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Tired Horn

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  1. None of the above. Make a clean break of it.
  2. What tradition? The real tradition was the SWC, and that died almost thirty years ago. The Big 12 was just a shotgun marriage between SWC survivors and largely a bunch of Great Plains schools with no marketable TV base. It's been a dead conference walking for a decade now, so it's pretty hard to be sentimental about that. The one tradition left worth caring about is that we still play Oklahoma.
  3. I feel bad for Tech, OSU, ISU and Kansas, but if they haven't been planning for this, that's on them. It was always obvious that the stitched together remains of the Big 12 was just just a temporary way station for Texas and Oklahoma while they took stock of which way the winds were blowing. Sadly, I don't see much hope for the Little Eight. They look like mostly relegation material to me (Say hello to the AAC). The One WIth a Shot West Virginia - What the hell were they even doing here in the first place? Go home, get on your knees for the ACC, and hope they're in the mood for a hillbilly elegy. The Dreamers Tech, OSU, ISU and Kansas - You can almost imagine a Power 5 picking them up if you snort long and hard enough. But seriously, who among them really has the TV marketability to make them worth diluting the payout for a real Power 5 conference. Lubbock? Please. The SEC has a contracting hammerlock on Texas with the Horns and A&M. Stillwater? Get the fuck out of here. Oklahoma is a Sooner state and Stillwater makes Lubbock look like Austin (if Austin was in a desert somewhere). Ames fucking Iowa? It almost makes Stillwater look okay, and the Hawkeyes own what TVs the state has. Kansas has an excellent basketball team and a beyond "for shit" football team. Too bad football pays the bills for conference admission. Whatever TCU - It's little, it has a little alumni base, nobody outside of Texas remembers that it exists, and nobody cares. Form rejection letter at best. Fuck These Guys Kansas State - Manhatten is the 8th largest city in Kansas. Good luck with that. Baylor - Props to the basketball team. To hell with the rest of it.
  4. 1. Big Shootout in 1969. By the end of that wretched third quarter, you believed they could play until Monday without Texas scoring. Then--BAM! Street's 42 yard run, an interception in our end zone to keep Arkansas from making it a 2-score game, and that 4th down Street-to-Peschel bomb to set up the winning score. Not to mention one last interception to stave off a final Arkansas field goal threat. 15 - 14. Really shitty first three quarters, but a 4th quarter for the ages. 2. 1977 13- 9 over Arkansas with that huge screen pass to Earl Campbell to set up the winning score. 3. 1970 Cuz it was funny. Texas exploded on Arkansas in Austin to the tune of 42 - 7.
  5. Damn, it's like an alternate universe here from the despair that rained down with Shaka. I expected Beard to improve things, but the speed at which he has done so is kind of breathtaking.
  6. We were happy to help if it meant getting rid of Shaka.
  7. Well, if a person prefers Austin to Lubbock, they must be psychologically damaged in some way, right? What other explanation could there possibly be?
  8. I can't believe what passes for sports writing these days. "Last week, Texas lost head coach Shaka Smart to Marquette. That left the program with a massive hole to fill, but it found a way to land its top target." We "lost" him the way you lose some piece of fucking gum stuck to your shoe. And the only "hole" that's of concern is the sinkhole of a roster he left behind. Filling in for Shaka is not exactly a massive endeavor.
  9. "Still he is not Shaka and that is a win." The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
  10. It's a perfectly good hire. Just hope for the best. I'm still just giddy about being Shaka-free.
  11. There are some things in life so freakish they can't really be explained. You just have to experience it. Their fan base won't understand until Shaka has sucked all the joy out of Marquette Basketball with his unique brand of pointless on-the-court entropy.
  12. For those into Star Trek references, I guess you could also summarize our current situation as "Shaka, when the walls fell."
  13. The only way I would like this thread title more is if we could somehow have 110% less Shaka.
  14. Cruel but true. It's both a compliment and a slam, but I've always said you have to respect Lubbock. They really have made it all that it can be.
  15. No offense, but after six years of Shaka, I'd just like Texas to actually have a style of play again. As long as it wins, I'm good with it.
  16. I don't see this comparison as all that far off. The problem with Shaka is he hung around for six agonizing years when his limitations were obvious. Consequently, it felt almost as bad as Charlie.
  17. I'm just so ecstatic about being rid of Shaka that it's hard to think straight about a replacement at the moment. It's like we've been wandering in the desert for 40 years. Anything looks sweet by comparison. Just think - we may actually have an offense with purpose again instead of the random dartboard shit we've been watching. Hot damn!
  18. I'm reading the Marquette press release about how pleased they are to have Shaka... Bizarro world. Have they watched him for the last six years?
  19. Well you have to admit he achieved something--he united the fan base. Almost all of us were sick of him.
  20. That would be awesome if we could just shove him into a coaching transfer portal and never hear of him again.
  21. At least the world got an entertaining documentary out of Enron. There's literally nothing entertaining about Shaka's reign at Texas. It grates even when we win.
  22. "If nothing else, we're pretty thrilled to find out what Smart can do with players who get scholarship offers from all over the country yet actually want to don the uniform he's offering them." We found out. It wasn't exactly thrilling.
  23. Couldn't you say that about any year when comparing Shaka to another coach? The best we can hope for with Shakass is to occasionally make The Final 64.
  24. True. When you don't develop them properly, it's hard to know what you should do.
  25. At least with Shaka we know what we have. So there's that. (Sob)
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