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Title: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 10:15:26 AM
I wish to air a few thoughts on the state of baseball and basketball at the University of Texas.

Baseball starts today.  Thank God.  Basketball was depressing me.  The Horns open at home with a three game series against the Ragin Cajuns of La La, whose history and name undermines their recent talent and success.  They cleaned our clock in Houston late last year.  One of the few teams to beat the Horns by more than one run.  Hopefully we can get some payback.

I really like David Pierce.  The coaching search was a mess, but the Horns got a good one.  I loved the changes I saw last year and every time I hear Pierce talk, I like what he says.

Basketball, on the other hand, is just terrible.  Yes, there were heartbreaks beyond Shaka Smart's control.   But I think the University's allure, coupled with one-and-done has destroyed whatever momentum Penders and early Barnes once built.

Look at who puts talent in the NBA: Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, North Carolina... Texas.  One of those is not like the others.  Yet Texas continues to allure the one-and-dones only to do little or nothing with them.

It's what killed Barnes in his later years.  Hiring a scrapper like Shaka Smart who could make a little go a long ways seemed like to great idea.  Then he came in and started eating the same poison cheese.

Meanwhile, freed from the gravy train of NBA talent, Barnes looks like a good coach once again.

In football you want the best talent.  Maybe you do in basketball too but you need a coach who can capitalize on it when he has it.  Not just squander it.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on February 16, 2018, 10:30:49 AM
Shaka should be thankful that basketball is not football.  That fact will certainly buy him more time than he deserves in this job.  Our basketball is just frustrating to watch.  I sensed that replacing Barnes wouldn't be quick work, but it's where we are.  I do have some confidence in Del Conte's ability to find us a good hire if/when necessary.

Baseball tonight vs. Louisiana.  Good test.  This is the time of year when LHN pays some small return for blowing up the Big 12.  I'd still rather have the Big 12, but I will enjoy some baseball on the tube.

Gonna attend some games as well, just working it out my UT student son.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on February 16, 2018, 01:02:55 PM
I love being able to watch Longhorn beisbol on the Longhorn Network.  Great stuff.

I was planning on making all 3 games this weekend but something came up tonight, still should be able to attend tomorrow and Sunday, though.

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 03:05:55 PM
I generally like Sunday games the best for a variety of reasons but the forecast looks so bad I wouldn't be surprised if they try to squeeze in two tomorrow and give Sunday a miss.

The forecast for tonight's weather actually looks a smidge better than tomorrow's, so I'm trying to round up a companion to accompany me.   My i s c & a w does not do baseball before late April.  Two sons have already turned me down and one extended girlfriend says she would but has to work.

I'm thinking the third base line shouldn't be as bad as the first base line.  With any luck I could have my back to the howling norther.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on February 16, 2018, 03:26:15 PM
Third baseline is better all around.  More shelter when Disch Falk decides to be the coldest location on the planet in Feb/Mar, and more shade when Disch Falk decides to be the hottest location on the planet in May/June.

P.S. Please do not tell any Kansans that I might have suggested it gets hotter in Austin, than it does in Kansas.  They don't seem to like that very much.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on February 16, 2018, 03:42:09 PM
I won't tell

and I don't think they even have time to lurk here any longer

too busy fighting global climate extremes in the center of the continent
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 03:56:14 PM
I'll never forget the time Frankie and his contingent of large big red font Huskers came down to Wacko to see the Huskers play the B'ars and afterwards you said, Frankie, that a rainy 40 degree day in Texas was inexplicably colder than a 20 degree snowy day in the midwest.

It's true.  Us poor Texans are sensative because we have to endure all the superlatives even when it's seemingly mediocre.

If the earth got obliterated, us Texans would suffer the most.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 03:59:14 PM
I spent a half hour in Dollar Tree last night.  The son who was accompanying me couldn't get over the fact that so much of the merchandise had been pulled down and scattered on the floor.

Like I tried to explain, Dollar Tree is the closest thing to looting that most law abiding citizens ever get to experience.

Go in, go crazy, check out, spend about six bucks.   It's crazy.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on February 16, 2018, 04:20:52 PM
I'll never forget the time Frankie and his contingent of large big red font Huskers came down to Wacko to see the Huskers play the B'ars and afterwards you said, Frankie, that a rainy 40 degree day in Texas was inexplicably colder than a 20 degree snowy day in the midwest.

It's true.  Us poor Texans are sensative because we have to endure all the superlatives even when it's seemingly mediocre.

If the earth got obliterated, us Texans would suffer the most.
lightning delay under the bleachers, crappy tailgating weather
sometime in the 3rd quarter the sun came out and it was delightful.  4 different Huskers rushed for over 100 yards, fullback, Quarterback and two I-backs.
Must have been the time Vine Street Bomber made the trip with me.
2001, back in the good old daze, Huskers were ranked 4th at the time of that game
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on February 16, 2018, 04:47:42 PM
Discussing Nebraska football on the "B12 Sports Commentary" thread.  What is this, 2009???
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 04:51:15 PM
2001...

We didn't play you that year.  Too bad Colorado and Miami clobbered you.  That was the year they swore they'd never let anybody who didn't win their conference go to the MNC game ever again.   How long did that last?  A year maybe?

It was also the year Chris Simms seemed to have money on Colorado in the CCG.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 04:58:17 PM
Nebraska would've been better off staying put.  They had history, success, long-time neighboring rivals and an arch nemesis - all of which made them relevant.   

They gave up everything just to spite an enemy of everybody who couldn't care less.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on February 16, 2018, 05:03:38 PM
both of those make better stories, staying and/or leaving to spite DeLoss

the sad truth is that the Huskers left for the money

yes utee, 2001

did you meet the Vine Street Bomber on that visit?
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 05:20:44 PM
Money.

