What Would You Do For One More Year?

by PB @ BON on Mar 20, 2007 7:22 PM CDT in Basketball

I teased this up prior to Texas' exit to the tourney, noting it would have to wait until we were officially eliminated. Sadly, that day is here too soon, but it does mean we can start to make our KD Promises.

Here's how this will work. You make a promise - to yourself and to BON: "If Kevin Durant returns to Texas for another year, I will ____"

Simple as that. Think it over, make a promise, stick it in the comment section as a matter of public record. If it's something verifiable with photo evidence - all the better.

Now, as a matter of note - you don't have to promise anything ridiculous (though you should). It could be as simple as, upon arriving at your office, screaming: "I LOVE KEVIN DURANT!" That would work. Still, think big here. We would edit that promise to going into your office and yelling, "I LOVE KEVIN DURANT! SO MUCH SO THAT I'M NOT WEARING UNDERPANTS TODAY! SEE?!"

You get the idea. Think of it like Kevin Durant Lent. You make a little sacrifice for a shot at redemption.

I'll go first. If Kevin Durant returns to Texas for another year, I'll watch 10 WNBA games in one season. . .

Okay, no, I'm not willing to do that. Here's what I will do, though. If KD announces he's returning, I'll make 20 t-shirts that read, "I Sold My Soul For One More Year Of Kevin Durant" and give 'em away to the first twenty BON'ers who make a (verifiable) KD pledge below.

Leave your KD promise in the comment section below, and email all your friends and urge them to do the same. We'll keep this post hovering near the top of the page at all times. Make your deal with the devil, starting now.

--PB--

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Even if you're not the TBone crazy type, you should pledge to do something. Maybe you didn't attend a single game this year, and you pledge to attend three next season. Whatever it is - make a pledge. Support Kevin's return.

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Mar 20, 2007 2:00 PM CDT 0 recs

That's a good idea

If Durant comes back next year, I pledge to go to at least one game at the Erwin Center. Since I live in Columbus, Ohio, that's no small task. You may not know this, but aside from one weekend in each of the last two Septembers, you just can't get to Austin from Columbus. But I'll find a way. Mark it down now.

by horneye on Mar 23, 2007 11:54 AM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Durant returns for another year

of basketball at Texas, I'll donate $50.00 to whatever the "Official Watering Hole of BON is in Austin" to be used at PB's descretion...

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Mar 20, 2007 2:05 PM CDT 0 recs

I wonder if PHF has a watering hole in England?

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Mar 20, 2007 2:07 PM CDT up 0 recs

Love it

We'll have a KD tailgate party outside the Erwin Center. We'll invite media, dance around the Erwin Center like crazy aliens, chanting things like "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Mar 20, 2007 2:09 PM CDT up 0 recs

f-ing LOL

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Mar 20, 2007 2:10 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Durant returns to Texas for another year,

I will...
Scream the eyes at the top of my lungs from my cubicle. Also, I will work for the rest of my life to incorporate Kevin Durant's name or picture into the spacecraft I work on.

Kevin,
You want to talk legacy, how about the Durant Space Telescope, or the KD Mars rover? Despite what you saw in Space Jam, even Jordan has not made it to space. Think about it.

by Wells on Mar 20, 2007 2:07 PM CDT 0 recs

Effing Awesome

Woo NASA perks!

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Mar 20, 2007 2:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

Just curious

How often does Nasa actually design a new spacecraft? I assume there are several prototypes that never see flight time or are not even introduced to the public. But I haven't been made aware of a new design in my recent memory.

Sounds like one of those interesting bits the public rarely hears about.

by BrooklynHorn on Mar 20, 2007 2:23 PM CDT up 0 recs

Not as easy as a number

NASA has multiple centers all over the country competing for government dollars (one NASA my ass) and each of those centers has space missions in all phases (design, launch, mission).

Also, at each center there is research that is being conducted that is not directly related to the missions. NASA also funds research and design work at Universities and Businesses around the country.

We also partner with other government agencies (DoD, DoE, ect) and space programs around the world (we are still pretty much funding the Russian space program so their knowledge base does not go to rouge nations for work).

If you want to see a glossy overview of all of the missions that they want to tell you about, here is the NASA missions website:
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/index.html

For a more in-depth review of what is going on at NASA, the budget request is a good place to start:
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/168652main_NASA_FY08_Budget_Request.pdf

For a more critical review of what NASA does, check this site out:
http://www.nasawatch.com/

If you want to know more, get my email from PB and I can answer you questions with more depth.

by Wells on Mar 20, 2007 2:56 PM CDT up 0 recs

Awesome.

