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Texas A&M Recruiting 2025: The Land of Melk & No Money
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Billy Liucci Segment 1 (00:00:00 - 11:54:14) "Fog" is a good word. When the season ends in a loss, it sucks, but everything is magnified by a million. I heard one of you, David or Olin, say this is what Aggies were afraid of when Texas joined the SEC. That is a big part of the problem. As stupid as I think the little brother thing is, that is where it comes from. When I got to Texas A&M, they were routinely beating Texas. It was not far removed from Jackie Sherrill's time, who established that, and R.C. Slocum was obviously still here. I remember when A&M lost to Texas in 1995. I didn't realize A&M could lose to Texas. That is when it shifted. Dennis Franchione, ironically, beat them twice. Mike Sherman beat them once. There was a mindset that A&M wouldn't lose, and they were the tone-setter. That started to change with Mack Brown and Ricky Williams. This rivalry is always about physicality and going out and taking it. One team played for 60 minutes like they were the aggressor and took control of the lines of scrimmage. The Aggies were too late to that party. They got into the fistfight too late. A&M produced a couple of massive plays, but they couldn't get enough. Throughout the Aggies' time in the SEC without Texas, A&M would have really controlled and run the rivalry. People say the records aren't that different. A&M was far more physical and better on the lines of scrimmage. The draft picks told the tale. The Aggies had playmakers on offense under Kevin Sumlin. That is a period when you weren’t playing them. When I looked at Texas' players on the lines of scrimmage, they looked like all the other top-end SEC teams we have played over the years. They have not looked like that leading into the run-up to the SEC. The gap between Texas and Oklahoma was noticeably different. Oklahoma seemed to be getting smaller, while Texas was getting bigger and bigger. Texas has always had the skill players and athletes. Texas won the physical battle. You saw that on Saturday. A&M has to get back to winning the physical battle. Not just to beat Texas but to compete in the SEC. South Carolina got you on that front. The Aggies and LSU both need to address those issues. Auburn did not beat you physically. Georgia would have gotten you there. Tennessee would be problematic. The Aggies are a little light up the middle on defense. They don't have an anchor in there. The linebackers are undersized. Other teams saw that and went after it. If there was a lesson from the game this weekend, it’s that the more physical team would win. When Vince Young played the Aggies in Austin, the Aggies led at halftime. They fed the ball to Cedric Benson for the entire second half to beat A&M. A year later, Vince barely got by the Aggies. When A&M won 12-7 down there, it was because of the physicality on the lines of scrimmage. Texas could not convert on fourth-and-1. They flipped the script here on Saturday. That goal-line play at the end of the game on Saturday was indicative of the entire game. The more physical team won that play and the game. That is the painful lesson you go into the offseason with. I was demolished on social media this weekend. We all have to hear it, just like Texas fans would have had to hear it if A&M had won. You don't want to lose to them ever. You had a 13-year headstart and are at your place. The Aggies had a direct say in who went to the SEC Championship Game. It is year four under Steve Sarkisian and year one and game No. 12 under Mike Elko. There is a massive difference there. No one wants to hear that we are calling year one “progress.” I get why. You lost the last three SEC games, and the defense couldn't stop anybody. There are questions about the direction of the offense. They need to figure out why they can't get a yard when you need it. Why don't you kick those if you're not picking it up and not built to do it yet? I like Elko thinking that if his team can get a yard, he will try and get it. It is the Dan Campbell mentality to a degree. The short-yardage woes played a huge factor in the South Carolina and Texas losses. It will be interesting moving forward as Elko builds this program. It will be interesting to see if this game on Saturday is a sign of things to come or if we will look back and go, "Remember when they couldn't even get a yard?" You can't sit here and go through another year where this is costing you games. You better fix that part of it. Elko is not scared to lose to Texas. He would be the first to tell you we are trying to get out of that mindset around here. To do that, he knows he must have a team to get that yard. Do you kick it now and go for it later when you are more equipped, or do you try to get it now because you should? Turns out you weren't good enough to get it. One day, you better be good enough to do that. Segment 2 (11:54:15 - 13:05:16) I dont think there's anything untrue about the quote, "This season doesn't feel any different than the 1998 season and