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  1. There's no way you leave FSU out if they win out. The regular season has to matter. They beat an SEC team in week 1. It has to matter that teams like FSU and Texas choose to not be pussies and play tough OOC opponents. Yeah the ACC isn't great but they would've have beaten everyone they were asked to beat. We had our chance and couldn't beat OU. I do not think we should leapfrog them in any way. Now if it comes down to us or Oregon, hell yes we should go in. Portland f'ing State. Hawaii. Yeah, they won in Lubbock which we know isn't easy. Now try winning in Tuscaloosa, Oregon.
  2. Elegant, articulate, definitive...almost brings tears to your eyes. This man is earning his money. Perception! A lot of people missed this. They wouldn't have even been smart enough to realize the need for perceiving what a football score really means deep down. Of course, it's all interpretation. Some likely perceive the "slipping away" as victory if the opponent is good enough. Those are the true Aggie geniuses. This is what A&M wants the new head coach is going to have to do! This man gets a paycheck for such perceptive, interpretive, and literary skills. Everybody outside of you, your micro-managing board or morons, and your readers are actually very sure that they wouldn't characterize this as reloading. Somebody had a fart hose installed in the seat of their pants that runs strait to a facemask. Talent! Talen! Talent! Lot's of perceiving going on. Where's all the rough tuff real stuff they sing about? Resources? Facilities, facilities, facilities! They're like some ancient religion that believes offering the right sacrifice will please the gods. If we keep placing ever more extravagant facilities on the altar, we will win the holy natty. Resources? We're richer than anybody anywhere ever! Huffing your own farts is no way to go through life, sonny. Can there have ever been a more apt expression of Aggie hopes? Just switch out the year but not the pronoun at the end of each new season.
  3. I’m of the opinion that Texas only gets left out if there are 4 undefeated teams. Undefeated Big Ten champ, UGA, Washington, and FSU is the only way we don’t make it in as Big 12 champs. The committee likes easy solutions. 4 undefeated champions is an easy solution. If Bama or Oregon wins I don’t see us getting left out now that we have head to head and better win over common opponent. These CCG are defacto playoff play-in games, the losers will not be considered if there are enough 0-1 loss champs to seed. If Bama and Oregon win I see the PAC12 getting the same treatment as the Big 12 did back when Ohio State jumped Baylor/TCU. You’d have undefeated Big Ten champ, FSU, Texas, Bama with Oregon out as #5 (what a dream draw). Texas and Bama played OOC, if you leave out Texas you’re telling teams that winning a huge OOC game gets you no credit and if you leave out Bama you’re punishing them for losing a big OOC game. The easy answer is to include BOTH and leave out the team whose best OOC win was against tech. The PAC12 was/is overrated. Their best P5 OOC wins all came against 6-6 tech or a 6-5 Wisconsin, and their 3rd best team Arizona lost to Mississippi State who isn’t even going bowling. Those early season PAC12 wins against Michigan St, TCU, Nebraska, Florida, and Baylor were fool’s gold. I think this is the easiest out for the committee, PLUS who the fuck is going to care about the PAC12 after this year anyways? A dead conference can’t really rock the boat going forward. Plus as always I go back to brands value. Oregon is the lesser brands of the group (like Baylor/TCU were a decade ago) so backing into a playoff that has Texas in a playoff with the SEC champ and B1G champ is too tempting to TV. They could screw FSU out of a spot, but I have a hard time seeing them get dropped if the survive the next 8 days unscathed. But again TV$ may win out over justice/ethics this case.
  4. Fuck Oregon. All of our chips are on Gator or Louisville Yes, we beat Alabama in September but if you think a 1 loss SEC champ Nick Saban, coming off beating 30 game win streak Georgia would get shut out of the playoffs then you've never watched college football before. Noles are going down Rose: 1 Michigan 4 Texas Sugar: 2 Washington 3 Alabama
  5. Poster X: Let me tell you everything that’s wrong with Chris Simms and Mack Brown, and oh by the way fuck Greg Davis, Chance Mock nope, Mack needs to go, sophomore Colt McCoy is bad, John Chiles should starts, David Ash nope, Charlie Strong sucks (he really did), Tom Herman sucks (he also really did), Sam Ehlinger nope, Seven Win Steve sucks, Steve’s wife sucks and makes him dress like a bitch, PK is awful, Ewers sucks, give me Arch Manning and perhaps Kirby Smart until I decide they both suck, and if you disagree with any of this over the last 25 years you’re a pathetic sunshine pumper go fuck yourself. Also Poster X: Don’t shit on other fans, we have the same goal.
  6. Yeah, I don't think it helps our resume that much to avenge the loss, since we already have the best resume of all the one-loss teams, because we have the best SoS, the best win, and the best loss. Either that matters, or it doesn't. And we need an undefeated to go down either way. Also, fuck ou. I don't even want them in position to get the runner-up award.
