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  1. (assumes Iowa State finishes off BYU) Remaining Opponents: Texas - @ISU, TTU Oklahoma State - @HOU, BYU Oklahoma - @BYU, TCU Kansas State - @KU, ISU Iowa State - UT, @KSU Okay so let's say Texas wins out (yes, I know) and Kansas State also beats Iowa State at home after beating Kansas. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State win out. Then we have (assuming favorites win elsewhere): Big 12 Tiebreakers: So in the above scenario which assumes a lot of results let's go through the tiebreakers. 1. Does not apply. Oklahoma did not play Kansas State so per the rule we move to Step 2. Note that this is really stupid because Oklahoma State beat both of them but that's the rule as written. 2. West Virginia is not a common opponent as they did not play Kansas State. Iowa State at 5-4 is a common opponent. Texas Tech at 5-4 is not a common opponent (did not play OU or OSU). Kansas at 5-4 is a common opponent. Against Iowa State and Kansas, Oklahoma State went 1-1, Oklahoma went 1-1, Kansas State in our scenario goes 2-0 against those two teams in the next two weeks. In this scenario we play Kansas State in the championship game because the Big 12's terribly written tiebreakers rip off Oklahoma State. I expect that if this scenario becomes a serious possibility heading into the last week we will see clarification from the Big 12 office on tiebreaker 1 if one team has beaten all other teams they're tied with.
  2. I'm glad we won TCU's Super Bowl in front of such a rabid crowd, especially since we went in with a gimpy QB. Had the game been back and forth all night and we won by 3 late, we'd probably feel way better about it. Same for the wins over Houston and K State. Maybe getting big leads every week makes us feel we're finally as good on the field as we are on paper. We can argue these games shouldn't be nearly as tense as they are, based on the overall talent gap. But the Texas hate farewell tour was almost bound to go something like this. I'm relieved it soon will all be history.
  3. DanTheHorn

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    If we win the BIG XII then I can fully celebrate otherwise it is going to feel good but only because it has been so long.
  4. Big 12 Football Tiebreaking Procedures Multiple-Team Ties In the event of a tie between more than two teams, the following procedures will be used. After one team has an advantage and is “seeded”, all remaining teams in the multiple-team tiebreaker will repeat the multiple-team tie-breaking procedure. If at any point the multiple-team tie is reduced to two teams, the two-team tie-breaking procedure will be applied. Head-to-head (best cumulative win percentage in games among the tied teams). If not, every tied team has played each other, go to step 2. Record against the next highest placed common opponent in the standings (based on record in all games played within the conference), proceeding through the standings. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s win percentage against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure) rather than the performance against individual tied teams. Win percentage against all common conference opponents (must be common among all teams involved in the tie). Combined win percentage in conference games of conference opponents (ie, strength of conference schedule). Total number of wins in a 12-game season. The following conditions will apply to the calculation of the total number of wins: Only one win against a team from the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision or lower division will be counted annually. Any games that are exempted from counting against the annual maximum number of football contests per NCAA rules. (current Bylaw 17.10.5.2.1) shall not be included. Highest ranking by SportSource Analytics (team Rating Score metric) following the last weekend of regular-season games. Coin toss Assuming your scenario - it would go: 1. OSU is in on Tie breaker 1. 2. Restart going with 3 teams. I think KSU is eliminated on tie breaker 1 again 3. Then restart with OU vs Texas as a 2 team tie and we lose on the H2H
  5. So you’re telling mw the team that gave up 400 yards passing to Houston and won by 1 the team that let 4-5 TCU out score them 20-3 in the 4th and win by a FG and the team that is a dipshit head coach at kstate call away from losing. Would stop. Penix and Washington? No. Oregon no. Bama win was 10 weeks ago. Bama would throttle us. UGA would go to prison for what they’d do to us. Michigan and OSU would pass for 4000 yards. Maybe FSU would be close. While we struggle with low rent trash teams and can’t put anyone a way and can’t cover anyone. Take off the burnt orange glasses dude. This team is a paper Tiger and a bum QB that can’t hit a deep ball and our best player just left
  6. Go hurricanes. Normally would never root for them but them knocking out FSU is huge for our CFP hopes if we win out.
  7. and now this means when we play the tech fucks they are going to need a win to be bowl eligible.... that was bad kansas....