Ain't it funny how we scorn other people for putting money ahead of tradition and sentimentality?  Yet, who among us probably wouldn't do the exact same thing if given the choice?
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on February 16, 2018, 05:23:52 PM
hey, I only need another million and I'd be able to quit the job and move in next to Utee
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 05:24:25 PM
I remember Vine Street Bomber.  He looked surly but he was nice.

AND... he was an older anglo-American in a jersey.  

You just don't see that every day in the ATX.   You see a whole lot of things but you don't see that too often.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 16, 2018, 05:30:54 PM
Of course Junior probably isn't getting any younger so it's probably just a matter of time before we all begin seeing an older anglo-American in a hockey jersey.

As for me, I stopped wearing jerseys about the time I stopped wearing cut offs.   It was probably sometime around 1979.

I'd wear a #21 Houston Astros Jose Cruz rainbow jersey if I could get hold of one though.   Everybody in H-town wears jerseys to the games.

Well everybody except those stock broker lawyer former frat boy types who think they look snazzy watching a MLB game in a $600 suit.

Lot of them weirdos in H-town.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

But you don't see older anglo-American men wearing football jerseys in the ATX everyday.  Nope.

I see an awful lot of young moms in yoga pants though.  Ain't nothin wrong with that.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on February 16, 2018, 05:31:43 PM
as Catski always said, no crew wears more gear than Husker fans
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on February 16, 2018, 05:33:45 PM
I found my old rainbow Astros jersey a few years ago in a box in the basement

unfortunately, the moisture had ruined it.  Had to be tossed out

I would wear that just to wake baseball fans up
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on February 16, 2018, 05:53:18 PM
I'm no golderned yankee, but I  believe they call them hockey sweaters.  I only bust mine out on very rare, very special occasions.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 17, 2018, 10:07:38 AM
Made it out to DF. Glad I did. Beautiful night. Strong pitching performance.  I might woulda let Nolan finish it off but I guess Pierce wanted to see Beau and get his feet wet too.
The crowd was sparce and LaLa represented - especially right above the visitors dug out where I was.  I sat next to a crusty old varmit from Louisiana.  
Poke-E-Joes was in mid season form.  
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on February 17, 2018, 10:22:05 AM
most coaches don't want their arms throwing more than 75-80 pitches this early in the season

not sure it's warranted, but they probably know more than I
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 17, 2018, 11:56:02 AM
I’m still used to Coach Gus who’d let an ace throw 300 times in a weekend.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on February 17, 2018, 09:08:21 PM
yup, kids arms are the same today
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 22, 2018, 10:48:00 AM
I really like what I'm seeing from the Horns this year.  Lots of pop, lots of pitchers, D looks solid.

It was funny at the bottom of the 5th last night when they interviewed David Pierce on the LHN.  With his dark framed glasses and cold red nose he reminded me of Zoot, the saxophonist for Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. 
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on February 22, 2018, 03:38:39 PM
I really like what I'm seeing from the Horns this year.  Lots of pop, lots of pitchers, D looks solid.
It doesn't feel like a stagnant situation, you can sense Pierce is doing work.  Brought in lots of Jucos, experimenting with his batting order, lots of young pitching...
I like it.  I hope one of the LSU games this weekend is on the tele.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 22, 2018, 04:38:49 PM
Last night LHN talked like they would be on SEC Network.  Did they arbitrarily generalize a more complex scenario?
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on February 26, 2018, 10:49:14 AM
The Texas baseball team ran into a Baton Rouge buzz saw and the men's basketball team got poet payback against oSu.   Despite the weekend, I'm still thinking the former is a Super Regional contender and the latter is an NIT team.

Do they still do the NIT?  Is that a thing?  It ain't even worth googling to me.

I liked Penders' and Barnes' early over achieving under rated teams better than their more highly talented underperforming ones.   Not only did the one and dones undermine Barnes but Penders' highest ranked recruiting class was the one that rebelled against him.

Luke Axtell = tail that wagged the dog.  Course Dodds allowed him to.  If he could fire Coach Gus no one was safe.   Dodds was real lucky Garrido, Barnes and Brown were all good hires because Akers, Gus and Penders were all bad firings.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 08, 2018, 11:17:40 AM
4 game series with the red hot Cardinal.  If Texas can hold its own I will be pleased.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 08, 2018, 04:54:56 PM
hey, y'all beat the Cyclones in Hilton South last night!
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CousinFreddie on March 08, 2018, 05:56:38 PM
4 game series with the red hot Cardinal.  If Texas can hold its own I will be pleased.
The “red hot Cardinal” ... so odd, as it doesn’t refer to a bird spp or a position in the Catholic Church, but just the color, in a kind of holistic way ... since it’s not “the cardinals” in the same way it’s the Cleveland Browns or the Cincinnati Reds.  Instead those teams if they followed the Stanford approach would “The Cleveland Brown” or “the Cincinnati Red”. And their mascot is something wholly unrelated to the color: a tree.
It’s a real head scratcher how all that came to be, and I haven’t heard a good explanation from anyone who’s attended there either.  It’s all a kind of I dunno <shrug>
It’s like, if the university was a person, they’d woken up from a long drunken binge with these weird nicknames tattooed on their forehead.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 08, 2018, 10:02:09 PM
As I vaguely recall, the Cardinal gravitated toward their ambiguous, innocuous, and noncommittal mascot (it's still not official I think) as a result of previously recognizing the controversial "Stanford Indian" mascot.  Similarly, the tree and its inoffensive character became a symbol as well, although it's actually the band's mascot, and not an official representative of the university itself.



Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 08, 2018, 10:03:07 PM
Or something.

Anyway, BEAT THE HELL OUTTA TREE!

I'll be at the games tomorrow and Saturday, still working on Sunday.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 15, 2018, 10:09:49 PM
Just a little more than a week ago, Augie Garrido & Skip Bertman threw out the 1st pitch for the Texas-LSU series. Last weekend Augie suffered a stroke and today he passed away.

