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8 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

It depends on how they have recovered from injuries and how much some have improved.

As was stated before, Wisner is the only returning SEC 1000 yard rusher.  He can hurt you in the run game and pass game, but he is not our sledgehammer.

Baxter is a big, physical and fast back, but he is coming back from a MAJOR knee injury so we aren't real sure how much his snaps will be limited.

Gibson is a physical back, but he had ball security issues last year and needs to take that next step.

Clark is supposed to be our most well rounded back but he's coming back from an Achilles injury.

Either way, I see that part of the game being tough sledding especially with Downs's ability to tackle so well in the open field when defending the run.  Does that son of a bitch ever miss a fucking tackle one on one?

Is James Simon banged up?

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8 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

It depends on how they have recovered from injuries and how much some have improved.

As was stated before, Wisner is the only returning SEC 1000 yard rusher.  He can hurt you in the run game and pass game, but he is not our sledgehammer.

Baxter is a big, physical and fast back, but he is coming back from a MAJOR knee injury so we aren't real sure how much his snaps will be limited.

Gibson is a physical back, but he had ball security issues last year and needs to take that next step.

Clark is supposed to be our most well rounded back but he's coming back from an Achilles injury.

Either way, I see that part of the game being tough sledding especially with Downs's ability to tackle so well in the open field when defending the run.  Does that son of a bitch ever miss a fucking tackle one on one?

Thanks to you and all the others for the great answers.  I had kind of forgotten about Baxter because of the injury - hope that he's back to good health.  Seems like there is plenty of production ready to go in that position - IMO it may be the key of the game for TX.  I think Manning will have his moments of success but I don't think TX can win with a pass-first approach...the OSU secondary should be pretty stellar this year, and even with inexperience at DL the pass rush should be dangerous too.  But if TX can establish the run game better than it did last year and put pressure on OSU's front 7 accordingly, they'll have a much easier time of things.

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5 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

Not that I know of, but I'm not counting on a true freshman seeing significant time on the road against Ohio State for his first collegiate game.

I just haven’t seen any reports mentioning him anywhere.

edit: see him and Stewart listed. Filthy rb room.

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11 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

The best thing I can say about our OL, is that all our guys have been in the same system and scheme their entire UT career. Two guys have no starting experience, but the other 3 have played in huge games for Texas.

By contrast, the greatest OL ever at OSU is counting on guys that weren't in the program until the spring, and you have a different OC and likely a different blocking schemes.

I just laugh at the drowngrade in the booth from Kelley to Hartline.

From an OSU fan perspective, I don't think the outlook is "greatest OL ever" (Orlando Pace isn't suiting up, anyway) rather than just a sense of relief that the unit is more likely to be a strength for once after seeming to hold things back during the Stroud-McCord years.  It's desperately needed with a green QB, of course.

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6 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

Not that I know of, but I'm not counting on a true freshman seeing significant time on the road against Ohio State for his first collegiate game.

I'm not either, but Jamaal Charles was a pretty significant contributor his true freshman year in Columbus.  And who can forget this highlight:

 

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Posted
21 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

By contrast, the greatest OL ever at OSU is counting on guys that weren't in the program until the spring, and you have a different OC and likely a different blocking schemes.

Buckeyes are overrating this OL because they were solid in the playoffs with elite RBs and and an experienced QB with strong running ability and good size.  They also looked good in fall camp against a pedestrian DL whose best players were played sparingly due to weak depth and injury concerns.  The Buckeye OL will be fine but they have a much more difficult job this season with a physically weak pocket QB and a significantly downgraded RB room. 

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10 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I'm not either, but Jamaal Charles was a pretty significant contributor his true freshman year in Columbus.  And who can forget this highlight:

 

This clip brings up three thoughts:

- Man, I miss Musberger
- It is so frustrating that this Saturday isn't a night game. I mean, come on now.
- That 2005 loss was SO aggravating.  It felt like 10 individual plays should have broken differently and any of them would have made the difference (Hamby's drop, the botched safety on the KO return, Ginn getting tripped by his own guy on a potential return TD, the dumbnity of our squib kick before halftime that allowed TX a late FG, etc etc).  It's still in the top-5 most annoying losses of my lifetime, I think.  (On the flip side, by the time you played for the national title I hated USC so much that I was doing happy laps around the apartment when Vince scored that TD).

