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RC Horn

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  1. Congrats to the 2023 Texas Rangers....2023 AL Champions!! What is especially gratifying is that ii happened on the Astro grass!!  To the guys and gals out there who are Astros fans, I know that you are feeling down right now. I do not wish to rub it in. After the Ranger beat the best teams in the AL then your team in the ALCS, I just hope that my hometown team has earned your respect.

     

     

  2. 5 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    We’re still waiting for all the examples of game-changing bad calls for Texas. Your post indicates you have a whole bunch you can share.

    ISU fans still bitch about the goal line non fumble that may have cost them the game in 2011 or 2013, except our ball carrier’s ass was on the turf before their LB emerged with the ball.

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    They still complain about that call after all these years?  Jonathan Gray was obviously down on that play. OU still complains to this day about the officiating in the 1984 game. I hope that I have supplied you guys with the ammunition to combat that one. :)  

  3. 10 hours ago, gmr548 said:

     


    It’s less stupid than it was when the Big 12 was a round robin and the first seed was playing a second seed it had finished outright ahead of. For example, despite us wining the RRS in 2018, it was stupid an 8-1 OU team had to play a 7-2 Texas team in the CCG after playing the same schedule. This year there is at least the element of incongruous conference schedules. I do agree a Big 12 title by virtue of beating an OU team with a similar or better league record in a rematch would feel kind of hollow after yesterday but thems the rules, and if it ruins their season all the better.

    Ew. No. This is absurd. I hope they lose the rest of the games they play. If it’s a playoff thing a 12-1 Texas is overwhelmingly likely to get a nod regardless.

    Texas is inconsistent enough that I expect them to lose one or two more anyway - though winning out wouldn’t shock me. They’ll be big favorites the rest of the way and for good reason. OU exposed Texas to a degree but for the most part the rest of the conference isn’t equipped to replicate without a huge amount of help from Texas itself. 11-1 and a rematch should be the goal obviously but 7-2 in conference probably gets you in the CCG.

    I do think OU drops at least one league game. That is not a juggernaut.

     

    Agree wholeheartedly. I hate OU and their redneck fanbase with the intensity of 10000 suns. I could see them drop at least one game with their schedule. They're not the team that the media and all the Surly naysayers make them out to be. A good team,, yes but one that will be horrifically exposed once they face a really good team without the benefit of Big XII officiating. Even as poorly as UT played this past Saturday, they almost won. OU is not invincible. 

  4. 31 minutes ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

    seriously, what had sark done to make you think we can win out?    we play down to our competition every other game 

    Because we have more depth and talent on this team than previous years. I do not see the team playing down to its competition for the remaining games. Of course the Big XII refs may have a say.

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  5. IMHO, the Big XII has had the long knives out for us since the creation of the LHN. As much as I liked the LHN especially during baseball season. It boat anchored us to the conference.

  6. 41 minutes ago, troph said:

    I think OU forced the SEC move actually. 

    Of course they did but the truth really doesn't matter to all th anti UT people out there. To them, we're big bad Texas, a program that has. destroyed 2 conferences. 

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  7. RIP Brooks Robinson :(  The Orioles were my 2nd favorite team in the MLB next to the Rangers. They had the best infield ever in the League back then. Brooks Robinson was one of my favorite players of all time and the greatest 3B to ever play. Condolences to the Orioles fans at this time of grief from a longtime Rangers fan.

  8. 9 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    #2 response is incorrect.

    The Texas football program is the most valuable among all colleges in the NCAA, being valued at $1.1 Billion.

    A&M is not in the top 5.

    https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/what-valuable-college-football-programs

    My response is correct concerning aggy complaining about the unlimited scholarships. They led the SWC from 1960-1969 in players signed during that period. For them to state that UT was just stuffing our roster to keep other good players from competing against us is just plain laughable. Give them credit though. No one in the press corps in Texas is ever going to call them out for it. A total aggy myth that is still continues to this day.

