Re: will The Red River

MoCity said:

You better believe I'm watching. I want Tom Herman's buns on the grille! Too bad the idiots at Texas Tech had the collapse of the century two weeks ago or UT would go into this with two losses like OU.

If Rattler has enough time, he can dissect UT's secondary. But that is a huge if.

On the other side, Sam Ehlinger is an absolute warrior at QB for UT (last week excluded. That was just plain weird). He has my respect. Seems like there is a dark cloud over the team affecting everyone. They aren't having fun and it shows. Hopefully this continues Saturday, OU beats UT and they go in the tank the rest of the season.

I understand most people on this forum couldn't care less about college football in Texas. But things are radioactive at UT right now and I'm enjoying every minute of it.

The craziest thing to me MoCity is the fact Texas in many people's minds(not mine) is the Mecca of H.S. Football. Many of the top athletes from Texas though end up at Oklahoma, one of the Cali schools, LSU, Bama or Clemson! I think Florida has a few from Texas.
You would think stay home, represent my state! It has to be something to it. Texas and Texas A&M are the "big schools"! The p5 monsters. TCU(yes the horned frogs. . . .i know about G. Pat), SMU, Houston, Texas Tech i.m.o are that 2nd tier in Texas! Followed by Utep, Texas St, etc. in that third tier.

With so many kids playing ball one would think for certain those two would be getting the best of the best! They do sometimes but they still look out of state away from "the Mecca"!

I imagine many of those kids see Austin as "may as well be Clemson, SC or Tuscaloosa, AL" it's so far away from where I am in Texas away! Is that some of it? How far is College Station and Austin from Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth, San Antonio, El Paso?

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Re: will The Red River "Rivalry" get your view this weekend?

Oct 7, 2020, 7:24 PM

Gumby® said:

I’d say Austin & College Station are both closer to Houston than DFW. DFW to Austin is about 3 hours in a car, not a big deal to me.

On the Academic side (being a TX resident) my feeling is that the state of Texas has made a mistake in it’s admittance policy to its best universities. For a state resident to be automatically admitted to UT, you MUST be in the top 6% of your HS graduating class. The problem is not all HS graduating classes are equal. My youngest just graduated HS with a 100.2 avg, she was not top 6%. Had we moved 4 miles further west, she could have been top 1%. at the next HS over. UT is looking to pull students in nationwide but they do so to the neglect of their own citizens. The first mission of the public state University should be to educate its young state citizens. Texas fails that mission.

On the athletic side, I find Texas (the whole state) to be unimaginative. Texas is overly hung up on bigger, stronger, faster and widely ignores all other attributes. It’s why a guy like Drew Brees (from Austin) wound up at Purdue and the list of guys like that is very long.

Throw in the crooked “who’s your daddy” nonsense and whaalaa......you get Texas’ results.

Really good insight Gumby! You explained that really well(even I could understand it, lol). That seems extreme as far as the 6% thing goes. I mean, how is it fair that someone with a 100.2 doesn't automatically qualify? I guess that's to keep admission under control or something? But, seems extreme and a bit messed up!
As far as football - I had someone else tell me - and I don't live there just going off what I am told. But, they said, b/c of the spotlight h.s. football players get in TX many of the best players only want to be on offense. Tackles don't get you in the papers - scoring TD's does or gaining a bunch of yards. TX is also having the same problem everybody else is - kids turning to the streets over sports. Don't know! I think you are right about the bigger and stronger mentality too!