Hey @A-10HORN ... does your planes Machine Gun distinguish the A-10 from all other fighter planes in the Military today? Just curious.

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Hey OB family, my name is Kobe Ndebele, current UT Swimmer, Texas Cowboy, and friend of Ryan’s. Over the last year, Ryan has helped lead a bible study for a group of UT students, mentoring and becoming a good friend of mine in the process.

The Texas Cowboys organization is hosting a philanthropy concert for UT Elementary this Thursday night starting at 6:00 PM. It’s at Republic Square Park downtown next to West 6th Street. This event specifically will be raising funds for the ARC in Austin!

To read more about the Texas Cowboys and the event you can click on the link below. If possible, we would greatly appreciate if you could donate to our event. I have set a goal of raising $1500! Regular tickets are $35 and VIP are $200. Donation is through Venmo, please include your name in the payment - @kobendebele . I can deliver the physical tickets before or on the day of the concert. If you are interested in purchasing a VIP ticket please contact me before payment. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out via this thread or DM Ryan and he can get you in touch with me.

Hook 'em!

It would work with me.

Does anyone have good advice on how early you need to sign up before the game? I'm taking my 9-year-old to the Kentucky game and want to give him this core memory. TIA.

I am a relative newbie to James Patterson novels, having read about 8 of them now, including the first two Alex Cross books. I think the books are great.

I see that Amazon Prime has an Alex Cross series set to commence later this month. I think Aldis Hodge will make a great Alex (but I will still always see him as Voodoo Tatum getting kicked out of the locker room by Coach Taylor)

Anyone have thoughts on this show? Is it going to be based on a particular novel, like Reacher? Since there are I believe over 30 Alex Cross novels, and I've only read the first two, I imagine that the series will probably have characters that I'm not familiar with. Anyway, looking forward to watching.

“The greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” —Martha Washington

Disposition definition: a person's inherent qualities of mind and character

We’ve discussed in the TG threads about how people can be bent towards…“the glass is half full or half empty”.

It is interesting to me how some in the exact same circumstances can have such polar opposite attitudes. Can you think of examples of this?

One that comes to my mind is how a group of my former employees would react to the same situation. We were a small company; at peak we had 14 employees. Out of those 14, we had two that were always bent on the glass is half empty. They were productive associates, but it would pain my business partner and me at staff meetings how they would constantly bring up negative thoughts no matter how positive the news/results/changes we would present.

It was interesting phenomenon to witness the other 12 politely shout them down when they would raise what seemed to them to be pointless negativity. One eventually left our company on bad terms and we found out later became a morale cancer at their next employer’s company. The other is still working under the new ownership and still complains, yet he’s still one of the best and most valued employees there.

I can understand negativity when it is warranted, however, I struggle with people who are hell bent on bringing others down to whatever fears and anxiety they are dealing with that is unwarranted. At those times, all I can do is try to put myself in their shoes to see if I’m missing something and present them with a gentle response.

Be careful out there my friends!

Proverbs 15:1

TSK

Led the plane in The Eyes of Texas

if you model this thing out..huh ? oh, sorry

Liberals , modeling is a term meant that you think ahead and attempt to create favorable conditions for your actions based on past occurrences so that you save time and actually get things done...sorry, i was moving fast there ..sorry


the predictable , Liberal outrage from the media will be that we need to support nonfunctional government agencies, radicalized groups and worthless Federal employees...just cuz


oh and did you hear about Matt Gaetz ?

She asked me..."Why?" I replied...












"Because I want our relationship to WORK OUT"

@NativeTex @drunk randoke @PaulieD @danhorn @mirvin @mln59 @HuffTex @OBJuan @BattleshipTexas @PDPickens @Smootus @venivedivici @BevoVII @meeotch @trayzg @smileartisan @T-Sipper 1972 @41to38 @orangepill @sprintdammit

Selling four tickets, Section 115, row 19, seats 1-4. Asking $150 per ticket.

Looking for four tickets any seat location…Thanks

Give ‘em Hell, give ‘em Hell, make them eat sh$t!

You know it’s a big game when a school is included in your fight song (even if it’s just the unofficial lyrics).

