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  1. RIP. I saw her open for Lloyd Cole, back in the day.
  2. OU thought they led for the WR, Miles, out of Duncanville. He committed to SMU and the Sooners are questioning everything… I have to admit- they’re smarter than Aggies. Liucci would just tell them that they had an even better prospect lined up, one who “get” A&M, and the goobers would all be happy.
  3. For all the tradition, I can only think of a few Longhorns with raw athletic dominance akin to men playing against boys- Nobis, Campbell, Ricky Williams. Maybe Derrick Johnson? On this team, I think Collin Simmons is in that category. Is Anthony Hill? These are the good times.
  4. Caveat: I, “statsman”, do not know shit about fuck on this topic- I have seen rumblings that a delay in the “House settlement” would cause chaos in college football. Observation- in the last couple of transfer portals, teams have retained key players better than before. Hypothesis: Have P4 teams all assumed that they will be allowed to budget $15M for football next year, out of AD revenue, which represents a big increase for about 80% of the schools in P4? Allowing them to retain and recruit. Would a delay in the “House settlement” require them to make up budget shortfalls from donors, causing extreme stress in program support? Or, in such an event, would AD’s just go ahead and write the checks to players anyway, and worry later about any consequences?
  5. Thx- on my phone I couldn’t tell that it was picked
  6. OU did well on defense in 2023 with three deep DL JAGs, on short rotations, instructed to give it their all on every play, because they would be rotated out quickly. That’s our floor, next year. If a couple of guys can play, we’ll be good.
  7. Wait- did UCLA really have the ball on the Texas 15 for one more play? Why didn’t they try to kick a FG to tie? Even back then, that had to be better odds than trying to score a TD from the 15 (and I get that the game would have ended in a tie). Did they not have a TO left?
  8. You played it right. It just doesn’t go as well with the nice guys. Horn: “Man, that Sherrill may have been a good coach, but he was one creepy dude, wasn’t he?” Nice old Ag: “I named my daughter, Jackie, after him”.
  9. I pretty much but, in hardcopy, any grownup (and some kids) book about Longhorn football. I was going to ask if anyone could recommend the Unlang coffee table book, “Texas is Back”, but, who am I kidding? I’m going to buy it. Anyway- categories and recommendations: Books by era: Sarkisian: the Umlang book, and the book the AAS issued last year to recap the Big XII years. Herman: unaware of any books Strong: Mac Engel wrote a book covering one weekend of HS, college and pro football in DFW. That TCU prick fully expected OU to drill Texas that one Fall Saturday in 2015. Ha! Brown: Probably the Brown/Little (mostly Little) “One Heartbeat”. Mackovic: there is a coffee table book “Texas Longhorn Football Today”, heavy on pictures. That’s about it. McWilliams: “Bleeding Orange” by Bohls/Maher. Akers: “The Courtship of Marcus DuPree” by Willie Morris is the best we have. Short on real Longhorn info, heavy on literary quality. Royal: a ton of books. The best two were ghostwritten by Blackie Sherrod- “Darrell Royal Talks Football” and “I Play to Win” (Freddie Steinmark). (I bought Dave Campbell’s copy of the former from his estate sale- the Sherrod quip by his signature is “This was a real ‘labor of loot’”. Price: nada Cherry: he wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post, called “Why I Quit Football” with more insight (and bitching) than most books. Bible: “Championship Football” by DX Bible- a hard slog.
  10. I think a true “Hail Mary” is a long pass (think Staubach to Pearson” against the Vikings in 1976) that wins the game at the very end. Phillips to Speyrer against UCLA in 1970 may be closest (even though UCLA had a few seconds at the end, and this happened before the first official “Hail Mary”, see above). Stanford to Jones against Arky wasn’t too long, but it did end the game. It was a lot of fun, too, because the favored Hogs had led the whole way and really expected to win.
  11. It’s a shame they haven’t played any games where a play call going different could affect a championship, since Rice in 1957.
  12. Sure. In a similar situation, 20 years earlier, in an ESPN gameday bout with peak KSU, RS freshman VY came in and did just enough to lead the Horns to victory (along with an excellent defense). I was there- Texas didn’t light up the scoreboard, but the offense was clearly better with VY in than with Mock at QB, even though it was clearly a more limited offense.
