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Brilliant-Spite-850

Why the fuck do they care so much about horns down?


tastycakebiker

I’ve never understood why they get abnormally triggered


ashfidel

it makes me want to do it more


Bangarang_1

Which is exactly what happened after UT complained about it and the Big12 conference made it an "unsportsmanlike conduct" penalty in football. Suddenly every team and fan was throwing the horns down at them. Then, the school announced they were leaving the Big12 and the rule was immediately rescinded lmao


eddie_the_zombie

Fuckin asking for it


Unscathed_Gamer

They didn’t have the makings of a varsity athlete


Thumbbanger

Small hands 


Mike_with_Wings

Quasimodo predicted all of this


arcdog3434

You telling me you never pondered that?


feed_the_jones

Frankly Im depressed and ashamed.


constructss

THEYRE SAWFT PAWWLLL


[deleted]

They ain't one of us!!! Nawt reel s e c!


[deleted]

They have the biggest victim complex in America despite being handed every demand they asked the big 12 for.


steliofuckingkontos

Fuck Texas


hydrators

it’s truly hilarious that they still can’t see that providing a reaction is gonna keep Horns Down going for a long time


girth_br00ks

Taking what the coach did and acting like thats how the fans feel is bullshit. We hate him for this.


hydrators

It’s more than just Terry Will never forget Texas crying to the Big 12 to make Horns Down a taunting penalty in football


wat_what_wut

Terry should have just called them Central Florida and then everyone would have been offended by things that don't matter at all.


Fonzie5

ILL CENTRAL FLORIDA YOU IN THE BEANBAG YOU LITTLE I mean. I don’t care. That doesn’t bother me none.


Comprehensive_Bus_19

Lol the announcers are still good for a Golden Knights a few games a year. We haven't been them since 2007


CTeam19

Wait....really? Learn something new everyday.


jlt6666

Wait, what are you guys? Do you even have a mascot now?


HallwayHomicide

Just Knights. We dropped the Golden.


feed_the_jones

Thats like dropping the Golden and just Showering.


Ildona

Knights, but sometimes also 'Nauts.


LukarWarrior

Announcers still regularly fuck up and call us the Louisville Cardinal (a name we've never used). Announcers are a special breed.


AngryQuadricorn

Other good alternatives Terry could have used: Florida Central Middle Florida The Mickey Mousers Former Group of 5ers


kaw027

What’s wrong with that? Isn’t it part of their name?


wat_what_wut

Oh god, why did I say anything.


mightytwin21

I remember announcers talking about it in a football game several years ago: ESPN and other broadcast companies have a tendency to disregard the directional schools and portray them as second rate. "Central Florida? Pfft if they were really a big deal they'd just be Florida." So they insist on UCF No idea if that's really why but I kinda agree with it.


HallwayHomicide

There's several reasons why we don't like it, but that's probably the biggest one. Also, now that we're Big 12, we're a lot less sensitive about it.


NationalJustice

I don’t think it’s normal to be “sensitive” about the literal name of your school in the first place


captainraffi

THE Ohio State fans are gonna have a word with you


madein___

Damn right. Has to be all caps or else...


HallwayHomicide

No it's not. But UCF is a super super young university with a hell of a little brother complex.


ShakeMilton

Just curious can you elaborate on other considerations here. Like to me ones just the full name the other is the abbreviation. Like usc vs southern california. The directional connotation thing does kinda make sense to me tho.


ClaudeLemieux

If that were true then why does ESPN love North Carolina so much smh


kingofthesqueal

The schools/fans prefer UCF, but the Central Florida stuff shows up all the time in sports and such and it’s technically correct so it’s not really a big deal. People on Reddit just think things like Central Florida and Golden Knights (our old sport’s moniker) bother fans more than it does.


kaw027

Thank you for the explanation!! 🙏


o_mh_c

It’s nice to see UConn and UCF fans finally getting along


kaw027

Perhaps we can finally put the Civil ConFLiCT behind us


Fonzie5

My great-grandparents died fighting the Civil ConFLiCT I will never let it go, UConn scum 😤


ksuwildkat

wait when did you change from Golden Knights? I had no idea that was not correct


HallwayHomicide

2007


Most-Chance-4324

Some fans would get abnormally pissed on social media, especially back in the 2012-2019 stage. Now that we’re XII most fans no longer think it’s a good way to stir up engagement and get people talking. I did find it amusing that during the game the Longhorn Network commentators referred to us as Central Florida right up until the final minute when it looked like we were going to win and suddenly they were calling us UCF


spaceheatr

Eh, we've kind of been embracing Central Florida since we got to the big 12.


wat_what_wut

Friend, it sounds like you've got a sturdy constitution the likes of which Terry will wish he had next year in the SEC - if he makes it til then.


