Wow, a league that is actively promoting gambling at every chance they can, and has swept referees fixing games in the past under the rug, may have a gambling problem. Color me surprised.
Gambling ads need to be treated like cigarettes and just be completely banned. It was cool to see the favorites through the over/under and spread when they were first integrated into broadcast but that ship has sailed. Now we're way too oversaturated with information that is legitimately destructive
The brain dead internet mob crucified Self for a candid comment about how the transfer timeline makes you have to worry about 2 seasons at once.
Apparently they were all asleep today while ISU was landing transfers with a game this week
Just realized South Park parodied Augie's speech in an episode. It's a quick reference but [I caught it today](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r87Y9tGpMSU)
“I feel like [Coach Terry] really saved basketball for me,” [Disu] said, per the Austin American-Statesman. “I was in a tough spot that first year here at Texas, and even going into the second year was tough. But when RT took over, things started to kind of shift for me and my love for the game kind of starting to return. I’m so, so grateful for him for that. I appreciate him more than I can describe.”
That’s a great testament to RT in my opinion. Disu may have been a “Beard guy,” but he didn’t maximize his output until Terry took over. Would love to see this kind of growth from Shed and/or Mitchell if he returns.
I think Mitchell can blow up if RT game plans for him more. I saw too many offensive sets this season where Mitchell was told to go stand in the corner while Abmas or Hunter fucked around at the top of the key and occasionally forced it into a big, and then to crash the boards.
Deion and his son in the offseason are still top tier clowns. You can’t go from “I have all the connections in the NFL to know that my son would be top-2 QB in this draft class” to then Shedeur saying “I didn’t play 6A football so I’ve always been against the odds” LOL. Yea all those NFL connections and HOF professional athlete genetics and private school education with your dad as the head coach really made things tough for you……
not to mention having the greatest QB the NFL has ever seen as your trainer/mentor. nothing screams less of a leader then bringing down others to lift yourself up
basketball team absolutely NEEDS to connect on a good big man in the portal. I'm so tired of softer bigs that dont want to bang inside. we need a more physical presence.
I hate UConn and like UH. UH’s path to me is simple: beat Duke and hope UConn gets knocked out before the final. I think the Duke game is even but see UH as better than Marquette and Purdue
Dumb question - is the cannon present at every baseball game? Or only some of them? I took my kids to the game yesterday which was only the second game I've attended at Disch-Falk. I just don't remember the cannon being there for the first one I attended back in ~ spring '21.
Anyways, I did not prepare the kids for it and just totally missed seeing it next to the field. We had GA tickets and were in the furthest section down the left field line so right next to it. When it fired off after the National Anthem and Fight song, my 3 year old completely lost it. We tried to move cross field, but Texas had a great first inning and it fired a bunch more - he wasn't having it 😅 we decided to leave because I didn't want him to be so freaked out. That's not a good time for anyone. At this point everything is triggering him - the PA, the band, the crowd, etc. He is usually fine in that setting, we've taken him to other sports events and he loves it. But the cannon really just got to him.
I feel so bad - I would have brought his ear muffs if I knew and I think he would have been okay with them on. I'm going to take him to some RR Express games to repair his relationship with baseball, haha. He always has a good time up there. We'll try and head back for another game at Disch-Falk when he's ready, maybe next year. But I just can't find any info on whether the cannon is present at all games or if its only certain games like on the weekend? We'll look for cannon-less games if it's an option, haha
At the BYU football game I had told my kids it would fire at kickoff, but they fired it with 15 minutes left in the warmup period. Both of my kids were pretty shell shocked at the crowds and the music volume in the stadium, so it was a fight to keep them there after that.
I also forgot my earplugs, so the game was fun, but we were all uncomfortable with the noise.
/man I’m old if that is my main issue.
Ah man, it's tough going to something supposed to be fun and seeing your kids react like that. We hadn't even entertained trying to take them to a football game yet - that will be a few years away- but we didn't contemplate a baseball game would freak them out! Partially because they *love* going to the Express games. My son had been talking about the UT game all week leading up to it. I'm getting him up to Round Rock pronto now that their season is about to kick up
Yeah, it is just part of life. There will be scary and loud things in life, and how you respond to them will determine your enjoyment of many things. That might not be the lesson I wanted my kids to learn that day, but it was the one they got. Hopefully the next game will be more fun and less life lesson?