  13. Posted before, but Klatt’s podcast on the UGA game, right after, said (paraphrase) “There are two reasons to pull a quarterback- to replace him, or to give him a chance to collect himself. Sark’s pulling of Ewers was the latter, but…each of Sark, Ewers and Manning knew that if Manning played well, Ewers wasn’t going back in.”
  14. It’s hard to decide between Ryan Williams and Jeremiah Smith
  15. I should have known. That’s why this site is so down on Ewers.
  16. -he has excellent ball placement (position and velocity) on short and intermediate throws -he can make nice throws on the move or off balance -excellent fakes -good locker room guy
  17. I will share a more positive senior story. My dad enlisted in the army at 16, in 1952, going full active duty after graduating HS. At the time, the army said that if you enlisted, and retired, you would have healthcare for life at no cost. Not for spouses, just the soldiers. Of course, years later, Uncle Sam tried to claw that back. A MOH winner sued, and won: https://www.military.com/militaryadvantage/2012/05/is-there-a-promise-of-free-health-care-for-life?amp Retirees who enlisted before 1958 get free healthcare for life. It doesn’t have to be from VA system. When a doctor tells him he should go to the ER, Dad says, “Call an ambulance”. Everything is paid for. In an argument with him, my sister threatened to ignore his medical DNR preference and keep him plugged into machines forever, keeping those retirement checks coming while he is comatose (she was joking, … I think). He has a unique situation and we are grateful for it.
  18. Wow. I think you know- that is quite a commitment that you have taken on. You didn’t ask for advice, but I’m going to offer some (and it occurs to me, I need to start discussing this with my wife, about my MIL)- You mention not wanting to move her into assisted living, for fear that will accelerate the inevitable decline. I get that. There are different stages of decline, and different levels of assisted living to correspond: Medical help available Regular medical care provided Memory care My recommendation is that you decide now, while she doesn’t need to go into assisted living, at what point she will have to go. If you decide now, while there is no pressure bearing down, it might be easier to act on it later, when needed. And maybe your choice is that she never goes into assisted living. It’s your choice, after all (I assume you have POA). Good luck and God bless.
  19. MIL, as I mentioned, is almost 90. She lives 5-10 minutes away, by herself. We think it’s probably about time she stop driving. When we brought the topic up, she was not thrilled with the idea (plus, it will be a huge pain in the ass for us to drive her around. I’m not sure how she would take to Uber, but I’m not optimistic). At some point, she may need to move in with us. She is adamant about not wanting to move to a “rest home”, plus her income is about $5k per month short of what is needed for a decent one. She has some savings, but two years in a home will take care of that. (She has two other children. They are too finely attuned to their own lives’ needs to help). All of this is shared just to get to- “Thanks for this thread. It helps to see how others handle things.”
  20. Over 25 years ago, we all posted on the Austin360 board, with forums for Texas, TAMU and OU (a couple others), until each fanbase kind of peeled off on their own. On the Ag forum, there was this long form parable about how new Texas coach Mack Brown’s success could be likened to a new cheater moving into the neighborhood, taking away the honest earnings of a good kid (this would be Slocum), and how good would inevitably triumph over evil. It was hilarious. Especially if you knew that Slocum was the bag man for Ag recruiting in the ‘80s.
  21. My MIL is near 90. She lives in a newish house we bought for her, about ten minutes away. Nicest, sweetest lady in the world. She needed a new mounted microwave, so I ordered it and was there for the Home Depot installation. She just stood there and stared at those guys the entire time they were installing it, never looking or walking away. It was the damndest thing. I figured it was something her parents must have taught her about handymen or tradespeople many decades ago? I wanted to tell her that this did not have to be an adversarial relationship
  22. …ehhhh, I’m not 100% sure that it’s always a good thing if a player met you before and remembers you later…
  23. What pick 6 in the CB? The stadium or the CB game? Do you even watch the games? Bond spent the last few games giving up on routes and not blocking. Again, Sark deserves the criticism for not moving on from him, although we don’t know what was being said and done behind the scenes.
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