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You are kennel blind on a lot of that. Wow.

I love seeing it on tv. It's always on Gameday, irrespective of where Gameday is and regardless of Texas being involved. You can find it in crowds being panned to for almost any event, but especially sports. The Texas brand is powerful. The logo and the hand sign have made it almost universally recognized, at least in the western world, and the hands down just builds on it because it clearly gets even more people involved.

It all makes since now. Why does this aggie team look so fat and slow? Because The Elk has a god complex and is trying to rebuild the team in his own image. That old school S&C approach of "you want to get stronger? step 1, start eating every fucking thing within reach." is fucking killing it in College Station right now.

There is some good shit coming from the guys in the know on 247 right now. They're clearly tired of the bullying from aggie pravda. It's fucking hilarious. I'm posting the following takes from Tarp on a thread about Donovan Green. For anyone who's unfamiliar, Green was budding star at TE and tore his knee up in the runup to their first game last year. He's since gotten fat, out of shape, married, and unmotivated other than in regard to getting a degree and as much free food as possible. ----- Tarp He's a big guy now. A lot of them are. A&M looked at its team in January and decided they needed to get bigger. Thus, they made everyone bigger and somehow didn't think they need to replace a 325 pound NT. -- Tarp ThePlaymaker said... (original post) Did he practice in the spring? show more Non contact. I saw him in a agility drill back then and he looked pretty good to go. Carter and I have talked about this. We just kind of shake our heads like we do about a lot of things because it's hard to figure out the why. -- Tarp Pooch01 said... (original post) Why he can't move or why he's so heavy? show more The whole team is bigger. It's not just him. It's what they wanted. -- Tarp B5000 said... (original post) Why don’t you ask the why? show more I asked. Was told that they did testing back in January and their diagnosis was they weren’t strong enough. --

I don't know on this one. I viewed as a Milroe/USF thing. Regardless, why play him at all if you're not going to start him? He didn't need the reps vs one of the worst FSC programs on any schedule.

It likely means he has no idea how the DB class will materialize but believes that this staff will close well anyway. That's what he's implying with the Filsaime comments. One thing about Sarkisian and his staff - they are ruthless opportunists. There are some highly ranked classes with excellent targets should those teams falter this season. Oregon is one. The old rule regarding season performances impacting the next class may still be true, but the latter part that used to follow in terms of "but current classes are usually set" no longer should be viewed as viable. The game done changed. The Sarkisian classes at Texas help inform that.

I love CFB, so this week is fine, but I certainly understand the lamentation that this is the shittiest week of the season. You have to love it to be interested in anything that isn't your team. -Texas State struggled against Lamar and then pummeled UTSA. How good is Texas State? You got me. -Barry Odom will be somewhere else this time next season. UNLV might be a 10-2 type team. How much does losing Kotelnicki hurt Kansas? -Arizona was incredibly overlooked this offseason by everyone. The QB/WR1 battery there looks dominant. KSU plays sound defense, but do they have the dudes for this one? Those are dudes at Zona. 11am Games -How in the hell do you not even mention the Mike Norvell Bowl? We have a chance to watch one of the whiniest fanbases in all of college sports commit unity seppuku if Memphis rolls into Tallahassee and beats FSU. The QB at Memphis is good and the QB at FSU should be working as a bouncer somewhere. -North Texas beating Texas Tech might cause me to have an aneurysm from laughter. -The South Carolina front 7 looked damned good against UK. The freshman DE looks excellent. Can "The Best Offensive Line In College Football" actually show a fucking pulse on the road? GTFO out with that moniker. SCar has a shot to make LSU one dimensional and then unleash the hounds. -Bama kept shooting themselves in the dick against USF. I assume we see the same ol'Bama and they blow Wisconsin out. -Missouri lost 5-6 defensive players to the NFL draft, their DC to LSU, and, I believe, several other defensive coaches. It seems like we're just assuming a reload here? Is that what Mizzou does? I think Drinkwitz is a buffoon but so is BOB. I am hoping to see the same BC offense that showed up two weeks ago. Fuck SEC solidarity. Give me as many losses for CFP contenders as we can get. 2:30 Slate -Hudson Card may not have thrown a ball that hit the ground last week. Has he turned a corner? Purdue only needs to get to 20 points to win. -The Civil War is where we see Oregon get serious and remind everyone that they are actually a top 5 team. Right? Later Bouts -The total for the Ole Miss/WF game is 63.5. That may be covered at halftime. -Georgia State struggled to beat Chattanooga last week. Vanderbilt heads into SEC play 3-0 after this game. Who had that on their bingo card? -As good as Air Force usually is, they're objectively bad this year. I watched them get slapped around by SJSU and things are grim there. The troubling part about that is that I'd assumed they'd pummel Baylor and really get Baylor's 2024 spiral humming. -You probably intended to avoid the CU/CSU match-up, but I don't think there is a way to lose watching this game. A CU blowout gets that rollercoaster back on track. CSU winning is good in all kinds of ways. Something like last year would at least be entertaining. -Kent State lost to St. Francis (PA) last week. Tennessee might score 100 points on them and make their story insufferable in the media. -Georgia might wind up with 10 or more sacks against a Kentucky team that quit on Saturday. How do rally around Mark Stoops at this point? This one looks really, really hideous.

