Jump to content

All Activity

This stream auto-updates

  1. Past hour
  2. It takes someone that knows what they are doing to explain it to others. Well done Farmer Vincent.
  3. Has Arch given a tearful speech to the press yet?
  4. They haven't found a nit they can pick at to ignore the issue, so they're sitting this one out I guess
  5. I guess I don't really follow this drama, but isn't it a good thing if he got in shape, regardless of the fact it shouldn't have taken this long and that his motivation might have been financial? Take the win and hope it works out.
  6. Everyone of those cart cunts is not only a piece of shit but a fat piece of shit.
  7. Tell me you did not watch the game without telling me you did not watch the game.
  8. Yeah, McCormick isn't making that next season. In fact, I bet he spends more time in AAA in 2026 than making the MLB minimum.
  9. Mittens

    Cart Narcs

    Ha! I think I've been in that HEB once, maybe twice in my life. Not in the past 15 years, certainly.
  10. "Tex-istential crisis"
  11. That's from several months, isn't it?
  12. Going 7-5 will have us in such peak condition that we'll be ready to play 4 postseason games at once in the Mighty Fine Burger Bowl.
  13. As I recall, when Sark and Flood arrived, the OL took a step up from the shit we'd had since before 2009. But it never became dominant, even as the talent and experience increased.
  14. sidis

    The Mo Bamba Song

    it's effectiveness results from a blend of music theory and crowd psychology. as someone that spends a lot of time wrapped up in music theory applied to composition and to eliciting emotional responses...it's a bit of a fascinating phenomenon but ultimately, the explanation is pretty simple. mo bamba is simplicity defined with extreme repetition but built around tension building and anticipation at the very beginning with the high band twinkle melody...getting the crowd primed and lubed up for the drop. using the distorted 808 and ultimately the sub bass at the call and response of the lyric in unison combined with the simplicity creates a visceral shared experience. while i certainly don't think shek was was contemplating this when putting it together, the lyrics and vocal performance are ideal for crowd chanting. simple phrases that are simply sustained for a long time doubled with the sub-bass and not a lot of notes. participatory minimalism...there are three total notes to yell to complete the call and response. effectively, you can just yell it and don't have to sing it. also, tons of 40-80 hz low frequency emission creates a felt response in the body that gets people's adrenaline up and the sensation is force multiplied when hearing 100K other people going nuts. finally, at this point, it is ubiquitous enough that it has a shared cultural context in which the crowd is sharing the goal-oriented moment. it will eventually run its course due to overuse. the thing about penn state is they are judicious with its use. they don't play it on every third down like dumbass aggy does. that helps keep some of the hype. that said, the moment its use broke through to become a cultural phenomenon at the beginning of the michigan game should have been a penalty against penn state. once the team is set for play, the piped in music has to stop...they played it for a long time after michigan was set for play. it is odd but the simplicity combined with a very clever use of sub-bass response creates a frenzy. listen to the below at 0:25...the 40hz is so powerful but it is so low that the official recording can't even pick anything up but distorted mess. meanwhile, all those dumbass white kids were having their nuts and ovaries rattled.
  15. Ya, that's a terrible thing to put in place. The 90s Cowboys kicked the shit out of each other in practice. Injuries are part of the game. Very unlikely you finish with the same 22 you start with. What a soft ass approach.
  16. I'm surprised that Sark hasn't already delivered a verbatim copy of the Augie speech. Maybe he has, and we haven't heard about it yet.
  17. Predictably quiet from the usual suspects on this one
  18. I was trying to remember the last time Texas had a good oline. Last year couldn’t get a push to save their lives, so don’t tell me that one.
  19. hmm lot of these guys aren't coming back
  20. Simplify it for the knuckleheads and draggers. Checks and balances. That's what I told that teachin lady.
  21. Still a fan, as far as we know.
  1. Load more activity


×
×
  • Create New...