Uncle Nate

Ah come on...I'm not making a strawman argument. Just responding to many of the comments in this thread where it seems the UT fans can't understand why the Tech fans have animosity toward Beard. Read some of these posts...it feels like Tech fans have to justify why they are upset with Beard. To me, it seems pretty natural. I've also posted that I think after tonight it's all going to cool down dramatically and people aren't really going to care as much. I also think this whole thing is detrimental to Tech's chances tonight. It's all been way overblown and I have a bad feeling that UT is going to come out loose, Tech is going to come out way too amped up and tight, and that's a bad combination for the home team.

First, I enjoyed SL Xpress's lengthy prose. Entertaining reads, with a good amount of fact and truth even if some of it is directed sarcastically at me, that made me chuckle. Second, I think after tonight the overall animosity towards Beard will diminish...win or lose. Going back to one of my previous posts, this is all pretty nature and just human nature. After tonight, the powder keg will have been spent, and next year it won't be even close to this as far as "temperature". Tech fans just need to release some steam.

This isn't the first time Tech students have camped out for a game...football or basketball. They've done it before. Duke students do it as well. Just because it is a foreign concept at a school like UT whose students have zero passion for these games, doesn't mean it doesn't happen at schools with passionate fanbases.

You guys have gone beyond comedic now trying to act like there's no reason in the world that Tech fans should have any animosity toward Beard. "How dare they speak ill of UT and Beard...don't they know we are superior to them and they should thank us for taking their coach?" LOL. I'm willing to bet the majority of you still haven't gotten over some girl who broke up with you in jr high/high school/college. If you were being completely honest with yourselves, deep down you wish your student fanbase had even a tenth of the passion that the Tech students are displaying now.

A break-up is a break-up. If you are on the receiving end of it, you are naturally going to have some ill-feelings towards the one who did the breaking up, even if you end up with someone better. That said, I think Chris Beard being upset that Mark Adams didn't get on the plane and the fact that he took a couple of players (well, one was a committed recruit) made it seem like to many that it wasn't enough that he broke up with Tech, but that it appeared he also wanted to sabotage the program in the process (appeared to, to many). So it's like the girl breaking up with you to date one of your arch rivals (yes, with our history and the competitiveness of the two programs, we are in this instance rivals) AND also trying to prevent you from dating other girls as well. There's going to be a bit of animosity there. Now, with all that said, I don't hate CB and I wish our fans would be rowdy and loud tonight but also respectful and clean about it as well. I do feel like we ended up with the better coach, and I hope our fans realize that their actions tonight need to be as much about appreciating MA as anything. I also don't have a good feeling about tonight because the hype is now beyond ridiculous. Our team will probably come out super tight and UT is going to play with nothing to lose. That's a really, really bad combination for the good guys (those in red and black )

Chicken shit move by Warner. Refs should have seen that.

Don’t apologize for being drunk!

OU???

Has to be. Maybe his idiot brother got into serious hock with the KC mafia or something.

I hate that we only get to have Adonis Arms for one year. He is so fun to watch.

All the home teams are holding serve. Well, except for Kansas so far.

My fault. Switched over to BU-Bama when you guys were up 16. Still, OSU is in the best position to be the first team to break home court serve.

I hate this damn Big 12-SEC challenge. It has forced me to root for both TCU and Baylor on the same day. I feel dirty. Truly unclean.

That’s ok. They have three officials to make up for it.

Does Mac Engel understand that he contradicted himself in back-to-back sentences? How can UT look like Chris Beard's old Texas Tech teams in the process of whipping TCU, yet also have an "NIT Look". Granted, I'm just a dumb ol' Tech grad, so maybe I'm not capable of understanding.

I think the Providence game was even worse...much, much worse than the WVU game. At least it seemed that way watching it.

Wow, when you put it that way. I honestly thought Payton's numbers were better than that.

TJ playing shellfish ball lost that game.

Don't you know that KU is a perpetual victim of bad calls? The Big 12 refs have conspired against them every game. How dare you suggest otherwise.

Wait, according to 99.99% of the KU fans, the refs are against them 99.99% of the time.

KSU v KU is fun. Making me feel better about Tech’s play last week in Manhattan.

Agreed. I absolutely dread playing WVU every time.

78-65 Tech over WVU final.

It's all fun and games until someone starts interchanging "loose" for "lose" and vice versa. I really loose it then.

I’ll buy you a whiskey then.