I crack up when I see anyone defaulting to the notion that Klein is of course some sort of wizard. The guy had to be reset at least once by Kleinman. He's shown nothing at ATM. I've yet to see much that I envy in his design or use of weapons.

He and Venables are possibly the biggest liars in CFB when it comes to injuries, though. I've been assuming we'll see a whole bunch of "GTD" when they damned well someone isn't playing. Hope you're right, in any event.

Arrrggghhhh. I've lived my whole life thinking that movie was released in 1984. You were right. 1985.

1984

I have been to BCS too many times to feel intrigued about games there in the future. The aggies have gotten crazier since we were last there. No thank you. I will be in Fayetteville with my wife, her brother and our SIL (both Arky grads). It's a protected experience when you're being hosted. We were treated well in 2021 but have heard the horror stories from others. I assume it should be more fun this time and don't know what to expect after the game if that is the case.

For those who check on this thread for football team info, I've C&P'd their snapcount data through the first two games and spoilered it. A few notes below: -They benched Bryce Anderson as a starter. He could be starting at Texas but had to get that $250k bag while forgoing his future earning potential. Get fucked, dummy. -Shanahan was forced to play snaps at C while not being listed there. They have since announced that Erb, who is 6'7", will be the back-up C going forward. They worked Dewberry at C during practices last week and he was a disaster. -Speaking of Dewberry, he barely got snaps in garbage time against McNeese State. He can get fucked as well. -Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, all 5 stars of his fat ass, got a whopping 7 snaps against McNeese State. There are multiple walk-ons on the DL who got more snaps. -This is a reminder that the rankings of GBD, Doooby Doooby Dew, Shanahan, and Anderson all factor into the lazy 247 "talent composite index" or whatever the fuck it is called. -Some WR from Troy that they were all knob-slobbing in the spring until he got hurt came back and played 8 irrelevant snaps. -Bussey played a bunch. Tarp reports that they're only comfortable with jet sweeps and reverses for him at WR. Apparently, he's just running around on routes and not usually where he is supposed to be and they don't trust him yet. The guy is talented and this was game 2, so I assume he's actually going to get better and play more. -Starting WR Walker broke a finger early in the game and played one snap. The Elk lied about his status after the game and said he could have returned. "All Day" Jahdae is kind of needed this week, so I'm going to be entertained when he's in street clothes on the sidelines. -Scooby Williams, the terrible but needed starting LB, didn't suit out. The Elk attempted to downplay how badly he's hurt, but couldn't confirm that he'd be ready for SEC play. -Elko won't let reporters say anything definitively about injuries, even season-enders, so enjoy that skirting from Tarp in the write-up. Also, I've said this was going to be a bad team all offseason for reasons that are playing out and can be seen in the snapcounts. The JAGger Index for this team is through the fucking roof.

