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Jimbo Fisher's Hot Seat fueled by West Texas Oil Jimbo Fisher’s hot seat at Texas A&M is fueled by West Texas oil Story by Steven Godfrey • The Washington Post Right about the time Miami thumped Jimbo Fisher’s reliably inconsistent Texas A&M team back in September, I started trying to understand the price of oil coming out of the Permian Basin to predict the 2023-2024 college football coaching market. If the coaching carousel would start early, A&M was an obvious choice to kick things off: a wealthy brand underperforming for its deep-pocketed and frequently delusional corps of boosters. Mainly located in West Texas, the 86,000-square-mile Permian Basin is America’s highest-producing oil field, typically turning out 4 to 5 million barrels daily, and sometimes more. It is crucial to the American oil and gas industry. It is also chockablock with wealthy Texas A&M Aggies, almost all of whom vehemently regret the gaudy, 10-year, totally guaranteed $75 million contract their university feted Fisher with in December 2017. In return, Fisher has delivered an above-average 44-25 run over the past five-plus seasons, but nothing close to the national title expectations Aggies have long pined and overpaid for.CFP rankings stay steady ahead of a potentially momentous weekend. Entering this weekend, Fisher’s 26-21 record in SEC games had message boarders (and me) assuming that if oil approaches $100 a barrel anytime soon (it’s sitting at $76.42 as of this writing), cash-flush and historically squirrelly Aggies boosters would pull the trigger on Fisher’s current buyout of roughly $77 million. There are plenty of wealthy A&M boosters in other industries, but the price of chicken usually doesn’t upend global GDP in a week. And yes, Fisher’s buyout if he is fired this year is $2 million more than the total value of his original contract, thanks to a wonderfully stupid extension agreed upon after the Aggies went 9-1 during a 2020 season that was affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The new contract pushed Fisher’s salary to $9 million a year and extended him through 2031, and Fisher has responded with a 9-13 SEC record in the years since. After the Houston Chronicle’s Brent Zwerneman reported this week that A&M, at least as of now, was leaning heavily toward giving Fisher one more season despite another year of failure to meet expectations, a significant chunk of anticipation has disappeared. And here I was trying to understand OPEC’s impact on fourth-quarter pricing during a fresh Middle East conflict or potential supply constraints in the United States because of drilling consolidation. It seems — and I cannot overemphasize seems — that one of college football’s most notorious spendthrifts is exercising a modicum of reserve. One could argue that’s because Fisher’s buyout is serving the purpose it intended: Even among a social class that embodies the American stereotype of excess, $77 million to make one man go away is a prohibitive cost, crude prices be damned. Combined with the fact that A&M isn’t awful, just merely not great (each of its conference losses this season have been by seven points or fewer) amid quarterback injuries and bad assistant hires (former head coaches-turned-Fisher assistants Steve Addazio and Bobby Petrino probably aren’t long for College Station even if their boss survives), it’s at least arguable Fisher hasn’t fully earned bust status just yet. But, all that said and with every indicator both published among my colleagues and in my own off-the-record conversations suggesting Fisher is safe entering 2024, I still refuse to believe there’s zero chance he is let go. First, keeping Fisher would require a tremendous amount of calmness and maturity for a consortium that’s defined the exact opposite in the college football economy for decades. A&M is the world’s richest little brother, boasting national title finances to hide a community college trophy case. This was the football program once most famous for buying a gold Pontiac Trans-Am for a player who ultimately never signed with the program. Second, we often focus too much on the demand side of the coaching market instead of the supply side. The working idea right now is less that A&M doesn’t have a replacement in hand and more that it doesn’t have one ideal enough to eat that $77 million bill first. But supply can change quickly, and in the age of the transfer portal exodus, often very quietly. Third, crude production can never exceed the college football value of time or its paucity of patience. If A&M holds on to Fisher and weathers another fine-but-not-great season with no playoff appearance in 2024, it would still owe him $67.5 million if he is fired next year, saving the boosters a relatively scant $10-ish million. If I’m looking at the futures market, A&M’s pride is worth more than $10 million for another season of championship ignominy. Could the Aggies be better in 2024? Absolutely. Will the roster be stocked with talent? Almost assuredly. Is there a single indicator that Fisher or Petrino will evolve the offense past its plodding and outmoded form into something capable of keeping pace with LSU, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, etc.? There are years of data screaming “no.” I don’t doubt Zwerneman’s reporting at all — he broke the news that Oklahoma and