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12 minutes ago, Machinator said:

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Honest to God this is the fucking problem with them.  Off the top of my head I can name at least TCU and Baylor and Okie State adn OU that went to bowls so I guess they had winning seasons.  

Like the saying goes, it's hard to win an argument with a smart person.  It's impossible to win one with an idiot.

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There it is - "we don't wanna play no sips 'less they plays a real skedyuwul like ess-ee-see." Never mind the three directional schools they play annually. aggy is already making excuses because they know what will happen. History proves what will happen.

Never play those clowns again. Period.

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See, he is framing his argument around the number of "winning teams" Texas played prior to bowl season...so you don't have to count Baylor or TCU or Ok St (who all finished with winning records); plus he can word it such that it glosses over the fact that we played the same top-5 team twice. Alas, the dumb aggy still gets it wrong, because OU, WVU and ISU all finished the regular season with winning records. 

Of course, this is classic aggy - setting arbitrary parameters to best suit them. Because if you add in the bowl games...the number of "winning teams" we ended up playing goes up to 7 distinct teams and 8 distinct games, including 3 against teams that finished in the top 7 nationally (Texas went 2-1 in those games). 

The best part of this guy's post is that 2 "non-winning" B12 teams that finished the regular season 6-6 went on to have winning records by beating mighty SEC teams in bowl games. 

So implicit in his post is that Texas did not deserve to be in the Sugar Bowl...and he subtly credits Texas's "positive press" to the fact the it got an undeserving invitation - completely ignoring that Texas won the goddamn game convincingly against the 2nd-best SEC team. 

 

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42 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

See, he is framing his argument around the number of "winning teams" Texas played prior to bowl season...so you don't have to count Baylor or TCU or Ok St (who all finished with winning records); plus he can word it such that it glosses over the fact that we played the same top-5 team twice. Alas, the dumb aggy still gets it wrong, because OU, WVU and ISU all finished the regular season with winning records. 

Of course, this is classic aggy - setting arbitrary parameters to best suit them. Because if you add in the bowl games...the number of "winning teams" we ended up playing goes up to 7 distinct teams and 8 distinct games, including 3 against teams that finished in the top 7 nationally (Texas went 2-1 in those games). 

The best part of this guy's post is that 2 "non-winning" B12 teams that finished the regular season 6-6 went on to have winning records by beating mighty SEC teams in bowl games. 

So implicit in his post is that Texas did not deserve to be in the Sugar Bowl...and he subtly credits Texas's "positive press" to the fact the it got an undeserving invitation - completely ignoring that Texas won the goddamn game convincingly against the 2nd-best SEC team. 

 

You’ll never win the battle inside their head.

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11 hours ago, markstanco said:


 

 


Years ago Arkansas stated they wont play arkie state. There is no benefit with a win, and a loss would be catastrophic.

Texas football is in a similar situation with aggy. A loss is a lot bigger than a win.

 

When Aggies were livid that we consider OU the bigger rival, I was forced to think about it. It's like you say; a win over OU is bigger than a win over A&M while a loss to A&M is worse than a loss to OU. 

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Meanwhile the $EC continues to schedule one cream puff after another. When will the gomers schedule Colby College or Trinity University?
And they are doing the same in baseball. All home games (also tourney at a neutral field) until conf play.

This weekend I saw on bottom line they are playing a school called UIC. No idea what that stands for, but probably a small church school in San Augistine.
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aggy delusions force them to focus on the area providing them their Narrative du Jour while blocking out all other relevant data.  That is a crippling weakness that prevents effective analysis.  To support their delusion of SECSEC superiority they focus on the size / speed of the athletes and the recruiting ranking that brings - but selectively ignore the same for Texas (and by implication OU as well).  This blinds them to 2 critical and decisive factors:

1) Big XII teams have a broad base of really good coaching.  Patterson and Gundy have been taking 3 star and a few 4 star athletes forever and turned them into teams that can compete with the big boys.  You can now add Matt Campbell to that list though we're losing the Purple Wizard and Holgorson.  Tom Herman and Lincoln Riley are following the same coaching formula but inputting masses of 4-star and 5-star talent.

