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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
Tired Horn replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
So, if I'm reading this thread correctly, Texas should just give up on football and become a water polo school? -
Manning must have lost 18 on style points because he sucks so bad. Maybe we should just stipulate that we're all idiots.
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People need to calm down. We lost to a good team on the road by 7. and sloppily overwhelmed a patsy. There are things we need to improve on, but the season is still young.
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Unrelated, but it reminded me of a joke I liked. It came from a review of "No Country for Old Men"; "This movie has more depressed Texans than a Dallas Cowboy playoff crowd." And honestly, when is the last time a Cowboy player really stepped up in the playoffs in a way that mattered? The whole dynamic on this franchise is just fucked up. Good luck, Micah.
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I've always thought that somewhere along the line, when becoming the winningest coach in college football history became plausible, that Paterno lost all perspective in pursuit of that goal. Sandusky either directly threatened that pursuit (e.g., in the 2000-2005 timeframe when Paterno looked like a spent force as a coach, a major scandal could have convinced Penn St. it was time to move on) or threatened to render it meaningless (which he largely did). So, Paterno simply looked the other way until he couldn't, at which point it was too late for his reputation. Tragic flaws, hubris--Greek mythology is full of that. I could almost feel sorry for Joe, except that he was turning his back on kids being scarred for life. So, fuck him, and fuck his pointless record.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Tired Horn replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Well, they are the best team that routinely squeezes its nuts in public. Always have been. Fucking weirdos. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
Tired Horn replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
All of them. What about their endless blather being different this year don't you understand? -
So, what are the golden days of Tech football? Off the top of my head, here are the top three in my football watching lifetime: 1. 1973 - Jim Carlen and Joe Barnes produced an 11-1 season with a Gator Bowl win over Tennessee. Might have beaten Texas to finish the regular season unbeaten if the game had been in Lubbock instead of Austin. Final rank = 11. 2. 2008 - Mike Leach went 11-2 just in time for a contract extension that they ran him off to be rid of the next year. Final rank = 12. 3. 1976 - Steve Sloan and Rodney Allison (with a little known assistant coach named Bill Parcels) went 10-2 and almost went to the Cotton Bowl. Final rank = 13. As far as a sustained era, I'd pick Leach. He got Tech consistent television coverage, making them feel relevant even when they were mediocre. Good luck in winning the Medium 12, you occasionally Red, occasionally Black Raiders.
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it's a common story. You go back as long as close relatives are there, but once they all die or move, any remaining bond is severed. And yeah, Midland is no treat, either. But it does beat Odessa by a nose. I'd take Lubbock over either, though. But at least West Texas has an excuse. There's only so much you can do with that weather and terrain. It's not like Aggie, who has a fairly run-of-the-mill geography within easy driving distance of civilization, but who has deliberately chosen to be as freakish as possible.
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Bullshit. I've been to East Lansing, Ann Arbor, West Layette, and Starkville. They each have their issues, but none of them is as flat out, physically ugly as Lubbock. I don't mean that personally against Lubbock, either, because, as I said, Lubbock has done about a well with West Texas as you can reasonably ask. The problem is that West Texas is simply gruesome. It's a brutally hard scrabble land. As I told my kids whenever they complained about the Bay Area, "Daddy grew up in a post-Apocalyptic industrial wasteland, so I don't want to hear it." I wouldn't be caught dead in Stillwater, so I can't speak for it. But two points: (1) I don't recall anyone ever cutting Stillwater much slack (True joke when Pickens started contributing so much to the program; "Jesus. why didn't he rebuild the town first."), and (2) if you're comparing yourself to the backwaters of fucking Oklahoma for a cheap self-esteem hit, I think you know the truth. As far as Michener goes, let him grow up in West Texas, and he'd be singing a very different tune.
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I grew up in West Texas and have been to Lubbock innumerable times (hello, South Plains Mall). Bagging on Tech because of the location is 100% justified. Climate-wise, West Texas is the worst place I've ever lived. And that's not a close call. I respect Lubbock for having made itself about the best that it can be, but damn. Yeah, you can see forever, but why in the hell would you want to? True story: when I was a freshman at UT, Sports Illustrated voted Tech the campus most likely to be mistaken for a Federal Penitentiary. At least they have trees now.
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I don't give a shit about Tech, one way or another. If they can buy a Big 12 title, good for them. God knows they need a distraction from the cold, hard fact of living in Lubbock. I grew up in West Texas, and now that the last relatives have moved or dead, I'm never going back.
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
Tired Horn replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Aggie culture is eternal. They don't half-ass their half-assing. -
Why stop there? What about the similarities between Texas A&M and Lombardi's Packers. Or the 2001 New England Patriots? Texas A&M is a program with a great future, and always will be,
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