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  1. 1 minute ago, cabowabo said:

    I always thought the team lined up and sang the Eyes of Texas because they loved the University of Texas, the fans, and the world class education they were receiving free because they were great athletes. I feel like a Bernie Madoff victim.

    LOL, yeah.  It's a bit like your ex-wife telling you that thing that you thought she loved she actually hated and rolled her eyes every time you did it.  The problem is this problem isn't going away.  Pretty sure this particular SJW nonsense is a diabolical plot from our conference rivals.

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  2. The logic is inescapable. Every football player we want has offers from 30 or 40 other universities.  Most of them aren't going to come here with this controversy going on. If we can't convince the players who are already on campus that singing the eyes with the fans is a nice tradition, then we have zero chance of convincing those who are just being recruited. We are eventually going to jettison the song, at least as a postgame tradition, but probably altogether. Is that going to make a lot of people mad, including big donors? Yep.. The players don't hold the cards, but the recruits are holding 4 aces.

    Is it crazy? Yep.  But that's how it has to play out.  Soon to be ex-coach Herman has painted us into a corner from which there is no escape.

     

  3. 7 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    Uhhh, no. We didn’t score in the third OT and that’s when you have to start going for two. 

    I meant 2nd overtime of course; we had to go for 2 in the 3rd.  We had to go for two after we scored in the 2nd OT. Big mistake not to, I said it at the time.

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  4. I was losing my mind that we didn't go for two at the end of the 3rd overtime.  You go for 2 because in the 4th overtime, you have to go for two, and you are in the disadvantaged position of playing offense first. Even if you score and get the 2, they have a chance to answer.

    Win it or lose it right there. They had no chance to answer the 2 with 2 of their own.  You probably have a 60% plus or more chance of winning ir right there, maybe more because of momentum. Taking it to the 4th OT with them going second, your odds probably drop to 40% or less.  That was our chance, and we should have taken it.  Herman was afraid of the criticism.

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  5. 18 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Who do they think they are being offended about something that we're not offended by?

    The nerve!

    I'm not going to attack a bunch of kids for jumping on the latest social justice fad. It's what kids today do. But I am going to point out that it's stupid, and maybe they could find something more important to be offended by. The song is over a hundred years old.  There was a lot of racism back then.  There hasn't been a shred of racism in it for generations.

    I mean, Texas, and just about every major university has racism in it's past. You don't have to go back a hundred years. It was the late 60's before most football teams were even integrated. It's on Herman. He should have found a way to channel their activism into something less stupid and divisive. Tough job, but that's why he gets the big bucks. Well, until he's fired this year.

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  6. Here's the problem. For 100 years, the tradition of singing the song after the game with the team was just the fans telling the team we support you guys and the University of Texas, win, lose or draw. That's all it has ever meant.  The fact that the players don't want to sing it anymore doesn't mean that they don't care. It just means they have bought into the latest social justice fad proving they care about more than just football.  Unfortunately, as silly as it is, it's hard for fans not to take it exactly as the fans on this thread are taking it.  And more unfortunately, it will be hard to move forward without abandoning a cherished Texas tradition.

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  7. I agree with your sentiments for the most part. I just don't see a good way for this to play out.  Players aren't going to say nevermind, we've thought it over and decided it's not racist and we''ll come sing it with you. And other schools are going to effectively use it against us in recruiting.  Eventually we will get tired of the controversy and chuck it. That's not how I want it to go down. I just can't see another path out.  Fans aren't going to like it, and well, that's how you get fair weather fans.  I'll support you when things are going good, but when things go south, well, I've got other things to do on Saturday anyway.  Not a good look for anybody, I'm sad to say.

  8. 13 hours ago, Shaggybevo said:

    I've gone to the first two home games. I haven't missed the band. They've been playing the same songs and doing the same marches for 50 years. People used to love typewriters and phone booths too, but they're obsolete. Instead, perhaps put local bands on the jumbotron, or something like that. Time to think outside the box. How many times do you really need to hear march grandisio?

    And all of a sudden, we have a new leader in the worst person in the world contest...

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  9. On 9/17/2020 at 10:39 AM, randygilman said:

    But they still play what many somehow believe is a racist song and the team captain of the Longhorn football team who just was promoted nationally by its ESPN network has consistently spoken about his disdain for the song whenever a microphone is placed in front of him

    I knew the minute that this surfaced as a issue that Texas football is pretty much screwed for the next ten or twenty years. There's no really good answer, and it will have a negative effect on recruiting for a long time. Step 1 to recovery is to fire the mensa moron, and get a new coach in here that can start over on building a team culture that doesn't suck. I project we will flounder around with this for three to five years before we decide to completely disassociate ourselves from the "racist" song that fans and alumni love. Then we'll spend a decade or so trying to live down being the university that openly loved what they now admit is a racist song.  OU sux, but so does this situation.

     

  10. Radio silence from the police and Texas Rangers speaks volumes. If they had exculpatory video, we'd have seen it, and the store has video. I'm thinking this cop f'up bad.  Price had posted on facebook he'd never had a negative encounter with the police.  Sad, sad situation. If the video is as bad as I think it must be, this is going to get ugly.

  11. the latest:

    I am committed to keeping you informed and aware of decisions that are being made in the district. You may have heard that there were conversations about shifting course regarding the physical return to campus. It's important to me to have conversations with leadership to determine how we best serve our students. I have a responsibility to ensure students receive the highest quality instruction that can be safely provided, and we know that for many students, that means being on-campus, engaging with their peers and teachers. 

    However, after consulting with campus leadership and hearing from numerous families and staff, we have determined now is not the time to adjust our plans. Beginning Oct. 5, we will phase in on-campus instruction according to the phase-in plan outlined on our website. 

  12. 14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    I gotta tell you....while I think they still need to allow some sort of remote option for kids who are particularly vulnerable, or who are regularly in close proximity to someone vulnerable....I'm really leaning more and more towards in-person schooling being the right call, ON BALANCE.  That doesn't mean there aren't cons/risks.  It just means that I think when we take all factors into account, it's looking more like the right call.

    Parents/Students will have a choice..

  13. 4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    "Scientists have discovered limitless renewable energy, but the Globalists don't want you to know about it!  Watch our video to find out more!"

    The internet is a chocolate fountain of bullshit.

    Well, the idea that limitless cheap energy exists is a sucker concept that only California would buy.  But the idea that this virus is created, which is well within China's power, is not farfetched at all.  I don't know if they did or not, and my guess is that if they did, it was an accidental release as opposed to purposeful.  I'm not sure why the proposition that China engineered the virus has become political, but I stay off the hellhole that is the politics board, so I won't post here on the subject again. I find it to be a very interesting topic.

  14. On 9/5/2020 at 10:08 AM, triplehorn said:

    Ivermectin as a prophylactic in a study of healthcare workers in Argentina:  (n=1,195) with zero infection in the treated arm vs 58% in the other.

    Interestingly, they also give nasal spray and oral drops to inhibit the virus at point of contact.  They provide the dose ranges used when treating patients with active covid illness - totals about $15/day, cheaper than a partial* hospital bill.

    Ivermectin for people is readily available with an Rx from a PCP.  I give my dog ivermectin every month.

    My dog after 3 years of continuous Ivermectin:

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    These results are so good it's hard to believe.  Strange how these things can be ignored.  This study needs to be replicated. It seems absolutely conclusive on it's face.

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