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  1. On 3/1/2024 at 12:05 PM, MuellerHorn said:

    Look five posts up.

    I haven't seen anyone saying UConn is "ripe for the picking," but it has been insinuated that we would match up better with them if Texas had another shot. I do agree with Derka (even with his propensity for the extreme) about that being false.

     

    On 3/1/2024 at 12:21 PM, shadow_operative said:

     

     

    i don’t know if you guys have seen the post that’s a whole two posts above mine, or the countless posts on this board throughout the season about how improved we are and how uconn would be an ideal rematch, but they’re there.

    Pollyanna blushes whenever that dude posts. There isn’t a lot of chatter about “wanting UCONN!!” other than the vagaries from him, more or less. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Hank Chinaski said:

    Seems more like he’s in the midst of a manic episode.

    When people start going out of their way to say/write things like “I’m operating at a level that is over your heads/that nobody else can even understand”…well, that’s usually not good. 

    When that idiot inevitably dies young and pathetically, only the aggies will appear vaguely surprised. 

  3. 24 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    What good is a machine gun if you don't fire it on occasion? I'm not sure this guy is the one, and a big time transfer is more important, but our new coach needs some gravitas and we need some DL.

    With that said, I'm pretty sure ctj is correct. This is agents trying to drive up the price.

    You sound like an idiot in the first part of your post. The program and the NIL machine have taken down big target after big target in both recruiting and the portal for the last 2+ years. This guy would have zero bearing on NIL for the 2024 season and the DL position to boot. Christ. 

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  4. 12 hours ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    I don't see it happening, but apparently the Tennessee mods are saying we are a legit threat to land this guy.

    https://www.on3.com/db/ethan-utley-147198/

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    10 hours ago, Getafix said:

     

     

    Yeah, this is a weird one ... heard very little from our own mods.

     

    - He's visited a couple of times (including for the K State game)

    - Here's what Fong had in the article w/ his commitment date. (Edit:  This was Utley's quote on Texas.)

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    - And this is the note from Tennessee 247

     

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    But there's so little buzz from the regular suspects on our side ... 🤷‍♂️  🤷‍♂️  🤷‍♂️ .

     

     

     

    Bo Davis was the main player in that effort before he left. Texas went some time between Davis leaving and talking to the guy, assuming they’ve talked to him lately. My view is that the guy may like the idea of Texas, but his camp is using that interest to make sure they have what they want from Tennessee. I’ll be shocked if Tennessee isn’t the choice, but, hey, we’re almost 4 weeks out and this is recruiting. 

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  5. 35 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:


    This is the third year in a row that the team is worse than the previous year. Not exactly what you want to see in year 8.

    He may be a “good coach” but he sucks at program building.

    I don’t know about anybody else, but I don’t agree that this team is worse than last year. It’s younger, but the pitching is better and the bats can and probably will come around. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Rudiger said:

    Counterpoint:

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    This is not a thicc woman. She's a rotund glutton. Any of you claiming you'd hit it have no shame and would fuck anything, or are fatasses who never get laid, or have a fat girl fetish that you're attempting to disguise under the notion of simple thickness. I've never come close to touching a beast of that size. She's terrifying.

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    His formula is basically to give as much weight and relevance to their close losses as he does with our close wins, as if none of them ever occurred. 

    I love it when he goes into that mode where he starts editing factual outcomes to get to a position of why ATM is actually pretty good and Texas kind of sucks. He does it in every sport, regular like clockwork. By late August, he's going to have convinced himself and his audience that ATM actually went like 10-3 last year and Texas was a playoff team that somehow got in with a record barely above .500. Then the season will unfold, ATM will suck as usual, Texas will be in the playoffs, and he'll start anew. 

    Texas plays ATM in baseball on Tuesday. If ATM wins that game, Liucci will play that victory up as a harbinger of a potential CWS title. He'll be over the top on it. Should ATM lose, there will be rationalizations for it and then it will be disclaimed as irrelevant for their season outlook, and also, Texas got lucky and kind of sucks in baseball. I truly do not another set of outcomes that could occur with this idiot than these two possibilities. 

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  8. 25 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

    This is what I'm talking about - was he referring to us or A&M in that comment? Who the fuck knows. 

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    I'm with you. I don't really know when he was talking about Texas versus when he was talking about ATM. 

    3 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    They seem to think that 2021 class still exists (and that they replicated it in 2022, 2023, and 2020...).