For me, this game has always been big and the return of the rivalry is what has excited me as much as anything about joining the SEC. Perhaps that's because it's a grudge match that I inherited.



My maternal grandfather, Fred Rudolph, who I just called Pappa Daddy, was actually born in Arkansas. It’s not something we like to talk about. But growing up in DeQueen, Arkansas, Pappa Daddy said he knew he wanted to get out as soon as he could. So as soon as he graduated high school, he hightailed it to Austin to go to school at UT. He said he got there as soon as he could.

So, Texas versus Arkansas was always personal for me.

But while the Horns vs. Hogs may be a big game for us old timers, and as a card-carrying member of AARP I now consider myself one, the kids playing in this game are just learning about it.

Both coaches say they’ve been showing clips of older games to indoctrinate the players into what this game means.

The players say they’re starting to get it, even if the game film wasn’t quite up to their modern-day standards.

“It was kind of funny because you really couldn't see it,” said Arkansas linebacker Brad Spence. “But, you know, it was kind of great to see that Arkansas and Texas had been dueling out for that long. So that was some exciting to see.”

Arkansas offensive lineman Fernando Carmona, who grew up in California and Nevada, actually credits Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian with teaching him about how big this game is.

“It was probably when I first saw that press conference at the beginning of the year, when the coach for Texas talked about how Arkansas fans hate Texas more than they love themselves,” Carmona said referencing a comment Sarkisian made at the SEC Media Days this summer. “That was when I first was like, ‘wow, this is this is real.’ And so it was exciting when I first heard that, it kind of put it into perspective. Obviously we locked in on the all the other games. Now we're here, it feels real. You feel the rivalry, and I'm excited to play in it and make history.”

Listening to the press conferences with the Arkansas players and head coach Sam Pittman, it was funny that no one, not the players, coach or even the journalists asking the questions, seem to disagree with Sark’s statement. They REALLY hate Texas.

For the record, Sark was really just passing along something he heard Joe Tessitore say during the broadcast of Texas’ 2021 trip to Arkansas.

Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman says the intensity from the Hogs fans surprised even him that night. And that’s why he’s showing his players the old clips. He wants them to be prepared.

“You know, that's the that's the whole thing about this game and the education part of it, because you're going to feel it now. I mean, you're going to feel it when you walk in the stadium. You're going to feel it when you drive into the stadium. It's a very passionate game,” Pittman said. “But even as much as we tried to prepare the kids and honestly, us as coaches, it was just different. It's just a different vibe, it's a different environment. There's big games, and then there's big rivalry games.”

Texas fans may not want to remember that game. The Horns travelled to Fayetteville in Sark’s first season and got embarrassed to the tune of 40-21. Texas could not stop Arkansas’ running game that day (they amassed 333 yards on 47 carries – a 7.1 yards per rush average). I also think that day broke Hudson Card as a quarterback.

There are close to a dozen current Longhorns who were at that game that day. They’ll never forget it either.

“I remember a packed house. I remember not being greeted in the nicest way,” said Texas center Jake Majors who was starting that game as a redshirt freshman. “We know what’s ahead and we’re looking forward to going on the road and playing good football.”

I’m pretty sure that 2021 game broke Hudson Card as a quarterback. He played so poorly that day that he was benched during the game in favor of Casey Thompson. Card’s performance left such a bad taste in Sark’s mouth that Card got very little playing time the rest of the season, even after Thompson suffered a broken thumb.

Majors was Hudson Card’s roommate at the time and saw firsthand what can happen when things get out of hand like they did in that game. He says he and starting left guard Hayden Connor, who was there but didn’t play, have been letting the other offensive linemen know what to expect this week.

“It's gonna be my job and Hayden’s job this week to kind of, you know, if anything gets lackadaisical, just remind them that, you know, when you get lackadaisical, that's what leads to performances like we had in 2021,” Major said. “We’ve just got to be on top of it.”

The passion from the Arkansas fan base may have surprised even the Arkansas coaches that day, but the real truth is, Arkansas won that game because they were bigger and more physical.

“I thought it was good, not only for myself, but for the staff and for our players to say, ‘Okay, that’s an SEC team,’” Sarkisian said. “We had a hill to climb to get where we wanted to get to, so it feels pretty good knowing that we’re going in there this year with what we think is a little better roster.”

