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Texas Longhorns (big hat, no cattle; please don’t Horns Down us)

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alexhortdog95 said:
http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/showthread.php/141048-Charlie-Strong-the-Wrong-Fit-for-UT

Some folks on the Shag still think they can throw enough cash at the Nicktator.
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Those people are insane. Given the disparity of in-state talent base and because his program isn't based on a gimmick offense like that drunken (cokehead?) at College Station's is, you'd think they would be extremely positive about their chances of rejoining the elite since Strong has been putting guys in the NFL recently.
 
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Mike80 said:
Those people are insane. Given the disparity of in-state talent base and because his program isn't based on a gimmick offense like that drunken (cokehead?) at College Station's is, you'd think they would be extremely positive about their chances of rejoining the elite since Strong has been putting guys in the NFL recently.
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Here's a funny story. Stay with me on this one....

So, we all know the Michael Sam story by now. Funny fact is, the guy is from Hitchcock, Texas.

He had offers from:

Missouri
Arizona St.
Colorado St.
Houston
Iowa St.
Oklahoma St.
TCU
Texas A&M
and eventually, went to Mizzory. Who didn't offer him? That OTHER in-state school.

Fast forward years later, the guy gets picked, we all see him kissing dudes on TV with cake and stuff. Immediately, the tweets begin. Who's the first tweet on the list?

http://deadspin.com/ugly-america-responds-to-michael-sam-kissing-a-man-on-e-1574591627

Case McCoy @CaseMcCoy6 Follow
ESPN... You serious right now?
6:06 PM - 10 May 2014
412 Retweets 441 favorites
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(I included some of the hilarious responses to his tweets....)

McCoy got offers too, from some of the same schools:

Texas
Arizona
Auburn
Colorado St.
Florida
Florida St.
Nebraska
Texas A&M
Texas Tech

Here's the funniest thing, though. I don't think that Case was, like lots of Americans, whining about Sam kissing his partner. I think he was saying:
"Seriously? This guy got drafted and NONE of the Texas Longhorns did?!?"

I think that says something even more that an NFL team decided to draft a player who is going to bring a whole firestorm of both support and controversy OVER any of the eligible Longhorns that were available.

Does anybody see the humor in all of this?

P.S. - my favorite tweet:

JASON CANTERBURY ‏@FDUB206 May 10
@CaseMcCoy6 that's what we said after every one of your throws, are u serious another pick 6? #getoveryourself
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New book: Texas, boosters offered Nick Saban $100 million-plus to leave Tide

Controversial radio and television personality Paul Finebaum has co-written a new book — “My Conference Can Beat Your Conference: Why the SEC Still Rules College Football” along with ESPN‘s Gene Wojchiechowski — that is set for release in the coming weeks. Al.com, however, has obtained an advance copy of the book.
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According to that advance copy, Texas and its boosters were hellbent on bringing the best coach in college football to Austin. So much so, in fact, that they had put together a financial package worth in excess of nine figures in an attempt to lure Saban to the Longhorns. From the website:

“Texas was dead serious about trying to money-whip Saban,” Finebaum and Wojchiechowski write. “Depending on whom you talk to — Bama big hitters or Texas big hitters — the Longhorns were prepared to give Saban somewhere between a $12 and $15 million signing bonus and a salary package worth $100 million (plus performances).”

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...ed-nick-saban-100-million-plus-to-leave-tide/
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Posting it here because I don't feel like scrolling through the threads looking for the shag thread.

Longhorn alum's blog is just killing it and, in the process, reminding us all why these are good people once you get past the mind-numbing, head-straight-up-their-own-asshole arrogance.

http://www.thegivingsteve.com/why-am-is-just-the-worst/

http://www.thegivingsteve.com/now-the-other-texas-schools/
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Why SMU Is Still Better than A&M:
* As a satellite school to the University of Colombia’s Escobar Program, your SMU friends are always up for a phone chat in the middle of the night if you can’t fall asleep.
* They used to have a killer football team. And I mean that literally. Their biggest star Craig James murdered five prostitutes while he was there.*
* It’s easy to park anywhere on campus on game day.
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
Why SMU Is Still Better than A&M:
* As a satellite school to the University of Colombia’s Escobar Program, your SMU friends are always up for a phone chat in the middle of the night if you can’t fall asleep.
* They used to have a killer football team. And I mean that literally. Their biggest star Craig James murdered five prostitutes while he was there.*
* It’s easy to park anywhere on campus on game day.
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Totally inflammatory and untrue. Everyone knows that Eric Dickerson was their biggest star.
 
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Dryden said:
I don't care who you are, that's funny right thar.
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You do know that's one of my longstanding lines about UC. UC was founded through a clause added to Ohio State's founding allowing "municipal universities" in cities larger than 150K, which at the time was only Cincy. Cincy thus cobbled together a couple of existing "colleges" and endowed it with a fund of money that they had been sitting on to form the University of Cincinnati. It was a political compromise to get the powerful Cincinnati statehouse delegation to sign off on the formation of a new university to be designated as the land-grant/flagship campus and be located in teh state capitol. The date that UC claims as their founding is bullshit. For all real intents and purposes, they were founded under the "municipal university" section of the bill that founded The Ohio State University.

They are our sloppy afterbirth.
 
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