I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like yesterday afternoon/evening when the FAA shut down US air space.

Teams, including Texas, were scrambling to get to various destinations across the country in time to play their games on Saturday.

Ole Miss couldn’t get out in time and their game has been moved to Sunday as a result. Other kickoffs have been moved back a few hours but will continue on Saturday.

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The Horns, who were originally scheduled to leave around 3pm, had actually boarded a plane when the shut down was announced at roughly 2:45pm.

I’m told the Horn’s’ brass was then informed that this was not a typical, short shut down of the airspace. So they decided to have the team deplane and wait back on campus for the go ahead.

As the hours went on, and there was no sign of airspace clearance on the horizon, Texas huddled at the football facility. After dinner and team meetings, athletic director Chris Del Conte and football coach Steve Sarkisian were in the same room.

Del Conte was taking calls from other ADs, including Tennessee AD Danny White whose Volunteers were stuck in Knoxville before eventually being able to travel to College Station for their game with Texas A&M, and the conference office.

Then the call came saying the airspace shut down had been lifted.

Texas loaded up onto the bus a little after 8pm, went through security around 9pm, took off at 10pm and landed right at 11pm.

It was a whirlwind of a day.

**

Which sets us up for this evening— a night game in Baton Rouge—where things tend to get just a little bit crazier.

Having spent the past couple of days in Baton Rouge, there was some major disappointment from LSU fans about their team this year. The loss to Alabama stung.

Tiger fans talked almost as if Lane Kiffin had sold them a bill of goods.

Personally, my take is that they just aren’t very forgiving fans, or at least they didn’t act like it this week.

At any rate, the Horns have a chance to go into Tiger Stadium and earn a victory.

It’ll take great defense and a strong performance from Arch Manning to get the Dub.

**

Landon Williams-Callis storied high school career came to an end last night. His Randle high school team lost to A&M Consolidated in the first round of the playoffs.

The Texas RB commitment finished his career with more than 10,000 yards rushing.

**

Beat LSU!

Hook’Em!

Just win today 🤘

OU AD melting down about having to play on Sunday. Good times.

GOOD MORNING FROM THE GARDEN DISTRICT🤘

36 minutes ago, Tuco Ramirez said:

OU AD melting down about having to play on Sunday. Good times.

1 hour ago, Bobby Burton said:

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like yesterday afternoon/evening when the FAA shut down US air space.

Teams, including Texas, were scrambling to get to various destinations across the country in time to play their games on Saturday.

Ole Miss couldn’t get out in time and their game has been moved to Sunday as a result. Other kickoffs have been moved back a few hours but will continue on Saturday.

**

The Horns, who were originally scheduled to leave around 3pm, had actually boarded a plane when the shut down was announced at roughly 2:45pm.

I’m told the Horn’s’ brass was then informed that this was not a typical, short shut down of the airspace. So they decided to have the team deplane and wait back on campus for the go ahead.

As the hours went on, and there was no sign of airspace clearance on the horizon, Texas huddled at the football facility. After dinner and team meetings, athletic director Chris Del Conte and football coach Steve Sarkisian were in the same room.

Del Conte was taking calls from other ADs, including Tennessee AD Danny White whose Volunteers were stuck in Knoxville before eventually being able to travel to College Station for their game with Texas A&M, and the conference office.

Then the call came saying the airspace shut down had been lifted.

Texas loaded up onto the bus a little after 8pm, went through security around 9pm, took off at 10pm and landed right at 11pm.

It was a whirlwind of a day.

**

Which sets us up for this evening— a night game in Baton Rouge—where things tend to get just a little bit crazier.

Having spent the past couple of days in Baton Rouge, there was some major disappointment from LSU fans about their team this year. The loss to Alabama stung.

Tiger fans talked almost as if Lane Kiffin had sold them a bill of goods.

Personally, my take is that they just aren’t very forgiving fans, or at least they didn’t act like it this week.

At any rate, the Horns have a chance to go into Tiger Stadium and earn a victory.

It’ll take great defense and a strong performance from Arch Manning to get the Dub.

**

Landon Williams-Callis storied high school career came to an end last night. His Randle high school team lost to A&M Consolidated in the first round of the playoffs.

The Texas RB commitment finished his career with more than 10,000 yards rushing.

**

Beat LSU!

Hook’Em!

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LFG fellas 🤘🏻🤘🏻

30 minutes ago, Quinncent McManning, Jr. said:

You forgot to tag @CJ Vogel

Another banger

Bobby, any news on how healthy Simmons, Philips, and Littleton are? Obviously not on the injury report, but I assume that doesn’t mean they’re magically 100% this week

44 minutes ago, General Grant said:

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Just now, akhookem said:

Bobby, any news on how healthy Simmons, Philips, and Littleton are? Obviously not on the injury report, but I assume that doesn’t mean they’re magically 100% this week

My comment is that nearly everyone is banged up at this time of year, all three of those guys included. I’d expect all of them to see a lot of time today.

Bobby does the teams game day schedule change today with the late arrival last night?

53 minutes ago, hookem1014 said:

Bobby does the teams game day schedule change today with the late arrival last night?

Nope