Jump to content

bullet

Full Members
  • Posts

    3444
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by bullet

  1. NBA clearly has officials protect certain stars and has been for decades. Individual officials have been allowed to take out their biases against certain teams. There were two or three officials who just hated the Rockets and Hakeem Olajuwon. They would rapidly calls fouls and technicals and let other teams get away with muggings. Gambler money clearly impacts officiating in every sport. I think basketball probably worse than others as officials have so much leeway on what to call on every play.
  2. Well the NBA pioneered that. Bird, McHale, Parrish, Jabbar, Magic, Worthy all got different treatment.
  3. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/2023-big-12-football-schedule-by-team-key-games-dates-as-league-welcomes-four-new-members-next-season/ar-AA16XTkI Okie St. only gets one Texas team, at Houston. Guess nobody wanted their paid refs. All the Texas schools play each other. All the Big 8 except OU/KSU play. All the AAC schools and WVU play. Yes, we go to Houston. OU plays at Cincinnati and BYU.
  4. Does anybody think gamblers with millions on the game wouldn't try to influence refs?
  5. A few plays earlier one of the Chiefs defenders took about 3 steps and shoved Burrough with both hands right in front of the refs and flipped him. No flag. Actually more flagrant than Ossai's. 3 steps AFTER he released the ball.
  6. Yeah. Nothing quite Oklahoma St. level, but every time they could, they called a flag on the Bengals.
  7. Pretty sure UT sold the land. Eventually the medical center will head that way. But that's the only way the land gets developed. Its next to the old Holmes Road landfill. Maybe they could have called it the Vince Young campus. Its in the Madison high zone.
  8. It would still be remembered. But UH sure sounded like Houston A&M on that Houston campus deal. They acted total 3rd ward aggy.
  9. I don't know that the suggestion was to nuke Iran. The song simply went: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran; Bomb, bomb bomb, bomb, bomb Iran; Bomb Iraaan.... sung to the beach boys "Barbara Ann."
  10. In fairness, they tore Jeppesen Stadium down. The new stadium is just on the same site.
  11. bullet

    F cancer.

    Toughest picture to look at was one of my Father, my oldest sister, my youngest sister and her daughter at the daughter's graduation. It came up on the screen right before I was supposed to talk at the funeral. As I mentioned, my oldest sister had died of cancer a year or so before. The niece had also died that year of a drug OD. So 3 of the 4 were gone. I nearly lost it right there. But we did have the picture of them at a happy time. And you had your father still himself until almost the very end. In that way it was a blessing. My grandfather had a stroke and lived for about 18 months after, but couldn't communicate. We had no idea how much of him was left. Was he fully aware but horribly frustrated that he couldn't communicate? Or was he just a vegetable grunting when he was uncomfortable? That was a bad way to go.
  12. bullet

    F cancer.

    Sorry for your loss.
  13. bullet

    F cancer.

    When I went to go see my Dad at hospice, the first thing I did after checking in to the hotel, was get something to eat and then rather than driving, took a long walk to the Hospice. I needed that. My sisters were suggesting I do this and that to settle the business affairs, but the trip was for me and my Dad, not for business.
  14. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2023/01/23/big-12-schedule-oklahoma-texas-sec.aspx?hl=Big+12&sc=0 Schedule not out because we are still haggling over the exit. ESPN wants it now. Fox wants it never. Very slim chance is happens in 2023. Most likely 2024.
  15. We had one year when I was there we tied a school who didn't lose until the state championship game. We also tied another school who went 0-9-1. Very Jekyll and Hyde. We did have a couple of all SWC players come off that team. A few years later we had the Aggie/Oiler D lineman. Think he played about a dozen years in the NFL, frequent all pro. We were good at soccer and swimming then and probably the best public HS academically in the state. We had the start of a good cross-country team (unfortunately the top 4 teams in the DFW region were in our district that year) and they got really good just after I graduated..
  16. I don't know. I liked the Bengals and Cowboys. And the first 24 years of the Super Bowl there were only 5 interesting games. And the Bengals or Cowboys lost all of them. Then Buffalo lost by 1 and it was another 10 years before there was an interesting Super Bowl. The Bengals and Cowboys have each lost 3 Super Bowls and they all have been interesting games. So if the Bengals get there and its close, expect the other team to win.
  17. bullet

    F cancer.

