Everything posted by Tex Long
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Too many Jacksonvilles.
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Random Tires doing random tire things
Second (or third, et cetera) the last few. Disappointed no new random tires this time.
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Lost me at "unlubed".
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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.
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
That's just not true. He absolutely did not forget to go. He just couldn't remember the ZIP code.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Your keyword is "RUFF!" Please indulge responsibly.
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
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.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
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.
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Tell me about ou
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.
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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
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".
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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.
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Don’t Forget, Ed Orgeron Likes To Beat Women
Can't be seen too often.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Better - pretty much has to be. Worse - completely unimaginable.
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Texas Passing Game 2025 - Personnel & Production - Jaggy McJaggerson FTW?
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.
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Johnny (football?) Manziel
... as long as he was faster than the opponents' DL.
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Don’t Forget, Ed Orgeron Likes To Beat Women
Five years... Is this an all-time necrobump?
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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.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
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..."
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Post a pic that makes you say "Holy shit."
More of a Holy Fuck than a Holy Shit... imo.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
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!
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
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.
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
With all due respect, you are correct.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
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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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
Old friend - in every way - a guy with enormous amounts of cashola in hand, once told me that the second-best job he ever had was Doorman at a high-rolling Atlantic City hotel. He knew all the big shots' names, always greeted them effusively and treated their "nieces" with great respect.