All Things Texas: Merged

[pigture perfect]

I got to watch it on the tube. Now I'm watching it again on replay. I will be smiling in my sleep.

[EconHawg]

Under 40, grew up in Oklahoma watching OU. Spent enough time and money at the U of A (,Fayetteville 😉) that I'm all hog now. But the hatred for Texas was an easy transition.

[Hog_Fink]

29. grew up Hating the horns, but I gotta say I really can't stand OU fans for whatever reason

[hoghevn]

29. grew up Hating the horns, but I gotta say I really can't stand OU fans for whatever reason

I'm right here with ya on this,  I live in Tulsa (Broken Arrow) & I can't stand o, or texas.

[Tejano Jawg]

Losing to them in football in the mid-late 70s was devastating (during my jr high/high school years). It made me literally sick. So any victory over those turds is making up for lost time.

[island hog]

I graduated from UT in the early 80s and wore my hog hat to many games. The nice thing was being able to root for whoever the horns were playing.  Austin was and is an awesome town and I have many close friends who are horns but burnt orange brings out the visceral hate I have for them.

[FaulknerHogfan]

I am 42, under the 45 line, I just don't see beating Texas as relevant anymore...

[micali]

I am 42, under the 45 line, I just don't see beating Texas as relevant anymore...

It's not relevant anymore but it sure is fun!  You must not have had the same hate for the Texas schools as some of us or you would at least understand why we do. It will mean something to us as long as Arkansas and Texass plays or we have breath in us.

[gmarv54]

I used to have a T shirt that said "I am for two teams: Arkansas and whoever is playing Texas".

I had a bumper sticker on my 1972 ford courier pickup that said that.

[311Hog]

I'm under 45, but my dad raised me right. I cannot stand burnt orange.

WPS

^this

i laughed when DVH said that. I do get extra happy when i see the burnt orange lose.

[Kenny Dowell Loggains]

I'm 39 & I completely get it!  I used to go to the old SWC tournament every single year with my parents in Dallas.  A lot of us in our late 30's completely get it.

[southarkhog06]

It is not so much age as it is that UT has seen their relevance slip to nobody cares status this past decade or so. If they were still a national power in all sports like the early aughts and back more people would relish beating them.

[DLUXHOG]

The Hogs have a lot to be proud of...   please don't allow one game against cheating texass, in 1969, to define the Razorbacks forever!

[Kevin]

Love beating Texas, but in baseball I hate lsu more

[AirWarren]

I am 42, under the 45 line, I just don't see beating Texas as relevant anymore...

I'm 32. Could care less about beating a team that sees us as a nobody from a completely different conference.

However, it is funny to see those Austin liberals cry.

[ricepig]

Love beating Texas, but in baseball I hate lsu more

Yeah, LSU has replaced Texas as the way over cocky team who acts like their "Spoop don't stink". Unfortunately, both earned that against us by winning more than losing, and sometimes in gut wrenching ways for Hog fans.

[Tusks]

 the eyes of texas are upon you .......... get'm off      get'm off      get'm off.


a little something for the older crowd.

[lumphog]

I'm over 45 and understand as well -BUT- it's time to leave the past in the past and turn our "collective hate" on Mizzou.  In all sports!

This is what's wrong with America today , NEVER forget the past. It's our History & how to make wise choices

[BearsBisonsBoars]

I understand.

[philiphog]

For those that don't know or don't remember, the week before we played Texas in football, we would have a Beat Texas week on campus complete with a bonfire. In basketball, I'll never forget Oliver Miller giving the horns down sign in the final minute as we were about to beat Texas back in, I think, 1990. Some memories are indelible and still make you smile.

[CPL HOG]

If you were born in Arkansas and are over 35 you should know.

Agree, 39 and still remember the SWC days

[Bogghawg]

For those that don't know or don't remember, the week before we played Texas in football, we would have a Beat Texas week on campus complete with a bonfire. In basketball, I'll never forget Oliver Miller giving the horns down sign in the final minute as we were about to beat Texas back in, I think, 1990. Some memories are indelible and still make you smile.

I remember.  We used to have a beef cook out in the yard by Brough Commons during Texas week and every campus organization would have a t shirt.

[WizardofhOgZ]

The best way I can explain it to someone too young to remember playing Texas first hand (and it's not your "fault" that you don't remember - it's just an age thing) is this.

Many - not all, I'm sure, but most - grew up with a rival high school.  The one local team that you always wanted to beat.  Maybe you won most of those games while you were in HS, maybe you didn't.  And then you move on in life.

But if you were to hear, 20-30 years later, that your HS had beaten the old rival . . . even if they were in a different district by then, or whatever . . . in the back of you mind you'd probably say a little "all right!" with a mental fist-pump. 

