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An article of the importance of the month of September for the Longhorns:

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Why September is extremely important for Texas Longhorns in 2018 ByBRAD CRAWFORD Jun 19, 12:33 PM

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You're only as good as your last game.

You never want to put too much emphasis on the outcome of a singular outing in coaching circles, but for Texas, that bowl win over Missouri was a pretty damn good momentum booster for Tom Herman heading into his second season in Austin.

The Longhorns' emphatic victory was much-needed to conclude a 2017 campaign filled with near-misses, finally culminating in optimism against a quality opponent. Todd Orlando's defensive effort was dominant, the offense wasn't plagued by critical miscues and execution was largely on point as Texas left its stamp on a winning season.

https://247sports.com/Article/Why-September-is-extremely-important-for-Texas-Longhorns-in-2018-119168026/

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USC, TCU, @Kansas State (fuck Manhattan), and v. Oklahoma (Dallas)...that's as tough a 4-game gauntlet as any team in the country is going to see in 4 consecutive weeks.  Sure there are four tougher opponents on dozens of teams' slates, but nothing back-to-back-to-back-to-back like this when you consider Manhattan as a shitshow for us.  

Anyway, also interesting to note between Maryland and Oklahoma being true neutral site game (I bet it's 60/40 in Landover with us being 40%), and a bye week in late-October, Texas will only play one true road game in the first EIGHT weeks of the season.  Just found it curious.  

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Anyway, also interesting to note between Maryland and Oklahoma being true neutral site game


True neutral site game because U of MD is 10 miles away from Landover? How will MD handle travel plans with the airlines? Will they stay in a hotel they aren't used to or the one they stay at every Friday night of game day?

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2 minutes ago, markstanco said:


 

 


True neutral site game because U of MD is 10 miles away from Landover? How will MD handle travel plans with the airlines? Will they stay in a hotel they aren't used to or the one they stay at every Friday night of game day?

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No, almost a true neutral site game because we'll bring 40% of the crowd.  I consider any split over 70/30 to be neutral.  Sure, you'll always just have some apathetic locals that just want to see a good game or entertain some clients.  Thank you for explaining the proximity of UMD campus to Landover.  It's not a home game for them.  It's a game where UT fans from all along the East Coast should pour into.  We will be incredibly well represented.  The real question is how do we avoid shitting the bed against an inferior team that barely won 2 more FBS games after us last year (their 3 win over FBS schools totaled less than 3 touchdowns).  I realize it's not Miami, or Chicago, or Seattle.  But it's pretty fucking neutral because of how many tens of thousands of UT fans are coming from the East Coast and Texas proper to the game.  If you're interested in attending our pre-game fundraiser, please let me know...sarcasm aside.  Thanks and high five.

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With a quick Google, its 6 miles. Their season ticket holders will be at the game. It looks like their home stadium holds just over 50k. I am betting local non season ticket holders will also go to Landover to take in the game by the thousands as well.

If it is 60/40 I will be surprised. But my point is when you have a 3+ hour flight and jump a time zone vs driving 6 miles that is not a TRUE neutral game.

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21 minutes ago, markstanco said:

With a quick Google, its 6 miles. Their season ticket holders will be at the game. It looks like their home stadium holds just over 50k. I am betting local non season ticket holders will also go to Landover to take in the game by the thousands as well.

If it is 60/40 I will be surprised. But my point is when you have a 3+ hour flight and jump a time zone vs driving 6 miles that is not a TRUE neutral game.

What he said.

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1 hour ago, markstanco said:

With a quick Google, its 6 miles. Their season ticket holders will be at the game. It looks like their home stadium holds just over 50k. I am betting local non season ticket holders will also go to Landover to take in the game by the thousands as well.

If it is 60/40 I will be surprised. But my point is when you have a 3+ hour flight and jump a time zone vs driving 6 miles that is not a TRUE neutral game.

I'll let the East Coast Longhorn fans I represent know that their attendance only counts if they fly from more than 3 hours away.  

