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  1. 10 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

     Texas whipped Bama in the 80 Cotton Bowl.  

    It was the 82 cotton bowl (81 season) and I don't know if I'd call a come from behind 14-12 victory a whipping, but I'll take it.

    Fun fact most  announcers of Baylor Texas games hardly ever mentioned- the winning touchdown was scored by a guy whose son was not offered by UT.

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  2. 3 hours ago, Ignatius said:

    Tell me he could be the next Justin McLemore and I’ll be downright giddy.

    I was going to say Bryan White but he made two massive plays at Nebraska in 1998 so I’m not talking shit on him. Without those two catches and Ricky running down a DB from behind after a pick, we don’t win that game…

    One thing I remember about that game is White caught a pass completely in the clear, nobody within 10 yards of him.  I jump for joy and do celebratory laps around my girlfriend's tiny apartment for what seemed like 15 seconds, come back into view of the TV assuming he scored but he's still running and gets dragged down.  He may have been fast in high school but I swear it looked like a 5.4 40 that day.

  3. 5 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

    Time had a lot to do with it. Schools were much more patient back then - Akers was given 10 years. If Herman had been around for 10 years, there would have been a squadron of planes overhead at every game pulling FIRE TOM banners.

    To be fair Akers was playing for a national championship in his 7th year, but once the freedom bowl happened the next year he had a very short leash.  I think the reason for the disparity in fan vitriol between the 2 is because in 1986 we had pretty much kicked ass the previous 30 years so fans weren't used to losing.  Turtle had the benefit of lazy years Mack and strong.

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  4. If Simmons somehow meets his goal and breaks the single season sack record of 22.5, I'll be thoroughly impressed.  Though I'm still not sure how Kiki did that playing in the early 80s SWC.  Unless they counted a tackle for loss of the QB on an option play as a sack.

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  5. 7 hours ago, speed817 said:

     

    https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2025/06/04/how-culture-wednesdays-changed-fortunes-for-texas-longhorns

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    AUSTIN – Steve Sarkisian spent his first year as the head coach of the Texas Longhorns as an observer. He wanted to get under the hood and figure out why one of the most powerful and resource-rich football programs in America was struggling to win.
     
    After blowing multiple second-half leads and finishing the 2021 season 5-7, he surmised that the issue was culture.
     
    Sure, his Horns needed to recruit better, develop more and improve schematically, but the root cause was a lack of togetherness. Texas wasn’t a tight-knit team. There was no brotherhood, and that was causing them to fold under pressure. Sarkisian needed to change something so he began looking for outside opinions on how he could transform the Longhorns from a talented group of individuals into a formidable unit. 
     
    That led him to San Jose State head coach Brent Brennan. The two weren’t exactly best friends in the spring of 2022 when Sarkisian reached out for help with his culture problem in Austin, but the two coaches were close enough for Brennan to visit and spend a day with Sarkisian in his office talking about everything except for Xs and Os. 
     
    The two started brainstorming exercises that improve culture. They discussed different things that Nick Saban and Pete Carroll did as head coaches before Brennan mentioned some of the things he did the night before games like sharing life stories and working on mindfulness with guest speakers. 
     
    “I just didn’t think we could wait until the Friday before the first game,” Sarkisian explained. “I decided to implement it in June when the whole team gathered for the first time together in the summer.” 
     
    Sarkisian approached Torre Becton, Texas' Director of Football Performance who oversaw the Longhorns' strength and conditioning program, with a radical idea. He only wanted his herd of Longhorns to work out four days a week and to reserve Wednesday for mind, body, and soul. Becton looked at Sarkisian like he was crazy. After all, what strength and conditioning coach wants to sacrifice power cleans and wind sprints for sharing sessions?
     
    Sarkisian decided to call it “Culture Wednesdays” and the first one was June 1, 2022. 
     
    “I didn’t want it to be about football,” Sarkisian said about his idea. “I really wanted them to get to know each other so that they could have a little bit of empathy for one another so that they could start to forge a connection to each other and inevitably start to love their teammates and coaches.” 
     
    But Sarkisian knew there was a major hurdle to overcome if this plan would work. He was about to ask a room full of 18- to 22-year-old alpha males to be vulnerable with each other. To share personal tragedies and triumphs. To let others in and to reveal their “Four Hs” as Sarkisian calls them – their home life, a hero in their life, a hardship in their life, and an honor that they’ve received. 
     
    Sarkisian planned the first Culture Wednesday for months during the 2022 offseason and landed on a realization – he needed to set the example. 
     
    Sarkisian said that the initial Culture Wednesday on June 1 was the most nervous he’d ever been for a team meeting. He knew he had to tell his story. And not the PG version, either. He needed to be real. To be open. To walk a room full of young men through his very public fall from grace as the head coach at USC and how he walked through fire to earn another opportunity to lead a program. He spoke to the team for over an hour. 
     
    “If I wanted to create an avenue where they feel like they could open up and share with me, I surely better pave the road for them to do that,” Sarkisian said. “When I walked through my whole story, I think they were like, ‘holy shit, coach literally opened up to us about everything. And not on the night before a big game, on a random Wednesday in June at 7 a.m. in the morning.’” 
     
