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Indeed. Among the surreal experiences in my life was the series of conversations some months back with one of John's dear friends and John's ex. We were trying to think of some way to get through to him, and we discussed at length getting Steve involved. I remember as I hung up one night, I told my wife "well, add 'trying to figure out if we should get Steve Earle to perform an intervention for a friend' to the list of shit I never thought I'd do." In the end, we discussed the fact that Steve had already talked to John. A lot. And his ex suggested "he didn't listen to Steve before, he won't listen to him now." And she was right. Don't know why this one hit me so hard, but last night, when I got home from a whirlwind trip, I cried. I got the call from my wife when the news of John's death hit while I was on the road. I did what I had to do and worked the rest of the day. But as I got inside the peace and quiet of my home, it all washed over me. John and I weren't big buddies in high school -- we were friendly enough, but his best friend didn't really care for me, so we didn't run around together that much. We got to be friends later in life; we shared interests, and John was a smart observer who loved sharing his latest realization with me (sometimes his realizations were crap, and I told him so, and usually we'd get a chuckle out of it). Sometimes text messages, sometimes long phone calls, but always interesting. At times, he shared some deeply personal things about his private life; not the dramatic things that he wrote about so well, but some of the ordinary losses and pain that exist as punctuation in most people's lives. They seem mundane in their clinical description; they happen to so many, but they are no less profound, and can be turning points in life. Some of them served as such in his life, and not for the better. But him telling me about them helped me understand him more. Of course I won't share any of those particulars, as they're not mine to share. But I did realize and appreciate that he felt safe telling me those things. The last time I saw him in person was summer before last. We spent a week down at Surfside, he was living relatively nearby. He'd kind of discovered that area after long talks with me about that part of the coast. He came and met us on the beach, sat down in the shade of our canopy and shot the shit for quite a while. He looked like hell. But age is a bear, and we knew he'd done some hard living, even setting aside the booze. This was about 2 months after my mother died (who John had met as well in his time down there, as they had a beach house in the area - and John and my mother related to each other quite easily, as she too was a child of alcoholics and wretched tragedy). He said something that really meant a lot to me: "I've really come to think of this place as Brisket family country. Every time I'm at this beach, I think about your folks, and how y'all just sort of seem to belong here." John didn't know it, but my parents' intent is -- once my father passes as well -- for their ashes to be mixed together and scattered in the surf, there off of Follett's island. John observed a truth about my family that we hadn't even shared with any outsiders; he just knew it, by eye, experience, and a soul that was gifted at picking up on such things. I - and quite a few others - tried to help John in the past year, as his decline became acute. By and large, he wouldn't have it. And last night, I beat myself up about it, from about 5 different directions. I beat myself up because of my fucking ego and savior complex and bullshit belief that "maybe I can get through to him when nobody else can," which led me to keep trying to get through. I beat myself up because, for someone with a fucking savior complex, I've proven that I can't fucking save anyone (I've tried to help more than one addict who was dear to me; every one of them is now in the ground. Looking at the data, the worst thing in the world for you would be for Brisket to try to help you beat addiction). I beat myself up because I didn't make enough of my time with him; there were phone calls I didn't return, or calls I cut short because of work. Then I beat myself up for beating myself up and making any of this about myself in my own head. It's not, and that's an egotistical and arrogant thing to do, ESPECIALLY with respect to someone like John, in whose life I was just a minor character. In the end, I'm just sad. I enjoyed becoming his friend. I was looking forward to continuing to be his friend, and to hearing and reading more of his pointed and well-crafted thoughts on all manner of things. He helped me be more comfortable with my Houston roots, with being a child of SETX and oilfield trash and the flashiness and trashiness and authenticity of the Texas Gulf Coast. I know he did the same, and more, for countless other folks. And now we've lost him. This universe is a cruel bitch.47 points
