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LTbear

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  1. I love the documentary, but as a biologist who understands the populations of Texas wildlife, it's almost more a mourning what's lost than celebrating what's here. Sure, Texas has mountain lions - a few dozen to a couple hundred that are hunted without restriction, while other states have thousands and regulated hunting seasons. Texas has a coast that some dolphins visit, but it is nothing compared to the rocky coastal of the Pacific with seals, sea lions, dolphins, tidal pools, and whales galore. Texas has a few struggling black bears while other states have tens of thousands of the same (and sometimes grizzlies, too). Texas was once one of the very few states with two species of native wolf; there are obviously have zero now. Texas has a big deer herd that is there only because of the habitat opened up by the lack of elk, bison, pronghorn, and bighorn (there are a few very small populations of those in tightly controlled areas). Most importantly, Texas has Big Bend, the Guadalupes, and then almost zero large tracts of intact ecosystem, because hardly any of Texas is preserved, whereas other western states have hundreds and hundreds of square miles of wilderness that is formally protected. The Texas wildlands do not have near enough the acreage, much less the interconnections, to maintain much in the way of wild character a d wildlife habitat. Texas has a few small pockets of relic wildness, but that wildness is more akin to viewing a large zoo or museum exhibit than it is to seeing any true wild. The Big Bend area is the lone exception. Rant over. I loved growing up in Texas, but I can never move back. Montana is home now.
  2. Big XII application rejected https://twitter.com/UNISWAG/status/1556658638441283584?s=20&t=l6cRgXWRsitomX8YtFEHRQ
  3. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I wouldn't mind Boise. They've built a semi-intense and usually fun rivalry with BYU. They're also closer to me than any other existing or potential Big XII team (though still 7+ hours away).
  4. As a fan, Utah is one of the teams I'd most enjoy seeing join the Big XII (regionality and rivalries is essentially all I care about). But ya, that BYU is already here may make it a bit more precarious for them. I don't know enough Utah fans to have a sense, but I wonder if there's also some aversion to "following" BYU anywhere.
  5. Wordle 414 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  6. Oh don't worry, we will.
  7. Son, you just spent way too many words writing common sense that everyone on this thread. But since you're a Texas fan, I guess you thought you were writing something of substance?
  8. His name is Cumsteen. Untwist your panties big fella.
  9. Probably Big XII and PAC fans, cumstain. It's about all this thread is now, so if it's not your cup of tea, there's plenty of other threads to busy yourself with.
  10. Just wait out the ACC's death via SEC/ B1G and pickup a couple eastern teams.
  11. Perhaps this is a good time to remind everyone that cassowaries and every other bird on the planet are literally little maniraptoran dinosaurs.
  12. "NBC Could Make the Big Ten the 'NFL of College Football Conferences'" https://frontofficesports.com/nbc-big-ten-nfl/
  13. I'm still hoping for University of Alaska at Anchorage Seawolves. 18% of the country (by area) and a completely untapped market!
  14. Thinking about the weakness of the Big XII North reminded me of this, seen during the 2007 Kansas vs Missouri/ Border War game when KU entered at 11-0. Without question the best sign seen at any college football game, ever.
  15. Some context needed
  16. I don't get the UConn reference
  17. I'd be stuck between some nature hippie conversing with the universe breakdown while simultaneously peeing my britches and possibly violently shitting myself as my heart reached the "I can't breathe" level
  18. Lobbing haymakers at the Big XII but not saying anything about the B1G looks pretty pathetic.
  19. Agreed. I think of all the realignment mess, longhorn fans - in my view - probably came out better than the vast majority of teams, being reunited with their big three rivals.
  20. I honestly didn't expect two of you to take the bait. Agreed on your sentiment that Arky used to be a regional power, so to speak. As a fan of just college football (where regionality and regional rivals is what makes the world go round), I'm actually looking forward to seeing Texas vs Piggy happen again in the future. I also think Arky vs OU could become fun.
  21. Luckily recent winning percentage isn't the most important factor in realignment decisions, as longhorn fans would know
  22. I'd say that's a pretty good bet
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