every other season in the last 10 years." You look at first-year coaches, and this is very similar to Jimbo Fisher's first season. The difference is that you beat LSU at the end but lost to Texas. This Texas team is much like the Clemson team you lost to earlier in the season. Couple of top-10 teams this season. This year felt different for a lot of it because of that start. It left a sour taste, not just the Texas game but losing those last three. I was corrected on the site, and if they had beaten Auburn, they would've been in Atlanta. In hindsight, that one hurts me more than any of them. Segment 4 (15:42:22 - 25:08:29) Everything about this season has been tough to analyze and break down, even as the Aggies were winning to get 7-1. You knew Notre Dame would have staying power. You couldn't feel great about it because you should have won that game. You were so concerned with the way Conner Weigman played. You beat the brakes off Missouri, but they had been untested. Missouri turned out to be alright. They weren't one of the best teams in the country, but you still beat a top-10 team at home and looked really good in doing it. Even then, you looked at the end of the schedule and would not have been OK with 0-3. Hell no. I wanted to see A&M go 2-1 in those last three. Had they done that in any fashion, they would be in Atlanta. Individually, you knew each of those games would be difficult. You knew that the Aggies weren't that much better than Arkansas. You knew Missouri was not elite. You knew the game against LSU had much to do with the quarterback change. LSU leaned into too many excuses. The Aggie defense was dominant. Le’Veon Moss and Amari Daniels imposed their will against that defense. LSU was trying to excuse it because of the quarterback change, but there were other issues that led to the Tigers losing that game. Watching this season up until South Carolina, you knew A&M was still a part of a pack of teams. They had continued to figure out ways to win. They had shown so much toughness and grit. They were embracing the grind of these football games. They were figuring out ways to win. That impressed me in the first year of a new head coach. They weren't taking the field with an overwhelming talent edge against these teams. Just like Alabama, Ole Miss and Tennessee, they could not survive an off Saturday. You knew that off Saturday was about to come. The off Saturday came at South Carolina. There are a million ways that the Auburn game goes. I'll cling to the fact that you can't start down 21-0 on the road. The Aggies ran into a better team against Texas. We said all week that they would have to play mistake-free football and take advantage of their chances. They did not do that soon enough. I see why people are torn about how this season went. The Aggies were 7-1 and 5-0 in the SEC, but they finished 0-3 in conference play. You can look at it through the lens of a missed opportunity. The football gods kept handing the Aggies opportunities, but they were not easy opportunities. Alabama and Ole Miss losing handed you another chance against Texas to get to Atlanta. You created your opportunities within the Texas game alone. They forced a fumble against Quinn Ewers, tipped a pass that caused a pick-six and blocked a punt. They created those opportunities, but they could not capitalize. 8-4 records can look different. It would look and feel different if you had started 0-3 in the SEC, won five in a row and beat Texas. People come here and say we are too worried about Texas. My ass. If you work or compete here and don't have a burning desire to beat anything in burnt orange, then maybe this isn't the place for you. That is your arch-rival. It is like Michigan-Ohio State and Alabama-Auburn. You can understand that and still understand that they are not the end-all-be-all of the season. Texas has an elite athletic department. They are back to being a top-five football program. You will always have to earn it against them. The game against them is bigger than just one game. Had the Aggies beaten Auburn, you are playing Texas again for the SEC Championship. Everyone would be excited and looking for revenge. It would be a million times more fun than where we are, but every question about next year and this program would still be here. They would not have all gone away because of one play against Auburn. The way the season is viewed and felt would be completely different. It does not change what the Aggies can or can't accomplish in 2025 or under Elko. It could have changed if the Aggies had beaten Texas in Atlanta. Segment 5 (25:08:30 - 27:42:28) A&M had key injuries, particularly in the backfield. They were pretty healthy otherwise. The injury to Moss changed a lot. Everyone is talking about Collin Klein, and I wouldn't say I liked the fourth-down play. I saw so much creativity throughout the season from him. Also, you look at how Moss could get that yard. They were finding ways to score and get yards through the season. You forced them. If you could have avoided the mistakes and made one or two more plays, that game at least is very interesting, and