people fucking hate Texas (the state) and Texans. More than A&M ever could, we represent the state of Texas and those fans will absolutely be out for blood. That is on top of not wanting the embarrassment of losing to one of the new teams from the inferior Big 12. We will 100% still be a jihad game for almost every SEC program we play. Tennessee won't hate us like they hate Bama, nor will Georgia hate us the way they hate Florida. But they will still hate us. And that's a good thing. Fuck those schools and those fans. We're Texas. But don't think for a second that they won't play their best game against us.

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Yes, but, Bobby needed a a recruiting guy on his show. He’s obviously not as polished as Gerry was, but compared to some of the heavy-breathers who populate the 995er market, I don’t think he’s too bad.