Game Week 10, Texas at Arkansas

[Saint Austin 745]

14 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Let's play other SEC teams instead. I would enjoy blOU every year and alternate aggy and arky every year.

1+8 rotation 

 

That's not an option though. It's 1+7 (which is what we currently have and sucks) or 3+6.

Obviously OU is the primary rival, but to join this conference and NOT play A&M or Arkansas every year would be a fucking travesty. 

They'll need to tweak some things in '26 so that we alternate A&M/Arkansas at home each year, but to not play you're top three historical rivals every season when you're in the same conference as all three for the first time since 1919 would be lunacy. 

[ztejas 43411]

1 minute ago, Saint Austin said:

That's not an option though. It's 1+7 (which is what we currently have and sucks) or 3+6.

So if they go to 9 it's been reported/confirmed they would do a 3 + 6 model?

In that case - yes I'll take playing Arky every year if it gets us to the right # of conference games. 

[BurntOrange&White 39930]

Maybe you can go to the fucking thread about block scheduling?

[hookemATL 11700]

Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

Maybe you can go to the fucking thread about block scheduling?

The piss goes in the toilet, not in your cheerios.

 

[Magus Ossis 2797]

18 minutes ago, Saint Austin said:

That's not an option though. It's 1+7 (which is what we currently have and sucks) or 3+6.

Obviously OU is the primary rival, but to join this conference and NOT play A&M or Arkansas every year would be a fucking travesty. 

They'll need to tweak some things in '26 so that we alternate A&M/Arkansas at home each year, but to not play you're top three historical rivals every season when you're in the same conference as all three for the first time since 1919 would be lunacy. 

Meh, by joining we would have

1. ditched the B12, its officials, and its officers;

2. resumed more frequent games against the aforementioned teams;

3. begun to schedule games against Bama, Georgia, Florida, etc on the (semi-)regular;

4. secured a spot in a much more financially rewarding conference;

5. removed a massive recruiting disadvantage;

6. avoided ever having to play at Tech or Cougar High again

among other benefits. If the schedule collectively only had only one or the other of Arkansas or A&M, I think travesty might be a bit of a strong word. I like re-opening the rivalries in a general sense, but the Aggies are piss-poor rivals. They and hopeful future ones run their yaps incessantly with boasting when they win and pissing on Texas when A&M loses. They whine, cry, and generally spread their obnoxious idiocy much more loudly since we are back in conference with them. Winning doesn't shut them up the way it does fans I know of other schools we play. They're too aggy consciously to process their status.

Edited November 12 by Magus Ossis

[satyanash 14471]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Weird camera cropping, but this play in 2004 is classic Vince Young balls across the chin.

 

Do those announcers not know that O-linemen can block downfield as long as the pass is caught behind the LOS? Or was that a rule change that happened after 2004?

[LTtxfan 49141]

"Open competitions in the secondary" 😬

 

[Reynolds Woodcock 4738]

45 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

My Dad did that once (went to the airport after a big win to cheer the team), and was so drunk he doesn't even remember how he got to the airport, nor did he even remember being there, but one day when I showed him a picture from a Cactus yearbook that had him front and center in the picture, behind a rope line, grinning ear-to-ear, did it all come back to him that he went there to cheer some more for the team.  Lulz.

Son?

[ousux 5595]

For me,  Arky = Tech
I really don't want Texas scheduled to fuckin' play Arky every year.  
 

Same. Every 4 years or (or however it would work out) is plenty.

Feels like if we get stuck with the same schedule we have this year and next we'll never get to play Ole Miss, SCar, Bama, LSU etc unless we meet them in the CCG, but that isn't the same as visiting their place or having them come to DKR.

[texifornia 56851]

1 minute ago, ousux said:

Same. Every 4 years or (or however it would work out) is plenty.

Feels like if we get stuck with the same schedule we have this year and next we'll never get to play Ole Miss, SCar, Bama, LSU etc unless we meet them in the CCG, but that isn't the same as visiting their place or having them come to DKR.

3 + 6 means you'll get plenty of churn in the six other games

[Js1 85258]

22 minutes ago, texifornia said:

3 + 6 means you'll get plenty of churn in the six other games

Isn't this set up so you play everyone in conference every 4 years, home and away?  Except OU of course, always neutral. 

