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  1. Hookem2147, Yes, that is what I thought, Texas Sports home page has not got a correct list.
  2. Depth Chart and/or Scholarship players that were NOT listed in the Participation Chart for the Louisiana game https://texassports.com/sports/football/stats/2021/louisiana/boxscore/14136 Did anyone see any of the below play against Louisiana? OFFENSE that did not play RB 24 Jonathon Brooks 32 Daniel Young TE 18 Jared Wiley - injured? 85 Gunnar Helm 89 Brayden Liebrock - injured WR 9 Al'Vonte Woodard 13 Jaden Alexis 15 Marcus Washington 16 Kelvontay Dixon 21 Troy Omeire - injured 30 Dajon Harrison 39 Montrell Estell 83 Kai Money 88 Casey Cain OL 67 Tope Imade 69 Andrej Karic 71 Logan Parr 72 Tyler Johnson 73 Isaiah Hookfin 74 Rafiti Ghirmai 76 Hayden Conner 77 Jaylen Garth 79 Max Merril DEFENSE that did not play DB 1 Chris Adimora 19 Ishmael Ibraheem 24 Marques Caldwell 27 JD Coffey III 31 Jamier Johnson 44 Tyler Owens DL 45 Vernon Broughton 90 Byron Murphy II 91 Sawyer Goram-Welch 92 Myron Warren 95 Alfred Collins EDGE 6 Ben Davis 32 Prince Dorbah 42 D.J. Harris Jr. 50 Jordon Thomas 55 David Abiara 88 Barryn Sorrell LB 13 Marcus Tillman, Jr. 29 Jaden Hullaby 35 Terrence Cooks II 37 Morice Blackwell Jr. 40 Ayodele Adeoye KICKING that did not play 8 Ryan Bujcevski - injured 49 Isaac Pearson 45 Bert Auburn 43 Zach Edwards
  3. The rivalry between Texas and Arkansas may have cooled over the past thirty years since the hogs left the old Southwest conference. So my recommendations may be outdated and overblown, I don't know. However, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." So, I would strongly recommend not leaving a personal vehicle with any Texas identification (licenses plates, registration sticker, TxTag, etc.) anywhere in Fayetteville next Saturday unless your insurance is up-to-date and your deductible is low. Rent a vehicle with non-Texas plates and buy the extra insurance. Needless to say, when your vehicle is left unattended, any evidence of being associated with the Texas Longhorns should be removed. Additionally, I would not let anyone I cared about park and walk to Reynolds wearing Texas Longhorn gear or Burnt Orange colors. Take a taxi and get dropped-off at the gate. After the game is over you won't be able to get a taxi so pre-plan a pickup right at a stadium exit. Traffic will be bad, so don't expect your pickup to be prompt. I would not leave the stadium until all the crowd clears out. The area immediately around the stadium should be pretty much safe for anyone wearing Burnt Orange Saturday night. But walking any distance from Reynolds to your vehicle (parking) will make Columbus look like Vacation Bible School. Especially if the locals have the "scat" juice ready to be tossed on Texas fans walking from the stadium after a Longhorn victory. Be safe and good luck going to the game in Fayetteville. I suspect you are going to need it.
  4. John Turturro as Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) Jesus Quintana: You ready to be f***ed man? I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we're gonna f*** you up. The Dude: Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. Jesus Quintana: Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy sh*t with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the f***ing trigger 'til it goes "click." The Dude: Jesus. Jesus Quintana: You said it man. Nobody f***s with the Jesus. Walter Sobchak: Eight year-olds, Dude.
