Everything posted by Tex Long
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2026 Texas Coaching/ Support Staff Thread
He did a fair job against the Gators last season, though.
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2026 NCAA Offseason Thread
Proposed rule changes. Number of Officials on field is upgraded from 8 to 22 effective immediately. Each Official will be responsible for close observation of one (1) player. In the event the assigned player commits a Foul, his Official shall throw a Yellow Flag; if the assigned player has a foul committed against him them, the Official shall throw a Blue Flag. In any foul situation, there should be a Yellow Flag thrown by one Official and a Blue Flag thrown by another; however, in the event only one Official throws his their Flag, Referee shall immediately declare No Foul and play shall be resumed. EXAMPLE: Team A player appears to illegally hold a Team B player, and Official assigned to the Team A player throws a Yellow Flag. Official assigned to the Team B player may: (a) throw a Blue Flag, and Referee shall declare the Foul and penalize Team A; (b) throw a Yellow Flag, and Referee shall declare offsetting Fouls, assess both penalties in the order in which Flags hit the Playing Surface, and resume play; [c] throw no Flag, and Referee shall declare no Foul, and resume play. When a place kick attempt for Field Goal or Extra Point is made, the Kick shall be declared successful if the ball goes over the cross-bar and between the goal posts. If the ball strikes either goal post, the kicking team shall be awarded four (4) points irrespective of the success of the kick. EXAMPLE: Team A attempte a Field Goal, the ball strikes one of the goal posts. If the ball goes over the crossbar and between the goal posts, the result is seven (7) points for the kicking team. If the ball does not go over the crossbar and between the goal posts, the result is four (4) points for the kicking team.
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Getting old sucks
Hands In The Pie is a damned fine band name. Also, War Baby here, not Boomer. At 82, I don't think "hot" is in the cards for me, although my insurance payments definitely cover everything, so far.
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TIL, today I learned....
One of the all-time most effective advertisements ever created.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
That's only available for those majoring in Criminal Justice, though.
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Texas Offseason 2026 - Guard this, NCAA!
Not bad, not bad at all. I will say that I don't recall him fighting for catches, but more for going after and catching balls that others gave up on.
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Texas Offseason 2026 - Guard this, NCAA!
Coleman looks like pretty much the first WR we've seen in years, who actually fights for - and wins - balls on a regular basis. Lil'Jordan's the last guy I recall looking like that around these parts... who'm I missing?
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I am getting sick of Josh Pate
Hey, how about that Pate guy? Did he ever say whether we're going to have a Spring Game?
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Lane Kiffin to LSU?
Not like it's going to be overly difficult to find cause... But Lane tends to not hang around long enough to get fired.
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I am getting sick of Josh Pate
Yeah, Brooks Austin. Has some pretty decent ideas and good presentations. I think I heard he was an OT at a (very) small school I never heard of. Pretty much always a worthwhile watch.
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TIL, today I learned....
Roger Miller proved otherwise - at least for purple.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
I'd say you spelt "motherfucker" incorrectly, but you didn't spell it at all...
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
You think just anyone can snap the ball long? You think Kick Holding is so simple that even Left Guards could do it - if they report "eligible"?
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Some forms of crazy are indistinguishable from abject stupidity.
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Lou Holtz Exits Hospice Care
Probably more accurate to call it Terminal Rehab.
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Super Bowl LX
Whew. I probably woulda taken 40.
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Super Bowl LX
Welp... Damned good thing I didn't already spend that Under money. Still got 3 points, but wouldn'ta believed it at halftime.
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Super Bowl LX
Between the game and the ads, I'm having a really hard time giving a fuck. The under is looking good so far, so there's that...
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Texas A&M Football 2026 - I Can Actually Hear The Elk Getting Fatter
So... Five-win Steve? Doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it?
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Texas A&M Football 2026 - I Can Actually Hear The Elk Getting Fatter
Bet the under. Seven-win Steve started his career at Texas by turning a MensaTom shit team into an even bigger pile of shit, including a 65-year high low of losing six games in a row. The problem is, Six-L Steve sounds more like Elko's Tee-Muumuu Shirt size than a dig at Phteven.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Sometimes, as Franzese points out, it's the coach on the hook. Flopping around like a fish. Coach can just call the wrong play, bench the wrong guy, leave the wrong guy at left guard, whatever. Fugedda bout it. It's about the spread. Sometimes they fuck up and don't just fail to cover, but actually lose. People wonder WTF, how do you lose to fuckin' FLORIDA? So you bet the underdog, with spread, and the dog not only won with the spread, they won outright - you still win.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
No one thought he would miss last season, either, so your company is not exclusive by any measure. Close to but not in Top Ten - again - is not going to be acceptable.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
We may hope.
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Texas O-line talk
It's NFL-LITE, It's more filling and has more taste. It also has a lot fewer players than formerly who are interested primarily - or even at all - in "an education". The myth of the "student-athlete" has been quite the joke for quite awhile, and now it's at least mostly dead. What players want is a payday, and they'll get one, for a while. As long as insurance companies, brewers, car manufacturers, and drug pushers keep paying mediots and the mediots keep paying the schools, the paydays will continue. But players will probably be shocked when schools follow the exact same $$$$-first behavior and create a portal gateway through which non- or poorly-performing players are ejected before they have a chance to defenestrate themselves. Shocked, I tell you... shocked!
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Texas O-line talk
You're absolutely right. Let's see if they're any better in three more years. "Indiana was a good team, but..." is faint praise for a national champion.