We were soft today. I can't find a reason for it.... Could it be the culture on the 40 acres?
Has the PC snowflake culture ruined Texas Football?
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I think it's the culture at Texas yes, but it has nothing to do with PC, or so called snowflake BS. Other schools don't seem to have that issue. I do think though there may be a sense of entitlement at Texas that is contributing to some of this.
We will be fine, everybody. Just give it a little time. The game situation today will reveal to the coaches some things that practices can't. They will identify the players game by game.
Agreed. Throw Gary Johnson in there. Malik isn't going to be DJ. Great kid but not as good of a ball player as advertised.
2300 Nueces, forget that I'm a Sooner for a moment and allow me to comment as just a generic-nobody and college football fan. You asked a great question, one that I too have asked about men's college sports in general.
Is it the cause for problems on the football field at UT? I sincerely doubt it. But deep down, there has to be some cause and effect going on here.
The growing trend on college campus is more and more toward an anti-masculine indoctrination. There are even policies and rules in place that discourage traditional masculinity as we know it, and attempt to change natural male attitudes and behaviors so as not to "offend", or violate "safe spaces" with "micro aggressions". It's sickening. All male students have this indoctrination crammed down their throats, telling them that acting like a man is somehow wrong and that males need to be soft and gentle. As traditional males, student become handcuffed and must act de-balled to comply -- or else pay a price. It's far more complicated than this, but here is a link to show what's going on at UT. There is an entire department devoted to this. It's happening on more and more campuses nationwide.
https://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav/vav_masculinut_restrictive.html
Back to football. I think Tom Herman was a great hire, and quite honestly (as a Sooner fan), he kind of scares the crap out of me. You guys will be fine.
Useless bro. People are pissed because we're spoiled so the whole snowflake thing cracks me up. More like spoiled braty ass fans messed up Texas football. 1 game in and "fans" are about to jump ship. I'm glad football is back and I expect things will work itself out.
Well let's look at it by campus locations and demographics:
What's the most red neck campus city in America? I'm going with a tie between baton rouge, tuscoloosa and maybe Morgantown. I can assure you (having a great friend with a kid at LSU right now) that the snowflake element are on these campuses, but don't dominate like they do at other places.
Now let's look at the most "progressive" campuses in college: Berkley, stanford- both in the San fran area, Texas obviously, and Boulder.
Now call me crazy, but it doesn't appear that snowflakes are having a huge effect at Stanford, and let's not forget, Cal beat us. Colorado has been down for years but had a heck of a year last year.
Now obviously I'd like to point at the snowflake (everybody gets a trophy) movement and go "yes, pussification is prevalent in metro areas where the citizens are wussies." But it's just not the case.
Are we coddling our players? Heck ya we are. New lockers, state of the art thingamajigs in the training room, all the trimmings and modern cool stuff in the weight room.... but other places have these things as well.
There's no real correlation that I can find and I've looked really really hard.
What's the most red neck campus city in America? I'm going with a tie between baton rouge, tuscoloosa and maybe Morgantown. I can assure you (having a great friend with a kid at LSU right now) that the snowflake element are on these campuses, but don't dominate like they do at other places.
Now let's look at the most "progressive" campuses in college: Berkley, stanford- both in the San fran area, Texas obviously, and Boulder.
Now call me crazy, but it doesn't appear that snowflakes are having a huge effect at Stanford, and let's not forget, Cal beat us. Colorado has been down for years but had a heck of a year last year.
Now obviously I'd like to point at the snowflake (everybody gets a trophy) movement and go "yes, pussification is prevalent in metro areas where the citizens are wussies." But it's just not the case.
Are we coddling our players? Heck ya we are. New lockers, state of the art thingamajigs in the training room, all the trimmings and modern cool stuff in the weight room.... but other places have these things as well.
There's no real correlation that I can find and I've looked really really hard.
I've wondered about this very thing for a couple of years. Let me throw in a possibility. I-35 and the vehicles bumper to bumper. It's like a tailpipe poked in the bubble while they practice. Then west of campus you have the fumes drifting from Mopac. Half of the vehicles are dump trucks for a new development somewhere. DKR never had that problem it was a breeze back then.
