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  1. Yeah. I bought Texas lower level CFP CG options early last year, for $150 each. I walked into the Buckeyes semifinals game with those options, a refundable Atlanta hotel reservation and exchangeable airline tickets to Atlanta a week later. It was very comforting to go into that game, knowing that if Texas won, I was covered for the CG without having to stress and wrangle for getting to it. Sure, they made money on me, but I don’t regret it.
  2. You dumbass. I’m going to help you apply some critical reasoning. Look at how many SWC championships Royal won. How many times he finished in the top 5. Compare it to his regional and national peers. Now, go look at how many (how few, actually) NFL players he coached. There are surprisingly few. (Hilariously, a large percent were WRs that were targeted about ten times per season at Texas). His predecessor and successor both had more future pros per roster. Royal was not building teams by outbidding the competition for the sure thing blue chips. He didn’t want boosters buying players because he didn’t want to cede control. When Royal was told that a rival school was starting to really cheat, He’d call their HC on the phone and tell them that if they didn’t put a stop to it, he was going to the NCAA. He could do that because he didn’t fear reciprocity. He was happy recruiting, just relying on the natural advantages of UT. Now, go back to explaining how to win at college football from your Lubbock perch. I’ll hand it to you, Techsters- y’all have played in bowl games I never knew existed.
  3. I get that, but I watched CFP CG prices before the ND-tOSU game last year, out of curiosity, and they seemed to go up near Gameday and time. The 2006 Rose Bowl was a game where we heard a lot of stories of guys showing up at the stadium with $1k in cash and not getting in. Showing up in Miami without tix may be a better strategy if Texas is playing a non-blue blood program.
  4. No fanbase ever got more mileage from a win than OU did with the2023 RRS. If the game is 59 minutes long, Texas wins. If it’s 61 minutes long, Texas wins. But, they have that result established as the baseline for their expectations. (And they followed up that win by coming down from their emotional high and losing to KU and Okie State, missing the Big 12 CG).
  5. The B12 really is kind of interesting, in a freakish way. Its parity is kind of a strength, even though it lacks for bell cows. It has six members (UH, TCU, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and ASU) that crawled out of the wreckage of dead/dying conferences, and are always looking to scramble up. It has other schools like TT, ISU, KU that have seen their foes of over a century abandon them, and they believe they just need a little boost in order to rejoin them. I can’t think of a Big 12 member that is happy where it is. They are like crabs in a pot, all willing to climb over each other to get out. But, know what? I’ve never seen a crab crawl out of the boiling pot. I can’t think of a Big 12 member that will get picked for promotion. (I want to say ASU, due to demographics, but we’ve been saying that for 50 years).
  6. I pussed out. Price for 300 level options was $260 each for Texas (highest of any team), $20 over my target price,…and I bought ‘em anyway.
  7. I am in line with an estimated 20 minute wait. I am thinking if the option for the upper deck is less than $240, I’ll buy and if more, I’ll pass
  8. 20 years ago, I was trying to convince a friend whose teen son was accused of something bad at school, that had been referred to the police, that he needed a lawyer. He felt his son was innocent, and didn’t see why he needed one. I convinced him by saying that it might be a mistake to assume that police officer is like Stabler on “Law and Order”, trying to get to the truth. That maybe he is just a bureaucrat, trying to work a list of assignments down, and if he can close a case by convincing them to plea to a lesser charge (by threatening a bigger charge), he’d do it. That an attorney would keep the police honest. He asked his parents for money, hired an attorney, and now admits it was the best money ever spent.
  9. Depends
  10. Oh, it would be great (although it probably won’t happen). A 6-6 OU where Venables gets to say, “Mateer was a Nagy/Stephenson hire”? Delicious.
  11. I am sorry, but I’m going to have to say out loud what all of us are thinking- if there is one thing that we know about winning football at Tech, it’s that Texas Tech does not know one goddamned thing about winning football. If Tech did, then at least once in the last 100 years it would have had a great team. It is remarkable that in a state where small fucked up private schools find their way to major bowl games, Tech hasn’t been to one since a four way tie in ‘94 allowed it to get soanked by a shitty Trojan team. Rice has a better football history than Tech. Tech’s floor and ceiling is like that crazy room in “Being John Malkovich”. But, that’s fine. Carry on with explaining to us how Tech is going about building a winning program. I’m sure y’all have it all figured out.
