Puro pinche

First Texas Tech football coach and K-State offensive coordinator to take the reins of a MLS side.

It is extraordinarily infuriating that soccer’s greatest threat in the modern era is not lack of revenue, interest, or even competition. It’s that governing bodies entrusted with it don’t actually seem to like the sport except as an avenue for money and power. FIFA is blowing this World Cup.

Notre Dame doing a lot of coveting thy neighbors bowl game. Thou shall not.

Texas Tech Duke Indiana Georgia Your Power 4 champions. As expected.

AND THE VICTORY BELLS WILL RING OUT

📍Jones AT&T Stadium - East

Has FIFA redefined the definition of “peace” to be roughly equivalent to “incompetent fascist”? Sham of an organization trying to take the game away from us.

A city with unmatched aura. Always Austin.

The flip side to Sarkisian’s whining is that if the Committee puts Texas in at 9-3, it sends a message that games against top caliber teams only matter if you win. Because if you lose, you should get special treatment for trying.

This seems good. 11-1 also seems good. See y’all in Arlington!

THE TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS ARE HEADED TO THE BIG XII CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

ESPN wondering why A&M and Texas stopped playing each other:

On behalf of Red Raiders across the state watching this game, I just hope both teams l̶o̶s̶e̶ have a good time.

There are turkey trots, and there are turkey trots with 25,000 people in the greatest city.

There is absolutely no way the pitch at Snapdragon Stadium should be anywhere near a professional soccer game. At any level, for any competition. Truly atrocious and clearly impacting play.

Yeah, Hugo, and we didn’t want to play a first round playoff match on a Wednesday night at BMO Stadium but we had to because your stadium was hosting a twenty one pilots concert over the weekend. Welcome to the club.

It is truly mind boggling that in six seasons in Major League Soccer, Austin FC has never played the Chicago Fire. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

This is kind of how bubbles work until they pop.

In the last week, Virgil’s goal stood for about ten seconds, was reversed, then confirmed as not a goal by VAR, then was defended as correct by the referee’s association, and finally clarified as an incorrect call but correctly not overturned on said VAR by a league panel. Shambolic.

Unrelated: Major League Soccer Announces New Partnership With The North Face

The number one selfish reason to be against the fall-spring + 5 division model for a MLS season is that there is no longer an expectation for a summer away day in Minnesota. Lots of other reasons, of course, but this is top of the list.

Has hell frozen over? Or has there been a coup inside TxDOT?

I am equal parts annoyed at how awful that call was in favor of Miami that would have pulled back a goal in a critical game and amused that it happened to Nashville after watching them get away with nearly everything they wanted in the USOC final. tl;dr: PRO is bad at their jobs.

LOONS RISING DOWN GOES SEATTLE

9-1

If this is the King, this will be a generational run for the athletic department.

To me, why #ATX Prop Q failed is pretty simple: Tax policy is complicated, and it’s easier to openly lie about it than explain why a certain proposition exists. In this case (as with Project Connect), the tax increase would have been 20% of the *city’s portion* of your property tax.

It will remain one of life’s great pains: electing Republicans in a general election, then three straight elections of realizing that was a bad idea and slowly removing them from power.

I am once again begging the Austin American-Statesman to stop interviewing Bill Aleshire. Or, at the very least, stop labeling him simply as a “former county judge”, ignoring he hasn’t spent the last decade running extraordinarily disruptive legal interference for NIMBY groups.

North America: your next opportunity to root against a Los Angeles playoff team is Sunday night at 7:45pm Central, when scrappy underdog Austin FC takes on the literal black and gold of LAFC. Vamos ATX!

At some point, someone is going to have to summarize this World Series for the history books. I wish them luck. It’s complete absurdity.

That’s @ttu.edu’s President Schovanec cheering like a madman for a scoop and score at a road game. We are built different.

Baseball is such a soap opera. It’s unbelievable, really.

A *very* beatable LAFC side comes to Austin on Sunday. Let’s do everything we can at Q2 this Sunday to send it back to Exposition Park on October 8th.

Freddie Freeman is the Shohei Ohtani of World Series baseball.

This might equal the 2018 game in innings played, but with the arbitrary tariffs on Canadian goods, it’s actually 80% more expensive.

After all… You’re my WonderPOST

I don’t want to “well actually” anyone but someone should tell the edgelord running the DHS Twitter that Halo’s primary plot in the first games is humanity teaming up with the Covenant to stop a fanatical religious cult from destroying the universe as a way to halt the Flood. Halo is the weapon.

Interesting piece from the Statesman on why we are faced with Prop Q. The short: Austin can choose to invest in the future at a cost, or follow Houston’s path down the road of austerity and loss of public services. Don’t Houston My Austin

While Brian Kelly is out of a job, whoever came up with the Best-of-3 format for the first round of the MLS Cup Playoffs probably got promoted. Unfair suffering in North American soccer must continue, apparently.

The Big 12 Conference has issued the Portland Timbers a $100,000 fine and a 15-yard penalty for this dangerous act.

Getting a election text message from the anti-Prop Q PAC was expected. That text message leading with former Councilmember Ora Houston’s endorsement, however, may not have been the smartest idea. She was one of the biggest roadblocks to Austin’s evolution on nearly every issue.

AD Kirby Hocutt telling Texas Tech fans to not throw tortillas because the Big XII is a bunch of babies is almost certainly gonna turn out exactly like we all think it is going to turn out. Sports should be fun! It’s why we do them!

“Sonniksen said Austin United believes the city's convention center needs would be met by a new 1,000-room hotel and convention center at Circuit of the Americas that the City Council approved in July.” It used to be harder to spot the grifters. COTA is 15.5 miles from downtown with nothing near it

Austin finishes 4-0-0 against Los Angeles this year in MLS regular season play. With one game left, 6-0-1 against California. Never beating the allegations.

A strongly accented English explainer of a VAR call overlaid with Spanish language commentary amidst English graphics while streaming on Peacock is exactly how the U-20 World Cup is meant to be enjoyed. I am once again begging FIFA to stop awarding English broadcast rights to FOX.

So you’re telling me that Austin could paint some more rainbow crosswalks and then the Governor will halt the plan to waist $6-10 billion to allow for more traffic on I-35 through the heart of Austin? Sounds like a good deal. Let’s do this!