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2012 W's over ranked teams: Bama (1), OU (12), MSU (17), La Tech (23). That was a good season by any standards. 2013 W's over ranked teams: Duke (22). The 8 regular season W's were Rice, SHSU, SMU, Arky, Ole Miss, Vandy, UTEP, MSU. That's 1 FCS and 3 G5 teams. Still, that is tied for A&M's 2nd best season since they went 11-3 in '98.

A TCU student just won the Miss USA pageant. You can probably file that in the category of least surprising things posted here. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5757483/Who-Miss-USA-2018-winner-Sarah-Rose-Summers-Miss-Nebraska-revealed.html

Was one of TCU's top targets as a 3 technique DT.

Looks like JUCO transfer Jaylon Lane has also run into some grade or behavior issues. I think when they signed him I predicted he wouldn't make it through 2 entire seasons. The DMN blogger picked him as the 5th best player on the team going into next season. http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20180509/kingsbury-says-3-texas-tech-seniors-futures-in-limbo

Yes and it was sweet to listen to the CBS announcers talk about how amazed they were that TCU was dominating the line of scrimmage against an SEC team. Darius Anderson and Olonilua averaged 7 yds a carry in that game and TCU was plus almost 8 minutes in time of possession. That was the day Sonny Cumbie showed everyone that he's not just an Air Raid guy and he can adjust to his personnel.

And this is why mega conferences suck

And their combined NFL stats wouldn't equal Andy Dalton's worst season.

I agree with pooling the media rights and doing a scheduling alliance. Honestly, just adding the two Arizona schools doesn't excite me too much. Zona historically has a pretty mediocre football program and ASU hasn't exactly been kicking ass in the Pac the last 20 years either. ASU has three double digit win seasons since 1997 and zero major bowl appearances. Zona has two double digit win seasons since '97 (one of which was in '98) and one Fiesta Bowl appearance. I don't think adding either one of those schools is going to add a ton of value. One of them and CU or Utah might be better since you're adding more media markets but that seems unlikely. Pool the media rights, and schedule 2 cross-conference games every season for every team. Combine that with some high profile cross-conference basketball, baseball and olympic sports match ups and you have pseudo mega-conference. TCU under Del Conte and now under Donati has been foreshadowing this possibility for years with basketball games against Pac-12 teams at Staples Centers in '17 and '18, baseball games at Dodgers Stadium for several years and OOC football games scheduled against Pac-12 teams 6 out of 7 years beginning in 2020.

I don't know for sure but I would assume so since he went to St. Andrews and then Nolan. I can't think of anyone I've ever known who sent their kid to St. Andrews who wasn't Catholic. Same for Nolan with maybe one exception and that kid lived in the neighborhood right next to Nolan where you probably wouldn't send your kid to public school unless you had to.

Looks like Iowa and ASU just offered McIvor too. I bet he has 20+ offers before this is over.

TCU gets a late LB or strong safety commit for the '18 class. Former Central Arkansas commit who got a release for family illness reasons. Ran a 21.28 200M at 6'1" over 200 lbs and anchored the state meet 1st place 4x200 relay over the weekend. Judging from his Hudl, the kid can play. Not sure how he was overlooked at Mansfield Legacy unless he was huge grade risk. Even the recruiting services overlooked him. He's literally a no star recruit. Reminds me of Matt Pryor who we signed out of California a few years back about this time of the year. No stars, no recruiting profile, no other offers and 5 years later he was all-conference and a 6th round draft pick. https://247sports.com/Player/Demauryon-Holmes-46055781 https://www.hudl.com/video/3/7959762/59c1715bb535bb01d424631d

TCU gets a commit from Myron Warren. 3* DE from Many, La. Offers from A&M, OSU, Arky, Ole Miss and more. Just visited A&M a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah, I know. But considering he grew up in Fort Davis, Big Spring would probably seem like a big city.

Lubbock is the perfect place for McIvor and Kliff is the perfect coach for him. He grew up in Fort Davis and supposedly was kind of taken aback by the bright lights and big city feel of San Angelo when he moved there his sophomore year. He might enjoy Pullman though if he visits. It's probably more like where he grew up than any major college town in America. It's probably too far from mama though. I think Tech would be the overwhelming favorite but for the fact that Kliff might not be around to tutor the kid. I see between 6-8 losses on Tech's schedule next season and I think Kliff has to go at least 7-5 to keep his job. My guess is that mama McIvor is looking at the same schedule I'm looking at and trying to figure out how Kliff keeps his job. Maybe if Tech comes out strong and beats Ole Miss in the opener it will get some recruiting momentum going but that one I've marked as a "L" for now.

