The only undefeated conference in bowl games this year?
The Southwest Conference.
Texas Tech 34, Mississippi State 7
Baylor 21, Ole Miss 7
Arkansas 24, Penn State 10
Houston 17, Auburn 13
It's simple for me, really:
Hire Briles, and I'm done with Texas Tech football.
I'd rather lose every game 900-0 than have that guy represent a place I love.
For all the (unwarranted) crap Kirby Hocutt got for pulling the trigger early on the
#TexasTech
coaching change, he looks like freakin' Nostradamus right now.
#WreckEm
The media's ill-informed rage-y freakout over Gov. DeSantis advocating for the same type of civilian military force that many other states have is exactly why nobody trusts them.
As for me, I'm going to trust the guy who has taken Tech to the CWS 4X.
There ain't no shame in losing to the
#2
overall seed in their house in a regional final. Proud of those dudes.
#WreckEm
You guys, when did "individuals must cede their own health decisions to the judgement of their private sector employers" become what some conservatives think is principled?
Conservative thought values the individual. Have we forgotten?
I love college football. Love it.
Yet, I have zero interest in watching an SEC rematch as the National Championship game.
Seriously, it's just not appealing at all as a fan
Dylan, you asked several questions during Supt. Walters' extensive press avail today. In fact, he stayed until the assembled press had no further questions. The event was over.
KFOR is the TMZ of Oklahoma, but without the commitment to the truth.
Asking questions - after today’s presser where OSDE Supt. Walters said “start the impeachment process” I wanted to ask a couple more questions, I tried getting ahold of
@RyanWaltersSupt
BREAKING: Texas State Police were seen pushing back pro-Palestinian protesters on the University of Texas at Austin campus, as witnessed by CNN affiliate KEYE.
Student journalist Amelia Kimball joins
@Boris_Sanchez
and
@brikeilarcnn
to offer an on-the-ground perspective.
Watching the teachers unions come unhinged about instituting some modest accountability measures for Oklahoma schools, it's clear what they don't want.
This is a great day for Oklahoma students and their parents!
Oklahoma is leading the nation in education reform. We are focused on empowering parents, protecting our students from predators, and improving academic outcomes.
We are proud to have the first religious charter school in the country in Oklahoma. We will always lead in fighting for school choice and religious liberty.
Parents enroll here!
If your place of business can mandate one particular health decision, what's the argument against transferring all individual autonomy to the employer?
Is it my boss' business whether I had bacon for breakfast? What if I drive too fast for his liking?
Where's the line?
Imagine writing an entire story about filling teacher shortages in Oklahoma without mentioning the largest teacher recruitment effort in the history of the state.
Supt. Walters' teacher bonus program brought close to 550 teachers back into teaching, many from outside of OK.
JUST IN: Okla.'s top edu official Ryan Walters says the state's social studies standards are going to be overhauled by a committee that includes Dennis Prager, David Barton, Steve Deace and Kevin Roberts
Roberts leads the Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 25
They edited my statement to exclude a key part:
The Oklahoman is fake news. To cover up the successes of a record 117 schools coming off the F list they continue to lie about SDE and throw a fit that Supt. Walters has brought accountability...
I absolutely love
#StarTrek
but the PR stunt of William Shanter going into space highlights the ridiculous amount of money that could be used saving people still on this planet, such as helping to fight food insecurity and homelessness
#BlueOrigin
Oklahoma ranks 46th in the nation in child well-being according to the latest Kids Count Survey from
@OKPolicy
.
We rank:
-39th in economic well-being
-45th in health
-49th in education
-76% of 4th graders aren't proficient in reading
-84% of 8th graders aren't proficient in math
🧵 I did not include this in last night’s story because I could not come to a conclusion. With open records, OSDE still made it deliberately difficult and I will explain how. Matt Langston, according to OSDE, was a temporary employee from 1/23-6/23. ⬇️
"When the Kansas City Chiefs needed a QB to take them to four Super Bowls in 5 years, they didn't call Alabama or Michigan, they called a Red Raider."
-
@KentRHance
, probably
@AndreaKatSTL
@briittanyyrosee
Respectfully, you're kind of all wet on this one.
I'll admit the new Big 12 is a creation of the media companies, but it is surviving and thriving, despite numerous setbacks.
To pretend the SEC is anything other than a similar creation by media companies is silly.
Literal fake news. There is no investigation, no rules are being broken, and the "source" is a former employee with no knowledge of the program.
What is happening is that kids in Tulsa are learning how to read.
Why does
@kfor
have such a problem reporting the truth? That's a
@OHPDPS
trooper, and that agency handles security for the entire Oklahoma Capitol complex.
They do an amazing job of keeping everyone safe.
Asked
@DanIsett
if it was an OSDE employee who put the cord on the door - he said no - asked why - he said “Nope. OHP.”
Doesn’t look like a trooper…
Trying my darndest to fill in for
@kayleeolivastv
…meeting at 1 pm - here are a couple of big things being discussed 🧵
@kfor
I wasn't terribly excited about the announcement of Joey McGuire to lead Texas Tech football yesterday.
