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  1. 8 hours ago, Zavala said:

    Fox is still better than the mouse, and old people CBS. Still keep updating the robot every year too. Hilarious. 

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    In CBS's defense, they were and still are better than NBC.    Good gosh I hated watching games on NBC before the events in the article took place.   You talk about commentators who would put you to sleep unless the game was called by Dick Enberg  sidekicked with Merlin Olsen or Paul Maguire.  

    The only thing NBC has going for it now is Al Micheals and Tony Dungy,   Both good guys.

     

     

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  2. On 12/15/2018 at 12:12 PM, mycox said:

    I don't think I should be paying over $2k (not including flood) for homeowners insurance. Townhome in Houston and not in a flood zone. Is Amica screwing me over?

    Do you require seperate windstorm covereage?

    The Harvey rate hikes should be hitting everyone on the coast  this next year.   Yet another reason to look forward to moving further inland.  

  3. 20 minutes ago, pacman said:

    That and there isn't enough uil staff to cover that many sites, unless you stagger game days over a weeks time.

    Staffing isn't an issue.  The NCAA just had their title games for D2 and D3 in Texas venues far away from Indy.   When any championship is held, they assign a host school or conference and the staffs of those schools are used to help the NCAA with things like sports information, venue coordination, etc.   The Lone Star Conferene assisted in the D2 game yesterday in McKinney.   There are plenty of coaches and AD's around the state who would gladly assist in coordination with some incentive pay involved this time of year too.  A few additional  Benjis this time of year comes in handy.

  4. 1 hour ago, slorch said:

    I know it ain't changin, but I still think AT&T Stadium as a central site is stupid.  it certainly is for the non- 5A and 6A teams and in those classes gives the DFW teams too much advantage. I like the idea of all fans travelling, not just one team's.

    Here's my best guess at where the games would be held in the old set-up.   yes, i am aware that the bigger schools would flip for home field like Texas Stadium and the Astrodome, but I still went neutral site for the big boys. Consider how far JerrahWorld is from some of the truer neutral sites

    Duncanville vs GP North Shore *  DKR Memorial

    Longview vs West Brook *   Homer Bryce Stadium/SFA

    Highland Park vs Shadow Creek *  DKR Memorial

    Aledo vs FB Marshall *  DKR Memorial

    LaVega vs Liberty Hill *  Temple/ Belton

    Pleasant Grove vs Cuero  *  McLane Stadium, Waco

    Malakoff vs Grandview  *  Ennis

    Canadian vs Newton( 600 miles apart, holy shite!) AT&T Stadium actually works, but Birdville or Newsom at Mansfield would have been more likely.

    New Deal vs Mason  *  Shotwell, Abilene

    Gruver vs Mart  *  Fair Park, Childress

    McLean vs Milford  *  Memorial Stadium, Wichita Falls

    Follett vs Strawn  *  Fair Park, Childress

    Agreed.   In 2016 when we (Calallen) played Aledo,  we had to travel 390 miles up I-35 which takes forever due to it being a constant construction zone on top of the volume of traffic vs Aledo who hoped on their Yellow beasts and made the short trip of 33 miles a couple of hours before the game.   So they get a full extra day to prepare, sleep in the comfort of their own homes, etc  while we had to leave on Thursday and get up there late and do a walk through at Arlington Martin High.   Yea the UIL is really looking at this thing at objective and neutral angle.  And let's not go into the great expense it was for the fans and the school district as well.    

    We should of played that game at DKR under the old rules.  I don't give a chit what the UIL, Fox sports or the DFW area homers say about attendance draw and all that crap.  The state title games were not by design constructed to be an attendance draw.   If the UIL thinks it's vital to and fair to the rest of the state to move around title games for other sports or hold them at a central location like they always did in the Austin area and the UT campus, then why not go back to it with football.   Besides with today's technology, you don't need these huge production crew and all that to broadcast these games.  Some of the playoff games broadcast on Texan Live and NHSN have been great. Streaming allows you to put it on your big screen or take it with you anywhere.  

