Richard Kimball

Apologies for drifting off topic, but I remember on the NFL network, when the Vick dog fighting thing was going on, Emmitt Smith was on one of those "athletes on bar stools shooting the shit" shows, and started talking about how dog fighting was a lot more common than people thought, and it wasn't a big deal. They almost immediately cut to a break, and when they came back Emmitt looked like he'd been smacked in the face and didn't say five words the rest of the broadcast. Personally, I've always believed the dog fighting ring involved other pro athletes (some of those dogs were $10,000 or more, who has that kind of disposable income for that kind of hobby?) and the NFL sat hard on it to keep it from coming out. Sports journalism is a schizophrenic mix of people who will do ANYTHING to keep team access and be one of the "in crowd" and people who want to expose anything they can to get a scoop. Anyway, back to Watson, this one is weird, in that none of the talking heads know any more than the rest of us. Both parties are only talking through their lawyers. Your point about people getting fired is spot on. Smith and Bayless are probably bullet proof, cause they've made a lot of money by making dumbass comments, but almost anyone else can get cancelled in a minute.

We know, Deshaun.

Here I sit Broken hearted Shaka shit the bed and farted

Camelback80 sleeps with the fishes.

60s song lyrics are serious bidness.

I'm bumping this thread in 48 years.

If it's anything like the football portal, it will be like dating after thirty or going to a garage sale. You're trying to find the least damaged item that you might get some use out of.

I decided I'd never get a massage after I saw what happened to Moe Greene.

Nine inches.

Cases like this are Rorschach tests. Some people will believe her, some him, without any knowledge of the situation. I'll say two things, though. Any woman who runs a massage service out of her house and advertises on Instagram cannot be surprised if some of her customers expect more than a massage. Hell, I'm just on Facebook, and probably half of my "friend" requests are thots looking for johns, and my Facebook is about as clean as it gets. I never have anything remotely sexual on it. I'd also guess that most NFL franchises have people on staff for massages and physical therapy.

Richards involvement was minimal. David Sibley and Bob Bullock were the movers on that. Both got their law degrees from Baylor, Sibley was the Waco area rep, and when Bullock retired, he left all his papers from his time as Lt. Governor to the Baylor library. Richards went to Baylor for her teaching degree, but wasn't that attached to the school and only taught for one year. That "Grandma teacher from Baylor" was mostly campaign rhetoric.

Rice and SMU didn't bring anything to the table. Rice, in their entire history, has never made a serious commitment to football. SMU was still in their wandering in the wilderness phase. When the Southwest Conference was formed, television wasn't an issue. For the most part, travel distance between the schools was the biggest deal. Rice and SMU were inside an easy travel path for just about everyone. The Big 12 was about television footprint. Texas and aggy delivered Houston. Rice brought nothing to the table. The metroplex TV interests were Texas, aggy and Oklahoma. SMU and TCU brought essentially zero to metroplex ratings.

Conference realignment talk not going away. The B12 needed one of Rice, SMU, TCU or Baylor in the conference. Having a private institution exempts the conference from having to open up their books like they do if all the colleges are public (government funded) institutions. For the most part, they're loss leaders, and don't do much except provide wins to the big boys and keep the conference from having to open their books. Northwestern is the one for the B1G, Vanderbilt for the SEC, Baylor for B12, USC and Stanford for PAC, and the ACC has several private schools. Course, not all of them are just patsies, but there's a reason the discussion was over keeping Baylor or TCU, and Houston didn't enter into the mix. As to Arkansas, financially they might be better off in the SEC, but they lost all their old recruiting grounds and picked up precious little in the SEC. There were rumors that the reason Arky jumped was because they heard they'd be left out of the B8-SWC merger, but who knows?

Not to defend Nebraska, but they did have one legitimate complaint. Their biggest game of the year in the old Big 8 was Oklahoma. When the conferences merged, Oklahoma went in the south with Texas. The Sooners objected to an annual "rivalry" game with Nebraska because at the time, the three toughest programs were Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Conference championships were a bigger deal back then. Oklahoma didn't mind playing both when a loss to Texas wouldn't affect conference standings, but they didn't want to have the toughest conference schedule every year. From a recruiting standpoint, the Texas game was a lot more important to the Sooners than the Nebraska game, cause Cotton Bowl in the metroplex. The inherent problem, IMHO, with the Big 12 when it formed was there were only three "name" teams. Nebraska wanted Oklahoma to stay in the north, and have Nebraska/Oklahoma anchor the northern schools, and Texas-aggy anchor the south. aggy wasn't up to doing the heavy lifting for that to work, the Oklahoma legislature wasn't going to let Okie lite and OU be in a different division, and Oklahoma REALLY needed that game in the metroplex for recruiting. It really affected Nebraska's ego when the Sooners pushed to be in the south, but...

Been a long time since I thought of Yukon Cornelius. Wondered what he'd been up to.

Really random, but anyone remember getting your car inspected in the 60s/70s? The state regulated the price of inspection, but the dealer could charge a dollar to adjust each headlight. Usually, the guy would walk out, scrape the old sticker off, put the new sticker on, charge $2.00 for the inspection, another $2.00 for adjusting the headlights if you had two headlights, and $4.00 if you had four headlights. Never had an inspection where they actually looked at the car until the state started running stings on the inspection stations I guess in the early nineties.

That guy was so messed up. Married to Joey Heatherton and exposing himself to kids. I read the book he wrote, and aside from his crimes, the creepiest part was the hazing he talked about at Oklahoma. The freshmen had to get naked and bear crawl across a gym with grapes in their butts. Anyone who dropped their grape had to eat it, and the last person had to eat all the grapes. This was under "legendary" Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson. That was the post WWII era, and it was expected that you would follow orders from your coach/boss/DI without question. That was one of the reasons I never was much of a joiner. There were too many people that expected you to degrade yourself to be part of the club. Some of the stuff that went on during that era would land people in jail today (Junction Boys, for example.) Rentzel went nuttier than most, but he was a super high achiever that cracked up and blew a gasket. There are serious hazards to following authority without questioning it.

My grandmother lived on McKenzie. 2700 block.

Tavon Austin tweeted it, and he's #2 on the list. This is just a vanity post. I can make a list of the most exciting college players of all time. It would include Vince, Earl, and Ricky. It would also include Barry Sanders. He might be from Oklahoma State, but you held your breath whenever he got the ball.

First team from Texas to win the Big 12 tournament.

Ha, ha! Fuck all those guys who said we'd never get past Kansas.

OK, Texans history lesson... Well, let me tell you about the time we won a playoff game.