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If Tyler Owens runs the fastest 40 at this year's combine, someone is going to lose their mind and draft him 3 rounds too high. That type of size/speed ratio is unheard of. He isn't a particularly good football player, but he is a freak athlete. 

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31 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

If Tyler Owens runs the fastest 40 at this year's combine, someone is going to lose their mind and draft him 3 rounds too high. That type of size/speed ratio is unheard of. He isn't a particularly good football player, but he is a freak athlete. 

Which is the exact reason 247 ranked him a 5 star and a better prospect than Garrett Wilson. The aggy tears when that ranking was released were glorious. Of course, if he is drafted relatively high, it will only serve to reinforce that line of thinking for people ranking recruits. "Hey this guy sucks at all things football but he's big and fast so he'll get drafted."

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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Quick peek into the mind of someone who leaves Austin for Lubbock.

 

 

 

Me after just reading the headlines and forgetting what he looked like because I don’t pay attention to tech players:

 

*please don’t be Black*

*please don’t be Black*

*please don’t be Black*

*please don’t be Black*

*please don’t be Black*

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Vertigo said:

If Tyler Owens runs the fastest 40 at this year's combine, someone is going to lose their mind and draft him 3 rounds too high. That type of size/speed ratio is unheard of. He isn't a particularly good football player, but he is a freak athlete. 

The guy shouldn't be drafted at all. He's a terrible football player. His measurables are a siren song to many an unwitting evaluator, so I'm sure some idiot in the NFL will draft him, but he's a wasted pick.

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2 hours ago, Blotto said:

Neck beard writing for the Lubbock paper understands the score. 

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Now that we're back in the same conference with piggy who doesn't really have a true SEC rival, I expect those hillbillies will crank the hate back up to levels that would make Tech blush. 

behind a paywall, so I archived it: https://archive.ph/I7Xlc

He's spot on with the Mad Men reference 

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Tech was the only law school to accept me and was generous enough to give me a diploma three years later.  I left Lubbock in '91 and have had no desire to return since.  It's like that Mac Davis song only without the desire to go back.  Fuck 'em

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3 hours ago, Blotto said:

Neck beard writing for the Lubbock paper understands the score. 

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Now that we're back in the same conference with piggy who doesn't really have a true SEC rival, I expect those hillbillies will crank the hate back up to levels that would make Tech blush. 

behind a paywall, so I archived it: https://archive.ph/I7Xlc

Holy neckbeard Batman...tho he aint wrong...

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35 minutes ago, mr. sunshine said:

Tech was the only law school to accept me and was generous enough to give me a diploma three years later.  I left Lubbock in '91 and have had no desire to return since.  It's like that Mac Davis song only without the desire to go back.  Fuck 'em

 

31 minutes ago, slorch said:

so it wasn't like the Mac Davis song...

Are people supposed to have a clue as to what the hell “a Mac Davis song” is supposed to mean.

I feel like Mac Davis had a head of black curly hair… oh, and he was white. That’s probably more Mac Davis awareness than half  of Surly.

Anyway, the MadMen quote sounds about right, though I never watched that show because I was out of the country.

(I did sit across from Hamm at a wedding reception in Nantucket in 2003, but didn’t know it until about 8 years later when I found out that he was Jennifer Westfeldt’s longtime boyfriend. I didn’t really notice a thing about him other than a guy in a suit was to her side…

…which kind of made him like Texas Tech.)

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1 minute ago, Napoleon said:

 

Are people supposed to have a clue as to what the hell “a Mac Davis song” is supposed to mean.

I feel like Mac Davis had a head of black curly hair… oh, and he was white. That’s probably more Mac Davis awareness than half  of Surly.

Anyway, the MadMen quote sounds about right, though I never watched that show because I was out of the country.

(I did sit across from Hamm at a wedding reception in Nantucket in 2003, but didn’t know it until about 8 years later when I found out that he was Jennifer Westfeldt’s longtime boyfriend. I didn’t really notice a thing about him other than a guy in a suit was to her side…

…which kind of made him like Texas Tech.)

They typically overplay/ misquote the lyric " happiness was Lubbock in my rearview mirror."    Here you go, if your google is offline...

