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  1. According to his sister, Scott had a cold before the heart attack and it's what is causing the fever
  2. Can you post an obituary notice because I can't find anything on his passing. I knew Steve well when I was in Austin. I even played some with him on a team in that Zaragosa League in East Austin.
  3. It's a mistake to not give the receiver any chance to catch the pass for the big gain or the score when the play is wide open. Practice is practice and not an actual game where things may well be different. The play is wide open, and the primary objective is to first complete the pass or there is no big gain or score. Give your receiver a chance to make the catch and that means at all cost do not overthrow it. He can adjust to an underthrow and still make the catch, that can't happen when the pass is overthrown and remember Wingo had a pretty strong breeze at this back too.
  4. The play is run to complete the pass either for a big gain or a score, it was wide open, Wingo didn't have to be Tom Brady and yes, an underthrown ball would have gotten the job done, in that situation. In fact, he would have still scored. Anything but an overthrow.
  5. I would include and can't get the first play of the game out of my head. A short pass and a Texas helmet to the ball after the catch cause a fumble in the open field. I expected to see two or three Texas defenders soon in the picture going for the loose ball. There was one and he took a sort of strange route to the ball like he wants to pick it up and run with it. He misses the ball and the receiver who is on the ground has time to get up pick up the ball and lunge forward before any other Longhorn defenders show up. A Texas recovery after the first Florida offensive play in plus territory probably changes the whole dynamics of the game. It would have been Texas with the great start and Florida and Lagway with doubt in their minds right away. Instead, Florida goes right down the field and scores and never lost the lead after that with all that momentum gained. All I could think of when Wingo launched that pass over a wide-open tight end was a coach in practice telling him if the receiver is wide open just get the ball to him and let him catch it. That it would be better to be short with the throw in that scenario and not overthrow him. You could see that Endries had slowed down and just wanted to present himself as an easy target for Wingo. He knew he was going to score if he could just get the ball. Then Wingo uncorks that rainbow that with a pretty good breeze behind it just kept going and going. Endries couldn't get back up to top speed again to catch up to it. You have saved that play for situations like that when Texas desperately needed a score and it breaks wide open, and the worst scenario happens, the pass is overthrown.
  6. The coaching was certainly bad, but sure would like to have seen the defense come out right away and hit people hard. They could have done that. Instead, Florida came out with fire in their eyes and hit Texas in the mouth and Texas never recovered. It was sickening to see Simmons talking smack to Lagway who was out there on one leg and a bum arm or shoulder and took care of business anyway. He was a totally one-dimensional quarterback who couldn't run or scramble and he still played his ass off. Florida never trailed after that first drive. That fumble on the first play of the game and they got it back set the tone for the rest of the game. Simmons should talk more with his play on the field and less with his mouth, when Texas is being totally outplayed.
  7. Herman was the hot hire and LSU had said they were going after him full speed ahead. Texas couldn't allow that and blew out the big cigars for cash and got him. LSU kept Orgeron and settled for a consolation of an undefeated season under Joe Burrow and a National Championship. This included a win over Texas in Austin in an exciting shootout.
  8. It was Dykes, that TCU connection don't you know.
  9. NBHorn7

