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At IT, Ian Boyd trolls the Sooners regularly. He predicted when they hired Nagy that the org structure (they both report to the AT&T guy, who may be parallel to Castiglione) would create conflict. 
 
Before Nagy, when (frankly less than special) Damonic Williams was threatening to enter the draft (Ha!) in order to vie for continued NIL (he was overpaid last season), OU found a way to keep him. Now, maybe Nagy is trying to enforce a pay scale?

Loving this. 

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Also, good luck for OU continuing to recruit high profile HS players given:

1. They have a poor recent record of five star recruits developing (this used to be Texas)

2. They have earned a reputation as a program that will compete financially to sign a high profile recruit, but will cut the pay if he fails to flash early. 

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11 hours ago, statsman said:

At IT, Ian Boyd trolls the Sooners regularly. He predicted when they hired Nagy that the org structure (they both report to the AT&T guy, who may be parallel to Castiglione) would create conflict. 
 
Before Nagy, when (frankly less than special) Damonic Williams was threatening to enter the draft (Ha!) in order to vie for continued NIL (he was overpaid last season), OU found a way to keep him. Now, maybe Nagy is trying to enforce a pay scale?

Loving this. 

 

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I listened to the SoonerScoop podcast. They were cautioning their fans to not get mad at Stone. The moderators admitted this is a bad look for OU. 
 
When players leverage their position for more money, fans can get upset at them for being greedy,…if they are fans of a team that doesn’t churn the bottom of its roster and process disappointing prospects out. OU is not that team (neither is Texas), so it doesn’t get to point fingers and cry about gratitude. 
 
The rules in Liar’s Poker- “no tears” and “don’t bet more than you can afford to lose”

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My sooner fan FIL is a pretty typical sooner. He’s pointed to stone as a top 10 National player who still chose ou in the middle of their post Riley chaos. So him bailing is extra sweet for me.

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They’re so arrogant, I doubt they understand how far they’ve fallen. I think they need to pivot to the Arizona State model. Prioritize the portal. Lots of developmental lottery tickets in tickets in high school recruiting. 
 

They’re not going to win many 5 star battles, and if when they do, they’ll pay more than can afford. 

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9 minutes ago, Chango said:

My sooner fan FIL is a pretty typical sooner. He’s pointed to stone as a top 10 National player who still chose ou in the middle of their post Riley chaos. So him bailing is extra sweet for me.

Serious post here -  please come back to the board and tell if you happen to ask him his reaction. It would be sweet for many here also

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3 hours ago, mantis toboggan said:

Serious post here -  please come back to the board and tell if you happen to ask him his reaction. It would be sweet for many here also

I wish I could help here. Sooner coworkers are so down right now that the only thing that will get them worked up is telling them Texas Tech is a better academic school. 

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17 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I wish I could help here. Sooner coworkers are so down right now that the only thing that will get them worked up is telling them Texas Tech is a better academic school. 

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17 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I wish I could help here. Sooner coworkers are so down right now that the only thing that will get them worked up is telling them Texas Tech is a better academic school. 

They'd be really mad if they could read. 

 

Also the girls are much uglier in Norman 

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7 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Two of my best, longest friends are Sooners. They are so beat down right now that they won't even offer up the smallest amount of trash talk. It's actually taking a lot of the fun out of it for me.

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45 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Two of my best, longest friends are Sooners. They are so beat down right now that they won't even offer up the smallest amount of trash talk. It's actually taking a lot of the fun out of it for me.

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47 minutes ago, statsman said:

I am enjoying this new era thoroughly.

Me too. Especially they’re hypocritical bitching and moaning about $$. It’s delicious. They deserve a half century of 2nd class relegation at least.

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1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Two of my best, longest friends are Sooners. They are so beat down right now that they won't even offer up the smallest amount of trash talk. It's actually taking a lot of the fun out of it for me.

You need to pick up their slack like a good friend.

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How the fuck so some of you people work with sooners and Aggies? I just....no. it amazes me that anyone with a Texas degree would work in the same place, let alone the same building. 

I feel blessed. The only Aggies that I have to deal with are my uncle, aunt, and a cousin (my other cousin went to UT.

They're pretty cool people, and my uncle can make the best brisket (or anything on a grill like a 5 star chef).

The only true weird thing that happened between us was my cousin got married and had all of her bridesmaids look at me and my other cousin (her brother) as we uncomfortably just shook oir heads in disbelief as they all did the swaying and singing the Aggiie war hymn after the wedding at the location where we ate. My other cousin and I felt reeeeeal uncomfortable as they swayed before our very eyes. It was like looking into the eyes of Ed Gein or Buffalo Bill. 

Although she did bring some sweet muff from her sorority, they made it weird, and it's etched into my brain forever. 

The sad thing is now is she was diagnosed with MS and has to use a cane.  She's 35. It sucks. 