It's just one of those things.  If you grow up with a real rival that you compete against in your school years, you never totally leave that behind.  That's what Texas is for us "olders".  And, it was much higher-stake than an old HS rival.  In the days we remember, Arkansas and Texas played many, many games that decided Conference titles, and a few that affected the National Championship.  Those feelings run deep.

I get why it's different for those that didn't live it.  Don't see why it isn't obvious to them, however, why it remains (and always will) a big deal to us.

[GO]

At 58 I remember all to well the heartbreak of losing to Texas in the last minute it seemed most every year.  Still love beating them in anything. The last two afternoons have been great. Go Hogs

[tennesseehogwild]

Go Hogs! Beat Texas!   Yeah! it's still relevant to me.

[RockyMtnHog]

I'm under 45, but my dad raised me right. I cannot stand burnt orange.

WPS

The hatred for the burnt orange of Texas in any sport is in the blood of all Razorbacks.  It does not matter how old you are.

[hoglady]

I’m over 45 and understand as well -BUT- it’s time to leave the past in the past and turn our “collective hate” on Mizzou.  In all sports!

Mizzou will never be Texas - they just aren't.

That's a forced rivalry.
The hatred for Texas was acquired over decades and will always be there.

[RockyMtnHog]

Yeah, LSU has replaced Texas as the way over cocky team who acts like their "Spoop don't stink". Unfortunately, both earned that against us by winning more than losing, and sometimes in gut wrenching ways for Hog fans.

LSU will never replace Texas for the older fans.  Beating LSU is great but beating Texas in any sport is just fantastic.

[TeufelHog]

Never said anything about forgetting our past or not respecting our history/tradition.  Just tired of so many Hog fans LIVING in the past.

Arkansas/Arkansas fans just picks and chooses its "rivalry's" when it suits them. Here's what I mean . . . name Arkansas' one true rival.  You can't because none of the teams you will mention considers Arkansas their one true rival.  Seriously, go down the list . . .

[Kevin]

easy to explain.

when arkansas was in the southwest conference:
texas was alabama in football
& lsu in baseball.

the best, & mouthed about it.

[opineonswine]

I am over 45...I understand exactly what it means to beat Texas. I don't root for any Texas teams in any level of sports because it is Texas and one jist does not  root for Texas in anything

Ditto

[311Hog]

easy to explain.

when arkansas was in the southwest conference:
texas was alabama in football
& lsu in baseball.

the best, & mouthed about it.

^this

as far back as i can remember the sight of burnt orange made my father, grandfather, uncle and myself see RED.  Hell i hate Tenner just because of the similarities in uni's

Nothing will ever change that.  LSU is "close" but honestly it isn't that close. 

Don't get it twisted i don't want to go back to the SWC days, hell i don't want to play Texass regularly, but i do want to play them every so often and stomp their ace just to remind them we are still here.

These last two games couldn't have made me happier i been walking on air this whole time.

[The Kid]

It's always a good day when the Hogs beat Texas.

We just enjoyed two in a row.

[DLUXHOG]

For those that don't know or don't remember, the week before we played Texas in football, we would have a Beat Texas week on campus complete with a bonfire. In basketball, I'll never forget Oliver Miller giving the horns down sign in the final minute as we were about to beat Texas back in, I think, 1990. Some memories are indelible and still make you smile.

In the 70's, during texass week, the architecture students put huge red letters, the size of and in those giant top floor windows in Vol Walker Hall that spelled out:

"T U C K  F E X A S"

[Birminghog]

My daughter is 20, was born in China & goes to the Unversity of Alabama. She knows to hate all things burnt orange. It's not that hard.

[rangertaunton]

 I am 39 and grew up despising anything burnt orange. This also includes Tennessee and another shade of orange on the plains in Auburn. You can include LSU on this list as well. I was at the last game in Barnhill,and also at the first game at Bud Walton,so I grew up with very little of the old SWC days but I knew coming out of the womb to dislike the shorthorns. If you come from a Razorback loving family as most of us do,it's ingrained in you from birth!!

[RazrRila99]

Just received a breaking news note from ESPN (posting here as this is a Texas related thread); as much as we Razorbacks fans despise all things shortwhorn we respect their coaches. 

That said:  Augie Gariddo has passed at age 79 this morning!  One more stepping onto the big diamond upstairs. 

[311Hog]

Just received a breaking news note from ESPN (posting here as this is a Texas related thread); as much as we Razorbacks fans despise all things shortwhorn we respect their coaches. 

That said:  Augie Gariddo has passed at age 79 this morning!  One more stepping onto the big diamond upstairs. 

damn i am so sad to hear that.

[island hog]

Saw where Augie Garrido passed away today.  The guy was a great coach and had a long career.  Godspeed...

[pigture perfect]

I had a feeling that he was close to a different world, by the way people were talking during the series. No doubt one of the best ever. Just wish we hadn't been so good in 79.

