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Gene Claude commented on the blog post Lines We Care About (Week 9) 1 second ago
I like A&M also. ISU’s win last week was probably the least attributable to the winning team’s talent that I have ever seen. ISU is better this year, sure, but A&M has some playmakers on offense. I guess I like the MU line also, mostly based on CU’s offense scoring 6 points
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Gene Claude commented on the blog post Swapping horses midstream 3 minutes ago
I question your motives, hiphop….
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Nordberg commented on the blog post Coaches’ Poll Preseason Top 25: Texas #3 16 minutes ago
Shit, if Kansas and Michigan St. run the table we’re on the outside looking in.
Wait, nevermind. We play Kansas, so we control our own destiny. Whew!
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Phenomenal Smith commented on the blog post Lines We Care About (Week 9) 32 minutes ago
I couldn’t remember if the last passenger pigeon’s name was Martha or Millie. I went back and forth and guess I didn’t really settle on either.
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James commented on the blog post Coaches’ Poll Preseason Top 25: Texas #3 39 minutes ago
UNC is too high. Nova is too low.
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post Swapping horses midstream 48 minutes ago
Personally, I think DeArmond is onto something. Your team is made to play from the I-formation. Let it be so.
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Bob in Houston commented on the blog post Dez’s dead, Baby. Dez’s dead. 50 minutes ago
Fact check: It was Ed Martin, not Bill Martin, who took down Michigan basketball. Bill Martin is the retiring athletic director. He went to work on the rest of the program. I regret the error.
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post Big XII North: Futility at its finest 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Also saying KSU lost at home to ULL instead of on the road is a little more than a typo
Never said that all. Now you’re just plain lying. And the reason for mentioning that game is that improved or not, this team is still comprised of players capable of losing to a team like Lafayette.
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Huckleberry wrote a new blog post: Coaches’ Poll Preseason Top 25: Texas #3 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
See entire poll and commentary here.
Texas’ schedule includes the #1, #2, #4, #14, and #16 (twice) teams.
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Sean commented on the blog post Tim Tebow = Vince Young 6 hours, 9 minutes ago
All Tebow is is a glorified full back nothing more nothing less. When you think of Tebow what is his single defining play? The jump pass, “The Promise,” Having mud/paint/blood on his face. That is really all you need to know about how good Tebow is. Now what is VY’s defining play/moment at UT? 4th
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Raoul Duke commented on the blog post Dez’s dead, Baby. Dez’s dead. 9 hours, 18 minutes ago
CTJ –
I am echoing, Ag.
I am trying to be literal. I am striving for some exactness as I don’t understand how the NCAA has approached this and your points about it.
Lying about having lunch with Deion Sanders is the straw that breaks the camel’s back and gets the guy expelled but
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Raoul Duke commented on the blog post Dez’s dead, Baby. Dez’s dead. 9 hours, 18 minutes ago
CTJ –
I am Echoing, Ag.
I am trying to be literal. I am striving for some exactness as I don’t understand how the NCAA has approached this and your points about it.
Lying about having lunch with Deion Sanders is the straw that breaks the camel’s back and gets the guy expelled but
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Mark commented on the blog post Dez’s dead, Baby. Dez’s dead. 10 hours, 28 minutes ago
Regardless of any other allegations you want to throw toward Dez, he was a huge grade risk coming out of HS. That alone would have made it totally justifiable for Mack Brown to not pursue him, as Texas as the luxury to pursue whom they please. I have no idea about any other miscellaneous happenings
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Phenomenal Smith wrote a new blog post: Lines We Care About (Week 9) 11 hours, 21 minutes ago
Sorry this is late. If this tardiness has thrown off your gambling week I apologize. I should warn you though that the lines here are not from Vegas or Danny Sheridan or any other reputable source. The lines are delivered to me every week by a passenger pigeon, the last of
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BrickHorn commented on the blog post Tim Tebow = Vince Young 11 hours, 33 minutes ago
For what it’s worth, the two QBs ARE a lot alike, for a reason no one has mentioned yet- they both grab their entire team and coaching staff by the sack and will them to victories, especially in clutch situations.
Well, you’re half right.
Look, Tebow’s a good player. No one denies that.
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Phenomenal Smith commented on the blog post Swapping horses midstream 13 hours, 50 minutes ago
Baby Joe can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the ‘93 Southwest Missouri State Bears ran a wishbone the first three games of the season and then switched to a run and shoot. Maybe it was ‘92.
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Black Scholes commented on the blog post Dez’s dead, Baby. Dez’s dead. 13 hours, 52 minutes ago
We were interested in Crabtree, but decided not to pursue/offer. Don’t think grades were a factor, but I’m not certain.
I’m surprised there aren’t more guys like Crabtree actually who exceed expectations. Still pretty amazing to me the big programs can generally identify the talent even when these kids are sophomores and juniors in
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HenryJames commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Offense Against Missouri: Football is hard 14 hours, 23 minutes ago
Yep.
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Levander Williams commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Offense Against Missouri: Football is hard 14 hours, 40 minutes ago
Play action, like the pump fake, represents unsound football.
Or so I’ve heard.
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Magnus Bleuveigner commented on the blog post Tim Tebow = Vince Young 15 hours, 31 minutes ago
ctex,
One of the reasons that I don’t like the Mannings is because Archie wanted a recount after 1st prized son Peyton lost to Charles Woodson. Remember how revered Peyton was? He was everyones All-American. A lock to go number 1 (or 2, there was talk of Leaf). He lost to a db from Fremont Ohio
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Magnus Bleuveigner commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Offense Against Missouri: Football is hard 15 hours, 39 minutes ago
It would work even better if we ran the ball more. I think it was only 14 combined carries (9 for Fozz, 5 for Cody) between the co-starters. Let’s commit just a little more to it.
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Magnus Bleuveigner commented on the blog post Dez’s dead, Baby. Dez’s dead. 15 hours, 56 minutes ago
Put him near the bonfire.
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Magnus Bleuveigner commented on the blog post Tim Tebow = Vince Young 16 hours, 22 minutes ago
“Not everything is. At the same time, some things are. The discerning minds among us can tell the difference, but it’s just as ignorant to say that race is never a factor as it is to say that it always is. ”
I never said that race isn’t ever a factor. I always thought that Joe
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ghostofagroundgame commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Offense Against Missouri: Football is hard 16 hours, 27 minutes ago
It is kind of funny that GD always forgets how talented our players are. As though every offensive wrinkle that works must be immediately filed away and saved for a rainy day so it will be a “secret” next time it’s used. You know, because counters and screens are so secretive.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Tim Tebow = Vince Young 16 hours, 42 minutes ago
Halleluja – In short: Fuck Meyer. Fuck Tebow. Fuck Florida. Fuck this shitty media driven fantasy world we live in.
Double Halleluja – Everything is about race to a big percentage of this country. What’s with the guilt?
A raceless society would be wonderful, and many folks would like to see it happen, but it is not
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Nordberg commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Offense Against Missouri: Football is hard 16 hours, 48 minutes ago
C’mon General, we couldn’t do that kind of stuff pre-OU because…. um…..um….. because it might have kept OU on their heels, and prevented 14 kill shots on Colt in the 1st half? I don’t know.
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The General commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Offense Against Missouri: Football is hard 17 hours ago
it allowed us to actually use our tendencies against the Missouri defense.
This drives me effing insane.
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Tim’s Bleeding Vagina commented on the blog post Thoughts on the Inept Handling of Sam Bradford 17 hours, 5 minutes ago
soonerfan15, the next time your boss at burger king gives you constructive advice concerning going to a juco to get your associate degree, tell him to go fuck himself because you clearly know what is in your own best interest as an adult.
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Magnus Bleuveigner commented on the blog post Texas gets into the online auction business 17 hours, 7 minutes ago
One game used Cat Osterman sports bra. Preferably from a humid night.
