Everything posted by Tex Long
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
PM Coach Beard
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
IBM Selectric typewriter font ball. Interchangeable multiple fonts available. Descendant of the cylindrical font heads on teletypes (TTY).
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
... particularly if he is carrying a tool, a musical instrument, or a piece of sports gear.
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Bill Belichick Rides Again: Hired at North Carolina to build NIL NFL Factory
I choose to believe that Bill is aware that Life Its Own Self is visiting upon him a Karma Rebalance of epic proportions, to make up for having Tom Brady create the myth of the indestructable Coach Belichick for him. He is not happy about it, but he understands the futility of fighting against it... and there are certain benefits attached to the process.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
We got fucked because our own conference coaches diddled the rankings, and because Bob Stoops is smarter than Mack - Bob ran up 7 or 8 TDs in every single game, while Mack let the opponents off the hook. We also got fucked because Mack's brilliant game plan put us in a 19-0 hole in Lubbock before we ever scored, including sticking with The Script and handing the ball on basically a draw, to our 250-lb running back standing stock-still seven yards deep in our end zone for a highly-predictable safety.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
You say that like there's something wrong with flame-broiling...
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Lane Kiffin to LSU?
It's Louisiana. One half of $17 million is $16 million, the other half is $1 million.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Cam loses credibility by routinely appearing in outfits that seem to have been created for him by L'Oreal's even less discerning little sister.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
The best path for us is for committee members to recognize that Texas is the premier team for them to monetize more eyeballs.
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Lane Kiffin to LSU?
This is all anyone needs to know about Lane.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
If he gets fired, it'll be "for cause", but probably kept internal and promulgated as "mutually agreed". He'd get a few million to help him get by and keep his mouth shut. He's busting his ass trying to MackBrown his way into the Rose Bowl CFP. Maybe he can do it, and more power to him.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Insightful. DM Del Conte.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Life experience. You wouldn't believe the trouble you can get in by removing the wooden micro-pallet from the bottom of the mini-fridge in your hotel room and leveling the damn thing so you can actually hear yourself think.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
There's a whole sloppy thread about how to get into the Group of Twelve with three losses. Yes, it's possible, albeit with extremely low probability. The point here is being ready to play after - let's see: 8 months, two weeks, and two weeks - of time to actually get ready. We weren't, all three times. The stories of personal problems, rehab(s), benders would seem to explain the lack of preparation. If true, it seems entirely reasonable to suppose that CDC has kompromat on Sarkisian sufficient to cover "for cause" firing, if it comes to that. My thought is that Del Conte believes reasonably-sober Steve can helm a winning program, and that he believes Steve can manage his problems. I agree that it's possible, and I think CDC and Sark have had that come-to-Jesus talk, and that it led to a list of achievements required... what we're seeing right now, with Sark advocating tirelessly for that CFP slot, is the result of that meeting and those trquirements. Here's hoping it all works out for all concerned... including us.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
It's exactly that simple. Getting into the show with three losses is only possible in extremely rare circumstances, which, as it happened, didn't occur. Not losing the third game, and especially to Florida is the way in. Substituting someone else for Florida is pointless, but you just keep on pointing.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
If? If? What if? Why, yes. as a matter of fact conjecture, we are. If we beat UGa...
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
No. The tOSU game is not the problem. The UGa game is only part of the problem. The Florida game is the problem. Losing inexplicably to asswater is the problem, and the thread title spells it out for you: This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Damn, it's embarrassing to have so many people going on and on and on about being penalized for playing - and losing - a big-time OOC game. If anything, we in fact get plus marks for playing tOSU closer than their other 11 games. No, get the fuck outta here with that "OOC big-game loss keeping us out of the champeenships" bullshit. What keeps us out is the other two losses. Most of all, Florida. That was pathetic... actually, it was asswater, am I right? Yes, I fucking am. How the fuck do you come off a bye, with a full extra week to prepare, and lose to Florida? What the fuck was the coaching staff, from the top down, doing for those two weeks? It damn sure wasn't preparing for Florida. Fuck me. After Florida, we knew, absofuckinglutely knew, we had to win out... at least to the point of being in the CCG, with a pretty-much guaranteed CFP berth there, win or lose. Beating UGa was a requirement. Again, we came off a bye, and again we were unready, outplayed, and outcoached. Coffin, meet nail. One last time: losing to tOSU didn't put us out of the CFP. Losing to UGa didn't put us out of the CFP, even though it was the proverbial Last Straw. Nope. What put us out of the CFP was being humiliated by a team that was ready to - and did - fire their HC. Asswater.
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Lane Kiffin to LSU?
This is not entirely true. It sounds good, but it's wrong. I - and I think most of us - have paid for things and not gotten them. Tex Long's First Rule of Finance is "You don't get what you don't pay for." Like the original version, it's not universally so, because sometimes you do get what you do or don't pay for... but the far greater occurrence is ... "Nah, you ain't gettin' it." Thinking that you'll definitely get what you pay for... Bad Idea™. DM Jimbo
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Great job, great result.
- Texas vs. Texas A&M - 6:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. Texas A&M - 6:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. Texas A&M - 6:30pm on ABC
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Dominique's Sweater Tonight
Yeah, same here. Why is she wearing that skirt sideways?
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2025 Random Games thread
Watching Ioway and Nebarska in the blowing sleety snow. Good game for the first half, anyway. Seeing Holgorsen working with Neb QB, it occurs to me that Sark needs to go the same route, leave HC job and get back to purely offense. Kiffin could probably use some help at LSU...