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  1. 12 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Unimpressed Spongebob Squarepants GIF

    Some of us care. I thought the idea of a bunch of Tech idiots sending a bunch of tortillas to Yormark and his gaggle of idiots was funny. 

    6 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    ^^^^^^^^^

    Stache's post is accurate AF with regard to Adam's dad.

    IDGAF about the tortillas, except it is an element of college sports that makes it great, and then fans(students) thought it'd be cool to pummel opposing teams.  Keep it in the stands and the tradition lives.

    Nobody but Tech fans thinks the tortilla thing is a great element of college sports. Every person who has ever witnessed it on tv that I've been around is like "why the fuck do they do that?" and then no one watching has any explanation for it. I've had tech people explain it before and the explanation and reasoning was so inane that I can never retain what the fuck it was that they claimed. 

    That said, I'm in full agreement that Tech should generally be allowed to do it. Of course, I was also proud to see our student section go berserk on the terrible call last year against Georgia and turn our north end zone into a trash heap for 15 minutes and I laugh every time Texas gets embarrassed on some also-ran program's home field and everyone storms it, so maybe I'm just an idiot as well.

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  2. 30 minutes ago, fellside said:

    Mcshay is close friends with Nagy and had him on the pod before he took the job. He's going to blindly support him just like he did his best friend Joe Douglas despite building a horrible Jets team.

    Good info. I just generally see McShay as a buffoon. Biases undoubtedly make him worse. 

  3. 22 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Yeah, a little too cute for comfort on Coffee and Football. Hedged pretty good, and then went through some alternative OL lineups with Goosby. 

    Like I said, there’s a good shot he doesn’t play against OSU. His hand isn’t in a cast and allegedly nothing is broken. It got wrenched and they had to pull things back into place. It’s a pain tolerance and effectiveness thing. They’re worried enough to be moving everyone else around to see if there’s a lineup that isn’t hideous without him. 

    My hand got slammed between two tacklers’ face masks once and I dislocated a finger. A phalange was sitting on top of the next bone. The solution? Bite a fucking towel and pull while the doctor pulls in the other direction until the bone slips back into place. That shit hurt for a week and still gives me problems 35 years later. But I never missed a game and I caught passes for my damned program. If Goosby isn’t out there on 8/30, I’ll be judging him. 

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  4. So the tweet below is a follow-up to a farce post from the same account about UCLA selecting a different QB than Iamaleava. I cannot figure out if the DM from Nico is real or not. I want it to be. I can see it that way. But maybe someone here knows better. 

     

  5. 1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Lots of people that know or claim to know things believe both of those shit birds are going to back out on us. 

    I don't believe that for a second. The ramifications of either one doing such a thing go beyond the scope of impacting just their school and Texas. What tinfoil hat wearing shit have you gotten yourself into these days?

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  6. 19 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    I know things are not chill in aggyland when the 12th man starts calling The Elk disgustingly obese. Are we there yet? 

    We are nowhere near that. Unless they really struggle with UTSA or get pummeled in South Bend, I assume we won't start seeing that deliciousness until November as they free fall.

  7. 3 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    Yeah, the 3 years in a row @ major non con opponents is a product of the early exit from the B12. They flipped the Michigan game to an away game to make Fox whole, but originally was a home game. I am not sure if we are going to get a return trip from Michigan or tOSU out of the deal, but I hope so. 

    I know *why* it happened, just not sure something that wild has played out recently for anyone. I'm sure it happened in the past with just 8 or 10 teams in conferences and 4-5 OOC games every year.

    8 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

    Actual results that prove it.  Take your Baylor.  They lose to Auburn then lose two more in the Big 12.  Does 9-3 Baylor go over 10-2 Indiana?  If Baylor loses out, then there’s a chance they think twice when scheduling future games.  They don’t know they’re out or in at 10-2, but they do know they’re out at 9-3.  Also with the loss to Auburn, they’ve now opened the door for a 4-loss Auburn to knock them out.  Some ADs are willing to risk that; others are not.

