Sand Aggie still isn't taking this well

Discussion in 'Men’s Basketball' started by George Bailey, Apr 5, 2021.

  1. George Bailey

    George Bailey No beans in my chili, thank you

    Column: Plainview's reluctant role in Texas' coup for Beard

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    The author's bio doesn't list a school, so I'm not sure if he's a Tech journalism grad. His writing style is more Plainview High, 9th-grade year. He approached it from the humor angle, but the panhandle butt-hurtedness shines through.
     
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  2. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Bless his broken heart.
     
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  3. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    I thought #8 was pretty good but the rest was mostly butt-hurt. So hilarious.
     
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  4. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    You'd think the Horns stole Tech's crown jewels!? It's a freaking BB HC..... get over it.

    You were aware when you hired him, he played at and graduated from UT, that he might one day be a risk to leave... one day.

    And you knew he was even more at risk as he had success at Tech and Shaka continued to struggle in Austin.

    And there were whispers and rumors of war leading up to him leaving....
     
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  5. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    FIFY
     
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  6. yelladawgdem

    yelladawgdem 2,500+ Posts

    I have to give some credit to any article that gives note to the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens. The original women's Basketball Royalty.

    The rest of the article, not so much.

    :cowrose:
     
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  7. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Speaking of Sand aggie.... and aggy, I was reading the Classics Forum the other day - specifically reading threads started by Spider Ag.

    Most of his posts make me LOL :lmao:... this one in particular:

    I been sawdamized by a goal post.
    SpiderAg, Nov 5, 2001 ... It's on page 5 of the Classics Forum.
     
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  8. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    actually, that is a pretty good article considering what he had to work with. Try doing better yourself. Working a minimal local level into a story like that is tough. I've tried it myself back in the day. Try for example comparing the new Astrodome to the football facility in Beeville in 1966. It is a real strain. This guy had a clean but minimalist motel and a McDonald's to work with.

    And the Flying Queens, the first great women's basketball dynasty

    And Plainview. I lived in the panhandle for six years and spent a few days in Plainview and it is humble but a pretty nice place and had one of the best antique stores I have seen in a small town.

    As for Tech, try to imagine what it would have been like for us to lose Coach Royal to OU back in the day----but we always had the money to outmatch them, unlike Tech.
     
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  9. Handler

    Handler 1,000+ Posts

    Not a money issue at all, that's probably what stings the most. He might have actually taken a pay cut when you add in Cost of Living...
     
  10. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    Austin is theoretically easier to recruit to than Lubbock

    and calling them Sand Aggies is typically Austintatious. I’ve lived in Lubbock and spent some time in Collie Station and there is as little in common as between Des Moines and Laredo
     
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  11. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    IIRC, DKR's parents & grandparents were all from Texas and his parents lived in Hollis OK - about 5 miles from the Texas border when DKR was born. While in the service during WWII he contacted UT about playing football but nothing came of it. He ended up at ou and the rest is history.

    My point is money may have helped keep him from ou, but his family was from Texas and his heart was probably always Texan and that would have been a factor in him staying.
     
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  12. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    In all seriousness, Tech is a good program with excellent basketball facilities (some of the best in the country) and a rowdy, loud, and plentiful fan base.* They'll be able to attract someone good. Especially with the $$$ they've been shown willing to pay. It's not like Lubbock, Texas is all that different from West Lafayette, Indiana, Lawrence, Kansas, Iowa City, Iowa, and plenty of other flat boring places with good basketball programs.



    *I stuck with only nice adjectives here.
     
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  13. BevoJoe

    BevoJoe 10,000+ Posts

    Look at this guy. Who is this guy? Princess of Plainview or something? Dirtbag couldn’t get a job with a big city paper, only one in some dried up back water joint that’s 2 or 3 pages max. Forget about about him, the butt hurt, low rent, putz....Plainview....gimme a break.
     
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  14. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Seems to me to be identical to virtually every "big city" fishwrap or TV reporter seeking justification for his paycheck.
     
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  15. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Joe, next time don't mince words... just tell us what you REALLY think! :smile1:
     
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  16. Crockett

    Crockett 5,000+ Posts

    Well that small town writer has a sense of humor and genuine pride in his community. Hell he probably wrote that the same day he covered 3 baseball games and a school board meeting.
     
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  17. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    And a church pot luck dinner.
     
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  18. Gontex2

    Gontex2 100+ Posts

    He had Steve Austin with the wrong home town. The dude is from Edna, not Victoria. Close, but no cigar on that one.
     
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  19. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    The Edna Cowboys. Not too far from the El Campo Ricebirds or the Port Lavaca Calhoun Sandcrabs. What a great little pocket of the State for mascot names.
     
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  20. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    Palacios Sharks and Austwell Tivoli Redfish in the area. And the Refugio Bobcats
     
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  21. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    A little farther down the road, the Robstown Cottonpickers
     
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  22. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    And the Corpus Skanks representing downtown (sorry, I couldn’t resist).
     
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  23. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Closer to Austin don't forget the Hutto Hippos !!
     
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  24. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Wampus Cats is my favorite
     
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  25. utahorn

    utahorn 500+ Posts

    I had no idea of the team name. Of course, there is at least one call to change the name. Do we not have anything better to do?

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  26. Vino Bevo

    Vino Bevo Wine - how classy people get drunk

    To continue the topic creep on this thread toward unique mascots...

    In the early 80s a national publication listed my alma mater's mascot as one of the most unique in the country. We are the Central Catholic Buttons, not the button on your shirt, the button on a rattlesnake. Central and St. Mary's University were the same school when founded in 1852 and when they split, St. Mary's adopted the Rattlers as their mascot and Central went with Buttons to continue the relationship.

    It was easy fodder for the opposing team's breakthrough art, but rather cool (at least to us) when you learn the REST of the story, as Paul Harvey would say.

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  27. utahorn

    utahorn 500+ Posts

    That is a cool logo. When my son was in Scouting I was an Assistant Scoutmaster. One day I was called over by some of the younger boys to see the "nice snake" they found. It was a water moccasin. I explained this was not their friend and to leave it alone. I expected more from Texas kids.
     
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  28. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    Roscoe Plowboys is nice
     
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  29. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    the winner: Progreso Mighty Red Ants

    down on the Rio Grande
     
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  30. TXSNOS

    TXSNOS 1,000+ Posts

    West Columbia Roughnecks
     

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