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Uncle Nate

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  1. I should also mention that one of Tech's starting DB's this year was UT's very own Tyler Owens who ended up transferring to Tech. He's the NE Patriots #1 target on their draft board for special teams specialist. But yeah, just another outlier. What is the magic number before we can say they are no longer outliers and you admit that the transfer portal has good players going to these "tier 2" schools from "tier 1" as well? Quick summary: 1. Tyree Wilson - transferred from A&M to Tech, drafted in 1st round. 2. Tyler Shough - transferred from Oregon to Tech, has a lot of NFL scout interest. 3. Tyler Owens - transferred to Tech from UT, top target for NE Patriots' special teams draft board. 4. New WR who transferred from Austin Peay - one of the fastest players on the field when they played Alabama last year, accumulating nearly 100 yds receiving against the Crimson Tide. 5. New DB from Fresno St. - tons of speed. 6. New Center from WKU - also has NFL potential. 7. New DE from Syracuse - being scouted by multiple NFL teams But yeah, the transfer portal is only going to help the SEC and BIG and it's going to hurt the rest of us. 🙄
  2. No one who was in the SWC can point fingers to anyone else who was in the SWC when it comes to cheating. Except maybe Rice.
  3. 2,3. Tomato, tomahto. I went to tech. Counting to 3 wasn’t required.
  4. This. Mitch's fallacy is he thinks the transfer portal only goes in one direction. Didn't TCU get two players from Alabama this past year? Tech's starting QB came from Oregon, and Tyree Wilson (#8 overall NFL pick this past Spring) transferred to Tech from A&M as a preferred walk-on. That's right. A scholarship player at an SEC school transferred to Tech as a walk-on his first semester, and ended up being a #1 draft pick.
  5. Um, got some bad news for you, Sparky.
  6. Fred Akers first year. Always felt bad for Coach Akers. A really good coach who got close, but just couldn't get his team the championship like his legendary predecessor did. He was the Danny White of UT football coaches.
  7. Normally, I detest the use of the phrase "full stop". But in this case...you are fucking-a-right.
  8. You guys are a breath away from chanting SEC SEC SEC aren't you? Sad. The last redeeming quality Texas fans had was making fun of that.
  9. 1. It's not weird. It's all about the $$$$. They want to try and get two teams into the CFP, and multiple teams into the bigger bowls, so they only schedule 8 conference games to inflate their win totals. It's the same reason they will want to push for fewer or no auto bids to non-SEC/BIG conferences. It's all about the almighty dollar. 2. Coach McGuire said something in his press conference yesterday about the college football being the only sport without any warmup games. NFL has preseason, high schools have scrimmages, etc. Maybe we pay the FCS schools to scrimmage the FBS schools.
  10. Same with me for Tech. We have no business playing Tarleton St. this year, or ACU or SHSU* or SFA in previous years. *SHSU does have a national championship at least. But still, P5 should not be playing FCS period.
  11. Your suggestion is lucid, intelligent, and well-thought out. BIG & SEC: Overruled.
  12. Granted it's not OU easy, but still... 2023 Georgia football schedule Sept. 2 UT MARTIN Sept. 9 BALL STATE Sept. 16 SOUTH CAROLINA Sept. 23 UAB Sept. 30 at Auburn Oct. 7 KENTUCKY Oct. 14 at Vanderbilt Oct. 21 Open Date Oct. 28 vs. Florida (Jacksonville) Nov. 4 MISSOURI Nov. 11 OLE MISS Nov. 18 at Tennessee Nov. 25 at Georgia Tech
  13. Bullshit. That may be one of the dumbest takes on here, and that is saying something. SEC and BIG are top heavy, and deciding on just 8 conference games and having the possibility of not even playing the best in the conference for YEARS proves this statement false. Maybe your point would be more valid if they were forced to play the same amount of conference games the Big 12 is playing, and not be allowed to schedule the November cupcake game to rest and heal their starters.
  14. One of my friends on our intramural flag football team that freshman year was from somewhere around Kilgore. Had to go up against Bam in a high school football game. The guy is like 5'11''-6'0'', maybe 185-195 lbs playing DE in high school. Said when he went to tackle Bam, it was like a freight train had ran over him at full speed. Bam was bigger than any other player on the field except for maybe 1 or 2 OL, and he's just a man amongst boys destroying anyone who got in his way.
  15. Reminds me of a little yappy lap dog trying to pick a fight with my 110 lb. shepherd mix.
  16. My freshman year at Tech I'm living in Weymouth. Bam would hold court down in the lobby, just hanging out in the lounge. Rumor is he was doing more than just hanging out and holding court...he was engage in certain business transactions.
  17. Raider Red does not take the shotguns on the road. Those are only at home, and most of the time, it's a Saddle Tramp who shoots the blanks after a score rather than Red himself. When I was in school we had two incidents with those shotguns. One was the Saddle Tramp carrying them over to Red accidentally shot one while it was pointed down, leaving a burn mark in the astroturf. The athletic facilities assistant AD, Ron Damron, completely lost his shit over that. Then a couple of years later, he REALLY lost his shit when the dumbass who was responsible for the shotguns decided he wanted to impress his girlfriend and get a picture of him shooting the shotguns AFTER a game was over. We all turned around when we heard them because that never happens after a game. Damron and the campus police descended on him rather quickly. It took a lot of pleading by the Saddle Tramp sponsor to the administration to allow them to continue the tradition and not have it banned because of the actions of one dumb kid. Now if the big wooden pistols Red has as decoration are "banned", then that's just being stupid. Those are just wood cutouts.
  18. Blasphemy. The Oxford comma is the thin blue line between civilization and total anarchy.
  19. She's a writer for the New Yorker and doesn't understand the importance of distinguishing between West the town and west the region with a comma? I bet she doesn't like (and by default, doesn't understand the importance of) the Oxford comma. Sounds like the New Yorker's standards have gone downhill.
  20. I thought ESPN+ has become the de facto Big 12 Network? I mean, if I want to watch Texas Tech volleyball or soccer, I can pretty much be assured it will be on ESPN+. Meanwhile, Spectrum (at least Spectrum in North Texas) did not have the Pac12 network for me to watch the USC game this weekend. I was pretty much anti-ESPN+ when more and more Big12 basketball games were moved to it over the past couple of years, but looking at that vs. the Pac12 network options, I rather have ESPN+ be the de facto conference network, especially since I'm already subscribed to it for the sake of basketball watching.
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