If the conference goes to 3+6 in 2026, we will have a rotation where we miss somebody twice because of the two years of playing 8 conference games.  But that's easily done for us, just don't bother worrying about Bama until 2028 and beyond since we did just play them home/away in 2022 and 2023.

Edited November 12 by Js1

[Tex Long 4382]

Suppose we go to Pods. Your schedule is 3-2-2-2, 9 games as most of us desire. The seasons alternate the 2-2-2 in other pods, and the home-and-home is every other year. Don't have to call it Pods, just a template for scheduling. I only looked at us, maybe the view for all 16 teams gets nasty, but what we see here looks pretty good. Home-and-home is just alternating. In the example, NORTH looks pretty anemic - I was just trying to set up geographically.

Example:

WEST: Texas, aggy, OU, LSU

NORTH: Arky, Mizzou, Kentucky, USCe

SOUTH: Ole Miss, MissSt, Bama, Auburn

EAST: Fla, UGa, Tenn, Vandy

Season 1 we play aggy, OU, LSU, arky, mizzou, Ole Miss, Auburn, Tenn, Fla

Season 2 we play aggy, OU, LSU, Kentucky, USCe, Bama, MissSt, UGa, Vandy

Every two years, you play every other conference member.

 

[General Specific 3250]

I would argue that Tech is a poor man's Arky...

A) Fayetteville is way more fun to visit than Lubbock
B) 
C) At no point did any games vs Tech, Baylor, TCU, SMU, Houston, Rice, etc get dubbed the game of the century and moved around by a POTUS.

One could say the POTUS was a tricky dick!

[Pimphand 5732]

1 minute ago, General Specific said:

One could say the POTUS was a tricky dick!

 

[General Specific 3250]

Suppose we go to Pods. Your schedule is 3-2-2-2, 9 games as most of us desire. The seasons alternate the 2-2-2 in other pods, and the home-and-home is every other year. Don't have to call it Pods, just a template for scheduling. I only looked at us, maybe the view for all 16 teams gets nasty, but what we see here looks pretty good. Home-and-home is just alternating. In the example, NORTH looks pretty anemic - I was just trying to set up geographically.
Example:
WEST: Texas, aggy, OU, LSU
NORTH: Arky, Mizzou, Kentucky, USCe
SOUTH: Ole Miss, MissSt, Bama, Auburn
EAST: Fla, UGa, Tenn, Vandy
Season 1 we play aggy, OU, LSU, arky, mizzou, Ole Miss, Auburn, Tenn, Fla
Season 2 we play aggy, OU, LSU, Kentucky, USCe, Bama, MissSt, UGa, Vandy
Every two years, you play every other conference member.
 

[Hagbard Celine 10848]

1 hour ago, Saint Austin said:

but to join this conference and NOT play A&M or Arkansas every year would be a fucking travesty

1 + 8 =

year 1: aggy home

year 2: aggy pyle

year 3: pig home

year 4: pig khe sanh

repeat

this is the way

[DaysOff 7943]

Everyone stfu with the conference realignment type pod shit in this thread. This is the skull fuck pig thread.

[Magus Ossis 2797]

29 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

Everyone stfu with the conference realignment type pod shit in this thread. This is the skull fuck pig thread.

Not being an ag, I would rather spit and roast the pig than engage it intimately, however violent that contact might be.

[jdhorn92 1545]

2 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

"Open competitions in the secondary" 😬

 

Sounds like we're getting the whole hog.  Buckle up, this will be our 2nd hardest game next to UGA.

[Gohogs14 123]

7 hours ago, Fud said:

Some Arkansas statistical rankings in the FBS (lower is worse)

#118 opponent yards per passing attempt

#110 in penalty yards per game 

#107 opponent completion percentage

#98 in field position

#97 red zone scoring percentage

#93 turnover margin per game

This team loses at the margins and at defending the pass

**

What are they good at?

#39 on offensive 3rd down conversion rates, #7 in offensive rushing success rate, #13 in passing offensive success rate, and #38 in defensive yards per rushing attempt. So they move the ball really well on offense, and are solid against the run on defense, although they struggle to score once they get into the red zone

The Arkansas offense has quietly been really good this year at moving the ball, they just turn it over every other play and make self-inflicted mistakes. Dumb turnovers is what has kept Arkansas from being 7-2 right now and most likely in the top 25. They beat Tennessee because they actually took care of the ball and didn't turn it over a single time.

