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orangebird

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  1. You know, I should try that schtick with my boss sometime, just for shits and giggles. I'll just make some shit up and start believing my own bullshit. "I bring a five-star culture to this workplace and deliver unparalleled results. Now pay me $75 million." Anywhere outside of agroidville, that shit gets you laughed out of the building if not outright fired.
  2. Holy fuck, how does this genius manage to tie his shoelaces every day? He does realize his team went 7-5 in a season where all seven wins came against teams with losing records, right? Plus, if this scholar had managed to actually watch any of Texas's games, he would know that it is our DEFENSIVE line that is overpowering opposing teams, not our offensive line...though our offensive line is improved over past seasons. Somebody get this guy's address, I want Amazon to send him a few more bottles of paste he can eat.
  3. Have you seen their schedule next year? Softer than baby shit. Texas Tech could probably go 10-2 with that schedule.
  4. The mental gymnastics they are going through to make this hire seem like a good idea is really...something.
  5. Bjork has the look of a guy who just came out of the boss's office after an all-morning chewing-out. Probably because that's exactly what happened.
  6. Well, you see, he's going to be in for a really bad time at his next performance appraisal...
  7. I strongly suspect we have Jimmy Sexton and all their fuckery involving Stoops over the weekend to thank for that, more than likely. So...um...yeah.
  8. So it was, "automatic straight to the front of the line at the College Station Golden Corral" that sealed the deal, right?
  9. Well sure...I mean, what coach worth his salt is going to come out and say, "Sweat and Murphy are going to donkey-stomp our undermanned offensive line?" No, good coaches are always going to project confidence in their players. But I agree...Gundy is a hell of a coach, and if a scheme exists to neutralize Sweat and Murphy, Gundy would probably be the one to find it.
  10. Probably corchspeak. I mean, Sweat is one of the best D-linemen in the country, so unless Gundy's plan to neutralize him is to injure him somehow, I'm not sure how else they plan to succeed where 12 other teams haven't. But sure, he has every right to talk his shit until we prove him wrong, based on how we have underperformed against his teams in the past. And I'm hoping we will indeed prove him wrong this time.
  11. Texas - 38 OSU - 17 Rushing yards: 260 I think this one will be pretty similar to the Tech game, but OSU is probably a slightly better team, it's at a neutral site, and Gundy is a much better corch than McGuire. And there will be ref fuckery. So I'm giving OSU the benefit of the doubt on their point total.
  12. So apparently, "You have reached the voicemail of Nick Saban. Please leave a message. <beep>" counts as an engagement. Noted.
  13. Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see how it plays out.
  14. Meat-judging.
  15. Considering that player at Maryland died on his watch, I'm hoping it's far away from football...maybe managing a Cinnabon in Omaha or something.
  16. Duke football was historically "Rice in the Southwest Conference" level of terribad, so 8-5 would have been considered an excellent season for them for many years. I think Cutcliffe got a pass after 2016 based on his results from 2013-15, but yeah, the wheels finally well and truly completely came off starting in 2019. I concur Elko did a good job with coaching up Cutcliffe's players to a 9-win season in 2022, although he mostly feasted on down teams during his tenure. He has a pretty thin resume as a head corch, though, so it remains to be seen whether he has what it takes to build a program - especially at one like aggy where they think they should post 10-win seasons every year, contrary to their actual history. Odds are likely he'll fall short and be shitcanned by 2027, but as they say down in Mexico...vamos a ver.
  17. Counterpoint: I would argue that David Cutcliffe laid a lot of the groundwork for Elko's success at Duke. Cutcliffe was admittedly awful during his last few years at Duke, although I don't know that Elko was there long enough to get his own recruits into the system at Duke. We just don't really have enough data to ascertain whether Elko could have sustained that success while at Duke. Given that a substantial portion of Duke's current talent is moving on after this season, it's likely that Elko decided to strike while the iron is hot. Does he have it in him to keep it going at aggy? Guess we're about to find out.
  18. He really was. I'll never forget being entertained by his commentary about bat poop in that shitbox stadium of theirs, and his constant use of "our friends in the State Capital" when referring to us. I mean, I probably lost IQ points every time I read his drivel, but in a way, I sort of miss it.
  19. My recollection was that they quietly put out feelers to Urban but were rebuffed. Can't help but think we dodged a bullet there, given his meltdown in Jacksonville.
  20. Least shocking news I've read all day. I live in NC, and having to sit through Panthers games every week is a beating. I really should subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket, but I'm cheap.
  21. Yep. The way CDC handled the Herman termination and rollout of Sark was telling. It was obvious that we had professionals in charge, and CDC knew the assignment. He didn't tip his hand by terminating Herman and then broadcasting to the world that Texas had an opening. That alone allowed Texas to negotiate with some leverage. Sure, there were rumors that Herman was going to get fired, but that just comes with the territory at a school like Texas when the football program is underperforming. Nobody except those in the know knew that we already had Sark locked up when it came time to show Herman the door. Indeed, aggy had no plan - they just decided to shitcan Jimbo on a whim a few weeks ago and hoped it all worked out. That's a textbook case of magical thinking, and magical thinking almost never works out. Perhaps Elko will work out for them in the end, but I wouldn't take those odds. They're probably about the same as me winning the lottery and getting to sleep with Kate Upton.
  22. Perhaps. I concur that we underestimate him at our own peril. That said, it's notable that he couldn't really beat anybody with a pulse while at Duke.
  23. They could just keep Bjork as athletic director "in name only". His only responsibility going forward is to get the BOR members coffee and shine their shoes. The BOR will have direct control over the athletic department without the pretense of a middleman. Sure, it's a terrible idea, but as we've seen this weekend, there is no shortage of terrible ideas emanating from Collie Station.
  24. 10 years ago when we hired Chuck F'n Strong, this hire might have scared me. A little. Only because I see Elko at about the same level as Strong, so a hypothetical UT-aggy would probably be a tossup. But the way Sark has things rolling now? Naaaah.
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