  8. If Quinn stays another year - yes that is a fucking possibility - and if he can quit ramming his body into brick walls, he could easily finish the season uninjured. In that season he would get an additional dozen or so starts leading some of the best players in the nation to a conference title and just maybe a national championship. He'll gain weight, he'll get stronger. He'll gain invaluable experience. 12 Big Time starts, guaranteed top ten draft status, possibly #1. Arch will be a fabulous #2 man. Or he could go pro next season and sit on the bench for the next two years somewhere - getting a few reps. I don't see him starting next year in the NFL - and when he finally does, he'll be throwing over the biggest baddest mfuckers in pro football. Why rush it. Stay here next year, have a blast, and win win win. I think his decision will rest on how well we do here on out.
  9. This is part of what he said, in a speech to boy scouts: Now, with that, I have to tell you our economy is doing great. Our stock market has picked up since the election, November 8th — do we remember that day? Was that a beautiful day? (APPLAUSE) What a day. Do you remember that famous night on television, November 8th where they said, these dishonest people, where they said, there is no path to victory for Donald Trump. They forgot about the forgotten people. By the way, they’re not forgetting about the forgotten people anymore. They’re going crazy trying to figure it out, but I told them, far too late; it’s far too late. But you remember that incredible night with the maps, and the Republicans are red and the Democrats are blue, and that map was so red it was unbelievable. And they didn’t know what to say. (APPLAUSE) And you know, we have a tremendous disadvantage in the Electoral College. Popular vote is much easier. We have — because New York, California, Illinois, you have to practically run the East Coast. And we did. We won Florida. We won South Carolina. We won North Carolina. We won Pennsylvania. (APPLAUSE) We won and won. So when they said, there is no way to victory; there is no way to 270. You know I went to Maine four times because it’s one vote, and we won. We won. One vote. I went there because I kept hearing we’re at 269. But then Wisconsin came in. Many, many years. Michigan came in. (APPLAUSE) So — and we worked hard there. You know, my opponent didn’t work hard there, because she was told… (BOOING) She was told she was going to win Michigan, and I said, well, wait a minute. The car industry is moving to Mexico. Why is she going to move — she’s there. Why are they allowing it to move? And by the way, do you see those car industry — do you see what’s happening? They’re coming back to Michigan. They’re coming back to Ohio. They’re starting to peel back in. (APPLAUSE) And we go to Wisconsin, now, Wisconsin hadn’t been won in many, many years by a Republican. But we go to Wisconsin, and we had tremendous crowds. And I’d leave these massive crowds, I’d say, why are we going to lose this state? The polls, that’s also fake news. They’re fake polls. But the polls are saying — but we won Wisconsin.
  10. Jimbo Fisher's Hot Seat fueled by West Texas Oil Jimbo Fisher’s hot seat at Texas A&M is fueled by West Texas oil Story by Steven Godfrey • The Washington Post Right about the time Miami thumped Jimbo Fisher’s reliably inconsistent Texas A&M team back in September, I started trying to understand the price of oil coming out of the Permian Basin to predict the 2023-2024 college football coaching market. If the coaching carousel would start early, A&M was an obvious choice to kick things off: a wealthy brand underperforming for its deep-pocketed and frequently delusional corps of boosters. Mainly located in West Texas, the 86,000-square-mile Permian Basin is America’s highest-producing oil field, typically turning out 4 to 5 million barrels daily, and sometimes more. It is crucial to the American oil and gas industry. It is also chockablock with wealthy Texas A&M Aggies, almost all of whom vehemently regret the gaudy, 10-year, totally guaranteed $75 million contract their university feted Fisher with in December 2017. In return, Fisher has delivered an above-average 44-25 run over the past five-plus seasons, but nothing close to the national title expectations Aggies have long pined and overpaid for.CFP rankings stay steady ahead of a potentially momentous weekend. Entering this weekend, Fisher’s 26-21 record in SEC games had message boarders (and me) assuming that if oil approaches $100 a barrel anytime soon (it’s sitting at $76.42 as of this writing), cash-flush and historically squirrelly Aggies boosters would pull the trigger on Fisher’s current buyout of roughly $77 million. There are plenty of wealthy A&M boosters in other industries, but the price of chicken usually doesn’t upend global GDP in a week. And yes, Fisher’s buyout if he is fired this year is $2 million more than the total value of his original contract, thanks to a wonderfully stupid extension agreed upon after the Aggies went 9-1 during a 2020 season that was affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The new contract pushed Fisher’s salary to $9 million a year and extended him through 2031, and Fisher has responded with a 9-13 SEC record in the years since. After the Houston Chronicle’s Brent Zwerneman reported this week that A&M, at least as of now, was