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TT, as a program, gets it about the need for a serious NIL program, better than the other IR8. They are also most likely to get good home attendance (and maybe road draws?) than the others. I think they have the best chance to prosper going fwd. 

I don’t know if anybody thinks that place is a destination for a visiting team, but I will say I was there 10ish years ago when I had a lease in Graham. My previous experience was in the 90s.

It’s really nice there now. If you have an apt near the stadium you don’t need a car. Grocery, restaurants, bars, multiple STD testing centers, all in walking distance.
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Jasper_Jester
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That's funny, I've always thought the "Tell me about ...." threads were about Texas fans shit talking specifically about the subject school and not a thread on the Texas board for the fans of that sub

BluTechsan
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Keep ‘em coming - the Yormark and McGuire memes and vids - not only are they well deserved, most of them are hilarious. 🤣   Now that the Tech/UT series is officially over - or at least pause

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33 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

I don't think the football series was going to resume any time soon anyway, but other sports like basketball or, especially, baseball would have been ripe for non-conf matchups.

Those are off the table now.

boo fucking hoo.

Tech doesn't schedule aggy either on the regular.  Somehow we'll survive without a Texas visit in hoops and a series EOY in baseball.

Again, if treating Chris Beard like he deserved offended UT's sensibilities, then they grossly miscalculated how such proceedings would be received.  WFC if they got their fee-wees hurt?

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1 hour ago, WBT said:

we should play tech in baseball just about every year

We will probably get them every once in a while in one of those Big 12 vs SEC early season tournaments as well as be matched up in the Regionals.

I don't see any need to have a series with them though. Lubbock is a long trip for one of those Tuesday Night games as well.

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UT telling everyone in Texas to fuck off is not what UT's mission is. Fuck that. Athletically and academically. Donations and taxes don't get invested to Ut to "shove everyone's nose in it." 

We can go play fuck off on the southeast, but we start cold-shouldering everyone in Texas and the dynamics will change. They already are. UT is gonna have a hard time asking for whatever windfall the SEC will deliver, from the school. You'r making a ton, fund your own shit.

Believe it or not, the amount of money UT athletics makes is not top of mind for most Texans. It IS with legislators who write checks with taxpayer dollars for UT.

UT is a State Institution. Alienating everyone who is not "UT" in Texas, when most people in Texas, high SATs and GPAs included, cannot go to Texas, is exceedingly dumb. 

 

 


 

 

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9 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Ha!    You fucked around Tech and you found out.Learn Find Out GIF

the same can be said for Texas and the Beard situation.  Evidently the driving force behind this conundrum that really isn't one.

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10 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

I don't think the football series was going to resume any time soon anyway, but other sports like basketball or, especially, baseball would have been ripe for non-conf matchups.

Those are off the table now.

A funny thing about SEC history- for the first several decades, there was no insistence on a regular round robin schedule, where every school played every other, eventually. Some schools played five league games, others played six, and this was a league with double digit members. 

If two schools weren’t getting along, there was nothing to force them to play, and they could still be in good standing within the conference. 


I wonder if this had the effect of forcing schools to enforce fan behavior. In the SWC, a TAMC student was killed in a brawl at halftime of a game with Baylor, and the schools stopped playing…for two years. 

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We're not alienating the rest of the state. We're still playing UTEP and UTSA. We're aiding the UT system in athletics. I'm sure we'll play Rice and maybe Texas State. But why play the shitbags who whined about us and made us their villain? Why give them anything? Why trade a good OOC date for one of them? There is no reason to. More home games for us to go along with good conference matchups. I'm fine with that. 

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11 hours ago, Welshy said:

 

UT telling everyone in Texas to fuck off is not what UT's mission is. Fuck that. Athletically and academically. Donations and taxes don't get invested to Ut to "shove everyone's nose in it." 

We can go play fuck off on the southeast, but we start cold-shouldering everyone in Texas and the dynamics will change. They already are. UT is gonna have a hard time asking for whatever windfall the SEC will deliver, from the school. You'r making a ton, fund your own shit.

Believe it or not, the amount of money UT athletics makes is not top of mind for most Texans. It IS with legislators who write checks with taxpayer dollars for UT.

UT is a State Institution. Alienating everyone who is not "UT" in Texas, when most people in Texas, high SATs and GPAs included, cannot go to Texas, is exceedingly dumb. 

Legislators don't write checks with taxpayer dollars for UT athletics, it is entirely privately funded.

