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  1. 15 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    There is no way in fuck you go 5-0 at home against OU, Baylor, KState, TCU and ISU.

    You barely have fans showing up to games.

    you barely have competent coaching, more to the point, but I'm trying to figure out how it could be done more than "whether"

  2. I wonder if we CAN still get to 20 wins, etc. 

    OU: win

    @ TCU: loss

    @ UGA: win

    KU: loss

    @ ISU: loss

    Baylor: win

    @ WVU: win

    KSU: win

    Ok St: win

    <this is approximately when greggym and Cameltoe's next account will show back up>

    @ OU: loss

    @ Baylor: loss

    <this is approximately when greggym and Cameltoe's next account will go quiet again>

    vs ISU: win

    @ Tech: loss

    vs TCU: win

     

    That leaves us at 18-13, 9-9 in the conference. Flip one of those road Ls to a W-- TCU, maybe-- and then win a game in the Big 12 tournament, and we have 20 wins and a winning record in a very tough conference. That's an NCAA resume-- low seed, of course, but we'd likely be in.                             yay Shaka

  3. we also finished ranked in 1996 with five losses, two by > 20 points

    even if we do get some weird poll benefit of the doubt because We's Texas, maybe we should stop losing so many fucking games

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  4. The Big 12 wants $20m for the TV rights to its stupid conference championship game. FOX is basically saying, "our best case scenario is a TX-OU rematch, and in two of the three years you've had this stupid game, the program with 70% of the conference's TV sets in its state didn't make it. Pass". 

    I know people want to say ZOMG CATASTROPHE!!!!! on the Internet, in response to everything, because we have to behave ourselves in all of the other aspects of our life, but this shouldn't surprise anyone. In terms of national interest and therefore marketability, the Big 12 is mostly Texas and partly Oklahoma. If the TV networks cut Division I to 32 teams, those are the only programs from this conference that would be included. 

    This is a two-team conference in terms of what TV networks are willing to pay for and casual fans want to watch. It has less than a decade to live. If you don't like realignment talk, you should probably prepare to fuck off to the NFL, because we are about to be front and center.

  5. On 1/12/2019 at 7:37 AM, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Funny how everyone gets on the CR for being a cesspool (it is), but damn it seems so many of the really racist POS hang in the football room.  Ya just don't seem to see the shit y'all are rightly calling out there with the frequency of other rooms.  Just my opinion of course, your results may vary.

    Don't be a bitch, if there are racist posts in the football "room", point them out.

  6. 7 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

    As of today:

    58-55 overall (51% winning percentage)

    24-34 in the Big 12. (41% winning percentage)

     

     

    (did i do the math right there?)

    I'm not gonna look it up, how far off could you possibly be?

  7. 2 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    Maybe things were much scarier in 1970 than they were in 1948.

    Yeah it must have been a real quick spike, cause it wasn't too scary in 1948 and it wasn't too scary for Ernie Davis or the black players on integrated teams that played there in the 60s, and then it wasn't too scary in 1972 when Texas had two losses and Penn State had four years of film study of the wishbone offense to go through (and the wishbone was no longer undefeated). But in 1969, boy howdy, you couldn't take a roster with a half dozen black players to Dallas, hell no, you had to go some place safe and racially harmonious like Miami.

    1968 Miami riot

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
    1968 Miami Riot
    Date August 7–8, 1968
    Location
    Caused by Deplorable housing conditions
    Racial discrimination
    Poor economic conditions
    Poor police-community relations
    Economic competition with Cuban refugees
    Goals Economic opportunities for African Americans.
    Methods Protests, unorganized vandalism of white-owned businesses in Liberty City.
    Status Suppressed
    Parties to the civil conflict
    Lead figures
    Ralph Abernathy, President of SCLC
    Claude Kirk, governor of Florida 
    Chuck Hall, Mayor of Miami
    Casualties
    Death(s) 3
    Injuries 29
    Arrested 200

    A group of black organizations in Miami called for “a mass rally of concerned Black people,” to take place on August 7, 1968, at the Vote Power building in Liberty City, a black neighborhood. Sponsors were the Vote Power League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and numerous smaller organizations. The protest was not provoked by a specific incident, but was intended “to show their frustration with the nation’s unfair political, social, and economic systems.”[1] Another scholar described the root causes as “discrimination, proscription, and segregation.”[2] A more extensive statement from the same scholar says the “major grievances... included deplorable housing conditions, economic exploitation, bleak employment prospects, racial discrimination, poor police-community relations, and economic competition with Cuban refugees.”[3]:iv The date was chosen to coincide (because of the publicity opportunity) with the Republican National Convention being held in Miami Beach.[3]:202

    Riots[edit]

    After a white reporter was forcibly ejected from the “Blacks Only” rally, Miami police responded with five cars and a carbine unit, which exacerbated tensions.[3]:203–204 A white man in a car brandishing a “Wallace for President” bumper sticker attempted to drive through the vicinity. As he passed the Vote Power building, his automobile was met with a barrage of stones and bottles and crashed into another car. The driver fled on foot, and his car was overturned and set on fire. Vandals ransacked white-owned businesses in Liberty City’s commercial district. Police eventually quelled the outbreak with tear gas.[3]:205

    Florida governor Claude Kirk, and SCLC president Ralph Abernathy, both attending the Republican National Convention, and Metro-Dade County mayor Chuck Hall arrived and held a meeting with community spokesmen. No actions to resolve the black communities’ issues were agreed on. The Governor suggested that they continue the discussion at 11 AM the following morning.[3]:206–207

    When, the following day, Kirk and local authorities only sent emissaries and did not appear themselves, larger-scale violence broke out. Rioters stoned police, fire-bombed area markets, and looted white-owned shops. Miami officials requested assistance from the Florida Highway Patrol, which used a cloud of tear gas dispensed by a modified version of an insect-control machine to restore order. That afternoon Miami police, responding to what they thought was sniper fire, killed two residents and left a fourteen-year-old boy with a bullet through his chest. No weapons were found in the vicinity. Police, apparently afraid that the unrest would spread to the Overtown neighborhood, shot and killed an unarmed man there as well.[3]:207–208

    The Florida National Guard was called out, and a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed. 800 National Guard and 200 sheriff deputies restored order, and heavy rains the next day ended the riot.[3]:209–210

     

     

    oops

  8. 3 hours ago, Machinator said:

    The press did not work well at all last night. Kansas' athletes were too good and too well-coached.

    You misunderstand. The team played loose last night; there was no reason to try to shake them out of overthinking and tentative play because it wasn't there last night. That's why I said IF I saw a team playing like that, THEN I would change things up. 

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