Column: Plainview's reluctant role in Texas' coup for Beard 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.
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....
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.
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 ... this one in particular: I been sawdamized by a goal post. SpiderAg, Nov 5, 2001 ... It's on page 5 of the Classics Forum.
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
Seems to me to be identical to virtually every "big city" fishwrap or TV reporter seeking justification for his paycheck.
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.
He had Steve Austin with the wrong home town. The dude is from Edna, not Victoria. Close, but no cigar on that one.
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.
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?
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.
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.