leaning heavily toward giving Fisher one more season despite another year of failure to meet expectations, a significant chunk of anticipation has disappeared. And here I was trying to understand OPEC’s impact on fourth-quarter pricing during a fresh Middle East conflict or potential supply constraints in the United States because of drilling consolidation. It seems — and I cannot overemphasize seems — that one of college football’s most notorious spendthrifts is exercising a modicum of reserve. One could argue that’s because Fisher’s buyout is serving the purpose it intended: Even among a social class that embodies the American stereotype of excess, $77 million to make one man go away is a prohibitive cost, crude prices be damned. Combined with the fact that A&M isn’t awful, just merely not great (each of its conference losses this season have been by seven points or fewer) amid quarterback injuries and bad assistant hires (former head coaches-turned-Fisher assistants Steve Addazio and Bobby Petrino probably aren’t long for College Station even if their boss survives), it’s at least arguable Fisher hasn’t fully earned bust status just yet. But, all that said and with every indicator both published among my colleagues and in my own off-the-record conversations suggesting Fisher is safe entering 2024, I still refuse to believe there’s zero chance he is let go. First, keeping Fisher would require a tremendous amount of calmness and maturity for a consortium that’s defined the exact opposite in the college football economy for decades. A&M is the world’s richest little brother, boasting national title finances to hide a community college trophy case. This was the football program once most famous for buying a gold Pontiac Trans-Am for a player who ultimately never signed with the program. Second, we often focus too much on the demand side of the coaching market instead of the supply side. The working idea right now is less that A&M doesn’t have a replacement in hand and more that it doesn’t have one ideal enough to eat that $77 million bill first. But supply can change quickly, and in the age of the transfer portal exodus, often very quietly. Third, crude production can never exceed the college football value of time or its paucity of patience. If A&M holds on to Fisher and weathers another fine-but-not-great season with no playoff appearance in 2024, it would still owe him $67.5 million if he is fired next year, saving the boosters a relatively scant $10-ish million. If I’m looking at the futures market, A&M’s pride is worth more than $10 million for another season of championship ignominy. Could the Aggies be better in 2024? Absolutely. Will the roster be stocked with talent? Almost assuredly. Is there a single indicator that Fisher or Petrino will evolve the offense past its plodding and outmoded form into something capable of keeping pace with LSU, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, etc.? There are years of data screaming “no.” I don’t doubt Zwerneman’s reporting at all — he broke the news that Oklahoma and Texas were joining the SEC — but his phrasing is careful to mention that it’s just now November, and things could change. The struggle here is believing in the supposed calm of the Aggies’ gilded class. Plus, I keep thinking about Texas’s suspiciously swift firing of Tom Herman after the 2020 season. Herman went 32-18 in Austin, received public support from the university as late as Dec. 12 of that year and was fired Jan. 2, 2021, after leading the Longhorns to an Alamo Bowl win. Hours later, then-Alabama offensive coordinator and former USC head coach Steve Sarkisian was announced as Texas’s new head coach, bringing direct SEC experience to a program then still in talks with the league about a potential transition. Granted, Texas only paid out around $15 million to fire Herman, while A&M would have to eat five times that. But the slickness of it all lingers: Before speculation could mount among the Longhorns’ strong roster or a leaky search conducted half in public, Sark was already in place. If I were Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp, the man every Aggie knows will actually be making the decision, I’d be looking to preserve as much of Fisher’s pristine, NIL-soaked recruiting as possible with a quick and clean coup planned with total discretion. I’d also spend November and December pushing a public narrative that Fisher was totally safe. Texas and Oklahoma will land in the league next season, closing a decade-long SEC head-start for the Aggies that has yielded zero division, conference or national titles. During Fisher’s run, A&M has watched rivals LSU and Alabama win national titles and Georgia reset the hierarchy of power. Not to mention that Fisher is now 0-3 against Lane Kiffin’s Mississippi, a poverty program compared with the Aggies’ budget (something Kiffin has taken great public pride in). If A&M holds to its alleged word and keeps Fisher, you can consider it either a stroke of rational thought or an admission of financial defeat — that dumping $77 million before another coach can be hired is the critical mass of the wanton Texas oil lifestyle. But I can’t help but see that insane number as proof the Aggies will continue apace, even now. After all, the strongest evidence A&M is willing to buy Fisher out is the fact it offered him all that guaranteed money in the first place.
