Everything posted by closetojumping
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Suddenly, I'm being told that I have to go and use the tickets. I'll be in the SEZ with 3 teens/pre-teens watching this game with what I expect to be one of the most bored groups of 90+k people in the history of sports gatherings. It's going to have the energy of a crowd waiting 45 minutes past the scheduled start time for John Tesh to begin a concert. Maybe it is the influence from reading these threads this week, I don't know, but I am starting to expect to see an offensive bedshitting the likes of which would make Lynn Amedee and Greg Davis blush. My only solace in that actually occurring would be witnessing the hyperventilating on this site in the aftermath. immamac commits seppuku, codaxx is walking around in a circle counting prime numbers while muttering about PFF grades, various nonchalants like texifornia and Js1 profess their insouciance, and a group of ne'erdowells led by SydneyCarton and Red Five plot the ritualistic shaving of BO&W's prepubescent scrotum in a move designed for both sacrifice to the college football gods and seeking a sense of catharsis. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
I despise the preferential treatment that ND perpetually receives. The fawning over them when they're good from the national media is nauseating as well. That said, I will be cheering wildly for them to win this game. I will cheer for ATM to win one game and one game only - whenever they play OU. That's it. They're going to run their mouths like the idiots they are, sun, rain, sleet or snow, but it's 10 times worse when they win anything worth a shit, like a game in South Bend. As to the premise of a loss to ATM putting ND out of the playoff conversation, sure, there's a silver lining there, I guess. Of course, I may have bad news for you - if ND is 10-2 at the end of the year, the committee will somehow find a way to justify putting them in and pissing all of us off. Texas just needs to take care of its own business. Regardless, to each their own on how they root. Carr looked pretty good against a top 10 team on the road. If you don't think ND has a QB after that performance, I'd hate to hear about you think about, ahem, ... other programs and their new QBs.
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Week Three CFB Preview: Start Up the Meat Grinder
We were with friends who went to WVU and they were dressed up in WVU gear, so we didn't get anything besides the light-hearted stuff from others. For all of the "Morgantown is a lot of fun!" that I've read on the boards over the years, I didn't really get it. We black car-ed to and from Pittsburgh, so maybe we missed part of the charm by not staying there, but we tailgated and went to some famous local haunts for food and drinks. Went to the school bookstore, etc. It was all fine, but I didn't find anything extraordinary about the place. They were also very docile after getting pummeled.
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Tell me about ou
My computer kept locking up. I went to Microsoft's offices in order to get one of the IT people to fix it.
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
Here is an unintentionally hilarious article from Tarp on ATM's output facing top 10 teams on the road over the past 50 years. Highlights: -They've won 4 games on the road versus top 10 opponents since 1975. PSU in 1979 (PSU finished 8-4), Bama in 2012 with Manziel (Bama repeated for the title that season), South Carolina in 2014 (they finished unranked, 7-6) and Auburn 2014 (finished 8-5). That's it. That's the list. -He talks about the problem usually partly being ATM's own internal foibles leading to their demise, which is surprisingly self-aware. -He sounds closer to cutting himself than normal before a big game. I heard Liucci on SEC radio this morning talking about ATM surprising the country with a comfortable win tomorrow, so these folks are all over the map right now.
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Week Three CFB Preview: Start Up the Meat Grinder
I can't remember whether it was Herbstreit or someone else, but I laughed when they explained that Gameday was headed to Morgantown until WVU fumbled it with the loss to Ohio. I don't know why, but I enjoy rooting against WVU. Dick Rod being there makes that even easier. I've even visited Morgantown for a Texas win and enjoyed it, horns down coping from them and all. Maybe it's just the ease of generally rooting against the Big 12 and enjoying pointing and laughing at all of them.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
It's almost a certainty that they can't.
