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  1. So, sometimes you get smack talk in this post. Sometimes you get talk of beatings we are going to lay down. Sometimes you get hype. Occasionally, you get nerves and excitement. This time, something different. Going to talk a little about what college football means and getting older… Once upon a time, football was a way for me to be involved with other people and act like a normal person, growing up. It was how I related to my grandpa and dad and uncles and stuff like that. They wouldn’t want to talk about current events, or how the world works, or history or economics or faith or other stuff I was interested in growing up. But, we could always relate to each other over a football game. Later in life, it became a reason to go “home”, a reason to call or text my friends. I always had a much better pulse on my friend group from August to January- when we text each other during game week about what would happen or game watching, and throw in stuff about engagements, marriages, weddings, divorces, pregnancies, births, jobs, achievements and the like. Relationships that go into hibernation for much of the year become normal again during the football season. It could be a reason to travel, cut loose, drink, enjoy yourself and put aside responsibilities that turn you from a normal person back into the care free life that you put aside when responsibilities became more pressing. Now- as I get older, it’s a chance to show my kids the world, build memories that will last forever etc. I always say baseball with its day to day is like background music and a soundtrack to life in that year. Football, however, acts like a calendar that marks years and seasons and the passage of time for me. I love it and getting to take my baby and last child to her first game ever was and seeing the wonder and awe in her face throughout the trip was as good as anything I’ve ever done. That’s how you turn a glorified scrimmage against a shitty ULM team into one of the best gameday experiences of my life. This is the last time anyone will ever have to indulge my navel gazing asshattery in this space. Seeing our glorious leader @immamacat the tailgate with his 4 year throwing the football was cool as he’s doing that same kind of thing. On to next week against Mississippi State as the SEC kicks off. They are terrible and we should win convincingly. Then, it’s bye and OU in Dallas which is normal UT fare. I don’t believe we will have our first “welcome to the SEC” moment until we host Georgia. Klan aggy doesn’t interest me any more than corn aggy, or dust bowl aggy ever did. But it’s coming and it’s going to be awesome. MSU game week stuff happens here. Enjoy this ride fellas. here’s my daughters first game pregame:
    105 points
  2. I'm a PhD student in a social science. I've mentioned before that I might do some write-ups on organizational culture and there was some interest in that. Sark made some comments during his Hail State presser that perfectly fit with one of the topics I've been thinking about: authority. So, I finally took some time to put some words down. I hope y'all enjoy it. Player-led teams are great. Old guys telling the new guys how things are done. Leadership councils. Colt McCoy driving around in his truck to pick up teammates for players-only practices in the summer. It's something we yearned for during our decade of wandering the college football desert. In this post I'd like to look at the idea of player-led teams a little bit more critically. Specifically, I want to look at the reason why it's a good thing for a bunch of 18-22 year olds to be leading a team. Because that's not a great idea at face value. Sark's comments All social theory starts with a 19th century german guy Back to Texas Being Back Let's summarize and bring this back to the present. It's year 4. Texas is the reigning Big 12 champ, undefeated, and ranked #2. Sark showed the players that his leadership is good for their interests. If they follow him, they'll develop and win games. Individual players bought in, then most of the team, and now the team as a collective has voluntarily accepted Sark's authority. They believe in his vision and created social dynamics that enforce it. Individual players feel an obligation that requires them to accept his judgement above their own. Player leadership has coalesced around him. I said at the beginning of this post that I wanted to critically examine player-led teams and to ask why it is good for 18-22 year olds to lead a team. My answer is that player-led teams are a misnomer (or a myth, for clickbait title purposes). When someone says a team is player-led, what they mean is that the players have accepted the coach's authority and player leadership is aligned in enforcing it. The true benefit of player-led teams is how well they follow their coach.