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Maybe hearing the perspective of a fan whose school is in a similar situation as Texas but has zero bad blood with the Big 12 (besides kneecapping Oklahoma's program, lol) will help remove some of the emotion from it. It's fun to have those kinds of bitter games when the hatred is mutual; it's not so fun when you view it as just another game while all of the bitterness and hatred comes from the other side. Texas will still have their mutual hatred games in the SEC with Oklahoma and A&M. USC will still play UCLA in the B1G, plus Notre Dame isn't leaving the schedule. I'm still getting my fix of the teams I love to hate after USC leaves the Pac 12. People like to joke about USC soon playing conference games against Rutgers and Maryland...but for USC fans it isn't that different from conference games against teams like Colorado and Washington State we already didn't give a fuck about. What I give a fuck about is finally being in a conference with peer programs instead of sticking out as the Goliath lightning rod for a conference full of Davids looking for somebody to hate and blame for all their problems and circle as their Super Bowl. Swapping games against Pac 12 teams I don't care about playing for games against B1G teams I won't care about playing is an acceptable tradeoff to get what I want. If the left behind Pac 12 teams are upset they're losing a bitter regional hatred game where 95% of the bitter hatred comes from their side, that's their problem. It's also a failure on their part to consider how the departing team's fans view realignment because like I said USC will continue playing the teams our fanbase actually does hate. Only one side of this equation is bemoaning the loss of regional hatred because only one side ever had those feelings in the first place. For example, USC has much bigger goals than winning dogfights in front of 30K people at Oregon State while a top 10 list of best ever Oregon State football moments would include multiple upsets over USC. In every single way except travel and questionable definitions of regional hatred it's more beneficial for USC to drop Oregon State and replace them with Ohio State. USC beats Ohio State? It's the story of the week, the entire country watched, it's a nice feather in the cap for recruiting. USC beats Oregon State? Nobody even noticed because it was a Pac 12 After Dark kickoff on the Pac 12 Network. USC loses to Ohio State? Quality loss, you only drop 3 spots in the rankings and your season isn't over. USC loses to Oregon State? The season is totally fucked, that loss is a scarlet letter and you plummet double digits in the rankings. It's also the story of the week so have fun seeing the highlights during pregame and halftime of any other game you watch. Ohio State comes to the Coliseum? Huge event, crowd will be over-capacity, if you can't attend reselling your tickets will pay for your season tickets. Oregon State comes to the Coliseum? Zzz, that's the kind of game they make you buy in a bundle if you want to also get tickets against Notre Dame or UCLA. Ohio State helps make more money for USC, Oregon State's athletic department lives on welfare checks taken out of USC's revenue. I'm not compelled to give up all those benefits of leaving the Pac 12 for the B1G because people who aren't USC fans don't like that USC will no longer play other West Coast teams.32 points
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Hahahahaha. Motherfucker. Just terrific. Baseball - Starts the year ranked, shits itself and smears the shit all over its face and is a bubble team to make the tournament? That trendline is "straight up", folks. Men's Basketball - "If you only look at the wins from the middle of conference play in 2022, ignore losing to shit non-conference teams in 2023, and ignore having our pants yanked down and getting buttfucked on live national television by Sandusky State, that team is on an absolute heater. Arrow up, boys!" Women's Basketball - "This program is going to be excellent. Just listen to the coach talk about the future, I dare you!" Softball - "Texas just slapped us in the face and took our lunch money two days in a row. We weren't even in the vicinity of being competitive against them. Another arrow straight up, gents!!!" That is Pravda-level shit.14 points
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With so many weapons systems from so many countries, it's good that the Swedes made theirs easier to figure out.13 points
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Look, if after UT/OU left, had the Big 12 been raided by the PAC12/ACC leaving behind Baylor, K State and Iowa St; I doubt the greater college football world would have cared all that deeply. Sounds shitty but its true, just like no one around here would care if Washington St/Oregon St or Wake Forest get effectively relegated to G5 status. There was no wave of apathy around college football when the SWC/BigEastfb disbanded and 4 fb schools were relegated out of the power conference club. More people watched, more people tuned in. This is not a debate, these are facts. Three things drive college football: rivalries, brands and ranked vs ranked matchups. Ranking aren’t dependable and can’t be ‘reliably’ manufactured so that leaves brands and rivalries. Outside of Texas/OU and Bedlam neither has any great rivals in the Big 12. Other than those two games there was not a weekend people would circle in their calendar and the networks would be fighting over broadcast rights. Texas gains 2 rivalry games by moving to the SEC, Oklahoma loses 1, net positive. Then we get to brands and that is where the SEC move really shines. UT/OU keep the RRSO and both gain a minimum of two games with Tier One opponents (at least one home and one away) each year. So when we are looking at value the Big 12 provided only 2 games annually for Texas/OU (RRSO+Bedlam) plus whatever ranked vs ranked that they’d luck into; while the SEC provides 7 games of value (RRSO+UT/aggy+UT/Arkansas+2 other T1 games for OU+2 other T1 games for UT) plus any ranked vs ranked matchups that pop up. Oklahoma went from 2 games of value each year to 3 even after losing Bedlam. Texas went from 1 game of value to 5 because they didn’t lose anything the media or general fans valued by leaving the Big12 and gained more by joining the SEC.12 points
