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irishtexan

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  1. For those disregarding Evan's peculiar comments regarding Texas, contrast those with his quote about OU and tell me that he's not down on Texas.

    I asked Zach about the Sooners and this past weekend, “They stand good with me. I expect them to execute more but things happen when you get complacent”. On the Mike Stoops firing he added, “Sometimes it ain’t the coaches, it’s the players”.

     

    That being said, I'm happy he's visiting this weekend and hopeful we can turn things around with this kid.

  2. 15 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    You just told me there's no Santa Claus. 

    It wasn't bad. I just was expecting a little more from it. If you poured me a glass, I would happily drink it. 

    Now, pour me a glass of bourbon, goddamnit!

  3. 3 hours ago, 'stache said:

    They let this shit get out of hand for too long without working together for a workable plan.  Eight conferences with ten teams each having geographic ties to one another would have worked.  Each conference plays a nine game round robin, leaving room for 3 out of conference matchups.  Then the 8 round robin champs face off in a playoff.  Perfecto.  But dumbass conferences had to expand because "TV markets" and cable models and rivalries be damned, break em up if you can squeeze a few bucks out of ESPN.  The latest round of realignment ensured the system has become fucked beyond repair.

    I like this plan. Also, it might encourage more competitive out-of-conference games among top-ranked teams because at that point rankings wouldn't impact your pathway to the playoffs. If Texas played Clemson and Bama in their non-conference scheduled and lost to both, but went undefeated in conference, they make the playoffs regardless of their out of conference record.

  4. 8 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    I mean . . . they won a Rose Bowl and had six top-ten finishes over the last decade.

    And yet they only shared the conference title one time. (Not that Texas has much room to talk wrt our conference championships)

  5. Disregarding the inherent hilarity of the story, and my difficulty reconciling the costs for the gender reassignment surgery and her being on food stamps, a thousand dollars a year is a pretty significant difference based on gender. I'd like to see the actuarial data that supports this policy. 

    1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    It’s not like the rates for different people are based on data accrued over decades and parsed by cost of repair and frequency of claim for different ages, genders, and geographical locations. 

     

    Is it though? I sure as shit don't trust insurance companies.

     

  6. In the last few years of recruiting, has there been a player that was already committed to Texas who ended up providing a bunch of drama about de-committing, but ended up sticking and becoming a solid contributor? I’m sure there have been, but I’m struggling to remember any.

    Do you consider John Burt to be a solid contributor? He certainly was his freshman year. Then he got the drops/yips.
  7. How much you get it for? Still trying to get one

    My buddy works at twin liquors. They got six bottles and he brought one over to watch the mma fights. He said they sold for $40 a bottle. But basically the stores only get a handful of bottles.
  8. Anybody tried this shit? I wasn’t particularly impressed. Just didn’t have anything that stoop out to me. And I love Weller. I guess I was just expecting more out of it. Feel like the abv was too low and there wasn’t enough heat.

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  9. Or he's arguably the top recruit in the nation, is wide open, and doesn't want to appear to be favoring any schools yet as it's still really early in his recruitment 

    His quotes are not trying to be objective. They’re specifically, strangely, and consistently negative about Texas. He’s going to aggy.
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  10. Tell that to Art Briles.   

    Edit: in case this reference is too obscure, I am of course talking about 2008, when we beat OU and had the same record as OU, yet OU went to the MNC ahead of us because, iirc, OU was ahead in the coaches poll thanks largely to Art Briles and a few others who put us ridiculously low. Someone correct me if I am misremembering the details.

     

     

     

     

    That was seven games later after we lost and OU won out. This is the next week. They’re not ranking OU ahead of us the week after we beat them. (And fuck Art Briles.)

     

     

  11. Evans’ comments are telling. That being said, if there’s one position I’m absolutely ok missing out on a stud 5-star it’s at RB. Ingram was ranking something like 170th nationally and he’ll be a beast here for three years. If we can get our OL pLaying as well as it did today, we won’t have problems running the ball.

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