Rest in peace, small ball shaman.  Thank you for the memories and wins.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 15, 2018, 10:58:07 PM
RIP Augie
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: TexasFan on March 16, 2018, 08:42:33 AM
Texas baseball is below average.  Ever since the LHN, baseball attendance has dropped big time.   The only reason I keep my season tickets is if we ever host a regional / super regional again I get my seats.    
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on March 16, 2018, 09:27:22 AM
Your a true fan
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CousinFreddie on March 16, 2018, 11:25:02 AM
Oh man - that’s a bummer about Augie.

Tip of the hat to an alltime great.  
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on March 16, 2018, 11:52:42 AM
Just a little more than a week ago, Augie Garrido & Skip Bertman threw out the 1st pitch for the Texas-LSU series. Last weekend Augie suffered a stroke and today he passed away.

Rest in peace, small ball shaman.  Thank you for the memories and wins.
I missed this post and didnt find out until this morning
sad news
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 16, 2018, 11:51:47 PM
Texas baseball is below average.  
I disagree with that assessment. The schedule has been daunting and they’re still trying to find pitching. Pierce is tinkering. It’s March.  It’s early.  I still think they will compete for the Big 12 host a Regional and put up a fight in a Super.  
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 17, 2018, 03:52:51 PM
RIP Augie.  

As for baseball, I love that so many great teams are willing and able to schedule each other OOC early in the season,  makes it fun for fans and an immeasurable learning experience for the teams.

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 18, 2018, 07:38:08 PM
Good weekend for the Horns.  The sweep over Kansas along with Baylor taking 2 of 3 from Tech puts Texas in a good spot.

I love sweeps.  I can’t even remember all the times only winning series 2-1 created standings drama even for good teams that went far at Omaha.

The last few innings of game 3 got hairy but Texas kept its foot on Kansas”s throat throughout.

We just need middle relievers.  Nolan, Henley and Shugart have about 6 good innings each.  Ocassionally one may go 9 innings but not without getting nicked up.  Ridgeway can get the final 3 to 5 outs more times than not (though not as consistently as I’d like).  We just need the bridge.  We have enough quality arms.  David Pierce just needs to find the right person, in the right measure, in the right situation.

Fascinating process to watch.

And with our next biggest challenges on the last two weekends of the season, I love Texas’s chances.

This could be a special year.  Kind of like 2000 was for Augie.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 18, 2018, 07:42:21 PM
And for a guy who likes Texas’s traditional football unis and hates the basketball teams fondness of black unis or trim, I enjoy seeing how the baseball team mixes it up.  The creams are a great look.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on March 19, 2018, 11:20:34 AM

Speaking of basketball, how's Rick Barnes doing at Tennessee.

Shaka sucks.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 19, 2018, 07:01:36 PM
Don't disagree that Shaka has disappointed.

But Barnes sucked here, too.

I'm in favor of canceling the entire men's basketball program and putting those resources into fielding a new men's ice hockey team.  We could dome Memorial Stadium and have the largest ice hockey arena in the world.

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 20, 2018, 09:53:22 AM
and pump in some A/C for those September games
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 20, 2018, 10:57:02 PM
Horns just snapped SHS’s 9 game winning streak.  I like our chances against oSu this weekend.  The Cowboys team this year doesn’t seem to be up to the usual standards of their proud and respectable traditions.  Let’s hope we don’t allow them to right their ship at our expense.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 21, 2018, 08:33:49 AM
I wanted to go down for the game but had to take kids to various soccer practices and dance lessons.  I'll probably hit the Disch this weekend for at least one game against the Pokes.

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 21, 2018, 09:22:59 AM
I wanted to go down for the game but had to take kids to various soccer practices and dance lessons.  I'll probably hit the Disch this weekend for at least one game against the Pokes.

Been there, done that.  Takes up a large part of ones life for what seems like forever but it ends all too soon.  And I can't help thinking how money is tied in there too.  When kids are small there's never enough time OR money because even if there's a lot coming in, there's a lot going out too.  It's all earmarked.
Then all of a sudden, the kids are grown or at least somewhat independent.  You still have expenses but there are fewer mouths to feed and it seems like more money's coming in than ever before.  You have time and money and your hands and you think, "Where was all this time and money when I could've used it."
Crazy how life takes a person or a couple from one stage in life to another.  Some last for decades but not indefinitely.
I'd love to get down to see the Horns take on the Cowboys.  I'd love to get down to the Saturday game so I can see them in their stunning creams instead of the Friday whites or Sunday pinstripes.  But lord only knows what I'll be doing Saturday.  I could be laying tile or building a pergola.   
If I can reach a satisfying level of production early and feel justified in knocking off, I'll text you Junior.  If we happen to be there at the same time, I'll buy you a beer.
It could happen.  I'd say there's a good 30 to 40% chance.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on March 21, 2018, 11:06:07 AM
I like the pinstripes most
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 21, 2018, 11:32:23 AM
I like the pinstripes most
Augie did too I would imagine.
I miss the cursive script on the home whites in the Gus era but you know... I believe he ushered in the current whites with the separate black shadow below the burnt orange numbers in letters during the late '80s so I guess they're traditional.
I like the font on the creams though.  Nice.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 21, 2018, 12:14:34 PM
I like our grays, too.  Haven't seen those in a while but I'm certainly not catching every game these days.

And I'll look out for you Slick, if you're around.  Saturday is probably my most likely, though I'm not ruling out Friday night just yet.  

I don't mind carting the kids around, I do my best to enjoy each phase of their lives and this is a fun one. My 10yo daughter loves dance and for the first time ever expressed an interest in playing soccer so she'll be doing that this year.  And my 8yo son likes soccer well enough and is doing that, but also now wants to play football so I'll put him in flag football next Fall and we'll see where that goes.  He's pretty darn athletic, much moreso than I ever was.  And they both enjoy Scouting as well.  I enjoy watching their games/performances, and participating in their other activities like Cub Scout campouts and Pinewood Derby.