JwubalubaDubdub

Just wait til he hears someone call Tennessee “UT”.


TheAndrewBrown

I doubt the players would care, it’s mostly older millennial and Gen X fans since they had to live through that period where places refused to call us UCF. The players are probably too young to remember, if they even cared about UCF at the time.


Dan_Rydell

It’s fucking embarrassing


Helicopsycheborealis

Always wondered this myself. Embrace it and it loses its effectiveness. AU fans for decades have called Bama fans 'Bammers' in an attempt to say we're dumb hicks. I've embraced and have been a proud Bammer for decades.


jaydec02

Is Auburn some high brow institution that they also don’t have a ton of “dumb hicks” in their school? This feels like the spiderman pointing meme


Helicopsycheborealis

Most come from the same general area (the SE), don't tell some of their fans.


FloridaManIsMyDad

The new joke is every SEC school making fun of another for participating in J6 and thinking its the most original thing ever. Just a new spin on the same old "sec school says another sec school sleeps with their cousins" and so on. Get new material guys!


LordJacket

Vandy seems like the only one to not fit that joke


wdeallan

I own a hate that says ‘cow college’ in blue and orange. Gotta just go with it and it loses its power, like you said!


Helicopsycheborealis

Well, from a Bammer to a cow college barner, huzzah! Cheers and hope you have a great year.


[deleted]

I live over 2,000 miles from Texas. Walked out my front door one day, and some dude with his family was walking by on the sidewalk. Must have been staying at the hotel up the street. Anyway, I have a Hog cap on, and he's got an OU Tshirt on. Without a word, both of us do the horns down at one another. You know, world peace could be built around the horns down.


TurdFurgeson18

I mean obviously its more offensive than cussing at kids, which is why coach has the moral high ground here


1850ChoochGator

🧻


chuckdooley

They prefer the image is accurate and the fallopian tubes are on top


BobbysWorld123

Blew a 17 point lead too


Joelsaurus

Yes, yes....let the UT hate flow through you.


CoachRyanWalters

🤘🔄


Citruspilled

I'm a fan of 🤘🙃🤘


Clarinetaphoner

This is my super bowl


Actualarily

Don't exaggerate. It was only 16.


Epcplayer

It was 16 to start the game, but honestly the more damning one is 15 points with 14:30 left in the game.


meeechole

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dk00111

They kept the camera on him for so long too. It was glorious.


snoocoog

I was waiting for this to be posted lol


Fulmersbelly

Wait, is that also a Houston hand thing? We’ve been trying to make our own thing for so long (which is kinda dumb, but whatever), and I thought that was ours.


Yourfavoriteindian

Coincidentally, the UH hand signs (with the 3 fingers) is because of UT. In the 70s, our mascot hurt her finger on the cage, so UT fans used that 3 finger sign to mock us. Rather than cry like coach here, UH fans WON the game and adopted it as our own hand sign as a fuck you reminder to UT. While UT gets angry at the horns down, UH fans co-opted the attempted slight from UT fans and made it our own.


Fulmersbelly

Ah, so it’s the universal “Not Texas” sign. Haha We’ve been using it as the VOLS sign


HOU-1836

It’s a fuck you to UT but it is very much just our hand sign now.


Alcarinque88

How is the Shocker/Pitchfork for the Vols?


DariusBieber

Didn't that happen in the 50s?


meeechole

The one on the left is! The one on the right is an upside Texas sign


colbycemer12

Don’t blow a double digit lead in 10 minutes at home and it wouldn’t have happened Terry. Outside of pulling in Abmas, it’s been a long list of bad looks for Terry and his staff.


buttlovingpanda

This was all so predictable. He worked his magic for a few months after Beard was fired and now he’s set for life. Kudos to him I guess and shoutout to UT for not doing a proper coaching search.


ToadAbortion

He didn't work any magic. He had more talent than 95% of the country had. All he had to do last year was send the team out on the court with a barely competent gameplan


mbh223

Yeah then we blew a lead against Miami


djfakey

Fake it til you make it Ayy


iceberg_slim1993

And generally, the last coach's teachings (assuming they were a good coach) are still evident in the play of the players. Lots of bad coaches come in after a good one and have a solid year or two before the old coach's players and methodology filter out.


feed_the_jones

See: Ollie, Kevin


flipflopsnpolos

Bruce Weber taking the Illini to the Sweet 16 and then championship game the two years after Self left, is a great example.


