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Brian Fantana

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  1. Yeah, I get you. I want this for Okie State as well (and in basketball), the conference is more fun when y'all are good.
  2. This is just not true, man. Look at how much Texas has spent. Not trying to talk shit here, UT fans, y'all are just the most pertinent example right now. Like yes, obviously paying a premium for top talent is important, but it's only one piece of the puzzle. Talent evaluation, roster construction and cohesion are extremely critical and Tech seems to have hit on all 3. We identified the holes in our roster and filled pretty much all of them with very good players, by all reports there are zero locker room issues and this team really enjoys playing with each other. No one's ego is getting in the way. For all the flak Joey McGuire gets around here, and I certainly have had a number of issues with him (mainly focus and discipline, penalties continue to be a problem at times), the one thing he is really good at is getting all of his players to buy in and put the team ahead of themselves. Everything you hear out of the program is team, team, team. None of that happens simply by throwing money at the problem.
  3. Agreed. I've never liked the bevel.
  4. Oh cool we're doing this again Please smash your fingers with a hammer so we don't have to have this inane discussion again
  5. He's also facing significant pressure from all the ultranationalist freaks in his government like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Accepting Trump's plan runs a real risk of him losing power sooner rather than later.
  6. Would you call him the Uncle Tommest?
  7. Again, I'll believe it when I see it come to fruition. Bibi thinks he controls Trump/the US government.
  8. What's the word on Mateer's hand? I heard some dumbass rumor about him quitting football but that seems unsubstantiated.
  9. Is this dude related to Robert Lea Wilson
  10. Tech media department does a great job on these. Using a Chamillionaire track is a pretty great sneak diss at UH
  11. It's CNN, his message is basically their message.
  12. That dude is the most UCLA looking mfer alive
  13. I'd have more than a few misgivings about straight up ripping off an entire fanbase in the process, making people question my entire legacy, and emanating nuclear levels of cringe out into the universe in the process but you do you king
  14. Seems a little fucked up for an obviously mentally ill alcoholic to be telling someone else to kill themselves over understandable angst after a loss but that's just me
  15. Mainly it's just mocking statsman individually rather than any real jabs at Texas. I'm sure Texas will figure it out whatever mistakes it has made with roster construction sooner rather than later. It's just amusing to us at Tech fans to be "taunted" over our NIL spending when our talent evaluation and roster construction seems to be working as it should and our success rate with transfers is currently very high. I was interested to learn recently that, at Tech, the coaches are mostly divorced from the talent evaluation process. Obviously they convey certain needs, and are involved in the actual recruiting process (as coaches normally are), but for the most part it seems like talent evaluation and player targeting (HS and portal) is fully done by the GM's office without oversight from the head coach. The coaches seem to be mostly free to just focus on actually coaching football, rather than spending a big chunk of their time focusing on acquisitions. This is probably a big reason (along with our success rate with transfers) that James Blanchard has fended off many attempt to poach him so far. I would be interested in learning how Texas and other NIL powerhouses go about this, because earlier I asserted/assumed that Tech was following the Texas model but considering what I've learned in the past few months from listening to Tech talking heads, it seems like our approach might be a bit different than others.
  16. It's just banter, it's not that deep. Certainly tracks.
  17. I was curious about this play, so I watched the replay of this call with a friend of mine who used to be a CFB official (D2) and he said that the call on the field was actually correct by rule. Fair catch was called, so by rule the returner has to be given a chance to catch the ball and he can't be touched until the ball actually touches the ground, even if it's actively being bobbled/juggled. The Houston player clearly tried to lay a hit on Eakin while he was bobbling the ball so the personal foul was actually the correct call by the officials. It definitely looked bad at the time and is probably a bad rule but it is what it is.
  18. And he's still waiting to beat a P4 team 🤣
  19. Might want to flip that mirror around
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