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Bill Lumbergh

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  1. I'm not sure if you're serious, but, who you beat matters. We played two good teams all season and lost to both, along with losses or near losses to some pretty awful teams. I don't have much doubt all of the teams in the ny6 bowls would beat us, so no reason to gripe.
  2. Are they still working on that data dump over there?
  3. Coastal took a big gamble taking that byu game, and all we did was prove it never really mattered. That's the lesson out of this, unfortunately. They could've beaten georgia and been left out, because they're Coastal Carolina.
  4. Texags had a live video feed from their offices this morning as the results were announced anticipating they would be #4. The reaction was priceless:
  5. We just wrapped a massively disappointing season while aggy overachieved relative to most expectations. Given that, plus our coaching shit show, I guess it shouldn't be shocking the aggy trolls are coming out of the woodwork. How to spot an aggy troll starter pack: 1) new account (anywhere from October on) 2) claims to have been around a long time, but just now signed up (they think this makes it less obvious it's a new troll account) Any of 1 or 2 combined with: 3) claims to have inside sources with details about our coaching search, but obviously can't go until detail about who those people are or why we should trust them 4) any shots about the big 12, the superiority of the sec, or aggy pulling a nc coach 5) any shots about how we can't win because of how spoiled/arrogant our program is, how soft our players are, and/or how that all ties back to being in the liberal cesspool of Austin 6) any reference to the fact that we've historically been a mediocre program with only brief periods of success 7) use of "Texas A&M" or "Aggies" There are probably more, but most can be identified by the list above. If you see new a poster meeting the criteria above, do yourself a favor and just ignore. Don't engage, call them out, question the validity of what they're sharing...just ignore. Nothing is more boring to a troll than being ignored.
  6. Lots of aggy in this thread, not surprisingly. So here's my honest question. Without the benefit of ooc games, how are you qualifying the sec as the strongest conference this year? Bama is always good, but they kicked the shit out of everyone else, including you. Your second in conference team lost to a horrible lsu team. That's also your best win by a mile, and it doesn't look great now. We make this joke a lot, but from the outside it definitely looks like bama and the 13 dwarfs this year. In a year with basically no ooc games, having a diversity of conferences in the playoffs is even more important than usual. You had your shot against bama and got blown out. If you don't make it, and you shouldn't, blame yourselves for not being good enough to win that game. The committee didn't get blown out, you did. Don't blame them if they count that against you.
  7. In the era of open market transfers, Shane did everything right. I was at the 2018 Baylor game when Sam was knocked out of the game and Shane came in prepared and played well enough to win a game we easily could've lost. By all accounts he still keeps up with Sam frequently and has no negative feelings about his time at Texas. If he does, he doesn't talk about it publicly. For how many guys compete, lose the job, and then leave with a chip on their shoulder like they've been slighted, it's nice to see a guy take things like they should be in these situations and go on to have success at his next stop. Hook'em, Shane.
  8. This year has really proven this out. The brutal sec West has all of 3 teams with a winning record. However, if you allowed them their annual 3 gimme ooc games, 5 of the 7 teams in the west would have winning records. I look at unranked 6-4 auburn, 4-4 ole miss, and 4-5 lsu, and think that in most years those teams would have 3 more guaranteed wins built in to their schedules and all 3 would be ranked. It's objectively a terrible thing for the sport, but as long as it's clear that this behavior will be rewarded with higher rankings, all conferences should adopt similar schedules. Before any sec homers bring up alabama's ooc scheduling, yes, they at least take on one real ooc contender each year. Everyone knows Alabama is for real. The fact that bama wins most of those games doesn't make auburn any less average. Alabama wins nearly all of their sec games, too.
  9. The decision tree is pretty easy on this one: Q. Is OU playing? ---> If yes: root against ou ---> If no: root against ou anyway, just to be safe
  10. Two things that I'm inclined to believe will happen to top off this shitfest of a season: ou is going to win another big 12 title with the worst team they'll likely have for the next 10 years, and Clemson is going to destroy nd, all but guaranteeing aggy's playoff spot due to them receiving this year's annual sec bias rankings bump. Maybe to top it off, after both of those are done, we'll announce we're extending Herman or spending a stupid amount to hire someone like Sonny Dykes. Fuck it all. At this point I genuinely expect the worst imaginable outcome is the most likely outcome. 2020 has trained me well.
