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2022 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
Bill Lumbergh replied to RaysBoomBoomRoom's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I remember being pissed in principle that we were paying his salary to coach there, but in hindsight I think we got the better end of the deal. They had to have him as a coach, after all. -
aggy explaining the strategy that led to their historic recruiting haul reminds me of Nick Newport Jr explaining how they make their healthy kids snacks taste so good.
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I think their pride was getting hurt. They just signed the biggest class of all time, but the headlines are all about how much they're paying for it. I guarantee you the guys involved in financing all of this have been getting pissed that not only is their financing operation getting a lot of public attention, but also that the national press isn't saying "a&m now belongs with the big boys if college football" like they'd hoped, instead they're saying "a&m has no business with the big boys of college football, so them landing this class proves they're cheating." They're not being celebrated, they're being laughed at. So of course Jimbo throws a temper tantrum on national tv and now their cheating is getting even more attention bc he denied it all in the least credible way possible. The other issue that might have motivated him is the response they're getting from future recruiting targets. The word is clearly out there how much they offered top targets in the 22 "draft." If you're a 23/24/25 recruit, what are your expectations? All of the publicity this has gotten has given them a real problem for future classes unless they intend to sustain or increase what they're willing to pay. Whether they like it or not, they just set market expectations with this class.
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Losing to Kansas was embarrassing. Landing the 5th ranked class after that disaster of a season doesn't feel too embarrassing at all, no matter how much aggy spent to get #1.
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I fucking love him saying there's no $50 million fund. Well, not anymore there's not. You spent it all. (I know that number is probably grossly exaggerated, but it's still funny watching them squirm)
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There's just so, so fucking much to digest here, I'll just hit the high points: 1. If you ever ask a kid if they were cheating/stealing/etc, and instead of just looking you in the eye and saying absolutely not, they rattle off a five minute diatribe of unnecessary information for no apparent reason, they were almost certainly doing it. 2. If, in the process of rattling off a five minute diatribe of unnecessary information the kid mentions that they know other kids who definitely were cheating/stealing/etc who they can tell you about, that kid was 100% doing it. 3. If you ever play poker with Jimbo Fisher and he starts nervously taking his glasses on and off, you'll know you're about to make some money.
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2022 Off-Season Thread: No Kool-Aid, Just Flavor-Aid
Bill Lumbergh replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in Football
I can't help but smile looking at Bama's 5 players from 3 different positions on the Heisman watch list and remembering Saban's recent impassioned speech to the press about how NIL is going to lead to an unfair imbalance in college football. -
Total wishcasting, but: - Demas and Stewart seem to be buddies - Stewart's huge "NIL" deal receives significant publicity - aggy coach tweets about how players need not to worry about what financial perks other players are getting - Demas hits the portal Maybe it's not happening here, but it's going to happen for some aggy player/s at some point.
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Q: What did you like about Florida? A: They're really taking care of their players down there, how they're living. That's really what I'm all about right now, a school that takes care of their players. I mean, the guy isn't even trying to be discreet about what he expects, and aggy will no doubt answer the call. Just give them reason to think you're about to take their trans am and drive it around while playing at another school and the cash will come flying in.
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Jimbo told everyone to "trust him" on DC, which they did until he made a horrible hire, after which he took some heat for how underwhelming the hire was. On oline, perhaps he's decided to stick with the "trust me" part but never actually make the hire. If you don't hire a coach, the fans and press can't dislike the hire.
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"you can't be a sleeping giant without the sleeping" - aggy
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I'll always be nostalgic for the old bowls for sure. When I think about our Rose Bowl vs UM or Fiesta Bowl vs OSU, I'm sad that my kids will never experience bowls in that way. But it was honestly the proliferation of bowls that watered down the meaning first, and then the playoffs and opt outs killed what they once were. At this point I feel like we can either have a bowl system with a highly contested national champion (most years, not every year can be as clear as 05), or a good playoff system that can't coexist with the tradition/importance of bowl games. In nearly every sport, the goal is to arrive at one champion in the most objective way possible. As much as I'll miss the old bowls, I'd still pick the path that crowns a champion based on beating as many contenders as possible. That's the expanded playoff.
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This is why I'm in favor of expansion, but at least Georgia and Bama had to beat some damn good teams to get there. That's improvement from the bcs model. I'd like to know how Baylor would've looked against Bama, but you could also argue they lost their chance by losing two games in season, one of which was in November to a not great TCU team. Too many teams will have imperfect seasons to make a 4 team model work. Expansion will allow a non conf champion Georgia vs conference champion Baylor with bad in-season losses be settled on the field. Until then, I'm happier with this model vs bcs. At least the final two aren't anointed by polls by people who aren't watching the games and computers.
