Texas to Open Two Spring Practices to Public

acquire the film if needed. :P

It sucks that it’ll be on LHN, but I think the guys here will help keep us unlucky ones in the know.

I’ve been before and I was pretty dissapointed. I know that I’m an old, tired scrooge, but I really wanted to have fun. It was just so poorly managed and unfriendly that I’m still kind of pissed about it.

I drove up from Houston to take my little neice and nephew to the game. I figured they would enjoy all the kid related activities, etc. and I want to be a good uncle. Well, it sucked. We waited in line to go on the bouncy slide, etc. The line was incredibly long (longer than the women’s restroom line at half-time of the OU game long). When we got to the front of the line, they shut it down. The dude just let the air out of the thing and walked away. I had the twins shoes in my hands and they were wide eyed in shock as it just deflated in front of them. I was truly dumbfounded, and I was actually pissed. But, trying to keep my mind in “Uncle” mode vs. pissed off wanting to deck a punk mode, I managed to switch their attention to something else. It wasn’t easy. None of the concession stands were open. We go to the seats, and the music was some gangster rap stuff that was worse than the punk that drives by my office everday at 4:59 with his ghetto blaster going. The crowd was pretty small, like under 10K if even that much. All lower deck, only from the 25yd lines on either side maybe 30 rows up or so.

Our school has enough money and makes enough off ticket holders like me to make the spring game a real fan appreciation day. And, they threw a crappy party.

I see other spring games on TV and they look fun. I was really disappointed. They should have the involvement of every campus spirit group, all the fraternities, etc…. It was actually pretty lame, and I was trying to check on the recruits in attendance. The lack of student involvement was bizarre and it seemed like a completely unorganized affair.

I wanted to bring some decent news. The TCU scandal looks a lot smaller than alleged in the drug dealer/player’s affidavit.

Only 5 guys tested positive (no names yet). Only 11 had trace of weed within margin of error (ie, they hadn’t smoked it in the last few days). And none had hard drugs (My money is that they didn’t test for that—no one wants to know that answer, especially Patterson).
So, that leaves 5 guys off the team and we can all guess which 4 are in that group of 5. It also leaves 11 guys with probably internal discipline issues. So, TCU isn’t going to be the new SMU and may have competition for the Fuller Cup, although they have a hell of a lead. Kind of like the old UT recruiting leads.

football in March. god i love this country. anyway we can start a movement that extends the games by two more and allows preseason games as well. and, more spring practices….
in fact, year round football please. i need that hit man, come on man, just alittle more :^)

…I remember that Karam and Wallace ended up not happening, but was there ever any contact with Scotty Young? He’s leaving TT, and reportedly might be headed for UNT, but he seems like he’d be a decent grayshirt candidate at worst.

Already told my manager I’ll be sneaking out early for the Friday one. Taking the wife to the Saturday one.

I enjoy the spring game. Fun to just sit back, watch some stress free exhibition football, and see some of the recruits walking around. Saw Ced Reed and Mykelle Thompson at halftime last year.