you let the 12th Man become a factor. Segment 6 (27:42:29 - 34:56:27) Signing day is getting interesting quickly. We could have some interesting news today. This class is starting to look good. The finish of the 2025 class could shock some folks around the SEC and the country. The 2026 class we know is off to a sensational start. I am personally most excited about the transfer portal, which opens on Dec. 9. I think this is where cElko will thrive. I will be honest about which losses you should be worried about and which you shouldn't. That won't be 100 percent accurate, but it will be close. I will tell you when keeping someone is a big deal. I would have said that about Daniels last year. That dude did everything he could. Without him, I don't know what we would have done in the running game. The running game was OK against South Carolina and pretty good against Auburn. There are guys that you get in the portal, like Cashius Howell and Ar’maj Reed-Adams, that you don't throw a party for, but they end up being good contributors. Tre Watson and BJ Mayes are examples. There will be a lot of those. Last year, Elko and the part of his staff that was here by that point had less than a month to work with the portal. They had very little chance there but still did an excellent job. This time around, they have been here the whole time. This time around is when we see some pretty damn exciting additions. Last year, the only transfers who moved the needle were Nic Scourton, Dezz Ricks and Will Lee III to some degree. Scourton was the Big Ten sacks leader, and Ricks is a former five-star. You will see a lot more of that this year. That is what I am most excited about. I am also excited to see which guys pass up the NFL. I don't mean guys who could go early. I mean those who will go in the third or later rounds. Come back for your senior year. Edgerrin Cooper, Jake Matthews, Cedric Ogbuehi and Germain Ifedi all did that and benefitted. There will likely be several Aggie players that the staff would want back that will be in that boat. They will have a tough decision. It would be wise for some of them to come back. We will see if Elko and NIL can convince them of that. To me, this is a fun time. It is not fun not to be playing this weekend, and it is not fun to have gone through these last three SEC games. This is a lot of fun because it shapes our excitement level going into next season, and we will spend much of the offseason talking about it. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
orthohorn replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
I guess the point I was trying to make is that, while Quinn has been nowhere near a bust, he hasn't quite lived to up to the expectations everyone had of him. I don't know how anyone could look at the way he moves in the pocket and not think he's just a little head fucked right now. He's clearly been good enough to win us (almost) every game the last 2 seasons which I'm not ignoring and has looked unquestionably elite at times ie Bama and OkSt last year. I just don't think the QE in the current moment gives us the best chance to win the next 4-5 games with the limitations he has. Most things he does well (RPO, single read, short passing game) are things that most D1 QBs do well and things that Arch is absolutely capable of doing and Arch gives you so much more in the run game and hopefully down the field. You know Sark is asking him to do more when he's forcing a shit-ton of balls that he wasn't forcing earlier in the season. There's a huge amount of pressure on him, they made a fucking Dr Pepper commercial about his backup breathing down his neck, and Sark already started working Arch in arguably the most important game of the season which is honestly surprising. Best case scenario IMO, Quinn and Arch split time getting limited roles doing what they do best which limits the QE gaffes, gives opponents more to prep for, Sark gets to keep his QB track record and give Arch dev time and hype going into next season ESPN has us #1 in FPI with 23% chance to win the whole thing in the first year in the SEC with a good schedule and stacked roster. It's a MASSIVE opportunity for the optics of the program and the stars don't align like this every year. I just hope we do play the best QB and aren't married to the idea of this being "Quinn's team" -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
touchthemonolith replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Damn, imagine Texas going 11-1, with Wisner rushing for damn near 200 yards, and yet still being salty that we aren't winning with the type of QB play that you'd prefer. -
