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Tex Long

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  1. It's close. All it needs is to require the networks to air XII and ACC games instead of SEC and B1G. Well... that, plus require advertisers to pay the same rates for the XII and ACC games. It's a win-win-win-win for errybody.
  2. Too many Jacksonvilles.
  3. Second (or third, et cetera) the last few. Disappointed no new random tires this time.
  4. Lost me at "unlubed".
  5. Not absolutely true. Numerous factors, including ledge width and declination, surface friction, wind-speed and direction, personal balance issues, and vertical distance from (and material of) ground level - all of these and many more - contribute to "wrongness" of ledge interactions.
  6. We just need to have all HS students who intend to participate in Intercollegiate Sports take an AAT - Athletic Aptitude Test. Besides collecting physical and mental test results, AAT would also assign minimum and maximum dollar value to each student-athlete, and schools would not be allowed to pay more than maximum nor less than minimum. Test scores and valuations would be publicly available. To maintain scholastic standards, schools would be required to deduct all of its normal student tuition and all other fees from the amounts paid to each student-athlete. No more "scholarships" for athletes, just real educational benefits like every other student. This might affect expensive schools negatively, but that only serves to level the playing fields. Straight NIL would probably belong to the employer, the school, but not necessarily exclusively - actual name/image/likeness payments could be split between school and athlete, and non-NIL employment (ditch-digging, vinyl siding sales, etc) would be none of the school's business other than any restrictions on all students in general. And, best of all, Deloitte could be entrusted with the AAT.
  7. That's just not true. He absolutely did not forget to go. He just couldn't remember the ZIP code.
  8. Your keyword is "RUFF!" Please indulge responsibly.
  9. New coaches, new QB, first game... all of that. Like many Surlys, I expect tOSU to be at least a bit discombobulated, and I expect that will be enough for us to take them. I also expect them to join UGa in being a team we play twice this season. Gonna be a helluva ride, that's a fact.
  10. With all due respect for our HC - and he deserves plenty of it - I join you in admitting that in those circumstances I also was thinking - hell, shouting - "First and goal, Sark! First and goal means First and Manning..." I don't believe there would have been any controversy about using Arch to add " or Keep " to the "RPO" call and taking away one or even two defenders from that short-yardage D. Well... not if it worked the way it worked when he actually did it. I guess we'll see. Can't wait.
  11. When I was 10, my uncle took me to the OU game. We lost, but I had a great time, and afterward he gave me $5 to spend on the Midway. It was a lot of money for the times - gas was $0.20 a gallon and Dr. Peppers were five cents and came in an eight-ounce bottle. He gave me the money in change, quarters for one pocket, and nickels and dimes for the other. He told me not to take more than one coin out at a time, and when I complained about so many coins, he said that it was because if I took a bill or even a handful of coins out, a man would approach me, show me a card trick or two, and then offer to bet he could make the Jack of Hearts jump out of the deck and spit cider in my ear. He told me that if I took that bet, I would be standing there with cider running down the side of my neck and people would be laughing at me for making a bet with a man from Oklahoma. I think he was probably correct, and I have always been leery of the Jack of Hearts in any setting or circumstance.
  12. Definitely not about the money. It seems that he and Milwee couldn't agree on whether to be "QB Co-coach" or "Co-QB Coach".
  13. My experiences with documents that contain both "fully guaranteed" and "millions of dollars" leads me to suspect that events may not turn out to be what some people likely expect.
  14. Can't be seen too often.
  15. Better - pretty much has to be. Worse - completely unimaginable.
  16. The last four games are the actual do-or-die ones. Lose to tOSU in August, not the end of the world, but lose to anyone those last four, and you go home. Why only one? Pitch back early to the trailing RB/WR, run by the defenders and be wide open ten yards down field... Twice a game, minimum 15-16 games, gotta be looking at 30 receptions easily.
  17. ... as long as he was faster than the opponents' DL.
  18. Five years... Is this an all-time necrobump?
  19. Tex Long

    Getting old sucks

    Barely read? Fuck that. I'd kill to be able to see the screen at all, let alone read words and numbers on it. Between 20/300, astigmatism, wet AMD, and cataract surgery, I'm just happy when I can tell which plate has the bacon and which has the toast.
  20. Quite a few years of foreign traveling, me. Any time I was asked if I were American (occasionally Canadian or German), I pretty much always responded with "I'm from Texas". That typically led to either "Bang! Howdy partner!" or "But Texas is part of America, no?" In the latter case, I just said "We like to let them to think so, but we're really separate..."
  21. More of a Holy Fuck than a Holy Shit... imo.
  22. Whorns talk about the 2024 game, but they never mention the truth. Truth: tu finished the game in next to last place, while the Fightin' Texum aggys wound up in Second Place! Hard Truth: aggy D 7, tu D ZERO! Whorns got shut the f*ck OUT. Advantage aggy, Whoop!
  23. We don't need to feature QB running, but we do need the threat to be taken seriously. That means at least one more player on D who can't concentrate on a runner or receiver because the QB will run right by him if he does. That needs to happen early, although not necessarily often. Not like we need to resurrect Split-T option calls from the Wishbone graveyard on the reg, but we sure as hell want to make opponents commit that one extra guy to Arch, even if we only run it once or twice. As far as the season, the big trophy goes to the team that can do what it takes to win the last four or five games in a row... whatever it takes.
  24. With all due respect, you are correct.
  25. Baxter or Clark aside - and, yes, an elite RB mighta pushed us over the edge - I think the real problem was having opponents able to show zero respect for the QB to do anything other than hand off or pitch/pass the ball, and to pay relatively little attention to the deep ball. Not a Mack issue these days, but if Arch continues to be who he showed us he is last season, our offense is going to be 10 to 14 points a game better. I'm not sure even Mack could find a way to fuck that up.
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