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Magus Ossis

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  1. Aggy ran out of time about 27 seconds too late that night
  2. Aggy is ND's home opener. Purdue, a nothing-burger by most estimations, follows them on the schedule. ND has a bye week to tune things up after opening against Miami. NI certainly showed us last year that anything is possible, but I'm expecting this year's roller coaster "early setback" to be way way back.
  3. True hilarity would be including, rather than some B1G team, another SEC as the bubble team presumed to have "taken their spot." Especially if that team had the same record but actually looked good other than a narrow loss at Kyle after which said other team got their star QB back from injury,
  4. There is a Mack thread, and his picture popping up here is not a reason to merge it into this one
  5. Practically in the 360 era
  6. With the new rule against simulating weapons, Tech will be drawing carb inspiration from its tortilla-tossing heyday and changing the hand sign to "buns up."
  7. Yes, arthroscopic-assisted ACLs are very different, as are rehab protocols now, than what was done a couple of generations ago. Technically, I would call the LCL (lateral collateral ligament) the anterior part of the PLC (postero-lateral corner, not to be confused with the PCL, posterior cruciate ligament). Depending on whether he avulsed (pulled off) or tore mid-substance on his LCL, he might have had different surgeries; with a high-level RB like him, my guess is that he had some graft sewn in there unless it was obviously strictly avulsed. I can't remember with certainty, but I think the early concern was that Baxter had torn PCL, too. Not tearing PCL and not tearing more of the posterior portions of the PLC (eg Popliteus) would take some of my concerns away regarding aggressive early motion in therapy and hence help him be better positioned for a potentially faster and more complete recovery. Once he is this far out, his recovery trajectory is more about how rapidly he can re-train and how well he re-adapts to full go.
  8. No Consequences At All
  9. I would probably have to find a way to make that game.
  10. I'll be honest. If they only threw them around in the stands, it would be one of those quirky traditions that make CFB cool IMO. Less fun for the clean up crew, but that's a small issue. The real problem is that throwing anything at benches or the field is out-of-bounds for me. And BTW, I think there is HEB in Lubbock.
  11. This is a particularly bold statement. I suggest that you take a brief holiday from expressing such extreme opinions and consider a few objectively determinable points, including: Did the story you reference make explicit mention of the relative paucity of future NFL players on DKR's teams? What is the current preseason #1 (AP and Coaches), and how often was that true in the past? How many players has that team had drafted over the last two years, and where does this number lie wrt its historical median and mean? Did that team have a policy in place formerly requiring players to document their accommodations and any vehicle they might be seen driving so as to help verify that they were not receiving any impermissible benefits? Is that school winning a higher percentage of recruiting battles for 4* and 5* athletes from regions and against schools traditionally associated with the "bag game?" You are free to opine that to you the difference does not matter. This is a feeling on your part about which you are likely the expert. But I advise dialing back the demonstrably false claims.
  12. Aggy got it a little mixed up. They are a sleeping 800-lb capuchin monkey with a sheep fetish.
  13. I have to part company with you here. A total collapse of a season that they can blame on the Mateer scandal might mean we get to watch them in the dirt AND keep the current staff in place. Plus, what is bad for OU is by definition good.
  14. Having a different opinion also doesn't mean I'm not malicious, arbitrary, and stupid, FWIW.
  15. Whatever its shortcomings, Tech is not A&M. If Campbell keeps pouring money into the football program and holds the coaching staff accountable for what they are given, Tech will become a player. They will have few other schools that are likely to match what Tech will spend for the B12's access to the playoffs. Tech, like Texas, was not a big bag-game school. Now that CC is writing checks, they too are in a new era.
  16. Texas doesn't owe Tech the time of day. Texas helped Tech "abandon" its conference mates in the Border so it could play big boy ball in the SWC. Tech rode our coattails into the Big 12. Tech was all too happy to be a part of the hate-on-Texas program that saw our league commissioner, no less, take sides against us. Maybe if Tech wants to play us in Austin occasionally as one-offs, we could meet. Two problems with that: (1) it would mean a loss of the opportunity for a less hateful school to boost its profile, and (2) Tech, so far as I know, thinks instead they should be in the bucket with Michigan et al-- home and home. No. TLDR: sorry the single biggest day for your economy every biennium got canceled. Well, bye.
  17. Friendly correction: they require either passing the 4th grade or promising that you tried hard the third time through.
  18. No team doc is going to let a potential ACL tear walk around unbraced or without crutches. Not without first getting their reply to the state board and their checkbook handy.
  19. PM sent. Not trying to start a side-conversation on the thread or invite CR crap.
  20. Meh, I don't get as worked up about uncommon or new uses. That is how we get language. We have both incidence and incident because people corrupted the same word incidens/incidentis into both of them. Dinner is supposed to mean breakfast, but migrated back through the day. *shrug*
  21. Lubbock is kind of funny. First time in :Lubbock was a conference back in '93. The boundaries have pushed out since then, but it comes off as a suburb that, rather than bordering a city or another suburb, rather abruptly ends in cotton fields.
  22. I wonder whether "patellar tendinitis" is LSU-speak for "strained patellar tendon." (Partial tear of that sweetheart would be a much bigger deal than the "1.5" touch of soreness they are claiming.) If there is nothing to see here, why all the shenanigans?
  23. I am not the one who said his number was completely made up. Perhaps a better claim would have been: "The number is potentially completely made up with respect to players that are not good enough to be courted by any top 5 programs even though it is actually less than the publicly known number that applies to recruits who can actually help win something meaningful." Or you could gracefully admit that the number was not completely made up.
  24. From NYT/Athletic article: That would be a 35% premium in (Tech GM) Blanchard's own words.
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