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22 hours ago, Constant said:
Doug Gottlieb doing a good job making sure the internet remembers he’s a total moron.
Guess he doesn't know OU left Okie St. behind in the MVC for decades.
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22 hours ago, closetojumping said:
Pretty sure it's been confirmed that Lacewell gave the playbook and gameplan to Holtz and left the hotel and event. I've heard that story from the early 80's forward from my father, who played at Rice but loves and cheers for Texas, and knew all of the parties involved and fucking hates Switzer to this day. He also hates Lou Holtz and Ken Hatfield for whatever reasons, I think because of Hatfield's time and failure at Rice, but I digress.
Hatfield did far better than anyone else at Rice over a 40 year period from the 60s on.
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1 hour ago, msucolt45 said:
Outside of Bama, LSU, Florida, and Georgia, what has the rest done over the last 20+ years? I rest my case with the SEC!
Auburn has a title and a #2 behind USC.
The ones most prone to chant SEC are the others, like aggy.
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1 hour ago, mdmost said:
Ha, I guess. At least in the SEC we can cheat our asses off like we're Arizona State and get away with it.
ASU is up there with SMU on major violations. We don't want to do it like Arizona St. They get caught!
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1 minute ago, TKthunder2 said:Associated with the South, yes obviously but you’re a dipshit if you think we’re the same as Alabama.
Texas is considered part of the peripheral South which means while yes we were a slave state and in the confederacy, we were and ARE very different from the Deep South in multiple ways from cultural and economics activities to education and healthcare.
There are many papers and scholars that have/can back up these assertions.
Not only that, but most SEC fans, including my Georgia wife, insist Texas is NOT the South.
The fact that we don't insist on sweet tea is a clear signal! And to top that off, we have our unsweetened tea or Shiner bock with beef BBQ, not pork.
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UT Arlington is trying hard to get that National Research University Foundation money. Houston, Texas Tech and UT-Dallas have qualified. UTA, UTSA, UTEP, UNT and Texas St. are eligible, but UTA is the only one with any realistic shot anytime soon. They are trying hard to have a "quality student body," which is one of the criteria to qualify. The NRUF is something the state has thrown to the non-PUF schools to try to get them to be more AAU-like. Rather than just giving the money to Houston, Texas Tech, and UTD who they knew would win the competition, they created a competition to keep a the politicians happy.
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4 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:
Yeah, right there with you. Texas '92, We live in Fairhope, AL. Soon to be Senior daughter is looking at Bama, Auburn,Texas of course (but wont get in unfortunately, though ive tried to warn her), Ole Miss and TCU. I told her Texas is too damn competitive for oos. Auburn is her first choice.
My son's at Auburn. Is very happy there. Wife is a Georgia Bulldog, so it was hard at first, but she likes the campus atmosphere. With Covid he didn't really have a chance to look at UT-Arlington, but I figured it would be too "commuter for him." He was really thinking of them as a way to get to Austin, but they no longer do the automatic transfer to Austin there. I think its only UTSA and UTRGV that have that program.
We went to a Texas recruiting "seminar" in Atlanta. They told him to be sure to mention in his essay that he had a Dad who was a UT alum ('80) so they would have some idea of why he was interested. But there was just no way. He does have a friend who made it to Texas, but she had a really high GPA and SAT.
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2 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:
And that person should obviously be @Brisketexan because he has done it before.
If you add UTEP, UTSA, UTA, Texas State, Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin, and Abilene Christian....that's a 14 school conference.
Este. Apparently UH has become more selective than aggy, but that's not saying much. But UH is not an easy school by any means and they deserve a better academic reputation. Same goes for UTD and I would even venture as far as to throw UTA in that group if we're talking about academics.
We live in Georgia. My son applied to Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia Southern, UTA and Houston. He didn't even try UT or UGA. He got accepted by all but Houston. UTA offered him a small scholarship and in-state tuition. Auburn was the only one he sweated at all. Alabama-"if you sneeze on the application you get in there." The schools west of Alabama in the SEC are easier to get into than Alabama (aggy excepted).
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2 hours ago, Armybrat said:
I would assume by the end of this year.
I'm guessing we have a month or so of silence while everyone consults their lawyers and waits for the other to move first. Then the rumors start and they actually start talking.
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2 minutes ago, tbone_ said:
How many more teams does the sec need to add before no one gives a shit about the CFB Playoff and winning the SEC becomes the prize that matters?
In the Southeast, its been that way for at least 40 or 50 years!
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2 minutes ago, tbone_ said:
A meteor game if there ever was one.Idiocy of the post bowl polls. Texas was ranked 4 behind pig who we beat on the road, despite both having only one loss. Kentucky was ranked 6 behind Penn St. who they beat in Happy Valley despite both having one loss.
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On 4/27/2021 at 12:07 AM, Huckleberry said:
Not only was Earl Campbell much better at football than Pete Rose was at baseball, but Pete Rose is indeed a clown. As a person, he's a clown. My post was not only reasonable but also accurate. Ric Flair is a professional clown, Pete Rose is just a clown.
No. Pete was to baseball what Earl was to football. He was a winner who gave 110% every moment he was on the field.
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On 1/24/2019 at 10:35 PM, blutow said:
RB's haven't gotten much bigger, but OL's in the 70's and early 80's were tiny by today's standards. Average would certainly be under 275, probably closer to 260.
There were other backs the size of the Earl in his day, but nobody with the speed and punishing running style.
