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  1. 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. ''
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. I don't think Perry Minton and Chris Beard were related to each other, no.
  6. I believe Shaw had a knee arthroscopy. Don't know anything about Chatman. Interesting to hear. Interesting in a bad way, but interesting nonetheless.
  7. 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?
  8. I really liked him in Tiger King, too.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Simms ruptured his spleen in the NFL and kept playing. People can have all the opinions they want regarding Simms. I'll disagree with most of them, in all likelihood. But the accusation he was soft always pisses me off the most. Chrissy Simms. What a load of horse shit.
  14. I'm not saying there weren't good justifications for the resentment, but the rules were set up before the season began. Beat Texas Tech and none of that shit matters. I wasn't happy with how it went down, but it's not like it was out of our control.
  15. Yeah, I don't mean to short change Erwin. Definitely a legend. I still think Eltife came along at a time that was critical for UT football.
  16. They're also a commuter school so in this case they could commute...east.
  17. If we're sucking dicks, Kevin Eltife should at least get a reach around. He's the best chairman of the board of regents for football since I've been alive. Tom Hicks was really important, too, but Eltife is in a category of his own. I don't think the measurement of a chairman of the board of regents should necessarily be all about the football program...oh, who am I kidding. Of course it should be.
  18. And, while the OSU defense is going to have plenty of talent, the front 7 is not as good as UT's. With a brand new DC replacing who many consider the best DC in college football. So their inexperienced, portal heavy OL has the poorer matchup. I did see the PFF guy use some of this reasoning to pick Texas, but he is the only national guy to laud UT's DT quality and depth as a potential factor in this game. The ONLY one.
  19. This is the third most excited about a Texas team I've been in my lifetime heading into a season, following the 2005 and the 1983 teams. I feel like we have the fewest roster questions of anyone in the country. Does anyone remember that 1999 Kansas State team? They went 11-1 but were smashed by Nebraska so no one ever thinks about them. I remember when they came to Austin. They had Beisel and Darren fucking Howard as their defensive ends. The defense overall was really salty with a lineup of 25 year old junior college transfers who were illiterate but enjoyed killing people on the football field. Well, and off the football field, too. Anyway, they'd line up those defensive ends with these ridiculous splits wide on either side. Major Applewhite would get the snap and it looked like those two guys could almost pick it off before they drove him into the ground. The stats say there were only 6 sacks in that game, but it sure felt like a lot more than that. I feel like we're about to see something similar on a weekly basis this year. We have literally never had this many great college level pass rushers on the same team. Ever. That's not even including what Terry and Jackson may turn into down the road. Simmons and Hill are NFL elite caliber. BTW, McCoy was The Prestige level magician for that 2009 team. I always felt like the 2008 team was better. We all talk about that Alabama game and the McCoy injury, but that 2008 Texas team beats Florida.
  20. Unfortunately for the Aggies, it's not Kool Aid. It turns out it's the Grapist.
  21. It's all good. I'm not changing, so people can react to me however they're going to. I find all of it entertaining. I write really long posts that aren't for everyone, so I feel like taking shots at me for it is very legitimate. What I'm getting a huge kick out of is doing the same kind of thing on SEC Rant. I mean, I'm an oddball with my long posts on here, but at least there are people who have known me for a long time who know that's what you're going to get with me. Over there I might as well be taking a huge dump in the middle of the dinner table.
  22. I'm just surprised anyone would actually care that you said that. Are you sure they do? Is it brought up in conversations by anyone other than you? Did you say this to @Derka?
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