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When Dabo Swinney was named Clemson's full time head coach in December of 2008, he did the most Mack Brown thing possible that a Mack Brown Jr. type could do. He started calling around the HC coaching fraternity, asking to come visit and sit down with various HCs across the land. Many turned sweet, young Dabo down outright, as they were too busy with their own offseasons or bowl prep to care enough to help the hillbilly upstart and his staff. Still, one man did answer the call, and invited Dabo and his staff down to visit, right smack dab in the middle of Fiesta Bowl game prep - Mack Brown. They all spent 3 days in Austin, gladhanding and chumming it up. Swinney's spent some time this week with the local Clemson press talking about that event and how happy he is to be heading back to Austin. After all, he spoke before the SMU game of preparing to make a run to be the first 3-loss national title winning coach. He thinks he has Clemson peaking at the right time (nevermind South Carolina whipping them in the trenches less than a month ago) and they're ready. Running into Swinney's open armed optimism is a thin-skinned and panicked Longhorn netdom, who have spent the last week+ manufacturing ways in which they need to be worried about this upcoming, first-of-its-kind home playoff game against the underdog Tigers. Having watched a small and slow Clemson team play backyard bully in a truly abysmal ACC all year, I can do nothing but smirk and mock each of these plaintive whines on the boards, as I know Texas is about to stomp a mudhole in Clemson's ass. "But closetojumping, Dabo's a wizard and he's won the playoffs twice before! Sarkisian just eats his own boogers on the sidelines in postseason games!" While it's true that Swinney has won two national titles, those days are long in the rearview mirror. Clemson only made its way to these playoffs through the backdoor, by beating an AAC team with too much hype. This Clemson team has some future NFL players within its ranks. Mafah, if he hasn't taken too many bullets, seems like he'll be drafted. It's early, but TJ Moore and Bryant Wesco look like future stars. Antonio Williams, an older Clemson WR, is the current star and will get next level looks. Briningstool at TE is good but not great, yet he's going to the Senior Bowl and will be drafted. Defensively, Barrett Carter, Sammy Moore, TJ Carter, and Peter Woods will all likely play on Sundays. Peter Woods gets a lot of hype for a dude with like 21 tackles and 3 sacks in 7 or 8 games this year. Oh well. From there? Slim pickings. That's the difference between now and years past. Some of the players I named are true freshmen. One is a true sophomore. They're not loaded with upperclassmen ready to go high in the draft. They have upperclassmen good enough to go somewhere in the draft, and that's it. They have an average OL as usual, with a couple of OTs who could go in the mid-late rounds, but they're never been a power in that key personnel area and this year is no different. Meanwhile, Texas is loaded with draftable players and future NFL high round picks who cannot be drafted yet. While Sarkisian's bowl and playoff record, thus far, do not inspire confidence, this roster talent should. If anyone honestly believes that the slack-jawed yokel roaming Clemson's sidelines with his 1000 yard stare and openly breathing through his mouth is some sort of X's and O's threat, they've not watched much Clemson. "Now come on, CTJ, have you seen Texas' redzone offense and special teams play?" Setting aside the futility of the raging Arch vs Ewers debate, featuring masturbatory fantasies about Sarkisian casually dropping in a complete red zone playset for Manning in the postseason, I think there are reasons for promise and optimism for Texas in the RZ this game. While Texas has been mediocre scoring in the RZ due to, mostly, Bert Auburn gargling more balls than Mia Khalifa, Clemson's RZ defense has also mostly been dogshit this season, allowing points on more than 83% of their drives. This isn't Clemson from 2018 - their front seven is good but not great. They can be run on and they're not elite on pass defense either. Texas needs the offensive line to show up wearing men's jock straps underneath their uniforms and not in the pink panties they wore against the UGA front. Do that, have even Decent Quinn Ewers show up with them, and Texas gets to 20+ on the offensive side. What about the rest of it, STs included? Clemson actually has substantially worse STs than Texas in most facets. They've had a bunch of FGs missed and blocked. They do basically nothing in the return game and just lost their main return guy for the season against SMU. Their coverage teams are average to boot. All we need here on special teams is for Silas Bolden to not be a complete fucking lunatic and for someone to bring some positive karma in Auburn's direction by shaving his head and keeping him away from Scott Norwood and Ray Finkel. "I don't know, closetojumping. I don't like their running game or turnover margin advantage." The Clemson running game has been mentioned on this board and OTF as a source of concern. There's always going to be an affinity for Klubnik on the boards because of the Westlake alumni honk network. "Cade's over there being whiteboy awesome again! He's a dual threat, by gawd!" Right. Look, the Clemson running game is in trouble. It's not just that Texas is a truly elite defense, but their personnel is also a problem. Klubnik's nothing special and easily spied. Mafah is seriously banged up and can't handle 20+ carries without serious wear and tear - their own writers are talking about this. The back-up just tore his ACL. The only defense within range of what they're about to face was Georgia's or SCar's and both shut them down on the ground. As to TO concerns, part of why Clemson doesn't turn the ball over is due to the laughable schedule and competition they've played. In Clemson's 3 losses, Klubnik threw 1 TD and 2 picks. The turnover margin in those 3 games? 0. Clemson's feasting on TOs in their 9 wins against mostly overmatched competition. The Clemson offensive game plan is usually to protect Klubnik from himself and work the short passing game while attempting to pound both he and Mafah until the weaker opponent breaks down. Against better teams, the Clemson running game has been held in check and they've been forced to try to let Klubnik and the young WR corps, along with Briningstool, win the game. They're 2-3 in those contests, with wins against an overmatched SMU on the last play of the game and Pitt in the final minute of the game when Pitt failed to spy Klubnik adequately and let him go streaking. "Sure, CTJ, but we've never played these guys and their brand terrifies me in my feelings." Clemson has beaten 10 teams this season with a combined record of 54-66. That includes an 11-2 SMU team that played virtually no one and shit itself twice against decent competition. I already discussed the two teams they beat with a winning record - a wildly overrated 11-2 SMU and a team in a disastrous state of collapse at the time of play (and continuing now) in 7-5 Pitt. The rest of their competition has either been dogshit that they obliterated, like a 5-7 FCS Citadel, or teams that paired up with them well and kicked their ass, like Georgia and Louisville. If you watched Clemson at all this year, you know that they looked slow and small against SCar and Georgia. They looked great against Wake Forest and North Carolina State. How do you expect them to match up against Texas, on the road? I'm thinking mudhole, to the tune of Texas 27 - Clemson 10. I'm not real sure how Clemson climbs above 13, even if Bad Quinn Ewers and Evil Bert Auburn show up and try to give the damned thing away. Thoughts? Hook'em

