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  1. 6 hours ago, Slacks said:

    Bro, it's entertainment. He's entertaining. 

    I hope he gets to the league and goes f'n nuts.


    Some people find professional wrestling and the entire sideshow that goes with it to be entertaining. I find it moronic, just like I find Skattebo moronic.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

    Liucci 


    Segment 1 (00:00:00 - 09:20:19)

    I am not happy with the way things finished. No one should be. If the people in the building across the street weren't really disappointed by it, then it's the wrong coaches and players. I don't believe that is the case. They were working yesterday because they know it is not good enough.
     

    I don't expect anyone to be happy about it. Where I draw my personal line is if you are going to be an ass, then I will take you being an ass and raise you the biggest jerk you have ever seen. I treat people well, but I treat you how you treat me. People in real life are nice. People on a site, whether on TexAgs or any website, become an outlet for this inner jackass. I have no time for those people. It's a very small but very loud percentage.
     

    The normal sports fan is pissed about the way the season went. I am, too. It's different covering the team, but for all the people who flew out to South Carolina, Auburn or Vegas or paid top dollar to watch A&M-Texas, it's very disappointing. It's frustrating. If you want to get angry about it, I get it. A lot of people devote a lot of time, resources and energy towards helping the program win. I get all of that.
     

    Where I draw my line is when you don't have the right to expect people to not say, "I don't want to hear that." If you don't want to hear anything positive, don't listen to it. If it's not negative enough for you, I don't know what to tell you. The way to go here is to be calm, rational and honest, but see the big picture and be fair about it.
     

    For the people who get mad about someone not being angry enough, listen to the words and conversation. If that is not enough for you, then don't listen. We are being more than fair and plenty critical.
     

    There are things to be optimistic about. If you want to say you don't want to go there yet and be hopeful... Look, you got some nice wide receivers they are adding from the portal, and they are keeping key players with NIL. They are doing a great job with player retention. They signed a top-10 2025 class. They are doing nice things in the portal, and if they can finish off the defensive line, you feel really good. I wonder if there is room for another linebacker or defensive back. I would find myself another Scooby Williams-type.
     

    At times, I saw enough from the offense where you go, "I need to see it to believe it, and I am not going to buy in." I get that. To look at it logically and not expect a noticeable improvement in year one to year two, I think you are letting your anger get in the way. The personnel and the quarterback are plugged into where we are now and what he should be next year. If that is not for you, that's fine, but don't crap on anybody that frankly is trying to look ahead and see where the team should be better. There are plenty of reasons to say this thing should certainly work, and it is fair to say.
     

    If you guys don't think I am frustrated, or Nuño isn’t, or people at A&M aren’t, everybody is. It is what it is. There are a lot of college programs sitting in this position right now. A&M is in a unique position in that a lot is poured into this. It's year one of a head coach. There were ups and downs, and the downs were at the end of the season.

    Segment 2 (09:20:20 - 16:29:10)

    Everybody wants to be right. People will magically forget when they are wrong and tell you when they are right.
     

    2021 was the early time people were getting on Jimbo Fisher. A year after that was an 8-4 season with a win over Alabama with a backup QB. Who would have known you would continue to have backup QBs with a bad offensive line? You didn't know that after 2021. You guessed right if you were out on Fisher after 2021. You probably guessed a lot of things wrong, too. I am wrong, too. But I am right a lot, and angry fans will never point that out.
     

    All of this is fine if you are not a jackass. If you run a Twitter account and are A&M-related and want to take a shot at us, I will not engage with that. I am not giving you a platform. If you are a site I don't respect, and most of them I do, but there are a couple that like to take shots at us. The door is right there. We don't do that on social media. We can have a conversation. It’s a failed effort if you try and bait me.

    Segment 3 (16:29:11 - 31:03:27)

    In Dan Campbell's first year with the Lions, they were 3-13. It doesn't happen overnight for a lot of people. Both things can be true. In its totality in year one, for any first-year coach, you can go down the list of things they did accomplish. All of you know it, and you choose to acknowledge it, or you don't. There is a reality of how you finished, and it should be. It dulls the enthusiasm. I am not just a fan, but I am a fan. I am a fan of the Astros.
     

    Some of you would love a show where we went crazy. It would get tiresome. The fans that want to crap on everything forever, it gets tiresome. Fans that want to be pissed watching A&M lose its fourth Power 4 game in a row, I get it. Everybody is mad.
     

    I get the anger, frustration and disappointment. I am not going to tell anyone that they shouldn't feel that way. The overwhelming majority appreciates our words and the show. I don't care if you don't like it. 8-5 in year one is not bad. Not good, but not bad. Better than a lot of teams historically around this league. People don't want to hear that now, but you know it's true. You were 8-5, but two of the wins were against top-10 teams. "But it was Missouri and LSU." That's not how we do it. 8-5 with four wins over teams with winning records. In the last three years combined, A&M won four games against SEC teams with winning records. This year, A&M beat Missouri, LSU, Florida and Arkansas. This is not a parade thing. The point is that there was an improvement in this program. The problem is the end of the season didn't make it feel like it. The reality is they lost two games basically on a play. They should’ve beat USC. They should have beaten Auburn. You should have won them.
     

