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  1. Wow. I didn't realize this was a thing anywhere in DKR. We just park in the Manor Street garage, walk across the street to the stadium's SEZ entrance, scan the tickets, take an escalator up to the buffet and bar area behind our suite, then we order drinks, then head out to the seats and watch the band march onto the field. Less than 5 minutes from seat to seat. I thought we had it rough until reading about the trauma you folks are dealing with on the west side. Brutal.
  2. Are we going to have to see an idiotic Dallas Wilson discussion on every new page of this thread?
  3. Absolutely not. My only kinks are that a chick has to be legitimately attractive and also no fat chicks. And you are embarrassing yourself by rationalizing any moment in time in which O’Donnell was suitable.
  4. 1) That sounds exhausting. What are we, 24 year olds? 2) Do not count me among your brethren. I never had to slump bust with anything near the likes of Rosie or Roseanne Barr and I wouldn’t now for all the money in the world. Yikes.
  5. Not sure why you quoted my post, as I sure as shit have not advocated for keeping difficult OOC games if the committee is going to punish those Ls. If a big OOC loss doesn't hurt you, as advertised, keep them. Otherwise, it's obvious they should go and the committee will have fucked up things further in allowing that to happen.
  6. Hear, hear! and huzzah, good sir! Please keep repeating this on every other page so the rest of us can understand your important point of view.
  7. BTW, on ND's 2026 schedule, their 2026 opponents' 2025 record is 64-79. That's buoyed heavily by Miami, SMU, USC and Navy. 8 teams with losing records of 2-10, 2-10, 3-9, 4-8, 4-8, 4-8, 4-8, and 5-7. For comparison's sake, the Texas 2026 opponents have a 2025 record of 90-54, 7 teams with winning records, 3 with losing records, and 2 at 6-6. Notre Dame is a 2026 lock and will almost certainly get a bye.
  8. We understand your position on this, as you've hammered every fucking page of several threads repeating it. Many of the rest of us would prefer to see good OOC games because we actually enjoy the sport. @immamac's point, which you either can't grasp or simply ignored, is that the committee can change the notion on "margin for error" by bringing Texas into the fold.
  9. This makes logical sense, but I don't know the drivers for any of it and would be lying to state otherwise.
  10. Auerbach's positioning is interesting because of who signs her paychecks. There has to be some squirm with the networks, especially NBC. If Texas just says "fuck you" and pulls out of all future difficult OOC games, the other big programs who still schedule similarly would happily follow suit. The programs are all locked in with their rev shares from the networks for the time being. The networks? Losing a game with 16 million pairs of eyeballs watching those ads and trading that in for the duds vs studs changes outcomes. Take away 20 others that post good numbers for dogshit FCS matchups and shit gets real. My one source of hope in regard to Texas having a shot is the idea that the execs can easily see this playing out like that and therefore applying pressure to the talking heads and the committee. These are all humans who are imperfect and money (or the removal of it) changes everything.
  11. Sarkisian went on the SEC morning show today and doubled down on both Texas deserving to be in the playoffs and reconsidering the OOC schedule going forward. He basically said, with the SEC going to 9 conference games, playing a major OOC foe is pointless with the way those losses are currently viewed. He took a number of thinly veiled potshots at the 2 loss teams ahead of Texas, with which I agreed. I don't expect Texas to cancel the home games versus OSU and Michigan, since Texas has already played both on the road. I will be surprised if Texas does not cancel the Notre Dame series. Someone needs to take the step of deplatforming ND and giving them little recourse. They will continue to weasel their way into the CFP until conferences uniformly stop scheduling them. The ND schedule next season is the absolute worst joke in CFB heading into the 2026 cycle. It's fucking sickening. I hate the premise of the OOC being comprised of 3 cupcakes including the boring likes of Rutgers, Purdue, and Wake Forest but it feels like that's where this debacle is headed. Auerbach is being really optimistic about the committee. I don't expect bravery to come from a committee of admins and old coaches.
  12. The word is that the program is ready to be very aggressive in the portal across the roster in order to maximize Manning's last season. There's been handwringing about retention and allocation for a while, but those same handwringers are now extremely bullish about being aggressive. IOL, TB, TE, WR are all priorities. There's less concern on the defensive side of the DC, although that doesn't mean they're not going to be pursuing difference makers at every spot and trying to find depth in a few places as well. I'm from Missouri on this cycle, personally. I think they're just going to cut bait on some of the higher rated, big contract guys who haven't done anything yet, whether that's premature or not being irrelevant. 2026 is supposed to be the year where it all comes together.