  11. Fat Hamm I spoke at length last night with Jasper LB and Texas A&M commit Tyanthony Smith after he turned in a 14 tackle performance in a playoff win over Columbia which included 3 tackles for loss as well as an interception. He's had an outstanding last 3-4 weeks in terms of his production. Anyway, my audio was giving me all kinds of issues due to the massive amount of rain water my phone took on throughout the course of the game while shooting highlights. Regardless, I did stay after a chat with him for about 10 minutes to get a feel for where he's at with recruiting and the status of his commitment. Here are some key takeaways from our conversation. - First off, Tyanthony has grown. He's gotten noticeably taller and longer. He's going to hold 225-230 pounds without a problem, and I could see a scenario where he gets even a little north of that. It's a very intriguing frame for a college strength coach. - As I've been saying, Taurean York is playing a large role for Texas A&M. Tyanthony admires his work ethic, mentality, and talked a lot about how Taurean's mindset as a freshman was something he would like to emulate. Tyanthony views Taurean as a mentor and an example. - Another key cog in this recruitment for Texas A&M is DJ Durkin. I said this a bunch over the spring and summer when A&M began to surge for Tyanthony, but Durkin did yeoman's work in taking the Aggies from the back of the pack to firmly in the front. The overall play of the defense this season, specifically the development of the linebacking corps, has been important, as well. - Smith told me he's locked in with Texas A&M right now. He and the Jasper staff did confirm that Texas had begun making a push, but it's currently inconsequential. - There was a ton of speculation about his commitment wavering when fellow southeast Texas natives Drelon Miller and Weston Davis both left the A&M class. After talking with him, it's evident that he was not a fan of that hearsay. While he acknowledged his both Miller and Davis, Smith was adamant that he made his decision for his own reasons and those reasons stood alone far beyond the influence of his peers. - I don't get the idea that there would be any other threat to A&M currently outside of the Longhorns (who he still didn't give too much credence to). We spoke very briefly about LSU, but Smith was quick to shoot down any thought of them being in contention. - Kyle Field and the 12th Man did what they typically do on visits. He mentioned their impact on not only games but also the visit experience
  12. Also, also please tell me Surly has been practicing their overreactions to every play and deciding that Texas will never win anything ever again, Sark needs to be fired and is always going to be mediocre, PK is a disaster, Ewers can't win championships, the O Line is garbage, StAhP Worthy ... wait no that's great WAIT NO just StAHp doint that! etc ad infinitum and so on. It's crunch time. We are all really gonna need to be performing at our bests this weekend.
  13. https://www.arsenal.com/news/arteta-sakas-availability-burnley Mikel Arteta will make a late call on the fitness of Bukayo Saka for Saturday’s game against Burnley. Bukayo came off in the 85th minute of Wednesday’s 2-0 win at home to Sevilla in the UEFA Champions League, and Mikel is hopeful that it’s nothing serious. “B had to leave the pitch because he was in quite a lot of pain,” he explained. “He trained yesterday and lets see if he can make it tomorrow.” In terms of the rest of the team news, Mikel confirmed that Jurrien Timber and Thomas Partey are both definitely unavailable, while Emile Smith Rowe will “probably” miss out as well. “There might be a few more,” he added. “A few are still in contention. We need to give them 24 more hours to give them a chance to be involved in the game, but we won’t know anything until tomorrow.” Asked to expand on Thomas' situation, Mikel said: "He’s progressing really well but it was a significant injury. Hopefully it’s going to be weeks and not months and he’s working towards that. He needs support and hopefully the injury will heal in the right way and we’ll have him back, because he’s a big player for us. As for the latest on Martin Odegaard, he added: "He’s still racing (against the clock). He’s trying everything that he can so let’s see. It’s a possibility."