    Sorry to hear that. My Father went down very quickly a couple years ago, but it was simply old age (89). Everything was failing. I got a call he was put in Hospice and probably only had two or three days. I flew to Houston to say good-byes and got my Mother, who wasn't very mobile up to the medical center from Clear Lake where they were in assisted living. He did last a couple weeks. My sister had died of cancer at 69 just about a year before that. She fought it for a year and a half, but went down quickly at the end and did Hospice care at home for a couple weeks. We all had time to come by. She wasn't talking by the time I got there, but did manage to say hi when I face-timed my daughter for her. One thing we did for the funerals was to get everyone to come up with pictures. We have a nice picture book of my Father from his time as a very young boy to recent times.
  18. Right.
  19. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/big-12-expansion-plans-up-in-the-air-without-kevin-warren-s-pac-12-poaching/ar-AA16x0w8 "...The Pac-12 is expected to probably match or maybe slightly exceed the Big 12 when it announces a new deal. Yes, the Pac-12 will likely have to sacrifice visibility and cut a deal with Amazon to hit the financial number. While streaming may be the wave of the future and while the NFL may have found success with Amazon, it may be asking too much of viewers to switch over to their Prime accounts for Utah-Arizona. Yet the money may be good enough to keep the status quo alive in the Pac-12. The person who could have changed that equation was Warren. ESPN reported that Warren continued to push for further expansion even though it had alienated some of the highest profile universities in the conference as well as the TV stakeholders. Warren kept pushing even though ESPN reported that his statements about expansion “were viewed internally as clumsy and tone-deaf.” It’s a good bet that the new Big Ten commissioner won’t take the same pedal-to-the-metal approach to expansion that Warren did. The Big Ten power brokers will see to that. That leaves the Big 12 trying to find another way to persuade reluctant Pac-12 schools that it represents a better alternative."
  20. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/early-exits-for-texas-oklahoma-could-help-big-12-repay-members-that-agreed-to-diluted-revenue-upon-expansion/ "...Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas Tech agreed to share a portion of their media rights distributions from the Big 12's existing deals with Fox and ESPN to make possible the league's recent expansion with BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF joining the fold in the 2023-24 athletic season. The vote (believed to be held last year) was 8-0 in favor of the move with Texas and Oklahoma abstaining, multiple sources tell CBS Sports. Each of the eight legacy Big 12 schools agreed to forego $16 million total ($8 million annually in 2023-24 and 2024-25), approximately 19% of their $42.6 million annual distributions, sources said. Each of the four new Big 12 members are set to receive $18 million to $19 million annually, approximately 40% of the original annual distribution.... If Texas and Oklahoma leave after the 2023-24 season, they would be on the hook for early termination fees with each surrendering at least their final year of media rights distribution. CBS Sports previously reported those early exit fees could total as much as $168 million. However, such a penalty would likely be negotiated down to about 60% to 65% of the original total, industry sources said.... Speculation has raged that Texas and Oklahoma have no desire to play the four new Big 12 members, though they have already committed to remain in the league for the upcoming season. The conference is in the process of finalizing a schedule for all 14 programs...." Maybe we only play each other and the R8. R8 plays 3 of the 4 newbies and 4 of the other 7 R8. Newbies play each other and 6 of the R8. That actually makes the most sense for us and the R8.
  21. Think its pretty clear the no votes came from ISU, KU, KSU and OSU. At least 3 of those 4. The narrative was too many Texas teams.
  22. Right. There are 10 existing members who would think that is a bad idea.
  23. That aggy and SEC started dominating Texas HS recruiting is a false narrative. Now aggy did a lot better than they did in the post Slocum years. And Charlie Strong absolutely stunk at recruiting and Hermann had some struggles. But what was happening was the CFP contenders were coming in and taking the top players-Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio St. It wasn't Tennessee and Florida and Ole Miss. LSU didn't do any better than they had historically. And aggy didn't do much better than they did in the 80s and early 90s. What has happened since UT and OU announced for the SEC is that UT, OU and aggy combined are dominating Texas recruiting in a way they haven't done in my memory. Probably since the 70s.
  24. Maybe still in school and never had to deal with aggy in the real world.
  25. I went to two different HSs and don't even remember either having a fight song. The 2nd one was the Mustangs and had SMU's colors, so it wouldn't be any surprise if they used SMU's song as well.
×
×
  • Create New...