And State appropriations only count for 10% of the UT System's budget. And there are nine UT campuses. If you really want to attend a UT System school you can probably get in someplace.

Also UT is generally politically correct as fuck. They aren't going to actually "shove everyone's nose in it." That's us talking shit on message boards.

But generally do we want to schedule teams that regard us as their archrivals and will be fired up as hell to beat us and also draw few fans and also have little national respect? I don't see the financial, strategic, or even entertainment value. Nobody gives a shit about Texas vs TCU but that would be a very difficult game for us. Why take on a high risk, low reward series of games? Just to make TCU and their smallish fanbase like us? And since when has playing us made any of those schools like us? You think they are going to be grateful and be cheering "hurrah for UT! They scheduled us!" Like fuck they will. Same with Tech or Baylor or Houston.

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The University of Texas had a plan ready to implement to improve the State of Texas for this and future generations by opening a research campus in Houston. Legislators and the University of Houston whined so much due to selfish tribalism that we scrapped it. 

The idea that we should play nice by scheduling such babies is absurd. There is only one public university system in Texas devoted to being an excellent academic institution and benefiting all citizens of the state. The small-minded idiots associated with the lesser institutions have never played nice with UT despite UT's efforts to play nice. So fuck 'em.

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12 hours ago, Welshy said:

 

UT is a State Institution. Alienating everyone who is not "UT" in Texas, when most people in Texas, high SATs and GPAs included, cannot go to Texas, is exceedingly dumb. 

 

 


 

 


How is not playing a certain program “alienating” them?

Why is it UT’s responsibility to play Tech? Moreover, why does tech just have to play UT?

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12 hours ago, Welshy said:

 

UT telling everyone in Texas to fuck off is not what UT's mission is. Fuck that. Athletically and academically. Donations and taxes don't get invested to Ut to "shove everyone's nose in it." 

We can go play fuck off on the southeast, but we start cold-shouldering everyone in Texas and the dynamics will change. They already are. UT is gonna have a hard time asking for whatever windfall the SEC will deliver, from the school. You'r making a ton, fund your own shit.

Believe it or not, the amount of money UT athletics makes is not top of mind for most Texans. It IS with legislators who write checks with taxpayer dollars for UT.

UT is a State Institution. Alienating everyone who is not "UT" in Texas, when most people in Texas, high SATs and GPAs included, cannot go to Texas, is exceedingly dumb. 

 

 


 

 

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14 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

We will probably get them every once in a while in one of those Big 12 vs SEC early season tournaments as well as be matched up in the Regionals.

I don't see any need to have a series with them though. Lubbock is a long trip for one of those Tuesday Night games as well.

Wouldn't doubt Baylor, TCU or Cougar High shows up in our schedules way down the road  for a series or a one gamer due the fact it would be shorter road trip if we need to fill an out of town game.

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2 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Wouldn't doubt Baylor, TCU or Cougar High shows up in our schedules way down the road  for a series or a one gamer due the fact it would be shorter road trip if we need to fill an out of town game.

For sure in Baseball. Probably Men's Basketball as well.

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19 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

For sure in Baseball. Probably Men's Basketball as well.

Same for the ladies side for Softball, Volleyball, and Basketball.     All the sports have other options in the state, but for the sake of building up the strength of schedule and seedings, playing a Baylor or TCU as much as we don't want to play a Rig 12 school is much better than a Sam Houston for example. 

7 hours ago, slorch said:

the same can be said for Texas and the Beard situation.  Evidently the driving force behind this conundrum that really isn't one.

Confused Gary Coleman GIF

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26 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Wouldn't doubt Baylor, TCU or Cougar High shows up in our schedules way down the road  for a series or a one gamer due the fact it would be shorter road trip if we need to fill an out of town game.

If we are going to schedule those teams they ONLY come to Austin. It's that simple. No home/home.

 

OOC games unless vs a big time opponent like Michigan, Ohio, etc should be home/home but other OOC games should only be played at DKR. It's that simple. We shouldn't travel to UTEP for instance.. 

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11 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

If we are going to schedule those teams they ONLY come to Austin. It's that simple. No home/home.

 

OOC games unless vs a big time opponent like Michigan, Ohio, etc should be home/home but other OOC games should only be played at DKR. It's that simple. We shouldn't travel to UTEP for instance.. 

For football, yes 100%

 

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13 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Do you really think that is what he meant?  Is that honestly how you interpret those words?

 

It's exactly what the Bohls article says.  Try reading it.  Don't be try to be fucking pedantic.

