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Some thoughts on this inanity . . . 1. The whole Schloss to TAMU from TCU sequence is misunderstood. Schloss was absolutely beloved at TCU, and proved what an awesome coach he was. But TCU was not devastated to see him leave. It was a good transition. The situation had actually soured the year before. Reports at the time were that his marriage had actually bottomed out the year before, and he did more than flirt with MissSU the year before. The reports at the time indicated that he had actually accepted the MissSU job, and then got convinced to come back. The MissSU fanbase was extremely salty about that, and viewed it as reneging on the deal. From that point on, the TCU situation was very tenuous. He coached another year at TCU, but it was a very strange year. His heart wasn't really in it, and it seemed that his personal situation in FW was not great. When TAMU came calling, TCU admin and fans were fine with it, and felt they had an awesome replacement in Saarloos. Schloss had done a great job mentoring him, and he was ready for the job. Schloss also didn't raid TCU's team on the way out. Saarloos and other key assistants stayed. Key players stayed. It was a good transition. Schloss was grateful for his time at TCU, was grateful that TCU admin, fans, and boosters had delivered on what they promised (massive stadium rebuild, indoor practice facilities, etc., etc.). TCU admin, fans, and boosters were also grateful for Schloss for completely reinventing TCU baseball, and understanding of his leaving. Saarloos is a good coach--it does not appear that he is as good as Schloss, but the transition was done well, and he was the right guy. Schloss leaving TAMU is massively different. It does not look like he ever really liked the culture, and it really looks like he was fed up with TAMU admin and boosters. Despite the grandiose promises of a Listeria Park rebuild, nothing has actually been delivered. 2. So at the core, it looks like there were four reasons CDC was able to pull off the Schloss deal. First, the absolute positives of UT. On its face, UT is a premier job, even without being compared to TAMU. Although I think Mac Engel is a joke of a journalist, his column had it correct--if UT baseball calls, just about anyone is going to answer. Second, Schloss never bought into TAMU, and was soured there. That's their own fault, and they can't recognize that. Third, Schloss's relationship with CDC was obviously a significant factor. And fourth, Alberts is a terrible AD, and was completely snookered in the whole thing. 3. It appears that TAMU fans have massively underestimated the effect of the Jimbo buyout on the overall TAMU athletics program. Despite crowing about being richer and having more resources than big brother tu, it really looks like the Jimbo buyout has strapped the athletics program. Boosters are tapped out, especially for a non-revenue program like baseball. Overpaying for coaches and facilities in football can actually make some financial sense, with the revenue that comes from football. But baseball is a money loser for the university. 4. It's simply amazing to me that no one has been held accountable for the Jimbo fiasco. Bjork actually got promoted to tOSU. Sharp is Sharp. Everyone that was in the same room with that extension should have been strapped to a SpaceX booster and jettisoned into the sun. The blind loyalty to the idiots that made the Jimbo decisions absolutely guarantees that they'll continue to have the same results. 5. The blind loyalty to and wagon-circling around Looch is similarly mystifying. He continually lies to and berates his constituents. And they made him a millionaire in return. It's bizzare. But fun to watch.

Wtf

More on Dave Roberts, as it stands right now, it's between managing the Dodgers and his deep respect for the 12th man. I'm being told he his torn. Before you scoff and say no way, remember, this is an AD with something to prove and I'm being told money is not an issue, if we have to, the university is willing to sell off Hitlers gold and other artifacts. More on Roberts later. As for the DBU coach, he was never ever a potential hire, so any reports of Albert's interviewing him and he turning the job down are false. Again, this is a huge opening in the baseball world and the world is watching. Switching over to the investigation, I'm being told the ncaa has asked theFBI to step in (due to burner phones and currency crossing state lines). At this point it doesn't look like tu will have to dismantle their athletic program, but don't sleep on the fed not seeing the 12th man disrespected in this manner. General Pattons words still ring throughout Washington.

Suspend him for a year? For fucking what? Do they not have logic classes at A&M? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—A&M is not a serious fanbase. They demand you give them the respect of a Texas all while having the trophy case of a Louisiana Tech.

No CR:

NIL is ruining this sport!

Chestnut not having a good time right now

I think I found the aggy version of Randolph Duke

I thought the real dagger in Schloss's press conference was "I'm not saying I couldn't trust people at A&M, but I KNOW I can trust Chris."

Are you shitting me

these fuckwads are wishcasting if they think recruits give a shit that Texas took A&Ms coach. Coaching changes happen all the fucking time. This is no different than what A&M is about to do to some other school.