2) SEC athletes look impressive on paper but often don't perform on the field.  This is especially notable on offense where they tend to be crippled by weak, outdate schemes and poor coaching.  We saw this with Georgia.  Their massive OL could block but struggled with penetration from quick defenders all along the front because they were slow footed.  Their WRs were strong and very fast but they often could not make catches in traffic and dropped several balls outright.  They were unreliable at their main job and that was a drive killer.  Their SEC-leading QB was frequently confused by disguised coverage because he was used to simple reads and his athletes getting wide open against lesser talent.

So there really is the self-perpetuating delusion of SEC dominance compounded with the SEC athletes meme.  The regular beatdowns that the SEC elite handed out to OU for many years just reinforced this smug, insular world view and allowed them to ignore the underlying issue by pointing to scoreboard.  It's much harder to ignore now after the Texas Longhorns' dominance humping of the SEC's #1B team Georgia and the sweep of the SEC by every Big XII bowl match up not named OU.

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On 2/23/2019 at 11:05 PM, Hank Chinaski said:

See, he is framing his argument around the number of "winning teams" Texas played prior to bowl season...so you don't have to count Baylor or TCU or Ok St (who all finished with winning records); plus he can word it such that it glosses over the fact that we played the same top-5 team twice. Alas, the dumb aggy still gets it wrong, because OU, WVU and ISU all finished the regular season with winning records. 

Of course, this is classic aggy - setting arbitrary parameters to best suit them. Because if you add in the bowl games...the number of "winning teams" we ended up playing goes up to 7 distinct teams and 8 distinct games, including 3 against teams that finished in the top 7 nationally (Texas went 2-1 in those games). 

The best part of this guy's post is that 2 "non-winning" B12 teams that finished the regular season 6-6 went on to have winning records by beating mighty SEC teams in bowl games. 

So implicit in his post is that Texas did not deserve to be in the Sugar Bowl...and he subtly credits Texas's "positive press" to the fact the it got an undeserving invitation - completely ignoring that Texas won the goddamn game convincingly against the 2nd-best SEC team. 

 

This is the kind of bs aggy spreads on secrant....without giving all the facts...and, to some degree, sec folks believe some of it.  Of course,  pro-horn posters debunk their crap and it does piss off aggy.  Some of those ags just might have a future in politics.

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10 hours ago, sushihorn said:

aggy delusions force them to focus on the area providing them their Narrative du Jour while blocking out all other relevant data.  That is a crippling weakness that prevents effective analysis.  To support their delusion of SECSEC superiority they focus on the size / speed of the athletes and the recruiting ranking that brings - but selectively ignore the same for Texas (and by implication OU as well).  This blinds them to 2 critical and decisive factors:

1) Big XII teams have a broad base of really good coaching.  Patterson and Gundy have been taking 3 star and a few 4 star athletes forever and turned them into teams that can compete with the big boys.  You can now add Matt Campbell to that list though we're losing the Purple Wizard and Holgorson.  Tom Herman and Lincoln Riley are following the same coaching formula but inputting masses of 4-star and 5-star talent.

2) SEC athletes look impressive on paper but often don't perform on the field.  This is especially notable on offense where they tend to be crippled by weak, outdate schemes and poor coaching.  We saw this with Georgia.  Their massive OL could block but struggled with penetration from quick defenders all along the front because they were slow footed.  Their WRs were strong and very fast but they often could not make catches in traffic and dropped several balls outright.  They were unreliable at their main job and that was a drive killer.  Their SEC-leading QB was frequently confused by disguised coverage because he was used to simple reads and his athletes getting wide open against lesser talent.

So there really is the self-perpetuating delusion of SEC dominance compounded with the SEC athletes meme.  The regular beatdowns that the SEC elite handed out to OU for many years just reinforced this smug, insular world view and allowed them to ignore the underlying issue by pointing to scoreboard.  It's much harder to ignore now after the Texas Longhorns' dominance humping of the SEC's #1B team Georgia and the sweep of the SEC by every Big XII bowl match up not named OU.

aggy love to link the graph that displays combine invites by conference as their new argument about SEC superiority. They constantly belittle the Big 12 which they only managed to win once and barely remained above .500 in conference play during their tenure. They pad their win totals with shitty FCS and G5 teams and thump their chests about playing in the SEC despite being mediocre like Mississippi St.

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35 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

This is the kind of bs aggy spreads on secrant....without giving all the facts...and, to some degree, sec folks believe some of it.  Of course,  pro-horn posters debunk their crap and it does piss off aggy.  Some of those ags just might have a future in politics.

I have the feeling the surly is well represented on secrant.

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