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On 10/13/2024 at 9:27 PM, Fondren & Main said:
My dislike for A&M is eternal.
The best running back in the history of my HS choose not to go to Texas, for a very good reason. He went to A&M, and we were lifelong friends, until his passing. May he RIP. Ironically, the reason he didn't go to Texas is similar to the reason for my post.
1975 was #2 A&M v. #5 Texas, in College Station. Marty Akins (Texas QB) was coming off a knee injury from 2 week prior. On Texas's first play, Pat Thomas (A&M DB) came in like a missile and put his helmet directly on Akins' knee, taking him out of the game. Game over.
This is an old post from Hornsfans:
hamhorn
Nov 5, 2009
"FireRC, there' no history of the Aggies intentionally trying to injure Texas players?Ask those of us who watched Jackie Williams take a dirty shot to Roosevelt Leaks' knee, putting him on the ground and out of the game during the 1973 game at Kyle Field. He said in the dressing room afterward "God help me for doing that. I was just so fired up".
Two years later, I was sitting on my Aggie father-in-law's 40 yard line seats when early in the game Pat Thomas took Marty Akins out with a cheap shot. All the Aggies sitting around me stood up and cheered.
Please don't come over here with descriptions of your people as being good sports. Whatever y'all can do to beat "t.u." is considered "good bull", from selling your souls to hire Jackie Sherrill to desecrating Memorial Stadium ( a stadium dedicated to all Texas war dead, including Aggies).
It's not for nothing that we call y'all dirty cheaters."
Aggy personified is at 35:08 of the video.
For damn near 50 years, I have never apologized for my beliefs towards A&M. I'm not sure what might ever change that.
I'm asking if one of you sleuths can make a video or screen grab, of find something in the archives, to memorialize it and to provide others one more data point validating the history and depth of Aggy transgressions.
Thanks in advance.
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12 hours ago, Tomatillo said:We reported each other, we just didn’t cheat as recklessly and egregiously as the SWC which is no longer on existence. Who was in that league, btw?
Any fan of a top 50 program pretending they didn’t cheat since 1950 is full of it. It’s just a question of how much.
There is 1980s SMU, Clemson. Auburn, UF level and then there is everyone else.
Tomatillo? Tomatillo, where are you? Tomatillo, are you gone?
12 hours ago, Jimmy Two Times said:Georgia's linebackers are at a different level athletically than both OU's and Michigan's and they have more speed in the two deep all over the field. That being said, I absolutely agree that we shouldn't struggle scoring. I'm not sure there's a team out there whose pass rush is effective enough to shut us down.
Sark's offense is built on numbers and mismatches, getting guys in space, and hitting them, which we have had plenty of in every game. Even with dropped TD passes, poor throws and untimely/questionable penalties, we have scored with ease.
All that means is we might have a few faster guys trying to catch up, while we have the ball and are running away. They may reduce the YAC, but I don't see them stopping the passes.
I watched some of Ikard & Lehman (OU honks) last night; They commented that OU's defense seemed lost, looking at the sideline for signals and getting aligned while Texas was snapping the ball. I expect Georgia to have similar issues, trying to figure out what we're doing, oh, shit!, they snapped the ball, and off to the races.
11 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:If you seriously don’t know that when Georgia hired Kirby Smart they went on a systematic and large scale cheating jag I don’t know what to tell you. You are either doing a willful blindness act or are dumb enough that I’m surprised you were able to turn on your computer and find this site.
We have always maintained at Texas that we don’t do large scale institutional cheating the way they do at the following schools:Bama, Georgia, Aggy, (OU in the past- they’ve actually cleaned their act up in the last 30 years), Ohio State, Clemson, Auburn, LSU, USC, and at times Ole Miss and Tennessee.
The proof of that, literally, is when it was taken out of the murky depths of dishonesty Texas went from never winning a head to head against those schools to winning almost all of them. Gee, wonder why that was?
Texas, Michigan, and the Domers are the blue bloods (I suppose Nebraska too) that never seriously played the bag game and their history of being up and down sort of shows that. Let’s just say we won’t ever miss out on classes anymore because someone decides that they are going to outbid us and leave it at that.
Georgia will be fine in the new paradigm. You might have to get a coach that isn’t a barely functional retard between here and there, but yall have enough passion and advantages from being quasi urban as opposed to backwater hicks that I think it will be more or less ok for you. But it won’t be Texas. And, right now, we are also smarter than you, so, uh, yeah- good luck with all that.
Well said, Wulaw. I was going to further elaborate for Tomatillo, but ...
