TCU?

by styler on Nov 6, 2009 1:25 AM CST

heard some noise from many out there that TCU is better than our horns...... on many levels i would have to agree. college football seems quite weak this year and believe we have been been on the right side of luck way too often.... we should feel blessed.... also saw where the ESPN experts (....seems like ESPN is sometimes our personal network...) are now saying Colt is a late first round to early second round draft pick.... my guess is 4th round..... we need to be careful on Thanksgivng night or we will wind up in the holiday bowl playing USC

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Ladies and gentlemen

Allow me to introduce: a troll.

by Horn Brain on Nov 6, 2009 2:26 AM CST reply actions 1 recs

by burntorangehorn on Nov 6, 2009 10:39 AM CST up reply actions

"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo

by run Bevo run on Nov 7, 2009 10:23 AM CST up reply actions

by burntorangehorn on Nov 7, 2009 10:35 AM CST up reply actions

Let's run through the points this Texas "fan" is trying to make

He thinks:
1) TCU is better than Texas
2) We’re lucky to be undefeated
3) ESPN is in the tank for Texas
4) Colt is overrated
5) We’re going to lose to aTm

Classic stuff.

If you're so sure of what it ain't, how about telling us what it am!

by circa1015 on Nov 6, 2009 2:55 AM CST reply actions

Wow......

" Answers -- Become Resources."
Without Questions; There are limited Resources...

by KWashburn on Nov 6, 2009 4:28 AM CST reply actions

See the Daily Roundup today.

The San Antonio paper has an article about this. Even Las Vegas gives the Horns a decisive edge. This is an absurd discussion. TCU is not going to play Texas. Horned Frogs, you didn’t get an invitation to join the Big12. We are all sorry, but that is the way it is.

These people remind of the girl that gets dumped by her boyfriend and just won’t let it go. (Or a guy getting dumped and won’t let his girlfriend go…) Get over it and move on.

by dimecoverage on Nov 6, 2009 7:01 AM CST reply actions

Either that or

turn it into a Jennifer Aniston movie, and do outrageous things to win him back

by burntorangehorn on Nov 6, 2009 7:15 AM CST up reply actions

Hello, majovssimms

Or “rolleft.” It’s been a while.

by TheElusiveShadow on Nov 6, 2009 7:16 AM CST reply actions

X vs Y

The main indicator is the consistently incorrect capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. However, I don’t recall that guy abusing the three periods to mark transitions- therefore, I’m thinking that this is a new troll.

For one, he throws out there that the WWL is the “personal network” of the Horns; any real UT fan knows that there is a massive media conspiracy to annually decry the longhorns in favor of East / West Coast schools.

Beyond that, pegging Colt as a 4th round pick or saying that either 1) Aggy is a bona fide threat this year, or 2) Losing to Aggy would send the Horns directly to the Holiday Bowl displays the ignorance of an anti-UT homer.

by Tackchevy on Nov 6, 2009 9:40 AM CST up reply actions

fuck luck

Winning shoot-outs 49-44 every week is luck. Winning because you have the best defense/special teams in the country, is not luck. Usually I’m pretty nervous about the outcomes of our games until Colt is taking a knee with 40 seconds to go. This year, not at all. This defense is the best I’ve seen at UT, and you don’t lose if the other team can’t score. And yes, that ESPN comment was asinine.

by erikbushey on Nov 6, 2009 9:56 AM CST up reply actions

I live in DFW area...

…and there is definitely a lot of chatter about the Horned Frogs from the local media, and for good reason. They have a great team this year. However, as much as I love a smaller Texas school getting some of the national spotlight, I do not think the Horned Frogs could contend with the Longhorns. With that said, I do believe TCU could hold their own this year with almost any other team they could potentially meet in a BCS bowl, should they gain a birth. I would love to see TCU take on the PAC 10, Big 10, Big East, or ACC representative in a BCS bowl.

by James Brown - the G.O.A.T. on Nov 6, 2009 8:55 AM CST reply actions

I want to see their defense play an SEC team.

I would love to see them play the Bama or Florida loser (or LSU) in the Sugar Bowl.

by the1austin on Nov 6, 2009 1:09 PM CST up reply actions

Same old story

TCU is the little kid that hangs out at the basketball courts always trying to get into a game with the older kids. Sometimes you let him play and he makes a basket or 2 and starts to think he has real game. It always comes down to somebody getting mad and shutting down the little kid, with him leaving the court crying about how unfair it is…

IIRC, we beat TCU 34-13 in 2007. They had a supposedly great defense with the 2 best DEs in the history of ever. It is always the same old story.

by BigDSteve on Nov 6, 2009 9:21 AM CST reply actions

And UT was the worst they'd been in years.

by ajax77777 on Nov 6, 2009 3:49 PM CST up reply actions

I Will Say Though

That Patterson does a helluva job there. Are they Texas in terms of talent – no. Could they hang in athletically against the Horns – NO. But I was impressed how they whipped BYU.