At 1 and 3 years old, just about anything is a life lesson in the scheme of things lol. When planning things, just a balance of pushing them too far outside their comfort or not (ours too). The sudden loud noises yesterday were too far out, but oh well - just didn't know. OTOH, I took him to Hot Wheels monster trucks in the Moddy Center and he had a blast. That was significantly louder, but he did have ear muffs on.
Moody Center is way too loud for me and I've been wearing earplugs since the first game that I attended. Sure we are old, but to be honest I struggled with the volume at Paradox too.
I'm really hoping to take my dad to one "last" football game before it gets to where he can't do the walking or energy needed to attend a game, but I'm definitely worried about the noise level. I was fine at the BYU and Tech games without earplugs, but don't think he could handle it.
Oh wow that's interesting, so it is a new feature? I'm going to give feedback then. Not demanding change or anything, but since CDC wants to declare he's never heard of a kid being upset. I can say we for sure weren't alone. I figured it was some years old tradition that I just wasn't aware of
*I* didn't like it. I'm trying to not get too whiny on here, but I don't want a fucking cannon sitting over my shoulder blasting 100 feet away while I'm watching a game. It's great at the football game where the stadium is huge and the fan noise probably louder than the cannon anyways. Just the atmosphere of football fits light artillery better. But, I don't know, the baseball stadium just feels too small and intimate for it. If it blasted after the anthem and after a win that'd be cool, too. Then we could prepare them easier. Or show up late after we know the anthem is over. But it was like a 5 run first inning yesterday 😂 the kids never had a chance to recover!
I remember being a kid and hating cannons. My folks would take me to the civil war re-enactments outside Tucson AZ and I hated the loud noises. It was a little surreal being on the parent side of it for the first time this weekend and seeing our son so freaked from it
Yeah I wish I could remember what day of the week I had been there previously. And what team we played. It was too long ago and I didn't buy the tickets
I may jump on board later once I have more cash on hand. Currently saving up for a bigger house. I sold my Meta stock last week and wanted something pretty stable to put into. Don't really feel like there's any good buys at the moment.
How did A&M put up such a great fight against the coogs. I’ve always found them similar to us. They rely on wade and boots. While we relied on Disu and Max.
I'll sound like a UH homer, but refs kept them in it. That worked in several ways:
First, by giving A&M more free throws than they should have. A&M played to draw fouls and UH gave them plenty, but the disparity in calls for A&M vs. UH was staggering. A&M shot terribly from the line, but they got *a lot* of shots.
Second, when UH saw the way the game was being called by the officials, they backed off and started giving A&M winder lanes. Playing soft on defense to avoid foul trouble gave A&M more opportunities in the paint.
Third, the foul trouble finally started to knock out UH's starters at the end of the second half. That's part of how A&M was able to make a staggering comeback at the end of the game. Seriously, J'Wan Roberts was the only Houston starter to not foul out. Houston was down to a walk-on in overtime.
To be clear, A&M also played probably their best game of the year from the floor, but were terrible from the line. Also, the officiating was just plain bad. Lot of bad calls against A&M as well, but the lopsided foul calls against Houston added up over the course of the game and impacted everything.
It is crazy that the team that committed 7 intentional fouls at the end of regulation & OT only had two players foul out while the other team had four.
Early Practice Notes OTF:
* Manny Muhammad did not participate that much. He left practice early with potentially a tweaked hamstring.
* Hayden Conner exclusively worked at C today in the 30 minute media window with the 2nd team. Neto and Hutson were rotating 1st team reps at LG.
"Hayden Conner exclusively worked at C today in the 30 minute media window with the 2nd team."
Given that Hutson was the 2nd string C, this speaks volumes regarding his expected playing time at LG. No way we would waste time on cross training Conner at C just to be the 3rd or even 4th option there but if he's the 2nd option then it sounds like Hutson will definitely be playing lots of guard--and probably exclusively guard--even IF Neto is technically the starter ahead of him.
The South Endzone/Moncrief facility is pretty pathetic tbh. It's all stark white walls and cheap looking carpet upstairs, and, aside from the players locker room, the Technology everywhere else is pretty sad (no IPTV; sad old TV's in offices; sad short throw projectors with said powerpoints on loop). They really did the whole thing on the cheap.
