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83Horn

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  1. Yes, and it still does. It was Texas's offensive ineptitude in the third quarter that led to Texas's defensive exhaustion in the fourth quarter which led to Skattebo being able to make casual observers believe he's some unstoppable superman. He is an above average college RB who was absolutely shut down for 3 quarters, and took advantage of his opportunity in the 4th. He even kept taking himself out of the game in short yardage situations in the third. Not exactly what an unstoppable "warrior" would do. I am just tired of the popular narrative being shoveled about this game. I finally got around to listening to some of the national "experts" talking about this, and heard everything from, "Arizona State completely controlled this game right from the start", to "Skattebo was completely unstoppable, he was like a man among boys out there", to "There is nothing he can't do" before finally acknowledging (reluctantly) that Texas actually won the game. I swear if you hadn't watched the game, and didn't know the final score, you'd swear that Texas got boatraced.
  2. Seems like you started watching the game half way through the 3rd quarter. I don't understand how anyone who watched the first 3 and a half quarters can think that Skattebo is anything but an above average college player.
  3. Is this Arizona State Legend, Jake the Snake Plummer? At first I was wondering who the homeless guy on the sideline was, and why ESPN kept showing him, Then Tessitore informed me...repeatedly.
  4. I don't get this. I'll admit, the guy is tough as nails, and he ended with impressive stats, but can we stop with the "you can't bring the guy down" B.S.? How many times was he stuffed on 3rd or 4th and short? Seems like it happened quite a lot in the first 3 quarters. He did his damage after the 'Horns D was pretty gassed after playing what seemed like 14 minutes of the 3rd.
  5. THANK YOU!!! This ad campaign is stupid af and unfunny.
  6. Soooooo...is Quinn no longer practicing, or is he no longer wearing the ankle brace? *ducks* J/K
  7. 83Horn

    RIP Dana Dimel

    Seems too young to go out like this. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42757313/dana-dimel-illinois-assistant-former-head-coach-dies-62
  8. Hmmmm...so if the a&m in Texas a&m University doesn't mean anything, then who's the real TU?
  9. Hung over from last night's celebration?
  10. So, in other words, be more like Texas.
  11. "Boondle ay...Saaah vay". 😡
  12. Here's a random one; saw on ESPN College Football Final last night that Slippery Rock beat Kutztown 25-24 in OT in the second round of Division II playoffs.
  13. Yes, that was possible, but: A) We're talking about aggy here, B) even if they scoop and score, they're still losing by three and have to give the ball back to the 'Horns who have been running the ball down their throats all night. aggy was never winning that game last night.
  14. I am...the defense would not have allowed anything else.
  15. AND a senior Cedric Benson as his running back...and still managed to score exactly zero points in that game.
  16. Graduating from a&m does not make one aggy.
  17. Was not aware of that...weird. Do they think they own that song? Maybe we should get torqued whenever Tech plays March Grandioso.
  18. LHB was playing Wabash Cannonball when I was a student 40 plus years ago.
  19. "Come play with us, Danny...forever and ever and ever."
  20. In honor of Veteran's Day. I'm curious about how many times in the few years after this picture was taken that the guy on drums tried to convince anyone who would listen that he really did play drums for Jimi Hendrix.
  21. I don't know shit about AI, but that article sounds like something that would be spit out of a computer being asked to write an article on Steve Sarkisian turning down a request by Jerry Jones to become the Cowboys HC. Pretty weak.
  22. While I agree with his statement, at this point do any current students really care what MM has to say about anything? He's probably the same age as most students' parents, and I'm guessing they mostly just see him as another old guy who used to be famous for his movies, but is now famous for being famous and is having trouble giving up the spotlight. And while we're on the subject, why does MM always look like he needs a hot bath and a shave? Then again, I'm an even older guy, so maybe I have it completely wrong, and MM really is some kind of relevant cultural guru.
  23. 1980 SMU game. Complete gut punch. That season started with a nationally broadcast Monday night game in which Texas completely destroyed Arkansas. ABC had moved that game up specifically because they wanted the Texas-Arkansas game to be the first nationally broadcast game of the new decade. This was the game where freshman LB Jeff Leiding did his Superman imitation and almost killed an Arkansas kick off returner, and also almost killed himself in the process. The only time I heard over 80,000 people gasp in unison over a hit. Anyway, Texas dominates that game, wins the next 4 easily, including a pretty convincing win over OU before the bye week created by moving the Arkansas game. So, we go into the SMU game rested and ready at 5-0, sitting at number 2 in the polls. SMU was 3-2 and hadn't beaten Texas in something like 13 years, and was showing no signs of being able to do so this year. The much vaunted "Pony Express" backfield of Craig James and Eric Dickerson hadn't shown much by midway through their sophmore season, so I and everybody else in DKR was expecting an easy win on our way to playing for at national championship, as all of our "hard" games were behind us. All of this made the complete domination of Texas in this game all the more puzzling and infuriating. It was the first time is over a decade that Texas didn't score a TD at home, and the 20-6 final score really doesn't show how thoroughly Texas was beaten down. SMU didn't lose again until BYU beat them with a last second TD in the Holiday Bow, and Texas went on to finish the year at 7-5 with a loss in the Bluebonnet Bowl to UNC, which featured a senior LB name Lawrence Taylor. There is no way to adequately express the suckage that was the 1980 season, and I believe it gave us Longhorn fans the first indication that there might be some kind of rot taking hold and that the wheels were coming off the machine that was Texas football.
  24. You're assuming that what Sark says to the press about what he said to his team after the loss is actually what he said to his team after the loss. Perhaps it is, but I'm confident the tone and the message are VERY different today, and for the rest of the week.
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