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Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:00 pm to Numberwang
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:00 pm to Numberwang
The SEC HQ in Little Rock would be hilarious.
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Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:02 pm to BreakawayZou83
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I just wonder how many years it will be in the SEC before the Horns start whining about revenue distribution, location of conference headquarters, media rights, or threatening to leave the conference. I give it five years, tops.
It'll be the first time they aren't in a conference that revolves around them.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:02 pm to BigBro
the record against LSU will change soon
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:12 pm to BreakawayZou83
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I just wonder how many years it will be in the SEC before the Horns start whining about revenue distribution, location of conference headquarters, media rights, or threatening to leave the conference. I give it five years, tops.
While Texas may try, they will find that the SEC is not the Big 12. Most teams in the Big 12 depended on the state of Texas for recruits and TV markets. That is not the case for the SEC. The SEC has a one school-one vote policy and Texas will not be able to bully others schools for their votes like they did in the Big 12.
This post was edited on 4/11/23 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:19 pm to BigBro
Now do your record against against chokelahoma during that same time period. Anybody can cherrypick stats. Now do the last ten years.
Not sure why y'all feel the need to follow A&M to the SEC. When A&M did it ten years ago, it was a huge mistake, etc, etc.
Not sure why y'all feel the need to follow A&M to the SEC. When A&M did it ten years ago, it was a huge mistake, etc, etc.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:23 pm to Buster83
Weird melt
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:26 pm to BigBro
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Included in that list will be 5 teams in the SEC once Texas joins.
Also of note.. when Texas joined the Big 12, Nebraska was the king of College Football.. similar to the run that Alabama and Georgia are currently on.. and Texas was about where Texas has been the last 10 years or so..
Texas went 10-4 against Nebraska
So while the horns may be down right now.. it is foolish to think that they will stay down.
Texas has done very well against the SEC before 1990, congrats.
The big difference between NU and the teams of the SEC is that NU needed to recruit Texas to survive while the SEC has La, Al, Ga, and Fl.
The State of Texas has won 1 NC in the last 52+ years, the states I mentioned have won multiple NC during that time.
Honestly UTexas is going to have a HUGE problem in the SEC as they are stepping up in weight class and UTexas has shown they have not been able to deal with that for over 50 years.
When a team has won only 1 NC in the last 50+ years, something is wrong if you think you are one of the big boys of college football.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:46 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Very little of Texas is actually in the south culturally...most is more akin to the mountain states or the southwest. Dallas is more culturally aligned with the Midwest (Detroit and Dallas are very similar culturally). Everything west of a line between Tyler and Houston is about as southern as southern Illinois....if the majority of folks in a region talk about BBQ and beef in the same breath you ain't in the south....
Wow so much to unpack here. Outside of the very first statement here, up to the ellipsis, this is just...incoherent.
Texas is not culturally "in the South," I agree with that. That's because Texas is culturally, well, Texas. Surely people here remember the ad campaign, "Texas...it's like a whole 'nother country?" That is possibly the truest statement about Texas, culturally, as there ever was. Texas, first and foremost, is ALL ABOUT SOME TEXAS.
Can you go to a roadside gas station in Evansville, Indiana, and find state-of-Indiana-themed stuff everywhere? Not that I've seen. Want to make Texas shaped pancakes? Got you. Want a freaking $10k BBQ grill shaped like Texas? Yassir. Want an in-ground pool shaped like Texas? Got it on special this week hoss. Ever see an Illinois-edition vehicle? There's a Texas Edition of just about every pickup truck AND full-size SUV - you can use it to tow your Texas-shaped grill to your house full of Texas Lone Star decor with your Texas-shaped pool in the backyard.