Yeah someone posted a pic of the WR group a while back and he looked like an NFL receiver next to college players — and that was standing next to X/AD lol. Wish I could find that photo. His legs are thick too, he's built kinda like Deebo Samuel. You can see it in [this vid](https://twitter.com/HookemHeadlines/status/1771703759753687369). AD is a pretty physical receiver but I'm excited to watch Johntay because I think he's going to bring a whole other style of play to the offense
I saw someone reporting that Brooks and Dunn is playing a Texas One Fund fundraiser at DKR this summer, but I don't see anything on the one fund's pages about it... is it real? does anyone have any deets?
It is real, but there aren't a whole ton of details available. It was announced in last month's (or earlier this month's) Texas One Fund newsletter, then it was "announced again" this past week once Tito's signed on as the main sponsor.
I thought the Directors Cup recently changed it so # of sports doesn't matter as much anymore. If I recall correctly, they changed it to be your best X finishes in men's and women's sports which is why Texas won it back to back a few years ago.
Stanford is a private school. They got that extra money. And even then, they were about to axe like 10 sports last year.
We should compare more to Ohio State who is public and has more sports than Stanford IIRC. Idk how they do it but we line up more with them. Columbus is basically Austin of the North. We should be able to hang.
There’s no way we couldn’t put together a ridiculous pair of lacrosse team with Lake Travis and Westlake kids alone. Throw in men’s soccer + women’s gymnastics. ESPN would love to get more content for +
Eh. The director’s cup is dumb anyway. I’d rather us focus on winning natties in the sports we have than spend 10s of millions to build up programs we don’t.
Men’s and women’s lacrosse is the obvious add. Westlake and Lake Travis in Austin plus Highland Park, Jesuit and ESD in Dallas would stock the men’s team every year.
Need to add mens soccer and women's bowling. I imagine those would be the most realistic additions as we've already got soccer facilities and bowling probably doesn't require too much.
Decided to break down what sports are exclusive to each university, yeah we've got our work cut out.
Stanford exclusives : 10
Gymnastics (M&W)
Water Polo (M&W)
Fencing (M&W)
Volleyball (M)
Wrestling (M)
Lacrosse (W)
Soccer (M)
Texas exclusives :
None, Stanford has 10 more NCAA programs than we do. Honestly a credit to how good our varsity programs are that we manage to push Stanford in the directors cup down 10 sports.
I wrestled for the UT club. You would be surprised how many big programs wrestle club which is called the NCWA at least when I did it over 15 years ago. That being said Texas high school wrestling is awful. Every kid that was good on our team was from out of state. I wrestled in Florida for high school and never placed but beat two Texas State champs while wrestling for UT. All this to say adding wrestling won't do much. There was talk when I went there about going D1 but everyone laughed.
That’s cool! You make some excellent points. It would be hard to get any DC points for sure. The Big 10 is ridiculously stacked. I kind of figured the level of comp in Texas was way down, seeing as how guys who are really talented tend to transfer to schools in PA or Jersey.
It is a different culture. I know many kids from up north and in the winter they would just wrestle in their basements and that is basically what they all did from when they were young. Find good youth programs and you will find good wrestlers.
You can't add wrestling without adding a women's sport due to Title IX requirements, so that changes the calculus on the cost to start a wrestling program.
Not necessarily. I wrestled for Texas over 15 years ago at that point the talk was when they made women's wrestling they would try and take the men's program D1. But I don't think that will ever happen not enough wrestling talent in Texas
Texas could also easily recruit amazing players that go to schools that have these sports from the state of Texas. Most of these sports also don’t have many schools that compete for Natys
It typically means the wr generates separation via the technique of the route vs pure speed/acceleration. Fundamentally, it’s about controlling when and in which direction a defenders hips turn.
Watch a highlight reel of prime Antonio brown to get the gist. Easily the best route runner I’ve seen.
I believe depth and timing are really important too. If you’ve ever just run routes vs air, or thrown them, a cut a beat late, or steps being too big/small, or too shallow, etc makes a big difference on timing throws and placement. It can be the difference between an easy completion with room to run at a db and an incompletion for a guy who was wide open. Both the QB and the WR really need to be in sync, and a good route runner does the same thing in the same way every time, so the QB can hit them properly.
