Recent content by DuckinVol

Why? No one has to watch them. If teams are willing to play, and if sponsors are willing to pay, it’s no skin off anyone’s nose.

Should’ve stayed with the BCS. That system almost always got it right. I’m not a fan of tournaments.

Thank goodness, nothing intimidates like a likkered up Vandy crowd. #newdeathvalley

Mike Barry OL Dan Brooks DL

5+

I didn’t realize Nico hadn’t reached the age of majority.

What team do you pull for?

Very cool! I lived in Austin during the 2016 season. The high point of that period of exile was attending UT Alumni Association watch parties at a bar just off the Texas campus. Moved there the first week of September and was back in Tennessee by February.

LOL, will do. And Nico still isn’t an amateur football player. Words mean things…except in your way.

Words mean things. I agree with your first sentence, and “expert” is a good word there. Your last sentence is incorrect because Nico is not an amateur by any definition…well…except the haters may point to the less common definition of someone being incompetent. I don’t think he’s that bad.

While I won’t join the crowd complaining about Nico’s recent play, he is NOT an amateur. He is being paid, and that, by definition, makes him a professional. If a young man wants to play a key position at a big time program, and get well paid to do it, he has to live with the good and the bad...

They’re bad news, and we have plenty of them in West TN. Bane of farmers, and they wreck a lot of yards.

Saw that.

Traffic alone indicates plenty of folks love the place. I found nothing appealing there, and that surprised me. I’ve enjoyed living in Los Angeles, NOLA, Memphis and several smaller cities and towns. Just couldn’t warm up to Austin.

I lived there for four months and have never been more miserable in my life. Finally told my employer I was leaving Austin in two weeks and they could take it as two weeks notice or I’d work for them from home in TN. Eight years later, I’m still with them and have seen the inside of the Austin...