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General in charge of chemical attacks on Ukraine killed IN MOSCOW by a remotely detonated bomb that blew up a moped. "Baza says that Russian investigators are considering several versions of how the assassins could have watched Kirillov exit the building, including hacking the building's CCTV or renting an apartment in the building. The scooter with explosives was placed at the entrance around 4:00 am, and the explosives were detonated via radio signal, according to preliminary information." Wow. Right on the street in Moscow. That's got to be chilling.

Here’s a morning shot of overt racism from the aggies on 247. This is in the middle of a thread about Hudson where they’re debating the veracity of Hudson NIL demands. It bled into UT NIL discussion/ignorance and complaints about all of them gol’durned Mexicans in San Antonio buying Walmart Texas gear.

From his IG

Zack Calzada was a backup and they loved him 'til he came in and started. Then they hated him, until he became a backup again. Haynes King was a backup that they loved 'til he came in and started. Or was he the backup after he was the starter? Now, they love him as the starter...for Georgia Tech, but some Aggies think he should be the backup there. Connor Wiegman was the backup who became a starter. Or maybe he started out as the starter, THEN became the backup that people hated. Then, he became the starter, but they wanted him to be the backup, which he became. Now he's the backup for Auburn, or maybe the starter when they play A&M. Which takes us to backup Marcel Reed. He was the backup who replaced the backup, Connor Wiegman. Reed became the starter after coming in against Florida, but they soon soured on him and wanted him replaced by Wiegman, who was still the starter, but was on the bench. Now Reed is the backup while they look for a new starter, but he plays the whole game.

