re: What % of Texas fans would swap history, titles and tradition of Alabama.

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I say around 98%. You are always gonna have a small percentage of idiots who don't know any better that Alabama has 100x the tradition and meaning titles than Texas.

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By the way, that's when teams play you like it's their Super Bowl.

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You are always gonna have a small percentage of idiots who don't know any better that Alabama has 100x the tradition and meaning titles than Texas.

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There’s not a single Texas fan that would refute any of this. Not sure why you needed a thread weeping about it

Players are barely at a school long enough these days to learn where the classes they take are located. Academics isn’t really worth pitching to potential recruits anymore.

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Yes, nearly every school has done it some degree at some point, but ours was pretty spotty and small time compared to the schools landing top 5 classes every year.

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Starting in 2010, 247 composite rankings for Texas:

2010 - #2 Class
2011 - #4
2012 - #2
2013 - #17
2014 - #17
2015 - #10
2016 - #7
2017 - #25
2018 - #3
2019 - #3
2020 - #9
2021 - #15
2022 - #5
2023 - #3
2024 - #6
2025 - #17 (Currently)


So by your logic, Texas started off cheating, then stopped, then started again, then stopped again?

Or is it, just maybe, that kids went to a school that played for a National Title (2009) and maybe, JUST MAYBE, taking all that talent turning it into an overall losing conference record (their best finish in the Big 12 was 5-4 out of those three years of highly ranked classes) and winning the freaking Holiday and Alamo bowls, all while watching the team they had played for against the National Title in 2009 winning 2 more titles in that stretch - 2011 and 2012.

The simple truth of the matter is that it's a hard sell to convince kids to come to a program that has multiple losing seasons and didn't make it back to a NY6 bowl until 2018.

Here's the blunt, honest truth:

Texas was no more virtuous than any other school or program during that time frame.

You were just mediocre, and when you DID make the post season it was almost always at the Alamo Bowl.

And based on the past 15 years, the current trend for Texas is more of an outlier than a sign of things to come.

So look on the bright side:

All those years that Alabama, Georgia, and LSU fans had to make long distance travel plans for big bowl games?

Texas fans spent most of them in their own backyards.

Your former former conference was literally cheated out of existence. But I'm sure the program with the most money had nothing to do with that.

And neither would I. UT Austin is a big state university just like Bama. Its not even remotely close to schools like Harvard & Penn. I work with UT Austin MBAs every day and can tell you it is just another big public university.

Those Texas composite ranking were misleading in some of the 2010 - 2021 era (pre-Sark) because they were not getting key guys in the trenches. You can have some great skilled position players which inflate overall team rankings but it doesn't tell the whole story.

Thats great that they are ranked highly however, UT Austin grads I manage are great people, but they do not stand out as exceptionally brilliant or anything.

Pretty sure every fan base would do this one.

But yes, keep making fun of the sips. Good stuff.