Everything posted by Magus Ossis
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Welcome LSU fans: Please leave your memes at the door
If there is significant sentiment on that team that we don't have a chance, I believe the feeling alone ups our odds of winning by circa 10%. When, in Herman's words, we "show 'em what they signed up for," the shock will make regrouping harder. I'm not either excited or worried about "locker room material." I have seen enough Herman-coached underdogs to know who will come out of our tunnel. My hope is that the Tiger team that comes out of theirs does indeed believe that we are a pushover.
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LSU @ Texas Analysis: LSU Offense
@White Tiger Surly is like a bar in the rough part of town. There is no patience for the things for which there is no patience. There is a great deal of expertise and insight. And piles of inside jokes. The best way to learn the difference between the insight and the jokes (and the idiocy and the filler) is to lurk. Engaging boldly before you have the lay of the land is certainly a choice, but suburban soccer dads who get cussed out and kicked in the ass while trying to explain things to bikers at the biker bar often leave without truly appreciating who was the fool. Peace, regards, see you after the game, etc.
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LSU @ Texas Analysis: LSU Offense
ουκ ὑπολαμβανεις πολλα αλλα λεγεις πολλα με μη λεγε ὁλα σοι ἑλλενικη
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Zach Smith is a stupid, disgusting piece of shit.
Yeah CDC didn’t call legal. Surly did. Oh noes— I hope he doesn’t start making fun of us!
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
I would of stopped singing about it but I cant.
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Iowa State vs Northern Iowa (FS1 11AM CT)
Bring in someone easier to start out. Like Howard. Or Tennessee.
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S&P+ rankings: Overperformance or overcorrection?
For week 2 SP+: LSU by 13.5 (based on preseason ratings and 3 pt home field advantage) Vegas: LSU by 5.5 Texas: hold my beer
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2019 Texas injury and illness
Ingram looked good last week. RoJo looked good for an RB2. We have Gbenda and Smith in case of emergency. This is better quality depth than last year when we had Watson, smoke, mirrors, and hope.
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9.2.19 Coach Herman press conference Noon
The syndesmosis between the distal tibia and fibula is basically a tough sheet allowing some limited motion but tethering the two bones. It is injured in a high ankle sprain. Old school was to put screws across while it healed. That was suboptimal in that it disallowed physiologic motion while the screws were in place— you had to take them out after healing and before allowing weight bearing. That or leave them, let them break, and hope their scraps didn’t make mischief later. Now most guys use some form of cable with buttons or tabs. It allows closer to physiologic motion and almost always can be left in. Neither technique is challenging. Rarely the tissue between the bones starts itself turning into bone after injury/surgery. Then you need to go in there after the unwanted bone stops growing and cut it out.
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9.2.19 Coach Herman press conference Noon
I don’t know that high ankle sprains merit leaving town, but William Meyers there is supposed to be good at sports hernia repairs. I have never treated someone who re-tore after having one fixed, so I can’t comment from experience on Whit’s prognosis, but 6 weeks sounds optimistic for him. Maybe back for November if we’re fortunate.
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Texas O-line talk
I think Cosmi’s staying is a pipe dream. If somehow he does, we may be scary good.
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Lil’Jordan Humphrey
How often is peeing in a cup actually related to the job? Maybe some variant of Kopi luwak coffee or fetish barista gig?
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Fuck you Chip Brown!!!!
I won’t paste the story in entirety because copyright etc, but he basically rambles about nothing for the most part. He does bring up the anonymously but “multiple” sourced claims that both LSU and Texas talked to Herman about hiring him before Strong lost to Kansas, and LSU agreed to Herman’s demands before we did. When we came through, he chose us. CS obliged by losing and hence being fired. Demands included locker room, weight room, drug policy, social media autonomy, preferred walk-in admissions.
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
Yeah I wanted him to be good strongly enough that I allowed my judgment to be clouded early on.
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
Whom do you think you’re addressing? Empty set is empty. Chad, Brad, whoever— is that you?
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Louisiana Tech @ Texas 7 PM 8/31 on LHN
That is a young but bad man. He will hurt some folks before he leaves. Bite you as a pup and all.
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College GameDay Sign Ideas Thread
Make a 4-quadrant poster with representative scores, verbiage and/or graphics from the Ole Miss, Tenn, USCe, and Mizzou games.
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S&P+ rankings: Overperformance or overcorrection?
60% ATS is good. I wonder what his rate would be including the FCS v FBS games (I know— can’t calc because the data aren’t entered into his system from before). If he fixes much of what is wrong with his model, he might be able to start influencing lines. He may already anyway.
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
I wish you well, and am putting you on ignore. Apparently I don’t have sufficient grasp of facts or logic to offer you anything either.
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
Straw man You have a belief which from the inside you seem unable to explain and from the outside it seems impossible to understand. When numbers contradict your arguments, the numbers don’t tell the story because X. When trends appear to contradict your theory, you have an alternate explanation. When you find that everyone is failing to understand the truth except you, there are two broad categories of explanation. (1) You are, compared to the graduate-level educated crowd in which you find yourself, uniquely perceptive, or (2) you are in error. Consider that even smart guys sometimes believe their own interpretations past when they should have been put aside. And that behavior (though not necessarily by particularly bright people) is a cardinal feature of aggy, SEC apologists, and BC of SP+ fame.
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
So 7 Mack recruits went to the NFL after playing for CS, but the rate of making it to the league went down as CS coached Mack’s guys. You may not appreciate it, but you are making the case I was challenging you to refute.
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So...about Charlie Strong at USF...
Here is a Link to a list of the ‘Horns on NFL rosters as of yesterday. The burden of proof is on him who would argue with the masses. Use that list to show that Charlie brought in a wave of NFL talent that meaningfully surpassed what had been here in the late Mack years. Or let it drop quietly.
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It’s the Power 6 now - The American has earned the right to be included
They used to be in the precursors to two of those leagues, didn’t they? edit and not the SEC or B1G
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S&P+ rankings: Overperformance or overcorrection?
BC/SP+: Texas should beat LaTech by 12 Vegas: Texas should beat LaTech by 21 Texas: hold my beer.
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SEC sposed to be SEC
No, I insist they were 8-4 in their OOC games