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Park Gothic

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  1. Seems like a good thing for Texas football, but not necessarily a good thing for college athletics over all.
  2. My take away is that Tope is a pretty chill guy who tries his best not to talk too much shit about coaches. Some of those Herman stories are pretty cringe though.
  3. Welp, looks like we know who one of Gerry's silents is.
  4. +1 for Wadlington's Thinking Texas Football. There's maybe not a lot of new information for someone who follows the program closely, but it is nice to have it most of it in one convenient source. His analysis is fine and I enjoy his writing style. I also like supporting people in the Texas media sphere who give a shit and aren't completely assholes.
  5. lol, right? If you run around yelling about how you should be treated differently, then don't be surprised when people treat you differently.
  6. Need to get that boy some stickum.
  7. Is it my turn to post the Ferris Bueller gif?
  8. Honestly, I've just started wearing long sleeves and long pants made of light material. Like a PFG fishing shirt. I don't get to enjoy any kind of breeze, but at the end of the day I always feel better. Say what you will about Arabs, they know how to dress for hot weather.
  9. This seems like a good time to remind people how the Sunbelt used to be the absolute worst conference in FBS. Worse than the MAC. And somehow it has morphed into one of the better conferences - I would put it on par with the MWC and better than the current version of the AAC. It's certainly not the best conference, but it's a fun conference that garners more viewers than it should based on the profile of its members. How did they do this? By incorporating programs that care about football. That have fanbases, boosters, and AD who fucking love college football. They show up, they make signs, they bicker on the internet, they spend as much money as they can, and they basically treat football the way everyone treated it 30 years ago. Here is a good article about the SBC's strategy: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34454887/amid-college-football-chaos-sun-belt-conference-rivalries-fun-throwback The Sun Belt is keeping its divisions, leaning hard into regional rivalries, and reconnecting long-missed matchups that were lost to previous rounds of conference realignment and teams leaping into the FBS ranks no matter where and how they did it. That strategy, once the standard in college sports, is now downright counter cultural. The Sun Belt represents stability and familiarity in a world where complaints of "I don't even recognize my favorite sport" are becoming louder by the day. That's no accident. "No, no, we were really deliberate. At the end of the day, we want fans to be able to travel to the games, but also games they want to go to," says commissioner Keith Gil. That is why the Big 12 will be better than a conference with BC, Pitt, et al. Because Big 12 fans give a shit. Yeah, the schools are poor and the fanbases are small, but they show up. They are rabid about their teams. ISU football sucks, but they were willing to kill their baseball team just to keep it. The Big 12 is the Sunbelt of the P4. Who did the ACC just add in this last round of realignment? Cal and Stanford - two of the fart-sniffingest programs around that are openly antagonistic to football. In contrast, the Big 12 added Utah to pair with BYU, ASU and Arizona, and an admittedly shitty CU who, nonetheless, has a coach that drive engagement. People will still watch CU games if only to watch Deion and his ilk lose. The Big 12 will take the teams from the ACC that are worth a damn and have fans & ADs that care. The Sunbelt's strategy will work for them. They don't have to be the best or the biggest conference, they just have to be undeniably fun to watch. The ACC doesn't get it, and will either die or look like the CUSA in a few years.
  10. I can't see a marketing collective being stoked about Gundy. That's a match made in heaven a truck stop bathroom.
  11. Perhaps that is why we lead heavily
  12. It's down to us or LSU for this kid, right? And we lead heavily?
  13. 1. If they lose big, it's because Elko is in the first year of a full rebuild. Tearing it down the studs and putting it back together the right way. The game basically doesn't count and means nothing about the future of the rivalry. Just wait til next year, sips. 2. If they lose little, well hell that's as good as a win. You meant to tell me that the big bad Shortwhorns, projected to win the SEC and probably the natty, couldn't even blow out lil' ol' A&M? Didja see those famers fight? Just wait til next year, sips. 3. If they win by any margin, big or little, then it will be literally the biggest thing to happen in the history of either program and, possibly, all of college football. A&M may never lose another game and Texas may never win again. You know that one part from Ode to Joy? The one that plays in Die Hard when they get the vault open? That will be playing on repeat in the mind of every Aggie for the next 12 months. We cannot allow this to happen.
  14. I like how y'all both rip on Jerry for speculating about how the Manning family works and then immediately speculate on how the Manning family work.
  15. Just talked to a buddy of mine in Louisville. He told me to temper my expectations for Lole. Apparently the injuries are a serious issue and will likely keep him off the field for extended periods in 2024. So like CTJ said, dude is basically big-body-Catalon. I'm still glad Sark went out and got him because Fuck OU. That "wrong side of the Red River" line alone was worth the trouble.
  16. Cream puff schedule, huh. Putting aside their decade of bullshit about how there's no easy games in the SEC, our schedule is no easier than A&M's. In fact, it's probably harder (although by a marginal amount). We have 3 common opponents with A&M (Florida, Arkansas, MSU). We also fucking play them at Kyle. They play ND and we play Michigan in the non-con. Neither of us should be proud of our remaining non-con schedules, although I think our is marginally harder (we don't play an FCS, but we do play ULM so...). So I'll say those are about even. That's 8/12ths of our schedules that match up evenly. The remaining 4 games: Texas A&M 1. OU 1. Mizzou 2. Georgia 2. LSU 3. Vandy 3. USCe 4. Kentucky 4. Auburn I would put OU:Mizzou and Kentucky:Auburn at pretty dead even. Vandy easier than SCar, but UGA is harder than LSU. They even out. I know I'm working awful hard to climb Mount Stupid, but I can't help myself. Their lack of self awareness is something to which I will never become accustomed.
  17. He entered the portal some time ago, but if Texas is courting him they've kept it pretty quite. If I remember his recruitment correctly, we liked him but didn't want him to play his preferred position. I think we wanted him to play DB and he wanted to play WR. So if he's seen the light about his place on the field, then bringing him in would make sense. Maybe a year at UH has given him some much needed perspective about his place in the food chain.
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