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31 minutes ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

How the fuck so some of you people work with sooners and Aggies? I just....no. it amazes me that anyone with a Texas degree would work in the same place, let alone the same building. 

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The sad thing is now is she was diagnosed with MS and has to use a cane.  She's 35. It sucks. 

I have some friends and coworkers who attended Texas A&M and they are great people.  Are they the exception or the rule?  I tend to believe they are the rule and the loudest and most obnoxious are the exception.  The exception rears its head in sports far too often.

That aside, what your cousin and her family having to deal with MS really fucking sucks.  I cannot imagine what they are going through.  I am about 2 decades older than her and whine because my back is stiff after doing yard work.  Puts my whining in perspective.  I suspect she'd welcome the ability to sway back and forth and whoop.

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52 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

I have some friends and coworkers who attended Texas A&M and they are great people.  Are they the exception or the rule?  I tend to believe they are the rule and the loudest and most obnoxious are the exception.  The exception rears its head in sports far too often.

That aside, what your cousin and her family having to deal with MS really fucking sucks.  I cannot imagine what they are going through.  I am about 2 decades older than her and whine because my back is stiff after doing yard work.  Puts my whining in perspective.  I suspect she'd welcome the ability to sway back and forth and whoop.

If I get Aggies by themselves they're normal people for the most part. It's when they're in a pack that things can get strange. 

What I do feel convicted on is that the world is now spinning in its rightful orbit college football wise. May it last the rest of my lifetime. It won't, but I'll relish it for as long as it does last. 

7 hours ago, statsman said:

Enjoy it. It wasn’t that long ago that they reveled in Texas recruiting failures, laughing at our dumbasses losing head-to-heads because we wouldn’t drop a bag here and there. 
 
We’d talk about rules-following and they’d laugh at our naïveté at how the world really worked. I am enjoying this new era thoroughly 

Keep bumping. I love Sooner tears so much more than Aggie tears, and I find Aggie tears delicious. 

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3 hours ago, boilerhorn said:

IThat aside, what your cousin and her family having to deal with MS really fucking sucks.  I cannot imagine what they are going through.  I am about 2 decades older than her and whine because my back is stiff after doing yard work.  Puts my whining in perspective.  I suspect she'd welcome the ability to sway back and forth and whoop.

I totally agree. I was a jeep with a buddy and being the idioit I am, we went flying hard on huge hills and I FAFO, and if messed my back up, and I still have to take muscle relaxers .

Now looking in hindsight it doesn’t even come close to hers. She’s slways in pain. The world can be cruel to those who are truly great people, 

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9 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

If I get Aggies by themselves they're normal people for the most part. It's when they're in a pack that things can get strange. 

What I do feel convicted on is that the world is now spinning in its rightful orbit college football wise. May it last the rest of my lifetime. It won't, but I'll relish it for as long as it does last. 

Keep bumping. I love Sooner tears so much more than Aggie tears, and I find Aggie tears delicious. 

Aggie tears are way better, always, Sooners always react the same... they are normal they want to fire the coach and start over, Aggies go through this tortured process that could win someone a Nobel prize in psychiatry if it existed. Do Sooners say to loses saying that they "need to send the team back to Junction, TX"? hell no even this generational guard is dying out you rarely see this in Texags anymore because as the last generation to have seen them win a MNC are passing away, along with the junction boys. This used to be so common back when little liucci had just a single chin pube, and they were always optimistic. I miss it.

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Nowadays this cope was replaced with "We need to make NIL performance related" and while admittedly more effective than physical torture at achieving the desired result of the players working hard all season, Aggies always repeat it, and no matter how many times are told it is illegal they keep saying it. 

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9 minutes ago, linux said:

Aggie tears are way better, always, Sooners always react the same... they are normal they want to fire the coach and start over, Aggies go through this tortured process that could win someone a Nobel prize in psychiatry if it existed. Do Sooners say to loses saying that they "need to send the team back to Junction, TX"? hell no even this generational guard is dying out you rarely see this in Texags anymore because as the last generation to have seen them win a MNC are passing away, along with the junction boys. This used to be so common back when little liucci had just a single chin pube, and they were always optimistic. I miss it.

There is not one living aggy that saw them win their last MNC in a real sport. 

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28 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

There is not one living aggy that saw them win their last MNC in a real sport. 

You don't know that for sure. There could be one or two. Of course, chances are high they're dementia addled and think they're a potato, but there could be a couple. 

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32 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

You don't know that for sure. There could be one or two. Of course, chances are high they're dementia addled and think they're a potato, but there could be a couple. 

I'm leaning a little heavy into the "seen them win a MNC" qualifier. Their last MNC was in 1939, which was 86 years ago. Since they didn't play live sporting events on television in 1939, they would have had to have been at the game. At what age do you start to retain memories? 5 years old? So I guess there could potentially be a 91 year old guy out there that went to the national championship game and remembers how great it was. So yeah. I guess it's possible. But not likely. 

