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  1. 25 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    He is so exhausting with his bandwagon ways.  Where was he when they were a perineal .500 team?   

    In fairness to Michael you just described 99.999% of Miami "fans". Most people in Miami gear never went to that school and never even lived in that city. They are the east coast USC. 

  2. 3 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    A steel mill or two have come back online, but way smaller scale than previously.  If they could get some lake front property that would be great, but most is occupied by mills and/or parks IIR.  

    Yeah the shore line doesn't have a lot of buildable area. 

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  3. 13 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    Can confirm that Gary Indiana isnt a pleasant area.  

    I recently watched a really good and interesting documentary on Gary. It was a very hot spot for a time. The true capital "Industry town". The swing from a city recognized for its intriguing development to the downfall is sad, interesting and well, very Murican'. 

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  4. Just now, TheStoicPaisano said:

    Bears are soil testing in Hammond today, which would be better than Gary (obv), worse than Arlington Heights and much worse than staying put.

    Hammond... lol. You bet!

    I suppose some people would still go, but.. 

  5. 4 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    The links I read didn't mention exactly which city but I did just see this posted lol

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    Well, Ft Wayne is much closer to Indianapolis and about the same distance to Detroit as Chicago.

    This feels like Bears ownership pulling a flex to get the city to fund a new stadium, which is appropriate given the graft that is Chicago politics. I suggest the Bears organization look into kidnapping and/or hiring some drug mules.  

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  6. 1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:


    I’m not sure if I’d seen a racquetball in person until I got to high school and they built a racquetball court in town. Lol.

    Well god damn, we used rackets in the hood not racquets. We also had a lot of various questionable rackets but they had nothing to do with the topic at hand.

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  7. On 12/13/2025 at 2:56 PM, Jkwellborn said:


    Wall ball was throwing a tennis ball at the wall and throwing and hitting whoever didn’t catch it. Smear the queer was with a football and everyone tried to tackle them. What the hell did they teach you in Bivins?

    Tennis ball? We played wall ball with a racket ball or hand ball, and getting "pegged", yes pegged for dropping one was what happened. Getting your ass pounded by a hand ball was no light thing. Fortunately, we were in middle school and most kids couldn't throw for shit. The baseball players like myself were... problematic.  

    Edit- In retrospect, we were a poor ass school. Nobody's parents were going anywhere you could play racket ball except maybe the outdoor courts at the community college. So either someone's family member picked up hand ball in prison or we had a sadistic little shit among us. 

  8. 11 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    In all fairness we should have a good Sark sunshine pumping thread and a complain about Sark dark thread. That way people can just go to their thread of choice and stop expecting a thread about one guy to be either all good or all bad. It’s a mix. So we should have two threads. 

    But if that happens the 2 separate threads will be inundated with this thread sucks posters. Conversely if we go full admin board and ban those stepping outside the lines the threads will slow to a crawl sans the this thread sucks posters. This thread sucks posters are the decimal point argument glue that holds this place together. What would we do without them. It's like trying to imagine social media without influencers and their amazing value. 

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  9. 1 minute ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    And pks first couple years were rough but the last three years he’s definitely saved sark a few times.  Even this year he’s given the O plenty of short fields 

    Pk held OSU to their lowest scoring output of the year, and he's the issue.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

    Bro in Law?  I'm in the same boat with an aggy wife.  However, her best friend is boomer.  The phone chatter sounded like 2 seagulls fighting over a dead fish.   I was told to "shut up" on more than one occasion.  LOL.  Needed 2 cups for the tears.  Other than that, she got over it pretty quickly and was OK the rest of the day.  But she isn't too happy with Reed coming back next year. 

    It can't be said enough that the ending of that game was absolutely perfect. Aggie hopes and dreams, the roller-coaster build of the drive down the field, getting so close, and with under a minute left the train goes of the track, their "Heisman" QB throws an INT and the aggies end the season with a loss to Texas followed by their new QB savior crushing all hopes.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Yeah, Sark fucked up the last offseason. No question. He thought he had this program on cruise control and completely whiffed. 

