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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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Reading this, I wanted to laugh about the idea of TAMU’s “success”, but the guy you talked to was probably in school for the Aggie peak. I looked it up on the Stassen site- from 1985-1998, TAMU had the seventh best win % in the nation (Texas was 35th). That probably formed his worldview wrt college football. Now, the Ags never did anything with that. All the teams in the top 10 win% over that period, except them and the Buckeyes, won a MNC or two (or three, for the Hurricanes and Huskies). And, sure, the Ags did have about three major NCAA probations over that period. We laugh at the Ags and their quarter century without even playing for a conference championship, but there is a segment of their fans that think they’re right up there, just needing a few breaks. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
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Isn’t that how it is for Euro soccer prodigies? And MlB bonus babies? -
Israel stated that they would view the closing of the strait as an act of war. Egypt massed its military on the border, and closed the strait. I am unpersuaded by your argument.
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“Return to Dominance” UCLA last dominated in the ‘50s. They won a MNC while coached by Red Sandwrs, who they hired from Vanderbilt. A southerner, he created some controversy when he dropped the n-bomb during a booster talk (controversial in LA, wouldn’t have been controversial in Nashville). Sanders installed the single wing and made a winner. He died of a heart attack, in a cheap downtown LA hotel room, banging a hooker. They really ought to put a statue up.
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Bolverk, Didn’t Israel get the West Bank and Gaza after fighting back an unprovoked invasion? Is that wrong? How is that an illegal occupation? Whose laws?
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Roma, your analogies are not apt at all. Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, all of the Iranian clients, are waging a war where civilian deaths are a feature, not a bug. They don’t imbed in populated areas for lack of remote regions for garrisons. They do so because they want the populace to either be a human shield, or sacrificial victims to create global support. Yes, these are human tragedies. Yes, they are Hamas’, and Hezbollah’s and Houthis’s (and Iran’s) fault. On October 7, 2023, Hamas showed Israel what being their neighbor entailed. Claims that there is any other way to deal with them, of putting the mad dog down while avoiding civilian casualties, while Hamas’ strategy is to have lots of civilian casualties, are specious. Israel actually is trying to minimize civilian casualties, even though they will never get credit for it. Hamas is the side that sees civilian casualties as a feature, not a bug, of their strategy.
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The drone strike in Tel Aviv last week, where an Iranian-supplied drone sneaked through Israeli air defense, is a good example why Israel cannot allow Iran to have nukes. Iran is the nation that seems to feel that its rason d’etre is to fire bombs at Israel, through proxies all around it. Israel has bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. With the U.S., they have cyber-attacked their research facilities. They have even targeted Iranian physicists (only the good ones) for assassination. Now, Iran’s ally, Russia, may be helping them get over the finish line in developing nukes. I don’t know what Israel’s next step is, but if you’re shocked by it, you haven’t been paying attention.
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Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
statsman replied to Patrick Bateman's topic in Football
In DFW, you hear a local radio spot where Babe Laufenburg notes that the Dallas Cowboys have made the playoffs 37 times in their 64 years. He puts that out there as a mark of excellence. Problem is, it used to be 18 out of 26. It used to be ten conference championships out of 36 years. Now it’s ten out of 64. That commercial drives me crazy. -
Why do FSU and Clemson want out of the ACC? To get more money, since modern college football programs require armies of analysts, scouts and staffers. Every year they are in the ACC, they fall further behind the programs they consider their peers. Would they join the B1G or SEC, upon leaving? Doesn’t look like it. Would they join the B12? It’s hard to see how they solve their media revenue problem (they want to be financial peers with SEC or B1G schools) and it’s hard to see why the B12 would want them, considering they would flee for the SEC or B1G whenever they had a chance. So, what is their plan? Could it be this is all about getting unequal revenue sharing in the ACC?
