So I'm on Twitter and see that FootballRumorMill has a link about Tubby being on the hot seat at Texas Tech.  I think, "Wait, that sounds like something Seth said" and I laughed to myself because I know that Seth would probably not want to be the source of legitimate speculation.  So I clicked on the link, and what do you know...

http://www.examiner.com/texas-tech-red-raiders-in-lubbock/tuberville-may-be-trouble-at-texas-tech

Our Seth is Big Time!  However, I am curious if he feels comfortable being the source of this speculation that is now burning up Twitterdom?

Curious Antiswarms want to know.

Several sources reporting that this is legit...

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In This Scenario The Big East Implodes, Armageddon Happens, Hilarity Ensues

So some Big East schools might be planning a Sampson Option in order to force re-alignment and screw with everyone's plans.  The SEC sweeps up some leavins, the Big 12 grabs a few... or the Pac-12 panics and all bets are off...

WHAT?  WHEN? WHO KNOWS?  WTF?  WHERE DO WE LAND?  F TEXAS AND F ALL THESE PEOPLES AND WHERE IS SARR WHEN WE NEED HIM?

Football Rumor Mill 5:42 pm on September 25, 2011  

Sources tell #FRM that the top candidate to replace the fired Mike #Locksley at New Mexico is former Texas Tech coach Mike #Leach

 

Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!  Don't do it Mike!

A couple of weeks ago...

**ringydingyding**

Larry Scott: Hello?

David Boren: Yeah Larry, This is OU. We're #1 in the country and we have been like... oh, I don't know... maybe 100 times. Anyway, we're comin' to play in your sandbox.

Scott: Hey, 10-4. I figured you'd call. I've got Deloss Dodds on hold. I'm not takin' the call.

Boren: Yeah, don't. Let them sweat it out.

Scott: Anyway, I suppose you're bringing that other school... the copycats with the rich guy, and the crazy coach who is 40.

Boren: Yeah. And we're bringing Texas Tech too. They're the only team in Texas that doesn't totally creep us out, and they give us a good game every other year... and we like recruiting in West Texas... but mainly because it will piss UT off.

Scott: Sounds like a deal, besides, we need their help with what we've got planned for the Longhorns.

Boren: Oh, this sounds excellent.

Scott: Yeah, right now they are screwed. Everyone admits they overplayed their hand. They could have come last summer and they would have gotten whatever they want. But their stupidity this summer was just... so Missouri with a hint of Aggie. Anyway, they are out of options. ACC won't take 'em, SEC don't want 'em, Big 10 won't put up with their shit. They can go Independent in football, but that is a non-starter. With super-conferences even BYU and Notre Dame are looking to join conferences. Texas is stuck out. I suppose they can join BYU and Notre Dame and have a 3 team religious cult conference.

Boren: Yeah, Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet... oh, shit, add Baylor too, with that lawyer they have running the place they can be the Devil's Advocate.

Scott: Well, listen, you might not like this, but we do want to add Texas. Their ignorant, in-bred T-shirt fans watch Texas games and we need to split up that revenue, but we definitely "Bevo" them first. That means we'll emasculate them.. you know, cut off their nuts.

Boren: I do know what castration is. I used to be a Senator.

Scott: Anyway, we'll play them off for a couple of weeks and let them act like they're the big gorilla throwing their weight around. Then they'll call back and we'll put it to them.

Boren: Alright, but it better be good!

A FEW WEEKS LATER

**ringydingyding**

Scott: Hola!

Bill Powers: Larry? Why haven't you been taking my calls?

Scott: Because we don't give a shit about you, Bill. We've already got OU, OSU, and Tech. We can add whomever we want for the 16th.

**Bill Powers looks that up in his handy truth-to-uT speak translation handbook: "anything negative said to you means that they are jealous and that they want to be UT")**

Powers: Oh, I see that you are jealous of our power and you want us really bad. You wish you were a Longhorn.

Scott: No, I said that you are a bunch of assholes and we hope hell opens up underneath you and swallows you up. And... you were 5-7 last season. And your coach is a robot. And none of your quarterbacks are Doege at all.

Powers: (looking at translation handbook) I see that you are nervous about our awesome power and that you can't wait to sign us up for your little league over there.

Scott: We don't want you.