It's all good.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 21, 2018, 03:42:29 PM
.... My 10yo daughter loves dance....
Good for her.  She may end up being president or curing cancer but if her highest ambitions don't pan out, the Rose will always be hiring.
 
:88:
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 21, 2018, 04:44:02 PM
I knew you'd say something like that.  So very, very predictable.



Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 22, 2018, 09:44:55 AM
keep her away from his sons
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 22, 2018, 11:02:05 AM
I've got a shotgun and a shovel, and am happy to use both.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 22, 2018, 11:31:59 AM
Don't worry, Junior.  My sons wouldn't want to have anything to do with a 10 year old girl.   

But give her another decade to grow up and even Frankie and I will offer to buy her a drink.

Course she probably won't be anywhere where we can.   I'm serious she's probably much more likely to be president or cure cancer than end up at the Rose.  But it still boggles my mind that she likes dance because I knew young ladies who made $600 a night at the Rose 25 years ago.   Lord knows my kids weren't learning the skills to make a lucrative fall back income when they were 10 years old.  

Heck, one of my kids isn't even making a lucrative primary income at 22.   He has the education and skills to go in one of many directions but right now he's intrigued by the noble if stupid idea of working hard and living poor all of his life.

Oh well.  All you can do is provide them with ample options.  What they choose to do with those options is up to them.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 22, 2018, 11:39:05 AM
So I telework on Thursdays and one of the pleasures it affords me is the opportunity to drive my youngest to school.  He's 14 and in 8th grade.   Today we were in the queue behind a car with Cali plates.   Last time I drove him we were in queue behind a car with Pennsylvania plates.  The time before that someone with Oregon plates was dropping off their kid.

When I moved out here 22 years ago it was a small town outside of Austin with 2500 residents.  Now it's an integrated part of the Austin metro area with a population of over 70,000.

Very few of us lived here a decade ago.  Heck it seems like very few of us were here last month.

Not to get political but I'd be a whole lot more enthusiastic about a wall if it protected Texas from the rest of the US instead of Mexico.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 22, 2018, 12:22:50 PM

Not to get political but I'd be a whole lot more enthusiastic about a wall if it protected Texas from the rest of the US instead of Mexico.

that's your governor's job, not Donald's
maybe you could get the county or counties to build a wall around Austin
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 22, 2018, 12:38:47 PM
I've said for the past two years that I'd support a Wall at the Red River.  That's where it really needs to be.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 22, 2018, 01:55:24 PM
you may want to warn your buddies in Utah..................

_____________________________________________

Population growth in much of Utah now tops the nation, thanks to newcomers drawn by its strong economy, according to U.S. Census estimates released Thursday.

Major findings in the new data include:

• St. George is now America’s fastest-growing metropolitan area — and Provo-Orem isn’t far behind at No. 8.

• For the second year in a row, Heber ranks No. 1 for growth among the country’s smaller “micropolitan areas,” with populations between 10,000 and 50,000.

• Among the nation’s larger counties (with at least 10,000 residents), three in Utah are among the Top 10 fastest-growing and they all ring the Wasatch Front: Wasatch at No. 3; Tooele is No. 7; and Morgan is No. 8.

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CousinFreddie on March 22, 2018, 02:36:31 PM
I've said for the past two years that I'd support a Wall at the Red River.  That's where it really needs to be.
I think most Oklahomans would support that, and of course, Texas would pay for it.  It would go along the south shore, which is where the state boundary is, and so of course the Red River would be even more clearly ours, as it always has been.
And if you have any argument about that, you'll first have to explain why it's not called the Orange River.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 22, 2018, 05:20:02 PM
I think most Oklahomans would support that, and of course, Texas would pay for it.  It would go along the south shore, which is where the state boundary is, and so of course the Red River would be even more clearly ours, as it always has been.
And if you have any argument about that, you'll first have to explain why it's not called the Orange River.
Lulz.  Sure, and then when Oklahoma can no longer buy Texas recruits, your football program will be exactly where it always should have been.  Underground. 
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CousinFreddie on March 22, 2018, 07:03:36 PM
Actually considering how much y'all suck these days, you're probably gonna build the wall, and pay for it, just to keep your recruits from going elsewhere, and that includes more than just OU.  

So, you'd better start looking at all your borders not just the Red for that, coz most highly sought recruits know how to leave the state via crossing the Sabine or that great western expanse of nothing that borders NM.  And some will just end up in OU anyhow.  

Yep, you're gonna need that wall, and fully surround yourself.  To keep 'em in.  

And then you can go insular and restart the SW conference and play each other in that meaningless myopic Texas style circular firing squad, just like the olden days.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 22, 2018, 07:07:39 PM
SWC was a gazillion times better than the Big 2 Tiny 6.

#truth
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CousinFreddie on March 22, 2018, 08:48:06 PM
a gazillion!  Wow!

Hmm, let's see ... since a big chunk (half I believe) of the SWC joined up with the Big 8 to make the Big 12, I guess that woulda meant that the rate of OU's conference titles per decade musta dropped off by at least half a gazilion times

I'll have to look that up, and compute it when I get a chance.  You may be right.  In the meantime, I'll let you enjoy the glow of your gazillion, considerate cousin that I am :72:
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 23, 2018, 10:06:30 AM
At the risk of jinxing everyone and everything, I wish to profess my intention to be an unabashed conference rooter/puller.  I think it would be kind of cool if the Big 12 had half the field in the Elite Eight.  

Well, Junior, looks like the Sunday game may be my best chance to get down to the Disch.  The missus has made dinner plans for tonight and tomorrow.

Now those who do not live in the LCP may say how can dinner plans keep you away from a 2:30 game but you, Mr. Junior, I know you know what it's like out on the Northwest Frontier.  
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 23, 2018, 10:40:48 AM
I've always rooted for the Jayhawks and the Purple Cats in hoops.

