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    LOL, yeah. It's a bit like your ex-wife telling you that thing that you thought she loved she actually hated and rolled her eyes every time you did it. The problem is this problem isn't going away. Pretty sure this particular SJW nonsense is a diabolical plot from our conference rivals.
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    Yeah, you could be.
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    The logic is inescapable. Every football player we want has offers from 30 or 40 other universities. Most of them aren't going to come here with this controversy going on. If we can't convince the players who are already on campus that singing the eyes with the fans is a nice tradition, then we have zero chance of convincing those who are just being recruited. We are eventually going to jettison the song, at least as a postgame tradition, but probably altogether. Is that going to make a lot of people mad, including big donors? Yep.. The players don't hold the cards, but the recruits are holding 4 aces. Is it crazy? Yep. But that's how it has to play out. Soon to be ex-coach Herman has painted us into a corner from which there is no escape.
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    Tom Herman's legacy will be losing to all our conference rivals, and killing the Eyes of Texas.
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    I meant 2nd overtime of course; we had to go for 2 in the 3rd. We had to go for two after we scored in the 2nd OT. Big mistake not to, I said it at the time.
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    I was losing my mind that we didn't go for two at the end of the 3rd overtime. You go for 2 because in the 4th overtime, you have to go for two, and you are in the disadvantaged position of playing offense first. Even if you score and get the 2, they have a chance to answer. Win it or lose it right there. They had no chance to answer the 2 with 2 of their own. You probably have a 60% plus or more chance of winning ir right there, maybe more because of momentum. Taking it to the 4th OT with them going second, your odds probably drop to 40% or less. That was our chance, and we should have taken it. Herman was afraid of the criticism.
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    I'm not going to attack a bunch of kids for jumping on the latest social justice fad. It's what kids today do. But I am going to point out that it's stupid, and maybe they could find something more important to be offended by. The song is over a hundred years old. There was a lot of racism back then. There hasn't been a shred of racism in it for generations. I mean, Texas, and just about every major university has racism in it's past. You don't have to go back a hundred years. It was the late 60's before most football teams were even integrated. It's on Herman. He should have found a way to channel their activism into something less stupid and divisive. Tough job, but that's why he gets the big bucks. Well, until he's fired this year.
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    Here's the problem. For 100 years, the tradition of singing the song after the game with the team was just the fans telling the team we support you guys and the University of Texas, win, lose or draw. That's all it has ever meant. The fact that the players don't want to sing it anymore doesn't mean that they don't care. It just means they have bought into the latest social justice fad proving they care about more than just football. Unfortunately, as silly as it is, it's hard for fans not to take it exactly as the fans on this thread are taking it. And more unfortunately, it will be hard to move forward without abandoning a cherished Texas tradition.
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    I agree with your sentiments for the most part. I just don't see a good way for this to play out. Players aren't going to say nevermind, we've thought it over and decided it's not racist and we''ll come sing it with you. And other schools are going to effectively use it against us in recruiting. Eventually we will get tired of the controversy and chuck it. That's not how I want it to go down. I just can't see another path out. Fans aren't going to like it, and well, that's how you get fair weather fans. I'll support you when things are going good, but when things go south, well, I've got other things to do on Saturday anyway. Not a good look for anybody, I'm sad to say.
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    And all of a sudden, we have a new leader in the worst person in the world contest...
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    I knew the minute that this surfaced as a issue that Texas football is pretty much screwed for the next ten or twenty years. There's no really good answer, and it will have a negative effect on recruiting for a long time. Step 1 to recovery is to fire the mensa moron, and get a new coach in here that can start over on building a team culture that doesn't suck. I project we will flounder around with this for three to five years before we decide to completely disassociate ourselves from the "racist" song that fans and alumni love. Then we'll spend a decade or so trying to live down being the university that openly loved what they now admit is a racist song. OU sux, but so does this situation.
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    This isn't the last time an incompetent poorly trained adrenaline & testosterone fueled cop is going to mistakenly shoot somebody. I hope it is the beginning of a trend to hold them swiftly accountable for it.
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    Radio silence from the police and Texas Rangers speaks volumes. If they had exculpatory video, we'd have seen it, and the store has video. I'm thinking this cop f'up bad. Price had posted on facebook he'd never had a negative encounter with the police. Sad, sad situation. If the video is as bad as I think it must be, this is going to get ugly.
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    After watching OU fans bash Venables for years, blame him for every loss, and run him out of town, I'm skeptical that he would be a good head coach.
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    Oct. 5th timing is the big issue. Just not enough runway for the logistical questions. District has not given up a return to face to face and regular school. It will still likely happen this semester, unless the covid numbers change. Eanes ISD returning has changed the conversation.
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    the latest: I am committed to keeping you informed and aware of decisions that are being made in the district. You may have heard that there were conversations about shifting course regarding the physical return to campus. It's important to me to have conversations with leadership to determine how we best serve our students. I have a responsibility to ensure students receive the highest quality instruction that can be safely provided, and we know that for many students, that means being on-campus, engaging with their peers and teachers. However, after consulting with campus leadership and hearing from numerous families and staff, we have determined now is not the time to adjust our plans. Beginning Oct. 5, we will phase in on-campus instruction according to the phase-in plan outlined on our website.
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    Nobody is mandating a return. The big change today is they are contemplating a return meaning a return to regular school and a regular schedule on 10/5. Face to face with your actual teachers, instead of virtual school at school. Parents/students can still opt out and go virtual.
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    Parents/Students will have a choice..
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    Some serious chatter in Austin ISD about going back to regular school early October.. Decision soon.
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    Well, the idea that limitless cheap energy exists is a sucker concept that only California would buy. But the idea that this virus is created, which is well within China's power, is not farfetched at all. I don't know if they did or not, and my guess is that if they did, it was an accidental release as opposed to purposeful. I'm not sure why the proposition that China engineered the virus has become political, but I stay off the hellhole that is the politics board, so I won't post here on the subject again. I find it to be a very interesting topic.
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    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rogue-chinese-virologist-joins-twitter-publishes-evidence-covid-19-created-lab The receptor-binding motif of SARS-CoV-2 Spike cannot be born from nature and should have been created through genetic engineering.
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    These results are so good it's hard to believe. Strange how these things can be ignored. This study needs to be replicated. It seems absolutely conclusive on it's face.
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    That's gonna suck for funding. Which school district are you in?
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    Well, we can agree on this.

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