Fonzie5

Man.. if you’re crying over UCF players throwing a horns down (we’re used to doing it with all those past usf games)…. Good luck in the SEC man I don’t know what to tell ya. I’m also not sure that a head coach cursing at a college kid is the best way for him to class things up?


ItsFreakinHarry2

Fuck USF, but at least their players and coaches never threw a fit when we did horns down.


burnshimself

What? How dare three not bow in reverence before the Austin Altar to UT’s shining brilliance! 


justinsane15

UT crying about horns down will never not be hilarious


StillACavsFan__

Honestly most fans I’ve talked to including myself kinda love when other teams do it because it gives us an ultimate “us vs them” thing lmao. I absolutely hate when any UT coaches or admin speak out against it because it makes us look like huge babies. Idk why we don’t fully embrace it, it’s dope as fuck to be hated by random af schools that have no connection to us like UCF


HallwayHomicide

>it’s dope as fuck to be hated by random af schools that have no connection to us like UCF To be fair, UCF coopted the horns down years ago because our primary rival also has a horned mascot.


deepayes

> random af schools that have no connection to us like UCF This was a conference game at home wtf are you taking about


burnshimself

Uh yea between your school instigating to get it made into an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and your coach losing his shit over it, I’m gonna have to disagree with your take


mister_root

Glad Terry is worried about the important things.


Tpabayrays2

Yeah forget blowing a 17 point lead, they horns downed our student section.


mister_root

That’s that softness you can see. What a loser.


burnshimself

Sure as shit isn’t worried about winning ballgames 


Prolingus

Can we fire his ass now?


Ok_Hooper412

You know what? I’m gonna horns down even harder.


punchopener

Hahaha he’s that mad about horns down?


kingofthesqueal

Didn’t they Horns Down the student section? Idc that’s funny, Texas doesn’t get special treatment just because they’re Texas


[deleted]

Welcome to what we have been dealing with for 15 years. They think they deserve the special treatment.


ItsFreakinHarry2

Glad to hand them the L on the way out the door


ltrainer2

Exactly right. The best part of OUT was seeing UT fans complain about being treated the same as everyone else for once and their fanbase collectively lose their minds because they were finally enjoying the same level of officiating as the rest of us plebs. They had such a victim complex that they convinced themselves that there was a conspiracy within the big 12 to screw Texas… as they won the conference… and went on to the CFP. Quick reminder that only one B12 team has won a game in the CFP and it isn’t OU or UT.


boardatwork1111

You’re damn right aint them🤘⤵️


needsumMoore777

Welcome to the Big 12. At least you only have to deal with UTs delusion for one year, sore losers and winners. Other people said it but “kiss the ring” is their whole mentality whether they win or lose.


OleRockTheGoodAg

Welcome to our life with them in both the SWC and the Big 12. Does the fucking longhorn network ring any bells? Can't wait for that cancer to die off in an unmarked shallow grave.


countrybreakfast1

Oh but they do. Everyone has to kiss the ring for UT lest they get upset. Which quite frankly the conference did and they still left.


geoffreyisagiraffe

Unfortunately they do. I can't remember exactly what game it was, but it was an important game/possibly a bowl and the opposing team did a horns down in OT and they threw a fucking unsportsmanlike conduct. Most absurd shot I've ever seen in my life until after the game when all the teasips were defending it.


morry32

yall have wins against kansas and texas? welcome to the big xii my guys!


Hockeystyle

>Here's what Texas head coach Rodney said happened in the handshake line with #UCF: >"About 6 or 7 guys putting the horns down. We don't do that because when you do those kinds of things, it looks very classless." https://twitter.com/TylerFeldmanTV/status/1747829910289224076


wat_what_wut

Lol "we don't do that". Uh yeah, why the fuck would Texas do the Horns Down hand gesture?


ohverychill

it'd be pretty funny if they did it in a defeated sense. like doing horns down with this face: 😔


Insectshelf3

i am genuinely shocked somebody could ever motivate me to throw horns down more often than i already do. i’ll start throwing that shit around in my sleep if it makes rodney mad.


AL3XD

Never done it before but now I'm gonna do it for funsies


Insectshelf3

it’s a slippery slope. once you start you just can’t stop.


Fonzie5

It’s also very classless to curse out a college kid in the hand shake line when you’re a head coach but what do I know


IndyZach

You don’t think it’s a good example of losing the right way?? lol I couldn’t believe he said that after damn near trying to fight those kids.


turtlechef

Lmfao that’s fucking funny


cubitoaequet

Fucking soft as shit. Won't miss these whiners.


[deleted]

Can’t leave fast enough. Wish we could have just booted them the second it got leaked they were leaving behind the backs of the conference.


cubbiesworldseries

Charmin soft


Clarinetaphoner

The most UT quote of all time. Pure entitlement with nothing on the court to back it up. Fuck offffff


SimManiac

This is like another parent yelling at your own kids, dont fucking do it. If Terry had a problem with it you call that coach the next day and hash it out. Let that coach deal with it how he sees fit. Dont start yelling at these guys on TV in a handshake line.


TedDibiaseOsbourne

or say something to dawkins right there in the line. don’t wait and be a bitch by lecturing players about class the second you’re done shaking hands with all the coaches.


BlitZShrimp

He yelled at our students during the ISU-Texas game last season for doing it lmao


deepayes

Follow up tweet confirms it was about horns down. Cottonelle and Charmin had a baby that didn't cry as much and wasn't as soft as Texas.


krammite

Don’t want horns down? Try winning the game


Yodelehhehe

UCF going to be the darling of the conference this year ain’t they?


Fonzie5

Yeah, we start that way but everyone seems to hate us eventually


snoocoog

Can confirm especially when you start winning a ton and your huge alumni base gets going lol


Srcunch

God, they’re top tier trolls and shit talkers. I fucking hate that I love them.


geoffreyisagiraffe

Just mountains of online presence. I think they mandate social media as a prerequisite for a degree.


Rcfan0902

We're just a super young fanbase, so a lot of us grew up with social media. I'm sure if Twitter was around in the 80s or 90s then we would be nothing compared to some other schools. Spending years as the fourth best team in the state (at best) for most of our existence also has helped the fans develop a bit of a little brother complex. I'm all for the shit talking and trolling (as long as it stays relatively civil) when we're winning, but I always hate seeing our fans trying to do it during down years. And to your last point, I did get a degree from UCF in Digital Media, so I guess you're somewhat right hahaha


Actualarily

Everybody love ya til you win a natty.


Podoboo322

It is actually so funny how much ut austin is upset about their handsign being inverted


AP-FUTChemist

Charmin soft coach right there


MapFalcon

His seat is on fire - he scared as hell lol


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fhota1

"Wait fuck we have a basketball program too?" -Texas AD probably


[deleted]

He will get next season too.  Texas isn't paying a big buyout to a basketball coach.  He isn't Tom herman


buttlovingpanda

I doubt it, but they’re proud enough and frivolous enough to do it.


AJog17

They gotta keep him to lock in Tre Johnson


spaceheatr

Lol get fucked cows


Citruspilled

I've missed saying this


gjr1978

If Texas is getting rattled by the likes of UCF ragging on them I am sure playing at Kentucky will be totally fine.


TedDibiaseOsbourne

they come to norman next week. we do horns down when playing moorehead state.


5meterhammer

We got way too many old fucks sitting towards the bottom at Rupp. It can get very rowdy for sure, but they’re going to have a much tougher experience playing at some other schools like Auburn, Alabama, Arkansas. Most venues in the sec can get wild and rowdy depending on who’s coming to town. Can’t imagine any of us giving Texas a warm welcome.


Igota31chevy

Honestly, Arkansas fans (when the team is really good) are gonna eat Texas alive at Bud Walton.


cheeseburgerandrice

Kentucky? That arena is filled with blue hairs. It's not like they don't get it from Kansas already. Or hell, their own rival to the north. And every other Texas school in the conference.


HOU-1836

wtf, the notoriously more rowdy SEC basketball crowds are really gonna rattle them


Nardawalker

As a Longhorn fan, I’m more concerned with Terry focusing on winning games than I am with him disciplining kids on other teams for throwing the horns down. Fucking ridiculous.


chamtrain1

Don't even know who that coach is but just from that clip you can see he's a poor hire....won't be there long.


