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    F cancer.

    Sorry for your loss.
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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..
  5. 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.
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    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.
  7. Right.
  8. 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."
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Right. There are 10 existing members who would think that is a bad idea.
  12. 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.
  13. Maybe still in school and never had to deal with aggy in the real world.
  14. 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.
  15. The young lady who died was the driver.
  16. It was the evening (2:45 am) after their victory parade. The other football player in the car, McLendon, suffered only minor injuries according to his Father, but the other staffer is still in serious condition.
  17. Needs it next year. First 9 games doesn't play a team who finished better than 7-4---and that is the FCS opponent. Then he's got USCe and Ole Miss who were 8-5 before finishing with 11-2 Tennessee. They will have to really fall flat on their face to not start 9-0 and should be 11-0 going into Tennessee.
  18. But there's too much money to do away with them. He made them. He owns them.
  19. In 1977 we were undefeated #1. We knew we had a flawed team in 1990. So the big 1978 Cotton Bowl loss really hurt. Not as embarrassing, but still a big loss.
  20. We all know they can't call penalties with replay. Nobody is talking about that.
  21. And the Texas coaches other than Rice left us off. Even KSU and UTSA left us off.
  22. 25 is the latest possible. I think they will figure out 24. But we're still in the Big 12 in 23.
  23. Like you just pointed out-5 turnovers by Gilbert.
  24. Pete Thamel on ESPN said the Big 10 movers and shakers were ticked with Warren that he kept pushing expansion beyond LA and kept talking about it. And that was part of the reason he left. As long as he was there, I still thought UW and Oregon happen this year. Now it sounds like no more now.
  25. Ok, so this he's over 40 thread isn't another one on Stetson Bennett???
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