  14. Good Thread. Full disclosure, Austinite, born & raised, Jeffersonian idealist, Engineer by training (Energy & Fluid Systems), Natural Gas Liquid specialist (Retired), Ranch owner, Texas Ecologist, manage ranch for wildlife habitat so deer can grow up big and strong, then we shoot them. Sustainability. Start with yourself. I think OP mentioned he runs. My BIL was a career military pilot, ran all the time, until all the cartilage in his knees was gone. I practiced yoga daily for 20+ years, no cartilage in my thumbs. Thanks Apple. I went to the Cardiologist because I was getting ready to turn.65. Had a quintuple bypass 2 weeks later. Classic case of healthy individual, no symptoms. After the fact, he told me he was surprised I could even walk. The human body is a marvel of engineering, take care of it; it only has so many cycles in it, use them wisely. Doc said keep doing what makes you happy. My random comments. The primary advantage of plastic was weight v. steel, glass, wood, etc., and the cost of shipping same. Every pound of reduced packing meant another pound of revenue producing product sold. That hasn't changed, meaning plastics are still cheaper than the alternative. Reductions in the numbers of ocean going freighters, 18 wheelers and diesel driven trains have proportionally reduced the burning of the dirtiest of liquid hydrocarbons. But at a cost of increased "disposable" packaging that is not easily recycled. I am not familiar with the sausage making equivalent of recycling plastics down to a usable form, but world class petrochemical plants that "crack" hydrocarbons into ethylene, to make polyethylene, and high density polyethylene and made-in-china-toys need the purest of feedstocks to insure the highest quality of plastics desired. Those requirements do not support large scale commercial plastics recycling that include 100's if not 1,000's of different types of plastic products. One plant manager told me they could "crack" car tires if we could get them to the plant. They only need ~ 12,000,000 pounds/day. I enjoy the dialog on the merits of individual recycling, getting it from Amazon and Walmart to the blue recycling bin on trash day, but the lack of demand for the recycled plastics, whatever that may be, is the root cause. Where is Kamala Harris? If the economics work, people will do it. If not, they won't. Global Warming: 8 billion people at 98.6 °F, approximately 30 ° warmer than the ambient temperature, generate a lot of heat, which warms the atmosphere. If everybody would simply hold their breath for 4 minutes, the problem would go away. People have burned coal for centuries, we started burning processed natural gas in the last 100 years. We as in not China, India, Africa, or ~ 80% of the world population. Now, "we" want to get rid of it before 80% of the world gets to try it. CO2 is "bad", Oxygen is good, plants are good, plants die without CO2, and people die without plants. Renewable Energy makes sense, but the economics, unsubsidized, have to work. My new water well is 100% solar. Water: Forget Lake Travis water levels. The Trinity Aquifer water level dropped over fifty feet in less than 2 years. Ground water use in Texas is not sustainable, and it is getting exponentially worse every day. EV's make a lot of sense in urban settings, especially for vehicles that travel the same routes all the time, like rental car shuttles, Amazon trucks, city buses, etc. 50 miles west of I-35, large pickups will always greatly outnumber EV's. Not because people are bad, just the day to day realities of life in rural areas. Amazon: I don't like the volume of cardboard boxes and plastic shipping bags we get. But the convenience of home shopping, and paying ~ 2/3 the costs of everyday goods v. any retail store cannot be beat. Economics wins again. Society in General: Entropy is a scientific concept that matter and energy in the universe will degrade to an ultimate state of inert disorder. I believe that is where we are heading. Oil & Gas: Saved the whales! Before that, people used whale oil for light and lubricants. Battery powered hand tools are the greatest thing since sliced bread! Beats the hell out of gas engines or manual labor. Much more valuable in the country v. the city. Everybody I know has gotten old... but me. Thanks to all of you for sharing your insight.