Pittman thinks they’re a better roster too.

“You look at [Texas], they’re scary,” Pittman said. “They’re dangerous at wide out and running back out of the backfield, and Ewers throwing the football. He has one of the fastest releases of guys I’ve seen. I mean, he can throw a bubble screen, it’s halfway there and you haven’t even seen him throw it. He’s really, really talented.”

As much as the linemen were the focus of both what Pittman and Sarkisian had to say about their teams this week, Ewers could end up being the key to the game (although – quarterbacks nearly always are the key to winning).

Arkansas was off last week and used that downtime to re-open the competition for starting spots in the secondary after Ole Miss torched them for 562 yards passing and seven touchdowns through the air.

“If you ask me who’s going to start at safety, I would say, ‘let’s wait a couple more days,’” said Pittman on Monday. “We’ve made it that much of a battle. Same thing at the corner spot. I think you have to do that. You’ll lose your room if you don’t.”

The Hogs plan to try to use players like future NFL defensive end Landon Jackson – who spurned a Texas offer to go to LSU before transferring to Arkansas – to try and make Ewers uncomfortable in the pocket.

“You’re going to try to get to [Ewers],” Pittman said. “They’re good offensive line-wise, you’re going to have to try to send some guys to get to him because he has such a quick release. Therefore, when you do, you’re going to have to be in some type of zone 3 or man-to-man. So, we’ll have to pick and choose our times there, but we have to mix it up on him and we have to disguise [coverages] better than we have.”

The Hogs have also changed how they practice during the bye week in order to ratchet up the physicality in preparation for Texas.

“We’re attacking it, man,” said defensive tackle Eric Gregory. “We’re not really just going through the motions. I kind of feel like how it was last time, we kind of really were just going through the motions. I feel like this one man, it wasn’t none of that.

“I mean, we’re hitting almost every day. You can tell the attention to detail is there more than it was the LSU week. So that’s how I think we’re attacking it.”

Hogs fans better hope they’re able to get to Ewers because if the Texas offensive line gives him time to find his receivers then this could be a butchering.



ABOUT THAT TEXAS RANKING:

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I wrote in my college football playoff projections column this week that there is a growing chorus of national pundits questioning what Texas has done to earn its lofty rankings. That drumbeat continues to grow louder with columns like this one on The Athletic popping up after this week’s rankings which had Texas as the third-ranked team in the country (which would be the #2 seed in the playoffs).

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Or another Athletic writer, Stewart Mandel, questioning why a two loss Georgia team is ranked below Texas, whom they beat earlier this season.

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It’s not just The Athletic raising those questions, plenty of pundits are doing so.

So far, the CFP committee has ignored those complaints, but will they be able to do so if Texas loses another game?

Georgia fell from number three to number 12 following their loss to Ole Miss. So, it’s definitely possible for one loss to wreck a season.

The Bulldogs can recapture their CFP spot if they win against Tennessee this week. Texas won’t have the luxury of another game to make back ground if it loses to A&M.

All of that to say, for anyone who bemoaned the 12-team playoff as making the regular season irrelevant … I think this year is proving those concerns to be nothing more than pure folly.

Kirk Bohls asked Coach Pittman what he thought about the criticisms that Texas didn’t deserve its ranking.

“Oh, a lot of times critics don't know what the hell they're talking about,” Pittman said dismissively. “I don't think they know much what they're talking about on this one either. This is a damn fine Texas team. I mean, you don't go beat Oklahoma by 31 and beat Mississippi State by 22 and beat Michigan by 19, beat Colorado State 52-0 and have a sorry football team. I mean, you just don't. And these guys are ranked three in the country because they deserve it."

Obviously it is in Pittman’s interest to hype Texas up as much as he can. If he is able to pull off the upset, then it makes his team look better. If he loses, then it lessens the sting a bit. But the way he said what he said makes you think, he really believes it.

AROUND THE SEC:



TENNESSEE @ GEORGIA



There is only one SEC game that truly matters this week – outside of the Texas game.

Tennessee travels to Georgia for the game of the week.

The Bulldogs are already on the outside looking in to the College Football Playoffs, but they can get right back in it with a win on Saturday. Lose and they’re done.