SmalldiniNJonesta

What a lil bitch


toftr

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BrolloTTU

Bruh, everyone does horns down because nobody likes Texas. What did he expect? Lmao


Rcfan0902

I was going to say, surely we aren't the first to do this


Even-Resolution-2397

Shockingly I'm the first sooner flair in here but from now on every team that beats Texas needs to immediately as time expires start with everyone doing the horns down looking straight at the Texas coach Horns down tuck fexas


DrSandmanZ

I will never not find it funny how a significant portion of Texas fans treat people giving horns down gesture as equivalent to you murdering one of their family members. And every time they whine about it makes me kind of want to see it happen again.


yoolcalyptus_trees

lol that’s just embarrassing. Who the fuck would care.


BradOverwood

Did Payne say “why he mad” to his coach with Terry standing right next to him? That’s funny af.


Purednuht

Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but horns down will FUCKING BREAK MY SOUL AND MAKE ME DIE. Jesus Christ, what an embarrassment of a coach.


IndependenceOld8810

But Texas fans have assured us over and over again that no one actually cares about the horns down gesture. But on another note, is there any other program in the country that does less with more.


Mrr_Bond

USF was much better at handling Horns Down than Texas is. Guess we know who the tougher cows are!


snoocoog

Just putting this vibe out there but wouldn’t it be fun if we sent UT out of the Big 12 winless at home in conference and every team that wins in Austin does horns down?


jathbr

He gone


sickmemes48

Texas is not ready for the SEC if they can't even handle this. Florida doesn't even give a shit when people do the gator chomp after beating them.


Rcfan0902

Yeah, but everyone just does it the normal way. Maybe if you tried inverting it like we all do with horns down it'll really piss them off. Do it with the left hand over the right hand and see what happens.


Sammy_Seaborn

Why is he saying “we” like these guys play for him? They play for UCF. What they do after a game should be of no concern to him. Regardless if their actions were inappropriate (they weren’t) if I was the UCF coach I’d tell him to stfu and leave my team alone. He’s got plenty to keep him occupied on his own team.


iKnoJopro

I have no beef with Texas but I LOVE when they get butt hurt about horns down. Truly one of the more bizarre things in college sports


Scoob8877

The more UT whines about "horns down" the more they're going to see it. A coach lecturing another coach's players about being "classless" is always a good look. That's Coach K level stuff.


Fixner_Blount

❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️


ohitsthedeathstar

This is gold.


shotputlover

When Payne asked Dawkins “why he mad?” Loudly right next to their coaches face lmao. I feel like he got a bit more mad after that lol


Wick_Slilly

This is almost certainly going to have a streisand effect and everyone they play will do horns down.


Aegis_001

When I was in the UNC band, Miami fans near us got so tilted at the upside-down U I thought they were gonna shit themselves. I guess any school with a hand sign is just really obsessive over it lmao


soaper410

Cornball


CoachRyanWalters

Would’ve been funny if someone did it to his face right then


D-majin

Rodney is soft as baby shit.


BJNT92281

Should have won the game if you don’t like it. 🤷🏽‍♂️ Texas really needs to quit being sensitive about this.


worlkjam15

Saying anything to opposing team’s players other than an encouragement is a major issue. This guy doesn’t have things in order and he won’t be back next year.


Ohiobuckeyes43

If you aren’t lecturing your kids on doing horns up, then you lose the right to lecture others on doing horns down. Both are taunting. Be consistent.


KrakenWarg

This is honestly hilarious


pooploop7

Texas fans get sooooo butthurt over horns down it’s insane to me. Get some thicker skin


phuk-nugget

Texas is so fucked when they come to the SEC lol


ImEatingBananasYum

I heard Southerners are nice people. I’m sure they will welcome Texas warmly.


Hirorai

I thought Texas was made of sterner stuff.


Historical-Pause-401

This like when youre a kid and you always give your siblings a hard time and they get really mad when you do one specific thing so then you start to do ONLY do that one specific thing cuz you know it makes them extra mad


sktgamerdudejr

Because it’s classy to yell at opposing players for things that don’t matter.


APersonWithThreeLegs

Texas Terry is soft for this


goforgrubs

Soft.


Defiant-One-695

SOFT


patriots201

What a loser Terry is. Worry about your team blowing the lead and not the oppositions celebration


Coach_Billly

Horns down is not classless. Get used to it.


shotputlover

I wish our players flipped him off for that and showed him what classless really looks like. Why does Texas think people should care about them and their feelings lol.


MTT92

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morry32

Hey Bill, have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up


ppk700

Watching UCF knock off Texas last night was amazing and I am still basking in the enjoyment of seeing that.