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  1. Tech has to go to the B12 CG, for the first time, for the season to be successful, right? 9-3, 6-3 in conference, isn’t going to work, right?
  2. The test for TT’s approach is already being taken- after paying a premium to sign new players (NFL free agency has shown that key additions can make a huge difference), are they also taking care of current players, too? To keep the locker together? The2022 Ags didn’t. Veterans were getting fractions of what the new blue chip freshmen were getting. They (justifiably) felt taken advantage of. Get into a tight game with App State, an assistant entreats the starters and key backups to dig deeper, and they think, “Why don’t you ask the freshman over there to win the game? He’s the one getting all the money”. This season will show how TT handled it.
  3. Part of the “Texas model” is being the flagship university in the best town for young people in one of the most football crazed and talent rich states. With the most actual winning tradition. Good luck!
  4. Was that when Brat was press ganged into the Royal Navy and served with Lord Nelson?
  5. Venables is a disaster, primarily because he doesn’t understand the new college football world. Still, their next coaching search will be fun. The Sooner dans yap a lot about Beamer and Dillingham, but would either of those guys be willing to report to Nagy? Instead of the AD?
  6. They so often are. I suspect they’re not seeing us at our most charming with our jaws spread wide open, poking between our teeth.
  7. I’m sorry I’m late to the thread. My brother died early 2021, from a heart attack (and a life of bad choices). The year before he died, he finally got his remaining rotten teeth pulled and got false teeth. To save money, he got the work done at the dental school down near Deep Ellum/Fair Park. So, if you need a lot done and lack funds, there’s that. Me? I’ve always gotten my teeth cleaned twice a year and my dentist lives five houses down the street.
  8. Got tix. Buddy came up with a good plan- fly to Indy (good fares) and drive from there. Thx for the help. I’m a little surprised there aren’t party buses there and back.
  9. Back in the ‘70s, I read a book in the school library by Dave DeBusschere, where he said he was getting heavy mid season and losing his hops (not his phrasing). He started a pre-practice routine of jumping up to touch the rim 20 times in a row, and cut beer consumption in half, and got back in shape in no time.
  10. From SoonerScoop, comparing Texas and OU next year:
  11. The Big 12 is famously a league of parity. A look at Tech’s schedule shows games at Utah, at ASU and at KSU. They can’t sleep against BYU or Kansas. UCF and WVU each are trying to get the old gang back together (Scott Frost and Rich Rodriguez). Tech is in the B12; their season is more about keeping the loss count down than racking up the win count. If they lose none or one regular season game, they’ll be in good shape for their goals. Two losses and they are on the margins. Three and they’re out. Yet, NFL free agency has shown us how parity can be disrupted by a key free agent signing, and Tech has at least a half dozen. This will be fun to watch, especially with a bullseye on Raider Red’s chest.
  12. https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/jim-knowles-penn-state-ohio-state-b35c6d83?st=Hdpyf4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
  13. It was pointed out that Elko didn’t take his QB to SEC media days. Either he knows there is a good chance he goes with someone else, or he doesn’t want Reed getting comfortable?
  14. Venables,…ha-ha-ha Some people will tell you that Venables is a good guy. I don’t care- I’m still pissed about the 2009 trip to Tuscaloosa that Stoops assigned him, to brief Saban on Texas’ tendencies. I am enjoying every humiliation coming his way.
  15. So, after starting this thread, I did nothing. After about a year and a half, my right shoulder stopped hurting. A few months later, my left shoulder stopped hurting.
  16. Trying to figure out budget options on getting there. Anyone know of charter buses there, for that game?
  17. I think he was a five star LB recruit that wasn’t panning out at all. They decided he’d be one of the bodies they threw at TE.
  18. College football is a professional sport without salary caps or barriers to player movement. Before the House settlement, P4 team salary costs ranged from a few million to mid 20’s, depending upon the size and generosity of alumni fanbases. Now, P4 ADs need to budget for $20.5M and up. Texas is one of the very few schools with an AD than can absorb that expense with minimal pain (and still have a reservoir of alumni giving). That expense is damn near breaking ISU. OU is in between- their AD had layoffs to free up money, and they rolled their collective into the AD. They do not have much to give above and beyond the House settlement amount. There are other programs in the funding space occupied by OU, and many have championship aspirations. Some, located in regions with extreme concentrations of talent, will be ok. (They will still have to pay their stars market rates, but they can get young high talent prospects enrolled affordable, because of their region) OU is not located in a talent rich region. For decades, it has gotten around that, by claiming north Texas as its region. That strategy doesn’t work as well now. Texas and TAMU also claim that region, and have more money to offer. Hell, TT and SMU may also have more money to offer. This is a new game, and I don’t know that they have a solution.
  19. Great points. A couple of comments- In the pre-BCS era, the surest way to a NC is to build a really good team and have an easy schedule. Mid ‘50s OU and ‘80s Miami played about three games per year against comparably talented teams. Weren’t they terrific teams? Sure- but they weren’t playing a schedule like 1981 Texas. Going from the BCS to the CFP, that path has gotten consistently more difficult. Now, a NC has to go on a 4-0 streak against top 12 teams (counting the CCGs). Asfor Venables, you’re right. When they first started to create their new GM position, Venables should have said, “that’s not the terms of my contract. I report to the AD, not to the GM. If you insist on this, pay me my buyout and go find your new HC”.
  20. A couple of things: 1. It’s reported that ISU has a $25M annual athletics budgeting shortfall for the near future. I have to think that is largely a result of the $20.5M House settlement for P4 conferences. Texas and Ohio State are the exceptions as programs with so much money that the AD can just absorb that with some minor adjustments. Most major programs are like OU, where they needed to have AD layoffs and roll their collective into the AD to cover it. And then, there are programs which are just going to have to go to the university administration to get floated low eight figure annually, to stay in business. 2. Memphis trying to buy its way into the B12. Nope, not going to happen, not for Memphis, not for anybody. The B12 has a nice media contract for the next six years or so. The results from its first year without Texas and OU show that the media contract is too generous to the B12. The ratings stunk. The B12 is not going to do one Goddamned thing that would allow ESPN and Fox to revisit their contracts.
  21. The assistant for the kickers left for a job at App State in the spring. Sark has an edge to his staff handling.
  22. Yep. Often, when siblings live in different places, it makes sense for one sibling to carry the bulk of the load. Everyone gets that. It doesn’t mean that you can’t acknowledge that one sibling is covering for the others. And if you’re the “distanced” sibling, when the one that is on site asks you to cover while they take a vacation, you really need to try to do that. An attitude of “I’m just too busy to rearrange everything and come up there to help” (I have a SIL who doesn’t work and has no kids, who is the busiest Goddamned person in the world) is really shitty. Especially combined with “you seem to have it handled pretty well”.
  23. Wilson was fired for not winning enough and Bum Bright hired Jackie Sherrill to come in and cheat like hell on the recruiting trail.
  24. The other day, I was bitching to myself, while running errands for MIL, about how my wife’s brother and sister not only don’t help (financially or with contributed time), but don’t even acknowledge all the shit we do for their mom. A “thank you” now and then would be appreciated. Then, I reflected a little on how much of the load with my dad is carried by my sister. I got her on the phone to say how much I appreciated what she was doing and asked her when her vacation plans were, so I could cover for her with dad.
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