    The other thing that bugs the hell out of me is the venue is allowed to be used for late round playoff games.   Sorry,    familarity with a venue is a big thing with these younger kids vs the older ones in the college and pro ranks.   Starting with round two, AT&T should be off limits for playoff games.  Period.    There are plenty of other venues to hold these games and if the weather has to be a factor, so be it.   When did we become wussies about the weather???????

  5. 14 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    silsbee leads cuero 7-6 at half

    This would be a complete shocker if it holds -- Calallen 10, fB Marshall 6 at half

    Yea we lost, but as I predicted and always will with Calallen, they didn't get blown off the map like some automatically  assume when a Region Four goes up against a Region Three.  Go back to 2016 and we did the exactly that and almost won it all.  In fact of the 14 semis we've been in, there were maybe two of those games against La Marque where they dominated from start to finish.  Some of those games in the 90's were de facto state title games one week early because that was before the evil empire of the north in Aledo made it's name.   Those La Marque teams were stacked with speed from the QB to fricken punter and the bench players too.   It's a shame how that ISD crashed and burned.  

    This was one of those games we should of won.  FT Bend's best defensive player was the Ref who was the Umpire who killed two very long runs  (which one would of given us the ball on the 10  and it would of given us the victory margin either with a TD or FG)  with two bullshit calls with one being a chop block against a Tackle and TE who were hardly engaged in a block at all as the flow of the play went to opposite direction.   Our run game was pretty darn effective despite their speed advantage.   We were young across the board and expect to be back here next season.  

     

    And  screw some of these Ref crews the UIL puts together from some of the Ref chapters across the state.  They are damn amateurs!   It's like they are calling them up and asking if they have any volunteers from that area who want to come to another part of the state and call a game  and they don't look at the grades the coaches in those regions give them.  The crew we had last night was from Waco and they sucked!!!!!!

  6. 1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    Criminal? No. Criminal is what Switzer let happen in the 80s. SMU beat the SWC at its game and got fucked for it. The ncaa still destroys us any chance they can get. It's a good season if we go 6-6 now. 

    No doubt.  Screw'em both! 

  7. 2 hours ago, utee94 said:

    A&M gave Dickerson the gold Trans Am.  Which he then drove whilst "playing school" at SMU.

    SMU gave them each much, much more than that.

    And according to the  ESPN 30/30 "Pony Excess" documentary, the aggy boosters and administration  were so pissed how Dickerson bait and switched on them they were just about to file a complaint with the NCAA when one of the aggy  boosters involved  reminded them about who paid for the car, they back tracked and didn't go through with it.  So dang aggy.

    SMU football  was a white collar criminal enterprise during the era.  I'm still piss till this day Ou Sucks got a slap on the hand compared to SMU for the crap that went on at that shithole during the 80's.  And to this day when they've been caught (Rhett Bomar), they still get slaps on the hand.  

     

     

  8. On 12/12/2018 at 8:02 AM, hpslugga said:

    Wait, so all the real NCAA title games are in Texas this year?

    Yep.   The NCAA hasn't announced if the D2 title game is long term deal  in Mckinney or if they are going to open it back up for bids.    

    It sucked in KC being played in a soccer stadium that made the crowds look smaller than they really were and isn't as fan friendly as Frisco.  Plus the weather for a few of those games was bad.     The D2 game has never been an attendance draw, except when it was being played in Florence, Alabama and the home team UNA was in the championship.  There have been exceptions such as when some teams make their first appearences like Northwest Missouri and Grand Valley did in the 90's and early 2000's.  But when they went back for a second or third time,  some of the fan base stayed home.   Plus the D2 and D3 games are fricken scheduled at a shitty time as well.  Most of your schools either are wrapping up finals this week and  have graduation ceremonies.  I don't know why the NCAA doesn't get a clue and move them to post Christmas week when it's more friendly for fans and students alike to travel.  