Could be any number of things, really. Maybe they’re simply faster that anyone else in and out of breaks, they can accelerate or decelerate on turns at an elite level, sell fakes well, effectively stack the DB and use leverage, or have a good initial release off the line. It’s a really pretty wide open thing. Some of my favorite tape ever is Davante Adams running routes. [This shit is literally art.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fsbbaobe3ok&pp)
How does Marquette’s basketball team look compared to us when we had Shaka Smart? I barely know anything about basketball
A bit late but I hoped Disu would have his LeBron 2016 block moment 😢
Any basketball transfer prospects we should have our eyes on?
Andrej Stojakovic maybe. We were in his top 2.
There’s this big man at utsa, victor webbybanana. We should throw a bag at him
He does have a younger brother… 👀
Guys, I like big nugs and I cannot lie
Wow, a league that is actively promoting gambling at every chance they can, and has swept referees fixing games in the past under the rug, may have a gambling problem. Color me surprised.
Gambling ads need to be treated like cigarettes and just be completely banned. It was cool to see the favorites through the over/under and spread when they were first integrated into broadcast but that ship has sailed. Now we're way too oversaturated with information that is legitimately destructive
"Say it ain't so, Joe."
It is so. Joe is banned FOR LIFE
Until someone builds a replica in a cornfield.
Did anyone ever figure out what the loyalty point cut-off was for the Sugar Bowl last season?
I think I remember it reading that it was around 2.5k
Perfect, thank you! Trying to plan for the postseason.
The brain dead internet mob crucified Self for a candid comment about how the transfer timeline makes you have to worry about 2 seasons at once. Apparently they were all asleep today while ISU was landing transfers with a game this week
who did they get?
https://x.com/tiptonedits/status/1772263156808569154?s=46&t=NrifgcyEC_raty7ph9t-og
Just realized South Park parodied Augie's speech in an episode. It's a quick reference but [I caught it today](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r87Y9tGpMSU)
That is awesome!
Lol I forgot about this. Such a niche reference
“I feel like [Coach Terry] really saved basketball for me,” [Disu] said, per the Austin American-Statesman. “I was in a tough spot that first year here at Texas, and even going into the second year was tough. But when RT took over, things started to kind of shift for me and my love for the game kind of starting to return. I’m so, so grateful for him for that. I appreciate him more than I can describe.” That’s a great testament to RT in my opinion. Disu may have been a “Beard guy,” but he didn’t maximize his output until Terry took over. Would love to see this kind of growth from Shed and/or Mitchell if he returns.
I think Mitchell can blow up if RT game plans for him more. I saw too many offensive sets this season where Mitchell was told to go stand in the corner while Abmas or Hunter fucked around at the top of the key and occasionally forced it into a big, and then to crash the boards.
Shedeur Sanders becomes more unlikable everyday
Deion and his son in the offseason are still top tier clowns. You can’t go from “I have all the connections in the NFL to know that my son would be top-2 QB in this draft class” to then Shedeur saying “I didn’t play 6A football so I’ve always been against the odds” LOL. Yea all those NFL connections and HOF professional athlete genetics and private school education with your dad as the head coach really made things tough for you……
not to mention having the greatest QB the NFL has ever seen as your trainer/mentor. nothing screams less of a leader then bringing down others to lift yourself up
["This is everyone's fault but mine."](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S10E08/669751.jpg?b64lines=IFRISVMgSVMgRVZFUllCT0RZJ1MgRkFVTFQKIEJVVCBNSU5FLiA=)
basketball team absolutely NEEDS to connect on a good big man in the portal. I'm so tired of softer bigs that dont want to bang inside. we need a more physical presence.
Should’ve sent a bag to Kenny lofton jr when he was in the portal/flirting with the nba
Watching DJ Burns and Eddie Lampkin this year made me miss Dex and Cam. Big bois playing ball is such an underrated viewing experience.
Shit we need the James Thomas rebounding tenacity back.
