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15 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. 

 

And then consider that Billy Liucci has to look in a mirror to see his wiener. 

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14 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

And then consider that Billy Liucci has to look in a mirror to see his wiener. 

If Liucci looks at this board, you can expect an invitation for fisticuffs in the Texas.com parking lot.

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10 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

If Liucci looks at this board, you can expect an invitation for fisticuffs in the Texas.com parking lot.

One kick in his gunt and he’d be done. 

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Posted
10 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Local high school coaches are taught PR framework for public/media speaking purposes.

Yeah, and I can teach my cat to bark. I can teach him that shit for weeks!

He'll still meow. Because he is a fucking cat.

Now, if you try to teach a dumbfuck PR... I reckon you'll get similar results.

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Posted
6 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Yeah, and I can teach my cat to bark. I can teach him that shit for weeks!

He'll still meow. Because he is a fucking cat.

Now, if you try to teach a dumbfuck PR... I reckon you'll get similar results.

I read a book called “Waiting For Your Cat To Bark” once. Many of the principles and concepts taught within still apply to digital conversion, really. 

Anywho. Getting one’s head around basic do’s and don’t’s when speaking to the media or in a public setting isn’t some Herculean task. Don’t make it out to be voodoo or alchemy solely because it’s beyond your personal reach, Rimbo. 

I’m no fan of high school coaches and their mental and emotional capacities, so believe what you want. The original point was simply that a recruited 5 star with a helicopter dad that understands the arena should not have been dumb enough to have said what he said, but he did anyway. This board’s primal, tedious need to diverge off onto boring tangents can get fucked on this one. 

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

I read a book called “Waiting For Your Cat To Bark” once. Many of the principles and concepts taught within still apply to digital conversion, really. 

Anywho. Getting one’s head around basic do’s and don’t’s when speaking to the media or in a public setting isn’t some Herculean task. Don’t make it out to be voodoo or alchemy solely because it’s beyond your personal reach, Rimbo. 

I’m no fan of high school coaches and their mental and emotional capacities, so believe what you want. The original point was simply that a recruited 5 star with a helicopter dad that understands the arena should not have been dumb enough to have said what he said, but he did anyway. This board’s primal, tedious need to diverge off onto boring tangents can get fucked on this one. 

You originally responded to a post of mine where I spoke generally and not specifically about this guy. You'd said merely that he's a coaches son. I responded as much in humor about the cliche you object to as I did to making a real point. 

The mystery is why you took it so personally. I intended no slight. I do not intend one now. Your combativeness is usually top flight insult humor. Maybe keep your finger a little further from the hair trigger.

I look forward to your blistering retort if it's up to your usual standards.

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Posted
36 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I’ve got my thesaurus 

Back when the earliest "always on" modems hit the 'net - before the 'net became the web - I wrote a little piece of software that would run a chunk of text through a thesaurus and save the results. One of the first bits I tried, before it got too boring, came back with "I vow fealty to the symbol of the Bonded Modalities of America..."

I'm pretty sure that code was swiped by certain government agencies and has been heavily involved in speech-writing for these many years.

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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

You originally responded to a post of mine where I spoke generally and not specifically about this guy. You'd said merely that he's a coaches son. I responded as much in humor about the cliche you object to as I did to making a real point. 

The mystery is why you took it so personally. I intended no slight. I do not intend one now. Your combativeness is usually top flight insult humor. Maybe keep your finger a little further from the hair trigger.

I look forward to your blistering retort if it's up to your usual standards.

I could have been responding to anybody about the subject of Hicks being an idiot who should know better. Quoting whoever, I guess you in this instance, was using it as a vehicle, not an affirmation or rebuke. 

The only thing I took personally was the thoughtless and witless messaging on "huuuuuurrrrrrr durrrrrrrrr corches are stupid" rather taking the time to actually gather the point. Too many times, I hold the patrons of this board to a higher standard than a decade+ of interactions should sanely allow.

