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  1. Maybe there is a better thread for this, if so I couldn’t find it.

    We are taking the family to the fair and game for the first time in about 15 years. Anyone have logistics tips for parking, etc? We are staying up near the Hilton Anatole area. I had figured to leave pretty early Saturday to park in a fair lot and get in with enough time to get a corny dog and beer before the game.

    Any recommendations on best approach to to fair park or where to park? Or timing?

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  2. On 9/21/2022 at 11:34 AM, Texas Jeff said:

    Hey, there are butts in seats and they are selling beer so it's working for them.  The club music is crowd Viagra.  Students shouldn't need it, but everyone's doing it.  They have taken a lot of stuff that used to be organic: cheerleading, the band, the Texas Fight cheer, etc, and turned it into a sequence of events.  There's only one Texas Fight chant per game because they do it when the Jumbotron tells them to do it and it would not occur to anyone to do it spontaniously.

    I remember a mid-90's Texas/OU game when our offense was in neutral, but the defense was kicking butt.  The Texas side started doing "Defense" chants during the second half for every play, every series and the defense kept getting better and better.  It was awesome and a lot of fun.  That's not going to happen when you rely on a sound system.

    I remember a game when the starting QB was struggling and the cheerleaders were leading a cheer that was "What do you want? TD. What's that? Touch down!". The students changed it to "Who do you want? JB. Who's that? James Brown!"  Hilarious and the students went nuts when Brown got into the game.  He deserved to start and he's still one of my favorite Longhorns.

    Longhorn Band is still awesome, but they can't compete with artificial noise.  They are coming back from some down years, with COVID hitting at the same time that the "Eyes of Texas" controversy hit.  They are working hard to be more diverse.  The administration and alumni are supporting them and they are well funded.

    Texas high school bands are the strongest in the nation and the band gets smart kids from those bands that can play their butt off.  Some of these kids come to Texas to become the next generation of music educators and some will become our next engineers, business leaders, doctors and lawyers.  It would be great if they were featured more in the stadium but they are still students having fun getting ready to be leaders, just like those before them.

    Nope, gotta show the face painted hellraiser clowns the whole game! 🤡

  3. 29 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Cool. Let's keep banging our head against the wall, hurt ourselves with scheduling when we already need all the help we can get, and watch other teams stack victories against weak opponents where they can rest injured players, get guys out of games early and keep their legs fresh for games down the stretch.

    No one gives a rats ass what your schedule looks like at the end of the year in a P5 conference, all they see is that you went 8-4, 9-3 or whatever. No one will care that Ole Miss played a JV schedule and got to 10 wins.

    1) Texas' standard is not to beat up on FCS JV teams.  The fact that you and others would call for that is bitch-made.  Just because Ole Miss does it doesn't mean we should.

    2) In moving to the SEC, we'll be on equal footing schedule-wise with those teams and will schedule as they do.  I'm sure if the SEC keeps the 8-conference games we'll follow suit with the JV teams, as pussy as that  is.  No one NO ONE gets excited to see Texas vs. TxState or SFA on our home schedule.  Thankfully the SEC will make the wise decision to go to 9 conference games, because...

    3) In the 12-team playoff world (which is what we're building schedules out for now) a loss to a power in-conference team is not just acceptable it is expected.  So your argument on needing 10 wins to make the field is as irrelevant as it is pussy.

    The only SEC teams who want 8-conference games are those low-end teams who are worried about padding the schedule to be bowl eligible.  If Texas needs to beat SFA to go to a bowl we have bigger issues anyway.

  4. 54 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    I sure hope they find a way to keep 8 conference games when we go to the SEC. I don't think many realize how nice it is to basically have 3 bye weeks in non-conference play and if you are lucky, the notable school you schedule for your 4th game is in a down year.

    STFU that is pussy talk

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  5. On 9/25/2022 at 10:36 AM, DiceHands said:

    Sark will survive another 5-7 season until we get Arch firmly on campus.  After that, his ass is fucking toast if we have a third straight year of 5-7 esque football with 0 improvements. And I say this as someone who is tired of the revolving door at the HC and coordinator positions. I want Sark to be the guy and to work out.  We need to give him time, but if the outcome every year looks like this, he cant stay.

