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"That game - the rivalry game for us has always been Oklahoma. The A&M game's been a great game and all of that. And we may play 'em. But it's not something that we have to do. I think the Oklahoma game is something we have to do."

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http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/OU/article.aspx?subjectid=92&articleid=20111005_92_B8_CUTLIN310926

Probably. Rest of the article isn't much better.

Edit: Didn't realize that word would be edited, my bad.

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I hope steps out in front of an 18 wheeler on 35...

When is t.u. going to wise up and fire this fool? He is like Icarus and is flying way too close to the sun.

Seems they're scared more than anything...

Next paragraph: So A&M could yet be saved?

"You know coaches. You talk to coach (Bob) Stoops all the time. You know that when they're looking at nonconference football games, they're trying to figure out how to best build their season off their nonconference. So you don't want to play, you know, Ohio State, USC and Notre Dame in nonconference. If you've got young kids, you've got to grow 'em up, they've got to have confidence, you've got to build it for the season and for the conference things. So coaches are very concerned about who they play in nonconference."

pretty definitive statements there will be no tu game

I don't understand the above quote. We would play texas at the end of the season?

And I've accepted the game is over. I don't really care all that much at this point.

I think Dodds doesn't realize that there are a lot of alumni at Texas that wish the game to continue, I don't like his middle of the fence statements right now, but hopefully he'll get over himself and the game will continue.

Sounds like someone is chicken*****

They made a movie about Dodds once. It was called "Old Yellow."

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I hate t.u. as much as anyone but I could care less if we ever play them again. A&M is a lot better school academically and athletically. If that school wasn't in Austin it would be just another tceh.

He's the perfect guy to represent them, because he's playing their favorite game. If they've beaten A&M, then the sport at hand is interesting and they want to talk about it and make fun of you.

If they lose to A&M, oh really?, they haven't really been paying attention to college sport x this year, and besides the OU game was really all they usually watch.

Who cares anymore? Time to move on ...

At this point, I don't care if the game survives or not. We can replace them just as easily as they seem to think they can replace us.

When all of this started, the thought of losing the Texas game was sickening. I grew up with 2 Aggie parents, and this game has always been a great time for the family on Thanksgiving.

However, the more I let it set in, the more I'm ok with it. The Texas game is so important, b/c there are very few interesting games on our schedule. When you play KU, KSU, BU, & ISU in consecutive week, you spend 5 weeks looking forward to the Texas game.

Now that we're in the SEC, fans will be fired up almost every weeekend. Bama, LSU, Arky, Tenn, UF, UGA, & Auburn will do just fine in replacing one single game.

Hey guys - leave Dodds alone. He has worked hard to save the Big 12 twice now... and he's just worried about the kids.

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"We're good people. And we do it the right way. And we've got 550 kids that we love, and we treat them the way they're supposed to be treated. And we're in it for kids. We didn't do the Pac-12 (because of) the kids. It wasn't money, it wasn't anything else. We don't want to put our kids in airplanes and have them in airplanes half their life going back and forth.

"We've worked hard to save the Big 12 twice now. We happen to have a network which, we did, we told everybody for five years that, 'We're gonna do it, we're gonna do it, you ought to do it, too' - you know, we told 'em. Any time TV came up in a room, we said, 'We're gonna do our own third-tier network.' We've been open about it. And today they're looking for reasons, or somebody to blame. A&M's looking for a reason, and they've made their reason that we've got a second game on the network. You know? Nebraska had three last year. I've not heard one word about that.

"But it's an issue this year. And I've been a bad guy before, and I'm at an age where it doesn't bother me. We're doing the right thing. Every decision we're making, we're doing the right thing. We're doing the right thing for the conference, we're doing the right thing for the kids. If somebody wants to paint us as some awful people, then let 'em paint us."

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Me too. Who cares. I don't care what Deloss says/does nor what happens to the horns.

Actually I disagree. Dodds is direct and speaks his mind. UNLIKE some people who spout off (see OU prez), he answered tough questionhs directly.

