OARThree

father, husband, Christ Follower, GO FROGS! RTs/ Links are not endorsements. All thoughts are my own.

[BrownieCFB @BrownieCFB]

AP Poll Top 10 Finishes in the CFP Era‼️

[TCU Carter Boys @TCUCarterBoys]

Fernando Mendoza (2025) vs Max Duggan (2023) Stats

Max Duggan:
Passing Yards: 3,698
Passing TDs: 32
INT: 8
Rushing Yards: 423
Rushing TDs: 9

Fernando Mendoza:
Passing Yards: 3,535
Passing TDs: 41
INT: 6
Rushing Yards: 276
Rushing TDs: 7

One is a top projected pick and the other fell to the 7th round and never got a chance…

[CFB Tracker @MatchupTracker]

Teams with Appearances in Every NY6 Bowl 🏟️

If Miami beats Ole Miss in the Fiesta Bowl, they will join Texas as the only teams to win every NY6 Bowl.

[tcu horny frog @tcuhornyfrog]

TCU remains the only school in Texas to win a CFP semifinal game

[AmonG (us) Carter @AmonGUs_Carter]

3 years ago... Don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it happened #hypnotoadinahurry #happygriffinkellday

[MyHome @chicagoguy773]

@ThomasSowell 💯 this!!! 👇👇👇

[Mike Buddie @Buddie52]

Best student section in the country. 11am kick, Homecoming weekend, torrential downpour, 60% of the entire student body - not a chance they are leaving! Thank you 🐸 nation!!!

[OARThree @OARThree]

This is a MUST-WATCH for any Horned Frog fan!!!

[Clint Foster @Clint_Foster55]

Thanks so much to everyone who tuned in for the premiere & for your gracious words of encouragement! Please spread the word. I can’t make any money from this film. I just want CFB fans to see it and enjoy it! TCU & Bram’s stories need to be heard!
@TCUFootball @valeroalamobowl

[OARThree @OARThree]

@Clint_Foster55 @TCUFootball @valeroalamobowl Great video

[OARThree @OARThree]

@Clint_Foster55 @TCUFootball @valeroalamobowl OUTSTANDING VIDEO —-great job, Clint

[TCU SPORTS @TCUSportsAlerts]

Congrats to @FBCoachP on his induction into the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame tonight.

🏈 263 all-conference selections
🏈 21 first team all-Americans
🏈 55 NFL Draft picks.
🌹 1 Rose Bowl Victory 🏆

It’s hard to think of anyone that has left more of a lasting legacy at TCU. 🐐

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

🧵Hymn Histories: The Beautiful Story of “Be Thou My Vision”

Few songs are still sung after 1,200 years. “Be Thou My Vision” is one of them. I love it deeply, but so have Christians from medieval Ireland to modern churches worldwide. Here’s why and where it came from. 🧵👇🏼

[David Spiller @DavidSpillerTX]

To those fleeing Texas Democrats that say that they are saving democracy in Texas and the United States relative to congressional redistricting, here are the facts:

MA: 36% Republican, 0 seats
CT: 42% Republican, 0 seats
ME: 46% Republican, 0 seats
NM: 46% Republican, 0 seats
NH: 48% Republican, 0 seats
RI: 42% Republican, 0 seats
VT: 32% Republican, 0 seats
HI: 38% Republican, 0 seats
DE: 42% Republican, 0 seats

Also, as to some of the blue states that were benevolent enough to give us a smidgen:

CA: 38% Republican, only 9 of 52 seats (20.9%)
IL: 44% Republican, only 3 of 17 seats (17.6%)
NY: 43% Republican, only 7 of 26 seats (26.9%)
MD: 34% Republican, only 1 of 8 seats (12.5%)
NJ: 46% Republican, only 3 of 12 seats (25%)
OR: 41% Republican, only 1 of 6 seats (16.7%)

Why is it that if Republicans do redistricting, it’s a threat to democracy. Yet, if Democrats do redistricting, it’s democracy itself.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

🧵 1/ If the residents of DC want to be part of a state, the solution is *not* DC statehood

Any solution should involve reverting land ceded by Maryland for the creation of DC—excepting only a narrow corridor encompassing the White House, Capitol, & Supreme Court—to Maryland

[Texas Football Life @txfblife]

1998 — TCU defeats USC in the Sun Bowl to get their first bowl win since 1957.

