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We need to ease up on the Brocks at this point. In hindsight, they actually did us a massive solid by not coming here. It expedited Herman's departure. It opened up the Texas depth chart so we could take that massive Oline haul in 2022. If they had come here, it would be example number 1027 how Texas can't develop five star talent when in hindsight they were completely over ranked and maxed out in high school. It wasted two scholarship spots at Bama at the opportunity cost of taking a couple of linemen who could actually play. Anybody else notice them having to start a true freshman at LT and him giving up sacks to Burke and Hill? Fuck the Brocks? I don't think so. Thank you, Brocks.60 points
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Baker, Black and Wingo will be horns. NIL is a big deal and they were leans beforehand. I don't think expecting an imminent flip is productive. That's not how they roll. Just taking a new commitment while they're hot has its pratfalls. They're playing this all out over the next few months and expect to land multiple flips by December. Some of that is predicated on Texas continuing to play the way it should and some other programs heading further into the toilet. Texas wants as many as two more OL still. They want to flip a DB. Sounds like Tyanthony Smith is the only real LB possibility on the radar and nothing is imminent or even probable. They're going to scout the hell out of their off week between OU and UH. Given how dreadful UH is, that doesn't bother me. Where they all go for that weekend, in terms of which coaches visit which schools/games will tell us a lot. The Alabama game played a pretty massive role in additional interest in the 25-27 classes. Less so 2024, simply due to so many relationships already being firmly established for players and programs everywhere. That all considered, don't call me an idiot or a liar if some flip or surprise gets announced in the next few days. It's recruiting, anything can happen. Well, anything good, for Texas, at least.58 points
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Liucci: Jimbo Fisher's extension will be another 'bargain' for Texas A&M 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.36 points
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And this type of analysis, insight, and prose is why I subscribe to The Washington Post:31 points
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- Steve Wiltfong (in his Whiparound) "I see Texas in excellent position for Ryan Wingo." - Wingo spoke with Wiltfong after the Bama game. Saw Texas slinging it around vs. Bama; Worthy and Mitchell's success. - Impressed by Sark's offense, play calling, creativity, scheming receivers open. - He's going to be in Austin this weekend. - Wiltfong considered moving his Texas CB pick to Missouri over the summer, and Missouri shouldn't be discounted, but thinks Texas is in excellent position.27 points
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Can't remember if I've responded to this yet. But she's out of the kill shelter and at a vet getting spayed. She has a lot of patches of missing hair, but it's not mange so that's good. She's staying with the vet for a few days for monitoring, but she should be coming home to us this weekend.26 points
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Part 3: Ethan Burke was a big part of the story of the game for a lot of reasons. But one thing that I noticed early on was that Bama had obviously schemed to attack him with the Zone Read. They ran various plays to put Burke in conflict. But I’m going to try and focus only on ZR. Here’s the first time they ran it against Burke: Burke gives a hard keep read. He’s almost all the way to the center when Milroe pulls the ball: Catalon tries to fill the alley but misses and Burke is fortunately able to get Milroe by the shoe to prevent him from ripping off another 5 or 10 yards. Gain of eleven. The second time they ran zone read was literally the next play: Burke attacks deep and Milroe hands the ball to McClellan. Frankly, I’m not sure he was in a position to make a play on either Milroe or McClellan that play. He chases the RB but his angle is too poor to run him down. Texas pulls Burke after that play for several plays. The next time Bama runs ZR, Sorrell is in at EDGE: Sorrell stays flat, doesn’t chase, and forces a GIVE read. Byron Murphy and Alfred Collins both shitwhip the Bama OL, Jaylon Ford fills the other gap, and the play is snuffed for a loss of 1. That play takes Bama off schedule, Watts breaks up 2nd down in the end zone, Milroe runs for his life on 3rd down, and Texas is able to force a field goal. Bama doesn’t go back to ZR the next drive or for the rest of the first half. The next time they run ZR, it’s 13:16 in the third quarter, and Burke is back at DE: This time, Burke slow-plays it, forcing the GIVE read. Catalon fills from the safety position and slows McClellan, who is then gang-tackled by errbody. Bama runs ZR again against Sorrell in the late 3rd. It doesn’t go great. Here’s the last time they run ZR and the play that stood out to me the most. 2:15 left in the 3rd. 2nd and 9. Bama finally gets the Burke matchup that it has been exploiting all night: Burke plays it perfectly (again). He doesn’t run upfield. He doesn’t crash on the snap. He stays wide, forces the GIVE read, and then attacks straight down the line of scrimmage. Sweat blows up his blocker to force McClellan back to the outside, and Burke is waiting there to make the tackle himself. Turns out, someone is coaching our defensive players on the sideline while the game is ongoing. Weird. For the past 14 years, I was under the impression that wasn’t allowed.24 points