In a weird way, Texas is it's own avatar - a caricature of itself - and MANY residents embrace it so completely that it's just part of the fabric. Texas is not akin to the Mountain States, though some residents of El Paso likely sympathize with what's important in New Mexico - since New Mexico is closer than Austin. (Fun facts: El Paso is closer by mileage to California than it is to the Sabine River - Texas's eastern border. Port Arthur, TX is closer, mileage-wise, to Chicago than it is to El Paso.) Dallas sucks, IMO, but it is not culturally aligned with the midwest - try wearing jeans, a suit jacket, and a cowboy hat to an auto executive meeting in Detroit and tell me how that goes. West of a line between Tyler and Houston (which is only about a third of the state north to south) is San Antonio which has about as much in common with southern Illinois as ancho chile salsa on tacos has with ranch dressing on chicken tenders. Slow-smoked BBQ brisket (which is, you know, beef) is freaking fantastic.
This post was edited on 4/11/23 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 4/11/23 at 1:50 pm to BigBro
Fck dude...you're embarrassing yourself.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 2:00 pm to AwgustaDawg
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....if the majority of folks in a region talk about BBQ and beef in the same breath you ain't in the south....
Bless your heart!
Posted on 4/11/23 at 2:24 pm to linewar
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Slow-smoked BBQ brisket (which is, you know, beef) is freaking fantastic.
It is but it is not pork......
I like both, and I like the disputes we have about it because I always learn about new places .
Posted on 4/11/23 at 2:45 pm to TideFaninFl
Coincidentally, I have a mild pork allergy so I tend to avoid it. If it weren't for brisket I'd be in a tight spot.
Gotta say, one BBQ I have yet to try is the Alabama white BBQ. I am very intrigued because I prefer savory/ smoky/ vinegary/ rich over sweet.
Gotta say, one BBQ I have yet to try is the Alabama white BBQ. I am very intrigued because I prefer savory/ smoky/ vinegary/ rich over sweet.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 2:55 pm to linewar
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In a weird way, Texas is it's own avatar - a caricature of itself - and MANY residents embrace it so completely that it's just part of the fabric.
I'd recommend anyone that's never worked or lived in Texas to read your entire quote, word for word, until they understand it down to their core.
You have described Texas. It's not a culture of freedom of individual liberty. It's a culture of ... Texas. Everything for Texas, nothing outside of Texas.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 3:12 pm to hawgfaninc
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Your thoughts on Texas
For some reason can't tackle a 190 lb QB while completely unblocked.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 3:18 pm to ScoggDog
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I'd recommend anyone that's never worked or lived in Texas to read your entire quote, word for word, until they understand it down to their core.
You have described Texas. It's not a culture of freedom of individual liberty. It's a culture of ... Texas. Everything for Texas, nothing outside of Texas.
Thank you. Texas is all about Texas in a way I truly believe most other states are not. (Though, many more states - and regions - than Texas have a sense of state or regional pride and identity.)
It is truly interesting living in Houston. It's really a melting pot - it is completely acceptable to meet someone here and ask them where they're from, since there are so many transplants from all over the world. I think that mobility at least partially adds to the embrace of Texas as a caricature. It comes to mean something to people.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 3:21 pm to hawgfaninc
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Your thoughts on Texas
Better addition than Arkansas.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 5:46 pm to cajunbama
How much would it take for Mexico to buy them?
Posted on 4/11/23 at 5:57 pm to linewar
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It is truly interesting living in Houston.
I've worked quite a bit in Houston and the surrounding areas. Kemah is something else. Really like Kemah.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 6:10 pm to Arksulli
Texas got fat and lazy. Oklahoma wasn't but hit a ceiling and it got stale winning the Big 12 conference title yearly but get destroyed by superior talented SEC teams in the playoffs.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 7:55 pm to dchog
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Texas got fat and lazy.
Honestly, Austin just doesn’t care as much about football as it used to. It’s one of many things going on each weekend now. Austin FC’s Q2 has a more passionate atmosphere than DKR. I’m hoping folks get more excited about it now that we’re playing Arkansas than Iowa State, but not sure.
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