My nephew left his glove at the camp and a staffer called me and told me to pick it up at the office. Augie was sitting there bs’ing with the coaches and the glove was on the desk Augie was sitting at. The door was open I walked in. He had “that look”. He said does this belong to you? I said no, my nephew. He said well where is he? I said we were both too scared to come in we flipped for it. He laughed got up handed me the glove, he said, tell him to take care of his stuff.

You think that's bad? Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game

There’s always an uncle

I was watching TexAgs radio for a morning cup of Aggie tears. They brought on multiple current players. They were trying so hard to get these kids to say they were distracted in the slightest during the tournament. All of the players were just like “uh nah, we were locked in. Coach was too”.

yeah, Aggie95 is right - those people aren’t going to risk looking silly…

That duroc poster is 84+ years old and he’s admonishing the board for not being good, supportive and loyal ags, doing whatever the school and AD demands. I really hope that isn’t a dying breed. We need many more just like him.

I'm still convinced no one on texags is over 14.

The most butthurt fanbase on the entire planet.

I hate when I am blindsided and accidentally sign a contract to work at a new school

I think UT Baseball should tweet out a picture of a bunch of balloons with the illuminated letters spelling out HEATHER IS A MORON

Thanks for pulling that out. There is no way I was going to listen to/watch that whole show, and that’s a great clip. Dude is mad that he was a cuck at his own wedding. He and Jimbo should be bff.

Dude holy shit that’s out of touch. Your life has changed very little. My trans friends lives have changed dramatically. Women’s lives have changed dramatically. Our schools have changed dramatically. Minorities lives have changed dramatically. You say you want a more secure border but don’t believe we should round up people. Well that’s what is going to happen. You haven’t seen LGBTQ people treated badly in your small town, well we have all seen them demonized and treated badly by our fucking govt. There’s no agree to disagree here. You’re plainly wrong but seem to not care because it doesn’t directly effect you.

Ah, yes. Texas, which won a conference title and made the CFP last year is in "a state of disarray." And the athletic department that has won three of the past four Directors' Cup titles is "having trouble finding its identity slowing fading from relevance across the state and abeit the nation." Fuckin' aggy.

Is there one for English too?

Meanwhile, at stressboy's house...

Where've you been?

Another one.

Wonderful synopsis. Going to pos-rep you on some other posts because this one deserves more than one, imo. Points four and five are what bewilder me. I know they shouldn't, because I damn well know aggy as an overall mob lack the ability for reflective thought and change; however, it's wild to me that more of them don't catch on to the cyclical charade within their AD and it's attached media propaganda artists. They hired their own version of Steve Patterson in Alberts, who is more focused on cutting costs due to the Jimbo (let's display our big dick energy by lighting money on fire via inane decisions) fiasco than running an effective and avant-garde athletic department. They set the market, competing only against themselves, in that contract. Now it comes out they may have known it was a possibility that Schloss would leave, yet didn't begin due-diligence on a replacement and will now absolutely pay the price for it next season with poor on-field results. They fall for the spin over and over. Yet, somehow, this all Texas' fault (among a massive history of other grievances). A&M is the living picture of an abusive and narcissistic person who accepts no responsibility for their own actions, wields an absolute victim-oriented external locus of control, and is incapable of uncovering their own deleterious personality traits because it's just too painful to uncover reality - they are their own enemy.

4 more years of Trump also means my friends can’t make decisions about their own bodily autonomy, lgbtq are persecuted and demonized, millions of hard working people are kicked out of the country for being brown, our schools continue to decline, and on and on. Hand waving another Trump term as just 4 years of split govt is an extremely privileged viewpoint.

Gonna start giving out a Travis Chestnut award to my little league kids that act like a pussy during the game.

This is the point where I would kindly ask my mother to shut the fuck up.

I mean, I don't blame him. Travis Chestnut is now going to be a legend in aggy baseball lore. He'll be able to just walk right into any insurance agency in the Greater Houston area and get a job there any time he wants. He'll never have to pay for a beer in public again, unless he orders an import.

Most of the country is moderate and yet the person likely to win uses the most apocalyptic language and calls for the most drastic and norm-shattering actions. Those statements don’t line up. We’ve just accepted the unacceptable as normal for the right side of the aisle. The likely winner tried to avoid leaving office, denied he lost, and egged on the violent attack on his own VP. IF YOU ARE OK WITH THAT YOU ARE NOT A MODERATE.

She makes me think about two things: 1. Don’t ever make my daughter’s life/stuff about me. 2. If these are the people that are applauding my actions, I need to change my actions.

schloss·en·freu·de /ˈSHläsənˌfroidə/ noun- When one derives amusement from watching people lose their minds online because another school hired away their baseball coach.