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When you say we've read this book before, what do you mean, exactly? Are you referring to the mujaheddin in Afghanistan? Several things I'll say in response. First, everyone should keep these nutjobs at arms length. They have no chance of actually succeeding with anything. There's no strategy. This isn't incipient guerilla warfare. This is a weekend joyride with no overall concept of how it's going to end. Second, Russia isn't going to produce a leader who isn't some kind of radical by Western standards. It's not in their cultural DNA. All they know is horrific strongmen who massacre their countrymen and neighbors, only to eventually be replaced by the same and then adored for being so strong of a leader. I guess maybe an invasion and outright long term occupation, but that's not going to happen, and even if it did, we're showing we can't do effective occupations any more. But that's really a silly point. We're not occupying Russia. Ever. Honestly, this is right up Putin's playbook. He secured his power by poisoning, jailing, exiling, and otherwise getting rid of any political opponent who had a realistic chance of garnering more popular support than him, but kept the opposition nutjobs that made him look sane by comparison. But make no mistake. Even the reasonable opposition in many ways speaks in a language that would make everyone here uncomfortable in some way. That's Russia for you. This is a diversion, and an embarrassment to Russia that it's even allowed to occur. But beyond that it doesn't have any long term value. Mind you, that's enough, but we shouldn't have any expectations about it. And we sure as heck shouldn't connect ourselves to it.11 points
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Texas and Florida are actually crazier than Alabama. Congratulations! I actually have a theory. Alabama is SO red that the crazy fringe doesn’t decide elections here, so our “leaders” don’t have to pander to them all the damn time. The closeness - or the purpleness - of Texas and Florida give the nutters power. Thus, the pandering to their nuttiest desires. Sure, Alabama will enact draconian abortion laws and laws about trans athletes but our legislators and Governor MeeMaw aren’t fucking around with UAB or Children’s Hospital or statewide book bans or university administrations etc. If you’re winning elections by 10-15 points, the crazy QAnon 3-5% of the electorate staying home on Election Day doesn’t matter. But if you’re only winning by 5 points or 30,000 votes in DeSantis’s case? That 3-5% fucking matters.11 points
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Looch: "We are women's golf school."10 points
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Sad news. Anytime I hear about someone dying from addiction, I am always struck with a sense of there but for the grace of God go I. My peers and I from high school and college all dabbled in substance abuse of one kind or another. Some of us moved on with it just being youthful recklessness. Some of us became addicts. Some of us were eventually killed by it. I don’t know why any of us wound up in any of those groups. We all started as kids or young adults imbued with a sense of invincibility and a desire to test the limits of control imposed by our upbringing. Somewhere along the way, some of us unknowingly crossed a rubicon to where it became a life long struggle. Rest in peace, MAC. I’’m glad the demon of addiction no longer has its claws in you.10 points
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230522201729/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/john-nova-lomax-writer-houston-texas-dies-18088579.php John Nova Lomax, who documented Houston and Texas stories for decades, dies at 53 Harriet Lomax ANDREW DANSBY May 22, 2023Updated: May 22, 2023 2:10 p.m. Comments In a city where sidewalks are often a decorative formality, John Nova Lomax walked hundreds of miles of them. He journeyed for his Sole of Houston series of stories in which he and musician David Beebe ventured to all corners of our city, stopping in places most of us blitz past in our vehicles, to present a more panoramic view of this sprawling urban area. In a go-go town, Lomax coveted a slower and reflective pace. He told Houston stories that otherwise would have gone untold, a Sig Byrd for the 21st century. Within the state, his work appeared in the Houston Press, Texas Monthly, Houstonia and Texas Highways, offering a perspective that balanced reverence and skepticism. His