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  1. Dobie Theater in the 80s was pure greatness. There was a terrific video rental shop in there, too. There was an arcade/pool table place in the basement. I remember some guys regularly breaking out some kind of massive table top game with intricately painted figurines. Turns out it was Warhammer 40k. I'd ask them about the lore of the world and by the end of the conversation my head was completely spinning. Movies that did well played a lot longer in the theaters back then. We had Nightmare on Elm Street at our theater for over a year, and it was still making money at the end of the run. Who would think that having a proprietary lock on content would be good for business? In any case, if there were any ladies from mid teens to early 20s that went in to see the movie, I would go in at critical moments with a pair of hot dog tongs and start clicking them together. It never failed to scare the living crap out of them. Maybe it's been mentioned before, but the tunnel scene in the original Willie Wonka is a classic. Wrath of Khan is almost universally considered the best Star Trek movie. A lot of great scenes in there, from the beginning where Kirk admits he rigged the computer simulation designed to help future officers deal with defeat so he wouldn't have to, the tremendous overacting from both Shatner and Montalban, the Master and Commander type cat and mouse fight between the two, and Spock's death because he didn't want to keep playing the character. How did that work out for you, Nimoy? But for me the signature scene in that movie was sticking that slug in the ear of Chekov so he lost the function of his free will. The way it swirled around to enter his brain through his ear was nightmare fuel. Also, Marathon Man. "Is it safe? Is it safe?" I think the book handles the scene even better, but it's hard to beat Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman on screen together playing such a horrific scene. The scene in Clockwork Orange where they pry his eyes open so he can't look away from the screen, can't even blink. Tons of others, but those are some good ones.
  2. I feel like he was penalized for hitting the goal post when that should have been worth extra points.
  3. He just needed more Sark pep talks right before the kick. That's what we were missing.
  4. This is among the craziest title songs to a movie ever made. 14 year old Michael Jackson, with a sentimental ode to a special friend. You'd never know the subject was an alpha rat ready to lead a rat army. Oh, and this just in, Michael Jackson had some pipes. Not that that's new, but man he could sing.
  5. I feel like last year's team motto should have paraphrased Rod Babers. "No one scores from the 1 yard line! Not even us!"
  6. Meh. It's pretty routine stuff nowadays. Here's the video Dr. Mann shows his patients to put them at ease.
  7. That's a great post. I feel like I was being more specific, in terms of Alabama already has a bunch of schools that consider them a rival. I mean, Georgia does, too, but more fan bases get even more pumped up about the Alabama game than fan bases getting pumped up for the Georgia game. A huge part of it is their success, but also the feeling of entitlement they have around their success. Alabama fans consider it a birthright that the Crimson Tide is excellent in football in a way that the rest of the SEC hopes and aspires to be excellent in football. But everything else you said there is pertinent and right on. If I could describe the UT culture in one word it's arrogance, and that arrogance seeps into the soul simply by association. It's not about football. It's about everything. We simply think we're better than you regardless of the context, or the factual evidence. Shockingly, that tends to rub people the wrong way. Who woulda figured?
  8. People believed the Iliad was a factual telling, and that's one of our first written pieces in western culture. It's often challenging to parse truth from fiction. It's especially difficult when it lines up with how we view the world in the first place. Not everyone has the bandwidth to employ critical thinking (I don't mean that in a judgmental sense - merely an observational one), and there's always the possibility of becoming a Cassandra type figure when you do, then you're socially ostracized whether you're right or not. I think it's more realistic in the Emperor's New Clothes to think the kid was taken aside, beaten and exiled than it is to think he changed everyone's mind about what was really going on. On a personal level I'm completely full of shit in real life settings. It's amazing the amount of far out bullshit people will buy simply because I say it with a straight face. I'm not even trying to lie. I'm saying something outlandish and then I'm astonished someone believes it. Most of the time my reaction is to double down and see how far I can take it.
