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  1. 3 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Elko has been actively trying to get the Duke job per their 9.95ers. He’s interviewed multiple times. 

    If Elko doesn’t end up at Duke it won’t be because he “doesn’t want it.” This is sitting on the platter for Elko so if he doesn’t get it he has some skeletons in the closet or is terrible at the interviewing process. 

    i'm not relying on the duke 9.95ers here. i understand he has interviewed for the job and i also would be surprised if he took it. can't rule it out. 

  2. 42 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    It sounds like Virginia is going after Tony Elliott which would make Elko to Duke very likely. 

    If aggy loses Elko and Robinson with no impact on recruiting we know they’re dropping just insane bags. 

    i would be surprised if elko takes that job. and will laugh my ass off if jason garrett gets it.

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  3. 23 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I'll be in NYC next weekend and MLK weekend in January. We should meet up if you're up there then. I can show you how to tap into universal wifi, and you can equivocate with the criminal's creed of how everyone is getting theirs, so the aggies have to go out and get theirs too. Then we could race each other in the 40 and I could throw you into the East River as a reward for being victorious. 

    Also, your QB getting hurt wasn't the problem with predicting 10-2. Not having a QB worth a fuck and not having a QB room with more than two guys in it were the problems. Jimbo Fisher, Midget Ace Recruiter Extraordinaire, doesn't own that monumental fuck-up, does he? I'm sure QB won't be an excuse in 2022 when ATM's 8-5 again after beating titans such as UMass, Sam Houston, and South Carolina to get them bowl eligible.

    i feel like there should be a meme of a small domino labeled 'me whiffing on our long our oline would take to come together' and ending with a large one of 'closetojumping asking me to grab a drink at bemelmans'. we can work on this. 

  4. 17 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I've posted a couple of my takes from the time. It's a weird bug on this site that you can actually go back and find shit people wrote and then review it with them down the line. We don't have to speculate. So, yeah, I was way more fucking accurate about ATM this year than you were. Just own your bullshit, dude. We don't need to hear all of the excuses for why 10-2 didn't happen and why next year is, again, the year. 

    Your pre-season post presented Wydermeyer as a god, but now you won't even miss him. Won't skip a beat with the portal. 

    Cooper is amazing for a backup, as are the safeties. The guys ahead of them were played by Elko out of kindness, I suppose. Cool.

    Here you see me calling and staying consistent with ATM doing whatever it takes to land a top 3 class in this cycle. I didn't go back this far, but at some point you mocked me for referencing that Fisher was installing a bag game to rival Kirby Smart. I guess you believe that Evan Stewart and Denver Harris are coming to ATM all of the sudden because they really like the cut of Jimbo's jib.

    This post was from July, but yeah, I was way off on the schedule issues and the class efforts and this cycle being different.

    Here you are, huffing your own farts and poo-pooing concerns about safety, OL, and QB.

    Here was my response, referencing that ATM and Texas had similar question marks coming into the season, not claiming the rosters were similar. And telling you that ATM looked like they were heading to 8-5 due only to a soft schedule, otherwise it would be worse. Why? Because QB, OL, and speed on defense and offense, and Fisher sucking as an OC. 

    Good shit. Feel free to rebut, but I'm guessing your about to hop on a flight without wifi to Vancouver, where we know they won't have the Internet for the next 8 months.

    yeah, it's bizarre the guy known as an incredible recruiter that landed top 5 classes year after year has continued to . . . do the exact same thing history would suggest. and your continued harping on the bag man boogyman scheme remains hilarious - everybody is playing the same game and has for over a decade - you still have to close kids, which clearly some coaches and staffs are better at than others. 

    as to the team this year, we lost our qb in game 2, and i was definitely wrong about how quick it would take the oline to gel. it happens. i'll be in new york for a few weeks in january, but otherwise around to be entertained by your maundering.

  5. On 11/29/2021 at 10:27 AM, closetojumping said:

    I'm sorry, but arguing that ATM will be better, even the vague possibility of it, next year is absurd. They're not going to replace 6+ draft picks with better players, playing better immediately. Get a grip on that. They'll be legitimately weaker at TE, TB and the front 7. If Ainias Smith goes pro, they'll be far weaker at WR too. Maybe Evan Stewart fills that void quickly, but maybe not.

    They lose every starter on the DL when Leal goes pro. They have talent behind them and coming in, but Leal is a 1st round pick and the rest have a shit ton of experience. They won't be upgrading that in 2022 even if the talent level is higher.

    Hansford is a damned good LB. Gone. Backups don't present as well.

    O'Neal is a buffoon and a liability, but if they had someone better than him, he'd undoubtedly be playing by now. Demani Richardson is likely going pro. That's 2 safeties, gone. 

    They lose two OL if Green goes pro. There's speculation that he won't, but his dad is a moneygrubbing pimp, so I'm guessing he gets the push to get what he can, while he can. 

    There is no exciting replacement for Wydermeyer. Sternberger was a stud and Wydermeyer was a great replacement. The Fisher passing game revolves around the TE. This is a big hole going into 2022. 

