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Ha-ha-ha-ha! In the Bible, Jesus said what we do to and for the least of us, we do to and for Him. Baylor University roofied Jesus, ran a train on Him, and when He complained, they told Him to fuck off.
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My memory- it started in 2008. It wasn’t just that B12 coaches voted OU and TT ahead of Texas, in the votes determining the B12 south champ (and then BCS CG), but that they voted Texas down artificially (6th or lower). It was clearly a vote to create space for OU. My guess? They didn’t want a Longhorn team at peak capacity, dominating the Texas recruiting the whole conference relied on. It is hard to describe how pissed Texas was. (Hell, I still am). ‘Stache, remember that maybe-missed FG against ISU? Imagine replay showed it clearly good, and the review still disallowed it, after consulting with conference ADs. That’s how pissed we were. (in the off season, a photo showed the team conference hall, where 2008 -with an asterisk- was up there on the list of conference champions. Texas was roundly mocked for that. That didn’t help the mood in Bellmont, or the Tower or the BoR). Texas was done playing nice. The plan was to develop the LHN and weaponize it. Screw the conference- we were no longer going along with the fiction that their third tier content was worth anything. We were going to have specials about star HS recruits and big HS games, and the LHN was going to highlight Texas as the place to be and play. The league (especially the Texas schools) pitched a shit fit. Texas had to back down. But, Texas decided the B12 really wasn’t a collegial confeeence wheee everyone supports everyone else being as good as they can be. And Texas really started to look out for itself.
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Yes, Texas didn’t want to sign on to Larry Scott’s vision for taking the PAC to a new level (Scott said, basically, my way or the highway). How shortsighted!
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You think there is a connection? Explain it.
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The B12 and ACC have good media contracts for another seven years. What we saw in 2024: B12 games can’t draw media viewers in numbers needed to support those payments, now that the SEC and B1G have a bunch of better matchups. That’s why Farmageddon is in Ireland on week 0. That’s why a bunch of B12 games will be played in Thursday and Friday. That’s why ESPN is selling inventory to TNT. That’s why FSU and Clemson believe getting to the SEC or B1G is an existential need. Now, there will be a larger and better inventory of SEC games. ESPN really wants that. The next media contracts will increase the gap between SEC/B1G and ACC/B12. When we look back on 10-20 years ago, and wonder how this happened, a reflective IR8 fan or booster might wonder, “Is there anything we could have done to keep Texas and OU happy here? To have kept that first domino from falling, or even delayed it?” People tend to be self centered, so they’ll probably just decide, “Naw. Those Longhorns are just big selfish jerks”. They’ll never realize what huge strategic errors the coaches’ votes in 2008 were, the hostility against letting Texas really weaponize the LHN was too, that the fun from seeing Deterding screw the Horns in 2015 was self defeating. The Lilliputian’s did as they wanted and Gulliver split town.
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The thing is- y’all couldn’t win NCs before. In the BCS era, NCs were won by teams in the SEC, B1G and a couple of ACC teams that might get into the SEC or B1G. Of B12 teams, the only ones to win MNCs were Colorado (1990) and TCU (1935, 1938). What you could do, and you hate that these days might be over, is beat a blue blood and screw up their season. Those were games that delighted IR8 schools and they hate that they’re diminished
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True rivalries are unique. We hate OU, but we’d play them in a parking lot if we had to, and they feel the same about us. Alabama-Auburn and UGA-Florida are similar, I think. A lot of so-called rivalries are pretty weak. TCU and Baylor have played 130 times but either o e would give the game up for a magic bean (and either would surrender their first born for a home and home with Texas). Arkansas, back in the oldest SWC days, had a regular OOC game with Ile Miss, often played in Memphis. The ACC needs to go to nine conference games, but I bet they don’t get offered the same payout that the SEC teams do.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
On SoonerScoop, someone checked with the Fasusi camp, and the kid got a couple of IVs last night and expects to be back at practice, soon. (I think they are being optimistic). Also, their indoor facility doesn’t have AC, yet. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Sark is great. He has this program in as solid of a place as many of us have ever seen, and better than all of us expected to see again. I would love ten more years of this. Sark is also a recovered alcoholic, who has had rib splitting heart surgery and may have an eventful personal life. I am just enjoying each day he is here and not counting on anything too far in the future. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I saw where a SoonerScoop moderator was saying that they had five CBs they could play, which sounds like a strength. I’ve been paying attention long enough to know that “5 CBs that can play” really means “five bodies at CB, and none have separated themself”. -
You have to admit,…James Thurber
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
They are really believing: Wow. Deepest defense since 2003 and deepest OL since 2017. The former team played for the BCS championship and the latter played in the CFP. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Sounds like, per Sooner Scoop, that Fasusi has some heat issues holding him out. -
Crap! I forgot to mention- the feds were zeroing in on Thompson for dealing drugs, and interviewed Switzer about him. Switzer got in the phone to Thompson and told him to get rid or hide all the evidence. I’m not a lawyer, but I think this is obstruction? No charges on Switzer, though.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I agree, but also- Blalock and Sendlein were multi year NFL quality starters, Scott would have been without his rookie injury, Studdard was a NFL journeyman and Will Allen (like Lole this year) decided he was good, he had accomplished what he wanted to. -