We're being disputatious at this point, as boring as that implies.  

Posted
17 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

"huuuuuurrrrrrr durrrrrrrrr corches are stupid"

To be fair, this is the case, more often than not. 
 

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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

I could have been responding to anybody about the subject of Hicks being an idiot who should know better. Quoting whoever, I guess you in this instance, was using it as a vehicle, not an affirmation or rebuke. 

The only thing I took personally was the thoughtless and witless messaging on "huuuuuurrrrrrr durrrrrrrrr corches are stupid" rather taking the time to actually gather the point. Too many times, I hold the patrons of this board to a higher standard than a decade+ of interactions should sanely allow.

We're being disputatious at this point, as boring as that implies.  

I'll see your decade+ of interactions and up you 15 minutes in the cloak room! 

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The annual Liucci Sunshine on the offense 

 

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  • Can we have someone, maybe the Rogue Shop can do this, point out to me when my hair gets that little rat tail coming out, like I had during the entire Bucky McMillan interview? My hair was coming out of the back of the hat, and it was a tuft of hair popping out.
     
  • Marcel Reed has come a long way. He looks so comfortable. He's getting it out quick and getting into less trouble. Only the games will tell, but I still want to see deadly accuracy down the field. I like a guy who can run and create so many problems, and you can give up a little bit in terms of being a passer. Some guys can't throw as accurately as others, but because they can run so well, they're still weapons. Jalen Hurts is like that. Sometimes, Josh Allen is like that. My issue with Reed last year was he was spraying it around beyond 10-15 yards, and it was hit or miss. You have to square that away because you have to have the consistent big-play element.
     
  • The throw from Reed to Noah Thomas against Auburn, it’s about if he can do that consistently with A&M's running game, Reed's ability to run and with Collin Klein drawing things up to get rid of the ball quickly.
     
  • A&M is going to miss Thomas, by the way.
     
  • Watching these receivers, it's a better receiving corps. If Thomas' decision doesn't work out for him at Georgia, it's going to be a disastrous one for him and A&M. I didn't like that move after his best year here. A&M will try to go get somebody else, potentially in this upcoming portal window.
     
  • Jerome Myles is an interesting guy. Looking at this receiver unit, I see a lot of speed, but I don't see much size. They're going to be little at receiver. KC Concepcion is muscled up, but he's not tall. Mario Craver is small, but he's very fast. Ashton Bethel-Roman is slight and skinny, but he's very, very fast. Concepcion is explosive as hell. Terry Bussey has missed some practices. You'll have Bussey, Concepcion and Craver, who has a different gear. Bethel-Roman is the same way. Izaiah Williams has made some catches lately.
     
  • I would throw in Amari Niblack because he's a weapon that is called a tight end, but he's going to be a hybrid tight end-receiver. Damn, he looks good physically and catching the ball, getting upfield. I don't know what was going on at Texas other than him being behind Gunnar Helm, who was one of the best tight ends in the country. Maybe it's that Holmon Wiggins is his guy.
     
  • That group of pass-catchers will be a big step up in terms of speed, quickness and play-making ability. The only matchup problem I see is potentially Niblack. However, their speed is scary.
     
  • Maybe Myles can be a matchup problem when he gets here. He's got good size and runs a 4.10 40-yard dash. He's coming off an ACL injury suffered in October, but he should come in running and playing. You trust true freshmen when they're here in the spring, and you would've loved to have him here in January.
     
  • This is going to be a fast group of receivers.
     
  • As a unit, the tight ends might be the most improved group on the roster this year. Just the depth and physicality of the group. If you count Niblack, you have a true hybrid receiver. You've got a guy who can make big catches up the seem in Theo Melin Öhrström. You’ve got Nate Boerkircher, Micah Riley, and Eric Karner is here. I like that room, and you have a true freshman who, if you just looked at Kiotti Armstrong, you'd go, "What round is he going in?" It's a nice group of tight ends, and there's a lot of physicality there. Boerkircher could be a sleeper portal pickup that benefits you a lot more than people realize just from what he might do for you in the running game.
     