    The Texas, the Ohio States will always have room for error more than others partly due to conference affiliations.  Outside those two conferences, stacking wins is more important.  And it’s incredibly difficult to imagine an SEC conference championship participant not get a playoff invite in favor of a non-championship participant.  So what about a 10-3 Indiana as compared to a 9-3 Texas?  That would imply they lose to OSU too or made it further in conference.  A 10-2 Texas is getting in over a 10-2 Indiana is the scenario you presented tweak to the formula or not.  They can justify at that point before the additional data point.

    I do think the media hype is a big deal and more impactful about getting big games than this is.

    Im an advocate for scheduling the good stuff but not all those with authority will view it the same.  I’ve already got plans to watch us play at Oregon.  My argument has nothing to do with how I feel but more of how others may act.

     

    The rules changes being discussed is exactly to help the committee justify an example like taking a 9-3 Baylor over a 10-2 Indiana. Do they do that? We don't know. 

    No shit we have no idea whether this change actually has an impact. My view is that it damned sure could and should. Taking the "I'll believe it when I see it" position is fine, but it doesn't mean everyone else is just immediately balls deep on the premise that this changes everything. I hope it does with the scheduling, but, yeah, maybe nothing happens. 

  8. 15 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    And inversely, a Texas team that beats Ohio State on the road is going to get a massive amount of grace for potentially slipping up midseason against someone (or someones). Because it will likely be (like 2023) the best non-conf resume win of any team in the playoff conversation. 

    Credit Texas and CDC for going:

    2017/18 - USC
    2019 - LSU
    2020 - (should have been LSU, but fucking COVID)
    2022/23 - Bama
    2024 - Michigan
    2025/26 - Ohio State
    2027 - Michigan
    2028/29 - Notre Dame

    Need to get some legit for 2030/31 to bridge the gap until 2032/33 Arizona State

    And none of them have been neutral site BS - we will go play at anyone's house. 

    Texas going @Bama, @Michigan and then @Ohio State three years in a row has to be something unprecedented. 

    I was pretty surprised to see that Bama has started scheduling multiple P4 OOC opponents each season. I'm hoping Texas follows suit, especially if the conference keeps dragging its feet on the 9 game schedule. 

    I heard a while back that there was talk about extending the Notre Dame match-up into 2030/2031 once Florida became a conference foe. I guess that's not going anywhere because it would have been easy to add announce.

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  9. 14 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Summary of latest OU Breakdown with Lehman and Ikard: 

    True or redshirt freshmen that will play a significant

    role this season: 

    - Reiterating that Fasusi might start at LT, and "that's why we paid him all that money".  Quick, smart, tough. Has improved a lot since the Spring. Mention Kelvin Banks's success as freshman. 

    - RB Tory Blaylock doesn't look like a freshman and is ready to play. Been running with the 2s. Not bad in pass pro. Fast, quick, explosive. Put on 20 pounds in the offseason. The excitement is off the charts with this guy. Even with healthy Ott, they expect Blaylock to get lots of touches. 

    - OL Ryan Fodje - he is everything OU staff was hoping he would be. He will play "a lot" in opener vs. Illinois State. Gigantic bruiser at RG. 

    - WR Elijah Thomas - too explosive and too dynamic not to play significant snaps. Future superstar per Lehman. They expect big moments from him this year but needs to improve in technical aspects. 

    - EDGE Danny Okoye -  Gabe and Teddy getting hard talking about his frame. "NFL ready body type".  Ability off the charts, still raw. Has made tremendous strides in one year. Should be rushing the passer on 3rd and long. Will be in the 4 guy rotation at DE. 

    - DB Courtland Guillory - they will be shocked if he's not playing significant snaps this year. Ikard thinks he could be best cover corner on roster. Lehman is more cautious and wants to see how he responds to adversity in a real game, but still says he's been "shockingly great". Been practicing with the 1s. 

    - DB Jeremiah Newcombe - can play multiple positions, reminds Lehman of Bowman. Physical, shifty. He will play, but they're not sure where. 