    So yes, back to the 4th? 5th rebuild in 15 years.  Ive fucking lost count at this point.

    Tell me more about Arch firmly on campus in the era of free transfers?

  6. That QB played over his head, as usual for a QB against us, and was pretty accurate given his reputation.  We did put some pressure on him but couldn't bring him down and he effectively checked down.  We didn't look very complimentary in the the secondary - I kept hearing how we'd line up our DBs in press but I saw a ton of bail coverage and 5-7 yard cushions - maybe fatigue as we got further in?  Tech converted what like 6 fourth downs in that game?  It seems like if a QB is even halfway mobile we are so paralyzed we can't do shit.

  7. Love this thread.  I just got my BGE a few months ago and have been experimenting.  The last few times I've tried to smoke, it seems like I'm having trouble getting the temp low enough - after I fire the coals with the Looft lighter (shout out to whoever recommended that!), I let it sit top-open for a few minutes and then close it down to get the temp right before adding in the smoke wood and grill and it's settled in around 300-350.  I close off the top and bottom, and it settles around 245 and just wants to live there.  Am I firing the coals too much to start it or something?  What's the go-to startup procedure for low/slow?

  8. 58 minutes ago, Hurtlocker said:

    guessing they went "We're leaving!"  then looked at all the work it would take to recreate the NCAA and said, "we're changing you!"

    They figured out that if they break out it's all on them.  Much easier to keep a super weakened NCAA as the convenient punching bag and default excuse for anything that goes wrong.  "But the NCAA!!!"

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  9. Also, if it isn't too much hassle, could you also do a reverse, prorated study off those teams vis a vis a their rolling recruiting rankings over the last seven years, with more weight being given to more recent years and less to years as they fall farther away from the present and then put all of that data into a spreadsheet and post it?

    I’d like to see correlative and causal factors applied here as well, specifically home vs neutral, temperature, and the rise/fall of the S&P 500 the week before these games air. Maybe pull together a machine learning model in Python real quick to do some predictive analysis? Thanks in advance
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  10. 1 minute ago, immamac said:

    I mean Saban will literally not let it go. He will stop the game as long as it takes until they give him the call if he knows he's right. I think sark would have done the same if someone told him they could actually give the safety still by rule. He gave up because he thought there was no rule to lean on. 

    I'll admit I haven't followed every game Saban has coached; I know he's really animated, fired up, etc when he thinks they got it wrong - there are multiple examples of Saban screaming at refs and the ref changing calls after the fact as a result?

  11. 7 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Why don't coaches have a rules analyst in the booth/sidelines who can print out parts of the rulebook when the refs tell them shit that is literally wrong and not the rule? 

    If I was sark I would have gotten ejected before letting the game continue over the safety 2 points being taken away. 

    Because "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride."  How often in the history of football does the coach go up and make a logical, rules-based argument to a ref (or better, yells at the ref how blind and stupid they are) and the ref then says "Oh you know what, you're right!  We screwed that up, and we're going to reverse the call in your favor."  Even when you're right that rarely happens.  Just like a cop who has decided you're going to jail is going to take you there even on a trumped up bullshit charge that will get dropped later.  The difference is we have this nice little balance of powers thing with cops/courts that we don't have with refs.  And even with the courts it still takes weeks/months/years sometimes to get to the "right" result on a b.s. charge.

    I don't think this ref crew or the Big12 ref crews in general are sitting in a smoky room dreaming up scenarios to screw Texas.  The table people keep posting is nice and probably speaks to un-conscious bias against Texas.  The better explanation is that they are just bad at their jobs.

    Either way, more transparency into the grading of refs by the league (they do that, right?  Right?) would be awesome.  At least fucking recognize that it's an issue.  Thankfully this Big12 problem won't be ours much longer and we can start bitching about SEC refs biases.

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