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Park Gothic

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  1. Park Gothic

    49-0

    What I'm hearing is that they are terrible and we should win convincingly.
  2. Interesting, I'd heard that Clemson led for Gipson. Or was that Gibson?
  3. This post right here...this guy is like right at the thresh hold. The door is open, the light is on, all he has to do is walk inside, but he can't do it. Sark has been a P5 head coach at multiple stops now. He's been the OC/QB coach at some of the most successful programs in history. He's coached in the NFL. He is currently surrounded by a similarly experienced and lauded staff. All of these coaches have been watching the players practice for weeks. They know exactly what they have. Manning is playing in a spring game, where the coaches have literally unfettered control over the game. Sark could call whatever personnel packages he wants. Fuck, he could call whatever defense he wants. Remember when Sark called a first down despite the refs signaling fourth? Complete control. The circumstances aren't unique or unusual. It's no secret. This is pretty much true for every spring game across the country. Yet somehow, knowing all this, the quoted poster thinks that what we saw from Manning was anything other than exactly what Sark wanted us to see. That this was somehow a failure of PR that could have been avoided but for a little planning. Baffling.
  4. I don't think the Aggies would think it was funny - they'd shake their heads, call it a tragedy, then blame it on Texas / Austin. They would say "poor kid, all that pressure at Texas probably got to him. I'm sure all the drugs and degeneracy that goes on in Austin didn't help. Can't believe that the program wouldn't give him the help he needed. The sips truly are evil." They would never pass up a chance to put their false piety on display, or risk their perceived moral superiority by laughing.
  5. I just spam the escape button while their page is loading. Works every time.
  6. Man, I do not have the energy to go through everything wrong with that Wasserman article. But a few things stand out: "The pressure on Ewers’ shoulders to save Texas football isn’t his doing. He wasn’t responsible for the five-star status or the 1.000 rating, an unfair distinction that leads fans to believe he was the perfect prospect. Maybe that was a small reason he initially opted to go sign with Ohio State out of high school, a place that didn’t need to be rescued. But Ewers is well aware that once he decided to transfer back home that he would be facing the burden of bringing … Texas back." Fuck Wasserman for acting like Texas fans have put some undue burden on Ewers' back. He's being paid handsomely to be QB and the expectation is that he will play well. He definitely played below reasonable expectations at times last year, but you know what I've heard from actual Texas fans? "He's basically freshman" / "he needs time to develop" / "Quinn is QB1" - the only people who have talked about how disappointing Quinn has been or that Arch might steal his job are asshole talking heads from the national media. The kid wants to be better and Wasserman's first thought is that Texas fans are somehow dumping on him? Fucking moron. Also double-fuck Wasserman for assuming Ewers' reasons for going to OSU in the most "fuck Texas" way possible. Fuck Tom Herman too for good measure. "But Texas isn’t cursed. It has a coaching turnover problem. Steve Sarkisian is the third Texas head coach since the Longhorns moved on from Mack Brown following the 2013 season. Charlie Strong? Fired. Tom Herman? Fired." Right, because we're the only program to have fired two coaches in the last ten years. And everything would be fine if we'd just been less fickle and stuck with Strong or Herman. All those guys and their rock-star staffs really needed was more time. Fucking moron - you don't throw good money after bad and you don't keep giving important jobs to fuck ups. The solution is to hire better coaches, not keep the shitty ones. Hopefully we've done that but he completely glosses over who will be drafted from Texas in 2023. Surely he'll come back to this article when we have 4-7 players drafted with one in the first round. Surely he'll revisit this issue and recognize a new day is dawning.
  7. Thanks - this is part of what I heard. That it was mostly about Holmes coming in and how much he would see the field. I always assume that money is a part of it in some way but I also know very little.
  8. Reddit + friends who are tangentially involved in NIL making references. It was enough smoke for me to hazard a question here.
  9. Is it this one? https://theathletic.com/4412195/2023/04/19/nfl-draft-talent-college-football-recruiting/ Honestly not that bad.
  10. Some rumor is floating around that Terrance Brooks was considering the portal but has been talked out of it. Have seen literally zero substantiation but thought it was interesting.
  11. Y'all are wasting a lot of energy on a guy who clearly doesn't give a shit about college football or journalism anymore. In terms of actually knowing what's happening, rather than just regurgitating what other people have told him, Mandel has been a dry hole for years. He's the EIC of The Athletic which means his job, first and foremost, is to generate revenue. That is his primary occupation, not good football reporting. He's (arguably) leaving that to his staff. I don't even begrudge the guy his situation. Online journalism is a rough industry with thin margins. But I don't concern myself with his opinions on football. Nobody should.
  12. I'm excited about the season and the direction of the program, but "should" beat Bama at home is too much hope for me. The last decade has rendered me incapable of that level of optimism.
  13. I'm here for shaming other people. Otherwise what the fuck am I working so hard for? Might as well do something stupid like spend time with my kids and loved ones.
  14. I remember that happening when he was with the Cowboys, did it happen at Texas too?
  15. Video of what started all this bullshit. It was Mike Davis holstering guns, not doing the horns up. Maybe there's something else out there, but I'll be damned if I can find it.
  16. immamac already gave a good answer to this, but I will throw in another reason why the answer is effectively "no" - non-competes are disfavored restraints of trade. They're enforceable, but only to the extent that they are reasonably limited in terms of industry, time, and location. So a non-compete that prohibits a petroleum engineer from working for any oil company, anywhere in the country, for 10 years, will not be enforceable. But if it says that the engineer can't go work for another company providing the same services he was providing (like fracking fluid mixture), who are operating in the Permian basin, for the next year - that might be enforceable. There are also questions of equity involved, where a court won't want to screw some low-level guy out of better job or something similar. A Texas court would take a very dim view of a non-compete in an NIL deal for a college kid, especially if it was broad enough to cover teams outside the state.
  17. All that sturm und drang about horns down...on their boards...I mean really. Also, I cannot laugh hard enough at how upset they got over the Kiffin quote. It's not even insulting - he literally just pointed out that they run a tempo offense and Jimbo doesn't. There's things you do to run tempo and they have to coach their transfer WRs to do those things. Pretty fucking innocuous, but they are so thin-skinned and paranoid that anything Kiffin says must not only be an insult, but a personal affront to every Aggie with an ounce of self respect. Just look at how they piled on the one bastard who had enough self awareness to comment that Kiffin was actually correct.
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