Uncle Nate

Same with me for Tech. We have no business playing Tarleton St. this year, or ACU or SHSU* or SFA in previous years. *SHSU does have a national championship at least. But still, P5 should not be playing FCS period.

Your suggestion is lucid, intelligent, and well-thought out. BIG & SEC: Overruled.

Granted it's not OU easy, but still... 2023 Georgia football schedule Sept. 2 UT MARTIN Sept. 9 BALL STATE Sept. 16 SOUTH CAROLINA Sept. 23 UAB Sept. 30 at Auburn Oct. 7 KENTUCKY Oct. 14 at Vanderbilt Oct. 21 Open Date Oct. 28 vs. Florida (Jacksonville) Nov. 4 MISSOURI Nov. 11 OLE MISS Nov. 18 at Tennessee Nov. 25 at Georgia Tech

Bullshit. That may be one of the dumbest takes on here, and that is saying something. SEC and BIG are top heavy, and deciding on just 8 conference games and having the possibility of not even playing the best in the conference for YEARS proves this statement false. Maybe your point would be more valid if they were forced to play the same amount of conference games the Big 12 is playing, and not be allowed to schedule the November cupcake game to rest and heal their starters.

Ok, now do 2023 Georgia schedule.

One of my friends on our intramural flag football team that freshman year was from somewhere around Kilgore. Had to go up against Bam in a high school football game. The guy is like 5'11''-6'0'', maybe 185-195 lbs playing DE in high school. Said when he went to tackle Bam, it was like a freight train had ran over him at full speed. Bam was bigger than any other player on the field except for maybe 1 or 2 OL, and he's just a man amongst boys destroying anyone who got in his way.

Reminds me of a little yappy lap dog trying to pick a fight with my 110 lb. shepherd mix.

My freshman year at Tech I'm living in Weymouth. Bam would hold court down in the lobby, just hanging out in the lounge. Rumor is he was doing more than just hanging out and holding court...he was engage in certain business transactions.

FIFY.

Raider Red does not take the shotguns on the road. Those are only at home, and most of the time, it's a Saddle Tramp who shoots the blanks after a score rather than Red himself. When I was in school we had two incidents with those shotguns. One was the Saddle Tramp carrying them over to Red accidentally shot one while it was pointed down, leaving a burn mark in the astroturf. The athletic facilities assistant AD, Ron Damron, completely lost his shit over that. Then a couple of years later, he REALLY lost his shit when the dumbass who was responsible for the shotguns decided he wanted to impress his girlfriend and get a picture of him shooting the shotguns AFTER a game was over. We all turned around when we heard them because that never happens after a game. Damron and the campus police descended on him rather quickly. It took a lot of pleading by the Saddle Tramp sponsor to the administration to allow them to continue the tradition and not have it banned because of the actions of one dumb kid. Now if the big wooden pistols Red has as decoration are "banned", then that's just being stupid. Those are just wood cutouts.

Blasphemy. The Oxford comma is the thin blue line between civilization and total anarchy.

She's a writer for the New Yorker and doesn't understand the importance of distinguishing between West the town and west the region with a comma? I bet she doesn't like (and by default, doesn't understand the importance of) the Oxford comma. Sounds like the New Yorker's standards have gone downhill.

I thought ESPN+ has become the de facto Big 12 Network? I mean, if I want to watch Texas Tech volleyball or soccer, I can pretty much be assured it will be on ESPN+. Meanwhile, Spectrum (at least Spectrum in North Texas) did not have the Pac12 network for me to watch the USC game this weekend. I was pretty much anti-ESPN+ when more and more Big12 basketball games were moved to it over the past couple of years, but looking at that vs. the Pac12 network options, I rather have ESPN+ be the de facto conference network, especially since I'm already subscribed to it for the sake of basketball watching.

Might be a good idea to see if this can be pinned to the top? I might join in if my pea-sized brain/memory can be reminded of it by seeing it up top. Then again, I might still miss it. It's really all on me.