  11. Sadly, I just don't see it. Tennessee is worthless this year. My realistic hope is that, after aggy wins and believes they have a shot, they then watch Clemson beat nd on a last second field goal and realize they're not headed for the playoffs bc the only good team they played this season handed them an epic beatdown.
  12. This is actually quite true. You can rationalize Tom keeping his job, but no way in hell can you rationalize hand keeping his. So why isn't he fired? Nsd is done, so if we were afraid of losing his recruits (haha!) that window has closed. This is actually one of the more compelling indicators that Tom is gone no matter what. If he wasn't, Hand should already be fired. Very interesting.
  13. Probably rap game larry.
  14. This is what makes me think it might be coordinated to get Briles. If you're going to keep Wells but replace coordinators, this move makes little sense. Offense wasn't the problem.
  15. If Matt Wells hires Briles as OC, I would go out on a limb and say he was told he could keep his job on the condition of making this move. There's enough smoke around Briles to tech to conclude they vetted it, and possibly decided it was too politically costly to make that move. On the other hand, hiring him as a coordinator is different in that he's not the face of the program. It's a win/win for the people who want him there. Either he does enough as OC to make Wells look good, or if Wells fails, they fire him and promote Art on an "interim basis," only to keep permanently him based on his interim performance. If Briles appears on that staff in any way, it's a long play to promote him to hc if Wells fails.
  16. Are you referring to Cristobal? Didn't he just sign an extension, like in the last 48 hrs?
  17. Veni vidi vici...how sweet the wine.
  18. I'm still choosing to remain hopeful that there's more going on behind the scenes than what's obvious. If cdc lands the coaching search well, a lot will be forgotten. That said, when most of us were thrilled to be getting cdc, there were a few people pointing out that he's mainly built his reputation on facilities and fundraising. He never had to do much of anything with Patterson at tcu. He might have been responsible for pushing him to hire better offensive coaches, but that's it, and that's a change anyone on this board could've told you they needed to make. He has made good hires in other sports, where as someone else mentioned we can just pay a lot more vs most schools. Football and men's bb are where he'll make his legacy from a coaching perspective. So far, not so good. Let's see how he lands this, though. If it lands as poorly as the ride has gone, this should be the last coaching search in a revenue sport cdc leads for us.
  19. Why not just say "Tom Herman will be our coach for the 2021 season"? You think 5 people didn't have to read that statement before it went out? You think no one noticed it was vague? Honestly considering the scrutiny that statement was probably under, the more likely interpretation is that the statement is intentionally vague. To think that this went through the approval process to go out without anyone saying "uh, this isn't super clear" is just unbelievable.
  20. Some of you folks shouldn't go into politics. "Tom Herman is our coach" = currently, right now, and subject to change. "Bringing Herman back in 2021" = Tom Herman will remain our coach at least until January, so no changes until the season is fully completed. "Herman is our coach moving forward into next season" = with each passing moment we are moving forward towards next season and Herman is currently our coach in that process. It is not hard to say "Tom Herman will be our football coach for the 2021 season." The fact that this statement has not been made is not accidental. Maybe Herman comes back and maybe he doesn't, but cdc has intentionally avoided saying anything definitive on the matter today. Pretending he has made a definitive statement is almost bending over backwards to read words into what he's said that he's gone to great lengths not to say. Chill.
  21. Well yeah, I mean you'd have to be insane to go into nsd1 with questions marks around your coach.
  22. Yep. This tight group + rap game larry are the only people who really know what's going on right now.
  23. Say what you will about Larry, he does have a really oddly accurate track record. He called Ewers decommitting before it happened and said he'd go to osu. He said without question that Tom would not give his Monday press conference and that Kansas would be cancelled. He didn't say maybe like a 9.95er, he said all of these things would happen and they did. His most notable miss was that Herman would be fired and Drayton named interim following osu, but he did say that information was assuming we would lose the game like everyone expected us to. Maybe he's just incredibly lucky, but I'm inclined to think he actually has a source. Only question is if his source is just wrong on Meyer.
  24. If this is true, of course Fuck Mack for the thousandth time, but also fuck cdc for not anticipating negative stories from that era coming out and getting out ahead of them to convince Urban that adults are running the show now.
  25. If he is, they're much better at keeping it under wraps. Not that the bar is super high. We did better this go around than we did with Saban, but the entire world still knows we tried to hire him.
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