  5. Statistics from a major national sporting goods chain ... 2019 Greater Houston locations - Sales rankings of sports labeled (logo) Apparel and Novelty Advertising: #1 Houston Astros label on blue, orange & white #2 Dallas Cowboys label on blue & silver #3 Houston Rockets label on red & white #4 Texas A&M "Aggie's" label on maroon & white #5 Houston Texans label on red, white & blue #6 Texas "Longhorns" label on burnt orange & white #7 Texas Rangers label on red, white & blue #8 Louisiana State "Tigers" label on purple & gold (yellow) #9 Texas Tech "Red Raiders" label on red, black & white #10 San Antonio "Spurs" label on black, silver & white #11 Oklahoma State "Cowboys" label on orange, black & white #12 Oklahoma "Sooners" label on crimson & cream #13 Rice "Owls" label on blue & gray #14 Houston "Cougars" label on red & white #15 Dallas Mavericks label on blue, green & white I know this just represents people buying sports apparel and novelty advertising with team logos and colors in 2019; but I think it is indicative of the competition U of H has for the TV eyeballs in the Greater Houston area. There are THIRTEEN other teams (seven that play on Saturday) with more fans (TV eyeballs) in the Greater Houston area than the hometown Houston Cougars. There is a reason U of H cannot average more than 26K to home football games from a greater metropolitan area of almost 7 million people that are physically located within fifty miles of Texas Dow Employees Credit Union Stadium on Cullen Drive. Yes that really is the name of their football stadium. If you want to add TV eyeballs from the Houston area you are better off adding Rice than U of H, and Rice comes with a bunch less problems than U of H would bring to any conference. Unfortunately for U of H, these are just the hard facts.
  6. "Good. ’Cause we’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone want to see second prize? Second prize’s a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired." - Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross
  7. George Kennedy, won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke. Kennedy beat out: John Cassavetes – The Dirty Dozen (George Kennedy was also in The Dirty Dozen) Gene Hackman – Bonnie and Clyde Cecil Kellaway – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner George Kennedy – Cool Hand Luke Michael J. Pollard – Bonnie and Clyde Dragline: Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'. Luke: Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand. Interestingly enough, Paul Newman was nominated for Best Actor in Cool Hand Luke but did not win; one of seven times Newman was nominated for Best Actor but did not win the Oscar; until 1987 The Color of Money, for his reprisal of "Fast" Eddie Felson from The Hustler opposite Jackie Gleason as "Minnesota Fats".
  8. Would a seven team Big XII even qualify as a conference??? I thought one more Big XII school leaving and the conference is dissolved?
  9. E. Gordon Gee, University of West Virginia President, has stated he is no longer in favor of a 12 team playoff format. I would suspect his vote flip-flop is an effort to leverage his seat on the College Football Playoff Board of Directors for a spot in the ACC for West Virginia. That would put the proverbial stake in the Walking Dead Big XII.
  10. The bigger question would be if this matchup could ever be started at all. Would MML want the National Anthem played? Would MML play if it were not? If the National Anthem is played and KLS kneels or sits then MML is going to confront KLS, and you have hockey instead of basketball. MML wins the "hockey" game hands down, and it's not even close. Anyway, no basketball would be played. If the National Anthem is not played then this is a pickup game at the Fonde Recreation Center. I take MML in their prime with Fonde rules, against anyone, every day and twice on Sunday.
  11. Army, Navy, Air Force I would really like to see the military academies rivalries maintained in the future of college football
  12. Alabama/LSU is NOT just a recent rivalry. While it may be true that Alabama fans do not consider LSU their major rival, LSU fans definitely consider Alabama their major rival. This has been the case since the sixties.
  13. agroids are self-immolating ... Had an atm fan (she did not even attend atm) just tell me that Texas is already making demands of SEC: 1. Texas wants to keep the LHN and ESPN money 2. Texas wants a double share of TV contract day one 3. SEC has to change the conference name and move the office to Dallas 4. Cotton Bowl will be the permanent site of CCG (I asked her if she meant AT&T Stadium or State Fair Park, and she said, "Cotton Bowl.") 5. Texas wants a division with Oklahoma, Arkansas, atm, Missouri, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt (I told her that Jimbo would probably like that very, very much.) 6. Texas wants atm permanently scheduled on Thanksgiving Day; first one in Austin 7. From now on conference members can only schedule D1 schools (I asked her if she meant FBS schools, and she said, "No, only big time schools.") I also asked her if Texas was making any demands about NIL rules for the conference as a whole, and she said, "I haven't heard anything about academic demands." and the hits just kept on coming ...
