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  1. 2 minutes ago, Richter said:

    Are we sure Giles is out?

    that would be such a positive sign

    I'm looking for tea leaves I like, mucking out rot like Oscar Giles would certainly constitute that, the same way Plonsky getting marginalized was a tremendously positive sign that CDC was willing to tackle the $500 pillow culture

  2. 10 minutes ago, victory88 said:

    If he's getting all of those guys to follow him, it means they believe in his system and they believe that their success is tied with Sark.

    Maybe. Maybe there is a change coming at the top at Alabama, and Sarkisian wasn't actually a candidate for that job because the school has someone else in mind, so these guys don't want to stick around and see if they'll still have jobs at Alabama under the new head coach. 

    Assistants move around a lot. Some of that is by choice and some isn't. If you're an assistant at Alabama and you think next year will be Saban's last, following Sarkisian from Tuscaloosa to Austin for equal or better money and an equal or better job title might look preferable to saying "I'll just hang out here and see if I get pushed out in a year or two". 

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  3. fucking LOL at being excited if we got Mack 2.0-- boy I hope the 2.0 means he can match Mack's 2.0 conference titles in fifteen fucking years

    that attitude is why we are persistently looking up at the top tier and rationalizing our failure

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  4. 3 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    As for Akina, I mean he was a great hire 20 years ago and has an unmatched legacy here but he's almost 65 years old.  I would be shocked if actually on Sark's radar and not just a name being thrown out by Texas media remembering the glory days.

    Leon Fuller is still alive and kicking, let's give him another try

  5. 20 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Lol. Typical Jerry. So fixated on grooming his own guys into being the next big thing. He is desperate to show the league he can do this.

    even if he DID "do this", think about the level of sustained success it would take for anyone to be able to legitimately say "it was a slow build but worth it". I'm not even sure there's a reasonable amount of success he could ever get to that would justify the failures of this franchise over the past twenty years. 

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  6. I would like to see the staff hired and the Big 12 schedule laid out in sequence before predicting an exact W-L, and it's probably folly until the spring recruiting period and transfer portal moves are completed anyway, but I figure we'll be about the same: uneven, up-and-down, out of the conference title race early and then much better once the pressure's off. End up in something like the Alamo Bowl. Probably get boat-raced by OU instead of just losing to them close. Nine wins counting the bowl game. Pre-season Top 5 in 2022, leading to bitter disappointment when we go 8-5 that year and lose to Alabama by 38. 

    As usual, we'll spend a lot of time bemusedly asking "why are we doing <this> on offense? I thought we'd be doing <that>!"-- I mean, remember how it was Tom Herman's offense, not Tim Beck's, so don't worry, and how Sterlin Gilbert would open things up under Charlie so don't worry, and how Bryan Harsin would modernize Mack's offense so don't worry? I took that to heart, partly. I don't worry about it. I just assume it'll be another disappointment. Not a train wreck necessarily, maybe a fender bender in the HEB parking lot, but overall well short of the rhetorical expectations around here. 

    2023 recruiting will be fucking incredible, though, and that will repeat itself for about one more season before it starts to become obvious that Sarkisian isn't the guy and Texas isn't back and then it will start to fall off badly while we're debating who should replace our newest .675 / .700 no-championships coach.

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  7. 7 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Our boosters got a raft of shit from the other 99% of Bama fans after the Albert Means fiasco and other assorted shenanigans in the late 90s/early 2000s so the University had a tangible reason to begin to limit their day to day influence.

    Saban nailed that door shut.

    man, I'm glad Alabama stopped buying players

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Cincy didn’t deserve to win that game at all. Should put a damper on all the “Fickell is a great coach” talk. Utter implosion in the 2nd half.

    I saw a few Ohio State games in 2011. This was reminiscent thereof. He's a good coach, but also a complete dumbshit. I honestly wish he could end up at A&M. I think the frustration he would cause them would be epically entertaining. 

  9. 2 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    That 3rd and 2 play call/design was all time retard in that situation.  You just roll and flood like that with no misdirection and a clear direction to QB to just get the first with a safe throw or run you deserve to lose.

    Amen. If you're not going to run between the tackles, then something like Steelers Roll Left seems like it would be a pretty fucking good call there. 

  10. 1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    I think Johnny is kind of a closet Horns fan.

    I like to think at some level he's embarrassed about spending time around Liucci. If nothing else he's done has ever embarrassed him, I like to think that deep down he has that regret. 

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  11. 4 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    As long as Texas A&M maintains their shrine to white supremacy on their campus, any discussion of Texas A&M will be open to a discussion of aggy's cultural racism.

    You are so obtuse that it can only be an act. 

    This, this right here:

    "their typical full racist “get woke, go broke” frenzy, insisting the NFL was paying dearly for embracing racial equality, the rest of the nation was watching NFL football."

    That is what I am talking about. That has *nothing* to do with Texas A&M or Aggies. It is an obviously political topic, to wit, should the NFL embrace Black Lives Matter and in doing so, what has that done/will it do to their popularity and business model?  

    A discussion of any of that doesn't belong in a "point and laugh at Aggies" thread. 

    No one is telling you to stop your spergy anti-A&M posting. That is not the objection. Again, the objection is "here's some information about the NFL and how great things are going for them" in this thread. You can believe whatever stupid political wine mom shit you want. Keep it out of the fun "fuck A&M" thread. 

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    You want me to quit laughing about aggy stupidity in general, or aggy racist behavior?

    I want you to stop dragging politics into the thread. You are not a particularly smart man, but you are smart enough to know that the subject you're referencing in the post I quoted is a lot more complicated than "racist or not racist" or "get woke go broke". 

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  13. 6 minutes ago, Eggo said:

    There hasn't been a QB rotation all year.

    was there an otherwise inexplicable running back rotation last night, even while the offense struggled on five consecutive possessions, that Herman tried to excuse in his post-game comments by saying he wanted to keep them fresh? 

    might I have been making an allusion to that, in a joking fashion?

    maybe?

  14. Just now, babysdaddy said:

    I don't understand the concern of this tweet.  He's now the defacto starter.  Why would he leave now?

    We gotta rotate our quarterbacks, keep 'em fresh

    /Herman'd

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  15. 13 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

    While the ags were in their typical full racist “get woke, go broke” frenzy, insisting the NFL was paying dearly for embracing racial equality, the rest of the nation was watching NFL football.

    Yet again, the ags have proven it’s not mainstream Americans who are adamantly against racial equality, just the racists in America.

    The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M. 

    While the NFL’s seasonal ratings declines have been met with the usual blend of uninformed hooting about backlashes and boycotts and the performative gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, the league’s hegemonic stranglehold on American TV consumption showed little sign of abating in 2020.

    The NFL delivered 32 of the year’s 50 biggest TV audiences, a tally that includes 14 of the top 20 programs, of which three were games that aired during the current season.”

     

    https://www.sportico.com/business/media/2020/2020-tv-ratings-nfl-1234619216/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=Sportico_Daily&utm_content=246491_12-29-2020_nfl-retains-its-tv-crown-as-sports-&utm_term=8165163

     

    would you fuck off with this shit?

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  16. 17 minutes ago, JFKFC said:

    But Colorado has the Pac 12 Coach of the Year!

     

    we have made real progress as a society, as evidenced by the fact that it's not just middle-aged white mediocrities that get recycled in the coaching ranks anymore

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