Since this game, TCU has won 14 bowl games, including 2 NY6 games

[Barstool TCU 🐸 @BarstoolTCU]

TCU BEACH VOLLEYBALL JUST WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

[TCU Football @TCUFootball]

Welcome to the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame, Coach Patterson!

Coach Patterson spent 24 years as a TCU coach for the football team, setting the TCU all-time coaching record with 181 wins. Patterson won a total of 22 national coach of the year honors and guided the Horned Frogs to six conference championships, while mentoring 263 all-conference selections, 21 first team All-Americans and 55 NFL Draft picks.

[Facts About Texas @FactsAboutTexas]

Santa Anna was captured on April 22nd and brought before Sam Houston who lay wounded on a mattress underneath the boughs of an oak tree in the Texas camp. John Forbes' audited pension application in the Republic Claims Files describes what happened:
"I put my hand on his arm to rouse him. He raised himself on his elbow and looked up, the prisoner immediately addressed him, telling him who he was and surrendering himself to him, a prisoner of war.

General Houston looked at him intensely but made no reply, turning to me, requested me to proceed to the guard fire and bring...before him a young man who was reported to be the private secretary of Santa Anna and could talk English fluently. I did so, and on my return found the prisoner seated quietly in a chair beside the General's mattress.

The young man on seeing the prisoner assured Genl. Houston that the prisoner then before him was truly Genl. Santa Anna. General Houston, wanting additional evidence, sent me again to the guard fire to bring Genl. Almonte before him. In bringing down Genl. Almonte, I met Genl. Th. J. Rusk and Lieut. Zavalla...They accompanied me with Genl. Almonte to where Genl. Houston was, when the prisoner was fully recognized and identified."

"The conqueror of the Napoleon of the West is born to no common destiny," Santa Anna said, "and can afford to be generous to the vanquished."
"You should have thought about that at the Alamo," Houston countered.

Santa Anna tried to justify his actions at the Alamo by saying that it was taken by storm which allowed everyone inside to be killed. Houston was unmoved, so Santa Anna claimed he was only following orders from his government.

"You ARE the government!" Houston snapped. And he continued by saying that no grounds whatsoever excused the slaughter of Fannin and his men at Goliad. He was in no mood for hearing any of Santa Anna's hogwash and several accounts describe Santa Anna as losing his nerve under Houston's cold resolve.

Sam Houston was the only one standing between Santa Anna and a rope, a bullet, or a blade. Everyone wanted him killed. Though a persistent myth still circulates about Sam sparing Santa Anna's life out of Masonic respect he instead made a careful, pragmatic decision.

There were thousands of Mexican troops still in the field under other Mexican generals and Houston did not know where they were. Had those troops pressed the attack Houston's men would have been wiped out and history would have unfolded very differently. Sparing Santa Anna allowed him to be used as a diplomatic bargaining chip to get Filisola and Urrea to back off.

But Houston had a second reason, a moral reason, for not killing Santa Anna. He said (paraphrasing) "We're better than that." He said that to be respected around the world Texas had to show that its values were different than those of other upstart countries. Effectively saying, that's the way banana republics change power –by killing whoever was in charge before the new people took over. And we're not doing that. We're better than that.

"Alive Santa Anna may be of some use to us," Houston said, "dead, he's just another dead Mexican."
TCU's Dr. Gregg Cantrell observed, "Houston could point to the battlefield that was littered with the bodies of 600 dead Mexican soldiers, one more wasn't going to make a difference even if it was the President of Mexico."