    So far, the evidence three weeks after the season ended is he's not making that same mistake. WR coach is at least one position where people are expecting a change, though that might be Jackson wanting to go back to NFL. Don't be so confident to offer up that bet to others. 

    I put my money where my mouth is and I'm not an aggie. 

    I'll believe it when I see it and if I'm wrong pay my debts, eat my crow and happily celebrate our new OL coach, GM and play calling duties shift if they happen.

    Edit - Now if you'll excuse me, I have some filling and delicious aggie tears to consume.

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  12. 24 minutes ago, Topper13 said:

    Texas/Michigan will pull more views than anything from this weekend.

    Texas and Florida (teams) pull good numbers, I think that one will show good numbers even though nobody gives a shit about aggie outside Houston metroplex. SEC rematch had no competition, SE numbers will be good, but NE and west coast won't show up much. The participation trophy games will be terrible numbers. 

    VS two of the best known uniforms and brands in college football, one of which and in many cases both are extremely hated. 

    Yes, yes it will.

  13. 1 hour ago, immamac said:

    I bet the ratings for these two absolutely dogshit games will be low to incredibly low. 

    This is the key take away that I posted prior. I think the when the number crunchers get a look at the Friday and early Saturday games and compare them the message will be clear. Big names and perceptions of quality competition is much, much, much more valuable than the idea of the Cinderella story in college football. The legal aspects regarding the inclusion of G5, and how to end that will be put in full gear because nothing drives business like the bottom line and bringing in lawyers to achieve better results financially is always an investment rich entities are willing to make for the ROI.

  14. 9 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


    He doesn't need to give any of us an explanation. But any explanation he gave was going to be met with hoots of derisiion from the denizens of this forum.

    You do realize the "Corch doesn't own us an explanation." And "Have faith in corch!" are exactly things we here at Surly deride aggie for constantly. That "trust corch, he got this, he don't owe you shit, have faith" bullshit is straight up 100% fucking aggie.

  15. 15 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Is it just not possible to show a little patience and see what other moves Sark might make?

    Part of the reason we got a new RB coach and Muschamp so quickly is that both were completely available right now. We didn't have to wait for a playoff team to finish their season to poach a coach. Also, the portal opens in 2 weeks. The makeup of our roster in 2026 is still TBD. Relax. 

    This is the exact sort of bullshit messaging I was sold last season.

    I'll offer you the same bet I did above. I'll wager any amount of money you like no further changes are made to our offensive staff. 

    I will relax when the head coach addresses the issues that have plagued his team since he arrived in Austin. 

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  16. 8 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    Tech is going to beat Oregon. People who haven’t watched tech don’t know they actually have a decent enough defense as well as a complimentary running game. Oregon’s defense sucks. 

    Lanning gonna do a bunch of blow like Scarface now. If I’m tech I’m breaking apart this game for all their weaknesses on defense. Lanning is pissed but you can see he’s worried. Jmo. 

    Well, JMU scored the most points of any team on Oregon all season. The majority of those points by JMU were in the second half when Oregon had a 4 TD lead. There is a reason Lanning brought the team back out on the field 5 minutes before the end of the half time break. It's extremely easy for 18-20 something year olds to start "we got this" syndrome and Lanning knew it. I find it interesting that you were critiquing Oregon for being very aggressive in the second half when we (and others) criticize the shit out of Sark for going to conservative and letting teams back in. 

    The 2nd half points by JMU were more a bunch of young men letting "we got this" brain kick in than anything, but JMU made some good adjustments. JMU was top 10 in total D too, for the record.

    As for Tech, both Tech and Oregon are top 10 total defenses and top 10 offenses. They have one common opponent in Okie State.  Oregon beat them 69-3, Tech won 42-0. Oregon got 631 yards and allowed 211. Tech got 370 and allowed 182. 

    This is, IMO, far and away the most interesting game next week. One is an SEC rematch and the other 2 are going to be equal measures beat downs of the G5 schools.  

    Given Lanning and the Oregon players are more experienced in the playoff and I think Lannning a better HC I like Oregon to win, but at the end of the day neither of them is beating Indiana who they will face post. 

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