[Knot2brite]

Baseball lost a good one. He was a one of a kind guy. Sad day

[popcornhog]

There is nothing like beating Texas - any sport, any time, anywhere.

I'm 34 and still have memories of watching the hogs against UT when I was younger and absolutely hating the horns.

I'd say the hate extends down to about my age pretty deeply.

[TebowHater]

Classy tweet by DVH: https://twitter.com/VanHornHogs/status/974375683387527168

College baseball lost one, if not the greatest coach of all time.

I feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to not only compete against him, but also get to know him away from the diamond.

He was a mentor to so many.

God bless and thank you coach Garrido.

[Dark Helmet Hog]

The only thing I root for in Texas is the strippers.

[Inhogswetrust]

Indent care if Texas lost every game for 50 years in a row. Beating them would still be sweet. It's their damn arrogance that annoys everyone and they would still have that arrogance if they did lose every game 50 years in a row.

[ErieHog]

Just received a breaking news note from ESPN (posting here as this is a Texas related thread); as much as we Razorbacks fans despise all things shortwhorn we respect their coaches. 

That said:  Augie Gariddo has passed at age 79 this morning!  One more stepping onto the big diamond upstairs. 

Augie will always be a CS Fullterton Titan to me;  he doesn't deserve association with that school in Austin as a legacy.

[TexasDad]

Indent care if Texas lost every game for 50 years in a row. Beating them would still be sweet. It's their damn arrogance that annoys everyone and they would still have that arrogance if they did lose every game 50 years in a row.

Give me a break... It's fun to have rivalries but it should be tempered with a bit of logic. Auggie G. passed today, arguably one of the best if not the best college baseball coach of all time (per DVH). Maybe today is not the best day to slam a down/rebuilding program.

Love or hate Texas, when the Longhorns are competitive, college baseball is far better off. I've watched about 10 games in Austin this season after watching the Hogs every weekend series last season (except Auburn, thankfully). The Razorbacks are blessed with a terrific program and a supportive fanbase – me included. I did receive a few WTH looks when explaining the manic laughing and screeching heard on the telecast was coming from a guy my age – and no, really, he's a very nice guy.... Lol! Aside from the frustration of not being recently relevant, I've found the fanbase in Austin to be a pretty good and very humble lot.

I'd save your disdain for some of the SEC conference rivals. I'm still frustrated about game 2 against LSU last year. I wasn't watching the year before, but apparently that was worse – I sure saw a lot of stuffed opossums at Baum and the SEC championship – the loss in Hoover was also hard to take...

Maybe Texas was once cocky, but the prize now goes to LSU and A&M in my opinion. Can't vouch for how LSU treats the parents since they came to Baum last season, but A&M puts the parents next to the student section... Constant degrading screaming from the students, it pretty much sucked (they won't let you stand elsewhere and watch either). It would be like seating the opposing team's parents in the hog pen...

I say beat LSU and I'm fan of anyone playing the Aggies, even LSU!

[ricepig]

Give me a break... It's fun to have rivalries but it should be tempered with a bit of logic. Auggie G. passed today, arguably one of the best if not the best college baseball coach of all time (per DVH). Maybe today is not the best day to slam a down/rebuilding program.

Love or hate Texas, when the Longhorns are competitive, college baseball is far better off. I've watched about 10 games in Austin this season after watching the Hogs every weekend series last season (except Auburn, thankfully). The Razorbacks are blessed with a terrific program and a supportive fanbase – me included. I did receive a few WTH looks when explaining the manic laughing and screeching heard on the telecast was coming from a guy my age – and no, really, he's a very nice guy.... Lol! Aside from the frustration of not being recently relevant, I've found the fanbase in Austin to be a pretty good and very humble lot.

I'd save your disdain for some of the SEC conference rivals. I'm still frustrated about game 2 against LSU last year. I wasn't watching the year before, but apparently that was worse – I sure saw a lot of stuffed opossums at Baum and the SEC championship – the loss in Hoover was also hard to take...

Maybe Texas was once cocky, but the prize now goes to LSU and A&M in my opinion. Can't vouch for how LSU treats the parents since they came to Baum last season, but A&M puts the parents next to the student section... Constant degrading screaming from the students, it pretty much sucked (they won't let you stand elsewhere and watch either). It would be like seating the opposing team's parents in the hog pen...

I say beat LSU and I'm fan of anyone playing the Aggies, even LSU!

Dad, if you're in your 50's or older, you've learned to hate Texass with a passion as an Arkansas Razorback fan. You're not from Arkansas, so I couldn't expect you to understand it, it's like the hatred between aTm and UT, some schools you just don't like. As to the loss of Garrido, it's a sad day for college baseball.

[Harley_Hawg]

Piss on texas

[hawgball40]

I'm under 45, but my dad raised me right. I cannot stand burnt orange.

WPS

this. nearly everyone i know young and old hates texas. it seems to be hereditary.