Earl Nobis

Check our record against A&M or Alabama.

A&M chokes the rare times they have something meaningful to play for. Check out their trophy case at the ironically named Hall of Champions.

I wouldn't give a damn if 10,000 trans attended Texas. They don't scare me anymore than a puffed up Aggie does.

I'm glad Texas isn't #1. Still a ways to go to earn that, and I want the team hungry all year. Should we be undefeated after the Georgia game, then let's talk about the top ranking.

Looking forward to the Dawgs coming to Austin.

A&M will make a nice dessert at the end of the season which I'm in no rush to see speed by. Feels good being good again with so many interesting teams on the schedule.

I assume the SEC teams feel insulted at A&M's assertion that Texas is going to come and start shoving everybody around. Even if Texas felt like trying, there are too many other big programs.

Aggies like the ones you find on TexAgs, or evidently around here, live in a fear/hate dream when it comes to Texas (they can't even allow themselves to say our name). For them, it's not a rivalry; it's a jihad. This is not hyperbole. They believe they represent good in a fight against evil. No other rivalry is like that.

Their paranoia fuels delusions and lying about the past.

You've already observed their weirdness.

Arkansas hates the shite out of us in the more traditional way. Same with OU. The Aggie thing is something totally different.

Looking forward to playing the great programs of the SEC. I'm relieved that we seem to be on the upswing.

I see Aggies are making a desperate bid to make their big brothers in the SEC hate their big brother coming over from the Biggish 12. It's just their usual stream of lies.

When Texas entered what became the Big 12, they did get many changes made to conference rules from the Big 8 (I wish we could have come up with a better name than Big XX). Texas proposed the rules, and every school voted for them except for Nebraska whom the rules favored. Texas didn't impose anything.

For some reason, Texas had the mojo over Nebraska in football. Osborne hated Texas and they're close to the Big 10, so they hit the ejection seat.

The only other team that fled because of Texas was A&M. They did so after agreeing to stay and accepting the offer of more money from the conference: an offer that Texas and OU declined to accept because they didn't want to punish the other schools who stayed. A&M jumped before the end of the three years they promised to stay.

I think Missouri left for what they saw as greener pastures. I don't think they had any particular grudge or fear of Texas.

Colorado jumped because, as the realignment started, speculation was that they would have trouble finding a landing spot. Again, not fear and dread of evil Texas.

Aggies lie about Texas all the time on subjects big and small. You'll learn the truth overtime. I'll just use the example of the horns down lie.

Texas did not show up one day at conference headquarters with tears in their eyes about the mean hand gesture. No.

This happened after we played at Texas Tech. A Texas receiver scored then did the guns up gesture the Red Raiders use then holstered the gun. A guns down if you will. He was penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.

You can see the problem. Horns down had been an OU tradition for decades. Aggies and other teams came late to the gesture. Texas had ignored, been annoyed, or been amused by it for a long time without asking for a rule change. Texas just wanted the rule equitably applied.

Aggies, so concerned about feeling more manly than everybody else, distorted the story into the lie they tell over here all the time.

Nobody at Texas thinks the way Aggies want you to believe. We have our share of arrogance and we actually are among the special football schools, but nobody expects kowtowing or any other special treatment.

I'm anxious to play the schools of the SEC. I'm also more excited than I thought I'd be about dominating A&M again in our biggest in-state rivalry.

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How'd you like that tiebreaker we shoved up your arse on 9/11?

Pipe down junior, the big boy league is talking

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Aggies just fell in love with you. They dick-ride the whole conference not just Alabama.

And, yes, you whupped us good. Glad to be playing you again.

Tell us more about Corps Block Seating, the keepers of the spirit, and graded reviews!

I'm sure an Aggie started this thread to learn about other traditions and not to prattle on and on about their own cult rituals.

It is interesting to read some of the things you other guys do that you hate or like.

I don't like thunderous piped in music and commercials. At Texas, you'd think we were the University of Taco Bell with all their logos on everything.

I'm glad we got him. Seems like a better than solid pick up to me even if Alabama (huge surprise) got a better prospect.

I like how Missouri and A&M are sharing their deep history and knowledge of the SEC with us. Thanks, guys.

Yea, we're their bitch, but not yours.

Oh, and I have it on good authority from the resident Aggies that records don't count until 1973. So we're good.

Those statements are unrelated. Our record has no bearing on a statement about the toughness of the SEC schedule.

Brief enough?