That '69 title team's biggest guy was 275. The rest were 225 or smaller. They started getting bigger in the 70s and much bigger in the 80s.
Earl was just strong.
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2 hours ago, Eugene11 said:
That and not everyone lives and breathes inter webs, twatter and social distortion media all day.
Well complaining IS kind of the essence of Surly. Hence "Surly."
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8 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:
Many, many SEC fans stay in Austin and drive down to Aggy games. Austin doesn’t really need it, but there will be a nice little boom in the hospitality industry with the SEC move.
People in this state grow up rooting for Texas or Aggy. The other schools are just where they end up attending college.
I think Tech has a significant Tshirt fan base in West Texas. Houston used to have one in Houston, but don't think they do anymore among younger people.
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21 hours ago, Js1 said:
I still don't understand the logic that somehow not being a shitty football program in a shitty conference is going to somehow make the university disappear (same goes for OSU).
Texas Tech is still going to be able to pull reasonable talent as a G5 program to be a big fish in a small pond. It's still a state school with a 36k student enrollment that serves basically all of West Texas.
Tech will survive. We don't have to play them. They aren't our rival.
Well you can look at the number of Texas HS students who go to OU, Arkansas, LSU, Alabama or Ole Miss instead of Texas Tech, Houston or UT-Dallas. With a son who just finished his freshman year, I can assure you that UH and UTD are FAR harder to get into than any of those out of state schools, but a lot of people won't even look at them. UTD is probably tougher to get into than any SEC school other than Vanderbilt and maybe Georgia (the Hope Scholarship paying for tuition for Georgia residents has made UGA ridiculously difficult to get into).
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On 7/30/2021 at 1:10 PM, Uncle Nate said:
Well said.
I think what ESPN and the SEC and others don't really realize are the numbers behind the numbers. I think fans of "Tier 2" schools watch their conference mates play in other games because there is a related, vested interest in how those games turnout, or in how one conference is matching up with another.
If we are relegated to a 32 team super conference/premier league and then all of the rest, there are going to be a lot of viewers who used to watch those tier 1 matchups who no longer are interested because there is no longer any connection to their team and/or region. I don't think that manifests right away, but over a few short years it could be. And then ESPN is going to wonder why these matchups aren't pulling in the viewership like they used to. CFB doesn't work like the NFL, it just doesn't. So making an NFL junior will not ultimately work.
One this is for certain: It's going to be interesting to watch it play out.
On ESPNU they were talking about a relegation between the top league and 2nd/3rd tier based on performance so that the lower tiers had hopes of getting into the Premier League like in English soccer.
Given that the average college football fan is 50 and has never watched a full soccer game, I think relegation year by year has about as much chance as Alabama dropping football. But that is the way some people talk about getting around the problem of fans of certain schools tuning out.
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31 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:
Something happens to girls when they go to TCU. Dated one in high school for a few months. Let’s calll her a cute 7. Fast forward 5 years and I run into her at a party. Holy fuck! Cupgrade was the main highlight, but jfc she was an absolutely smoke show. Iron sharpens iron or some such shit.
Females do NOT peak at 18. I can think of a couple of Longhorn girls I knew who got hotter in their 20s.
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17 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:
I never got the ‘sips’ thing. Near as I can tell, they are saying “those upper class educated professionals think they are better than us sheep fucking farmers….”
So…….yeah?Remember their full aggy president talking about how they were going to kick those Tea sippers tails back to Austin in their little cars.
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59 minutes ago, maninblack said:
Tony from Florida on the Pawwwwwl SHow - "I really this addition of Texas and Oklahoma because it gives us somebody else to hate and by that I mean Texas"
He must be young. He doesn't remember the Florida band playing "The Eyes of Texas" before their bowl coalition game vs. FSU.
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2 hours ago, LonghornSean said:
Not a fan of Finebaum but enjoyed the vid
"Real joy and excitement nearly everywhere," then they show aggy!
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3 hours ago, bad_teammate said:
Yessssssssssssssssssssirrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!
I mean seriously, how old a coot do you have to be to have been an adult while we had all 3 of the big rivalries going at once? It's awesome. The little piggies and farmers tried to escape us spanking their little asses for fun and they locked themselves up in a house and the owners of the house let us right in.
vs Arky: 55-22
vs A&M: 76-37
vs OU: 62-49We're back, bitches, ARE YOU GLAD TO SEE US!?!?!?!
Its only back to 1991. So if you are 36 or so you should remember it. Adult, well that would be 48.
I'm old enough to remember when UH was our #3 rival after the Sooners and pigs.
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3 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:
I think the NFL effectively killed off the CFB Thursday Night game. The old Big East Thursday Night games were a lot of fun. I remember watching a lot of Rutgers games in 2006.
ACC did a lot. But yes, TH night is for CUSA/AAC/MAC/MWC/BYU now since the NFL minimizes ratings. Thursday night is a good night for TV ratings. Tuesday would have worked better for the NFL schedule, but they decided to steal from College football.
Realignment talk not going away
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The Shiner bock reference was for the young ones, especially since I don't really drink Lone Star. I'm old enough to remember when Coors was new to Texas (think it hit Dallas in the 70s). And was on the 40 acres when Earl and DKR were still there.
As for the sweet tea, your people must be from East Texas. Further west, we like it straight or prefer to sweeten it ourselves. In the Deep South they put a little tea in their sugar bowl and serve it as tea.