    After Sarkisian finished talking, he divided his team up into 10 groups of 12 and sent them to different corners of the football building with assistant coaches to begin doing the same. The assistant coaches began first and then the players spoke in those smaller groups. Sarkisian estimates about 10 of the 12 in each group jumped in right away. Over 75% of his team was on board from the jump and Sarkisian says that on that day he stumbled into the “secret sauce” of team building and knew it was a matter of when, not if, his program would turn the corner. The leadership within the team agreed. 
     
    “We started learning about each other and where we came from and what we’d been through outside of football,” former wide receiver and current Los Angeles Ram Jordan Whittington said about the first Culture Wednesday. “We gained a better appreciation for each other as people and that directly impacted how we played as a team on the field.” 
     
    Not every Culture Wednesday is a therapy session. Some include mindfulness experts and others were recovery circuits. The team does simple things like gratitude trees. The Longhorns were 3-10 in one-score games during the first two seasons of Sarkisian’s tenure. That means 13 of his first 25 games as head coach on The Forty Acres came down to one possession. Since the start of the 2023 season, Texas is 5-3 in those games. They no longer let teams hang around and have only played in one-score games eight times in the last 30 contests. 
     
    The first Culture Wednesday of the 2025 campaign takes place on June 4 as Sarkisian breaks in a new crop of players. He no longer has to win over the whole team on that first Wednesday in June, however, because the returning players know the drill. The Horns are no longer splintered and playing for themselves. They’re a team that’s been to back-to-back College Football semifinals and are on the verge of playing in a national championship game.
     
    Outsiders think it is all about talent, which Texas always had. But the truth is that the vulnerability shared on those Wednesdays has helped more than any training session could. 
     
    “Our team knows the drill. They know what (Culture Wednesdays) mean and why they’re important,” Sarkisian said. “The younger guys are still very reserved at first and that is completely understandable, but we’ve got buy-in from the team and that’s what is important.” 

     

    Outsiders think it is all about talent, which Texas always had. 

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  6. On 5/30/2025 at 10:03 AM, closetojumping said:

    My FIL served in the British military for a decade. He then went on to work for a UK conglomerate working in "development" behind the Iron Curtain, in the USSR, the Middle East, Iran and the Far East for various stretches of time. He tells random stories of the same ilk as you do, although often really absurd or disturbing. He does it in the same matter of fact manner.

    "I was bringing across £50,000 through Ashgabat once via a hidden floor in the soles of my shoes for a mate once ..." or "our friend in Dubai, Ramy, kept buying canaries at the pet shop after he first brought his family over. it took awhile to figure out what was going on ..." or "the bloody problem with Russians is that life is not valued by them. I've run into more sociopaths in my dealings with those dirty bastards than anywhere else in the world outside of Kowloon ..."

    Now, I'm fairly certain that he actually was part of the British intelligence world. I sometimes wonder if you're not our Surly version of that. 

    Why was Ramy buying canaries?

  7. 7 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    The charges of running from competition would be skrong. Even better would be to leverage a bold sponsor and creative marketing team to lure a few other all-stars level players with her to the same team and pitch it as the “real world champion.” 
     

    The quote from Woods is kinda true, but what’s even more true: if you ended Gretzky’s night, then Marty McSorely might end your season or career. Maybe the Fever should hire someone to concuss the next person who gives her a hard foul with a hockey stick. 

    Story I heard about a journeyman NHL player that played against Gretzky.  Fight breaks out and when that happens everyone just grabs the closest opposing player to keep them out of it.  He grabs Gretzky who looks at him and says "get your hands off of me you fucking plumber."

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  8. 29 minutes ago, statsman said:

    It’s actually interesting case law now. He lied his ass off, to avoid prison, of course. 
     
    It is so weird. You’d think OKC would be a big city, but the same grifters seem to have their hands in every grift, like a low budget 1980’s movie.

    Yeah, Switzer was just innocently hanging out at a track meet when he found himself seated behind an oil company exec who was also a huge OU booster.  Unbeknownst to this booster, the head football coach was right behind him and overheard everything booster told his wife about the upcoming events that would move the market.  What are the odds?

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  9. You deserve to get treated like Mrs Lacewell good and hard if you're dumb enough to trust Switzer. He was also the defendant in a landmark SEC (exchange not conference) insider trading case.

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  10. 17 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    Not great, not terrible, worth an hour.

     

    Jenn still looks pretty good. 

    Jenn looks like a younger version of his wife.  He definitely has a type. 

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  11. Vegas has their win total at 6.5, which is pretty bad considering they have games against Illinois st, Kent St and temple.  I'm curious where they get 4 more out of Michigan plus their SEC schedule of aub, TX, TN, scar, ole miss, bama, Missouri and LSU.

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  12. On 5/17/2025 at 5:32 PM, Gatorubet said:

    The really good news is that the inmate literacy programs are working

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    It was a clue left by criminal masterminds to at least give the law a fighting chance- they're headed to the Big Easy.  

  13. Untold- Liver King. How in the hell have I never heard of this clown and who could have possibly believed he wasn't juiced to the gills on steroids?

    IMO, easily the worst of the untold series.  Suppose it's good for a watch if you want to learn how to be a con man or cult leader.

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