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29 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

A profoundly moving story.

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Roma, how can you be so cold? Yep, pretty deep friendship.

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Beginning of a deep relationship. Still the first meeting:

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You know, deep stuff. Continuing, we see that this isn't just a routine visit with a car salesman.

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I got sorta choked up here. So much must transpire after this first meeting. Fishing trips. Bowling. Long nights musing and laughing. I read on. Our scribe friend writes on:

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Text messages! For years! We're talking real bonding. They live two hours apart, an insurmountable distance for personal contact! Still, people can have very meaningful contact via the written word. Olin is a writer, after all.

Let's see how it goes:

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And you never intitiated these text exchanges, Olin. You're busy in College Station. He's busy in Hutto. Busy. Tragic news is to come. Olin's deep friendship with Chad is evident in how Olin learns the sad truth.

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Doesn't get much more involved and personal than that with a "life long friend."

 

Of course, Olin mustered the same gumption that got him to Schlossnagel's t.u. press conference to drive the two hours to his dear friend's bedside.

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The note about the dominos game with his wife is a nice pitch-perfect non-trivialization of receiving the dire news. A guy I don't know messaged me that a car salesman I met six years ago and hadn't seen since had died a day and a half before. You were clearly as dear to Chad as he was to you, Olin.

Surely, Olin now goes to see Chad in his final repose.

Welll, maybe not:

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Still, Olin has all those fond memories of the truck salesman in whose presence he was only in once.

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We'll always have Paris, Chad.

Lolololololololol

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Posted
5 hours ago, Not a Sock said:

I know Bobby made a nice egg from Rivals/247/On3, but who’s bank rolling OTF? I know most of the guys have day jobs but, I assume Gerry and CJ are full time. Are they already self sustaining from subs and ads or do they have a backer?

I imagine the ads pay for most of it. Plus subs to OTF. They have a ton of ad reads, as well as ads before the show comes on. 

Posted
13 hours ago, RGBIII said:

They don't. Not a chance they need that head count to run that shit. I would walk through that office like Ari Gold with a paintball gun. They have fucking 4! customer support people on staff, AI or a bangaledsh call center would more than suffice at 1/20th of the cost

go away gtfo GIF

What you're failing to consider is that all 4 customer support people are pretty female current undergrad students and this is Billy Liuici we're talking about here. 

Of the paid staff, I counted around 12 that are current undergrad students at A&M and another 8 or so that graduated within the last three years. I doubt he's paying the current college students much more than minimum wage. That's about $15k per year. The recent college graduates probably get paid something that is considered competitive for a fresh college graduate (teachers on average in Texas get paid less than $60k / year).

Posted
12 hours ago, Not a Sock said:

I know Bobby made a nice egg from Rivals/247/On3, but who’s bank rolling OTF? I know most of the guys have day jobs but, I assume Gerry and CJ are full time. Are they already self sustaining from subs and ads or do they have a backer?

They're doing well and Bobby's been bootstrapping as they get there, last I heard. 

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Posted (edited)

20 years ago, for Aggie schadenfreude, I skipped past TexAgs to go right to AgTimes.com, for the hard stuff. There was a poster there who would go to some chicken wing place in CS every week, to be at the live taping of some local radio show called something like the “Belliucci Hour” (sadly, Agrimes is defunct, so I can’t find the right name), and relate inside team tidbits and provide “analysis”. Evidently, young Liucci teamed with some other guy with a name like Beliota(?) for weekly program insights. (Where is “Beliota” now? The College Station equivalent of wherever Ryan Secrest’s co-host from the first season of “American Idol”, I suppose). 
 
The point is- the guy has spent a ridiculous amount of his life sniffing jocks and describing the smell to hayseeds for pay. It’s a choice, I guess. 
 
 

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Posted
3 hours ago, TheBryMan81 said:

What you're failing to consider is that all 4 customer support people are pretty female current undergrad students and this is Billy Liuici we're talking about here. 

Of the paid staff, I counted around 12 that are current undergrad students at A&M and another 8 or so that graduated within the last three years. I doubt he's paying the current college students much more than minimum wage. That's about $15k per year. The recent college graduates probably get paid something that is considered competitive for a fresh college graduate (teachers on average in Texas get paid less than $60k / year).

Don't forget 13/20 interns. I know for a fact loochs office looks like this, but the couch is maroon and the table is full of coke 

 

3d Casting Couch Model

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Posted
8 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

But regarding the truck, I guess he left Chad hanging.  

