Magus Ossis

We don’t know the true incidence of CTE in former NFL players, college players, or HS. We don’t know how it varies by position. We don’t know a lot of things about it. What we do know is that in a sample of brains donated for exam because of dementia, most had evidence of CTE. That is what is known as a biased sample. To say that we know enough about CTE to judge whether football enthusiasts care about players or whether steroids represent a reasonable risk is to step far beyond what the data can currently support.

Rules are increasingly changing to try to reduce risk from head trauma. Protective gear research continues, too. Ostarine is not only against NCAA rules, it is not legal to use, period. We can’t make life safe, and we surely can’t make football safe. We can and do set rules to try to increase the safety, though. There is rule-breaking everywhere. Adversity is not a signal to surrender. There can be good done which is short of completely joyful immortality on earth. Do what we can reasonably do, and continually reevaluate.

It's not a bad defensive class; it just doesn't look good enough to make much of a dent in the iron chute OU has been putting on the field in between offensive TDs. South Dakota, UCLA, and the Fightin' Cougar High Holgos are unlikely to make them pay. They went 1 for 3, though, against final top 10 teams last year. They would seem more likely to threaten their one win than improve their two losses based on who they lose and who they sign. Long-term, they need a defense good enough that an experienced quality OL, star WR, and Heisman QB win more big games than they lose. I hope it doesn't get fixed. Credible defensive coaching in 2019 might well help them start recruiting D guys more like their offensive players. Or there may be some Tech-Coaching-Tree defensive curse.

I have it down to two schools, assuming you count the one I'm not really considering. My announcement will be timed strategically.

DKR would have taken a real shine to ol’ EJ.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the ditch sign offends people so often that it wouldn’t be terribly newsworthy were it to slight minority dwarf transgender deaf special olympians with some colossally crude pun.

Kyle Flood. Hired from Atlanta Falcons. His show-cause penalty expired in September.

Cecil Cherry was described as part of 1. Exciting commit, contributor, didn’t realize potential as much as hoped but still good, left early 2. played because we couldn’t find better 3. not really a contributor 4. captain, moved to DL, less than all-American play 5. never played a down here So much for great LB haul. I am optimistic that if plays snaps at LB, he will rate at least at Malik in quality and more like what Hager was intended to do in role.

I've heard rumors that aggy is largely populated by regards, mouth breathers, inept trolls, and transgenders who regretted their surgery. If this is true, would that still leave room for bigoted rednecks, fans of dangerous engineering failures, and Blinn dropouts?

As of now, Shepherd is signaling in virtually every way possible that he is already a silent to aggy who left his public "commitment" to Texas in place for the show of a signing day flip. IF he visits us, I think that gives us a data point that maybe he is a confused teenager at least as much as someone who is (at the end of handler strings) playing us. The real tell will be the aggy super bowl party. The correlation between going to that party and future signing with aggy (for Shepherd, not necessarily the other recruits for '20 and '21) IMO approaches 0.999. One way or another, by Sunday night, I think we will have either pretty good confirmation or refutation of JS to aggy.

They don't learn this fairy-tale spinning in creative writing. It comes from their core history class essays and electives in journalism.

Cross-posted because it really belongs more on a thread devoted to all things aggy. Surly/Texas/Austin v aggy/CS is not just culture v agriculture, it is into pounding ovaries v oviaries

Gundy deserves the benefit of the doubt in managing offensive issues at this point, IMO.

I think it would also be amusing should they come in 2d in the West, third overall SEC, and get 77-0-style faceraped again by OU in the Sugar after we and the top 2 SEC teams go CFP.

Yeah, being a successful HC takes a rare brew of multiple skills, and every version is a bit different. Some versions work if you are missing the donor likability trait (Leach), some the player likability (Saban), some the Xs and Os (2004-2009 Mack). Some guys seem like they have it (Charlie Louisville), but trying to continue/duplicate the success turns out to be going after lightning in a bottle. Mackovic came close, it seems, to having the recipe to be a great coach for Texas. He won conference titles (granted, not against prime conference-mate status OU) and brought in talent. He didn't have the personality to parlay the tools he did have. Trying to find the next DKR or Saban will never work, because the next guy that successful will be so for different reasons.

I'm with ctj in that I don't see Shepherd signing with us, a likely not even visiting. My head says that we are better off without the poor risk/reward he represents. I can't help a little bit of a visceral hope we land him anyway. As for the Kate talk, it sounds like the Texas/aggy comparison could be culture v agriculture or it could be pounding ovaries v pounding oviaries.

In a world in which Casey Thompson is a Horn and the Brockermeyers pose with LR on a recruiting trip to OU, a lot is possible.

What's worse than desperately recruiting 4.7-40 safeties as corners late in the cycle? Watching them go to LSU.

Can I just let monkeys randomly typing run things instead?

Serious question: what is the o/u for how long before he no longer has the means to access the internet and post his “analysis?”

Why is he so highly rated? Looks like his composite is still top 200.

A while. 1. He is the immediate predecessor of our current HC 2. We are still a bit PTSD from back-to-back-to-back losing seasons 3. It is the offseason 4. We haven’t argued it into a consensus (yeah, like that would happen on the internet) 5. Surly gon’ Surl

Are these repugnant make-believe stories? Crosses between flatus and fantasy?

I think you nailed it earlier. They want places in our class to sound scarce.

Guys that may count toward 2020: QB: Sam, Casey, RoJo (3) RB: Young, Ingram, Brown +/- Porter (3-4) WR Woodard, Eagles, Moore, J Whit, Washington, Smith, Epps, Bru, Likely Lewis, Maybe Pouncey (8-10) TE: Brewer, Leitao, Wiley, Liebrock (4) OL: Okafor, Kerstetter, Imade, Moore, Cosmi, Ghirmai, Jones, Angilau, Johnson, Hookfin (10) OL Maybes: Urquidez, Hudson, Shepherd (+/- 3) DL: Bimage, Graham, Jones, Coburn, Ojomo, Cummins, Sweat, Mpagi, Warren, Carson, Ossai (11) LB: Johnson, Boyd, Adeoye, Overshown, Vaughns, Floyd, Tillman (7) DB: Brown, Duv, Thompson, Green, Cook, Boyce, Sterns, Estell, Foster, Jamison, Watson, Adimora, Owens (13) K/P: Dicker, Bujcevski (2) Late 2019 additions (+/- 3) I may be missing some. I see 15 as the bare minimum available. Knock out Porter, a WR, Urquidez, Hudson, and one or 2 LB/DB, plus assume we only add two more players this year who will still be here in 2020 (even assuming Shep sticks), and we are at 21-22 before surprise attrition sets in. I think we will be taking more than 20.