After a Sunday morning near visit with Huggy Bear in the Little Apple with SkiCat, Forever, and Uncle Skeeter I've followed and rooted for Huggy's teams.  Just enjoy watching hard pressing full court defense.  (similar to the 40 minutes of hell that was played at Arkansas back in the day)

The only connection with Tech has been the short time the General was there.  But, I was a fan of Bobby and his coaching style.

so, yes, I'm rooting for the Big 12

besides, y'all know my disdain for Michigan and no one roots for Duke.

Although my Husker tailgate partner got a picture with Coach K yesterday in Omaha
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 23, 2018, 11:30:02 AM
Well, I'm generally ambivalent when it comes to Big 12 teams cause I can generally find just as many reasons to hate them as to like them, but ain't that just they way it is.

Whether we choose to go through life pissed or grateful life will give us ample justification for both.

Alas, only one of those choice can lead to joy.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 23, 2018, 12:39:58 PM
and delight, as Shiner would rather not hear
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 23, 2018, 02:38:45 PM
I pity a person who has never tasted delight.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 23, 2018, 02:45:34 PM
was she employed at the Rose back in the day?
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 24, 2018, 04:02:25 PM
wow, shaggybevo has been involved in a leal battle and the (previous) owner, blacklab, has lost it.  The new owner might keep it up and running, but the masses are going to bail.  End of an era.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on March 27, 2018, 04:50:34 PM

never cared much for shaggy anyhow.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: Mr Tulip on March 27, 2018, 05:32:05 PM
I've relied on The Shag for quick breaking news about suspensions or recruiting gets. You ignore 98% of the blather, and scroll quickly to pick out the tidbits that can be confirmed. The Shag's sources were pretty good at quickly converging on the truth from rumor.

I'll admit I was afraid to post there. They could rival 4Chan for the ability to suss out and randomly attack targets seemingly at random. 4Chan has long since been overrun by Russi-bots and just flat malevolent haters, but The Shag did still occasionally dispense useful info.

I'm sorry to see it go.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 28, 2018, 11:49:56 AM
There was a recruiting board on Shaggy Bevo called "RC Didn't Offer."  It was an outstanding and informative source of information.  The best on Shaggy Bevo.   Good crowd.  Smart people.   Not your usual idiots.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on March 28, 2018, 11:37:09 PM
MLB starts tomorrow

go Stros
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 29, 2018, 11:03:51 AM
Yeah. Let's go, Astros (& each individual on my fantasy team).
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 29, 2018, 12:17:17 PM
how about the stRangers?

no love?
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: UT-Erin03 on March 29, 2018, 12:56:21 PM
how about the stRangers?

no love?
Not after what they did during the hurricane harvey time... 
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/texans-rangers-huge-jerks-not-swapping-series-astros-article-1.3460663
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 29, 2018, 02:20:15 PM
damn them!
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 29, 2018, 02:20:44 PM
Nolan Ryan is no longer in the front office?  or ownership?
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on March 30, 2018, 11:05:26 AM
MLB starts tomorrow

go Stros

Wow.  And I still haven't bought my bandwagon Astros hat to celebrate last year.

What is it, 9 months to decide a champ and then 3 months to be champ?

What's the point.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on March 30, 2018, 11:15:55 AM
the point is the journey not just the result
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 30, 2018, 11:20:50 AM

There was a recruiting board on Shaggy Bevo called "RC Didn't Offer."  It was an outstanding and informative source of information.  The best on Shaggy Bevo.   Good crowd.  Smart people.   Not your usual idiots.

Yup, the the recruiting board had some valuable information, way batter than the football board.
I mostly went there for the BBQ talk, and some Formula1 info.  
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on March 30, 2018, 12:04:06 PM
the point is the journey not just the result
But it's like the post office.  The journey just keeps on coming.  162 games X how many teams?  Oh yeah, divide by 2.

And the biggest laugher of all is preseason MLB gets put on TV.  Holy cow.  Good, meaningful college baseball games are being played yet we are televising the Reds and Cubs in a meaningless sandlot event where the starters try even less than they do during the 162 game marathon.

There's no recliner in the world comfortable enough for me to trade life in order to follow MLB.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 30, 2018, 12:24:49 PM
the point is the journey not just the result
“Not the victory but the action; Not the
goal but the game; In the deed the glory.”
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on March 30, 2018, 12:34:36 PM
But it's like the post office.  The journey just keeps on coming.  162 games X how many teams?  Oh yeah, divide by 2.

And the biggest laugher of all is preseason MLB gets put on TV.  Holy cow.  Good, meaningful college baseball games are being played yet we are televising the Reds and Cubs in a meaningless sandlot event where the starters try even less than they do during the 162 game marathon.

There's no recliner in the world comfortable enough for me to trade life in order to follow MLB.

I'm happy youre not a fan of MLB BC
else we'd have to endure countless posts about
... the ball girls arent hot enough
... the grounds crew isnt efficient enough
... the manager isnt smart enough
... the game moves too slow
... there are too many commercials
... and on and on and on
so leave MLB to those who love it and go out and herd your cows 
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 30, 2018, 12:48:59 PM
America's Pastime: 20 Reasons Why Baseball Will Always Hail over Football

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/676720-americas-pastime-20-reasons-why-baseball-will-always-hail-over-football (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/676720-americas-pastime-20-reasons-why-baseball-will-always-hail-over-football)
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on March 30, 2018, 02:06:14 PM
The NFL could learn a few things from MLB 
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 30, 2018, 02:12:55 PM
I heard one of the talking heads once say that baseball may still be America's pastime, but football is America's passion.

I'd say the evidence supports that.

I've never been a big fan of MLB, but I'm also happy to leave it to its fans and not complain about it. 
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on March 30, 2018, 03:46:37 PM
I like college football most of all followed by MLB

For me the only way I'll watch a MLB game is if Im really for one of the two teams playing

but many times I'll watch a college football game and not really care who wins
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CousinFreddie on March 30, 2018, 05:02:36 PM
That was a great article FF (my only quibble is the author’s obvious fawning over the NYY-Bos rivalry and examples as if they were the big 2 and the other 28 teams were chopped liver).  But great points throughout.

