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Ghost of LL

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  1. My dude--do you think games are only lost on Saturday? Fuuuuuck no. It takes a whole week's worth of preparation to not coach. It starts on Sunday, when Jimbo doesn't look at any game film and doesn't start developing a gameplan. Then it continues on Monday when he doesn't meet with any coaches or players. It continues right on through the week when he doesn't attend any practices, evaluate any players, or provide any instruction. It culminates on Friday when he doesn't set the two-deep. It's a whole seven days of inaction, each of which earns $20,000. And that's just during the season. In the offseason, he spends every day not evaluating talent, not recruiting, not coordinating the NIL efforts, not chatting up alumni and fans, not being visible as the Head Football Coach of the third-best football program in Texas. That kind of nonfeasance doesn't come cheap, my friend.
  2. The future of the Big XII was put into sharp and sad relief this past weekend for anybody who was uncertain what it was going to look like. It's pretty clear that ESPN views the SEC as its bell cow. And it's going to do whatever it needs to do to maximize the visibility of the SEC (and hence its own revenue). So this past weekend, that meant Texas at 2:30 and aggy at 6:00 with Oklahoma on Friday. And that's what you're going to see throughout the rest of the season--Texas and Oklahoma and the big SEC teams not overlapping on timeslots and competing for viewers. They're going to be lined up in a series so that football fans never have to change the channel. The result this past weekend was that Baylor, Tech, and Cougar High were all shunted off to streaming (probably to the benefit of all of them to reduce the visibility of those awful showings). The Arizona schools play into the early morning hours. And everyone else plays on Thursday or at 11:00. No fucking prime time for the Big XII. And that continues on September 14--Oklahoma v. Tulane at 2:30 on ESPN; aggy @ Florida (yuck) at 2:30 on ABC; Texas v. UTSA at 6:00 on ESPN; Georgia at Kentucky at 6:30 on ABC. That's not leaving just a whole lot of inventory for Big XII games. Arizona State plays on Thursday night; the Kansas schools play on Friday. Cougar High is streaming on ESPN+ again. Three teams play at 11:00. TCU/UCF and Colorado/Colorado State actually get Fox and CBS in primetime--that's good for them, I suppose. Colorado/Colorado State will actually get decent numbers. But apart from those two slots, that's a pretty wretched schedule for a conference. Regularly shunting teams off to weeknights or onto ESPN+ just isn't great for visibility, recruiting, or fundraising. It feels a lot more Mountain West than it does SEC.
  3. Life moves pretty fast on Surly. You don’t stop and look around on Daily Texan, you could miss it.
  4. “We’re not going back!”
  5. This Arizona-NM game is really entertaining. But the Lobos wearing their red on the road is really throwing me off.
  6. We have our best team in 15 years, and aggy may have their worst. All in the year we move to the SEC.
  7. They can’t—only conference champions can get a Top-4 seed.
  8. Haha—eat shit, aggy!
  9. Holy shit, we are going to destroy aggy.
  10. Oregon not looking great against … let me check my notes … Idaho.
  11. The Irish QB is just wretched.
  12. SMU beating up on a Houston Christian 20-0 still in the 1st.
  13. I foresee a big price drop on those Michigan tickets.
  14. They do not look great.
  15. Jesus—that was dirty as fuck.
  16. Old Dominion just tied South Carolina as the third quarter ends.
  17. I am so very gruntled right now.
  18. Yeah—thanks for that.
  19. No, sir—some of us are high.
  20. And I'm going to say something as someone who has been a part of losing Republican campaigns--I've heard this talk before. I heard exactly this when I was a very low-level volunteer guy working on George Bush's campaign in 1992. I heard this when I was hustling for Bob Dole as a CR in 1996. "Yeah--it's ok if Clinton wins because we're still going to have the Senate . . . ." Now, I'm going to tell you that such rationalizations didn't usually start coming out into October. But still--I've heard exactly this before. We were fucked in 1992 and 1996, and we damned well knew it. But here's the thing--the GQP is even more fucked now. And they don't know it. In the 1990s, the Republican Party was still a real political party. It had policy positions that it wanted to advance. It had ideas with which its supporters agreed. So you could go to them and say "but so long as we keep the Senate and the House, our ideas and policy positions will still be advanced (or at least not completely frustrated)." And shit--that was especially true with the Great Triangulator in the White House. So you could still motivate people who knew they were going to lose the White House to go out and vote in the down-ballot races. The GQP today isn't a political party. It doesn't have a single ideology or a single set of policy positions. It has a single cult of personality. The less-engaged will stay home because it's not fun to get your teeth kicked in. They don't fucking care about the Senate or the House or the state legislature. If it's not Trump, they don't give a shit (as they've repeatedly shown in midterms and special elections).
  21. The Chaps have finally taken control in their game against Prosper.
  22. This game fucking delivers.
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