The Best Piece of Legislation in the Texas House
The Hook and Gig ‘Em Bill. HB778
Sec. 51.9246. FOOTBALL GAME BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN AND TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY.
(a)The intercollegiate football teams of The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University shall annually play a nonconference, regular-season football game against one another.
(b)If The University of Texas at Austin or Texas A&M University refuses to play the football game required by Subsection (a) in a year, the university may not award to any student for the following academic year an athletic scholarship, grant, or similar financial assistance funded with state money and conditioned on the student ’s participation on the university ’s intercollegiate football team.
Because it should be the law, dammit.
Thanks to the Other Susan for the heads up.
Say what?
1I understand the wish to keep an exciting intrastate rivalry but why do the penalties always land on the student-athletes instead of the administration and the institution? (See Penn St)
2This mandated playdate shall be Thanksgiving afternoon, about 3pm.
And the if the game isn’t played, the respective head coaches are required to mudwrestle on Thanksgiving day or forgo their bloated salaries.
3Leave it to an old Ag to figure out another creative way to waste time and money in the State Govt. Next thing you know he will run for Governor! He has a long way to go before his financial creativity rivals Gov Oops Goodhair. Geez.
PS: last I heard, the Horns, er, took their ball and went home cuz they didn’t wanna play no more. This was after the PAC-10, said “gee thanks, don’t call us, we’ll call you, really we will!”
4@Wally
‘Cause it’s always better to punish the peons with no voice in the decision, rather than the hoi polloi in their big offices and shiny suits. Go team!
5Honestly, it’s the first time I’ve EVER seen anything that threatened football scholarships.
I love your name for the bill!
6Problem is that Texas doesn’t get any state money for athletics and pays the athletes’ tuition etc. out of their huge profits, plus they hand over about five mil to the real University too. (there aren’t very many college athletic programs that can do that) I’m not sure about A&M, but I doubt they get much from the state either. So the bill won’t have any teeth, but it’s just meant to be symbolic anyway.
7I thought it was some kind of joke. I’m speechless!
8I am just so happy the Texas Lege has so many important issues they are addressing…not. Rep. Guillen (D) has strong ties to A&M, but his school left the Big 12 knowing the consequences. This should not be one of the Lege’s big issues, but then this is Texas.
9At least when they are doing this stupid stuff, they aren’t passing laws that require women to get pregnant.
If A&M still wanted to play Texas….. they would have stayed in the Big…… whatever.
They ARE kidding with this…… right???
If not, I give up. It’s hopeless.
10Speaking for Alabama fanx, we will gladly relinquish our play date with A&M for as long as Johnny Football is on the team.
11Do Texas citizens really like their tax dollars supporting assinine proposals such as this when the state is sinking fast in all measures of national importance?
Seems to me Texans should want their money and the time of the lege going towards issues that reallyl matter: education, health, better jobs, et cetera.
Mind you, I must admit that Kansans seem to be totally oblivious as to what their lege and Governor are doing. Brownback has such a bromance going on towards Rick Perry, Kansans would do well to brush up on what is happening in Texas because what Perry does Rrownback emulates. I am recommending this blog to everyone I know here in Kansas because it highlights the low lights that are ahead for us up here.
12@ ks sunflower
13“sinking fast in all measures of national importance”
Huh-uh! Texas is the second most populous state after California. From 2000 to 2010 it gained 4 additional seats in the House for a total of 36/435. It has as may votes in the House and Electoral College as 15 other states combined. I personally think it is crazy to allow people who elected Louis Gohmert access to sharp pencils and scissors let alone help decide who is Preznit.
Well, I just sent Ryan Guillan a piece of my mind. As I suspected, he, like Rick Perry and Screwie Louie Gohmert, is an Aggie, and although he is a Democrat, serving his 5th or 6th term from the Rio Grande Valley, he needs to quit being the Democratic version of a good ole boy.
14As long as they are messing with stuff like this they can’t come up with other pitiful legislation. I’d like them to start a four week debate on the Texas State One Celled Animal.
15Texas Ellen, that’s a wonderful idea! They can have hours of debate on the merits of prokaryotes versus eukaryotes, plus a major rift between advocates of calling the critter an animal, a protozoan, or a bacterium!
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