Overheard on the Longhorn internets

The only thing I would pass at UT is your marketing degree through my stool.

I have many dear friends that attended and/or graduated from Texas Tech University. As much as I care about each of them, the only skills they picked up in Lubbock were impressive drinking abilities and sharpened knowledge of tire slashing / savage heckling.

First day of grad school on the 40 acres tomorrow. Ugh…

Most of the time when the pissant stepchild program lucks out and gets their once every 5 years or so win over their big brother, they get to crow about it for a full year, give or take a week. This year, due to the scheduling of the Tech game in September, they’ll only get 10 1/2 months.

That’s 6 less weeks of the reliving the best moment in your life, all because of some stupid Assistant AD moving the date of a game. Oh well, there’s always 2014.

The sand aggie made a good point. Any potential UT student would struggle at a high school known for producing tortilla throwers: by insisting that the earth is round, that Darwin was right, etc…

I have my own tag now? f Tim!

If my tag page generates over 1000 hits, I demand a BC koozie delivered by an intern.

Tim, no koozies. Just tote bags. And fuck you, I was in line first.

What the mother hell…

Yeah, I would have been screwed at Amarillo Palo Duro or Midland Lee.

Is Texas Tech even accredited? Who cares anyways? I’m seriously thinking about introducing a Tier 5 in my rankings for Tech’s sake.

Find me one Tech student with a perfect SAT score. I dare you.

Going to Tech is a consequence, not a choice

The Top Ten Rule-induced migration from UT to TT of what would have been (back in my day) provisional summer students has made both campuses smarter.

i have had the great good fortune to get to work with people various times who would quiet many rooms of remarkable people when they enter.

these people were on a first-name basis with greatness. another patent? no big deal. put it over there. two of the principal members of the unbelievable team that created the f-14 tomcat. one of the very top senior managers at boeing these days. black-hole projects. people who take your breath away.

you know in all that time i never, ever, once was asked why i went to texas. never once.

maybe that’s why i went to texas.

The tech women develop impressive oral skills.

“Find me one Tech student with a perfect SAT score. I dare you.”

Just dig in my transcript and you will find a perfect SAT score.

Cracker.

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There were a couple my year, and about half a dozen of us my year were national merit finalists. We all had a few things in common, we grew up poor, wanted the full scholly + pocket money plan they were doling out to us, and we all regretted it.

Since most of you weren’t in the 10%, let me tell you what it was like. Offers rolling in. However, knowing that a degree is the only thing that depreciates faster than a car, Tech seemed like an easy enough place to breeze through, come out with a piece of paper that says I’m ready for a job, and let the 10% take over. Although, I might have took more serious consideration of Dr. Berdahl’s visor and wicker loafer offer upon enrollment had I known golf was the next big thing at the time.

Byron, if we dig in your transcript we’ll find your 0.0 GPA. Please. Tech has <a href="http://media.www.dailytoreador.com/media/storage/paper870/news/2008/01/09/News/Accrediting.Group.Tech.On.Probation-3147767.shtml" rel="nofollow">problems staying accredited.

I do think we should start differentiating between those of us who attended UT before 10% and those after. I might have my guns up today if the 10% rule had been in effect when I graduated high school.

I don’t know about that. The logical progression would not have led me to Lubbock

I might have spent the best 6 years of my life in Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, or Oxford. Boulder, CO or Missoula, MT seem more logical than the South Plains. Fort Worth or Waco would have been a major upgrade.

My youngest sister just shipped off to Bama because Texas wasn’t even an option. Most of her friends are going SEC that would have wanted to go to Tech.

Anyway, I think it would have required something more than a jilting by my favorite school, like a frontal lobotomy, to get me to Lubbock.

This strikes me as a strawman post. Who would say such a thing? Could say such a thing?

“Going to Tech is a consequence, not a choice
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That should be a bumper sticker.

Texas: What starts here, changes the world.

Tech: What starts here, changes my sheets.

Ha! Kriess wins an autographed Henry James fanny pack.

The only skills I have detected in Tech grads are the ability to dress like it’s 1994, a creepy need to fit in, and an impressive vocabulary for distinguishing among the various breeds of man.

They are ready for life and work in west Texas.