connection to the city felt natural, symbiotic and whole. He understood Houston’s history, its eccentricities, its excesses and its deficiencies. MORE ON JOHN NOVA LOMAX: Folklore is the family tradition with 'Lomax on Lomax' Lomax wrote books on dive bars and crime in Houston. His writing over the past 20 years was an outgrowth of the family business. Lomax was a seventh-generation Texan. He was also a fourth-generation documentarian in a family of famed folklorists, musicologists and writers. Lomax died early on May 22, according to family. He was 53. writer John Nova Lomax credit: Craig D. LindseyCraig D. Lindsey Whether covering crime or culture, streets or songs, Lomax overturned all stones. He flipped those in his own life, too. His “Of Unknown Origin,” a 2013 story for Houstonia, was a devastating piece of writing and reportage about a defining mystery at the center of his own life: the volatile life and early death of his mother. “At various times she will be addicted to codeine and heroin and methadone,” he wrote in the story’s introduction. “To support her drug habits she will enlist her third-grade son in ever more brazen shoplifting schemes, and then almost kill him after drunkenly setting fire to his bedroom. She will stab her husband and lose her children to foster care, and the darkness won’t end until her body is torn to pieces by a car on Interstate 40, as she’s trying to dash across it in the wee hours of a November morning.” She left a space in his life that never got filled, but his attempts to do so — to make sense of our cultural doings — were treasures for readers and friends. He possessed a pressing curiosity about the machinations of people and culture. He also felt deeply. At times, it allowed him to tell others’ stories of struggles. His writing always appeared effortless, even when it carried some toll. His investigative inclination sent Lomax in search of Doug Supernaw, an early ‘90s country superstar who grew up in the Houston area. Supernaw’s career derailed and his health followed. Lomax’s attempts to track down the singer required patience and days spent staking out a bar he heard the singer frequented. The story of Supernaw’s rise and fall earned him a prestigious Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP. He didn’t always have to search for the stories. Sometimes they found him. In his book “Houston’s Best Dive Bars,” he described driving to his home at the time, a motel near the Medical Center, when he was approached by former professional basketball player Marvin “Bad News” Barnes. Barnes then led him to the parking lots of several malls to rendezvous with various people of undetermined connection. They eventually settled into Big John’s Sports Bar at Barnes' insistence. In nine paragraphs, Lomax managed to tell an epic after-hours story about promise unrealized, of a life full of detours and dead ends and double backs. Like his famed family, he had a nose for brilliant music made under the radar. Lomax was one of the first, if not the first, writers to laud the gifts of The Woodlands singer-songwriter Hayes Carll. He helped draw attention to the local blues guitar giant Little Joe Washington, who enjoyed a surge in demand for his music in his last years. In this regard, he was carrying on a family tradition. Lomax was the great-grandson of the legendary folklorist John Avery Lomax and the great-nephew of folklorists Alan Lomax and Bess Lomax Hawes. His grandfather, John Lomax Jr., was co-founder of the Houston Folklore Society. His father John Lomax III, wrote for the underground Houston publication Space City! , before shifting to a career managing Townes Van Zandt, Rocky Hill and Steve Earle. A Houston native, Lomax spent part of his childhood in Nashville. He was attuned to and intrigued by regional rites and rituals. He carried a perpetual interest in place and enjoyed burrowing into the soil to understand the twisted roots of a town or a community. Lomax loved musicians like Kevin “Shinyribs” Russell, those whose music expressed something particular to a geographic region. But he wasn’t such a homer that he couldn’t admit one of the great Houston songs was written by a Commonwealther, Virginia native Scott Miller, who compressed the epic and strange life of Sam Houston into three minutes with “Say Ho.” Perhaps it was innate, perhaps it’s because he grew up with Houston’s sports teams, that Lomax loved oddballs and underdogs. He had no time for the Houston Texans — with an antiseptic name and pandering colors — but was often seen in Oiler blue. He loved grackles and possums. I feel like he could convince anybody — maybe not Mick Jagger — that Townes Van Zandt’s “Dead Flowers” is a more effective commentary on class and resignation than the Rolling Stones' recording of their own song. He playfully documented abandoned sofas, a photo series he called the Street Couches of Houston. The practice proved humorous. But the variety of couches, backdrops and accompanying detritus created a deeper mood than a shallow chuckle. These photos featured some affection for things left behind. Together, they possess a sad beauty. Like a broken mirror pieced back together, Lomax reflected a fragmented city back to itself. Having hopefully dodged dereliction of duty, I’ll pivot here to where he stops