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  1. “Did you ever read ‘The Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad?”
  2. Texas is a Nike school. OU is a Jordan Brand school. (That’s why their football uniforms have a silhouette of a guy dunking a basketball)
  3. “Buddies”
  4. So,… https://www.skysport4.com/texas-immortalize-coaching-legend-r-c-slocum-kyle-field-statue/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJOgi1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeTXtQaXtS1iyGrMBinVnEcCrs992bXXH4CHwArhv1lEbsx2H5z4T7lDkw_aem_XYSSRyQcRRC-nuKIWii1FA a statue of RC Slocum. Now, to be fair, he coached a team that went 49-6-2, from late ‘90 through early ‘95 season. That’s over an 88% clip. That stretch formed a generation of Ags’ perceptions of what their program was, and could be again. Trouble is- they really didn’t play anyone good. I think they only beat five teams in that 56 game stretch that finished ranked in the top 25. They beat #22 BYU in ‘90, #9 Stanford in ‘92, #24 Louisville in ‘93, #23 Texas in ‘94, and # 25 LSU in early ‘95 (all final rankings). That is how the legend was made. Maybe the Ags calling for a move to the Southland Conference are on to something.
  5. What exactly are you saying was the cause of inflation in the U.S., then? Do you agree that the (painful) raising of U.S. lending rates, by the Fed, was needed to reduce it? If not, why did the Fed do that?
  6. I don’t think you understand what that lane is for. You see, there is no lane to the left, so a driver that wants to check his smart phone can slide in, knowing he doesn’t have to pay full attention to the traffic around him
  7. Excuse me, but it is well documented by empirical evidence as well as modelling that the most efficient way to merge traffic is the “zipper”, where the cars merge at the last moment. Sorry is that’s too stressful for some of you.
  8. When Nahlin posted in IT a couple of months back that Beard was still with his “fiancée”, I cleansed my head of all “what could have been” thoughts. Waste of time. Can’t work.
  9. On their boards, Baylor, TCU and SMU fans like to call Texas out as “welfare U”, as if athletics were funded by the state. It’s bullshit, as we know, since UT runs a profit on sports. However, with the Ags, they may have a point.
  10. Really? I know we really yuk it up about those hayseeds, but, come on. That AD is repaying a loan to the (state funded) university, and is about to start cutting checks to athletes (and it will probably pay over the required $20.5M). At some point, doesn’t the state have to provide adult supervision?
  11. We all kind of had to be, since fucking SMU was on probation again and barred from TV. Saturday afternoon, at Texas Stadium, I learned that a stadium could be surrounded by freeways on all sides and it still could take an hour and a half to get out of the parking lot.
  12. Remember the Akers team’s players walking around campus with those t shirts, with “TEAM” in huge letters and “ME” in small letters.
  13. Damn! How many of us were there? I was there, too.
  14. 1981 SMU game. #10 Texas playing at (Texas Stadium) #8 SMU. SMU had Dickerson and James in the backfield. Texas won 9-7, holding the Mustangs to 205 yards (70 came on one pass play for the sole Mustangs TD). Sims had 11 solo tackles and four assists for 15 total tackles (SMU only had 68 plays, so Sims tackled over 1/5 of them). He had two sacks (McIlhenny went back to pass 23 times, but was only able to attempt 15 passes as he was sacked eight times), and four other tackles for loss. He forced a fumble and recovered a fumble (I can’t remember if it was the same play). https://stats.texassports.com/custompages/sports/m-footbl/archive/stats/81/ut-smu.htm He got hurt against TCU later that year, but there was a reason he was the number one draft pick.
  15. Baylor is a pissant program that had been freeriding on UT for decades, hypocritically claiming to be of higher morals while demonstrating it was happy to break any rule or law if doing so brought more wins. Its basketball program paid players illegally for decades, going sometimes to criminal lengths to hide it. Its football program paid tens of millions of dollars to buy rape victims’ silence, so it wouldn’t have to admit that the program’s greatest teams were built on a culture of gang rape. Is that logically coherent?
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