I don’t understand though why to recognize the job being done at TCU has a requirement to take a shot at Texas.

by realmccoy on Nov 6, 2009 9:41 AM CST reply actions

They are still miffed at getting passed over for the Big 12. Houston fans feel the same way. I really cannot blame them. If Texas had been left out, and relegated to the Mountain West Conference, I’d be angry, too. But it happened, it’s over. They really need to stop whining. Even when they were in the SW Conf., they rarely beat Texas.

by dimecoverage on Nov 6, 2009 9:55 AM CST up reply actions

I'd be interested in a new lineup

I’ve argued for leaving the Big 12, forming a new Gulf Coast Conference with LSU, Ark, other Texas schools, etc., and a few other things, but most of all I’d like to see the Big 12 shuffle its lineup a little. Adding Houston and TCU wouldn’t offer much in terms of markets, because the conference already owns Houston and DFW. Shedding part of the North would be great. While I, as a Kansan, love having KS schools in the conference, it would be nice to shed all but Nebraska and CU. Ideally, the North division would be CU, Nebraska, OU, OSU, KU, and Mizzou. Let KSU and Iowa State link up with CUSA or something. The South would be UT, atm, TT, Houston, TCU, and Baylor. As long as the conference used a modified ACC model to allow the annual UT-OU matchup, I think it’d be great. It would have more evenly-distributed conference strength, plus it would allow the potential for UT-OU rematches in the conference championship game.

by burntorangehorn on Nov 6, 2009 10:49 AM CST up reply actions

speaking of...

i kinda wish they would have preserved the OU-Nebraska game along those same lines when the current conference makeup was designed.

by the1austin on Nov 6, 2009 1:12 PM CST up reply actions

TCU and UH fans may be miffed . . .

but none of the athletic interests were surprised when it happened. When the Big 12 was formed, UH was deep in the tank (probation, some dreadful seasons). TCU was just off probation and was nowhere close to its current level of on-field quality. Neither was drawing a lot of fans (UH still isn’t; 20,000 last Saturday on a gorgeous day against a quality opponent and Cougars executing an entertaining offense).

In fact, the demise of the Southwest Conference was due to Texas and Texas A&M (and Arkansas, before its move to the SEC) carrying such a heavy financial load. The Rice’s and SMUs and TCUs simply didn’t have the fans and finances to measure up. No putdown of those schools; just operating on different levels.

Political realities got Tech and Baylor into the Big 12 (that, and the need to bring four SWC schools to the Big 8 so as to achieve the mandated minimum of 12 for a conference championship game). My query to TCU fans is this: Would you rather be what you are (a BCS wannabe fielding consistent 10-2 teams) or what Baylor is? Odds are if TCU had joined the Big 12, the Frogs would be much closer to the Baylor-Iowa State level than the OU-Texas level.

by edsp on Nov 6, 2009 11:09 AM CST up reply actions

Agreed. It is a shame that TCU wasn’t included but you are right: They would be the Baylor of today. I had forgotten about old Cougar High and their issues.

SMU used to have the team and finances… alumnae money went a long way to buy SW Conf. wins.

by dimecoverage on Nov 6, 2009 11:57 AM CST up reply actions

'Bout everybody in the old SWC

was bending, twisting, testing or just outright ignoring the rules. I’m sure Texas had its issues, though they were less publicized than those of other schools.

SMU, UH, A&M, TCU all had significant violations in the 1980s. Baylor had an issue with steroids, before people knew anything about steroids. The SWC was poised to break up 15 years before it did. There were fairly strong rumors of a “super conference” as far back as when I was in HS in the mid-60s. The SWC consisted of too many small or private schools with very different academic and financial situations and agendas when compared to 3-5 mega state schools (UT, A&M, UH, probably Tech and Arkansas as well).

Personal opinion: UH, with better financial backing from its ever-growing alumni base, could move into a BCS conference (but I have no idea where there’d be an opening). Rice is over its head now in a non-BCS league. TCU is a ’tweener; strong enough at this point to be a legit BCSer. SMU is still in the TBA state, nearly 20 years after the death penalty (another topic worthy of 2,000 words sometime).

I can see, or perhaps envision, a 12-team Mountain West taking in Houston and a couple of the WAC schools in the west (maybe Boise, maybe Nevada, maybe Fresno State) — but the current Mountain West will have to take enough scalps in September matchups and in bowls to force the issue. They’re close now, if TCU, Utah, BYU can follow up their 2008 success and 1-2 more league teams get a bit stronger.

by edsp on Nov 6, 2009 12:57 PM CST up reply actions

I don't see them going anywhere

Geographically the only fit is the Big 12. The SEC might want a Texas (especially Houston) presence but nobody’s leaving or being asked to leave that league. I think the most likely situation is for the Big East to fall apart. The whole deal with only having 8 football schools and 16 basketball schools can’t work forever. Memphis is trying like hell to get in. Maybe Houston could piggyback onto their bid to give them more football programs. Geographically, it makes no sense, but neither does Conference USA right now and they seem to be surviving the travel issues that ensue with having teams all over the place (From El Paso to West Virginia).

by the1austin on Nov 6, 2009 1:15 PM CST up reply actions