The secondary has gotten exposed against Dart and Nussmeier, really the only two decent QBs they've faced this year (with Nico being inconsistent as a freshman). Getting Jaylon Braxton back should help (who is Arkansas' best CB but has been out since week two) but there just aren't enough dudes who can cover 1:1 against SEC receivers and Travis Williams doesn't play much zone to help mitigate that since he likes to blitz so much.

[DanTheHorn 4913]

Anyone know what the Texas section(s) are for Arkansas

[Funk Doctor Spock 12175]

Why are y'all bringing up old shit when we're about to skull drag when we're about to drag their deceased bodies across the field?

[CHIEF 5075]

On 11/11/2024 at 2:42 PM, Stunns38 said:

That game put Matt Jones on the map. And those dumb fuck fans were starting fights and talking shit at the end of the game(at DKR).Shittier fans than OU and aggy by far.

For sure.

I have told this story before, but it was probably on one of the old sites.

CHIEF Jr. was five, and we had our pit set up across the street from where the tennis courts were, in back of the General Services Commission. There was plenty of shit talking with the Arkies walking the sidewalks. After the game a couple of smokin' hot arkie coeds come walking by pretty late after everything had died down. Out of nowhere, CHIEF Jr. asks them if he could put a fork in their family trees. Our entire tailgate erupts with laughter, and he got a couple of "fuck you, little boy" from both of them. Apparently it really pissed them off, and they stewed all the way to their car. It was late enough that 17th was back open. All of a sudden an arkie colored BMW Z3, with the top down comes around the corner onto Trinity, sideways, and it was those two coeds. One of the girls pulls up her top and flashes two perfect breasts one painted white, and the other one red. She shouted, "how do you like that you little fuck?" He told her they were spectacular, and would she mind showing them to him again. They sped off and he got all kinda "high fives" from all of the guys that got to watch the show.

It was also the game where someone bought a whole suckling pig to put on the pit, complete with an apple. They left that fucker on the pit for probably 8-10 hours. When they cut it open, it was just like Clark carving the turkey  on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, I shit you not.

CHIEF

[Tex Pete 20326]

23 hours ago, BurdineBandit said:

Maybe they change my mind this weekend, but all year I've been hearing this and that about Àrkansas away, old rivals, throw out the spread..... I'm maybe in the minority but I don't really care about them. They were my dad's rivals and had a lot of 90s history in a conference I never knew. The first big game I remember watching was James Brown beating Nebraska. To me Arkansas is all stories and someone else's memories.

Can't imagine any of the undergrads or players give any more of a shit about hating us than any other school. They'll throw the horns down because that's what everybody does. Stomp their shit and move on. I don't want to rekindle a rivalry from 30+ years ago unless they're going to be contenders again. We already have a little brother that hates our ass.

You, like Steve Sarkisian, don't get it. The rivalry is (in)bred into kids born in Arkansas. They are taught to hate Texas from birth. It goes beyond a game on a field, so it is timeless to them.

Of course you don't get it because Texans don't look at the state of Arkansas as our rich superiors.

[Tex Pete 20326]

9 hours ago, Pimphand said:

Jesus fucking Christ the dipshit ags are like 12-1 against the Arky hayseeds since joining the SEC and some of y'all don't want the free dub?

 

They are not rivals with aggy. Their whole series in Arlington was an attempt to change that. They ARE our rivals.

[Bevo14 8303]

1 hour ago, CHIEF said:

For sure.

I have told this story before, but it was probably on one of the old sites.

CHIEF Jr. was five, and we had our pit set up across the street from where the tennis courts were, in back of the General Services Commission. There was plenty of shit talking with the Arkies walking the sidewalks. After the game a couple of smokin' hot arkie coeds come walking by pretty late after everything had died down. Out of nowhere, CHIEF Jr. asks them if he could put a fork in their family trees. Our entire tailgate erupts with laughter, and he got a couple of "fuck you, little boy" from both of them. Apparently it really pissed them off, and they stewed all the way to their car. It was late enough that 17th was back open. All of a sudden an arkie colored BMW Z3, with the top down comes around the corner onto Trinity, sideways, and it was those two coeds. One of the girls pulls up her top and flashes two perfect breasts one painted white, and the other one red. She shouted, "how do you like that you little fuck?" He told her they were spectacular, and would she mind showing them to him again. They sped off and he got all kinda "high fives" from all of the guys that got to watch the show.

