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Professor Chesney

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  1. Everything seems to be going in A&M’s favor to get the rollercoaster started with a win over Notre Dame. Early in the season so the team is healthy and Weigman is concussion-free. Home game advantage. Notre Dame overrated at 6th in the coaches poll, as is tradition at this point. Curious what folks think about the matchup because it looks to me like advantage aggy. I don’t have the same faith in A&M’s OL that the media does, but don’t think that ND has the front seven to take advantage, and the entire team will be healthy and bought in this early in the season. Maybe it boils down to whether you believe Riley Leonard will be a first round pick, but Elko knows exactly how to attack him and A&M has the DL talent to make it happen.
  2. Yeah, not exactly a surprise. Wouldn’t feel too bad for him, he’s going to be fine.
  3. Baker will eventually be fine if given adequate NIL support and time to build relationships. While undoubtedly a questionable hire, early returns on the most important part of his job—coaching and development—have been positive. What is truly inexcusable is hiring a 28-year old with minimal experience to be the general manager of a program more valuable than several professional sports franchises. Apologies to any gen z reading this thread, but I can barely trust my juniors not to accidentally choke themselves to death with a laptop cord if left unsupervised. I can’t imagine letting one be responsible for overseeing all aspects of a professional organization and going head-to-head with grown men at rival institutions. I really like Sark. But he has made several “wtf” decisions off the field where it is easy to question whether he actually considers the full scope of potential consequences.
  4. And after Nike talked us out of that Under Armor deal…
  5. This insipid take got buried during the OV weekend news, so I wanted to bump to emphasize how disingenuous this really is. I had thought the emergence of NIL would finally loosen up the media and let them acknowledge the rampant bag game behavior of the last 15 years. Clearly that is not the case for whatever reason. To oversimplify, NIL is an expanded, sanitized evolution of the under-the-table player compensation that a handful of shady programs utilized for years with impunity. Case in point, I unearthed this legendary post detailing what Alabama football players drove over the years during their time in Tuscaloosa. Anyone with half a brain cell can see what is going on here, and it is impossible to credibly how this is different from the status quo, much less that it is a better/fairer practice. https://247sports.com/college/usc/board/29/contents/alabamas-recruiting-dominance-continues-wow-50860219/ It is impossible for someone with as much industry insight as Terry to argue in good faith that the pre-NIL days were a nobler, cleaner time that was better for the players and the spirit of competition. They’re just mad that Lambos > Dodge Challengers.
  6. I wonder if these developments permitting direct school-athlete monetary payments will let us revisit the policy of the school rewarding loyalty points in exchange for TOF donations.
  7. While this is nice, it is peak off season so only the die-hard degenerates like us are still loosely paying attention. All of the filthy casuals have lost interest in asking about Micah Hudson for the twentieth time and have wandered off somewhere else to complain about baseball or politics. They’ll be back in the fall.
  8. If Texas can soft fire Blake Gideon with a “reassignment”, this board’s reaction would be orgasmic.
  9. If it gives anyone comfort, I recently caught up with someone who would generally know that feels positively about Kenny Baker purely as a coach based on this spring. He isn’t some “rah rah just give more effort” charlatan. The techniques he is teaching and his methodology seem to be legit. Didn’t get into if he was better or worse than Bo Davis. Forgot where I posted it last year but the same person in spring/summer last year insisted Byron Murphy would be a revelation.
  10. Right when I had already reached the acceptance stage, they go and do this…
  11. Purely based on limited observation, it seems like the teams that coax a player into the portal are usually the ones that win out since they have already done a lot of the legwork making their pitch through intermediaries. Big example that come to mind is Drew Sanders with Arkansas. Curious if anyone feels differently.
  12. This is a very interesting topic, appreciate the spreadsheet work. Noticing how none of the 1st round WRs were 5 stars, I wonder how “valuable” a 5 star at one position will likely be versus another position. For example, is a 5-star WR more likely to be a first round pick than a 5-star DL? I am too busy (lazy) at the moment to do a deep dive, but a cursory look back at the 5 star WR rankings is kind of shocking. In 2021, for example, the industry ranked WRs in the top-40 were: Emeka Egbuka (OSU), JaCorey Brooks (Bama), Mario Williams (lol), and Agiye Hall (lolol). In 2020: Julian Fleming (OSU), Demond Demas (lol), J Smith-Njigba (OSU), Kayshon Boutte (LSU), Rakim Jarrett (Maryland) and Jordan Johnson (ND). Draft status isn’t the be-all-end-all of player productivity, but only JSN was a first round pick and arguably a ++ player.
  13. I tried Verdad Kitchen for the first time, and I think it easily has the best fajitas in Austin. To be sure, “best fajitas in Austin” is a low bar compared to Houston or San Antonio, but I would put these up against el tiempo, pappasitos, la piscina etc. Definitely on the pricy side, however. We also ran into Cooper Manning, so another positive data point.
  14. Nice. One of my favorite cities; there is something for everyone there. Really easy to bike around. Not sure if you need any recs, but Joe Beef lives up to the hype. Otherwise you can’t really go wrong with hiking, restaurants, and clubs. Only negative is that the Casino does not have craps. Biggest tip is to make sure to check the weather a week out. May can be near freezing cold or a sunny paradise.
  15. By complaining that you’ll miss “a bunch” of away games each year, you’re implying you travel to the big XII towns where Texas actually played their away games. I don’t see how that logical leap is so difficult to make? @bolverk admittedly schooled me on driving geography so my initial point on convenience is weaker. So I’ll just stop being poor and fly instead.
  16. Jeez dude, take 20% off the top there. This is an overly dramatic, terrible take. So much wrong here. Lamenting that you won’t get to travel to scenic big 12 towns like Lubbock, Ames, Manhattan, or Stillwater? I refuse to believe anyone can argue in good faith that these are better road trips than Nashville, Athens, Baton Rouge or Oxford. Also, I don’t understand the flying point because it is not like the SEC is more geographically inconvenient than the big 12. Have you ever driven to Lubbock? It’s miserable and takes like 9 hours. Baton Rouge, Fayetville and the Mississippi schools are all closer or comparable distances. Calling ESPN execs “fascist” is the dumbest, most nonsensical overreaction I’ve seen on this board and that is a high bar. I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Finally, zero chance you forego binge drinking during football season. Most unbelievable take in the entire post, honestly.
  17. Oh, like CJ Stroud?
  18. Can someone explain why Terrion Arnold is getting projected in the top ten? Admittedly most of my perception is colored by him getting roasted by Texas’ receivers in September, but he doesn’t seem like an athletic freak and defaulted to pass interference whenever he was getting beat. He wasn’t even the best CB on his own team this past year. Did seem great in run support though.
  19. *failed DC. So really it is just convincing a successful and highly compensated NFL d line coach who hasn’t coached college in 10+ years to come down and cater to the whims of teenagers. Slam dunk imo
  20. You should make posters pay extra or donate to TOF before they can be immune from being made fun of for the dumb takes they post. Kidding aside, exciting stuff and kudos for getting this off the ground.
  21. I know this kid will eventually be a stud. But it was hilarious watching dad-bod Ethan Burke work him over all game for two sacks and multiple holds.
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