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  1. I think we got to choose first, and maybe we decided it’s a business trip
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. We have one thing going for us. For the first time since Gundy became HC, he and his staff spent no time this past spring and summer watching Texas tape or gameplanning Texas. He has to start this week, just like Sark.
  5. TT, as a program, gets it about the need for a serious NIL program, better than the other IR8. They are also most likely to get good home attendance (and maybe road draws?) than the others. I think they have the best chance to prosper going fwd.
  6. You stupid fucking ‘sips. Bear Bryant was a Kentucky coach, hired away by some Ags with foresight, 70 years ago. Mark Stoops has won even more games at Kentucky than the Bear! Whooop!
  7. When I got the Wusthofs, 15 years ago, I cut myself good a couple of times. Too ashamed to show, I wrapped big bandaids as tight as I could and left them for a couple of days. Took them off and they had just started to knit enough for a regular bandaid. (I’m pretty sure the proper thing was to go to the quack shack and get a few stitches). Is his worse?
  8. I agree. That would have been a good time for the IR8 to show some awareness. Yes, nobody wants to admit that the line judge really lost his cool, and it affected the game. Nobody wants to bring questions into the standings (especially OSU). However, it came at the cost of pissing off the league’s economic engine. Retrospectively, they should have had Anderson fire the line judge and suspend the others. It’s a lot easier to find seven new slapdick officials than a new blue blood anchor program.
  9. After the show last night, and seeing ratings, I have to think Yormark wants to tell the IR8- “you stupid motherfuckers couldn’t figure out that supporting and promoting this program is the easiest way for everyone to succeed as a conference and make everyone rich?”
  10. Obsession? No. It is on my mind. I’m a fan of Longhorn football, and there are one or two more significant games to play in the B12. The one tonight? The conference commissioner has already said he will be there rooting for Tech. The conference supervisor of officials sent Kevin Mar and his crew (officiators of some very odd games) to Austin tonight for the third time this season. I imagine that in a very short period, I won’t be thinking much of the IR8 at all, but now I am very conscious of them.
  11. So much for “the Big XII won’t try to screw us. They want that sweet CFP money and we’re the only ones that can get it for them. Let’s see that’s $6 million, less the $4 million they would get if we went to NY6 bowl instead, so $2 million, divided 12 ways…$167k each! There is no way the IR8 would give that up just to stick it to Texas one last time!”
  12. Eric Nahlin just posted that Kevin Mar’s crew is doing today’s game. Even though his crew has already done two Texas games this year (Wyoming and KSU). Of course they are. I’m sure Yormark and Weiser are laughing their asses off.
  13. Some of you might know that I am an ancient Longhorn football history buff. How did Texas football get where it is? From the earliest days, Texas knew it wanted to be a national power, even when the best programs were obviously the Ivy League schools. When football was more of a club sport, student team managers worked to schedule home and homes with distant flagships. Texas went up to Chicago and took its ass whipping from Stagg’s squads. It scheduled Notre Dame whenever it could. It was so proud of the coup of scheduling a game in Boston against Harvard. And the Horns usually lost. Meanwhile, other state programs were letting easy train schedules determine who they played. Texas was getting national exposure, and learning what was required, play-wise, to be a national power. (Note- this is not an approach that only the Longhorns could take) UT was the first program in the state to build a stadium. It was expensive as hell, but it was the first. A lot of programs wouldn’t have their stadium for decades. Texas started the SWC, primarily to get rules of play and eligibility written, signed up to, and enforced. When the SWC was collapsing, Texas was the leader in finding a home for the SWC’s most popular programs, and Baylor, in the Big XII. Then, in the aughts, UT saw the impact streaming would have, and budgeted the money to wire all its athletic facilities accordingly. Dodds shared this vision with the Big XII, and encouraged them to do the same. They declined, citing the expense. Here we are. Texas has planned and invested wisely for over a century. Lilliputians hated Gulliver because he figured out that the quickest way to put out a city fire was for him to puss on it. Rather than thank him for his quick thinking and help, they tried to blind him. The IR8 could never bring themselves to thank Texas for all the revenue their free riding brought; they’d rather vote it down and keep it from leveraging all its resources. Gulliver was surprised to discover that the Lilliputians hated him. I am surprised by the hate expressed by the IR8.
