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  1. I don't listen to Finebaum, either. The worst Texas is going to go this year is 9-3. He was talking about a meltdown type of season. It was an obvious anti hype take, which...fine. But compared to his takes for teams like OU and A&M, both of whom he hyped up that don't have nearly the talent advantage, it sounded absurd. It felt like a take made for clicks, which is certainly part of the business model, but not something I get excited about. There are certain talking heads who enjoy throwing out anti Texas takes. Tim Brando is a big one. Josh Pate seems to be another. There are other guys who seem to go out of their way to give Texas the benefit of the doubt. Joel Klatt has always seemed to be that way to me. I'd put Greg McElvoy in that category as well, lately. There are a lot of more neutral guys out there - the amount of content on social media regarding college football is pretty much endless. I tend not to gravitate towards people who seem to enjoy taking shots at Texas. If that makes me a raging pussy, I don't mind being called that. To me it would be masochistic and self hating to go seeking that kind of content.
  2. I'm pretty sure he's paid by TexAgs to come on their show on a regular basis. He had a great interview with Steve Sarkisian from 3 months ago. It's definitely worth a listen. I can't stand him usually, though. If I get very desperate for more college football talk I'll click on him. There's so much content out there, that usually doesn't happen, but every now and then. His takes on Texas during SEC media days were absurd. It was all about what happens if Texas has a bad season this year. How bad will the wheels come off in Austin? It sounded like Aggie propaganda to me.
  3. That's a "No no no no...yes!" play. BTW, glad Ehlinger is Longhorn.
  4. My imagination is telling me Goosby is just fine. I just wanted to get this out there to reassure everyone. When I bug the shit out of people about the topic who know more than I do, the most credible ones either tell me they don't know, it's day to day, or I send them into a panic because there are times I know more than they do, even if this isn't one of them. This is after getting reassured for the better part of two weeks that everything is fine, nothing to see here. "His Dad tells me he's fine and will play against Ohio State." That's Tuesday. Then it's "It looks iffy." "Should I pray?" "Couldn't hurt." I think my human need for drama is getting fed here, too. I'm so wound up about the start of the season all these emotions have to go somewhere, even if it's completely unproductive. Goosby's health is what my brain has decided to fixate on. The rest of me is simply along for the ride. The truth is it's going to be whatever it's going to be. We have another week of this. I can't wait for the game to get here and to watch this team on the field, regardless of Goosby's situation. I do hope it's something he's able to shake off at some point in the season. I do believe that's the case, whatever is going on.
  5. Technically they'd be better off not getting the touchdown there. Just run out the clock. If you give the ball back to KSU they have a chance at an onside kick. Just to be clear, I don't think it matters. Avery Johnson is their quarterback. They're not getting two scores in this amount of time.
  6. I actually think he's pretty good. I don't want to, but I like his radio show.
  7. Yes, I wasn't really directing the statement at you. You were more the foil for a comment on college football in general this offseason.
  8. Just to remind you, they're in Ireland.
  9. You only say that because you're on a Texas site. That's not a knock on you as a Tech fan, BTW. That's a gibe at college football fans in general this offseason.
  10. It's weekend at bernie's thing. I'm sure of it. They're probably going to bring his dead corpse back as the head coach any year now.
  11. KSU used to be A&M. Their Potemkin village of a college town calls the center of it where the nightlife is based Aggieville. I would have put the equivalent of air quotes in that last sentence but then I realized I'd have to put quotation marks around pretty much every word.
  12. Have you watched Brian Kelly? I don't disagree, but the level of douchbaggeriness in college football is pretty high. My gosh, we had the biggest douchebag in college football roaming our sidelines for a few years recently. My understanding is he's wielding a sledgehammer on a construction site somewhere to this day.
  13. I celebrate it. Good on you for pointing it out.
  14. I'm cheering for KSU because Bill Snyder once said that losing the Alamo Bowl was worse than losing his daughter. Oh, wait. No. Actually that's why I'm rooting for ISU. I like Matt Campbell as a coach a little more than Chris Klieman. I don't know why Campbell hasn't been snapped up by another program already. ''
  15. It's awesomeness. I don't understand why everyone doesn't embrace this. It's the most awesome thing a random football fan could do. First of all, it's the single most identifiable thing a person can do on a moment's notice that definitely identifies them as a college football fan. Even the heavy metal devil horn people don't really do it upside down. Have a tv camera on you? Do the horns down, or horns up if you happen to be a Texas fan. Either one, the cult of college football knows on some level you're one of us, even if you're part of a sect they don't identify with. We already have the most iconic symbol in college sports. The Longhorn symbol may as well be the swoosh of college athletics. I say way more horns down thrown at random games where Texas isn't involved. I love it so much.
  16. Well, I'm having a bit of a personal nuclear meltdown. Does that count? It feels like the one position we haven't emphasized enough in my opinion in either recruiting or the portal over the last couple of years (and by that I mean literally THE ONE position) is the position we're getting a series of unfortunate news regarding. I mean, it is what it is. I haven't changed my mind at all about what our defensive front is going to do to their offense. I am getting more concerned about what their defensive front is going to do to our's, however.
  17. There are hundreds of topics about which I make people's eyes glaze over. Paleolithic era. Punk rock. The Malazan series. The impact of social media. You name it. Never have I made more people find somewhere else to be more often more quickly than when NIL gets brought up. People don't realize how much they don't want to know more about NIL more clearly than after starting a conversation with me.
