Po-o-o-o-or Aggies! Texas wins the Lone Star Showdown (again)

by bellhalla on May 14, 2007 1:36 PM CDT Comment 12 comments

The men’s and women’s outdoor track results over the weekend guarantee the third Texas win in the Lone Star Showdown. Texas wins regardless of the baseball outcome. (If Texas wins the baseball series, we win outright 10.5 to 8.5; if the Aggies win, it’s a 9.5-9.5 tie — but we win the tiebreaker since we won last year.)

Congratulations to the ’Horns for another year of athletic excellence. Oh and to the Aggies, too, for not sucking quite so badly this year.

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can we get a link

I have never heard of this

by Wells on May 14, 2007 1:58 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Lone Star Showdown links

It's sponsored by State Farm and assigns points to all men’s and women’s varsity athletic sports that UT and A&M compete in. This is the third year and Texas has now won all three of them.

If you've been to any UT-A&M event over the last three years, they constantly beat you over the head with the logos and announcements, etc.

Some links:

• Official Site
• Wikipedia article
• Texas hoisting the trophy last year

by bellhalla on May 14, 2007 2:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wells

I have never heard of this

That's cuz nobody but the Ags really cared about the LSS until this year, when they actually made a race of it. The last couple of years we've won by a landslide.

Officially a Limey Longhorn

by patienthornsfan on May 15, 2007 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Right

Well hopefully this year will be an anomaly and it will go back to me not hearing about it.
No more football or golf wins for Aggies and lets stop these splits in basketball and softball.

by Wells on May 15, 2007 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

if the ags win the baseball series

then the two schools will have tied, and for that you must give the ags some credit becuase in the past they've bent over and taken it(example: see holiday bowl). We shall see if their upward trend will continue next year...

by carsondude on May 14, 2007 2:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Checking up on BCG...

Well, Gillispie magic was lost for at least one day, as Jai Lucas from Bellaire spurned Kentucky for arch-rival Florida today. Another Gillispie target, Beas Hamga, decided to commit to UNLV as well.

The folks over at A Sea of Blue are handling things surprisingly well. That's because Kentucky's top target, Patrick Patterson, is still in play. If Patterson declines and finds his way over to Florida, well, get ready for a full-fledged meltdown.

by jc25 on May 14, 2007 5:12 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Thanks for the link.

I have to admit, we are experimenting with something rather novel for Kentucky fans over at A Sea of Blue -- rational thinking rather than reactionary, stream-of-consciousness ranting.

I admit it is an unusual approach, but it works for us!

Thanks for coming by, and for the kind words.

A Sea of Blue: Kentucky Sports For the Discerning Fan

by Truzenzuzex on May 15, 2007 7:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Huzzah!

Kentucky landed power forward Patrick Patterson today, a fantastic move for their program and one that's sure to bring cheers to Gillispie followers across the country.

by jc25 on May 16, 2007 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm confused

According to this schedule on the Showdown site, Texas leads 9.5 to 8.5. But they award a point for each game in the baseball series. If the Ags sweep, looks to me like they win the Showdown. Or am I missing something?

by NYCHorn on May 15, 2007 8:13 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Actually...

Each sport is alloted one point, in case of a tie the point is split. With baseball, since it is a three game series, the winner of at least 2 of the 3 games wins the point. And as stated before, if A&M wins the point for baseball, UT still takes the LSSD overall because in case of an overall tie, the previous years winner is the current years winner.

Hope this makes sense.

by kirk1005 on May 15, 2007 8:41 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Got it

It's the web site that's not clear. Thanks!

by NYCHorn on May 15, 2007 1:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Isn't it funny

That when we win this in a landslide, hardcore fans like us, fans into UT sports enough to post on blogs! never hear about it. No bragging. No gloating. We don't even know it exists.

Can you honestly imagine the atmosphere at ATM if they won this? Would it be the same? I think not.

That just amuses me.

"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese

by SwimTexas on May 16, 2007 10:10 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs