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  1. Anyone have the season stats for Cain and Sanders?
  2. Yep. We need to have winning the conference regularly as part of our metric for a successful coach. Win the conference and you get a chance at the playoffs. Win the conference somewhat regularly and you can get a serious playoff look even if you don't ultimately win the Big 12.
  3. Then the site should just change it's name to 'Sullen Horn', right? I will be somewhat disappointed if the first botched play we have against OU while the game was still in doubt doesn't cause this thread to rocket to the top of the heap.
  4. At Hamm's size, a couple of those would have him under the table. #MaraschinoCherryMan
  5. If Phil Steele project aggy #1 preseason, I guarantee you they would put it on the wall before a game was played.
  6. Meh, would have been more realistic if aggy were suing Miami for 'stealing' the turdition of the Turnover Chain from them.
  7. It is aggy you stupid toxic plankton. And y'all are stuck with em. They're stuck with them as a conference-mate. Unfortunately we're stuck with them as neighbors. #advantageaggy
  8. If only Jimbo had been that firm with Candi.. It was likely only Jimbo's hand that was firm, which is why Candi went 'a callin'.
  9. No takebacks...
  10. ...and death shall have no dominion... Really sad weekend on the injury front.
  11. I am not underestimating the weirdness of college football...in fact, that is exactly what I am saying is the foundation of KSU's record over us. There is no huge statistical home field advantage for KSU. It is noise over other factors. And while Huckleberry is right that KSU got lucky that the old Big 12 scheduling had them missing us at our two peaks, Mack had a weird inability to beat KSU, even when he brought in what should have been the better team. The reality is that, since Mack, the record more or less matches the quality of the teams. Strong's two losses came against Snyder's last two 9-win teams and his win was against a Wildcat team that barely made a bowl. Last year, both teams were just barely better than .500 and we won in double overtime. Obviously, I hope our close win over what is likely another weak KSU squad, is just part of the ups and downs of quality during the season and we prove to be 'back' by winning the conference.
  12. I am dismissing the idea that KSU has some sort of home field advantage. Our reasons for losing there and to KSU in general has nothing to do with location. Snyder has certainly given us fits, but then Ron Prince also had our number. I would say it was more of a Mack problem than anything as we actually have a winning record against KSU since he retired and the two losses were to KSU teams that were demonstrably better than us.
  13. Can we drop with the myth that Manhattan is some sort of great home field advantage? It is basically a place where Mack Brown got scared to death. Strong never coached a team that was even decent on the road, Little Apple or otherwise. KSU was 14-9 in Big 12 play at home over the previous 5 seasons. (That is boosted by their 4-0 home mark 4 years ago.) They are 0-8 against ranked Big 12 teams at home during that stretch. I hope Herman has ended our pathetic run in that shithole and he continues to chip away at their overall favorable record against us. Fuck OU.
  14. Since he was doing really well for the Ravens until he got injured, I'll have to disagree on that. If he had come back this year there's no guarantee he'd have all the picks he had last season, but he'd be a better overall player and likely bumps his draft round up.. Or he gets a season ending injury and doesn't get drafted at all...
  15. No, at that point the blame goes to Mack. I suppose it is possible Akina signed on to Diaz's scheme and then failed to deliver, but I am willing to bet that is not how it went down.
  16. This means no aggy, right?
  17. Tennessee is probably the right answer, but they have now been bad so long they are no longer even relevant enough to get in the conversation. God forbid we end up there...
  18. Seen a lot of favs up thread...I'll add Television, Marquee Moon Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets Devo, Are We Not Men? The Smiths Wire, Pink Flag Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted
  19. Unless I am not remembering correctly, he was the only other coach that officially interviewed along with Strong. I think Mora had some preliminary conversations with Patterson but didn't come out and Briles supposedly only wanted the job offer and didn't want to interview.
  20. The only thing to potentially model from Franklin is the idea that a coach can suck in Years 1 and 2 and get it turned around in Year 3. Still think he would have flamed out as quickly as Strong did here had we picked him instead. PSU plays ridiculously easy schedules.
  21. I I didn't like the Herman hire either. I wanted a search. I think you increase your likelihood of getting a winner by getting a guy who could at least raise the profile of a low- to mid-tier P5. There are guys in the PAC and Big 12 who fit the bill, but Perrin decided the PR hit for one news cycle for potentially missing on Herman was worth risking another 3 years of the program to a guy who doesn't know what it takes to run and win in a P5 conference. Oh well, either Herman learns on the job fast or we are back to square one.
  22. I think CDC has room to make a move after this season if things truly go south. He's a new AD. It will be easy to tell the next hire that he is Del Conte's guy and will be given time to turn it around. Del Conte can talk about lack of trust with Herman over the OSU stuff as well. A problem could arise if the next guy is gone after 2-3 years or if he tries to fire Herman with cause to avoid paying out the full contract amount. But I don't think we will struggle with the next hire unless we go big game hunting but don't want to go full aggy on the terms.
  23. I wonder what Mack's record would have been if the current 10-team Big 12 was what he entered into in 98. Even Mack said 9 wins was the new 10 wins when the Big 12 went to 9 games. Then add the yearly 2 P5s OOC, something Mack rarely had in the early years and struggled with during his reboot attempt. The level of coaching in the conference has also incredible since the move to 10 teams. The Big 12 South was basically the Mack and Bob show with Leach providing the main challenge in the later part of Mack's peak. He avoided Snyder and peak Mangino in most seasons. Patterson, Gundy, Holgerson and Briles and a yearly dose of Snyder has made this league a lot more difficult than it was when Mack entered. I doubt he would have ended up on the hot seats like his successors, but I also wonder if his coaching faults would have stood out much more in a league with so much quality coaching and a schedule with fewer gimmes.
  24. If you were the Tom Herman of bank robbers there would be no new heists to plan together as we would all be dead or in jail by now...
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