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57 minutes ago, Borrominion said:

How does TX feel about its running backs this year?  Blue was a scary beast and I'm glad (for this week) that he's gone.

I fully expect Texas to be much better at Rb. The biggest reason is Texas went basically 1.5 deep last year. Baxter was out. Gibson was unusable due to fumbling issues. Blue was boutique RB. He was good in space but really struggled to get the tough yards or run between the tackles. Wisner was forced to carry too much of the load and wore down late. He was not a force between the tackles either. You could easily make the argument that RB was the weakest position on the 2024 team. I could also make the argument that the biggest difference in the game last year was RB. Treyvon hit the big plays and Judkins got the tough yards inside. I do not think that gap between the RB rooms will look the same for this game. 

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3 minutes ago, Borrominion said:

- It is so frustrating that this Saturday isn't a night game. I mean, come on now.

Don't worry, the return trip to Austin will be, since it won't be on Fox.  That's what your conference gets for partnering with a TV network who thinks 11am is primetime. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, South Austin said:

If I recall, Hamby got lit up at the catch by Cedric Griffin, so I'm not sure that could qualify as a "drop."  

He dropped it wide open, tipped it to himself twice, popped it up in the air, went to finally haul it in and got blasted in the back of the end zone by Griffin.

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1 minute ago, Borrominion said:

He dropped it wide open, tipped it to himself twice, popped it up in the air, went to finally haul it in and got blasted in the back of the end zone by Griffin.

Hamby bobbled it and got lit up. Sweed bobbled it and pulled it in. Such is life. 

Perosnally, I like the 11 kick because I wouldn’t go back to that place for a night game. 

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31 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

Not that I know of, but I'm not counting on a true freshman seeing significant time on the road against Ohio State for his first collegiate game.

Graceson Littleton says “hi.” He’s not a running back, but still. 

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2 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Graceson Littleton says “hi.” He’s not a running back, but still. 

Higher rated than Simon and also has the benefit of a 'corch on the field' All American safety guiding him.

Charles was a top 50 level recruit too.  Simon was not as highly rated.

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5 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Hamby bobbled it and got lit up. Sweed bobbled it and pulled it in. Such is life. 

Perosnally, I like the 11 kick because I wouldn’t go back to that place for a night game. 

That's fair, and it sucks that the environment was so hostile.  I wouldn't expect that to be the case again this year for lots of reasons, but at any rate that '05 game did great damage to our (certainly otherwise stellar) reputation.....

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I was frustrated in our turnovers against Ohio State in 2005.  Had we played a cleaner game, we win by 10.  But winning despite being -2 in turnovers was good enough. 

3 times our offense turned it over to Ohio State in field goal range.  Defense allowed something like 30 yards total on those three drives but gave up 9 points in field goals.

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Posted
38 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

Is James Simon banged up?

He supposedly has had a very good camp. I do think we may see him this year. Colombus is not the place for that though. I would guess blocking is something he needs to work on (just based on him being a freshmen). 

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6 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

Higher rated than Simon and also has the benefit of a 'corch on the field' All American safety guiding him.

Charles was a top 50 level recruit too.  Simon was not as highly rated.

It’s not about the players. It’s about the “true freshman” standard. 

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2 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

It’s not about the players. It’s about the “true freshman” standard. 

it also about opportunity. RB room is returning a opening day starter (Baxter) and a 1,000 yard runner (Wisner). Nickel position is apparently wide open with Gilbeau moving to CB. Texas will have some really talented guys redshirt due to the depth at the majority of positions. 

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8 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

I was frustrated in our turnovers against Ohio State in 2005.  Had we played a cleaner game, we win by 10.  But winning despite being -2 in turnovers was good enough. 

Since we're lamenting the margin of victory, after we got the ball back following the Sweed TD, Henry Melton tried a bullshit Marcus Allen leap a couple yards from the end zone when he could've easily put his pads down and bruised his way to a gravy TD.

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Just now, South Austin said:

Since we're lamenting the margin of victory, after we got the ball back following the Sweed TD, Henry Melton tried a bullshit Marcus Allen leap a couple yards from the end zone when he could've easily put his pads down and bruised his way to a gravy TD.