10 hours ago, gmr548 said:Georgia and Texas are in the top 10 for both offensive and defensive FEI and SP+, this may be the first (only?) such game all year. It will likely come down to who plays cleaner - taking care of the ball, avoiding penalties, establishing field position on special teams.
Looking forward to seeing what DKR has in store. The last home game I can remember that even approached this level of anticipation is 2019 LSU, which was rocking, and this is a better team coming off a throttling of Oklahoma with more on the line in a conference game. Georgia ... doesn't have a ton of experience with playing strong opponents on the road thanks to living in the SEC East until now. But home field advantage is real in football and Texas, by most metrics, grades out as a slightly better team.
Key matchup is the Texas DL vs the Georgia OL. Texas has not seen an offense of this caliber, especially in the passing game. If Texas is having to commit numbers to run or blitzing is the only way to manufacture a pass rush the Georgia can have their way. Again, real hot take - win the LOS to win the game.
I see Georgia's off the field antics bleeding into their on the field performance, which has been somewhat inconsistent in every game they've played. Seeing Kirby's antics looks like a coach on the edge trying to keep the ball from unraveling, not a guy gently nudging the steering wheel.
We know Texas is good this year, we just don't know how good. I do know we have a great scheme on offense and explosive play makers at every position, and an OL that knows that it all starts with them. As good as our offensive numbers are, they could and should have been considerably better.
I thought I read that Georgia had 2 injured OL that are coming back this week, and some had been critical of how poorly they have looked. I expect them to better than OU, but not like what they have had in the past.
I think it almost comical the constant SEC refrain that Texas has never been in a high stakes game or played in a hostile environment before.
The new end zone keeps more of the sound in than before. The Alabama game was very loud, and hot as hell. The atmosphere at DKR in 1977, after beating OU for the first time in 6 years, Texas rising to #1, with Earl playing for a Heisman was electric. I expect Texas v. Georgia at DKR on a Saturday night to be as loud as its ever been.
6 hours ago, troph said:I’m getting amped up feeling like the gal who jumps up on the table in pulp fiction and yells I’ll shoot every last one of ya mother fuckers except I won’t pee myself when Jules comes at me. Let’s fucking go, Georgia going down and not like going down on a lady, I mean getting their asses beat down. Aggies were right, these SEC folk ain’t never seen arrogant like a dominant Texas team. Bring it bitches you can’t handle this. MC hammer, jack Nicholson on that wall, pulp fiction, all of it. Fuck Georgia, fuck the SEC, we gonna run it.
I think it almost comical the constant SEC refrain that Texas has never been in a high stakes game or played in a hostile environment before. Texas has ended commendable home winning streaks of Michigan, Alabama, USC, Ohio State, & Nebraska, and has scoreboard on all of them, as well as Oklahoma & Notre Dame.
We're Texas! One Riot, One Ranger. Its out time to lead from the front, again.
2 hours ago, troph said:His (Rimbo’s) point is next level. 1990 with a shit stadium was the loudest it had ever been by a mile. Can we have the loudest it’s ever been by a mile again please?
2 hours ago, justhookit said:Some of us have been consistently attending games since the 70’s and 80’s. Nothing will ever compare to that UH game because of the circumstances that led up to it. Mizzou came closest but it was definitely not the same.
2 hours ago, Skipper said:I was at both of those (although a kid for UH so hard to gauge). 08 was fantastic. Tech last year was solid. Bama '22 was elite despite being hot as hell. If you are adjusting for daytime/heat factor that might have been the best. If we bring that Bama energy to a night game watch out.
DKR has been so loud you couldn't talk to the people next to you, many times. Its hard to compare being in the middle of the student section v. being in the end zone or upped deck. Miss State had back to back delay-of-game penalties. That is plenty loud enough.
In 1974 against Arkansas, freshman Earl Campbell, after scoring on a 68 yard run, blocked a punt that Doug English returned for a TD. That was probably the loudest thing I'd ever heard that wan't connected to a jet engine.
Ricky's record run against A&M was like slowing cranking a bank of 100 W Marshalls from zero to 11, with the crescendo sustained at the end for who know's how long, making your ears and head, and eventually, your throat hurt.
I'm looking forward to some similar experiences Saturday night.
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On 10/13/2024 at 8:26 AM, KYHorn said:
Another video from the original thread:
Initially, you can here the woosh sound of of high pressure gas leaking and igniting with a distinct column of fire. Than the woosh sound quickly changes as the tank ruptures, and the rapidly expanding vapor cloud ignites into a catastrophic explosion.
BLEVE - or Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion, is a catastrophic explosion that occurs when a pressurized vessel containing a liquid at a temperature higher than its boiling point ruptures. The rapid depressurization of the liquid (tank rupturing) causes it to instantly transition into vapor, releasing a large amount of energy.
