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RC Horn

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  1. As a fan since 1972, I never though I would make this statement in my lifetime: The Texas Rangers are World Series Champions !!!
  2. Congrats to the 2023 Texas Rangers....2023 AL Champions!! What is especially gratifying is that ii happened on the Astro grass!! To the guys and gals out there who are Astros fans, I know that you are feeling down right now. I do not wish to rub it in. After the Ranger beat the best teams in the AL then your team in the ALCS, I just hope that my hometown team has earned your respect.
  3. My thought: I would rather win ugly than lose in an embarrassing fashion. This type of game would have been a loss in the past but somehow the team managed to hang on. At least we do not have to deal with Cougar High again.
  4. They still complain about that call after all these years? Jonathan Gray was obviously down on that play. OU still complains to this day about the officiating in the 1984 game. I hope that I have supplied you guys with the ammunition to combat that one.
  5. Agree wholeheartedly. I hate OU and their redneck fanbase with the intensity of 10000 suns. I could see them drop at least one game with their schedule. They're not the team that the media and all the Surly naysayers make them out to be. A good team,, yes but one that will be horrifically exposed once they face a really good team without the benefit of Big XII officiating. Even as poorly as UT played this past Saturday, they almost won. OU is not invincible.
  6. Because we have more depth and talent on this team than previous years. I do not see the team playing down to its competition for the remaining games. Of course the Big XII refs may have a say.
  7. IMHO, the Big XII has had the long knives out for us since the creation of the LHN. As much as I liked the LHN especially during baseball season. It boat anchored us to the conference.
  8. Of course they did but the truth really doesn't matter to all th anti UT people out there. To them, we're big bad Texas, a program that has. destroyed 2 conferences.
  9. RIP Brooks Robinson The Orioles were my 2nd favorite team in the MLB next to the Rangers. They had the best infield ever in the League back then. Brooks Robinson was one of my favorite players of all time and the greatest 3B to ever play. Condolences to the Orioles fans at this time of grief from a longtime Rangers fan.
  10. My response is correct concerning aggy complaining about the unlimited scholarships. They led the SWC from 1960-1969 in players signed during that period. For them to state that UT was just stuffing our roster to keep other good players from competing against us is just plain laughable. Give them credit though. No one in the press corps in Texas is ever going to call them out for it. A total aggy myth that is still continues to this day.
  11. Below are some responses to some aggy on a Youtube video a while back.. IMHO, these should be our responses not only to aggy but any idiot that dares to defend them either on a BB or in the press. 1)Before 1964 A&M was an all male military college and you had to be a cadet and serve in the army to attend A&M. So A&M couldn’t recruit the big guys and talented players in the trenches like UT did for half a century because in the army there’s a height and weight test that you have to maintain. It’s like UT playing Army right now every year and claiming superiority. It’s just not fair. Aggies were to busy worried about serving their country rather than football. Most of UT’s wins were before the 60’s. Response #1: A&M was a pseudo military school that was never affiliated with either the USMA or USNA. It was the VMI or The Citadel of Texas. As far as recruiting was concerned, why was both Army and Navy ranked in the Top 15 the year that UT won its first MNC? They were and always have been far more selective in admitting students to their schools than A&M. Why did Army and Navy have better football programs than A&M in the 40s, 50s and 60s? BTW, you were only claiming one MNC until 2010 2) Scholarship cap: Before the 1976 there was unlimited number of scholarships a school could give to athletes. And Darrell Royal used this to his advantage. UT (having a lot of money at the time, now A&M has surpassed UT in the most valuable football program) would monopolize ten states recruits and hand out scholarships like candy and pack the team to prevent players to going to other universities. Once the NCAA placed a scholarship cap in 1975 Darrell left UT and they ended up sucking in the 80’s and 90’s. Response #2: There was a 115 scholarship limit self imposed for SWC schools beginning the late 1950s. There was a push in the SEC to limit the football schoarships in the early 1960s. However it fell thru. Georgia Tech and Tulane left the conference as a result. Sure you couldl still sign as many players as you could in the SWC but you still had to be in and around 115 scholarships. Interesting sidenote, in both 1960 and 1967, A&M signed more players that UT according to DAVE CAMPBELL'S TEXAS FOOTBALL. in 1960, A&M signed 47 players to UT"s 43. In 1967, it was 47 to 40. What your sprouting is a total aggy myth.
  12. IMHO, what Nick Saban has done at Alabama has proven that you can build a football dynasty even in the era of reduced scholarships. How many times have Texas fans heard the narrative that the only reason why Coach Royal was successful is because of the unlimited scholarships available at the time? How many times have UT fans been lectured by the press to have lower expectations because of the scholarship reductions? To those who dare lecture us on expectations, I tell them to look at Saban and Alabama then get back with me on it.
  13. I might also add that when an opponent was finally flagged for doing a Horns Down, everyone else in the Big XII as well as the national media complained about it.
  14. Very saddened to hear the news about the death an absolute Longhorn legend. You never felt the baseball team were out of a game with Coach Gus in the dugout, RIP Coach Gus...you will be sorely missed 😢
  15. UT had a Tom Landry-like coach. His name was John Mackovic and his six years here are years I cannot get back sadly.
  16. I will absolutely celebrate the day Kurt Bohls retires.... Richard Justice too.
  17. It seems like some of posters out there want us to stay in the Big XII and not go to the SEC. I am not one of them. The SEC will finally force UT to play mentally tough in all sports and that will be good thing. Another thing, I agree with Chris Simms,
  18. I think all UT fans know that Mack can win games. Just don't ask him to win championships, He doesn't know how.
  19. Something just tells me that Mack may ending up blowing it again.
  20. TCU's Nonconference schedule of a really bad Colorado team, Tarleton State and SMU should alone keep them from any consideration in the playoffs. Lady Luck finally frowned on the Frogs today and I really love it. Somewhere, former Texas AD and KSU alum Deloss Dodds is smiling. Congrats to KSU on a well earned victory.
  21. I am willing to give Coach Sark 4-5 years to clean up Tom Herman's mess. The Herman coaching staff was not very good in recruiting lineman and that situation is getting fixed by the current staff. Very few are willing to acknowledge that this year would have been Herman's Waterloo based on the fact that current players were recruiting against him. To this point, Coach Sark as not said that he is either "redeveloping the UT tradition" or "going 7-4 and 8-3 is preferable at a place like UT" or "learn to live with it". He does not appear to be the type who will hold one to incompetent assistants like Mack did with Greg Davis. We shall ee but I for one is willing to give him some time./
  22. There were UT fans back in 2003 that wanted to move Vince to WR because his struggles that year
  23. I first started watching UT football when Steve Worster was playing. He was a complete stud on UT teams that had great players. RIP Big Woo
  24. RIP to the greatest baseball announcer in my lifetime. What I really like about Vin Scully is that he never made the game about him or took time lecture the fans. He let the moment come to him. While my Rangers have had good announcers in Jon Miller and Eric Nadal, they do not even come close to Scully. My favorite Vin Scully call was Hark Aaron's 715 HR. His call was clearly better than the Braves announcer who obviously had a practiced response.
  25. I first remember Tony SIragusa as being part of the Pittsburgh team that lost to UT in the 1987 Bluebonnet Bowl. RIP Goose!
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