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Dude go nuts with that. Seriously, spend them all.

As of this year, so is Midwestern.

He could kick it long because he had the aid of a tee. That shit adds at least 15 yards to your distance. It’s no wonder he flamed out as a PK in the NFL. Those straight on kickers were never really worth a shit anyways, historically speaking. He’s the second greatest punter in UT history though, I have to give him that much. I’m actually surprised no one dropped Erx’ name after Tuck hit that last FG he just made. He will, and if not, those voters had to have established an understanding that no kickers will ever be inducted again. In this era of highly accurate soccer style kickers, it seems inconceivable that the guy who holds the record for career FG accuracy is the same guy that smashed the long-standing record for distance.

Ok, Kent

I mean yeah there's that and also that Tech's TD was against the UT 2nd/3rd team D when it didn't matter. For all intents and purposes, the offense played a perfect game. If anyone wants to try to gin up some positives about the defensive performance, again a lot of the damage Tech did was when the game was well in hand and even then some of those were "almosts." For example, that 3.8- yards per carry? Tech hit 3.9. They also converted one more first down that would have been mathematically acceptable (38% when the max is 35%). One thing I've noticed is that the D always ends up doing two things in the game that somewhat forgives the low score. So for example in the Rice game, they only graded 10/20, but they forced 5 3-and-outs and pitched a shutout. I'll take it. In the Tech game, they only got 5/20 but got two turnovers and scored on D. Again I'll take it, especially when you're talking about a 35-point win and a defensive score sheet being ruined by garbage time stuff in the second half. When you have an offense this efficient at getting TD's, what you need out of the defense is for it to answer the bell just a handful of times and you come out with comfy wins. Can't wait to see what Thompson and this stable of RB's can do against a TCU team that just took SMU up its ass in the run game.

And as you look through the very rich collection of long-standing rivalry games, the greatest among them actually tend to be day games. That’s not to say that they absolutely have to be, but this idea that night time somehow enhances it is like putting spinning rims on a toaster.

I mentioned Uber/Lyft before, but here’s what I didn’t mention: cell phone service sucks at the Fair on that day. You can barely get a signal. Even if you have the best data plan on the planet, good luck getting a score update on ESPN, much less being able to successfully order an Uber/Lyft. And again, good luck to you finding your driver, and good luck to them getting out of there by their next birthday. Yeah I don’t lend much to that neighborhood crap either. I mean yeah there are gonna be a few knuckleheads that see that day as an opportunity to smash into your car and take shit, but if you base avoiding doing shit on that possibility existing, you’d have to live in a fenced compound. But even if Fair Park were located in the heart of Preston Hollow, the night game is still a terrible idea with all sorts of logistical nightmares and no real benefit to it. The adults in the room who make these decisions don’t even consider it, which again is why i say that suggestion is analogous to “JerryWorld!” The Texas-OU game is a great tradition. There’s literally no point in fucking around with it. Let’s not put our Roger Goodell caps on here.

Again, it’s thrice that amount. You’re just counting the people in the stadium. There are twice as many on the fairgrounds outside the stadium. Ever notice when you leave that game there’s a sea of people that you have to inch your way through (especially if you’re on the press box side which is by Big Tex) and it takes for fucking ever? Yeah, those people were never in the stadium. Even if they’re wearing school colors, they’re just fans who went to the fair and watched the game on TV. Now try doing that when the fair will be closing in 20 minutes or what the fuck ever they’d allow in such a ridiculous fantasy.

Oh man Bill in Sinton’s gonna kick your ass.

That dude’s not gonna make it in the joint any longer than Aaron Hernandez did.

….but every fan IS shithoused going ape at 11 and 2:30. It has nothing to do with the time and everything to do with the fact that this is a game where the two fan bases hate each other’s guts. I’ve never been at that game thinking “you know this atmosphere would be made better if they kicked off at 7.”

I started in 1992, also…but I never stopped. 30th in a row coming up here. My dad, OTOH, will be attending number 59 in a row.