     

    Either they just evaluated laps around the rest of the field with signees from the last few classes or these guys are completely full of shit. Fasusi, Thomas and Fodje were highly ranked, but two of those guys are OL. Starting true freshmen on the OL should be rare and due to absurd skills. I knew they'd start using the Banks comparison if they started talking about starting Fasusi. It's bullshit. That will be fun to watch. Fodje playing a lot when all they've been doing is talking up their returning OL is comical. If that dude is pushing for heavy PT, your returners sucked as we suspected. 

    Thomas was a national 150 guy, but he's being mentioned because their WR room is both dogshit and a mash unit. Thomas is good at everything but doesn't have an elite skill/talent. He will be interesting to watch if they rush him out there. 

    Okoye's hype I can believe. 

    Guillory's hype I don't believe. They *need* one of their young CBs to be good, in the same vein as Bowen last year. Haynes apparently hasn't shown much, so Guillory needs to be that guy. Their secondary is taking reps against that shitty WR room and shittier TE room. The okies do not seem to be capable of wrapping their heads around the perils of analyzing performance in a zero sum setting. 

    The Newcombe guy is JAG-certified. If he's playing, I'm laughing. 

    Blaylock was so talented and awesome that Texas, LSU, ATM, and Bama never pushed, even though he visited each school unofficially multiple times. Again, they *need* this guy to be good. Ott already got dinged up. Barnes is replacement value talent. The other RBs are all jaggy and hurt. Blaylock has been getting reps out of necessity. 

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  10. 22 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

    In theory it’s a big deal, but will it matter?

    I’d assume we’re going to line up all the P4 one loss teams then the two loss then three loss.  Figure out where to slot the non-P4s.  The SEC and Big 10 will continue to assume their schedules are worth 1 or 2 more losses but know they won’t get all the slots but will work to take all they can get.  I do think that we’ll end up at the front of the line of our loss category with our schedule, which would likely be with or without this adjustment.

    From a scheduling standpoint for 90% of the teams, a loss would be more detrimental even against a high quality opponent than a win over a middling opponent.  They’ll never have the depth to sustain over the long season if scheduling hard.  Whatever rationale they currently have, they’ll still have.

    In the end, I think you’ll have teams scheduling based on their own perspectives with this having a limited impact.

    People make decisions based on emotion and then justify those decisions with whatever reason, rationale or logic they can summon or leverage. The committee leans heavily on their internal formulas to justify their decisions. They did that this past year. They admit doing that in this press release. 

    So, yes, it will matter. Will it make everyone happy? No. Will many autists who follow all of this whine that we're not leaving it totally up to machines or a formula or transparently receiving the decision-helping tools? Yes. 

    If you don't think this is going to put more pressure on OOC scheduling, I don't know what could be done to actually alter your POV. The build-up to the early OOC games this season has been enormous. The media is giving the programs Texas, OSU, Florida, OU, Michigan, Bama, Clemson, FSU, LSU, ATM, Auburn, Baylor, and Notre Dame a ton of credit and, really for the first time, the pansy schedulers are truly being ridiculed. Indiana and Penn State are being mocked aggressively. These rule changes further embolden the CFP committee to follow suit and, if having to split hairs, lean on SOS to justify a difficult decision. 

    If Texas loses close road games to Ohio State and Florida and then loses the CCG in OT again, a 10-3 Texas is getting in versus a 10-2 Indiana who lost to Oregon and PSU and played virtually no one else. This rule change likely helps someone immediately this season. Schedule tough OOC games and don't lose ugly games and you have a great shot of getting into the CFP.

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  11. Traylor was being wooed by TCU and maybe? Tech when Sarkisian was going 5-7. They cut a deal in the contract extension for him at UTSA that diminished the buyout if he took a job at another school in the UT system or ATM system. That wasn't an accident and you can go look it up. I added the ATM system in there, but I think that's right. 

    Have things changed? Sure. Texas is in a totally different place these days. Likely/hopefully never matters for UT. ATM, however? Maybe. I thought he would have been a good hire instead of The Elk, but we'll likely never know that one either. 

