Rick Barnes Makes Me Laugh
by Peter Bean on Apr 10, 2007 8:57 AM CDT
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PrintYou gotta love Rick Barnes. You just gotta.
Not only has the man brought some of the country's most exciting basketball to Austin for the last decade, but he's got a tremendous sense of humor. TJ Ford often relayed stories of pranks Barnes would pull, like putting whipped cream in a player's shoes before tip-off.
Now, we get this anecdote from last night's awards banquet:
During an on-stage question-and-answer session with star freshman Kevin Durant, Barnes pointed out how he felt bad for Wisconsin's Alando Tucker, Texas A&M's Acie Law and North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough for having "to follow the Kevin Durant trophy tour" as Durant swept all six national player of the year awards.
Then came this dandy.
"I felt like looking at Acie and saying, 'Poooooor Aggie!"
Barnes is a damn funny guy, though as always, it's impossible to top the humor received from watching the Aggies themselves.
--PB--
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Aggies
Reading their posts really crack me up. For all our discussion about who we hate more Sooners or Aggies, their posts about "character," "Aggie Pride," and "loyalty" just reminds me how backwards Texas A&M really is and how we just laugh at them. I love the state of Texas, but shoot me if I have to spend 10 minutes in Bryan College Station.
Let's all remember this was the best team they have ever had, and they fell in the 3rd round.
Aggie meltdown
Yet another reason not to ever spend time in B/CS.
Here's the best reason.
by patienthornsfan on Apr 10, 2007 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions
You guys have to stop
I have to go to College Station this weekend. I don't want to be reminded about that place.
incredible thread
oh, lordy, they broke out AIDS JOKES on that thread.
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Doesnt he have aids?
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it's like a playground circa 1985.
by cortexas on Apr 10, 2007 9:24 AM CDT reply actions
Sweet!
Thanks for including all the aggie hubub. Save that for a replay during hoops season next year. I think we've seen the last of aggies woofing over hoops for awhile.
And the purveyors of 'tsip','saw 'em off', and 'horns down' complaining about sportsmanship? Typical. But hey, I'd be bitter if I had to live in college station too!
acie the great
My favorite part of all the aggie hooting and hollering is the assertion that "Captain Clutch" himself has slayed the Barnes Dragon. Sure they had some good games at home but you are supposed to win at home. Big deal we split the season series 3 years in a row. Big time players in their senior seasons win on the road. They also don't miss layups that can win tournament games. "Acie the great" was 3-5 against Rick. Nothing will ever change the fact that despite him being the basketball jesus of redneck land he never won in Austin.
All together now....
STUPID AGGIES (clap, clap, clap clap clap) STUPID AGGIES
by ChiTown Longhorn on Apr 10, 2007 9:40 AM CDT reply actions
Wow
This has to be my favorite comment from TexAgs - "Rick Barnes is RC Slocum minus the character."
Seriously?
by TCU Horn Fan on Apr 10, 2007 9:43 AM CDT reply actions
Aggies like to forget
the Barnes has a final four...and elite eight... and a couple sweet sixteens.
question
can somebody explain to me what "teasip" or "tsip" is supposed to mean?
Tea sipper
It is meant to degrade Austinites as being "soft" tea sipping types.
As in: "Those sophisticated, civilized, tea-sippin punks in Austin ain't know nothin' about what it's like to fuck a sheep from the backside."
odd
drinking tea just doesn't strike me as much of an insult. but, hey, if that's the best they can come up with...
actually quite derogatory to us old timers.......
but like PB said:
"Those sophisticated, civilized, tea-sippin punks in Austin ain't know nothin' about what it's like to fuck a sheep from the backside."
by ouALWAYSsux on Apr 10, 2007 10:03 AM CDT up reply actions
Laughing Fuckin out loud,,,,,to funny PB
by ouALWAYSsux on Apr 10, 2007 10:00 AM CDT up reply actions
Can someone please explain this comment?
"ah yes but
watermelon watermelon...."
It is on the first page.
I have no idea myself........
Tried to rationalize the aggie thought process on it but came up __.
"I'm not opposed to it, I just don't understand it"DKR
It's from Barnes making fun of the aggies
for their "sit down bus driver" routine. He said he thought that cheer went out in junior high just like "watermelon watermelon watermelon rind, look on the scoreboard and see who's behind"
by the other Andrew on Apr 12, 2007 12:36 AM CDT up reply actions
It means we sit around and sip tea
presumably with our pinkies raised while we discuss our financial earnings.
UT has generally been considered the more sophisticated of the two institutions, and somehow aggies try to spin this as a bad thing.