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t1climb1 commented on the blog post Dez’s dead, Baby. Dez’s dead. 17 hours, 22 minutes ago
I’ll bet you the new Cadillac Escalade he showed up driving in Lufkin a month ago that he is being suspended for more than just a dinner with D.
The General said:
October 26th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
The best thing about 11 am kicks is being drunk in the morning. The worst thing is being hungo over in the afternoon.
Confused and Dazed said:
October 26th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Wasn’t it Shakespeare who said “you can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning”? Or maybe it was Dean Martin.
Don Gato said:
October 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I never liked early games when I could attend them back in Texas. Now, the 11am start for big match ups increases the chances of the game being on TV here in Vancouver (9am) since there are no other PAC-10 games in that slot. It also frees up the rest of the day.
BatesHorn said:
October 26th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
The amazing thing to me is how EVERYWHERE Texas games are on standard cable.
In 1997 when I moved to DC I couldn’t get any game other than A&M unless I went to one bar in G-town with a giant dish on top, where they got a 1-2 other games a year. Ditto 98. Even in the early aught’s, I went to bars to even see OU-Texas.
This season, other than Louisana School for the Blind and the great “just got back from Mexico, locked out of apartment, must go to bar to watch Greg Davis fellate Dan Hawkins” debacle (a game that was on network T.V.), I’ve watched every game from the comfort of my couch on standard cable, no box.
Hate on Deloss all you want, but he and Mack have built a serious brand.
bigdukesix said:
October 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Who hates on Deloss?
Mysterious Package said:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
People that remember how bad we were in the 80’s and 90’s
Woody Bombay said:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
The guys who had to talk him out of hiring Gary Barnett.
Fritz said:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I’m actually a fan of the 11:30 kick. Leave the Austin area at 4:15 or so, drive up 35, on the fair grounds with a beer by 8:15, hang out for a couple of hours after the game, half way home before dark.
bigdukesix said:
October 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
The guys who had to talk him out of hiring Gary Barnett.
I conferenced with a gypsy woman who told me with “strong confidence” that Texas would have won at least 2 MNCs by this point with Barnett.
We’ve got the best combination of football and basketball programs in the country (the only two sports that matter), arguably the best football facilities, and probably the most financially healthy athletic department of any school. And you’re still dwelling on the 90s? Yikes. This is genuinely disturbing. Even Red Sox fans got over their 84 years of pent up negativity and bitterness after winning a title.
charlie varrick said:
October 26th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
For us Longhorn/Red Sox it has been a great ride since 2004.
“the only two sports that matter” You’ve missed some great baseball fun at the forty acres.
SEC apologist said:
October 26th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Are we sure about having the best football basketball combo? Florida has picked up some pretty serious hardware over the past 4 yrs or so.
admin said:
October 26th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Agreed. I’d say The Gators are head and shoulders above with four national championships in recent memory. We’re doing great though.
admin said:
October 26th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Here’s a pretty good story srr50 put together about the Dodds Doctrine:
Recession Proof
blackscholes said:
October 27th, 2009 at 1:53 am
I’m not certain I could have lived outside of Texas for the past 10 years+ if I couldn’t watch the game every Saturday. That could have been a deal breaker. Surprisingly, people in California look at me a little oddly when I offer that in passing.
You can be anyone or do anything (or anyone for that matter) you want in this state, with the exception of a Southern Male who owns a rifle and a shotgun and who thinks weddings during football season are a stain on the soul of humanity. Unite with your goldfish and Dalmation in a marriage trilogy in the middle of Union Square at noon on a weekday? Non-issue. Mention you have more than a small fondness for chicken-fried steak, bourbon and college football - not necessarily in that order - and the first thing every English-speaker within hearing range wants to ‘discuss’ is the Dubya presidency. I could live here another 20 years and it will never really feel like home.
Still feels a little awkward stepping into a sports bar at 9 AM on a beautiful Saturday, but Guinness has proven to be a respectable breakfast choice to bridge the gap until a more appropriate cocktail hour of 11 AM or so.