  12. Ok, I recognized Spike Dykes. Is it bad that I don’t know who any of those other guys are in Iceman’s pictures? I’ll have to take your word for it on Lubbock. Confession- I had my SATs sent to TT. I was going to be the first in my family to go to college and I wanted to study engineering. We had been living in Fort Benning, Georgia when Dad retired from the army and moved to Texas. I knew that in Georgia, if you wanted to study engineering, you went to Georgia Tech, so in Texas… I figured it out when TT sent me an informational booklet that, I kid you not, had the pages and cover actually cut in the shape of a cowboy boot! There is a lot of truth to the saying, “Get your grades up or get your guns up!”
  13. But, you see, …it’s Baylor. They’re pissants.
  14. Yeah, I used to work at the Mr. Gattis the victims left that night, and my family lived in Speegleville. For those who don’t know- Waco PD arrested and convicted four people for raping and killing those girls, based on a shaky confession (a cell mate of one of the four claimed he confessed to him, and that purported confession was used to coerce actual confessions from two others - “plead guilty and you won’t get executed”). The other two pled not guilty, but all four were convicted. One of the four won release on appeal, the other was executed and the two that pled guilty-later retracted- died in prison. Years later, the same detective and DA got a similar hokey confession to convict another guy for rape and murder, but he was released when DNA evidence exonerated him. So, yeah, not sure about that case really being closed.
  15. You know, you could probably do a doc on the 1982 Lake Waco murders, too, that is just as infuriating. They convicted three or four guys, but I’m not convinced they ever solved them.
  16. Thoughts: 1. This happened before the ISU gambling scandal. It is very possible these dumbasses were not aware of the seriousness. 2. Is there anything to it? Don’t kids put stupid ass stuff in the Venmo note all the time? Sure, but “fifa World Cup”? Isn’t that oddly specific for a throw away laugh? 3. I don’t see any Roatens on the ‘25 WSU roster. Landon Roaten is now at ACU. WSU may have a team gambling problem, but the AD may not be interested in investigating unless they have to. ACU’s AD should investigate. I’m going to guess ACU doesn’t have low seven figures invested in Mr. Roaten. There is still some more popcorn to eat on this Mateer matter.
  17. I badly want to see WSU AD Compliance say they recommend both players be held out while they complete their investigation
  18. I have no idea if there is any legitimacy to the Mateer claim, but,…if there is an investigation, wouldn’t it fall to WSU to do it?
  19. “Selfish players are winners”? 😂 Allow me to introduce you to Jack Mildren, Brian Bosworth and Adrian Peterson.
  20. Interesting recruitment. Key position. If you think he is a near-certain difference maker, you go hard. When you see that your main competition is OU, you go hard, because you have a chance to either: -win a head to head, leaving them with lesser choices, or -make them spend more of their limited budget than they wanted to
  21. No, thats from the year y’all finished third in the Big XII South.
  22. Hey, Iceman! Show a photo from a conference championship game!
  23. So, was this Hocutt getting ahead of his skis? Wishcasting? Were there sincere talks that were ended by Texas having to pay so much to get out of the B12? Because a year later, it’s not looking as likely. CDC is ghosting Hocutt and Hocutt is complaining ing to Gov. Abbott to do something. https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/college/red-raiders/2022/09/08/texas-tech-football-athletics-officials-press-ut-future-non-conference-schedule/65741954007/ And a year later, Hocutt is back talking to the press, calling out CDC for being “scared to play them” https://www.on3.com/news/kirby-hocutt-jokes-chris-del-conte-is-still-scared-to-schedule-nonconference-games-with-texas-tech-sec/ There are a lot of reasons to not schedule Texas Tech, but a bit g one has got to be their willingness to try to go over the AD’s head, to the media, to the Governor. I can imagine it would feel really good to all the Red Raiders if a Tech flex could bend UT to their will, but that plan shows a combination of naïveté, aggression and ignorance
  24. statsman

    Led Zeppelin

    The Netflix doc is great, focusing as it does on the music. It’s fun. Those old guys seem so grand. There is a darker documentary to make, getting into the narcissistic bad behavior, the psychopathy of their manager and their complete and total neglect of IP law.
  25. The after dinner aperitif is reading their boards, with ardent fans complaining about players deciding based on the biggest offer, and how that is ruining the sport…
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