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  1. I’ll take the over. Getting the OL back is good, but the difference will be depth. Every injury has hurt way too much in recent years. We need a legit two deep to make a serious run and we haven’t had that for a long ass time. That’s been our biggest hurdle. We also need a difference maker at QB. Sanders had his moments but hurt us in the games we needed to win to get over the hump. I love Bowman, he’s what we needed this year, but he’s very limited and pretty much a game manager. I hate that I hope his extra year gets denied.
  2. He’s a good coach and can win 8-9 games a year, which is good for aggy. They just think too much of themselves so will fire him in 3 years.
  3. If we had last year’s Max Duggan in 2021 we could have pulled off a similar run. He had a near perfect season. We’re on a 19 year bowl streak. TCU has had 4 losing seasons in that time span. They’re a good program and they’ve out done our ceiling, so good for them, but we are positioned most years to get it done and hope the stars align like it did for TCU last year. We might never get over that hump but next year should be more consistent if nothing else. It’s been a fun ride.
  4. And if we played as well as we did against KU, KSU, OU, and WVU when we played USA, ISU, and UCF, we’d be in the NY6. Shit in one hand and something in the other. It feels like luck sometimes but when it’s continuous over several years there’s more than luck going on. I’ve watched almost every game and it feels lucky sometimes but we get it done way more than we don’t. Next year we might have some legit depth which has been an issue forever. We need a QB though and next year might be more consistent.
  5. This year and in 2021 we found ways to win a lot of close games fighting through injuries, transfers, and other limitations. That’s the sign of a winning program. Gundy can coach. Aggy could do the same if they accepted their place and stopped pretending they’re in the blueblood class. But they’d rather chase 4 and 5 star players that Bama didn’t want and overpay coaches based on feelings. We passed them as a program years ago and they still think they’re special. Again, fuck aggy.
  6. And yet we finished 2nd and won 10 games. Scoring more than the opponent is so overrated.
  7. Fuck espn and fuck aggy. The juggernaut ran out of time yet again. Fucking delusional morons. Go sip your sec branded jizz jars with your new fat fuck coach.
  8. Or fashioning them into high end luggage.
  9. Good god, what is in the water down there? That's way beyond East Texas Box Face, that's flat out beaten with an ugly stick. Definitely some inbreeding involved.
  10. Is Texas State the only “___ State” school to never have Agricultural or A&M as part of their name at some point?
  11. I mean, he would lick Charles Koch's taint if given the opportunity, just to thank him for trickling down all over him and his friends. Not surprising at all.
  12. My dad bought a house when he was a dispatch call operator for the electric company with a two year degree and a stay-at-home wife. The boomers were able to buy houses with high school diploma jobs and single family incomes. That's not possible anymore unless you're willing to live in the middle of nowhere, and even rural real estate is spiking somewhat. The house I bought in 2008 in a nice Tulsa neighborhood was worth twice as much when I sold it two years ago. Two bedrooms one bath. It's not affordable for people in their 20's making $40K a year.
  13. "Anyone left of Ted Cruz is a raving leftist lunatic." That's where he's coming from. Nothing more, nothing less. OP made me laugh, how completely and utterly pathetic.
  14. We recruit heavily out of the Houston area and aggy has long paid players (before it was legal) and are notorious for negative recruiting. I also haven't seen Gundy on the sidelines goose stepping or squeezing his nuts, so he's not exactly a good fit.
  15. I mean, employers are still listing "Graduate Degree Preferred" for jobs and not stating the starting salary which usually ends up being $30K or $40K. The job market for new entrants still sucks shit, and big employers are still complete assholes saving most of the profits for the executives and shareholders and giving Jelly of the Month certificates as holiday bonuses. Housing is still stupid expensive and homeownership is out of reach for a bunch of people in their 20's. "The economy" and the stock market rarely is great for the younger generations. There's lots of chatter about fixing the housing, education, and healthcare markets, but its not gotten much better. To me, the bigger problem is that John Yokel thinks its great when their favorite player (i.e., republican politician) is in office and Forbes declares the economy great, and doesn't care even a little bit if they are actually benefitting (since at least 1980 they're not). Left leaning youths see that things are terrible for them and not getting better and don't treat politics like a spectator sport. I don't blame them for their perceptions based on lived realities. It's a major problem for Democrats. A bunch of them talk about fixing the problems, but only the far left flank like AOC etc. are proposing actual solutions. Mainstream democrats are still scared to death to raise taxes or fund real policies to fix the issues. Student loan relief was about the boldest proposition and the bought and paid for scotus shot it down. It's unfortunate, but the dems really do have to rely right now on trump and friends being truly terrible. I hope the youths will at least vote to avoid things being demonstrably worse letting true fascists run the country. But if the dems really want the youth vote we need more progressive candidates to win elections, at least in Congress. I doubt the country is ready to give a true progressive a legitimate shot at the white house, but we need more than a "squad" of a handful of congresspersons to really press for the needed changes.
  16. Ah, ok. I guess "he should have benched Thurman Thomas" isn't something I think of or hear too often. I think Switzer is way overexaggerating that story, it's consistent with his entire persona. I remember he said he came up with this after Sanders had two long kick returns a few weeks earlier. Not exactly a sure thing at the time that Barry would be the best of all time.
  17. Yes, we're capable of being pretty good or really terrible. With the break to get healthy and prepare for a coachless team with 55 scholarship players, I think we win. We rarely blow people out so I'm not predicting that, but I think it's far more likely we blow them out than we lose by any margin. True it's a no win situation, but a bunch of bowl games are like that now with transfers and opt-outs.
  18. I don't disagree in general, but I'm curious what specifically you're referring to. That he cheated and got caught? Everyone cheated, we were just particularly bad at it. Because we didn't win enough with those talents? The rest of the roster was still not great. Pat Jones is a radio host here and has told the story a few times that when we hosted recruits we showed them everything on campus, except the stadium. We were terrible, our facilities were terrible, and the administration barely gave a shit. The fact that we had that little run in the 80's was pretty surprising because we struck on Barry and Thurman and Gundy was a good QB. I think Gundy was recruited by OU but chose OSU, I always assumed because he either didn't get a formal scholarship offer or because he knew he could start right away at OSU.
  19. NIL was a different form back then? Barry's only other scholarship offer from what we now call the P5 was Iowa State. Even if you try to apply the NIL/Portal era, Barry's only big year was 1988 and went pro the next year. He played behind Thurman in '87 and had like 600 yards and probably wouldn't be big on the NIL/Portal radar of major programs. Not to mention we just retained Ollie Gordon, this year's Doak Walker winner, and he obviously could have made NIL bank somewhere else, so we at least have NIL capabilities to compete on retaining our own players. I think Thurman Thomas was recruited by UT and some other big programs, but they wanted to move him to defensive back, he went to OSU because they gave him a shot at RB. It seemed to work out for us. Fuck aggy.
  20. They built their stadium to suck up to Kroger and still couldn’t win the Kroger Belt.
  21. Mowins doesn't bother me. Her over reactions aren't any worse than 75% of the dudes who announce too, and she's not as bad as most in my opinion.
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