  7. At least we aren't going for it on 4th down everytime but the fgs are wins for tech. We should be curb stomping them already
  8. SIAP but great (long) article by The Athletic forensically breaking down the Jimbo issues: COLLEGE STATION, Texas — After the final game of the 2022 season, Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher spoke with an air of validation. The Aggies had just defeated No. 5 LSU by 15 points. Never mind that the win completed a 5-7 record, Fisher’s worst as a head coach, or that his uber-talented, preseason top-10 team failed to make a bowl game. ADVERTISEMENT Leaning slightly forward with his arms crossed, Fisher sounded like a man convinced, even in the face of his program’s immense struggles. “There’s nothing wrong with what we’re doing,” Fisher said. The comment caused a brief panic among fans, and even some in Texas A&M’s administration, who felt Fisher needed to adapt to the rapidly evolving college football landscape for the Aggies to unlock their potential. On the surface, he did. But behind the scenes, many things stayed the same. Nobody could make Fisher change, two athletic department staffers said. He wanted to do things his way and dug in his heels. Armed with a massive contract and a buyout more than triple the previous largest in college football history, he felt unfireable. But less than a year later, on Nov. 12, A&M did what some considered unthinkable given the $77 million it still owed Fisher and fired him. (And the athletic department will foot the bill; program sources told The Athletic multiple times in the past year that if Fisher were fired, donors wouldn’t be the ones paying the buyout. The 12th Man Foundation, the athletic department’s primary fundraising arm, will pay for an initial one-time payment of $19 million, and the athletic department will fund annual payments of more than $7 million, athletic director Ross Bjork confirmed the Sunday that Fisher was fired.) The offensive guru, one of five active coaches to have won a national championship, was lured away from Florida State at eye-watering cost because he was the man the Aggies deemed capable of meeting their own lofty ambitions. go-deeper GO DEEPER Inside the numbers on Jimbo Fisher's eye-popping $77.6 million buyout But X’s and O’s are only part of a head coach’s duties. Coaches are responsible for an organization that includes 120 players, 10 on-field assistant coaches and dozens of staff members across operations, recruiting and personnel, scouting, administration, player development and academics. ADVERTISEMENT Fisher loved the schematics. But as the sport evolved and roster management became paramount with the advent of the transfer portal and one-time transfer rule, Fisher’s emphasis on an underperforming offense and failure to adapt to growing organizational needs created a disjointed and, at times, chaotic atmosphere. “There isn’t that clear vision,” said a current team staffer, who was granted anonymity, along with more than a dozen others within or close to the Texas A&M program, so they could speak candidly. “What’s our messaging? What’s our vision? How do we sell it? What’s our program about? Everybody here just does their own thing.” After a 45-22 record in six seasons and no championships to speak of, why did it all go wrong? Why, with every other ingredient an elite program needs, couldn’t Fisher’s Aggies break through? In College Station, Fisher struggled to find and keep healthy quarterbacks capable of directing his offense. (Tim Warner / Getty Images) When Texas A&M hired Fisher in December 2017, it was widely considered a coup. Two months later, Texas A&M System chancellor John Sharp handed him a plaque proclaiming a future national title with the date unfilled. At FSU, Fisher went 83-23, led the Seminoles to a BCS national championship and a College Football Playoff appearance. The fast-talking West Virginia native admired A&M’s top-notch resources. The Aggies had a top-10 athletic budget, spent half a billion dollars on facility renovations, had given their previous coach a massive contract, had unparalleled fan support and resided in a recruiting hotbed. He trusted then-A&M athletic director Scott Woodward, whom he’d known since his LSU days. The program checked a lot of boxes, except championships: The Aggies won their last conference title in 1998 and their last national championship in 1939. Fisher, who knew how to win, was the missing piece, or so the Aggies thought. After giving Fisher a 10-year, $75 million contract, Sharp told the Houston Chronicle that his only concern with the length of the contract was that he couldn’t get Fisher to agree to a 15-year deal. ADVERTISEMENT Looking back, Fisher’s best days were behind him. “Jimbo lost his fastball,” a former Texas A&M staffer said. “He was hungry and motivated at FSU. Then he started reading his press clippings.” The downfall wasn’t immediate. In Fisher’s first year, the Aggies went 9-4 and beat LSU for the first time since joining the SEC. He ensured every staff member received a game ball to commemorate the historic seven-overtime victory. In year three, A&M had its best season of the Fisher era. The Aggies went 9-1 in the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign, winning the Orange Bowl and finishing fourth in the Associated Press poll, their highest postseason ranking in 81 years. He elevated recruiting and stockpiled the roster with elite talent. In a postgame victory speech at the Orange Bowl, Fisher proclaimed, “We ain’t done yet.” In September 2021, Fisher signed a contract extension for 10 years and nearly $95 million guaranteed. A month later, Fisher scored the landmark victory of his tenure, a 41-38 upset of No. 1 Alabama. That winter, A&M signed the highest-rated recruiting class of the modern era. On signing day, Fisher — while denying accusations that A&M bought the class — vowed, “If you don’t like that we’re coming on, get used to it. I ain’t going nowhere.” go-deeper GO DEEPER Jimbo Fisher triggered by accusations of NIL slush fund: Calls rumors ‘garbage’ and ‘irresponsible as hell’ But as the program peaked, cracks in the foundation began to show. None were more visible than A&M’s decline on offense, which was supposed to be Fisher’s specialty. The Aggies lost quarterbacks to season-ending injuries three years in a row. Offensive line play deteriorated. Fisher, who was the primary play caller and handled the offensive game plan, evolved slowly. “Jimbo’s scheme was antiquated in 2014 when he won a national championship at Florida State,” an opposing SEC staffer said. “It was kind of out-of-date then, and it’s just not gotten better in 10 years.” ADVERTISEMENT The Aggies failed to score 30 points against FBS opponents in 13 consecutive games from November 2021 to November 2022. Calls from fans and critics for Fisher to ditch play calling and hire a true offensive coordinator grew louder as the Aggies stumbled to a losing record. Despite his defiant tone after the win over LSU, Fisher relented after the season, hiring former Arkansas and Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino. In August, Petrino called the offensive installation “a collective effort” but said he would handle play-calling duties. Bjork confirmed Petrino did call the plays this season, but three athletic department sources said Petrino didn’t have full offensive control and that he called plays primarily from Fisher’s offensive scheme. So why hire Petrino or a coordinator at all? “He felt like he had to, just for perception,” the athletic department staffer said. “His ego would never allow him to (relinquish offensive control). He wants to prove to everybody, ‘See, my scheme works.’” Said Bjork to The Athletic, “My job was to say, ‘Coach, we’ve talked about an OC. Now’s the time. You’ve said it. We all agree. We’re going to turn it loose.’ And however it worked after that, that was up to them.” Five people in or close to the program described Fisher as stubborn. If something worked at FSU in 2013, Fisher’s belief was that it would work at Texas A&M. Suggestions to do things differently weren’t often well-received. “He liked confirmation,” a former A&M assistant said. “Sometimes the coaches would just say whatever they thought he wanted to hear because they’d be burned out in meetings. … You knew he was gonna do whatever he wanted to do anyways.” Said the former A&M staffer, “If you told him ‘no,’ or something he didn’t want to hear, he would talk s— about you, like a little kid or something.” ADVERTISEMENT Fisher’s contract armed him with immense power. The athletic department staffer said Fisher made it known he could get others fired: “He would say, ‘I’ve got the stick, and I’ll use it.’” The offense received the bulk of Fisher’s attention. A lot of a team’s shortcomings can be papered over by a great quarterback, and Fisher understood that. Jameis Winston, Christian Ponder, EJ Manuel and JaMarcus Russell became first-round picks under his direction at Florida State and LSU. Fisher, who played quarterback at Samford, was also hardest on his quarterbacks. “He’d dog-cuss QBs,” a former personnel staffer said. “I’ve never seen a dude tear up a young quarterback like Jimbo did.” Despite his early success with FSU QBs, he later struggled to develop his quarterback recruits into stars. Since Winston, not a single Fisher high school quarterback recruit has finished his career as the starter at the school to which Fisher recruited him. At Texas A&M, the only quarterback that started and finished consecutive seasons under Fisher is one he didn’t recruit: Kellen Mond. Jimbo Fisher’s high school QB signees since Jameis Winston PLAYER SIGNING CLASS RESULT John Franklin III 2013, FSU Transferred after 2 seasons JJ Cosentino 2014, FSU 30 career attempts, no starts in 4 years Deondre Francois 2015, FSU Transferred after 4 seasons De’Andre Johnson 2016, FSU Dismissed Malik Henry 2016, FSU Transferred in first season Bailey Hockman 2017, FSU Transferred after 1 season James Blackman 2017, FSU Transferred after 4 seasons James Foster 2018, Texas A&M Transferred after 3 seasons Zach Calzada 2019, Texas A&M Transferred after 3 seasons Haynes King 2020, Texas A&M Transferred after 3 seasons Eli Stowers 2021, Texas A&M Transferred after 2 seasons Conner Weigman 2022, Texas A&M Sophomore at Texas A&M Marcel Reed 2023, Texas A&M Freshman at Texas A&M A former A&M recruiting staffer pointed to mechanics and how Fisher instructs quarterbacks to hold the ball as a hindrance, citing the case of Haynes King, a former four-star recruit who transferred to Georgia Tech last winter and has been more successful there than he was at A&M. King’s personal quarterback trainer told 247Sports in October that King’s throwing motion had become elongated. “If you watch film, you’ll see Haynes King is holding the ball really, really high at a certain location,” the former recruiting staffer said. “Now you see Haynes King playing free and open. … (Fisher) tries to mold them in a certain way … it may have worked in the ’90s when he was at Samford, but these kids these days? They want to play more like Patrick Mahomes. They want to play free.” ADVERTISEMENT The development issues weren’t exclusive to quarterback. The offensive line, despite having two freshman All-Americans in 2021, has regressed, ranking last in the SEC in pressure rate allowed in three consecutive seasons, according to TruMedia. Fisher hasn’t had a 1,000-yard receiver since 2014, and none of his wide receiver recruits at A&M have turned into NFL Draft picks. “We played them last year, and we were like, ‘Holy s—.’ There was first-round talent across the defensive line, the entire two-deep,” the SEC staffer said. “And then you play them this year and it’s like, ‘They’re still really good, but it felt like we played the exact same team last year.’ Are these guys really developing?” The recruiting department is symbolic of how Fisher handled things. During his first fall at A&M, he walked into the bullpen where recruiting staffers worked and told them recruiting would take care of itself. “If you win games, you will land good recruits,” Fisher said, according to the former personnel staffer. “If you lose games, you will not land good recruits.” That simplistic view isn’t entirely off base, but as roster management evolved, the need for an efficient, well-run recruiting department, led by a director of player personnel or general manager running the operation as the head coach’s proxy, has grown more important. There were no consistently scheduled days for the on-field coaching staff to watch recruiting film as a group, which is unusual, the personnel staffer said. The former A&M recruiting staffer bemoaned Fisher’s indifference to the details. “We’d sometimes watch kids as an entire staff and provide them all this information that was never ingested,” the recruiting staffer said. “We’d have sheets upon sheets, and (Fisher) didn’t even care. He didn’t want to go over the itineraries for recruiting visits. Didn’t care.” ADVERTISEMENT Fisher’s reluctance to evolve in certain player acquisition areas also became an issue. Before this year, he rarely utilized the transfer portal, signing only seven scholarship transfers in his first five seasons. He signed 10 before this season out of necessity because more than two dozen players from the 2022 team hit the transfer portal. A&M endured constant turnover in its recruiting and personnel department. After signing the No. 1 class in 2022, much of that staff departed, including director of player personnel Marshall Malchow, who joined Dan Lanning at Oregon. Four months later, Fisher hired Kevin Mashack from Indiana to succeed Malchow but parted ways with him after a year. For the past five months, A&M hasn’t had a director of player personnel, a position filled at every other SEC program and every Power 5 program in Texas. “That position is so, so important in today’s