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  1. 15 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    One team doesn’t get to pick the refs for a playoff game.

    True.  But one can have more input and play the chess game with the other enough to sway it more favorable to them.   There  are some chapters who will get on the good side of some of the power schools knowing this time of year they can get in line for the higher revenue games.  The Houston Chapter is one of them and if you seen them in action compared to other chapters during playoff season , they will call stuff other chapters don’t.   A few years ago we went to state and used the Houston chapter twice with one of them being in the state title game.   We never once got called for a chop block in any other of the playoff games with Refs from San Antonio, Abilene, and Waco.  But the Houston Chapter was all too flag happy.  

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  2. That’s pretty lucky for Aledo. I saw another video on FB where the Line Judge(side judge?) on the offensive right is looking in to the sun so there was no way he saw it.

    OT winner followed by this squeaker makes me worry for next week.

    Not the first and not the last time Aledo has been on the receiving end of some benefits of the doubt type calls. Some of the ref chapters favor Aledo so they get picked to call these games on the later rounds. Especially from the Houston chapter.
  3. 10 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    Matt does this because he loves football. He also used to post on 3ADownlow before the classes changed. He knew guys, one in particular that I was friends with, who went to small town games on Friday nights. 

    Matt really enjoys football. He's an Everman guy, but basketball was his first love. He is a genuinely good person. I respect him and he is living out his dream doing what he does. We should all be so blessed to have a job we love. 

    He still does post on several of the message boards.  More so around this time of year and going into the off season because their is less teams to cover thanks to the playoffs.   I love the fact he's not a native Texan and he embraced the culture on several levels in the state.  He walked right by me down on the field at the Alamodome a couple of Saturdays ago and I've should have told him how much folks who follow high school ball appreciate his work.

  4. 25 minutes ago, NowThis said:

    ok big picture...did CDC heavily pressure Tom to dump his buddies? The ax fell very hard and fast on the guys and that doesn't feel like a Tom propelled situation.

    I was surprised it occurred as fast as it did.   I mean during a holiday weekend too.  

    If I were CDC, I would have told Tom this.  Look, next year is the year.  Either you right this shit and you will be on the path to long term employment at this university.   Or did you just see how Charlie Strong's gig at USF ended?    Well, that will be you because you will bomb at the next school  which won't be a P5 and then be relegated to coordinators job for the rest of your career or even something lower on the coaching tree.     One thing some Mensa's do value is their legacy to some extent.    Some, not all....

  5. On 12/9/2019 at 12:17 PM, Neonmoon said:

    This folks is not journalism. This is propoganda. 

    He starts by saying Ash is a possibility, but might take the Ohio State DC job that isn't open. (guy everyone doesn't want might be too good for Texas and take tOSU DC job)

    He then drops Todd Fucking Graham on the reader to scare the reader. It must be true. The strenght coach called him because of Rice (holy shit, we're going to get stuck with Todd Graham)

    Intended Result: Reader thinks, wait, we should just hire Cris Ash. He's so much better than Graham. What are we waiting fo, hire Cris Ash!!!

     

     

    Sources.....  Any time I see a story were sources are referred to several  times, I just assume the crap is just made up.

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  6. On 12/10/2019 at 11:43 AM, Helobious said:

    He’s always shown the valley a lot of love, seems to go to a handful of games down there every year. I also learned he was one of the original posters on 956 sports forum like 10 years ago, and still posts there sporadically. The guy just loves HSFB.

    Yes he has while many of his counterparts show almost contempt for any high school football outside of the DFW area.     In fact he was at the Alamodome for two consecutive weekends covering our playoff games.   He'll go to remote parts of West and East Texas to cover lower classification games as long as their is good food in the area too.  Tepper ,on the other hand, reminds of the prick you might know who thinks he knows everything and speaks like he indeed does, but you know he's full of chit and just want to slap him around.

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  7. 25 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

    It was already said above, but just repeating that it should be immediately obvious that the reason aggy has a better record since leaving is because they play one less conference game and are encouraged by their league to schedule powderpuffs out of conference. 

    They get their ass kicked by Bama and LSU every season, go 0.500 in their other conference games, and then beat up on Prairie View and Tarleton and Nicholls and then go lose a bowl because they don't want to be there while bragging how tough their season has been. 

    There's your annual 7-6 or 8-5 right there. 

    Advantage: aggy

    Plus let's not forget, led by eSECpn  and cSECbs pundits and regional  media writers, they hype up a number of SEC teams in the pre season polls so they are ranked going into the season.  They probably get at least eight teams in the T-25 and another few receiving votes.     So when they play each other and one of them loses, they don't lose poll position until maybe they lose a third conference game and aggy along with the rest of them get to rinse and repeat the phrase the only teams they lost to were ranked.   But like in aggy's case this year, let's totally ignore they didn't win one game in conference against a fellow team with a winning record.   The same pundits and regional media writers noted above will rank their sorry asses next July when the first polls start rolling out.   Them and everyone else in the SEC SEC SEC , except maybe Vandy and Arkansas.   

