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  1. MarkInAustin
    You make a compelling argument and I think you SHOULD be correct. I continue to share the concern that the committee will favor spreading the wealth and not recognizing the gap from SEC-B1G-ND to everyone else. There are half a dozen teams with the talent, depth, and coaching to win it all, but I think all six are in the SEC-B1G-ND grouping. On paper, ND should have the best record going into the playoff, but all the SEC-B1G teams will have been far more tested at that time. Of course, last season Clemson was a preseason lock to be one of the half dozen contenders. So I am only suggesting, not predicting.
  2. MarkInAustin
    Caleb is a funny motormouth - Swain seems reserved and thoughtful, like a patient older brother. Their hoody on the river conversation is a case in point.
  3. MarkInAustin
    Right back at y'all! At dessert, six of us in family will read the Declaration of Independence in assigned parts around the table and then have blueberries, strawberries and whipped cream, our traditional red, white, and blue dessert. We have tried to do this most years when we were at home. We have needed four or more of us together to make this a fun effort. The reading has always been thought provoking, except for the year when one of our neighbors who had been invited made a mockery of his reading either because he was drunk or because he actually despised the document, or both. What do y'all do, including swimming and grilling, when you aren't visiting family away on the 4th?
  4. MarkInAustin
    CA could solve a Rubik's cube behind his back. I never understood the Rubik's cube trick.
  5. MarkInAustin
    In 1966 I was in Law School and lived downstairs in a two story duplex located on the area now occupied by the LBJ School. Frank Ryan's sister, a grad student, lived upstairs. By that coincidence I met Frank Ryan. He was both the Cleveland Browns QB and an adjunct math prof at Rice in the Spring. This is the same Larry Stephens the Browns traded to LA for Ryan, who went on to win an NFL title next to Jim Brown with Cleveland. I looked up Stephens because I had never heard of him before this morning.
  6. MarkInAustin
    It would not necessarily show up here in a weight room video but do they work hand grip springs? In baseball in HS we were tested on grip strength. Seems to me skill players in football should work hand grip springs. If they don't - please pass the thought on to the staff.
  7. MarkInAustin
    A note - Underwood became an attorney in Houston. He died recently. He was my age, I think. As a DE [but like Nobis he played both ways] at Texas he was a strong contributor to the Natty team and the team that beat Namath. Was a LB in the League. ... As I have written before Neil was my all time favorite OL at Texas until Justin Blaylock.
  8. MarkInAustin
    Thanks for posting this video. I have to wonder what his visit to Ohio State was like. Is there a video of that, as well?
  9. MarkInAustin
    Agreed. Gerry has repeatedly told us that Royal is open and honest. The young man should investigate all his opportunities. This is a lifetime affecting decision for him, as it would be even for a non-athlete. He is not public property because he runs 10.17, he is a someone's son, a human being with choices to explore at an exciting time in his life. I can only add that if he has an agent I hope the agent sees himself or herself as the servant of the principal, not the master. In other words, as Royal is deciding what college best fits his life now and in the future the agent should honor that in seeking a deal. There are some agents, perhaps most, who count their commissions as more important that the life choices of their principals. The agent only gets a cut of the initial signing, not a percentage of the student-athlete's lifetime earnings. That can make for selfish short-sightedness on the part of that agent. I wish Royal the best, but hope he notes that his family name is on the stadium in Austin!
  10. MarkInAustin
    Hank Gathers died, Gary Payton was the star, Derrick Coleman played in some All Star Games. I don't recall who was further down in that draft but I think Chicago secured Kukoc. It wasn't deep, as you suggest.
  11. MarkInAustin
    Thinking Texas Football every summer since 2014.
  12. MarkInAustin
    I agree. Our minor league franchises have done well with fans and my granddaughters always want to go. Success would be pretty likely from day one.
  13. MarkInAustin
    Go wish CJV a Happy Birthday - it will make you feel better.
  14. MarkInAustin
    Not only do you deserve a Happy Birthday you deserve to have all of us really wishing you the best. And go ahead and spoil the hell out of yourself!
  15. MarkInAustin
    I saw them all too. At one time I thought Dan Neil was the best I had seen, but later I thought it was Blalock. I keep hoping for another Blalock. Without regard to the number on his back or the fact that we remember him as a MLB, in the 1960s the best OL I saw, live, at Texas was Nobis. In fact, I thought he would be an OG in the NFL.
  16. MarkInAustin
    Aiden Robbins?
  17. MarkInAustin
    Sales' arm length looks like plastic man [a good thing, btw].
  18. MarkInAustin
    Took the words from me, and wrote it better than I would have.
  19. MarkInAustin
    They may try to kill the two geese that lay golden eggs but there are so many ways for it to backfire . One.has to wonder how stupid this is.
  20. MarkInAustin
    It is easier to kill a bill than to pass one.
  21. MarkInAustin
    Crowder was half of the pair of best Edges ever at UT, and one would be hard pressed to find better than Tim and B-Rob anywhere. They were a Natty pair. Tim gets my vote.
  22. MarkInAustin
    First, it is good that Sorsby will not suit up for a college team this season. Second, it was good that he went into rehab - and we can all wish him success in fighting his addiction, one day at a time. Beyond that, nothing else has changed, and the rest has been ugly.
  23. MarkInAustin
    The Big 12 could couch its response as discipline of its other members. It could say that no conference team can take the field against TT if Sorsby has suited up. Give TT the "wins". Nobody will count those forfeitures against the conference foes, nor take TT's "undefeated" record seriously.
  24. MarkInAustin
    i have alluded to this before. TT had been in the process of gradually building its academic rep over the last decade. It had moved into the top fifth of engineering schools and was attracting National Merit Finalists with full rides. It had done this, quite surprisingly, in Lubbock, Texas. ---- Wealthy donors have done magic for UT and so they could have for TT. I fear Campbell's agenda may send the academic reputation of TT back into the darkness. The State and even the nation really need more first class research institutions that are attractive to top STEM students. Instead, the public and brutal embrace of dishonesty in TT athletics will tar the entire school. Sad.
  25. MarkInAustin
    The NCAA as a party is not a Texas resident. I ask anyone currently practicing trial work why this case was not removed to Federal Court and why venue was properly in Lubbock at all.
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