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  1. 5 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    He's an animal, been fun to watch.

    There isn't, as far as I know. We're also expressly allowed to do it on the opening kickoff.

    My understanding is that there are two warnings given to a home team for throwing items onto the field before the 15-yard assessments begin. Tech has decided to keep one warning as cushion and willingly take one warning on the opening kick.

  2. 6 hours ago, Iceman said:

    Texas very seldom does NOT have the most talent on the field.  Same for A&M.  Y'all have the perfect coach and still never get it done, unless you have a generational QB, again, SURROUNDED by the most talented team.

    Yet, other teams will still strap on the pads and lace up the cleats this week. It's fucking weird.

     The equation absolutely favors Texas.  Save for the miracle of Vincent Young overcoming Mack Brown, ya'll come up short.  Repeatedly, Yet you think other folks should stop in their tracks and take a knee. That's why other fanbases laugh at you.

    The lion doesn't talk about being the apex predator.  It just is.

    Texas often has a talent advantage and often doesn't win. How many major-conference teams get excited about knocking off Houston or OSU week-to-week? It is a game of emotion in which better teams or those with bigger names often inspire greater emotion. Texas has still managed to eke out, I think, 14 outright conference championships over the last 60 years. And a few national championships. Remind me how many Tech has by comparison. My recollection is zero of both, but I could be counting wrong.

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  3. 1 minute ago, satyanash said:

    wut? Are you forgetting the fumble against blOU last year that Bolden fell on in the endzone? Or the fumble against Arizona State that led to the safety?

    You are right sorry 12 more. I was leaving those off.

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  4. By way of comparison, Wisner has 0 fumbles on 284 carries.

     

    EDIT if he dropped the ball the next 14 times he touched it, that would still leave him a better average.

    EDIT I WAS WRONG ON NUMBERS it is 12 more times. Thanks Satya.

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  5. On 9/23/2025 at 5:42 PM, Butch Had Not said:

    @Magus Ossis don't you know a few things about hands?

     

    On 9/23/2025 at 7:59 PM, closetojumping said:

    Okay, I’ll go. Not a doctor but just experienced first hand some trauma for someone right in the same body region.

    My middle son just broke his forearm at the wrist in the most Tim Krumrie/Joe Theisman fashion possible. Nothing but skin and tendon holding his hand to his body. 11 Y0 in warmups for his first tackle football game ever. Gruesome shit they wouldn’t replay on a telecast.

    Took the ER room with 4 people to make 4 attempts before successfully resetting it, per an ER doc. We weren’t in there while they did it. That was on a Friday night. The recommended orthopedist saw us on Monday morning, he had surgery with a pin placement on Tuesday, and they put him in a hard cast 8 days later. That was last Wednesday. If everything is okay, he gets the cast removed in 3 more weeks and then has 2-4 weeks of rehab and can go back to baseball and basketball if he’s pain free. 

    Anyone saying Mateer will be back in 3-4 weeks is completely full of shit. Bet the over. 

    Sorry didn't log in for a spell. Preliminary de rigueur never happy about injury to a person but haha to OU. Will OU try to play Mateer in a month? Maybe. Is he stupid enough to play then? Unlikely. Will his fracture be healed? No. It will not. I am unsure exactly the nature of his fracture, but if the rumors that it is a thumb fracture requiring surgery are true, I have a hard time imagining myself letting him throw within the first six weeks. 

    Sorry about your kid, CTJ. Average non-ortho, even ER, docs are bad at reducing all but the easiest chip-shot fractures. Kids with open growth plates heal about twice as fast as healthy young adults as a general rule. If the kid has a mid-forearm fracture, it won't be full strength until at least 6 months, but it should heal decently on the schedule you mentioned. Fractures closer to the wrist are solid once healed.

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  6. I am not a QB expert. Should I be concerned that in the highlight video above, I did not seem to see much of Arch's helmet pointing in one direction and then the completed throw in another direction? Was it there and I missed it? He definitely looked better this week, but I am not certain that I saw evidence this week that he can go through reads and make a good throw to the second or third.

  7. Iceman isn't a total idiot, but he is like the guy "correcting" the orbital calculations the guy next to him completed accounting for relativistic effects because his buddy "erred" by not quite getting what Sir Isaac would have. I guess the Pierian Spring's waters don't taste good enough for some to drink deeply before posting.