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The show isn’t great art, not even close, but it’s great trash. Characters like the Deep being so pathetic and so monstrous. Sage is a great character. All the supes around her have no idea that she is the most dangerous, the hardest to trap. Does Firecracker have any powers, besides snapping her fingers like a cap gun?
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I enjoyed the show. Of course,I enjoyed the comic series fifteen years ago. Part of it is due to being a comics nerd, and part due to being a longtime employee of the now defunct Vought (Aircraft). As the company was tanking, and the series was beginning, I asked the corporate lawyer why we weren’t getting paid for the use of the name. Did Amazon do their research and determine it was public domain. Was the rights to the name forfeited by not using it (the purchaser, Triumph Arospace, phased “Vought” out gradually)? Was it just a matter of Triumph Legal being lazy? We may never know. This is cool. Vought Retirees club restore old F-4s, F-8s and A-7’s. https://m.facebook.com/groups/1482266625152469/
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Well, we would have. Here are the detailed stats from the game- https://stats.texassports.com/custompages/sports/m-footbl/2009-2010/ut14.html McElroy dropped back 17 times. He was picked once. He was sacked five times. He completed six for 58 yards. Alabama could not handle an offense like Texas had in 2008 and 2009. They almost couldn’t handle it with Gilbert in there. If Colt isn’t hurt, and a little pressure to score is put on Alabama, it would have got ugly.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
statsman replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Ha-ha! The Democratic Party is the one that wants to have student loans of working professionals paid for by taxes of blue collar workers, and the party that wants to increase tax deductions for wealthy people’s jumbo mortgages. It is amazing how things have flipped over 40 years. Reagan would never have had the balls to suggest these. -
Bohls had lost meaningful contacts in the UT AD by the ‘00s. He made it clear that Bill Byrne was his primary source for Big XII reporting, while Byrne was AD at TAMU. I think it’s clear now that his primary source for UT news is his old AAS coworker, Olin Buchanan.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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I misstated this. Every fanbase “hopes” their noise can make a difference. The Ags have it as a key strategy, 40 years past its usefulness. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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You know, the “12th Man” really can be ultra loud. That made a big difference back in the ‘80s. Their home crowd would be so loud, and then the Ag defense would shift, and the opposing QB would try to call out an audible, but his team couldn’t hear him. That was 40 years ago. Shortly after, teams developed visual signals for audibling in noisy environments. Since that innovation, home crowds can make noise, but they just can’t rattle and disrupt an offense like before. 40 years. The Ags are still hopeful they can make a difference with their yelling. -
If FSU and Clemson are not additive to the SEC, they’re sure as hell not additive to the B1G, who makes about 25% more per year, per school (pending renegotiation to 9 SEC league game schedules). Plus, squeezing two teams in plays hell with schedules. SEC fans are already bitching about losing favorite games. A year ago, I couldn’t figure out why FSU and Clemson were trying to hard to break the GoR unless they had a guaranteed landing spot. It still doesn’t make sense. Did they think that it was enough to make themselves available, and then wait for the offers to roll in? Bad idea.
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Somebody got their feelings hurt at the 2012 Fiesta Bowl.