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Between this thread and the Big XII Leftovers thread, there sure is a lot of Tom Hagen demanding an apology from the courts, when his client was doing exactly what they were inquiring about.

 

Just fucking go.  We already knew the scheduling was ending.  There was no need to suggest, "if only..."  because it was never going to fucking happen.

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5 hours ago, Pancho said:


How is not playing a certain program “alienating” them?

Why is it UT’s responsibility to play Tech? Moreover, why does tech just have to play UT?

Couldn't agree more.  It's a parting of ways, regardless.

Both schools have options elsewhere, and are planning accordingly.

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18 hours ago, Welshy said:

 

UT telling everyone in Texas to fuck off is not what UT's mission is. Fuck that. Athletically and academically. Donations and taxes don't get invested to Ut to "shove everyone's nose in it." 

We can go play fuck off on the southeast, but we start cold-shouldering everyone in Texas and the dynamics will change. They already are. UT is gonna have a hard time asking for whatever windfall the SEC will deliver, from the school. You'r making a ton, fund your own shit.

Believe it or not, the amount of money UT athletics makes is not top of mind for most Texans. It IS with legislators who write checks with taxpayer dollars for UT.

UT is a State Institution. Alienating everyone who is not "UT" in Texas, when most people in Texas, high SATs and GPAs included, cannot go to Texas, is exceedingly dumb. 

 

 


 

 

This is one of the most out-of-touch (dumber’n dog shit) posts I’ve ever seen.

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On 11/29/2023 at 11:23 PM, Welshy said:

UT is a State Institution. Alienating everyone who is not "UT" in Texas, when most people in Texas, high SATs and GPAs included, cannot go to Texas, is exceedingly dumb

The high GPA kids aren't going to Tech. 

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This appeared unbidden in my google news feed this morning:

https://wreckemred.com/2023/12/04/texas-tech-football-independence-bowl-bid-reminder-2023s-disappointment/

O-Zone layer. Holy shit.  Go Bears.

 

”This uninspiring bowl matchup against a 6-6 team from a university that cares more about preserving the health of redwood trees and finding a new hole in the O-Zone layer so that it can further decry the degradation of human existence as we know it than it cares about winning football games is a reminder of how disappointing 2023 is destined to be for Texas Tech football fans.

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Texas Tech's Tahj Brooks to return for 2024 football season

Chris Low, ESPN Senior Writer  Dec 11, 2023

Texas Tech running back Tahj Brooks, who was fourth among FBS players with 1,443 rushing yards this season, announced Monday on social media that he was returning to school for a fifth season.

The 5-10, 230-pound Brooks rushed for more than 100 yards in eight of the Red Raiders' 12 games and just missed in two other games when he finished with more than 90 yards. Brooks has led Texas Tech in rushing each of the past three seasons, but this was his breakout year after rushing for 691 yards in 2022 and 568 yards in 2021.

After splitting carries with SaRodorick Thompson in 2022, Brooks emerged as Texas Tech's go-to running back in 2023 and was third in the FBS with 268 carries. He averaged 5.4 yards per carry and scored nine touchdowns. His 1,443 yards rank him sixth all time among Texas Tech single-season rushing leaders.

Brooks was able to pile up his yards despite opposing defenses loading up the line of scrimmage to stop him. Texas Tech ranks 11th in the Big 12 in passing offense. Brooks led all FBS players with 91 missed tackles forced, according to Pro Football Focus, and was third among Power 5 players with 919 yards after contact.

Texas Tech (6-6) will face Cal on Dec. 16 in the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl.

 

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On 12/3/2023 at 3:33 PM, LTtxfan said:

Saturday, Dec. 16

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Tech should be beaming with pride at being invited to the uber-prestigious Poulan Weed Eater / Newell Rubbermaid-Sanford / MainStay Investments / (almost) Deja Vu Gentleman's Club / PetroSun / AdvoCare / Duck Commander / Camping World / Walk On's / Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl. Hell, December 16th should be a declared a national holiday.

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25 minutes ago, Royale with cheese said:

Tech should be beaming with pride at being invited to the uber-prestigious Poulan Weed Eater / Newell Rubbermaid-Sanford / MainStay Investments / (almost) Deja Vu Gentleman's Club / PetroSun / AdvoCare / Duck Commander / Camping World / Walk On's / Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl. Hell, December 16th should be a declared a national holiday.

Good lord, Shreveport is a shithole.  Drove through it (twice) on the trip to Tuscaloosa in September.

Have fun, Red Raiders!

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