  9. I'm with you. We are the talk of college football this year. That didn't happen even during the 2000s. In part because of USC in 2004 and 2005. I still think it's incredible ESPN pitched that season as the dominance of USC, and can upstart Texas even compete with the mighty Trojans? They could have pitched it as Ali versus Frazier but chose David versus Goliath. I still think they missed an opportunity there. Last year talking heads questioned UT's pass defense. They questioned how Texas would do in their first year in the SEC. There was this underlying conceit that we've seen Texas be a flash in the pan before. Is this for real this time? Completely different level this year. When we're not being talked about it's like we're the elephant in the room. The combination of the Texas brand and the Manning brand is making Texas the most compelling story of the offseason. It was a different time, but I don't think Texas has received this kind of attention from the people who cover this stuff since 1968-1970 when we rattled off 30 wins in a row, had the Game of the Century, and had the president anoint us as national champions. There's definitely a build-them-up-so-we-can-tear-them-down vibe about it. But vibe there is nonetheless. Ohio State is the other national bellcow, and I don't see the same kind of coverage of them at all. Same thing with all the SEC teams. Georgia, Alabama and LSU are playing second fiddle for the most part.
  10. The biggest issue is going to be the reduction in receptions because we're scoring so quickly over the top on every possession. Not to mention we're going to constantly have a short field other than the one time the opponent kicks off each game. And on a lot of those the offense won't even get a chance to take a snap because of all the kickoff returns for scores. I'm afraid we're going to be so dominant the offensive skill players are going to have some rather unimpressive stats overall. Oh well.
  11. I didn't recognize either of them. I thought one of them may have been you, and I wanted to put a negative X on that one. Also, no offense to either Sendlein or McGee, but this is funnier. The shots are meant for Mack Brown and Maddog more so than McGee and Sendlein. Regarding Sendlein specifically, he was an oasis of having a great center on the offensive line during years where we didn't have another one who was even average. Obviously his Dad is a legend, and it was so great having him and his brother on campus. He wasn't recruited as a center, but he owned that position. It was so nice having someone snapping the ball who didn't wear roller skates. Oftentimes our blocking schemes didn't do the centers any favors, but Sendlein was still a beast.
  12. Since this is the recruiting thread, I'd recommend learning how to be 6'5 and 300+ pounds. Running a 4.3 40 is also recommended.
  13. Dad was a lay preacher for his local church of christ. He made biblical references with regularity. Especially the old testament kind. Lots of jawbone of an ass references, too.
  14. Here's my thing. Other than OU, and maybe A&M, we're constantly eliciting a stronger reaction from other fan bases than we reciprocate. And even A&M for many of us it's tough to take them seriously as a rivalry. If I could choose one program to make really hate us and circle us on the calendar every year, it would be Alabama, because they're Alabama. But the truth is Alabama is the Texas of the SEC. Everyone hates their guts. Everyone thinks of them as their biggest rival at different times. Alabama only has so much bandwidth for rivalries. Also, Alabama is in a transition where they're scared to death they're going back to the Perkins/Curry/Dubose/Franchione/Price (hahahaha!)/Shula era, with a little Stallings sprinkled in, who resigned under some pressure. They are in a bit of a confidence crisis at the moment. They're also concerned they don't have the juice to compete with the Texas' of the world in terms of NIL. Georgia has a bit of A&M in them in the sense they don't have a history of being top dog. They're the flagship program in their state, but they've never been top dog in the SEC until recently. They want the last 5 years to go on forever, and here Texas is coming in interrupting things. When I compare it to Nebraska, I think of how Texas fans didn't really get how much Nebraska fans hate us. I think most of us on this board do, because we're message board junkies and so we've seen it over the years. But the average Nebraska fan is well aware of how much they collectively hate Texas. Even people who were too young to be Nebraska fans when the two programs played in the 2000s. It's passed down generationally, to the extent Texas is completely and utterly blamed for their downfall. Something similar is true for Arkansas. We collectively don't really care about Arkansas. They're not really on our radar. Whatever "rivalry" there is, is mostly because it's shoved down our throats that there's a rivalry there, so we kind of shrug our shoulders and go, "okay, I guess there's a rivalry." Arkansas fans don't have to do that. They know their hate for Texas is in their DNA, passed down through the womb from one generation to the next. We just don't get that intensity. Is that possible with Georgia? I don't know. I hope so. I hope Texas puts together a string of wins against Georgia. I hope they have a bit of a downturn in overall talent, and that talent dropoff is blamed solely on Texas. At the end of the day as long as they have Kirby Smart and Smart is dialed in as far as being a college head football coach, I feel like they're going to be fine. He's going to figure out a way to win because that's how he's built, regardless of whatever limitations are put on him. But he's not going to be able to win the same way he did the last 5 years. It's a lot more expensive now, and it's uncertain whether Georgia has the overall resources necessary. You can tell he's angry about that, and the Georgia fans and talking heads are responding in kind. And for Smart and therefore the Georgia nation the boogeyman is Texas. I just know having Georgia hate us is waaaaaaaay more fun than having Texas Tech, Baylor, TCU, and the other little sisters of the poor in the Big 12 hate us. They have a bigger fan base, it's way more passionate and active, they're the flagship school of their state with a lot of resources at their disposal, and they have a lot of recent success. But I view them much the way I viewed Nebraska. It's hilarious to watch them hate us, but I don't think I reciprocate the hate. I just find it all very amusing. I'll also say if you haven't spent time in Georgia, it's easy to underestimate how rural that state really is. There's a reason people from the capital say, "Oh, I'm not from Georgia. I'm from Atlanta." There can be a big difference. I'm with you on the trailer trash part. But that's the SEC for you for the most part.
