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Yes.... many consider the Friday evening TV slot better than the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day because the Longhorns - Aggy game would be the only football game available on national television at that time.

Thanks Bobby! I really hope Arch can avoid the injury bug because the ceiling is really high for him at Texas. I know you have a well-deserved reputation for being "concerned" about things... and although I believe Arch will play two seasons in Austin... what will he do if he and the Texas team both have a great '25 season and the New Orleans Saints are poised in the pole position to have the #1 draft pick? Hook 'Em!

Well, it WAS awhile ago...he should be leaving Utah with a couple of PhDs and maybe a Law degree!

Glad this game is going to be played on Turkey Day+1 in the evening. Friday evening game lends more of a "special" feel than when it's played on Saturday. I'm so Old School that I remember when it was always on Thanksgiving Day. I remember being at my Grandmother's house for Thanksgiving Day and all the grown-ups were gathered in the living room in the afternoon watching the Longhorns and Aggies on the Black and White television set while all of us kids were playing our version of football on the vacant lot next door. It was the 1963 season. Hook 'Em!

Isn't his High School nearby the LSU campus? IDK but I've always heard that. Seems like the pressure from Tiger fans (or the desire from recruits) to stay close to home for college is highest for recruits coming out of that particular High School. Just curious... thanks!

Thanks for posting this Blake. Back during your ordeal with your son I knew it was a serious situation but I didn't realize just how serious it was. Blessings to you and your family and your special son. I live 20 miles SW of downtown Fort Worth and since I'm retired I walk several miles a day six days a week. Almost every day while I'm out walking on the hike and bike trails near Benbrook Lake I notice the Careflite helicopters flying from the Southwest to the Fort Worth Medical District where Cook's Children's Hospital is located. Just last weekend I saw the Careflite helicopter flying faster than normal on a beeline to the Northeast. I thought "this one must be serious" and held a brief thought and prayer. Now that I have read about your son Colt I have an even greater appreciation for those flights and all the caring people involved and all the medical professionals at the hospitals in the Medical District. All best wishes to you and your family. .

Bobby -- Thanks for posting about Barryn Sorrell from his Economics professor. He's a credit to the Longhorns and the University. Kudos to the Professor. I had several professors at UT undergrad and graduate school that I appreciated and never forgot. The ones who cared about their students far outnumbered the few didn't. Your OTF group chat folks have gotten to know Mr Sorrell through Coffee and Football. As a parent of a recent UT graduate myself, I have enjoyed seeing his interest in his son's achievements on the field and in the classroom. Hook 'Em!

True. And another thing that's been sketchy at Zero U is their QB recruiting.

Yes! And growth to 80 k happened pretty fast! Congratulations and Hook 'Em!

Thanks and I agree it's a bit too soon. But it's a reminder that the coaching staff and the team leadership cannot ever relax when it comes to team discipline and off-the-field matters. All the hard work can go up in smoke (pardon the pun) in a moment when discipline and self-control are allowed to lapse. And in the NIL era the players have more at risk than ever before. Hopefully this incident can serve as a reminder for all involved without serious long term damage being done. Hook 'Em!

OTF is the best in class. Proven by the remarkable growth they have enjoyed. I don't know all the history here except way back in the 1990s I was a subscriber to "Robert Heard's Inside Texas." During the Longhorns' post-Mack Brown "Decade of Doom" I stopped following all the sites because it was just too painful. I kept my season tickets just so I could go to the OU game every year. I kept up with Bobby's work years ago and picked up OTF when he started. He's put together an outstanding crew and the OTF philosophy is what most Texas fans are looking for... good information and light hearted entertainment. Well, as light hearted as can be considering how devoted we are to the Longhorns. The OTF personalities are an excellent mix and I wouldn't change a thing. I do miss Ian but I appreciate the absence of snarky commenters on OTF. Hook 'Em!

Please Longhorns, don't flame me if you disagree... but that cover photo is pretty lame. I'm glad Sark and Arch declined. Happy there's no Bevo mascot also.

Looking back on Mack's last few years at Texas, I have thought Mack himself was a good example of his saying about BBs contained in the Box. For example, when Mack got everything rolling (staff, recruiting, coaching and winning) he was successful and won a NC and played for another. The BBs were all in the Box. However, when he decided to change his Offensive Scheme to a Power Rushing attack... he had a squad he'd recruited and designed for the Spread Passing attack. Huge mistake to think he could snap his fingers and make such a big change quickly in a single season. Mack just had a case of Saban/Alabama scheme envy after losing to Nick's team. Many of the BBs escaped the Box. Another bunch of BBs exited the Box when Colt McCoy was injured in the Bama game and Mack didn't have a backup QB prepared to step in and play. Mack had tried so hard to run up statistics for Colt's Heisman campaign that he kept McCoy on the field far too long in far too many games when he should have been getting snaps and experience for Garrett Gilbert. But he didn't... and Gilbert wasn't ready to step in behind center when McCoy was injured. After those two things, the BBs were scattered and Mack's ego got in his way to the point that putting them all back in the Box looked like the outsized job it clearly would have been. By that time, Mack should have done the honorable thing and resigned. I thanked him for the good times and forgave him for the bad times.

