Randolph Duke

It makes me laugh to see aggys trying to explain their bizarre behavior using fairy tale stories. Newsflash, redneck - not only was the event not "amusing at the time," the event you claim never happened. You people are just weird as fuck and you make up fairy tales to try to convince people you aren't. The offer still stands that I will pay $1,000 cash to the first person from this board, from A&M, or any other person who can tell me exactly which game in 1907 their "yell leader" tradition originated. They say it was a home game. They only had five home games that season. This should be easy. lol.

You started by bleating about what a shitbag racist DKR was and I pointed out how little you knew about DKR. If you knew anything about DKR you would understand just how poor he was growing up. And you would understand how that poverty affected him throughout his life. Broke-assed Okies knew what it was like to be at the bottom of the social ladder. Discrimination against broke-assed Okies is what ignited the Texas/OU rivalry. DKR knew what it was like to be treated like shit. He absolutely had no interest ever in putting others through the hate and humiliation he himself had been subjected to. The poverty DKR went through was why he had the humility we know him for having. Humility and racism are at two different ends of the spectrum. Your argument that "because DKR was a shitbag, Texas can hire Urban (a shitbag) today because Texas does shitbag things" was just fucked up. DKR wasn't a shitbag. Not even close. You should be embarrassed for essentially saying he was.

It wasn't Royal's decision whether or not to integrate the SWC. One big problem was not the attitudes at UT, but the fact that Baylor and A&M would not allow any Black players to step on their field. If your players aren't allowed to play away games you have a problem. Getting past problems such as this was a serious impediment to integration. Also, the quality of Black education in Texas was so abominable that Royal had to work to find Black athletes who were capable of handling college-level classes. Racism within the faculty created the problem of Black athletes being academically eligible. The first Black scholarship football player at UT was Leon O'Neal in 1968. O'Neal lost his scholarship because of academic issues. There were Black athletes at UT as early as 1963, but they were walk-ons.

Darrell Royal coached his first racially integrated team in 1953. With zero complaints of racial bias. 1953. Now, let's talk about who is "dumb as shit." And I think most people know I can deliver a few thousand words, with references and citations, on the path of racial integration of athletics at UT. In short, the two schools who were the real problem of racially integrating the SWC were Baylor and A&M. Those two schools were especially insistent that they would not allow black players on an integrated team to participate in any games. Baylor and A&M were notorious for removing parents of black players from the section reserved for parents of athletes and making them relocate to the "blacks only" section. DKR grew up so poor he didn't have the luxury of being a racist. The perpetuation of the bullshit fairy tale your spewed is reflective of just how little you know about the subject.

If you want another comparison, aggy dreams of being Minnesota in football, just as they dream of being Univ of Washington as a military school. The ags twist and contort every fact they can to represent themselves as having the most alumni Medal of Honor recipients (the racist white trash refer to them as "winners"), but the university with the most MoH recipients is Harvard. The public university with the most alumni MoH recipients is not Texas A&M, but Univ of Washington. Have any of us ever met a Univ of Washington alum who demanded we thank them for their service as college students or we recognize their time as an undergrad frat rat entitled them to the same benefits and respect as having actually served on active duty? The ags are an embarrassment. But aggys, if it helps you with you low self-esteem problems, then yes, we thank you for your service while in the fightin' aggy corps of fake army "soldiers" and you are a college football powerhouse. Now go worship your white supremacist Sul Ross shrine like all racist aggys are supposed to. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say one of the members of the tennis team. Possibly a wide receiver playing for LSU.

They won’t have wins vacated. There is no need for the NCAA to be sending any long-term message about pandemic protocols. The NCAA doesn’t even want to sanction blatant cheating and violations of long-standing rules. But I don’t see how having games postponed helps aggy make any stronger claim to a CFP spot than even Coastal Carolina or Liberty if aggy has to cancel games. Those stupid fuckers just have no clue about safety or common sense. As a culture, they truly are incapable of looking at a given situation and recognizing inherent risks.

“...and a cultural bias that impedes risk identification” The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

CDC will never hire a head football coach who, from Day 1, would be extremely polarizing and serve to divide the alumni base. CDC will never roll the dice on "They will all love me and forget the criminal element Urban has brought on campus when we beat TCU or (possibly) OU!" After Urban, who is the next "most sexy" candidate? Luke Fickell. I think CDC will pass on both bringing in the one person who would be more polarizing to hire at UT than Steve Patterson as Asst AD. I also think he will take a pass on Luke Fickell. I also am pretty sure I will never fist any of you guys, although I appreciate the offer. So, to recap - No to Urban, no to re-hiring Steve Patterson, no to Luke Fickell, and no to my fisting anyone. A four-way parlay.

