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Park Gothic

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  1. Needs more elephants. And a giant ass turtle.
  2. Fair enough, you would know better than I do. My follow up questions is whether or not our position to players who come back to renegotiate is "you made an agreement, we expect you to honor it, and if you want to take that other deal go ahead." If that's how we're handling things - great. That makes sense to me and although it means we may lose one or two recruits, we avoid bringing in "turds," as you said, which seems better in the long run. But are we really playing hardball with these recruits? Like, if they have signed an NIL agreement and then get a better offer from A&M and want out of their initial agreement, are we telling them "tough shit, if you breach your contract we'll sue"? I'm not incredulous, just surprised if that's the case. I didn't think our AD / boosters had it in them to play hard ball.
  3. Seems like it comes down to a couple of questions: 1. Have they signed anything? If not, then negotiations are still open. It would be naive to operate on handshakes. 2. Even if they've signed anything, would we really hold them to it? If we bow up too hard on a recruit we end up looking like assholes who won't play ball. It's questionable whether we could even hold a recruit to a previous agreement. So yeah, I don't think negotiations stop until the kid is enrolled. And may not stop even then, depending on the player and how close we are to the portal opening. Brave new world.
  4. A disconcerting number of veteran posters are biting on shitty helobious bait.
  5. It's funny that he says that he felt differently about the PAC-16 move than other Aggies and that people at A&M wanted different things, while at the same time treating Texas fans and the administration like an unchanging monolith over the course of several years. Then, when loosely related but still completely different people end up holding different opinions, he refers to that as "hypocrisy." What's really sad is that you can tell he genuinely believes everything he wrote and is actually up in his feelings about it. He's spun a narrative where he is a well meaning victim, and is still fixated on perceived slights from years ago. Honestly, the only explanation that makes sense is that he likes feeling that way. And I don't think I'm saying anything novel here - Aggies love to play the victim, they love to play the doomed hero, and they will twist the facts in whatever way is necessary to support that image of themselves.
  6. Fair enough, I took your post as asking why the difficulty rankings they were looking at seemed off. To the extent you were asking for someone to try to think like an Aggie and explain them...I politely decline.
  7. Because it's the KFord rating, which is just ... some guy putting out numbers. Kelly Ford isn't a nobody, but he's not a somebody either. It would be like if Bud Elliott put out power ratings. He's knowledgeable about CFB and it's how he makes a living, but it's just him. It's also funny that the Aggies are putting so much stock in his ratings when he puts Texas above A&M in almost every metric:
  8. Not proud of this effort, but I'm hung over and it's more proof of concept.
  9. Pretty sure Ffrench is visiting Florida because he lives an hour away from Gainesville. I wouldn't read too much into it.
  10. Me: "Hey, we just got a big recruit! Better see what the recruiting thread is saying about it" This thread:
  11. 100%. It wasn't even complicated. There were 3 undefeated P5 champs, so they all get in. There were 2 one-loss P5 champs, but they had a head-to-head, so the winner of the head-to-head gets the last spot. 1) Michigan 2) Washington 3) FSU 4) Texas Easy, reasonable, defensible, etc. So of course the committee didn't do that. Because it would require leaving the SEC out of the playoffs which is unthinkable. They had to jump through hoops to get an outcome that fit what they wanted to see rather than what made sense. It bothered me at the time but it also made me glad that we were moving to the SEC (among other reasons). Bias shouldn't be a part of the process, but as long as it's going to be a factor anyway I'd rather it be in our favor.
  12. “If ye love wealth lower tuition better than liberty an actual education, the tranquility of servitude Dickson Street better than the animating contest of freedom Dirty 6th, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick call the hands hogs which feed you. May your chains diploma set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
  13. Thinking that Arkansas doesn't hate us anymore just because our younger fans stopped caring about the rivalry is forgetting an important facet of the rivalry - people from Arkansas (the state) hate Texas (the state). The University of Texas represents the state, and playing (or beating) us in football gives everyone in Arkansas a chance to feel better than Texas. When was the last time anyone here ever thought about Arkansas? Traveled to Arkansas other than to pass through? Arkansas is a small, unimportant state that happens to be next to one of the largest and most important states in the Union. They hate us and we don't think about them at all. And before someone says something dumb like "well they don't hate A&M" - yeah no shit, it's A&M. They don't represent the state of Texas. At most, they represent a particular strain of East Texas weirdo who probably has more in common with Arkansas than they do with the rest of Texas. Everyone at Arkansas, young and old, cares about this game way more than we do because it runs deeper than football. It's social, cultural, and political.
  14. Trying to respond to your comment honestly - the reffing in the SEC is just as incompetent as it is in any other conference. I have not noticed any uptick in reffing quality since the move. What I have noticed, however, is that the incompetence seems more impartial. They are calling bad games for both teams. Still frustrating, but doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth the way a lot of Big 12 officiating did. I have not seen anything that comes close to a Kevin Mar officiated game. That guy fucking sucked and clearly hated Texas. That he still has a job is embarrassing for the league office and should piss off every Big 12 member. And to be clear - I'm not some conspiracy theorist who thinks the league had it in for Texas. I don't even think the crews get together and say "here's how we're gonna fuck 'em." Maybe that happened once with the Teaff game, but that's about it. But I do think officials have personal biases and those biases work their way into games. And Texas was very unpopular within the Big 12. So yeah, the SEC isn't any better in terms of good calls and bad calls. But I don't think we're getting fucked over by any zebras nursing a grudge.
  15. Yes, I raised a question and then answered it. It's a rhetorical device. My original point was that Texas' schedule in the SEC is easier than it was in the Big 12, despite claims (mostly from A&M fans) that we had it easy in the Big 12. I think everyone understands why our SOS is easier this year, but the irony is still humorous and reflects poorly on A&M fans.
  16. True, but that doesn't explain A&M's relatively weak SOS despite playing the vaunted SEC West. My point is that the concept of an "SEC grind" being somehow worse than any other conference's grind is bullshit. The week-to-week isn't what makes the SEC a hard conference, it's the fact that you have an absolute juggernaut waiting for you at some point, who can expose your weaknesses, hurt your players, and potentially fuck your season. The Big 12 was probably harder week-to-week, but we didn't have to play a Bama or a Georgia. Even still, Texas went out and scheduled those big teams (Bama, LSU, USC) anyway in our OOC. Because we aren't pussies. Unlike A&M, who schedules schools like Nevada and Prairie View.
  17. We joined the SEC and our SOS literally got easier. Texas' 2021 SOS - 31st (A&M was 52nd) Texas' 2022 SOS - 24th (A&M was 25th) Texas' 2023 SOS - 12th (A&M was 20th) Texas' 2024 SOS - 55th (A&M is 21st, but they have to play us and we can't play ourselves...) Source: https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume/sort/resume.avgsosrank/dir/asc
  18. That Moore drop was half on Ewers for a poor throw. He still could have pulled it In but Ewers didn’t do him any favors.
  19. I don't give a shit about Ewers' politics and if you do you should take that conversation somewhere else.
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