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  1. Fair, but I’m sticking with “Hamas is the single party in complete control of Gaza”
  2. That game allowed Baylor to go to a bowl (the Copper Bowl) for Teaff’s last game. Texas was one game short of bowl eligibility that year. Baylor fans feel good that Teaff was able to go out on a high note. Meanwhile- all the Longhorn seniors were cheated out of a chance to end their careers with a bowl game. They have a right to never fucking forget it. Those officials were assholes.
  3. I think it’s all non-public deliberation. Big XII referees are hired by Tim Weiser, who publicly came out as a Texas-hater. You can imagine the chances of a Texas Ex getting to be a Big XII ref.
  4. In a parliamentary system, can’t the parliament force new elections? In times like this, the fringes of the majority coalition can be pressured to vote for a change, bringing a majority to call for a new election. Is that mistaken?
  5. Facts and suppositions: There are no Gaza Kings or Ghandis. Any such would be killed by Hamas. Hamas has been in charge a long time. All young adults have grown up on an education of anti-semitism. There are no other curriculums. I have sympathy for the common Gazan; they never had a chance, were never allowed a glimpse of another way. I still welcome harsh punishment for the terrorist criminals (I’m the kind of guy that cheers when a 95 year old Nazi criminal is discovered and brought to judgment). Even still- this will be a tough group to reform, to re-educate (I hate that term, because of its authoritarian legacy), to liberalize. I give credit to Israel for pointedly saying they were at war with Hamas, and not Gaza, even though Hamas is the single party in complete control of Gaza. Warring on Hamas will be really ugly. It will have two stages- the first, while everyone determines what to do about the hostages (several are Americans). The second, after. The first part could take a long time, leading to global memory forgetting the massacres and denouncing Israel during the second part. I’m sure Israel understands that. Surely, Israel has done contingency planning for what to do with Gaza after a (completely foreseeable) collapse of Hamas?
  6. No CR, but Netanyahu’s government sells itself as being best on security. I imagine he is expected to lead through this, make all the needed (ugly) decisions, and then call for new elections.
  7. TCU and BU played 24 times from 1901-1910. Scheduling was tough back then.
  8. It is tempting to hold back the $6B from the US, headed to Iran. Problem is- Hamas has US hostages. That money was payment for freeing US hostages from Iran and I’m sure they have no problem linking the current hostages to any U.S. response. I wonder how the IDF handles hostage situations- is there a triage of those that can be rescued? Those that are deemed lost?
  9. Yep. The Big 12 is disenchanted with OU. It dislikes us. The southwest schools fear a dominant Texas, and what it means in overshadowing them. They can live with a dominant OU. They all resent the LHN. Schools like OSU think, “We’re putting all our media revenue in the conference kitty, to share. How come Texas gets to hold back?” (Because, even holding back, Texas is providing about 40% of the revenue). This attitude permeates the league office. Texas is a “problem” and has been for a while. Now, Texas has even made OU a problem (in their eyes).
  10. I feel bad for the innocent and uninvolved Gaza residents that will have to suffer without resources (food, water, energy, medicine) while this all plays out. I feel even more bad for the innocent hostages and captives, in more urgent need of immediate care, under constant threat of torture and death. I can see how a truce benefits the former. I don’t see how it benefits the latter.
  11. The government of Iran needs to fall.
  12. I’m curious - do we have “lessons learned” from the hostage crisis of 45 years ago? What are they?
  13. Dak Prescott is great at everything you want from a QB except the physical act of throwing the football.
  14. No, I composed this while I was out on a jog and screwed up the math. You’re right.
  15. OK. Tell me why posters talk about Riley wanting to avoid competition. Give me something besides butt hurt Sooners with an inflated idea of Oklahoma attractiveness.
  16. There is discussion that the SEC may play nine conference games out of four team pods, with one pod being Texas, OU, TAMU and Arkansas. Those four teams alone mean a total of twelve games total among each other. There could be one of these each week. There’s your ABC 2:30 or 8:00 game. Then, each of these teams plays six more games against other SEC teams, half of which will be big names. On a weekend where TAMU plays OU and Texas plays Tennessee, and Arkansas plays Florida, there will be a lot of Texas TVs tuned to SEC games. Then, on Fox, the B1G will have a good slate, too. Every week, they will probably have at least one game of national interest. Then, NBC has Notre Dame. There will be a lot of down channel ESPN and FS1/2 for the Big 12.
  17. Why do people think Riley is afraid of competition? Leaving Oklahoma for LA is very understandable. The PAC is a significantly tougher Conference than the B12. The B1G will be, too.
  18. The IR8 don’t get- it’s not just NIL creating separation. That’s a huge part of it, but the media contract disparity is also huge. That media money isn’t going to facilities or upgraded amenities. It’s going to fun the scouting and personnel staffs that are required if a program is going to scout the entire US, HS through all levels of college football. Notice how many “hits” Texas recruiting is getting lately? How the three stars aren’t so much “reaches” anymore. They shouldn’t be- they’re not being scouted by a position coach looking at Hudl in his free time. There are real, professional football scouts working full time at finding players. We’re settling into a system where the blue bloods have more booster money for NIL and more media money for personnel staff. I look at the Baylor and OSU boards and they’re bitching about Aranda and Gundy not working hard enough to find the “jewels in the rough” they built their programs on!😂
  19. That B1G schedule- adding USC, Oregon, UW and UCLA has doubled doubled the number of compelling games. I wonder- did Fox and ESPN let the PAC die, so that in the new SEC and B1G, they get so many more national interest games? The SEC and B1G will dominate the major channels.
  20. Honestly, I thought the time slot was driven by the network and not the conference.
  21. I expect UT to take the high road. That’s how it has always been. I was mildly surprised that we dropped the flags of the Big XII schools, but I think that decision was forced on us when the four new teams joined.
  22. Why the B12 would dislike Texas more than OU. The other schools in Texas (and Oklahoma) hate an “up” Texas. An “up” Texas means fantastic ratings and demand for tickets, sure. It also means that the Lubbock Walmart is selling more UT gear than Tech gear. It means that most of Waco is rooting for Texas, not Baylor. It means FW newspaper subscribers gripe about Mac Engel writing too much about TCU and not enough about Texas. And don’t even ask about Houston. OU is different. They’ve seen what a dominant Sooner program is like and they can live with that. For the other programs in state and nearby, the best Longhorns program is a good, but beatable program. They have had that for almost fifteen glorious (for the other B12 schools) years. This is the last season any of these Lilliputians wil have any possibility of impact on Texas. I’m sure they know that.
  23. Seriously, something is happening. I remember, in 1995, when the program had an upswing after a decade in the doldrums, everyone was surprised at the demand for Texas Football- viewership, tickets, t shirts, loot. It was enough to launch a network! If we’re on another upswing, we will show everyone which one of OUT was the desirable one, which one is “USC” and which is “UCLA”. it’s hard to imagine a dramatic increase in demand for Longhorn football, but…get ready for a dramatic increase in demand for Longhorn football. My fear is that the IR8 and Yormark can see the avalanche coming and use their influence for the rest of the season to put on some brakes.
  24. It’s ok. With Texas gone, Kansas will bring half of that 1.8 million, right?
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