LSU fucking up their dream season and potential playoff chances would be absolutely beautiful, but I believe the game is in cs this year and I don't think they'll need 7 OTs to fix a game against this particular tiger squad. aggy having their season fall apart because of the COVID spread they have insisted is “fake news” would be typically aggy. I guess it speaks to their sincerity of not wanting to wear masks if they are willing to possibly piss a CFP playoff appearance down the drain because it spread to their football team. “Aggies athletic director Ross Bjork told ESPN's Heather Dinich there are "over a dozen" players who will be out for 14 days because of contact tracing protocols, with "no way out of it." Injuries and opt-outs also will impact whether or not the Aggies can field a roster with 53 scholarship players.” https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30286532/texas-aggies-pause-activities-multiple-positive-coronavirus-tests

The Evidence of PPP Fraud Mounts, Officials Say Reports of waste and abuse in the Paycheck Protection Program inundate government watchdogs and federal prosecutors https://www.wsj.com/articles/ppp-was-a-fraudster-free-for-all-investigators-say-11604832072 But evidence is growing that many others took advantage of the program’s open-door design. Banks and the government allowed companies to self-certify that they needed the funds, with little vetting. Tens of thousands of organizations also appear to have received more money than they should have based on their headcounts and compensation rates, it said.

Yesterday could have been one of the smallest mud holes ever stomped in an ass. But it’s in the books as a win.

CDC’s job is to not hire sociopaths in the first place, not to hire a sociopath and then babysit him. At some point, personal responsibility becomes a consideration. Urban Meyer doesn’t seem to place much importance on personal responsibility. Not his own and not of those who work under him. Your desire to find a way to best OU or TCU isn’t worth bringing Urban Meyer or “his type” on to any university campus. It certainly isn’t worth allowing him on the UT campus.

Urban Meyer is a badly damaged human being who has no place on any university campus. Your desire to win one or two more football games each season is not worth the damage he will cause if allowed on campus. We all know how any “Urban Meyer chapter at UT” will end. No thank you.

The ags have a rather comical thread discussing behavior problems within their beloved Corps. Times have changed such that behavior we all just considered 'aggy" is finally being recognized as "legally actionable." Accordingly, they are having to crack down on abusive behavior by the Hitler Youth. This (or course) causes consternation among the rednecks, who can't grasp the fact A&M's beloved civilian costume fraternity is a social club for rural youth with deep seated emotional and self-esteem problems, and not in any way connected wit the U.S. military (aggypedia is there to help you on this stuff, aggys). These aggys don't understand why anyone would take exception to how "mighty aggy warriors prepare to defend all that is sacred while no one else ever does anything to serve their country." The real problem is that few aggys have even a basic understanding of the U.S. Constitution (that aggy-level education is failing them yet again). Most of those idiots don't understand the rules for actual service academies are not the same as the rules for civilian frat members wearing fake army costumes. It is always humorous to see them wrestling with the reality that the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets is not a military organization, never was, never will be. They have endless explanations for the difference. Not one of those explanations is ever the cold, honest truth that "the aggys Corps is just a fraternity that plays dress-up." Why is it humorous? Because of the comic irony of the only people who insist Texas A&M is "just like t.u." are the exact same people who don't recognize that while you can get a degree from Texas A&M without having a basic knowledge of the U.S. Constitution (at least well enough to differentiate between one's civilian or military status), its damned near impossible to even get admitted as a freshman to The University of Texas without understanding the very real, and very substantial difference between civilian and military status. (but they is just like "t.u." Whoop!) Life is too short to live with only an aggy-level education. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

aggys are as good as seeing into the future as they are at being self-aware in real time. Shit happens when people fail to look back as the relative success (or lack thereof) when "leaders" make decisions with the resources collectively entrusted to them. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been entrusted to the collective "leadership" of College Station, Texas. Sadly, they failed to act responsibly with the resources given to them. Maybe aggys aren't the "game changers" they saw themselves as. Maybe they are just the wasteful buffoons many of us have long known them to be. Maybe they are (once again) learning important life lessons the hard way. Maybe more people will begin to wake up to the fact that the people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

The ags are slipping. By Tuesday we usually have their weekly letter.

Get it out of your mind that Urban Meyer has any sort of ethics. Urban Meyer would consider things few of us would consider.

Science cures illnesses (or not). Doctors simply apply the science. There is also a science to mathematics. As in financial mathematics. In the end, the science always prevails. There is no one savior who will turn around the fortunes of UT athletics (in any major sport). Every successful organization is successful because of the contributions at every level. Having the right people throughout the organization requires investing in people. "St. Urban the Innocent" will not come and lead the flock to the promised land if the athletics department under him is struggling to pay their bills because of salary cuts. Knowing the money was always available, but not made available to mitigate staff cuts and pay cuts, would detrimentally affect the UT athletics department for years. We can't pay Tom Herman's current contract. We can't pay our public debt obligations. No one has addressed how those major problems get addressed other than to wish them away with other people's money or to insist the way out of debt is ever higher levels of spending. The athletics department is struggling to maintain solvency. And people want the program to be even more beholden to a small number of BMDs who haven't gotten a hiring decision in any major sport right since 1998. All, to bring in a "genius savior." Balance the books. Let Michigan set the standard for irresponsible coaching decisions. Look at the situation this time next year. Urban Meyer represents the petulant frustrations of short-sighted individuals.

