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So the entire state of Texas is a “pocket of shit?” Bold take. The markets the old Big 12 could claim: D/FW, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Omaha, among others. Yeah, by today’s conference standards, the old Big 12 would just fine from a “market” perspective.

Devon Thomas? The guy who signed an LOI but never made it to campus? The same Devon Thomas who also had an offer from OU? Not sure what the point is there. I don’t recall on Tyreek Hill. I do recall him being kicked off the team immediately after his incident in Stillwater. Unlike, say, Joe Mixon, who was given the “punishment” of a redshirt season after breaking a girl’s face.

Yeah I loved the Big 8, too, but an 8-team league just isn't realistic. All I want is the original Big 12 back. There was absolutely, positively nothing wrong with that league. It had great regional rivalries, had a good mix of "blue bloods" and quality next-tier down programs and had nice markets. Fuck all of the stupid assholes with their greed and egos that blew up that version of the league.

Made some gumbo with a side of French bread with Cajun butter last night. Was delicious.

My favorite part is equating a guy who has 0 games as a head coach with four Hall-of-Fame coaches. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Nice. Yeah I have tickets to that DBT show. The last concert I went to pre-pandemic was Wilco at Cain's in October '19. That DBT show was gonna be my first post-pandemic so we'll see... it's either gonna be that or TT.

FUUUUCK YEAH. Two nights at Cain's. Gonna be fucking epic.

My mind wanders….

I’ll allow it.

I think in the TV world, the Executive Producer is referred to as the "show runner", meaning while you have others write and direct specific episodes, the EP/show runner is ultimately responsible for the show and has the final say on everything. A good example is someone like Greg Daniels on the U.S. version of "The Office." They had a writers' room and many different people direct episodes, but he was the guy who had final approval on scripts/edits/etc.

Yep that's definitely part of the narrative. I mean, never mind that they they were literally one play away from playing in the Big 12 title game and a shot at the CFP, right? And yeah. As the saying goes, I'm old enough to remember when the OU hive mind spent like 2 years wanting to run Venables out of town. And now he's St. Brent the Savior.

LOL the opposite revisionist history has happened in the OU-media-echo-chamber/social media. Since he left, the narrative has gone something like this: 1. OMG Riley left!? He was a great coach but is obviously a piece of shit. 2. Now that I think about it, Riley may not have been as great as we thought. 3. Now that I think about it some more, Riley was complete and utter garbage and the program was quite obviously completely falling apart. I mean, he couldn't even win a 5th straight Big 12 title or make the CFP for the 4th time in 5 years. The program was obviously about ready to implode. 4. Riley was definitely an awful coach who had no idea what he was doing and we are lucky he left. 5. Brent Venables is obviously 20x better than Riley and we are ready to dominate the SEC.

I'm not sure that we'll see any more than we already saw. It wasn't much of a "face off." He walked into Jabba's palace and blasted him. That's definitely what Filoni does. Filoni/Faverau also understand how to make great Star Wars stories without just copying what Lucas did. (*cough* J.J. Abrams *cough*). They pull inspiration from the same places Lucas did... Westerns, Samuri movies, WWII movies, etc., and tell great stories within that framework. I love using the Tuscans as proxies for Native American/Maori culture. Very cool. Also - holy shit "The Twins" were great... as was the merc Wookie. Looking forward to more of that.

Oh FFS. Like Texas Tech invented the concept of making your hand look like a gun. Our mascot is PISTOL Pete. Maybe -- and I'm just spitballing here -- our fans thought it made sense to do a "gun sign" with their hands because our mascot is PISTOL Pete. We've been doing that shit forever, and long before the Big 12 formed and Texas Tech was on anybody from OSU's radar.

Look, Sanders isn’t an NFL QB or anything, but he’s way better than most people think. He was literally the only piece of the offense this year that wasn’t down with an injury for at least part of the year. I think we had like 2-3 games all year where the offense was (more or less) 100% healthy. At the beginning of the year, we had like 1-2 scholarship WRs available for the first month of the season; and outside of Tay Martin, the entire group are all freshmen and sophomores, which led to a lot of inconsistency in the passing game in general. Toward the end of the season, we started losing pieces again, with the biggest being losing the starting center Godlevsky and then Warren for the Big 12 title game, which is what forced Sanders to throw like 50 times and throw the 4 picks. That’s not his game. When Sanders had a somewhat healthy offense around him he was mostly great this year, culminating with yesterday putting up nearly 500 yards of offense against a really good defense. So to answer the question, no I don’t think the defense will be as good next year, but it will still be pretty decent. I think the offense will be significantly better with the WR group being a year older as well as some new pieces coming in on the OL and RB group.

FUCK YEAH. I’m super day drunk.

Interesting. The trailer makes it look like horri-bad Hallmark Movie of the Week shit with some Jeebus sprinkles.

Pretty typical season 1 / episode 1 for Filoni. The needed to spend the time showing how Boba escaped from the Sarlacc and set the stage for the rest of the season. Felt like they did a good job on both fronts.

Bummer about the ACL show. Great Texas Monthly article, though. I’m REALLY looking forward to this album.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL Tech going in dry.

Lulz Tech about to score again.

Fan-fucking-tastic. Happy for our Tech friends. SEC SEC SEC can eat gigantic bag of dicks. 0-4 upcoming, bitches.

Go Fighting Holgys! Are we still allowed to make fun of SEC SEC SEC on this site? 😄

I do too! It was actually the first record I got when I got back in to vinyl. I got it as a gift the first year when I got my new turntable. It was very well taken care of over the years and sounds freaking incredible.

I think it’ll be fine. It’ll be like Ashoka last season. You don’t need to have watched the animated series or know who Ashoka was before seeing her in the Mandalorian, but it’ll be like a special treat for the people who have watched those series.