I’d add one more and that’s that baseball fans are generally really nice people and there’s not a more family friendly sport out there.  Football fans often group into obnoxious little clusters, like frat houses gone bad, and soccer fans are even worse.  I always remember taking my then 10 year old son to a Houston vs Portland MLS game, and one the Houston players went down in what seemed to be a fake injury, and the Portland fans all around us erupted big “F—- You” shouts with dual middle fingers held higher and pumping in the direction of the bad actor in opposite colors on the field.  My son was like - what are they saying papa? And what do those gestures with their hands mean?  I was embarrassed and tried to explain the deal.  And my son just looked at me and said “you know they never do this at Mariners games”

Instead kids are kind of celebrated and line up for autographs and try to plead with (and if they’re old enough sweet talk) the ball girls into given them foul balls, and opposing fans give each other a good natured hard time but usually nothing more.  There are exceptions but they’re not the rule like for some sports.

Soccer is worse than football in this in my experience, but baseball beats both in terms of a family friendly sport by a lot.

Maybe that’s because it is lower key and they play every day and the stakes just aren’t as high.  But that’s just all part of why I like baseball better.  Lose today - no big deal - we’ll even it up tomorrow!

Anyway this is a football board so I know I’m in the minority.  That’s fine.  I’m the opposite of 320.  I really don’t watch football just to watch.  If it’s not OU or an outcome to a game that affects OU, I’ve generally got better things to do.

But baseball - oh yeah - yesterday alone I watched some of the Cards-Mets then shifted later to SF-LA and ended the day on Indians-Ms.  All in the background while I worked.  That’s another thing about baseball - it’s always in the background.  Kind of like instrumental music or slow cooking.  You can tune in and enjoy on your own pace.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on March 30, 2018, 05:40:26 PM
I prefer every college sport over its professional version.  I prefer live to television in every case as well.  I prefer football over baseball.

Honestly, I don't really care much at all about basketball, I've found.  I actively loathe the NBA, but not even the college version thrills me all that much anymore, although that wasn't true when I was a student.

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 30, 2018, 07:22:15 PM
I heard one of the talking heads once say that baseball may still be America's pastime, but football is America's passion.

back in the 60's as a kid, I thought baseball more popular than football
but, as y'all know football was just getting going with the super bowl in the NFL.  Even with the great college football in the 60's it couldn't compete with baseball
football has far surpassed baseball today
heck, back in the 60s and 70's boxing was a big deal
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on March 30, 2018, 07:32:29 PM
That was a great article FF (my only quibble is the author’s obvious fawning over the NYY-Bos rivalry and examples as if they were the big 2 and the other 28 teams were chopped liver).  But great points throughout.

I’d add one more and that’s that baseball fans are generally really nice people and there’s not a more family friendly sport out there.  
not sure why writers feel the need to push agendas like NYY-BOS, just taints the article for most readers
baseball fans are great and mellow
I also enjoy hockey crowds - because of the Hockey sluts in attendance
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on March 30, 2018, 09:50:30 PM
There was a time when I didn't get MLB.  My older brother was a huge fan so it was always right within reach but I just didn't get it.

I preferred football, preferably college, preferably SWC, preferably Texas. 

When the Harlem Globetrotters came to town, they were entertaining.  Listening to Muhammad Ali's big mouth was entertaining.  Watching the Wide Wide World of Sports and seeing the guy spill out every time they said the "Agony of Defeat" was cool.  The pre-Jerry Jones Cowboy's could be entertaining at time.  I loved the way Earl took the NFL by storm and carried the Oilers to Three Rivers Stadium for the AFC championship two years in a row.  And I enjoyed "Battle of the Network Stars" during the Charlie's Angels era.

But mostly I was just a Texas Longhorn football fan and fan of watcher of other big college rivalries like Oklahoma-Nebraska and USC-Notre Dame.

I really got into Texas baseball in the mid '70s.  Saw the '75 team several times and I still believe to this day that the 1977 team was possibly one of the best Texas teams ever even if it didn't get to Omaha.   

Abe Lemmons made Texas basketball watchable.

I went to the Astrodome a few times.  Dome dogs were delicious.  I liked that Jose Cruz could be counted on to hit a home run in almost every game.  I had an orange Astros cap.  Still didn't get it.  Not even when they almost looked good in 1980.

Texas baseball in the '80s was great too.  CWS champs in '83.  The Texas football team looked great in '83.  My first wife left me around Christmas '83 and I was so numb when Craig Curry muffed the punt return in the Cotton Bowl I couldn't even be mad.

Sports was never really even a passion for me after that.   Texas football was still fun to watch.  DeLoss Dodds destroyed a joy in basketball when he fired Abe and hired Bob Weltlich.

Michael Jordan was great.   I even liked the Pistons in the late '80s.   The Mavs in '88 or '89 when they had Mark Aguirre, squared up against the Lakers and they both scored over 110 in every game was pretty cool.  But it only lasted a minute.

Loved what Penders brought to the Texas basketball program.  I was so sorry to see Coach Gus go and Augie's small ball took some getting used to but I fell in love with it in 2000.

By then my kids were playing sports.  Football, basketball, baseball, soccer, wrestling, weight lifting, track.  Every kid, every sport, year after year after year.

I love my kids but I don't even cheer for my kids teams anymore.  I'm too burnt out.  I've sat too long in one stadium too many.

And that's when I started to get baseball.  Business trips were an escape.  Trips to Houston were fun.  I discovered Houston.  It's not just highways and hotels.  It's hundreds of charming neighborhoods.  It's not Pappa's and Landry's it's scores of family owned restaurants in China Town, Montrose and the Third Ward.

I love Houston.   Houston and El Paso have become my two favorite places in Texas.  And the world.

