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  1. It wasn’t hard to know what was coming. We’d seen it plenty. Rooting for OU only made you end up feeling like an idiot, or should have. You sound like one of the guys trying to reason with us that day at BW3. Just wrong and confused and rationalizing anyway. Wrong wrong wrong. Never cheer for OU, ever. If OU is playing the Taliban, I’m wearing a turban or whatever the fuck garb they’ve got going. If Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao and Mussolini have been summoned by Satan on the opposing sidelines to lead the charge against the sooners, I’m face painted with a pentagram and swearing allegiance to the Prince of Darkness. Never cheer for OU.
  2. That's interesting about the TD being worth 5. I didn't know that. I assumed the same as you regarding the reasons for more safeties. That's really cool. JFC. I looked up the Liberty Bowl and Music City Bowl results, looked up Texas vs Memphis (we've never played them) and even MTSU (never played them either) and thought "what am I forgetting?". At no point did Vanderbilt even register in my head and I've walked their freaking campus. Texas has, in fact, played 5 times, as far as I can now tell, in the state of Tennessee. Texas is 1-4 in those games, with the 4 losses coming in 1899, 1905, 1906, and 1925. The win, as mentioned, came last year in 2024.
  3. Some things that interested me after glancing at Winsipedia regarding opponents for 2026: -We now have a losing record against Ohio State and that needs to be righted. -2-0 versus UTSA, which is the same record Texas currently has against Florida. -Missouri: --18-9-1 against Missouri, but 16-2 against them since 1930. --Texas played 4 exhibition games against Missouri in 1896 in Laredo, Monterrey, and Mexico City and lost all 4 of them. --They played two random games against Missouri in 1907 and 1916, losing both of them with some of the weirdest scores ever - 5-4 and 3-0. How many CFB games have finished with a score of 5-4? --The 2011 loss as they left the conference still pisses me off with the shittiness of their field and the injuries incurred during that loss. -Finally righted the wrongs of the Sherrill series against Miss State with the pummeling last year and the 1999 Cotton Bowl. Need more of that with the series now at 3-2 for Texas. -6-1 against Ole Miss with another late Mack loss being the blemish. -9-8-1 against LSU with the last matchup being Zero Blitz from Todd Orlando and LSU's "greatest college football team of all time" needing to cheat with fake injuries while getting idiotic playcalls and dropped end zone passes from the fighting Tom Hermans to get out of an un-air conditioned Austin with a single score win. -64-51-5 against the okies; 77-37-5 against the aggies; 57-23 against the pigs. -Texas has never played a football game in Tennessee as far as I can tell, so this will be a first. 2-1 against the vols, all in Dallas. These two haven't played against one another since 1968, so it will have been 58 years by the time they hit the field next year.
  4. Venables told the media yesterday that both Javonnie Gibson (WR from UAPB) and Eli Bowen (starting soph CB) have been practicing and both will be playing against Kent State next week. So while they do lose Mateer, which is huge, two major expected contributors will be expected to play, if not start, against Texas on 10/11.
  5. What idiot is saying that? That's one of the dumbest repeated sentiments in the entirety of sports discussions across the globe and particularly in football.
  6. Here's Sun Belt Billy talking today about his outlook for the week and beyond. Highlights: -They need to get healthy. -No offensive scheme or playcalling changes. -Lagway practiced yesterday. -They're installing plays and personnel for more than just Texas, also ATM and Miss State. That's smart work, there, Billy. Don't sweat winning the game right in front of you.
  7. Yeah, a friend of mine from the old site texted me an NIL question last year when the DE was pulling his stunt on y'all, as he is a Texas State alum who had some involvement. I know what he wanted sounded like a lot, but it was going rate for an above average Edge. I don't think players get an extra year just because their coach leaves, though.
  8. Short memories, huh? Jeff Lebby, piece of human shit that he is, played a key role in institutionalizing rape enablement for the football program at Baylor. When the daylight started to hit what those motherfuckers were doing, he was one of most aggressive deniers and Art Briles apologists in this entire debacle. Not only is he an okie shittalker from way back, he supports the rape of young women and then threatening them if they dare speak up. Fuck him, fuck Baylor, fuck OU and fuck Mississippi State for hiring him.
  9. Well, I was attempting a joke that was apparently too subtle and not funny. Miami plays Florida State next weekend. Get it? Get it?
  10. Mon Amie Gabi went sideways after the pandemic and then also raised prices. Used to go religiously for brunch, twice a year, once on each visit. Haven’t been there in 2 years and not going next week either. Fuck skimping on quality while raising prices.
  11. Well, I was wrong about no repeats, obviously. I like what I see, nonetheless. My logic for what I did think we’d see was rooted in this, though. Were the big prize for home games for all of these SEC backwater programs.