  • Offensively, we've talked a lot about this offensive line. We know what they have coming back. We know what they have with the experience. They've been good this spring.
     
  • The defense had a really nice scrimmage last week.
     
  • I did a write-up. It was the offense. We'll do defense later. We'll talk defense maybe next week.
     
  • I think the offensive line is going to be strong. I think the running game is going to be potent. I think they're better at receiver, but I wish they had size. That concerns me. They don't have this big outside threat, and that's where losing Thomas hurts.
     
  • So much of this is going to be Reed's development and his leap. He has to. He did some nice things last year, but he wasn't close to good enough for A&M to win 10 games, or even nine, on that schedule. To get to 10 and in the playoff or nine and show noteworthy improvement, Reed has to make a big leap. That's understandable. I believe he can. I believe he will, but he has to do it.
     
  • When you see the great plays, the running ability and the instincts, you realize what that could look like when he puts it all together. It's a lot on him, but shame on you for letting everyone get a glimpse of how good you can play because now you have to do it consistently. It's a high bar, but you're not winning in this league unless you have a top-five quarterback in this conference
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Posted
7 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Anywho. Getting one’s head around basic do’s and don’t’s when speaking to the media or in a public setting isn’t some Herculean task. Don’t make it out to be voodoo or alchemy solely because it’s beyond your personal reach, Rimbo. 

Dude.

I'm in charge of training - and testing - my company's security. The tests use real phishing emails, and the scammers just keep getting better at what they do. We warn people that the tests are coming and they STILL get caught. Hell, this quarter the guy who SET UP the tests originally was caught. If THAT guy can fall for them, anyone can.

Phishing scams work because they use the way our brains naturally work against us. Same with PR. Doing PR is difficult and unnatural for most people. You can train them and re-train them, and they're still gonna do dumb things.

And if they're dumb or mean or nasty to begin with, like a good many high school football coaches tend to be, they're going to be more prone to doing dumb things.

Ain't no need to get personal, but that's how you are, right? Miss the point entirely, then turn it into a personal attack...

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Wait, so Looch is sunshine pumping Reed (no surprise), but the 247 guy basically said he stunk it up?  I know Looch has to feed the Texags group nothing but sunshine.

The OL still looks like hot garbage.  Do they still have that JAG at Center?  

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3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

I could have been responding to anybody about the subject of Hicks being an idiot who should know better. Quoting whoever, I guess you in this instance, was using it as a vehicle, not an affirmation or rebuke. 

The only thing I took personally was the thoughtless and witless messaging on "huuuuuurrrrrrr durrrrrrrrr corches are stupid" rather taking the time to actually gather the point. Too many times, I hold the patrons of this board to a higher standard than a decade+ of interactions should sanely allow.

We're being disputatious at this point, as boring as that implies.  

Well, all I have to say about high school coaches is the time in 1968 when I was asked to be the designated driver for two of them from Giddings down to Boys’ Town in Nuevo Laredo for an overnighter so they could get laid. 
I was a newly wedded teetotaler then and could be trusted to keep my mouth shut.

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Posted
45 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

Wait, so Looch is sunshine pumping Reed (no surprise), but the 247 guy basically said he stunk it up?  I know Looch has to feed the Texags group nothing but sunshine.

The OL still looks like hot garbage.  Do they still have that JAG at Center?  

Yeah he’s Jalen Hurts or Josh Allen. Even though he can’t throw a ball into the water from a boat. Duh.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

Dude.

I'm in charge of training - and testing - my company's security. The tests use real phishing emails, and the scammers just keep getting better at what they do. We warn people that the tests are coming and they STILL get caught. Hell, this quarter the guy who SET UP the tests originally was caught. If THAT guy can fall for them, anyone can.

Phishing scams work because they use the way our brains naturally work against us. Same with PR. Doing PR is difficult and unnatural for most people. You can train them and re-train them, and they're still gonna do dumb things.

