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  1. 10 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    That’s always been their selling point:  only Texas school in the SEC, etc.  Problem is, it opened the door for the bigger players to dip their toes.  AR has been desperate to get a toehold in the state.  Played a series with Texas.  Then the “rivalry” game with the Ag’s @ Jerryworld that was supposed to eclipse the RRS.  Hired a coach with Texas HS ties.  This is what killed Nebraska.  The removal of partial-qualifiers and losing a line into Texas talent. 

    The Ag’s won’t be top dogs in the conference.  But I don’t think they care.  As long as they are in the conversation they are happy.  They are raking in money.  Out of our shadow.  And get to run “SEC” up the flagpole.  I will say they are positioned better regarding conference alignment.  Big12 just isn’t viable as it is right now.  Nor are we pulling any significant P5 schools away.  Texas and OU will be fine.  But the conference won’t. 

    Literally every single objective metric says otherwise.

  2. When you go to piss an hour or two after blowing your load, and there's a little bit of jizz still hanging out in the tip of your dick, causing your piss stream to split multiple directions.

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  3. 11 hours ago, PhillyD said:

    It's hard to tell.  They have been mediocre at best for the past 20 years.  I lived in Pittsburgh from 2000 - 2004 and Larry Fitzgerald was there during that time.  I'm convinced that if he had he played at any other D1 school, he would have won Heisman.  In Pittsburgh at that time, if you weren't a Steeler or Mario Lemieux, you could get no ink.

    That sounds an awful lot like Minnesota.

  4. 13 minutes ago, PhillyD said:

    Consider the case of Pitt as well.  Their story is similar to SMU and Rice.  I don't know their attendance figures, (and I'm too lazy to look them up) but I doubt they are much better than SMU.

    I've always got the impression that their fanbase is just fairweather.  I think they draw well when they're above average, but numbers fall off quickly whenever they're mediocre to bad.

  5. 40 minutes ago, angelos's frog said:

    The Cotton Bowl was also expanded to 68-70k seats back in the late 40's to accommodate demand for SMU football.  SMU played in the Cotton Bowl until the late 70's but once the Cowboys came to Dallas, interest in SMU football decreased rapidly.  Now  SMU plays in a 32k seat stadium that is usually 1/3 full and the Cotton Bowl is used for the Texas/OU game, a third tier bowl game and a couple of other college games every year. 

    Interesting.  I always assumed that the Cotton Bowl was that large due to the Cotton Bowl game and Red River.

    I wonder if either would have been able to maintain a viable fanbase if they had remained in a power conference.

  6. 10 minutes ago, SnowAggy said:

    Sure, but you're not a Texan.  I'm not surprised at all that Rice would build a huge stadium in 1950 in Houston, TX.  

    The Vikings example is a good one.  They sabotaged UM the same way (it seems) that the Oilers sabotaged Rice.  

    I was just referring to the idea of Rice being a power.  Not that they would have built a huge stadium.

    If Rice football was the most popular thing in the Houston sports world, it absolutely justified that.  It's the part about Rice football being the biggest deal in the Houston sports world that blows my mind.

  7. 24 minutes ago, DeadArmadillo said:

    They really did back in the 50's, before the NFL became America's sport.  They were a national power.  Sports has changed.

    That's kind of hard to wrap my head around.

    Similar to how the University of Minnesota was a power house with a rabid fanbase until the Vikings came along.  You talk about stadium capacities as they pertain to student/alumni bases and U of M is like the reverse of Rice.  Where Rice can hold their entire living alumni base, Minnesota can't even hold their entire current student body (and still don't usually sell out unless playing Iowa or Wisconsin, who bring 10-20K of their own fans).

  8. 12 hours ago, markstanco said:

    I live in texarkana. TXK to Galveston is over 325 miles away. When I see a salt life sticker I rage.

    No, you dont have a salt life. You go to the beach once a year because it is a near 700 mile round trip. Find a Snow Life sticker and put it on the other side of your back window. Jackass.

    I live in Iowa and see Salt Life shit.

    You can’t get any farther from a fucking ocean than Iowa.

  9. 13 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    The Albrecht family are perhaps the wealthiest family in Germany. In summer I get their sausages that are packaged ina Bavarian flag motif. They are pretty good, made in Germany with a better texture than something from a Johnsonville, which are also good.

    Johnsonville doesn't count.

  10. Looking forward to Roughriders/Argos tonight.

    My grandpa was briefly on the Roughriders in the 50's.  He grew up across the highway from their stadium.  We used to visit my great grandparents in Regina when I was a little guy, and I remember you could see it off their back porch.  I also have family in Winnipeg that are die hard Bomber fans.  One of these days I'll see get to the Banjo Bowl.

     

  11. On 6/13/2018 at 2:13 PM, jimmyjazz said:

     

    Jesus.  They look like babies.  Badass clip, too.

     

    Am I the only one that resents both Tweedy and Farrar for never burying the hatchet?  I'm not pining for a UT reunion, and I actually prefer both Wilco and Son Volt's best work to UT's, but it just bugs me that they still hate each other 25 years after breaking up over what basically amounted to getting on each other's nerves/ego.

  12. 23 minutes ago, BottleRocket said:

    I used to catch Skunkweed every time they came to Austin.  They've played twice in the last year in San Antonio.  Go to their facebook page to keep track of future sightings.  They were all kinds of fucked up fun.

    I hung out a lot at Ego's when they had live music every night:

    James Ryder and the 420 Turnaround

    Guy Forsyth

    Bob Schnider / Scabs

    George Devore 

    Cotton Mather

    The Gourds

    Had a Titty Bingo bumper sticker but never put it on my car or heard the band

     

    My buddy and I decided that Open Minded Redneck was pretty much our manifesto.

    There was an entire album, I believe.  I've been known to scrawl quotes on bar bathroom walls.

    Will definitely check out their Facebook page.

  13. On 6/13/2018 at 2:12 AM, MaybeACoordinator said:

    In my experience it's been ZZ Top, Los Lobos, Steely Dan, Rush and the Drive By Truckers. 

    Easier to piss at those shows. You can just walk right into the ladies and nobody will be in there. 

    I've seen the chick from American Pickers at multiple Drive By Trucker shows in Iowa City.

    But they did immediately come to mind when I saw the thread title (despite my wife and a good buddy's wife being huge fans).

  14. 21 hours ago, 'stache said:

    My endurance is fine.  I don't run out of breath.  I've been running for several years now.  My muscles literally can't push through climbs, even on the lowest gears.  I need to do some serious strength training.  I'm still new to cycling so I think practice will help, but I'm adding HIIT training to work on my core and leg muscles in particular.

    Just keep riding dude.  Strength training isn't going to do anywhere near as much for your leg muscle endurance.  

    I've been an avid road cyclist for about 5 years, and practice is key.  The more you ride hills, the easier they get, and it's the fastest way to make them easier.

    I ran into a similar issue picking up single track this spring, as I encountered grades that blow away anything you'd hit with a road bike.  I've dropped some pounds and kept at it, and it's gotten better.  I remember starting to ride hills on a road bike being the same way.

  15. A good friend's brother went to grad school at UT in the early 00's, and he'd always crank these guys when he came home.  A total joke band, but hilarious and catchy at the same time.  I have to assume a few posters are aware of them.

     

     

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