I've posted previously that they usually find the photographer's camera and the body nearby. Based on the google earth picture, the large tank rolling towards the camera did not rupture, though it is leaking from the relief valve and there is a small plume emanating from the tank. The tank that ruptured appeared to be one of the smaller tanks, ~ 500-1,000 gallons.
The tank rolling and tumbling towards the camera looks to be ~ 40-50,000 gallon capacity.
Good thing the bigger one didn't rupture.
Edit:
Holy Fuck!!! I didn't see the 2nd video til I posted.
The tank rolling along the ground in the first video's is seen airborne in the last video.
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17 hours ago, RAMBONE said:
Is Johntay Cook in the doghouse or just surpassed?
Any news on Bond?
Appreciate the updates on Cook. I didn't remember seeing him Saturday.
I agree on dropping a TD in a conference game. That sends you to the back of the list.
Silas Bolden made a great block, before he recovered the fumble for a TD. He's been putting in the work.
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1 hour ago, billfromlaketravis said:
These “columns” drive me nuts. IT does the same thing. It’s just a list without any analysis. It wouldn’t kill Gerry to provide one sentence per recruit to summarize Texas’ chances.
QuoteGerry Hamilton
Texas vs. Georgia visitor list
Just curious which word you didn't understand?
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29 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:
This thumbnail is absolutely delightful!
Screenshot for eternity.
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1 hour ago, Doc Daneeka said:
Exactly. First, he was following the play the way he was taught. Second, he was actually watching the play and you can see the exact moment he quickly changes his angle to go for the ball. Third, he absolutely busted his ass to be the first one there while the Sooners fucking jogged. Fourth, you can see him come under control to recover the ball and not just slide out of bounds with it. Fifth, he rolls over with the ball and the whole fucking world can see he possessed it in bounds.
Athletic skills. Awareness. Hustle. Football smarts. It was a bad ass play and the stories of it will probably outlive him. Any coach at any level could show that play and say, “This is how you play the game.”
FIFY.
Pre-First. He is the smallest guy on the field, and makes the block that opens the hole, and then ... he personifies "turning on the jets."
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There is a single planetary light in the sky right now (not the moon).
I know your supposed to need a telescope, but go look now, 7:33 Austin time.
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Georgia can’t beat Texas, only Texas can beat Texas.
Yesterday was the perfect game in some ways, we knocked OU’s dick in the dirt and won convincingly, while leaving room for improvement almost everywhere.
Everybody knows they let their teammates down at times and will work hard this week towards correcting that.
I had 2 issues w/ the play calling. Really, only 1. The fade on 4th down was a low percentage pass that didn’t work. I didn’t know Bond was hurt until last night. Ewers and Bond on a timing play is better than Ewers and Wingo. Sark gets a pass.
After watching OU for 50 years, those MF’s, good or bad, can always run. They always have team speed. Calling running plays w/ the RB running parallel to the line of scrimmage, 5 yards behind the line doesn’t work against OU. Starting 2nd & 13 is not the best way to make a living.
I get that showing something early to set them up later is a consideration, but I recall 3 plays you could see it developing, slowly, and resulted in negative yards.
Kudos to Sark & PK for recruiting speed all over the field. Not many teams look faster than OU, but Tre, Wingo and Bolden clearly were. Me likely.
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2 hours ago, Sabalo said:And just like that Silas Bolden is memorialized among the greats in the history of Texas-OU.
He makes a key block on the edge to create the gap for Tre, follows the play, and uses his speed to recover a fumble and score a TD. Silas capped a play that had two 180 degree emotional swings in 2 seconds.
Great day for that young man!!!
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Texas has scoreboard on all of the Blue Bloods of College Football.
The average score is 33-18 Texas.
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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:
Well, you never wear your OWN band's t-shirt. Beyond that, there is a statute of limitations that kicks in if you're on stage and the band t-shirt in question is (a) iconic and (b) at least 15 years old, with bonus points for (c) simultaneously iconic and obscure.
For instance, you can wear a Naked Raygun or Corrosion of Conformity t-shirt these days, no problem. If you wear a Styx t-shirt, you better have a ton of talent or swagger or both.
I wore my Stone's '75 t-shirt yesterday. (Yes, Hofheinz Pavillon, U of H campus)
Today, one of my Springsteen shirts. Trying to decide who picked up the check, I offered, "..well, the less I do the more money I make." The blank stares I got back... I picked up the check.
Does that count as talent or swagger or both? Maybe.
Who the fuck where's a Styx shirt?
