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14 hours ago, Longhornlove said:

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This would be a great gif to superimpose a longhorn hat on the guy, an aggy hat on the first old lady that gets dropped, and Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee hats on the other 3. Then the SEC Logo on hotdog guy

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11 minutes ago, Gidnik said:

Georgia fans are big fucking mad about this

Georgia fans can deal with it because they’ve been coming into Texas for years. Just last cycle they grabbed two five stars from Texas. 

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19 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

I wasn't speaking just to you, just in general. Athletes should be paid. Maybe not to the extent that ridiculous amounts of millions, but a few thousand isn't bad. Some go stupidly overboard with NIL, but hey, I'm not a billionaire, so they can spend it how they please.
 

Imo, I think O'Bannon did the right thing. Yes, they're getting an education, but schools and others are benefitting from their work. You can disagree, and that's OK, but I believe he did the right thing. 

I'm not talking about right or wrong here. When it comes to college sports I'm not righteous enough to feel like I know what is right or wrong.

As I established with a previous post on this thread - not that I expect you to have memorized my practically incoherent ramblings - I feel like there's a cognitive dissonance we all agree to with college sports being a multibillion dollar entertainment enterprise within academic institutions that fundamentally I'm uncomfortable with. My ideal world would put the genie back in the bottle in ways that aren't practical, where there's an oppressive overarching organization that negotiates the television contract for all college teams, evenly distributes the revenue, heavily enforces no payments to athletes, NIL or otherwise, colleges have much smaller athletic budgets than they do currently, and there are professional options in each sport if athletes want to go that route. 

I don't think NIL propels college athletics forward in productive ways, personally. It's a mess. It's basically impossible to enforce. It further separates the haves from the have nots. But as a fan of a have, it certainly benefits my fandom. So if this is going to be how we move forward, I'm thrilled Texas is exploiting it as much as possible. 

I don't blame O'Bannon in any which way. It's absolutely against the Sherman Act, so it's tough to see where the Supreme Court went wrong on a 9-0 blistering unanimous decision. We can blame the NCAA, but I'm not sure what they were supposed to do to get ahead of something I don't think there's any way to implement in a way that wouldn't be tossed out. Congress hasn't been in a position to act on college athletics for at least a decade, if not longer. Maybe work harder to get something passed in 1984 after the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA negotiating television contracts? But I don't think that would have resulted in anything the average fan wanted to see whether it would have been good for my personal model of college sports or not. 

But I'm not thankful for O'Bannon, that's for sure. And it could have been a comment you were making to a general audience, but you made it as a reply to me, and so I responded in kind. I'm not mad at you, O'Bannon, the Supreme Court, the NCAA, or any of the individual actors who have led us down this path. I'm just an old man who doesn't like the direction things are going in and see it as unsustainable, but I'm too busy railing at kids to get off my front lawn to do anything about it. 

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5 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I'm not talking about right or wrong here. When it comes to college sports I'm not righteous enough to feel like I know what is right or wrong.

As I established with a previous post on this thread - not that I expect you to have memorized my practically incoherent ramblings - I feel like there's a cognitive dissonance we all agree to with college sports being a multibillion dollar entertainment enterprise within academic institutions that fundamentally I'm uncomfortable with. My ideal world would put the genie back in the bottle in ways that aren't practical, where there's an oppressive overarching organization that negotiates the television contract for all college teams, evenly distributes the revenue, heavily enforces no payments to athletes, NIL or otherwise, colleges have much smaller athletic budgets than they do currently, and there are professional options in each sport if athletes want to go that route. 

I don't think NIL propels college athletics forward in productive ways, personally. It's a mess. It's basically impossible to enforce. It further separates the haves from the have nots. But as a fan of a have, it certainly benefits my fandom. So if this is going to be how we move forward, I'm thrilled Texas is exploiting it as much as possible. 

I don't blame O'Bannon in any which way. It's absolutely against the Sherman Act, so it's tough to see where the Supreme Court went wrong on a 9-0 blistering unanimous decision. We can blame the NCAA, but I'm not sure what they were supposed to do to get ahead of something I don't think there's any way to implement in a way that wouldn't be tossed out. Congress hasn't been in a position to act on college athletics for at least a decade, if not longer. Maybe work harder to get something passed in 1984 after the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA negotiating television contracts? But I don't think that would have resulted in anything the average fan wanted to see whether it would have been good for my personal model of college sports or not. 

But I'm not thankful for O'Bannon, that's for sure. And it could have been a comment you were making to a general audience, but you made it as a reply to me, and so I responded in kind. I'm not mad at you, O'Bannon, the Supreme Court, the NCAA, or any of the individual actors who have led us down this path. I'm just an old man who doesn't like the direction things are going in and see it as unsustainable, but I'm too busy railing at kids to get off my front lawn to do anything about it. 

Sorry, bud, I didnt mean to quote you originally, so that's my bad, and I apologize. 

I do agree with most of what you said, as it makes sense. 

We're all good here, brother..

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Posted
2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

But he looked small next to a senior Alfred Collins that one time

he came in at 250.  He was small next to Alfred Collins.

Posted
7 hours ago, campcrunk said:

Give Torre Becton all the raises

To be fair, he looked like Superman as a high school senior as well. It's whether he's put on weight that's the question.

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Posted
9 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Dont you have a man bun?

No. Do you believe everything you read on the Internet, doofus? If we went through all of the things I've been accused/described as or been accused/described as having, I'd be the weirdest and fastest alien chimeric Greg Davis imaginable. 

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Just now, closetojumping said:

No. Do you believe everything you read on the Internet, doofus? If we went through all of the things I've been accused/described as or been accused/described as having, I'd be the weirdest and fastest alien chimeric Greg Davis imaginable. 

It made sense though….

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13 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

No. Do you believe everything you read on the Internet, doofus? If we went through all of the things I've been accused/described as or been accused/described as having, I'd be the weirdest and fastest alien chimeric Greg Davis imaginable. 

That's just what Greg Davis would want us to think.

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Posted
29 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

 

Perhaps you meant man-purse, where he used to carry his little lady dog (RIP), that he took with him when he had dinner with EJ Holland and Mikey Ears To The Street, at a Chilis where they supped exclusively on skillet queso and salsa that was stirred together with queso by someone's finger. 

I have met some downright scary people from longhorn netdom over the decades. People I wouldn't let my children come within 50 yards of, and yet, in reading this, I'm reminded that some of the scariest motherfuckers around this place might be my friends. 

Bring that imagery into another thread, sir, and I'll view it as a declaration of war.

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I don’t know about everyone else, but I, for one, do not want the divulgence of these fanciful stories to end.

Shit, let’s sit back and allow WWIII to take shape, Surly style. 

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No. Do you believe everything you read on the Internet, doofus? If we went through all of the things I've been accused/described as or been accused/described as having, I'd be the weirdest and fastest alien chimeric Greg Davis imaginable. 
So just Greg Davis.
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Posted
24 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

I thought it was great that ctj and his wife renewed their vows a couple of years back and that they chose to share this pic with the board.

If you ever wondered how someone would cover a man bun for a more formal occasion, ctj did it in a way that would never have crossed my mind. For my wedding, anyway.

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A pox upon your house, sir!

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On 5/22/2025 at 2:49 PM, closetojumping said:

I have met some downright scary people from longhorn netdom over the decades. People I wouldn't let my children come within 50 yards of, and yet, in reading this, I'm reminded that some of the scariest motherfuckers around this place might be my friends. 

Bring that imagery into another thread, sir, and I'll view it as a declaration of war.

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