Our facilities are way better these days so we're not at that enormous disadvantage as in our past. Pat Jones has said on the radio that when they did oncampus visits with recruits they purposefully avoided the stadium. Everything else is correct, you don't force a guy out one year removed from a CCG appearance becasue of one bad season, the first losing season in 20 years. If they wanted to fire him it shouldn't be about the season but his off the cuff comments that keeps getting him in trouble. He's grumpy about it, as are a bunch of coaches at all levels, but has adapted to NIL and the portal like everyone else. When people go off aobut firing him I always remind them that the University of Texas, the bluest of the blue bloods with all the money in the world, went through a decade of medicrity through three bad coaching hires, why would anyone think we'd hit gold all of a sudden? If he goes the way of Mack Brown we might consider it after a few more bad years, but not this year, that's crazy. If he doesn't replace the coordinators though, I'll be pushed pretty far to the skeptics side, his biggest problem has been stubbornness with his assistant coaches. He made a comment at his last presser that programs that want to win are investing in the coaching staff, makes me wonder if he's pressuring the University for a bigger budget to hire coordiators. He made a dumbass comment last year when he hired Brian Nardo out of DIII as defensive coordinator that we "could afford him." If he's grumpy about anything these days its the same gripe he's been passive aggressivly been harping on for years, the coaching budget.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
deech replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Just like any free agency in sports - the market is what people are willing to pay. There is usually one idiot willing to overpay because that's the one player they need to win it all or whatever delusions they can create. The fair market rate is never what the idiot is willing to pay. Sure agents will go the following year and claim what idiot paid Player A is now the new market and we want a deal that beats that one, but that is not the market because of the idiot or the claim by the agent. Texas has been a sophisticated purchaser for three years running now. They are well aware of the market for any position/player they have been interested in. Oregon, Aggie, Florida, whomever can always come in last second and try to throw money at their problems. We then have a choice - pay more for that particular player or just pay the market rate for the next kid on the list or the next kid in the portal. We typically always choose the ladder. That doesn't mean Texas is not willing to pay the market rate. Just that it won't overpay out of desperation. -
Many of the key components to our success (DeMeco, Slowik, CJ, Tank) are in the 2nd years of their career in their current roles; I think some growing pains/learning curve is to be expected. Two years ago we had the worst roster in the NFL; building quality depth in all rooms is probably going to take another offseason of FA/draft. I still have faith that DeMeco and CJ are Super Bowl-winning caliber talents. At least this offseason we should have a clear mandate as to the #1 priority. I’d like to shore up SS and add another pass catcher, but if we do nothing else we have to fix the OL…
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
ztejas replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
The format needs tweaking because if SMU wins we are the 3 seed - if we lose we potentially fall past 12. That doesn't make a ton of sense. If Clemson wins and BSU wins then BSU is the 3, the B12 winner likely gets the 4 seed and Clemson is maybe on the road to start their playoff? I guess it's just one season - maybe it will be a bit more clear cut going forward. The SEC and B12 eating themselves alive has made a lot of it weird. -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Ignatius replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
If we win the SECCG it would go by/quarters/semis/final. With there being to clear ‘you have to miss this team’ opponent for us this season, seems to me playing 4 more games is better than playing 5… -
This thread could very well be about how, despite several buffoons on this board loudly complaining otherwise, this former walk-on safety has been the best player on the field for short stretches despite playing on one of the most talented Texas defenses in recent memory. Or for the Blake Gideon and Dylan Haines jokes. Frankly it’s unbelievable this thread title is said without irony or sarcasm. But I also wanted to highlight and memorialize Taaffe’s postgame remarks in response to that heinous game day sign, because the remarks demonstrate remarkable character and why he is an exemplary representative of this program. For the uninformed, some red ass “blue collar salt of the earth” ag inexplicably brought a sign to College Gameday making fun of deceased Texas walk on Jake Ehlinger, who tragically passed away in a fentanyl-related accident. Obviously this behavior doesn’t represent the entire Texas A&M fanbase. Most alumni would condemn this once understanding the context, and many already have (although I am sure everyone here has met exceptions and can debate in another thread). But unlike most game day signs and taunts, this one actually provokes a reaction. Austin is now a big city but it is still a small community in a lot of ways. The Ehlingers live and work here. If you’ve met this family and know what they have been through in the past, that gameday sign gets even more odious. So in the postgame press conference Michael Taaffe somehow trumps his cathartic performance on the field with remarks far better than anything I could have come up with: “I want to say I feel sorry for the person that posted that sign. I feel sorry for him because I don't know what he's going through, how much he's dealing with in life. To think that that was a good idea, to think that was OK, to think that was appropriate for anything, no matter what rivalry. I just wanted to make that clear." The national media and our fanbase will quickly move on from this win because at the end of the day we just beat a middling 8-4 SEC team. But I felt that Michael Taaffe’s maturity and passion deserves special recognition and it shouldn’t get buried in a game thread. Proud he’s a Longhorn.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Duane Moore replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
Definitely want to win the SEC this week, not the least of reasons because I’m going to the game and don’t want a bunch of UGA fans barking in my face. Also want to repeat our trick from 1995-1996 of winning a conference on our way out and our way in. More long term, however, if we’re going to an NFL-style playoff system in CFB, then we should probably get away from these conference championship games altogether and just determine the regular season conference champion by records+tiebreakers like we used to do it prior to 1992. Nobody is upset that we don’t have an NFC East Championship Game in January every year. -
FROM NY TIMES. FAVE LINES HAVE BEEN BOLDED. ENJOY: What I saw at Texas-Texas A&M: Scenes from an essential college football rivalry’s return David Ubben Dec 1, 2024 COLLEGE STATION, Texas — As Aggies silently filed out of Kyle Field, Texas fans in burnt orange filling the southeast corner of The House That Johnny Built rubbed salt in their wounds with three letters. “S-E-C! S-E-C!’ they chanted. Traditionally, the chant has been reserved for programs expressing their superiority to teams that don’t get to wear the patch on their jerseys. Both Texas and Texas A&M wear it now. And Texas capped its maiden voyage through an SEC schedule with a 17-7 win over A&M for the right to do something A&M has never done: Play for the SEC title. “Let’s take this s— to Atlanta!” a member of Texas’ equipment staff yelled as they packed up gear on the sidelines in the game’s final minute. Texas is here. And A&M is left dealing with the fallout of a nightmare resumption of one of college football’s most storied rivalries after a ludicrous 13-year absence fueled by the same pettiness that makes the rivalry so unique and special. “You’re little bro!” yelled senior linebacker David Gbenda, who made three tackles for a defense that didn’t allow a point to Texas A&M’s offense in the win. Texas A&M’s only points came on a pick six off a Quinn Ewers pass that was tipped at the line of scrimmage. Texas minister of culture Matthew McConaughey, who moonlights as an A-list Hollywood actor, didn’t need to say a word as defensive lineman Vernon Broughton pounced on a game-sealing fumble. He turned to the crowd and flashed a horns up. Minutes earlier, a loud bang rang out from inside a suite as the Longhorns stuffed Amari Daniels for a 3-yard loss on fourth-and-1 on the goal line, keeping the Aggies’ deficit at 10 with 4:36 to play. “Son of a bitch!” a voice echoed through the hall as elevator doors opened. Thirteen years of waiting ended with Texas’ fight song echoing into the chilly Aggieland night. “It sucks,” Texas A&M quarterback Marcel Reed said. Ewers cradled the game ball and smiled as he walked up Texas’ tunnel, unwilling to let anyone else lay a hand on it. “A win is a win,” he said afterward, downplaying the significance of a ball that might be sitting on his mantle a half century from now, marking the only time the senior will ever play his alma mater’s most hated rival. Does Ewers keep the game ball from every win? “I don’t,” he said. “But for some special ones I like to.” All three decks of the east side of Kyle Field are almost full by the time Kanye West’s “Power” kicks in on the PA system, signaling the team’s entrance for yell practice. A&M moved the tradition from midnight to 5:30 p.m. Friday to accommodate the football team’s schedule and allow it to attend. It brings plenty more fans out to the stadium, too. Josiah Brantley, one of five Aggie Yell leaders and a senior at A&M, says Friday night is different from all the yell practices he’d attended before. Texas A&M president Mark Welsh III tells the crowd that 58 suite holders asked for their suites to be open for yell practice, which concludes with a lengthy fireworks show. “Tomorrow we get to beat the hell out of Texas,” he says. “I’m not sure life gets better than this.” Yell leaders, per tradition, take their turns ribbing their rival ahead of Saturday’s game. “Who trashes their own field?” Jake Carter, head yell leader, asks the crowd, referencing Texas’ loss to Georgia earlier this year when Longhorns fans threw garbage