Texas were joining the SEC — but his phrasing is careful to mention that it’s just now November, and things could change. The struggle here is believing in the supposed calm of the Aggies’ gilded class. Plus, I keep thinking about Texas’s suspiciously swift firing of Tom Herman after the 2020 season. Herman went 32-18 in Austin, received public support from the university as late as Dec. 12 of that year and was fired Jan. 2, 2021, after leading the Longhorns to an Alamo Bowl win. Hours later, then-Alabama offensive coordinator and former USC head coach Steve Sarkisian was announced as Texas’s new head coach, bringing direct SEC experience to a program then still in talks with the league about a potential transition. Granted, Texas only paid out around $15 million to fire Herman, while A&M would have to eat five times that. But the slickness of it all lingers: Before speculation could mount among the Longhorns’ strong roster or a leaky search conducted half in public, Sark was already in place. If I were Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp, the man every Aggie knows will actually be making the decision, I’d be looking to preserve as much of Fisher’s pristine, NIL-soaked recruiting as possible with a quick and clean coup planned with total discretion. I’d also spend November and December pushing a public narrative that Fisher was totally safe. Texas and Oklahoma will land in the league next season, closing a decade-long SEC head-start for the Aggies that has yielded zero division, conference or national titles. During Fisher’s run, A&M has watched rivals LSU and Alabama win national titles and Georgia reset the hierarchy of power. Not to mention that Fisher is now 0-3 against Lane Kiffin’s Mississippi, a poverty program compared with the Aggies’ budget (something Kiffin has taken great public pride in). If A&M holds to its alleged word and keeps Fisher, you can consider it either a stroke of rational thought or an admission of financial defeat — that dumping $77 million before another coach can be hired is the critical mass of the wanton Texas oil lifestyle. But I can’t help but see that insane number as proof the Aggies will continue apace, even now. After all, the strongest evidence A&M is willing to buy Fisher out is the fact it offered him all that guaranteed money in the first place. -
The I-35 corridor between DFW and San Antonio will have 50 Million people by the time my kids are my age. As soon as they get situated, they are buying 5-10 acre ranchettes in the Hill Country, drilling water wells, and planting grass. The number of larger ranches in the Hill Country getting sliced and diced into mini-ranches is astonishing. The OTX Camp in Bandera, building a water themed retreat 99% dependent on sub-surface water in the middle of the Hill Country, is the epitome of selfishness and ignorance. 40+ years ago, I gave a speech on the biggest issue I will face as a college graduate (Mech Engr) ... Energy supply & demand. It is worse now than it was then, primarily because of the reality of the negative consequences of simply generating the energy. I understand the concept of largely giving up hope. Our uncontrolled population growth, that cancer, will correct itself, as some point in time. i'll just spend more time at the ranch. Oh, wait! Seeing as how my Avatar will only look like that again is if a tropical storm/hurricane hits Texas south of Corpus ... what little hope I have is morphing into something else. Ethanol to supplement gasoline production might have made sense during and immediately after the Arab Oil Embargo. It hasn't made sense in a long ass time. Corn is for eating and drinking. Another Government subsidy that alters the natural balance between supply and demand. Growth in technology and innovation has mades us all more efficient (the internet, smart phones, home shopping, remote working, face time meetings, etc.), all of which consume energy. The most fun thing to do with money is spend it. I probably bring down the average carbon footprint as my ranch is managed for wildlife habitat and consumes CO2 and produces is oxygen. The US "consumes" a disproportionate amount of oil on its own, but a significant portion of that is for the export market. Absent that, we would still have an outsized impact on consumption. When I took our Au Pair to HEB 30+ years ago, she was amazed at all the fruits and vegetables. Why do you have so many different apples? Why do we have so much of everything? Innovation creating supply, and demand. My new solar powered water well went dry in less than 2 years because the Trinity Aquifer dropped at least 50 feet in that time. That is bothersome, but merely an inconvenience for me. Lake Travis having an island with grass and trees on it? Whoppee shit! Wait til all the new straws start sucking water out of the Edwards Aquifer. Wait till all the hunting ranches run out of water. Anybody with surface water isn't going to let somebody else lay a pipeline or build an aqueduct to take "their" water. I won't see it, but the shit's gonna get real down the road. Pissed off people fighting over land and water rights? I used to watch those movies with my dad. We (2 of us) fill a ~75 gallon container with recycle every 2 weeks, and make maybe half as much trash. When our kids were school age, much different story. School age kids drive consumption like nothing else.