environment,” Bjork told The Athletic. That A&M doesn’t have a player personnel director with the winter transfer portal window set to open on Dec. 4 is “alarming,” the former personnel staffer said. While the recruiting department was an afterthought, Fisher was passionate about landing top players. Fisher has always recruited high school prospects well. Of his 13 signing classes as a head coach, 10 ranked in the top 10 nationally. Former staffers lauded Fisher’s charisma with recruits and families and ability to form bonds with them. “Jimbo is a great closer,” the former A&M recruiting staffer said. But the pursuit of the top-ranked 2022 class, which is the highest-rated in the modern era, became an obsession for Fisher and his staff, to the point that Fisher inquired about the 247Sports Class Calculator and how certain commits would affect A&M’s recruiting ranking. The former A&M recruiting staffer said Fisher ignored character questions if the recruits were five-star prospects. ADVERTISEMENT “He’s like, ‘Nope, he’s a five-star, we wanna take him,’” the staffer said. Multiple members of that signing class broke team rules that warranted suspensions. Seven members of the 2022 class transferred out after their first season, including all four who were suspended. “It’s like we’ve collected the most talent possible but I don’t think it was really strategically done the way you’d build a roster,” the current team staffer said. “They were just acquiring talent. I don’t know how much of a team it was.” That could apply to the staff as well. Although Fisher had three former head coaches on his staff — Petrino, defensive coordinator DJ Durkin and offensive line coach Steve Addazio — and trusted them to do their jobs, team staffers say Fisher provided no clear direction on how people were supposed to operate. “We had no idea what was going on or when we were off,” the former A&M recruiting staffer said. “He could take his private jet and go back home to see his kids or wherever, and we’re sitting there like, ‘Well, shoot, now we have the weekend off, didn’t know about that because Jimbo didn’t care to tell us.’” Fisher kept a tight circle, confiding mostly in his right-hand man, director of football operations Mark Robinson, and receivers coach Dameyune Craig. But the buck stopped with Fisher and processes often bottlenecked as a result. “He was the only one who could make a decision,” the athletic department staffer said. “Nobody else was empowered to make a decision.” The chaos trickled down to the roster. Although disciplinary measures for those 2022 freshmen became public, multiple people within the program described poor day-to-day discipline and accountability for players toward the end of the Fisher era. Being late to meetings or workouts was met with few, if any, consequences. ADVERTISEMENT “It was kids doing whatever they wanted,” the former assistant said. “And Jimbo showed a little leniency to those kids. Then, the older kids on the team were saying, ‘When we were kids on the team, you didn’t let us do it that way.’ It wasn’t good.” After those 2022 recruits left the program, discipline improved in 2023. But the on-field issues persisted. Quarterback Conner Weigman’s season-ending injury in September was a major blow. The offensive line struggled more than ever. A&M’s special teams allowed three touchdown returns and was one of the worst units nationally in kickoff coverage (Fisher didn’t have a full-time on-field assistant dedicated to special teams). A 15-point road loss to Miami in Week 2 foreshadowed issues that lingered. One-score losses to Alabama, Tennessee and Ole Miss left fans and school leadership frustrated. “Our program is stuck in neutral,” Bjork said the day A&M fired Fisher. Over time, the dysfunction took its toll. Despite having top-10 roster talent each of the past three seasons, A&M went 19-15 overall, 10-13 against SEC teams and 12-14 against Power 5 competition under Fisher from 2021 to ’23. That included seven consecutive losses in games decided by one score and a nine-game road losing streak. The athletic department staffer called football the worst-run sport in A&M’s athletic department. “It seems like things were just really hard,” Bjork told The Athletic. “And look, winning is hard, I get it. But processes and procedures should not be hard.” A Week 2 loss to Miami this September put a concerning ceiling on Fisher’s sixth season. (Sam Navarro / USA Today) So where does Texas A&M go from here? The administration is more than a week into a wide-ranging coaching search. The sooner A&M can get someone in place, the better. Bjork set the opening day of the winter transfer portal window, Dec. 4, as an informal deadline to give the new coach a chance to retain as much of the roster as possible. ADVERTISEMENT Several names have been connected to the A&M job. Mike Elko, who is only the second coach to take Duke to consecutive bowl appearances, seems like a natural fit given his previous experience with A&M as Fisher’s defensive coordinator. UTSA coach Jeff Traylor, who has taken the Roadrunners to consecutive conference championships and has them in the mix for a third, would provide a Texas-heavy identity given his background as a former state championship-winning high school coach in the state. Kansas coach Lance Leipold’s work pulling the Jayhawks from the ashes would give the Aggies a builder. Arizona coach Jedd Fisch’s varied background includes extensive NFL experience coupled with his revival of the Wildcats, who went winless the season before he took over. Bjork has specific traits he’s seeking in the next coach. Among the dozen attributes he listed, phrases like “supreme organizational skills,” a “culture of discipline” and someone who “can capitalize on modern day college athletics” stand out given Fisher’s shortcomings. This time, there will be no plaques, no 10-year guaranteed contracts. The hire will be more grounded in reality. But the Aggies won’t change their lofty ambitions. If they can keep their loaded roster together, they should. “Expectations should be sky-high there, because of the resources they have,” the former assistant said. “That school deserved way more than what we gave them the last few years.” The Fisher hire proved that it’s not as simple as pairing a big-time coach with a ton of resources. There are no shortcuts to a championship. Texas A&M must find its man to build the program without skipping steps. “The ingredients for a championship are here,” Bjork said. “Aggies want to do it the right way and deserve excellence in everything that we do.” (Top illustration: John Bradford for The Athletic; Photos: Carmen Mandato, Logan Riely / Getty Images)
  9. I guess I see why quite a few lineman in the NFL come from the Iowa. But still. Never seen a team just be like, nope we are just going to score enough points to mostly win. Lmao. First FG attempt of the year. That guy will probably be their whole offense next year.