Powers: I see that you want us.

Scott: I'm hanging up.

Powers: Wait.. just wait. (sighs and throws away translation handbook) Ok, we overplayed our hand. We're fooked, and we need help.

Scott: Now we can talk.

Powers: Please take us?

Scott: Give up everything and call me your daddy.

Powers: Ok, but don't make us eat the whole crow at one time. Throw us a bone. Let us keep a shell of the LHN. You can gut the shit out of it, but don't humiliate us in front of the thinking whole world and Craig James.

Scott: Ok, but in the contracts we are going to BEVO the crap out of the LHN.

Powers: Fine. And... and... please let us tell everyone we won.

Scott: Whatever. Anything else?

Powers: And when this gets reported, we already got ESPN to say that UT and OU are leading the charge out of the Big 12. Okie Lite and Tech are just afterthoughts. I'd really rather not read that OU, OSU, and TT already had this deal inked weeks ago.

Scott: Whatever again. Anything else, Jerky?

Powers: Before you pound us in the back seat, will you tell us you love us and tell us we're pretty?

Scott: Yeah.. all that. Get in the back seat and drop 'em darlin'.

**click**

Bruce Feldman is on Dan Patrick burning down ESPN! He's gone to CBSSports and really just burned down ESPN. He claims he was suspended, and in fact his punishments were increased on the day that ESPN said that he wasn't suspended.

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I actually had a very long (more than a month) visit to Austin this past winter.  I didn't tell y'all I was there, because I didn't want you guys hitting on me.  Despite all my misgivings, there were some awesome things:

1.  Can't remember the name of it, but it is a Mexican food joint over by the Half-Price books off of Mo-Pac.  That place rocks.  I ate there every time I was at the Half-Price Books, which was all the time.

2.  Opal Divines.  Fish and Chips were crazy good.  Went there maybe 4 times.  I'd way 300 lbs. if I live there.

3.  Half-Price Books.  I went to all of them, all of the time.  I read Herodotus in Austin while swelled up with Fish and Chips.

4.  HEB.  Whole-Foods.  Sprouts.  Nothing like that anywhere near where I live.

5.  That big Texas history museum.  Man.  We were there for four hours and I saw about half of it.

Anyway, everyone was pretty nice, and the food was good, and there were lots of books.  All-in-all, a good visit.

Thanks!

Wreck 'em!

http://www.doubletnation.com/2010/9/14/1688280/intangibles-or-why-we-will-win

" It goes beyond football. It is necessary class warfare. It is the war of the real and legitimate people against the entitled, the cheaters, the aristocracy, the oligarchical asshats of Texas and the world who rule and reign by the sheer accident that their daddies were able to plunder and destroy their enemies long before I was born. They are the principalities, powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world, they are the epitome of spiritual wickedness in high places. They killed JFK, brought down the towers, handed the Republic over to be raped, tortured, and occupied by Yankees and lowlifes who still feed on the burning corpse of freedom. So yes, I'll be rooting for Texas Tech against the so-called "university of Texas", while the rest of the world bows down to that queen of slime, that queen filth, that queen of putrescence. No matter what the scumbags in the front office do, I won't desert my post"

Only once before have I used up a fanpost to predict a victory... go read it.  It was on October 26, 2008.  Well, I didn't predict a victory last year because my intangible meter wasn't feeling like a win was imminent.  But my intangible meter is going off... right now.

What does the intangible meter measure?  Who knows?  The measurables are immeasurable intangibles.  If they were tangible, you would know, but you don't, because they aren't tangible (which is what intangible means).  I like words that end in "gible", like dirigible (which apparently is like a blimp), and frangible (which sometimes refers to bullets, but also can refer to a dirigible if you are dumb enough to fill it with hydrogen, like in the Hindenburg:

Which brings me to my point, with all the distractions and new stuff, and political junk going on, I had to look elsewhere for intangibles.  The intangible meter works better when there aren't a bunch of tangibles mucking up the test.  So I point it at Austin, and the intangible meter spit out the picture of the Hindenburg crashing.  The unquestionable message?  uT is going down.  Why?  Intangibles.