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  3. -2 more DTs and possibly a 3rd if it is the right one. -Top end LB or bust -Hilson and Terry are in unless something weird happened recently. -If they take K Johnson, it is strictly to piss on The Elk’s rug. They’re going to take a burner with numbers from the portal regardless. That’s allocated. -The 2026 S is reclassifying so they’re done after that position unless he screws something up late. -They might have to get obnoxious at CB and given that the competition is Oregon, Ohio State, Alabama and ATM, I have to assume they’d target Dijon Lee. This position remains a head scratcher. -Given that Terry is going to practice in the spring as though he’s Tyler Warren and one or both of the full time TBs are enrolling early, they’re unlikely to go after a portal TB unless he’s free and hungry. -At DT, it’s not so much about landing any single specific guy, and the market is set on what these guys will cost. Whichever guys mesh the best with the staff and want to come to Texas more than some other place, those will be the extra 2-3 guys with whom they close.
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  4. I put together a little edit of the 1st half of this season using only the Texas Creative Media team's footage. And to keep it on topic from earlier in the thread, the song is The Hardest Cut by Spoon, Austin's very own and arguably the greatest American rock band of the last 25 years. texashardestcut.mp4
    67 points
  5. Imagine raising daughters and thinking that Texas protects them. LMAO
    60 points
  6. Let's get this started. Quinn is back and OU still sucks.
    56 points
  7. My granddaughter's first RRS. Cant wait to teach her to say, "ou sucks!"
    56 points
  8. You can make a delicious meal out of Skip Bayless' tears.
    53 points
  9. My 10 month old son just took his first steps, wearing burnt orange. 🤘🤘let’s gooooo
    53 points
  10. He's pissed because he read one of my previous tweets on a Texas message board. I bet that bitch is a member of Orange bloods. I called him out and he had to walk back his statement on the radio this morning. Then he said he wouldn't name names and wanted to fight 🤣🤣
    53 points
  11. I was supposed to fly to Tampa today for the week but decided to say fuck that and went to our Vegas office. Got a bitch ass email from my director in Denver who is a trumper telling me I didn’t get approval for this change even though I did. Now he is being a super bitch wanting to run disaster recovery shit. He is an Aggie and fake military. I am at the mgm and drunk so I might get fired
    49 points
  12. My expectation is that you post very stupid shit, and you are currently exceeding expectations, good sir.
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  15. That suits me just fine.
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  16. So I have been in Kyiv a week now. Pretty incredible how normal people go about life. I mean obviously you can’t stop and just hide in your house. Kyiv is also pretty far from the front lines. My buddy that I came here with is high up in the decision making tree of the special operations group here. Have been able To go out with him twice. Incredible stories about some of the stuff they are doing. He confirmed that they did not hack the Russian train system and that the Russians are just idiots and don’t follow any sort of rules or guides. I asked him about drone donations and he said to get a drone fully up and running it’s about a minimum of $1500. I am going to donate that to him, they have an official bank account with swift aiBN numbers and they will write any message you want on the drone and film it in use if they can. Will also send pictures. His brother has been in Liberia and Somalia and train all over the US at our bases. I also see and can pick out Americans here in kyiv and see a couple a day. Two of them yesterday had a missing leg each. You can tell that American military civilian dress code a mile away. One was wearing a “Watagua Medics” hat. One of my other best friends from Texas was here in a medic capacity during the first invasion so i imagine he was doing exactly what they are doing ten years ago. there has only been one alarm that has gone off, 2 nights ago the Russians sent about 60 drones and the Ukrainians took every single one of them out. people can definitely tell im foreign. Had one guy come up and just want to talk. Other than that people definitely look, assume im sort of military and carry on. these are really strong people and I admire their values, traditions, identity, and strength. I have never seen more women walking around with flowers and men holding the hands of their women. Old school values here. Oh yea I’m typing from a phone with a cracked screen so any typos or just horrible autocorrects I can’t see so apologies.
    47 points
  17. It's our favorite time of the week!
    47 points
  18. Friend of a friend runs Canworks and here's a special can design they're rolling out for this game. No idea where it can be purchased.
    46 points
  19. We don't cheer for conferences. It's a core pillar of Texas fandom.
    46 points
  20. My 72 year old vietnam veteran dad who was formerly republican as fuck until Donald Trump hit the scene put out a giant "WE WILL NOT GO BACK - KAMALA/WALZ 2024" sign in his front yard directly facing the "MAGA 2024" sign in his neighbor's yard. Fucking hell I'm so proud of my dad right now.
    46 points
  21. "The former first lady stated it was a position she has held for years, but has been reinforced by getting to know Eric and Don, Jr."
    46 points
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