Game Week Thread Week 12, 2023; Texas Tech at Texas

[TexLonghorn 5587]

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If we’ve won five games in a row and still have no territory on the map it seems kinda dumb to me, but to each their own

You can only win what your opponent has.  If we went against aggy and said if we win, we're taking all of their dignity and all of their hot female cheerleaders, then after we destroy them, we'd still get nothing because they don't have either of those.  We can't take what they don't even own.  

We beat five teams that didn't have any land by the time we beat them.  We got nothing.  That can change this week, as tceh comes in with something to take.

Edited November 21, 2023 by TexLonghorn

[hornian 5201]

28 minutes ago, TexLonghorn said:

You can only win what your opponent has.  If we went against aggy and said if we win, we're taking all of their dignity and all of their hot female cheerleaders, then after we destroy them, we'd still get nothing because they don't have either of those.  We can't take what they don't even own.  

We beat five teams that didn't have any land by the time we beat them.  We got nothing.  That can change this week, as tceh comes in with something to take.

It's still dumb. 

[Drifterwood 159]

If we’ve won five games in a row and still have no territory on the map it seems kinda dumb to me, but to each their own

You can only win what your opponent has.  If we went against aggy and said if we win, we're taking all of their dignity and all of their hot female cheerleaders, then after we destroy them, we'd still get nothing because they don't have either of those.  We can't take what they don't even own.  
We beat five teams that didn't have any land by the time we beat them.  We got nothing.  That can change this week, as tceh comes in with something to take.

Thanks for taking the time to explain exactly how and why it’s dumb

[thunderlounge 7733]

 

[Viper 12011]

 

[TexLonghorn 5587]

12 minutes ago, hornian said:

It's still dumb. 

1 minute ago, Drifterwood said:

exactly how and why it’s dumb

Jeez, y'all must be fun at parties.

Hate to break it to y'all, but yeah, everything is dumb when you look at it.  We'll have 100,000 people IN PERSON go to the stadium this weekend just to see that our group of 18-24 year olds plays a game better than their group of 18-24 year olds.  Millions more will watch it on TV.  Millions and millions more will watch other groups of 18-24 year olds and debate about how they have, will, would, or could be better than some other group of 18-24 year olds playing a game.  And only the tiniest of percentages of those people watching will have ever even one time met any of those 18-24 year olds playing.

Sorry the Imperialism Map, which you are absolutely free to ignore, doesn't live up to that level of importance.

[conVINCEd 21468]

It’s still fucking stupid.

[dieucla98 2931]

It's entertaining if you have the ability to not be a snarky, self aggrandizing, know it all for 5 minutes. Which I realize is exactly what this site enables so I guess there you have it.

[T-shirt Sip 2096]

That map is going to look a lot different after we take all that land from TT this week and then beat Georgia/OSU in round 1. 

Edited November 21, 2023 by T-shirt Sip
Decided to add OSU

[Samson's Wig 3168]

18 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

I saw this on Twitter and still don't get the gist.  I would guess UT has more Hispanic students/grads than any other college not in San Antonio or El Paso.

It's just plain old racism, but is't just one asshole on twitter.  We've got plenty of our own dumbasses along these lines.  The interesting part is that Tech has way more Hispanic students than any other school in Texas.  They've actively and purposefully recruited these students for years and have some kind of active designation from the feds as a Hispanic forward university, or something along those lines.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

I feel like this thread is ahead of schedule, especially considering the shorter game week.

[Js1 85056]

10 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

I feel like this thread is ahead of schedule, especially considering the shorter game week.

Not like anyone is actually working 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Not like anyone is actually working 

Well, I certainly am not. About to sit in on a teams meeting just so it looks like I am doing something.

[South Austin 52037]

1 minute ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Well, I certainly am not. About to sit in on a teams meeting just so it looks like I am doing something.

But I just know that Lumberg is going to ask you to come in on Friday.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

But I just know that Lumberg is going to ask you to come in on Friday.

