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Yeah, it’s got a slight risk of cutting it close on the way there, but it’s the weekend.

We are taking the Amtrak in from Detroit and should be arriving in Ann Arbor around 10:20. Anyone chosen this option before? Our return train is at like 7:30 that night, so could be doing some tailgating or bar hopping afterwards. It costs a total of $70 for two and that includes business class on the way there. Seems like a solid option on paper.

The starting QB at Texas, if established ahead of summer camp, will likely usually be one of the top five highest paid players in college football every year.

I took the under of 5.5 wins for Baylor this season earlier today in Lake Charles. Feel pretty good about that one.

Trending towards mid-seven figures. Mostly all corporate.

I find these 7th and 8th year guys simultaneously nauseating and fascinating. On one hand, move on with your life and let some other dude take that roster spot. Cut your hair and get a job, hippy! On the other hand, don’t ever grow up. Hang on and avoid the grind as long as you can, hook up with as many coeds as you can, and help a team win a title or something.

I’m not sure, based on your post, that you really understand “the nature of that game” if you think upsets in it happen at all regularly.

How about not making any further hires of convenience? What the fuck is this train of thought anyway? Every other staff worth a shit in the country is raiding each other and the NFL for what is perceived to be the best and the brightest and you want to promote a guy that gets along with old high school coaching buddies in Dallas. Awesome.

Hit the sauce on a Saturday and decided to wander out of the Cloak Room and really let someone have it, I see. Hey, you added something on the football board though, I guess.

I continue to believe that all Turd Ferguson needs to not be a terrible piece of shit of a pitcher is an oversized hat. He’d freak everyone out with it and also because it is funny.

I'm not "triggered" and I am perfectly "chill". I know your kind of bullshit when I see it and I am comfortable calling it out for the white-knighting, virtue signaling, political bullshit that it is. This is not a safe space for you. As to neg, it's the only currency we possess here. If I could pay to have you relegated to where you post 90% of the time, I happily would, but I can't, so negging it is.

You're an agenda pusher. It's obvious from reading this thread lately that if you perceive some sort of slight towards women, real or imagined, you're here to yell at the board and browbeat us about someone's wrongness. It's not needed, it's tedious, and it's getting negged from here forward every time I see it. Trying to sell everyone that Beth Mowins is anything but ESPN's own failing agenda push is laughable. I have never heard or read of a single actual person that's watched a Mowins-called football game say anything positive about her contributions to the game. Don't come onto the football board and try to gaslight us, dummy.

Not sure but probably. I wouldn't rate it as "dinner worthy" if you're only in town for a few days. It's a great stop for lunch or day drinking though. Of course, I'm a snob about dinner when traveling, but I feel like most of us on these kinds of threads are.

I'm in agreement here, and I'm only voicing that because it is fucking tiring. Beth Mowins is objectively terrible as a PBP person for football. It's distracting. I don't give a shit about women calling men's sports. Good is good and bad is bad. Mowins is a bottom feeder for CFB announcers and she's hanging on to the role she was elevated to strictly because of the DEI silliness from ESPN. The @aggie08 poster seems to have a pathological obsession with righting any perceived slights assigned to females in the sports world by mean men and patsy women who are clearly too stupid to "get it". It oozes off of their dumb fucking posts and they come across as a real blast at parties. I don't see them post much, but they have plenty of posts and rep, so I'm guessing they're absolutely a cloak roomer and they only show up for sports when the right dog whistle is blown for their bullshit to make an appearance.

Napoleon House is a good lunch stop. You’re in the thick of things, great history, great people watching. Agreed on the muffuletta there.

Yeah, I forgot to point that out. Karels got in trouble for not attributing a source previously to the Owens injury information since Elko refuses to offer a timetable on it. It's fucking hilarious. Yeah, I was talking earlier about this with a buddy and, if all of this is roughly accurate, the program has three choices: 1) Let the best man win the role and damn the consequences. - The aggies cannot actually do this and be hoisted by their own pitard. They couldn't handle looking that obviously stupid since appearances are a huge insecurity of theirs in the first place. 2) Modify the offense to fit Weigman's needs and hope for the best. - Klein left a place where someone was reigning him in. 3) Run the offense Klein wants to run with Weigman at the helm until he's bludgeoned into requiring the next man up, at which point Weigatron sucked anyways and no one cares that he goes somewhere else and becomes the next Haynes King. - I view this as the most viable path forward. Choosing this route means you only have to listen to Weigman's parents bitch at you a few times and still get what the program believes it now needs.