I know a little bit about this kid and his family. He went to St. Andrews (Catholic) for elementary school, spent a year or two at Trinity Valley (secular private) and then went to Nolan (Catholic). St. Andrews and Nolan are ok but not really top notch academic schools. Even FWISD offers better options academically than Nolan and St. Andrews. Trinity Valley is very good academically but not so great in football and it ain't Catholic either. What that tells me about the family is that given the option, they're going to gravitate towards the Catholic school over the secular school especially since Notre Dame checks all the academic boxes as well.

I hate to tell those guys but Tech even fell behind KU in recruiting last year. 10th out of 10 in the conference. Nationally, Tech was 73rd which was the lowest ranked P5 school. https://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/CompositeTeamRankings?Conference=Big-12

I think CDC eliminated the buy out 5-6 years ago as gesture of trust and good will. CDC is a master psychologist. As for the term of the deal, Patterson has a certain number of years on the contract but they just tack on a few more every couple of years.

Fun fact about TCU, our ROTC commissions more officers as a % of our enrollment than A&M does according to the Houston Chronicle. Most recent figures in the article were 2012 when A&M commissioned 154 officers out of the Fighting Texas Aggie Corps of Cadets and little old TCU commissioned 45. Given that A&M's enrollment is at least 5x that of TCU, it looks like the Corps needs to pick up the pace. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-ROTC-units-could-face-cutbacks-5261187.php

The lowest home game attendance in '17 during a 7-6 season was 45,826. Capacity at Rice-Eccles is 45,807. Utah has had 51 straight sold out games and is looking into expanding the stadium. Meanwhile, BYU has averaged fewer than 60,000 at home the last 4 seasons in a row and according to the Deseret News, BYU only had 46,000 for SJSU and 51,000 for UMass last season. 8 of the 20 worst attended games at LaVell Edwards stadium since the '82 expansion were in the past 3 seasons. What were you saying about fair weather fans? https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865693491/Analysis-BYU-had-a-not-so-crowded-house-as-football-attendance-hits-new-low.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Utah_Utes_football_team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice-Eccles_Stadium

TCU signed Emari Demercado, a 5'11" 200 lbs. RB out of Saddleback College yesterday. He will count for the '18 class and enroll this summer. He ran for over 1,026 yds at almost 7 yds a pop and caught over 50 passes for 443 yds during his freshman season at JUCO. Was a full qualifier out of high school with offers from UC-Davis and Cal Poly but apparently wanted to play big time football and took a chance at JUCO to prove himself. No high school stats for his junior year which explains how he got overlooked. He'll have 4 years to play 3 and should be a good back up for Anderson and Olonilua this season. https://247sports.com/Player/Emari-Demercado-46054866 https://www.hudl.com/video/3/3387943/59d13d4d7bdd7006c0d4b9b0

I remember that game well. Boykin's first game as a starter. Pachall was arrested early Thursday a.m. and Boykin started that Saturday. We had a shitload of turnovers. We also started a true freshman RB with BJ Catalon and I think the center Joey Hunt got his first start as a true freshman that day. Rough game and rough season but it built a foundation for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. The symmetry between the beginning and end of Boykin's college career is kinda spooky. Thrust into starting job due to Pachall's screw up and then gets arrested two days before the Alamo Bowl to put Bram Kohlhausen in the same situation.

Close but not entirely accurate. Our RG, Iwuagu, will be a junior who started 14 games last season and 2 in '16. Our RT, Niang, will be a junior who started 8 games last year. I'd call that 2 returning starters. Overall, I'd say we have 5 returning starters on offense and 7 on defense. Biggest losses are on the O-line with 2 guys drafted and 2 others signing as UDFA, Travin Howard (leading tackler) and Texada and Orr (3 yr starters in secondary).

Parking AND shuttles from two churches 5 minutes away are free. The shuttle from the high school one mile away is free with the $20 parking. What are two Ubers going to cost you and where do they go to pick up all of the thousands of people leaving at the same time? There is also parking for $40 at the churches 2-3 blocks away. All of that is going to cost you less than a round trip on Uber once they upcharge you for the event. I've never seen $50 parking unless it's in someone's front yard within a block of the stadium parking lot.

The Big 12 would take Mizzou back in a nano-second if they called. KC and StL media markets. Flagship state university of the 18th largest state with no other FBS school in the state as a clear competitor. Compare Mizzou to what we had to pick from last year -- BYU, Cincy, UH, Memphis, CSU . . . . Mizzou is head and shoulders over any of those schools. They really should come back. They're a total misfit in the SEC, especially in the east division.