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    Have you never seen a group of girls decide they don’t like another girl?
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    Scipio referred back to a study that showed five star DTs have a low “panning out” rate, compared to many other positions (OL is even worse). Considering how expensive they are to sign, paying market rate while loading up on bodies is a questionable strategy.
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    These are students, young guys. They have friends they made while playing at A&M. If they didn’t already know, I bet they figured out tout suite, that if they portaled to Texas, out of all the schools they could portal to, their A&M community would come unhinged. Crazy social media attacks, weird responses from everyone they know… Easier to go somewhere else.
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    My understanding is that, although the SEC and B1G make substantially more media money than the other conferences, the B1G still makes 25% more than the SEC (100M vs. 80M per year). I would be surprised if the SEC did not see that as a problem and a challenge. Maybe going to nine conference games bridges that gap? Or most of it? Or maybe ESPN closes the gap by convinciythe SEC to take a couple more teams? Who knows? I understand how a nine game schedule would work in a 16 team league. Texas would get three annual games with rivals it wants to play (OU), or rivals that badly want Texas annually (Arkansas) or a rival game that TV wants badly (TAMU). If it’s an 18 team league, with a nine game conference schedule, wouldn’t there only be one annual rival?
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    Bible Aggy, Sand Aggy, etc.
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    I can see a logic to their approach- offer big $ for a proven winner, and if you strike out, don’t overpay for a less-than-sure-thing. Instead, go cheap. They can’t afford to pay over-market salary for average results. Of course, a better strategy is to take care of your program and AD so that it’s attractive to proven winners. That takes time, though.
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    One of the best comebacks I’ve heard- (jerk mouthing off to a very stoic, tough friend of mine): “I’m going to kick your ass!” My friend: “Let me know when you’re done.”
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    I think this was a situation where plan A (hire a top coach, the guy Texas would have hired if they couldn’t get Schlossnagle) failed, so they had to go to plan B (try for continuity with his assistant). Question - was Earley Schloss’ top assistant? Note- these hires can and have worked, although the successes have almost exclusively been when the departing coach set it up for his top lieutenant, and gave his blessing.
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    Our celebration…it’s like they don’t realize we’re just doing it for us, that we don’t expect anyone else to pay attention or notice. We’re not constantly obsessed with others’ opinion of us. Announce whatever you want, Ags. Cool, hook ‘em.
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    The Aggies in the portal- I wonder if it is being communicated to them that they will be subjected to a lot more abusive nonsense from Ags if they portal to Texas, rather than any other school.
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    That is such a great point, but I don’t think we have to worry about that. The guys who see right off that the Aggie stuff is all bullshit do it anyway, because it doubles the length of their leash, the time they have to build before the seat gets hot. If a new Ag coach came in, saying that, and then lost a couple of games in a row, he’d be crucified as a heretic. It’s noteworthy that so many of their really successful coaches, Bryant, Bible and Schlossnagle, very clearly got the hell out when they could. Exceptions are Norton (their MNC winner) and Sherrill (if you really call him successful), and they both got fired eventually. (Sherrill, for all the Aggie bullshit he espoused, was trying to maneuver to an NFL job).
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    So, Mick Haley was the volleyball coach when I was in school. He really built the program, winning the conference regularly, and the NCAA once. After 17 years, he left to coach the national team. After a few years of that, he returned to college coaching, but at USC! Not Texas! Where he won a few more NcAA championships. If I were to meet the guy, I’d gladly shake his hand, wish him well and thank him for what he did for my school. Is there something wrong with me?
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    I’ll give Mack and Dodds this- in 2009, the Ags tried their damndest to repeat the bonfire script, wallowing in the 10th anniversary, trying to gin up sympathy and intensity. Texas said, “Nuh-uh. We showed due respect ten years ago. That’s not a tradition for us.” The conference and broadcasters agreed. that said- this year is the 25th anniversary and I expect those goofballs to bring it up again.
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    How many are old enough to remember the ESPN “Sidelines” reality show from 2001? It was a low rent “Hard Knocks”, but with college football. The Ags were losing ground to a resurgent Texas, and thought that letting outsiders get an inside look at how “special” TAMU football was would be the ticket to regain momentum. The Ags AD pulled the plug after a few episodes aired, inviting laughter and ridicule.
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    https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/jim-schlossnagle-texas-texas-am-college-world-series-c70c5387?st=h94po2wzm8pvbeq&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
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    Buchanan is completely and totally unhinged. He thinks he is being clever, and maybe he is, wrt his Ag audience. Brutus and Judas are two of the three traitors tortured for eternity in the deepest circle of hell, in Dante’s Inferno, chewed constantly by Satan himself. Jeez, Olin, chill. It’s just a game.
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    This is exactly the right tactic- we should repeat again and again how the B1G would never take them. They’re not good enough. They can be goaded into joining.
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    Ok, now this is getting ridiculous. Coaches leave for other jobs, even at rival schools. TAMU has a job opening to fill, and they’re going to interview coaches at other schools, successful coaches that made commitments to their current employers, and try to make an offer to persuade them to leave. Thats how this works. They have no reason to complain about Schlossnagle’s performance to now. Their complaint is that he did not share their hatred of Texas. (TCU fans are upset that Patterson didn’t hate Texas like they did, too). It’s really childish.
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    They don’t care. They just want to drink deep from indignation
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    I remember how the Mavs fans booed Kiki Vandeweghe, every time he visited. Let’s call that level of booing “One Kiki”. How many Kiki’s will Schloss get at TAMU, I wonder
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    What do you suppose hurts worse for the Ags? 1989 (best baseball record in nation, upset by Texas before CWS) or this?
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    It’s fun to play these games of adding teams, but reality does have to come into play when it’s time to make schedules. The SEC is at 16 teams, and has an eight game schedule that will suffice for two seasons. After that, it needs to go to nine games or teams (like Arkansas) that expect to play an opponent every year will have to adjust their expectations. The B1G has 18 teams, and plays a nine game league schedule. They have 12 protected rivalry games (not every B1G has a protected rivalry, and Iowa has as many as three) and commit to each school playing every other school at least twice every five years. So, if the B1G takes two more teams, what then? (I understand very well that if ND calls they will figure out a way). If the SEC takes two more, what then? I know FSU and Clemson are acting as if this were all worked out, but, I wonder if it isn’t.
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    The ON3 Crimson Corner says that OU has consolidated NIL into “10Oklahoma”. It looks like this new outfit isn’t led by the corporate NIL outfit they shared with several other universities. Is this a big change? Something that makes them sign more competitive? Or just an inevitable rationalization of the market?
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    I don’t fear Will Howard at tOSU, but I also don’t want to be like the idiot Sooners, who downplay Ewers just because they beat Texas last year. I can admit there is a possibility that Howard works out really well for the Buckeyes.
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    That is such a phenomenally ignorant take by Bohls. “It’s already the best conference.” What drives conference realignment? Quality or revenue? Revenue, obviously. Yes, the SEC is the best conference, but the B1G makes the most revenue, about 25% more than the SEC. As new SEC members, we don’t like to talk about that (we’d rather talk about quality), but that’s a real thing (my guess is the B1G fanbase is more attractive to advertisers than the SEC fanbase, for size and demographics). The SEC was approached by Texas and OU. The last thing they want is for Texas to join the B1G, widening the revenue gap even more. Really, thinking the SEC shouldn’t or wouldn’t want Texas (and OU) is the kind of thinking I would expect from College Station.

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