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1. Lilia said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

   Is he going to enroll in ballroom dancing in the fall?

   Kidding.

2. t1climb1 said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

   No reason not to believe him. He didn’t have to say anything more on this subject so the fact that he is saying this makes me inclined to believe him. That and the fact that lies are of the devil SON!

3. t1climb1 said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

   P.S. You should read that last line in your best Robert Tildon impression.

4. DBH said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

   I hope announcing it now doesn’t give Heisman voters an excuse to vote for Bradford on the basis that Colt will have another shot at it next year.

5. HenryJames said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

   Is he going to enroll in ballroom dancing in the fall?

   I took that in the old Anna Hiss Gym. Knowing McCoy he’ll take either Human Sexuality or History of Rock and Roll.

6. The General said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

   I am kinda pulling for Bradford. Heisman curse + pissed off Colt next year= Good for the Horns.

7. Lilia said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

   History of Rock was hands-down my favorite class… other than American Food.

8. The General said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

   I think I would stay away from Ballroom and Golf, the two obvious choices. With our current run of luck he would tear his ACL waltzing.

9. DBH said:

   December 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

   “I am kinda pulling for Bradford. Heisman curse + pissed off Colt next year= Good for the Horns.”

   Once again, I’ll never pull for OU to win anything. And given the possibility of injury, I want Colt to win it now. He might not have another chance, even if he does come back.

10. Palmettohorn said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    As a matter of fact I took said “History of R&R” back in the Fall of ‘84. Don’t know what it is now, but it wasn’t the blow-off most think.

    Had to write three (or maybe four, memory fails) 15-20 page papers, w/a few pop-quizzes and the usual three major tests thrown in, plus a final. And it was a real final that covered the entire semester.

    It wasn’t nuclear physics by any stretch but if you didn’t keep up you’d flunk. And the teacher who taught it (a music Ph.D student) would definitely flunk you if you didn’t show up or do your part. He had a Nikki’s Pizza-sized chip on his shoulder re: the class’ blow-off stereotype.

    All in all, one of the best classes I took at The University.

11. Mysterious Package said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    History of Texas Music. We spent a week on Willie Nelson.

12. Art Vandelay said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    I loved the class, but lost respect for that teacher when he stated he liked Bananarama.

    Come on CloseToJumping, sign along:

    It’s a cruel, cruel summer
    Leaving me here on my own
    It’s a cruel, cruel summer
    Now you’re gone

13. t1climb1 said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Ahhh Bananarama’s “cruel Summer”. It will always conjure up memories of one Danny Laruso as played by Ralph Machio.

14. Nordberg said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Shift those thoughts to a young bikini-clad Elizabeth Shue.

15. Art Vandelay said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    I meant sing along…. but if CTJ knows how to sign that would be a hoot.

16. The General said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    DBH,

    You’re right. I was drinking.

17. Stuck in MN said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    I bet Colt’s preacher had a dream about fish.

18. beowulf said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Swahili

    best.class.ever

19. Hippie Killer said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Damn right he’s staying. Have you seen his girlfriend? Who’d be in a hurry to leave a stable of women that look like that?!

20. pubescent shue fiend said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Nordberg, if memory serves it was a one-piece suit (albeit an outstanding one-piece).

21. Black Scholes said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    I also took History of R&R the semester they decided to toughen it up. Actually had to make some effort for that grade. A lot of people were still on cruise until too late.

22. EyesOfTX said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    I believe we heard the exact same commitment from Vince Young at pretty much the exact same point in time in 2005. We all know how that worked out.

    But I actually believe it in this case.

23. anonymous said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Yeah, I always heard that History of R&R was actually a hard class. I got burned when I took Age of the Dinosaur. Spelling counted, it wasnt pretty.

24. CloseToJumping said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    I do think the parallels between Vince and McCoy run deep in a lot of ways, but it is hard for me to see McCoy having the same financial opportunity after the bowl game.

25. exuLt said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Best blow-off: Astronomy Bizarre for non-science majors. All assigned reading out of Scientific American and a recap right before tests.

    Best extracurrecular activity: Nutrition for Home Ec majors. Degree gatekeeper course for them; biochemistry lite for me. In high demand once class grade curve was set on me.

26. SizzleChest said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    ARRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
    There was a class called American Food??!!?!!
    ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!

27. Texas fan said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Logic.

28. Bob in Houston said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    History of Rock and Roll. (I think they still offer it.) A staple of journalism majors with 45 free hours. No, I didn’t take it, but I know a few who did…

29. Sasha_Is_A_Longhorn_Dog said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    Will they really give the Heisman to a sophomore when there are plenty of upper classmen this year that are deserving? Tebow was a different story since no one came close to comparing to him last year.

30. Woody Bombay said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    I took History of RnR. I had to correct the instructor about something in class once.

    Despite that, the dude loved me. “This is the guy who wrote the album reviews!” he told one colleague excitedly. Yes, yes I was. That was me.

31. bighornfan32 said:

    December 8th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    Colt is a Junior. Seemingly apparent.

32. TKO said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 3:35 am

    Bradford’s a sophomore.