I think he may have actually scored any way.  If there was replay it looked like a TD.  It was idiotic to use him as our short yardage runner.  Jamaal Charles was our best short, medium, and long yardage guy and would have walked in on that play.

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4 minutes ago, Chili dog said:

Your fanbase shot to the top of my “trashiest fans I’ve ever encountered” list, and I’ve been around some shitty fan bases. Seeing old women accosted and urine being thrown on people left an impression. Obviously you have many individuals who are great people, but collectively, y’all are the worst I’ve ever seen. 

I can't argue much (although I suggest you might try a night game at Penn State!).  Not an excuse but by way of explanation, night games were still rare in '05 and the hype for that game was off the charts.  The environment has definitely gotten a lot more corporate, stale, and tame in the intervening years.

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27 minutes ago, Borrominion said:

This clip brings up three thoughts:

- Man, I miss Musberger
- It is so frustrating that this Saturday isn't a night game. I mean, come on now.
- That 2005 loss was SO aggravating.  It felt like 10 individual plays should have broken differently and any of them would have made the difference (Hamby's drop, the botched safety on the KO return, Ginn getting tripped by his own guy on a potential return TD, the dumbnity of our squib kick before halftime that allowed TX a late FG, etc etc).  It's still in the top-5 most annoying losses of my lifetime, I think.  (On the flip side, by the time you played for the national title I hated USC so much that I was doing happy laps around the apartment when Vince scored that TD).

That's me on the right, as the cameras swept the Texas section after the Sweed TD catch... headphones and all.  Incredible atmosphere, but yeah, if i was fighting man, could have easily scrapped a half dozen times, it was that bad.  Got called a faggot several times walking to and from various bars /to stadium etc.. no biggie I suppose, and that was well before the game.

After the game was more verbal and just outright embarrassing for the tOSU fans, but water under the bridge, that was a long time ago.    We walked from stadium to downtown as the busses had stopped and several elderly fans in our throng of Texas fans needed the 'protection', so it took us a lot longer to get back. 

 

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13 minutes ago, Chili dog said:

Your fanbase shot to the top of my “trashiest fans I’ve ever encountered” list, and I’ve been around some shitty fan bases. Seeing old women accosted and urine being thrown on people left an impression. Obviously you have many individuals who are great people, but collectively, y’all are the worst I’ve ever seen. 

I wasn't in a spot where I could have gone in 2005, but these days, I travel to many road games. I was in Tuscaloosa in 2023 and Ann Arbor last year, as well as numerous others recently. It's posts like yours and first hand accounts from friends of mine who did go to Columbus that led me to the decision to stay home this year. It sounds like it was the most unbelievable shitty behavior one can fathom for a sports event this side of Euro soccer hooliganism. I've been around okies, aggies, red raiders, trojans, lsu people, @ morgantown, you name them, and the OSU fans sound like the worst by far. 

That said, they weren't anything unusual in Dallas in January, but that was a neutral/Texas-leaning setting. 

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55 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I'm not either, but Jamaal Charles was a pretty significant contributor his true freshman year in Columbus.  And who can forget this highlight:

 

I've seen better quality videos of bigfoot.....

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13 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Since we're lamenting the margin of victory, after we got the ball back following the Sweed TD, Henry Melton tried a bullshit Marcus Allen leap a couple yards from the end zone when he could've easily put his pads down and bruised his way to a gravy TD.

I wanted to tie his shoulder pads to his knee pads. He wanted to juke like a scatback when his job was to smash through whatever was in his way.

There's a reason he made a lot of money as a DT.

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25 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

It’s not about the players. It’s about the “true freshman” standard. 

Seems like there is false info everywhere but from what I’ve read, they are going to use Simon a good amount or plan to. Whoever can get anything out of their run game might be the X factor. I’ll take our experience in the backfield and hope the freshman is used for protection and misses some assignments. To me, the O lines are a wash in terms of question marks and reliability. 

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12 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I wasn't in a spot where I could have gone in 2005, but these days, I travel to many road games. I was in Tuscaloosa in 2023 and Ann Arbor last year, as well as numerous others recently. It's posts like yours and first hand accounts from friends of mine who did go to Columbus that led me to the decision to stay home this year. It sounds like it was the most unbelievable shitty behavior one can fathom for a sports event this side of Euro soccer hooliganism. I've been around okies, aggies, red raiders, trojans, lsu people, @ morgantown, you name them, and the OSU fans sound like the worst by far. 