  10. Your #2 is merely possible. Its highly probable Texas gets in over a 1 loss Alabama. We've had a stronger schedule, same record and beat them in their house by 10. The way they evaluate teams in triads, Texas definitely beats out Alabama by their rules if its for the 4 or 5 slot. In any event, Georgia is going to beat Alabama worse than we did. We need to make sure we keep winning and FSU/UW and preferably OR have losses. The 2 Pac can make our path much clearer if WSU/OSU win this weekend.
  11. Say what you will about pop and whether he was just a product of Tim, but he instilled the culture that permeates the franchise. They were a bush league mom and pop (no pun) store before he was put in charge. For God's sake, Bob Bass literally used to fix the toilets in the Hemisfair Arena. Now the league is peppered with his minions on the bench and in front offices that have tried to emulate what he's built. You can't deny his accomplishments. And as far as I'm concerned he's earned the right to go out in his own terms and let's face it, nobody in the organization has the gravitas to shit can him any way. Barring finding out that he's been covering up for Bret Brown molesting the ballboys in the locker room, he ain't going nowhere until he wants to. That said, he's operating with complete autonomy and he has entered into naked emperor territory. At some point we need to question if he's getting too old for the job and if his judgment is sound. I thought it was really fucked up when he started dating Bud's ex wife. His politics don't bother me as much as it does that he doesn't expound as thoughtfully about his basketball team as he does on the events of the day. But still, he don't give a fuck. He's clearly going to do whatever he wants and there's really nobody who's going to tell him anything any more. Winning is the great deodorant and literally no coach has done more winning than him but come the fuck on. If anyone is immune from this kind of shit it's him but holy shit last night he was as embarrassing as the on the court product has been. I'm not quite ready for him to go but it wouldn't upset me nearly as much as it used to.
  12. Keep that 2008 shit out of this thread. I don’t want any of that 2008 shit stinking it up around here. Win the Big 12 and we are #5. Power 5 conference means #5 is the lowest we can go as a one-loss conference champion. So what is the surest way get into the CFP? FSU needs to lose a game. That’s it. The only argument would be a 1-loss FSU v 1-loss Texas. Everything is irrelevant if FSU has one loss. I understand that an FSU loss v. Louisville in the ACC Championship is a better loss than Texas v. OU. However, the loss of Jordan Travis will cancel out FSU’s “better loss” based on the strength of Texas’ resume.
  13. The only way two teams from the same conference are getting in is if FSU does not go undefeated and one of the other conference champs has at least two losses. That could happen, but in that scenario, we are either getting in as a one-loss champ, or will have at least one more loss, so won't deserve a spot. There is no plausible scenario where we win our next two games and are left out over 2 teams from the same conference.
  14. If we go 12-1 and win the conference, with our only loss coming almost two months prior at the last minute vs OU.... and two SEC teams get in, including one we beat in their stadium by 10, and we get left out.... I'm burning down all of North America.
  15. Correct, all arguments, including the dumbfuck ones I see on this site are all centered around an emotional argument that "her der, Georgia is the 2 time defending champz guyz, we cant leave them out" and not centered around the fact that Texas would have a much stronger SOS, a much stronger resume because they would have not only a conference championship while Georgia does not, but they would also be the only team in the field with a win over another conference champion, oh yeah, and that conference champion they beat was a road game and the team that just beat Georgia. I suppose you could make a weak ass argument that Georgia has the better loss, but again, that would fall flat because of the fact they literally lost to a team we beat. Georgia is playing their QF game against Bama, if they lose, they are going to be out.
