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  1. 16 minutes ago, FunkSoulBrother said:

    How does Texas have people on staff that deemphasize football in a state where football is religion? 

    Simple actually.  In the end of the Royal era Coach Royal didn't project the image the university wanted.  Akers was hired in part because he looked like he stepped out of a Neiman Marcus catalog compared to Royal.

     

    When the Akers era ended Royal tabbed McWilliams and that blew up in our face and not only did football not perform, it embarrassed the University with abysmal graduation rates and drug/crime scandals. 

    The powers that be that consider UT to be pursuing ivy league status were terrified we were going to become a football factory. So football was deemphasized by hiring Mackovic, Royal was ostracized/exiled/put out to pasture, telling high school coaches they weren't welcome, refusing to host high school playoff games, and promoting football as a place to be seen rather than the outcome of the game.  And the donations kept coming in so no one cared.....

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  2. From SEC network article....if this is what they put out....I don't know that CTJ should be so excited...

     

    "They were angry Darlington Raceway was empty on Labor Day weekend. Just as college sports fans in Oklahoma and Texas will be angry when they don't see "Cowboys" on the football schedule or "Jayhawks" on the basketball calendar."

     

    No they won't....

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  3. 1 hour ago, JJxvi said:

    Tom Herman had a better record in his four years at Texas than Bobby Bowden's last 4 years at FSU.  I'm guessing that if Sark wins a national Title in his 4th season at Texas like Fisher did at FSU, then it wont be Herman getting the credit for it.

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  4. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    None of that forgives the piece of shit behavior by Blake Brockermeyer throughout the entire process, as well as his childrens glee in talking shit about Texas and actively recruiting Jalen Milroe and others away from Texas. I'll take his kid(s) in the portal if it makes good sense and they can still also get fucked. 

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  5. Just now, JimmyJames said:

    The best thing by far will be getting away from those bumfuck officials. The same crew, or a large part of it, fucked us over in the Texas Ou game the year before but everyone blamed Charlie Strong instead for all the bullshit calls in that one. It was way more obvious the next year against OSU.

    You mean for the bumfuck officials protecting Bama, Georgia, or florida?

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  6. 19 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Been reading up on this stuff all day for the first time. It looks like we probably are moving conferences after this season, meaning I’d be wrong. Seems like the political hurdles aren’t as high as I thought. Also I was equating this to the Meyer hunt, but I guess trying to predict the actions of an individual person is very different than predicting the actions of large 

     

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  7. 4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

     

    Nebraska left for one reason and one reason only - 1-9. That's it. They can claim a million other reasons, but they left because Tom Osborne was angry that Texas was a power in the conference and owned them, so when he got a chance to bail, he took it. Nebraska took their ball and went home. Now they sit powerless and irrelevant without a recruiting base and without any other program giving any fucks. Fuck them and fuck any equivocating about why they left.

     

    This.  The Big 12 was arguably 1b to the SEC's 1a when Nebraska ran away.  If they had stayed put we never flirt with the PAC, A&M probably never goes to the SEC, Bowlsby never get brought in as a brain dead corpse, and who knows maybe we are currently raiding the pac to get to 16.....

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  8. 5 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Counterpoint:  in the decade he's been Chancellor, A&M (B/CS) has expanded from 50K students to 71K students.  It is clearly damaging their academic reputation, to the point where a lot of people now think UT-Dallas is the second most reputable public school in the state.

    Counterpoint- in the decade he's been chancellor A&M has basically gotten whatever they wanted out of the legislature.  The system as a whole, not just the university.  Their appropriations from the lege have been ridiculous to see come through and as I said he has even assisted us a time or 2...

     

    I mean the things at the state level that have been moved under the A&M system umbrella that used to be standalone agencies is impressive under Sharp.  I keep waiting to see the lege move TDA under A&M just to get rid of the assat that is currently running it.

  9. 4 hours ago, Depraved said:


    Would sharp getting fired affect us in any way?

    As I understand it we like Sharp.  He is a good operator in the legislature and has been a good ally in funding battles.

     

    The truly connected aggies that see more than a rivalry in all this love him and value his ability to make the legislature play ball.

     

    I can't imagine he didn't know about this. Nor do I think there is a chance in hell they remove him over it.  Senator Kolkhorst got on his bad side about not fighting hard enough for A&M initiatives a few years ago and he completely black balled her, no A&M program invites, no extension programs, heck she didn't even get an invite to the Washington County 4-H banquet.  Lois got the message before the next session.  

     

    Who knows Bjork might get canned as a sacrificial offering to the mob, but I genuinely believe he was clueless.

     

    Loftin is a joke.  He was a joke at A&M which is why Sharp ran him out of town and he was an even bigger joke at Missouri.  He is the epitome of a jock sniffer.  Now he is in some kind of partnership with Texags or whatever but is considered a valid source on merger talk...

  10. 42 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    I don't speak aggy, but... are they saying that this temper tantrum is going to get someone at aggy fired? B/c if so that is almost too good for words...

    Depending on which theory of who knew what you believe.  Sharp knew (according to Finebaum when he owned Lucci) but was told he could not tell anyone, especially his AD.  If this is the case, the aggie faithful want Sharp's head.....Which is truly sad because despite what you may think of the man, he has done a fantastic job for the A&M system.

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