  14. That was a different era. That was an era when, if a Mountain West team signed a player, that ended up being good enough to star in a bigger league, they could keep him until he ran out of eligibility, because there were barriers to transfer, and bigger (richer) programs couldn’t give incentives (NIL) to transfer. Also, the IR8 program formula for success is to find the right coach and pay him to stay. Now, the quality of life for power program coaches and aspirational program coaches is markedly different. Rich programs can hire staffs to scout the nation for HS recruiting and transfer portal recruiting. Smaller programs need the assistant and head coaches to do that, and it’s an all year job.
  15. My wife had a knee issue (no crutches l), a few years ago, and I got there early, drove on San Jacinto from Dean Keyon (told the guard at the box that we needed ADA drop off but didn’t show anything), dropped her off at the NW corner of the stadium, turned up to the LBJ library and headed back to my peasant parking.
  16. I don’t know. When you review the Tech fan behavior, in Lubbock, at football and basketball games, it’s clear they are getting off on “hating Texas”. Scheduling them there is like scheduling Arkansas. We think we’re setting up a game and they are preparing a jihad.
  17. https://www.theunticket.com/texas-tech-doll/
  18. Prediction- over the next couple of decades, there will be changes in the coaching staffs and ADs of the various IR8 schools. (Of course there will be. There always are). At some (I predict Baylor, TT, TCU, UH) and not others (ISU, KSU), the new AD or coach will roll out their turnaround plan, and part of it will be, “I’m going to call Austin, and see if we can schedule a series. Remember how much fun those games were? How exciting? Games like that are what we need to get this program rolling again!” They’ll make that call. UT may receive it and consider it. “A game in Lubbock? Hmmm. Y’all played Ole Miss in Houston, in the NFL stadium. How about that? A game in Austin and a game in Houston?” Or, maybe they’ll just try to get the Legislature to force a game contract (like some Ag legislator did once).
  19. And, no mistake- if Paul Foster (by all accounts a good UT regent, but a big Baylor booster) were still on the BoR, we don’t get to go to the SEC. If Abbot were not governor, we don’t get to go. If there were any way for politicos from west Texas, FW, Waco to apply leverage to force Texas to stay in the Big XII, they would have. If there were any way that TT could come along, they would say “sign us up!” Without hesitation.
  20. I guess I’m fascinated by the game theory aspect of all this. In an Economics class, the prof said that the assumption most Economics is based on is “people make decisions in their own interest”. This conference realignment highlights flaws in that assumption- administrators that have a lot of power, but will only govern for a few years, make short term decisions that have negative long term implications. So, fans enjoy storming the field and giving shit to players. Coaches enjoy voting Texas down in a poll. ADs pressure a conference to limit promotion of the biggest brand. All decisions that have a near term benefit. Then, when Texas leaves (and it was hard- a lot of time to wait out the political situation, a lot of money), it hears, “you selfish asshole! And, hey- what about the tradition? Didn’t we have some good times?” All of these TV ratings highlight just how much free riding was going on.
  21. If you’re Matt Campbell, taking the ISU job in 2016, you look at a big name like Texas that went 6-7 and 5-7 the prior two years, and you see vulnerability. There are deep flaws in the Texas program, so of course you draw a bullseye on them. For whatever reasons (there were many), the UT program wasn’t performing, so you take advantage of it. The problem for Texas was that every pissant program in the B12 saw the same thing, the same opportunity.
  22. I’m talking about when he said that Texas and Iowa were the two big games. If he doesn’t get that from the coach, where does he get that from?
  23. Honestly, none of us suspected that we were such a big deal to the Cyclones program until Jarrod revealed it.
  24. I’m sorry, but I’m going to keep replying to this thread. I’m enjoying the result of the Big 12 standing up to Texas and its underperforming self.
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