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12 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

LOL what an asinine story.

 

TV decides kickoff times, not the schools. And certainly not the AWAY team.

I guess Fox had some willingness to move it to Sunday, but we said no.

And rightly so.  Then we'd have a short week to travel back to Austin for a game the next Saturday 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

I guess Fox had some willingness to move it to Sunday, but we said no.

And rightly so.  Then we'd have a short week to travel back to Austin for a game the next Saturday 

Yeah this is the part of the reporting that being left out. Texas doesn't want to move to sunday, and rightfully so.

But it's being pushed as "Oh noes, Texas is a scared of the Bright Lights in the Shoes!!!!"

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Posted
2 hours ago, Js1 said:

I guess Fox had some willingness to move it to Sunday, but we said no.

And rightly so.  Then we'd have a short week to travel back to Austin for a game the next Saturday 

Assuming Texas did have some say on what day this particular game would be played (and I could see that being the case given the reported negotiations between the Big 12/Texas/Fox/ESPN about allowing Texas to get out of the Big 12 a season early), I would think Texas would prefer to play the game on Saturday for all of the logistical reasons stated above (fans already having travel plans, not wanting a short week for the team, etc.).  I could also see ESPN not wanting Texas to agree to move the game to compete directly with their stand-alone broadcast the next day.

Posted
1 hour ago, Drew said:

Yeah this is the part of the reporting that being left out. Texas doesn't want to move to sunday, and rightfully so.

But it's being pushed as "Oh noes, Texas is a scared of the Bright Lights in the Shoes!!!!"

Eh, didn't scare us twenty years ago.  Doubt it would now.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Drew said:

Yeah this is the part of the reporting that being left out. Texas doesn't want to move to sunday, and rightfully so.

But it's being pushed as "Oh noes, Texas is a scared of the Bright Lights in the Shoes!!!!"

I mean.... I would hope we angle to be the noon game anyway. We have a better chance of winning with a sleepy, less liquored up crowd. Primetime is fun, but fuck asking for it.

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Posted
1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

We improved special teams a ton via the portal IMO.

Yeah, he needs to update his algorithm via returning/added production via the portal.  It is possible that our DT rotation could once again be fucking insane.

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Just now, texifornia said:

I mean.... I would hope we angle to be the noon game anyway. We have a better chance of winning with a sleepy, less liquored up crowd. Primetime is fun, but fuck asking for it.

i'm all for the game being moved to 3:30 or 7:30 local kick in columbus... on SATURDAY..

But screw them moving it to Sunday where i already have flights leaving early that morning.. I would have to spend more money into changing that and paying for an extra night at a hotel.

They announced that we were playing on Aug 30th a while back.. and i made plans around it.

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Best quote from old Mack when asked pregame about the team playing at night in the shoe in 05, “ we’ve played in nice places before we’ll be ok “ Texas has played many a teams Super Bowl all over the country, and the media still acts as if we’ve been irrelevant till now. It’s weird and maddening considering these are the ppl that have been covering the sport for a while. Haters gonna hate I guess. 

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Posted (edited)
20 hours ago, Thiefery said:

i'm all for the game being moved to 3:30 or 7:30 local kick in columbus... on SATURDAY..

But screw them moving it to Sunday where i already have flights leaving early that morning.. I would have to spend more money into changing that and paying for an extra night at a hotel.

They announced that we were playing on Aug 30th a while back.. and i made plans around it.

EXACTLY...they simply think it's "Scared to play at night" when we've already made plans and and such.

Also...scared to play in the Shoe after we went to the Big House Last year in Non Conference, and TO Bama at night the year before?

Texas is the ONE team you can't say is scared to play anywhere.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Drew said:

EXACTLY...they simply think it's "Scared to play at night" when we've already made plans and and such.

Also...scared to play in the Shoe after we went to the Big House Last year in Non Conference, and TO Bama at night the year before?

Texas is the ONE team you can't say is scared to play anywhere.

It's not because of that. It's because they're sick of 11am start times.

2024 they had 7
2023 they had 6
 

Posted
21 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

It's not because of that. It's because they're sick of 11am start times.

2024 they had 7
2023 they had 6
 

That’s the Big 10’s fault. Not ours 

Posted

of note, the number of 11am kicks they've dealt with is zero

we are conditioned to the "BIG NOON" kick being 11am local, central time

i am extremely pleased we told them to fuck off

we had to give these 2 games to the b1g to pay off 0u's early exit and the financials were specifically negotiated around fox's NOON EASTERN economics

if a night game was a better deal for fox, then it should have been negotiated that way, so it was also a better deal for us

OH AND FUCK FOX AND THE RIG12 AND YORMARK AND ALL THE ANKLE BITERS

AND MOST ESPECIALLY, FUCK TIM BRANDO AND FUCK YOU KEVIN MAR YOU BIASED SON OF A BITCH!

happy memorial day everyone

Posted
2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I'm still bitter about having to play 'Bama at fucking 11am in Texas in early September.  

exactly - unpossible to move a september austin game to primetime, but certainly possible to give the zombie horde columbus townies an extra 6 hours to attack and harass our fanbase

Posted
53 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I'm still bitter about having to play 'Bama at fucking 11am in Texas in early September.  

It's hard stay sober until 7:00pm on Saturdays in the fall.  I love me some morning and early afternoon games.

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