I posted this update in the aggie 2025 recruiting thread too, as I can't figure out which thread has more people interested in the actual 2024 aggie season versus just the ongoing banter about aggie stupidity and such, so for those interested in a team update from 247: I feel like I'm getting a feel for diciphering Carter Karels coded messages being sent into the atmosphere for the outside world while captured deep behind The Elk's occupationist lines. I've spoilered the full post from a Wednesday practice update, but here are highlights, as far as I know them from reading his code plus what my friends are hearing or knowing as well: -They're starting to softpedal the notion that Marcel Reed is a better fit at QB for Klein's offense. I'm starting to see this pop up from both mods and also posters known to have some access. The logic is as basic and stereotypical as we would expect (which does make the cynic in me pause) - they don't have speed at the skill positions and they're going to need a mobile QB to make the offense click. Klein wants to run the QB, a lot, and they cannot comfortably do that with Weigatron. This is something to keep an eye on. If Liucci starts touting Reed before the ND game as well, the dam is breaking. -In spite of all of their efforts regarding bringing in guys from the portal, they're about to be playing Sanford as the LB next to York. York is undersized and slow. Sanford is very fast but, if prior reports have any merit, tends to just run around a lot. -Another similar instance is at CB, where the second starter is lining up to be Jayvion Thomas, rather than any of the portal transfer such as Ricks (5 star) and Lee (the esteemed KSU savior). There is no spin capable of washing off the stains of the claims made for the others. Hell, Liucci was talking all of them up on the radio yesterday. Right. -They really, really lack offensive speed and they're starting to realize it. One guy is yearning on their boards for the tiny true freshman to play and he has trouble finding the fields for practice. None of the older WRs can beat anyone deep or out of a cut. Actually the one guy who can do that isn't close to healthy and might not play this year (the transfer from one of the FCS schools they were touting in the spring). They have no one at TB that can get around the edge consistently. -Gabriel Brownlow Dindy has shown up healthy for the first time in his career. These guys seem to believe that that pussy will stay that way. Color me dubious. -Depsite DJ Hicks having the 5 star pedigree and being paid $1M per year, Regis is outplaying him. Karels could never say this, but Hicks is the definition of "dead money" if he's not starting and playing regularly. Elko wants to play Regis. This is a coaching/booster conflict waiting to happen and worth watching this season. -Outside of the QB hinting, the OL update is the biggest and funniest shit I've seen from them. ---Fatheree is nowhere to be found in the starting lineup and may not be running second team at RT. He still "isn't the same" since his mysterious injury like 18 months ago. I think this guy is being pushed through the program to get his degree and move on and they'd rather not have him publicly leave as another OL bust. ---The presumptive starting RT is the former KU guard that transferred in after being processed by Leipold. This is really fucking hilarious. ---They "need" Bisontis and Nabou to be badasses at both G positions because of problems at RT and C. This OL is going to be one of the worst OLs in P4 and they're going to get QBs killed. Defenses will not have to play off the ball with concern toward anyone getting behind them or any TBs beating them to the edge.