Negatory. Finished all my TPS reports yesterday.

[Guadaloopy 10903]

Imperialism map is harmless fun.  If you've ever played any version of a fantasy sport, you have no room to call it "dumb."  

[brojangles2 780]

Ticket market for this game is fairly shocking to me. I realize that T+1 game hasn’t been at night in years, but TTU is absolute garbage and it’s T+1. 

[gofuckyourself 8115]

Map nerd talk not going away.

[Kwix 2186]

If only there was already a dedicated thread for talking about that stupid map. 

[Jimmy Two Times 781]

22 hours ago, WinningIsHard said:

Not the type of runners UCF has. They do not have the explosive offense like UCF imo. 

Those poor fuckers have their own Derka. 

Great point not like we have a top national offense that scores almost exclusively on explosive plays. 

[South Austin 52037]

[Park Gothic 4949]

Channeling good vibes and getting this thread back on track. 

[ballrific 215]

map talk? show us your maps..

[83Horn 1638]

15 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

Channeling good vibes and getting this thread back on track. 

Forgot this one:

And this one:

 

Edited November 21, 2023 by 83Horn

[gofuckyourself 8115]

Much better.

Tony Brackens contribution

[UncleSonny 6520]

3 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

Much better.

Tony Brackens contribution

Unfortunately this clip seems to be filmed on a potato, but you have to include Vasher as well:

Haha, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed how many Tech players we’ve attempted to murder over the years. 

[kevwun 15595]

It is weird how so many of the nastiest hits of the last 20 years have happened against Tech.

[Park Gothic 4949]

1 minute ago, UncleSonny said:

Unfortunately this clip seems to be filmed on a potato, but you have to include Vasher as well:

Haha, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed how many Tech players we’ve attempted to murder over the years. 

[TheBryMan81 2495]

On 11/20/2023 at 4:49 AM, HenryJames said:

Is UT scared to keep alive its Texas Tech football rivalry? | Williams (lubbockonline.com)

Is UT scared to keep alive its Texas Tech football rivalry? | Don Williams, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

A bunch of entertaining football games are coming up, as always, the week of Thanksgiving. Many will factor into conference races, but not all.

You have Georgia-Georgia Tech, Florida-Florida State, South Carolina-Clemson, Kentucky-Louisville, all non-conference games scheduled at the end of the regular season.

Maybe someday in the not-too-distant future, you can add Texas Tech football playing Texas to the list of rivalry games between non-conference opponents. All it would take is for the Longhorns to lose a little hubris. UT athletics director Chris Del Conte told the Avalanche-Journal last year he's OK with playing non-conference games against other Texas schools.

What he meant was, he's OK with playing other Texas schools the Longhorns don't perceive as a threat. They've played Rice three times in recent years, and they have UT-El Paso and UT-San Antonio scheduled in alternating seasons out through 2031.

UT leads the series with Tech 54-18. Not that risky a proposition for the burnt orange, right?

The Red Raiders won last year's game, though. And when the Texas A&M-Texas series went dormant a decade ago, Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt eagerly obliged Texas' wish to keep playing an annual Thanksgiving game. The Red Raiders, playing Texas in Austin on Thanksgiving or the day after in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, took advantage of high-visibility TV windows and won two of those games.

That's all it takes for Texas to not want to play the Red Raiders any longer than they have to.

Texas Tech officials have made it clear they'll put the Red Raiders up against the Longhorns as non-conference opponents any time, any place, the sooner, the better.

The Tech-Texas game this coming Friday night will be the last between the two football programs for the foreseeable future with Texas heading off to the Southeastern Conference at the end of the school year.

As the epicenter of college football increasingly narrows to the geography of the SEC and the Big Ten, the Red Raiders need the annual game against UT to drive visibility, the attractiveness of the schedule, ticket sales, credibility in the major polls and recruiting boosts.