  16. Lunch with Liucci: Billy Liucci joins TexAgs Radio (Wednesday, November 22) Segment 1 (00:00:00 - 9:29:24) *Billy singing* “Hello, my friend we meet again. Been a while. Where should we begin? How bout some COACHINGGGG?” *More singing* Is it Jeff Traylor or Jedd Fisch? I don't think it's either. Sorry to squash the Jedd Fisch rumor. I'm going to turn Jedd Fisch into a dead fish. Run to Twitter! Let's randomly speculate! People pull anything I say about Jimbo Fisher. The reality is it doesn't cost me a moment of my day. A lot of what was said about Fisher is that he almost got it. They were 9-1 in the COVID-19 year. That team was built, if not for the schedule change, to probably go 12-1. If Ohio State plays more than five or six games, they have more of a chance to lose than be in the CFP. COVID-19 is what kept Trevor Lawrence from playing. I have had your back on feuds, but on the SEC Mike feud, I might have had his. He was wrong about Sam Pittman vs. Fisher. Look at tenures. Kevin Sumlin, to me, in hindsight, UCLA was the death knell, but there is always something you see before that. They rose to No. 4 after the Kyle Allen-Kyler Murray thing. They started beating people. One loss to Alabama and in the playoff field. They played Ole Miss and got beat by a true freshman Shea Patterson. Those two, that was it. For Fisher, Alabama and Tennessee this year, you could have won those games, and none of this would be going on. You win one of those two, and Fisher is still coaching here. For losing back-to-back the way they did, they played well enough that it made it worse. A large part due to horrific blocking in the second halves. The frustration mounted, and I don't think he could recover. Segment 2 (9:29:25 - 26:15:23) Creed is as populare now as they have ever been. The Vikings are playing them now. Rangers did it in the World Series. They are back on tour. They are meme’d everywhere. They were played at Kyle Field for the last couple of weeks. I like them. I need a drive around in the car video with me singing, and then Scott Stapp is riding shot gun. I was in Kansas City Monday night. It was a blast. I got to sit up in the suite with the Kelces and all Travis’ buddies from high school. We get on a giant bus, and it's like a limo inside. The first song that came on was Bad Bunny. Everyone was vibing, and then the Chiefs lost. We have this show. We have what I am writing. We have Friday's show for two hours. We can start talking football now. I know there is stuff out there about Evan Stewart from Texas sources. Those guys have been foaming at the mouth, waiting for him. It's a bizarre obsession. They are dying for Stewart to not succeed at A&M. If he didn't miss two or three games, his numbers would be fine. There are reports that he is not traveling this week and won't play. That is still TBD. He was in the building at team meetings yesterday. Putting Stewart on transfer portal watch? I would too. A lot of the higher profile guys during a coaching change will have options. I would also say let's see who they hire and see if that changes anything. Not just with Stewart in particular but with other guys. We are stating the obvious. I think there is a good chance that would have happened with Fisher still here too. Maybe your best chance is with a change. The key in 2023 is to determine what is going to take to keep Stewart. Texas had people who mortgaged their souls to keep Xavier Worthy last year. He has won some football games this year. It's worth it. For anyone who knows, he had one foot out the door. At LSU, their people don’t know. I had a person say Brian Kelly should sue me because I said he might be interested in the Michigan job if it opens up. That same person might throw a fit if they heard that Malik Nabers was allegedly telling a lot of people that he was likely to go into the portal. LSU got wind of it and made sure he didn't leave. That's been the best thing that has happened for them. When these things happen, you have to decide who you go all in on and reach a certain point where it may take too much to keep said offensive lineman, so instead, we can go get a comparable offensive lineman, who is as good or better and get a starting SEC cornerback. That's roster management. As of yesterday, there is still a chance Stewart can play this weekend and travel. That is not a done deal. If he doesn't practice all week, he won't travel. I don't know if any player says, "I can't let that losing streak get to 10," but most of the dogs, will say, "Man, it's LSU. We beat them last year, and they want revenge. They want to embarrass us." There is a word that starts with "F" LSU. They think they will embarrass us. Ain't happening. There are guys that will feel that way. That is who I want on that football field. That's it. I hope Stewart is suited up and out there playing because he is competitive as hell. I like what Moose Muhammad has done. Max Johnson is a guy who wishes he could play. He would do anything in his body to go play this weekend. I want Jaylen Henderson to feel the same way. Conner Weigman would like another crack at them. If you don't have that, sit your ass at home. There are plenty of guys that feel that way, but there are too many that don't. It's not an A&M thing or a Fisher thing. It's a losing thing. if you lose enough, that happens. I give Texas a hard time, but they are winning. Ainias Smith has tried. They lost to Ole Miss, but it was one of their better offensive performances. They handled South Carolina. They pummeled Mississippi State. They have played good ball since the bye. Jayden Daniels wants his Heisman coronation in Death Valley. The last guy to do that? Joe Burrow. That was a better LSU team and a worse A&M team. I have not heard anything about guys wanting to sit. That encouraging. The practice has been very well attended since Elijah Robinson took over. They want to go out and win. The question is can they score enough to keep pace against LSU? A&M has a top-10 defense. They have a weakness. That weakness does not match up well with LSU's strengths. This quarterback's strength is avoiding pressure. That is not a favorable matchup. Ole Miss wasn't either, and they scored 38. Segment 3 (26:15:24 - 42:22:11) I am willing to talk about more than the timeline. Right now, as we sit here on Wednesday, I think today and yesterday, I know the goal was to really narrow it down. Ross Bjork and Justin Moore are spearheading this search. Right now, they are narrowing it down to a couple, maybe three. It was a wide net early and went down to a large handful. They vetted everybody, and the decision will be, "OK, we are going to go after this guy and continue to interview and carry through the process on another candidate or two.” As of today, you are looking at two or three guys emerging. From what I have talked to other coaches and agents around the country, it will narrow down to three finalists right about now. Let's say Kalen DeBoer. Do I think he is still a candidate? The games this weekend do matter. He is still in the Pac-12 championship. Coaches that have an opportunity for a playoff berth? Let's take him for example. That's a tough one. He will not leave a job unfinished or let himself be distracted while attempting to complete this storybook achievement. Because of that, if he was your guy, you would have a tough decision. You figure it out. Dan Campbell is not in it, just like I told everyone Dan Lanning wasn't going to be in it. It wasn't even remotely even true. With a guy like DaBoer, I say the same thing with Campbell. If you could