… I was just fifteen and out of control lost to James Dean and rock and roll
I knew down deep in my country soul that I had to get away
Hollywood was a lady in red who danced in my dreams as I tossed in bed
I knew I?d wind up in jail or dead if I have to stay
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
So I let out one night in June stoned on the glow of the Texas moon
Humming an old Buddy Holly tune called Peggy Sue (pretty, pretty Peggy Sue)
With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar I ran off chasing a distant star
If Buddy Holly could make it that far then I figured I could too
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
But the Hollywood moon didn't smile the same old smile that I?d grown up with
The lady in red just wanted my last dime
And I cried myself to sleep at night too dumb to run too scared to fight
And too proud to admit it at the time
So I got me some gigs on Saturday night not much more than orchestrated fights
I?d come home drunk and I tried to write but the words came out all wrong
Hell bent and bound for a wasted youth too much gin and not enough vermouth
And no one to teach me to seek the truth before I put an end to this song
I still thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just could not, would not hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
Well I thank God each and every day for giving me the music and the words to say
I?d never had made it any other way he was my only friend
Now I sleep a little better each night and when I look in the mirror in the morning light
The man I see was both wrong and right he's going home again
I guessed happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
But now happiness was Lubbock Texas growing nearer and dearer
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
And I think I finally know just what it means
And when I die you can bury me in Lubbock Texas in my jeans

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7 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

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That guy looks 40.

45 minutes ago, mr. sunshine said:

Tech was the only law school to accept me and was generous enough to give me a diploma three years later.  I left Lubbock in '91 and have had no desire to return since.  It's like that Mac Davis song only without the desire to go back.  Fuck 'em

I grew up in the shadow of Lubbock, as in one of the roads in Lubbock is named after the town I grew up in about 50 minutes south.  I very happily left there and only went back for family until family moved away.  Hadn't been back in years until my dad died last year and wanted to have his funeral back in that town.  Now that he's gone, I'm not sure I'll ever go back, and just the thought of that makes me happy.

Mac Davis song - Happiness is Lubbock in my Rear View Mirror - with the appropriate strikeouts for accuracy.

 

… I was just fifteen and out of control lost to James Dean and rock and roll
I knew down deep in my country soul that I had to get away
Hollywood was a lady in red who danced in my dreams as I tossed in bed
I knew I'd wind up in jail or dead if I have to stay
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
So I let out one night in June stoned on the glow of the Texas moon
Humming an old Buddy Holly tune called Peggy Sue (pretty, pretty Peggy Sue)
With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar I ran off chasing a distant star
If Buddy Holly could make it that far then I figured I could too
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
But the Hollywood moon didn't smile the same old smile that I?d grown up with
The lady in red just wanted my last dime
And I cried myself to sleep at night too dumb to run too scared to fight
And too proud to admit it at the time
So I got me some gigs on Saturday night not much more than orchestrated fights
I'd come home drunk and I tried to write but the words came out all wrong
Hell bent and bound for a wasted youth too much gin and not enough vermouth
And no one to teach me to seek the truth before I put an end to this song
I still thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just could not, would not hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
Well I thank God each and every day for giving me the music and the words to say
I'd never had made it any other way he was my only friend
Now I sleep a little better each night and when I look in the mirror in the morning light
The man I see was both wrong and right he's going home again
I guessed happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
But now happiness was Lubbock Texas growing nearer and dearer
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
And I think I finally know just what it means
And when I die you can bury me in Lubbock Texas in my jeans

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10 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

 

Are people supposed to have a clue as to what the hell “a Mac Davis song” is supposed to mean.

I feel like Mac Davis had a head of black curly hair… oh, and he was white. That’s probably more Mac Davis awareness than half  of Surly.

Anyway, the MadMen quote sounds about right, though I never watched that show because I was out of the country.

(I did sit across from Hamm at a wedding reception in Nantucket in 2003, but didn’t know it until about 8 years later when I found out that he was Jennifer Westfeldt’s longtime boyfriend. I didn’t really notice a thing about him other than a guy in a suit was to her side…

…which kind of made him like Texas Tech.)

Apparently you're borderline regarded

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Your goddamn right.  My town gave you your greatest athlete to ever play at Tech, not counting Idalou's own Tracy Saul.  I grew up hating Tech (except their band was pretty badass), then started to really love them with Leach, then hated them again for what they did to Leach.  Fuck them for that forever. 

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20 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Your goddamn right.  My town gave you your greatest athlete to ever play at Tech, not counting Idalou's own Tracy Saul.  I grew up hating Tech (except their band was pretty badass), then started to really love them with Leach, then hated them again for what they did to Leach.  Fuck them for that forever. 