being Lomax and becomes my friend, John, who in the span of minutes could wax rhapsodic about the individual artistries of Z-Ro, Sam Houston, Weldon “Juke Boy” Bonner and Billy “White Shoes” Johnson. He would joyfully seek a correlation (but no causation) between the name “Crystal” and the local crime blotter. He found intrigue in my Kentucky roots: the music, the literature, the beverages. He never showed up to a Kentucky Derby viewing at my home without a quality bottle of bourbon and some other totem he’d found like a worn copy of Hugh Rodman’s “Yarns of a Kentucky Admiral.” One Kentucky Derby Day years ago, he sat on my patio soaking up too much sun on his face. I asked what size hat he needed. “Irish,” he replied. Sometimes when I felt adrift, he wasn’t the calm captain offering passage back to shore. But he was an exceptional pirate. I say this knowing full well that piracy is not a zero-sum endeavor. In foggier moments, I convinced myself John only hurt himself, but I know that to not be true. I bought an extra Clem Snide ticket for him this year — a band we discussed with some regularity — thinking he’d rally after a health scare last year. It still feels like a circuit left incomplete. One doesn’t teeter and totter without gaining some sense of where the fulcrum rests. To know that place and still transfer weight to one side, for any or all of the reasons, is its own burden. One I hope has been lifted. He leaves behind family and friends and a city that knows itself better for his having worked here. But in a go-go city that sends the old out to make space for the new, I know there’ll be no shortage of abandoned couches on the city sidewalks any time I travel from one place to another. They’ll feel different now. A wave from a friend. Written By Andrew Dansby Reach Andrew on Andrew Dansby covers culture and entertainment, both local and national, for the Houston Chronicle. He came to the Chronicle in 2004 from Rolling Stone, where he spent five years writing about music. He’d previously spent five years in book publishing, working with George R.R. Martin’s editor on the first two books in the series that would become TV’s "Game of Thrones. He misspent a year in the film industry, involved in three "major" motion pictures you've never seen. He’s written for Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Texas Music, Playboy and other publications. Andrew dislikes monkeys, dolphins and the outdoors.10 points
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I've never met BearSchlong in person, but I've text back and forth with him and even had an almost hour long conversation with him a few years ago when discussing one of my coworkers and best friends who seemed to be on the same path as MaC. He must have said it 40x, but it wasn't until about #38 that it finally sunk in what it meant when he said : "Not you, not his momma, not his wife, not any group of all of the above can make a person get sober. He has to make that decision on his own, and there is absolutely NOTHING that you or anyone else on this entire earth can do to change that. The sooner you accept that the better off you and he both will be."9 points
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First of all fuck Nazis, all of them, everywhere all the time. Second of all, Bullshit! Don't infantilize a bunch of fucking Nazis. They knew what was happening. They saw it, they heard it, and they cheered their fucking rotten asses off for it. I have been on a genealogy kick lately... No fucking Nazis so far, but a whole shitload of raggedy assed slave owners. You should read their wills. Giving their daughters a "boy" to keep as an attendant. And "boy" is doing double duty here, because they were literally giving away "the youngest boy of my slave "betty". An accessory like a Gucci purse, so they can be seen in polite society. So Betty just had to say goodbye to her child because some old asshole kicked the bucket. Fuck them, fuck them all. And more importantly do not look away from that horror or make excuses for the horrible cunts they were. Because that's the stuff that Ron and his ilk would like you to forget or at least not talk about in polite society.9 points
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i don't think a twitter space would stay up if they had 1 million concurrent viewers. this isn't perfect (link) but the most watched/listened to space was one with Robin Wheeler which is at 2.7m. th most live one was with Pakistan's former prime minister which had 164k live listeners. the one that Elon did in Dec had 97k if they hit a million some server is going to catch on fire and burn down a datacenter somewhere. i can't wait to see what kind of shitshow this is going to be. "a multiple of that" lol per adweek in Q1 "The Five" became the most watched cable news program and averaged 3.26 m viewers per per broadcast (down from 3.41 in Q4) for q1 every fox show from 5- tp midnight averaged greater than 1.6m+ viewers. their 9-11am show averages 1.6 something and their 11a to noon show does as well. so they already drive 1.5m+ viewers on a random tuesday. oh my god can you imagine if it comes out that Elon did purchase it though (not that i doubt Kara Swisher at all btw)9 points
