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Cart Noleg (jokes aside, hard not to pull for a recovery when a guy gives that much of a shit about playing. Fuck A&M tho)

"They don't care he played HS in Knoxville." No, you dumbfucks, it's WHY they hate him.

Johnson just smacked The Lil'est Fish in the face with that ball

Mr. Owens, it doesn't help your son's case that he has to asking the fucking QB what the play is constantly.

Running is working super well. Might want to stop doing it so much, Josh.

hahaha fucking Aggies

Hey, 2" is a lot to give for some of us...

Old man take: They allow PA music way too close to the start of action. Pardon me while I drink my Metamucil

78 with another hold

So you can't club QBs in the face anymore!? WAHT IS THIS RUSSIA!?!?!?

I was at a family member's house in a small town outside Houston and they brought in fried chicken from Brookshire Brothers. I was ready to turn my nose up at grocery store fried chicken. Holy shit... it was good. Stupid good.

If you're someone who thinks this is all an act for cameras, I'm baffled as to how you can think that. I've seen his shitty acting in commercials. This isn't that.

What's sleepy Sherm up to?

I, too, am highly skeptical of this "Kyle Flood" and his potential scholarship allocation ideas. If that's even his REAL name!!

Yes, the character of the recruits a coach brings in actually IS that coach's responsibility and the fallout from those choices IS that coach's fault. It's not super common that people involved are genuinely surprised by someone coming into a program and behaving like a menace. Disappointed that it turned out in a predictable way, maybe, but not shocked. The coaches were already warned about the risk and they chose to take the risk. The issue Jimbo has is that he takes way too many risks. It's OK to have a small handful. It's not OK to have a bucketful. Add into that the lack of program character and program discipline, and you get what you are seeing now at A&M. Meanwhile, Sark takes on his own risks, and there are little flare-ups (the biggest being from within his own coaching staff), but most of it is pretty quiet and then taken care of quietly.

Give me $9M/year, give me more millions to pay assistants, and more money to buy 5-stars and I'll puff paint my own overalls. I'll drive to Michael's right now! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!

I would be happy with a 10-2 year and fine with 9-3. It's fine.

I think we're agreeing. I'm talking about (recent)-historically and noting that Sark's regime is an improvement and movement in the right direction. Historically, we fold. We fucked this game up, but we didn't fold. We weren't as tough and focused as we need to be, but in the recent past a game starts that badly for us and we collapse. But we didn't this time.

I think Sark's attitude is fine. To me, emotional control isn't really about cultivating emotions to feel, but more about making sure unhelpful emotions are controlled. OU has whipped our asses. OU has scared us. OU has cowed us. That hasn't happened with Sark, even though he's 1-2. They had to score 25 in the 4th to win game 1. They got historically destroyed in game 2. They had to drive while behind to win in the 4th in game 3. Not great for us, but also not us getting humiliated while our players were terrified and bullied all game. I think Sark's leadership style can win big games (it did in Tuscaloosa) and even win championships. I think he'll need transformational players to do it, and we don't have any of those on this roster. Also, if Sark ever does win a big one, I think the institutional culture changes for the better and his credibility as a calmer, more patient, more focused guy grows.

Not disagreeing with ChiTown here at all, but that focus and determination to be great isn't just something that pops up on gameday. It's the offeseason and the preseason and practices. It's the mindset day-in and day-out. By gameday, the cake is mostly baked and theirs is usually baked with more determination and scrappiness than ours. Which is why they beat us all the time.

On3 Class Rankings avg 2020-2023 Texas: 8 OU: 8.5 Venables made stupid calls yesterday. Their players fucked up yesterday. We just made more mistakes on the field than they did and lost a football game to a team 34-30 whose talent level isn't as below ours as we told ourselves. We aren't a "Lost a 4/5-star to injury? Whatever, put the next 4/5 star out there!" team. We're building towards that, but we aren't that. The idea that we lost because we don't shit enough hateblood is stupid. Not everyone needs to be full of rage to perform at a high level. In fact, that's a distraction to many. At least on offense. If we need a fire-breathing maniac, hire one at DC (I don't even dislike PK). The hot start to the year got into a LOT Of people's heads. I was NOT thinking "playoffs bound!" before the year started. I only thought that because we whipped Bama pretty good at home. And after that I didn't let arguably bad games against much lesser opponents temper my optimism. That's not on Sark, that's on me. The team was showing me what it was (really, really good), but I didn't want to believe that. I wanted to believe we were King Kong. That's on me. We're a really, really good team. I actually like Sark and his style a lot. I think he can win a championship here. Maybe even with this team. A lot of shit has to go right, because on defense we do not have any killers who scare everyone. We need those.

If Sark came out screaming and acting crazy it would be forced and ineffective. He's not that guy and it makes no sense for him to try to be. Is there someone doing today what Patterson has done for us in the past?