    A&M is not "a lot more talented" than South Carolina. It's probably even. They are not "a lot more talented" than Auburn. It's probably even. They are not "a lot more talented" than Florida. Florida couldn't get it figured out. They are getting pillaged in the portal. You look at A&M and see the defensive line talent then you look around and go, "Where are the NFL Draft picks?" They will be young guys. Guys like Chase Bisontis and Le'Veon Moss, but where were they outside of the defensive line and say, "That's a lay-down NFL guy”?
     

    You should have beat Auburn and USC. That's why you are frustrated. You know they should have been able to get a yard in three tries against Texas. You know that game should have been 17-14 with six or so minutes left. Then you put real pressure on that offense and Quinn Ewers. You get the 100,000 people that came to your stadium to root you on and be a real factor. You know those those things should have happened. That's why you are discouraged.
     

    It doesn't mean throwing the whole thing in the dumpster. It doesn't mean no one can have any optimism moving forward. Any player can go into the portal and make more money than they make on their current team. There will come a point where Texas, in the playoff run, will have conversations about whether they should keep a player because he is asking for "this." If the answer is "no," if they leave, they will probably get paid more than they would've gotten to stay at Texas.
     

    These guys that are staying, it’s not because of money. They could get paid anywhere. They are staying because they have optimism about where it’s heading. The recruits and portal commits have optimism. It's not a guarantee that this passing game will explode. Marcel Reed has to continue to develop, which, by the way, I thought he played a lot better. He has a ways to go. He was a freshman.
     

    These receivers have a lot of confidence in this passing game and quarterback moving forward.
     

    It's not unacceptable to talk about the future. You can do both and say, that sucked. But you can say the year was not a disaster, and it was a solid first season. Year two, to me, is the hardest one because the expectation is to make a jump. This team needs to figure out a way to win nine games. Go win a bowl game and be 10-3 next year. You look at the schedule, and it will be hard to do. NIL, you are up there. The expectation is to make a significant jump in year two with what I think is a harder schedule and three defensive linemen that went to the NFL


    That's a lot of words to say "We suck. We have always sucked. We always will suck. It's tradition."

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  3. 6 hours ago, MuellerHorn said:

    Seriously, how do Sooners continue to spin any of this in any kind of positive light? What we’re seeing is a roster exodus and staff shakeup of epic proportions. 

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    I can't think I've ever seen a walk out of these proportions. I guess the good thing is that the Sooners can promise immediate playing time to anybody who signs up. 

  4. 4 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

    I hate 99% of all politicians. Actually it's closer to 99.9%. Democrat. Republican. In between. Don't give a shit. They're mostly all scum.

    I loved Carter. Posh? Upscale? Nah. Two bedrooms (below) were just fine after he left the Oval. The value of the secret service vehicles parked outside his residence dwarfed the value of his home. Modest doesn't being to describe Carter. The Dollar General opening in Plains was big. He frequented, often. Unpretentious, an understatement. An unending advocate for mental health and human rights, taught Sunday School at the local Baptist church for as long as he could stand. And on and on. 

    RIP, good man.

     

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    Not to mention he put on the greatest concert in Washington D.C. history ... maybe the greatest concert in world history.


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  5. On 12/26/2024 at 12:52 PM, Rickylovesweed said:

    There's actually a lot to like about this team offensively. 

    The issue offensively is we aren't a good offensive rebounding team and are mediocre at getting to the FT line. 

    It would be nice to get Kent back who would help in both those areas. 


    Probably at least partly a function of shooting threes so well. 

  6. 21 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    Aggy Misery Anonymous is a fellowship of people who come together to solve their aggy misery problem.  It doesn’t cost anything to attend A.M.A. meetings. There are no age or education requirements to participate. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their aggy misery problem.

    A.M.A.’s primary purpose is to help aggy misery addicts to achieve sobriety.

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    How A.M.A. works

    Members use the Twelve Steps to maintain sobriety. Groups use the Twelve Traditions to stay unified.
     
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    A.M.A.’s Twelve Steps are a set of spiritual principles. When practiced as a way of life, they can expel the obsession with aggy misery and enable the sufferer to recover from addiction.

    The Twelve Traditions apply to A.M.A. as a whole. They outline how A.M.A. maintains its unity and relates itself to the world around it.

    The book Aggy Misery Anonymous describes the A.M.A. program of recovery. It also contains stories written by the co-founders and stories from a wide range of members who have found recovery in A.M.A.

    Who Are A.M.A. members?

    We are people who have discovered and admitted that we cannot control our compulsion to read TexAgs. We have learned that we must live without it to live normal, happy lives.

    We are not against aggy misery and we have no wish to reform the world. We are not allied with any group, cause or religious denomination. We welcome new members, but we do not recruit them.

    We do not impose our experience with aggy misery addiction on others, but we do share it when we are asked to do so. We know our own sobriety depends on connecting with other aggy misery addicts.

     


    If being addicted to Aggie misery is wrong,  I don't want to be right.

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