Not only games against UT. We've focused on Tech's desire to continuing playing the Longhorns, but playing Texas A&M every year would be even better. Renewing that series, with its evenness, with all its close games and fantastic finishes, would be just as meaningful.

Back to the Tech-Texas discussion, though. In days gone by, universities would serve up games most attractive to their fans, without regard to the potential danger of losing. In some places, they still do, as we noted at the top.

South Carolina and Clemson have faced each other continuously since 1909, as non-conference opponents since 1971. Georgia and Georgia Tech have played continuously since 1925, as non-conference opponents since 1964.

Florida and Florida State have squared off every year since 1958, all in non-conference. Kentucky and Louisville have met each year since 1994, also all as non-conference foes.

Each of the above series, during the time frames mentioned, was interrupted only by the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.

Virginia and Virginia Tech have played Atlantic Coast Conference games since 2004, but their many meetings between 1937 and 2003 were as non-conference opponents. Texas A&M and LSU have met 57 times, 45 as non-conference rivals. West Virginia and Penn State have met 60 times, not once in a conference game.

It's clear in that context there's nothing to keep Texas or Texas A&M from playing li'l ol' Texas Tech.

It'd be good for the programs, good for the fans and good for UT brass to come down off their high horse.

If Texas was my highest selling home game every year, I'd want to keep us on the schedule too 

[mannewers 549]

13 minutes ago, TheBryMan81 said:

If Texas was my highest selling home game every year, I'd want to keep us on the schedule too 

Isn't this the same idiot that is still placing a top 25 vote for aggy?

 

[Red Five 40593]

39 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

Much better.

Tony Brackens contribution

"Number 98 has been ejected for targeting." 

[BERT 4345]

2 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Negatory. Finished all my TPS reports yesterday.

Good thing you got that memo. 

[Biff Tannen 45477]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Not like anyone is actually working 

So just like every week for me.

[JBJ 3647]

1 hour ago, UncleSonny said:

Unfortunately this clip seems to be filmed on a potato, but you have to include Vasher as well:

Haha, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed how many Tech players we’ve attempted to murder over the years. 

I really hate that there's no good clip of this.

[Biff Tannen 45477]

1 hour ago, gofuckyourself said:

Much better.

Tony Brackens contribution

I was at a birthday party in middle school for this hit.  It is forever tattooed in my memory.  I'm not sure how that guy didn't die.

[HenryJames 65868]

I like how the kicker looks at Brackens and then does nothing to prepare for the impending hit. Kickers have no natural predators.

[gofuckyourself 8115]

54 minutes ago, Red Five said:

"Number 98 has been ejected for targeting." 

Today? Yep.

Then? Nope.

Junior year for me and was there (but I had to look it up to see if there was a penalty).

Here's the video clip starts at 8:55. The dude was OUT on the Texas sideline while his teammate tries to get him to stand up.

 

 

[CustersDoctor 584]

I'm saying this as the Tech fan that I am. 1. About every other time we play in Austin, UT plays their best game of the year and they absolutely destroy us. You won the last game in Austin 70-35 maybe this is your off year. 2. As for officiating, for 25 years we've seen Big12 officials protect the Big12's best interests. So I ask this in all seriousness, "Is it better for the conference to have a playoff team or is it better to send UT off with a loss?" It is my opinion that money is King and every member of the BIG12 makes an extra million if UT makes the playoffs. Therefore I don't expect UT to get screwed by the refs. 3. Tech's linebacker Bryce Ramirez is playing pretty well which is amazing considering that he had a Theismannesque compound leg fracture in last falls game versus NC State. He may not be the best defensive player, but the whole defense plays better with him the game.

