Originally Posted by
A-Tex Devil
Fixed it for you. And that's cool. But you've offers about 10 times more in perjorative remarks than substance to this thread, which isn't typically like you.
Pejorative doesn't have an r in it. I know, I have to look it up a lot myself.
This isn't about me. I am reacting to the absurd level of spin issuing from you. I really didn't care about UT-Austin one way or the other before this mess. Friends suggested I'm trying to tweak you or something. No. I'm not. I don't care to tweak people.
I do think it's amazing that you accuse anyone else of spin. You've spun and spun. That isn't ad hominem. That is what has happened. And then you accuse others of spin? Wow.
I'm terribly put off of Texas now. A lot of that is based on what you've done in this thread. The rest is based on reading Texas boards, which basically horrify me. As I said, I didn't have a dog in the UT-A&M-OU-TTU-MU-NU fight before. It is only based on the rhetoric and actions of folks like ATex that I have very recently decided I am rooting for all of Texas' rivals against them.
Now, to be sure, a comparison to Duke isn't flattering to Duke. Duke suffers from much of the same syndrome that Texas does. (We think we're the best no matter what, our interests supersede those of anyone else, etc). But I have long ceased to be a Duke apologist. If you want to say Duke is "just as arrogant" or something like that as Texas, I'll print the flyers for you. Heck, worse.
Again, I am not acting as an MU operative here. Would I like to see them do OK? Sure. In sports. They aren't real nice to us when it comes to academic matters, though. If they go to the SEC, good for them. But in their case, I'd never want to be in a conference with Texas ever again after the last year. You gotta protect ya neck. I don't understand why anyone would ever want to be in a conference with Texas ever again.
This isn't about me, and it isn't even really about ATex. It's about UT-Austin's behavior. I didn't have an opinion about them before the last 18 months. Now I do.
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