  15. I also read a report the other day, I believe it was based on uk Intel, that Russians troop recruitment is more or less stagnant compared to losses. Something to the effect of 20k Kia/wia per month against a similar number of shadow conscripts. I could be wrong, but I believe that the conscripted number, shadow or otherwise, is down pretty significantly, which leads me to draw a couple of conclusions; assuming of course that this info is correct. 1. They are running out meat to send, and what they do send can't possibly be very good. 2. Putin is holding out against conscripting until after his election, despite the fact that his election is all but assured. That assumes he can afford to conscript afterwards, he may feel that doing so is untenable either way. 3. In any event, all resources, including human, are finite. The math says that if he really wants to push it, obviously he in theory has significantly more people to draw from. The reality may be far more dire for him in this regard. 4. If we are lucky, the Russians have reached a human resource tipping point, and right now that's what these numbers would indicate. Finally, what happens the next week or so in Congress is a big deal. I know there are shadow ways to finance more aid to Ukraine, but I think that opens a can of worms no one wants to go down. It isn't so much the money (although that is admittedly huge), it is the signal that is sent to the Kremlin. If we earmark $60 billion to Ukraine, that essentially matches Russia's entire defense budget, and anything that our NATO partners kick in at that point is just sauce for the goose. The message to the Kremlin is a pretty big loud and clear give it up, you aren't going to win. I think it's pretty clear the Russians are worried about this prospect, hence the propaganda campaign in the last week or so.
  16. Number 1 reason we haven't attacked Iran directly is they will close the Strait of Hormuz. No one wants to see 20 dollars a gallon for gas right now. We confront them. We're gonna win, but we're going to lose some ships. And even after that. Cleaning up the Straits to make it passable again could take months. Iran knows this, we know this. Iran is basically trying to keep itself in the news, without being the news. If they really wanted to do some damage to our bases, they wouldn't strike at 44 different bases with a few missiles. They would strike at 1 base with a few hundred missiles. But they know if they kill some US soldiers then they are going to pay. It's all window dressing.
  17. I have no idea if this is truth or not, but that plate sure looks like a chicken fried (steak? chicken?) that I can get at any diner or southern restaurant in town.... Where's the German? Also this post is on topic because Maalik can't run but I think we win this week even if he does play, and if Ewers is healthy then let's go win the fucking Big 12.
  18. Counterpoint found on phog.net. I want to believe. The coaching carousel in college football is about to start spinning as the 2023 season comes to a conclusion later this month and athletic directors across the country make decisions on their respective football programs and who the head coach should be. Two Power 5 jobs are already open in Michigan State and Northwestern and more will likely open in the weeks to come. On Wednesday, there was a social media report from a Michigan-based radio host that speculated Leipold interviewed with Michigan State on Tuesday.During his weekly Hawk Talk radio show on Wednesday, Lance Leipold shot down the rumor and stated his commitment to KU with a similar comment to one he's made in the past."This is the only interview and that's the way it's going to be," Leipold said. "The one thing that happens this time of year, is there's a lot of speculation and things that are happening that are not accurate. As I've said for a long time, Travis Goff and Chancellor Girod have treated Kelly and I extremely well and our family. It is our plan and our expectation that we want to be here and this is going to be the last job that we have."Leipold said he spoke with Kansas AD Travis Goff earlier this week about his first two and a half years at KU since he was hired in the spring of 2021. "I was talking with Travis Goff on Monday and he said 'Can you believe it's only been two and a half years.' I said, well in many ways it feels like five or more because of the progress of the team on the field but also how comfortable our family is, being welcomed by everybody and how much we just enjoy being here," Leipold said.Leipold has led a swift turnaround during his firs three seasons as head coach. KU went 2-10 in his first year after Leipold was hired after spring practice in 2021. Fall camp was the first time Leipold and his staff were able to work with players in an official capacity. KU endured a long losing streak before the Jayhawks upset Texas for the program's first ever win in Austin. In Year 2, KU started off 5-0 and hosted ESPN's College GameDay for the first time. An injury to Jalon Daniels contributed to KU's struggles in the second half of the season, where KU went 1-6 but achieved bowl eligibility for the first time since 2008.In 2023, KU has been a more consistent team. KU started the season off 4-0 and is now 7-2 on the season, with KU defeating Oklahoma and Iowa State in the last two weeks. The win over Oklahoma was KU's first this century and its win over Iowa State was its first since 2008.In an interview with reporters on Wednesday, Goff said he believes the KU program is set up for long-term success under Leipold."You're always trying to make sure you can dissect and understand, is this just a great moment? Or is this something that can be great for the long haul? And I think these past couple of weeks really indicate this is something that can be great for the long haul."