    Calzada may suck, but he enters 2022 as the presumptive starter. If they slide King right back in, Calzada is gone. They're going to try to tiptoe that situation all spring and summer and the prospects of them pulling off keeping both are tenuous. King is an injury waiting to happen. He WAS injured his senior year with a shoulder problem. He is fragile and that isn't fixable. Weigman starting as a true freshman seems ... unlikely. If he is, then you probably lost both upperclassmen. No one even really knows if Weigman is going to play, much less be ready. 

    And all of this presumes that Elko sticks around and Robinson sticks with him. I'm guessing if Elko gets a gig somewhere, Robinson is the first guy he's asking to come with him. 

    ATM also accidentally picked the wrong cupcakes to open the season. Sam Houston State is a power in FCS and will not just lay down for ATM to open the year. Then these idiots host Appalachian State, who is pretty fucking far from a pushover these days (they're 10-2 this season and playing for their conference championship this weekend). Then they host Miami, go to Dallas for Arkansas, then at Mississippi State and at Alabama before an offweek. Those fucking idiots have a higher likelihood of being 2-4 than 4-2 in that first half of a season. 

    No, ATM will not be better in 2022. 

    i believe your take at the beginning of the year was that you didn't see much difference in the a&m and texas rosters, so i'll take all the rest with a few grains of salt. 

    overall, my prediction of 10-2 was founded on what i thought would be a very good defense paired with a functional offense, albeit with a lack of speed in a few areas that would lead to defeat against bama and ole miss. the speed definitely bit us against ole miss, however it also reared its head vs lsu, and the functional offense never really came around, primarily because the oline took a while to get together and the qb injury (insert 'jimbos offense sucks and would have been the same with haynes king' here to the degree you think appropriate).

    on your above points:

    dl will take a step back for sure. we've got a ton of talent, but it will take a bit to come together. mckinley jackson will be playing for a draft grade and he simply has to be more impactful.

    lb will be better, you're overrating hansford and cooper should be in line for an all-sec season. at safety, o neal actually turned into an incredible team leader, which is why he never got removed for jardin gilbert. we were playing two 4.6-4.7 guys all year at deep safety, hence the end of the lsu game, mississippi st completing 90% of their passes, etc - i think this gets better next year with gilbert / antonio johnson rotating in more. don't see any way demani richardson goes pro, he seems undraftable at this point. 

    on offense, wydemeyer sucked all year, not sure what happened to him, either the hand issue or looking forward to the next level. we should be able to replace his production with better blocking. calzada enters the spring at 3rd string. nice kid, tried hard, simply not capable of processing at this level of football. it's on jimbo he didn't have a better option ready, however king decidedly beat him out last year and i imagine he does so again with weigman waiting in the wings. wouldn't be surprised to see calzada transfer in the spring, and i hope he never buys another beer again. 

    the schedule does present some challenges on the front end, however we'll see pretty quickly if i'm correct about the ceiling on this team next year. i think a more productive qb and speed upgrade on the perimeter on both sides of the ball raises the bar a bit, as always i'll be here to have shit thrown at me.

     

  6. 3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I'm sorry, but arguing that ATM will be better, even the vague possibility of it, next year is absurd. They're not going to replace 6+ draft picks with better players, playing better immediately. Get a grip on that. They'll be legitimately weaker at TE, TB and the front 7. If Ainias Smith goes pro, they'll be far weaker at WR too. Maybe Evan Stewart fills that void quickly, but maybe not.

    They lose every starter on the DL when Leal goes pro. They have talent behind them and coming in, but Leal is a 1st round pick and the rest have a shit ton of experience. They won't be upgrading that in 2022 even if the talent level is higher.

    Hansford is a damned good LB. Gone. Backups don't present as well.

    O'Neal is a buffoon and a liability, but if they had someone better than him, he'd undoubtedly be playing by now. Demani Richardson is likely going pro. That's 2 safeties, gone. 

    They lose two OL if Green goes pro. There's speculation that he won't, but his dad is a moneygrubbing pimp, so I'm guessing he gets the push to get what he can, while he can. 

    There is no exciting replacement for Wydermeyer. Sternberger was a stud and Wydermeyer was a great replacement. The Fisher passing game revolves around the TE. This is a big hole going into 2022. 

    Calzada may suck, but he enters 2022 as the presumptive starter. If they slide King right back in, Calzada is gone. They're going to try to tiptoe that situation all spring and summer and the prospects of them pulling off keeping both are tenuous. King is an injury waiting to happen. He WAS injured his senior year with a shoulder problem. He is fragile and that isn't fixable. Weigman starting as a true freshman seems ... unlikely. If he is, then you probably lost both upperclassmen. No one even really knows if Weigman is going to play, much less be ready. 

    And all of this presumes that Elko sticks around and Robinson sticks with him. I'm guessing if Elko gets a gig somewhere, Robinson is the first guy he's asking to come with him. 

    ATM also accidentally picked the wrong cupcakes to open the season. Sam Houston State is a power in FCS and will not just lay down for ATM to open the year. Then these idiots host Appalachian State, who is pretty fucking far from a pushover these days (they're 10-2 this season and playing for their conference championship this weekend). Then they host Miami, go to Dallas for Arkansas, then at Mississippi State and at Alabama before an offweek. Those fucking idiots have a higher likelihood of being 2-4 than 4-2 in that first half of a season. 