Thanks

by BrooklynHorn on Mar 20, 2007 3:00 PM CDT up 0 recs

If KD returns to Texas for one more year...

I will not drink a single alcoholic beverage for an entire year.

OK, I don't drink. That's not fair.

I will sponsor a car pool from the DFW area to the Drum for 3 games (and I can't bring everyone - There's only so much room in a mom-mobile).

by GoHorns on Mar 20, 2007 2:19 PM CDT 0 recs

If Kevin Durant returns to Texas for another year,

I will attempt to convince my future wife that our first son's name should be Kevin Durant Collins rather than Vincent Young Collins. (NB: I have yet to convince her on the Vince Young idea.)

Also, I will attend at least one game next year, if not three.

Most frighteningly, I will tell the next Aggie or Sooner I meet that they are a fine, upstanding person that attended a very respectable institution of higher learning. And I will not vomit on them.

So take that.

by Kahuna on Mar 20, 2007 2:19 PM CDT 0 recs

"And I will not vomit on them."

Come on. It has to be reasonable.

by GoHorns on Mar 20, 2007 2:20 PM CDT up 0 recs

Hell Kah, I'll double my

$50.00 to $100.00 if you retract:

"Most frighteningly, I will tell the next Aggie or Sooner I meet that they are a fine, upstanding person that attended a very respectable institution of higher learning. And I will not vomit on them."

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Mar 20, 2007 2:30 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Durant Comes Back For Next Year

I will set off fireworks inside the city limits.

They're adults. They're allowed to have fun whenever they want. We're kids, we're supposed to work.

by Vice President Coco on Mar 20, 2007 2:28 PM CDT 0 recs

My Pledge

If Durant comes back, I will buy a dog, name him Kevin Durant, and force him to watch Air Bud repeatedly for three years. At that time, I will challenge the human Kevin Durant to a 1 on 1 basketball game with dog Kevin Durant. It will be the most epic 1 on 1 basketball match ever played. Win or lose, both Kevin Durants will go down as legendary players in a historic interspecies battle for hoops supremecy that will be remembered for ages.

by Meekrob on Mar 20, 2007 2:31 PM CDT 0 recs

If Kevin Durant returns for another year

I will propose to Carley Barnes (or Rick if he'll have me).

More importantly, Kevin will take his rightful place in Burnt Orange infamy.

Kevin, Earl, Ricky and Vince. The Four Cattlemen of the Texocalypse.

by nematode on Mar 20, 2007 2:32 PM CDT 0 recs

If KD returns for another year

I will decorate my place of work with I sold my soul for a KD T-shirt and Poor Aggies Posters - Note: My workplace is owned and operated by aggies.

~Stefan~

by stefancl on Mar 20, 2007 2:35 PM CDT 0 recs

Why wait?

You should already be decorating your place of work with Poor Aggie Posters. At least tell me you've got some Pro-Longhorn memorabilia on your desk or on the walls.

Hook 'em Horns

by LonghornWSO on Mar 20, 2007 11:52 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Durant returns

I will were Texas Longhorn underwear for a month straight not changing them, at this time, I will sniff them every mourning when I wake up and before i go to bed. Giving my pledge to honor the great KD.

by Rigger on Mar 20, 2007 2:40 PM CDT 0 recs

There is no questioning your fandom

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Mar 20, 2007 2:42 PM CDT up 0 recs

I'll hold off on my idea

of naming my next dog "Major" (sometime this year)-- and instead call him "Durant".

The next homebrew contest I enter the name of the beer will be "Kevy D's 3-Point Porter" or "K-Smooth Ale".

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Mar 20, 2007 2:40 PM CDT 0 recs

How can I get my hands

on some K-smooth ale?

by Wells on Mar 20, 2007 2:58 PM CDT up 0 recs

Kevin Durant Highway

If Kevin Durant stays for another season of Texas Basketball, I will start a petition to rename the section of IH-35 running past campus, especially the Drum, as Kevin Durant Highway. This should be agreeable to the Highway department, since they won't have to change the number.

Come to think of it, we should petition to change the entire stretch of IH-10 that runs through our great state as Vince Young Highway.

by the usual suspects on Mar 20, 2007 2:42 PM CDT 0 recs

THAT is an awesome idea

And Aggies the world over will shit themselves. The great thing is, the Vince Young Highway would extend from sea to shining sea, all the way to LA, where it would run just 2 blocks north of the USC campus.

