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  1. Ced could turn a 2 yard run into a 5 yard run with regularity. Dude gets criminally underrated as time passes. He was an absolute hoss.

    Plus he has at least a claim as the best high school player in Texas state history.

    If he wasn’t such an ass, he would have been a lot more celebrated.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Red Five said:

    Cutting the volume by 20% would solve a lot of this, IMO. Just take some of the edge off. 

    And like someone said above, how about some steady hip hop type stuff, at a reduced volume, as opposed to destroying our ear buds with 40 year old AC/DC. 

    That was me.  Thinking about it a little more, if it was my job, I would take the current top 20 hip-hop songs each week... find the 10 with the most suitable or recognizable beats... and then that would be my ambient music when the band wasn't playing.  Take the instrumental version and put it on loop.  Something CURRENT.  And turn up the bass and turn down that shrill ass treble.  Damn.  

    Just looking at the spotify current rap top chart, there are a ton of good options.  You could play the instrumental version of WAP and I guarantee the student section and players would get fired up. Or Going Bad. Or First Class. Whatever. I don't love any of these songs, but that isn't the point. The players do. And the students do.  It has to be better than playing tired AF "Jump" by Van Halen.

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  3. After going to the Bama game, our experience seems so amateur in many ways. The Jumbotron is just too loud, the sound quality is TRASH.

    Also Bama figured out how to do the LED lights. Not stupid strobe crap. Take down the white lights and just bathe the stadium in orange. Done.

    Bama also would just play ambient hip hop beats that would keep the crowd bumping. NOT 40 year old metal that hurts the ears and kills all the energy. Play something recruits will actually like. Damn it, it isn’t hard. The atmosphere seems designed for 65 yr old grandparents.

    Bob Cole is horrid. I mean HORRID. He has to go. I found myself wondering what it would be like with someone like Rod Babers doing the stadium commentating.

    Overall most of what we were doing looked like something Texas Tech would do, but with us just spending more money on it. Seems like we are trying too hard. Amateur hour.

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  4. On 4/10/2022 at 2:07 PM, po elvis said:

    My Mexican gf made enchiladas for my parents a few years ago. She had just made the best enchiladas a couple weeks prior. So I bite into them and am thinking wtf is this? I say there is something weird about them. She said she thought she was using cumin but it was the cinnamon shaker. She was hoping we didn’t notice.

    CSB Alert:  Reminds me of a similar story with my mother-in-law.  One time we caught a bunch of catfish at my in-laws.  My MIL (GREAT cook) decided to fry them up for us.  She was out of cornmeal so decided to improvise with some boxed cornbread mix.  Big mistake.  It was absolutely disgusting.  Sweet cornbread and catfish are not flavors and textures that mix well.  At all.     \CSB

  5. 7 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Upper deck is gonna be rowdy af and the trip is going to be less about the game than it is about the whole day Saturday. I wouldn't overpay for lower bowl tickets it won't have a big impact on your experience and the majority of Texas fans are going to be upper deck since that's where ticket allotment went. 

    We can migrate to the 50 yard line after those people leave in the 4th quarter when we are blowing them out.

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  6. On 8/21/2023 at 12:02 PM, Tylerocks said:

    I don't really get "chopped" beef people.

     

    The 2 for $5 chopped beef sandwich at Rubys down by campus used to be the best sandwich in Austin in my opinion.  Their smoked chicken jambalaya also slapped.  Damnit making my mouth water thinking about it.  Skillet potatoes were also strong to quite strong. 

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  7. The Big 12 has just about guaranteed its survival as the 3rd best conference. They and their schools are positioned exactly where they deserve to be. They don't deserve to be left out, but they also equipped to compete in the top two conferences.  They all maintain a shot at the title, but can compete with each other on a relatively even playing field.

    It would suck worse to be a school like Northwestern or Vanderbilt. Those schools get a nice paycheck, but have no shot.  And their conferences keep getting tougher.  They are looking at a lot of 2-10 type seasons.

    It is also going to suck to be in the ACC knowing that the top schools could leave at any minute and threaten the conference.  Schools like Georgia Tech have the potential to wind up like Washington State or Cal.  

    I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple of teams in the Big 12 rise up and fill the power vacuum that currently exists (UCF? Colorado? Tech? OSU?). Ironically, elevating a few programs would actually put the conference more at risk.

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  8. 5 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    That's a really misinformed statement and you should feel bad about it.  Stanford's academic rep has been on the same level as Harvards for the past few decades under any measuring stick. But more relevant to this discussion, the athletic success has been way about the schools you mention.  Stanford has had success in NY bowl games in recent memory, but those schools don't come close to Stanford in terms of frankly ANY sports other than Duke in basketball. 

    We live in a new sports world and Stanford doesn't fit in any currrent model very well, but your post pretty dumb.

     

    And yet... even the Big 12 doesn't want Stanford.

    Please explain to me why the Big 12, a conference who should be desperate to raise their academic standing, wouldn't take arguably the preeminent academic university in the world, who is dying to be added?

    I'll tell you why. Because academics don't matter at all in this equation.

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  9. I just don't think it has dawned on the alumni of any of these schools in a coordinated sense yet.  The game has changed and there is very little stopping a Stanford from competing with an Alabama if the alumni are mobilized.  

    I think you can look at the endowment of a school as a measure of the collective resources of their alumni.  I understand that the endowment itself can't be used for sports... but is a relative show of what the alumni are capable of if they make sports a priority.

    Harvard has an endowment of $49B.  Stanford $36B.  Rice $7.8B.  USC $7.3B.  These schools have ass-loads of rich alumni.  Compare these numbers to TCU with $2.4B. Or Penn State with $4.6B.

  10. As an aside, if these smart schools decided that they REALLY care about sports, they could dominate with NIL.  Harvard has the resources to pay the best blue chips more NIL money than anyone, including Texas.  They have the money to get a coach like Urban Meyer and a kick-ass staff if they really wanted to.  But they don't.  Yet.

    I think that there will be a school in the next 20 years that gives it a shot though.  Maybe it will be Stanford. The cycle to relevance is just so much quicker now. Back 20 years ago, schools had to lure high school recruits with facilities, pageantry and history.  That stuff took decades to develop.  The only short-cut was maybe to go the juco route.

    Now, money paid directly to players will be the biggest deciding factor. Developing a chance to make the NFL will be a distant second priority. Everything else will be way down the list.  A rich, motivated school can clear those two hurdles in a single year if it is a priority.

  11. 2 hours ago, Uncle Nate said:

    USC and Notre Dame, and for a short time relatively speaking Miami, are the only schools that have Tulane's selectivity and became major football powers (I don't count Stanford because they only had a brief moment a time or two).  But USC is in LA, Miami I'm certain bought their success (and it's Miami), and Notre Dame has the history and the Papists.  Tulane, if they had stayed in the SEC, wouldn't have had any of that.

     

    2 hours ago, statsman said:

    There is one more private school with (renewed) football aspirations.  SMU

    There are other (decent) private schools that have fared well in athletics.  Duke has been a basketball powerhouse for a while.  

    TCU played for a football title just last year.

    BYU won a football title in the 80s.

    Baylor won a title in men's hoops and has been very competitive over the last 16 years (A 12-win season + three 11-win seasons). I still think that they have the potential to be the Baptist Notre Dame if they would ever stop killing and raping people.

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