I wandered into Minute Maid a few years ago and rekindled a love that had always been there waiting for me.  You can win 34 games in a row and it might not be enough.  You can lose 50 and you might still have a chance.  Your star can be injured for six months.  You can acquire a closer.  You can say one month, "Damn those Red Sox."  Three months later you're beginning to worry about the Indians.

And if you have the great good fortune to get in a fantasy league, it's all about studying the analytics and assembling a team.  

Yesterday Chris Sale, Luis Servino, Chase Anderson, Alex Colome and Yusmeiro Petit combined to give me 20 strong innings with ERA of 1.03 and WHIP of 0.84.

Then I picked up a White Sox third baseman named Matt Davidson who is knocking the crap out of the ball.  He won't be forever but I'm not married to him.  If I can just start him while he's hot, he can boost my stats.

I love baseball.  I love that it's ten months long.  It gives me a passion.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: Mr Tulip on April 02, 2018, 12:06:04 PM
Back when I was a kid, I hated professional baseball because, when the Texas Rangers would go into extra innings or otherwise slow down an already slow game, it would preempt "The Benny Hill Show" on KTVT. That was irritating.
Since then, I can't really work up an anger for MLB. I'll watch when there's not much else to do. I think the game is over reliant on percentages and strategies, and that the vast majority of the time a manager would be better served by allowing his athletes to pit their skills honestly against the other team rather than adjusting and substituting, but that's just my analytical nature.
The major failure of MLB is, for a casual fan like me, a contending local team will only be a contending local team in September and October - right when I've completely devoted my sporting focus to college football (and then hockey).
If the Houston Astros had won the World Series in May, I would have been excited. They did it in November, and I didn't notice.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on April 02, 2018, 12:07:15 PM
Disappointing weekend for the Longhorn baseball team, dropping a series to the Wildcats, but if they can rebound strong against Baylor and the Sooners can come back to earth against the Horny Toads, the Horns will be right back in the mix.

Still - it's just incredible to see such bad pitching on the part of Texas.   It's been interesting to see Pierce tinker with it but nothing has really worked thus far.   Pitching looked stellar against LaLa, go shell-shocked against LSU and has been reeling ever since.  Kingham, Shugart and Henley have all looked really good - at times, as has Ridgeway.  Elder's been more consistent than O'Donnell.

I want to like Sawyer and VerPlank but they're just not there yet.  Wheelan and McGuire looked best this past weekend.

At this moment, I'm thinking Matteo Bocchi and Robinson need more opportunities.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on April 02, 2018, 12:13:47 PM
Back when I was a kid, I hated professional baseball because, when the Texas Rangers would go into extra innings or otherwise slow down an already slow game, it would preempt "The Benny Hill Show" on KTVT. That was irritating.
Possibly the most compelling reason to hate MLB I ever heard.  Benny Hill was great.
I was probably in elementary school when I discovered Monty Python's Flying Circus on PBS on Sunday nights at 10:30 p.m.   It was so different from everything else on TV at the time (Mannix, Rod Serling's Night Gallery, the ABC Sunday Night Movie, etc.) that it had a profound influence on my sense of humor.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on April 02, 2018, 04:35:29 PM
I too watched a ton of Flying Circus on PBS late at night.  

And I'm happy to catch a game of MLB live at the various stadiums around the country.  When I used to travel for work extensively, one of the "tourist" things I did in the cities I visited was to attend a MLB game if they had a team.  

So I've seen games at Wrigley, old Yankee Stadium, Fenway, New Comisky, Dodger Stadium, the Metrodome in Minneapolis, whatever the name of the Padres stadium was in San Diego, and of course Arlington and Houston (both the Astrodome and Minute Maid).

Watching a live MLB game is fun, but watching a MLB game on TV, or attempting to follow an entire season of the sport, just doesn't interest me.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on April 02, 2018, 05:03:51 PM
I heard one of the talking heads once say that baseball may still be America's pastime, but football is America's passion.
And it's not because Football is a superior game to Baseball.  It's because Baseball burns itself out.
Everyday vs. once per week.  Somehow the net $$$ still makes the everyday option the best for baseball, despite casual rather than rabid fanship.
And if the human body could play 6 football games per week, you bet your sweet patooty they'd be doing it.  So thank goodness.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on April 02, 2018, 06:55:02 PM
"The Benny Hill Show" had boobies, correct?  or was that my overactive imagination?



Monty Python's Flying Circus  - Bravo!
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on April 03, 2018, 10:32:55 AM
"The Benny Hill Show" had boobies, correct?  or was that my overactive imagination?



Monty Python's Flying Circus  - Bravo!
The Benny Hill Show had things like a woman in a window leaning over two melons to wave at Benny who immediately wrecked his bike.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: FearlessF on April 03, 2018, 01:07:24 PM
Benny had the same type of imagination!
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: Mr Tulip on April 03, 2018, 01:39:06 PM
There was precious little actual exposure on "The Benny Hill Show". Lots of underthings and garters, but little actual nudity.

You had to go to Jon Byner and "Bizarre" for that.

Back when KTVT was a completely independent "Channel 11" out of Dallas, they tended to see what they could get away with. They showed a largely unedited version of Sylvia Kristel's work "Private Lessons", which I think got them a phone call and fine.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on April 03, 2018, 02:04:51 PM
There was precious little actual exposure on "The Benny Hill Show". 
With "precious" being the "optical" (sic) word in that sentence.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 04, 2018, 10:35:57 PM
  • Quote from: CharleyHorse46 (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?topic=2859.msg38829#msg38829) on Mon Feb 26 2018 09:49:14 GMT-0600 (CST)
The Texas baseball team ran into a Baton Rouge buzz saw and the men's basketball team got poet payback against oSu.   Despite the weekend, I'm still thinking the former is a Super Regional contender and the latter is an NIT team.

Do they still do the NIT?  Is that a thing?  It ain't even worth googling to me.