onto the field following a controversial call that was later reversed. “Coach Schlossnagle never belonged here anyway,” says yell leader Kyler Fife, igniting the crowd with a shot at the baseball coach who left A&M for Texas this summer. “Tomorrow is personal,” yell leader Grayson Poage says after referring to Texas’ mascot Bevo as a glorified hamburger. “It’s about who runs Texas.” Sweet-smelling smoke wafts through the air from barrels welded into homemade smokers. If the state of Texas had an official smell, it would be beef being cooked low and slow. The closer one gets to Kyle Field on Saturday, homemade smokers dwindle and food trucks take their place. Signs acknowledging every family member’s graduation date hang over many of the tents filling Aggie Park east of the stadium. These two rivals first met in 1894. The old and new clash in a buzzy tailgate scene 130 years later. A QR code hangs on a sign outside the stadium for fans to enroll in a rewards program. A 12th Man sign sponsored by Valero — oil money does make much of what success A&M and Texas enjoy possible — offers an enticing backdrop for Instagram photos. A pop-up store sells Lucchese boots, complete with a singer crooning George Strait’s “Amarillo By Morning” through a small speaker. Another sells Mizzen+Main merchandise alongside a banner featuring Texas A&M quarterback Conner Weigman — who was benched last month — as a pitchman. A field is blocked off with “no tailgating” signs. It serves as a fitting playing field for a fitting prologue for Saturday night’s game. There’s no need to pick teams. One side features kids in burnt orange Arch Manning and Quinn Ewers jerseys. The other: Kids wearing maroon 12th Man and No. 2 Johnny Manziel jerseys. The silence of fans walking up the ramp leading to the northwest corner of the stadium is occasionally interrupted by an A&M fan drumming the familiar rhythm of “Hullabaloo, caneck, caneck!” — the opening words of the “Aggie War Hymn” — on a light post along the sidewalk. Reflexively, any Aggie fan in earshot responds with a “Whoop!” Oscar Torres Jr. graduated from Texas A&M in 1977. He went there because he liked the engineering program. He convinced his younger brother Jorge to attend A&M, too. Jorge graduated in 1990. Another brother graduated in 1986. Ten more nephews from the family later graduated from A&M, all convinced by Oscar Jr. On Saturday, he drove five hours to Aggieland from Laredo and sat outside the west side of Kyle Field with a handful of family members drinking Miller Lites and embracing a game they waited more than a decade to see. Oscar Torres III was 19 the last time the two rivals played and remembered sadly walking out of the stadium as Texas fans celebrated. He’s 32 now and graduated in 2014. “This game just permeates everything,” he says. “My neighborhood has a group chat and nobody ever talks sports. But when this game comes around, it’s all everybody is talking about.” Mike Speller, a banker, graduated from Texas in 1991 and flew down from Connecticut in part to see family for Thanksgiving, but also to go to the game with his son, a ninth-grader whose dream school is Texas. They paid $3,600 for a pair of tickets. “We waited to see if tickets were going to get any more reasonable,” he says. “They only got more unreasonable.” Mark Rhodes, a psychologist and 1991 graduate of Texas A&M, brought his wife Trish to the game on Friday from Amarillo. They paid $1,600 for their pair on the secondary market. As soon as Texas’ SEC arrival signaled the rivalry was coming back, they decided they were going to be at the renewal. “We would have paid pretty much anything to come to this game,” Trish Rhodes says. “It didn’t matter.” They aren’t alone in their desperation. Texas A&M police say they arrested one fan who ran past security at an entrance. Two more came to the game dressed as construction workers with fake credentials, hard hats and reflective vests. They are arrested for criminal trespassing. Another is removed from the stadium after gaining access with a fake ticket. Outside the east side of Kyle Field around 90 minutes before the game, a group of Stormtroopers fresh off a tour of Tatooine walks by waving an A&M flag. An A&M fan in a maroon shirt looks at them and smiles. His shirt featured scripture: Psalm 75:10. “All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,” it reads. Before the game, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte chats with McConaughey, who paces across the field and pauses to talk briefly with ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, who brought his dog Peter to witness history, too. “When I first took the job, my thought was we have to bring this rivalry back,” says Del Conte, who left TCU to become Texas’ AD in 2017. “Everyone loves the game. It’s part of history.” “The SEC was natural for lots of reasons but one of those was rekindling this rivalry,” Texas president Jay Hartzell says. “We started this journey back in 2020. The Longhorns wanted to get this rivalry resumed. To see it finally coming to fruition is fantastic.” Texas dominates the first half 