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Park Gothic

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  1. Fucking 6'4, 295 lbs from Lufkin? With an Old Testament name? Hell yeah brother, lock that kid down. https://247sports.com/player/zion-williams-46138858/
  2. I don’t like certain pundits more than anyone else but keep that shit in the cloakroom.
  3. Seems like this will all be someone else's problem. Good. What bothers me about this whole thing is the parents. Kids are morons and some are vicious morons. I don't think they should get a pass, but I also get where @closetojumping is coming from. People change, learn, and grow over time - no one more than teenagers - and there is now a very public record of this kid acting like a terrible person that will follow him for a long time. Maybe forever. That seems disproportionate to the harm he actually caused. Not saying to take it easy on the little shit, more that I'm just glad I was an idiot teenager before social media became a thing. But the parents. And the coaches, teachers, and administrators. What the fuck. I said people can grow and change, but that can only happen if there are consequences for their actions. This fucking guy could have killed someone. Has anyone driven that fact home to him? Has anyone sat him down and explained how badly he almost fucked up the lives of everyone involved? Killing someone else isn't the kind of thing you get to move on from. Even if you avoid jail, you will forever be the person who bullied someone to death. I tell my kids - you are what you do. Not your intentions, or what you say, or think, or how you see yourself. And if you bully someone to death, that is who you are. Doesn't matter if you didn't mean it. But someone has to explain that fact to this kid in no uncertain terms for him to have that epiphany and change. It doesn't seem like this kid has learned any lesson. There's no indication that he apologized, learned from this, and made amends. No one really punished him. So part of me is glad he's getting dragged on twitter - it's a shame that a bunch of strangers on the internet have to create the consequences necessary for this kid to learn that what he did was bad, but at least it's fucking happening. At least maybe now he'll understand and won't do it again. Anyway, like I said. I'm glad this is now someone else's problem.
  4. It had to be later than that, didn't it? I remember 7-digit dialing in high school in the late 90's / early 00's. I moved to Kentucky and Tennessee for a few years and when I came back Austin had switched to 10-digit dialing, but that had to be in the early 2010's. Or am I just getting senile?
  5. There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that and everything else is cream cheese.
  6. You answered your own question with that last sentence. It's the Falcons. Drafting a QB. Of course they're gonna fuck it up.
  7. I thought I had missed a few posts and we were complaining about Deion.
  8. This part doesn't surprise me at all, in fact I would more-or-less suspect that it was already happening, at least on the offense's side of the ball. With Nansen and PK both being DC-caliber coaches and both having experience coaching the DL / front 7, I actually hope that they are giving Baker some kind of direction. Maybe Baker is the strong back / high energy guy that PK and Nansen use to put in the legwork while they do the thinking? I'm assuming that Baker is at least good at development, even if he is inexperienced as a high-level recruiter and implementer of scheme. I'm sure I'm not phrasing this very well, but I'm a little more at peace with us hiring an inexperienced DL coach because the guys above him (PK and Nansen) are veterans and can keep him straight.
  9. 1. Jimbo didn't have a single 10-win season at A&M. 2. The last 10-win season for the Aggies was in 2012 under Sumlin. 3. Facts 1 and 2 are especially pathetic in light of the fact that A&M plays 4 non-cons every season, with at least 1 FCS opponent as well as juggernauts like UMass and App State. 4. A&M lost to App State. 5. The only teams on its regular schedule more talented than A&M are Bama and LSU. Aggie still consistently loses to less talented programs like the Mississippi schools and Auburn. And, of course, App State. 6. Due to playing at least 10 P5 FBS schools ever season, Texas consistently has a higher SOS than A&M. Texas hasn't played an FCS school since 2006. Aggies are apparently unfamiliar with the concepts of "trend," "trajectory," and "lagging vs. leading indicators," which is odd for a school that prides itself on the sciences and math. For some reason it seems like our stupid liberal arts dildo university has a better grasp of statistics. Although I suspect that's largely because most TexAgs posters didn't actually attend any kind of college. Unless the schools of "life" and "hard knocks" recently became accredited institutions.
  10. Man, I appreciate you posting this but I am still in the dark about why we hired him. I'm not even down on the hire, I just don't understand it and would like to. Nothing about this guy suggests that he's ready to be a position coach at a top-level program with national championship aspirations. To be clear - those qualities may be there. I don't know for sure that he isn't ready. But I'm still waiting for an explanation of why we hired this guy.
  11. For how many lawyers are supposed to be on this site we sure do suck at contract interpretation.
  12. "It was way better than what I expected" is a perfect backhanded complement. Of course it flew right over Hattersley's head.
  13. Nansen also has a ton of experience coaching DL / Edge / OLB and will probably contribute. Even if Baker is a bust, the kid is going to get coached up well.
  14. Consider who you are arguing with and you’ll realize there are better ways to waste your time.
  15. All I know is that it is stupid for a school like Austin High to still be in the same division as schools like Westlake and Lake Travis. It's closer to Anderson, McCallum, and Travis in terms of size and competitiveness. It made sense a long time ago before they split up 5A, but that was the perfect opportunity for AHS to drop down.
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