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Arch redshirting means he may play in 4 games max. Arch won't see the field until Tech, and not unless Texas has a big lead late, or needs QB3.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
PTINS replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
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"Shitting on people who try to do better is one of my biggest pet peeves. The conservative attack on electric car drivers with shitty Facebook memes is exactly that. So maybe being trigger happy is appropriate." Kudo's for doing what you can when you can. Our lifestyle comes with a certain amount of hypocrisy, and there is nothing you or I or anyone else can do about that. I used to have my '87 944-S and an '03 F250. Everyone gets painted with the same brush. The "Don't blame me, I drive an electric car" bumper sticker people bring a lot of wrath to you and everyone else. If you drive anything, you are part of the problem. Yes, EV are more environmental friendly than ICE. But the gazillion miles of asphalt and concrete roadways and parking lots probably contribute more to global warming than the vehicles themselves, regardless of the type. The radiant heat sink in metro areas changes weather patterns to the extent that rain clouds disappear or simply go around the concrete jungle. When I was a kid and went to visit my dad in Manvel, he told me it rained every day in Houston, somewhere. That hasn't been the case in a long time. It is amazing how different 100 degrees feels in town v. out in the country. Red Meat? I have a high metabolism and eat and graze all day. After my 5 bypass surgery, I tried to eat healthier. (I hardly eat any vegetables, I yacked at the table the first time my dad made me eat spinach.) After cutting back on red meat and eating lots of avocado's and dark chocolate and various nuts daily because they were good for me; all I did was started eating a lot of good fat, where I wasn't eating any of that bad fat before. I gained weight to point I was the heaviest I had ever been in my life. Both my doc and cardiologist told me the same thing; Quit doing that shit, I was better off eating a steak and salad every day and getting my daily exercise and being active. Eat healthy when you can. Compost: Multiple benefits, better than putting organic waste in a landfill. Any food attracts things that eat. We live in an area that doesn't have mosquitos, roaches, gekkos, or mice. Not going to do anything that challenges that. We eat organic compounds, carbo-hydrates, yet scorn the use of oil and gas, hydro-carbons. Different slice of the same pie.
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Good Thread. Full disclosure, Austinite, born & raised, Jeffersonian idealist, Engineer by training (Energy & Fluid Systems), Natural Gas Liquid specialist (Retired), Ranch owner, Texas Ecologist, manage ranch for wildlife habitat so deer can grow up big and strong, then we shoot them. Sustainability. Start with yourself. I think OP mentioned he runs. My BIL was a career military pilot, ran all the time, until all the cartilage in his knees was gone. I practiced yoga daily for 20+ years, no cartilage in my thumbs. Thanks Apple. I went to the Cardiologist because I was getting ready to turn.65. Had a quintuple bypass 2 weeks later. Classic case of healthy individual, no symptoms. After the fact, he told me he was surprised I could even walk. The human body is a marvel of engineering, take care of it; it only has so many cycles in it, use them wisely. Doc said keep doing what makes you happy. My random comments. The primary advantage of plastic was weight v. steel, glass, wood, etc., and the cost of shipping same. Every pound of reduced packing meant another pound of revenue producing product sold. That hasn't changed, meaning plastics are still cheaper than the alternative. Reductions in the numbers of ocean going freighters, 18 wheelers and diesel driven trains have proportionally reduced the burning of the dirtiest of liquid hydrocarbons. But at a cost of increased "disposable" packaging that is not easily recycled. I am not familiar with the sausage making equivalent of recycling plastics down to a usable form, but world class petrochemical plants that "crack" hydrocarbons into ethylene, to make polyethylene, and high density polyethylene and made-in-china-toys need the purest of feedstocks to insure the highest quality of plastics desired. Those requirements do not support large scale