Big opportunity for the Horns today at noon on CBS.

Houston -10.5

Houston has won 18 straight home games. Shead and Cryer recently were named to the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Player of the Year Midseason Team.

We’ve had a rest this week, but so have they.

Terry is 0-2 against Houston during his career.

Terry is 0-2 against Houston Head Coach Kelvin Sampson during their careers.

Are we doomed?

I think there would be serious interest from their side to pursue Sark and for Sark to be open to the conversation. Especially if they start throwing the big money (10 mm+ per year) around. They don't have a buyout to pay for letting anyone go and they have deep enough pockets to make that happen.

Sark can recruit the way they want

He's loved by the admin and fans for his offensive domination while there

He made it to the playoffs and is the only guy to beat Saban at home in a long time

For you guys to not treating Sark like a real candidate or long shot, I'd be more cautious.

Been a season ticket holder for over 3 decades in the same 6 seats (and I truly love them). Up until this year its been about $7K a year for my 6 seats combining the tickets and the mandatory LHF donation. I received the "time to renew" email and went in and now there are some mandatory minimum donation charges (in addition to the LHF) that total almost an additional $4K making total over $10K. You cannot change (lower these additional extra donations charges/fields as I guess its based on your base Ticket/LHF combination total. That portion IS tax deductible but that does not help me (I never qualify for itemized donation deductions).

Is this a new change everyone else is seeing and having the same experiences? Did they send our a email pre-warning of this this year. That's a HUGE jump and honestly has me rethinking this SEC or no SEC...

Ok bro I am hearing some rumblings inside the building from my birdies that CDC and others are hella uptight about Jay Norvell making his triumphant return to DKR this fall. It is the first contest of the year and a major trap game since Sark and errbody else is looking ahead to Michigan.

Apparently rumor has it that Norvell is still extremely butthurt about how things went down. He thinks that he should have stayed on as OC, and that he earned the title HCIW under Charlie. Instead of firing Charlie and turning to Turtle Tom, he believes there was a handshake deal to make Jay Norvell the head coach if Charlie didn't work out.

While I always hated Norvell from his days at OU and he just seems like a douche, no doubt he can coach. Helped put together some monster offenses at OU, and he has been a genius at Nevada and now CSU. His duel with Deon last season was a coaching battle for the ages--a legendary performance by all measures bro.

Anywho, how do we make sure that Sark is sufficiently scared and motivated to have our hosses ready to play? We simply can't go out there and look like buttmunches after all the hype bro, and it is so dangerous and scary to have a cunning assassin like Norvell just waiting for the chance to PIIHB on the national stage.

Discuss.

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Can you record them?

Why do we set up plays for him at the 3 point line?

WD due to illness they say.

I think the Aggies might be the tougher test on paper?

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After a decade of android, my patience for receiving low rez photos etc from my family has me finally about ready to switch to iPhone...anyone happy (or not) with the newest batch? Also, I don't love the design of the Apple watch...any input on round-face watches that work well with iPhone?

Thanks!!

This is too good.....
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This being the down season, are any of you boys watching "Masters of the Air" on Apple TV? The latest installment of Tom Hanks World War II treatment, this series covers the American bombing campaign over Europe. It's pretty damned good viewing.....

Over the last four years and this upcoming year (five years total), Texas has managed to host the three best programs in the SEC AND CFB, when they were or are at or very near their all time peaks, and so far took two of them down to the wire. Can’t remember a run of top teams at DKR like that in the past. Looking forward to a real victory this upcoming year against the current Monster of the SEC. And getting to work on our losing record to Vanderbilt. We should have that fixed within the next 10 years, depending on SEC scheduling. And should only take a year or two to fix the losing record against S. Carolina. If we can hold serve on our winning records over that time, might be one of the only SEC team to have a winning record against every other SEC program. Anyone know if any other team has a winning record against all other SEC programs?

Bought tix today for Texas-Michigan. Must be a huge contingent of Horns fans going as return flights on Sunday were sold out. Anyone have game day experience at the big house...fans???

Suck on the $4 Billy With a "B" Judge Shithead




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A tiny 5ml bottle of drops costs $380 without insurance; $105 with.

That’s $3.80 per drop!