It was also the game where someone bought a whole suckling pig to put on the pit, complete with an apple. They left that fucker on the pit for probably 8-10 hours. When they cut it open, it was just like Clark carving the turkey  on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, I shit you not.

CHIEF

CHIEF Jr. is a Longhorn Legend if this story is real.

Edited November 13 by Bevo14

[Not a cat 5651]

Is there going to be some surly or similar tailgate  for Texas fans?

I'm in the middle of an extended solo road trip and since I'm reasonably close to Fayetteville, I'm considering snagging a single and going.  But I'm not sure I want to be walking around there all alone in orange based on the stories I've heard.

[someguy 1508]

1 hour ago, DanTheHorn said:

Anyone know what the Texas section(s) are for Arkansas

 

[LTtxfan 49141]

"Five Razorbacks to fear as Longhorns prepare for Arkansas"

1. QB Taylen Green

2. RB Ja'Quinden Jackson

3. DL Landon Jackson

4. LB Xavier Sorey, Jr.

5. DB TJ Meltcalf

 

https://longhornswire.usatoday.com/lists/five-arkansas-razorbacks-to-fear-texas-longhorns/

[BachelorTrek 2965]

11 hours ago, Lat22 said:

They were printing up Horns Down T shirts and caps before ou and aggy did.  And they never stopped making them even after we parted ways.  They hate us.  Go to a game in Fayetteville and tell me it isn't a rivalry game for them.  They will be more fired up than we will be and we better be ready for it.

We bank millions off of the hatred of these poor souls buying Texas merch just so they can deface it.  Lulz.

[BachelorTrek 2965]

5 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Son?

Nope! You're not even Class of '66.

Edited November 13 by BachelorTrek

[Bevo14 8303]

4 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

We bank millions off of the hatred of these poor souls buying Texas merch just so they can deface it.  Lulz.

I live and work in Virginia. I always pass this truck in the parking lot with a big Arky logo in the rear window and 3 little upside down Longhorn emblems underneath it. Not even the various aggy there have our flair on their vehicles.

[Lat22 4010]

6 hours ago, Born Burnt said:

Plus, a quarter of their students are Texas residents who hate us because they couldn't get into UT.

When we were up there in 2021, I don’t remember talking to a single student that wasn’t from Texas. 

[Ignatius 4017]

3 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

Why are y'all bringing up old shit when we're about to skull drag when we're about to drag their deceased bodies across the field?

I heard this in Foghorn Leghorn’s voice….

[Sgt Hulk 13712]

I remember after my retirement ceremony last year driving from VA back to CA to start career 2. Going across 40 through Ark.  I had a couple folks flipping me off on the highway. I’m like wtf is wrong with these cock suckers.   Until I got gas and forgot I had a Longhorn sticker and Longhorn emblem on my truck.  I laughed.  
 

cool story bro 

[Hank_Hill 18785]

2 hours ago, Bevo14 said:

CHIEF Jr. is a Longhorn Legend if this story is real.

Zero chance. But it’s a nice story

[Bevo14 8303]

1 minute ago, Hank_Hill said:

Zero chance. But it’s a nice story

[Leanderman 2275]

Any of you looking for accommodations, here is there idea of a five star hotel.

 

[LTtxfan 49141]

Pig Trail Nation's Mike Irwin on difference with Texas from Hogs' 2021 win

 

Audio only, but decent info... winning the turnover battle and disguising their secondary coverages are critical keys to an Arky victory...

[texifornia 56851]

 

[Red Five 40822]

I have the versatility to play in your mom's slot and box.

[Josef Pwag 1738]

I can tell I have trauma because of the events of the last dozen years, because I have an (irrational?) fear of the Arkie QB really hurting us with his legs. If this game doesn't go as planned, could one of you guys making the trip please get me an oversized bag of meth so I can cope with life next week? Thanks in advance. I'll be hanging around the Crown & Anchor Sunday, so you can drop it off to me there if you don't mind. I really appreciate this. Even if we do win, bring the meth. Tie? Meth. 

[Armybrat 40814]

19 hours ago, BachelorTrek said:

My Dad did that once (went to the airport after a big win to cheer the team), and was so drunk he doesn't even remember how he got to the airport, nor did he even remember being there, but one day when I showed him a picture from a Cactus yearbook that had him front and center in the picture, behind a rope line, grinning ear-to-ear, did it all come back to him that he went there to cheer some more for the team.  Lulz.

