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CWSooner · « **Reply #154 on:** August 21, 2021, 04:56:36 PM »

"A Little Nauti"?

Is there a topless beauty at the service window?

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #155 on:** August 21, 2021, 04:58:17 PM »

Quote from: Thumper on August 21, 2021, 01:28:25 PM

I agree. I've cut down on sports I follow to CFB, some women's softball, and disc golf. Disc golf has been free from ESPN until recently when some of the events are picked up on ESPN+.
I have been turning off most TV streaming in the off season. Anymore to get live sports it is too much like cable. The only real advantage is not having a contract. This season I'm trying Vidgo. It is cheaper than Hulu or Youtube TV and has more sports channels. It doesn't have CBS or NBC but I get CBS sports with my Paramount + subscription ($50/year). It does have the SEC, ACC, B1G, and PAC 12 networks along with LHN and NFL networks as well as the ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, Fox Sports, FS1 and FS channels. It doesn't have a DVR but I don't need that. With tax & all it costs me $330/yr.

No DVR....I'm not sure I could do it. I'm not available too many times in a season, and even when I am the Tigers and Longhorns wind up playing games at the same time, which is a conflict for me and Mrs. DeTiger. However, all the other services have jumped to $70, and they're not even close to worth it, imo. There may come a day when the streaming services are as functional as traditional cable/satellite, but this is not that day. For less control and a more awkward user experience, I expect cheaper.

Might give it a try anyway. Probably need CBS though. And you will too, soon, so keep your Paramount subscription. Hulu is probably my other option for this season. Don't like it as well as YTTV but I have other problems with Google and they're not my first option.

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #156 on:** August 21, 2021, 04:59:50 PM »

Quote from: CWSooner on August 20, 2021, 08:14:24 PM

From a Sooner perspective, it seems like--if anything-- we should have beaten Texas more over the last 22 years

This made me laugh.

That is certainly a Sooner perspective.

CWSooner · « **Reply #157 on:** August 21, 2021, 05:07:29 PM »

Quote from: MikeDeTiger on August 21, 2021, 04:59:50 PM

This made me laugh.

That is certainly a Sooner perspective.

Sure it is.

But do you disagree with my logic?

Thumper · « **Reply #158 on:** August 21, 2021, 05:32:52 PM »

I see your logic if you go with the favored teams. Texas has punched above its weight in this series, upsetting OU at least 3 times and taking the Sooners to the wire at others.

Thumper · « **Reply #159 on:** August 21, 2021, 05:37:31 PM »

Quote from: MikeDeTiger on August 21, 2021, 04:58:17 PM

No DVR....I'm not sure I could do it.

I don't know if anyone does it for LSU, but all the OU games are on YouTube the morning after with all the commercials, halftime and time outs removed. If I can't watch the game live (like pay per view), I listen to it on the radio and watch the YouTube game the next day. That is better than a DVR to me.

CWSooner · « **Reply #160 on:** August 21, 2021, 06:17:16 PM »

Quote from: Thumper on August 21, 2021, 05:32:52 PM

I see your logic if you go with the favored teams. Texas has punched above its weight in this series, upsetting OU at least 3 times and taking the Sooners to the wire at others.

Starting with the 2008 RRS, OU has lost 3 times as the higher ranked team, while Texas has only lost once in that situation, and that was last year, when OU came in off losses to K-State and Iowa State due largely to Spencer Rattler turnovers.
So, I say that OU should have won two more games that it did.
Nothing about "deserving" to win those games. Usually, the team that deserves to win wins.
I've mentioned the 2013 RRS somewhere recently. It was the last meeting of Bob vs. Mack, and the underdog Horns won rather easily. OU had a terrible offensive game plan (under OC Josh Heupel) and stuck with it to the bitter end. OU was by most criteria the better team, but Texas was better on the day that it counted and definitely deserved to win the game.
Also, I imagine that the Horns can point to a stretch where they were losing to underdog Sooner teams more often that underdog Horn teams were winning in the RRS.
All that being said, we should have a great DL this year, and Texas will be breaking in a new QB whose last name is not McCoy and who also is not Sam Ehlinger. I hope to see our D linemen in the Horn QB's face all day.

Here's the Big 12 Conference's highlight film of last year's barn-burner.
https://youtu.be/vqOau2W5nDM

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #161 on:** August 21, 2021, 07:10:31 PM »

Quote from: CWSooner on August 21, 2021, 05:07:29 PM

Sure it is.

But do you disagree with my logic?

You responded to my comment so I assume you were building on that train of thought. My point was that Texas underperformed their capabilities too many times in those years, and it particularly showed up against OU. At a program level, there is no reason Texas should be an underdog to OU that much in the first place.

Your point seems to be Texas did better re: expectations for the year based on rankings and odds than it should've. My point is that OU should not be favored so much in the first place. OU has no advantages I can think of that Texas can't match. UT has no business not hitting at least in the 50% range, regardless of if they have a year where OU is rightfully favored. There shouldn't be as many of those years as you listed.

FearlessF · « **Reply #162 on:** August 21, 2021, 07:55:09 PM »

IPTV always has the option to to DVR type playback, but it's old school CATV type pricing and lineup

CWSooner · « **Reply #163 on:** August 21, 2021, 08:16:08 PM »

Quote from: MikeDeTiger on August 21, 2021, 07:10:31 PM

You responded to my comment so I assume you were building on that train of thought. My point was that Texas underperformed their capabilities too many times in those years, and it particularly showed up against OU. At a program level, there is no reason Texas should be an underdog to OU that much in the first place.

Your point seems to be Texas did better re: expectations for the year based on rankings and odds than it should've. My point is that OU should not be favored so much in the first place. OU has no advantages I can think of that Texas can't match. UT has no business not hitting at least in the 50% range, regardless of if they have a year where OU is rightfully favored. There shouldn't be as many of those years as you listed.

I have no particular disagreement with any of that.
Right now, Texas is an underperforming helmet program, and it has been for the most part since Darrell Royal retired. Mack Brown produced a renaissance in the '00s, but no one has since. So what is the norm for the Horns? 1977-1997 and 2014 to the present, or 1998-2013?
It's to OU's discredit that it couldn't take advantage of Texas' down years in the 2 decades after the Royal era. 8-11-2 vs. the Horns during that period. Weak. Even in Barry Switzer's last 12 years, OU only went 6-5-1 against Texas under Fred Akers and David McWilliams (his 1st two seasons).
So, in the RRS, does OU choke more than Texas, or does Texas overachieve more than OU?

utee94 · « **Reply #164 on:** August 21, 2021, 08:33:04 PM »

Well we all know that ou sucks, so any analysis beyond that is pretty much irrelevant.

longhorn320 · « **Reply #165 on:** August 21, 2021, 09:05:10 PM »

Quote from: utee94 on August 21, 2021, 08:33:04 PM

Well we all know that ou sucks, so any analysis beyond that is pretty much irrelevant.

yep and those sooners are especially wordy today

FearlessF · « **Reply #166 on:** August 21, 2021, 09:13:57 PM »

b cause they have scoreboard

longhorn320 · « **Reply #167 on:** August 21, 2021, 09:37:32 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on August 21, 2021, 09:13:57 PM

b cause they have scoreboard

something as far as the Horns are concerned Nebraska knows nothing about

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