Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (When Herman is 100-percent humanized...)
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I've said the same, but that's pretty much the minimal bar for firing/hiring. If he can't even do that, then the rep of not having the taste to take action becomes more fair than the one with Shaka IMO.
I think I was there. It was in 1963. I don't specifically remember Diron, he may have been a freshman at the time, but I remember the fight. Seems there was a group of aggies that had pre-planned to walk in mass across the floor at the end of the game and start a fight. The fan group they walked in to just happened to be a bunch of the football players. Hell of a fight. Watched it all from the upper stands. Took 20 minutes and a ton of cops to break it all up. I remember a couple of ambulances pulling out as we were finally leaving.
The Talbert brothers are among the biggest hell-raisers that ever walked the campus.
Robin Sendlein received consideration as well.
Thanks Ketch another good one. That’s two back to back.
Keep up the good work.
I had Diron in a class one semester. He was a Neanderthal. I sat behind him. I don't think he could spell cat.
You made the Tiger King thread truly special.
I had a fraternity brother who tried to make the team as a halfback. Coach Royal assigned Nobis to tackle each of the wannabees one day in practice. None of them returned for day two. He stills talks about what it was like to get hit by a Greyhound bus.
I hear he was a good guy that has a reputation for holding it down when the moment called for it.
Old-timers swear by his bad-ass-ness.
It’s that point in life when the long term memory starts to be better than the short term memory. But at least I remember the 2000s better than the 1990s or 2010s
That '96 game was greatness because it was a sheer ass-kicking to the point the whole aggy team, save for Dat, literally quit. And quite simply, that '95 game ended aggy's greatest decade and ushered in a still going 20+ years of mediocrity save for a a couple of seasons. That's how monumental the '95 game was.
Yup. That 1996 game had a lot of 1990 Houston in it, except instead of a half-decade's worth of frustration out, JB and Co. took out a decade's frustration out in that ass-kicking.
It was a tough class for me. I really didn't like the subject and I struggled. On the day of the final, Diron sat in front of me. Honestly, he looked like he had just gotten out of bed and had hair growing on his teeth.
To his immediate right sat an attractive coed who was rumored to be a straight A student. She finished the final in 25 minutes. While keeping an eye on the professor, she passed her competed exam to Diron who began copying it. I wasn't even on page two yet. They both walked out of the class after only 45 minutes.
And yes, I do remember the incident at the Villa Capri.
I think we are in good shape with both Card and Jackson. I, personally, thought Card’s film looked slightly more translatable to a college offense and thought Jackson will need to adjust more. He makes the decision to run too quickly for college. If they both adjust - This is gonna be fun!
I also think that Milroe may be better than both by the time he hits campus. We will see what Milroe’s season looks like this year. Hold on to THAT kid at all cost CTH!
I also think that Milroe may be better than both by the time he hits campus. We will see what Milroe’s season looks like this year. Hold on to THAT kid at all cost CTH!
diron's big mouth got him into more trouble that his pitiful fighting skills could get him out of.... i can think of at least two occasions when a civilian whipped his ass
don and charlie were the two brothers who took care of business
Deservedly so, then. I was living in Roberts Dorm the night Giles, Lammons and Diron got in trouble at the Villa Capri. They came up the middle of the street between Roberts and Moore-Hill Hall going to their dorm rooms. This was very late, after midnight. They were staggering drunk and yelling at the top of their lungs. People from both dorms were yelling at them to shut up. They were yelling back and threatening everybody in both dorms. They actually came into Roberts looking for trouble, but no one opened their doors to them so they left and went to Moore-Hill Hall. If they had been other than Longhorn football players they would have been in serious trouble, but DKR got involved, as did basketball star, Larry Franks' dad. Dean Franks was the dean of men. The word then, I think correct, was that he smoothed the waters to keep them all from being kicked out of school.
So Diron did raise some hell at Texas.
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