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hey, i know you guys are basking in the nice feeling of a rose bowl win. i know i do after a big win. but i thought i'd post a link to a texas highlights video of our close game with nebraska. what nebraska did to arizona makes me feel a little better about the tight nature of our game with...

wow. the google earth people have already been by and approved the stadium shots and the pic of ernie davis' gravestone. i've never known them to move so fast. also, i felt sure they wouldn't allow the headstone shot since there is no terrain showing. it's the luck of the draw. sometimes i...

that is interesting, max. like there is an epicenter of southness and the farther outlying parts are the least south. actually what is happening is what happens all along the coast. coastal georgia is very different from the interior, and the same is true in texas. no, muck, i guess we all...

that's an interesting map, steve. bet the book is, too. looking at texas there, i disagree a little bit with how far the breadbasket region comes down. my mother lives very near the southeast corner of new mexico, and there isn't much but pump jacks and scorpions down that far. very bleak...

absolutely agree, j. absolutely agree. let's do this thing.

bad news, guys. i've had a change of heart and no longer feel like texas should head your direction. i mean if the big ten's premier team this year can't beat oregon, the whole thing just loses a lot of luster for me. i'm sure you understand. huh? look again? oh. my bad. i was looking at...

congrats, buckeyes. part 1 of the pac-10/sec smack down is in the books. : )

thank you, cb6. well said. you have lived what i am talking about. odd thing. some worry a little bit about the cultural fit of texas wrt the rest of the big ten. i'm going to bet a bucket that texas--particularly austin and those who did their matriculating in austin--fits with the brunt...

you know, max, the funny thing about what you said is what you didn't say. you didn't say 'florida'. florida is deep in the south and was part of the confederacy and almost no one ever considers that. isn't that strange? some want badly to think that texas is fundamentally a part of the...

ok, my best-guessed guest responses: 1) If Texas accepts, would they do so only if they were the only new team to join the conference? like i say, i'm guessing here, but i would be surprised if texas had any concerns that way. the talk on the street is that texas would like to...

two important words in what you said, muck. 'cop' and 'waco.' a lot of texans were not surprised that the branch davidians felt ok there. most racist person i've encountered in MANY years was a new york cop. go figure. edit: another thing. you hit it hard. how we view ourselves is very...

you pretty much nailed it, base. except for the tex/ou rivalry. in recent years since the contest was named, yes, it is a manipulated event, but for many years it was one heck of a rivalry. both programs sagged badly in the nineties, and so did national interest and the sense of rivalry. for...

that's interesting what you say, steve. growing up in west texas i didn't get that impression. i think my anecdote about the confederate cemetery says quite a lot. since most of my years in texas were in west texas and in austin, i may have a skewed impression. texas is like the elephant in...

you and i see houston and dallas the same way, woody. i like san antonio, too, but driving in that town drives me crazy, and i don't have that far to go. s.a. was laid out on goat trails, i think. nice town, though. i like ft worth, too, but austin is the jewel of the state in many ways...

most southern state? used to be florida with texas close. now the most southern state is hawaii by a bunch.

ernie davis. what a sad story. wouldn't it have great if he had gotten to play alongside brown? i'm not sure their opponents would have been that crazy about it. that is such an ugly disease. why can't they crack the really ugly ones? i was through elmira last year and stopped off there to...

first this. max is absolutely right. texas is much more a western state than a southern state. far east texas, especially bordering louisiana, may well be southern in nature, but way more than most of the state is not at all southern in nature. it's western. that said, a lot of early texas...

wow. great questions and commentary. a neighbor lady had a very serious heart attack several days ago, and i've been at the hospital with her husband and then by my son's inlaws place a while. it will take me a while to get my head around all this, but i will and will offer some 50 cent...

very good response, jeff. thank you. and almost exactly what i would expect from a longhorn fan, were the roles reversed. good point, too, about lesser considerations combining to make a larger impact. and your point about geography being a smaller concern when the target facility is near a...

i agree, jeff, but i would like to know what priority you place on each category. some are more important than others to you i am sure. also, some may be temporal issues (eg rivalries) and others (eg geography) would be difficult to improve, and i wonder if that might shade your weighting...