get Campbell, you would wait until after the Super Bowl and figure it out. If you felt as certain as certain could be, you wait. You figure it out. If you are not 100 percent certain, I don't think you can wait. My guess is that A&M does not have that level of certainty. I would not knock Mike Elko off the list of candidates. There is Ryan Day smoke, but I am skeptical of it. I am skeptical if that's not an agent drumming up stuff. I would continue to include Day as a candidate. That is not who I would expect them to land. Go lose to Michigan and see if that gets interesting, at all. There are, in my mind, people who are way more likely than Day. One of which I will not say today. By the way, it is not Matt Rhule. I mentioned him in that big list, and people kind of zeroed in on him. To me, if this search were a year ago, if I were A&M, I would be going full tilt at Luke Fickell. Maybe he just made a bad hire with Phil Longo. They have not had a great year at Wisconsin. They have been very thorough across the street. Everything you have thought of, they have thought of. I don't want a search to go by without leaving a stone unturned. I do not feel that way. Guys like Fickell and Rhule, even though they have only been at their schools for one year, they probably look at A&M and go, "Damn. If it's a year earlier, I am there." Hell, Lanning might have been. That $20 million buyout might have gone up to $50 million with the Nike stuff. If you sign for seven years, it would be hard to leave after one. I do not think it will be him. You better hire someone who really understands what they are walking into with this conference and in this state at this stage. A&M has not won, but the expectations are here. The talent level is here. You are coming to win an SEC title and compete for national championships. There is a bigness to this thing that not everyone is cut out for. The past does not mean it cannot happen in the future. A&M has to get the right guy. I think the right guy still has to be equipped to handle how big this job is and what the expectations are. The people outside can call it unrealistic. That's stupid. It's a fair expectation. There is somebody out there. Urban Meyer, I don't believe is the guy. You have to find the right coach. You look at every team that is won. A&M has talent. Their roster is equipped to win titles. They were last year, and they will be next year
  17. It was. But that was allowed back then. I felt that hit in my bones in the stands. I empathized with the Tech kicker, I felt his pain, then had a good laugh while I refreshed my Jack and coke. Vasher was the most violent given both guys were going full speed. Kindle damn near decapitated their QB. Brackens wins the bronze medal for big hits against the tortilla throwers. If we could find a way to work Bryant Westbrook into this conversation this thread would be complete.
  18. Galloway is stupid. That said, It really is this simple at this point(assuming we win 2 games) We need FSU to lose. SEC Bias and the stupid Oregon looks so good against shitty comp is not going away. It doesn't matter if Bama wins or loses to UGA. If Bama wins and Oregon beats Wash it is Mich/OSU, Bama, UGA, FSU If UGA wins it is Mich/OSU, UGA, FSU, Oregon If Wash beats Oregon and Bama wins it is Mich/OSU, Wash, FSU, UGA If UGA wins it is Mich/OSU, Wash, FSU, UGA a) they aren't denying UGA a shot at 3 in a row because Bama beat them even if it creates a potential rematch in title game. SECSECSEC b) the narrative is written that Bama in Sept is not the same Bama because Saban magic and shit c) they don't really consider SOS much. If they did we'd be ahead of Oregon already. the committee is a bunch of fucking morons. d) adding on to "c" the Big 12 is already considered imploded by the media and a shitty conference regardless of what the SOS shows. Texas can prove they are worthy next year when they play a real schedule in the SECSECSEC.
  19. The only way Oregon or Bama can get in over Texas is the eye test . Oregon - plays a soft SOS, easy to look good playing puffs - no significant ranked wins , lost to the only top ranked team on their schedule Bama - lost to texas at home ? - good but weaker SOS than Texas I'm going to be real pissed if we win out and miss it. Still hoping for some upsets to clear this up
  20. Senior wide receiver Jordan Whittington almost quit football his sophomore year. Thankfully he didn’t, and he has now grown into one of the most impactful players on the Texas team. His mom will get to watch him play in person for the first time in a Texas uniform. After injury struggles early in his career, he stuck it out for one goal: a Big 12 championship. This season, Whittington has been a key part of the Texas offense, even though he has only scored one touchdown. “I don’t know if there’s another guy in our locker room who’s more respected than Jordan Whittington,” head coach Steve Sarkisian said. “I think every guy in that locker room respects him to a point where if J Whit’s doing it, that’s probably what I’m supposed to be doing.” His work ethic on the field goes unmatched. If he’s not catching a pass, he’s blocking for his fellow receivers or running routes to draw defenders away from the play. On sophomore quarterback Quinn Ewers’ interception against TCU, he missed the first tackle but got up and ran back down the field to force a fumble and give Texas the ball back. But Sarkisian has not only noticed his growth and maturity on the field. After breaking his collarbone against Oklahoma in 2021, he contemplated not playing football again. “I wouldn’t let him not play football anymore,” Sarkisian said. “I just know you only get this one time. You don’t get to say hey, when I’m 40 or 50, like me, I’m gonna go back and play football.” Whittington did not waste his second chance with the team. Now on his second senior day, his parents will be able to be at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium with him. “Last year it was so late notice that my parents weren’t able to be there,” Whittington said. “My mom’s first game is this weekend and it’s senior night, so I have to (run through the tunnel again). I’m excited to let her see the atmosphere, especially because it’s gonna be crazy.” Whittington is one of the seniors who has bought into Sarkisian’s culture and embraced it. Now in his final year, he is one of the team’s top receivers. He waited his turn, didn’t leave the team and was the key player in Texas’ win over Iowa State. He caught his first touchdown of the season and sixth of his career as well as a major two-point conversion to give Texas a two-score lead. “I don’t have a blueprint for how you get trust,” Whittington said. “I’m guessing it’s from respect and transparency and I think you know, we have a lot of that for (Sarkisian) and just trusting each other. Once everyone trusts each other, it’s easy to just listen to the guy that’s put in charge, and he is, and he’s just doing a really good job of instilling the culture, and us and other leaders are doing a good job of making that go throughout the team.” Whittington’s storied Texas career will come to an end after this season, but he has the potential to continue his legacy of greatness after college. Having handled adversity with grace and selflessness, he is one of the biggest assets to the Texas offense. “The selflessness in which he plays the game is very rare,” Sarkisian said. “He’s instilling in others (that) this is how to play the game. And this is how to be successful at this game. This is how to be on a championship team.”