Eric Singleton. He's been on campus since this morning

Figured it was time to take a look at why we are struggling running vs Georgia. There are many reasons. Sometimes we just aren't physical enough and don't block through the whistle. We turn guys loose too early allowing them to get back in the play. Sometimes the bunch sets don't help as they bring too many defenders close to the ball that wouldn't otherwise be there. However, most of the time it's just simply players losing 1v1 battles or just missing their assignment not Georgia stacking the box to take away the run like SOME posters like to believe. Below we are running our signature OZ. GEORGIA IS IN NICKEL DESPITE US HAVING TWO TIGHT ENDS ON THE FIELD(12 personnel). This is where Sarkisian's stubbornness is bare ass naked for all to see. We should spread Georgia out an run on them like other teams do. But no we make the distance shorter for them to get to the LOZ. Some of you have heard me say you cannot beat Georgia by playing in a phone booth. This play is an example of that. At the snap Juan Davis(81) come across the formation to cut off backside pursuit freeing Helm up to climb to the backside LB. The line is dancing to left. Majors climbs to the second level to find work. That would make for a nice hole but Conner gets whipped immediately and Wisner has to move on. The edge would've looked pretty good but Golden runs right past the nickel. Wisner sees it, cuts it up, and just tries to get what he can. SEC Championship Game Texas vs Georgia - YouTube.mp4

Spot fucking on. Tech is a "never was and never will be." I grew up in West Texas, and there is no way on God's green Earth (which doesn't include Lubbock, at least for the green part) I would have gone to Tech, True stories: 1. My freshman year at UT, Sport's Illustrated named Tech the "Campus most resembling a Federal Penitentiary." 2. My kids were raised in the California Bay Area. Whenever they complained about something, I used to tell them "Look, Daddy was raised in a post-Apocalyptic industrial wasteland. I don't want to hear it."

Now, imagine her ... without the crimson. See?

ok cool

Miami could buy OU six times over. They could moneywhip Mateer just to burn OU’s ass.

I still think it's fucking dumb / weird for football teams to have a basketball player emblazoned on their uniform.

Bro needs to get into rehab and off the drugs

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You’re right. Everyone would hit this, even the guys who don’t even like women. now everyone shut the fuck up.

Some of them are physically overmatched but they're also in their heads. They are waiting for something bad to happen so it does. It was clear early in the game that spreading them and running at them was the best chance we had on the ground. We were never going to run for 200+ like we do against lesser opponents, but running for 120 at 4 yards per carry would have been enough to win the game. We are not beating Georgia 41-30, we need to control the game and beat them something like 24-17. Which we can absolutely do but the OL needs to get their heads straight, WRs need to catch the ball, and if those two things happen then Ewers has a chance to play better which he also needs to do. Now let's all just hope we advance to where a third matchup would be a possibility.

Who's predicting every CFP playoff game? This guy: Here's the relevant prediction:

Was.

Most middle-aged heterosexual men would be all over just about anything. Doesn't mean we should lower our shitposting standards. There are far better examples of the female form.

This could be a huge pickup for Tech. They might be able to finish in the top 6 of the Big 12 or even beat Abilene Christian by more than 1 point at home if they land him.

My daughter wrote this letter to Santa (but left the "Santa" out, stupid kid). 12 years ago. She was in first grade like those poor children at Sandy Hook. Shook me to my core when it happened.

~'83 I joined the middle school band, because I was badass like that. Our middle school band director made us play the aggy war hymn and march an aggyesque show, because, according to him, it was the only college fight song/marching routine that was easy enough for 12 year olds to pick up.