I was wrong.
Everything about this guy points to somebody who cares about people and cares about excellence. Plus, his daughter is a Red Raider.
I'm all in.
#WreckEm
I've been a Rangers fan since my first trip to Arlington Stadium when I was nine years old. The franchise has never won the
#WorldSeries
, and got a strike away in 2011.
So, basically, I'm dying right now.
BREAKING: Oklahoma families can now apply for the state's new UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICE initiative.
Oklahoma families are eligible to receive up to $7,500 per student per year for private school tuition and fees.
It's happening.
Attn
@kfor
and
@kayleeolivastv
:
This statement debunks your deliberately false reporting on this issue. Your misleading report misinformed the people of Oklahoma as well as the Legislature. I demand an immediate retractaction.
KFOR published a knowingly false story claiming there is a federal investigation into OSDE yesterday.
Your organization will receive no further response from our agency until that story is retracted.
I've asked OSDE if they can explain why the update was made...
Last week
@DanIsett
told me there were not "any changes for the top roles at the agency" and never responded to my request for clarification asking what that meant.
I'll let you all know if I hear anything.
Well y'all, I think I just finished up the very last piece of business for my dad's estate.
My parents are gone. Their grandchildren and my siblings and I are all that's left of them.
I hope, how I hope, that my life can do them justice.
Oklahomans are taking their frustration with State Superintendent Ryan Walters and his extremism to the ballot box.
In Tulsa, school board members who backed Walters’ proposed school district takeover LOST their elections. While in Enid, voters recalled a neo-Nazi who was
This is just another ongoing political attack, purely motivated by union money. Mark McBride and his cohorts have opposed all common sense reforms like education accountability and stopping porn in schools - while bowing to union bosses.
Congrats to my longhorn friends, y'all have a great team. Losing is hard, but it sure makes those wins a lot of fun. That's the point of being a fan and an alumnus.
The sun rose this morning and God is good.
#WreckEm
forever, no matter what.
We’re at the Turning Point USA Ryan Walters town hall at OSU… it just started.
Lots of protestors and hecklers… making it hard for him to get a word out.
@kfor
Two things can be true at the same time:
Love Mark Adams/his loyalty to West Texas and be deeply concerned about the absolute cratering of the Texas Tech basketball program.
#WreckEm
The quote KFOR highlights is from the *Democrats* news release, not from the report.
LOFT scrutinized OSDE for months and their report validated everything Supt. Walters said in yesterday's hearing.
But
@dylantbrown
missed it all.
I am not prepared to lose family younger than I am, yet it has happened.
Love on your people as much as you can.
I'll have more to say about this later.
More slipshod reporting from
@SHumphreyTV
and
@kfor
The event went for the time allotted, and
@RyanWaltersSupt
both spoke and took questions exactly as the event organizers had planned.
The not-so-tolerant woke mob did not get its way, no matter their yelling and screaming.
Let me help those who think RDS' announcing on Twitter is no good and very bad:
Doing it this way makes *him* the master of *his* message. The legacy media will be forced to cover the event, not drive the content of it.
It's smart comms work. Deal with it.
The multiple stories of bad behavior all coming out at the same time is Kirby doing the political wet work after a terrible season punctuated by off court issues.
All of this was in the file - until now. Safe to assume there's more.
#WreckEm
There is no missing funding.
As Sen. Pugh knows, the legislature did not appropriate money for this program in 2023, instead waiting until this year. Applications go live at OSDE next week, and all money will be distributed accordingly.
MISSING EDUCATION FUNDING- Schools across Oklahoma are starting the school year without promised funding, including for maternity leave for teachers.
@paytonmaytv
will have much more at 5:30pm on
@okcfox
.
#oklaed
#OKleg
Texas Tech is being very magnanimous in inducting Coach Leach. His last bowl game, he spent all his time ranting against the university over his dismissed lawsuit and his team subsequently lost to the Red Raiders.
Tech fans love the guy, but remember reality.
#WreckEm
The winningest coach in program history who forever changed the offensive side of the ball.
This fall, the late Mike Leach will be inducted into the Texas Tech Hall of Honor.
One of the very coolest things about working around
#txlege
is the proximity to history.
This is the original painting "The Battle of San Jacinto" by Henry McArdle which hangs in the Texas Senate.
Happy San Jacinto Day, y'all!
It's interesting watching
@TheOklahoman_
and their "friends" at
@kfor
circle the wagons on bogus stories - now twice in two weeks - without either covering the substantive turnaround happening in Oklahoma schools.
The Oklahoma State Board of Education pushed through some significant rule changes today - changes that will push Oklahoma schools toward excellence, ensure predators swiftly get the boot, and several others. Ed reform is happening in Oklahoma.
Literal fake news. There is no investigation, no rules are being broken, and the "source" is a former employee with no knowledge of the program.
What is happening is that kids in Tulsa are learning how to read.