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So the Terps are driving to the game?  I assure you...this is news to me.  I think we should get a bus as well.  Maybe a Maryland Staties escort.  

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Not sure what you mean by driving to the game from the Terp fans. Of course they are, and of course the team is.

Listen, I get that there will be a bunch of longhorn fans there. I went to the ND game, and the day before I was at the Cubs game and they played Eyes during the game. Tons of Texans in the crowd.

My entire point is that the crowd noise, or lack thereof, isnt the determining factor on a neutral game site. It's a full day of travel and an additional day of planning vs a 6.1 mile drive.

It's not a neutral game site. But, I'm done here and we can agree to disagree.

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53 minutes ago, Lobo said:

So the Terps are driving to the game?  I assure you...this is news to me.  I think we should get a bus as well.  Maybe a Maryland Staties escort.  

Both teams will be bussed in, Texas from it's visiting hotel & Maryland from it's school campus...

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20 hours ago, kopp0e said:

An article of the importance of the month of September for the Longhorns:

https://247sports.com/Article/Why-September-is-extremely-important-for-Texas-Longhorns-in-2018-119168026/

I really have a hard time taking a column from an organization seriously when they spend time quoting their own writers in the column.

 

And trying to argue that the Maryland game is a neutral site game is retarded.

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1 hour ago, Lobo said:

I dunno.  I need a ride to the game though if anybody can help me out.  And maybe a ticket.  And some pre-game drinks.  

You might be one of the dumbest people to argue with on this site. And that's saying A LOT. 

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2 minutes ago, markstanco said:


 

 


How bad compared to last year? KU won 2 or 3 games.

 

2015 - 0 wins

2016 - 2 wins (UT after they had given up on Charlie and had 6 turnovers)

2017 - 1 win

We are realistically expecting 1 win against a very tough Nicholls team.  They could beat us at home though (same team that took georgia and A&M to the brink).  We go to Central Michigan (they boat raced us at home last year) so we don't see that as a win.  We get Rutgers at home but they are in better shape than we are.  It came out yesterday that all of the building we have done is for naught.  We actually have less scholarship players right now than we did when Beaty took over.

We do have hope that we will hire Bert though.  So we've got 2019 to look forward to being meme'd into D1AA status.

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5 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

2015 - 0 wins

2016 - 2 wins (UT after they had given up on Charlie and had 6 turnovers)

2017 - 1 win

We are realistically expecting 1 win against a very tough Nicholls team.  They could beat us at home though (same team that took georgia and A&M to the brink).  We go to Central Michigan (they boat raced us at home last year) so we don't see that as a win.  We get Rutgers at home but they are in better shape than we are.  It came out yesterday that all of the building we have done is for naught.  We actually have less scholarship players right now than we did when Beaty took over.

We do have hope that we will hire Bert though.  So we've got 2019 to look forward to being meme'd into D1AA status.

I hope we drop 70 on Kansas.  I want pain for KU screwing up Baylor's perfect season last year.

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3 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

I hope we drop 70 on Kansas.  I want pain for KU screwing up Baylor's perfect season last year.

We might have our second 0 win season in 4 years.  Nicholls lost to UGA by 2 and A&M by 10 both on the road.  We'll have about 12 fans in the stadium so whoever plays technique football the best will come out on top.  No chance we beat Rutgers or CMU.  Baylor is our 4th game and that will start the pain.  Luckily we'll fire our HC by week 5 so we'll have something to look forward to.

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1 hour ago, BigHorn'13 said:

Was this UMD's decision to play there? Why aren't we playing on their field?

The Texas-Exes have organized group trips to the stadium from every chapter between Boston and Florida, and all the way out to Nashville.  Buy a life membership beforehand because they're throwing a great pre-game party.  

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Just now, Lobo said:

The Texas-Exes have organized group trips to the stadium from every chapter between Boston and Florida, and all the way out to Nashville.  Buy a life membership beforehand because they're throwing a great pre-game party.  They're bringing 15,000 fans just from the East Coast.  Another 15,000 from Texas proper.  There's even talk of 3 canadians.

 

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