Sports Illustrated's College Football Preview has Texas ranked 2nd in the nation, trailing only U$C.
In the tech world people often talk about the reality distortion field that seems to surround tech leaders such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The RDF causes ordinarily lucid people to believe anything they are told, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I think that such a field must exist around the Texas football team.
Mind you, I'm a Texas grad. Even a lifetime member of the Texas Exes. Maybe it's just that I've been disappointed so many times before. And every year it's the same thing: Texas has a great recruiting class; Texas is highly ranked in the pre-season polls; Texas self destructs in the big games.
Sooner or later you have to detect a pattern and try to learn from it. Texas teams seem to consistently underperform. Why is that? I think it's pretty clear that it comes down to coaching. But DeLoss Dodds doesn't seem to have figured that out. He continually hires great PR men (who excel above all else at selling themselves) and continually misses out on great coaches.
On the other hand, maybe we are #2. We'll know for sure when we hear the flushing sound as our season goes down the — uh — drain.
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Texas Exes? When I saws those license plate frames, I just assumed it was Texa Sexes.
Ya learn something gnu every day.
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