    Anyone know how many from 2021 are still around?

    I think you mean 2022 class, right? 12 of the original 30 are gone and there are rumors of 3-4 more guys leaving after the spring as well. They'll eclipse a 50% transfer rate by the start of the 2024 season if the trends hold.

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  9. 32 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    Luckily not that much.  Only a couple hundred.  On that bet at least.  After a decent Sunday night, it was a pretty poor night of gambling all around on Tues.  I should have let the Horns overachieving and Stars underachieving act as a sign that maybe the house had my number and catch up on sleep, but proceeded to hit the tables late night after a client event instead and paid for it.

    Sounds like you had fun anyway.

    I went in November and then again in December, and I did really well on sports betting except for a few killer college football outcomes in November that, because I particularly heavy on them, almost wrecked the whole damned thing on that trip from the sports betting perspective. Still finished up but not by much and then did outstanding in Dec. Fast forward to being in NOLA for the New Year's game and I decided that I had everything figured out. Placed four bets at $250 each on parlays. Total wipeout. I'll be back to both places in the next few months and will do it all over again, probably. 

  10. 1 hour ago, Vertigo said:

    If Tyler Owens runs the fastest 40 at this year's combine, someone is going to lose their mind and draft him 3 rounds too high. That type of size/speed ratio is unheard of. He isn't a particularly good football player, but he is a freak athlete. 

    The guy shouldn't be drafted at all. He's a terrible football player. His measurables are a siren song to many an unwitting evaluator, so I'm sure some idiot in the NFL will draft him, but he's a wasted pick.

  11. 9 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    boone pickens was worth 1 billion when he died...  (aside: his mira vista ranch giant HQ house is (or was) 3 miles inside the boundary of the smokehouse creek fire)

    he died before NIL so he probably didn't think to fund bags for stillwater in perpetuity

     

    warren buffet started at wharton but got his undergrad at corn age 19

    today, he is the 7th richest man in the world with a net worth of 136 billion

    if he wanted to, he could fund corn bags for 1000 years

    corn ain't dead, yet

    Dead guys don't leave their money to NIL programs or even athletic departments. Knight won't. Pickens didn't. Buffett has never given a shit. They want their names on buildings, bridges, parks, etc. NIL is relevant only for the living.

  12. 26 minutes ago, NoName said:

    shoes, they are "shoes"

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    they may not actually be hey dudes, but they are certainly close. maybe these, but dirty

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    and yes, i know Quinn Ewers did a Hey Dudes NIL deal

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    Of all of the stupid tangents, this one is the dumbest. No one should be giving a flying fuck about the quality and care of some random aggie goober's shoes, or how that potential shoe choice relates to American politics as sided up through clothing choices. This is all a new level of stupid. 

     

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  13. Ole Miss has lost 6 of their last 7 and their obituary for the tournament is being written by everyone. 

    However, they close at Missouri, at Georgia and vs ATM. If there was ever a shitty SEC recipe for closing out and then begging a team into the tournament, this is it. Win 3 in a row and then beat one of these rubes again in the opening round of the SEC tournament and “how can you leave a team like this out?!”

  14. 13 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    "Specious" reasons? UT is "The Joneses," big dogs, a blueblood. Like the Cowboys, Yankees, Lakers, teams that people love, and others love to hate. That's like a fundamental aspect of big time sports. 

    Consider that Texas wasn't a cheater and that the fans, in person, usually draw high praise. Or that everyone is treated well when they come to Austin. The villainy of being a conference killer is silly. Sure, taking down the giant is always fun, but Texas takes all comers in the non-con, doesn't make up fake titles, etc., and so forth. I don't mind being hated, I just think a lot of the nonsense that gets heaped onto Texas, especially when they're down, is gratuitous. Rodney Terry plays a bitch on tv and now the entire Texas fanbase is soft and can't handle horns down. It's absurd to watch.

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  15. 4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    I guess I'm lost on what the hell we're talking about. I literally acknowledged your point. Here is part of what I said: "it’s not a “rivalry” even if some OSU fans say it is, because it’s not by traditional definitions."

