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Magus Ossis

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  1. Only he knows his motivation. My point was that he deliberately, assuming he was astute enough to understand the terms, signed a deal custom crafted to let USF and him take advantage of his former employer. The employer that had already paid him handsomely for what can honestly and without exaggeration be described as statistically the worst anyone has ever done in his former position. Over the course of more than a century. There is a word for guys who do this, and it is not “nice,” and it is not “good” (at least not in the sense of upright and virtuous). He’s gone, and I wish him well. I personally bought into the “good guy” image at one point. But we don’t really have objective evidence of his heroic virtue, or even exceptional virtue.
  2. LSU is going to be talented and dangerous. They have all the pieces on D needed to turn a game ugly. That said, their O, as noted above, lacks the brain trust or track record to suggest they are well equipped to keep up with a top 10 opponent if the D isn’t serving some turnovers. UGA turned it over twice to Texas and 4 times to LSU last year, taking none in return. Texas turned the ball over 3 times to Maryland and only 8 times since. Recent performance suggests that neither team is likely to give a lot away in that department. If the turnovers are few, as I suspect, and if I’m looking for a team that is more likely to manufacture some offense in the face of good D, Texas looks like the one. I think this game comes down to whether we see Maryland Sam or most-of-2018 Sam. The former means LSU wins, while the latter forces the Tigers to earn points, points too few in the end to get it done.
  3. I have some complaints about Herman and co, but one of them is not a pattern of lazy or inept evaluations. I’m interested to see how these early TE (/ATH) takes end up fitting in.
  4. And he structured his USF contract to fuck Texas. Because that is what good guys do when they give their best but come up just short of previous worst in history and so get fired.
  5. That’s enough talent to make them competitive if we play them again.
  6. Hard to say what the max muscle mass gain is while still “coloring inside the lines.” A middle-aged woman can put on about a pound of muscle mass in a month of training. Gains in muscle mass are dependent on a number of factors, many of which are only now being understood. Meal frequency in general is better higher, but each meal needs to trigger a leucine threshold, and the refractory period for the state induced is not entirely defined. Androgens like DHT boost weight gain, in some studies by as much as 1kg (2 lbs) per month. Teenage men have some of the highest natural androgen levels of anyone on the planet. Also, a 6’5” man with a wide frame has a lot more opportunity to increase muscle mass in absolute terms than a 5’3” woman. I could believe 4 lbs/month lean mass added, but would find over 10 straining credulity.
  7. They will go through the 5 stages of grief, mourning our win. They will get stuck on phase 1 of grieving the obvious implication.
  8. Demas has been pretty vocally pro-ag. It would be a little surprising but immensely entertaining to see him decommit. He wouldn’t ever affect us either way— I can’t imagine a true Fr WR would make much difference at LSU.
  9. Wait. What's that thing he keeps doing with his arms? One goes up on either side of almost every guy he hits, and they sort of clamp down.
  10. Landthieves will look good against all the filler on their schedule. They will roll into the OU game 5-0, highly ranked, and rested. After we slap them around, they will run off wins against WVU and KSU to perch themselves as the favorite to face us in the CCG for a rematch rematch. Their last 4 games might just trip them up (crosses fingers). I expect a good chance for each of ISU, Baylor, TCU, and OSU to be motivated and dangerous.
  11. EX ILLEPIDIS ANI
  12. A brief look at where we were going into year three of a coaching regime, last 20 years Texas 1999 record 9-5. Last 3 games at aggy L, B12CCG at Alamodome to UNL L, Cotton to arky L. Top 2000 recruits (#6 class) Chance Mock and the big 3 receivers. 2000 result: 9-3, L in Holiday Bowl to #8 Oregon Texas 2015 record 5-7. Last 3 games at WVU L, TTU L, at Baylor W. Top 2016 recruits (#7 class) Duv, Jones, Shark, Hudson. 2016 result: 5-7, beat ND to start season but missed bowl after 3 game skid. Texas 2018 record 10-4. Last 3 games at KU W, B12 CCG at Jerryworld to OU L, W in Sugar Bowl over #5 UGA. Top 2019 recruits (#3 class) Bru, J Whit, J Smith, T Johnson. 2019 result:???
  13. Plenty of people who bother to visit Stanford come away nonplussed and yearning for the wonder all its own that is aggy.
  14. I remember when he was interviewing for a residency spot. Looks like he ended up at aggy/TempleS&W and stayed on afterward as faculty.
  15. Shep has surprised me. His head's being screwed on right was my big concern based on much of the apparent drama in the recruitment. He so far seems to be getting in line with all the other ducks very nicely. His talent gives him a chance to make a very big difference should this hold up. Lindberg is rather the opposite; he is unlikely to wash out, drop out, or fail out, but he is not as much of a physical freak.
  16. Offered, signed, attending with 2019 class = initial counter for 2019. If he is unable to play, we could medically retire him and get him off the 85 limit. If he does play and pans out, we could later apply for an extra year of eligibility should he RS one of his remaining 4 after 2019. Watching his recovery from afar (and through a figurative keyhole), I have gone from skeptical he would even attend UT to thinking he will some day see the field.
  17. I like the Karic take. If Lindberg projects to "serviceable swing guy in year 3," I think a good case can be made that we are better off not devoting a scholarship to him. That seems like a need that a GT could fill without eating the anticipatory years (and, if not needed, the later ones) of 1/85 of our stipend roster. Add in the phenomenal talent we appear to be in good shape to land in 21, and saving a slot for targets of opportunity is wiser.
  18. I wonder to what degree some of the “weak links” on our coaching staff add to the apparent great evals. It might partially explain their otherwise apparently excessive tenure.
  19. Puts things in some perspective
  20. It was, completely without the knowledge of the trainers, slipped into the players' normal HGH and DHT supplements.
  21. Aggy '22: Dixie Chicken Shit
  22. And branding adds to the perception (reality) of the value of the content. Quantity without quality doesn't move the ad revenue needle very effectively. Convincing a restaurant to buy Sand Cola from your distributorship after you drop your Coca Cola offerings isn't going to be easy or particularly profitable.
  23. T&P to Jackson. Richardson and Spiller both have talent to play RB for them. How far they drop from Williams' production will depend on whether a certain transfer eats himself out of the position as he was rumored to have done at his previous school, how well a true freshman adapts to what aggy is doing on offense, and how well a thin room stays healthy. Normally I would expect RB to be one of the better opportunities for a true FR to contribute, but pass pro with the OL they are running out there will take yet another hit.
  24. Looks legit. Someday we will be as good as USCe.
  25. That law is going to jump up and bite someday when the wrong DA gets a wild hair. For now, though, it appears to be a waste of ink on state paper.
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