For those who check on this thread for football team info, I've C&P'd their snapcount data through the first two games. A few notes below: -They benched Bryce Anderson as a starter. He could be starting at Texas but had to get that $250k bag while forgoing his future earning potential. Get fucked, dummy. -Shanahan was forced to play snaps at C while not being listed there. They have since announced that Erb, who is 6'7", will be the back-up C going forward. They worked Dewberry at C during practices last week and he was a disaster. -Speaking of Dewberry, he barely got snaps in garbage time against McNeese State. He can get fucked as well. -Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, all 5 stars of his fat ass, got a whopping 7 snaps against McNeese State. There are multiple walk-ons on the DL who got more snaps. -This is a reminder that the rankings of GBD, Doooby Doooby Dew, Shanahan, and Anderson all factor into the lazy 247 "talent composite index" or whatever the fuck it is called. -Some WR from Troy that they were all knob-slobbing in the spring until he got hurt came back and played 8 irrelevant snaps. -Bussey played a bunch. Tarp reports that they're only comfortable with jet sweeps and reverses for him at WR. Apparently, he's just running around on routes and not usually where he is supposed to be and they don't trust him yet. The guy is talented and this was game 2, so I assume he's actually going to get better and play more. -Starting WR Walker broke a finger early in the game and played one snap. The Elk lied about his status after the game and said he could have returned. "All Day" Jahdae is kind of needed this week, so I'm going to be entertained when he's in street clothes on the sidelines. -Scooby Williams, the terrible but needed starting LB, didn't suit out. The Elk attempted to downplay how badly he's hurt, but couldn't confirm that he'd be ready for SEC play. -Elko won't let reporters say anything definitively about injuries, even season-enders, so enjoy that skirting from Tarp in the write-up. Also, I've said this was going to be a bad team all offseason for reasons that are playing out and can be seen in the snapcounts. The JAGger Index for this team is through the fucking roof.

I am a big dude and have been in a shameful amount of fistfights in my life. I didn't see the point in that and most of the shit being talked was at me, often women doing it. The four dude group that touched my wife decided they didn't have an interest in seeing where we could take things and I just wanted to get to the tailgate and not have my wife further accosted. I'm glad and sure other people had different experiences. I was surprised by ours.

Y'all are reaching Lou Holtz levels of poor-mouthing your team and lifting up the future opponent. I'm starting to expect a Clemson vs App State kind of OU recovery against Tulane here. That considered, your OL is truly dogshit, your TBs define average, you have a MASH unit at WR, your TEs wouldn't even preferred walk-ons at Texas and the word from folks connected nationally is that you have a QB problem that you can't really address, as you can't run one guy off for another guy that the program proclaims as a future 1st rounder and then immediately dump said 5 star bust for his true freshman backup without creating all kinds of questions. So maybe it really is a close match-up. You got me.

Just to put a bow the trip to Michigan, these are my thoughts for this thread in case we ever play them again. I expected their fans to be a lot like our fans. My view is that you have to go out of your way before or after a home game at Texas to find shitty Texas fans. I think we're hospitable and Texan through and through. When someone is behaving poorly and treating travelers shitty, they're usually managed by our own to shut that shit down. I've been to plenty of away and neutral games. Neutral games usually involve both teams mostly behaving themselves. Away games is a spectrum of truly terrible shitbags, like Texas Tech, over to mildly menacing or irritating but mostly friendly, like Bama fans before they lose. I've never been to Columbus (for a game) and I've heard enough over the years from UT fans and others alike to know that I won't be going next year and good luck to those who do. What I have heard, however, is how much better Michigan fans are in-person than Ohio State fans. Friends who went to the Texas/Michigan Rose Bowl have attested as much. My experience, and I am quite certain many other Texas fans' experiences (I saw the bullshit happening to anyone in burnt orange) doesn't match up to prior reports. My wife and I couldn't walk 50 feet among the crowds on Saturday morning without some dumbfuck, often fully grown adults, feeling compelled to run up and throw their hands in our faces, screaming "HORNS DOWN!!!" over and over as though creative or original. I don't give a shit about horns down. Say it, yell it, whatever. It's unoriginal, it's an okie hand sign, and it has become ubiquitous. What people can go fuck themselves on is the violation of personal space and damned near touching/hitting my face. When is this okay in any setting? One guy nicked my wife's cheek doing it and then his crew acted as if they were going to jump me and when I told them to fuck off. Beyond that, do these grown-ups not comprehend how stupid they look when they do that shit? Also, the constant screaming of stupid shit like "fuck matthew mccanaughey!!" to random strangers from fat girls who shouldn't be wearing skimpy outfits gets tiring from the jump. Inside the stadium, it's like the Rose Bowl. They don't have enough bathrooms because the stadium is so old. The connectivity is non-existent, like DKR in 2005 or something. The stadium itself is very cool, albeit tame. Their songs, including Victors Valiant, are all cool and they sing them well. I'd speculate there isn't a bad seat in the house and they do a good job with their scoreboards in terms of posting stats and scores. Concessions were as run of the mill as a stadium could have offered. After the game, Michigan people behaved much more like I expected. They were polite, docile, and defeated. No one talked shit for miles and many were complimentary and nice. There were at least 25,000 Texas fans at this game. Afterwards, I was proud to see none of the kind of shit talking that I'd witnessed Michigan fans doing before the game. I'm glad I did the trip to the Big House and can check it off of my sports bucket list. I wouldn't go again, having now done it once. That's mostly due to the trashy bullshit I witnessed in the pregame. Also, Detroit was fun and the MGM there is a solid place to stay.