  21. Fyi... Glad coaches kept Crawford off the field at safety in the 4th quarter. Jalen Catalon, S Unfortunately, Catalon was banged up again in the Iowa State game after he missed the four previous games due to a lower-body injury. Catalon only played six snaps against Iowa State before he reportedly (per CJ Vogel of TFB Texas) re-aggravated a shoulder injury he’s dealt with since preseason camp. From what we tallied up during the Iowa State game last weekend, Catalon didn’t play any snaps in the second half. Catalon has dealt with recurring injury issues throughout his career, dating back to his time with the Arkansas Razorbacks. He’s now missed roughly half of the Big 12 slate for the Longhorns this season due to the shoulder injury and a leg injury he suffered in the Red River Rivalry game on Oct. 7 against the Oklahoma Sooners in Dallas. Redshirt sophomore safety Michael Taaffe has started every game in the secondary since Catalon suffered a leg injury against Oklahoma in Red River. Senior safeties Jerrin Thompson and Kitan Crawford have started the rest of the games at safety for the Longhorns in Catalon’s absence. It’s noteworthy that Crawford also had limited snaps at safety late in the second half against Iowa State. While that might not be due to an injury issue (we don’t officially know why Crawford was on the sideline for the fourth quarter), Crawford didn’t take any defensive snaps at safety in the fourth quarter. We’ll continue to monitor Catalon’s injury status heading into the regular season finale against Texas Tech. During his Monday press conference, Sark didn’t mention anything about his injury status. ---------------------------------------- Derek Williams Jr., S Another safety who suffered an injury in the win over Iowa State in Week 12 was true freshman Derek Williams Jr. Williams suffered an upper-body injury (likely a shoulder stinger) on a hit in the second quarter on the ball carrier in pass coverage. After Williams suffered the upper-body injury in the second quarter against Iowa State, he was taken to the sideline for further evaluation. But it wasn’t long before Williams had returned to live-game action on defense for Texas. Williams returned to play over a dozen defensive snaps in the second half at safety. By the start of the fourth quarter, Texas was utilizing a three-man rotation at safety with Thompson, Taaffe, and Williams. This was after Catalon left the game due to an upper-body injury. There is good news that Williams reportedly avoided a separated shoulder, which makes sense given that he was able to return to live-game action in the game last weekend. It sounds like Williams should be good to go for the Longhorns heading into the regular season finale on Nov. 24 against Texas Tech. Given that Texas could be short Catalon in the regular season finale, and that something was wrong with Crawford late in the game against Iowa State, Williams being healthy for the Texas Tech game will be crucial.
  22. Listen dumass, idiot, moran, if we win these next two convincingly, especially if one of them is OU, we should get in over the fucking ducks because they're fucking ducks and stupid, and if we don't, I'm going full Aaron Rodgers.
  23. What are you, a lawyer? Almost all of these CFP scenarios have us on the outside looking in and my attitude is I don't care. If we went 13-1 but didn't get into CFP as the first team out, I'm okay with that because what a great fucking season that is. One of the best ever? I don't know, but still great. Probably one of the top 15-20 considering where we've been over the last decade+. Do I hope we make CFP? Yes. Do I hope we win CFP? Yes. My point was it sounds like a lot of you are already doomsaying if we don't make CFP and I was just curious if I'm the only one here not doomsaying...because if we were to finish 13-1 but miss CFP, I would be okay with that. And, bro, don't go throwing around aggy at me. I'm the third consecutive generation of my family to hang a diploma from The University of Texas at Austin on my wall and there's a National Championship ring in my immediate family. You can call me dumass. You can call me idoit. You can call me moran. But don't call me aggy.
  24. I think there are only 4 scenarios where we get in 1. Both Washington and Oregon lose this week to their in state rivals. 2. One of Washington or Oregon lose this week and then follows that up by winning the Pac 12. 3. The winner of Ohio State/Michigan loses to Iowa. 4. Florida State loses to either Florida or Louisville. (4) is the only one that I think is going to happen, so I'm rooting hard for it. The SEC champ is getting in no matter what; there's no sense spending time arguing about it. It makes you look naive to spend time suggesting they would leave them out. I'm maybe slightly worried that (4) happens, Georgia loses, and the committee takes Georgia instead of Texas. But it's not a real worry. The only way I can see that happening is if our wins over Tech and the Big 12 runner up look like the TCU type win where no one thinks we look impressive. And honestly, if play like that, a lot of us deep down won't think we're better than Georgia either.
  25. They walked with Bjork as he ran into them on the way into campus. They were lost, but he kindly showed them where to go and really rolled out the red carpet. As they walked into the stadium they were taken aback by the sheer number of die hard aggies and all of their kindness. They shared a long, warm embrace, and then the MSU fans whispered softly into Bjork's ear.. "You know we would win if Leach were here."
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