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  1. So,… https://www.skysport4.com/texas-immortalize-coaching-legend-r-c-slocum-kyle-field-statue/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJOgi1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeTXtQaXtS1iyGrMBinVnEcCrs992bXXH4CHwArhv1lEbsx2H5z4T7lDkw_aem_XYSSRyQcRRC-nuKIWii1FA a statue of RC Slocum. Now, to be fair, he coached a team that went 49-6-2, from late ‘90 through early ‘95 season. That’s over an 88% clip. That stretch formed a generation of Ags’ perceptions of what their program was, and could be again. Trouble is- they really didn’t play anyone good. I think they only beat five teams in that 56 game stretch that finished ranked in the top 25. They beat #22 BYU in ‘90, #9 Stanford in ‘92, #24 Louisville in ‘93, #23 Texas in ‘94, and # 25 LSU in early ‘95 (all final rankings). That is how the legend was made. Maybe the Ags calling for a move to the Southland Conference are on to something.
  2. What exactly are you saying was the cause of inflation in the U.S., then? Do you agree that the (painful) raising of U.S. lending rates, by the Fed, was needed to reduce it? If not, why did the Fed do that?
  3. I don’t think you understand what that lane is for. You see, there is no lane to the left, so a driver that wants to check his smart phone can slide in, knowing he doesn’t have to pay full attention to the traffic around him
  4. Excuse me, but it is well documented by empirical evidence as well as modelling that the most efficient way to merge traffic is the “zipper”, where the cars merge at the last moment. Sorry is that’s too stressful for some of you.
  5. When Nahlin posted in IT a couple of months back that Beard was still with his “fiancée”, I cleansed my head of all “what could have been” thoughts. Waste of time. Can’t work.
  6. On their boards, Baylor, TCU and SMU fans like to call Texas out as “welfare U”, as if athletics were funded by the state. It’s bullshit, as we know, since UT runs a profit on sports. However, with the Ags, they may have a point.
  7. Really? I know we really yuk it up about those hayseeds, but, come on. That AD is repaying a loan to the (state funded) university, and is about to start cutting checks to athletes (and it will probably pay over the required $20.5M). At some point, doesn’t the state have to provide adult supervision?
  8. We all kind of had to be, since fucking SMU was on probation again and barred from TV. Saturday afternoon, at Texas Stadium, I learned that a stadium could be surrounded by freeways on all sides and it still could take an hour and a half to get out of the parking lot.
  9. Remember the Akers team’s players walking around campus with those t shirts, with “TEAM” in huge letters and “ME” in small letters.
  10. Damn! How many of us were there? I was there, too.
  11. 1981 SMU game. #10 Texas playing at (Texas Stadium) #8 SMU. SMU had Dickerson and James in the backfield. Texas won 9-7, holding the Mustangs to 205 yards (70 came on one pass play for the sole Mustangs TD). Sims had 11 solo tackles and four assists for 15 total tackles (SMU only had 68 plays, so Sims tackled over 1/5 of them). He had two sacks (McIlhenny went back to pass 23 times, but was only able to attempt 15 passes as he was sacked eight times), and four other tackles for loss. He forced a fumble and recovered a fumble (I can’t remember if it was the same play). https://stats.texassports.com/custompages/sports/m-footbl/archive/stats/81/ut-smu.htm He got hurt against TCU later that year, but there was a reason he was the number one draft pick.
  12. Baylor is a pissant program that had been freeriding on UT for decades, hypocritically claiming to be of higher morals while demonstrating it was happy to break any rule or law if doing so brought more wins. Its basketball program paid players illegally for decades, going sometimes to criminal lengths to hide it. Its football program paid tens of millions of dollars to buy rape victims’ silence, so it wouldn’t have to admit that the program’s greatest teams were built on a culture of gang rape. Is that logically coherent?