commercial plastics recycling that include 100's if not 1,000's of different types of plastic products. One plant manager told me they could "crack" car tires if we could get them to the plant. They only need ~ 12,000,000 pounds/day. I enjoy the dialog on the merits of individual recycling, getting it from Amazon and Walmart to the blue recycling bin on trash day, but the lack of demand for the recycled plastics, whatever that may be, is the root cause. Where is Kamala Harris? If the economics work, people will do it. If not, they won't. Global Warming: 8 billion people at 98.6 °F, approximately 30 ° warmer than the ambient temperature, generate a lot of heat, which warms the atmosphere. If everybody would simply hold their breath for 4 minutes, the problem would go away. People have burned coal for centuries, we started burning processed natural gas in the last 100 years. We as in not China, India, Africa, or ~ 80% of the world population. Now, "we" want to get rid of it before 80% of the world gets to try it. CO2 is "bad", Oxygen is good, plants are good, plants die without CO2, and people die without plants. Renewable Energy makes sense, but the economics, unsubsidized, have to work. My new water well is 100% solar. Water: Forget Lake Travis water levels. The Trinity Aquifer water level dropped over fifty feet in less than 2 years. Ground water use in Texas is not sustainable, and it is getting exponentially worse every day. EV's make a lot of sense in urban settings, especially for vehicles that travel the same routes all the time, like rental car shuttles, Amazon trucks, city buses, etc. 50 miles west of I-35, large pickups will always greatly outnumber EV's. Not because people are bad, just the day to day realities of life in rural areas. Amazon: I don't like the volume of cardboard boxes and plastic shipping bags we get. But the convenience of home shopping, and paying ~ 2/3 the costs of everyday goods v. any retail store cannot be beat. Economics wins again. Society in General: Entropy is a scientific concept that matter and energy in the universe will degrade to an ultimate state of inert disorder. I believe that is where we are heading. Oil & Gas: Saved the whales! Before that, people used whale oil for light and lubricants. Battery powered hand tools are the greatest thing since sliced bread! Beats the hell out of gas engines or manual labor. Much more valuable in the country v. the city. Everybody I know has gotten old... but me. Thanks to all of you for sharing your insight.
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You get what you pay for...
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
PTINS replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
We go to a village (~1500 people) in the far western part of Germany every 3 or 4 years. Eat fresh bread every day with cheese & salami or homemade jellies for breakfast and beef or pork and potatoes for dinner, and drink a shit ton of Bitburger Pilsner. Can't compare it to 40's but thinking of spending the summers over there. Back to football ... Ewers' last 78 minutes of football, before he got hurt (from 2nd Qtr v. OU until 3rd Qtr v. Houston): Oklahoma 26/28 92.9% 341 yds 12.2 yds/att Houston 19/20 95.0% 182 yds 9.1 yds/att Totals 45/48 93.8% 523 yds 10.9 yds/att Too bad against OU he left his fastball in the locker room after banging Millie ... (he started 5/9 for 13 yds and 2 picks). TCU, with everybody healthy, including Brooks & Baxter, I expect we'll see a run heavy, ball control passing offense, with occasional deep shots against 1 on 1 coverage. We are past due for a complete football game. -
Are you sure is was this weekend? Just kidding… I have realized that everyone I know has gotten old…
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Can you post the Top 25 DL? Thanks!
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"China wants to sow dissension in the western alliances ... get its economic expansion going again ... see if the time looks good to make a go at Taiwan." These would seem to be somewhat mutually exclusive. China getting their economy going again is dependent on increased western demand, even if there is dissension among the demanding members. Any Chinese overt action towards Taiwan would seem to incur Russia 2.0 levels of western sanctions leveled against China, which puts a black boot on China's neck and economic growth. Their position towards Taiwan has been clear, but Taiwan v. economic growth seems to be an either or choice.