  13. Dude, are you serious here? Texas absolutely amplifies the noise and music. I can take a picture of it from the SEZ next year and post it here, if you’d like. I didn’t realize this was a question (or a concern).
  14. Stewart was straight up purchased by ATM. That shit doesn’t work the same way anymore. This is a good get given that Texas is about to lose a lot of WR talent. Texas needs to win in the portal and land Lott because things are otherwise about to get thin.
  15. Unfortunately, CJ Vogel views his reporting work through the lens of an international spy. He couldn’t be more cryptic if he tried and it is silly and irritating.
  16. I let my kids talk me into turning the game off and switching to the new Stranger Things episodes when Texas went down by 8 in the 3rd. That’s probably what spurred the turnaround. Great news to discover this morning though. It sucks that Crump is going to be out for a while. Looks like they can still beat anybody without her though.
  17. Good. Here's hoping the new hire is a big success.
  18. Bringing a sick kid home from the doctor today and I get the "I am hungry and want Jack In The Box" request that has never happened before today. Okay. They have the worst tacos of any place on the planet, but I've gotten the "2 Tacos for $1.xx" from the drive thru every time I've ever gone through there since age 11. So here I am, 2 tacos later, somehow on this thread. Grim.
  19. This is the "paying telephone" version of the story a few of us were told at the time. Finley had recently gotten like a 5th girl pregnant while at UT. The Texas staff had him sit down with Sally Brown for a Sex Ed session. Like, a normal one and not a milf video from pornhub or wherever. She asked him about knowledge about using condoms and he explained that the condoms all kept breaking on him. That's the contemporaneous version told while the guy was still playing ball on campus. I assume one of those kids turned out to be Kaydon Finley, 2026 class WR at Aledo heading to Notre Dame after his dad made an ass of himself during the recruitment and burned various bridges with UT brass along the way.
  20. The Giants are rumored to be in talks with Belichick.
  21. I don't think Sarkisian "hates" coaching at Texas. I don't think his desire to go to the pros has much to do with Texas either. I just think he thinks he can kill it at the NFL level. It's pretty obvious that that is where his head is and where it has been for awhile. Sucks for us. While I don't agree with the idiotic premise that "anyone can win at Texas with NIL now", I also don't buy the implication that there aren't suitable or better replacements for Steven & Five. There's a growing view that, whether anyone wants to replace Sarkisian or not, a short list better be figured out. So, to answer your question from my end, Freeman, Lanning, and Kiffin - their agent(s) would be the first guy(s) I'd be talking to, and I'd make sure the money was right. I'd want those guys in that order. I'm unwilling to consider other options until Sarkisian is actually gone and all 3 of those guys offer "thanks, but no thanks."
  22. You point to Tech and Miami unironically and that is fantastic. Those two teams can compete, talentwise, with the P2 precisely because of what this era has enabled from a parity perspective, and this "era" is only 2-3 seasons old. As stated before, past is no longer prologue. You seem to only be able to comprehend shit directly in front of your face or whatever is in the rearview mirror. The concentration of potential victors is sliding from 3-4 teams each season to 7-10 now and likely 12-15 a few years from now. We don't need you to move the goalposts again or cite more well-known and obvious shit to support whatever point you think you're making. No one is going to be convinced by your certitude during a miasmic period of chaos.
  23. Cool. AreaCode PitBull thinks that parity isn't a factor in CFB going forward and that we may never see a seed worse than 9 win the title. All we can do is watch and point and laugh from here when it happens, or when it doesn't.
  24. Lawson Luckie is in concussion protocol but it sounds like they expect him back anyway. Elyiss Williams is a true freshman that is coming on and will be the next big thing at TE for Georgia. Generally speaking, it doesn't matter which one you were referencing, they're both really good to go along with Delp. I have faith in Texas' LBs to cover their TEs and backs from an athleticism perspective, but not from a scheme perspective. Whatever criticisms of Mike Bobo people want to offer, and many are justified, the guy knows how to get his TEs and backs open. Georgia also has an annoying white guy 3rd down back, named Cash Jones, I think, and he's someone that Texas is likely to magically let open just when we need a stop. I feel like Georgia always has a guy like this.
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