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Posts posted by DFW Horn
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53 minutes ago, Davis Lane said:
"I have made a big mistake." ~ either one of them
FAU worked out well for Joey Freshwater.
No reason it can't work for Mensa. I'll be pulling for him and the Owls. There are worse places to revive your CFB career than Boca Raton.
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47 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:
College Station is is a shit stadium in a shithole. But I got lost and their fans couldn’t have been- ah, I can’t do it.
Even aggy aren't dumb enough to get lost in Collie Station.
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1 hour ago, Rimbo said:
Time to go full offseason. Been thinking this a while, partially because I tend to run in circles with the sort of person who uses the word "sportsball" without irony, but also because back during the pandemic, the NY Times, a publication usually above such things, ran an editorial titled "College Football is Not Essential." I won't bother linking it here; DM me if you genuinely want to see that drivel.
But yes. Fandom in general, and college sports fandom in particular, is embraced by honest intellectuals.
To wit:
Human intellect evolved as a way to justify tribal association. There's people who believe that they use human reason to derive the conclusions they come to from evidence, and it's all complete bullshit. The way human reason works is that you start with what you believe, and then look for evidence to support it, and ignore anything that goes against it. It's called Confirmation Bias. If you go into certain fields, such as Mathematics, at some point you must train yourself out of this way of thinking, and having been close to people who have done so, they're completely insufferable dipshits.
We associate with our tribe for comfort, for support, and agreeing with each other is how we strengthen those bonds.
The tribe you associate with forever determines your biases. If you call yourself a "Christian," you will be forever blind to any evidence to the contrary on the nature of God. If you call yourself a "Democrat," you will forever despise anything the Republicans do, no matter what it is. And so on and so forth. If you identify with your home state of, say, Colorado, you'll forever be blind to the charms of California, Texas or New Mexico, while ignoring the horrors of living in Colorado.
But there's a way out of this trap. You can identify with something utterly meaningless and pointless in the grand scheme of things. There are plenty such things. You can be a Trekkie. Or a card-carrying House Hufflepuff-identified Harry Potter fan. Or, of course, a sports fan.
But college sports is better than other fandoms. Because by associating with a sports team of a (presumably) prestigious public University, you are associating with a group that is ideologically diverse and highly educated. You are surrounding yourself with people who have good brains, the ability to express themselves, and who have different views and life experiences for you to learn from.
For an intellectual, the local alumni center before the game is a veritable smorgasbord of brilliant ideas; the modern-day Salon.
In short, when I say "ou sucks," this is an assumption accepted as truth, defended with all possible blindness to the contrary; by saying it, I'm creating a safe space where we can begin with this agreement, and from there debate amicably about actually important things like politics and the nature of existence.
"But wait," I hear you cry. "I've been to Tiger Stadium aka Death Valley. Are you trying to tell me that that teeming horde is where I'd find intellectuals?" I mean, obviously the Venn Diagram of Sports Fans and Intellectuals is not a circle. What I am saying is that the circles in the Venn Diagram of Intellectuals and People Who Are Not Sports Fans... do not intersect very much. And the quality of university clearly matters; it's difficult to have an intelligent conversation when every other word compulsively has to be, "Whoop!" Of course, I might be only saying that because of my own personal choice and my own confirmation bias.
But I don't think so.
You lost me at New York Times.
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20 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:
I went to The Grove for the Texas road game in 2012. Lots of talent, but short on hospitality. I was expecting a full Oxford chandelier spread, and I think I got some cold Chick-fil-A and a couple beers. Oh they don’t allow grills, so there’s that.
Opposing fan experience wasn’t much better. Two giant dudes straight out of Deliverance were sitting in our seats. So I went and grabbed a local cop and he of course told me to f*** off. Some Texas Cowboys took pity on us and we sat them. Good game and it ended up OK.
I think we should all go once, but The Grove is not the visitors’ paradise they promote themselves as.
No grills??? What kind of tailgate is that? Sounds like the ESPN hype machine blew up The Grove experience, too.
Fuck 'em...it's rural Mississippi.
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58 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:
I think the PAC should play hardball. Tell ESPN they can overpay for everything or get nothing and watch a whole lot of west coast households not need cable anymore. It probably doesn't work, but their conference probably ends up folding if they end up streaming most of their content, anyway.
Maybe the "Conference of Champions" eggheads think their fan base is so sophisticated, they won't have any trouble with streaming? If memory serves, their old commish, Larry Scott, tried the strategy you recommend. That's why their carriage rates suffered.
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1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:
Yup! As of this moment, I don’t want Terry to be our next HC. But if he brings home a championship my opinion absolutely flips. Anybody saying otherwise is delusional, imo. A final four would also be good enough for me. E8 leaves me unsure. It’d probably come down to who we beat and ultimately lose to along the way. Anything less than that, and he should officially be off the table. He has a lot of talent that he didn’t bring in. But winning a lot in the tournament goes a long fucking way in my opinion of a coach, and it certainly helps their ability to recruit.
IMO, he sticks with a Sweet 16. I'm indifferent about who the next coach will be.
Just win, baby!
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22 minutes ago, oSuJeff97 said:
Also - IF they actually get a deal done, you know it’s going to be relatively short-term because of the Washington/Oregon situation.