    Really if the NCAA wanted to do something cool, they should have a Championship weekend at whatever venue the FBS title is going to be held and let them all play their games that weekend leading up to the FBS game.   Or do FCS, D2, and D3 at the same venue like at Frisco.  But the NCAA is stuck on stupid on so many issues the idea will never cross their minds.  

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  9. 14 hours ago, mchookem said:

    i graduated UT in 1996.

    basically,  in the past 20 years or so...

    it has gotten exponentially MORE difficult to get into UT..and it has gotten much easier to get into atm. 

    is that about it?

    wow

    My son applied to both aggy and UT a few years ago.  He finished just a couple of students behind the top 10% in his class and got denied unconditional admission to UT, but I think he got clear admission to aggy.  Why he applied to aggy to this day I do not know other than a large number of his high school friend group is at aggy.  He did get an automatic transfer offer to UT which required him to maintain a 3.0 or something like that and take freshmen course work at a  UT system school which he did at UTSA.  But he liked UTSA and stayed there and to tell you the truth, it probably helped a good bit with his college expenses primarily  the cost of housing.  Plus he has a very kick ass internship he wouldn't have been able to do in Austin and ended up being a paid one as well.     He is looking forward to going to McCombs for his MBA.

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  10. If a HS player is ejected for targeting, does it affect the following game re: college rules?


    I don’t think it does. In fact I’ve seen some kids not get ejected at all. It seems like the Refs have some discretion at the high school level
  11. I can't believe they are not showing any playoff games here in Austin-Google Fiber. 



    Google Texan Live and they are probably streaming them. I think they are streaming all the games taking place in SA and the Houston areas.
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  12. Question.   I know the product so far is kind of shitty.  But dang the Erwin looked very empty with the limited crowd shots last night on ESPN.

    Is it really that bad in person?   

    I guess I really haven't paid attention in years past, but are these non conference games usually like this as far as attendance?    I know the UNC's, etc pretty much sell out as I went to the UNC game in 2015.  But I would have expected more in attendance for last night's game than what was shown on TV.

  13. Back when Academy was an actual army super surplus store, my scout master used to go get old MRI's for camping trips.  They were nasty.

    Damn. Your scout master must of been one rich vato.
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  14. 5 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Get used to it. And it's spread to college basketball. All these Final 4's are now at these massive spaceship stadiums. A sport that belongs in a 20-25k arena is now being placed in these football stadiums where the depth perception even on tv is way off. It's pathetic and does not even resemble basketball in any form. Basketball is not meant to be watched from as high up as these football stadiums go up. But the NCAA is whoring themselves out for the money. 

    Indeed.  While a good location, the Alamodome is and has always been a shitty basketball venue.  I recall seeing the Spurs there right after they moved from the Hemisphere and maybe after the second or thrid game,  I said enough of this shit and wanted them to move back.  Even on the lower level, you felt a mile away from the game action.   

     

     

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  15. 2 hours ago, satyanash said:

    Chip Brown: Todd Orlando didn't heed his own advice in Big 12 title game

     

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    ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas defensive coordinator Todd Orlando didn’t heed his own advice in the Longhorns' 39-27 loss to Oklahoma in Saturday's Big 12 Championship. Orlando told his guys, especially his seniors, he wanted them to take it all in and then cut it loose and let it all hang out, so there'd be no regrets. “We’re playing for a championship,” Orlando said last Wednesday. “What do we have to lose?”

    So why didn’t Orlando heed his own advice? After doing a brilliant job of mixing fronts and pressures through the first quarter and a half against Oklahoma, becoming the first team all season to hold the Sooners out of the end zone in the first quarter, Orlando changed things up. He went to his version of the 3-8 cloud, rushing three and dropping eight into coverage. The result, like it’s been the second half of the season, was disaster.