  12. Okay, I’ll go. Not a doctor but just experienced first hand some trauma for someone right in the same body region. My middle son just broke his forearm at the wrist in the most Tim Krumrie/Joe Theisman fashion possible. Nothing but skin and tendon holding his hand to his body. 11 Y0 in warmups for his first tackle football game ever. Gruesome shit they wouldn’t replay on a telecast. Took the ER room with 4 people to make 4 attempts before successfully resetting it, per an ER doc. We weren’t in there while they did it. That was on a Friday night. The recommended orthopedist saw us on Monday morning, he had surgery with a pin placement on Tuesday, and they put him in a hard cast 8 days later. That was last Wednesday. If everything is okay, he gets the cast removed in 3 more weeks and then has 2-4 weeks of rehab and can go back to baseball and basketball if he’s pain free. Anyone saying Mateer will be back in 3-4 weeks is completely full of shit. Bet the over.
  13. You worry too much. Good lord.
  14. For Miami? Indian food?
  15. Apparently Collin Klein is a leading candidate for the job. I can’t even imagine how hard I would laugh at that.
  16. You knew that bitch would be the first loudmouth out there whining over this fear.
  17. Thamel is reporting a broken hand and recovery will take a month. Sounds optimistic on recovery. He's only the guy that started against Texas last year.
  18. Several guys allegedly connected to the program on Sooners Illustrated are saying it's a torn ligament and out 8-10 weeks. The quotes from Venables indicate optimism for a return "sometime this season". Sucks for Mateer, great for us.
  19. People keep saying this, but usually thumb surgery is a pretty big deal. I'm not saying out for the season, but coming back in less than 3 weeks and being functional? That's a hell of a recovery.
  20. Unlike this season, next year's "cupcakes" aren't exactly scrubs. UTSA and Texas State are good non-P4 programs if those two coaches remain at each spot. May not mean a ton for the mouse, but I doubt either game is relegated to SECN+, so it's something.
  21. Fuck the college football world if they can't take a joke. I'll take the wins however they come. No one deserves more shit being shoveled in their face than OU. They just fucking overtly cheated in the game in which he got injured. Karma is a motherfucker.
  22. One thing that has always struck me about the t-shirt thing is that, when that story passed by, I went to find the picture. I saw it and thought "I don't get it?" and then googled OAN. Had no idea it existed. I have DTV and YouTubeTV (I have wifi issues and I am not a poor, don't judge) and I feel pretty certain neither carries that channel. He was hardline resistant to being involved with NIL and he handled the portal almost as poorly. One thing we, and I mean people on this site at the time, assessed correctly at the dawn of NIL was that it was going to be a really big fucking deal. By the time guys like Gundy figured it out, it was like the CFB version of having a dye pack explode in their face. They were fucked from their mismanagement of the bag game to the NIL game and it had become a runaway freight train.
  23. I'm not "pretending" all I want. It just wasn't some major thing on my radar, and I follow CFB religiously. It damned sure wasn't important enough for me to bank it and recall it every time the guy's name gets mentioned, and even more absurdly to then sprint to the message boards or social media shrieking about it the way you and others appear to do. No one is putting words in your mouth. You have a visible posting history. You bring up the controversy that you fixate on whenever someone deigns to mention Gundy in a positive light. You don't just get to wave that shit away when you're challenged on it because it makes you uncomfortable to the point of name-calling in an effort to make it go away. Also, same is true with "snowflake". That's a projection on your end. You're behaving like a "snowflake", and you're insecure about it, so you lob it out there like an incendiary device. It doesn't work. It a sign of your rhetorical weakness to name-call, not some sort of thing I'm going to take personally. There are a lot of things in "recruiting circles" that are a big deal that aren't to the rest of us. North Shore people are convinced right now that there's a good chance a NS player would be forced to polish the governor's shoes on a daily basis if they signed with Texas.
  24. Tennessee and Georgia beating each other's ass up and down the field punishes both of them for this kind of ranking and invalidates the whole fucking thing. Auburn gave up 10 sacks and they're ranking in at 6. Okay then.
  25. You and others bring up the "Gundy is a big conservative meanie!!! that t-shirt!! that fucking t-shirt!!!" stuff every time anyone says anything about the guy. I was mostly paying attention when the story happened and don't remember it being much of anything. It certainly wasn't some "in-your-face" national story for weeks or months. GTFOOH with those histrionics. If you made it a big story to follow in your own world, cool, that's on you. You lazily and angrily resort to banal name-calling the minute you feel your worldview even getting a teeny bit challenged. You did the same shit with the Arkansas QB who wound up being falsely accused of rape when a few of us simply mentioned wanting to understand the story better. Calling someone a "fucking weird bitch" and a "god damn freak" and then telling them they're mad is unintentionally ironic and funny, though, so you have that. There isn't a sane person reading this thread who could look at my prior post and then see yours and think "well, yes, that looks proportional".
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