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  1. 46 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Just shut the fuck up if you're going to open with Ed Orgeron being a bad DL coach hire. There's enough ignorant silliness inundating the thread. That didn't need to be added to the pot. Thanks.

    Also, Sarkisian talked to Giles and he was a finalist. You guys are applying almost god-like abilities to Sarkisian's hiring practices. He's gotten most of the right. Gideon, Coleman and Stoops were bad hires. Two of those were unequivocally known as bad hires. The jury is out on Jackson, although it shows promise. Marion was meh. He didn't do shit in the WR room in terms of leadership and he quit on the job several months before leaving.  This new guy might be great and he might not, but we narrowly missed having to watch a bunch of you rubes defend Oscar Giles rejoining the staff. Provide the benefit of the doubt to the hire if you like, but spare us the weak ass admonishment while mixing in an attempt to make a home run hire look stupid. 

     

    1. If it was Baker or Giles we should all be celebrating the Baker hire!!!

    2. I must applaud your ability to keep that under wraps and not go Satya on this board the moment you heard Giles was a finalist. Sincerely, am well aware of the regard in which you hold him.

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  2. 15 minutes ago, bejezuz said:

    There's been some smoke here and there that Bo Davis and PK were butting heads because Bo wanted to coach the whole D-Line.  Choate was PK's guy, and Sark replaces him with Nansen, who is a fit for Sark because of their prior relationship and presumably knows PK because they were both PAC guys.  Maybe Kenny Baker was a name they kept hearing, so they brought him in and everything just clicked.  I hope it works.  Only the coaches CDC know what the process was, so time will tell.  

    There's also been smoke that Sark wasn't happy with Bo's effort in recruiting.  

     

    Also, Joe Wickline wants me to remind ya'll that past performance is not indicative of future success....

     

    In other words stop freaking out over name recognition.  Great coaches have to get their breaks somewhere....Joe Brady had a worse resume then Baker and he was a homerun hire for LSU.  Sark seems to want young and hungry coaches, that has been a definite trajectory in his hiring following the inititial staff.  

    We don't know a lot about Baker, but we do know that everywhere he has, admittedly limited in scope, been the dline play has improved dramatically while he was there.

    So I'm here for Sark taking a chance on hiring a future star at the position.  Maybe he flames out spectacularly and gets replaced.....next man up if he does.

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  3. 1 hour ago, DixonHur said:

    Lol, star chasing?  That's a good one.  

    First I'm chastised for wanting Rod Wright, because his resume allegedly sucked, but 2 days later I'm star chasing because I was hoping we'd hire a coach that anyone on this board had ever heard of before today.  GTFO.

    If anyone is being Aggy it's those pumping sunshine like Looch with a FCS transfer.

    As I said earlier, he may end up being great, but raise your hand if you had Kenny Baker on your DL coaching prospect list.

    Aside from Fangio hired him, what evidence based analysis are you hanging your hat on?

    I mean Google Kenny Baker and like 90% of the results are for the R2D2 actor who died 8 years ago.

    Either we got a real diamond in the rough or we'll be repeating the search in 11 months.

    Dude your original post was equating him not being known or even having a Wikipedia page with meaning he was a bad hire. 

     

     

    Then the next post I replied to saying sark basically panicked because he couldn't get anyone else to take the job before spring.....seriously 

  4. 59 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    We don't know that...we hope that, but we don't know it.  

    Another possibility is that he needs a DL coach before spring ball and this is the best he could find on short notice and he, like the rest of us, hopes he works out.  But if not, he'll try again next year.

    Ok your previous post was dumb and reeked of aggie star chasing mentality....but this idiocy actually makes helobious's takes sound intelligent.

     

    You seriously think Sark just hired a guy to have a body for spring practice and this dude is all he could get.

     

    With all due respect....this may be ....the dumbest thing I have ever read on this forum...and that is a high bar.

     

     

  5. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    I am finding the angst being ginned up on this board around the DT spot to be both nauseating and perplexing. It's a mix of handwringers who just need something to worry over and a bizarre cadre of imbeciles who seem to be intent on bemoaning the position simply because there are equally talented replacements just sitting there and ready to go behind Sweat and Murphy. "If we don't see an upward trajectory at every vacated spot on the roster, every cycle, then something is wrong."

    I assume some of this is driven by the lack of a DL coach, but that isn't all of it. We've already seen elements to the position addressed by Collins coming back, Savea being added, and several of us, who would actually fucking know, saying that there is NIL slotted for spring time DL portal help. Yet the pussyrubbing continues. 