Tennessee, meanwhile, is one of only three teams that controls its own destiny for a seat in the SEC Championship Game. A win at Georgia would almost lock it up (if not for an end-of-season contest against Vanderbilt).

MISSOURI @ SOUTH CAROLINA



Mizzou escaped with a miracle win against the soon-to-be staying-at-home during the bowl season OU Sooners. Now they have to go on the road to take on the hottest team in football.

The Gamecocks easily handled their business against Vanderbilt and will be using Mizzou and next week’s game against Wofford (?) as tune-ups before finishing against their in-state rival, Clemson.

LSU @ FLORIDA



There was a time when this would have been primetime viewing. Now, LSU is hanging on for dear life after back-to-back losses to Texas A&M and Alabama.

Luckily for the Tigers, the Gators are down to a third-string redshirt transfer quarterback. By the way, had the Gators leaned on the run the whole game against Texas the way they did in the second half, things might not have gotten so ugly for them. Those UF running backs are legit.

WHY ARE WE EVEN PLAYING THESE GAMES?

UL MONROE @ AUBURN
MURRAY STATE @ KENTUCKY
MERCER @ ALABAMA
NEW MEXICO STATE @ TEXAS A&M (Aggie-on-Aggie crime)

It is my sincere hope that Texas never resorts to the time-honored SEC tradition of scheduling absolute cream puffs in November. I’ve always found it disgusting.

TWEETS OF INTEREST:

My feeble mind can not comprehend the numerous tiebreaker scenarios going on with the SEC Championship game. Thank goodness @CHastings is on the job and not me.

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I’m telling you … there are a LOT of pundits carping on Texas right now.

Thankfully, we have people like Chance Mock on the case.

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Thank goodness most of us won’t have to stay in College Station when Texas and Texas A&M play.

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This new Texas baseball staff is absolutely killing it on the recruiting trail.

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As much as SEC fans go on and on about college football (which I do love), it can’t hold a candle to the passion us Texans have for high school football.

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I don’t see watching football on this list. What is wrong with this society?

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It turns out, Caitlin Clark is human after all.

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Texas BBQ is second to none. Even the French know fine dining when they see it.

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I don’t understand? Why didn’t the necromancer spell work?

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Loyalty Point Lock today

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Longhorns,

Please make your donation today to Texas One Fund and receive 5 points for every $100, the largest award level the Longhorn Foundation provides.

If you have questions about your points showing, please direct them to the Foundation. All points from the end of August, September and October are loaded.

Had previously scheduled uga for 28/29
Florida 30/31.. Canceled after joining sec.

Upcoming schedule
25 @Ohio St
26 vs Ohio St
27 vs Michigan
28 ND
29 ND
30 OPEN
31 OPEN
32 @Arizona st
33 vs Arizona st

Also of note, we only have 2 other games scheduled for 28 and 29, which may mean sec will be moving to 9 game schedule. Or it could be nothing.

FSU would be cool for 30/31. Or Clemson. Or Penn St.

If we drop another game, we're OUT of the playoffs. We win the next three, we are in the SEC Championship, which was the goal all along, with a chance to win the SEC--- in our inaugural season, no less!-- and absolutely advance to the CFP. Being in control of our destiny is all we could ask for at this point.

Asking for prayers for my brother-in-law in NC.

Last October he was diagnosed with Colon cancer. They were able to surgically remove the tumor and he was declared Cancer free.

Recently a routine CT scan revealed a small spot on his lung. Subsequent scans showed growth and a biopsy was ordered. It was determined that he has Stage IV Metastatic Adenocarcinoma originating from his colon.

He started an aggressive treatment plan today, which will be a combination of a chemo via infusion followed by two weeks of oral medication twice a day. He then gets a week off treatment and then they repeat the same regimen.

He has both Diabetes and RA which will complicate his treatment. He also has a family history of Cancer, as his Mom and several aunts passed from breast cancer.