  8. 4 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:

     

     


    Nice! Now go watch Drive to Survive on Netflix.

     

     

    Will do.  With football season now over for me with my high school team ousted from the playoffs Saturday, my Netflix/ Amazon Prime catch up watching season  begins.  

  9. On 12/2/2019 at 1:46 AM, Carl Spackler said:

    Saw it last night and liked it.  I thought the human story lines stood up to the racing parts, which were terrific. 

    One thing bothered me a little.  I think Bale is a great actor (and he's terrific in FvF), but I thought his mannerisms in playing Ken Miles were a little too reminiscent of the way he played Dickie Eklund in The Fighter.  But that quibble aside, he dominates just about every scene he's in, IMO.     

    This.   I saw it a couple of weeks ago.    

    I actually thought Matt Damon played the role of the confident  and take no bullshit Texan real well.    Might have been one of his better performances???

    I will say the movie kind of kicked started my interest in Formula One/ GP racing which is cool cause I need a diversion from football and college basketball.  

  10. On 12/10/2019 at 9:43 AM, relapse98 said:

    Nah, they could have done it with both big money donors on campus.

    That school has got to figure out how to build an on campus stadium. The game production at the Alamodome is like going to a Spurs game, which sucks at a college football game.
    Build a smaller expandable stadium on campus, stop using the Spurs production people to run (ruin) the game, and grow a fan base.

    UTSA is starting to put some major dollars into their overall athletic program.   They just broke ground on a  $44 million campus athletic complex which will include an indoor practice facility.   Also plans are in the works for a new convocation center .  A campus football stadium would be ideal, but probably years away if ever.  Chances are better San Antonio replaces the Alamodome in hopes of attracting an NFL team and they use whatever facility is built.   What would have been ideal is UTSA and the Northside ISD building a large facility  where Dub Farris Stadium is located, but that stadium was built long before UTSA football was even a possibility.    

    I've seen UTSA from the school I once considered attending in the late 80's to what it is today and my oldest currently is finishing his Senior year there.   It's grown big time and I know they have students now from all over the world attending.  But in someways it still feels like the commuter school it was back in the day. It's not like UT where the city grew around the college and state capital and it still has a college town vibe.    UTSA used to be out in the sticks until the 80's and even into the 90's until the La Cantera/Fiesta Texas area started humming.    But you still don't have alot of stuff around there which keeps the student body close or around campus (within walking or biking distance) like you do in Austin or other college towns of all sizes.   Concerts are held Downtown or AT&T and other venues away from campus.   Same goes for trendy places to eat and hang out.   They have some close by like The RIM, but that requires car ride.   

     

  11. 3 hours ago, joeycovers said:

    Yes, It wont be the typical wine and cheese crowd. It's going to be fans that have probably grown up on UT but never went to school there so rarely have been to a game. They will be loud and drunk. Haters like to call them T shirt fans. I call them Die hard fans

    We could use a few more of them.  They actually make noise which even when we are winning and playing well in pick your game at DKR, it's like sitting at a funeral at times.  

  12. I'm good with this match up.  Two weeks removed now from the Tech game perhaps there is a tad of optimism in the air.  We did much better against Tech and I was among those thinking this team completely mailed it in during the Baylor debacle.   Tom surprised  many of us with his quick dismissals of Orlando and other staffers and demoted Beck.   We beat Utah and it sets the tone for the spring.  Beating a team who could have been playing in OU sux place in the playoff had they took care of Duck would put some sugar on what other wise was a shit sandwich of season.

     

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  13. Just now, Loco said:

    It's hard to tell, but honest to god, I'm sitting here wondering how in the fuck Texas lost to Baylor.   The bears look not good.   Also notice Baylor is always getting in that just after the whistle hit.  Looks shady and I have no rooting interest one way or the other.

    We lost because we mailed that game in very early.    Coaching went to mailbox first followed by our offensive line, etc.  

  14. 1 hour ago, Llewelyn Moss said:

    Oh yeah, for sure, my comment wasn’t so

    much a disagreement with yours but a furtherance. I don’t think too highly of a search firm hire for a huge, highly resourced and desirable workplace like UT athletics. They clearly bought into the hype. 
     

    As for the consensus message board fan hype for Charlie, my memory is that fans were pretty excited...until his coordinator hires. Watson more so than Bedford was seen as a comfort hire and a lack of foresight understanding of what was required in the Big 12 (and college football). Nobody was excited about Bedford, either, but we (incorrectly) trusted Charlie to make sure the defense was in good shape. 
     

    But that’s just my fallible memory. 

    I think you got it right about fan hype.   Charlie also had the Florida bullet point on his resume as the DC during for those great Florida teams in the 2000's which might have overshadowed any short comings he had a Louisville. Of course his success at Louisville was helped by playing in the Big East.

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