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  1. he's been training for this his whole life
  2. Well, one, I am pretty certain you could tell that my reference to us having a "nice" conversation meant the entire idea was tongue-in-cheek. Two, I would be concerned about the mental welfare of anyone who "hated" me over anything I've posted here, precisely because none of it's important enough to warrant that. I wasn't under the assumption you hated me.
  3. It does, but you're getting too hung up on hyperspecific numeric comparisons between MIchigan and Texas, in my opinion. Those programs and schools/administrations have a lot in common, a lot that explains why we're neither is winning.
  4. We have had this discussion in another thread. Fifty years is a long time over which to measure a program; you said that was "cherry picking" because as of this year, it eliminates the last of our DKR national titles. I don't agree that the number 50 is cherry picking. Regardless, let's just look at what's happened since DKR retired-- that happened two years after I was born, so it's kind of relevant to me. Since DKR retired, Texas has won its conference eight times. EIGHT. TIMES. Eight times (counting the bullshit 1994 co-championship, too) in more than forty years! That is not bad luck, it is not an excusable confluence of circumstances. Spread out over four-plus decades, it is concrete proof this program doesn't win the way the other bluebloods do. Michigan's done it 15 times, Alabama 13, USC 16, Oklahoma 21, Ohio State 18. Wins? football.stassen.com says we are 13th since DKR retired, and 15th in win percentage. National titles? We have one since DKR retired, the same as Michigan, and quite a few less than Miami, Florida State, Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma, LSU, Clemson, USC, or Alabama. Not even going to mention Nebraska since they're on the ash heap now. If you take the entirety of the program's existence, we are on the top tier. When you start to weight the modern era more heavily, what programs have done since integration allowed the best black southern players to stay home and the OU/Georgia vs NCAA Supreme Court decision opened the TV floodgates and the rules changed to favor the forward pass, we start to fall further and further behind. You keep saying "we're in a slump"; the slump goes back most of 40-plus years now. We slumped at the tail end of Akers' up and down tenure, we slumped from there until Mack turned the program around, we slumped after Mack got too rich and lazy to work hard enough, and we've been in that slump ever since. You are making too many excuses for us. We don't win like the programs we compare ourselves to. We have one national title since most of us were born, thanks to one transcendent star. Otherwise, it's more than four decades now of underachieving, and it's because our University does not put the same emphasis on winning at football that a school like Ohio State or Alabama does. We emphasize football, sure, but winning is less important than access and influence and revenue. This was a hell of a derail so I apologize to those who were enjoying the snotty CR eye rolling that I interrupted.
  5. one of my favorite memories is Steve Fisher finding that no in fact he couldn't convince his lottery-pick laden defending national champion 1990 Michigan team to just let him coach them game plans and strategy were for suckers! final score Loyola Marymount 149, Michigan 115, because Michigan insisted at playing at LMU's tempo
  6. at that rate, there will be almost 99,000 infected there a week from today
  7. That's where Texas is too. We obviously prioritize football to a greater degree than UCLA does, but I don't think we prioritize it quite the way the schools that are winning big do. And it's because we do take a lot of pride in what the school is able to accomplish academically- the Dell Medical School is an amazing accomplishment, we have top ten programs in engineering and business and law. What we do on the academic side is world-class and it matters. There are at a max a dozen public schools in America better than Texas. But we don't seem to be able to consistently expand our academic mission and maintain our football competitiveness. Post Royal, we were badly up and down under Akers, terrible under McWilliams except for one year, terrible under Mackovic in half his years, won two conference titles in 15 years under Mack Brown, and now have Charlie Strong and Tom Herman to account for.
  8. voice only telephone menus I do like that Citi's phone help line tells you that your voice responses are recorded so they can automatically recognize it in the future. Because that means they have recordings of me saying NO FUCK YOU and YOU MOTHERFUCKER about fifty times.
  9. No, but when it's the only engagement you get from a poster you don't even recognize-- again, it's just confusing. Reply, @ the person, say something. it is definitely irritating.
  10. I mean, @Js1 "let me be clear" as the great orator said, I'm talking about people who neg posts without engaging and whose response to a "why was that negged?" inquiry is NO FUCK YOU. That baffles me. Specifically, if you're bored, go back and look at the exchange between me and Doc Reeves. We didn't agree on whether we should play CFB if "one life" might be lost, but I thought we were respectful towards each other. And then someone neg bombs one of my responses to him. I am simply baffled by it. I also want to point out that after ChiTownDoc and I went back and forth, not so nicely, it ended with jokes back and forth. He probably still thinks I'm a dipshit and i stand by my criticisms of how he frames his posts, but he's not the one silently negging me when I disagree with him or say "his name is probably Tate Gooch" (yes, THAT JOKE got negged). It's just gay as shit.
  11. this vaguely reminds me of that post about how based on KenPom's metric, Texas is ahead of Connecticut (in basketball) since the turn of the century or something Alabama is doing college football as well as it can be done right now. Maybe Clemson's close. Ohio State is a distant third. Texas leads in revenue.
  12. Ooh, I hope not. Anything that gets the lawsuits flying, I'm in favor of. Gotta get our entertainment where we can.
  13. Maybe-- just maybe-- he's finally been blackpilled on A&M. He's certainly made his share of really stupid, credulous pro-A&M picks over the years and looked reliably dumb living with the consequences.
  14. I guess I don't really understand how the music industry operates. It seems to me that you could take Lithium and play non-single cuts off of albums by artists like Oasis or RATM or the Smashing Pumpkins and it would be like being back in the 90s listening to "new" music to anyone listening who wasn't into those bands enough to buy their records (e.g., me). Obviously you have to play the hits to maintain interest, but I think they could make it more immersive if they did more deep cuts from top shelf artists and then more obscure artists from the same era-- to me, nostalgia is not just "oh, Wonderwall, gosh I haven't heard that song in almost two weeks" but "WOW, the Hazies/Letters to Cleo/Cool For August, I remember that band!" or "man, Brother Cane was an underrated 90s band" or even "you know, the Black Crowes weren't alternative per se but their third record does kind fit with the 90s vibe". Actually reading over that, it sounds like I want to either be in charge of the playlists or have my own curated station. One of those is pretty easily within reach.
  15. "We done cured, it you stupid sip! That's why we's havin' SECSECSEC football this fall! Edjacate y'self!!!!"
  16. the topics migrating to the Football board thing, probably inevitable at the moment the way people treat each other, though, holy fucking shit, if that's the way CR operates, fuck everyone who posts in it and fuck anyone who's adopted that MO outside of it, too
  17. I'll never understand the Roxanne part(s) of Rock the Bells. Goddamnit no one cares about you, woman, just play some old hip-hop. The Tom Morello show on Lithium is so tedious, too. I can appreciate the interest people may have in what he likes musically, but that station is specifically for "90s grunge and alternative", which means that any amount of time dedicated to Morello's roots acts and influences is outside their strike zone. I mean, do it at 10 PM on Sunday night or whatever, fine.
  18. I'm reacting, often poorly, to everything I take the dumbest shit seriously I'm spitefully grateful I haven't prayed meaningfully in longer than I can remember Gee, guess how many meetings I've been to in a month?
  19. People who wear seatbelts still die in car crashes, to his point.
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