Sometimes the very weight of history bears down on an event.  I am not a football expert, but I am a historian, and anyone who actually studies history knows that there is an ebb and flow of history that transcends individual cause and effect.  When that guy said, "Even God couldn't sink the Titanic", you had to just know something bad was going to happen.  And it did.. the Titanic, which some idiot had filled with hydrogen, smacked into some antenna thingy and crashed into New Jersey.  Why they found the wreckage in the Atlantic, I don't know... because that is an intangible (which means unknowable too).

Here is what I wrote to a good friend on Facebook when he was voicing his opinion that we ought not root for Tech because of what happened to Mike Leach:

" It goes beyond football. It is necessary class warfare. It is the war of the real and legitimate people against the entitled, the cheaters, the aristocracy, the oligarchical asshats of Texas and the world who rule and reign by the sheer accident that their daddies were able to plunder and destroy their enemies long before I was born. They are the principalities, powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world, they are the epitome of spiritual wickedness in high places. They killed JFK, brought down the towers, handed the Republic over to be raped, tortured, and occupied by Yankees and lowlifes who still feed on the burning corpse of freedom. So yes, I'll be rooting for Texas Tech against the so-called "university of Texas", while the rest of the world bows down to that queen of slime, that queen filth, that queen of putrescence. No matter what the scumbags in the front office do, I won't desert my post"

That quote is full of intangibles, and so is my theory, which is why I know it is right.  Texas Tech will win on Saturday because it is RIGHT that we win.  And, because the so-called "university of Texas" is full of hydrogen right now, and they are inevitably going to crash into the massive antenna that is the Red Raiders.  That makes them frangible, which means that they will bust into a brazilian pieces.

SARR called it, and I'm calling it, even if I thought of calling it before he did.  We will win, because this picture is just too awesome:

I know this theory flies in the face of SARR's "formula" theory.  I am not superstitious, which means "more than stitious".  I'm just regular stitious.  So I like logic and science, which is what my theory is based on, even though I am not a professional scientologist.  I just think immeasurable intangibles measured through an intangible meter is more scientific than whether or not you hit a squirrel the day before the game.

According to the Intangibility Meter, we will win because of:

a) The vibe of the thing

b) The flow of history

c) The weight of "rightness"

d) The fact that a whole university full of jackholes needs a foot in their collective "James's".

I hope you enjoyed my theory,

Antiswarm

I know how many of you are feeling right now.  But it just doesn't matter.  Some jackholes fired your coach, then promised you pie in the sky.  Someone offered you a chance at the gold ring, and now they are snatching it away... But it just doesn't matter.  I know some of you want to cry, but it just doesn't matter.   They say your fanpost is only 69 words long, but you know, it just doesn't matter...

KWash inspired me to continue my education on the Pac-10.  KWash and I promise to be diligent students and to try to develop some care about this.  We desire to become your guides and your local experts on all things Pac-Whatever.  I have enlisted the help of my Pac-10 friend who has promised to keep tutoring me and to try to build my interest in all things West Coast.  Here is what I have learned so far. Also remember that my friend is a BEAVERS fan, which means that he likes the Oregon team that is the Beavers and which is also called OSU, but (and this is important) they are NOT one of the two OSU's you would normally think about (Ohio State or Oklahoma State):

 

1.  Some schools in Oregon.  Beavers Good, Ducks Bad  (this, apparently, is not a measurement of athletic quality, but of universal moral value).  I am to repeat once a day, "Beavers are Good".  I remember this by the initials "BAG", which I remember by thinking that, as a hunter, I would want to BAG some BEAVER.  I also remember that I am trying to give a damn, and Beavers build dams.  By the way, apparently Oregano is not from Oregon, but Hops is, so there is that.

 

2.  Apparently there are several teams with a Bear-like mascot.  Cal (I still can't get the name right.  It's not really "Cal", but something about Berkeley.  I remember this by remembering that Ronald Reagan sent troops into Berkeley in the 60's, and he also killed a bear when he was only 3 and threatened to bomb the shit out of Russia, which is a Bear.  So my inner dialogue goes like this:  "Ronald Reagan< Bear=Russia ->the Cal which is in Berkeley.  They are also a bunch of commies, like the Russians used to be.