    No, ATM will not be better in 2022. 

    it's possible for 2 things to be simultaneously true:

    1. i was off in my 10-2 pick for this year, i apologize and will be better.

    2. your post is terrible and wrong, you should also be better. i will break it down later when not drinking at lunch. 

  7. i like mike elko a lot and think he's a damn solid coordinator, but there's no fucking way penn state has him in the top 15 of guys they would want to hire. 

    also, franklin is a weird cat and would recruit lights out in baton rouge and continue to lose a handful of games in bizarre fashion each year. 

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  8. On 7/15/2021 at 1:09 PM, bizzle said:

    hovvdy have low-key been one of my favorite listens through the past few years, but their new single sounds great. austin guys.

     

     

    i'm quoting myself because this entire album is so good. playing mohawk 10.26. 

    and thanks to nomaaa for the elbow single heads up. they remain incapable of wrong. 

  9. 1 hour ago, Tex-19 said:

    Idk if that's the case. They probably just reallocated some of that Dindy cash. Abor and Lucas are the other edges on their list. Aggy and tOSU mods seem confident in Abor with Bama still in play. No idea on Lucas other than the article above.

    Whatever the reason, it amazes me that they could beat out UGA or Bama for any of these guys. I mean look at UGA who's known for their bag game - currently #1 in the country with an insane D, Athens is a cool town, solid academics, and way more NFL production. Is Aggy really giving out bags that much bigger than even UGA? I literally see no other reason for a kid from PA to pick Aggy.

    elijah robinson. we caught him at a good time and were able to money whip him before someone else grabbed him, but if matt rhule handpicks you to coach / recruit the dline, you most likely know what you're doing. 

    and clearly we're paying out the ass.

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  10. On 10/4/2021 at 10:05 AM, bizzle said:

    maybe we beat bama by 17.5

    sorry, meant first half line, that's on me. 

    and fun fact: jimbo and craig got into such a heated argument that craig quit and walked out after practice in the middle of last week. then meekly returned when he remembered his salary. 

    somebody buy me some pappys when we hit my 10-2 prediction.

     

  11. two of the most entertaining things about college football to me are 1: the age of the humans involved (18-21 year old males are by and large idiots, and getting all of them moving in somewhat the same direction is a fascinating leadership exercise) and 2: the vast turnover from year to year, making every season more or less a new adventure in structure, dna, etc. unless you're saban's machine.

    much of my bullishness on this year was watching us in very real time become a team you did not want to play in 2020. say whatever you will about the opponents, but we simply bludgeoned people to death and imparted our will as a football team in a way i had not seen a&m do in over 20 years - and even then, it was on defense, not all the way around. i had assumed that was now part of the dna, but perhaps not, and that's what makes these things such a fun year to year proposition.

    as far as the dropoff at qb, as someone that has now seen king in person twice, and calzada twice, it aint close. king wasn't winning the heisman this year but you could see the vision, decisiveness and comfort growing by the series. i truly don't trust calzada to point out the mike without shitting himself. 

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  12. 21 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Yo biz, are we still riding with 10-2? 

    gonna go with probably not. the dropoff from king to whatever the fuck we're currently doing at qb is rather large, and i was flat wrong about the defense. i expected an ugly grind-it-out offense, but the lack of physicality from the defensive front 7 is shocking, and a sign of something weird behind the scenes. 

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  13. 1. barry odom is awesome. really fun defense to watch.

    2. i was at the game, and while jimbo needs to be punched in the crotch for some of his decision making, there were guys open and more of a pocket than it appeared. i'm not sure i've seen a quarterback at this level in a long time look so completely fucking scared / incompetent / hopeless as calzada did saturday. incredible management of the qb room there.

     

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  14. On 9/5/2021 at 5:15 PM, MuellerHorn said:

    Can you explain your rationale here?

    well i'm an optimist.

    but we also continue to get more athletic across the board, especially in the secondary. jardin gilbert, antonio johnson, tyreek chappell are all going to be speed upgrades and i think the young lb's will prove better than what we send out this year, as i like hansford but he's just not a playmaker inside. jackson will be playing for a paycheck and the athleticism at de should be better as well. 

    as long as we're paying top dollar and keep these defensive coaches, we should be fine on that side of the ball. can we score enough to be a playoff team? yet to be determined. 

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  15. 56 minutes ago, SarkAfterDark said:

    I'm not sure I fully understand how Jimbo gets by on reputation. It's like the media conveniently ignored how it ended at FSU and has vowed to never speak on it. A&M was overrated last year, and won't be that good this year. I have them losing 3 games even with that chicken shit schedule.

    i'm assuming it's probably his career record along with the conference championships and national championship as a head coach and offensive coordinator, but i may be missing something.

    as far the media refusing to speak on it, here's like 10,000 words from espn that may be helpful. 

    https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30331494/deep-deep-hole-6-year-unraveling-florida-state-football

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