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On the one hand, yeah sure. But on the other hand, Fuck the Brocks.23 points
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Suchomel forecasted Baker and Wingo to Texas.21 points
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you guys aren't going to believe this, but i may have misjudged the potential floor here.21 points
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I say a lot of stuff. You're going to have to remind of whatever I said about Broughton so that I can keep track. Sarkisian and Co. are extremely focused on culture-building. There is a widely held view internally, which I think many of us share and the media frequently and ignorantly sort of vaguely blathers about, that the program was a victim of long term culture rot, started during the Mack Brown era. Accordingly, they are very thorough in how they go about putting together a viable list of targets that might visit the portal. They do it down to the point that there are other programs in which they might not consider any transfer from because of the perceived internal issues for it. I assume that Texas would be highly skeptical of any transfer coming out of ATM at this point. Maybe Bryce Anderson or a freshman. I doubt they would have one iota of interest in guys like Nolan. Anyone just transferring for their next payday while they smoke weed in their apartment and skip school would not be a consideration.19 points
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Gerry : "I think Texas will flip somebody in the defensive backfield that is committed elsewhere, and somebody on the OL"19 points
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Gerry said that he spoke to Alex January’s dad yesterday and Alex is taking an online class on the weekends right now so he can graduate early and enroll in January. If I remember right D’Antre Robinson is an early enrollee as well.19 points
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It's not that simple. If it were, I'd agree with you, but it's not. Musk had SpaceX disable Starlink in Crimea at a crucial moment for Ukraine, because the Russians told Musk to, and his disabling benefitted the Russians greatly in their illegal war, where they were technically on the offensive. Right now, as we speak, Musk is on social media trying to spin this as SpaceX is a civilian company and what Ukraine was doing was not defensive, but offensive in nature, and that SpaceX can't be a part of that. First of all, Musk talking about "SpaceX/Starlink can't be used for offensive purposes" is hypocritical bullshit. SpaceX has taken in a shitload of money from the United States Department of Defense alone, for satellite launches and Starlink terminals used by the US military, that are for offensive purposes now or in the future. Starlink is being used by American forces in Syria, elsewhere in the Middle East, Africa, etc. and Musk does not bitch about it. Second of all, when the Russians told Musk to turn off Starlink, he could have easily went to the American government and said "hey, the Russians want me to turn off Starlink for the Ukrainians, what should I do?" But he didn't. Instead, he did what the Russians told him to do. With that one single action, he's shown that he is a Russian puppet and cannot be trusted to do the right thing, and he has created a national security risk, given how many Starlink terminals are in use by the US, including in areas where they have clashed with Russian forces (Wagner) or Russian proxies in the past. Third, and just as important as the second point above, Crimea is Ukrainian territory. When Musk is talking about Starlink being used for "offensive" purposes, he's talking about Ukraine trying to use it on Ukrainian territory to defeat an outside aggressor nation, which is absolutely a "defensive" purpose. Ukraine was not trying to use Starlink to run drones into Moscow, but instead to help reduce the missile attacks from Ukrainian territory (Crimea) to Ukrainian territory (Kyiv, etc). The fact that Musk sees Ukraine attacking Russian missile ships operating in Ukrainian waters as an offensive attack on Russia makes it clear that he sees Crimea as a part of Russia (and he has talked about how Ukraine should give it to Russia for a negotiated peace) and it speaks volumes about his mindset. He buys into Russian bullshit and can't be trusted. He loved people raving about how good Starlink is in Ukraine, but when the Russians privately talked to him, he clearly changed his tune. It went from an amazing advertising opportunity to sell a shitload of Starlinks around the world to him trying to appease Russia, and his attempts to spin this today make it look even worse for him.17 points
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush was surprised to learn that he was served dinner with Putin years ago by Yevgeny Prigozhin, The Washington Post reports. During the conference, Bush was asked if he was shocked to learn of Prigozhin's recent death in a plane crash. "No," Bush replied. "What shocks me is that I recently saw a picture of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg where he was the guy who served me food. He was Putin's chef." The 43rd US president added that he did not remember the details of the meeting with Prigozhin, but joked, "All I know is that I survived."17 points