Had to be after the 1969 team beat Arky in Fayettenam.

Mrs. Brat & I were probablythe only sober ones in that mob of 10,000 drunks thatswarmed all over old Mueller Airport to the bewilderment of the travelers in the waiting room. 
Drunks filled the flight concourse and were on its roof, then swarmed out on the parking apron to surround the team plane when it arrived.
A few drunks supposedly had to be chased off the runway so the plane could land.
It was an epic evening to say the least.

[Codaxx 5716]

16 hours ago, Gohogs14 said:

The Arkansas offense has quietly been really good this year at moving the ball, they just turn it over every other play and make self-inflicted mistakes. Dumb turnovers is what has kept Arkansas from being 7-2 right now and most likely in the top 25. They beat Tennessee because they actually took care of the ball and didn't turn it over a single time.

The secondary has gotten exposed against Dart and Nussmeier, really the only two decent QBs they've faced this year (with Nico being inconsistent as a freshman). Getting Jaylon Braxton back should help (who is Arkansas' best CB but has been out since week two) but there just aren't enough dudes who can cover 1:1 against SEC receivers and Travis Williams doesn't play much zone to help mitigate that since he likes to blitz so much.

Ark offense is strange. They are actually pretty good, outside of the fact they love to fire a few rounds into their foot a game. Only OU and Aubirn have turned the ball over more than Ark in the SEC. Texas has created the 2nd most turnovers in the SEC. 

Ark defense pass defense is a mess.  8.3 yards per attempt (only UK is worse). 266.2 passign yards/ game worst in the SEC. 

Not helped by the fact they struggle to get pressures. 

[Tex Long 4382]

17 hours ago, DaysOff said:

Everyone stfu with the conference realignment type pod shit in this thread. This is the skull fuck pig thread.

 

16 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

Why are y'all bringing up old shit when we're about to skull drag when we're about to drag their deceased bodies across the field?

As much as I like what Sark is doing, he already showed us once that he didn't fucking get it. Summa y'all got the same problem, and I feel the call of duty to make whatever pathetic attempts I can to help you get your mind right.

I sincerely hope that the Light of Darkness has been revealed to you, because - and I promise you this is Truth - those pathetic sistercousinwife fucking morons will do their utmost to fuck us in every orifice we have or can imagine having. Nothing in their miserable meth-gobbling lives could possibly make life worthwhile to them than waylaying our arrogant burnt orange asses on the way to our first SEC Championship in our first SEC season. They couldn't care less about SECSECSEC, they only and always care about shitting on Texas.

Charlie didn't get it. Sark didn't get it. And if you don't get it, you're fucked.

Get your mind right... time is getting short.

Hook'em

[DanTheHorn 4913]

Ticket prices are down to $55.00 out the door in some of the Texas sections. To damn far to drive for an 11:00 a.m. game. The market like Michigan's is telling us that everyone thinks we are winning this one easy.

Edited November 13 by DanTheHorn

[Hagbard Celine 10848]

14 hours ago, Lat22 said:

When we were up there in 2021, I don’t remember talking to a single student that wasn’t from Texas. 

the 412 turnpike started the DFW diaspora, then i-540 accelerated the accessibility of fayettenam

from 121/75 on the northeast corner of the metroplex (risking tickets) you can make pig stadium in 5 hours with 1 quick stop

[Tex Pete 20326]

13 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

Zero chance. But it’s a nice story

I knew it was fake when he said the girls came around the corner sideways. No way a co-ed Arkie driver would come around a corner sideways without smashing through several tailgate parties.

 

[Hagbard Celine 10848]

and they drove a z3 that was produced mid-90s to mid-00s iirc

[Tex Pete 20326]

27 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

Ticket prices are down to $55.00 out the door in some of the Texas sections. To damn far to drive for an 11:00 a.m. game. The market like Michigan's is telling us that everyone thinks we are winning this one easy.

Having been to the 2004 game in Fayetteville, I highly recommend making the trip if you can. To me, away games always feel like Texas versus the world, which makes for a great time. That experience is greatly amplified at Arkansas because they hate us so much. But it's a beautiful setting, and their stadium is nice. A win there and their redneck trash leaving dejected make for a perfect fall afternoon.

As crazy as it sounds, spending the night in Oklahoma is probably not a bad idea.