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10 hours ago, Doc Daneeka said:
Could be a big positive for them with Venables being able to be in Stutsman’s ear.
Could be a big positive for Texas with Sarkisian being able to do the same with Ewers.
Most likely, it’s probably about a wash and Texas wins big by protecting the football.
7 hours ago, Doc Daneeka said:I expect Texas to score 41 or so, as is.
I think it’s pretty advantageous to feed them info coming down from above that they might not be able to see. I think being able to talk to the QB without having to wait for a series to end or calling a time out can be a pretty big deal.
The game film that Chase Daniel broke down, he noted the QB (QE?) making his pre-snap reads, bending over to hear the helmet coms, looking again, motion, snap, read & execute.
I think having the eye in the sky comms helps the QB confirm which guy he needs to read, and make a decision based on what he does.
Knowing Bond and/or a RB/TE has a 75+% chance of one-on-one pre-snap is a great position to be in.
Whatever the DC is whispering to the defense is secondary to the guy holding the ball.
Texas going to have a good day Saturday.
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45 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
Watched this last night. 100% must see. Jeremy Hills, Rod Babers, Fozzy Whitaker, Derrick Johnson, Alex Okafor. (I saw Jeremy & Fozzy play in HS, as Texas commits).
Key is handling emotional swings.
What makes this game unique? Jeremy Hills at the 8:30 mark, "Standing in the tunnel together, see guys you played with and against, in high school and in youth football. "I know you... you're not like that ...I've been knowing you since we were 10 ... l know your mom ... it's personal..."
Key is handling emotional swings.
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Just an observation...
A corollary to dirty side/clean side of the storm;
Tampa and the west coast of Florida faces west, Biloxi-Lake Charles-Houston faces south. If you rotate the map ~ 90 °. you get this.
From this perspective, even with Milton making landfall towards Sarasota, it seems like the counter-clockwise rotation is still going to push a lot of water into Tampa Bay, especially with the way Tampa Bay makes a hook (true north, towards the left of the rotated picture). Water is smart, it will find the lowest elevation.
I know, ... like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic, ... Florida is gonna get smacked.
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28 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:
He really was the worst Texas-OU game coach around. Akers, McWilliams, Mackovic, Strong, and Herman all understood the Texas-OU game and always had their team ready to play that game...if not many of the other games. Mack Brown was the opposite. He would specifically suck at this game in particular even if he did great the rest of the season.
Mack didn't want to play freshman, without knowing or caring this game is littered with freshmen making big plays.
A lot/most risky plays and gambles seem to work for whoever tries them. Some spectacular failures, yes, but being ballsy is rewarded.
Wingo & Simmons gonna feast.
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16 hours ago, Constant said:
I watched this last night, well worth the time. Film breakdown of 4 RPO plays, and the QB pre-snap reads.
To be clear, last year after the Alabama game, they opened the show with, "We are stupid, stupid, idiots..."
This video, without saying the obvious, they know the Texas offense is scary good. Sark's play design... maybe the best in CFB, the Texas RPO is the triple option. If they can't stop this, game over. To stop this, their LB and DB will have to make one-on-one tackles is space, and Teddy was ragging on their LB's. Bond is fast, fast, fast. Marvel at the WR blocking. Think Jake Majors is great. Lost weight, moving quicker; acknowledged how much his injury hurt Texas last year. "If we don't do this ... and this ... and this,...it could be a long day Saturday."
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6 hours ago, Lat22 said:This year will be my 40th OU game. You want old? I'll show you old.
My first was 1974, same as Earl's.
The OU '74 & '75 teams were among the best ever. Nobody saw them, as OU was on probation, so no TV.
I saw Earl Campbell's '77 & Billy Sim's '78 back-to-back Heisman Trophy games.
My disdain for Kirk Bohls dates to 1977. He led me and everyone in Texas to believe that Notre Dame didn't have a chance against undefeated Texas in the Cotton Bowl. As I sat in my 3rd row seat, eye level with the players, I thought, these guys are big. I later realized they had 3 All Americans on defense, Ross Browner (DE), Bob Golic (LB), and Luther Bradley (DB). Also a junior QB, Hannah Montana or something like that. The boomerang effect is the Kirk you know and love.
On to better things.
I'm taking my son's to their first OU game.
One of my favorites, Earl standing tall, with 2 All Americans laying in a pile at his feet.
Hook 'em!
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34 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
Puh-lease! Stop!!!
Sounds like the average SEC honk. "Whatever I see for the first time in my life is the greatest, biggest, fastest, longest, hardest, prettiest, bestest, worstest, thing ever!"
Category 5 already means GET THE FUCK OUT!!!
Not to shit on Milton, but here is the last photo.
