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re: LMAO. Greg McElroy with that mic drop in interview with Billy Liucci...
Posted on 11/14/23 at 7:37 am to AggieArchitect2004
Posted on 11/14/23 at 7:37 am to AggieArchitect2004
quote:Texas allegedly bought Hart Lee Dykes a pair of boots, the poster child for a kid with his hands out and recruiting violations.
And everyone was cheating in the 80s/90s. Including your beloved longhorns.
Texas A&M gave a TransAm to Eric Dickerson, and got out bid by SMU. The Fed-Ex packages and the TransAm left a well documented paper trail. Boots are fungible, the source of which was never proved.
The then Governor of Texas, Bill Clements, when asked why SMU continued to pay kids after they got caught, said “We made a commitment to the kids.” Admirable in some respects, but also one of the reasons they got the Death Penalty (Institutional Control).
A&M earned, among other things, a TV ban, resulting in the Texas-Texas A&M game not getting broadcast and eventually moved to T+1, ruining the tradition of college football on Thanksgiving Day.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 9:12 am to Ptins944
quote:Never ceases to amaze mean how people parrot false talking points.
A&M earned, among other things, a TV ban, resulting in the Texas-Texas A&M game not getting broadcast and eventually moved to T+1, ruining the tradition of college football on Thanksgiving Day.
Three things got the A&M-Texas game moved off of Thanksgiving: (1) the SWC's practice of keeping the conference schedule more or less the same year after year; (2) building the SWC schedule around having OU-Texas on the 2nd Saturday in October; and, (3) the addition of the University of Houston to the SWC. Once the number of conference games went from 7 to 8 in 1976, there weren't enough Saturdays between OU-Texas and Thanksgiving for the A&M-Texas game to played on Thanksgiving in some years, as it was always the final game of the year for the teams and the final weekend on the calendar sometimes stretched into December. There was exactly one year where the game was moved to an earlier slot because of a TV ban (1994). The game was played on the on the first Saturday in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1990, and 1995. That's seven years out of 20 follow UH's joining the conference where the game was played in December largely because OU-Texas was what the conference built the calendar around.
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