Everything posted by Uncle Nate
- Cowboys @ Bears: TNF Edition
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Tell me about Texas Tech
We crossed paths. We know many of the same people I suspect I won’t even begin to describe my 1995 Cotton Bowl experience.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Spike viewed the bowl game as a treat for his players, with all the fanfare and gifts and stuff. Free trip to somewhere exotic like Shreveport or Birmingham [/sarcasm]. What Spike failed to consider is how much money Tech fans spent on going to these bowl games just to see his coaching staff not take it that seriously. I loved Spike, and I had the chance as a student to interact with him quite a bit (he wasn't a fan when we rolled out the smoke machines to replace the old high school painted busters). But man I never liked his approach to bowl games. He won two in his entire tenure...the All-American Bowl vs. Duke (coached by Spurrier) and the Copper Bowl vs. Air Force.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
The first season he went up against the mighty juggernaut East Carolina Pirates in the much coveted mattress mac galleryfurniture.com bowl in Houston. Tech was a heavy favorite as I recall. We had driven back to Texas from a white Christmas in the New Mexico mountains the night of the game, and I think arrived at my folks place sometime around half-time. East Carolina just whooped Tech up and down the field. I don't think the game was as close as the final score of 40-27, but maybe it was. All I know is my dad and I were disgusted because this was supposed to be an easy win for Tech, and we weren't that enamored with what we saw on the field that first season to begin with. My dad was cussing about "dink and dunk this shit and dink and dunk that shit and lose to fucking east fucking carolina." It was my new bride's and my first Christmas as a lawfully wedded couple. Good times. We followed it up the next year by investing in a bowl trip to San Antonio to watch the mighty Tech offense score a whopping 16 points to Iowa, who scored 19, in yet another game in which Tech was favored to win. Yep, those first two years under Leach weren't too bueno. And sadly, still better than pretty much all but 2 or 3 of the past 10 years.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Goddamit, Goose! Put the fucking flag away and find Jester before he shoots our ass!
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Actual Coaching Staff Developments
An actual, real, and true update: I have not been contacted in regards to any of the current vacancies.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
They have to pay for those stadium bonds and Jimbo's salary somehow. Can't make no money on them road trips.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Well said. Pigmeat & some others like him have this notion that Wells inherited ample talent from KK and should have just been able to plug and play and win 7-8 games right out of the gate. Statistically speaking, that's not going to happen most of the time, but especially not when you've inherited decent, but not great, starters with absolutely zero depth to speak of behind them. Tag on a few injuries in key spots, and it's a recipe for a disastrous season.
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Direct TV outage
Back up in North Texas.
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Direct TV outage
Well great. We reset the receiver.
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Direct TV outage
It’s like someone blowed up the satellite. No direct tv currently at my house in North Texas. Not even the DVR. Anyone else experiencing the same?
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Anyone have a kid with mono?
There's a good chance that the mono has caused some dehydration and seriously depleted his electrolytes, potassium, and other vitamin levels over time. The potassium levels alone could be working against him. I would get some electrolyte replacement drinks going (vitamin water zero, pedialyte, MiO flavor enhancer that specifically has electrolytes, etc.) and also get him taking some Vitamin D, C, B12, & A supplements with meals. Also, get him to eat more foods with higher potassium contents (don't do supplements, because you don't want to do too much potassium...just try and get it through nutrition alone). Here's a list of high potassium, nutritious foods: https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-rich-in-potassium#1
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Tell me about Texas Tech
I don't know those people.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Dammit, I knew that sounded wrong. All arkansas schools look the same to me.
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2019-20 Big 12 thread
Never can be said enough. +rep.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
People who saw what he did that year at Arkansas State knew he was the coach to get. I know at the time UNLV hired him I posted somewhere that I really wish we could have grabbed him. Others in my circle had said the same thing. People who were paying attention knew he was the hot commodity to get. As soon as Tubbs announced he was leaving for Memphis, I think every Tech fan's first response was, "Go get Beard." It seemed it was a no-brainer to everyone at that time. Heck i remember some Tech fans during the season, before Tubbs left, that Beard would be the ideal next coach.
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CFB coaching carousel
And it helps him on the recruiting trail because he can negate the negative recruiting tactics of other coaches telling the recruits that Campbell won't be there much longer.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Hocutt deserves ample criticism for the KK hire. He rolled the dice on someone that everyone was pot banging to be hired because he was the OC for Johnny F'n Football. It was a risk to hire KK, but at the time he was trending up. No one then realized that KK just wasn't ready to run an entire program, recruiting and all. Hocutt probably knew better than to roll the dice on KK that early, but if he hadn't and KK had gone on to success at another school, he would have been run out of Lubbock on a rail. The Tech fan base, myself included, kind of painted Hocutt into a corner on that hire because Tuberville was such a polarizing failure of a hire (not Hocutt's hire). KK was a roll of the dice, and unfortunately we crapped out on that roll. So I give Hocutt a pass on that hire for all the reasons I state above. I think it's too early to make a summary judgement on Wells & his staff. Yes, there were some head scratching moments this season, but I wasn't at the practices, in the film room, or on the sidelines during the game. And the defense, that was already pretty thin depth-wise, was decimated by injuries. So I am going to give him and his staff the benefit of the doubt for this season. But he needs to show real improvement next year before we decide Hocutt has gone 0-2 on football head coaching hires at Tech. Now, Beard was a no-brainer. Even the worst AD in America would have known to go after Beard as soon as Tubbs left for Memphis, regardless if Beard just signed a big contract at another school two weeks prior. The credit I give to Hocutt for the Beard hire was to not be resigned to the fact he was just hired by UNLV and to go after him anyway. But I don't give him credit for the Beard hire in as far as he could see talent there that no one else could. Hell, we all knew Beard was the guy to get. I wanted him before Tubbs left and UNLV hired him...so did many others. It was the no-brainer hire of all no-brainer hires.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
I stopped my sub at RRS years ago. Twitter basically started providing the same amount of "inside information", if not more, for free. Once Robert Gio left to go work for Tech, that site went downhill faster than a snowball in the alps.
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12-1-19 NFL thread
Oh I remember. I’m 46. First football hero was Roger Staubach. I’ve been a Cowboys fan since as long as I can remember.
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12-1-19 NFL thread
Dallas is going to win the NFC east. What a joke. (I am a Dallas fan, but man what a weak ass division).
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2019 Fuck Fantasy Football
Fuck you philly defense. Fuck you. You had one job against the 3rd worst offense in the NFL. Just adds to my philly hate which I thought couldn’t be any greater.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
The Aggy mental gymnastics being employed trying to justify their $75 million coach’s 2nd year results is entertaining to say the least.
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12-1-19 NFL thread
Fucking Philadelphia. I pick up their defense this week for my FF team because they we’re going up against 3rd worst offense Miami, and they’ve allowed Miami to score in the first half their per game average (14).
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2019-20 Big 12 thread
Iowa played physical basketball like what this young Tech team will experience in Big 12 play (and hopefully tournament play). They hadn’t experienced physical D-1 play like that until last night. Part of the growing up process, and I hope they can learn from it because they will get a much much heavier dose of it in conference play. I think that had to impact their psyche and consequently their shooting, which was absolutely abysmal.