  13. Naw. Arkansas is a rival, and their flame to a 1964 MNC is the FWAA vote (Alabama won the wire polls, I believe, before losing to Texas in the 1965 Orange Bowl). Look, the FWAA did that vote every year, and even awarded a MNC trophy. Is a school that just had a great season supposed to say, “Naw, Dawg, we can’t accept that, the UPI voted for someone else”? I scoff at the MNC claims based on after-the-fact ratings (usually many years later).
  14. No, the point is that context should matter, and the dumbest way to pick a MNC is loss column bias. Example: BYU in 1984. The SEC in the ‘50s and early ‘60s was not the SEC of later decades. It was a bunch of little white guys that rarely ventured out of Dixie for a game. Again, the FWAA saw them play and voted them MNC. Why do you want to argue against that?
  15. LSU was an all white team that never played a game outside Dixie. Iowa arguably played a tougher schedule, was integrated and played other integrated teams. If contemporary sportswriters were willing to vote them MNC, I have no problem with it.
  16. You’re right, Bolverk. I have nothing to offer to this discussion. Won’t make the mistake again.
  17. Let’s not get carried away. France and Germany are still buying Russian energy, three years after Bucha. (Others may be, too, those are the ones I googled). I know, energy is a commodity, but I have to think that rejecting Russian energy would allow Russia’s remaining customers (China, India) to start screwing them on terms. The EU has issued a white paper on how a renewed Euro interest in defense could manifest in spending nearly a trillion Euros over the next few years. The EU has suggested that budget restrictions, keeping them from borrowing to spend on defense, could be lifted. I don’t think they have enacted it yet. (The UK is not in the EU, and they could be increasing spending on defense right now, but aren’t. Does it take a vote in Parliament? I really don’t know). The WSJ had a sourced news article this weekend. After the disastrous Oval Office meeting, Zelensky flew to London to meet with the European leaders, where they affirmed their support for Ukraine. Then, Macron and Starmer told Zelensky he needed to go back to the U.S. and make nice. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/inside-the-frantic-european-negotiations-behind-ukraines-cease-fire-deal-f4ad538c?st=7JFhED&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink Is the U.S. acting childish? Sure. Are the Euros acting like adults? Well,…sort of, almost,…we’ll see. Russia rolling into Crimea in 2014 didn’t spur them to wean off Russian energy or increase their defense spending, going into Ukraine again three years ago didn’t spur them. Let’s hope they do so, now.
  18. Perspective- China has killed nearly as many Ukrainians on accident as Russia has on purpose (and many millions more worldwide), and no one is (or will) holding them accountable
  19. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare#
  20. They were named MNC by the Football Writers Association of America in 1958. It was awarded after the bowls, in a year where the AP and UPI awarded the MNC before the bowls to LSU, who then lost their bowl game. I’ll allow it.
  21. No sarcasm. More than anything, amazed that they have fallen so far behind. S&C is a science, and the very best are lifetime students, constantly trying to learn more. Madden wasn’t, and maybe Schmidt isn’t.
  22. I was listening to the Ikard-Lehman podcast, where they were discussing OU’s pro day. -don’t worry so much about the number of NFL scouts that showed, they said- you need a top QB and Edge rusher to get a bunch of them. -a lot of comments about players I rarely heard of during the season “maybe they get invited as a camp body, and anything can happen after that” - after discussing how much they like CB Woodi Washington as a person, they noted that his times would be good for a DT prospect - a lot of comments about players physically looking better now, than during the season. Is it possible that Schmitty, demonstrably better than Madden as a S&C coach 20 years ago, is demonstrably worse than Becton, now?
  23. 1942 Cotton Bowl (Alabama vs TAMC) watch. Has to be rare- rosters were smaller and there are probably a number in a bomber cockpit on the ocean floor, or in an old dresser in France (“some nice American gave that to Grandma for something”). Would trade for a Texas bowl watch I need.
  24. Deion really wanted CU to join the B12, because he thought he would have Texas as a recruiting territory. Turns out that with Texas out of the conference, exposure to Texas athletes (the best ones) is just a fraction of what it was.
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