Tracy Saul lost a ball

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6 hours ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Your goddamn right.  My town gave you your greatest athlete to ever play at Tech, not counting Idalou's own Tracy Saul.  I grew up hating Tech (except their band was pretty badass), then started to really love them with Leach, then hated them again for what they did to Leach.  Fuck them for that forever. 

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7 hours ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Your goddamn right.  My town gave you your greatest athlete to ever play at Tech, not counting Idalou's own Tracy Saul.  I grew up hating Tech (except their band was pretty badass), then started to really love them with Leach, then hated them again for what they did to Leach.  Fuck them for that forever. 

Sheryl swoopes?

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12 hours ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

That guy looks 40.

I grew up in the shadow of Lubbock, as in one of the roads in Lubbock is named after the town I grew up in about 50 minutes south.  I very happily left there and only went back for family until family moved away.  Hadn't been back in years until my dad died last year and wanted to have his funeral back in that town.  Now that he's gone, I'm not sure I'll ever go back, and just the thought of that makes me happy.

Mac Davis song - Happiness is Lubbock in my Rear View Mirror - with the appropriate strikeouts for accuracy.

 

… I was just fifteen and out of control lost to James Dean and rock and roll
I knew down deep in my country soul that I had to get away
Hollywood was a lady in red who danced in my dreams as I tossed in bed
I knew I'd wind up in jail or dead if I have to stay
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
So I let out one night in June stoned on the glow of the Texas moon
Humming an old Buddy Holly tune called Peggy Sue (pretty, pretty Peggy Sue)
With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar I ran off chasing a distant star
If Buddy Holly could make it that far then I figured I could too
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
But the Hollywood moon didn't smile the same old smile that I?d grown up with
The lady in red just wanted my last dime
And I cried myself to sleep at night too dumb to run too scared to fight
And too proud to admit it at the time
So I got me some gigs on Saturday night not much more than orchestrated fights
I'd come home drunk and I tried to write but the words came out all wrong
Hell bent and bound for a wasted youth too much gin and not enough vermouth
And no one to teach me to seek the truth before I put an end to this song
I still thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just could not, would not hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
Well I thank God each and every day for giving me the music and the words to say
I'd never had made it any other way he was my only friend
Now I sleep a little better each night and when I look in the mirror in the morning light
The man I see was both wrong and right he's going home again
I guessed happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
But now happiness was Lubbock Texas growing nearer and dearer
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
And I think I finally know just what it means
And when I die you can bury me in Lubbock Texas in my jeans

I was born on the llano estacado. Never cared for Lubbock

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On 3/1/2024 at 4:31 PM, NameAlreadyInUse said:

That guy looks 40.

I grew up in the shadow of Lubbock, as in one of the roads in Lubbock is named after the town I grew up in about 50 minutes south.  I very happily left there and only went back for family until family moved away.  Hadn't been back in years until my dad died last year and wanted to have his funeral back in that town.  Now that he's gone, I'm not sure I'll ever go back, and just the thought of that makes me happy.

Mac Davis song - Happiness is Lubbock in my Rear View Mirror - with the appropriate strikeouts for accuracy.

 

… I was just fifteen and out of control lost to James Dean and rock and roll
I knew down deep in my country soul that I had to get away
Hollywood was a lady in red who danced in my dreams as I tossed in bed
I knew I'd wind up in jail or dead if I have to stay
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
So I let out one night in June stoned on the glow of the Texas moon
Humming an old Buddy Holly tune called Peggy Sue (pretty, pretty Peggy Sue)
With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar I ran off chasing a distant star
If Buddy Holly could make it that far then I figured I could too
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
But the Hollywood moon didn't smile the same old smile that I?d grown up with
The lady in red just wanted my last dime
And I cried myself to sleep at night too dumb to run too scared to fight
And too proud to admit it at the time
So I got me some gigs on Saturday night not much more than orchestrated fights
I'd come home drunk and I tried to write but the words came out all wrong
Hell bent and bound for a wasted youth too much gin and not enough vermouth
And no one to teach me to seek the truth before I put an end to this song
I still thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just could not, would not hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
Well I thank God each and every day for giving me the music and the words to say
I'd never had made it any other way he was my only friend
Now I sleep a little better each night and when I look in the mirror in the morning light
The man I see was both wrong and right he's going home again
I guessed happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
But now happiness was Lubbock Texas growing nearer and dearer
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
And I think I finally know just what it means
And when I die you can bury me in Lubbock Texas in my jeans

You a Cub?

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On 3/3/2024 at 8:17 AM, Laga4 said:

Borger?

