TxHoops
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Cards with a road win at Montana today, 68-63 to improve to 3-1.
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17 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:
OF returns onside kick for a TD
Two point good
29-20 OF
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You somehow manage to find the good games to attend, more often than not.
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Very interested to see how both of these teams perform tonight with everyone fighting for a share of the district title. Not sure you could possibly have more distractions all the way around.
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2 hours ago, bullets13 said:
no competitive disadvantage could be proven through a preponderance of evidence. Big difference that you guys need to learn.
I think I could have worked with the preponderance of the evidence here. Beyond a reasonable doubt, no way. But convincing 10 of 12 laypeople shenanigans were at work from the video, I like my chances.
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!!:6/35/F
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2 hours ago, BEARCPA said:
I’d like it to go on record that the yahoos on this thread spewing nonsense and trying to change the subject make up what is a (very) loud minority of LCM folks.
I’ve known Hunter a long time and consider him a friend. Looks like he made a mistake in the heat of battle and will have to live with the consequences. Unfortunate situation all around.
Don’t know him but have heard this from multiple sources I know and trust.
Now stop trying to lend sanity and reason to this otherwise trainwreck of a thread.
P.S. to mods - can we lift Cardinal Backer’s suspension for this thread only? I feel like he was made for this thread.
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8 hours ago, wo-s#1 said:
History is one thing and this game is a different thing..that’s not a very good record against BC btw lol
I was thinking you would think the way folks are talking it would have been total domination, like say WOS vs LCM…
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On 11/5/2025 at 2:20 PM, Bobcats0809 said:
Well BC fans are historically whiny, & everyone has calls, situations, etc that don’t go their way. It sucks for sure but I don’t get online and whine like a 13 year old girl 🤷♂️
On 11/5/2025 at 2:37 PM, Split Down The Bayou said:As an alum of OF and a follower of BC (due to family) both fanbases can be pretty whiny😂 In every sport!
Obviously we have way more history with BC than LCM. But I have found them equally annoying. As I’m sure they have found us (and I even find us annoying at times). My vote for least annoying goes to WOS and Vidor. Regardless, we all have close friends from all communities and I always root for OC teams against non-OC teams. I’m guess I’m kind of like the annoying SEC homers in that respect.
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On 11/5/2025 at 10:52 AM, Split Down The Bayou said:
The easy road is cheating😂 If you were playing poker and found out the person winning at the table had cards in their sleeve, would you not want your money? Or would you consider that to be a gift? BC is completely justified in bringing this to light, so would anyone else in a similar situation.
So is it true or not true that the LCM coaching staff went to a Chauncey Billups coaching clinic this past summer?
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It starts at the top. Lamar athletics is where it is, first because Jaime Taylor is a University President who believes in the value of athletics. And he went out and found an ELITE AD in Jeff O’Malley. Rossomando was not sitting under our noses and at the time was a “who’s that?” hire. O’Malley went across the country and found a program changer. Hopefully we can keep all of them for a while.
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Two observations. Texas is just awful offensively. It’s more OL than Arch (which if you know football at all, is obvious. Arch certainly has been bad but he’s never had a chance to pick up any momentum either.
They finish 8-4 maybe 7-5 possibly. 9-3 ceiling and 6-6 basement. They could easily lose to Miss St next week, likely lose to Vandy, definitely lose to UGA on road, almost certainly beat Arkansas, and will probably beat A&M imo.
A&M should win on Saturday because I’m probably going to Lake Charles and bet on LSU at +2.5 or maybe +3 depending on price (going so I can bet on Dallas Mavs over 41.5 wins - one of my favorite futures in a long, long time).
Oh and Texas wins the SEC and goes undefeated in the SEC last year if Mason Shipley had been their kicker.
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This was written by a high school friend, who graduated a year behind me, and posted on social media. As he states in the preamble, it’s lengthy but I found it worth the read. I also found it deeply relatable so I thought I would share it here for those trying to exist with the craziness going on all around us:
“I know this is way too long for most of you to actually read, but for the few readers and thinkers in my orbit: I offer some (personal) thoughts on why political and cultural moderates like me are increasingly silent amidst all the violence and chaos that is rotting our great Republic.
WHY I’VE STAYED SILENT ON ALL OF IT
I used to imagine that someone in the political middle, someone aligned with neither of the extremes nor indifferent to public life, could speak up and help steady the discourse. I believed that moderation, reasonableness, and a willingness to hear the other side might have some purchase. But over time, watching how our public square has become not just loud but corrosively hostile, I’ve come to the conclusion that adding my voice now may well be pointless. I no longer speak if I cannot, or will not, be heard.
The primary reason for my silence is simple: in this moment, the middle voice barely rises above the din. Every statement is swallowed by louder, more polarized voices peddling arrogant certainty, misplaced grievance, and unmitigated fury. When reasonable claims get drowned out by emotionally charged slogans, one is forced to ask: what is the gain in speaking at all?
There is a bitter irony here: those who claim to defend “free speech” frequently turn on moderates who insist on nuance. The common tack taken by the most vocal on both sides is to invoke free-speech rhetoric only when it serves their side and may turn harshly on dissenters otherwise.
The Harper’s Magazine editorial “Letter on Justice and Open Debate” (2020) warned that “[t]he intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty” now infects both sides.
So, increasingly, moderate voices stay mute, partly out of self-defense: if your voice will only be used as a target, why volunteer it?