Hook 'em Horns

by LonghornWSO on Mar 21, 2007 12:00 AM CDT up 0 recs

I'm all for the Vince Young Highway

Especially considering you need to take the 10 to get to the USC campus.

by CaliWolverine on Mar 21, 2007 12:46 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Durant stays...

I will play the Aggie War Hymn on my trombone. The very idea makes me shudder. This is something that I can document, and is the most sacriligious sacrifice I can think of.

by hornbone on Mar 20, 2007 2:46 PM CDT 0 recs

If Kevin Returns

I will wear a KD jersey to every Celtics-Sixers game next year to mock their inabilities to win Kevin over with pathetic offereings of money and hookers.

by BrooklynHorn on Mar 20, 2007 2:47 PM CDT 0 recs

We have a winner.

Take that Ainge you assmonkey.

The degree says TCU, but the heart says "Hook 'em"

by TCU Horn Fan on Mar 20, 2007 4:53 PM CDT up 0 recs

if KD returns...

I will promptly leave NYC, move home to austin and show up drunk for every home game KD plays in.

I'll do it.

My future is on the line.

by bklynBEVO on Mar 20, 2007 2:49 PM CDT 0 recs

i can only assume

that you think there's 0% chance of his actually returning...

...bleeding burnt orange in nyc since 2002

by cwofford on Mar 20, 2007 3:48 PM CDT up 0 recs

If KD Returns..

I will make a poster and call it the "The Return."

by bachelorette on Mar 20, 2007 3:04 PM CDT 0 recs

If KD returns......

I will goto every home game and wear a shirt that states...."Number 35 in your program, but Number 1 in your hearts. Kevin Durant!!!"

by RadLonghorn on Mar 20, 2007 3:04 PM CDT 0 recs

If KD returns...

I'll quit subjecting BON readers to beauty pageant references, forever.

Yeah, I'm that serious.

And I will also start a "Suck it Celtics" email campaign in which 1,000's of Longhorn fans email a picture of KD to Bill Simmons every day with a recording from Borat that says, "hey retard, you ain't ever gonna get dis. No, you never gonna get dis."

Be nobody but yourself in a world that desperately wants you to be like everybody else.

by 54b on Mar 20, 2007 3:04 PM CDT 0 recs

You broke my laptop

Dr Pepper -everywhere-

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Mar 20, 2007 3:06 PM CDT up 0 recs

And I thought I was serious!!!

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Mar 20, 2007 3:14 PM CDT up 0 recs

Winner

That's awesome.

by CW on Mar 20, 2007 4:21 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Durant Returns

I will:
-Somehow find room in a state clerkship salary for season tickets
-Coordinate with fellow BON readers to get a line of seats together
-Offer up our pianted chests on game days as a chalkboard for ANY message that BON wishes to send to opponents

The message could including anything from your run of the mill "OU sucks," to "KD: We're not worthy," to an impressionist mosaic of KD posterizing someone ... whatever. Point is - it'll be big, orange, and up front.

by 3llonghorn on Mar 20, 2007 3:14 PM CDT 0 recs

Outstanding

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Mar 20, 2007 3:14 PM CDT up 0 recs

my pledge

i can't seem to find an 07-08 basketball schedule (probably hasn't been finalized yet), but if Kevin Durant and Texas come up to New York to play any games next year, I will host and pay for (as much as I can on my measly corporate lawyer salary....) a BON get together and drink-a-thon for whoever can come up for the game.

alternatively, if they don't come up to new york next year, I will take a road (or, more likely air) trip to see them play somewhere else, probably Austin.

by billyzane on Mar 20, 2007 3:28 PM CDT 0 recs

you stole my roadtrip idea

but the NYC-BON get together is a great idea.

...bleeding burnt orange in nyc since 2002

by cwofford on Mar 20, 2007 3:49 PM CDT up 0 recs

NYC

If the Horns do well enough in their November tournament, I think they get two games in NYC or somewhere in NJ that is close enough to be considered NYC. East Rutherford, I suppose.

by LonghornRoadTrip on Mar 21, 2007 4:39 AM CDT up 0 recs

too bad that...

every time i see the horns play at the garden or the meadowlands, they lose/play like crap.

...bleeding burnt orange in nyc since 2002

by cwofford on Mar 21, 2007 10:33 AM CDT up 0 recs

Yeah...