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Thank fucking god we have Sark instead of this classless dipshit. Sark is infinitely better at handling the image of the University of Texas so far than Tom Herman was. Sark, after the biggest win of his entire head coaching career, was humble and gracious. Sark doesn't come off as insecure at all. He admits his failings and owns them, they make him a better person. He doesn't pretend to be the greatest genius who ever paid to get into the certified genius club like Herman. Fuck Tom Herman. Hook Em Sark!16 points
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Part 4: Now to my personal favorite play of the game. But let’s see Sark’s set up first. Here’s the situation. 27-24, Texas is leading. But Bama has Texas backed up at 2nd and 15 in the shadow of their own goalposts. Bama rushes three and drops 8—a look that Quinn struggled mightily against last year. But Quinn stays cool, and the call is (or at least appears to be) 4 verts—a perfect beater for this coverage that just asks folks to run down the field and get open. Whittington “gets open,” Quinn finds him, and Whittington fights his ass off for extra yards. So three plays later, who is the safety worried about? Probably the guy that just made him look like an ass on national TV—Whittington. So what you should you do? I guess you should throw a fucking bomb to Ad Mitchell. It’s a trips formation with Sanders/Whittington/Mitchell. Worthy is the sole receiver isolated at the field side of the formation. Here’s the route combo from Trips: Does it look similar to NCAA? It should (although it’s not identical). This is the O.G. “NCAA” route combo that Steve Spurrier made famous (made perfect) at Florida—the concept is called “Mills”. Like the NCAA/DDP concept above, the key is to put the safety in conflict. Does he take the DIG (a really easy thing to do—especially when the DIG is run RIGHT AT HIM as it was here by Whittington). Or does he stay over the top? It’s like getting a cat to chase movement. The safety can’t help himself from attacking the deep-breaking in-route right in front of him—especially since Whittington had just caught a pass in the exact same spot. But that leaves the post wide open behind him for six. The ball is perfect, and Mitchell does his best Worthy doing his best Willie Mays impression. Ad Mitchell hauling in a 39 yard bomb to prove definitively that our deep attack this year is more than just throwing up prayers to 8 lbs 6 oz. sweet baby Jesus Xavier Worthy. Touchdown Texas. Play the fight song. Make ‘em eat shit.13 points
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Every game from here on out is just huge. Everything is on the line every week. Now I am not saying this Texas team is as good as the 2005 team, but it finds itself in a similar situation. There are only two ranked teams left on the schedule. Texas should be favored in every game. Texas only leaves the State of Texas once the whole time. Everything is right there for this Texas team and these other ten teams are all going to be trying to take it away. Don't let them guys. Crush all before you.13 points
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Heading into the 2001 season, Florida State had finished each of the prior 14 seasons in the AP top 5. That's a feat above what Alabama has accomplished over a similar period. FSU won 2 titles during that run, which is obviously eclipsed by Bama's 6. If you had a time machine and could go back to the beginning of the 2001 season and argue online with other fans that Florida State would never finish in the top 5 again during Bowden's tenure, and they'd lose 4 games that season, 3 by double digits including once at home, and finish the season ranked a measly #15, people would have pointed at you and laughed. "Florida State just reloads, closetojumping." "It's Bobby Bowden. They'll be fine. He's showing no signs of slowing down." "I'm not betting against FSU and Bobby Bowden." And few folks did bet against FSU and Bobby Bowden. FSU opened the 2001 season ranked #6 in the country. "Only #6, CTJ?" Well, yes. But numerous magazines and pundits had them playing for it all because ... Bobby Bowden. In reality, there were cracks starting to turn into fissures in the foundation of Bowden's program at FSU and they were about to start truly showing for all to see. FSU had to replace a Heisman-winning QB, multiple skill and OL talents taken in the NFL draft, and the majority of their top defensive talent, also taken in the draft the prior spring. Bowden saw long-time OC, Mark Richt, take a prized job at Georgia earlier that year. Instead of going out and finding a talented up and comer to replace the OC, as Bowden had done most of the time when losing an assistant, he did something different this time. He hired his son, Jeff Bowden, because, "hey, he's Bobby Bowden." The talent that FSU needed to simply "reload" didn't appear in the same ways as it previously did. Turns out, while they certainly still had plenty of talent, the recruiting services were bumping recruits regularly by then in FSU's favor because they were giving Bowden the benefit of the doubt. Whoops. All of those recent top 5 classes being stacked up by FSU turned out to produce more like top 20-ish classes, which is how those teams wound up finishing in the AP, if at all, over those final 9 years of Bowden. Bobby Bowden turned 71 during that 2001 season. closetojumping, what does any of that have to do with Alabama and Nick Saban? Well, there is literally zero link between the two regimes. I'm not claiming there is. I'm merely pointing out that the similarities are eerie. Nick Saban enters the 2023 season 71 years old. Alabama this year opened the season in the top 4 of the polls. Many pundits have picked them to win or play for the national title. "Nick Saban and Alabama just reload. " "I'm not betting against Nick Saban. " "It's Nick Saban. He's showing no signs of slowing down." Alabama entered the 2023 season having to replace 16 starters. 