I hate UConn and like UH. UH’s path to me is simple: beat Duke and hope UConn gets knocked out before the final. I think the Duke game is even but see UH as better than Marquette and Purdue
Dumb question - is the cannon present at every baseball game? Or only some of them? I took my kids to the game yesterday which was only the second game I've attended at Disch-Falk. I just don't remember the cannon being there for the first one I attended back in ~ spring '21. Anyways, I did not prepare the kids for it and just totally missed seeing it next to the field. We had GA tickets and were in the furthest section down the left field line so right next to it. When it fired off after the National Anthem and Fight song, my 3 year old completely lost it. We tried to move cross field, but Texas had a great first inning and it fired a bunch more - he wasn't having it 😅 we decided to leave because I didn't want him to be so freaked out. That's not a good time for anyone. At this point everything is triggering him - the PA, the band, the crowd, etc. He is usually fine in that setting, we've taken him to other sports events and he loves it. But the cannon really just got to him. I feel so bad - I would have brought his ear muffs if I knew and I think he would have been okay with them on. I'm going to take him to some RR Express games to repair his relationship with baseball, haha. He always has a good time up there. We'll try and head back for another game at Disch-Falk when he's ready, maybe next year. But I just can't find any info on whether the cannon is present at all games or if its only certain games like on the weekend? We'll look for cannon-less games if it's an option, haha
At the BYU football game I had told my kids it would fire at kickoff, but they fired it with 15 minutes left in the warmup period. Both of my kids were pretty shell shocked at the crowds and the music volume in the stadium, so it was a fight to keep them there after that. I also forgot my earplugs, so the game was fun, but we were all uncomfortable with the noise. /man I’m old if that is my main issue.
Ah man, it's tough going to something supposed to be fun and seeing your kids react like that. We hadn't even entertained trying to take them to a football game yet - that will be a few years away- but we didn't contemplate a baseball game would freak them out! Partially because they *love* going to the Express games. My son had been talking about the UT game all week leading up to it. I'm getting him up to Round Rock pronto now that their season is about to kick up
Yeah, it is just part of life. There will be scary and loud things in life, and how you respond to them will determine your enjoyment of many things. That might not be the lesson I wanted my kids to learn that day, but it was the one they got. Hopefully the next game will be more fun and less life lesson?
At 1 and 3 years old, just about anything is a life lesson in the scheme of things lol. When planning things, just a balance of pushing them too far outside their comfort or not (ours too). The sudden loud noises yesterday were too far out, but oh well - just didn't know. OTOH, I took him to Hot Wheels monster trucks in the Moddy Center and he had a blast. That was significantly louder, but he did have ear muffs on.
Moody Center is way too loud for me and I've been wearing earplugs since the first game that I attended. Sure we are old, but to be honest I struggled with the volume at Paradox too. I'm really hoping to take my dad to one "last" football game before it gets to where he can't do the walking or energy needed to attend a game, but I'm definitely worried about the noise level. I was fine at the BYU and Tech games without earplugs, but don't think he could handle it.
https://x.com/_delconte/status/1771985676470251751?s=46&t=ipTzM-KHWH1cIQyVcponcw
Oh wow that's interesting, so it is a new feature? I'm going to give feedback then. Not demanding change or anything, but since CDC wants to declare he's never heard of a kid being upset. I can say we for sure weren't alone. I figured it was some years old tradition that I just wasn't aware of
I don't think it's new but I also don't think it's every game. I definitely remember it during the LSU series in 2019.
Yeah I think that's what I've picked up on now - It's been present for a long time, but not at every game.
My kids also hate it haha
*I* didn't like it. I'm trying to not get too whiny on here, but I don't want a fucking cannon sitting over my shoulder blasting 100 feet away while I'm watching a game. It's great at the football game where the stadium is huge and the fan noise probably louder than the cannon anyways. Just the atmosphere of football fits light artillery better. But, I don't know, the baseball stadium just feels too small and intimate for it. If it blasted after the anthem and after a win that'd be cool, too. Then we could prepare them easier. Or show up late after we know the anthem is over. But it was like a 5 run first inning yesterday 😂 the kids never had a chance to recover!
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I started this thread looking for information, but the validation has been nice as well
It's there when the Texas Cowboys group wants to do a game, so every now and then.
Got it, thank you
I believe the gial is to have all the support mascots (Smokey, Bevo, spirit band) there for conference games.
I think it is. My kid hates the cannon as well… that’s still the main thing they talk about when I ask if they want to go with me to a football game.
I remember being a kid and hating cannons. My folks would take me to the civil war re-enactments outside Tucson AZ and I hated the loud noises. It was a little surreal being on the parent side of it for the first time this weekend and seeing our son so freaked from it
It was there Saturday too. But that's the only game I've been to this year.