17-0, then holds off the Aggies’ comeback bid in the second. After singing “The Eyes of Texas” with the band after the win, some Texas players sprint to midfield and prepare to celebrate on the A&M midfield logo. Security and coach Steve Sarkisian quickly shoo them away. Another Texas cheerleader, seeking space, runs toward midfield with a giant Texas flag. Security stops him. “We’re not planting that!” a Texas support staffer yells. “I’m just waving it. I know better than that. I wave it after every game,” the cheerleader says, before doing so. “I just watched Ohio State and Michigan get in a full-fledged brawl in my hotel room today and I just didn’t think it was right,” Sarkisian says. We shouldn’t be on their logo. Shouldn’t be planting any flags on their logo, and I’d like, whenever that day comes, to get the same respect in return.” The fight songs of both schools take a moment to insult the other. A&M’s ball boys wear white “Saw ’em off” hats on the sidelines. The band’s name tags all read “BTHO t.u.” The prevailing tone, however, radiates far less hate and much more excitement. Aside from a few A&M and Texas staffers needing to be separated in pregame warmups, Saturday’s game lacks the fisticuffs and ugly scenes that color much of Rivalry Week elsewhere in the sport. Most of the 109,028 fans who arrive as part of the third-largest crowd in Kyle Field history eventually leave disappointed. One of the wildest weekends in A&M history — in a game with stakes as high as almost any ever played on that field — ends in sadness at the hands of its most hated rival. But so much of this rivalry’s existence necessitates this game actually being played. Finally, after 13 long years, it was.
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Game Week 14, 2024- Texas v Georgia SEC Championship Game
Pato del Muerto replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I’m sure Georgia believes they are locked into a home game if they lose, we may see based on the next ranking. I don’t see value in choosing to lay down in a game that isn’t a must win, to guarantee yourself another win or go home game in the playoffs. additionally, I think I’d prefer the extra game to be now with time to heal, then go into an 8 team tournament. Rather than starting rest now and then having to play the extra game right at the start of the tournament. It’s borderline unfair to have a team play in its ccg and then also in the first round, when teams like Tennessee and Ohio state wont have that possibility by virtue of not making the ccg. Maybe a future state of the playoffs would have all ccg participants with a bye. Makes it meaningful to reach that game win or lose, and doesn’t punish the loser. Would require expansion again though. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
dcar00 replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
what Sark doesn't seem to get is that 3 with this D is like 7 with a good D. I know his kicker is meh and he expects his QB to not have shit ball security but there is mounds of evidence that "something" will happen during a game with Quinn. take the 3 from 30 yards go up 20 and win the game. hell a TO on downs would be better. We are lucky his fumble didn't get returned for a TD as well. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Vic Mackey replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
And there lies the problem. If you have to manage your QB and take the ball out of his hands, you are behind the 8ball. This limits the playbook. You should be able to trust your QB on a #3 ranked team not to diarrhea all over himself when it matters. Quinn was dog shit all 2nd half. And let's not pretend he dropped his nuts on aggy in the 1st half either. Arch had to come save a drive for our 1st TD after Quinn threw into triple coverage. The win last night changes nothing about Quinn. He's the sole reason we damn near blew the game. He better thank this defense because without them, aggy could have snuck out of there with a win. Quinn made a few good plays and against aggy even with his terrible 2nd half, it was enough. How many teams in the playoffs is going scoreless and scoring 17pts total going to work against? I'd say none. -
Game Week 14, 2024- Texas v Georgia SEC Championship Game
SimkinsMan replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Think of all the criticisms lobbed at the Texas football program over the last 25 years. They were soft (no longer). They can't win the big game (Alabama, Michigan, Aggy, say hello). They have elite skill players but are weak in the trenches (oh, it's already been Broughton). They don't develop players (dL-OL). The coaching staff is a good old boys club (bake this, motherfucker) Eleven win Esteban has turned all of that shit around. I'm sure if you squint you can find some problems with the coaching staff, but from where he started four years ago to now has been a remarkable exercise in program building. Basically, the administration, AD, alumni, students, and Austin community have all been brought into the program and are contributing to its success. All of that effort to prepare the UT football team for the SEC-SEC-SEC. We are lucky to have Sarkisian. Now let's go finish the job...- 686 replies