10 of those players were drafted in the prior spring's NFL draft. One of those starters in need of replacing was a Heisman-winning QB. Another was the best defensive player in the country. On top of that, Saban had to replace both of his coordinators. While he didn't hire one of his children, he did make two comfort hires. He had the chance to hire Kevin Steele as his DC on two separate occasions when the role was open and Steele was on staff. Saban went in a different direction. Now he's got someone who will do what he's told. On the offensive side, he's hired a younger guy who he's given marching orders in regard to returning the offense to a "murderball" approach in which they just crush less talented teams under the weight of their superior talent in the running game and short passing game. He thought he could do so, and was lauded for doing so by guys like Josh Pate (his murderball segment from this summer, in hindsight to those who weren't paying attention and laughing back then, will give you a laugh now) because "hey, he's Nick Saban." But CTJ, Alabama's still stacking top 3 recruiting classes back to back for cycles on end. Last year's class was #1 in the country, for Christ's sake. All of that is also true. That considered, show me the same ol'dynamic, Heisman-esque players at the skill positions on offense. Malik Becton was being lauded, laughably, as a coup of a pick-up from the juco ranks this summer. I don't even know if he caught a pass on Saturday. The TBs are all highly ranked and all look very pedestrian. If a freshman was good enough, they'd be playing. Look across the sidelines last Saturday and you can see that. Outside of Downs and McKinstry, who stood out on defense in the back 7? Hell, where was Oatis on the DL for most of the game? Tell me what Dallas Turner did that anyone should remember. Did any of that look like a top 5 team to you? It shouldn't, because it isn't. Alabama could very well go 10-2 in the regular season this year, mostly because the SEC looks like 13 dwarves and Georgia. Alabama could also go 8-4 because they're not just going to out-talent UTenn, LSU, or Ole Miss. Gravity gets even the highest flyers and, as we know, it's a shock sometimes when it happens. It's one season, closetojumping. Bama will load up, crush it in the transfer portal, and be right back on top next season. Maybe. But there are significant differences in the college football environment today than in the past, and Saban isn't handling them well. 1) The transfer portal requires significant money. Bama isn't the wealthiest group going after the same players. 2) Transfer players already know what they're looking for in a new team. QBs know what kind of offense they want to run, and it isn't "murderball". WRs can go anywhere. Why would one choose Bama if USC, Texas, Washington, Ohio State or Tennessee wants them? The beat goes on. 3) NIL has leveled the playing field on Saban's magical competitive advantage in high school recruiting. Bama isn't 1 of 10 bidding on the best players. Bama is 1 of 90 going after the same guys and they don't have any more money than most of those 89 other schools. SMU or TCU can outbid them for a DFW guy, let alone Texas or USC. It's harder to flourish when you can't just show up and walk over your opponent. Texas walked into Bryant Denny and took Alabama's soul with it on the way out with a double digit win. They did the same thing when they entered the Big 12 to Nebraska. "You want partial qualifiers or our brand and money?" "Ok, cool, no more PQs, sorry Nebraska." Then the #3 Cornhuskers walked into the Trans World Dome in St. Louis, threw their helmets on the field and said "give us our trophy" before Texas took their soul and beat them by double digits. That was the beginning of the end for Nebraska. Alabama fans should seek a few of those fans out and get some advice from them on how to cope with all of it, because I know it would be sad to see Bama eventually decide the best answer is to just leave the conference.12 points
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We had a staff meeting Monday. The president walked into the meeting, leaned over to one of our aggy employees and said "You see that hurricane this weekend?" He looked completely broken and just stared off into space. I laughed my ass off.12 points
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Went back a few pages to share a walk down memory lane with the aggie braintrust. They were really riding high after the New Mexico win. The trash talk and predictions of a ass kicking (from a group 1-6 in last 7 games against power 5 competition--now 1-7) are chef's kiss.12 points
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