  12. 5 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    They may not like Texas, and they may look forward to that game, but no way in hell do I believe most OSU fans consider Texas a bigger rival than bedlam. I'm not really buying WVU, KU, or KSU either.  thats some made up clickbait bullshit, which probably explains why the site sportsrivalry.com no longer exists. 

    A professor did it as some sort of survey for a study. The results surprised him and they went out and got it published. It's not like it was just some clickfarmer leveraging the Texas brand. I forget the methodology, but I feel like there was a plurality of voting involved, not just naming one opponent.

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  13. Couple of thoughts:

    1) Michigan singing "Hail To the Victors" with a guy named Hiter on their team next in Germany is going to make people uncomfortable, I have to imagine.

    2) Cignetti at Indiana might be able to say "just google me" in reference to winning, but you can also use Google to realize what a pussy that gasbag is with his scheduling. Dude showed up to Indiana and immediately canceled multiple P4 OOC match-ups and then replaced them with cupcakes.

    They play Old Dominion, Kennesaw State and Indiana State this season for their OOC. If they're anything close to the playoff discussion, unless they're undefeated with wins over Illinois, Iowa, Oregon and PSU, it's without merit. They were a fucking joke entry last year but everyone gave them a benefit of the doubt. Notre Dame proved them to be a fraud. This year, they bring a bunch of guys back and add Mendoza (QB from Cal getting draft buzz). If they're 9-3/10-2 or even 11-1, fuck those guys versus a 10-2 option with a harder schedule. 

    Marler is an 8 conference game loving SEC honk, but he has a point here:

     

     

     

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  14. 11 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Sigh. I know that getting some kind of response is exactly what you want...but here we are.

    Sometimes I wonder if you’re capable of being truthful, or if your memory is just degrading with age. 
     

    It was a 50 yard dash. There was no one else there. You don’t know how many yards you beat my by because you weren’t running backwards. And you always neglect to mention that since there was no one else there, you also acted as the Starter, at your own insistence. I’m sure there was no inherent advantage there.

    And the only time anyone has ever mentioned a parachute to you was a) questioning your favorite pair of pants and b) contemplating throwing you out of an airplane without one. 

    Also, admitting that I couldn't see you because I was so far ahead of you is one of your greatest own-goals ever. 

  15. 4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Sigh. I know that getting some kind of response is exactly what you want...but here we are.

    Sometimes I wonder if you’re capable of being truthful, or if your memory is just degrading with age. 
     

    It was a 50 yard dash. There was no one else there. You don’t know how many yards you beat my by because you weren’t running backwards. And you always neglect to mention that since there was no one else there, you also acted as the Starter, at your own insistence. I’m sure there was no inherent advantage there.

    And the only time anyone has ever mentioned a parachute to you was a) questioning your favorite pair of pants and b) contemplating throwing you out of an airplane without one. 

    I did that once. We were in a small plane over Baja. I couldn't let the other guy just jump and get away with it. It was like acid in my mouth. Underrated experience, really. 

    Also, besmirching my honor with the implication of lies and damned lies is one thing, sir, but I'll not have you cast shade at the veracity of my triumph. If you want to relive it and have witnesses and recordings this time, name the time and place!

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  16. 1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Sometimes one precedes the other

    This reminds me. I don't even remember how the footrace premise came about, whether I was shit talking someone or some other absurdity. The actual last footrace I was in was a 100 yard dash on a football field against @SydneyCarton. I beat the guy by 10 yards with our other friends pointing and laughing at him. I offered to wear a mini-parachute behind me to make the next race more competitive but he declined. 

    2 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Sorry papa sayin. Maybe you can add me to your ignore list and lay out an insult laden diatribe about how I’m stupid and retarded and you’re the best ever and we are all dumb and I’m burnt orange and white etc.    then we can all revel in your cool stories and go off tangent about Houston donors clubs and 1 up each other about foot races 

    You're normally fine. Don't be a pussy and get your feelings all hurt. 

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