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  1. I met the real Rudy around 1995 or 1996. He was very outgoing, warm, and genuine to me...and I was just a 22/23 year-old nobody.
  2. A lot of things have historical racial connections, but in the past 10 years or so just the word cotton has become absolutely taboo, which is absurd. Slaves were shipped by trains and barges back in the 19th century as well...that doesn't mean we now associate trains and barges with the slave trade. Not everyone who grew cotton in the 19th century was a rich plantation owner with slaves in the deep South. A lot of Texas family cotton farms (mine included) were worked solely by the family. That's why my great great grandparents had like 11 children...they needed that labor supply.
  3. Tickets sold (including student seating allotment paid for by student activity fees), not actual butts in seats.
  4. Hmm, as a white boy who worked every summer on my uncle's cotton farms chopping (hoeing) cotton, cultivating, spraying johnson grass, prepping the stripper, etc., I always laugh when people want to talk about racial overtones connected to cotton. There was no racial privilege when it came to working the cotton fields I had to work. People who have turned cotton farming into a race thing are just morons, in my humble, calloused hands opinion.
  5. Back in the original Big XII days, the BCS ranking was one of the tiebreakers if there was a 3-way tie in a division. I believe that's how OU got to go to the CCG in 2008 when you had the 3-way tie between OU, UT, and Tech. Someone feel free to check my work on that, but I'm pretty certain that was the tiebreaker.
  6. This is why more and more colleges are going to the General Manager model. At Tech, Joey and his coaches can concentrate on game prep while James Blanchard and his team handle all the recruiting, transfer portal, NIL, etc. business. In addition, Joey has Antonio Huffman and his team to handle all the administrative chores that aren't part of recruiting, transfer portal, NIL, etc. Take a look at just the support staff, and look at their job titles: https://texastech.com/sports/football/coaches
  7. No, we have a strict no halitosis policy.
  8. Somewhere I have a picture of two Longhorns at the Holiday bowl a few rows in front of me with one hand doing Hook 'em and the other hand doing Guns Up. That was a fun night. Then the next day while we were visiting the San Diego Zoo, every Longhorn fan who was there came up to thank me (I was wearing Tech hat and shirt) for the previous night's drubbing of Cal. I don't think there has ever been a time, before or since, where UT and Tech fans had such solidarity.
  9. This is why I've always hated aTm and just got perturbed with UT.
  10. You were playing us. With our former coach. Not the same thing.
  11. This is correct. As someone who had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend a couple of years ago, it's unrivaled.
  12. I rooted for UT when you played USC for the BCS championship.
  13. I blame Leftwich for Hammond's poor showing at ASU (and he does himself now as well). He had a game plan that was way, way, way overly conservative and it hamstrung Will for most of the game. It wasn't until he released the parking brake at the end (out of necessity) did Will start to move the offense down the field.
  14. No more academic smack and tard jokes. We just took transfer portalling to the next level. Anybody can just throw a bag at an athlete. But we are going to throw him a bag after we’ve portalled his girlfriend. This is 4D portal strategery. 😂😉
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