  14. Do I remember correctly that somehow Dodds was leveraging his relationship with Swarbrick to get Notre Dame to join the Big XII? And then Florida St, Clemson, and Georgia Tech would follow. Am I hallucinating that memory?
  15. Why stop at two 20 team or four 16 team conferences? Why not be preemptive and avoid possible (anti-trust) and other government interference litigation?? Why not generate a ton of money to pay players in this new NIL universe??? Why not get rid of the NCAA and solve realignment in one fell swoop???? I don't know but may be this would be a start. At the end of 2020 there were 128 FBS schools in ten conferences and Independents. Once the Big XII in cannibalized as you outlined, dissolve the Sun Belt conference too and incorporate their members and the five Independents into four other 16 member conferences. Like this: Independents - Army, UMass, Liberty, and New Mexico St join the AAC; along with Kansas St to form a sixteen member AAC Texas State, Louisiana, UL Monroe leave the Sun Belt for Conference USA to make sixteen Troy, South Alabama, and Arkansas St leave the Sun Belt and join the Mountain West along with Independent BYU adding up to sixteen Coastal Carolina, Appalachian St, Georgia St, and Georgia Southern leave the Sun Belt to join the Mid-American for sixteen Then the 8 Super Conferences quit the NCAA and form a new 128 member organization (like the old CFA). Each conference can then auction off television rights to the highest bidders. ESPN, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS, etc., will all drive up television revenue bidding on conference television packages. Playoffs are the 12 best teams selected by committee. Tie the Bowls in with conference CCGs and the playoffs and the quality games will generate mega television and Bowl payouts. The conferences can also leverage other sports to drive up television revenue. Almost everyone would not have a legitimate complaint about this set up because of the money it would generate and the fact that everyone is included. Then College Football will look like this: PAC 16 USC UCLA Stanford. California Washington Washington St Oregon Oregon St Arizona Arizona St Utah Colorado Oklahoma St Texas Tech TCU Baylor Big 16 Ohio St Michigan Michigan St Penn St Indiana Purdue Rutgers Maryland Nebraska Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Northwestern Illinois Kansas Iowa St SEC Alabama Georgia Florida Auburn Tennessee South Carolina Kentucky Vanderbilt Texas Oklahoma LSU Arkansas Texas A&M Missouri Mississippi Mississippi St ACC Clemson Florida St Miami Georgia Tech North Carolina North Carolina St Duke Wake Forest Notre Dame Boston College Syracuse Louisville Pittsburgh Virgin Tech Virginia West Virginia AAC Cincinnati UCF East Carolina Temple Navy Army Massachusetts Liberty Tulsa Memphis SMU Houston Tulane Southern Florida Kansas St New Mexico St USA Marshall Florida Atlantic Western Kentucky Charlotte Middle Tennessee Florida International UAB Southern Mississippi UTEP UTSA North Texas Rice Louisiana Tech Texas State Louisiana UL Monroe Mountain West San José State Boise State Nevada San Diego State Hawaii Fresno State Air Force Wyoming New Mexico Colorado State Utah State UNLV BYU Troy South Alabama Arkansas State Mid-American Buffalo Kent State Miami (OH) Ohio Akron Bowling Green Toledo Ball State Western Michigan Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Northern Illinois Coastal Carolina Appalachian State Georgia State Georgia Southern
  16. If this Texas/OU to SEC happens, and if the SEC goes with the "pods" alignment, then the following is pretty much written in stone because of rivalry, history, tradition, and geography: 1. Alabama, Auburn 2. Georgia, Florida 3. LSU, Arkansas 4. Texas, OU I really think the next four are fairly certain because of competitive balance, rivalries and geography: 1. Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee 2. Georgia, Florida, South Carolina 3. LSU, Arkansas, Mississippi St. 4. Texas, OU, A&M So really the only speculation is where the last four will be placed: 1. Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt because of in-state rival Tennessee 2. Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky because of geography 3. LSU, Arkansas, Mississippi St, Mississippi because in-state rival Mississippi St. 4. Texas, OU, A&M, Missouri process-of-elimination leaves the Tigers here