    Texas fan: Are you serious about the logic course? I took a logic course at UT that used Copi’s “Symbolic Logic” as a textbook. That class almost killed me.

33. Redfoot said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 5:04 am

    Bananarama’s cruel summer reminds me of Indonesia. It was a popular song while I was there, and the heat + humidity + no AC was definitely cruel.

34. Horn in Tyler said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 5:30 am

    Nikki’s Pizza sized chip on the shoulder—CLASSIC.

    Age of Dinosaurs was amazingly easy and they only counted your top 3 test scores. I wrote my name on the final, answered two questions (correctly), and headed for the PCL to look at the art books.

35. Steve Nebraska said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 5:54 am

    Rhetoric of Baseball. All we did was talk about the pennant race.

36. Thing Ferguson said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 6:18 am

    What is this “class” thing you guys speak of?

37. intellectual type said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 6:26 am

    M 427K – Differential Equations was my hardest class…

38. Art Vandelay said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Good article from SI regarding McCoy for Heisman.

39. ChicagoTTU said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 7:19 am

    I took:

    Eastern European Vampires and their effect on western culture.

40. Dunstan Pearl said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    “M 427K – Differential Equations was my hardest class…”

    Was it taught by a German guy who wore the same clothes every day? Klaus Bichteler if I remember right. I made a fucking D in that class and then found out I didn’t even need it for my major. Stupid advisors.

41. Jerry Griggadean said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    Let’s face it. None of you really appreciated the importance of The Velvet Underground to the development of American Rock n Roll until you took my class.

42. intellectual type said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 8:30 am

    No, I didn’t have Bichteler, but I had a friend who took that guy twice. He got a F the first time and a D the second. The third time he took it with me from a New Zealander named Alistair Windsor and got a B (meanwhile I got a D, but hey, D stands for Diploma so I took it).

43. Dunstan Pearl said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 8:47 am

    I just remember Bichteler didn’t grade on “zee curve” as he put it. So everyone failed. It was awesome.

44. AugieBall said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Bichteler gave me an A.

45. redpants said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Did you guys know that Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley are roommates and their fathers played football together at ACU? Crazy hu?

46. Dunstan Pearl said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Augie> You are much smarter than me.

47. Phenomenal Smith said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 9:38 am

    One of the OU fans I talked to during the championship game told me that he’s heard that Sam Bradford will go pro. He told me that by not going pro he’d lose $40M. Now, I don’t know about that, and the guy pretty much seemed like an idiot, but that’d probably be good if Bradford left.

48. uthookem said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 9:56 am

    “M 427K – Differential Equations was my hardest class…”

    One of my greatest dork accomplishments in undergrad was M 427K. I had a buddy that was in another class taught by a different teacher, and they were always a few chapters ahead of us. So my buddy taught me the easy stuff, I learned it to teach him the more advanced stuff, and never had to go to class.

    I ended up with the highest grade in the class…not bad for a white boy from the Houston Independent School District.

    Alright, I’ll now go back to playing with myself in the corner. Oh yeah, fuck OU.

49. topo_gigio said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 11:09 am

    ah M427K. I took that class twenty freaking years ago. I had Gardner for it. He was 10 yrs past retirement then. I recall going to his office hours, knocking on the door and clearly waking him up from a deep slumber.

    http://www.math.utexas.edu/dev/math/People/fac.html?uid=391

    Wait, is this site about football?

50. techdude said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am

    I took an upper level writing class, because I had too. It was a summer session. All about feminist issues. The kicker was we watched Star Trek episodes and wrote a paper a day about feminists issues in Star Trek. Lots of other reading but Star Trek was the focus.

51. sunset87 said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    “Wild River Basin” in the Education Department…I think it was called. You took local grade school kids on tours of Wild River Basin (a nature preserve) off of Hwy 360. If you showed up every time, (it was fairly early in the morning so that could be challenging)you made an A. Oh, and to make it football related there were several players on the team that took it.

52. Art Vandelay said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Jerry – did you teach the class? One of the few I really looked forward to.

53. bateshorn said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    You guys suck. The east coast school I got shipped off too after getting picked up for having some Lonestar in the high school parking lot would have something like “Feminist perspectives on the Dark Age Catholic Church” as a blow off elective.

    Plus the girls were f-ing ugly.

54. exuLt said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems. Either Hamrick or Guy (had both), and now both are listed now in “Phased Retirement”, whatever that means, per topo’s linky. Yikes.

    Depressing.

55. Lilia said:

    December 9th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    ARRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
    There was a class called American Food??!!?!!
    ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!

    Fall 2006 and Fall 2007. Upper divison American Studies. It certainly wasn’t a blow off class, but it was pretty sweet.

56. Hippie Killer said:

    December 10th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    I’d be more interested if you showed pictures of the girls in your classes. You old bastards are reminscing about class, but seem to have forgotten what makes college so wonderful. Hint: Not School Work.

57. exuLt said:

    December 10th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    After seeing current pictures of two of my math teachers, the thought of all the hot babes of my college days turning into frumpy looking old grandmas leaves me cold.

    Some memories are better left intact.

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