That said, they weren't anything unusual in Dallas in January, but that was a neutral/Texas-leaning setting. 

I am thinking the fat Jersey and jort wearing townies that cause most of the problems in Columbus cannot afford road trips.

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I was 37 in 2005 and a full grown ass man, and after the game we stayed together in packs of 10 to be safe.    I have never seen anything like it - older ladies being threatened.   And it wasn't like it was just drunk college kids getting in faces being assholes, it was older, completely out of control bad people with nothing to live for.    And like others, i had done away games at Ark in the 80s, college station etc.    And i have been to a Penn State game with Michigan friends.     It wasn't even close.    

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

I am thinking the fat Jersey and jort wearing townies that cause most of the problems in Columbus cannot afford road trips.

Their 2006 visit to Austin begs to differ.

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11 hours ago, Tonesky said:

I think Federal regulation only allows "reasonable restrictions" and not total bans on antennas for local broadcast reception.  I have the good fortune that I can aim at local towers from the back of my house.  I have this Dinova Boss antenna mounted on the back of my house under the second floor soffit and get great reception.  

Here is the actual installation.  This was planned during construction and there is blocking behind the mounting plate.  The coax enters the house at the plate just above the mounting bracket.  The coax runs to the AV hub and then distributes to multiple TV locations.  The visible wire below the antenna is a ground wire.  Again, a relatively small, clean, HOA and neighbor friendly antenna, that gets terrific reception.  

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22 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:

That's me on the right, as the cameras swept the Texas section after the Sweed TD catch... headphones and all.  Incredible atmosphere, but yeah, if i was fighting man, could have easily scrapped a half dozen times, it was that bad.  Got called a faggot several times walking to and from various bars /to stadium etc.. no biggie I suppose, and that was well before the game.

After the game was more verbal and just outright embarrassing for the tOSU fans, but water under the bridge, that was a long time ago.    We walked from stadium to downtown as the busses had stopped and several elderly fans in our throng of Texas fans needed the 'protection', so it took us a lot longer to get back. 

 

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Pretty cool that you found yourself on that broadcast!  I actually snuck into that game - we were living in Philadelphia at the time and weren't planning to attend, but got caught up in the hype and decided to drive out the night before.  We got to the stadium without tickets - and there were none to be found.  No scalpers.  Not just expensive, but nonexistent.  We had almost settled on watching the game from the Varsity Club when my wife decided to try to sneak in with the entourage around the marching band.  (I had been in the band while in school so we were familiar with the routine).  We just placed ourselves in the middle of the pack of band guests who all had field passes, and walked right in the main gates with a police escort.  When we got close to field level we jumped out of the pack and ran to the upper deck to find my dad, who was sitting alone and for whatever reason in that madhouse there were two empty seats right next to him waiting for us.  Drunk kids that didn't show up, I guess.  It all felt like fate, meant to be a glorious night that would go down in OSU history.  It panned out that way too, until Sweed caught the pass.

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4 minutes ago, Borrominion said:

Pretty cool that you found yourself on that broadcast!  I actually snuck into that game - we were living in Philadelphia at the time and weren't planning to attend, but got caught up in the hype and decided to drive out the night before.  We got to the stadium without tickets - and there were none to be found.  No scalpers.  Not just expensive, but nonexistent.  We had almost settled on watching the game from the Varsity Club when my wife decided to try to sneak in with the entourage around the marching band.  (I had been in the band while in school so we were familiar with the routine).  We just placed ourselves in the middle of the pack of band guests who all had field passes, and walked right in the main gates with a police escort.  When we got close to field level we jumped out of the pack and ran to the upper deck to find my dad, who was sitting alone and for whatever reason in that madhouse there were two empty seats right next to him waiting for us.  Drunk kids that didn't show up, I guess.  It all felt like fate, meant to be a glorious night that would go down in OSU history.  It panned out that way too, until Sweed caught the pass.

