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OK, so I read about our Baseball team's Conference Championship a few minutes ago, and in the write-up it said this was the 75th conference title of the program's history.  75!!  Really!?  That number just jumped out at me as ridiculous.  So I decided to check.......

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That is right, a small but stellar class for the Men's Swim Team.... but the surprise is the women's recruiting class this year.  No out of State problems here!  I have seen several of these kids swim and they are awesome.  It is great to see the women's team get in the game on some of the top recruits like this.

I apologize for the formatting mistakes.  I couldn't fix them.

As for the current team, Nationals is in a few weeks.  It is in College Station this year.  The men are favored, although I am still skeptical.  But we will see.  I will write something up as the event gets closer.

Hookem

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I don't know if this has already been posted but I am so excited about the next 2 classes that Texas has coming in.  Like just about anyone in Texas, I have always been football first.  And truthfully, I think I might be swimming second...... but Watching what Rick Barnes has done with UT Basketball is just really getting me into Hoops.

The last couple of lines of this article talks about them wanting to bring a championship to Ausitin..... I hope so.  Barnes deserves one.

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OK so sour grapes aside, and I have plenty, but I think there is a big picture argument here that no one is talking about.  The style points that have been moving Oklahoma up the polls the last several weeks (last week enough to jump Texas in both human polls) therefore setting up basically an even split with Texas in this rankings have been from scoring points - lots of points. 

(Now I know that it was the computers that put OU over the top, but for arguments sake, stay with me)

Now Mack, and many other coaches out there have stopped considering running up the score since they took out Margin of Victory from the computers deeming it unimportant.  But this year's national championship game could be determined by simply that - running up the score.

Anybody think that we could not have put 50+ or 60+ up against A&M if we keep our foot on the gas the whole time?  How about Kansas?  When did Colt come out against Colorado or Mizzou?  And what about our defenses?  How many 4th quarter "Meaningless points" did we give up because our second string was in the game?

All I heard today was "Oklahoma scored 60+ points the last 4 games...."  I don't like that this was rewarded.  I don't like what that means for college football. 

I have never been so happy to see someone lose as I was McGee today.  Seeing him on the sideline in the 4th quarter wearing a ball cap just made me thankful. 

I pride myself on being a UT fan and not a ATM or OU Hater..... in other words, I typically don't root against anyone else, just for my team.  But seeing McGee barking at our defense and remembering him and his attitutde and jawing from years past, and knowing how much pride that jawing caused so many ignorant fans to have.... just made me smile to see him standing there on the bad side of 49-9. 

Hook'em and Happy Thanksgiving!  BCS Bound!