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  1. Magus Ossis
    The holder on that play is an orthopedic surgeon in Frisco now. He and the Cotton Bowl trophy are both named for his grandfather.
  2. Magus Ossis
    Texas as dogs in most of our games? OK cool Hook’em
  3. Magus Ossis
    Wait. Is the implication that we need to keep Mt Vernon down? Because Baylor isn’t hiring Briles; MtV is. Landomatic said it. Politics/religion discussion is verboten here for good reason.
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    Is it just remotely possible that failure of the front 7 at KU might factor just a little into the runaway safety ratings there?
  5. Magus Ossis
    Yes, apostropes. From the Greek απο meaning “from” or “away” and στροπε meaning “crap, a typo.”
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    Most likely out at least part of it-- all would not surprise. My guess is not released to full contact until October at the earliest.
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    1. This injury is unlikely to affect his ability to play OT in 2021 2. Hopefully however it opens his eyes to the value of a Texas education over the alternatives, God forbid some other injury should limit his FB career
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    Please take this to CR.
  9. Magus Ossis
    No supraorbital component to smile. Needs more orange slices.
  10. Magus Ossis
    It’s loyal, family-oriented, small-town juicing, though. Not like the trap-door, grind, Bama style.
  11. Magus Ossis
    I’d swap Baylor for Riyadh Tech’s Yemen Research Campus. Rice is considerably more desireable.
  12. Magus Ossis
    Depends on whether we use a mechanical ball launcher for a QB and the other team fields a defense.
  13. Magus Ossis
    He’s just misunderstood several people, including that girl when she didn’t enunciate, “no” well.
  14. Magus Ossis
    If aggy gets desperate enough, I could see them Hance/Leaching ol’ Jimbo out of some of that money. If otherwise harmless West Texans will do it, aggy is certainly capable.
  15. Magus Ossis
    We need USC to show some signs of life early. Nothing great, just a pulse. Last thing we need is for Urbs to get hired in time to try to salvage their 2020 recruiting class, especially at the expense of our own.
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    I’m sure Herbie, as trusted QB, captain, and senior-year MVP heard not a whisper about this during his years there.
  17. Magus Ossis
    I’m in favor of this over cheating, definitely. Prior to the William Singer investigation, I’d have thought the risk of material consequences quite low. They may still be. I’m against cheating, even if everyone else cheats. Even if most people think it shouldn’t be called cheating.
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    Of course, maybe we should not try to think creatively about solutions to recruits’ being illegally recruited out of our backyard. The two best choices are probably just to ignore the problem or to join in the lawbreaking, counting on enforcement’s being unlikely and beatable. After all, in this information age, what are the odds that law enforcement would notice or be able to do anything about the sudden proliferation of inexplicably well-heeled athletes at Texas?
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    My reply was not intended to indicate that the principle thrust of the strategy should be offering the fbi evidence of unreported transactions. Surely the potential blowback onto recruits and their families suggests the power lying latent. Can it be harnessed? Not by joining the cheating; perhaps by other means yes.
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    I think the ideal would be a pissed off TCU or Tech grad to take the focus off us, but I can live with UT. Recently former Texas employee Michael Center says that the feds occasionally do notice the money flowing around athletics.
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    My pleasure to amuse as possible
  22. Magus Ossis
    No. I’m all for threatening and turning in bagmen, though. There is a lot that can be done if one does not argue against it by straw man or complex question.
  23. Magus Ossis
    Paying recruits is a crime in Texas. And there’s the federal income tax. I’m not talking about turning people in to the NCAA with an eye to causing sanctions. I’m thinking more along the lines of “friendly communications” here and there to make it more uncomfortable for people to break state and federal law on our turf. An underground response to an underground problem.
  24. Magus Ossis
    The big 12 does not have a culture of nodding and winking at $EC-style payments. If we had the moral disposition to “get in the game,” we would nevertheless be vulnerable to being exposed. We might be able to lawyer up and tell NCAA to get lost, but we would stand out as the apparently biggest cheater in sports by being successful at it and not in the $EC. My feeling is that the same money that could have gone to buying a few blue-chip recruits is better spent established a strong clandestine intelligence-gathering operation that makes it more difficult for UO, Bama, LSU, Clemson, etc to buy Texas recruits. Think how much surveillance and behind-the-scenes pressure can be had for the price of 3 $200,000 recruits per year.
  25. Magus Ossis
    2020 class starts at 15 before transfers, medical retirement, etc. We aren’t going much over 25 because we won’t have the back-counter room to swing it. We will end up with over 20 though.

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