Jc Dobbs

Yep. I'll be 72 in December. Hook 'Em!

At least the kid was honest. In his announcement he basically said his commitment went to the Highest Bidder. Hook 'Em!

I think Bobby should propose a new rule for NCAA CFB. New Rule (effective immediately): Whenever a student-athlete enters the Portal, prior to commiting to another team/program, said s-a must complete a visit to Austin and interview with the Head Coach of the Texas Longhorns. Further, said s-a must have the "expressed written consent" signed by the Head Coach of the Texas Longhorns to opt/choose to transfer to any team/program other than the University of Texas Longhorns. In light of Bobby Burton's importance and influence with the NCAA and CFB, so be it. Effective: Immediately.

Thanks MBHORNSFAN. I'll be 72 next month and I can truly say Scott Wilson was the most unique person and personality I ever met. He added to my joy at UT '72-'78. RIP Scott Wilson. My best friend and his wife used to sit with me and my family in Section 26U at DKR. At his insistence, his family and friends sang The Eyes of Texas to conclude his funeral service. RIP Mark and Wife Mary Scott and Mark were the best Longhorns fans I have ever known. Honored to have known them. Mark agreed that Scott was the #1 Texas fan. The last words Scott ever spoke to me were, "Don't Be A Stranger." Wow. God Bless Scott.

I was a UT student 1972-78. My freshman year Longhorns baseball played the final season at the old Clark Field which was across the street to the north of Memorial Stadium and east of the Art Building and south of the Law School. I saw Texas play the U of Minnesota Golden Gophers at Clark Field before the final home season of the Southwest Conference games began. Minnesota featured Paul Molitor at third base and Dave Winfield in center field. Winfield hit a line drive home run that was still rising when it flew over "Billy Goat Hill" in straight center and landed on the LBJ lawn. The day Winfield blasted the mammoth home run I met a young man at Clark Field who was an astute baseball fan. Scott Wilson was unique among Texas fans. Scott was unlike anyone else I met during my six years on the Forty Acres. He knew baseball and he loved the Longhorns. The following season when Texas opened the new baseball venue across I-35, Scott (very loosely) organized a group of his friends who were serious Longhorns baseball fans to sit together behind the first base dugout at "The Disch." Scott invited me to sit with him and his friends and I was honored. An invitation from Scott was special. You had to Know baseball and Love the Horns. My father had played minor league baseball for the St Louis Browns and had seen to it that I understood the game even if I wasn't talented enough to play past high school. Scott's group became known as "The Wild Bunch," because they cheered for the Longhorns rabidly and "Ragged" on the opponents and Umpires seriously all with a big dose of humor. In the summer of 2015 I was moving back to Texas from Wyoming to care for elderly family members. In going through old papers I found a newspaper clipping. It was a Sports column from The Daily Texan about Superfan Scott Wilson and his "Wild Bunch" at the Disch. The column was written by the Sports Editor Kirk Bohls. Lots of memories were made pulling for the Longhorns with Scott and his group but one really stands out...I think it was 1975. Texas won the College World Series after beating A&M for the Southwest Conference title. Scott hosted the group at his apartment to watch the games on TV and cheer enough to have the neighbors ask us to "cool it" more than twice. Texas had won the Championship game and we were watching the post-game coverage on TV and talking about what a great season it had been going all the way back to late January. The doorbell rang and Scott yelled out "I got it!" In walked Frank C. Erwin. Yes, THAT Frank Erwin. He who had occupied the highest offices of the University of (By God!) Texas. Scott had invited Frank Erwin and he had accepted. There he was in his bespoke business suit and tie from Sakowitz in Houston to party with a Wild Bunch of UT students wearing cargo shorts and Burnt Orange T-shirts. Mr. Erwin was the only attendee with a Security guard. Scott Wilson was connected and liked and respected. By everyone. Including The Man they changed the name of The Superdrum to honor for his contributions to The University. Over the years I got transferred around the USA working for a Big Oil company and when I went to Texas football games in places like Arkansas, Mississippi, the Meadowlands and California among others I almost always heard my name shouted out in the crowd before, during or after the game. I immediately knew it was Scott Wilson doing the shouting. Hook 'Em, Scott!

