The quieter they are the better our O-Line can hear the cadence.

I think we should go for Tier 0. They are so dumb….for real.

is that some administrator at Tech—a Dean of Students’y type—asked the Tech SG to come up with a student initiative to improve the behavior of students towards opposing fans. And, like UT when Ohio State came to town, the initiative was to be unveiled in conjunction with the marquee game of the season.

However, instead of addressing the harassment of Longhorns fans, which was the task, the SG initiative instead focused on how the Longhorns themselves were treated. Which makes absolutely no sense.

I dont know anything about the SG President from Tech, but my guess is that they dont really understand college football…this is silly.

(PS for RQ—Go Rangers!)

good luck with that one, I don’t think Tech could be organized wnough to pull that off.

in this particular instance is borderline stupid, and the motivations derived from political correctness, I often used to think this would be great strategy to unsettle opposing teams.

Imagine a basketball player, in an attempt to make an important free-throw, is surrounded by 15,000 dead silent faces just staring at him. You can hear a cough at the back of the arena. I would think this would contrast expectations enough to unsettle him, at least a little bit, maybe heighten the tension of the moment. But who knows?

Or what of a quarterback yelling at the top of his lungs in the huddle, addressing the next play to his teammates amidst brain-numbing noise from the crowd, and the subsequent shock of dead silence when he steps under center. A moment ago he could barely hear his own thoughts, and now he hears his own screaming cadence echoing around an awkward , silent stadium. It brings to mind the phenomenon of yelling over loud music at a party when the music suddenly stops, and the subsequent awkwardness that follows. I would think that might be enough to affect one’s nerves, at least until one acclimated to it. But again, who knows?