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  1. In 1983, against OU, Simmons had 14 carries for 105 yards and two TDs. He was injured the next week, at Arkansas
  2. Let me tell you something about UT in the ‘80s. We weren’t a bunch of grade and resume building nerds. Cavorting naked in the middle of the night was neither uncommon nor frowned upon in my day.
  3. Did you ever see him play? I did. He was fantastic, and if not for his knee blowout, would have been the offensive spark the 1983 team needed to approach the defense’s greatness. He came back (as a fullback?) and played as well as he could after major surgery on each knee. His speed was gone. The guy played as well as he was able.
  4. Early Herman era hardass-ness got this guy wiped out with heat stroke. May have been a little organ damage.
  5. Worse idea. This is putting Texas back into a Gulliver and Lilliput situation. Auto bids are needed, because we have a quarter century of evidence that committees rate college football teams, first, by looking at the loss column, and there is so much variance in schedule quality. Check out the Sagarin final top 12, and who played them in the (pre CCG) regular season. The Buckeyes played three top 12 Sagarin teams. ND played none. Oregon played one. Texas played two. PSU played one. Ole Miss played one. UGA played four(!) (and Clemson wasn’t one of them) Bama played two two Indiana played one Tennessee played two LSU played two Michigan played four ASU played none ISU played none Clemson played one SMU played none The SEC is a sixteen team conference playing an eight game schedule, and its best teams averaged 2.2 tough games. The B1G’s best teams, playing a nine game schedule, played an average of 2 tough games. The B12 and ACC can barely manage any tough games. You want the SEC to go to nine conference games? You don’t want to guarantee it CFP spots? Then, show that you can differentiate between an 11-1 team that has played nobody and a 9-3 team that survived a murderer’s row. As yet, that hasn’t been shown.
  6. If Stewart Mandel doesn’t like it, doesn’t that support it being a good idea?
  7. He leaned heavily into “Of Mice and Men” for that one
  8. That’s all fine. Best FIBA player of all time.
  9. It’s not just about money. Look at schedules going back 125 years, to when football at Texas was more like a club sport. Texas always wanted to schedule tough national teams, while other SWC programs were happy playing Hardin-Simmons and Centenary. It’s in the program’s DNA.
  10. I think this is one of those “never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity” moments. In your office, you can encounter the sports fan who believes “Davis is better than Luka! He will do more to win a championship!” In the office, you tune that guy out. You know he is an idiot, so you do engage. If that guy phones a radio sports show with that opinion, he doesn’t get through. The reason sports radio listeners don’t hear that kind of opinion is because the hosts know it’s too stupid to talk about, bad radio. Not that no one thinks it. Nico really thinks Davis is better than Doncic. He will probably always think that. Obviously, he is an idiot.
  11. https://archive.ph/sGyn0#selection-1397.0-1423.300 Reuters report on U.S. military aid to Ukraine
  12. There was that story where a new player portaled out of Wisconsin, to Miami, this spring, and Wisconsin called “Foul!”- they had him signed to a contract with the Wisconsin AD. That contractual detail is novel, but was not treated as unusual. That’s why I stated that, evidently, ADs will be (not “might be”) cutting checks to players.
  13. There are a whole lot of issues with ADs paying players, in accord with the House Settlement. TitleIX has not been put to bed (despite the DOE statement), allocation of AD funds among sports, and among players in sports. Once ADs start paying players, what’s to make them cap their payments at the quoted $20.5M (what happens if they go over? A sternly written letter?) Not many of those issues have been addressed. All indications are that, regardless, ADs plan to start cutting checks this summer, to players. This will be the Wild West.
  14. “Jerry, do the other owners ever share with you what it’s like to have a team in the Super Bowl?”
  15. The Lou Brock- Ernie Broglio trade was pretty damned bad. Brock would be a perennial all star and HoFer. It would be comparable if, in 1994, the Cards traded Broglio for a younger Willie Mays.
  16. Harrison and Dumont are such shitheads. You know Davis is only going to play one game for the Mavs and Luka will drop 20# and win four NBA championships for the Lakers. It will be like Kareem leaving Milwaukee, except that Kareem actually wanted to leave Milwaukee. So idiotic. If they had called into a radio show suggesting such a trade, their call would never be put on, for being so stupid.
  17. In terms of athletic appeal, it is very much a regional school, just like TCU is. Or Tulane. SMU (soon to be CFP participant) played TCU (2022 CFP finalist) on Sept. 21. Viewership was 350K. Nationwide. There were possibly more DFW viewers watching Texas play ULM on the SEC+ app.
  18. I think he’s top five all time. I will argue against anyone who says he’s not the best FIBA rules player of all time- quantitatively and qualitatively. The FIBA 3PL is placed exactly where Durant would put it if he were allowed to choose. For such a great scorer, he’s different. Funny stat- Westbrook is the same age, and has taken hundreds more shots in his career (and probably missed thousands more). KD just has never been that guy to take lots and lots of shots. Oh, he will if he’s hot, but within reason. He is just always chasing the game, more than the stats.
  19. KD is great. A lot of people want to criticize him for not being what they want him to be. They think he should have built a legacy as the guy who stuck with a franchise for better or worse. Others think he should have been like LeBron, building a legacy as an icon of dominance. They wish he was like Curry or Kobe. KD has made it very clear, in word and deeds, what he wants to do in his career. He wants to play basketball, at the best level he can. When the league was on strike, he famously went to Rucker to get a game. Every four years, he plays for the U.S. team. Why? Because that lets him play high level games in the summer. (I will always remember the 2021 Olympics- the first time a U.S. team of all stars turned to one guy and said, “We need you to win this for us, KD”. And he did). He has had two injuries that could have ended a career. He came back from both. His whole career, he has played more minutes per game than it would be wise to. For his whole career, he has sought to expand his game, his defense, his off the ball play, his understanding of offense. I don’t think KD is going to be one of those guys that retires on top. I think they’re going to have to wrest the ball from his hands and change the locks to the gym. What is his career about? He wants to play high level games and he wants to be the best in them. He’s not Jordan, with the drive to beat others. He’s not LeBron, with his drive to build legacy. He’s KD. He plays great basketball, when and where he can.
  20. So, rather than criticize his opinions and stands, you mock his disability? Every year, I give my daughter, on her birthday, a “wisdom saying”. One year, it was “you can’t lift yourself higher by putting someone else down”.
  21. I have never understood why the governor, a Texas Ex that has done nothing but support the school, is mocked with a nickname that makes fun of his disability on a Texas website.
  22. The Texas AD had $270 M in revenue last year. SMU raised $159 M last year ($100M after the ACC move was announced). This is cute
  23. The point is- we are talking about the attraction of SMU’s AD job. It is limited. You’re trying to fill a 32k stadium and you have games on the CW(?) channel. You play games on a Friday night. He captured what I meant when I said SMU was # 4 in Dallas, exactly. It’s ok. TCU is #4 in Fort Worth.
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