I had a strong feeling he wasn't coming to Austin. Just a guess... after being on a bad team he's looking to be a star in the Big XII and rack up stats hoping to go higher in the draft. Kinda selfish, as is taking the bigger NIL payout. I played on a bad team in high school and wasn't college football material. If I had been bigger and faster I would have done anything to play for a winning college football program. Oh well... I've always said if a recruit doesn't really want to play for Texas then I don't want him. Hook 'Em!

Thanks for posting this Jeff -- I've never seen it before. I lived through many of these memories. Graduated from UT in '76 and '78. College football is my favorite sport and I wish the 4th down pass from Street to Peschel in December '69 had been included. Growing up in the 1960s I loved Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell. There was nothing like the anticipation in the arena of a heavyweight boxing match. Shame what's become of boxing. And it's a shame what's happened to ESPN after it peaked in the 1990s IMO. Hook 'Em! ..

I'm 71 and graduated from UT in '76 and '78. Never seen one at aggy-Land.

Agreed! I've been watching CFB since 1969 and VY is the best I've seen.

Yep, there's "Falling from the ranks" and then there's THIS from the Aggs...

Pinckney would be a Captain on my Longhorns "First player off the team bus" group. My goodness he sure looked the part of Intimidator. I seem to recall that Lovell forfeited his last NFL chance with the Rams when he went to the Million Man March instead of making his deadline for reporting to the team.

Smart's VCU teams were fun and exciting to watch. Texas fans were used to Barnes' style which was rasslin' on a basketball court. I'll never understand why Smart changed his whole approach. We never got a chance to see "Havoc" in Austin. We thought we were getting something like the old Nolan Richardson full court press style. Uh, no. I liked Barnes but his style had grown a bit stale. I'll admit having thought I wish he'd have accepted some stylistic help and stayed at Texas.

As a kid I listened to the Longhorns on the AM radio. The Southwest Conference on the Humble Oil and Refining Network. In those days the NCAA only allowed ONE game to be televised weekly on Saturday afternoon on ABC TV. I remember the legendary radio play by play announcer Kern Tips calling Randy Braband's name a lot for tackles and PBUs. He mentioned Randy's high school a lot... I seem to recall he was from somewhere in SE Texas. Great player on some great Texas Defensive squads. Wonderful memories for me listening with my late father.

After graduating with an MBA my first job was in Houston. After just a few months my corporate employer sent me to live and work in Memphis. I enjoyed going to SEC football games throughout the South over the next few years. It was "back in the day," circa late 1980s. When Texas played "State" in Starkville I went to the game with Texas fan friends who came for the game and a long weekend in Memphis. Bobby has mentioned his experience attending that game. Longhorns were optimistic to open the season... think it was 1990 or maybe '91. Butch Hadnot decided to change his running style that day and it was a bad decision for the Longhorns. Regarding Starkville, I remember thinking that MSU would be attractive to a certain kind of recruit. Kids who wanted a small town college atmosphere and a venue where they could totally immerse themselves in the student -athlete experience without many distractions. Later I went to a baseball game in Starkville when MSU played Ole Miss and I thought the baseball experience was more enjoyable than the atmosphere State projected for football. I remember thinking if I had been a high school kid looking to play college sports MSU baseball would have been far more appealing than football and it seemed like Starkville to the MLB would have been more reachable than the NFL. Glad I went and got to understand what MSU was like. Back then anyway it was a very small town and the fans were super loyal. And like all college rivalries they really didn't like the Ole Miss Rebels. The cowbells were their signature thing. Didn't really bother me but I remember when the Longhorn Band used to rattle cowbells for first downs and big plays. Hook 'Em!

I'm not proud of the fact that I didn't watch the game, but it got to the point this season that I just couldn't stand it. I've never been like this before... I've always been there through thick and thin to sing The Eyes at the end of every game of every sport. But this year I've tuned out of a couple of games before halftime and then I just didn't watch at all. Maybe it's because Texas has been playing well in the other sports and our outlook is optimistic outside of men's basketball. I even joked with a Longhorn friend that I would take Rick Barnes back on The Forty... and then Tennessee lost a key game near the end of their season just before the tournament. Felt familiar for Ole' Rick. Best wishes for CDC because managing this is gonna be a challenge.

Bobby Batronic -- Some people are on the "OMAD" diet plan for weight loss and/or blood glucose management. "OMAD" is One Meal A Day and they follow a strict timetable about what and when they eat in a 24-hour window. Aggy HC does NOT appear to be an OMAD guy to me. I'm not a medical professional so I only make a personal observation that he appears to be obese and unhealthy to me. I'm no Aggy fan. But the last picture I saw of Elmo was concerning. As a fellow Longhorn I appreciate your postings... have noticed your observations for years. Hook 'Em!

Agree with you about Luka... perhaps the Mavs could have gotten more for him, but IDK. I grew up in DFW and used to go to Mavericks games with my late father at Reunion Arena. As a young adult I worked for a company with HQ in Dallas and I got to use the Company's season tickets on occasion back in the days of Mark Aguirre and Roy Tarpley and James Donaldson. I hoped the Mavs would improve with the Adelsons in majority ownership but so far ... not so much. I'm just not a fan of Mark Cuban and Adam Silver's woke policies have cooled my interest in the NBA.