Super Regional.  I called it on February 26th.  Booya.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 04, 2018, 10:38:33 PM
I disagree with that assessment. The schedule has been daunting and they’re still trying to find pitching. Pierce is tinkering. It’s March.  It’s early.  I still think they will compete for the Big 12 host a Regional and put up a fight in a Super.  
Reiterated it on March 16th.  Called hosting a Regional and putting up a fight in a Super Regional.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 04, 2018, 10:48:52 PM
Tooting ones own horn.

That’s what message boards all about.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on June 04, 2018, 10:59:26 PM
Good calls my friend.  Even when winning the B12 looked unlikely I enjoyed watching this team.  They're gritty and talented, and they've really come together.

This is going to be a tough Super, but that's true of them all.  It's winnable for Texas, but the Horns are going to need to score, because TennTech sure will.

I like Clemens' chances at putting up some big numbers.  Gonna be a fun weekend.

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: Mr Tulip on June 05, 2018, 12:25:06 PM
From my limited critical knowledge of beisbol, it seems Texas used a minimal amount of pitching, and accomplished their task Sunday night after playing only 3 games. Tenn Tech went 4 games, used everybody, and played a doubleheader on Monday - all on the road. I don't know how much this matters when the 3 game series starts next Saturday, but it has to only help Texas.

That said, Tenn Tech has now won 52 games this season. They ain't chicken feed.

I actually did feel sorry for the Indiana boys after standing in the Texas sun for 3.5 hours on Sunday, only to turn around and play again.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 05, 2018, 01:20:58 PM
Tennessee Tech actually had to play 5 games in Oxford, Mississippi, but I'm sure they'll be ready.

Still... despite the Golden Eagles ferocious bats, it's better to be at home against a 2 seed from the OVC instead of on the road against a 1 seed from the SEC.  Tennessee Tech may be a better team but I like our chances better.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on June 05, 2018, 03:11:13 PM
Look at our home record this season.  Then look at our road record.

It's pretty obvious we'll be better off in Austin, regardless of opponent.

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on June 18, 2018, 05:15:13 PM
Look at our home record this season.  Then look at our road record.

It's pretty obvious we'll be better off in Austin, regardless of opponent.

I dare anyone to tell me that Texas would still have made the CWS had the regionals been in College Station or elsewhere.

For that matter, how are we fairing in Omaha?

Notwithstanding the home crowd, we really struggle when we don't play on synthetic Earth.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: longhorn320 on June 18, 2018, 09:44:18 PM
Hey BC where ya been

Get out early for good behavior?

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: BrownCounty on June 19, 2018, 09:15:46 AM
Hey BC where ya been

Get out early for good behavior?

That's as good an explanation as any.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on July 27, 2018, 10:48:08 AM
ESPN piece on the best teams of the past 20 years (the "championship game era").

No surprise about who they picked #1. :)

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24198508/college-football-national-champions-20-years-ranked

Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: Mr Tulip on July 27, 2018, 11:13:07 AM
ESPN piece on the best teams of the past 20 years (the "championship game era").

No surprise about who they picked #1. :)

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24198508/college-football-national-champions-20-years-ranked


Yeah. With all the milquetoast Heisman winners in years past and since, it's a travesty that the voters got so enamored with Reggie Bush. The greatest player to ever play the game missed the hardware.
Texas won, of course, and a lot was made afterwards about the love affair with USC and their putative "dynasty". They were over-loved, but in any ordinary year, they would have crushed anyone else. This game was the perfect storm of two mega-talented teams crashing into each other when it really mattered.
The difference was Texas had VY.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: utee94 on July 27, 2018, 11:27:43 AM
I knew the Heisman was junk long before that, but that is truly the very last time I ever paid attention to that award. I haven't bothered even looking it up since then.  The only winner I could tell you since 2005, is Johnny Manziel, and that's only because my i s c & a aggie wife and her Aggie family were over at my house during the time of the awards presentation and whooped it up when he won.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 03, 2018, 02:41:47 PM
I watched Tom Herman’s press conference today.  Looks like he spent part of his $5mil salary getting one of those Bosley hair implants tgey advertise on the station that shows reruns of Gunsmoke.

I wasn’t satisfied with the soft questions, evasive answers or Mensa attitude.

I feel like I’m reliving some of the saddest times in Texas football.

Sam Ehlinger is Pete Gardere and Tom Herman is John Mackovic.  If Charlie Strong was David McWilliams, I’m ready to fast forward to the next Mack Brown.

One thing in particular, among many, that really irks me about Tom Herman is when he makes comments about how he’s trying to change the culture of a program that doesn’t know how to win.  Like they’re actually winning.   Or like his losses aren’t as bad as the last guy’s.

For years now Texas has been tantalizing close by - losing four or five games each year by just a handful of ponts - like a turnaround is imminent and contingent on just a few important tweaks.

I imagine most mediocre teams find themselves in that very same boat.
Title: Re: Big 12 Sports Commentary
Post by: Gigem on September 03, 2018, 03:26:48 PM
I watched Tom Herman’s press conference today.  Looks like he spent part of his $5mil salary getting one of those Bosley hair implants tgey advertise on the station that shows reruns of Gunsmoke.

I wasn’t satisfied with the soft questions, evasive answers or Mensa attitude.

I feel like I’m reliving some of the saddest times in Texas football.

Sam Ehlinger is Pete Gardere and Tom Herman is John Mackovic.  If Charlie Strong was David McWilliams, I’m ready to fast forward to the next Mack Brown.

One thing in particular, among many, that really irks me about Tom Herman is when he makes comments about how he’s trying to change the culture of a program that doesn’t know how to win.  Like they’re actually winning.   Or like his losses aren’t as bad as the last guy’s.

For years now Texas has been tantalizing close by - losing four or five games each year by just a handful of ponts - like a turnaround is imminent and contingent on just a few important tweaks.

I imagine most mediocre teams find themselves in that very same boat.
Welcome to my world c. ~1999-Present day (minus 2012 and a few games scattered throught a 20 year span).