"If You Know You Know!"* GO GERRY GO !!! * Proceed with extreme caution when only "Recalled" Corn Dogs are available. And, as always, Hook 'Em!

I wasn't expecting this, but it makes sense. Texas fans hear from Sark after Spring football and August camp how excited he is, yada, yada... Team never has looked right after Ohio State. Something's seriously "off," because it's hard to fathom such a precipitous fall by the Offense and the whole thing is collapsing. Sark is great with great roster and playing in the final four, etc.. Not so great when things got difficult this season. Wasn't expecting this, but it might explain a lot. Hook 'Em!

Interesting take. Fwiw I retired from one of the Big Oil companies and over 35 years worked for 3 of them. Of the many supervisors/bosses I worked for, the brightest, most talented one I had was a BS and MS from Notre Dame (and a Golf scholarship) and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Florida. He liked ND, but he loved UF. Best wishes and Hook 'Em!

What to make of that? My feeling (I rarely say feeling because I prefer thought and analysis) was D Cooper should have been pleased with what he witnessed. Hook 'Em!

What to make of that? My feeling (I rarely say feeling because I prefer thought and analysis) was D Cooper should have been pleased with what he witnessed. Hook 'Em!

What to make of that? My feeling (I rarely say feeling because I prefer thought and analysis) was D Cooper should have been pleased with what he witnessed. Hook 'Em!

A love/hate relationship tilted to one side! Hook 'Em!

Hate to say it but Aggy looks way more solid than Zero U 's one man band.

Conventional wisdom might want an early kickoff but I think playing on the road at night in front of a juiced up crowd in Kain-tuck might be helpful to the Longhorns. Why? Because it's easier to be flat the week after OU in afternoon games. For years Texas played afternoon games in Arkansas and dropped quite a few the week after drilling the Sooners. Hook 'Em!

Longhorns 17 Okies 13

Prayers WAY up for Scott Wilson. When I was a UT student in the '70s I met Scott through his amazing status as the #1 Longhorns baseball fan. He graciously invited me to sit behind the first base dugout with him and his group known as The Wild Bunch. Been a friend ever since. All blessings and best wishes out to Scott and his family. And his huge Longhorn family.

FONG is never WRONG! Hook 'Em!

Longhorns 17 Alligators 13 Hook 'Em! In the rain and wind...

Ha! Thanks... it's a blessing and a curse. I do have a knack for remembering details -- good and bad. For example, I remember the jacket I was wearing at the 1984 Cotton Bowl game vs Georgia and where I was sitting when Texas DB Craig Curry dropped the punt in the fourth quarter at the Texas 20 yd line in the South end of the Cotton Bowl Stadium. Big mistake cost the Longhorns a good shot at the Natty and wasted the great Texas Defense from the '83 season. Still the best Defense I have watched and I have followed the Longhorns since '68. Thanks again and Hook 'Em!

Yes. The 1984 rain game vs OU was very forgettable. The only thing I could not forget was our RB taking the pitch out right and the two DBs cut him off quickly and all three went down short of the goal line in what looked like a tsunami of water on the artificial turf. Fourth Down fail. The Texas RB was Kevin (?) from Stafford Douglas HS I think. There's nothing like the silence of the crowd leaving the stadium after a long game played to a tie score in the rain. Fwiw, I lived in Wyoming 1999-2016 and when coworkers and others learned I was a Texas Ex they unloaded on me about "Freddie"Akers (I noticed they all called him Freddie). They felt like Akers had success coaching the U of Wyoming and they thought he gave the University and the Cowboys fans the impression he was staying in Laramie immediately before announcing he was returning to Austin. They really had a thing about it. Hook 'Em!

Nothing wrong with that!

Thanks! I missed the 2000 game (mercifully) and the 1985 and 1988 games. I'm one who hopes Mateer misses this year's game. I've built up enough sooner karma over the years to think we deserve a "break," whether the break is their QB's thumb or something else! Hook 'Em!