BatesHorn said:
October 27th, 2009 at 4:22 am
I think it’s his business intensive ways that irritate people. Other than the decision to go to Fieldturf so they can whore the stadium out for high school games, I’ve got no problem with the man
Hiphopopotamus said:
October 27th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Mention you have more than a small fondness for chicken-fried steak, bourbon and college football
Any place that doesn’t embrace those three things is a place that’s not worth going.
Other than the decision to go to Fieldturf so they can whore the stadium out for high school games
That really is inexcusable. There can’t be ten better places to have a grass field than texas and it still doesn’t seem or look right whenever I see the field now.
spider said:
October 27th, 2009 at 6:40 am
I figured the scheduling was a crowd-control measure. I read about the ER and the drunk tank keeping score back in the day. Now, not so much.
The Bobs said:
October 27th, 2009 at 7:23 am
spider - I’m not sure that was a function of a kickoff time on Saturday morning though…. more of a Friday night on Commerce Street thing…
The Bobs said:
October 27th, 2009 at 7:24 am
that said, I’d love a night game… if I was at home watching.
Late night walking back to your car in Fair Park though… not so much.
Jigglebilly said:
October 27th, 2009 at 11:36 am
“Late night walking back to your car in Fair Park though… not so much.”
I think this is the sole reason a night game has never come to fruition, and likely won’t.
srr50 said:
October 27th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Until the game moves to Jerry’s World.
Trips Right said:
October 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I like the early start because it’s probably saved me tens of thousands of dollars in bail money and legal fees.
magnusbleuveigner said:
October 27th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Early starts suck. Take my experience from the Texans/Niners game.
Got up at 8, in a post UT night game haze. Started drinking at about 9 when the my sisters husband picked me up. Get to the tailgate (blue lot is nuts) and start walking around carrying plenty of drinking rations. They were going down way to smooth for being hungover, probably had something to do with the weather. At about 10:30 we ran into the free beer and jager booth. By free, I mean all you have to do is tip them. By game time, I’m guessing I’m 8-9 beers and 3 shots in. Of course you buy a beer once you get in the gates, because it’s a long walk. Smash a few more in the game and it’s starting to add up. We bailed in the middle of the third quarter to go to The Red Lion (best bar in Houston). On the walk to the car I got a cops number. I don’t remember what she looks like, but my boy said she’s hot as hell. She has the name of my ex-fiance, so she probably won’t be getting a call. Oh yeah, and because she’s a fucking cop. Get to The Lion and it’s vodka time! Bad idea. My friends call and they’re all out in Katy watching the late games. I head out there because I have to meet family for dinner later anyway. Oh shit, I gotta meet family for dinner. I meet my sisters new boyfriend and I’m later told that I was overheard saying, “I think he’s a gay.” Bad first impression. I couldn’t pick him out of a line-up unless he was the only caucasian in it.
Of course now that I think about it, Sunday morning was just really an extension of the late UT game. Maybe early is better…..
jinx said:
October 28th, 2009 at 7:43 am
This is the first I’ve heard of this, but on Spencer Park Soap box they have an article about the DART system and in it is this little nugget….
“Next year, it’s an evening game, with all 95,000 or so football fans letting out just about the time the final crowds from the State Fair will be seeking to leave.”
Anybody know anything about that?
NorthDallasSooner said:
October 28th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
srr50 said:
October 27th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Until the game moves to Jerry’s World.
BITE YOUR TONGUE, Sir, or srr. I’d rather it go home and home than leave my beloved Cotton Bowl for Jerry’s whorehouse.
jinx said:
October 28th, 2009 at 7:43 am
This is the first I’ve heard of this, but on Spencer Park Soap box they have an article about the DART system and in it is this little nugget….
“Next year, it’s an evening game, with all 95,000 or so football fans letting out just about the time the final crowds from the State Fair will be seeking to leave.”
Anybody know anything about that?
Story was that ABC approached both schools the summer before the ‘07 game with exactly that suggestion/request and were rebuffed with a resounding “NO!”