Go back and read CDC's love note from Sept 1. https://texassports.com/news/2020/9/1/forty-acres-insider-sept-1.aspx Texas athletics is struggling financially due to the Covid epidemic and was unable to make its most recent debt payment on its roughly $200 million in outstanding public debt. Let me repeat that - less than 60 days ago, the UT AD publicly stated UT athletics cannot currently pay all of its outstanding bills and is in significant financial distress. Roughly 20% of Bellmont's staff positions have been eliminated. Remaining staff is having to take pay cuts. The money is not there to meet the payments on Tom Herman's existing contract. And the worst of the financial ramifications have not yet hit. Significantly, the donors have not stepped up to fill the financial hole UT athletics is currently facing. (The financial hole currently looks to be about $40 mil for 2019/2020 FY and another $40 mil for 2020/2021.) And your solution to responsibly managing UT athletics is to embark on an "unlimited" spending spree. With what money? Cash flow from operations is not sufficient to pay the existing obligations. UT Athletics is struggling to pay its bills and will have MANY deferred obligations to pay once free cash flow again materializes. Donors have not stepped up to fill the void. Evidently the financial reserves have been expended. Additional debt to fund "unlimited" spending is not an option. Step out of the world you are in and step into the reality that has to be factored into any plan for the future. This is not the time to be making a coaching change. Bellmont simply can't afford it. And before you say, "the donors will pay for all of it," let me remind you again, the donors have not stepped up to fill the financial hole that reared its ugly head starting last spring. This fantasy world of unlimited spending of other people's money isn't today's reality. We cannot get into a situation where Ut athletics digs itself such a financial hole that Bellmont struggles just to keep up paying last year's bills. To do otherwise would be irresponsible waste of donor funds and if the donors believe Bellmont is irresponsibly handling donations, donations will dry up. People think football is the cash cow of UT Austin and UT athletics. It isn't. Donors are the cash cows. This simply isn't the time to demonstrate how irresponsibly an athletic department can be managed, just to appease the loudest voices on social media. I wish the facts were different, but they are what they are. Which is "bleak" at the moment.

Not a chance. Gundy has to believe he has a shot at the playoff this season, and if he is going to try to get that nod over ND, he needs style points. Beating the shit out of Texas would certainly help. Plus, he needs to continue to solidify his team after last summer. He gives the team an ass whipping over Texas. This isn’t going to be close.

One of the amazing things to me is there has been no talk of identifying the people who got it wrong about Tom Herman and making sure they are not involved in any way in the selection of the next head coach. if you want to rebuild Texas football, start at the absolute foundation and remove those who get it wrong from the decision making process. Or, just let the same misguided people keep fucking it all up and driving the program further into the depths of the sewer. Im not confident the people who are pushing “St. Urban the Innocent” as the next head coach aren’t the same ones who pushed for “St. Thomas the Intellectually Enlightened” a few years ago. Or “St. Charlie the Pure” before that. All responsible for those shitshows need to explain why they should get another chance to get it wrong, yet again. Much like Jerry Jones is a cancer on the Cowboys, there are a small number of BMDs who need to be told to take their money and stay the fuck away from Texas football because their inability to hire a coach is massively fucking up Texas football. Removing Herman isn’t the problem. Texas football needs new leadership at all levels, because nothing has worked well for a long time.

UT athletics couldn’t make its most recent public debt payment and had to eliminate 70 positions due to financial hardship. The salary reductions for remaining Bellmont staff went into effect with the end of October pay period. Can you at least agree that the university has a moral obligation to pay its outstanding debts before it runs out to spend $40 mil on a shiny new sociopath to coach its football team? Can you also agree it is very bad optics for the BMDs to be nowhere when Bellmont is taking money from long-serving employees and unable to make debt payments but to show up with money to hire a shiny new sociopath to coach the football team? Kind of piece-of-shit donors, wouldn’t you say so?

If it has been decided that integrity no longer matters, then we have the wrong people making decisions. And people who believe integrity no longer matters can not be trusted with public investments or with taxpayer funds. If the university I knew no longer exists and the students are now being taught integrity means nothing, then I wouldn’t shed a tear if the shell of an institution that still stands withers and dies. I would gladly lead the charge to metaphorically burn such an institution to the ground and piss on its ashes.