Thermos H. Christ

I mean it doesn't even matter because this bill is going absolutely nowhere, I'm just saying.

Do you seriously have the slightest doubt that the game would instantly sell out and become a really hot ticket on the secondary market if they scheduled it? Or that it would do big TV numbers? People want to see it. They want to see it quite a bit more than they want to see most of the games played by either of these teams.

Doesn't seem that out there to me. Both schools are arms of the state. The annual game was a significant and longstanding piece of Texas' culture, thoroughly enjoyed and anticipated by many citizens of our state. For many people, watching or going to that game is central in their memories of spending Thanksgiving with loved ones. Putting on that game was a benefit these two public universities bestowed on the state for a hundred years, and they stopped doing it over some bruised egos and a few million bucks. I really don't see why it's outrageous at all for the legislature to step in and tell both schools to get over themselves and make with the football already. The Surly and TexAgs contingents are always against it, but ordinary fans and Texans in general liked the game, they're annoyed it went away and they'd like it to come back. Most people don't give a shit about which side started this slap fight, or whether one team "deserves" to play the other, or who's scared to play or any of that.

Why did he specify that it was physical snow? Are flights often grounded due to ethereal snow?

Hey, uh, maybe don't do that?

Herman probably saw some old article about 2016 presidential candidate Gary Johnson smoking weed and got confused

Yeah, with the possible exception of Bama, we could and probably would beat anyone in the country if we played our best game of the year and they played their worst. Clemson has looked crazy dominant on their best days this year, but they barely escaped aggy and Syracuse. If Texas played to the absolute peak of our potential for four quarters and Clemson had a game worse than the aggy and cuse ones, we'd win. Likewise with ND (close calls against the likes of Pitt and Ball State), and on down the list.

After Maryland and Tulsa I thought 3-9 or 4-8 were within the realm of possibility, and I thought it was unlikely we'd do better than 6-6. We've definitely overachieved from that perspective. But I think the reason Tom is stressing it is to avoid encouraging any cockiness. Don't give the players any ideas that they're going to win on talent or otherwise cruise to victory as the obviously superior team, keep telling them they can win but only if they stay laser focused and work hard and trust the process.

That was in 2007 though, when the air raid was a gimmick people weren't really used to. Now practically the whole conference is air raid/veer and shoot type offenses. The whole conference has designed their defenses to deal with that. The whole conference prepares for and plays against that every week, against better players than Kansas will have. I don't know that triple option specifically is the answer, but I stand by their best hope being to come up with something that will let them gimmick their way to a few conference wins each year. Kansas is in way worse shape than Iowa State was before Campbell.

Cool, but that is actually kind of a terrible hire, I think. His whole thing was owning the state of Louisiana (the best per capita recruiting ground in the country) and running a caveman offense with huge athletic freaks that would just push people around and run them over. When he couldn't win with brute force, he couldn't win. He is like the last coach I would hire at a school that will always be at a talent disadvantage. If I was Kansas I'd be looking at triple option guys or something. They need a gimmick, something that can mess with a more talented team that isn't used to seeing it.

Do we know that he's not? The game when we left him in Austin was maybe our worst offensive showing of the year (fingers crossed), which at least suggests he's contributing in some meaningful way.

Well, I wasn't thrilled about the hire, but I've gotta admit our offense is pretty solid and seemingly improving over the course of the season, and our QB has progressed a ton during his time on campus, so it's hard to say the OC/QB coach isn't doing a satisfactory job. It's no surprise that we're running the Urban/Herman offense, but man I think it's a great fit here and it feels so good to have an identity again. The versatility is killer. We can spread it and go fast and have a vertical passing game when we need to, but also be physical and establish the run to slow down the game against all these funslingin' offenses in the Big 12.

I mean I'm not saying I necessarily agree with it, but I'd say it's because Kliff/Tech's whole thing is playing offense like it's the last 2 minutes for the whole game. That's why we roll out looking like we're defending against a hail mary on the first play. Make them take the short yards over and over and bet that you will make a couple of plays and/or they will screw up a couple of downs in a row before they can march all the way down the field 6.5 yards at a time. I'd say that's the idea, anyway. Just trying not to give up the explosive play.

This is definitely the most hype I've ever been for a game against Iowa State, and boy I'm glad we don't have to play it in Ames.

I think it just depends on which side of the ball you believe in. If you're a ball control and type team and believe in your defense (which we obviously should not this year), you can make the other team take their first possession against a totally fresh defense primed to force a quick punt and start with good field position. And then you take your kickoff possession against an opposing defense that's already absorbed a first half worth of body blows in the run game. If you trust your offense more than your defense (which again, we certainly should this year), then maximizing your possessions and trying to strike early/often to make it so your opponent can't play conservative is a good idea. Or so it seems to me.

Reminds me of:

He's saying if the stock market drops it's because house Dems are [talking about] investigating the numerous past and present crimes/abuses of power committed by him and those close to him.

The President is openly calling for suspending election law in favor of simply declaring his party the victors. Impeach. I don’t care if it doesn’t work, make every Republican senator say they support this. Make them all own it, all the time.

I hate this man so much

We probably go 3-1 or 2-2 down the stretch and make a halfway decent bowl game, likely against someone with a better record than us because bowls want to sell tickets and Texas is a big brand. It won't be some huge TEXAS IS BACK statement but especially if we win the bowl game it'll be a clear step in the right direction over last year and miles ahead of where we ever were in the Strong era. But for now I can still dream of going 12-2 culminating in a conference championship and a NY6 victory, so I'm gonna get that in while the getting is good. It's like when you buy a ticket for big lottery jackpot. You don't really think you'll win, but just knowing that you could is a good feeling.

I don't buy this. I think Strong and even late-era Mack both cared more about winning and losing football games than basically any fan. You don't get to be the head coach at Texas unless you care about winning to like, a clinically insane degree. They didn't come up with the answers in time to get the job done, but throughout I think they really, really cared about winning. Mack has/had the image as a folksy nice guy but often as not when you saw him on the sidelines he was purple-faced and yelling at people. I'm not sure anyone gets more worked up about anything than Muschamp does about football, but all the emotion in the world wasn't enough to allow him to put it together at Florida.

These little directional twat schools have been kicking our ass for like a decade at this point.

A kid dying of cancer is “sad, in a way” per the brilliant commentary team

I feel like when you pay $130k to fuck someone you can’t credibly insult them on their appearance