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  1. Why? 1984 to 1986 was the beginning of the end. Very akin to 2010 to 2013. I don't want to appear ungrateful, but it is what it is. 1984 to 1997 and 2010 to 2022 were our dark periods. Those were the coaches during those periods. Akers earned his right to be on that list.
  2. We're Genghis Khan. To the rest of the SEC: "If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
  3. The Longhorn Weekly coaches show that Craig Way hosts with Steve Sarkisian had Jamaal Charles and Duane Akina as guests, and the two of them told some fun stories about the 2005 game. It's worth a listen, IMO. And I don't usually say that about the coaches shows. They talked about Charles' catches and runs, including the 8 yarder on 3rd down and 6 to convert a first on the winning drive. They also focused on his tackle of AJ Hawk on the interception VY threw. He missed the tackle the first time, popped up, hurdled over two defenders (Craig Way interjected to say that Charles had the best time in the hurdles his senior year in high school) and then decleated Hawk at the 18 yard line to save the touchdown. Sarkisian used the conversation in part to talk about the fact Charles had 16 snaps in that game as a true freshman, but Charles made those snaps extremely impactful. Akina talked about how Charles was the best safety he never got to coach. After Charles made the tackle Akina said over comms he needed him in the DB room. He didn't realize Mack Brown was on the head set at that moment but Brown immediately responded, "Not a chance."
  4. Warned? I'm excited! Arkansas fans are too downtrodden to be truly insufferable. They're just filled with hate. And Aggies...well, I don't have to tell anyone on this board about Aggies. They're short bus special.
  5. ...Fred Akers, David McWilliams, John Mackovic. There's definitely a list.
  6. This may have been posted somewhere, but Alabama's starting defensive tackle Tim Keenan is out for a few weeks with a high ankle sprain. He underwent a tightrope procedure to help. "Redshirt freshman Jeremiah Beaman and true freshman London Simmons are next in line to step in for Keenan." This is in addition to starting RB Miller being out with a collarbone injury, and starting tackle Roberts out with a concussion. The key is whether they're ready to go for Georgia on September 27. Especially Keenan.
  7. It's really strange for me because coming into the SEC I thought Georgia may be the only sane, rational and educated fanbase. It's almost embarrassing how wrong I was, but moreso for UGA people. Rural Georgia is a special place. Having one of those troglodytes bark at you is something special. It's like they caught rabies. I would say Alabama is the most sane, rational, educated fan base in general. They're having a moment after the retirement of Saban and of course they're going to be full of themselves in different ways, but I do believe they're more rational about their team than Georgia fans are. And there's no inferiority complex whatsoever, while everyone in the SEC other than Bama has some of that going on, whether they admit it or not. Ohio State fans are just plain delusional. I honestly believe that comes from never having any real downturns. When your delusions are validated every year, not only is it difficult to recognize them as such...but are they even delusions any more? Anyway, we're well on our way to being most hated in this conference with a bullet. Just need to win at a high rate for a couple of years and it will be complete. We're practically there as it is.
  8. He points at his dick when he says soul.
  9. There are a lot of hot women in the Phoenix area, no question, and especially on that campus. Of course, there are just a ton of students. Allegedly more than 80,000 on campus, with another 60k+ online.
  10. I don't know anything, but my gut tells me Steve Sarkisian the former college baseball player is going to be patient with whatever decision Jonah Williams wants to make, regardless of how we feel about it.
  11. You're right. I don't get it. Arizona State is not the caliber of the other marquee opponents, and comparing Arizona State to Texas doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. It makes sense to you, and that's all that matters.
  12. I've watched goal posts being torn down from fans after wins against Texas teams with a losing record. Ain't nobody doing that with Arizona State. You're making a false equivalency. When Texas comes into town it makes for a big time game regardless of how good the team is. That's just the power of the brand. Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame have the same kind of draw. So does Alabama and USC. It's odd to compare Arizona State to those Texas teams.
  13. At least those 2011 and 2012 teams were pretty much hot garbage. The 2000 and 2003 teams were pretty good and had no business coming out of there with that outcome. Same with the shutout in 2004. The whole approach to that game was terrible. Also, while Mack Brown beat Stoops 6 times, he only won 2 conference titles. That made a big difference, too. Even when he won he couldn't win.
