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  1. On the original tweet, there was a mention of “#Texashateweek”…what the hell? Is that a real thing? Does OSU also have a Baylorhateweek and a KansasStatehateweek? Or, are we and the Sooners the only ones that lucky?
  2. Now I understand why we’re going to the SEC with OU. Of all the teams we play in this conference, those toothless, inbred meth heads are the most normal and well adjusted.
  3. I bet Sark also realized that this game will be a huge factor in whether his next annual salary is seven figures or eight.
  4. I am inclined to be pro-Israel. Reading accounts of Israeli atrocities is tough. I would like if someone could explain them away, or provide a plausible reason to deny them; it would make me feel better. Or maybe something else happens, and I can ignore them. But, you can’t deny or explain many of them. They are just really bad, even evil, things done by members of a group I have an affinity for. I have a saying- “the truth is not always your friend, but you can’t let it be your enemy”. I get why some Palestinian supporters want to deny some of the 10-7 atrocities, or blame them on the IDF. Same deal. As an American, I can come to terms with My Lai. (It helps that an American warrant officer, Hugh Thompson, stopped it, after so many innocent Vietnamese civilians were slaughtered. It would be even more shameful if Calley’s group “finished the job” and covered it up, and Americans were given an opportunity to deny it happened). Those were bad men, they needed to be punished, far worse than they were. We just have to live with that shame. Mahmudiyah was another example of shameful criminality, perpetrated by US soldiers. We did a better job of punishment; those assholes will never see the light of day, again. Again, denying and explaining is a stupid exercise. In these incidents, I think a helpful tool is to remember to blame people for what they do, and not who they are. Hamas terrorists/militants are committing horrible war crimes and they deserve punishment. Any IDF soldiers that commit war crimes should also be punished. (I don’t believe bombing civilian population centers where the enemy is harbored is a war crime; the war crime is hiding among innocent civilians). Palestinian civilians, no matter what views they may have, haven’t done anything. I see no reason to hate or punish them for Hamas’ crimes.
  5. Yes, this Hamas activity is not about fighting Zionism. It is about deriving satisfaction from torturing and killing Jews.
  6. At the time, didn’t the announcer (Joel Klatt?) say that the way they called it, review really couldn’t fix it? And the review result (Bama keeping the ball but punting) was kind of bogus but the best they could do in review to unfuck it?
  7. He doesn’t hate Texas. He just really, really doesn’t want to be seen as a “homer”. He desires that his press box fellow journalists view him as an impartial writer. To support that, he is extra critical of Texas, the hometown team. It’s too bad that he is a mediocre enough writer that his press box mates assume he is a homer anyway, and assume he is telling the truth when he speaks the worst about Texas and Longhorn players.
  8. I mean, they (Hamas) also killed the four year old brother and the mom, too. Damn.
  9. The 10 month old hostage is dead. Hamas says the death was caused by IDF bombing. I suspect they (Hamas) just can’t help themselves when they have a chance to kill Jews.
  10. I actually believe that if a Palestinian were to clearly explain to his countrymen that an impassioned and logical appeal to the professed principles of the people of Israel, and the world, arguing their case, and eschewing violence, were the best approach, and that their leaders should be selected by the people, freely and regularly, a lot of Palestinians would have different views. The problem is that Hamas, or its like, would put a bullet in that guy’s head tout suite.
  11. I think people can surprise you by how awful they can be and by how amazingly awesome they can be. Sometimes it’s the same people; the circumstances and how they are presented matter.
  12. I don’t put too much stock in the Gaza polling. There is a range of political choices from Fatah to Hamas. They don’t get to hear stump speeches from Christian Democrats, or Tories, or Labour, or Reagan Republicans. Hamas has been in charge for over 15 years, and Hamas executes Palestinian dissidents. Yes, Hamas is truly awful. So were the Nazis (Godwin’s Law!), and they were elected and supported, and then suppressed dissidence lethally. Ten years after WWII, with mandated exposure to liberal democracy, the FRG was a pretty solid state citizen again. The trick is getting from there to here (Duh). It may be impossible for it to happen organically. You can say that they need a Jesus, a Ghandi, a MLK, but all three were killed while promoting non-violent social transformation. But, yeah, I’m not ready to write off the Palestinian people just because the group in charge are monsters.
  13. A funny thing about SEC history- for the first several decades, there was no insistence on a regular round robin schedule, where every school played every other, eventually. Some schools played five league games, others played six, and this was a league with double digit members. If two schools weren’t getting along, there was nothing to force them to play, and they could still be in good standing within the conference. I wonder if this had the effect of forcing schools to enforce fan behavior. In the SWC, a TAMC student was killed in a brawl at halftime of a game with Baylor, and the schools stopped playing…for two years.
  14. I was driving past Baylor Stadium, returning from UT’s KSU game. Baylor was going into OT against UH. From the freeway, you could see the upper deck was near empty (the broadcast was in ESPN+). Per your chart, listed attendance was 41,180, about 93% capacity, when in actuality the stadium was maybe 70% full. Maybe. In other words, attendance for a Baylor-UH game in 2023 was about what it would have been in 1995 or 1975. That killed the SWC.
  15. That’s interesting, but attendance is based on ticket sales, not butts in seats. Let’s see if those numbers hold with the sexier games off the schedule.
  16. I remember last year, all the off season discussion about improving our pass rush- “how did we lead the league in pressures and have so few sacks?” Ha-ha; I knew
  17. There’s no hire like a comfort hire
  18. So, after the season, I intend to make a small cash donation to either the Texas One fund or the UT scholarship fund, providing Kevin Mar’s contact info. Which would be the entity most likely to never quit calling him? And if anyone has his address, PM me, please.
  19. Good news for IR8. The ISU-KSU game actually had really good ratings. Two good teams, major network, exciting and competitive play, in a compelling environment- 3.29 M viewers. BYU at OSU had 2.39 M. Baylor finally got off streaming and nearly drew 700K on FS1. UH at UCF drew less than 200 K viewers. I suspect the last four adds to the B12 will be the engines of popularity. The four added for this year- UH, UCF, BYU, Cincy- will be a drag (except BYU)
  20. Two businessmen found themselves on an airplane, seated next to each other. After the flight was underway, one said to the other, “Excuse me, are you a Harvard man?” “Yes. Why, yes I am. How do you know?” ”The distinguished way you carry yourself, the authority with which you speak; it’s the mark of the Harvard man wherever he goes “ “Why, thank you! That’s very kind. And, if you don’t mind, may I ask if you are a Texas A&M Aggie?” “Why, yes I am! How could you tell?” ”when you picked your nose, I noticed your ring.”
  21. This is not a good report. It is denied by the U.S. How reliable is Germany’s “Bild”? Are they tied in to the German government? https://news.yahoo.com/bild-us-germany-quietly-seek-162311422.html
  22. I think we got to choose first, and maybe we decided it’s a business trip
  23. This is what the KSU president, Jon Wefald, stated in 1999: "Indeed, this coming Saturday, we are the underdog to the University of Texas. Outside of Texas, very few people cheer for the Longhorns because the University of Texas represents in most people's minds incredible wealth and arrogance. Many Texans believe that the world begins and ends with Texas." I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I think this really captures what the Big 8 schools thought, and I think this is the Big XII office’s attitude
  24. I wish they would, for this year. You just know there will be a bunch of bullshit about the bonfire collapse 25th anniversary. Nobody is better at turning dumbassery into victimhood and melodrama like the fucking Aggies.
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