Webmaster:

If you're going to go to the trouble of spelling things out for me, spell them right. As for being jealous, hardly... I could have told you we would have gone 7-4 before the season even started. Didn't matter if we had injuries or not, we would have gone 7-4. Personally, I couldn't care less if the football team went 0-11 -- I've been to one football game my entire 3 years here (OU game last year - just cause my folks were in town), but I know a good, close game when I see it, and the UT - CU game wasn't one. Trust me, I'm not the guy that comes in and takes shots at UT -- there's a reason I don't say 'tu' or 't-sips' or any of that shit, its childish middle school crap, and you calling me "jealous of UT" puts you on that level.

I should have known you would have taken the yardage gain example so literally. I was just making a point that the score of a game is often not a good reflection of how close the game really was.

I realize you're jaded as a UT fan, and that you guys desperately wanted that win, so you want to believe that you really did play at Colorado's level. Yeah, it was close in the score, but after the first quarter, the result was never in doubt.

Try watching a few football games this weekend -- and by watching, I mean actually want every down, not just listen from the other room to whenever someone scores. You'll be surprised at how many games that end with only a difference of 7, 14, or 21 points, that no one in their right mind would consider a game where the outcome was in any doubt. I've even given you three examples the past month to look back on: UT/CU; UT/A&M; and the first 3 quarters of the 49ers/Bills. Scoring wise, they were all "close", but the game was never in doubt.

what is a red raider doing back on here so soon? i thought they would be tearing down something about now...i know they arent hitting the books...or maybe they are hitting them, with a goal post...ok, that was lame, but i have to study, A&M is a tough school

Yea, you see that as well as everyone else.... he's just having a diffcult time with it all.

Alright, it was a close game, UT ran out of time. Let's move on guys...

Matt from A&M:

You have got be the slowest fucker I know. I guess I just have to spell things out for you. "Maybe you are just jeaslous b/c A&M went 7-4 and didn't have a chance to even play in the Big XII championship and therefore say anything you can to put down the performance of UT."

Going by your logic you just used ... UT had 462 total yards, CU 334. Sounds like we would have the upper hand.

I don't see why you can't just accept the fact that is was a good close game.

laughing my ass off right now...

Uh, how exactly did you show anybody up? Oh, that's right...it was when you and your co-animals...er, co-eds...destroyed your own stadium and marched on the Aggie seats like you were the Nazis advancing on Poland. I'm sure the Alamo Bowl committee will be very proud when you fill half the seats, get your asses smoked on the field, and then go burn and loot the city.

We're still waiting on confirmation of that from LCC... there must be some form of intelligent life there...

thats the best thing to do when youve been shown up Ag: just sit down and shut up. you have proven that there is indeed intelligent life at a&m.

I can choose to ignore you.

*done*

i can try to explain it if your comprehension is lacking.

Yeah, I think he did... rather disconcerting, isn't it?

did he actually just write that?

so, if im correct, by your logic a&m was never in the game against us?

alamo bowl bound. get your guns up!!!

Webmaster:

Err uh... How much sense would that make... I'm from A&M -- you say I have a jealousy problem of UT since I claim that they were never in the game against Colorado, when I also posted that A&M was never in the game against Texas. Your point doesn't make much sense now, does it? If you've watched any amount of football in your life, you would know that it doesn't matter if the score is 56-0 or 7-0, a team can be just as out of it either way. Take the UT/A&M game for example or take the Buffalo Bills - 49ers game from Sunday as an example... It was 0-0 after the first quarter, only 14-0 after the 2nd -- but you'd be hard pressed to find ANYBODY who that at any point after the 1st quarter the Bills had any chance at all. It's like a team that drives 99 yards, and then fumbles to the other team, that goes 3 and out and punts it away. The team then drives down the field to the 1, and fumbles again to the other team - which then goes 3 and out. The score is still 0-0, but there's really no doubt who is in control of the game.

at least mack made the right decision and is starting applewhite in the holiday bowl.

Matt from A&M:

Yea, the A&M - UT game was a real close 50 minutes of football. And A&M was "still in the game" those 50 minutes. Then the last 10 minutes they lost their mentality and hence were no longer "in the game." I think you just have some kind of problem accepting that UT almost won the game. Maybe some type of jealousy problem? I don't know.

Applewhite didn't have the players around him that Simms did/does? What teams were you watching?

Kwame Cavil, Wane McGarity, *Ricky Williams*, Shaun Rogers, Casey Hampton, Aaron Humphrey, DD Lewis, Roger Roesler ... the list goes on. All of the above would be starters (or are starters) on this years team. The Big 3 recievers are great, no doubt, but none of them has posted a season like McGarity's final season (with Major) yet. Props to Maurice Gordon and Marcus Tubbs, but I gotta think that Rogers and Hampton, even as juniors, were better in their time.

The talent doesn't line up in the same places, but to say that this years team is a determining factor in Simms success while the '99 team held Major back is simply wrong.

No, Applewhite didn't lead UT to 10 regular season wins like Simms did. He could have led them to an undefeated season if he had the players Texas had this year. I mean come on, with the #2 defense in the country (a while back) and his receivers and running backs, Applewhite could have had even more wins. That's why the guy stold Ricky Williams's girlfriend years back. Not really, but it sounds cool because that's what I hear he did.

reggie played saftey at the end of the game on saturday b/c you want your best athelete on field in big games as much as possible. if A&M was treating him as a pos. player other than qb then he would be listed as an athelete not as a qb prospect. carter was told he could play qb for 3 years just like i am sure applewhite was before simms got there, but i guess we will just have to see wont we?

and what high school is this that you speak of?

reggie is also a safety for lufkin. a&m is not recruiting him as a qb. if they were, why have they promised other seniors in high school the starting job for the three years after farris leaves? (i know this because the qb at my high school was told that)

Not to knock the whole QB contraversy to the side but there are more important issues at hand. Like where to get reasonable Cotton Bowl or Galleryfurniture.com Bowl tickets. Right now fairly good seating in the cotton bowl is running about $100/ticket. Original Price was $70/ticket. But they sold out this morning around 9:30am. Anyone know where to get fairly good seats for a relatively good price or is Ebay the best way to go?

Webmaster:

If you believe that the score after each quarter is any reflection on whether or not either team is "in the game", then you haven't watched football very much. Notice the score of the A&M game at all?

After 1st Quarter: 7-0
After 2nd Quarter: 7-0
After 3rd Quarter: 7-7
After 4th Quarter: 21-7


Now are you honestly going to sit there and tell me that the game was, for all intents and purposes, not over after the blocked punt? By your scoring logic, A&M was still playing "as good of football" as UT up until the 4th, which is laughable.

Yeah, it's just too damn bad he can't go to another school. He's a junior. He transfers, he gives up a year of eligibility. Think about it. I agree, Simms will never be the leader and motivator that Applewhite is, but the guy doesn't deserve to be booed after every play either. And it has nothing to do with who Simms is, it's the fact that Texas has very few real fans. We have tens of thousands of people who call themselves fans, but that's as far as it goes. Real fans know that Simms isn't exactly being given a reason to win for the fans. It's not like Simms completely sucked it up this year. Like I said, the guy led us to 10 regular season wins. Major never accomplished that. Simms was going to redshirt this year, but when Applewhite had another knee surgery and was told that he "couldn't" play this year, Brown gave the job to Simms. But most Texas fans will never be able to see past the fact that he was chosen over Major and that is all the reason they need to hate him. It's not that he has failed in the big games, because we all know he's not the only Texas QB to royally screw up in a big game. Even Major had one or two of those. The big deal is that the name on the back of his jersey is Simms and not Applewhite.