I had started a series of posts about the misdeeds of Sooner football a few months ago, but stalled out in1982, with Switzer evading jail for DWI and penalties for Insider Trading. How do you describe the malfeasance, shenanigans and felonies (or, as Switzer described it, “the doping, raping and shooting”) of Sooner football in the 1980s? How can it be done justice? You just have to dive in. First, let’s talk about coaching. Texas had figured out how to use assignment defense to shut down the Sooners wishbone (required comparable athletes, and the Horns had them in the early ‘80s). Switzer made a coaching decision- he was switching to the pro set “I”. He recruited a QB, Aikman, and a RB, Marcus Dupree (he won a bidding war for DuPree’s services). Dupree was an immediate star, but Switzer only got a couple of years out of him (he describes in his book how it was all DuPree’s fault, and also blames the “advisor” from back home- the same guy the Sooners were giving money to to secure DuPree’s commitment. Imagine that- a bought player doesn’t stay bought). The pro set wasn’t working, mainly because Switzer had no clue how to coach it nor how to find assistants to coach it. They abandoned the “I”, returned to the Wishbone they knew, got Aikman injured running it, and he transferred to UCLA so he could begin his HoF career. Bosworth, the Boz, was another of Switzer’s stars. Switzer enjoyed all the attention gained from his brashness, until that same brashness attracted too much attention from regulatory bodies, curious about payments and PEDs, at which point the Boz was let go. But, OU was winning. Texas was down, they really only had to beat Nebraska in the Big 8, and if they didn’t have Miami (coached by Jimmy Johnson, who knew the Sooners all too well), there were few teams that could beat them. They won the MNC in 1985. They had a lot of talent, enabled by their total no -concern with character. The crimes piled up- an ugly gang rape in the dorm (later, Aikman, who had no respect for Switzer, said he would not let his girlfriend around his teammates), drug dealing by starting QB Charles Thompson, and a shooting of one player by another. It all came to a head and Switzer resigned. In his book, Switzer says none of that was his fault and he shouldn’t have been pressured to resign. What he doesn’t say- a key assistant coach and running buddy of Switzer, Scott Hill, was arrested and sent to jail for selling cocaine. The university was under pressure to investigate whether Switzer was also dealing in cocaine. By resigning, Switzer avoided having to answer those questions. How good of a coach was Barry Switzer? I’d say, probably as good as Bobby Collins, another guy with an amazing winning percentage that no other program wanted to hire to coach a rules abiding program. His success was almost entirely a creation based on his willingness to cheat.
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The most annoying thing about Tech is the way they get up to beat you, and so you have to make an effort in kind. You get no credit for beating them but a loss screws up your season. Luckily, Texas wins 3/4 of the time, but what a chore it is. The fun with the Ags is that Tech got up for them, too, and won a lot more often.
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Senior Citizen Issues - Assisting Your Parents
statsman replied to ROFL BOX's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
…on a lighter note,… I hope I haven’t shared this one before, but if I did, it’s probably good enough to repeat. On the subject of siblings not pulling their share (or even any share) of the load,… My MIL lives ten minutes away. We bought the house for her to live in. We pay the mortgage. Wife’s siblings, who live three hours away, made it clear they can’t help. My BIL, who is the apple of MIL’s eye, came to visit a year ago. Know what he did to help out? He prepared a list of things for me to fix or take care of in the house! Awesome, dude! Thanks! -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I have to confess that I read SoonerScoop. They believe that the 2023 RRS is the baseline for the rivalry, much more so than 2022 or 2024. That was a game where they played nobody before Texas, worked on tempo and QB draws in practice without ever putting them into a game before Dallas, had the Texas signals stolen, profited from very untimely injuries to Majors and Sanders, and still would have lost had the game been 59 or 61 minutes. This year, they have to play two important games before Dallas. I expect it to be a game, and sure, Texas could lose, but their hill to climb is a lot taller and steeper. -
You are getting off easy with this small amount of abuse. I have seen Tech boards. There is no way they would tolerate any Longhorn “Glory Days” posts
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The OOC road record since 1994. I ran a search on Stassen.com, for the SEC teams, since 1994. It stops I. 2023 (Stassen hasn’t added2024 yet). This period involves a lot of conference switching, and I’m not parsing TAMU’s SEC record pre-2012. https://stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/multi-conference.pl?start=1994&end=2023&team=Rice&team=SouthernMethodist&team=Baylor&team=Houston&team=Texas&team=TexasChristian&team=TexasTech&team=Arkansas&team=TexasAM Against P5 teams, Arkansas went 3-2 on the road, because they’re pussies and don’t play many P5 series OOC. They did win three games, though. Baylor went 2-5 on the road. UH went 9-27 OTR, OOC. Clearly, they were looking for games. Rice went 3-38 OTR, OOC. SMU went 3-28 Texas went 6-6. TAMU went 1-5 if you count the Denver game, 0-5 if you don’t. TCU went 10-3. TT went 2-8. The Ags have two problems, as I see it. They’re pussies and don’t play very many P4 teams OOC. Second, they suck. -
I have no idea why we are getting a lot of pics of guys we don’t know from past TT teams that went 7-5 or 8-4, when TT is supposed to contend in the B12 this year? Who are those guys?
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Au contraire- he was senior director of the Senior Bowl. Do you not realize what that means? Clearly, he is better at senior directing than the senior director of the East West Shrine game or the (one has to laugh) senior director of the Blue Gray Game. He has a well earned reputation for being willing to talk to the professional NFL scouts that come to watch Senior Bowl practices. I have heard from several in the know Sooners that he is a scouting savant. OU snatched him up before the Kansas City Chiefs could. -
After you’re done explaining to us how our program has worked, why don’t you go to MD Anderson and fill the Oncologists in on how they treat cancer, and maybe, while you’re at it, tell the Pope what he doesn’t get right about Catholicism.
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The thing is- Adrian Peterson was also getting benefits from Big Red Auto. OU cut loose Bomar (disappointing in development as QB), a backup OL, and kept the star RB. If Mateer were a disappointment, and this exact story popped up, the AD would cut him loose immediately
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