  15. Neither are Gifford Nielson, Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Robbie Bosco, Ty Detmer, and John Walsh. BYU was arguably THE QB factory in college football under Lavell Edwards and OC Norm Chow. He won the Sammy Baugh trophy as college football's top passer, led the country with a 173.6 passer rating. BYU went 13-1 his senior season with Sarkisian passing for over 4000 yards and 33 touchdowns in a 14-1 game season, with BYU finishing in the top 5. The dude was a badass in college. The crazy thing is he gave up football for a while to concentrate on baseball. Anyway, I clearly remember him as a player. He was awesome, just like it seemed like everyone was who lined up behind center for BYU.
  16. I like the idea of getting concerned about Arch Manning's NFL career before he's ever taken a snap as the long term starter at Texas. To me, Sarkisian said it best. When asked about whether Manning would declare for the draft after this year, or stay in college an additional season like his uncles, Sarkisian replied, "I hope this season makes it a really tough decision."
  17. *(this is an obvious, "gird one's loins" type of situation)* That's Dad's phrase. Posted as PhxHorn on GoBig12/360 and Hornsfans. Man it's fun to see people using some of his phrases after all these years as part of the Longhorn lexicon. What a dude. Thanks @MuellerHorn.
  18. Thanks for the post. That's exactly how someone covering recruiting should handle the Calicut situation. It's weird that other people chose to handle it differently. I will say on the Isaiah Bond situation it's my understanding the plaintiff and Bond came to some kind of settlement? I'm curious to see if the sexual assault charges end up being dropped, although I haven't seen anything official along those lines yet. I'm not sure he's going to be facing the multiple legal hurdles Burton is alluding to here. But maybe I'm wrong on that. I'm assuming Endries is going to be our leading receiver, at least in terms of catches. Possibly yards, too. I feel like he's going to be Arch's favorite check down target, not to mention a favored receiver on other routes. I'm also interested to see who we use as the 2nd tight end, and how effective they ended up being.
  19. "Steve Sarkisian has *signed eight recruits in the 2025 & 2026 recruiting cycles" *I don't think that word means what they think it does.
  20. So OU can be the Oakland A's of college football. I'm okay with that.
  21. This has been by far the best offseason since the 2000s. And while there have been any number of reasons for it, Georgia nation losing their collective minds this past week is helping immensely to what had already been awesome sauce. The message boards are aflame with accusations. I've watched Mike Griffith lose his mind on Dawgnation as well as the Paul Finebaum show. "Of course Texas gets a bye week before they play Georgia. Of course they do." We caused Film Guy to go into an existential crisis regarding his offseason podcasts. "We cultivated a relationship with Tyler Atkinson since he was in the 8th grade. Do relationships even matter any more? What's the point of covering recruiting if it's all going to be transactional? Derrick Cooper didn't even visit Texas. The thing that really bothers me is the lack of transparency. Sarkisian up there flat out lying about we don't lead with NIL..." "...what do you guys think? What should the channel cover during the offseason since there's no point in talking about recruiting? This is the lifeblood of college football, but I'm seeing that people aren't going to even follow recruiting if this is what it's come down to." I'm paraphrasing here. Some guy named Coach Hayes brings up the clip of Mukuba hitting Stockton down near the goal line in the SEC championship game, playing in slow motion over and over again, saying this is what Texas teaches these kids. So many of the Georgia talking heads taking exception to Texas Longhorn fans arrogance on different social media outlets. Keep up the good work, everyone! And this is after we lost to them twice. Think what's going to happen to those poor souls when we put up a win streak against them. It's going to be Nebraska the sequel. I always said the SEC fan bases think Alabama fans are arrogant. They are only getting a taste so far. We are easily going to be the most hated program in the conference very quickly. As it should be.
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