Derrick Johnson, too, please. And while we're add it, can we clone the entire 2005 OL?
I once paid a witch in Allaquippa New York to put a hex on a guy--- Gust Davricados
With all the awesome rb's we've had, I'd settle for cloning Priest Holmes.... we missed so much there.
It was hard for priest to always shine because of two reasons- he had bad knees that kept getting injured AND the backfield was crammed full of talent- Ricky obviously, shon Mitchell, Darrell Wilson, Curtis Jackson, rod walker--
You should check it out. True story about a Texas congressman that explains a large part of the reason why Afganistan hates us.
Perhaps we should consider that basically unlimited funding, incredible perks and such are the true cause of an entitled, unproductive program. Schools with much less can produce far more than UT. Does big money mean any more in college sports than it does in politics where candidates spend $1B to lose?
Didn't Wilson HELP fund the Afghans war against the soviet union and supply weapons? I need to re-watch that movie.
He did as did Congress initially. However, after the Soviets left, our Congress refused to help rebuild Afghanistan and when thousands of people returned home and found their town destroyed and nobody to help them rebuild, the population (75% which were males under the age of 25) were a little pissed.
PC culture at the university as a whole sure has avoided some other programs that have been able to maintain success and then some.
Volleyball, T&F, Swimming & Diving, women's basketball, hell even baseball last season all competed hard and found success. And that's just a handful of the programs that had success this past athletic season.
The football program is a bigger mess than anyone in the nation anticipated, and I honestly have no idea what the cure is. But it's very clear that there is a pervasive culture prevalent in the football program that has severely hindered its ability to compete at a high level consistently (or at all for that matter) and it's sickening. Far too often do I feel like I cared more about the program by just wearing a Longhorn polo and yelling during the game than the program's own players and coaches who were supposed to be the representatives of the university on that day
Volleyball, T&F, Swimming & Diving, women's basketball, hell even baseball last season all competed hard and found success. And that's just a handful of the programs that had success this past athletic season.
The football program is a bigger mess than anyone in the nation anticipated, and I honestly have no idea what the cure is. But it's very clear that there is a pervasive culture prevalent in the football program that has severely hindered its ability to compete at a high level consistently (or at all for that matter) and it's sickening. Far too often do I feel like I cared more about the program by just wearing a Longhorn polo and yelling during the game than the program's own players and coaches who were supposed to be the representatives of the university on that day
Exactly why I don't get the "snowflake" reference.
Fans need to have patience. I know it's wearing thin but we haven't even given TH but 1 game and some are already thinking it's Strong 2.0. Let the man fix the problems! Practice is one thing but game day is another, if we don't get better after the Maryland game and San Jose St. then we can start wondering. Also when I say better I mean less mistakes with the players and coaches. We'll get better as the season goes on.
The sports referenced above do not involve brutal physical violence. I played football, soccer, and baseball in HS and football was the only one that destroyed my ankle and gave me bad head aches. The "snowflake" comes from the social justice warriors parading around campuses decrying sports like football as violent and oppressive to certain people. I am concerned that this stuff has the potential to influence our team in a negative way. Where a football scholly becomes a way to attend a university for free rather than taking pride in playing for and representing one's school
I agree with you on the pride part, but I wouldn't be overly concerned with these players being influenced by the same softies that hand out dildos on campus.
While the football team is soft, they, just like you, played football throughout high school and clearly excelled at it to the point of being offered to play at Texas. If they become soft or affected by the culture of the school, that's their problem and the coaches problem.
Also, if you don't think collegiate basketball men or women's, isn't physically imposing, I sincerely don't know what to tell you. And while the other sports I named are not collision sports like football, they take an immense amount of mental toughness and preparation, just like football, to succeed in (much less succeed at the rates those sports I named have). Our football team is mentally soft as it is physically. Maybe you can put some of that on the atmosphere of the campus as a whole. But at the end of the day, the football program controls its own destiny
really good movie. A lot to do with current events. Looks like Russia is trying to do tomus whst we did to them
Players have been smacking each other on the ass for how long? Is that snowflake culture as well? Stop with the snowflake excuse already!