You wanna talk about an enjoyable experience, try imagining the exiting of the Fair at 11pm-12am when all 300,000+ people have to leave at the same time. That’s not even to say anything about the neighborhood. That’s just a simple logistical indication of a nightmare you’ve never seen before in your life. I go on opening night of the Fair every year, we stay until closing, and I’m telling you; that’s an unpleasant experience…and that crowd isn’t near as large as it is TX-OU day. Getting your car just a couple tenths of a mile down the road would probably take 45-60 minutes, the highways connecting to that downtown corridor would clog in a manner analogous to the way it does coming into the Fair when it’s an 11am kick, Uber/Lyft would have catastrophic surge prices (not to mention finding your driver would be…fun), the DART lines would barely move, etc. That “play it at night” shit is on the level of those clowns who say “move it to JerryWorld!!!”

They did. Now, overall money prices may have slightly increased on some things, but not the suggested 2x increase some described earlier. For example, in 2019 a Fletcher dog cost 12 coupons. Now it’s 7. With the price change of coupons considered, that means they went from being $6 to $7. They did not, however, go from being $3.50 to $7. That’s all bullshit. As we stated, corn dogs at the state fair haven’t been that cheap in a long ass time. If you made plans to go on another day, do it…especially if you saved coupons from previous years. If you have a sheet of 20 coupons from 2019, you paid $10 for something that now has the purchasing power of $20.

Meh. They make that money either way. But you’re right about there being tons of unused coupons. I cannot understand why. The fact that you can use ones from previous years isn’t a secret. They’ve put that out in the open forever. I’ve been saving mine since 1995. There have been 2-3 Texas/OU game days where we literally bought no coupons that day because of leftovers.

Exactly. Anyone who remembers 7 coupon dogs had to have served in fucking Vietnam

this is the correct answer. The purpose of raising the ticket prices and cutting the cost of shit was just to save paper .https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/state-fair-of-texas-coupons-jump-from-50-cents-to-one-dollar-12464951 Here’s just one example of how you can tell. That revolving tower ride that can be seen pretty much everywhere? Yeah that used to cost 20 coupons. Now? It’s 10. Another way you can tell? When you buy them at an actual stand instead of those automated kiosks, they come in sheets of 10 and not 20 (the kiosks do them in sets of 15, which is so fucking weird). If this really were just about jacking the price, they’d have kept making the sheets of 20 and they’d cost $20 instead of $10. also, from the article: ”The best news in all this is that it won’t interfere with the fair’s policy of accepting coupons from prior years. In fact, there’s some good news for those who save unused coupons from year to year. Coupons purchased for 50 cents in 2019 (or any prior year of the fair) are now worth a dollar. Try getting a return on investment like that with your savings account.” We actually saved 253 coupons from the last state fair.

I mean it’s not ALL an act. Rudy Giuliani is a stupid guy, but he’s not THAT stupid. Sidney Powell is a crazy cat lady, but she’s not THAT crazy and doesn’t have as many cats as we’re led to believe. Jenna Ellis has loose screws, just not as many as you think. Lin Wood…ok, I’ll give you that one.

See how she tries to cover her ass with "they?"

That's because when coaches don't base their understanding in reasoning, they become susceptible to believing in all sorts of absurdity. The punt is not a fail safe strategy that the folksy conservatives think that it is. "He's playing the percentages by punting!" Really? What percentages?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/10/08/fourth-down-conversions-way-up-this-year/amp/ “Now NFL teams are going for it 69 percent of the time on fourth-and-1, and they’re converting 77 percent of those attempts.” So a 23% chance they don’t make it, doing it with arguably the best running attack in the NFL. Whatever percentage you’d evaluate Mahomes leading a drive in a minute to get a FG (and this totally ignores the occasional botched snap, blocked punt, or huge return), it’s almost certainly higher than 23%.

That shit wasn’t about balls; that was about brains. It’s fucking stupid to hand Patrick Mahomes the ball when only needing a FG. Only way to avoid it was to go for it and make it.

Right because that’s another example of the wrong question being asked. Ok so down 15, you know you need to go for 2. That’s a given. Regardless of whether you decided to go for 2 on the first or second TD, missing the 2 means another possession is needed. So what’s the appropriate question, since the odds of making a 2 pointer apply in either case? To me, and I’m sure Kelley would agree, the question is: “when do I want to know that I need a 3rd possession because I missed the 2?” The answer is obvious: as soon as fucking possible. Those morons who say kick on the first TD are assuming that the 2 on the second TD is more probable, which is grotesque in its idiocy. You’d rather know you need an onside kick recovery with 2 minutes left to play rather than 2 seconds. To argue otherwise is to live outside of a sane universe.