1890s maybe. the Cpt left the service in the late 80s IIRC

Buncha traitors. I'd rather play the Bobcats anyways.

It's the only "public" school in D1 in Dallas metroplex, until University of Texas at Arlington joins. TCU and SMU are private. But that's not really much of a recruiting push.

Join the club.

I hope not, id rather see the LSU - Arkansas game. That game is always a good one

Ugh, that's rough. At least you've got the games, though. That's the important thing. Fortunately, I'm just a student so when I'm not actually at the games or with friends watching the game, I can hop on laptop and have a lazy Saturday centered on college football.

Moo?

Hah, this is on my way to work. I totally just saw it... now to devise a plan to paint a giant burnt orange penis on it!

EDIT: Prototype Concept. Obviously a rough cut, but you can see where we're going to go with this.

Pledgeship. The best worst time you will ever have in your life!

Other than your prestige and extreme wealth, I think this is Texas' biggest asset.

I believe you are completely correct. I don't know if you caught FarwellRob's post about New Army vs Old Army, but I believe it was very insightful in explaining how why our BOR regularly gets too involved with football. I actually love our university president and think he does an excellent job - far better than anyone recent (except Gates). But our BOR...you could parallel it to Jerry Jones - a great businessman, but not a great football mind. Like Jerry, our BOR fancies themselves to be football people and they regularly stick their necks in where they don't belong. Yet they're too afraid to trust their actual football people. Ever wonder why Bill Byrne was so successful in all sports except football? I believe it is because the BOR never trusted him to do his job. Byrne lead a revolution in Aggie sports - we're really good in non-revenue sports. But he could never get it right with football, and I think a great deal of that was due to interference from those higher up the chain.

We never would have ended up in this situation is they had just listened to Slocum and upgraded our facilities in the mid-late 90's. He saw that we needed to invest, but the BOR didn't. Then when things started slipping, they canned him far too fast.

tl;dr: Our leadership sucks at football and won't leave the program to be run by the AD. The BOR and BMAs use their influence to determine coaching hires, who then fail and set us back 4+ years each time.

I'm not sure where you're getting that from, but I respect your opinion. I just don't see why you think we're going to be that bad.

I guess we'll just have to see how everything plays out, but I fully expect us to win at least 6 games next season - and we'll be hard pressed to have a tougher conference schedule than next seasons' will be.

Vanderbilt has won 10 games in the past 3 seasons combined. Ole Miss has 4 wins in the past 2 seasons combined. Even under Fran, we were never that bad.