  19. The committee isn't going to put a non-conference champion in over Texas if we win the Big 12 and are sitting at 12-1. There's only going to be 1 team per conference in the CFP this year but, like many people were screaming about from the moment it was announced, when there are only 4 spots for 5 power conferences someone is bound to be left out if every conference has a viable option. There's still plenty of ball to play but we need to win out (preferably more convincingly than we have been winning) &: FSU to lose any game or The Pac 12 champion to have a loss or The Big 10 champion to have a loss. Any of those things happening would give the committee all it needs to move UT to 4th. The only question would be Oregon winning out. They'd have good wins @ Utah, Pac 12 championship vs. UW (avenging their only loss), & OSU. I don't know what the committee does with that compared to us winning @ Bama, vs. KU, vs. KSU, & the Big 12 championship undefeated or 1 loss SEC champion is in (UGA/Bama). The only scenario I could see the SEC being left out is if either UGA or Bama is a 2 loss SEC champion which seems highly unlikely. Bama would have to lose to Auburn & then beat UGA. UGA would have to drop 2 of 3 between Tenn., OM, GT, & then beat Bama.
  20. The committee doesn’t have as much love for Georgia right now. I’m thinking though the best thing is for them to beat Bama in their CC if that’s the matchup. Bama beating them makes it more difficult for us I think even though we have a win over them. I think the committee would like for us to be in it. I can only see my weekends being the following: Rooting for Texas (always) to win out. Rooting for FSU to lose a regular season game and for ACC to not be in playoffs. Go Miami Go! Hoping somehow that Ohio state/Michigan loses a game and their CC so only one team can advance. Loser gets a top tier bowl. Hoping that Washington wins out so there is no one else to consider from the now demolished Pac12. Oregon just gets a top tier bowl. So Texas, Washington, Georgia and probably Meatchikin. I do think the committee would like two Big10 guys so I hope one of them loses one of their next three games and their CCG.
  21. We shouldn't be worrying about that. That's a dream at the moment. Right now the focus should be attaining our goal which is making and then winning the Big 12 championship game. Accomplish the goal first, then go get the dream.
  22. Look at it another way. My concern going to Arthur Smith was that Bijan was going to get Earl Campbelled, win games, and cut his own throat. Instead we have smith being a complete moron who might get fired this year and surely after next. Every low use game keeps mileage off the tires and gets him closer to a second contract with less risk of injury. Thanks Art!
  23. For Texas to maximize our resume we need: KU and KSU to be 9-3, so that means KSU beating KU to end the season. OSU to be 10-2 going into the conference championship game. Alabama to win the SEC. OU to be at worst 9-3, so that our loss isn't considered bad. Wyoming finishing 9-3 would also be a nice boost, they have a big game against UNLV this weekend.
  24. Well looking at who made the list you were asking people that fought the last war who was going to be the guys you could count on to win an entirely new and vicious type of war. No one could adequately say how it would be fought. We have the hindsight of looking back and saying how could they not see the brilliance of these two men when making that list. War has a way of showing who is the best at their job and often it is not the ones with the best resume going in.