It reminds me of the quote in "300" when a joke is cracked by one of the Spartans about how Athens is full of "philosophers and boy-lovers."
What makes me laugh is that somehow, in the eyes of most aggies, we are simultaneously teasips AND purple-haired delinquents. Aggies are full of contradictions.
by BrooklynHorn on Apr 10, 2007 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions
another barnes doozy
from Duarte's longhorns "blog":
When reviewing the season, Barnes began discussing the decision to play a tough non-conference schedule despite a starting lineup that featured four freshmen. "We could have done like some team in the state and play 19 games at home," he quipped. I'm assuming he's referring to the Aggies' weak non-conference schedule during Billy Gillispie's first two seasons.
and ou
by ouALWAYSsux on Apr 10, 2007 10:15 AM CDT up reply actions
And Duke
by patienthornsfan on Apr 10, 2007 10:22 AM CDT up reply actions
It seems like Tim Floyd
and Barnes are hoping to recreate a regional mini-version of Duke/NC. (Floyd wanting USC/UCLA)
I've heard a few b-ball reporters elude to this. The best thing for a programs's exposure isn't always the team itself, but a mega-hyped bar brawl knife fight rivalry.
Of course, this requires Aggie not sucking again without Billy G.
I didn't think their thread was that bad...
It was actually shockingly mild. Several of them made PB's points.
- They do it too, so it is a double-standard for them to be that mad about it. It is funny, and expected among in-state rivals.
- They actually realize that it is a sign of their significance. They were insignificant before, but now Rick Barnes is talking about them... "Hey look we do matter!" kind of thing.
Class
I thought Barnes's comment was in jest and spot on. :)
by bachelorette on Apr 10, 2007 10:52 AM CDT reply actions
Inferiority Complex
The Aggies feel like 'little brother' and resent it. Everything they do is to be able to compare themselves favorably to UT.
Look at their fight song. It's all about us, not them:
"Good-bye to Texas University"
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"So long to the Orange and the White"
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"The eyes of Texas are upon you..."
And nowhere do they mention Texas A&M, their own colors, or their own alma mater.
They must feel ridiculous singing that when they play someone else.
They don't
"They must feel ridiculous singing that when they play someone else."
That's what's so funny about a&m! They have no idea that they are perpetuating the idea of "little brother".
Sorry, that was a little t-sip -ish. What I had meant to say is: They ain't got no idea they the one's make us think they ain't worth nothin'
we do
it does feel pretty ridiculous singing it when we are playing someone else. My friends and I laugh about it all the time. But it is even more ridiculous to assume that every aggie is a classless, maroon loving freak because of the actions of a numbered amount of individuals. To c ondem a school of 40,000 over the actions of a limited is also a little ridiculous. It's somehow unreassuring to know that if I introduced myself to you as an A&M graduate, you would instantly think less of me and judge me. Perhaps the fuel to the "t-sip" fire is that you always speak of A&M as a disgrace to the state, and never for their well-doings. For example the second post on this thread. Apparently things like that are the schools fault or the towns fault, and thus everyone that goes to that school is agreeable with the outcome. College students posting on the internet will rarely put any constraints on their words. This is not just an "aggie tradition".
Nah
I have too many Aggie friends who are great, normal dudes to judge every Aggie as a backwards asshat, carsondude. I'm sure that's true for 99% of people here.
That won't stop the jokes, but you should know that we do recognize the difference.
jokes
I've never understood the extreme sensitivity expressed by the majority of Aggies to a number of these instances.
Am I supposed to express righteous indignation when someone labels all Texas graduates as "hippies," "liberals," or "snobs"?
It's true
If someone tells me they're an Aggie, my immediate response is "I'm sorry." And then I wait for them to prove that they're not an idiot. Most of the time, it works out that way, but I find myself in more "sophisticated", non-Texas crowds these days. The dumb Aggies don't tend to make it too far out of Texas.
For what it's worth, when someone tells me they're a Sooner, my immediate response is "That's disgusting," and I attempt to exit the conversation ASAP.
I was born and raised a Longhorn and these biases are ingrained. Interestingly, they've also proven to be true as I've gone through life. So, I have no regrets about having them.
couldn't disagree more with his
"It's somehow unreassuring to know that if I introduced myself to you as an A&M graduate, you would instantly think less of me and judge me".
I would probably shake his hand, say congrats' lets have a Jack and H20.
Now Kah, you need to go on your honeymoon, drink some good tequilla because:"For what it's worth, when someone tells me they're a Sooner, my immediate response is "That's disgusting," and I attempt to exit the conversation ASAP."
I would ask the dumb fuck to shut the fuck up and give me 2 Tacos, 1 Burrito, and a fucking coke.
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