  9. Below are some responses to some aggy on a Youtube video a while back.. IMHO, these should be our responses not only to aggy but any idiot that dares to defend them either on a BB or in the press.

    1)Before 1964 A&M was an all male military college and you had to be a cadet and serve in the army to attend A&M. So A&M couldn’t recruit the big guys and talented players in the trenches like UT did for half a century because in the army there’s a height and weight test that you have to maintain. It’s like UT playing Army right now every year and claiming superiority. It’s just not fair. Aggies were to busy worried about serving their country rather than football. Most of UT’s wins were before the 60’s. 

    Response #1:  A&M was a pseudo military school that was never affiliated  with either the USMA or USNA. It was the VMI or The Citadel of Texas. As far as recruiting was concerned, why was both Army and Navy ranked in the Top 15 the year that UT won its first MNC?   They were and always have been far more selective in admitting students to their schools than A&M.  Why did Army and Navy have better football programs than A&M in the 40s, 50s and 60s? BTW, you were only claiming one MNC until 2010

    2) Scholarship cap: Before the 1976 there was unlimited number of scholarships a school could give to athletes. And Darrell Royal used this to his advantage. UT (having a lot of money at the time, now A&M has surpassed UT in the most valuable football program) would monopolize ten states recruits and hand out scholarships like candy and pack the team to prevent players to going to other universities. Once the NCAA placed a scholarship cap in 1975 Darrell left UT and they ended up sucking in the 80’s and 90’s. 

    Response #2:  There was a 115 scholarship limit self imposed for SWC schools beginning the late 1950s. There was a push in the SEC to limit the football schoarships in the early 1960s. However it fell thru. Georgia Tech and Tulane left the conference as a result. Sure you couldl still sign as many players as you could in the SWC but you still had to be in and around 115 scholarships.  Interesting sidenote, in both 1960 and 1967, A&M signed more players that UT according to DAVE CAMPBELL'S TEXAS FOOTBALL. in 1960, A&M signed 47 players to UT"s 43.  In 1967, it was 47 to 40. What your sprouting is a total aggy myth.

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  10. IMHO, what Nick Saban has done at Alabama has proven that you can build a football dynasty even in the era of reduced scholarships. How many times have Texas fans heard the narrative that the only reason why Coach Royal was successful is because of the unlimited scholarships available at the time? How many times have UT fans been lectured by the press to have lower expectations because of the scholarship reductions?  To those who dare lecture us on expectations, I tell them to look at Saban and Alabama then get back with me on it. :)

  11. Very saddened to hear the news about the death an absolute Longhorn legend.  You never felt the baseball team were out of a game with Coach Gus in the dugout, RIP Coach Gus...you will be sorely missed 😢

  12. 29 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

    Which were the realistic options? Or, maybe more agreeably, the backup choices?

    No Undead Tom Landry?

    UT had a Tom Landry-like coach. His name was John Mackovic and his six years here are years I cannot get back sadly.

  13. I am willing to give Coach Sark 4-5 years to clean up Tom Herman's mess. The Herman coaching staff was not very good in recruiting lineman and that situation is getting fixed by the current staff.  Very few are willing to acknowledge that this year would have been Herman's Waterloo based on the fact that current players were recruiting against him. To this point, Coach Sark as not said that he is either "redeveloping the UT tradition" or "going 7-4 and 8-3 is preferable at a place like UT" or "learn to live with it". He does not appear to be the type who will hold one to incompetent assistants like Mack did with Greg Davis. We shall ee but I for one is willing to give him some time./

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  14. RIP to the greatest baseball announcer in my lifetime.  What I really like about Vin Scully is that he never made the game about him or took time lecture the fans. He let the moment come to him. While my Rangers have had good announcers in Jon Miller and Eric Nadal, they do not even come close to Scully. My favorite Vin Scully call was Hark Aaron's 715 HR. His call was clearly better than the Braves announcer who obviously had a practiced response.

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