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Paul Wesley

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  1. Yeah, this whole second half had an incompetent, Keystone cops, both-teams-trying-to-lose vibe. Looks like BYU is going to win (lose) that contest.
  2. It's even better (worse) without the music:
  3. I mean, the fact that we're coming off the worst decade in Texas football history, and yet we're THE team that lives in Iowa State's head - you know what that tells me? It tells me that the rest of this left-behind league is profoundly lacking in name-brand schools that ANYONE gives a shit about. Hell, our own conference mates don't even give a shit about playing each other, as witnessed by the abysmal TV numbers when there's no OU or Texas on the field, and instead it's just Baylor, UH, Cincinnati, KSU Iowa State, etc. See how this Iowa State guy doesn't give a shit about the rest of this also-ran teams in flyover country? See how he's going to be without a SINGLE Big 12 home game next year that he's super excited to be a part of? That's how OU and Texas have felt for the past decade.
  4. A fan of the team with players betting on their own games, a douchebag coach trying to fight fans in the parking lot, and a JAG lineman yapping (wrongly) to the media while a couple of 3-star Texas D tackles who are day 1 NFL picks - and who are about to give him a 5-star prison rape… For you to come here and lecture us about fixing our broken “culture” … Fuck off.
  5. Yeah, we are losing the best DT tandem in football and a salty, proven linebacker behind them. Nobody can consistently run between the tackles against 2023 Texas. Also losing our best player (by a lot) in the secondary, a ton of playmakers on offense, our best TE of the past 15+ years, probably our starting QB (and possibly the backup to the portal), etc., etc. We have a little window here to get a conference championship, and we're still alive for a top-shelf bowl and maybe even more.
  6. I'm just struck by the almost comical difference between: Calm, composed, analytical 1st-half Dvoracek who heaps praise on Texas vs Final-drive, game-on-the-line Dvoracek, "LATE HIT! LATE HIT! YOU HAVE TO CALL THAT! THAT WAS BRUTAL!" Just constant lobbying for any kind of a flag against Texas on every snap down the stretch.
  7. Announcers have abandoned all pretense of being impartial
  8. total phantom call that was not a hold
  9. Fuck these announcers "lot of contact:" "could have been a flag" etc
  10. Seems like we had one of those vs KSU last week... defense all just points at someone, and then a few seconds later, refs are like, "oh, okay."
  11. *uninterested But yeah, it’s going to continue being a league with parity and likely some 2-loss champions.
  12. It's fucking crazy how truth and reality on the right are manufactured via the relentless repetition of lies. The idea that three years of data are somehow validating far-right anti-vaccine shit is INSANE, yet they repeat some version of "the vaccine is unsafe" constantly. Same thing for Mueller and his carefully documented report detailing months of high-level secretive coordination between Trump's inner circle and the Russian agents who were decidedly anti-American and delighted to undermine our democracy... And now you probably couldn't get through an evening of Fox prime time without hearing some version of "and we all know how vaccines turned out to be a scam" and/or "and we all know how Mueller turned out to be wrong about everything." And the audience nods along - so happy and self-satisfied to be so much smarter than the lame stream media sheep.
  13. Gehrig's timeline is really striking. He played 2130 games in a row. He had a fairly abrupt decline in power and coordination at the beginning of the 1939 season. He took himself out of the Yankees' starting lineup in May, and got the diagnosis a month or two later. He was 36. He came back to deliver the "luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech that same summer. He went from perennial all-star and pro athlete with record-setting longevity to death in like 26 months.
  14. I remember one of the posters (?Scipio) posting on one of the many former versions of this website -- on the subject of OOC games. His opinion was that you either A) get a home game for your fans/donors and eat a cupcake, or B) schedule a perennial OOC power (Michigan, Ohio State, USC, Bama, Notre Dame) in a home-and-home. "Don't mess with Mister In-Between" was his observation. i.e. don't play teams that aren't a national brand (little or no credit for a win) but they're still good enough to get you in their home stadium and beat you. Seems to me that pretty much all of the left-behind schools are Mr In-Between. I could get behind playing a home-home vs a school that's a decent travel destination (Tulane in New Orleans, Colorado in Denver or Boulder). We're not going back to Waco, Ames, or Lubbock in my lifetime though. That scheduling strategy (and this post) doesn't even take into account the hard feelings and bad blood from our departure. I have a lot of beefs with shit that our athletic department does poorly (hire coaches, manage your game-day in-stadium experience). But I think they've done a solid job of scheduling. Lots of big-name matchups, a few cupcakes at home. We've also stayed away from scheduling a bunch of the you've-got-to-be-fucking-kidding-me matchups of our future SEC brethren. Our Aggie brethren have scheduled Lamar, Abeline Christian, Incarnate Word, etc. Ugh.
  15. For the past few weeks, I keep seeing "treat it like a scrimmage" as one of the main arguments for going for all these 4th downs. But that argument works both ways. I can't remember the specific time left on the clock vs BYU, but we had a short FG that puts us up 3 scores with 7 or 8 minutes left in the game. For me, the "scrimmage" argument would be kick the short FG, play defense, then let Arch (who is one rolled ankle away from carrying ALL our playoff hopes on his shoulders as the only healthy QB) run the full offense at full speed.
  16. Yormark is going to get to the bottom of this nonsense about being biased against Texas.
  17. Those Kansas State vs Houston numbers should absolutely horrify the athletic departments of the left-behind schools. I wish I could be there in a couple years when the networks write their corresponding dollar figure on a sheet of paper and slide it across the table to Yormark and Wiesner.
  18. “He goes down slow too.” - Bum Phillips
  19. A good retirement portfolio would be real estate and pedals that don't fit on a board. Rebalance as needed.
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