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3 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

I'm leaning a little heavy into the "seen them win a MNC" qualifier. Their last MNC was in 1939, which was 86 years ago. Since they didn't play live sporting events on television in 1939, they would have had to have been at the game. At what age do you start to retain memories? 5 years old? So I guess there could potentially be a 91 year old guy out there that went to the national championship game and remembers how great it was. So yeah. I guess it's possible. But not likely. 

And that five years old tot was taken to the game by his 86 years old great grandfather, who as a young teen beat the drum for a Confederate regiment in the Civil War…

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2 hours ago, irishtexan said:

I'm leaning a little heavy into the "seen them win a MNC" qualifier. Their last MNC was in 1939, which was 86 years ago. Since they didn't play live sporting events on television in 1939, they would have had to have been at the game. At what age do you start to retain memories? 5 years old? So I guess there could potentially be a 91 year old guy out there that went to the national championship game and remembers how great it was. So yeah. I guess it's possible. But not likely. 

Yup was about to make a reddit post about Pope Francis not living long enough to consciously see them win a MNC, he was 3 when they won it.

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7 hours ago, linux said:

Aggie tears are way better, always, Sooners always react the same... they are normal they want to fire the coach and start over, Aggies go through this tortured process that could win someone a Nobel prize in psychiatry if it existed. Do Sooners say to loses saying that they "need to send the team back to Junction, TX"? hell no even this generational guard is dying out you rarely see this in Texags anymore because as the last generation to have seen them win a MNC are passing away, along with the junction boys. This used to be so common back when little liucci had just a single chin pube, and they were always optimistic. I miss it.

To each their own. 

It's just hard for me to take the Aggies seriously. I think it's a part of when I grew up. I never thought of them as an equal. Still don't. Them being down is the way it's supposed to be. I don't think of them as a rival the way I think of the Sooners. To me the Sooners are the equivalent of Carthage to ancient Rome. We need to salt the earth. So when they're down I simply enjoy it more. 

But to be honest, I'm not one of these people that hanker for some kind of world where our rivals are at the top of their game for these epic matchups where the good guys come out on top. I thoroughly enjoy having their fan bases completely demoralized, watching games where the outcome never seems in doubt, and it's basically obliteration of both the opponent and their fans' psyches. 

I think the main difference for me with the Aggies is they're so numerous now. That's what having a massive student body will do, especially year after year. And I'm in Houston. They've basically taken over the suburbs, especially in West Houston/Katy area. So there's more personal contact with Aggies than there was growing up. 

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12 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

To each their own. 

It's just hard for me to take the Aggies seriously. I think it's a part of when I grew up. I never thought of them as an equal. Still don't. Them being down is the way it's supposed to be. I don't think of them as a rival the way I think of the Sooners. To me the Sooners are the equivalent of Carthage to ancient Rome. We need to salt the earth. So when they're down I simply enjoy it more. 

But to be honest, I'm not one of these people that hanker for some kind of world where our rivals are at the top of their game for these epic matchups where the good guys come out on top. I thoroughly enjoy having their fan bases completely demoralized, watching games where the outcome never seems in doubt, and it's basically obliteration of both the opponent and their fans' psyches. 

I think the main difference for me with the Aggies is they're so numerous now. That's what having a massive student body will do, especially year after year. And I'm in Houston. They've basically taken over the suburbs, especially in West Houston/Katy area. So there's more personal contact with Aggies than there was growing up. 

Of course I don't see aggies as equals, I just see them as laughably entertaining, you go to Soonerfans or whatever and they are just norma and boring.

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6 hours ago, linux said:

Yup was about to make a reddit post about Pope Francis not living long enough to consciously see them win a MNC, he was 3 when they won it.

I bet that would have been his biggest regret. 

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15 hours ago, irishtexan said:

I'm leaning a little heavy into the "seen them win a MNC" qualifier. Their last MNC was in 1939, which was 86 years ago. Since they didn't play live sporting events on television in 1939, they would have had to have been at the game. At what age do you start to retain memories? 5 years old? So I guess there could potentially be a 91 year old guy out there that went to the national championship game and remembers how great it was. So yeah. I guess it's possible. But not likely. 

It was 1939. There was no "national championship game"

They beat Texas to finish the regular season undefeated on Nov 30th. Then they had to wait until Dec 12 to see the final AP rankings. I assume that's when they were declared national champions. Then they played #5 Tulane in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's, but the final AP poll had already been decided, so I guess this game wouldn't have had any effect on their status as national champions. 

The closest thing to a national championship game that year was the game against Texas to see if they would finish undefeated and even then they had to wait another two weeks to see where they were ranked in the final poll as Tennessee was also undefeated at the time (and hadn't been scored on I think)

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