  18. I don't think Perry Minton and Chris Beard were related to each other, no.
  19. I believe Shaw had a knee arthroscopy. Don't know anything about Chatman. Interesting to hear. Interesting in a bad way, but interesting nonetheless.
  20. Haven't you ever been talking to someone who says they're a big Texas football fan and realize pretty quickly into the conversation that the two of you have different understandings of what that actually means?
  21. I really liked him in Tiger King, too.
  22. I never know if I like it better when people get the joke, or when they don't, because I like both scenarios so much. So thank you.
  23. I went. I saw a lot of folks I hadn't seen in a long time, which was nice. 3rd and Longhorn did a show with Vince Young, and then at one point brought Royal Ivey up to the stage. I felt like I was the only one who recognized Ivey. That's an exaggeration, but it sure felt like he was a bit more anonymous at the event than I would have preferred. But that's okay. I met a bunch of CJ Vogel's friends, who told me he was a contrarian who would argue about anything, and I told them that sounded like a load of horse shit to me. I've seen him agree with people all the time, and in any case I hate anyone who would argue about anything. Most of the time I would talk to people for so long without them being able to get in a word edgewise that finally they would find an exit and steer clear of me the rest of the evening. Rod Babers is the only one who seemed to be able to put up with me for a significant amount of time. I told him my joke about his quote after the Colorado game, "No one catches the ball on my side of the field. Not even me." ("yeah, Mack Brown wasn't a fan of that quote" "well, I thought it was hilarious at the time") I said my motto for last year's team was, "No one scores from the 1 yard line. Not even us!" It was a nice event to help kick off the season, and I'm glad I went. I have a high opinion of On Texas Football and the product they put out. I feel like they have a different level of integrity, in a business that so often has none. I enjoy all their contributors a great deal. Bobby Burton in particular seems like the Godfather of recruiting services, and I consider Gerry Hamilton the single best person who does what he does. But I also feel like Howe, Vogel, and Babers add a great deal to the dynamics as well.
  24. Sort of. There's a weird in state hatred of Texas in Colorado that stems from the fact so many Texans own so much of the land in their state. Honestly, Colorado football fans are a strange breed. The administration there goes hot and cold regarding giving the football program support and then pulling the rug out from under them, so the fans end up on an unpleasant teeter totter as to whether the team is going to be good or not. I don't believe Colorado fans think about Texas all that much. Missouri doesn't think of Texas much at all. They have the KU thing going on, and they're too busy feeling rejected by all the SEC schools who don't even think they bring anything to the conference and wish they'd be kicked out. Nebraska fans hate Texas with every fiber of their being. It's akin to Arkansas hate. It's not just about the record. It's this mythology they've created that UT is responsible for their program's demise. That's existential shit. Nebraska is one of those states that to be from there, even 2nd generation, means you're a Cornhusker football fan. It doesn't matter if you went to school there. It's like Constantine making everyone in the Roman Empire convert to Christianity. You're a Cornhusker football fan even if you don't follow football. They'll cite different factors. Lack of population in the state. The increase in difficulty in recruiting out of state. The move to the Big 10. But given our human propensity to blame someone else for our own problems, the chief place they like to put the blame for their decline is on Texas. We came into the conference and ruined their ability to place dumb college football players on the academic rolls for a year, even though it was an 11-1 vote. The officials were bribed to let Texas win the Big 12 championship game in 2009. If they win that, they're allegedly still a prominent program. We formed the Longhorn Network which forced them to go elsewhere for conference membership, rather than sharing revenue equally. Never mind in every vote regarding revenue sharing they voted with Texas, because they were making a killing on selling pay per view for Tier III rights to the Nebraska faithful, but the amount the Big 10 was able to offer was going to dwarf any combination of revenue they'd receive from the Big 12. They still act as if their departure was UT's fault. It doesn't matter that we haven't played them since they left the Big 12. That shit is handed down from generation to generation, just like Arkansas. Every little dirt farmer is tucked into bed with stories of the boogeyman, the Texas Longhorns, who ruined the Nebraska football program. It's accepted as fact up there. I won't go into all the dynamics in volleyball, because it will bore everyone to tears, and I've already lost a lot of people with my usual wall of text. But for the few of us on here that passionately follow that sport, the Nebraska hatred for us is immense (in volleyball I'd say it goes both ways equally in ways it does not in football, but that's neither here nor there). And citing A&M's hate as having anything to do with 11-5, 5-3 in College Station, is an almost criminal misrepresentation. That's an institutional hate that goes way beyond football. As much as their brainwashing fish camp, their roots as an all male compulsory ROTC military college, the jizz jar bonfire pre tragedy, and all their other cult behavior, it's their shared hatred for Texas that bonds Aggies. That's not true to the same extent even for OU fans. We diminish their complete and utter obsession with us to say it has anything to do with their record against us.
  25. Sort of? The hate was already there among a bunch of them. Osborne made some comments about Texas running things when the conference championship game was scheduled over Nebraska's objections, the league office was moved from Kansas City to Dallas, the SWC commissioner was named the commissioner for the Big 12, enrolling prop 48 players was disallowed and corn fed beef could no longer be served as brisket. They did give Ricky Williams a standing ovation in 1998. But yeah, there's full fledged hate now. You see it in volleyball a ton, too. I know volleyball is a big deal at Texas, but it's insanity level in Nebraska. Hence the attendance world record for women's sports. And they hate Texas. Coaches have been known to get divorced over it.
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