  14. Michigan. Ohio State. Notre Dame. LSU. Arizona State.
  15. A few comments on this. Texas tried for decades to get Michigan and Ohio State on the schedule for a home and home. Those programs did not want to come down to Austin in September. There were talks of making the game later in the season, but with OU locked in, and neither program really wanting to interrupt conference play, they couldn't work it out. That's why Texas hadn't played either program in its history until the 2000s. There was a time when Texas was trying to play Notre Dame as much as possible, but the Domers didn't want to lock in their schedule with Texas with so many other teams they wanted to play regularly. Heck, there was a time when Deloss Dodds was under the illusion he could get Notre Dame to join the Big 12 to replace departing teams, or at the time teams that were threatening to depart. As far as us not playing A&M hurting college football, did it really? One of the qualities I really admired about Dodds was his sheer pettiness. I loved that he refused to play UH in anything after Bleachergate and the whole debacle that led up to it. I loved that he refused to play A&M in anything after they left for the SEC. I think this is the right thing to say, but if we ever left the SEC for some reason, it wouldn't bother me not to play the Aggies any more. And no one actually cares about OU/Nebraska any more. I get a little nostalgic about the great games in that series, but I'm old. Those games haven't been any more relevant to college football for a long long time than the Arkansas/Texas battles of the 60s. Also, we do have Arizona State as the marquee game in the future. If Dillingham is still there they'll have something, but otherwise it's a trip to Phoenix. Not a trip to play the Sun Devils. The chances of that matchup mattering aren't great. But that game will be played at the edge of my mortality, if I even make it that far, so I'm not terribly concerned one way or another.
  16. Nobody in the old Big 8 thought of them as classy other than OU. They would go on the road and roflstomp teams in their own stadium, with the cornhusker fans taking over home field advantage. OU and Nebraska fans did have a weird love affair with one another. Much like A&M, Nebraska fans have a self image of how classy they are that doesn't exactly align with reality. The difference being Nebraska actually produced top 5 teams with some regularity.
  17. I don't know why a bigger fish didn't portal tamper Corleone away from Cincinnati. I guess he has an NIL deal with a local restaurant that serves the Godfather Burger in his name, so maybe that was too much to overcome. He looked like Suh going against Chris Hall in the Big 12 championship. Had his way with the Nebraska OL. Maybe he's just that good as a 5th year player. He's been pretty good previously. But he looked dominant against Nebraska. I thought he was the best player on the field in that game.
  18. How many girlfriends do you have, and what are some of their connections?
  19. Maybe Nebraska gets better this year? I don't know. But that game was not impressive, even if they won against Cincinnati. They lack talent. They can't tackle. They can't rush the passer. They can't stop the run. They can't cover in the backfield. Their wide receivers aren't very good. Their tight end looks like he runs with cement shoes. I don't like Raiola as a QB. Emmett Johnson runs hard but he doesn't look like an elite talent. I like him, though. Their punter is good at punting inside the 20. It's the season opener, but I felt like they were saved by Cincinnati calling so many pass plays with an inept QB and receiving corps, including throwing into the end zone instead of continuing to run the ball to kick a field goal to tie the game and send it into overtime. I thought they would look better, just because I trust Rhule to evaluate and develop talent. The Big 10 has a lot of bad teams, so maybe being mediocre is enough to have a decent season and then they build off of it.
  20. He let's his saliva drip out of his mouth then slurps it back up over and over. Oh, wait. No, that's a different head coach. I can't remember who.
  21. What a terrible play call. Counting on Sorsby and these receivers to win this game when you're gashing Nebraska on the ground.
  22. There is no reason for Sorsby to actually let go of that ball on a passing play. Spread the field then run it.
  23. 27 years out of the last 40 Texas hasn't striked fear into anyone, with a welcome 12 year reprieve between 1998 and 2009 and then the last two years. And OU, our biggest rival, pwned us in the Big 12. I wish we struck fear in all our opponents, but that hasn't been the case.
  24. Prop 48 to get players in who couldn't meet the NCAA minimum, have them sit out a year, then become Academic All Americans at the braintrust that is the University of Nebraska. Lose your soul by playing a horrific woman abuser to win a national championship. Those were some dominant teams, though.
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