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Park Gothic

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  1. Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee Cole Lourd.
  2. I'm still a Baker skeptic, but I will admit that he probably needs more help than most of the position coaches on staff. He doesn't really have any skins on the wall, and even if he could point to Broughton and Collins for proof of his development other teams' coaches can just say that Bo really developed those guys. He probably needs someone with more credibility to help him close and he probably needs more money than the other coaches. DL recruiting is the most viciously competitive and we've got a FNG running our room. There's not much Baker can do about that now, but it's also one of the reasons not to hire an unknown. You can't hire a guy like Baker and not give him extra support.
  3. Jonah has never played LB. We are past the days of turning safeties into LB's. Are we?
  4. You probably know better than I do, but I'll throw in my $0.02 - I would rather take a chance on high school recruits for IDL than rely on the portal. (1) Good, proven DTs in the portal are worth a fortune and recruiting them seems to always a ridiculous amount of time and money. They're also rare. I think we had a "great" DT haul from the portal last season and we got 2 contributors and a bust. Our best IDL were still homegrown dudes. (2) It's not just about S&C development, it's about culture too. Guys who've been here for 2 or 3 years are bought in and understand what we're about much better than a merc. They're not just players, they're leaders. They love their teammates and are loved by them. You just don't get that from the portal. (3) Just based on how recruiting vs. portal has gone since 2021, we have gotten too many busts from the portal for me to trust it. In aggregate we've probably pulled more busts from high school, but we've also gotten more hits and probably paid less for them too. The allure of the portal (for any position) is you can get proven talent - you know what they can do because you've seen them do it. But you have to pay a premium for it, and I still think there is better value overall in high school recruiting. That may be less true with a position like WR, but I think it's more true with DT and OL. Really any position that has a longer development and S&C timeline.
  5. You're right, but the issue is one of perception. An objective observer can see that without their QB, FSU was not one of the 4 best teams in the country and the committee has been very clear that their goal is to select the 4 best teams (not the most deserving). But college football fans are famousy incapable of being objective, and at its basic level the whole ranking system is a dog-and-pony show. You have to maintain credibility in order to keep your audience - look at what happened to boxing when people figured out how rigged the whole sport is. If you don't manage fan's perspectives then you risk them moving on to some other sport. They have to at least believe that their team is getting a fair shake. Putting Bama in over FSU was the right call when picking the "best" teams, but it undeniably damaged how fans view the committee and the fairness of the post-season. That's a bad thing, and being "right" won't change anything. This is the difference between someone who understands the sport and dumbass fans who buy into bullshit mythologies. Playing on cold ground in snow fucking sucks. Getting tackled and tackling on that surface is miserable and can lead to injuries. It also favors the less talented team, especially when the team likes to throw the ball. There's no "advantage" for a school like OSU in playing in the snow, you just limit your offense and increase your risk of injury.
  6. For real, fuck Ohio State. Bunch of cooler pooping snow-gooners. From what I've seen, the difference between the Michigan fanbase and the OSU fanbase is night and day.
  7. I call those the "alright, fine" handjob and there's not a thing sad about them.
  8. It is nice that the current biggest point of contention on this site is whether our really good QB is good enough to win a national championship. And whether our backup QB, who happens to be a fucking Manning, would be even better. It's an embarrassment of riches and such a massive change from the problems we were facing three seasons ago that I almost forget how down things were. It's like waking up from a bad dream. Some of you sad sacks could use a little perspective.
  9. Goddamnit. I stopped pissing my pants about DL recruiting back in August. Do I need to start again?
  10. I would like to take Billy Glasscock back from Ole Miss. Brandon "Twitter Eyes" Harris is not getting it done.
  11. Not the day for bumping posts with trivial shit Tex.
  12. I like how you can’t cuss on TexAgs but racism and homophobia are a-okay.
  13. I like the kids on Reddit. They’ve got the spirit. Still…far too many of them have downplayed the rivalry with Arkansas and eve A&M. It’s been good to see how well they’ve taken to dunking on Aggie since the game came back.
  14. We beat OU, Arkansas, and A&M. We made the SEC championship in year one. Despite a plague of injuries and a QB of inconsistent testicular fortitude, we’ve only lost one game. That should be enough, but it isn’t. I want more. I want to bend Kirby over a fucking barrel and win the whole damn thing.
  15. Umlang is either a useful idiot disseminating Sark’s misinformation or an actual idiot helping Aggie game plan for our QB.
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