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Tired Horn

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  1. It's worse than that, because it didn't just happen to us. We paid serious money to have that thermonuclear device dropped on us. Good times.
  2. I disagree. The Hindenburg was far too violent and memorable. For Shaka you need something that's both awful and completely boring in a really grating way.
  3. Put me down for almost anyone or bust.
  4. we're not going to do that competing for the Final Four in basketball isn't even a nice-to-have around here. it's certainly not a priority or a must-have. I think a lot of you have bought into a real myth about Texas athletics, because of the "we're the Joneses" bullshit of the decade of the 2000s. Keeping up with the Joneses is just an idiomatic way of saying keeping up appearances. The Joneses in this idiom aren't the smartest or happiest family on the block (at least not intrinsically so). They're not winners. They just have the nicest looking stuff. The myth is that "we're the Joneses" has anything at all to do with winning. It doesn't. It (maybe) has some (casual) correlation, because winning makes more money than losing, but ultimately Being Texas is about appearances. We look like an athletic program that should win a lot, and we make a lot of money doing what we do, which is being the college sports equivalent of the stereotypical Obtuse White Guy in a TV commercial, or maybe a Billy Zabka character from an 80s movie. The only way-- and I mean this in literal terms, I mean there is never going to be a hypothetical BMD who decides he wants to see us win a basketball national title and money-whips Tony Bennett to come here, and Chris Beard is not going to tearfully declare he's Coming Home To Restore Texas Basketball, and none of the other fanciful What Ifs are going to happen -- the only way Texas will ever have a coach on the level of Billy Donovan is if we hire him as an up-and-comer from some Dollar Store program and then, like Rick Barnes, he decides to be a lifer here because you can coast for fucking years here once you're embedded. I agree about the whole "Joneses" thing. But is it really too much to ask that a school with the resources of Texas have a basketball team that's simply watchable? That's where my bar is these days. Forget NCAA titles, Big 12 titles, any higher aspirations, really. I'd just like to watch a basketball team that doesn't have me pondering whether I'm more bored or more nauseous. Boredom and nausea are not a good combination, unless, apparently, you're Shaka. He seems to thrive on it.
  5. The NCAA tournament isn't really Shaka's thing. He wants the computer's predicted chances for the NIT.
  6. Just a thought---could Shaka actually be trying to get fired? I mean, think about it. Right now he has to sit there watching every one of our shitty games. That's got to suck. It would be a lot better to just have all the money without having to endure watching his team play.
  7. Well, given that it's Jerryville, McCarthy is probably about as good as we could expect. I'm not holding my breath for a Super Bowl with Jerry's Boys, so I'll wait at least a few games before calling McCarthy a fat fucking retard.
  8. Nothing is over until Jerry wakes up from a hangover, has a few drinks to nudge senility aside for a few minutes, and then decides what he thinks this hour. Then has a few more drinks. Rinse and repeat.
  9. Rivera is a total loser if he takes the Skins job. As bad as Jerry is, Snyder is worse.
  10. Well, in fairness to Jason, he did clap.
  11. I've been reading post mortems of the game, and a common thread that comes up is this: "The Cowboys have assembled a great team, but now they need the coaching to go with it." I don't believe that. It seems to me that's just lazy writing to a template equal parts Jerry's BS and the easy path to take for quick clicks on a Cowboy's article by people who don't know a lot about them. Now don't get me wrong. I've thought Garrett was a net drag on this team for years, and I won't be sorry to see him go. But it can't all be the coaching at this point. We've got holes on our roster, particularly on defense, and also some guys that got a rep from the Cowboy spin machine who aren't earning that rep on the field. I see a team that could be better than 7-8, but I honestly don't see a great team here. I've thought since the season started that our ceiling is pretty much the same as last year--dumping out in the divisional round. Thoughts?
  12. That's my memory. Jerry wasn't getting he credit and felt Jimmy disrespected him, so he fire him. He picked Barry primarily because Jimmy disliked him.
  13. You really think this defense is all that good?
  14. Some nice defense in the clutch there.
  15. Yes, but he's an up-and-coming Pizza Boy. Jerry says so.
  16. Couldn't even score a touchdown against a lame defense.
  17. Yep. My confidence that our mediocre team could beat their even more mediocre team appears to have been, yet again, incorrect.
  18. What the hell--I say we win today. The Eagles are a mess.
  19. So how about the Eagles game? I realize it's foolhardy to count on the Cowboys, but I still think we should win this one. We're certainly nothing special, but the Eagles seem even less special than us. Their defense is a tired mess more often than not, their wide receiver group is borderline pathetic, and they've gone down to the wire against the Giants and the Skins the last two weeks. I Dak can play at any reasonable level, I think we take them, even at Philly. If Cooper Rush winds up playing, however, all bets are off.
  20. I'll certainly give the Cowboys credit for today. They played well. What I won't do is jump on the train about how talented they are and they've finally broken out in time for the playoffs. Until demonstrated otherwise in the actual playoffs, they're just an inconsistent team that has good days and bad days.
  21. I'll second that.
  22. Did he give them some cookies and hot chocolate, too?
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