W0244 Jester

Lofty goal, but it will never work. Every big football school has a team full of guys that have told how great they are for years. See how many athletes make sure to wear Texas Athletics gear of some sort every day on campus. They like the attention. They already feel like they are the bee’s knees. Now they are sure the university will entertain their requests.

Would you like a coffee table book about coffee tables?

This already happened with the law school some years back. Do you remember that?

Wait, so you are more worried about being perceived as being better than the Oklahoma schools? That is what you led with in that post. You are more worried about what somebody thinks about the university, and about you (by association), than making actual changes for the right reasons? You are like the Facebook friends I have reposting memes and some selfies of themselves at protests. They don’t really accomplish anything or effect change, but they get to stroke their own ego when people give them likes and tell them how great they are for “raising awareness”. Good to know this is about perception for you and being better seen as better than a state full of meth-toothed yokels sitting on red dirt (seriously, half that state could be the set for The Martian) that their ancestors stole.

True or false: Chip Brown is a journalist

This is outstanding. Well done!

Wrong. Here is some attention though. I’ll get you a cookie and some SJW internet tokens if it will make you feel better. I am concerned they are being played. Weird, you don’t seem to be concerned about them despite the keyboard vomit you have been spewing for 40 pages. You are more concerned with getting e-high fives from your internet bros than with what might actually be happening to the players.

Can anyone think of a thread that has garnered so many replies in such a short time? Seems like I’ve been reading most of these threads for three years.

We know the list of requests had already been prepped by student orgs. The student orgs have said as much. Yeah, I’m speculating on the rest. This is an unprecedented development on a freaking college football message board. Nobody has ever speculated on Surly in the history of ever. Certainly not on this thread.

I’ve been lurking a long time. Had an account on the first Shag way back when. Didn’t bother with the next version after Patterson got asshurt over criticism from the Shag. Been watching this one a long time. First, I agree with the person who wants to neg Stone Oak for his avatar being such a tease. Ever wonder how many times Woody Harrelson flubbed his lines so they could reshoot that scene? TexasMan has an avatar that covers the crime of Stone Oak pretty well. All of this discussion is disappointing. People tearing each other apart. People being damned clueless for decades about who these people were. Did you really not know about Hogg? Prather? Littlefield? Better not read up on Simkins then. I’m glad the players are making requests. I’m sad that they are getting used for their position, just like they do in athletics. These guys didn’t sit around during shelter-in-place and research all of this. Someone got in there ear and said “Hey man, we have this list. If you will Tweet it and include The Eyes, it will really take off. You are a big deal. Use your platform.” Some of the players have been getting told since 7th grade that they are the best thing since peanut butter. They are used to having people cater to them. It’s how they ended up in the 40 acres. They had the red or orange carpet rolled out for them. Some student orgs or BLM are doing the same thing. Kissing their asses and telling them they are special and feeding them a list to put on social media (when they aren’t punching cars, apparently). They are getting used. Not like slavery, but still a “hey, you are a black guy that can do things I can’t do, I need you to do this for me. For free.” I hope they get good advice. We see juniors across college football get bad advice every year and declare for the draft and fall flat. I hope these guys are getting good advice. It will follow them if this doesn’t work and they transfer. The other disappointment with this is that they suck at negotiating. They “request” a whole list of things, but they don’t counter with much. They don’t really put anything on the line. Not walking some recruits around? Ok. Herman will find a white player to do it or get some hottie to do it. Not glad-handing alums and donors and kissing babies? Ok. It’s weird to me anyway that people fawn over 18-22 year old dudes. Thinking about how many teenagers Burton and Ketch and that pube chin aggy have called and texted and tweeted at over the years is creepy anyway. Players, bring something substantial to the table. Negotiate better. No team meetings, or I stay in my dorm or apartment the night before home games and don’t go to the hotel with the team like a bunch of kids on a sleepover, or something. Don’t get yourself kicked off the team or demoted, but bring something to the table. Also, I’m considering the possibility that MrBig is the username for that muskrat hairpiece wearing loser FCB. Think about it.