I already hate the new clock rules. Yes give us less of what we love. They could’ve changed instant replay to shorten the games without reducing the amount of plays.

Cultural appropriation!!

Amen.

Well, not just because we got the four corners to join and help stabilize us, but even more so the fact we have a seat at the CFP table. Once they expanded to 12 and the Big12 could rely on at least one team getting in barring just a crappy season across the conference, then I was good. Just wanted that opportunity and we got it. So I’m good. And I honestly think Yormark, being the consummate promoter, said those words purposely to create this exact stir and build up that last conference game. It wouldn’t surprise me if he even called CDC ahead of time and said, “Hey Chris…I’m going to say this stuff at the RRC luncheon and get the press in a frenzy. Just doing it to build up the drama for that last game.” And knowing CDC like I do, he probably laughed and said do it, it will be fun. I wouldn’t put it past either guy because they are both two guys who know the power of promoting stuff like this.

Did they really want to though? They are still crying in the corner about it everytime I visit Texags or talk to my aggy friends. I'll be honest, the heartbreak this has caused aggy nation, and the knowledge you have to deal with those freaks again, has been my most favoritist part of the whole thing.

Anyone listening to today's Monty Show? He is sharing a rumor that ESPN has reached out to the Big 12 to consider taking Stanford and Cal if/when ACC turns them down. Over the past year, he has been way more right than he has been wrong. But I do not see this happening. I don't bet, but I would bet good money that this will never happen.

I did find this meme particularly amusing...

I've been more specific than that...here is who to blame in chronological order. 1. Tommy Tuberville 2. Kliff "I have to recruit?" Kingsbury 3. Matt "Bueller, Bueller, Bueller" Wells.

For me, as someone who is both (1) sad that we won't be playing each other every year, and yet (2) happy to see how the new dynamic amongst the members of the new Big 12 has come about, I think it's perfectly o.k. for me to say I'm glad UT is gone but I wish we were still playing. The two thoughts are not mutually-exclusive. There's no doubt that when Beebe was the commissioner and Dodds was the UT AD, UT threw its weight around and Beebe basically did whatever Dodds demanded. Whether you all agree or not, the perception at least is that UT was the bully in the Big 12 room and there was a constant threat they would take their ball and leave if everyone didn't go along, which they did anyway. It's also pretty apparent there was not a lot of unity in the Big 12 and a whole lot of distrust. Whether that was on UT or not I'm sure is up for debate, but the bottom line is that we've never seen the Big 12 so unified and supportive of each other as we've seen this past year. Would it be that way if OU and UT weren't leaving? Honest question. So yes, I'm glad UT is leaving the conference because I do think it made the rest of the conference partners better together than what they were, but I'm sad UT is leaving because it means we no longer play each other. I miss the original Big 12 of 1996-2010. But I don't miss the division, distrust, and vitriol that was present between the members...and there was a lot of blame to go around on that one.

No UT fan can bitch about officiating to a Tech fan. The body of work of officiating between our games has heavily favored UT. The worst example was 2006 in Lubbock where the officiating was so blatantly biased for UT it became obvious early there was nothing Tech could do to win the game. Countless games in Austin where either Bible or Christal or both would call the most egregious calls that went in UT's favor. Also the game at UT where they knocked out Potts with an obvious helmet-to-helmet violation and nothing was called. 2010 in Lubbock (I think was the year) was another one that was crazy blatant that it was something out of a movie it felt like (though 2006 was probably even worse than that). UT has been the beneficiary of so much ref bias over the years that a couple of times they didn't get it (and I admit that one OSU game in Austin was bad), all of a sudden it's a giant conspiracy against them. So easy for them to whitewash the DECADES of ref bias that went in their favor. but you will soon be SEC's problem, and all I can say is, good riddance. I've never seen the conference so united as it is now, and it's not a coincidence that UT leaving helped facilitate that. Yeah, but you are butthurt because you know it has a ring of truth to it.

Just play it loud.