And if they're dumb or mean or nasty to begin with, like a good many high school football coaches tend to be, they're going to be more prone to doing dumb things.

Ain't no need to get personal, but that's how you are, right? Miss the point entirely, then turn it into a personal attack...

This might as well have been written in Greek. 

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Maybe Myles can be a matchup problem when he gets here. He's got good size and runs a 4.10 40-yard dash. He's coming off an ACL injury suffered in October, but he should come in running and playing.

We got us a got damn Teddy Lehman in the station!

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Posted
1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

Well, all I have to say about high school coaches is the time in 1968 when I was asked to be the designated driver for two of them from Giddings down to Boys’ Town in Nuevo Laredo for an overnighter so they could get laid. 
I was a newly wedded teetotaler then and could be trusted to keep my mouth shut.

How was the donkey show?

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Posted
1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

Well, all I have to say about high school coaches is the time in 1968 when I was asked to be the designated driver for two of them from Giddings down to Boys’ Town in Nuevo Laredo for an overnighter so they could get laid. 
I was a newly wedded teetotaler then and could be trusted to keep my mouth shut.

“There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body."

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Posted
3 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Well, all I have to say about high school coaches is the time in 1968 when I was asked to be the designated driver for two of them from Giddings down to Boys’ Town in Nuevo Laredo for an overnighter so they could get laid. 
I was a newly wedded teetotaler then and could be trusted to keep my mouth shut.

Now, THAT is PR.

But I'm assuming "Giddings" is code for some other place and that we're going to have to buy the book to get any real detail here.

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19 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

They’re both dead, so it matters not.

Note to self. 
 

Don’t ask AB to be my designated driver. 

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On 4/10/2025 at 7:26 AM, statsman said:

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. 
 
 

Louie Belina - 1150am TheZone, and you were referring to the “Bel-Lucci Hour” When I lived there, I went once with some coworkers for some schadenfreude, and it did not disappoint. Lunch, a beer and listening to the room, and panel doing the live lunch radio show, try to mentally gymnastic their way through how they were going to beat Texas, why Texas was a paper tiger, and why can’t they seem to get over on Texas despite beating them at everything facet in sports at every level, except for winning the games. Lunch with irl TexAgs, I didn’t want it to end. November 2005, Good times. Louis is wearing glasses.

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On 4/10/2025 at 8:08 AM, RomaVicta said:

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.

@RomaVicta, glorious. The Lord’s work. 
 

 

On 4/10/2025 at 8:35 AM, 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.

 

 

That’s the bones, yes, but you have not the prose of OB, sir. #BTHObadwriters

 

On 4/10/2025 at 9:10 AM, 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. 

Well, to be fair, most of College Station drives to Austin for <Insert anything worthwhile>. 

 

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Posted
10 hours ago, closetojumping said:

This might as well have been written in Greek. 

Αυτό ακούγεται σαν κάτι που θα έλεγε ένας απολογητής του Γκρεγκ Ντέιβις.

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Posted
20 hours ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

The annual Liucci Sunshine on the offense 

 

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  • Can we have someone, maybe the Rogue Shop can do this, point out to me when my hair gets that little rat tail coming out, like I had during the entire Bucky McMillan interview? My hair was coming out of the back of the hat, and it was a tuft of hair popping out.
     
  • Marcel Reed has come a long way. He looks so comfortable. He's getting it out quick and getting into less trouble. Only the games will tell, but I still want to see deadly accuracy down the field. I like a guy who can run and create so many problems, and you can give up a little bit in terms of being a passer. Some guys can't throw as accurately as others, but because they can run so well, they're still weapons. Jalen Hurts is like that. Sometimes, Josh Allen is like that. My issue with Reed last year was he was spraying it around beyond 10-15 yards, and it was hit or miss. You have to square that away because you have to have the consistent big-play element.
     
