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Jiggy-Z

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  1. I mentioned the 1981 game in another thread and what happened there. I did not bring it up to infer that Texas was going to go undefeated the rest of the way or any other predictive measure. But it, along with a whole slew of other Arkansas games over the years, does show a pattern where all but the most elite Texas teams get hammered by the Hogs. 1999 season/2000 Cotton Bowl. Big 12 South winner Texas play the Hogs and we get a similar result to Saturday's. Say what you want about suspended players and injuries but those guys came to play and Texas did not. 2003 season. Hogs come away from Austin with a 10 point win in a game that was not nearly that close,with once again physical line play being an issue. Texas finishes 10-3 and Arky 9-4 that year. 2004 season. A Texas team that would finish 11-1 with Vince Young at QB squeezes out a 2 point win on the road on an unforced Arky error late in the game. Arky would finish the year 5-6. 2008 season. Texas slaughters Hogs in Austin on way to final #2 ranking. Arky finishes 5-7. 2014 Texas Bowl: See 2000 Cotton Bowl. 2021 Season: See 2014 Texas Bowl. Texas was favored in all but the 2014 game. Six games and Texas covered only once. Pretty amazing under performance against the Hogs over the years. So moral of the story is the Surly collective should not have been so high on this game.
  2. Texas could have won 10 games last year, but they also could have easily gone 3-7.
  3. The project is temporarily held up. Injunction or something due to trees already taken down. Hearing was on 9/2 but I'm finding nothing on the googles since then.
  4. Yes. This whole week had a 1981 vibe to it. Similar result, too. Except that Texas team was actually pretty good and would finish #2 by seasons end.
  5. I don't know, just seems like one of those games that whoever has the ball last will win.
  6. My only game experience in Fayetteville was with LHB back in '85-the game where we field goaled them to death. Inside the stadium was just fine and there were no issues after we had been told horror stories from the '81 game up there where we got blown out. However, we stayed in Ft. Smith on Friday night, and on the drive in on game day, our 8 bus caravan was routinely flicked off by anyone and everyone including old ladies milling around their church parking lots. All in all not too bad. '87 Little rock was when the whiskey bottles started to fly. Good luck to all our Surly travelers. Night game should be lit in more ways than one.
  7. Back when he still had his store on the drag in the mid 70's, when DKR was still coach, my mom would take my brother and I there to get some UT stuff in preparation for going to a game. My folks were never too interested in football, but my dad's younger sister was dating some big whig at KIKK radio down in Houston who was an Arkansas grad. Super nice guy who somehow always had great west side tickets right in the middle of the blue hairs. Mom would always take us there the week of the Arkansas games to get us set up. That set up petered out in the late 70's even though my aunt still dated they guy, but man that was fun, especially after my brother and I started playing in the middle school band. We were so in awe of LHB. The year after Earl's Heisman, mom got us set with two team autographed footballs from Roosters, that was the '78 team. I remember that I secretly,not so secretly added my autograph somewhere in the middle of the signatures and I would pretend I was on the team. Still have the football. Somewhere back in my memory, I think I met Rooster on one of those first trips back in the mid 70's. I don't think my mom had any idea who he was. Later, when I was in school, and after Rooster had moved his campus store north, I went into the store to get some running shorts and was helped by a good looking gal that I was trying to chat up. I had planned on some suave moves at the register, but Rooster butted in and took over the payment. Rooster was so nice and friendly, but I still gave him the Tommy Lee Jones look as much a guy who was 6' tall could, to an old man who was 4'-11". I really had to stoop and get those eyeballs up. He had a shit eating grin on his face like he knew what I was doing the whole time. I made it back to his store only one other time and that was to get me a pair of the first generation Nike AIR MAX running shoes. No Rooster on that final time. I'm not sure when he moved his campus store, but by the looks of it is was in the early 80's. Funny how that move coincided with what would be the end of a dominant era in Texas football. By 1985 the football program was sagging, the Texas economy was in the tank and would be for another decade, much of the University could have used some upgrades, and it was very obvious to me, at the time, that UT was laving on its past glories. Epilogue: Ended up making the LHB, played '85-'88 , and watched a lot of shitty football.
  8. Crow really killed that song, really brought back that Tom Jones feel. Also, The World is Not Enough-underrated. Also, as long as we are ranking: 1. Thunderball , 1a. Casino Royale (You Know My Name) . I like the Bond themes with powerful vocals like above, seems to fit better than instrumentals or love songs. From The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) all the way up to Goldeneye (1995), there were some real clunkers in there.
  9. Here we are on a Tuesday after the season opener and we are talking about match ups, line play, technique, nuance, improvement areas, upside, details, and momentum. Feels pretty damn good because we could be talking about really stupid penalties, a loss that could have been a win, dumb coaching, lack of adjustments, injuries, bare cupboards, unpreparedness, turtles, and next year.
  10. Ah, the Zoolander effect.
  11. 6 piers for an art installation which is also made of cast in place concrete. 24" diameter. 17' depth w/ 1' rock penetration. Possible casing needed, although not seen on Geotechnical. Job is next to a lake in Central Dallas . Quick pay, easy money.
  12. Concrete scheduling is difficult right now. I'm on a job right now and it looks like I am going to need to move back my pour date due to plumber and GC incompetence. I have not called my Ready Mix co yet but I am expecting at least 3 weeks later, if I'm lucky. PS. It is a large pour ~1,000 cuyds, but still. Prices are not too bad though, typical 5% annual bump. Rebar has gone up. I have a job up in Dallas and I can't even get a pier drilling company to call me back.
  13. 2007-2009 were above normal.
  14. If I remember correctly, that weekend there was supposed to a mild cool front that was supposed to blow through and drop us to under a high of 100. The front fizzled out and the dry air made it in and we turned thing up to 11 with a high of 112. Then the fires. In Oak Hill area I climbed up on my roof and I see all three fires burning that day. Bastrop looked more like a huge thunderstorm. It felt like the end of the world. I remember thinking what a delicate balancing act nature was in and that it was amazing that this was all from just a few months without any real rain.
  15. Ballgame.
  16. I am still worried. Today the weather was nice relatively speaking. Most are grateful and the home damage wasn't too bad. Everyone still has food, water, and a recharged cell battery. We will see how things are in a week when supplies get short and they are running out of places to shit.
  17. Imagine that.
  18. More like WF is deep in the Garden District and Family Dollar is in the Theft District. Kiddo has a hot spot, working on some pictures to get this thread back on target.
  19. More details on the looting from my kid and his "sources": Family Dollar at MLK and S. Claiborne got hit. Whole Foods is being protected by Army National Guard. LOL. No word on the Food King.
  20. ..or so the Germans would have us believe.
  21. Not sure about right now. In general he feels pretty good. He is a mere nine blocks from St. Charles and his street has seen some remodeling and development. I was there two years ago and I met all the neighbors, who were pretty much working class lower middle class. One of his neighbors was murdered a couple of months ago, but that was a domestic family dispute and the trigger man is still on the run-not drug related. CC gets worse once you cross S. Claiborne/90 from my recollection.
  22. OK. Got a report from my son: He is fine and his house seems to have survived without a scratch (Central City area-roughly intersection of Freret and Jackson). Neighbors have some minor damage. Cars are good and filled with gas, so he has that option if roads ever open up. His GF is in Chicago right now but has been able to text with some spotty coverage and she has been relaying info to us in Austin. Texting has been in and out. He also reports that looting is, in fact, already getting bad. See my post above about how this might go.
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