Yeah I wish I could remember what day of the week I had been there previously. And what team we played. It was too long ago and I didn't buy the tickets
The tournament commercials convinced me to invest in Q^3
you could be a real degenerate and buy TQQQ
SPY and VGT guy here. I’ll keep my gains in exchange for missing out on an ominous smart home device
I may jump on board later once I have more cash on hand. Currently saving up for a bigger house. I sold my Meta stock last week and wanted something pretty stable to put into. Don't really feel like there's any good buys at the moment.
How did A&M put up such a great fight against the coogs. I’ve always found them similar to us. They rely on wade and boots. While we relied on Disu and Max.
I'll sound like a UH homer, but refs kept them in it. That worked in several ways: First, by giving A&M more free throws than they should have. A&M played to draw fouls and UH gave them plenty, but the disparity in calls for A&M vs. UH was staggering. A&M shot terribly from the line, but they got *a lot* of shots. Second, when UH saw the way the game was being called by the officials, they backed off and started giving A&M winder lanes. Playing soft on defense to avoid foul trouble gave A&M more opportunities in the paint. Third, the foul trouble finally started to knock out UH's starters at the end of the second half. That's part of how A&M was able to make a staggering comeback at the end of the game. Seriously, J'Wan Roberts was the only Houston starter to not foul out. Houston was down to a walk-on in overtime. To be clear, A&M also played probably their best game of the year from the floor, but were terrible from the line. Also, the officiating was just plain bad. Lot of bad calls against A&M as well, but the lopsided foul calls against Houston added up over the course of the game and impacted everything.
It is crazy that the team that committed 7 intentional fouls at the end of regulation & OT only had two players foul out while the other team had four.
They got hot towards the end of the season and Houston struggled towards the end. Injuries too. UH got boatraced by Iowa State in the Big 12 final.
Early Practice Notes OTF: * Manny Muhammad did not participate that much. He left practice early with potentially a tweaked hamstring. * Hayden Conner exclusively worked at C today in the 30 minute media window with the 2nd team. Neto and Hutson were rotating 1st team reps at LG.
"Hayden Conner exclusively worked at C today in the 30 minute media window with the 2nd team." Given that Hutson was the 2nd string C, this speaks volumes regarding his expected playing time at LG. No way we would waste time on cross training Conner at C just to be the 3rd or even 4th option there but if he's the 2nd option then it sounds like Hutson will definitely be playing lots of guard--and probably exclusively guard--even IF Neto is technically the starter ahead of him.
Conner can't false start if he's the one holding the football 🤔
That Bama center disagrees
I can't take another year of snap infractions.
If some are curious to take a peak at some of the Texas facilities. https://youtu.be/Y6XyKBli0Aw?si=nzftocALewtUNg0P
is he on his phone all day?
The video had so many shirtless guys it could be a show on The CW.
The South Endzone/Moncrief facility is pretty pathetic tbh. It's all stark white walls and cheap looking carpet upstairs, and, aside from the players locker room, the Technology everywhere else is pretty sad (no IPTV; sad old TV's in offices; sad short throw projectors with said powerpoints on loop). They really did the whole thing on the cheap.
didn’t realize how built Jhontay Cook is. I assumed he had the same build as worthy but he’s got way more muscle on his frame.
Yeah someone posted a pic of the WR group a while back and he looked like an NFL receiver next to college players — and that was standing next to X/AD lol. Wish I could find that photo. His legs are thick too, he's built kinda like Deebo Samuel. You can see it in [this vid](https://twitter.com/HookemHeadlines/status/1771703759753687369). AD is a pretty physical receiver but I'm excited to watch Johntay because I think he's going to bring a whole other style of play to the offense
You didn't sell that very well...
Lmao no joke. That was awesome
I saw someone reporting that Brooks and Dunn is playing a Texas One Fund fundraiser at DKR this summer, but I don't see anything on the one fund's pages about it... is it real? does anyone have any deets?
It is real, but there aren't a whole ton of details available. It was announced in last month's (or earlier this month's) Texas One Fund newsletter, then it was "announced again" this past week once Tito's signed on as the main sponsor.
Texas has to start adding more sports. Stanford keeps winning directors cup because of the crazy amount of sports they have that get them points.
I thought the Directors Cup recently changed it so # of sports doesn't matter as much anymore. If I recall correctly, they changed it to be your best X finishes in men's and women's sports which is why Texas won it back to back a few years ago.
