Magus Ossis

Yeah, the time to defend the field was before the score was final. I understand the response, but you can't un-lose the game by resisting or retaliating against the symbolism that follows it.

Please Ewers be well and whoever starts be well!

If we want to learn how to underperform national expectations despite padding our schedule with FCS opponents, we had better learn to waste more money on the things A&M does. And soon.

His ankle is not going to heal significantly between now and Saturday. If the only word out there that his sprain is mild comes from his camp, it could be that they are playing a little loose with the word "mild." For a one-off situation like this, I would think about shooting his ankle up with Naropin. It wouldn't fix anything, but it might block most of his pain enough to let him move and protect himself better. The problem is that then he might want to keep going on successive weeks, bolstered by reiterations of "the shot."

I do my day job because I like it and because I'm paid to do it. It has benefits other than the fungible payments. But I still ask for the payments. EDIT and I prize loyalty in my employees, but they wouldn't work here forever without fair pay.

When we evaluate recruits, we often discuss ceiling and floor. One could say Mack was a high ceiling low floor coach during his Texas tenure and that he took seasons off. He did have some explosive seasons.

Mack Brown won 2 conference championships in 16 years at Texas and turned the knife in our back on his way out the door. Unless Mack had some special role in recruiting Vince Young or some brilliant input that game-planned the Horns into our only national title under his leadership, I am not sure his egregious failures and betrayal are outweighed by his accomplishments. Winning the B12 less than one year in 5 at Texas is failure-level coaching. I am grateful for what success we did have during his tenure. Add in, though, the painful rebuild his late years necessitated, and he basically gave us 2-3 years of championship-level success out of 2 decades. One might argue that another coach could have matched that, given our inherent advantages. He was basically an also-ran coach. He never beat FSU until this, their year of total collapse. He usually lost to OU. I don't hate MB or anyone else, but he wore out his welcome here.

Soul-crushing victory for the Horns. I don't know the numbers, but we will wound their psyches as deeply as is possible when demolishing the dreams of backwoods, anencephalic, disingenuous, ovinophilic, coat-tail-riding coelenterates (hat-tip to you-know-who). In the spirit of the contest, I offer 37-17 with 250 passing yards.

The historic cheaters are learning that some of us really weren't "doing the same thing" back in their bagman heyday. It is a painful lesson that will be reinforced regularly henceforth.

Not common to have been fired from one school at which you won the NC and another at which you are the winningest coach in its history.

This year is Banfire. It will remain in its perpetual state of non-realization as a symbol of A&M athletics in general and football in particular.

There may be some hesitation to leave out a P4 champ, and I think the assumption was that they would certainly all be in the top 5. The rules allow them to be excluded, however, and it would be hilarious.

As the rules as written, yes

Yes. Reading between the lines he has grade I (microscopic-level tears) sprain of his ankle. It does not make the ankle less stable. It hurts and can lead to enough swelling as a natural response (especially when he is actually playing on it) that it becomes stiffer and even more painful. Wrapping it well before the game and between series and popping a few Advil might be enough to let him function as well as he did before the most recent injury.

The balls I saw Reed complete last night were largely on plays when he had extended time to wait for an easy target. If we get home on the pass rush, I don't think he'll hit too many.