    Best I can figure its semantics. I consider a "rivalry" to have some objective and mutual basis. Fans objectively, and subjectively on both sides, recognize Bedlam as a rivalry (while acknowledging that OU-UT is a much bigger rivalry). Nobody would objectively say that OSU-Texas is a rivalry, nor would most Texas fans (Don Draper memes and whatnot). Whatever polls are being cited almost certainly inserted the term "rivalry" into a context that doesn't really fit. They are two separate questions. "We hate them and want to beat them really bad" does not equal "they're our rivals." It's just traditional "want to beat the big dog" mentality that exists in every sport.

    I'm also confused as to what the anger is on this issue. At first, I thought the anger was that fans outside of OU and aggy call UT a rival when it's not, because UT doesn't care. Now it sounds like your mad that an OSU or ISU fans would say "it's not a rivalry" while admitting that it's a big game that we want to win more than any other game outside of bedlam? That last part is really confusing to me.

    There's not any anger from me, if that's what you mean. I find it fun that other fanbases despise us, usually for specious reasons.

  16. 11 minutes ago, TexLonghorn said:

    Here were the 11 teams that listed Texas as their rival:

    No Iowa St.

    So Oklahoma State fans are right there calling Texas a rival. It's that @'stache doesn't know a single one of them. I wonder if there were enough Rice responses to merit statistical relevance? If so, who the hell are they calling a rival ahead of Texas? Ricebirds don't consider UH as in the same galaxy, so I'd be surprised if it was UH.

    8 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Well, I'm glad someone got to the bottom of that.

    Nebraska hasn't been above average in over 20 years.  This is who they are now.

    UCLA lacks the give a shit to get off the mat.

    Nebraska has a rabid fanbase with money and very little regional competition. If Rhule gets things together, they'll recruit better than everyone around them. 

    That considered, I expect a continued fade as well. That holds true for Bama, too. While they're in a recruiting rich area with a rapid fanbase, they face crushing competition from all sides and they're now one of the poorer NIL programs in that same region. 

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  17. 2 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    He's not a liar.  I'm sure the team circled that game and cared more about beating the big bad blue blood than they did about beating similar programs.

    That doesn't mean the fans consider it a rivalry.  Texas is a team people hate.  Iowa's a rival.  There's a difference.

    I don't for one second believe that ISU fans would call Texas their primary rival. I'm sure a good portion of them would call KSU their secondary rival, too. That considered a not insignificant amount of them damned sure would have Texas in that secondary/tertiary area, which is what people are speculating about when they look at that poll in which 11 schools' fanbases named Texas as one of their rivals. 

  18. 27 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Jarrod Hufford is not the average Cyclone fan.  The players often feel differently about opponents than fans do.

    Any instance in which a person hints at ISU viewing Texas in some form that is above and beyond any standard opponent, it's like a bat signal for you to show up and tell us that you guys really don't care. It is as predictable as the sun rise, replete with you telling us that Jarrod Hufford is a big fat liar. It's awesome.

    22 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Isn't that true of most non-bluebloods when they play a blueblood? Utah isn't "rivals" with USC or Oregon, but they sure do love to beat them, and surely prepare a little extra those weeks. Minnesota isn't "rivals" with Ohio State, but you damn sure bet they prepare a little extra when they play (the BIG's 50 "rivalry" trophies notwithstanding). Like Al said, ask a bunch of OSU fans if they "hate" Texas or really want to beat them, and most will say yes, but far fewer would call it a "rivalry," because it's not, it's just a blueblood opponent we've played regularly for more than 25 years now. It's a pretty universal phenomenon in my opinion.

    Let's hold the fuck up here for a minute. First of all, Oregon is not a blue blood, by definition or standard. They also slink back into also-ran status when Knight kicks the bucket. They're a roided up johnny come lately who hasn't won shit. Beyond that, if you polled 1000 Okie State fans about who their first and second rivals are, anything less than 99% of them citing OU as the primary and Texas as the secondary is full of shit. We've seen what OSU fans and teams do when playing other big time programs in the OOS or post season, and it's usually ugly. Texas wasn't just some blue blood coming to town when they headed to Stillwater. Give us a fucking break, guy.

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  19. 9 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    Maybe I am too old school but that being an ejection was laughable and the crowd reacting the way they did was dumb as shit. It was a hard foul, period. Not an ejection. Brock went hard probably thinking that the Tech player would too and he didnt at all. 

    I applaud Cunningham's effort and loved it during the game. That said, he abandoned any notion of going for the ball and threw a side body block at the guy. While watching the replays immediately afterward, I shrugged and thought to myself "yeah, he's getting tossed". It came across as flagrant, and worthwhile.

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