    Texas RB Talk

    Every year it seems that the two top running backs or more for Texas get hurt and miss significant time. Baxter has played about a half season in now his third year at Texas. Before the season I was saying this to Burton and company on one of their livestreams. I said we should get a running back out of the portal for insurance for a change. I said we should go after Justice Haynes, who wound up at Michigan. Texas could have gotten him but never even tried. I was told Texas has plenty of quality backs and didn't need him. The past several seasons have said different, and this one is just another repeat of that. It doesn't matter who you have in the running back room if they aren't available to play when you really need them.
  10. He might, but he and his money isn't dead yet.
  11. Phil Knight has a stronger arm when it comes to throwing money.
  12. Avatar checks out because that pretty much describes Hunter Thompson also.
  13. Sark said he wanted this team to be more physical right before the season started. That would be nice against competent teams, and it hasn't happened. Ohio State and Florida just came out and punched Texas right in the mouth and Texas never recovered in either game. Ohio State did it against Texas in the Cotton Bowl game and Sark saw that and the result. So far nothing has changed in regard to being physical and until that happens Texas will continue to lose to the good teams.
  14. Just be glad Lagway was playing on one leg and no threat to run the ball. It would have been a lot worse.
  15. Offensive line you expected, that isn't a surprise or shouldn't be to anyone getting pushed around. The defense getting pushed around and beaten by a quarterback playing on one leg and probably a bad shoulder or arm also is the most surprising thing about this game. First play Texas defense doesn't get on the ball after a fumble downfield, the receiver has time to get off the ground recover the ball and lunge forward. It was all downhill for Lagway and his receivers and the running game from there mostly.
  16. A win would please Wilson and everybody else. Bad news did come down after his surgery to put in the two stents, which went well. He is under strict doctors' orders I have been told by people on scene at the hospital that he not be allowed to watch the game tomorrow, as no undue stress is allowed at this point.
  17. This is a pretty accurate account of what happened. The guy that got the Coke thrown on him is also the one that retaliated with what was handy which was his spitcup. It was about to get ugly when the UT cops made the scene and broke it up. That guy with the spitcup went on to graduate from UT Law School and became the assistant DA for a county in East Texas. I'm not sure if he has retired or not, but I know the good folks there do not know of his sordid past. So, I will not reveal his name here. Wilson was of course in that Nixon mask and yes some of us had to be the Secret Service guys. This was called the "State of the Rag Address" he gave each year at the start of the season. It mimicked the State of the Union Address given by the President each year. Sometimes one of us would stand at the top of the steps and introduce him like they do the President in the House Chamber. Trying to remember what year he finally quit doing it. He did stop wearing the Nixon mask while doing it and then it stopped all together. That bit got kind of stale and others took on more timely things would take its place. Such as the refs marching in throwing flags after that fateful Cotton Bowl game with all the personal fouls and unsportsman like conduct penalties against Miami. I think I still have frostbite from the weather and the score from that game.
  18. He did. If I had gotten one of those shirts for every time I drove the Caddy home, I could supply all the kids in third world nations with them better than those losing sports teams shirts.
  19. I think the word Steamboat was going for was narly. It did get quite ripe after a while. It was warm that day and the flies did start coming around. The guy in the dark red shirt is Wilson and the guy in the jeans would be me.
  20. As Steamboat has mentioned Scott has been stabilized and a path forward is now being considered as to what procedures to take. We have a very large group email that consists of nearly every Wild Bunch person and others from UT Baseball and UT Football. It keeps us informed on each other pretty well. Steamboat and I are a part of this group email, and we know each other. I have known and traveled with Scott and before his passing Jose Pena to so many games in the past. It started with my first year as a student at UT and one of my professors was also a college umpire that had done games at Disch-Falk. He taught production for doing live sports. He also did that kind of work and was still doing that for CBS for the Sun Bowl in El Paso each year. We talked about baseball, and I told him I had followed Texas sports since I was a kid and couldn't wait for baseball season. He told me he wanted me to meet some people when the season started, and I said ok. When opening day at that the Disch came that season I met him at the front gate, and he led me around to section 2 and down the steps where Wilson and others were. I didn't know any of them. He just addressed the whole section and said that this guy belongs with you. He loves UT, he knows his baseball, and he is a real smartass. I have to go work a game and I leave him for better or worse in your hands. He turned and left and after a period of time I became a part of this motley crew for so many years. Through my student days and after graduation. I have told some of the stories in various UT Baseball threads and some included Scott, such as the picture I posted of several of us with a hog head before a game with Arkansas in Omaha. I have known him for I believe 48 years now and hope to share more stories from the past and the future. Please pray for Scott to return and start a new streak!
  21. NBHorn7

    Scott Wilson

    Long time superfan of University of Texas sports Scott Wilson had a heart attack in the Jacksonville Airport and has been hospitalized. Scott, is I think 74 years old. He has a very long streak of attending UT football games and was on his way for the game against Florida on Saturday in Gainsville. This is all I know at this point. There should be more information tomorrow as to how severe it is.
  22. Texan Maranda Lambert supports two teams at the Ryder Cup in New York. She wears UT shirts at her concerts sometimes. She recently took up golf and seems to have caught the golf bug and gone all in.
  23. Hate to see the passing of a Texas Baseball icon. That's what Jon Bible was and was a fixture at the Disch for so many years. Jon was a UT grad, but unlike his usual crewmate Randy Christal, who was also a UT grad, Jon never worried about being called a UT homer. He was the most knowledgeable college umpires I ever knew. He did MLB games during one of the years the umps went on strike and most said he did a good job there. We Wild Bunch guys gave him hell of course during those many games he called at the Disch, but we had great respect for him. He was a part of the famous Bible family and was a really good guy. We often talked to him after games for clarifications of calls. He was always willing to explain the situation and the call. He was usually always spot on in his rulings. He was also a very good college football official and did some Texas games. We saw him and Christal lots of times at the same haunts we went to for meals after a game. Jon favored the double chicken fried steak dinner at the old Stallion on North Lamar. Jon Bible was a Texas Baseball legend just like great players and coaches at the Disch and it was the end of an era when he quit umpiring there. He will be missed by anyone that frequented the Disch at those games that he called for all those years there.
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