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  1. Texadelphia was a pale imitation of its predecessor (same location), called Harvey's Heros. It was a big Daily Texan staff hangout.
  2. I just stumbled upon this thread. Man oh man, the hours I spent at the corner of 24th and San Antonio. My go to at Mad Dogs wavered between the Austin's Favorite and the Bandido. I was an undergrad '78-'82, and this was such a terrific little college neighborhood. I spent so much money and time at Inner Sanctum that it's a wonder I graduated. And we would go see movies at night at The Varsity Theater (for some, the Tower Records space) and at the end scoot out the back exit and poof! There was Les Amis, the cultural heart of west campus. We'd smoke and drink and do an autopsy on the movie we'd just watched, which was usually a great film. And nearly 10 years earlier, my brother had worked at Les Amis and later managed a Mexican food joint called La Fonda on the back side of the Mad Dogs parking lot in the narrow building that was later Linklater's apartment, where the early scenes of Slacker were filmed. Inner Sanctum and Mad Dogs would hold music shows in the parking lot that were fabulous, bands like Toxic Shock, Terminal Mind, Sharon Tate's Baby, The Next and many others would draw large audiences. And there was even the first Whole Earth Provision Company in Austin right around the corner on San Antonio. A block west was Abel's, and another couple of blocks west was The Posse West. And the women! Holy crap, it was like - and no disrespect to Native Americans, my wife (no pics you degenerates) is partly Native American - the Happy Hunting Ground for finding beautiful women. I have great memories of The Stallion (double cfs on Sunday evenings) and Jorge's on Riverside. Beans at 6th and Guadalupe was not connected to Mad Dogs. It was one of our go-tos for concerts and shows, sometimes before, sometimes after, sometimes both. I don't care for sweet drinks, but they made a Pina Colada that would make you levitate. Enough, TL; dr.
  3. Cross posting from the basketball forum. I played against his Dunbar teams for 4 years in the mid-late '70s. He was a great coach, but so was ours, and we always beat Dunbar until he introduced FWISD to the now widely-practiced strategy of recruiting kids in other schools' footprint. He convinced a lot of talent that they would fit in better at Dunbar, even if it was a lesser school.
  4. I played against his Dunbar teams for 4 years in the mid-late '70s. He was a great coach, but so was ours, and we always beat Dunbar until he introduced FWISD to the now widely-practiced strategy of recruiting kids in other schools' footprint.
  5. Objection. This is irrelevant, immaterial and incompetent. Introducing facts not based on evidence.
  6. Kid camps at Texas. Doesn't get offered. Does get butthurt. Does Horns down. Yawn.
  7. That's pretty surprising. I wonder what happened in that recruitment, weren't the coaches really high on Johnson? I wonder if it has anything to do with Hines?
  8. In the spirit of Horseshoe Bay hotel curtains and flight tracker, I went to the Comal County public jail bond records and none of this weekend's official visitors turned up in a quick search.
  9. When I was in high school, I had a summer job working at the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station (the North Texas nuke in Glen Rose). This lake looks just like the cooling pond there. Ugh.
  10. You may have mentioned it, or perhaps Gerry, but it sounds like they prefer the Texas TEs to Winston.
  11. Well, Fred Hoiberg is a much better coach than RT. And who knows how much we even pursued him.
  12. It's Winston. May flip to Auburn.
  13. I would postpone the handwringing until all the OVs are done.
  14. I'm not going to invoke the name of our aggie-obsessed pundit, but I wonder if he has the receipts to all of these maroon yarns. It would make a great little novella.
  15. I just want to be clear. You're saying that Lacey doesn't extend plays by moving around and outside the pocket? Because whatever his shortcomings may be, he absolutely keeps plays alive with his legs while looking to make the pass downfield.
  16. I believe they have won 4 games total in 7 appearances. Which gives them a - checks notes - a sterling .0222 winning percentage in Omaha. Sterling, I say.
  17. He left TCU because he was banging more than a couple of coeds and his wife said pack up and leave Fort Worth or else. Now, since then, I don't know the status of their relationship. But rumor is TCU (private schools are private) had to pay out some scandal money. Not sure how that would fly with our athletic department. And he always gets off to jackrabbit starts but he is a well known arm shredder. His rep is similar to what Wayne Graham's was at Rice.
  18. He was hired in 2019 at Oregon St. During the fucking pandemic. I don't consider that being born on 3rd base. Since 2022 his record there is 131-52. He has also managed three different professional Double A teams. And the aforementioned Dan Heefner at Dallas Baptist also has a sterling resume.
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