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
The_Great_Hornsby replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
It is very important that we win the game against UGA now. And the team is going to be motivated to get revenge. -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
UTGrad98 replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
Some playoff thoughts after yesterday. We want Oregon to win vs Penn st as it guarantees us a 5 seed at worst. ND is not going to jump us for the 5 seed or else the big 10 and sec will explode. Teams playing in conference championships don't really get a bye. They have to play an extra game in order for the chance at a bye. I think you will start to see very liberal rotations and resting starters in the big 10 and sec championships during years where both teams playing are getting in regardless of outcome. Injuries later in the year are more common and it gives teams a chance to build depth for the playoff push. I think you will see a preference in years to come to be in a position like tenn and Ohio st are in this year. The way they have the 12 team playoff set up is stupid but it may be the most fair way to do this without invalidating the lesser conferences. ¹ -
Official Coach Sark Thread of Dominance—haters back off
Zeus replied to SimkinsMan's topic in Football
Sark was masterful last night, my only complaint is he keeps coaching around Quinn instead of just benching him. Hopefully whatever jitters or injury or whatever gets worked out before the playoff because we ain’t going to be able to win the national championship without a QB. But feeding Wisner and relying on defense has been awesome, he’s usually so eager to get more points on the board he just keeps passing when the run is working. -
Since we have to play it, we gotta win it. difference between 2 weeks off and 3.5. i hate the inevitable rust that we’re going to have to deal with for the first quarter or so (hopefully no longer for Quinn) in the first playoff game with that long of a layoff but that’s way more important to get everyone as close to healthy as possible
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Punting? 1983 was either John Teltschik, future Philly great, or someone else, but the punting was much better then. FG kicking, another miss tonight, and if these two units have another bad game at the same time it could kill us. Punting edge to '83 Kicking even. If Ward makes 4 out of 5 or 5 out of 5 in the '84 CB we would have been National Champs. Offense, 24 much better, even with the turnovers. Defense, '83 no doubt, but it is getting closer. '83 was #1 in the country in yards per game. I haven't looked at our rating now, but it almost has to be in the top 5. Offense, lapses in every game, both years. Much worse in 1983, when we had problems due to Fred not able to decide on a QB and the fact that we lost our best running back in October I think. In his prime, Edwin Simmons reminded me of Bo Jackson, and almost as fast. But due to a medical condition Edwin found out that one leg was shorter than the other which caused knee problems. By the time the '83 season ended we had nobody who could hit the hole as fast as Edwin. Then Rick McIvor magically had the day of his life against the Age in the 45-13 win and Fred was committed to go with Rick for the Cotton Bowl. Tonight the defense could have easily outscored the offense in the 2nd half, similar to how the '83 unit operated, but two potential interceptions were dropped. The drop by the DL is totally excusable, would have been a ridiculous catch and I didn't see a replay on the other, a ball thrown at the end of the third quarter. Sad to say about the offense, but the offense is so bad in whichever quarter it disappears that I believe the D needs to try to score one TD per game. If Aggy picks up the punt block and runs it in, we still win, but talk about fingernails on a chalkboard!! 17-14. Let's have one game where all three units play well!!
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Fucking hell. We have all the pieces to win a title except a consistent QB. This game should be getting put away right now. Come on defense, go get the win like last week.
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Shit!!! We can't execute well on O and shut this down. This doesn't bode well. I don't know what can be done. Ewers is not elite and Manning is too green. We are fucked going forward but at least win this fucking game, Sark. Please win this one.
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We gotta win this one, let’s go!
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With a Texas win, aggy goes to 8-4, where they belong, and we go to the SEC championship game, where we belong.
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If we win tonight I hope we are going to spray paint Kyle Field burnt orange and cover the field with Bevo's cow patties.
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