He is a military Veteran of the Army and a fighter. We told him to go kick Cancer's ass 💪 💯 🙏

Thanks in advance ☺️

He’s doing it his way with these nominations and isn’t afraid of unconventional picks. He’s going to give the country a giant dose of what it voted for. It might not work, but he’s at the plate swinging.

as you begin to start the process(es) of nit picking every single thing your media sources tell you about the next Republican administration

do us all the favor

• dont independently verify what you read or watch
• dont apply any logic or historical precedent (basically don't think just accept)
• dont engage in debate that supports your position (s)
• dont apply your chosen critique to your own party's actions/positions

here's the overriding macro view of why what you believe in doesn't work (and don't feel bad, you're not the first or the last, it has never worked for anyone at anytime in the entire history of our planet )

• basic Liberal policy underwrites the wish for a central authority to exert more control over the population ( that doesn't mean it is necessarily a bad thing in a generic discussion)
• that control cost money which is taken from the citizenry thru taxes
• the balance or relationship between public and private sectors is the core issue and one that is constantly changing
• when and if the public sector grows, it requires more money that it gets from the private sector ( again thru taxation)
• historically, and without exception , the public sector will always need more money and will grow significantly beyond its original structure (even after the original purpose for its birth has ended)
• the public sector is never as efficient as the private sector and ironically needs the private sector to execute its policy and strategies ( both physically and monetarily)
• once the balance between private and public sectors tips continually towards the public sector......freedoms, rights and disposable income are compromised for the private sector
• inevitably corruption, incompetence and privileged emerges from the public sector at the expense of the private sector and the public sectors output ( results) are worse and cost more than if the private sector handled the issue(s)
• the public sector will not dissolve itself and will defend its right to exist , to include violent actions

so one must decide if the loss of rights, revenue and restrictions are worth the promise of whatever the public sector is asking ( or if they ask at all)


a very simplistic look but illustrative of the 2024 election results i believe

if both sides of the argument could agree on

• equality
• more money for everyone
• more freedom for everyone
• better education for everyone
• a governing body that consistently assists in the above efforts

we could then ask
is more government and more taxes really the answer ?

Every woman supporting Hamas should read this story.

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The Texas Longhorns have been looking to add another cornerback prospect to their 2025 commitment list, and on Thursday Texas did just that, making quick work in wrapping up a commitment from Graceson Littleton.

A one-time Clemson commitment, Texas only recently offered Littleton a scholarship around the same time he decommitted from Clemson on November 1. Two weekends ago, Littleton took a visit to Michigan and there was some thought following that visit that the Wolverines had grabbed control of his recruitment. That may have been true, briefly, but Littleton would take an official visit to Texas last weekend and the Longhorns surged into the lead. Four days following his visit, he made it official with a Texas commitment.

“It was good, definitely, being around the players, getting their perspective on the program, learning the culture and seeing it. Like my mom says, you can’t fake culture,” Littleton said following his Texas visit. “So just getting up here and seeing that was good. They had a great win, obviously. Hearing things they talked about in team meetings transfer over to the game, that was nice as well.”

Littleton becomes the Longhorns’ 23rd commitment in the 2025 recruiting cycle and fills a big need for Texas at the cornerback position. Prior to his decision, Texas held only one cornerback commitment (Caleb Chester) and the UT staff had been looking to bring in one more player at the position. Now they’ve done just that, and they’re adding one of the most sought-after players in the country.

Along with Texas, Michigan and Clemson, schools like Georgia, Alabama, Penn State and Auburn had picked up their efforts of late. Littleton could have taken another visit or two if he wanted to explore some of those other options, but he saw enough on his Texas visit that he was ready to put an end to the recruiting process.

The 6-0, 174-pound Littleton cited a number of factors that stood out about Texas following last weekend’s trip to Austin, including the coaching staff and the overall culture within the UT program. As an added bonus, he mentioned the climate in Austin was something that was appealing to him.

“It kind of does revolve around football, the defensive scheme, the opportunity, the culture and the environment, the nutritionist, the strength and conditioning program, things like that,” Littleton said. “And also … it would be nice to live in Texas too with the warm weather, coming from Florida.”

Texas’ recruiting class currently ranks No. 6 in the Rivals.com team recruiting rankings.

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So is this fight just a set up exhibition for Paul to take over boxing? I would really like Tyson to win this one because Jake is just an insufferable goob. Tyson is the dog (+250).