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  1. 23 hours ago, n64ra said:

    I grabbed the latest The Daily Texan while on campus since it is a Sugar Bowl edition. The editors interviewed other Big 12 and SEC schools about Texas making the CFP. Most said something like

    • Sucks for FSU
    • If Bama was in, Texas had to be in
    • Texas looks good

    expect for aggy. Here's what The Battalion had to say:

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    Luke White's handle on here is Jewish Wang

  2. 17 minutes ago, Warrrshington said:

    Sark used to mock one of UW’s players who had a stutter in front of the team. The guy was gonna quit when Petersen came in and coach Pete found the guy a tutor. He stayed and flourished.
     

    Great guy that sark. Not in over his head at all🤣

    Even if true, people change. He would be the first to admit he is a different man and coach now that he has arrived at Texas. 

    The weird shit talk from Washington fans is bizarre. Y'all are irrelevant, just another flash in the pan school that happened to make the playoff. Enjoy the short stay in the playoffs, it is probably the last trip you will have for a long time. 

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  3. 38 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    That's highly debatable. In an alternate universe where Tim bolts for Orlando in 2000, could a Doc Rivers corched superteam get past Shaq Kobe and Phil? The 03-05 Pistons corched by Larry Brown? Maybe MAYBE they beat the 06 Mavs, and this is all assuming Grant Hill stayed healthy (which of course he didn't). By the time LeBron had gotten over the hump in 07 I don't think Tim + TMac would have been enough talent to even be a lock to win the East. Definitely not enough to get past the Celtics and Heatles.

    Of course Pop was incredibly lucky with Tim but also ahead of the pack in scouting foreign talent, which played a huge role in the draft successes of Manu and Tony. Not just limited to foreign talent either, I'll never forget when Pop had the balls to get rid of fan favorite George Hill for a chance to snag Kawhi Leonard.

    I think he just stopped caring as much as he used to. You can't compare today's Pop to the Pop of before. He needs to find his Eric Spoelstra and step into a more advisory role, ala Pat Riley.

    That was Pop's greatest attribute. I give him all of the credit in the world for that. But foreign scouting is ubiquitous now, so he doesnt really have an edge in that department like he used to.

    In my opinion, Pop blew the 2013 championship by benching Timmy on the final play of Game 6 regulation. Something that he can never be forgiven for doing. He also never repeated with a loaded roster from 2003-2008. And I think he could've repeated in 2014/2015 but the team dicked around for half the season and lost home court by 1 game. 

  4. On 12/9/2023 at 11:47 AM, C-Man said:

    I love Pop. I really do. He’s the reason we won five titles and were basically THE class of the league for nearly 30 years. But this streak plus the audacity to admonish the fans for booing Kawhi have me wondering if it’s time to put the old dog down and slide him into an advisory/front office role.

    Lol, no. That would be the generational talent top 5 all time player Tim Duncan. Sure Pop had his moments, but lets be real here. Duncan made Pop far more than Pop made Duncan. 

  5. 2 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

    It would be nice if we had a data point somewhere in the middle of two national title contenders and 7 mid-majors or nobodies who won’t sniff the tournament. Maybe the LSU or UNC Greensboro game gives us that data point before conference play, although LSU isn’t very good.

    My hope is the upside of this team develops as Disu returns and we see way less of Onyema (who is bad on both ends) and Weaver continues to take minutes from Horton (who couldn’t spell defense).

    One. Shaka coaches paper tigers. 

  6. 5 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    It’s sad really. I mean I watched the Netflix deal on him. I don’t see this story having anything other than a spectacularly dramatic and tragic ending. People keep enabling him because he brought aggy that amazing 11-1 season. And the awards/Heisman. They are contributing to his demise to a degree. I had thought perhaps he’d maybe turn a different corner but then I saw the documentary. And no he won’t. And I realize without him making some major (which he doesn’t seem to ever want to make) it is inevitable. 

    They were 11-2

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  7. 5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Wrong. If Jordan Travis had remained healthy then undefeated FSU would’ve been in. They would’ve been ranked ahead of 1-loss Texas. And what would’ve really chapped your gears was that 1-loss Alabama would’ve gotten the 4th slot by virtue of having a better loss than Texas had. The committee has demonstrated in the past that the quality of a loss counts against a team more than the quality of a win benefits them. Plus given the history of the playoff, not to mention both the playoff’s and the SEC’s partnership with ESPN, a 1-loss SEC champ isn’t going to be left out. That’s part of why Texas is joining the SEC, right? It would’ve been a tough pill to swallow but UT would’ve swallowed it, knowing they were going to be part of ESPN’s favorite conference going forward.

    Texas fans would scream that it was totally unfair to rank Alabama ahead of them since Texas won the head-to-head matchup, all while forgetting that 99.9% of them thought TCU got screwed out of the playoff in 2014 when in fact it was Baylor whom they should’ve been arguing for since they’d defeated TCU head-to-head that year. 

    No they wouldn't have. 

    Watch this (this was before the Travis injury) and get back to me. They were going to fuck FSU the whole time. They were never going to get in whether he was injured or not. 

     

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