    For a quarter and a half, Orlando was using four- and five-man fronts and mixing pressures brilliantly, unsettling OU quarterback Kyler Murray and giving up only one explosive play - a run of 24 yards - while the Longhorns' built a 14-6 lead. Then, the Longhorns went to the 3-8 cloud and ended up clouding their chances of winning a Big 12 title. Texas promptly gave up a 46-yard pass from Murray to CeeDee Lamb, followed by a 28-yard touchdown pass from Murray to Lamb. That cut Texas’ led to 14-13.

    It’d be one thing if Orlando’s defense ran the 3-8 cloud well. But it doesn’t. Not only is there no pass rush, but there are huge gaps in UT's zone coverage. Even worse, it takes Orlando and his attack-style-defense out of an attack mindset. You’d think that would’ve been lesson learned, causing Orlando to go back to mixing fronts and pressures like he had been - and like Orlando did brilliantly for four quarters in a 24-10 win over Iowa State.

    But when OU got the ball back at its own 13 with 59 seconds left in the half, Texas was back in the 3-8 cloud - and got eviscerated. Murray ripped through Texas' cloud coverage like a tornado for a five-play, 80-yard, touchdown drive in 41 seconds. Forty-one seconds!

    Under no pressure, Murray completed pass plays of 24, 20 and 17 yards — combined with a personal foul (facemask) on Texas’ B.J. Foster — before Murray hit tight end Grant Calcaterra for a 6-yard touchdown pass with 18 seconds left, putting OU up 20-14 at the half after scoring two touchdowns in 5:01 (after failing to score more than six points the previous 25 minutes).

    All that after being burned for two big plays in the 3-8 cloud on OU’s previous scoring drive. “We backed off a little bit, but we should've been able to get cranked up,” said senior linebacker Gary Johnson, who finished with 11 tackles, including a tackle for loss, and had one of the plays of the game on a forced fumble midway through the fourth quarter.

    When asked about the lack of pressure on Murray in the second quarter, when the game turned in OU’s favor Saturday, junior safety Brandon Jones said: “It was tough, especially with a guy like him who is versatile and can move around and make plays on the run. If you don’t get pressure, he’s going to make plays. He’s the type of quarterback that if he has enough time, he’s going to put the ball where it needs to be or he’ll run and make plays with his feet.”

    Murray said after the game he was ready for UT’s 3-8 cloud. “A lot of teams started bringing three and dropping eight against us, because at some point you’ve got to stop the throw,” Murray said. “We were more prepared this time. The more you play against something, the more comfortable you get with it. As an offense, there’s no panic when we see it. We kinda know where to attack it. And on that (five-play, 41-second touchdown drive), we moved down the field. It was a crucial drive for us, and we put the ball in the end zone.”

    Why did Orlando back off? Again? Like he did against West Virginia quarterback Will Grier, who was hit only twice the entire game against a ton of 3-8 cloud by Texas. And like Orlando did against Oklahoma State? And late in a near-loss to Baylor? Orlando isn’t made available by Tom Herman after games. But even Herman agreed the lack of pressure on Murray was a huge factor in Saturday’s loss.

    “For him to sit back there for as long as he could,” Herman said, “and, you know, he gets a ton of credit — and deservedly so — for how quick and elusive he is. But his release and accuracy are elite as well.” In other words, the last thing you want to do is let Murray sit back in the pocket, set his feet and throw darts. For a quarter and a half, Orlando seemed to understand that. And then, he failed to heed his own advice as OU’s offense heated up and scored 21 unanswered points.

    Orlando didn’t keep cutting it loose and playing as if “we have nothing to lose.” OU won the Big 12 Championship on Saturday, when Orlando backed off a little bit in the second quarter, and let OU’s likely Heisman Trophy finalist play like a Heisman Trophy finalist. It’s too bad Orlando didn’t heed his own advice.

     

    I think this is the first time in a very long time Chip has written something that made sense.

    I thought the same damn thing in the later part of the second qtr.

    Fricken OU should of been beaten again yesterday..... Instead our coaches got stupid.

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