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That's kind of what I mean. The bowls as a tradition are already done. Opt outs prove that. Players and fans don't care in the same way, and there's no coming back from that. If your want to continue to have those venues as an important part of cfb postseason, they need to be part of the playoffs. That's all I'm saying. The bowls as they exist now have the same importance as the pro bowl, imo. Meaningless exhibitions often without the best players, which means you don't really get the cross conference comparisons you used to get in bowl season.
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The playoff gets a lot of hate, but this is why I like it. You can absolutely argue it was a true national championship, because two other teams who looked really damn good all year in other conferences got their chance, and Bama and Georgia crushed both of them. I hated the sec rematch during the bcs era when it was obvious polling favored the sec and it felt like too much built in bias where other teams/conferences weren't given the chance to compete. Michigan and Cinci had solid seasons, won conferences, and both were demolished by the two teams who made the final. I don't understand how you can say they didn't both deserve to be in the game after that showing. I don't like what the playoffs have done to the bowls as they currently exist, but that doesn't mean that the bcs + bowls model was better. Make the bowls part of the playoffs, and players will stop opting out and fans will start caring about bowls again. The 4 team playoff does kind of suck because it only gets you about 1/3 of where you should be with playoffs and it still does damage to the existing system. So just expand, and cfb postseason will be exciting again. Of course, this was all in motion to happen more quickly before aggy threw a fucking temper tantrum and set things back, but we'll get there again.
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If you never made it to the toilet scene or the garage scene, I don't think you fully experienced breaking bad. It is a heavy show, for sure. If you don't like that, it's going to be hard to keep watching. But it's masterfully written and acted with an interesting premise that they do a good job evolving over time (which is where a lot of shows with interesting initial premises seem to falter). It's easily top 5 all time tv for me.
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Bizzle is futureman level trolling at this point. Everyone, not just Texas, but EVERYONE is talking about aggy going all out to buy the #1 class. Fisher all but admitted it when asked about NIL. Lucci has implied the class was bought, but using super secret NIL that aggy has decided not to brag about for the first time in the history of anything. After all of that, Bizzle comes here proposing that this was all up and up, similar $ to what the other players were paying but dadgum Jimbo Fisher just found a way to get'er done where Saban, Smart, etc fell short? Give me a break. There's no way he possibly believes that bullshit. Anyone with eyes and the ability to pass a 2nd grade standardized test can look at the context clues and reasonably determine what happened here. Bizzle is just poking the hornets nest by pretending to be this naive. We all know how this class happened. The thing we likely DO disagree on is whether Jimbo will do a damn thing with all of this talent. That is actually a topic worth a reasonable debate.
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2022 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
Bill Lumbergh replied to RaysBoomBoomRoom's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Last signing day and coaching hires, at least on paper, seemed positive. Outside of that, it's hard to find many others. I'm going the "choose optimism bc I'm a fan" route, but I know full well it's blind optimism not rooted in much. I tuned out entirely after the ou collapse this year, something I didn't even do that early in the season during the Charlie years. Like any fan, I'll get excited again for next season, but it won't take much for me to tune out again if things don't look massively improved. After 11 years of believing we'll turn the corner, it's pretty easy to see when we haven't and find other uses for that Saturday time. -
Tbh I was shocked when Brent Z posted something questioning the official story, and had to go make sure it was actually him and not a fake account. My guess is that, for at least a few minutes, he got mad that he was blatantly lied to about something so easy to disprove, and posted his real thoughts on the situation. I'm sure someone in the aggy admin put in a friendly call reminding him what hand feeds him, after which he stepped back in line. I didn't save the tweet, but hope someone else did. It was a rare moment of independent thought for Brent. Must have been frightening for him.
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For anyone who didn't follow the whole walk on QB/Brent Z Twitter thing: 1) aggy announces they're bravely running away from playing wake forest 2) national media hurts aggy's feelings by calling their running away not so brave 3) Brent Z is told a lie, which he proceeds to print, that even the walk on QB was not available due to CO-VID 4) Walk on QB owns Brent and aggy with a tweet showing his multiple negative test results and proving he was eligible to play 5) Brent Z responds to walk on's tweet in a way that appears to doubt what he was originally told by aggy admin 6) Both the walk on qb's tweet and Brent's response to it magically disappear, nothing to see here 7) Now only the original tweet with the lie from Brent Z about the walk on being unavailable is still alive on Twitter 8) The health and safety of the walk on QB are unknown and likely in doubt after he publicly shamed the ministry North Korea is actually blushing at the brazenness of the whole ordeal.
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