I've seen them play 4 times here in NYC, and they've lost all but one of them. They also lost all the games they played here that I couldn't make it to. I think we're like 1-6 in the 5 years I've been in NY. What is that?

by BrooklynHorn on Mar 21, 2007 10:40 AM CDT up 0 recs

ditto

I have a commitment to the truth.

by steezy on Mar 21, 2007 11:05 AM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Returns...

...I'll help make it easier for his family to attend his games by letting them stay in a $750,000 home rent-free. But if he doesn't sign with me as his agent, I may have to go public and force the NCAA to hold an investigation that will result in neither Kevin losing any trophies nor UT losing any scholarships. To make sure that there is a lot of righteous indignation yet no closure, the NCAA will wisely select otherwise-out-of-a-job Mike Nifong to head up the cause. I'll even add two extra guest bedrooms to the home, for whenever Danny Ainge and Michael Jordan want to sleep over. If Kevin returns, I'll also root for the Spurs to tank their season and stock up on lottery balls.

by Lincoln on Mar 20, 2007 3:29 PM CDT 0 recs

If Kevin Returns...

As a DC Longhorn, the least I could do is drive out to Suitland, MD and mow Momma Durant's lawn a few times this summer.

by Drinking the Orange Kool Aid on Mar 20, 2007 3:38 PM CDT 0 recs

nice though, but

i think that might be an NCAA violation. you'd have to wait until after he went pro (and not promise her anything beforehand) and then go mow her lawn as a thank you.

as a side note, the NCAA is retarded.

by billyzane on Mar 20, 2007 3:44 PM CDT up 0 recs

Crap

Do they make Durant Jerseys that will fit the Lincoln Statue?

by Drinking the Orange Kool Aid on Mar 20, 2007 4:18 PM CDT up 0 recs

Mow

shit, I would landscape it to rival the gardens at Versailles, as long as that is not a violation of NCAA rules.

by Wells on Mar 20, 2007 3:46 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Durant comes back...

I will finally be able to convince my wife to let me paint my one year old daughters face burnt orange while she wears a UT cheerleader outfit during the first foorball game of the season. This might take me not talking to her for a significant period of time to make it work, but I will.

by tparr on Mar 20, 2007 3:48 PM CDT 0 recs

if kevin durant comes back for a 2nd year at TX...

... i will sign and date all my official business correspondence like so:

"March 20th, 0002 K.D."

because that's when things really started to matter.

...bleeding burnt orange in nyc since 2002

by cwofford on Mar 20, 2007 3:52 PM CDT 0 recs

Sure I'll play

If Kevin Durant comes back for one more year, I'll wear my Burnt Orange Nation T-Shirt to a Penn State home game. Don't say I never did anything for ya.

Mike

Black Shoe Diaries

by PSUMike on Mar 20, 2007 3:53 PM CDT 0 recs

now we're getting somewhere...

by billyzane on Mar 20, 2007 3:55 PM CDT up 0 recs

you can't bill BON

for your medical bills though. Clause has to be included.

Horns up, Okies Down.

by kicker on Mar 20, 2007 6:10 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Returns...

I'll dye one of my aggie friend's hair burnt orange while he's passed out drunk. wait, that sounds like a pretty funny idea anyway.

by greenman on Mar 20, 2007 3:58 PM CDT 0 recs

Retire

If KD comes back, I will petition the University to retire his number in Basketball, baseball, swimming, track, golf...well everything but football.

Also, the tower should remain lit up in orange up to and for at least a month after the Horns win the Tournament.

And $1 orange beers after every game! Maybe Live Oak can come up with the K-smooth ale mentioned earlier??

Hook Em!

by Margaritaking on Mar 20, 2007 4:33 PM CDT 0 recs

If KD returns...

I will wear a <$150 rental bevo-looking costume sporting #35 to the first regular season home bball game and attempt to get on the court until:

a)I get to dance with the pom girls during a time-out,
b)KD gives me a five, up-high, down-low
c)I get physically escorted out of the arena,
d)I get booed off the court.

by jimmer on Mar 20, 2007 5:17 PM CDT 0 recs

If KD considers returning

I'll send him football cards of Matt Leinhart which will remind him that Leinhart was drafted 11th, not 1st.

by krazieman on Mar 20, 2007 6:08 PM CDT 0 recs

If Kevin Durant returns, ...

I will wear my BON t-shirt to 5 Trailblazer games and heckle Aldridge to the tune of "All Your Records Are Belong to KD!!!"

P.S. Sitting through 5 entire Trailblazer games is the difficult part here...

by oregonlonghorn on Mar 20, 2007 7:05 PM CDT 0 recs

If Durant stays for one more year,

I promise to light myself on fire and run through down town Austin* proclaiming, "Kevin Durant is the next Kevin Durant!!!"

