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I went to school with Russell Patterson, a Plano product who ended up getting injured and being a medical redshirt. He told me a cool story about Billy Ray Smith. Russell told me when he was growing up playing youth football, he’d go to Plano High games on Friday night. When Smith was playing and the defense needed a stop, sometimes the crowd would start chanting, “Billy Ray, Billy Ray, Billy Ray” in unison.

Maybe, I’ll be proven wrong. But I don’t see how anyone can put A&M in tier 2 instead of tier 3. And, IMO, Georgia should probably be alone in tier 1 until proven otherwise.

That’s the absurdity of our politics. Vote on something before we actually read the whole thing. Then some pork barrel congressman (on either side) adds something in at the last minute. Personally, I’m happy to see the Big 10 and SEC act rationally, whatever the outcome may be.

That may be called collusion.

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Yeah another deadline. Guess they expected the Presidents to talk in their sleep😂. Total joke the whole process .

I'm glad Miller came back at him at the end and told him he was wrong on the scheduling. Miller said he'd done a deep dive on the analytics and would be happy to talk to him next March and see what he had to say.

Yep. I haven’t watched him much, but never seen him have an interview like that Glad someone else noticed

That makes his bowl accomplishments even more remarkable, does it not??? Being the last Texas coach to beat Kirby is the Cherry on the top, right?? 🤷🏿 🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

I've watched Norlander for a few years, and I've never seen him ask another coach questions like that. He just interviewed Hurley a few days ago. Didn't ask him to disclose his payroll. Didn't ask him to explain why he likes to cuss out refs and threaten them by yelling, "I'm the best basketball coach in the world! You better watch what you're doing!" For some reason, Norlander thought he needed to play "gotcha" with Miller.

You should get Michael Ungar. Get the walk on perspective, still in the sports industry, and has overcome a family tragedy.

Agree 100% … I wonder if he’s asked Jon Scheyer, Todd Golden, Dusty May last year … what’s your payroll

Congress at Midnight: “here’s the final revisions, but we need a response by 10am.” SEC/Big10 :“yeah, your urgency isn’t my emergency. We’ll sleep on it and talk about it later. “

It's like Father Time...it doesn't lose.

No matter how much $ you generate, there are needs. At Texas, we need: A grass football field, re-model the softball field, an only soccer complex, a volleyball arena, and an athletes housing complex. All of these items cost lots of money.

That doesn't make sense, considering Ohio State is also a nike school. Unless it's something to do with the KD+Nike deal?

Look, if the game is shifting that way, you don't have a choice but to adapt to it. If you don't, you get left behind and become a Dabo Swinney. Whenever it does happen, I think CDC and the people involved in that decision making process will do right by Texas and find the best deal possible.

Cj’s nugget about how any money for a patch would take away dollar for dollar from the Nike contract was interesting. I would be surprised if Texas has that in their contract but others don’t.

Mack Brown drove the program off the cliff. Charlie Strong jumped in the driver's seat on the way down and kept it going.

I lost a dear friend Tony Griffin due to CTE. He played DB at Texas 84-88.

Earl

His time at Arkansas coincided with mine at UT. He had 63 TFL. I looked it up but couldn't find individual game stats. It felt like he had that many the afternoon Arky upset us in 1981. We'd just come off a big win in the Shootout! The Posse was packed with us all expecting a big win. He & their D were dominating. Those of us who finished the game ended up the same as if we won, except it was from drowning our sorrows.

The Norlander interview was pretty disrespectful. Never seen Norlander treat another coach like that. What's your payroll? Why can't you schedule tougher? Can I make you look bad? Miller should give him the cold shoulder.

Growing up in Plano when the mighty Wildcats were the kings of Texas high school football, Billy Ray was the local legend and achieved deity-like status in town by the time his playing days were finished. RIP, Billy Ray.