  8. I thought we quit having to pretend the B12 administration was neutral toward Texas when the commissioner was recorded publicly cheering against us. For Tech, btw. I am sure our Tech visitor can provide plenty of other examples of other conference officials expressing a desire in favor of one of their member schools losing a game prior to officials in his employ officiating said game. B12 refs were and are bad, maybe not the worst. Their calls are marked by incompetence, unconscious bias, and deliberate favoritism, depending on the ones at issue. And often their calls are correct. Blind squirrels and nuts.

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  9. Aerohorn nailed it. If all wins were created equal, beating a D3 team would matter as much as beating Ohio State. But they are not, and it does not. The Texas team that is ranked, e.g., above Oklahoma has a significant continuity with the Texas team that beat OU and Michigan last year. Polls are imperfect, and there would be future upsets of higher-ranked teams by lower even if there were a perfect way to rank teams today. Nevertheless, the idea that people should not hold or express the opinion (polls being the collected opinions of groups) that some teams with lower win percentages as of game 2 are better than some with better is fatuous. Maybe Kent State could play middle school teams during the summer and be the rightful #1 for being 7-0 before the season starts for anyone else. Then you could have a win over #1!

  10. 7 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

    No they weren’t you ignorant fuck. Their accreditation was delayed because they didn’t fully meet the assessment documentation requirements. It is literally one of the most common deficiencies in the 10-year SACSCOC review. They had it reconciled within a year. They were never in danger of losing accreditation.

    But please continue to spout bs that shows you have no idea what you’re taking about. 
     

     

    Apparently, the form they submitted, entitled "Documentation SACSCOC" did not impress the accreditation review team.

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  11. 11 minutes ago, AnotherLawyer said:

    Yeah, well, they're like wrong, man. The phrase is a mistranslation from Latin and our predecessors kept it because they were stubborn and couldn't admit they were wrong. In modern vernacular, "begs the question" can also mean "prompts the question." People who argue otherwise are just willfully ignorant of the fact that language evolves and some long-dead dude who probably got a D- in Latin translated the original phrase incorrectly.

    I had Con Law with Professor Bobbitt in the early 2000s and he dressed me down in class for using it "incorrectly." Derailed the entire lecture for about half an hour. If you didn't do the reading for class that day, you're welcome. Jesus, he was such an arrogant prick.

    Good for Quinn making the active roster, by the way. He may not have met expectations here, and may end up being a career back-up or out of the league early, but he definitely improved over the preseason after that rocky start. Good on him, and good reflection on the Longhorns.

     

    9 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Are you sure? I’ve always heard begs the question is a logical fallacy of sorts which is necessarily self-referential, and the correct term MOST of the time people want is “raises the question”

    now do compel vs impel and how that’s used wrong.

    Using "beg the question" to mean "assume the truth of the conclusion" is both the result of a poor translation and the generally recognized meaning of the expression. Aristotle's phrasing τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖσθαι was (fairly well) rendered in Latin as petitio principii. The intended (not quite literal) meaning was "assuming the truth of the conclusion." The Latin was artlessly translated into English as "begging the question," when a better wording would have been "question at the beginning." The other meaning of the English version is in widespread enough use now that, while grammar/usage Nazis loathe it, the expression has clearly developed a second widely accepted sense.

  12. 3 hours ago, Park Gothic said:

    Then I will. 

    When a person provides a rule (e.g., "Sark always recruits great QBs") and another person points out an example of where the rule was untrue, the first person sometimes responds "well that's the exception that proves the rule." That response is 100% retarded. Showing that rule is not always true does not, in any way, shape, or form, prove a rule. It does the opposite. This modern usage of that phrase is maddening

    The phrase "the exception that proves the rule" is meant to refer to a situation where stating an exception shows that all other situations are the rule. For example, if the sign on the door to a bar says "Closed on Sundays" you can infer that the "rule" is that the bar is open every other day of the week. Instead of saying the days that the bar is open, the sign proves the rule by saying the one day it isn't. 

    So in this instance, the "rule" is that Chris Simms was an above average QB. The "exception" is that he was comparable to Major. Because both Simms and Major were far better than other 3-star QBs, this proves that Chris Simms (and Major) were both above average QBs. It's not quite as clean-cut as the sign on the bar door example, but it works. 

     

    Begs the question of how not correcting a type of mistakes effects them.

    edit dang, someone beat me to the punch

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