[OU Sucks 8744]

20 minutes ago, CustersDoctor said:

I'm saying this as the Tech fan that I am. 1. About every other time we play in Austin, UT plays their best game of the year and they absolutely destroy us. You won the last game in Austin 70-35 maybe this is your off year. 2. As for officiating, for 25 years we've seen Big12 officials protect the Big12's best interests. So I ask this in all seriousness, "Is it better for the conference to have a playoff team or is it better to send UT off with a loss?" It is my opinion that money is King and every member of the BIG12 makes an extra million if UT makes the playoffs. Therefore I don't expect UT to get screwed by the refs. 3. Tech's linebacker Bryce Ramirez is playing pretty well which is amazing considering that he had a Theismannesque compound leg fracture in last falls game versus NC State. He may not be the best defensive player, but the whole defense plays better with him the game.

The latter. This is Brett Yormark's Super Bowl.

Edited November 21, 2023 by OU Sucks

[jw4381 3063]

[TrashMaster G 17379]

46 minutes ago, CustersDoctor said:

I'm saying this as the Tech fan that I am. 1. About every other time we play in Austin, UT plays their best game of the year and they absolutely destroy us. You won the last game in Austin 70-35 maybe this is your off year. 2. As for officiating, for 25 years we've seen Big12 officials protect the Big12's best interests. So I ask this in all seriousness, "Is it better for the conference to have a playoff team or is it better to send UT off with a loss?" It is my opinion that money is King and every member of the BIG12 makes an extra million if UT makes the playoffs. Therefore I don't expect UT to get screwed by the refs. 3. Tech's linebacker Bryce Ramirez is playing pretty well which is amazing considering that he had a Theismannesque compound leg fracture in last falls game versus NC State. He may not be the best defensive player, but the whole defense plays better with him the game.

So, I can only conclude from this that for the last decade it's been in the Big XII's best interest for Texas to get screwed by the refs.

[Knoxtnhorn 5928]

3 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Much better.

Tony Brackens contribution

Haha.  My Tech father still throws a fit to this day stating that was a dirty hit.

[hookemATL 11596]

31 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Haha.  My Tech father still throws a fit to this day stating that was a dirty hit.

In the way that letting Mike Tyson in his prime go gloves off with a member of the lollipop kids from Wizard of Oz, yes it was dirty. 

[conVINCEd 21468]

1 hour ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Haha.  My Tech father still throws a fit to this day stating that was a dirty hit.

It was.  But that was allowed back then.  I felt that hit in my bones in the stands.  I empathized with the Tech kicker, I felt his pain, then had a good laugh while I refreshed my Jack and coke.  Vasher was the most violent given both guys were going full speed.  Kindle damn near decapitated their QB.  Brackens wins the bronze medal for big hits against the tortilla throwers.  If we could find a way to work Bryant Westbrook into this conversation this thread would be complete.

 

[General Specific 3226]

Joel Klatt just shit his pants, again!

[MissingInAction 24765]

6 hours ago, South Austin said:

But I just know that Lumberg is going to ask you to come in on Friday.

I've blocked my boss and coworkers on my personal and tossed the work phone in the back of a closet. 

 

[Guest]

7 hours ago, hornian said:

It's still dumb. 

Still makes more sense than the current College Football Playoff.

[Horn Dog 9644]

5 hours ago, Park Gothic said:

Channeling good vibes and getting this thread back on track. 

Watching the horns score TDs and make stops without flags being thrown.

 

[83Horn 1638]

1 hour ago, conVINCEd said:

It was.  But that was allowed back then.  I felt that hit in my bones in the stands.  I empathized with the Tech kicker, I felt his pain, then had a good laugh while I refreshed my Jack and coke.  Vasher was the most violent given both guys were going full speed.  Kindle damn near decapitated their QB.  Brackens wins the bronze medal for big hits against the tortilla throwers.  If we could find a way to work Bryant Westbrook into this conversation this thread would be complete.

 

I don't know, I think this one deserves something more than honorable mention:

 

Edited November 22, 2023 by 83Horn

[BurntOrangeCrush 1004]

6 hours ago, mannewers said:

Isn't this the same idiot that is still placing a top 25 vote for aggy?

 

Yes