Post Game Report


Winning pitcher: Max Grubbs 1-0
Losing pitcher: Alex Schrier 0-1
BOX SCORE


RECAP
In front of a record crowd for a season opening night at Texas Baseball (7,935 in attendance), the Longhorns started slowly out of the game, falling behind 2-0 in the 3rd inning. Remaining undeterred, the Horns continued to battle throughout until finally breaking the game open when sophomore Jalin Flores his a rocket to left CF and into the Yeti Yard for a grand slam. After pitching 5 innings, giving up 2 runs on 5 hits and 2 walks, while striking out 6, Lebarron Johnson Jr said that could have been better with the walks and number of pitches, but was glad that the bullpen and Jalin Flores bailed him out. Max Grubbs, Grant Fontenot, Gage Boehm, and David Shaw all worked a single inning, with only Grubbs, the eventual winning pitcher giving up a run. Despite not having his sharpest stuff tonight and having a lot of cut on the ball, Shaw was able to adjust mid-inning and work out of trouble, which is exactly what you want to see from a guy that will be looked upon heavily this season. Freshman Nik Sanders and fellow freshman Will Gasparino both got the first hits of their young careers, including an RBI single by Sanders to score the Horns first run in the 5th inning.

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Big Moment
Bottom of the 6th inning, Jalin Flores came to the plate with the bases loaded and promptly crushed a ball to left CF wall into the Yeti Yard. The slider that hung over the middle for Flores was 106 off the bat and went 372 feet. This is the 2nd grand slam in the last 5 games going back to the Miami Regional last season for Flores.

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Individual Performance
While the grand slam by Jalin Flores was the game winner and impressive, hats off to fellow sophomore Jared Thomas who went 2-3 at the plate on the night with 2 walks and an RBI. That is exactly the kind of performance that Texas hopes to get front their lead off man every night as he continues to be the catalyst for the Longhorn offense.

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Takeaways
While not the sharpest game by Lebarron Johnson Jr or the Texas hitters to start off with, the response that the bullpen and hitters provided is exactly what you want to see from an opening night. Taking a look around the Big 12, a number of teams struggled today to hit the ball, but the Horns seemed to gain confidence as the game went on, chipping away until they got their big break. For the bullpen, which has been a topic of conversation going back the past few seasons, this is an outstanding start that they can all build off of.

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I know this won’t apply to most here since yall have access to fiber and cable internet but I live out in the sticks and my options are limited. I’ve had my internet through a rural ISP and have been running DSL with dl speeds of 25mb and upload of 3mb for $120/month. Yea I know. Awful. Esp when we stream everything and have 2 kids and like to game online.

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For those with shitty ISP options, check out Verizon 5G Home Plus esp if you already have Verizon wireless for a monthly discount.

That’s what NIL stands for: Now It’s Legal’​

Barry Switzer won a lot more recruiting battles than he lost as the head coach at Oklahoma from 1973 through 1988. But there were two notable misses that Switzer will never quite get over.

“I came back from watching high school football in Texas and I told my staff, I said, ‘I saw a kid last night play football who without a doubt is going to make one of the 26 NFL teams.’ Of course, that’s back when we had 26 teams a long time ago in the 70s. I said, ‘His name is Earl Campbell.’ When I saw him play it was like this: When the pile stopped moving, the referee blew the whistle and there were eight, nine, 10 people on top of Earl Campbell and he still wasn’t going down yet.

“I thought we were gonna get Earl Campbell. I already had Joe Washington and Billy Sims, Kenny King, all these good players in my backfield then, but Earl was gonna fit in there perfectly. I thought he was coming. He committed to me, but his mother, she was a maid for someone who was a Texas graduate and a big Longhorn fan so I knew that was gonna be hard to overcome. That’s the one who got away.”



According to Barry Switzer, Earl Campbell came close to crossing the Red River to play for Oklahoma. (Rich Clarkson / Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)
Later that decade, there was another running back out of the state of Texas who Switzer coveted.

“I really thought we were gonna get Eric Dickerson too, but we were out of state. The kid then called me when he was a freshman at SMU and wanted to transfer. … He calls me and tells me he’s coming! I said, ‘I’ll tell you what, I’m gonna hang up the phone, I’ve gotta call my athletic director and tell him you called me wanting to transfer. Then all of a sudden, he’s gonna pick up the phone and he’s gonna call your athletic director and he’s gonna be told what happened and he’s gonna tell the coach. The head coach is gonna be told what you did and you know what’s gonna happen? You’re gonna get recruited again!’ (Laughs). That’s exactly what happened! Now, it’s legal. That’s what NIL stands for: Now It’s Legal (laughs).”

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Switzer did, however, win the battle for arguably the most highly recruited prep running back of all time. But Marcus Dupree, from Philadelphia, Miss., left Oklahoma during his sophomore season and never played another down of college football.

“Marcus Dupree was the best that I’d ever seen. He really was. He had the speed and the size. … He was truly — I regret the things that happened when Marcus was here with me. It really kept him from being the player (we thought he was). If he would’ve stayed with me for four years rather than being the best that never was, he would’ve been the best that ever was. He was really special. … We’ll never know how it would’ve gone because he didn’t stick around long enough.”

You're supposed to scan this car during the Daytona tomorrow but the joke is you can scan it now and maybe win some free margs.

Anyway - I know this board likes free and alcohol.

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