Texas A&M Regent: Schedule Texas for 'cupcake' football game

In the four weeks since...

--Aggy loses 2 of 3 games by 18 and 20 points respectively.
--Aggy, who was ranked 9th at the time, has fallen completely out of top 25.

--UT has WON 2 of 3 games, both by at least a touchdown.
--UT remains ONLY team in Texas to beat a top 10 team.

Order in the universe seems to be restoring itself with the Horns on the rise and aggy on the decline. And, Buzbee is learning firsthand what it feels like to get trout-slapped by Karma.
 
old65horn said:
never play the aggys again
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While we are both midland programs no real way to prevent it. if one team gets good and the other worse it won't happen. SEC decides where Aggie plays and there may be times when SEC sacrifices ANM to Texas to build up LSU, Arkansas etc. recruiting. SEC may also continue to prevent Aggie loss to Big 12 for the obvious reasons and let them lose to Louisville, BC etc
 
LonghornDave said:
FINALLy a Californian that leaves Austin to back to the left coast. Hope the trend continues so Austin will be less Cali
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I've lived in Texas my whole life, yet had the unique opportunity of living in Austin 3 times...from 1993-97, 2000-01, and again from 2007-14.

The unique part was experiencing Austin in various stages during out-of-state invasion. Intermittent relocations allowed easily identifying the transformation upon each return.

Have to say the Austin I purposely left in 2014 was night and day from the culture I cherished so much in the past.

Pre-2010 there was no other place I'd rather live. I was sure I'd stay for good. Apparently, countless non-Texan invaders felt the same way and overran paradise.

Post-2010 the infestation had severely damaged the unique beauty of Austin life in my eyes. I'd move back tomorrow and never leave if OOS invaders began to bail in masses.

What a waste of a great place and cool Texan lifestyle. Austin remains a special place in some ways. But it was the bomb.com before being raided by people with no desire to share in the same Texan coolness with their hosts.
 
Brad, I left in 1975 to pursue my fortune but have been coming back every year, usually 2-4 times, since. Sadly it is no longer the unique, pristine environment that I was fortunate enough to have enjoyed in my early years. Still a great place to live and visit, Austin is not the jewel it once was, at least for me.

I had always envisioned retiring in Austin. I may still do so but, the cultural transition has been considerable and the traffic, wow. It is rapidly becoming just like many of the cities from which the new residents came because they wanted to escape the urban spraw.

Hopefully the city can hold onto enough of what made it special to keep it special.
 
Denver natives feels the same and I see happening to Nashville as well. Boise will be next if not already spoiled.
 
Agreed, the last 5 years have laid waste to Austin.
The "progress" up to that point had been anything but measured but at least the "make-over" was kept somewhat in check by the people. Now the growth is so fast and the influx of new people so great that the character of the city has been almost completely made over.
I could go on and on on this subject but I will spare you all my crotchety rant.
 
I was there from 1985-90 and go back once in a while. Austin doesn’t feel like Austin to me anymore, with a few exceptions. But everything changes and I’m grateful that I got to be there when it was something that could make me nostalgic today.

When I moved to Austin I had never lived in another city away from my parents, and they didn’t understand when I told them, about two weeks after moving, that I had never felt so at home.
 
Dionysus said:
Whoever did this posted a Google map to a house, indicating it is Sumlin’s place. I don’t know if it's his or not but that is not cool at all.
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I think it is well known to Aggies, so maybe nothing new.
 
I moved back in 2009 for work purposes. Traffic was bad, housing was expensive, too many Californians, growth was getting out of hand. I was spending so much time in DFW area, we decided to move back to Dallas. Austin will remain a nice place to visit and game day destination. Doubt I'll ever move back again.
 
My experience has been that over many decades, Austin is always changing "for the worse" and yet I have never found a place to live in Texas that I like better. It seems to change to fit the times and yet remains forever cool. I'm just lucky I live in Travis Heights.
 
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Yeah, it's made me real sad to see so many out of state plates on our roads now. I was born and raised here and have seen the transformation firsthand. Growing up here in the 70s and 80s was awesome.

Parking downtown on the weekends, going to Zilker park, seeing the Trail of Lights, enjoying the yearly kite festival, and seeing the fireworks show on the 4th are a thing of the past for me. Too many people, too much of a hassle and stressful. The cost of living, water restrictions, and the rudeness of our new neighbors is just too much for me. Austin may still be a cool place to move to, but it's not what it used to be. And for that reason, I'm out.
 
you know that's the kind of **** that makes me hate college football. it's not good enough to get someone fired because they might not have met standards...we have to ruin their lives. we have to tear them apart and in turn (whether on purpose or inadvertantly) we have to crap on their family too.

why cant it be enough that the guy just wasnt good enough at his job? why cant we leave it at that? why does it have to get so intensely personal?
 
Brad Austin said:
I've lived in Texas my whole life, yet had the unique opportunity of living in Austin 3 times...from 1993-97, 2000-01, and again from 2007-14.

The unique part was experiencing Austin in various stages during out-of-state invasion. Intermittent relocations allowed easily identifying the transformation upon each return.

Have to say the Austin I purposely left in 2014 was night and day from the culture I cherished so much in the past.

Pre-2010 there was no other place I'd rather live. I was sure I'd stay for good. Apparently, countless non-Texan invaders felt the same way and overran paradise.

Post-2010 the infestation had severely damaged the unique beauty of Austin life in my eyes. I'd move back tomorrow and never leave if OOS invaders began to bail in masses.

What a waste of a great place and cool Texan lifestyle. Austin remains a special place in some ways. But it was the bomb.com before being raided by people with no desire to share in the same Texan coolness with their hosts.
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This was inevitable. Charming towns attract people by the drove, and eventually morph into small cities, with little more than a vestige of the original charm. I'm sure people in the early 1700s bemoaned how NYC no longer had its small-town, island charm. Same thing about Houston c. 1970 (although Houston at its best was no Austin).

Somewhere, there is another Austin sprouting as we speak. In 2075, people will be complaining about how it is no longer as charming as it used to be.

Life marches on.
 
NRHorn said:
Not from a fan, from a regent. Unreal. This is why I despise these hypocrites. Buzzbe, your Ags play Ball St, Neveda and Western Carolina while UT played two top 25 teams in non conference. Buzzbee is a stand up guy, disappointing someone in a leadership position resorts to this childish behavior. Thank goodness for that last game.

Tony Buzbee, one of nine Texas A&M regents, posted on Facebook that he would advocate for the Aggies to add the Longhorns back on their schedule because they need more "cupcake" games, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
"I am going to advocate that the Aggies play Texas again in the near future. Because of our brutal SEC West schedule, where we play the likes of Alabama, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, LSU, etc., the Aggies need some cupcake games to rest and heal. In my view, Texas is just as weak if not weaker than the non-conference games we play, so we may as well play them."
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Same guy?
(it says FW, but River Oaks is Houston)

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Yes, also little Ricky Perry's attorney in his potential legal battle that disappeared. Same guy that tweeted about firing Sumlin after the UCLA game.
 
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