Think of the children

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I understand why @closetojumping created a new thread to talk about the actual game.

For every one of these, finish the sentence with "and replace it with a 'private sector' product/service provided by Elon Musk at a greater cost, thus continuing to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars into Elon's pockets." None of these people actually want to eliminate any of these major government functions. They just want their patrons/oligarchs to profit from them.

Zack Calzada was the backup who became a starter who was going to win the Heisman. Then he transferred. Haynes King was the starter who was going to win a Heisman until he became a backup who was going to win a Heisman until he got hurt and became a backup who was going to win a Heisman when he became the starter again.Then he transferred. Connor Weigman was the starter who was going to win a Heisman until he got hurt and became a backup who was going to win a Heisman when he became the starter again until he sucked and got benched now he’s transferring. Stop me if you’ve heard this… Marcel Reed was the backup who became a starter who was going to win the Heisman until Weigman got better then he became the backup again until Weigman sucked and he became the starter again and is going to win the Heisman.

Texas fans crying over Quinn Ewers only being 25-8 with 2 playoff appearances and 4-1 vs rivals is the stupidest shit ever. He's not the next coming of Vince Young, but nuance has no place here. He's trash and Texas should have never lured him away from Ohio State. Some of yall should have been left in the 2010s.

this post is so disingenuous it honestly should be negged. From your own link: why not use that to compare to the "24% satisfaction rate with the state of the NHS?" Instead, you've chosen a totally different data point (coincidentally the ONLY point in the article that you linked that is favorable to the current system) and compared it to that 24% number. What's percentage of the UK public is satisfied with their own personal level of care? If you don't have that number, why bother comparing apples to oranges? Also, about that dissatisfaction: Take a look at this chart. Probably a coincidence that confidence has plummeted after the government slashed spending resulting in a 50B spending gap. https://www.statista.com/statistics/696342/public-satisfaction-with-the-nhs-united-kingdom-uk/" TLDR: Tale as old as time. Conservatives slash spending, break the government service, and then point to that failure as proof that the system doesn't work.

At eating burgers?

So much this. The goal of a for-profit enterprise: deliver the least possible amount of goods/services (that is, at the lowest cost) for the highest possible revenue. The perfect model is to provide nothing, in exchange for lots of money. If you can sell one egg for 50 cents, it's even better if you can sell one egg for $1, or $5, or even $10. The only purpose of a for-profit enterprise is to make money/deliver shareholder value. Delivering goods/services is just the incidental way that the enterprise achieves that goal. The goal of a government service agency: to provide the service. That's it. Sure, in doing so, it should do so with costs in mind, but that's not the GOAL. So, to translate: The goal of TSA: to prevent security threats from making it onto a plane. The goal of Elon Musk's XSecurity: to make lots of money. If one of our agencies is not doing a great job (and TSA is one of those agencies), then we should demand that our elected officials exercise sharper oversight, enforce standards and accountability, and make the enterprise run better. That's literally the fucking job we elected them to do. But INSTEAD of that....they are going to 1) hand the job over to their crony, who 2) will line their pockets and/or ensure that they don't face any primary or other election challengers, and 3) will not give a fraction of a fuck about how well the job is being done. Some things should not be "run like a business" because they AREN'T A FUCKING BUSINESS.

He may. But your deep concern about multiple such issues with respect to Biden.....but the complete and total free pass you give to Trump (particularly when he's WORSE on those issues than Biden) renders some pretty solid body blows to your credibility. You are among the Trumpiest "I don't support Trump and think he's a clown" types around. "I don't support Trump and think he's a clown....except I somehow find a way to come down on Trump's side of any issue 90% of the time, even when I've otherwise supported a position at odds with Trump's" is something to watch.

Please, please please team Ryan Williams with Wingo, DJ Moore, Singleton, Locket, and Ffrench and give Arch a 5 star a 400 meter relay team at WR!!🙏

Nothing looks good in crimson