We are the Joneses - The Official Texas Longhorns Athletics Thread

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macpat said:
I'm predicting 5-1 or 4-2 at worst after that first 6.

UNT-steamrolled
BYU-after what happen last year, I'm sure the team will be amped for this one. And they are still pretty much one dimensional on offense and we no longer have Manny Diaz as DC.
UCLA-toss up that I think can go either way.
Kansas-steamrolled
Baylor-I have a feeling the defense will shut that offense down. And Ash put up 56 on them last time he played against them.
OU-rivalry games are always a toss up.


This is also provided David Ash stays healthy.
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I can see that. If we are 4-2 in the first 6, Texas could have a great season. I do see a UCLA loss though. I think Texas wants that BYU game, bad.
 
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I'm anxious to see how they do against UCLA. I think they will have a toughness about them. This is still a team that played for a conference championship last year with Mack.
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Could be like FSU post Bowden. I think Texas is much better shape than FSU was post Bowden. FSU went 10-4 first year I think the Texas team can go 3-1 vs BYU,UCLA,Baylor and Oklahoma stretch.
 
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750 mill worth of Facility Upgrades Coming
Per 247sports

Are the Texas Longhorns about to see the football facilities around campus get a facelift?

Evidently so.

Men's athletic director Steve Patterson told SiriusXM College Sports Nation on Friday that the school plans on spending around $750 million over the next six to eight years on facilities, including the completion of a new volleyball practice facility, a new tennis center, the eventual construction of a new basketball arena and a south end zone project at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium that includes upgrades to the Moncrief Complex.

“We're going to do some things here,” head coach Charlie Strong said during his interview on SiriusXM's Camp Tour stop in Austin. “We're going to get it done here rather soon and it's going to be really nice what we do.”

No talk was made about what specifically will be done, but Patterson noted that the Moncrief Complex is due for some improvement. Virtually every other Big 12 school, most notably Baylor and TCU in recent years as well as Texas A&M in the Southeastern Conference, has made facilities upgrades in recent years that have left Texas' looking out of date in some spots.

While the Longhorns could use a boost in the cosmetic look of their facilities, Strong wants to make sure that his program doesn't fall into the trap of being all hat and no cattle.

“I'll tell a kid, 'Hey, we have a nice training room but at night you're not sleeping in that training room,'” Strong said. “You're going to go off to your dorm room or go wherever you go.

“If a young man is coming here for a facility he's coming here for the wrong reason,” he added. “I want him to come here because he loves the University of Texas. I want him to come here because he wants to get an education, a great degree from a great university and that he wants to play for this great university. That's what it's all about.”

In the midst of the college football arms race to build the newest, most up-to-date facilities available, Strong wants to make sure coaches and administrators remember that they're all in the business of developing people first and foremost.

“The one thing we can't do as college coaches is devalue education,” Strong said. “That's what you're getting afraid of because everybody's building bigger, bigger, bigger, but still at the end of the day these young men have to graduate too. You don't always want to make it about facilities. But that's what it's really coming to.”
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watch this become a billy real quick. School just announced reaching the goal of $3 billion in donations for the medical school. We got that Saudi oil money
 
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I want to support both major Texas programs hiring black coaches, but Texas is a fairly arrogant program and A&M is in the SEC
 
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rantanamo said:
Even with having won pretty much nothing in the last 80 years, A&M is still the most arrogant program in the state.
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Texas was pretty arrogant last decade. I mean, it was sort of proven they were good on the field, but they were #1 last season. I do think they were humbled after the 2012 season though.
 
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Rigby. said:
Texas was pretty arrogant last decade. I mean, it was sort of proven they were good on the field, but they were #1 last season. I do think they were humbled after the 2012 season though.
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Is that your perception or do have something that says Texas was arrogant?
 
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I have a lot of perceptions about different schools and fanbases. Truth is, very little is probably true. Texas is just full of football players that do what their coaches allow. No different than any other program out there. Fans are no different from any other school out there. Its just a large, wealthy school that has invested well and has produced some damn wealthy people. Most are just regular folks like any other University. You get A&M though. I take it you haven't talked to their fans much. I have personally heard how they should have been in the title game the last two seasons and how they have been the best team in the SEC since they've been there. You will find out, just give it time(If the P5 doesn't decide to realign)
 
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