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Magus Ossis

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  1. This. Don’t be surprised to see notice of intent to depart for CU and at least one Arizona school to materialize on 7/31. I don’t know whether their boards (1) have authorized the respective presidents to offer such notice or whether (2) they need to do so. If no to 1 and yes to 2, expect ad hoc meetings by/on that final Friday or Monday.
  2. Does anyone have any intel on Sark's or Flood's history for/against displacing established starters when better talent became experienced enough to win the job? Sorry if it is already around here and I've missed/forgotten it. I'm trying to decide whether to let my hopes even think of getting up for an upgrade this season at C.
  3. Makes sense. They have 3 gimme games in which even they would have trouble running out of time (Abilene Christian, UNM, and UL Monroe). They have 3 easyish games that a good team would win, and they could easily do as well (@Miami, Auburn, Jerryworld Pig). They have 3 winnable games in which they have a talent advantage on paper but may be hamstrung by all things aggy by the time they are played (USCe, @Ole Miss, MSU), and 3 tough games by most measures (Bama, @Tenn, @LSU). Assuming they lose 2/3 tough games and 1/3 of the winnable, their possible next loss is the O/U maker/braker*. I would not be surprised at 9 wins, but I could easily see them cratering to 5 or 6 if any of a few known issues comes to a boil (Fisher/Petrino, merc disinterest, OL/QB injury, CB depth, etc). *Spelling aggified for clarity.
  4. Yeah, yeah. Still dumb. Unless your idea of a great way to spend your 19th year of life (which, by the way, is very hard to get back once spent) consists in smoking weed in your dorm room in a soviet-style people-storage unit in College Station.
  5. Interesting that this ostensibly neutral reporter chose this opportunity to showcase his second-rate simulacrum of command of the English language apparently to take a shot at Texas.
  6. Every dollar aggy boosters spend loading up on DL and WR while they are still running the current iteration of the Circus of the 3 Stars is another dollar unavailable to buy Jimbo out, hire his replacement, and/or fund NIL for a future team that might theoretically have a functional coaching staff.
  7. Recent regimes have seemed to have too many comfort hires and “buddies” that turned my stomach to see on our payroll, e.g., CH from the Briles Baylor staff under Herman. I know not everyone is sold on PK as DC, but I don’t put him in the same basket. Bringing in hired guns like GP to tune up the D is something else that strikes me as veering away from the comfort zone. I see a staff that looks to be assembled based largely on competence and a roster based largely on ability/potential. It sounds like a no-brainer way to do it, but it hasn’t been this way in a while, from my perspective. Am I crazy? Do we have a big mass of dead weight I’m not seeing?
  8. If the GA AG is an alumnus of UGA, maybe he’ll be just as diligent as (impeached) Texas AG and Baylor alum Paxton has been.
  9. Bingo. And they can both word and promote the contract with the optimistic numbers, putting "corrections and adjustments" in the fine print. Headline: "PAC 10 signs deal that pays $58M per annum! More than B12 by wide margin!" But at some point the school administrators have to decide based on actual revenues, not unicorn farts. Color me surprised if there is not some ship-jumping on/before 7/31/23.
  10. Using a good survival stroke or drown-proofing, most fit people could last quite a while. An out-of-shape person should not be swimming in the ocean.
  11. Where to draw the line could prove very tricky for NCAA with enforcing a ban on donor perks related to collective donations. RGBIII could obviously give a more informed answer, but I'm fairly certain that the TOF is essentially a normal 501c3 that happens to have contractual relationships with athletes among its expenses, when you get down to it. Does NCAA think it can ban perks for donors to charities? Good luck drawing that line. How much business transacted with athletes, under which conditions, at what remove? They can try to close the barn doors, but the horse is out.
  12. Don't trust them. They'll walk all over you.
  13. This is no doubt true in our world of widespread ignorance. But they were never going to pay Leach. To suggest otherwise is fatuous at best. Leach underestimated how petty and self destructive (and destructive of what they professed to defend) the people who ostensibly want the best for Tech were willing to be. He may have been happier in the final analysis; he received better treatment elsewhere once he got back into coaching.
  14. I won’t dignify the cruelty by going through it, but it basically involves alcohol. Mike RIP; we miss you!
  15. I have a couple of friends/colleagues whose families are among those who still tell themselves good riddance. They use his never disclosed officially but often speculated private life to tell themselves that “he had to go.” edit families who were in the crowd that ran him off
  16. Both of those guys were only bosses of record. It was a donor issue.
  17. I wouldn’t mind seeing them at a hard-earned 4-6 going into the last two weeks of the season, including a brilliant near-win over Bama. Then they dominate mighty ACU and drop a huge turd into LSU’s punch bowl for a second season in a row to improve from last year’s five wins by exactly one. Cleetus cheers the turnaround, Jimbo stays, the mercs leave, and 24 is set up to be a flaming pile of slightly-used Collie food.
  18. I’m sorry about your foot. Most of us take for granted that our feet will let us step on them thousands of times a day and won’t nag us let alone torture us with pain. I hope someone can do something for your foot someday.
  19. Do you see how your rebuttal falls just short?
  20. I'll take my own advice. Sorry to forget where I was. 😀
  21. I’m not sure whether I’m missing some subtle (or otherwise) feigned ignorance of English idiom and usage here.
  22. This. References to conflict between news channels and presidents, current or former, are in the wrong place if they’re on this board. Don’t double down on mistakes. Own them and fix them and move on.
  23. I think restarting the series by beating them with another game-ending FG might be too much for my blood pressure, but it might be the most poetic way to do it. For the historic lulz, restarting in Austin and winning the first few would forever give aggy more fuel for its conspiratorial alternative history. If only we hadn't bribed the man to move the game in the pivotal year of 2024, all of history would have been different, etc.
  24. Maybe spare us the military and political filler of the day here on the football board?
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