There is a second, deeper reason that I remain silent. In extreme environments, reasoned argument loses traction. When people are primed by anger, fear, or identity-based tribalism, they respond not to evidence but to narrative, symbolism, and emotional resonance. If a moderate speaks in calm tones, they risk seeming weak or irrelevant. If they raise their voice, they risk being absorbed into the very hell they wished to escape.
In that sense, the act of speaking may force us to adopt harsher tone, cruder frames, or safer alliances. But to do that, we sacrifice the very quality (temperance, nuance) that defines political moderation. And so I prefer silence to distortion, rejection, or complicity in the poison.
There is a kind of tragic resonance here with Faulkner’s observation in The Sound and the Fury (via Quentin):
“Because no battle is ever won … The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
That line haunts me: it suggests that the spectacle of conflict lays bare our own weaknesses, not any grand moral certainty. Speaking in that field can feel like rehearsing a folly, repeating the despair.
But my silence does not signify my apathy. Nor does it signify my complicity (though, admittedly, silence sometimes serves complicity). Rather, it is a recognition of my limits and the dangers I see in shallow participation. I still observe, read, and reflect. Sometimes I counsel others or intervene quietly. But I no longer assume that public utterance is the same as influence.
As a moderate, I’ve come to feel that meaningful change, if it ever happens, will not come from the loud center but from the margins pushing morality, from trust reknit in communities, and from slow, patient civic repair. The public arena is too polluted, too weaponized, to welcome a voice of neither fury nor absolutism.
Thomas Jefferson counseled, “Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.” He was not denying political engagement, but warning that the constant clamor of politics can drown out inner reason. I take that advice seriously now.
So here I remain, publicly silent, though not disengaged. I judge that when the cost of speech is loss of integrity—or worse, being a caricature in someone else’s war—it is sometimes less damaging to the soul to stay quiet. I am not proud of this silencing. But it is what remains to someone in the middle who still wants to learn, to reflect, and to preserve some interior coherence.
If ever the air clears, if reason again finds traction, I may speak. But until then, I wait.”
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23 minutes ago, baddog said:
Hang around Hoops. You’re the only sane lefty around. Even though we disagree on political views, I still think we could sit down and throw back some brewskies, which is the way it should be anyway. Lol
I agree 100 percent with you on that! (Although I wouldn’t classify myself as a “lefty” lol - those folks wouldn’t give me a card if they saw some of the ballots I cast 😉.) And the feeling is mutual. We do disagree on a lot of issues but I always am interested in your opinions and appreciate your insight. I’m sad that’s a rarity in today’s world.
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10 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:
I did not miss it, ABC is not Government owned.
Whataboutism's is what folks use when they don't want to be called a hypocrite. You did say just as bad, so that was not aimed at you. I would disagree and say it is worse silencing someone running for President versus a talk show host trying to make people laugh or whatever it was he as trying to do. Lastly, had he just apologized as his Boss asked him to do, he would be back on television.
We can ignore the past or learn from it.
Correct as I originally stated in my first post ITT supporting ABC’s right to suspend, fire him, whatever. The post you quoted, or the exact portion you quoted, however, was the line dealing with a governmental official; specifically the FCC chair using his position to suppress speech. Which coincidentally was the whole point of the article that was linked where Ted Cruz was also criticizing him for the same reason I was.
Every time I come to this board, usually takes about 24 hours for me to remember why it’s been weeks or sometimes months since my last visit 😂
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2 hours ago, thetragichippy said:
I don't recall the left being free speech champions during the 2016 election when Trump lost his platform on Twitter during a Presidential election....OR, during covid with everyone.
I posted receipts in this tread earlier of Kamala, Schumer and Jefferies of trying to persuade free speech.
To me, banning a Presidential candidate from the largest social media platform was one of the worst "free speech" issues in my lifetime, yet the left seemed pretty happy about it.......
Yep, just as bad. Although you miss the distinction that Twitter isn’t government owned. I just love being in the middle while the hypocritical idiots on the fringes of both sides continue to play whataboutism. Super productive.
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ABC can fire an employee that’s bad for business based on speech or whatever. A government official using his position to exert pressure on the network to do so is a free speech violation. Ted Cruz is right. You can’t be a champion of smaller government and support this kind of BS.
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Just to be clear, a free speech violation would be if he was arrested for what he said. ABC has a right to terminate him like any employee. Most in this state are at will employees. He has a contact. He will sue them. They will claim they fired him for cause. They will pay him millions of dollars to go away. Poor Jimmy.
(And to be clear, there are not many who champion free speech more than me.)
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16 hours ago, baddog said:
I suspected the same as you buddy.
Incidentally, while the nation is consumed with lobbing grenades back and forth over this tragic event, the Senate voted to block release of Epstein files. Only GOP members of senate voting in favor of transparency were Hawley and Rand Paul.
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A&M plays Kentucky in the national championship on Sunday. The Lady Aggies ( not sure if they call them that) advanced out of their region as a 3 seed, taking out arguably the best volleyball program in the country in the regional final, Nebraska. They took out another 1 seed, Pitt, in the final 4. Now they face their 3rd straight one seed, Kentucky (who beat Wisconsin who beat 1 seed Texas in their regional final) for all the marbles.
I have to say, I never watched much volleyball in my life other than occasionally in the Summer Olympics. Didn’t have a kid who played so just wasn’t something I was much exposed to. In the last few years, I have watched several matches in the women’s tournament when I see it on. It’s actually a pretty fun sport to watch. A lot of action and some super athletic women flying around. Good luck to the Aggies (I think it’s their year).