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UncleSonny

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  1. Zack the Ag with an impressive Helobious-like read of the situation. Really locked in.
  2. To me the most annoying thing Leach ever did was not have the decency to lose in a single other conference game that 2008 season. They were a good team and we drew them in Lubbock, at night, on Halloween weekend. Lost a close game that we should have won, shit happens. But somehow that is the one season where they didn't drop at least 2 conference games. Shit, in 8 out of 10 Leach seasons they lost at least 3. Just one more loss and we win head to head tiebreaker against OU, kick the shit out of Missouri again and play Florida for the National Title. One more conference championship and a damn good shot at another crystal football. Or maybe Gideon could have just caught the ball. God fucking dammit.
  3. Some good connections between the various coaches in the new league. Feels like half the coaches in the league have been on a Saban staff, but just from the new additions: Sark goes way back with Lane. Most recently was Saban's OC. Former Texas OC in Harsin and there is a ton history with Leach from the Tech days. Little Briles from his Baylor tenure and brief Texas playing career. I'm sure Muschamp will pop up as someone's (Georgia's) DC sooner rather than later as well. Lincoln joins a conference with his mentor Leach at MSU. Thousands of cheeseburgers ago Josh Heupel was a player at OU and more recently a fired coach. Should all make for some fun matchups and storylines over the next few years.
  4. I guess this thread is as good as any for this, Billy keeps throwing a hissy fit about how we just aren't ready for the meat grinder that we are entering. Their joke schedule last year is a mirage, check the bowl results: Well...about that. The SEC was an impressive 7-2. Of course 2 of those wins were Alabama (lost 52-24). One of them was aggy over UNC. 3 of the SEC bowl wins were by teams a&m didn't even play (Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss). The ags did play both SEC programs who lost their bowl however (Florida lost by 35 to OU & Auburn lost by 16 to Northwestern). Those two also happen to represent their two most impressive regular season wins. That leaves 1 SEC team that won their bowl who the ags actually beat during the season: Miss St. They won an all-timer of an Armed Forces Bowl against Tulsa by 2 points. TLDR: The closer you look at it, A&M's big coronation season becomes even more of a mirage. So thank you for pointing that out Billy.
  5. Call me a cynic, but I have my doubts Looch was propping up the Big12 for their undefeated bowl record last year or OU’s dismantling of Florida (aggy’s single notable win)
  6. Yeah, the cross division rivalry games have been their main scheduling problem. Adding two teams and reorganizing gives them a great chance to solve it.
  7. No kidding. Not even on anyone’s radar last Wednesday morning and they are running through the legal formalities by Monday and Tuesday. Crazy they set this whole thing up with no leaks.
  8. everything right on schedule
  9. I’m fascinated by the mindset of doubling down so many times after being called a dumbass repeatedly over the course of a few days, then sitting down today and actually deciding it’s time to do some reading and see what this talk about Texas to the SEC is all about. I know this is a message board, talking out of your ass is half of the point, but holy shit. It’s kind of unsettling to see his (weak) mea culpa and realize he wasn’t trolling.
  10. What Sydney said, but also this can’t be right. Even being explicit that we’re leaving the conference at the end of the GoR term doesn’t make us a hostage without a vote or say in anything for the remainder of the term.
  11. Lets go, who's got the dial-in?
  12. When looking up UT's record vs. Ole Miss I got curious and checked the all-time record vs. the rest of the conference. We have a winning record against every school except two, anyone know who those two are? Probably not who you think:
  13. Love it, bring on the shit talk. This is going to be fun. It probably wasn't too hard to choose pictures for that tweet, they only have a single win each against Texas and OU. Although to be fair they've only played OU once apparently.
  14. Doesn't do much of anything to make the Big 12 viable in the long term so I'm skeptical but we'll see. Out of curiosity though, what are the rules for adding teams to the Big 12? Do they need TX/OU 'yes' votes to get them in considering we currently have to posture that we'll be in the conference until the GOR expire in 2025? Is playing ball with adding members something can use to leverage our earlier release at a smaller payout?
  15. I kind of agree and there probably is a universe where things could have worked out. Like people said above, bad leadership as well as a thousand little decisions and mistakes killed it. So it goes.
  16. New nickname alert! Dude is working hard to make "Evil Twins" happen, but I'm not sure it will stick. Doesn't have much punch to it, imo.
  17. Wait, is this a bit that I managed to miss in the flurry of activity?
  18. This is the thing...if you have any value independently you’ll be fine. Things will get reshuffled but you’ll find a landing spot because you bring something to the table. These teams that have been allowed to freeload in a P5 conference for decades and apparently feel like it’s their god given right to free-load indefinitely are hilarious. Get fucked Baylor, you are a net negative to the entire state. If it weren’t for Ann Richards I wouldn’t have thought about you once in the last 20 years, except when driving through Waco. And that thought would be, “god, this is a shithole. oh yeah, Baylor is here”.
  19. I grew up in East Texas, all the SEC fans that I know are the ones from rich families that didn’t have the grades to go to Texas so they went to Miss, Arkansas, or Bama. Good guys, but bro-y as hell and came back with Deep South accents they didn’t have when they left. Texas girls that left for an SEC school were invariably very hot.
  20. By the end of next week it will have actually have been the ags idea all along.
  21. Actually A&M is totally embracing this move, the Monday meeting must just be to talk about how excited they are to show those sips what SEC footbawl is all about.
  22. This killed me
  23. Looch keeps pushing that narrative hard . "We are a different team than 10 years ago and the horns are going to find out". It's so funny to me, the best SEC team they ever had was their first one where they were most like a Big12 team. Roster full of players recruited to the Big12, Kilff Kingsbury air raid offense and they managed to beat Alabama and smoke OU in the bowl. They had another high water mark last year aided by a joke of a schedule. Aside from those bookends what evidence is there that they are any different at all? They lost to a middle of the road K-State in 2016. Oh, well that was pre-Jimbo. They needed Jimbo to barely beat a short-handed Oke-State (who Texas also beat) team one season ago. The other common opponent that season was LSU who they lost to by 43 points. Deep down they know it's bullshit though, which is why they are fighting this so hard.
  24. Pretty clear posturing that I guess has to be done. Nobody saying it believes it but you go through the motions with these things.
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