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Tex Long

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  1. Can't be seen too often.
  2. Better - pretty much has to be. Worse - completely unimaginable.
  3. The last four games are the actual do-or-die ones. Lose to tOSU in August, not the end of the world, but lose to anyone those last four, and you go home. Why only one? Pitch back early to the trailing RB/WR, run by the defenders and be wide open ten yards down field... Twice a game, minimum 15-16 games, gotta be looking at 30 receptions easily.
  4. ... as long as he was faster than the opponents' DL.
  5. Five years... Is this an all-time necrobump?
  6. Tex Long

    Getting old sucks

    Barely read? Fuck that. I'd kill to be able to see the screen at all, let alone read words and numbers on it. Between 20/300, astigmatism, wet AMD, and cataract surgery, I'm just happy when I can tell which plate has the bacon and which has the toast.
  7. Quite a few years of foreign traveling, me. Any time I was asked if I were American (occasionally Canadian or German), I pretty much always responded with "I'm from Texas". That typically led to either "Bang! Howdy partner!" or "But Texas is part of America, no?" In the latter case, I just said "We like to let them to think so, but we're really separate..."
  8. More of a Holy Fuck than a Holy Shit... imo.
  9. Whorns talk about the 2024 game, but they never mention the truth. Truth: tu finished the game in next to last place, while the Fightin' Texum aggys wound up in Second Place! Hard Truth: aggy D 7, tu D ZERO! Whorns got shut the f*ck OUT. Advantage aggy, Whoop!
  10. We don't need to feature QB running, but we do need the threat to be taken seriously. That means at least one more player on D who can't concentrate on a runner or receiver because the QB will run right by him if he does. That needs to happen early, although not necessarily often. Not like we need to resurrect Split-T option calls from the Wishbone graveyard on the reg, but we sure as hell want to make opponents commit that one extra guy to Arch, even if we only run it once or twice. As far as the season, the big trophy goes to the team that can do what it takes to win the last four or five games in a row... whatever it takes.
  11. With all due respect, you are correct.
  12. Baxter or Clark aside - and, yes, an elite RB mighta pushed us over the edge - I think the real problem was having opponents able to show zero respect for the QB to do anything other than hand off or pitch/pass the ball, and to pay relatively little attention to the deep ball. Not a Mack issue these days, but if Arch continues to be who he showed us he is last season, our offense is going to be 10 to 14 points a game better. I'm not sure even Mack could find a way to fuck that up.
  13. Old friend - in every way - a guy with enormous amounts of cashola in hand, once told me that the second-best job he ever had was Doorman at a high-rolling Atlantic City hotel. He knew all the big shots' names, always greeted them effusively and treated their "nieces" with great respect.
  14. What was it Franzese said? "Treat People Right," I believe. Valet story seems like a lose-lose on that front. No Archmania, either.
  15. Most Surly recognize the need to remember the past for purposes of avoiding repetition of it. There is no joy in the remembrance.
  16. A fine epitaph for Mack. I'd pitch in on the stone.
  17. The interview is as good a showing as I've ever seen from any coach. It's also a look at one of our great shows, from Third and Longhorn. If you've seen both this and any of their previous shows you already know this. If you haven't, you need to do so immediately. As a recovering Sark-hater, I'm gruntled to say that one of the outstanding things I see in him now is his willingness to own his fuckups, and learn from them. HOOK'EM
  18. Because it starts with "Awesome" instead of "What the fuck is Seven-win Steve doing here? Is he even a member of Mensa?"
  19. Fuck "on-campus". He'd never even been to Austin, and thought he would be in a larger version of Lubbock. I think we have Saban to thank for the hire, ultimately. Probably on both ends.
  20. Motto material, yo. Surly's Arent' Gulible
  21. You're working out unresolved issues relating to anal with your wife. No worries, though, Surly can almost certainly help you with that.
  22. Car manufacturers should have a volume control / tone selector for the horn, from "polite" to roadrage and baby-fart to 2x-cop-siren
  23. Just spitballing here... but, what about a nice art gallery where players athletes can display paintings, statues, photos and other various artistic works? Well, and members of the public can purchase said art... What does the pursuit of Art have to do with some "clearinghouse"?
  24. "It has been reported that" "Experiments show" "Major indicators suggest"
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