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  1. statsman
    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
  9. statsman
    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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    Of course. His coverage of UT will give the Ag populace the endorsement they crave.
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    Is that the DMN or the Houston Chronicle? Oh, for the good old days of print journalism, when the DMN, the DTH, the HC and the Houston Post were all terrific newspapers, and even the AAS was worth a read.
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    This is peak Kirk Bohls: In an attempt to appear unbiased, he crafted his commentary as if it had to be filtered through the views of Texas’ most strident rivals. It was akin to letting Bill Byrne be his editor.
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    I wonder if this was a “combat negative recruiting by extending the contract, but without increasing the buyout, because we all know we may have to fire his ass” move?
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    No, that was YA Tittle (HoFer from LSU) Layne and Walker were HS buddies. Layne thought he had him going to Texas
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    No, I can’t. It’s definitely a high-miss-rate strategy (as we see real time). I’m trying to think of guys that could have gone anywhere, going to small programs (not hidden gems excavated by small programs, which happens all the time). Robert Strait to Baylor and Micah Parker to TT are all that come to mind right now.
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    Yeah, SMU’s strategy for landing whales is to offer early, try to get a commit and hold on until signing day. It’s a tough and frustrating strategy, but when it hits (Bijan Robinson and Kevin Durant), it’s beautiful. Our response tactic is to take closer looks at kids committed to TCU and SMU to see if there’s anything we want there.
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    Switzer is a narcissist, too, and he shipped his QB playing son off to Arkansas State
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    Fun re-read: https://www.cowboysrideforfree.com/2014/9/26/6252937/longhorn-network-destroyed-college-football-oklahoma-state-texas-football
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    I get that. My point is that a conference’s tier 1 content should come from league games, and solid non-conference games. Tier 2 should be where the less attractive league games go. It’s a problem when league games are streamed. Last year, a lot of Baylor games streamed. Baylor won the B12 just a couple of years ago. Left Behind fans crow a lot about their media revenue and how it is superior to the ACC (not really so, when you add the ACC network revenue to the mix). The next contract after this one will be very telling.
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    Luka Doncic

    statsman replied to Goo Punch's topic in Basketball

    I attended the Mavs’ home opener this year. Luka went off, and won the game with a late, off balance three. An amazing game. He was … thick. Portly, even. I assumed he would play himself into shape, but he never did. If he doesn’t get a handle on it, his career arc will be nothing like we want.
  25. statsman
    This was in response to a question about Saban’s comment that with NIL, players are too interested in compensation. Nick is concerned about college football, dammit! Nevermind that Saban was the one that made a process out of trapdooring the bottom of the roster.

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