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'luv you fellers... NOT IN A SKIN ON SKIN WAY TO BE SURE....

but...

if'n anyone of you were an alpha, you'd have a competitive streak at least 16' wide (larger than most standard roads can handle) and if you were an alpha and beyond age 40, you'd look back at the struggle you had containing that, and emotion while reconciling it against good sense and class when you were 18~22 or so...  

There’s alpha and then there’s alpha.  There’s all kinds of alpha.
I scare cops, delight women and dazzle many with good humor and imaginative wit.  But put me in a steel octogon with a UFC fighter and I might prefer to just go ahead and concede right off the bat rather than having to go to the trouble to bite off his ear and rip off his balls.
Remember Anothy Michael Hall’s line in ‘Sixteen Candles’?   “Yeah, they may be jerks but I’m kind of like their leader.  I’m like the king of dipshits.”
Or as Milton said Satan said in ‘Paradise Lost’: “better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.”
We may not all be alphas, per se, but nobody here wants to be a sheep either.
Not with that aggie, Huckleberry, running loose.

Did hooky just call himself the alpha dog here?  Ha...

This place is a collection of alpha dogs.  Get in line.  

y'all had to get in line behind Burnt Eyes when he was hanging around, but alas, he doesn't even lurk here

I'm not seeing the confusion here.  Yes, he came from Texas.  Yes, he is one of our awnry bad apples.  Yes, he went to OU, like all our bad apples do.

Not just talking football players, btw.  Check the sooner student body contingent that comes from Texas.  Replete with rejection letters from UT, A&M, and sometimes even Tech.

What a load of bullshit.  You're talking about Oklahoma, not some small directional school or community college.  I mean, geez BC do you really expect anyone to believe your nonsense?

Take a look at last year's rivals recruiting roster for the Sooners.  Of the 28 commitments, 9 were from Texas.  Take a look at those nine and you'll find the majority got offers from Texas (as well as from lots of other places, including Bama, Michigan, UCLA, etc).  They chose OU instead.  This is not because they're "bad apples" but rather they liked the program, the coaches and the potential for winning at OU.

As did a whole lot of other kids from California, Georgia, NC, Florida, Pennsylvania and elsewhere around the country.  Only half of OU's commitments came from Oklahoma or Texas.  And, guess what.  Oklahoma was ranked #7 in the country by rivals last year.  Texas was ranked #31.  You're not even in the top 25.  Talented kids like OU a lot better than Texas these days.  They like A&M (#10) better too.

Sorry.  I'm sure it will eventually change and Texas will climb out of their current abyss, and back to the glory days of Mack Brown or DKR.  But for now you're losing the recruiting game to your more successful neighbors.  Has nothing to do with bad apples going elsewhere, and has more to do with sour grapes in Austin.

@MikeDeTiger - get 'unused' to having to review the paragraph thing... I WHOOPED IT!
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Or did you? 
I initially pulled this thread up on my phone, on which all paragraph spacings were present.  By the time I was ready to respond, the laptop from which I'm typing was booted, and on here, I don't see the spaces between paragraphs.  
That's really weird.  

What a load of bullshit.  You're talking about Oklahoma, not some small directional school or community college.  I mean, geez BC do you really expect anyone to believe your nonsense?

I'll leave it for the asterisks (and Red's Car Lot) to explain why any athlete prefers Norman, Oklahoma to virtually any place in Texas.

And I do realize I'm talking about Oklahoma - a depressing, impoverished place that you blow through as you exit Texas en route to the great Midwest.

For Pete's sake, ever wonder why all the houses are on the south side of the Red River?  As soon as you cross over - nothing.  Then 5 miles down the road a near-beer joint.  Then poverty.  And more poverty.  And meth.  And OU t-shirts.

Yes indeed, I realize I'm talking about <cough> Oklahoma.

utee, I'd be remiss in my proselytizing if I didn't offer this alternative to the conundrum of your daughter's future education.  If she wants to be a vet, but you don't want her to be an Aggie, send her to LSU  :-D  

Rankings change all the time, but the Tigers have had a great vet program for years.  Plus the university will probably be so hard up for cash by then that they'll not only have waived the out-of-state fees, they'll probably be begging people to enroll so much that they wind up paying you.  

I mean, if you can't be happy, I see no reason why your wife should be.  

Is dumping the cache the same as clearing browsing data?

I appreciate that there's multiple conversations going on at once here.  Like a real porch.  Or a Seinfeld episode.  A thread about nothing.