It's a rivalry game. Stretches of dominance by either team will be few and far between.jblaschke said:The only way to turn the media spin is to kick the **** out of them on the field. Head to head. Can't really say they are passing us if we kill them on the field. So, by not playing them, we've let the media take over. That was their plan all along.Quote:
Jbkaschke - i seem to recall a lot of spin when we played. It was there when we won too.
"You managed to turn it around for them." Sure. We did that. Not that anything has turned around for them except.......hey, what do you know....good PR and perception. They've generally always had this advantage and we did that?
Congrats!!!
say what?coupland boy said:
For Pete's sake, you had an Old Rivalries sip poster junkie who spent hours upon hours defending the internet honor of all things longhorn......end up being the back judge that called the targeting penalty on Trent Hunter in 2011. And you want to sign that game up again because it might sell a few tickets and make a good story? Are you that selfish and narrow minded?
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A&M and OU to the SEC without us is a worst case scenario. We can't join the SEC, but we can't let them (especially A&M) join either. Texas's great run will come to an end at some point and we'll have to rebuild. Trying to rebuild with A&M a part of the best conference in football while we're on the outside looking in is a situation we'd be wise to avoid at all costs.
When the rights expire in 7 years, could OU be #15, and tu is forced to the PAC with no LHN?
Citizen Reign said:say what?coupland boy said:
For Pete's sake, you had an Old Rivalries sip poster junkie who spent hours upon hours defending the internet honor of all things longhorn......end up being the back judge that called the targeting penalty on Trent Hunter in 2011. And you want to sign that game up again because it might sell a few tickets and make a good story? Are you that selfish and narrow minded?
what...how did I miss this story? How was that POS outed?
Great news! Tell him aggiehawg says, "Evenin', kind gentleman," when you can. Admire the poster greatly.Quote:
I can report that the Mustang is still around and doing well.
JTaylor was his handle. J. Taylor is his real name.Lungblood said:Citizen Reign said:say what?coupland boy said:
For Pete's sake, you had an Old Rivalries sip poster junkie who spent hours upon hours defending the internet honor of all things longhorn......end up being the back judge that called the targeting penalty on Trent Hunter in 2011. And you want to sign that game up again because it might sell a few tickets and make a good story? Are you that selfish and narrow minded?
what...how did I miss this story? How was that POS outed?
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A&M venturing off on its own to the SEC would be the best thing that could possibly happen to Texas. And one of the worst to A&M. Imagine, for a moment, that the Aggies do just that, and tell Texas that there will be no solidarity pact and they are going to head off to the SEC on their own. What result?
Well, all of the sudden, Texas is free to join the Big 10. The "Tech problem" just disappears overnight, because if the Aggies want to go to the SEC, they have to band with UT and let the Longhorns go to the Big 10. A unified split allows each to go its separate way, and eliminates an opposition coalition standing in the way of Texas venturing to the Big 10.
Only an Aggie (or SEC predator) could think this a good idea. Whatever gains the Aggies enjoyed from SEC TV dollars, would be easily matched--and likely surpassed--by the huge revenues the University of Texas would enjoy in a suddenly monstrous Big Ten Network. Not only that, but as the Aggies left to join a middling conference in terms of academics and R&D dollars, UT immediately upgrades to the nation's premier conference in terms of academics and R&D dollars. Essentially, the Aggies would be taking a giant step sideways, into a football conference they're unlikely to succeed in, while liberating Texas to become even bigger, richer, and stronger than it already is.
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They would, in essence, be choosing to open up an enormous gulf between themselves and Texas--one that cannot open up nearly so wide when the schools are tethered together in the same conference.
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A&M has appealed to Louisiana kids in the past, and one has to believe they could do OK recruiting in Missippissi too.
We are talking about basically country boys from most smaller cities.
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I've got news for the sips....your biggest rival always was A&M. It wasn't always the best game on schedule especially in years where we weren't competitive, but it was the biggest rivalry. Proof exists to this day - go to any sip board and count the threads about good old A&M. Then count the threads about OU. There are none.
Further proof exists in any thread talking about Ou/A&M cotton bowl. 95% of sips rooting for their "Biggest rival"? Total BS! See sips, it's not what you say that counts...it's what you do. You guys had a great rivalry, one of the greatest in the land and used "not our rival" in attempt to belittle. Enjoy your "big" games at DKR in the future, idiots.
We for sure should have moved the previous year when the majority of the Aggies wanted to go and administration held us back stupidly.The Chicken Ranch said:
Moving to the SEC was the best thing that ever happened to us. We should have moved eons ago.
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Probably cost us a National Championship in 2011...who knows.
I like playing in the sec a lot more than the Big 12. A great move on our part.
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Probably cost us a National Championship in 2011...who knows.
I like playing in the sec a lot more than the Big 12. A great move on our part.
Do you mean 2012? Johnny's first year?
Ubitag said:
Probably cost us a National Championship in 2011...who knows.
I like playing in the sec a lot more than the Big 12. A great move on our part.