Not wanting to disturb the sad, sublime poignancy of Olin's story, I left out this still very touching exchange from those early days:

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He said he understood. What could be more Chad than that?

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I'll have to step away from the keyboard for a moment.

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Posted

Choked Like a Bitch would seem better considering the finish to their oh-so-close SEC championship game appearance last year.

Besides mysogyny,  the Ags are more psuedo thug than thug for that motto.

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Posted
8 minutes ago, utee94 said:

So the entire story is about how he went to this car salesman in Hutto who clearly had mouths to feed, wasted his entire afternoon, and didn't ever buy a car from him.

Then later when this guy began reaching out to him, he routinely left the text conversation on read.

And then the dude died.

 

 

And Olin

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decides to mine it for cheap sentiment and an avenue to show he's more than a sportswriter.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Not a Sock said:

 

Saying the word Bitch is 10,000% better than trying not to cuss and actually saying what Hicks said. They would be undisputed champions of stepping on your own dicks for no reason was a sport.

Yeah at first I was amused that Sark embraced FAFO and Saban allowed LANK, but Elko was going to crack down on CBO

Then I saw how Hicks explained it and lmfao. Gameday came up with naysayer for LANK but the best you can do is express violence against women? Just say choke an enemy/opponent/dog out.

Also Elko’s reaction when the reporter gives him Hicks’ quote is hilarious

 

Posted
59 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Most people, I think, would test drive locally and then price shop online and only make that 2 hour drive if the hutto dealer (Chad) gave him the best price on the spec’d truck. 

It was the power of advertising on an elite platform that swayed Olin to check out the deal in person.

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Aggie network, being a part of something greater than yourself (low bar for that), 

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T-shirt fan lucky to get the time of day from the poet laureate of Texags.

 

 

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Posted
9 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

2) This a coach's son. In the year 2025. How fucking dumb does this dude have to be in order to say something like that at a podium? 

I think the answer precedes the question. High school coaches are hardly mavens of discretion and etiquette.

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Posted
15 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I think the answer precedes the question. High school coaches are hardly mavens of discretion and etiquette.

Yeah I’d imagine many football programs have cultures that include some toxic masculinity. 
 

aggy does too, as an institution. So the aggy football program behaving thusly shouldn’t take anyone aback. 

Posted
28 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

How fucking dumb does this dude have to be in order to say something like that at a podium? 

A) Bag of hammers

B) Sack of bricks

C) Box of hair

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Posted
38 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I think the answer precedes the question. High school coaches are hardly mavens of discretion and etiquette.

 

21 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Yeah I’d imagine many football programs have cultures that include some toxic masculinity. 
 

aggy does too, as an institution. So the aggy football program behaving thusly shouldn’t take anyone aback. 

Local high school coaches are taught PR framework for public/media speaking purposes. Is this new information for you guys? Irrespective of their personal views, they know how to handle a microphone, normally. Coach's kids are expected to know better than the average kid regarding many facets of the game, hence that attribute being valued in recruiting evaluations. But let's not let that interrupt a good honking session around how fucking dumb and animalistic high school coaches are.

Posted
1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

 

Local high school coaches are taught PR framework for public/media speaking purposes. Is this new information for you guys? Irrespective of their personal views, they know how to handle a microphone, normally. Coach's kids are expected to know better than the average kid regarding many facets of the game, hence that attribute being valued in recruiting evaluations. But let's not let that interrupt a good honking session around how fucking dumb and animalistic high school coaches are.

Thank you for the information, Coach Greg Davis

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Posted
21 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Nice to get some insight into Liucci's hiring criteria

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You actually go through that process when you reach the College Station city limits. You have to show your "I am an athlete" pass otherwise they make you turn around

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Posted
6 hours ago, closetojumping said:

2) This a coach's son. In the year 2025. How fucking dumb does this dude have to be in order to say something like that at a podium? 

Didn't his HS head coach get caught up in some sort of scandal that made Max Wright blush?

Posted
1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

Didn't his HS head coach get caught up in some sort of scandal that made Max Wright blush?

Yeah, but he knew how to spin it!

”no one wouldn’t have thought she wasn’t 18. And look at what she was wearing?!?!?”

Posted
2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Yeah, but he knew how to spin it!

”no one wouldn’t have thought she wasn’t 18. And look at what she was wearing?!?!?”

Ah, the old Art Briles technique. 

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