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Leaving Putin in power is how we got to this situation in the first place. Trying to leave him in power for the sake of nuclear security is like trying to fuck a girl's pregnancy away. It just don't work like that.9 points
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Not a Hollywood celebrity but the son of the father-son marathon team, passed away at 61. The dad died in 2021. The son was paralyzed so his dad pushed in over 1,000 marathons, duathlons and triathlons. Including 32 Boston Marathons. I don't know how anyone watching news especially sports news in the 90s, couldn't have been aware of them. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/22/sport/rick-hoyt-death-spt-intl/index.html9 points
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“We don’t want to play you anymore” pretty much means “we want to get away from you” in my book. Texas made a choice that we’d rather play Arkansas/aggy, over Tech/Baylor, and TCU (who we’ve already ditched once before). We’re mostly indifferent to West Virginia, Okie St, K State, Kansas, and Iowa St in the Big 12 as we are with South Carolina, Ole Miss, Mississippi St, Mizzou, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt. Besides the direction the planes fly, there is very little difference between these opponents for us except that with the Big 12 we played all 5 of these every year and in the SEC we’ll only play 3 a year which means we’ll have more room for Tier One opponents. Big time Tier One opponents: the SEC has many and the Big12 has zero. We can talk about the above all day long but in reality that just trying to find every excuse to not discuss the elephant in the room. The increase in ticket sales and TV viewership will be driven by these games. Every year we’ll have at least 3 games from some combo of Alabama/Florida/Tennessee or Georgia/LSU/Auburn. There is really nothing to discuss, this is a great move for Texas in pretty much every metric. Omitting the RRSO Texas went from (at best) 3 games against local “rivals” and 5 games we didn’t care much about (unless they were ranked) in the Big 12, to 2 local “rivals”, 3 Tier One opponents, and only 3 games we don’t care much about. So yeah, we left to get away from you.9 points
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The Houston Press piece is fantastic too. https://www.houstonpress.com/news/rest-in-peace-john-nova-lomax-15736333?fbclid=IwAR3L2Z2Zs3OnQbwUzeXeydGkZZt4C0UrcGH0JzXc0RJBOmgqno0f-XroaNU8 points
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Spot fucking on. I cannot tell you how tired I am for getting dragged by schools like Kansas State for losing a game in literally any sport to them. It's always the same bullshit and it comes from their fans, their media people, and even their admins. They hate us with a passion, we don't care about them. They spend the entire summer scheming us up in games, we don't think about them until game week. When they do beat us it's nothing but "See? Texas has all these resources and we still beat them. We would be giants and the best schools evaar if we had their resources. Their fans are so arrogant and entitled and still they can't beat us. Blah blah blah" Here is the reality: When every team on your schedule spends their summers scheming you up in games because they all want the badge of honor of beating you. When your coaches go around all year claiming "We beat Texas 5 times in the last decade!" in recruiting while we have been down. When every school in the conference bands together and negative recruits the shit out of us on the recruiting trail. When even the officials are on record as hating us at times, all in a desperate attempt at keeping us down, it gets tiresome. When every player on their roster is circling the game because they are pissed we didnt recruit them and are determined to put in the performance of their lives, sure all of that it is going to result in losses. These smaller schools truly can't conceive of what it is like to be the biggest game on everyone's schedule, every season, for 20+ years. We have the same problems every other program does. Bad evaluations, bad coaching hires, off field incidents, etc. But when we have them every opposing fan, media person, and even administrator piles on about money. Just shut the fuck up already. You know who won't spend the summer locked in a room trying to figure out every way they possibly can to beat us? Bama, LSU, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, etc. Why? Because they have as many fish to fry as we do. Sure we spend extra time on schools like Bama and OU and aggy. Those are the rivals and big games we care about. But when Joey Maguire or Dana Holgersen or Matt Campbell are seething in their offices for months turning over every rock, calling other coaches to collaborate, and saving half their playbook for our game, it is in no way reciprocated. They all know what happens when we get back up. My sincere hope is that we give every one of these schools the ass kicking of their lives in a going away present to remember this season.8 points
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Weird trivia, the Astros became the 4th team in the last 75 years to have an 8 game winning streak in 7 consecutive seasons.8 points
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