  • The throw from Reed to Noah Thomas against Auburn, it’s about if he can do that consistently with A&M's running game, Reed's ability to run and with Collin Klein drawing things up to get rid of the ball quickly.
     
  • A&M is going to miss Thomas, by the way.
     
  • Watching these receivers, it's a better receiving corps. If Thomas' decision doesn't work out for him at Georgia, it's going to be a disastrous one for him and A&M. I didn't like that move after his best year here. A&M will try to go get somebody else, potentially in this upcoming portal window.
     
  • Jerome Myles is an interesting guy. Looking at this receiver unit, I see a lot of speed, but I don't see much size. They're going to be little at receiver. KC Concepcion is muscled up, but he's not tall. Mario Craver is small, but he's very fast. Ashton Bethel-Roman is slight and skinny, but he's very, very fast. Concepcion is explosive as hell. Terry Bussey has missed some practices. You'll have Bussey, Concepcion and Craver, who has a different gear. Bethel-Roman is the same way. Izaiah Williams has made some catches lately.
     
  • I would throw in Amari Niblack because he's a weapon that is called a tight end, but he's going to be a hybrid tight end-receiver. Damn, he looks good physically and catching the ball, getting upfield. I don't know what was going on at Texas other than him being behind Gunnar Helm, who was one of the best tight ends in the country. Maybe it's that Holmon Wiggins is his guy.
     
  • That group of pass-catchers will be a big step up in terms of speed, quickness and play-making ability. The only matchup problem I see is potentially Niblack. However, their speed is scary.
     
  • Maybe Myles can be a matchup problem when he gets here. He's got good size and runs a 4.10 40-yard dash. He's coming off an ACL injury suffered in October, but he should come in running and playing. You trust true freshmen when they're here in the spring, and you would've loved to have him here in January.
     
  • This is going to be a fast group of receivers.
     
  • As a unit, the tight ends might be the most improved group on the roster this year. Just the depth and physicality of the group. If you count Niblack, you have a true hybrid receiver. You've got a guy who can make big catches up the seem in Theo Melin Öhrström. You’ve got Nate Boerkircher, Micah Riley, and Eric Karner is here. I like that room, and you have a true freshman who, if you just looked at Kiotti Armstrong, you'd go, "What round is he going in?" It's a nice group of tight ends, and there's a lot of physicality there. Boerkircher could be a sleeper portal pickup that benefits you a lot more than people realize just from what he might do for you in the running game.
     
  • Offensively, we've talked a lot about this offensive line. We know what they have coming back. We know what they have with the experience. They've been good this spring.
     
  • The defense had a really nice scrimmage last week.
     
  • I did a write-up. It was the offense. We'll do defense later. We'll talk defense maybe next week.
     
  • I think the offensive line is going to be strong. I think the running game is going to be potent. I think they're better at receiver, but I wish they had size. That concerns me. They don't have this big outside threat, and that's where losing Thomas hurts.
     
  • So much of this is going to be Reed's development and his leap. He has to. He did some nice things last year, but he wasn't close to good enough for A&M to win 10 games, or even nine, on that schedule. To get to 10 and in the playoff or nine and show noteworthy improvement, Reed has to make a big leap. That's understandable. I believe he can. I believe he will, but he has to do it.
     
  • When you see the great plays, the running ability and the instincts, you realize what that could look like when he puts it all together. It's a lot on him, but shame on you for letting everyone get a glimpse of how good you can play because now you have to do it consistently. It's a high bar, but you're not winning in this league unless you have a top-five quarterback in this conference

“I still want to see deadly accuracy down the field.” Oh, it’s so easy to just develop that, Quinn Ewers out front shoulda told him. 

Posted
On 4/11/2025 at 1:42 PM, Longhornfrenzy said:

The annual Liucci Sunshine on the offense 

Looking at this receiver unit, I see a lot of speed, but I don't see much size.

Don't worry Billy, Moffitt will fix that.

well, he'll fix the speed part, anyway

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