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HookEm

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  1. Big 12 needs a new media manager if that tweet is the best they can do. Both confusing and stupid.
  2. 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.
  3. I have Jamaal Charles as #2 on my list of best UT RBs that I have personally watched play. The list goes: Ricky Williams Jamaal Charles Cedric Benson Bijan Robinson Ramonce Taylor D'Onta Foreman
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Oh look it's the thread with the stupidest title in the history of Surly back at the top of the basketball board.
  7. One altercation outside the stadium involved a group of college girls running up to us. The lead girl yelling “HORNS DOWN CUNT!!!!!!” said with as much anger as you can imagine. I thought it was hysterical. My friend walked with his horns raised high for at least an hour and a half after the game.
  8. After the game as we were walking around, I put my arm up to my face like an elephant trunk and started telling Tide fans “Trunks down”. They responded by losing their minds. “Horns down fucker!!! HORNS DOWN!!!!!!” I might have been drunk.
  9. Any word from the tailgate? Our group is taking over a Waffle House preparing to head down in a bit.
  10. Disu is critical for this team to have a chance at a deep tourney run. And we need him all year to get a high seed.
  11. 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
  12. We fly into Atlanta at ~2 PM. Any tips on places to stop between Atlanta and Tuscaloosa for food?
  13. We are flying in and out of Atlanta for the Alabama game. As such we are now planning to hit the Atlanta game to watch Bijan's start. Should be fun.
  14. We can migrate to the 50 yard line after those people leave in the 4th quarter when we are blowing them out.
  15. Hey immamac - It looks like we are only going to need 5 tickets after all. If there aren't any takers for the 6th ticket from Surly, let us know and we will try to find another person to go. Or sell it in the worst case.
  16. It seems like I've heard that before.
  17. 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.
  18. Chapel talk not going away
  19. Some of those Big 10 teams would be a much better fit in the Big 12. Minnesota and Iowa could compete much better with Colorado, Arizona and West Virginia than with Michigan and USC.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Who cares. Harvard has a better academic reputation than Stanford. Nobody is trying to add them to the ACC. The academics don't matter at all. Stanford and Cal should form a league with Rice, SMU, Tulane, etc. Pull in Duke and Georgia Tech eventually when the ACC crumbles. Be the "smart conference that also cares a little about sports". Own it. Stop partnering with the Oregon States of the world.
  25. 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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