 

The other Bear team is UCLA, which I remember by remembering John Wooden.   John Wooden coached at UCLA (pronounced Uck-La) so they must be a basketball school".  I also think that they may be pro-gay.  My Pac-10 friend didn't say that, but by not saying it he strongly hinted at it.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.  The Uckla and uT games could get interesting, in a "keep an eye on Bevo" kind of way.

3.  USC I know, because... well, because everyone knows USC.  Apparently they are cheaters, and Will Ferrell goes to their practices to help them cheat.  This is the Hollywood team, so I know they are bad and a bunch of cheaters.  They are not like Oklahoma, because Oklahoma doesn't get caught.  So they are dumb cheaters.

4.  Stanford is the smarty-pants school that produces serial cheaters like Tiger Woods.  So I remember it because women should not marry men from Stanford, because they will always be all smarty-pants cheaters.

5.  Now I know that there are two teams in the state of Washington, but only one is Washington State.  The other is cleverly called "Washington".  Neither team is in any way related to George Washington or Washington D.C.  Either one could be good at any particular time, so you have to watch out for them, and someday - maybe - Our Beloved Mike Leach (pause... head bowed...may he rest on beach) may be the coach of one of them.  So for now, I just think of them as a couple of teams one of which Mike Leach may someday coach.  I also think of apples.

6.  So there are two teams from Arizona, and I really have to study about these, because they are going to be in our "division".  The Arizona State team is the "Sun Devils".  Devils are bad, so we should be against them.  That part makes sense.  I don't know why they are still allowed to use the "devils" in their name.  Maybe the real devils aren't offended and haven't protested like the "native americans" did.  I still find it offensive towards real devils.  They have a hand signal that is supposed to be a pitchfork and it looks like the uT thing kind of but also it is giving you the finger at the same time:

 

via campus.asu.edu

The ASU people say that the three fingers have important meaning... each one represents an important value that is part of the Sun Devil Way:  achievement, engagement, and responsibility.  But that sounds like a load of crap.  At Tech we have one finger up, and it is a gun, which is a threat that maybe someday we won't be shooting upwards.  At uT they have two fingers up, but that is because they all worship the devil.  Since ASU is actually called the "devils" and their handsign is called "the pitchfork", I'm thinking it is not as esoteric and benevolent as they say, but then, I'm pretty cynical.  When uT plays ASU everyone will be worshiping the devil, but the ASU fans will also be giving uT the finger.  (***edited to fix glaring error about who the Arizona team is with the coach who is related to Bob Stoops***)

The other Arizona team is the Arizona Wildcats.  They can be pretty good sometimes, but their team logo looks like the old City of Arlington "A".  They desperately need a PR/Marketing team.  They call themselves the "cats", but they must be some type of desert cat because most of Arizona is a desert, and my cats hate it when it is hot and they just sit up under the house and sleep all day.  These cats play Toledo in September of this year and it will be on ESPN, so they must have some kind of inside scoop or access to Craig James, because otherwise... What.  The.  Hell?  I also think that ASU's coach is related somehow to the Oklahoma coach.  Maybe they are married.

If I have time, I hope to put up a guide to the Big-12 South teams that are going to be part of the new conference - as a benefit to Pac-10 people who may not know much about us (as if) but who are visiting DTN for special insight and intelligence.

I just wanted to keep you all up on what I had learned.

Peace.

My initial thoughts.

Wow.  Ok, that hurt a bit.  I can tell you that just absolutely nothing worked today, and there is something we can learn from that.  I really don't think that this loss says much about us as a team.  I reject what Herbstreit said, that "this says something about Tech down in the trenches".  Here is a fact.  Sometimes you just hit a streak where absolutely nothing goes well or right for you.  I mean, these guys didn't even look like our Red Raiders.  They were stumbling around on the field, falling down, running into eachother.  I can tell you, back when I was an athelete, I had days like that.  Days when absolutely nothing could go wrong, when everything you touched turned to gold, where you could see the end before the beginning, when everything was easy and nobody could stop you.  And I have had days where it seemed like my shoes didn't fit, and like one leg was longer than the other, or like the ground was tilted.  I had practices on the basketball court where I could have shot free throws for 24 hours and I wouldn't have made 20%, and I was a 94% free throw shooter.  If you ever played any game at any level, you know those days.

