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Nueces River Rat

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  1. McWilliams was an Assistant under both Royal and Akers who went to Tech as HC for one season and returned as HC when we fired Akers. He was forced out a year after Miami embarrassed the shit out of us in the Cotton Bowl. We kind of sucked before that season and went back to it after that loss. I think he was hired because of his deep ties to the Royal era both as a player and Coach. Alums don’t necessarily make the good coaches at their former school either because of the expectations game. Mackovic was hired after some moderate success at Illinois and kind of had a run similar to McWilliams. Two mediocre seasons to start which sandwiched two decent seasons for which the last one featured the infamous “Route 66” loss to UCLA in Austin. Mackovic much like Herman and Strong was touted by the sports media of the day as the next wonder coach who was going to lead blue blood out of oblivion. It didn’t quite workout.
  2. Fred Akers got his due although he was inducted into the Hall of Honor several years before he passed. I always thought the Akers hate was overboard considering the era he coached in was pretty intense and topped off with SMU, aggy, and OU cheating their asses off. It’s a shame only SMU got the death penalty because aggy and OU were certainly eligible for the same.
  3. I don’t disagree much at all. In 2003 we were 10-3 suffering one of our worst ass whoopingsfrom OU which the previous happened in 2000 under Mack’s watch. On top of that we lost to Arkansas and the Holiday Bowl against Washigton Fricken State. We lost to OU in 2004, but ended the year with Vince doing his thing against Michigan at the Rose Bowl. I might be wrong, but I seem to recall the chatter was on the sports talk shows and message boards of the day that Mack was on the hot seat going into the 2004 season. I never hated Mack like some on here and the fan base, but I do believe he voluntarily overstayed his tenure. The writing was on the wall with five star recruits who were a bust along with staff changes that busted too (see Manny Diaz). Had he left even on a low note without being forced out, the University, Alums and fan base would’ve been forgiving. Or at least much more than some are now. And yes I recall the late 80’s. I was in high school then and was the only kid in my school that seemed to not drink the maroon kool aid. And aggy likes to call our fan base T-shirt fans. They were the pioneers of T Shirt fans and this is before Academy or fill in your favorite mass merchandise store got involved in promoting College teams with a large selection of merchandise like they do now. It was insufferable along with the condition of our program during that era.
  4. I contend Vince Young saved Mack Brown’s and Greg Davis job.
  5. After reading this I feel confident we are indeed at just the beginning of a golden age at Texas. Cj Baxter, J Whit…. Rock solid MEN.
  6. It will be like putting a statue of Bud Adams in Houston…..
  7. Bay City vs Calallen next week. Cal won their game 49-28 against Somerset. It was 49-7 in the fourth before Somerset scored three garbage time TD’s. PLC upset Davenport which some had winning the Region. With both LBJ and Davenport gone, the Region is wide open for the team that is the hottest to take it.
  8. Austin LBJ goes down to La Vernia 13-10 La Vernia attempted exactly zero passes.
  9. You forgot too mention the baseball moms who try to out do each other with $100k SUVs and boob jobs.
  10. @Helobious what the heck happened to Judson? Even after the initial split, they were competitive. I had someone tell me their game against in Buda against Buda Johnson, Judson might’ve had 100 people in their stands. That’s fricken unbelievable. Reminds me of LaMarque and how they fell, but that’s because the TEA dissolved their ISD and merged it with Texas City. Now what’s left of LaMarque High School is often on the other end of ass kickings.
  11. SEC Refs definitely were trying to help out UGA. Perhaps this is the IOU from the game against us?
  12. It was probably a good thing I was on the road today and couldn’t watch the vaginal bleeding here on Surly…..
  13. Will good ol Bill In Sinton be in attendance with his focusness? Sinton could have played with blindfolds and walked backwards tonight and still won Sinton 84 Rio Grande City Grulla 0 also Bay City 86. Hidalgo 0
  14. I would’ve hid my head in shame had a I made the playoffs on an 0-9 team. Call me old but I’m correct.
  15. You get 0-9 teams etc making the playoffs because their districts are four teams. In this case you absolutely did nothing to earn a playoff birth. At least in a five team district, you have to win at least one game to get in.
  16. Sinton plays 0-9 Rio Grande City Grulla in their first round game The UIL has made a full mockery of the playoffs.
  17. They thought this thanks to Florida giving UGA a game. UGA looks like shit right now against Ole Piss. And they looked like shit against Miss State, and Kentucky. We made UGA look good because Quinn had to be playing hurt.
  18. Has Kirby stroked out yet? Pushed a player? Lost his visor?
  19. I lost my 13 year old Lab to heart failure back in Feb. I’m a 52 year old man who cried like a baby at the Vet when I put her down and shed some tears seeing that tribute.
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