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Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band

Posted on November 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band

While Mom makes up Turkey Day goodies a day in advance, and Mr. B. is on a play date in the country with a class friend, I am figuring where best to park tomorrow for us to attend the biennial Texas A&M parade up Congress Avenue to the Capitol of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band and the Corps of Cadets, particularly the seniors in their senior boots and drawn sabers. Last time we took Mr. B. we missed all but the tag end for failing to find a parking spot close enough to the route. But that was at eight a.m. This one, mercifully, isn’t until one p.m. so we should be able to get to it with no problem. The parades are fun to watch, along with all the white-haired Aggie alumni who live here, even if we do root for the Longhorns to win the game.

THURSDAY’s UPDATE: Mr. B. enjoyed the band and the Parsons Mounted Cavalry the best. The cav brings up the rear, with the poop scoopers behind them. Great parade as always. You could smell the dry cleaning on those cadet uniforms!  

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Texas is No. 2!

Posted on November 24, 2008 | Comments Off on Texas is No. 2!

Yesss. It looked like the coach’s poll, dropping Texas to No. 4, was going to rule. Nada. Happy day. The question is: for how long?

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“Style” or humiliation?

Posted on November 23, 2008 | Comments Off on “Style” or humiliation?

Oklahoma vaulted past Texas in the USA Today coaches poll today for what USA Today called "style points" in Oklahoma’s rout of Texas Tech last night. In that game, the word makes some sense, I suppose. In Florida’s humiliation of a lesser opponent, i.e. the Citadel, earlier in the day, it doesn’t. Where is there any "style" in crushing an outclassed opponent? 

Even Tech didn’t deserve to be humiliated when it was plain they were outclassed. Style, to my mind, is Mack Brown’s refusal last week to run the score up on Kansas after the Longhorns had them by three touchdowns. Instead, Mack sent in the second string. Now that’s style.

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Suicide in Norman

Posted on November 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Suicide in Norman

A majority of the daily’s sportswriters expected Oklahoma to win tonight’s game, but none of them predicted that Texas Tech would commit suicide. With the Sooners on top 42 to 7 at the half, it certainly looks like the Red Raiders have no way back to a win. Particularly not with a crumbling defense and a struggling offense. At this rate, the Okies will not only crush Tech but vault over Texas in the BCS rankings and run away with the Big Twelve. So Tech has got to come back and even it up.

UPDATE: They couldn’t. Sooners won it 65 to 21. Now we wait to see what the BCS computers decide. 

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Tech vs OK

Posted on November 21, 2008 | Comments Off on Tech vs OK

The barbar said the other day that, try as he might, he couldn’t bring himself to root for the Sooners under any circumstances, not even in their game tomorrow night against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech.

An Okie win, the conventional wisdom has it, is the only chance the Longhorns have left to make it into the national championship game–possibly against Florida after the Gators whoop Alabama. But, it seems to me, there’s just as big a chance that a victorious Oklahoma would then vault over Texas in the BCS poll, leaving the Longhorns about where they are now, at No. 3, or even a bit lower. So I don’t know what to do, other than to watch the game and hope for the best by Sunday evening when the poll comes out. My inclination, like the barbar’s, would be to cheer for any Texas team against Oklahoma, but maybe not. We’ll see.

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Texas vs. Kansas

Posted on November 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Texas vs. Kansas

I’ve tried, but I can’t really imagine how the 9-1 Longhorns could lose to the 6-4 Jayhawks. Neither can Mr. B., so he’s forsaking the game for cartoons. I am willing to admit that with a) the cold weather in Manhattan, Lawrence, Kan, b) the KU revenge factor, and, especially, c) all the Horns’ injuries, particularly Brian Orakpo, that anything’s possible. Even if it’s no particular contest, I’ll enjoy watching Austin’s boyz do their Saturday work. Burnt Orange Nation still has the fan forum if you’re into that sort of thing. Fun to follow the rants and raves, sometimes.

UPDATE: Texas 14, Kansas 0 at the half. Nice to see Brian is in, after all. KU defense, however, is pretty formidable. Fortunately, so is the Texas D. Saw some sidelines beseeching going on between roommates Colt and Jordan. Wonder what that was about.

FINAL: Texas wins it 35-7. Tough losing Blake Gideon to a possible concussion, though. Later, he checked out okay. No concussion.

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Texas is No. 3

Posted on November 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Texas is No. 3

At least in the BCS, where it counts! The computers continue to love us. For now. Unless Tech loses to Oklahoma on Nov. 22, No. 3 is where the Longhorns will sit through the end of the season. Then, if Florida, as expected, beats Bama, Tech will be No. 1 and Florida will be No. 2 and they will play for the championship in Miami. Then all that No. 3 will be worth will be a bowl game. The only hope, I suppose, would be that Tech would have to play Missouri for the Big 12 championship–and might lose then. But that’s unlikely at the moment. That Missouri could beat Tech, I mean.

UPDATE:  The daily’s Suzanne Halliburton reminds that, if Tech loses one before the end of the season, the Big 12 South team with the highest ranking in the BCS would play for the conference championship–which could be the Longhorns. But, at this point, that’s a big if.

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