The problem here is that Napier recruited Mertz to come back for this season and then had him elected as captain. Everyone is writing those aspects off when considering the situation. Put yourself in that guy's shoes for a minute. We can all think what we want about Napier as a coach or person and I'm not some type of fan of the guy, but I can understand the inner conflict here for the guy as a man. That said, I also see the HC role in CFB as that of a "fiduciary" for the program, so he's still got overcome the personal issues and make the right choice for the organization.

The term "throwing the kitchen sink" about a school recruiting a Texas target should be interpreted as something beyond what is being said by the $9.95ers. Nebraska has made a strong NIL push for Terry. Where are you going to get developed better for the future these days, Nebraska under Rhule or Texas under Steve Sarkisian. Talking about WR and potentially/probably Flex TE. That is a factor to weigh when also considering some gap (currently) in the NIL pitch. Accordingly, I'd lightly pencil Terry into the Texas class, but nothing more. I'm by no means saying that you should be bearish here, either. Just saying this recruitment is still really processing.

OU’s transfer champion from Washington, Geirean Hatchett, one of their starting OL, is now out for the season. Whoops. Just had surgery for a torn biceps.

That sucks. You missed a terrific dinner. I’ve been all over. That restaurant is as good as any anywhere for a non-Michelin/non-steakhouse dinner.

He was a highly touted recruit who more or less freshman’d his way through his freshman year until the Arkansas game. He had 4 sacks in that game and was instrumental late in locking up the win. That game made him famous and set absurd expectations. If you actually look at his freshman year, you wouldn’t immediately call him the best defensive player in college football, but the media did that heading into last year. Then LSU used him as a QB spy and tried to act like he wasn’t a pass rush specialist. Outside of another Arkansas display of heroism, he had a mediocre year. Living mostly off of name recognition, he was again touted breathlessly heading into this season. Anyone actually watching and thinking sees a tweener capable of flashing. He’s not the best defender on his own team and shouldn’t be considered All SEC, much less All American, but I’m sure he will be. He was used as a Mike for parts of both of the first two games.

I didn’t offer my own value judgment. I was passing on what I’ve witnessed for color to the ongoing discussion. I also stayed out of the stupid fucking argument you’ve created by whining about Arch Manning not “running the offense” on Saturday. But here is a value judgment - you are turning into a trolll with your behavior and that is very annoying. So I’m going through and negging every idiotic post of yours on this thread for being a bandwidth drain adding nothing of value to this thread.

Michigan fans both at the game and since on Michigan Insider have been commenting on how nice Sarkisian is and what good sportsmanship the team showed. The TMI posters are basically thankful because they recognize that that game could have been 52-6 if we’d have wanted as much. I don’t think locker room material matters for this one. Michigan will have a different coach, staff and players when they come to Austin in 2027.

Can you fucking idiots keep the fixation with that rube and his “content” confined to the aggie thread, please? It’s a fucking beating to see it taken seriously anywhere, much less on more than one thread.