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Well, I'm in the Midwest right now, and I'm here to report that on the whole, there are probably cheaper ways to report on better talent than going to Atlanta on the 20th -- or even my going downtown to see if any of our Midwestern gals are back in town for the new semester. But if y'all want to crowdsource a reporting grant for me, I'll gladly head downtown. Grant might need to include some divorce-court funds, though.
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Point well taken, but I think there's some room for interpretation. To me, it's nowhere near the same as a ball in the face, given the varied usages of the finger-point. We'll just have to accept whatever the officials' interpretation is of whatever is going on between guys the whole game, but that's not easy to do sometimes, and this is one of those times.
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Maybe it's not that plain and simple and shouldn't be viewed that way. Among teammates it's a sign of appreciation -- and, likely, sometimes among opponents. Kind of a grudging respect -- "good job" or even "Yeah, got you that time, but let's go again." I've seen it done that way, and a lot of times it's easy to tell that it's respectful. I realize it's got to be difficult for refs to interpret those things, but Helm hasn't been the kind of guy to demonstrate antagonism and disrespect. Cameras and TVs are good enough now to show us guys yapping at opponents and refs getting into the middle of it after multiple plays each drive, and when I see refs do that multiple times with the same guys, I wonder why they don't just throw a flag. I haven't been seeing that kind of crap with Helm.
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That was among the cheapest-ass unsportsmanlike conduct penalties I've seen since the sport started consistently allowing more celebration and showboating. Not sure why a finger-pointing is any different than the jawboning and staring-down crap, the bowing up and chest-bumping opponents and whatnot. And ... while I'm not one of the panty-wadders here ... the Horns down. I'm generally in the "live rent-free" crowd on that one, but it might be the closest equivalent to what Helm did if he wasn't intending to be indicating the direction Texas was moving. He should have been given the benefit of the doubt on that one.
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Great pictures and great times. When you bump this thread in five years, it'll be a little different. Even better in 10 years. These are memories that will only get better. My kids aren't football fans and we're too far from Texas for them to really get into the culture of UT football without almost forcing it on them. I'm not going to do that, even though I have at times been very closely involved with the program from the journalistic side (or maybe because of that; it has made life as a fan more complicated). But they're lucky enough to be part of a sports program where we live that's quite remarkable at the state level and occasionally on a national level. My son could barely sniff the middle of JV as a senior, but the stuff that he took with him has helped him be an accomplished athlete in college -- at a national but not intercollegiate level, opening doors for him socially and professionally and in impressive ways. My daughter's a junior and been to two state track meets, but has missed out on some other opportunities when both the team and she fell short, but I can see even now how those lessons are shaping her success, day by day. There's been some pain along the way, but lord, does she treasure her sports friendships and she grows visibly with her experiences. Cherish these times. We don't win every one of them, and it's been too long since 2006, but it's not a bad day at all to count our blessings.
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Good move to post your resolution and give follow-ups. There are probably a few folks scoffing at what seems like a small daily number, but anything is big when persistence over the long term is the way. Keep it up. Got my right knee replaced Dec. 4, so I'm curious as to when I'll be able to do a single damn pushup. Did my left knee the previous year at the same time and I started doing pushups again around May if I remember correctly. The pain in my knee was substantial at the time but not unbearable -- and a good reminder as to how much of your body you use on a pushup. Five weeks in as of yesterday and can drive short distances without issue, walk a half-mile to work, take stairs if needed. Lots of seemingly trivial and repetitive exercises, mostly laying down, in that time. They get tiresome. Did my first squats (assisted by straps on the wall) with no issue at PT today. Probably should have been doing them sooner. I'm ahead of the curve, especially considering the state both of both knees when replaced. Fell two degrees short of the goal of 120-degree bend on Tuesday and took a perverse pleasure in having my therapist push down on my knee to bring it to complete flatness during inclined leg presses the same day. Hurts when she does it (no pics, rules I know mumble mumble), but when it makes the day-long stiffness and soreness noticeably diminish later on, it's a lot easier to take. Ran across this piece yesterday and it's got me thinking that pushups, sit-ups and other floor exercises need to be on my agenda sooner rather than later, but it may still be weeks rather than days. Just getting onto and off of the floor will be major accomplishments with reconstructed knees and disproportionately long legs. https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/knees-over-toes-guy-legit/
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Then there was that little game in Columbus in 2005, and that trip to the Big House just a couple of months ago.
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I'll do 20, 25. But I reserve the right to do like immamac and put a zero, at the end. The rest of the year, punctuation upkeep will be my priority.
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Can't seem to find the "No CR" emoticon. Can somebody help me with this?
