Magus Ossis

Everyone knows the best party is the afterparty. Come on over-- don't worry that the liquor stores are closed. Afterparty leadership plans in advance.

Letting BC go would be the mistake that keeps on hurting for years (decades?). Brewster hurt us enough. BC is much younger and seems to connect with an awful lot of the guys we want. An expert on recruiting our turf is a danger, even to a renascent Texas. Unless he aspires to coach on the field, we should be able to craft a custom position for him and pay what it takes to keep him.

Keep getting better, DB. We’re praying for you!

Hasn't he already been replaced by Brandon Jones (from Tech via Mack/UNC)?

Preston Stone beats the heck out of the kid likely to be the bell cow for aggy, Bush Tenschitt.

Or maybe the Best Darn Football conference. Or Orange Crush.

The guys behind firing him at Tech not only still talk like it was the right choice. They claim it was the only choice.

When Saban steps down (whenever that is), Bama will swing for the fences. They will try for Dabo first, assuming nothing happens between now and then to make him radioactive. If Urbs is still in retirement from whatever his latest health issue is, he would likely be next in line. If Riley is in the NFL and not killing it there, I think he would be high on the list as well. Probably one of the young coaches at p5 non-blue-bloods will be making noise, and that would be my guess for their consolation prize. All this assumes that Saban is not allowed to name/groom his own successor. Bama would probably let him designate a blown-out tire with a whistle taped to it if that's what it took to keep him around another year.

What about Craig James Hooker-Keller V

Limerick contest using “aggy” and “Nantucket.”

I figure that is Tech-quality info they provide at their website.

Being rated 26 when we should be 35 is painful in multiple ways. Having a few idoits rate us 26 these days is amusing and not really bothersome at all.

Well, in fairness, Wells inherits a team that didn’t quit in all 5 of its last five games, and he did come close to matching Kansas’ transition recruiting class. I should have pointed out these positives earlier.

We have to milk the whole underdog thing. After 10/12/19, we may be ranked above OU in every poll for well over 2 years.

Some chuckles: USCe at 19 overall aggy at 7 on offense Pardon me if I don't hold my breath for either of those to match end-of-season results for 2019

His recruiting may be turn out to be good, but history suggests an alternative. Below are his recruiting numbers 2013 through 2019, with his best yearly result for each metric bolded. 2013-2018 were USU/MWC, 2019 TTU/B12. Average composite athlete ranking: .7685, .7553, .7966, .8006, .7899, .7880, .8441 Composite recruiting rank among conference-mates: 10, 9, 5, 8, 9, 9, 10 National composite rank: 109, 111, 96, 92, 104, 109, 67 For some perspective on his transition class at Tech, Kliff's Tech transition class in 2013 was .8336/ 7/ 43. Based on these numbers, Wells has recruited comparably to Kliff in his Tech transition class, and like lukewarm-to-hot garbage in his years at USU. He never finished in the top 3 recruiting in the MWC, and he never won the MWC.The future may be undiscovered country, but the horizon in Lubbock is far enough away that one gets a sense that he knows what may be down the road for the foreseeable future.

From aggy's mission statement: From Texas': What starts here changes the world. They may still be seeking for a while, but they may get to assume some day.

Even at academic and other major referral hospitals, the day-to-day management of patients is frequently quarterbacked by hospitalists-- internal medicine ("generic adult") physicians who are the "attending of record." Texas law has historically forbidden hospitals to employ doctors, thus hopefully preserving some of the dignity and autonomy needed to attract providers willing and able to know and insist on what is best for the patient. Piecemeal exceptions to this law have been slipped through the state legislature, and even Parkland (an anchor hospital for the prestigious UT Southwestern Medical School) now allows non-faculty, hospital-employed staff. Making matters worse is that many aspects of care you would assume need a physician (patients in ICUs, etc) are often managed not even by an employee-doctor, but by a nurse practitioner. I am perfectly happy to extend the benefit of the doubt to the team taking care of Derrian, but chains are only as strong as their weakest links. A brilliant neurosurgeon's work can be ruined by a mediocre hospitalist. The fact that he is in Atlanta, sadly, does not mean that he has a team of actual, qualified, independently thinking, caring physicians, or even a doctor functioning as the day-to-day QB. Nurse practitioners are generally good at easy things, and often know when what they are facing is/isn't easy. Whether a hospital has a strong and independent medical staff with actual doctors running most of the care matters a lot more than being in a big hospital or a big city. tldr. With all that said, The between-the-lines info coming out seems to suggest that Derrian's care has been good.

Yeah, but he's a Dane Yankee.

One of these two has an advanced degree from an accredited health sciences center. His/her training included basic science classes taught by PhDs and actual human anatomy including cadaveric dissection, not to mention clinical experience which must also be accredited and based on evidence. The other may have varying degrees of exposure to anatomy and is from a field in which there is genuine controversy whether science represents an outside and pernicious influence. Thus the irony that a DC can order PT. I have a DC in the family. Love him and would let him pop my back. Would not let him diagnose or treat otherwise.

thanks

TENS, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, aka "stim."

Chiropractors often help things feel better when they pop backs/joints or whatever. When they tell you something is “subluxated” or “partially dislocated,” they reveal that they are either profoundly ignorant or crooked. It is OK to pay them to pop your joints for you (not your neck— they sometimes cause strokes) or to hook you up to stim (available from Amazon for less than the cost of one visit, no rx required), but don’t imagine that what they do is more than remotely concerned with science.

Sometimes there is something wrong with someone (e.g., drawn to aggy) that is obvious. Sometimes things look OK but trouble lurks under the surface. Sometimes we learn to spot the pattern only after the fact. He might have been doomed somehow all along by nature.

AggySlap?