     

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  6. 9 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    It still a little amusing…and amazing, that there’s such a huge difference in cultures from College Station east to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and much of the SE in general, as opposed to 90 miles west of Collie Station.  A whole different world.   I have relatives in Bama, and going back there is like going back 10-15 years in time….just crazy.

    Ehh from my experience backwoods hillbilly is just as prevalent in the hill country, panhandle, valley, west texas, central Texas, gulf coast, north texas, Permian basin, and for damn sure Austin.

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  7. 28 minutes ago, Spindletop said:

    NCAA rules don't allow NIL to be used in recruiting? What does that mean? Coaches can't discuss potential NIL payments with prospects?

    What is the "within-the-rules" version of this? The coaching staff tells the NIL groups which players they want, the NIL groups talk to the parents or agent, and the parents/agent relay the NIL offer to the player simultaneously with the scholarship offer?

    Some of this is baffling. Welcome to the NCAA, I suppose.

    You new here?  NIL cannot be used to recruit players.  A player cannot receive NIL tied to a school until after they are enrolled in classes.  Promising a player so much money if they commit to your school is as illegal as dropping a bag....or whatever it is A&M is doing now...

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  8. 38 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    I don't know a lot about NIL, but I have spent too much time observing Aggies. This reads like somebody laid down a speculation about what may have happened. Somebody repeated it with an opinion. From there it becomes a fact bent into a narrative where the Aggies are the tough guys who you best not fuck around with.

    If Nolen's deal is unique as described, that does shine a light on just how idiotic Aggies are. 

    Here's a bag. We wrote NIL on it with a Sharpie, so it's totally cool. Sign the bag, and we'll have a contract for as long as you're lucky enough to be in College Station playing as a Fightin' Texas Aggie from Texas.

    The multi year NIL contract is what gets me and the idea that Ole Miss bought Nolen's NIL rights from A&M....  Oh yeah and a couple of posters acting like all players make these same kind of posts when they transfer schools is hillarious.

  9. In response to the Nolen post.  They are clueless.

     

    Tejas Ag 10
    12:18p, 1/17/24
    He had another year left on his NIL deal. Which meant we still owed his marketing rights to his NIL for 2024. Thats probably what he was referencing. It wasnt the easiest for him to find a school or pay for those rights plus pay him on top of that.
     
    evestor13:06p, 1/17/24
    heard he had his car towed away on day 1 of transfer portal.
     
    that said - NIL is only good for the contract. if the contract says you have to stay...then you have to stay.
    Seems to me that pinpointing a school like he did is not smart from a legal standpoint. he would be better to point fingers at generalities and not entities that could come after you.
     
    Bill Superman5:28p, 1/17/24
    This clown thought he could collect big upfront then transfer and collect big again, not realizing he signed a contract with a clawback where he has to return a big chunk of his pay.
     
    GDP
    6:51p, 1/17/24
    Walter's NIL deal was not the typical one where little is required of the player.
    My understanding is that his deal was for the entirety of his college career and some time/personal services requirements were in the contract.
    When he entered the portal and started flirting with Oregon and Ole Miss, he was reminded about that part of his contract and that he could be required to make appearances in BCS during the season.
    Easy when you play for A&M, not so easy from Oregon or Mississippi.
    I don't know if Oxford big cigars bought out his NIL deal from here but that would be the logical assumption.
    A bit of a Mexican standoff for awhile I bet.
     
     I hope we pulled the remainder of his NIL funds due to not finishing his contract and sent a message that its pay-for-play at A&M and we are done with the guaranteed contracts with no return on investment
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  10. 2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Whenever someone says a good old movie is over-rated, it should be considered in the context of when it was released.

    Countless people have said Jaws sucks, Casablanca sucks, Star Wars sucks, etc. What they usually fail to realize is that in a world of ever-increasing dopamine, and more sophisticated and improved movie making, most good old movies suck by comparison.

    In its time, a movie might have been great, but not be so great today. Blues Brothers is an interesting debate because when it came out it was great, for many different reasons. Today, the movie is ok but not great because humor has devolved. But the music is still great. 

    FIFY

    BTW my uncle told me for years that easy rider and the graduate were great movies....I disagree strongly....

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  11. 1 hour ago, salonghorn said:

    All of you talking about registration. You haven't experienced anything like the 60s in  Gregory Gym. It was hot. It was crowded. Sometimes waiting from Monday morning until Friday afternoon for a closed class that you wanted to open up. Afraid to even go to the RR in fear that it might open and then close again while you were taking a piss.  That was the real back in the day. 

    My mother told me about that.  Course she also had to put on a dress to walk across campus for PE and then change.

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