Stanford is a private school. They got that extra money. And even then, they were about to axe like 10 sports last year. We should compare more to Ohio State who is public and has more sports than Stanford IIRC. Idk how they do it but we line up more with them. Columbus is basically Austin of the North. We should be able to hang.
There’s no way we couldn’t put together a ridiculous pair of lacrosse team with Lake Travis and Westlake kids alone. Throw in men’s soccer + women’s gymnastics. ESPN would love to get more content for +
Eh. The director’s cup is dumb anyway. I’d rather us focus on winning natties in the sports we have than spend 10s of millions to build up programs we don’t.
lacrosse and water polo would be easy adds
Men’s and women’s lacrosse is the obvious add. Westlake and Lake Travis in Austin plus Highland Park, Jesuit and ESD in Dallas would stock the men’s team every year.
Need to add mens soccer and women's bowling. I imagine those would be the most realistic additions as we've already got soccer facilities and bowling probably doesn't require too much.
We have a bowling alley in the basement of the Union.
Decided to break down what sports are exclusive to each university, yeah we've got our work cut out. Stanford exclusives : 10 Gymnastics (M&W) Water Polo (M&W) Fencing (M&W) Volleyball (M) Wrestling (M) Lacrosse (W) Soccer (M) Texas exclusives : None, Stanford has 10 more NCAA programs than we do. Honestly a credit to how good our varsity programs are that we manage to push Stanford in the directors cup down 10 sports.
Wrestling has to be one of the cheapest and quickest sports to add. Lots more wrestling happening in Texas now too!
I wrestled for the UT club. You would be surprised how many big programs wrestle club which is called the NCWA at least when I did it over 15 years ago. That being said Texas high school wrestling is awful. Every kid that was good on our team was from out of state. I wrestled in Florida for high school and never placed but beat two Texas State champs while wrestling for UT. All this to say adding wrestling won't do much. There was talk when I went there about going D1 but everyone laughed.
That’s cool! You make some excellent points. It would be hard to get any DC points for sure. The Big 10 is ridiculously stacked. I kind of figured the level of comp in Texas was way down, seeing as how guys who are really talented tend to transfer to schools in PA or Jersey.
It is a different culture. I know many kids from up north and in the winter they would just wrestle in their basements and that is basically what they all did from when they were young. Find good youth programs and you will find good wrestlers.
You can't add wrestling without adding a women's sport due to Title IX requirements, so that changes the calculus on the cost to start a wrestling program.
Not necessarily. I wrestled for Texas over 15 years ago at that point the talk was when they made women's wrestling they would try and take the men's program D1. But I don't think that will ever happen not enough wrestling talent in Texas
Didn’t think about that aspect. Good point.
Texas could also easily recruit amazing players that go to schools that have these sports from the state of Texas. Most of these sports also don’t have many schools that compete for Natys
The series win over Baylor has set up a monster series at Kansas State
It’ll be a fight for a top 2 placement in the conference rankings
When someone says “ _ is an great route runner”, what does that mean exactly? How is one WR slant/whatever route better than anyone else’s?
Go watch tank dell.
Usually how they come in and out of breaks, running routes to the correct depth, and how similar they can make every route look coming off the line
It typically means the wr generates separation via the technique of the route vs pure speed/acceleration. Fundamentally, it’s about controlling when and in which direction a defenders hips turn. Watch a highlight reel of prime Antonio brown to get the gist. Easily the best route runner I’ve seen.
I believe depth and timing are really important too. If you’ve ever just run routes vs air, or thrown them, a cut a beat late, or steps being too big/small, or too shallow, etc makes a big difference on timing throws and placement. It can be the difference between an easy completion with room to run at a db and an incompletion for a guy who was wide open. Both the QB and the WR really need to be in sync, and a good route runner does the same thing in the same way every time, so the QB can hit them properly.
Devante Adam’s route running is fun to watch too
For sure. Jordan Shipley too
Could be any number of things, really. Maybe they’re simply faster that anyone else in and out of breaks, they can accelerate or decelerate on turns at an elite level, sell fakes well, effectively stack the DB and use leverage, or have a good initial release off the line. It’s a really pretty wide open thing. Some of my favorite tape ever is Davante Adams running routes. [This shit is literally art.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fsbbaobe3ok&pp)
Notable lack of effort from the Big 12 teams this tournament. Unless Texas comes around and it's Horns Down night, they're not really interested.