*I would also do this in downtown OKC and College Station&

&Does College Station even have a downtown? Or is it just a sheep/cow store?

by bamfor on Mar 20, 2007 8:13 PM CDT 0 recs

Hmmm ...

Well, I'm currently pregnant. Don't know yet if it's a boy or girl. I already have a girl's name picked out, but not a boy's name. Kevin is starting to look pretty good.

Regardless, I can pledge that I will come to at least 4 games (rather than 2 this year) from my home in DFW. And considering that I'll be a mom nursing an infant (not to mention chasing a k-gartener), that's a hell of a pledge.

by EddieTheAlbinoSquirrel on Mar 20, 2007 8:14 PM CDT 0 recs

Pledge of the day

The pregnant name pledge + DFW caravan. Outstanding.

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Mar 20, 2007 8:17 PM CDT up 0 recs

No rush on the baby

If "Kevin" isn't here yet, the stomach will be perfect for our BON painted chest section!

Good luck!

by 3llonghorn on Mar 20, 2007 8:30 PM CDT up 0 recs

i pledge

that if you name your kid kevin (or, what the hell, Vince), I will start a BON community-sponsored diaper fund and donate the first $100.

that's the dedication we need here people!

by billyzane on Mar 20, 2007 9:00 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Durant returns...

...I will make a burnt orange T-shirt with the outline of a right fist beating the left side of the chest, wear it in the O-Zone for a few games, and beat my own chest after every KD dunk next season.

That's KD's number-one celebration...I wish there was a Youtube clip of all the KD fist-to-chest beatings...

by txtwstr7 on Mar 20, 2007 8:21 PM CDT 0 recs

If KD returns I will...

...get tickets to the home games, college station game and the NCAA championship. I would say "even if Texas isn't in the NCAA championship" but that would imply someone will be able to stop him from averaging 46 pts in the 2008 tournament. This could seriously turn Texas into a Top 3 destination for nationwide hoops talent.

by houstonrules on Mar 20, 2007 8:24 PM CDT 0 recs

Hey if Maravich can average 45 a season

KD can average 46 in 6 straight games

by bamfor on Mar 20, 2007 9:35 PM CDT up 0 recs

If Kevin Durant returns I will...

Stop drinking on weekdays...

For a couple months

by aorist9 on Mar 20, 2007 10:10 PM CDT 0 recs

If Durant returns...

I will shave KD in my chest hair.

--AW--

by awiggo on Mar 20, 2007 11:59 PM CDT 0 recs

You must post pictures

You should just shave please stay right now.

by Wells on Mar 21, 2007 8:44 AM CDT up 0 recs

One more time

I stick with the quote I gave Andy Katz. If KD comes back for another year, I will find a way to be here for another year, too. Longhorn Road Trip: Year Two.

by LonghornRoadTrip on Mar 21, 2007 4:42 AM CDT 0 recs

If I return ...

I will score over 20 double doubles ...
I will have a career-high 48 points in a Big 12 Championship victory ...
I will have 14 30-point games ...
and I will lead the Longhorns to the Final Four ...
at least.

by KDurant35 on Mar 21, 2007 9:12 AM CDT 0 recs

I have no doubt ...

... that every one of those promises would come true.

by EddieTheAlbinoSquirrel on Mar 21, 2007 10:10 AM CDT up 0 recs

Starburst

KD, I would give you a pack of Starburst for that 48 -point performance. Of course, the NCAA would then take away 8 scholarships...all for a pack of candy less than a dollar. Freakin NCAA.

by LonghornRoadTrip on Mar 21, 2007 1:40 PM CDT up 0 recs

Since my previous idea is against NCAA regs...

I will show up to the next large-scale anti-war protest on the Mall here in DC wearing a KD jersey and carrying a sign that tells the NBA to "stop drafting our babies!" I will accept ideas for pro-KD chants that sound vaguely like anti-war chants which I will attempt to start among the hippies.

by Drinking the Orange Kool Aid on Mar 21, 2007 9:23 AM CDT 0 recs

by steezy on Mar 21, 2007 10:37 AM CDT up 0 recs

"Hell no - he won't go"

"We've found the weapon of mass destruction!"

by 3llonghorn on Mar 21, 2007 11:21 AM CDT up 0 recs

chant:

ho ho. hey hey. KD has got to stay.

by billyzane on Mar 21, 2007 11:39 AM CDT up 0 recs

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