I feel like I'm getting a feel for diciphering Carter Karels coded messages being sent into the atmosphere for the outside world while captured deep behind The Elk's occupationist lines. I've spoilered the full post from a Wednesday practice update, but here are highlights, as far as I know them from reading his code plus what my friends are hearing or knowing as well: -They're starting to softpedal the notion that Marcel Reed is a better fit at QB for Klein's offense. I'm starting to see this pop up from both mods and also posters known to have some access. The logic is as basic and stereotypical as we would expect (which does make the cynic in me pause) - they don't have speed at the skill positions and they're going to need a mobile QB to make the offense click. Klein wants to run the QB, a lot, and they cannot comfortably do that with Weigatron. This is something to keep an eye on. If Liucci starts touting Reed before the ND game as well, the dam is breaking. -In spite of all of their efforts regarding bringing in guys from the portal, they're about to be playing Sanford as the LB next to York. York is undersized and slow. Sanford is very fast but, if prior reports have any merit, tends to just run around a lot. -Another similar instance is at CB, where the second starter is lining up to be Jayvion Thomas, rather than any of the portal transfer such as Ricks (5 star) and Lee (the esteemed KSU savior). There is no spin capable of washing off the stains of the claims made for the others. Hell, Liucci was talking all of them up on the radio yesterday. Right. -They really, really lack offensive speed and they're starting to realize it. One guy is yearning on their boards for the tiny true freshman to play and he has trouble finding the fields for practice. None of the older WRs can beat anyone deep or out of a cut. Actually the one guy who can do that isn't close to healthy and might not play this year (the transfer from one of the FCS schools they were touting in the spring). They have no one at TB that can get around the edge consistently. -Gabriel Brownlow Dindy has shown up healthy for the first time in his career. These guys seem to believe that that pussy will stay that way. Color me dubious. -Depsite DJ Hicks having the 5 star pedigree and being paid $1M per year, Regis is outplaying him. Karels could never say this, but Hicks is the definition of "dead money" if he's not starting and playing regularly. Elko wants to play Regis. This is a coaching/booster conflict waiting to happen and worth watching this season. -Outside of the QB hinting, the OL update is the biggest and funniest shit I've seen from them. ---Fatheree is nowhere to be found in the starting lineup and may not be running second team at RT. He still "isn't the same" since his mysterious injury like 18 months ago. I think this guy is being pushed through the program to get his degree and move on and they'd rather not have him publicly leave as another OL bust. ---The presumptive starting RT is the former KU guard that transferred in after being processed by Leipold. This is really fucking hilarious. ---They "need" Bisontis and Nabou to be badasses at both G positions because of problems at RT and C. This OL is going to be one of the worst OLs in P4 and they're going to get QBs killed. Defenses will not have to play off the ball with concern toward anyone getting behind them or any TBs beating them to the edge.

That graphic, those logos, oh man.

How about you imbeciles wait until the actual new layout, replete with a logical plan for the press, is publicly announced and put on display? Maybe after that, if you need to whine and plea for the fucking media, your arguments might have a prayer of making sense.

Here’s the thing they’re not discussing: Ffrench has around 20 family members in Baton Rouge. Some of them are apparently directly attached to the mom in ways that a guy going to college isn’t going to relish. Getting a home cooked meal? Sure. Getting narced out to mom about girl chasing or being late to class, no fun. So, sure, I won’t be surprised to see him visit Baton Rouge again either. It’s a good reason to see family and catch a great CFB atmosphere. You all saw where LSU’s collective has hired a guy with the aspiration of raising $14M by next summer, right? They’re so far from NIL competitive in football that they don’t even know what tail to chase. I’m not saying Ffrench signs with Texas. I’m just saying that he is not signing with LSU.

There were no bigger shills for Fisher during his reign of error in aggieland on the national media level than Jacob Hester and EJ Manual. Both played for him and were completely incapable of seeing or discussing any chinks in the armor. I like them generally and would just turn the channel when they started touting or apologizing for whatever was happening in BCS. Now, they brush everything that happened aside as sort of a weird, unexplainable mystery that cannot be fathomed. No one can fully figure out the intricacies of the Fisher Era. It just sort of unraveled. That’s it. They actually went down that path after getting off the call with Liucci. Mostly, there was zero examination of all of the mistakes made during the Fisher tenure and more a questioning of what it is that goes on in College Station that leads to no conference championships in a quarter century and no national titles in 85 years. I’ve heard many media members discuss the Fisher failure since he was fired. The biggest actual mystery is how none of them can beyond a very superficial analysis of Elko as part of the Fisher era. He carries no blame whatsoever for the culture, the roster, or the outcomes. Anything good that happened, that dude was clearly part of it. Anything bad? Well, it all fell apart when The Elk migrated elsewhere.

Liucci was on Off Campus yesterday with Hester and EJ Manual. It was quite the hoot. Liucci took turns: pimping the secondary as a strength, downplaying the loss of Reuben Owens as a nonfactor, touting the talent on the OL, lauding The Elk and his herd as the perfect salve for their ails from the impish and clearly (Looch thinks that anyone paying attention “knew” that Jimbo just wasn’t getting it done) incompetent Bilbo Aggins, and, of course, preaching the virtues of Weigatron as a Heisman candidate. The highlight for me was when he named the LSU game as the game this year that all of the aggies are circling.

Yes. He had more money on the table to stay than any offer presumably out there by a wide margin.