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And yet, that is EXACTLY what Sark did too MM when he came into the UH game. Sark has made me realize the huge difference in designing plays and calling plays. Yea on the former, BOO! on the latter! Seems like a lot of 3rd & 4th down calls come down to only having a single option. I like S.Red in the wildcat, but handing it off at least once seems like it might help spread things out. If we really tried to pulled a guard on a goal line rushing attempt, that is some ... um ... suspect play calling. "A trap play is when all the linemen go one way and, hopefully, the defense goes the same way and if they do, see, it's a big hole and if they don't, well, it's bad news. Anyway, Concannon calls this trap play, and it's beautiful - 43 yards, wasn't it 43? Ah. So, Halas sees he's tired, and sends me in, so I go in and he comes out. Concannon then figures he's gonna get really foxy - you know, Concannon is - Then, he says, "Same play. Very - same - play." A trap play is also called, a sucker play; because, it makes the defense look *real* bad when it works. Now, defenses *do not* like to look real bad, see, it makes 'em kinda surly. So, anyway, all the linemen go this way, and it's like I am lookin' at a team portrait of the Los Angeles Rams. "Hey, Deacon! Merlin! How's the family, Rosey?" I was afraid to get up - I figured not everything was gonna come with me." - Brian Piccolo So, we are calling that play once every other game now? Yippee!!! Maybe one of these days, we'll call a wheel route for a RB. You know that feeling you get when you know you made the right decision? Yes, I made a careful decision to stay away from this board yesterday. Good for me, see how smart I am? Then I came back this morning and read this. Dumb ass!!! It was MM's first start and we won going away. Bad decision on the pick. OK. 2 first quarter turnovers. Not what I wanted to see. We went into the 2nd Qtr leading 14-0. I think MM will learned more from yesterday than any day in the last 3 years. We are 7 and 1 and OU lost. I'm good with that.
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"Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the shooting down of two ATACMS. The source of VChK-OGPU described the reality ironically as follows: 'It is exactly like this. Two ATACMS missiles were destroyed as a result of a direct hit on the position of the Russian Armed Forces air defense group in Luhansk region and at the cost of 3 S-400 systems deployed there”.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
PTINS replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Vince was given bad advice and left after his Junior year. Andrew Luck was given good advice and played his Senior year. Oliver Luck, his father (NFL QB & UT, JD '87), asked his son if he was ready to commit himself 100% to being an NFL quarterback, spending every waking moment to getting better at his craft, living right, eating right, lifting, watching film, and learning from his coaches. If he wasn't 100% ready, stay in school until you get all that other shit out of your system. There is a long list college QB's with phenomenal talent and great skill sets that were immature as NFL rookies and made poor decisions right out of the gate. Sorry Zeet... you must have been yacking in the can when this happened. This is one of the most iconic throws and catches in the history of football. Period. I met you Zeet. Funny, almost no resemblance to Yogi Berra, and yet ... "He isn't good enough to beat them, so let's play 3 deep safeties and drop 8 in coverage so he can't throw downfield and has to check the ball down." QE finished 19 for 19 against OU and started 14 for 15 against UH, the one incompletion being a batted ball at the line of scrimmage. F*CKING RIDICULOUS!!! Pre-snap read, catch ball, read defense, anticipate reaction, throw ball to wide open receiver, hit receiver in the hands, repeat as necessary. Certainly had worse? Ya think? 33 for 34 not good enough for you? That's setting an expectation that's near impossible to achieve. I have James Streets autograph and saw Vince play for 3 years, in High School. I will never forget what QE has already done in his short 1 and 1/2 years on campus. Thank you for being Thatguy, someone who understands what they are watching. The one time he had Worthy one on one, he threw another PERFECT pass that hit him in stride and he ran untouched for a TD. I'm pretty sure all 80 yard TD passes involve some YAC. Why is that an issue? Do you have a Greg Davis fetish about throwing to flat footed statues? Thank you again, Sir. QE is not the issue. Getting 2 yards in 2 rushes against a 3-8 defense (wth?) is an OL issue, and calling a slow developing, low percentage 6 yard pass play requiring YAC is a coaching issue. Murphy's first pass should have been a butterfly ending, confidence building, 1st down dump off to Brooks in the flat, not a 3rd and long that he Elway'd 3 yards behind the receiver. That is a bad coaching issue. -
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Near Driftwood, we got ~ 2 1/2" in about an hour. Lots of water. !!!
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After all this time ... OU Sucks!!!
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I saw the PFF grades for DL posted here somewhere. Anybody got it? Thanks!
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Their show after the Texas-Alabama Game. "Number 11 Texas, went to #3 Alabama, and they whooped that ass! And we are Stupid, Stupid Idiots!" - Ikard "Um Hum! Um Hum! Um Hum!" - Lehman Ikard & Lehman on Texas-Alabama
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I hear that kid Ewers is pretty good.
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