There was nothing better than skipping out of class early, heading to the Disch and sitting right behind home plate on the third-base side.

Live and die with football and baseball, basketball not so much.  As a student in the late 80's I really got into baseball in the spring.  Nothing beat heading over to the Disch on a Tuesday afternoon to catch a mid week game or the weekend series.  I can honestly say that I start following Texas baseball in January and continue right on through to June living and dying with each pitch hit and run.  Thats tough with a 50 plus game season but even living away from Austin I follow most every game on the internet with some troad trips to catch a few games thrown in.

Basketball is a little different.  I grew up in El Paso where basketball is much bigger than football and have always followed the UTEP Miners.  When I transferred to Texas from UTEP after my sophomore year what used to be a live and die with the Miner basketball team never transferred to the Runnin Horns and slowly died out for the Miners.  I would look for the scores in November and December but with football winding down and the bowl season its just a passing interest, basketball usually picks up for me around mid-January and by February its watch every game (though as Tuesday against OSU reminded me I'm not devastated with a loss as I would be with football) and interest level is at its peak right through March madness.  I went to the Regionals and Final Four in 2003 and also to the Sweet 16 game with Xavier in 2004.  I try to catch the game in Waco every year and if the Horns play at the AAC in Dallas but its just not the craziness of football or baseball.

Really it was before the 93-94 season (I think) when I went to the Midnight Madness deal and got Albert Burditt, BJ Tyler, and Terence Rencher's audigraphs.  I was 10 at the time.  

I remember watching guys like Clack, Chico Vazquez, Tommy Penders (for like 9 years) and everyone since.  

The "hoops craze" as you say is definitely huge right now, and for good reason.  The potential of this team is better than any I've seen (including T.J.'s final four run).

By the way, has anyone else noticed how many players Texas has had with the middle initial 'J'?  Starting in '91 we've had a B.J., T.J., P.J., A.J., and D.J.  Weird.

I go to Longhorn football, basketball and baseball games.  They all have their own attraction but, like Jason said, there is nothing like going to the Disch .  It doesn't matter whether we are playing TLC or Stanford.  

I remember watching the Blanks, Mays, and Wright, teams run all over everybody, but I always was a bigger Arkansas basketball fan because I lived in Fayetteville.  I switched my full allegiance once Arkansas announced that they were joining the SEC.  

I've been a Texas football fan essentially since birth.  My dad played for Texas in the 60's and watching the games has been a regular part of life for as long as I can remember.  

wearing my "dont mess with penders" shirt, watching the BMW boys.  That was a fun team to watch.  I remember how excited i was when we got Klack, just the thought of us getting a McDonald's All-American was unthinkable.  

My high school beating future Texas players story...I was at Pflugerville when we beat that Westlake team with Mihm and Axtell.  

I remember thinking that Axtell was going to be the end of the world.  Turned out he was just the end of Penders.

Hey guys, I have been observing from afar for about a month and I finally decided to jump into the commenting arena.

I started with the BMW teams and remember the "Stormin' Norman" game against Arkansas being the point of becoming true fandom.

Since then I have followed pretty much every basketball season from the start.

Baseball probably goes back before I got to UT because of the national championships team. My favorite player on those teams was Billy Bates.

Football dates to my time on campus which coincided with the Peter Gardere era.

I was so torn in that game.  Richardson made me mad when he left the court and then came back to watch the Razorhogs win, but I got so excited when Lee Mayberry hit that three.