I'm an Old Fart now, but I was at the OU Game in 1976 as a senior at UT. I remember Gerald Ford at midfield for the coin flip and all the security people surrounding him. A big deal was made of his days playing Center for the Wolverines. I remember the tie score and the other tie score in the 1984 game played in a Monsoon. Was the OU Switzer "spy" his assistant coach Larry Lacewell? There was some genuine bad blood in the rivalry during those years and I remember the Okie fans being a lot jerkier in their behavior back then. Maybe I have mellowed in my advanced years, but it seems to me the fans are more humorous nowadays. Hook 'Em!

Thanks for posting... excellent historical note from one of the more interesting games in the series. A great memory. Indeed I WAS in attendance at the '77 OU game at the venerable old Cotton Bowl Stadium. I was a graduate student at UT in '77 and '78, having graduated from Texas in '76 ( the Bicentennial Year seems so long ago now! ). Speaking of the Bicentennial Year, my roommate sat down on the sofa to watch the Cowboys -Redskins Monday Night game that year and his gametime "snack" was a one-half gallon of Blue Bell Bicentennial Vanilla, and can of Hershey's chocolate syrup and a soup spoon. The young man could eat! He was a grad student at Texas and had been a pitcher for UTEP baseball and was 6'3"and 225 lbs. My student "Blanket Tax" tickets for the OU games in '77 & '78 were the best seat locations I've ever had for the game. In '78, East side lower bowl Row 33 (about halfway up) and my left foot was on the 50-yard line. The kid seated beside me on my left was an OU student and my roommate was on my right. Perfect seat location. For the '77 game you recalled and detailed, we drew student tickets on the East side Upper Deck Row 3 on the North end 40-yard line. Almost perfect, but I do prefer the lower bowl. I know there used to be 66 rows in the lower bowl because in 2004 I got the worst seat location...Row 66 Lower bowl (top row) West side extreme North end under the overhang of the Upper Deck. In that year of '04 my left shoulder was pressed against the chain link safety fence. My wife and kids were unhappy...kids said they couldn't see and my wife asked several times "tell me again how much $ you gave to the Longhorn Foundation to get season tickets just to get OU tickets... and you've been giving for years and the University makes you sit HERE?!" I don't know if those lousy tickets were contributing factors in the divorce, but that '04 game was my last as a married man. 1984 was the tie game played in a downpour and I sat in the West Upper Deck and I could see the sheets of rain illuminated by the stadium lights on that dark and dreary afternoon. My Ex-wife was my fiancee in '84 and she never got over sitting through that tie game in the rain. She was a George Mason U alum and they don't care about football! Finally to the game you mentioned... the game we'd all prefer to forget. We were so sure Earl and the Horns would obliterate Notre Dame. What a time to play the only uninspired game of the entire season. Those awful green jerseys for ND. I almost didn't go because I had a migraine episode and when I found my seat location...top row West Upper Deck and my left shoulder resting against the Cotton Bowl Stadium Press Box. And on top of it all, it was really cold. A lousy day. But the '77 victory over OU was a great day and a great effort by the Longhorns and their THREE quarterbacks who played well after the starter and QB 2 were injured. Still one of the darndest things I have ever seen in a college football game. Thanks so much for indulging me and Hook 'Em Horns! PS my seat location should be good for the upcoming Florida game. I'll be on my sofa!

I read an article in the Daily Mail (USA version) yesterday and Finebaum was quoted as saying he hosted his radio show for four hours after the murder of Charlie Kirk and couldn't remember what he said because it seemed so unimportant to him. He said that he had never experienced that feeling before. My view is that he could have realized it's time to do something else in his remaining years. In the article he also said he considers himself a Republican and he voted for Trump. I would think that profile would make it difficult to enjoy working at ESPN Disney. Back in the 1980s I worked in Alabama and I learned that it's a state with a "strong Governor" structure (unlike Texas' "weak Governor") and being Governor of Alabama is highly coveted in that state. Name identification is the very first requirement to be a candidate for the job, and everyone in Alabama knows Paul. As surprised as I was about Finebaum, I was far more surprised to read that Stephen A Smith is considering running for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 2028. This post is in no way meant to inject political discussion and isn't partisan -- it's just noteworthy that two well-known sports personalities are considering running for high office.