We might hate them, but he is top 5 AD of all time.

If it works out so be it. I do not care about those guys in any way. They have fixed the system for 100 years guaranteeing themselves a competitive advantage. Enough is enough. Let them go their way and let us make our own destiny. We just need to demand performance from our AD and coaches. No excuses.

The delusion is strong with this one. Cool FIDO, moving on. We don't need them and they certainly don't want to have their arses handed to them every year.

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A&M is a lot better school academically and athletically. If that school wasn't in Austin it would be just another tceh.

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The delusion is palpable

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bigcheese = troll

Can we ban bigcheese? Dude is the biggest troll.

19-17, the big bad sippers. LOL.

posted on the shag:

"The A&M game is meaningless historically
I was trying to figure out why I don't give a *****about losing the A&M game. The truth is, the game has had virtually no impact on the history of college football. The only rationale that I can find as to why we would want to keep this game is because "we've played it for 100 years," and we live in the same state. B.F.D. Other traditions in this country have gone by the wayside for the betterment of society: things like paying for porn. And slavery. Might as well add the **** game to the list, although I think slavery was less one-sided.

Some fun facts:
Times both teams have been ranked in the top 20 when they played: 7, with only 2 of those being top 10 matchups.
1941 #10 Texas 23 #2 Texas A&M 0
1943 #12 Texas 27 #16 Texas A&M 13
1975 #2 Texas A&M 20 #5 Texas 10
1977 #1 Texas 57 #12 Texas A&M 28
1985 #15 Texas A&M 42 #18 Texas 10
1995 #9 Texas 16 #16 Texas A&M 6
1999 #24 Texas A&M 20 #7 Texas 16

I went back and dug through the old SWC records. I may have made a mistake, but I only counted four times where the UT/A&M game was a winner-take-all game for the conference championship, and two of those were in the 19****ing40's: 1941, 1943, 1987 and 1995. How is that even a statistical possibility when you've been in the same conference for over a century and you play each other in the last game of the season?

Beyond the relative meaningless stakes of the game beyond "pride", the games themselves have not been very compelling. The only ones that even stick out in my mind were notable mostly for things that had little to do with the actual game: The bonfire game in 1999 and the Ricky Williams record breaking game in 1998.

Beyond those two and maybe the last time we played in the SWC, none of the games have even been that interesting. Maybe there was some *****that happened in the 1950s or 1970's, but I can't remember any UT/A&M games where I said, "Wow. That was a great football game." It seems that historically A&M has sucked major donkey cock as a football program and the few times that they were competitive, UT was in a down cycle. It makes for a shitty and mostly one-sided rivalry, with mostly shitty and one-sided games.

