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Insight into his coaching- 20 years ago, I worked with a guy whose brother was a HS HC in East Texas. The brother had friends that had been on Slocum’s late’90s staff. Those ‘90s Aggie teams were legitimately talented, even on the offense. They said that, when game plans were being developed, Slocum would agree to aggressive offensive plans, throwing often and on any down and distance. Then, pre-game, Slocum would get nervous and tell the OC, “IK, we’re not doing anything crazy here, are we? Let’s keep it safe and wear them down.”

I was checking out the ON3 “Crimson Corner”. Two big themes over there- 1. They are big believers in the transitive property. Their win in the RRS last year gives them a claim for all the program audits Texas is receiving. They believe that was the real OU and the real Texas. Pay no mind to the KU and OSU losses later. 2. Texas has a soft schedule this year, and any achievements Texas has over OU will be the direct result of it. They ignore the Michigan game, and lack of FCS opponents on Texas’ schedule. We know, from experience, that Arkansas may be shitty, but we will get their best version, hyped up on jihad. TAMU and OU will also try going berserk. None of that supports their narrative, so none of that matters.

It really is hard to top the 1978 story of (married) HC Switzer screwing DC Larry Lacewell’s wife. That part is established. The speculative part is where Lacewell quits after the season and gives Arkansas info on tendencies that helped the Hogs pull off the upset in the Orange Bowl.

Immamac should write a personal message feature (we could call it something like “PM”) so that people could take intense takes and comments off the message thread

Anyone who thinks SEC dominance in football is based on caring more is an idiot. My suspicion is that “Our nation’s sordid history of race slavery left us with most of the good players” didn’t test well.

I’ve been reading these threads for a while. Observation- it is stated by most (and all of the Left Behind) that the B12 is a stronger, better and more stable conference than the ACC. That assumption seems to be based on two points: 1. The B12 having a better media deal. 2. Clemson and FSU clearly trying to leave. I offer some counterpoints. A. The ACC got more media revenue last year, when the ACC network revenue is included. Yes, they have a longer contract locking them in. I counter that with: the ACC plays eight conference games while the B12 plays nine. The ACC still has more potential for increasing revenue. B. On the new B12 media contract, Fox really didn’t increase their payment. The growth came from ESPN, and my belief is ESPN is paying for an early release of UT and OU, and this won’t be carried into the next contract. C. I have no idea what Clemson and FSU have for plans, but I’m 99% sure they’re not fighting to leave the ACC so that they can join the B12. A lot of words to support this premise I have: I don’t see the B12 as necessarily having a better position (and future) than the ACC.

I’m just in awe of Al4ISU’s strategy for the B12 to gain basketball dominance by “caring more about basketball”. There is no way the ACC, for example, can imitate that. Then, if the B1G and SEC try something funny with the CFP, the Big 12 will say that they (including Kentucky, Indiana, etc) can’t play in their tournament

I was aware when I typed it out. Vince is an icon, and I am happy to forgive him and approve of active efforts by the university and its supporters to assist him in making better choices. Bomar is a HS asst coach, and I don’t expect anyone to swoop in as a white knight.

Is he still a HS OC at a big program? Damn. 39. We’re all getting old. Three DWIs are not good.

1. The Big XII is good at basketball, very good some years. Why? We know why the SEC is so good at football- football requires a lot of players, and the SEC schools are located right where a lot of players grow up. Basketball doesn’t require as many players, so Big XII schools, so many located in non-growing states, can fill rosters by keeping local talent and recruiting the rest. Big XII schools tend to emphasize basketball programs and hire coaches accordingly. The point is- the Big XII does not have any innate basketball advantage that other conferences can’t imitate. 2. The NCAA Tournament makes a lot of money. The schools and conferences don’t own the tournament. The NCAA owns it. It is the organization’s crown jewel. The NCAA does not own the CFP. The CFA break was 40 years ago. The NCAA basketball money is distributed by the NCAA to the conferences and schools. Brett Yormark doesn’t get a say in that other than “Thank you”. Other than that, great fan fiction!

My wife and I now refer to murder as a “Dateline Divorce”

1. You’re right. Argh 2. sorry. Just consider them peas in a pod. 4. How could I forget the Houston Cougars? (Rhetorical question)

I checked on the Texan Left Behjnds for this coming week. TCU plays at B1G member Stanford. The game is on ESPN Saturday night, late. SMU plays their second game, at home, against Houston Christian University (“The Christians”). It will be streamed by the ACC network ACCNX. Baylor hosts Tarleton. ESPN+ streaming (Baylor is on streaming a lot). TT plays ACU. ESPN+ streaming.

Wasn’t that the Big East collapsing, rather than getting pushed out? Like the PAC did? My point remains- when programs like Texas are sick of affiliating with programs like Baylor, they leave. They don’t expel.

You’re better at absorbing that info than me. When I go to Sooner sites, I just can’t pull myself away from what passes for logic, as they convince each other that, since they beat Texas last year (what I recall as a “narrow loss” is described as a “resounding physical domination”), they can order themselves above Texas and claim all plaudits aimed at Texas for themselves. Also, they expect Texas to collapse, because we’re weak.

I don’t know. Have you seen a school pushed out, ever, besides Temple in the Big East (and they clearly did are)? Conferences have rules. Decisions can’t be made without letting the other programs know (eventually. Of course, the SEC waited as long as it could before letting the Aggies know about Texas. It had to let them know, eventually, even though they knew it was a horrible idea to tell them). The way to evict schools is the way the PAC schools evicted WSU and OSU- everybody else leave. I don’t see that happening in the SEC or B1G.

Sounds like the depth chart of a team looking to 2025, coaches by a guy who had his contract extended in the last off season.

It makes you wonder- what other programs are talking to the B1G and SEC? Do you think the B1G has a tri-fold pamphlet- “What Is Required For B1G Membership?”, to save time? Wasn’t one of the B12’s strengths that, unlike the ACC, its members weren’t looking to bail?

I have no words… https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article291166155.html

A credit to the rehabilitative properties of our penitentiary system. At Oklahoma, he wore red and had a single digit number, when he needed to be wearing orange with a six digit number.

I would have gone with another QB here- Charles Thompson is much more representative of the Sooner program. He brought the “doping” into the (Switzer quote about the late ‘80s program) “too much doping, shooting and raping” description of the Oklahoma program.

I have a better #7. Rhett Bomar, who Mack Brown famously offered as a sophomore.

Why? So that we can enrich accountants and lawyers setting up trusts and wealth transfers? It’s like you don’t realize how wealthy our legislators are.

You can argue that about the individual tax rates and deductions from the 2017 act. The corporate tax reduction had been needed for a long time, and it would be stupid to increase it to pre-2017 rates, unless the desire is to have private sector operating like it did from 2007-2017, when the majority of growth was in the public sector and industries favored by government spending.

I searched for an OU number 8 that could show their program in a bad light. I couldn’t find one. Evidently, it’s also difficult to find a number 8 Sooner that shows their program in a good light.