Friends, Romans, Longhorns, Ladies, Gentlemen and Aggie trolls.  Due to the recent stresses of school, I feel I have been a bit aloof on this, the most sacred weeks of school, so I felt it necessary to open up a thread for some ridiculousness to keep the intensity up.  The following is a link and a post from a summer time thread from '08 where out of boredom we began to discuss which out of conference fellows we hate the most.  I took it upon myself to just rant on Agglet U because well, screw em.  I appologize for the language, its from a younger time when I was apparently very fond of the F-bomb, e.i. don't show your child this post if they are under the age of 16.  I'll go through and filter some of the unnecessary F words.  It's a bit dated as you will see from the mentions of Goodson, the J-train and McGee, but still quite an entertaining  read.  Add your own hate for the fake farmers from the armpit of America.  Peace and Love to everybody that doesn't live in College Station.

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2008/7/30/583105/most-hated-teams#7794305

Hook 'em.  Beat the sheep off of A&M guys' D!@k$

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This isn't a post to compare ourselves to one another and see who the bigger fan is.  This more just an opporutnity for posters to take a stroll down memory lane and remember the time where they officially started bleeding orange.  I'm sure this sort of post has been done on BON before, but I thought it might be fun/interesting to see each other's memories.  Discussing this season's team has exhausted me and probably many of us, so hopefully this provides some of us with a temporary getaway.

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After 24 hours of miserable driving from LA to Dallas with way too much time to think I have mostly gotten over my anger and numbness.  The pain is real and fuck it, its time to deal with it.  I think its now time to get over the sadness both for us as well as the sadness for our players.  The situation sucked, sucks and always will, but with the heart our players showed Thursday night proves that they don’t need our pity, so let’s stop pitying them and if they don’t need it we shouldn’t either.  We all know in our hearts and souls what would have happened had Colt played all 60 minutes.  To hell with anybody’s “No, you don’t KNOW that!”  No I know and no argument will ever change what I know, but I will accept that fact that IT didn’t.  Colt will be a better player/person for this experience and we need to be better fans for it.  Gilbert was put in the toughest situation in UT football history and he was able to give us something worth watching.  He brought his team closer to beating Alabama than Tebow did and needless to say Tebow had a few more snaps to his resume.  Before Thursday night’s game I thought we were in for a 3+ loss season next year and who knows we might be, but due to Gilbert’s performance I say we have another shot at a title.  After catching up on as many interviews as possible since the two day drive I noticed the lack of excuses made by our players.  That shows the discipline and respect our team has.  Anybody willing to explain discipline and respect to Saban and his (throat cutting gesture) Heisman winner and Co. feel free.  Sure we lose a lot, from Colt, Shipley and a lot of our O-line to Sergio, Lamarr and Earl, BUT We’re Texas and we don’t rebuild, we reload.

Hook 'em everybody, thanks for reading the small silver lining I campe up with after 24 hours on the road and 24 hours of self help therapy.  Hope to be sipping on hand granades on Bourbon St. with y'all come this time next year.

I don't know if this has already gotten any attention on BON yet, but I just got this through an e-mail on a list serve that I'm a part of.  Apparently this was on cbssports.com a couple weeks ago, but somebody took it down?  Could be complete trash, but fill me in if you have any information, I don't know whether or not to hope its true.

May 8, 2009
CBSSports.com wire reports

GREENSBORO -- Less than a week after the Big XII coaches rejected a proposal to change the controversial tiebreaker that gave the Oklahoma Sooners last season’s Big XII South title over the Texas Longhorns, a team who soundly beat the Sooners earlier in the season, CBS Sports has learned the Longhorns are in negotiations to leave the Big XII and join the Atlantic Coast Conference. The surprise announcement could come as early as next week.

According to a source within CBS Sports partner conference, the ACC, Texas Athletic Director, Deloss Dodds and members of his staff flew to ACC headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina late last week to meet with ACC Commissioner, John Swofford, in anticipation of the Big XII’s stunning tiebreaker decision just two days ago. 

According to Big XII and ACC bylaws, leaving the Big XII for the ACC is expected to cost the Longhorns in excess of $5 million, and would require a qualifying vote of both the ACC member schools as well as the Texas legislature. However, those steps are seen as a mere formality due to the resulting financial windfall for all involved. 

In walking away from the Big XII, Texas is leaving behind a conference that has struggled to gain traction in the years since its inception. Former football power, Nebraska, has been mired in mediocrity, with no team stepping up to fill the void in the talent poor Big XII North. For the past decade, the conference has been propped up solely by Texas and Oklahoma’s annual inclusion in the National Championship hunt, with sporadic appearances in the BCS top 25 by Texas Tech, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma State. In basketball, despite powerhouses Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas providing plenty of top 15 rankings, the Big XII has languished behind more notable basketball conferences, the Big East and the ACC in both post season performance and reputation.

The ACC, which is celebrating its 55th year of existence today, is seemingly aglow at the prospect of adding Texas and its rich tradition. In landing the Longhorns, the ACC not only adds an annual National Championship frontrunner to the fold, something they have sorely lacked for the latter half of this decade, but they also add an impressive TV market to their stable as well. Currently ranking a second in conference viewership behind the SEC, the addition of the Texas TV market is almost certain to make them the runaway leader in that field. According to the Media Information Center, the Texas Longhorns own the largest TV market in the country, nearly 30% larger than the second ranked school, the University of Southern California. 

Bringing Texas into the conference would almost assuredly allow the ACC to immediately rework their TV deal with Fox, which doesn’t expire until 2012, and could result in the largest TV payout in NCAA history. The Longhorns, despite the $5 million cost of making the switch, stand to increase their annual media revenue by nearly 60%. 

Long rumored to be interested in adding a 13th and 14th team since the admission of Boston College as the 12th and final member in 2004, the ACC has been unable to identify any willing institutions that met the conference’s standards of academic excellence in addition to athletic prowess. In the Longhorns, the ACC would gain one of the most respected public universities in the country, and a regular member of national undergraduate and graduate program rankings.

Though still yet to be determined, sources say the ACC is strongly considering identifying and adding the 14th and final member this summer. Any team added however, including Texas, would realistically have to wait until the 2010 or 2011 season to commence participation in ACC conference play for any NCAA sport. The front runners for the 14th spot are expected to be Texas A&M, a fellow Big XII member school with strong academics and a solid athletic track record, and Big East member, the University of Connecticut, whose upstart football program and championship winning basketball programs make it a logical fit.. However, conference officials might instead attempt to lure Notre Dame into the fold, though the prospects of their joining the ACC appear slim. 

If both Texas and Texas A&M leave the Big XII for the ACC, the domino effect would almost certainly result in the collapse of the Big XII as we know it. The resulting effect could possibly see the SEC add Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, with Missouri going to the Big Ten and Colorado joining the Pac-10, along with long rumored addition, Hawaii. The remaining 6 Big XII teams ? Texas Tech, Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, and Iowa State would likely split up and join the Mountain West and Big East conferences or cherry pick 6 to 8 additional teams from the Mountain West, Conference USA, Western Athletic Conference and Big East in an effort to remain a BCS member conference. 

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I have a feeling that Dodds knows what he's doing, and is just trying to make the Big XII shit their pants a little bit, but thats just me.  I know that if we left the Big XII then we'd still play OU and A&M, because thats just in the bylaws of college football, but I think I would miss our annual throwdowns with the rest of the South, and our showdowns with  occasionally good Nebraska and Mizzou.  What do y'all think?  Both about the truth behind this and the effects of it happening?

Miami vs. Texas rivalry?  Doesn't sound right.