  25. By Billy Liucci September 1, 2021 Key notes from Billy Liucci interview You're going to see this contract be 10 years, starting from now, with an average right around $9 million per year. You're starting the existing deal over with a significant raise to make him the second-highest paid coach in the SEC behind Nick Saban and one of the highest-paid in college football. This is a great deal. We're going to look at it again as a great bargain. We've been talking about it for the last three years and how wrong people were the first time. Now they're doing it again. People don't seem to understand the no-buyout thing, and that makes me laugh. The buyout is $9 million a year, $90 million guaranteed. Nick Saban doesn't look like he's going to retire anytime soon, but say Alabama comes after Jimbo Fisher in three years when Saban is done. That's the only school that could take Fisher with the money that Texas A&M is paying. If Alabama does that, it means the next three years have been really good in Aggieland. A buyout does nothing. When was the last time a school didn't hire a coach they wanted because of a buyout? Do you think a one-year buyout, another $9 million, would keep A&M from going to get a coach? The buyout is $90 million. It also keeps the coach here. It's like the SEC not having a grant of rights. The SEC basically says, "You want to leave? Go." I don't think there is any danger of Fisher leaving. The danger is losing money. If it doesn't work, you lose money. Everyone is making a big deal about it, but it's like me and Olin living in the same neighborhood. If I saw him driving a Maserati, that's Olin's business. Not mine. The way the media is acting would be like me walking around the neighborhood calling Olin an idiot for spending that money on a car. Who's the idiot in that scenario? A&M is three years into this, and they have a pretty good idea of what they're investing in. People are saying it's only one good year, but it's not. It's one great year and three years of progress. Jimbo's first year was a nice, strong season. They finished ranked and won a bowl game, playing great football at the end of the year. His third year was a top-five finish, an Orange Bowl championship and a legitimate argument to be in the playoff. In 12 years as a coach, Fisher has a national title, a playoff berth and another top-five finish. He probably has five top-ten finishes in 12 years to go along with that. At what point do you look at that resume and say that Fisher is an elite head coach in this game? He is. It's not debatable. Texas A&M has a coach that is among the very best, the top five, in this game. If you look at what Fisher is doing in recruiting and don't feel extremely confident in your investment, I don't know what to tell you.Regarding the timing, coaches don't like negotiating during the season. What if Texas A&M reached the playoff this year and LSU spiraled? I think Texas A&M did the right thing. We got our guy, and he's locked up for as long as he wants to coach.This guy won a national title. He won 27 of 28 games with Jameis Winston in 2013 and 2014. People want to say it was all Winston, but you can't take away a guy's best player. If you take away Vince Young, what did Mack Brown do? Take away Joe Burrow, Ed O doesn't win a championship. I know what Dan Mullen has done, and I know what Jim Harbaugh has done. What in the hell have they done that Jimbo hasn't done? Mullen won a New Year's Six game, and Florida caught some criticism for that extension. The blowback shows how big the spotlight is on Texas A&M and Jimbo Fisher. For the people that say A&M isn't relevant, you're hearing most of that from Texas, Oklahoma and some from LSU. They're whining fake tough guys. If you say a negative thing about Oklahoma, the Sooners go insane. Somebody asked me if I'd rather have Lincoln Riley or Jimbo at Texas A&M, at the answer is Jimbo. Riley is a good coach, but he coaches in a league where he has five times the talent as anybody he plays. They're both good coaches, but it's apples to oranges. Jimbo Fisher is a great fit at Texas A&M. Texas might be the most delusional fanbase in American sports. They're loud on Twitter. They get these talking points, and no matter how bad their team is or how good things are going in College Station, they cannot come off their talking points. How much money did they pay to fire Herman and hire Steve Sarkisian? We know what Sark has done. You want to boil it down to Fisher not winning a title in three years? You spent $75 million to hire Sarkisian. LSU is just scared. They had that great year and smoked the Aggies in 2019, but they've lost two of three to Texas A&M. Jimbo Fisher is the guy they've tried to hire twice. Ed Orgeron is a trainwreck of a coach, and they know it. They were hoping they could possibly hire Fisher at some point, and the Aggies just put up a wall around College Station. A day ago, what was the big cry coming out of Austin, Baton Rouge and Norman? That Fisher would be in Baton Rouge in a year. That was the battle cry from those three fanbases, and they wouldn't shut up about it. Today, 10 years and $90 million later, A&M is stupid for paying it? It's a constantly moving target
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