Don't get me wrong.  We just played the best team in the nation in my opinion, and they smacked us right in the mouth.  They get all necessary kudos from me.  But I have to think that something was deeply wrong with the team tonight.  Some glitch in the matrix or some miss in the corealis effect or something.  I've known those days.  Anyways, if I were the coaches or the team, I wouldn't try to overthink this thing.  I wouldn't sink into a "Tin Cup" period of self reflection, wondering if we were hypernating when we should have been pronating, and buying a lot of self-help gadgets and psychology books.  I loved that Leach went for the Touchdown at the end, and then went for the onside kick.  Loved it.  It reminded me of Tin Cup hitting ball after ball into the lake.  Sometimes you have a bad day and you just have to be yourself and get through it.

I want to also say that I am very well pleased with the Tech fans, and I really hope to not see much of the crap we have seen from some other teams fans after a loss (or a sucky season)...

I don't want to read anyone pouting or bad-talking other teams we have played or will play; or pontificating that us losing the game was actually a good thing, because that leaves us room to improve... like aggie.

I don't want to read any crybaby excuses (like longhorn).  We didn't get beat by the refs, and this was not the result of being the fourth game in our "gauntlet".  We weren't tired, beat up, hormonal, or PMS'ing.  It wasn't the OU fans, and I am mostly sure the city of Norman didn't conspire to gas the bus.  I'm not saying that we shouldn't take whatever restaurant fed the team off the "approved" list, but I'm saying those aren't the reasons we lost.

I hope (and I know) that most Tech fans are glad to be where we are, we are happy to have such an excellent team, such an awesome coach, and we are pleased us punch for a beautiful season of incredible football.  I can't wait to see how it ends.

Y'all remember, wherever you go, and wherever you talk football, to give the great Oklahoma Sooners their props.  What a game, and what a performance.  I tip my cap to them, and congratulate them on a great win.

I look forward to the Baylor Game, and to see how things unwind.

What a year.

Peace

Tired of always having to have your team prove itself on an actual field?  Are you sick of little things like "losses" keeping you from automatically being given whatever you want?

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I want to also address some of the media spin about the Tech win...

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UT fans and writers are already preparing themselves for a loss to Tech.

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Texas is the best team in the country. No doubt. That’s why they’re #1. Sometimes #1 gets beaten.  They can have a bad day.  They can run into a team playing way over it's collective heads.  They can underestimate a team that has yet to be really tried. Tech has thrived on the lack of respect and the doubt this season. If Tech wins, they will have beaten the best team in the country, and a team that has proven they deserve to be in these types of games.  I want to see Tech get its props if that happens.

The upside for Tech is that before every game so far, everyone has dismissed them, bad talked their defense, and guaranteed that this was the game they would lose. After every game, the same people (and the Big 12 hating east coast media elite) have then trashed the team Tech just beat by saying “well, they just weren’t that good”. That is what some folks are now saying about Kansas. But they just won’t be able to say that about Texas…

 

Texas is as good as we think. Knowing that will help Tech. Texas and their fans dismissing Tech can only be in Tech’s favor.

Everything will have to go right for Tech to get a win.  But I think they can do it.  Listen, there are two main things that will contribute to a Tech victory in Lubbock:

1. If Texas trips up… at all. They need to play nearly a perfect game, which means they need to score on virtually every drive without a turnover. If I were uT's coaches, I would assume Tech is going to do so, even if they may not.

2. If Texas players come into the game with an attitude of dismissing a very good Tech team... the same attitude evident in some of the teams we have played this year, and the same attitude now evident on the Texas blog.

I warned the overconfident KU fans not to do what many of your fans here are doing. Mack Brown himself said that many Texas fans were “stupid” because they had the luxury of not watching film of OSU. I suggest some of you watch the film of the Kansas game.

Granted, KU is not Texas. Texas gets all the respect from us it is due.

Coach Mack Brown had this to say about some Texas fans:

"You all are fools," Brown said. "Absolute fools."

Brown said he even heard some people talking during the week about a burnt orange blowout (against OSU).

"It's really an advantage when you don't watch film," he said. "Because then you can be stupid."

I predict a Tech win, because I don’t believe Texas players or their fans have any idea what to expect in Lubbock. If Texas comes in with the right idea and mindset, they will win. I don’t think they will.

Peace