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Park Gothic

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  1. Jonah has never played LB. We are past the days of turning safeties into LB's. Are we?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Consider the brains behind the policy.
  5. Yeah...something
  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. POOOOOR AGGIES
  16. Umlang is either a useful idiot disseminating Sark’s misinformation or an actual idiot helping Aggie game plan for our QB.
  17. I could watch it 100 times.
  18. Maybe I'm stupid, but I'm just not that worried about this. If Ewers is at 90% and dealing, we win. If he's too hurt or off his game, Sark has a built-in excuse to switch to Arch that lets Quinn save face. And I think we can beat A&M with Arch, given how different the playbook and gameplan looks with him. He's like the polar opposite of Ewers. Either way, Elko is now stuck trying to prep for two completely different QBs. And he doesn't have the horses. Their DL is great, but their LB and DB groups have serious deficiencies. My only lingering concern is that Ewers will go out there, look bad, and Sark won't switch to Arch until we're deep in a hole. Then Arch is put in the position of trying to pull us out of it. Although I think there's a reasonable basis for that concern, I also think Sark has earned a little grace and a little confidence in how he manages the season and the QB room. I'm never going full on "trust the corches," but I'll trust Sark on this until he shows me otherwise.
  19. I'm prejudiced against hyphens. Or I got him mixed up with Filsame. But probably the former. I'm basing this on what people have reported about him and his own statements about his development curve. I don't know how "confidently" I can say that the staff likes him, but the vibes seem good based on what I've read and heard. Good OL are hard to fine, he has connections to A&M, so maybe someone will try to tamper with him and succeed. But if we're just spitballing, I lean more towards him staying until I hear something new. The only think to be "pessimistic" about is that there is no Kelvin Banks. But those players only come around once every several years. That starting line up for next season looks about as good as one could reasonably expect. Maybe there will be some growing pains, but that still looks like a solid OL. It would literally be better than any OL we had under Chuck or Turtle.
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