So yeah the best case for PAC seems to be getting “similar” money (if not somewhat lower) to the Big 12, but less exposure, and then it’s short-term so you have no stability because you know that Oregon/Wash will leave for the B1G two seconds after they are invited; and now you’re in the MWC money zone for your next deal, which may be basically right around the corner (2-3 years or so).
PAC is fucked regardless if WA/OR don't sign a long-term GoR.
I expect UA & CU to bolt soon and UU & ASU to follow shortly thereafter if their administrations don't balk. They seem to think the PAC is an academics league.
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On 2/25/2023 at 6:42 AM, BevoAbyss said:
IMHO: I think an all burnt orange uniform would look very cool. The burnt orange jersey with burnt orange pants and burnt orange helmet (white longhorn logo), socks, shoes. It would the opposite of the all white uniforms. I know it will never happen.
The right team already wears it, sans helmet.
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26 minutes ago, Jabberwocky said:
Some sort of Utah Sports coverage site:
Most have been saying the Pac's money will be comparable to the Big 12, but their visibility and exposure will suffer with much of the content being streamed. I'm sure ESPN will buy Pac 12 after dark.
How we define "prime time" for CFB? Mid-afternoon time slots?
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5 minutes ago, hook me said:
I do wonder if ESPN won't stipulate in the new contract that there has to be "X" number of SEC conference games or P5 matchups per week to keep from having everyone schedule that kind of game at the same time in order to keep the inventory of games top-notch. I would imagine they would want at least 4 matchups to choose from any given week to make sure they have at least 1 game worthy of primetime.
This
Yes, I believe ESPN, FOX, and the other media companies will limit the cupcake games moving forward. They don't want to pay for that crap.
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4 minutes ago, 'stache said:
...since Tech fans have a chip on their shoulder thinking they invented horses, flags, people riding on horses, with flags, the hanging curveball, high fibre, good Scotch, all of which we took from them. Bring it on fake zorros.
Warner Bros. would like to have a word, Tech.
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17 minutes ago, Richard Kimball said:
There's some of that at UT. When I was a student in the 70s, when the Houston Cougars beat Texas 30-0, a lot of the faculty I knew (Art Department) were giggling about the loss, and saying Texas should quit worrying about football so much. The Art faculty was pissed at athletics, cause they had the BMD receptions before the games at the old Huntington (I think it was Huntington) gallery in the art building, and sometimes the BMDs would hang their coats on the sculptures. They also considered all the athletes knuckle draggers.
Art Department? Lol...
Pseudo-intellectuals vs knuckle-draggers.
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17 hours ago, hook me said:
Most SEC teams play either 2 cupcakes & 1 meh school or 3 cupcakes each year to go along with a P5 school. Adding an SEC game isn't going to take away the fact that they (we) have cupcakes, they'll (we'll) just have less of them most likely.
It depends on how you define "cupcake". I should've clarified - FCS teams or lower.
As you know, UT doesn't schedule FCS opponents. aggy will schedule at least 2, when possible. The fact that SEC teams scheduled that shit (the week before their rivals in November) gamed the system.
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Yet another reason Yormark >>>>> Bowlsby. He knows how to market the Big 12.
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2 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:
B1G and SEC will be looking to make sure they have a big games almost every week. So if SEC continues to play the sisters of the poor one week before rivalry week then that would be a good time to play your top rivalries.
SEC is getting away from Cupcake Week with their new, 9-game league schedule.
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27 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:
Blasphemous
May a pox afflict the Adams family in perpetuity. When entering "Oilers" in the GIF search, we get a bunch of damn hockey clips. Fuck you, Bud.
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1 hour ago, TrashMaster G said:You are correct, sir.
Everybody talks about Bowie, Travis and Crockett but, to my way of thinking, James Butler Bonham was the most heroic. Bonham, who was boyhood friends with Travis in South Carolina (and whose whole reason for even being in Texas in the first place was because Travis had written him a letter the previous year that described a world of opportunity in Texas for enterprising young men like themselves ), was sent by Travis to obtain aid for the garrison at Bexar on about February 16, 1836. He visited Goliad, but the commander of the forces there, James Fannin, was unable to provide assistance. Bonham's spirit is best described by T.R. Fehrenbach in his Texas opus, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans:"At the end, the weary Bonham, a lawyer, a Carolinian of exulted family and a friend of Travis, turned his mount around and rode back toward San Antonio. He was told it was useless to throw away his life. He answered back that Buck Travis deserved to know the answer to his appeals, spat upon the ground, and galloped west into his own immortality."Thus, Bonham returned to the Alamo on March 3, riding through a hail of Mexican bullets to do it. Imagine being him as he approached the Alamo. He could certainly see the huge Mexican Army and must have known that he faced death either trying to get back inside or in the battle that would certainly follow. He could have turned his horse around, gone back to Goliad or Gonzales, and nobody would have ever known.James Butler Bonham died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, aged 29. He is believed to have died manning one of the cannons.-
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2 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:
Does anyone really think aggy will continue playing SC?
You, sir, have no appreciation for the prestigious and coveted Bonham Trophy.
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3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Malik Murphy wasn't participating is interesting. Sounds like Arch is running legit #2 already.Why errbody sleepin' on Charlie Wright? You can't keep an Austin Maroon down!
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