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That’s one metric of watchability, not the only one. I’m sure the B12 will have games of interest (Sanders and Rising are both legit Heisman candidates). Yormark is an ass, but he is a huckster, and I’d be surprised if he didn’t view the pageantry and excitement at the TT game and B12CG, and think to himself, “You Big 12 Lilliputian schools are some real dumbasses for having this asset in your conference and fucking it up”. Weiser is just a Texas-hating ass from Kansas. He’s too dumb to think anything other than he’s happy Texas is gone.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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It is a fascinating dynamic. There have probably been a lot of coaches at TAMU that decided, after a short period there, that they made a mistake and need to get out of the crazy cult school (Sherrill was the exception. He realized he could use the cult for his own fucked up reasons). Problem is, you want to leave in a position of strength, and if you’re winning big, it’s hard to leave something going well. Schlossnagle, Bible and Bryant are the exceptions. They built elite programs with solid foundations and got the hell out when a nice opening reached out to them. It’s crazy to realize that Schlossnagle was leaving even if the Ags had won the CWS. The Ags just can’t handle it. It’s part of the cult to believe that they have a special bond that is unlike other schools or programs, and that bond gives them a competitive advantage to build championships on. Schlossnagle, and staff, leaving calls all of that into question. It would be as if the Pope stood up in front of St. Peter’s square and announced he was switching to Satan’s side, and although he wished the Roman Catholics well, he had to leave to go lead a black mass. (To a normal program, it’s like an executive VP leaving your company and joining a competitor. Ok, I wonder which asshole they’re hiring to replace him?). Yeah, no Ag players can transfer to Texas without their phones blowing up like Schlossnagle’s did. They know they’re persona non grata in a way they wouldn’t be if they just transferred to LSU. -
The Universal is a redial, but it’s legit. It was awarded to the guy that recovered the fumble that sealed the win for Texas. I’m also very fond of the Bulova; it’s a rare bowl game dial that is solid gold-ish (10k). I really like the art deco face.
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I was replying to Al, once again, bemoaning that the IR8 had the rotten luck of not getting to be in the B1G or SEC, as the reason they have to sweat major conference membership. I know that nobody in the IR8 wants to ever reflect that their marginal position may be due to decisions they made, and not just pure bad luck. But, this is a Texas board, so I won’t apologize for not sharing the IR8 perspective. So, in arguing for the B12 and its continued relevance, you’re going with stadiums. Uh-huh. First, OSU’s stadium, may be “updated”, but while putting in boxes, they forgot to fix its biggest flaw- the ridiculously unsafe sidelines. That’s not an endearing trait, like a beauty flaw. It’s a cleft palate that has horribly not been repaired. Oh, and Baylor. That’s a new stadium, built on the heels of the Briles run. They can’t fill the upper deck against anyone but Texas or OU, and those teams are not on the schedule anymore. (Did I mention that Baylor games were on streaming five weeks in a row last year?) Funny thing about those stadiums- they’re not that big. They don’t need to be. The PAC refugees will be bringing in the league’s biggest stadiums. Shoot, right now UTSA plays in a stadium larger than any IR8 team. Those SEC and B1G bottom dwellers all have bigger stadiums than the biggest B12 stadiums. It’s ok. You matter. You’re a big deal. It’s just bad luck that you’re not pulling $60M or $100M per year like an SEC or B1G team.
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Ooh,…and that’s a sick burn, I guess?
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He famously suggested a Big XII conference for tier 3 rights. It was voted down, because it would have required every school to wire (this was the mid-00’s) their sports facilities (not just football and basketball) for broadcast, something Texas had already decided to do. Texas was going to throw its tier 3 content into the pool with everyone else’s. Dodds thought it would raise the conference’s profile as well as bring in cash. The other schools didn’t want to spend the money. Also, he shared his disdain for FCS scheduling, and showed how even a down Texas could give the conference some tentpole games by scheduling high profile opponents, OOC (with a real risk of losing). The IR8 made an art out of free riding, until there was no one left to free ride on.
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Let’s look at it another way. If Texas and OU were in the B1G for the last 110 years, and were pulling down that sweet $100 M per year in B1G revenue, and Michigan and tOSU were in the B12, taking in its $32 M per year, do you think that the Wolverines and Buckeyes would be content? That ISU wouldn’t be in peril of the big fish leaving for a bigger pond? The revenue disparity did not occur overnight. If ISU (and the rest of the IR8) want to stay in the big leagues, they’re going to have to get more revenue. They really have never concerned themselves before, happy as they were with the old status quo (Dodds even suggested a couple of ideas, that were voted down). I suggest they start thinking about how to market their league and games better now, while they’re still reaping the ESPN payout for letting OU/T out early.
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