32 minutes ago, bolverk said:My mantra for 40 years, "The Trend is your friend." The "Forecasted path" shown?
"I'm not seeing it. I don't get it."
Here is a photo of Hurricane Allen in 1980, with 200+ mph winds. The Yucatan Peninsula is 600+ miles to the Texas Coast. We are all very fortunate it made landfall ~ 100 miles south of Brownsville. Except for those in Mexico.
Not a big mystery where the eye was.
I remember a few Darwin candidates in Austin wanting to drive to the coast so they could see a hurricane.
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26 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
Yeah, would it have been as bad as Katrina? Propably not. That being said what Cat 1 Beryl did to our infrastructure makes me skeptical AF it would have been fine. Perhaps it really was the last 12+ years since Ike that Centerpoint has really let things go to shit. But people also forget just how badly Rita fucked up the sabine pass.
Everything in New Orleans between Lake Pontchartrain through the French Quarter and to the bank of the Mississippi River, is basically at sea level. The River itself is ~70 river miles from the Gulf, and ~20-50 feet above sea level. When you stand on a ship in the river and look over the dike, you are looking down into the City of New Orleans, at sea level, 20+ feet below the river level.
When the 10+ foot Katrina storm surge filled Lake Pontchartrain ~ 10 feet above sea level, it was well above the city elevation, some of the dikes failed, and water poured into the low lying areas in and around New Orleans.
Houston will flood along the bays and bayous and lower elevations, but nothing like New Orleans.
The flooding from Harvey's rainfall was different than any hurricane related storm surge.
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1 hour ago, heso said:
"Current track spares Tampa from the storm surge." I don't think so.
Tampa may not get hit head on, but a hurricane 200 miles in diameter cuts a swath ~ 200 miles in diameter, and pushes a huge layer of water well beyond that. That is a storm surge 1,000's of square miles in area spread across the Florida's west coast, up to 15 feet high, but gradually tapering to a few feet, hundreds of miles away.
Milton will push water into the bay well before the eye makes landfall.
This pic shows a 150 mile path across Florida, generally along the forecast track of Milton. Milton has moved ~ 250 miles in the past 24 hours, roughly 10 miles/hour. The entire area across Florida is forecast to have hurricane force winds at the same time, for an extended period.
Below is the elevation profile of that path. The fact that the 2 peaks represent 2 highways tells you everything you need to know about Milton and Florida, that Milton will go through and across Florida "like shit through a goose."
What's it going to look like when it gets to the Atlantic?
Helene hit Valdosta, GA with 90+ mph winds 70 miles from the coast, and Augusta with 69 mph wind gusts 250 miles inland, crossing a 350' elevation. Odd are we will have Milton 2.0 on the east coast.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
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Posted · Edited by PTINS
typo. text.
Cross posted from: Sub-Educated Cretins: The SEC screenshot mega-thread thread.
My dislike for A&M is eternal.
The best running back in the history of my HS choose not to go to Texas, for a very good reason. He went to A&M, and we were lifelong friends, until his passing. May he RIP. Ironically, the reason he didn't go to Texas is similar to the reason for my post.
1975 was #2 A&M v. #5 Texas, in College Station. Marty Akins (Texas QB) was coming off a knee injury from 2 week prior. On Texas's first play, Pat Thomas (A&M DB) came in like a missile and put his helmet directly on Akins' knee, taking him out of the game. Game over.
This is an old post from Hornsfans:
hamhorn
Nov 5, 2009
"FireRC, there' no history of the Aggies intentionally trying to injure Texas players?
Ask those of us who watched Jackie Williams take a dirty shot to Roosevelt Leaks' knee, putting him on the ground and out of the game during the 1973 game at Kyle Field. He said in the dressing room afterward "God help me for doing that. I was just so fired up".
Two years later, I was sitting on my Aggie father-in-law's 40 yard line seats when early in the game Pat Thomas took Marty Akins out with a cheap shot. All the Aggies sitting around me stood up and cheered.
Please don't come over here with descriptions of your people as being good sports. Whatever y'all can do to beat "t.u." is considered "good bull", from selling your souls to hire Jackie Sherrill to desecrating Memorial Stadium ( a stadium dedicated to all Texas war dead, including Aggies).
It's not for nothing that we call y'all dirty cheaters."
Aggy personified is at 35:08 of the video.
For damn near 50 years, I have never apologized for my beliefs towards A&M, and I'm not sure what might ever change that.
I'm asking if one of you sleuths can make a video or screen grab, of find something in the archives, to memorialize it and to provide others one more data point validating the history and depth of Aggy transgressions.
Thanks in advance.