Very cool.  We've done similar (the old $20 trick in 80's and 90's at the Cotton Bowl for OU game).  I had tickets with my Texas buddy and his brother in law, big OSU fan, in a non-Texas area of the stadium.  I didnt even make it to the seats....i bailed and told them i was heading to the Texas endzone section and basically straddled an aisle seat, though we stood most if not all the game.  I didnt budge all game for fear of not being allowed down into the section w/o a "seat".

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21 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I wasn't in a spot where I could have gone in 2005, but these days, I travel to many road games. I was in Tuscaloosa in 2023 and Ann Arbor last year, as well as numerous others recently. It's posts like yours and first hand accounts from friends of mine who did go to Columbus that led me to the decision to stay home this year. It sounds like it was the most unbelievable shitty behavior one can fathom for a sports event this side of Euro soccer hooliganism. I've been around okies, aggies, red raiders, trojans, lsu people, @ morgantown, you name them, and the OSU fans sound like the worst by far. 

That said, they weren't anything unusual in Dallas in January, but that was a neutral/Texas-leaning setting. 

The ones who travel are generally the ones with money and something to live for outside of football. They’re also the ones with something to lose if they put a brick through a windshield. They were fine, but there were far too few of them. The subhuman cretins I saw in Columbus were straight out of the Brad Pitt zombie movie, the name of which I can’t currently recall. Texas fans all knew, without needing any formal announcement, that it was not safe to leave the stadium in small groups. We all waited until the stadium emptied of OSU fans before gathering in the Texas section and leaving in unison. 
 

Back at the hotel after the game, a guy walks in wearing an Ohio State sweatshirt. He takes it off to reveal his Texas polo underneath. We ask him what’s up, and he said his Ohio State buddy literally had to give him the shirt so he could drive his car from the stadium back to the hotel. We were staying right on High Street, so it wasn’t a far drive. I’m not sure why the dumb bastard drove, but his buddy assured him he would get a brick through the windshield if the degenerates outside saw him in his Texas shirt. The next morning, the storefront windows had all been smashed out and a few cars had been burned. 
 

Mind you, up to this point, the two schools had never played before. There was absolutely no history to support such a reaction. It made no sense. Savages. 

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In 2005 the fashionable thing to do was to yell "steers and queers" right in your face and look around to their fellow buckeye fans for affirmation that it was the most clever thing ever.  It was like they had a message board for drunken idiot buckeye fans (but I repeat myself) and they all landed on that one insult ahead of time.

I'm assuming 20 years later it might be less fashionable so I'm curious what their go to insult is this time.  Who am I kidding, they'll probably keep it and add "retard" to it for extra emphasis.

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1 minute ago, Chili dog said:

The ones who travel are generally the ones with money and something to live for outside of football. They’re also the ones with something to lose if they put a brick through a windshield. They were fine, but there were far too few of them. The subhuman cretins I saw in Columbus were straight out of the Brad Pitt zombie movie, the name of which I can’t currently recall. Texas fans all knew, without needing any formal announcement, that it was not safe to leave the stadium in small groups. We all waited until the stadium emptied of OSU fans before gathering in the Texas section and leaving in unison. 
 

Back at the hotel after the game, a guy walks in wearing an Ohio State sweatshirt. He takes it off to reveal his Texas polo underneath. We ask him what’s up, and he said his Ohio State buddy literally had to give him the shirt so he could drive his car from the stadium back to the hotel. We were staying right on High Street, so it wasn’t a far drive. I’m not sure why the dumb bastard drove, but his buddy assured him he would get a brick through the windshield if the degenerates outside saw him in his Texas shirt. The next morning, the storefront windows had all been smashed out and a few cars had been burned. 
 

Mind you, up to this point, the two schools had never played before. There was absolutely no history to support such a reaction. It made no sense. Savages. 

Man, I hate hearing stories like this.  There's no defense for it.  I think the lack of history actually aggravated the situation, since the "first ever game" hype was so massive.  Later that same season I went to the whiteout game at PSU, one of the first they had, and we were treated much the same way - the wife and I were both afraid for our safety while we tried to make our way back to the car afterwards, groups of frat boys and drunk divorced dads coming up in our faces the whole way to shout and intimidate.  Mrs Borrominion is never going back to Happy Valley.  Anyway I only mention it because I can relate and it stinks to have our fanbase associated with it.  I really doubt it will be anywhere near that hostile this Saturday, but I don't blame any Texas fans for skipping this trip.