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Bottom line on the aggy stuff is that the U. of Arizona is the land-grant school anyway. UA doesn't feel like an ag campus in the way others do, which may be part of why we want to saddle ASU with that load. Arizona is an exception to the general rule that the land-grants are "State U." and the traditional liberal-arts colleges are the "University of" in most of the states where there are two major universities (Kansas, Iowa, Okie, Washington, Oregon, North Carolina, New Mexico, Mississippi, etc.). Florida is a another exception. And then you've got the states where the land-grant goes by another name altogether (Clemson, Auburn). And, of course, the A&M anomaly. An all-time great road trip song. I just learned that was his first hit after always thinking it was Copperhead Road. But to keep it in the realm of football, I also learned that, at least according to the AI, he has never played a football halftime show. I suspect that may be a good thing, regardless of how great a show that could be.
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Still. Too. Soon. Even if the Pokes aren't on our schedule any more and we're in the playoff, the thought of that penalty makes me ragey.
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Yep ... after watching those last two failed fourth-down conversions, I'm leaning toward dubbing OU as führer of the Axis of Stupid.
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Good point. But aren't we more of a confederation?
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Something that has become a concern for me as the regular season and recruiting season have progressed -- probably unduly -- is that Texas has unlocked all the cheat codes. Maybe to the extent that 12-team playoff football becomes a little less competitive than it ideally ought to be. Especially when it comes to Oklahoma, I wonder what happens to the entertainment value of future seasons if they start to suck too much. But at least for today, regardless of who we "should" root for in each contest, it's a fine day of football. If the entire Axis falls, great. If the assholes all win, the "Longhorn schedule sucks" argument gets even more tenuous and we won't have to listen to it as much. Hard to go wrong today.
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Props to @Rimbo for recognizing the significance of this convergence. But I do think "Axis of Evil" grants these assholes an air of gravitas they don't deserve right now. I therefore propose that they be at least temporarily referred to as that: a mere Axis of Assholes. Perhaps with an additional modifier or two thrown in. Amateurish? Bungling? Axis of Assholes does have a succinct, crisp accuracy to it. And as pre-kickoff argument for the historically inclined, let me just throw out there the idea that the original Axis eventually included Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Finland, and even Thailand. One or more of those are probably better parallels for our numbnuts football neighbors.
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From the discomfort of my guestroom bed, where I am doing my day-2 rehab exercises after knee replacement and cackling between curses because of the Justus Terry news ... FIGHT!
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Hayduke replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I can see Looch, Brandy 13-0 and Spider Ag collaborating to rewrite "Three Men and a Baby" as "Three Ags and a Baby Blogger," with themselves as stars. And only Spidey gets it. -
Pretty simple, really. Anyone who's the last one standing deserves to be known as champ, because that will be a remarkable accomplishment. Was that team "the best?" Its argument is going to be at least as good as anyone else's and likely better. Somebody is going to get at least four solid wins ... maybe some great ones. Postseason grousing is just part of the fun.
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Taaffe looks like the kind of guy who always knows when to listen and, conversely, when the criticisms don't make a shit.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Hayduke replied to Machinator's topic in Football
We can always fuckstomp the enemy while maintaining character. Not being able to do so would mean a pretty dystopian world -- along with nothing but dreary movies. -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hayduke replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
Lived there 14 years and have no great love for the area, but personally, I would not have relished having to work so hard to find a good place to eat. Still have family and a few good friends there. Most are probably 2 percenters, and they always made it more bearable. I definitely sang Mac Davis with a B-CS twist when I drove out of there with our U-Haul back in 2002 -- even if I was moving to Manhattan. -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hayduke replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
I thought I was going to find it a lot more entertaining, but our absence from it has kept me from watching much. Probably has more to do with where my head is with life in general right now -- sometimes there's too much going on and the bandwidth has to go somewhere else. But I would have loved road trips to Colorado, Arizona and Utah. That's a hell of a Plains/Near West conference with tremendous historic and geographical appeal. And a Texas-Colorado matchup with Neon Deion would be epic. -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hayduke replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
There were more subplots than a soap opera back then. Everybody hated everybody and almost nobody but Rice escaped the ban hammer. SMU and A&M were the worst, and I still contend that the main reason A&M didn't get the death penalty as well was because it would have slammed Bryan-College Station's economy. I still have a copy of that NCAA report laying around somewhere -- was working at A&M at the time and we got the report. But Houston and TCU were right up there, and those guys would have killed the conference even if the new TV alliances weren't already pulling things apart. When Texas got probation for Marcus Dupree's who's-to-blame boots and Eric Metcalf's ride across campus (among other piddly stuff), that may have sealed the deal. Still, it made for some epic football. Miss those days for the playing environment, but I think I'll miss the old Big XII more. -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hayduke replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
Lil ol' private school in the heart of fancy Dallas whose best years were based on throwing illegal money around to ED and CJK5H? Salty about the big state school just down the road, the poors who suddenly became new money because of oil discoveries on PUF land 100 years ago? Who since, under everyone else's watchful eyes, have built a campus and football program with a history and promise second to none? That's a real head-scratcher. You'd think those Dallas high-society types would be pleased that a little investment and hard work paid off for their no-longer-country cousins. Not our fault we had to move to a bigger neighborhood to maintain our business and social ties. -
That was a well-timed post. Listeater would have that mess straightened out in a heartbeat.
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