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Week Three CFB Preview: Start Up the Meat Grinder
The comments on the aggies from the national media reflect a group of people who have not watched them play yet. I think there’s just been a bunch of box scoring reading and highlight sampling.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Why is there a fully equipped football player walking across a runway?
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Houston: where to stay?
You’ve made good choices. MF Sushi is excellent as a choice.
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2025 game week 3: UTEP @ Texas
Well, Fud is very German, so it happens.
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2025 Random Games thread
Joly is a really good TE. Obvious, but I hadn’t really watched him until this game.
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2025 Random Games thread
That statement is “I’m open to offers in the offseason, SEC. Y’all overlooked me because I’m 5’6”. “
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
“knowing what to do” apparently includes not touching another fucking human being on running plays unless they are grabbing your fat 370 pound ass and throwing you sideways while people cackle.
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2025 Random Games thread
That little Barnes dude looks like he can flat out fly.
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Houston: where to stay?
Agreed. One thing this post reminds me of about the place is that the rooms and the bar are nice. The pool experience is the really grim part.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Your Clark comment is bullshit.
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Week Three CFB Preview: Start Up the Meat Grinder
That is pretty damned funny.
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Houston: where to stay?
I’m actually rooting for you to ignore my input and go anyway and then report back. It cannot be as bad as it was when I was there, but maybe we’ll get lucky.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I’ve watched some more clips of Stroh. I think I might be going a little crazy or something. I am trying to figure out how this guy is actually on the field, under any circumstances. Is this some sort of performance art that Flood is in on? Does Stroh honestly have pictures of members of the staff in compromising positions? A straightforward “he’s the best guy in practice” cannot be a legitimate argument. I cannot believe that.
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Houston: where to stay?
We had several things happening on Memorial Day weekend that anchored us to staying in town that weekend. So my wife had the bright idea, which I agreed with, to get rooms at the Marriott Marquis so the kids could feel like they were getting away when we weren't trekking to tournaments of various sorts. Turns out, the place sells passes to the pool to people who aren't staying there. If you like tatted up, vaping, pot-smoking thugged out shitheads and their fat women in string bikinis, with a combo of rap/tejano/new country blaring at 130 decibels, this place is for you. Also, expect to wait roughly 30 minutes for a drink, whether in line at the bar or with a server. We witnessed two of the stereotypical black on black girl fights I normally only see on Twitter in the cruise videos. The whole thing was pure class the whole way around. We left early and were home across town by Sunday and took the kids to do other shit for fun the rest of the holiday. I could not tell anyone more fervently to stay the fuck away from that place if you aren't a desperate fatty chaser in your 40's-50's looking for broads who won't cost you much when you have to take them out to dinner at McDonald's or Jack In The Box, even if they order the right side of the menu and go back for seconds, while undoubtedly calling someone else's kid in line a motherfucker and yanking the hair of the cashier when she gets lippy about not giving your girl her soda refill.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Texas was down in the 3rd by like 8 points and I had a kid wanting help with something so I said "well, this looks fucked", turned the tv off and went to do parenting stuff. I'm absolutely stunned Texas won that match. This team looks awesome.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
The Elk was on College Sports Today on XM 84 for an interview last week. He's one of those guys that actually sounds fat. I tuned in mid-interview and listened for a minute and thought "who is this fat ass? is this Elko?" and then I listened to him breathe heavily and felt certain. He wasn't a bad interview, just a really fat one.
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Week Three CFB Preview: Start Up the Meat Grinder
Good thread as always. There's not a great place for a weekly potpourri and I don't feel like starting a thread on it, but here are things I've read or found interesting heading into this weekend:
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
You guys are talking across one another. "Grasping the offense" for a WR is as much understanding the playcalls and route options as anything. A DC doesn't have to know a fucking thing about offensive nomenclature or route options to craft a strategy that puts an OC's plan at risk. It's funny you mention this because I looked into what it would take to outsource crowdsourcing you a few weeks ago. It turns out, India isn't as inexpensive for that kind of work as it once was.