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45 minutes ago, Borrominion said:

I can't argue much (although I suggest you might try a night game at Penn State!).  Not an excuse but by way of explanation, night games were still rare in '05 and the hype for that game was off the charts.  The environment has definitely gotten a lot more corporate, stale, and tame in the intervening years.

I’m trying to avoid the old “dick in the ass” treatment, so Penn State isn’t on the away-game bucket list. I’ve probably aged out of the danger zone, but I’m far too youthful and handsome to take the risk. Fortunately, we also don’t have them on the schedule coming up, either. But I can only imagine the state school that puts out Eagles fans is not a safe place to be an opposing fan.

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2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Blue had some great plays, mostly receiving for us, but he was a frustrating player. He never met a shoestring that couldn't tackle him, and if the hole wasn't huge, he didn't go through it. Poor vision. Feel good about our RB room. 

And we all held or breaths and grabbed our tampons that he wouldn't fumble the ball his Sophomore season which he did a few times after some decent runs or yards after catch.  

He did ball for us though and at least last season over came some of it.  Still I yelled at my TV to hold to ball almost every time he touched it.  LOL   

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2 minutes ago, Chili dog said:

I’m trying to avoid the old “dick in the ass” treatment, so Penn State isn’t on the away-game bucket list. I’ve probably aged out of the danger zone, but I’m far too youthful and handsome to take the risk. Fortunately, we also don’t have them on the schedule coming up, either. But I can only imagine the state school that puts out Eagles fans is not a safe place to be an opposing fan.

Smart play - gotta keep the money-maker mug in optimal working condition.  FWIW the wife and I made the return trip to Austin in '06, our first visit to Texas, and we had an outstanding time.  I think the UT fans probably went out of their way even more than usual to play the counterpoint to their experience the year before, and were overly hospitable to the point of near annoyance.  It was a great intro to the town and a large part of the reason we live here now.

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27 minutes ago, Tonesky said:

Here is the actual installation.  This was planned during construction and there is blocking behind the mounting plate.  The coax enters the house at the plate just above the mounting bracket.  The coax runs to the AV hub and then distributes to multiple TV locations.  The visible wire below the antenna is a ground wire.  Again, a relatively small, clean, HOA and neighbor friendly antenna, that gets terrific reception.  

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Thanks for posting pic.  Where do you get the telescopic mount bracket ?

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All these Snake Plissken escape from the shoe stories remind me that we had a group of 4 dudes, all mid 30s and we were legitimately worried we were in real trouble. We grabbed a cab stopped at a red light who insisted he was heading for another fare, threw a Benji at him and told him to get us the hell out of there.

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55 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I wasn't in a spot where I could have gone in 2005, but these days, I travel to many road games. I was in Tuscaloosa in 2023 and Ann Arbor last year, as well as numerous others recently. It's posts like yours and first hand accounts from friends of mine who did go to Columbus that led me to the decision to stay home this year. It sounds like it was the most unbelievable shitty behavior one can fathom for a sports event this side of Euro soccer hooliganism. I've been around okies, aggies, red raiders, trojans, lsu people, @ morgantown, you name them, and the OSU fans sound like the worst by far. 

That said, they weren't anything unusual in Dallas in January, but that was a neutral/Texas-leaning setting. 

I've been around Ohio St. fans that travel (with means to travel so not the poors) numerous times since then and didn't have an issue (including sitting in a 50/50 section at the semifinal last year).  That portion is pretty solid fans.  But '05 was unlike anything I've ever seen.  We went in Thurs night and went to a bar after dinner and it started there (aggressive in your face shit talking).  When it first started I thought those guys were joking considering teams had never played. It was bizarre.  But the game and gameday in particular was the perfect storm because (i) 8PM local kick so 12+ hours of drinking, (ii) weekend before school started so everyone just coming back into town and (iii) heavy "community college" or non-OSU student component (i.e., "NFL Fan" that also roots for the Buckeyes).  All the stories that were told were not hyperbole.  Worst I've ever seen and I've been to Lubbock for 6 or 7 games.   No desire to go back so I'm staying put for this one (and even a few days out no regrets on that decision) but buddy I went with 20 years ago couldn't resist.  Hopefully better experience.

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