Who are you thinking of?  Lol.

Even Donnie Anderson was from Stinnett.

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50 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Question for the Techsters: Who would be Tech's Top 5 All-Time players, giving ZERO consideration to what they may have done in the NFL?

I’m not a tech guy but my father is, I’d guess something like:

Gray, Z Thomas, Crabtree, Welker, Harrell

i really only know their teams from the mid-80s on. I know there was a DT drafted really high in the early 80s whose pro career never happened due to an awful car accident, so maybe him. Donnie Anderson too? Also thought of Hanspard. Tyrone Thurman was a WR/returner from the mid 80s who was awesome and tiny.

I don’t know, tech guys can tell me where I’m wrong.

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52 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

I’m not a tech guy but my father is, I’d guess something like:

Gray, Z Thomas, Crabtree, Welker, Harrell

i really only know their teams from the mid-80s on. I know there was a DT drafted really high in the early 80s whose pro career never happened due to an awful car accident, so maybe him. Donnie Anderson too? Also thought of Hanspard. Tyrone Thurman was a WR/returner from the mid 80s who was awesome and tiny.

I don’t know, tech guys can tell me where I’m wrong.

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1 hour ago, LTtxfan said:

Mahomes left off your list "Chinaski" ??

Criteria was NFL performance not considered - i.e., purely based on college performance. So I’m guessing Harrell over him, as he’s the all time passing leader (by a lot in terms of TDs and yards), also had more team success.

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2 hours ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Criteria was NFL performance not considered - i.e., purely based on college performance. So I’m guessing Harrell over him, as he’s the all time passing leader (by a lot in terms of TDs and yards), also had more team success.

Gotcha...

Still probably need more than 1 QB in your list imo...  All-time stuff is overrated. 

Mahomes did not play on very good teams, so he had to carry them more.  

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23 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

Question for the Techsters: Who would be Tech's Top 5 All-Time players, giving ZERO consideration to what they may have done in the NFL?

For football I'd say Thomas, Crabtree, Anderson, Rivera, & Welker.

Hanspard would be an honorable mention 

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On 3/5/2024 at 11:33 AM, TrashMaster G said:

Question for the Techsters: Who would be Tech's Top 5 All-Time players, giving ZERO consideration to what they may have done in the NFL?

My favorites all time:

Tyrone Thurman

Tracy Saul( yes really.  Same age as I am and loved how a kid from Idalou kicked so much ass)

Zach Thomas

Wes Welker

Michael Crabtree

Never saw him play in person, but EJ Holub IS MR Red Raider to me.

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On 3/5/2024 at 1:26 PM, LTtxfan said:

Mahomes left off your list "Chinaski" ??

I appreciate what Mahomes did in college, but that defense and O-line were so horrific, I did not get juiced about those teams.  He’s not in my Top 5 players I got exited to see. If I made an alltime NFL list, regardless of alma mater; he’d almost certainly be Top 3, if not #1.

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On 3/5/2024 at 6:51 PM, statsman said:

I’m not a Techster, but I’d go:

Holub

Anderson

Rivera

Z. Thomas

Mahomes

Every one of them, as Royal would say, “as tough as boarding house steak”

This is a hard list to argue, but I would have to work Welker in there somewhere.  The right guy at the right time to show what the slot receiver could do in Leach's Air Raid offense.  Not too mention the punt returns.  Little dude was tough as boot leather.

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9 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

Speaking of Wes Welker... dagger into aggy's heart. The one random Tech guy in front of the corp has always cracked me up. 

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On 3/6/2024 at 11:44 AM, slorch said:

My favorites all time

Never saw him play in person, but EJ Holub IS MR Red Raider to me.

I went to church with EJ many years ago. Nice guy and just a huge dude.

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17 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

Speaking of Wes Welker... dagger into aggy's heart. The one random Tech guy in front of the corp has always cracked me up. 

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Granny ag in her blue blockers always makes me chortle.

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On 3/5/2024 at 1:24 PM, Hank Chinaski said:

I’m not a tech guy but my father is, I’d guess something like:

Gray, Z Thomas, Crabtree, Welker, Harrell

i really only know their teams from the mid-80s on. I know there was a DT drafted really high in the early 80s whose pro career never happened due to an awful car accident, so maybe him. Donnie Anderson too? Also thought of Hanspard. Tyrone Thurman was a WR/returner from the mid 80s who was awesome and tiny.

I don’t know, tech guys can tell me where I’m wrong.

 

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