  17. This all falls into place pretty easily: Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC, and the Big XII dissolves. West Virginia joins the ACC who only needs one and Pittsburgh, Virginia, and Virginia Tech are natural rivals Kansas and Iowa St go to the Big Ten because they are both AAU accredited and have historical rivalries with Iowa and Nebraska Oklahoma St, Texas Tech, TCU, and Baylor move west to the PAC 10 because the PAC 10 will take whatever to get into the Texas market and get to sixteen (Baylor gets in over Kansas St only because of the recent MBB NC) Maybe the PAC Ten takes Boise St or UNLV or BYU or Colorado St instead of TCU or Baylor or Tech; but I don't think so And there you have Four 16 team Super Conferences, with 8 geographically aligned Divisions minimizing travel and expenses and maintaining historical rivalries You play everyone in your Division every year and alternate four from the other Division in your conference That's eleven conference games, allowing one out of conference game for a twelve game schedule Division winners play for the Conference Championship SEC Texas Oklahoma LSU Arkansas Texas A&M Missouri Mississippi Mississippi St Alabama Georgia Florida Auburn Tennessee South Carolina Kentucky Vanderbilt ACC Notre Dame Boston College Syracuse Louisville Virginia Tech Virginia Pittsburgh West Virginia Clemson Florida St Miami Georgia Tech North Carolina North Carolina St Wake Forest Duke Big Sixteen (Ten) Ohio St Michigan Michigan St Penn St Maryland Rutgers Indiana Purdue Wisconsin Nebraska Iowa Iowa St Minnesota Illinois Northwestern Kansas PAC Sixteen (Ten) Washington Washington St Oregon Oregon St Stanford California USC UCLA Arizona Arizona St Utah Colorado Oklahoma St Texas Tech TCU Baylor
  18. Doesn't the Longhorn Network revenues go to 2031? I think they do. Also, the Big XII is projecting ~$40 million for each conference member next year. There is your $55 million for Texas.
  19. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Texas make approximately $53 million from the Big XII conference and Longhorn Network revenues in May 2020? Texas made Approximately $49 million this May 2021. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/31511545/amid-covid-19-pandemic-big-12-distribution-revenue-schools-lower-yet-again I believe that in both 2020 and 2021 Texas made more than any SEC member. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/southeastern-conference-s-revenue-increased-slightly-to-729-million-in-2020-fiscal-year/ar-BB1doWys This may not be true in four years, and that is why Texas is looking for "greener pastures."
  20. Starting line-up for the Texas Longhorns at the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, WA. on November 13th: 1. Carr 2. Jones 3. Allen 4. Disu 5. Mitchell First man off the bench will be Bishop; followed by Ramey, Cunningham, Askew and Fabres.
  21. Yes I was cherry-picking. I cherry-picked the biggest games, on the biggest stage, for the biggest prize. And O'Neal was O-fer. When it was for all the marbles, Olajuwon was better.
  22. I disagree with you, Olajuwon was better in every phase over O'Neal. In 1995 O'Neal was in his prime and Olajuwon ate his lunch and refused to let Shaq even get supper in the NBA Finals; which of course Houston won in four straight without so much as a whimper from O'Neal.
  23. Starting five Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Irvin Johnson, LeBron James, and Hakeem Olajuwon not as much rebounding as you would like, but still pretty good defense. And they would beat the snot out of anyone by intimidation alone. The second five is much more thought-provoking: Oscar Robinson, Jerry West, Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar these five would take the first five to game seven in a series the third five is really interesting Pete Maravich, Julius Irving, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlin, and David Robinson the third five may be as good in seven games as either of the first two groups Shaquille O'Neal should be on here somewhere, but you didn't say whether injuries and staying healthy were criteria or not Oh, and Kobe Bryant is not on the list because there are no rapists in heaven
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