re: Sam Ehlinger cried when the LSU-UT game was canceled

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I can't knock on this dude

He's a football player who wants to play football

Being the starting quarterback of the Texas Longhorns on a Saturday night in Death Valley is college football personified. I feel bad he doesn't get a chance to do it, even if I think LSU would win.

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This is the correct take. Ehlinger is a classic college football player. I don't think anyone (even Ehlinger) is going to say that he's got a huge NFL career in front of him. This is a guy who came back for another year simply to play more college football for UT. For anyone like him who grew up in Central Texas, a home-and-home with LSU is literally the dream. Although the teams hardly ever play, people kinda forget that anything East of Austin is immediately a mesh of UT and LSU fans, creating a rivalry that rarely has an opportunity to get on the field. Having one of those classic games taken away sucks.