oldguystudent

I genuinely tip my cap to you for this past week and wish I could make it to Houston to buy you one of those fancy Houston microbrews. Good work, fine sir.

We have beer! What's new?

I wish I could move to Ft. Worth. Besides getting rid of my horrendous daily commute, I've grown quite fond of Cowtown.

So judging by historical precedent in Hawaii, we should expect to see him suited up at SMU next season?

Every SEC team in every sport schedules nothing but patsies, almost always at home, for OOC. In sports that use an RPI, they schedule the best teams from the worst conferences so that their opponent records look good. Edit: they're playing AT UC Irvine? Wow. Somebody in Orange County has pictures of Johnny naked with a donkey. Irvine sucks and their arena holds just shy of 5,000.

The Dodge staff was getting outcoached by the Tulsa band? I'll allow it.

I love how these articles downplay his play last season as bordering on mediocre. If that was mediocre, what is good going to look like?

I have walked out of interviews in times when I desperately needed work because they wanted personal information on my friends and family as sales leads. I would not hesitate to do the same in response to a facebook login request. No matter how poor, I'm never going to be anybody's 24/7 little robot bitch. I was already married once

Two missed field goals and an extra point.

Eating crow? LUXURY! Why, in my day, we had to subsist on buzzards and condors!

Kram, that's odd. PMs usually just forward to my email. I'm on my phone, so I'm not sure how to remedy. I'll try sending you a message So yeah. I can see that my mailbox is full, but I don't seem to have the ability to delete anything on my phone. Harry, you have my permission to send kram my email address if you see this.

Oh dear God, Kram. You're one of those guys? As the user in the #1 spot on the do-not-invite list over there, I'm afraid I'll have to challenge you to a duel at dawn. We shall use Denia parking spaces and khaki shorts from the mean green brigade as weapons.

I was surprised at how low the yes answers were until I realized it was college admission and not employers. Technology, social networking in particular, has given employers the tools to disqualify just about anybody. I began taking steps years ago to cover up any online incriminating evidence and people told me I was crazy. Now, if you've gone off the grid like I have, that hurts you too. Apparently, you're supposed to have an active online presence with your real name that spends all waking hours tending to injured puppies, and you're supposed to hold no opinion on any topic. I question in the long term what will become of this. Companies are demanding unrealistic standards from candidates, so surely they will eventually face a labor shortage of their own making. Meanwhile, because people are human, they'll continue to drink, make love out of wedlock, express opinion, and get into occasional altercations with the law (about 1 in 3 Americans have some form of criminal record now). People will simply adapt and learn to be more discreet. As an example, nowhere does there exist a picture of me at a UNT tailgate, a family friendly event that I enjoy with my daughter, because I refuse to be photographed with a koozie in my hand. Call me paranoid, but I've come to believe that if someone finds something they can use against me, and they stand to gain from doing so, they will not hesitate.

Harry and Tasty, If this thread is not a first ballot hall of famer, I'm lobbying for a new league commissioner.

That's pretty sweet. Congrats to him.

Today's game reminded me of my first major league baseball game. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1981/B09070OAK1981.htm

That was exactly my response. One-game playoff makes sense. A ” playoff” wild card game doesn't.

Someone at work today said that the wildcard play-in game will count toward regular season stats. Doesn't seem legit to me. Anyone got an authoritative answer on this?

Yes, the roving mean green gang flashing the eagle claw, ever in pursuit of protecting their territory of plastic tents, canned beer, and premium parking.

Hey! Silver Eagle promised ME that alien beer!

I did like the dense tailgating environment at Fouts, but it seems to me the spread out scene at Apogee is...friendlier. More laid back.

So, just glancing, if I'm reading the timeline correctly, here's this dude who tried to walk on to a Todd Dodge team, didn't make it, and ran off licking his wounds to Houston. Didn't make a Todd Dodge team? How? Did he lose a throwing arm wrestling match to Riley? When he kicked the ball did it go behind him into the opposing goalpost? Was he playing safety with BOTH shoes untied? Man, I'd be pretty butthurt too.

It's the water in the Apogee urinals that drives potential fans away.

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot where I was. UNT sucks to biblical proportions at everything it ever has done and ever will do. I adamantly pontificate on this perpetual truth to anyone who will listen in hopes that it devalues my degree to nothing so I can shot from atop the mountains that I am a victim of my own education. Yeah. That and RV smells funny.

Apogee is a freaking sweet stadium that was built with easy expansion to 50,000 in mind. Did we do it right? Absofreakinglutely. Plus, probable beer sales next year!