And for comparison, check out the number of times both teams have been ranked in the TX/OU game:
1947 Oklahoma (#15) 14 Texas (#3) 34 Dallas
1949 Oklahoma (#3) 20 Texas (#12) 14 Dallas
1950 Oklahoma (#3) 14 Texas (#4) 13 Dallas
1951 Oklahoma (#11) 7 Texas (#6) 9 Dallas
1953 Oklahoma (#16) 19 Texas (#15) 14 Dallas
1954 Oklahoma (#1) 14 Texas (#15) 7 Dallas
1958 Oklahoma (#2) 14 Texas (#16) 15 Dallas
1959 Oklahoma (#13) 12 Texas (#4) 19 Dallas
1963 Oklahoma (#1) 7 Texas (#2) 28 Dallas
1969 Oklahoma (#8) 17 Texas (#2) 27 Dallas
1971 Oklahoma (#4) 48 Texas (#3) 27 Dallas
1972 Oklahoma (#2) 27 Texas (#10) 0 Dallas
1973 Oklahoma (#6) 52 Texas (#13) 13 Dallas
1974 Oklahoma (#2) 16 Texas (#17) 13 Dallas
1975 Oklahoma (#2) 24 Texas (#5) 17 Dallas
1976 Oklahoma (#3) 6 Texas (#16) 6 Dallas
1977 Oklahoma (#2) 6 Texas (#5) 13 Dallas
1978 Oklahoma (#1) 31 Texas (#6) 10 Dallas
1979 Oklahoma (#3) 7 Texas (#4) 16 Dallas
1980 Oklahoma (#12) 13 Texas (#3) 20 Dallas
1981 Oklahoma (#10) 14 Texas (#3) 34 Dallas
1983 Oklahoma (#8) 16 Texas (#2) 28 Dallas
1984 Oklahoma (#2) 15 Texas (#1) 15 Dallas
1985 Oklahoma (#2) 14 Texas (#7) 7 Dallas
1994 Oklahoma (#16) 10 Texas (#15) 17 Dallas
1995 Oklahoma (#13) 24 Texas (#18) 24 Dallas
2000 Oklahoma (#10) 63 Texas (#11) 14 Dallas
2001 Oklahoma (#3) 14 Texas (#5) 3 Dallas
2002 Oklahoma (#2) 35 Texas (#3) 24 Dallas
2003 Oklahoma (#1) 65 Texas (#11) 13 Dallas
2004 Oklahoma (#2) 12 Texas (#5) 0 Dallas
2006 Oklahoma (#14) 10 Texas (#7) 28 Dallas
2007 Oklahoma (#10) 28 Texas (#19) 21 Dallas
2008 Oklahoma (#1) 35 Texas (#5) 45 Dallas
2009 Oklahoma (#20) 13 Texas (#3) 16 Dallas
2010 Oklahoma (#8) 28 Texas (#21) 20 Dallas

We have faced OU with both teams in the top 10 (16 times) more than twice as many times as we have faced A&M with both teams in the top 20."
Mitch Cumsteen

We should have expected this. Dodds wants to punish us. He will do just that. If we are ever going to play them again, it will be over Dodds objections.

Two, honestly, many whorns do not see us as their rival. They look at us like we look at TTU right now. "Sure, you beat us a few years in a row while we are bad, but we are better than you and not our rival." Many Ags claim Texas is our only rival, whereas many whorns claim OU is their only rival.

No matter what we do, we will not change the whorns opinion. Maybe another decade of domination with a few MNC's MAY change that opion. But, they don't respect us as it stands. That's we need to go build our own identity. I think losing the Texas game for a while may be the best thing for us.

GFY

bigcheese needs to be reminded that beating up a bunch of special ed kids does not make a person a warrior. And when you end up having your butt kicked by special eddie, you look the fool. There might be a lesson for tu in this, with their 5-7 2010 football record. Did they beat Failor and Iowa State last year?

Doods = Fool = Liar.

surfgeo, enjoy your OU game. You're lucky your sorry team is not scheduling The Ags anymore, you wouldn't want to get your arses handed to you by both OU and A&M every year. LOL. You only want to have two tough games a year for that sorry bunch.

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Anyone notice the caption under Dodds picture?

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University of Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds, 74, may be the man most responsible for saving the Big 12 Conference. HARRY CABLUCK / Associated Press file

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Too

Damn

Funny!

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When is t.u. going to wise up and fire this fool? He is like Icarus and is flying way too close to the sun.

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He is much closer to having buildings named after him than ever getting fired.

This thread is sad. Y'all just need to forget your obsession with the sips & move on. We are not going to be conference mates anymore. They are fine with it & we should be too.
If the situation was reversed I wouldn't want to play them either. Nik - Dodds has made them more money than the next 5 Big 12 AD's put together. If you think they need to can him, you are being delusional. If you think they think that, even more so.
About 98% on this board wanted to bolt to a conference where we haven't been able to beat even one opponent in 16 years. Well, it happened, so our focus needs to turn to how we can possibly overturn that pattern & focusing on the teams that DO matter. Like it or not, the sips are college football's little darlings, but other than one last game, that shouldn't affect us any more than usc, ND, or any of the other little darlings do. After this Thanksgiving weekend the sips are dead to me.



Laura