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  1. 2 minutes ago, Bevo14 said:

    Maybe he didn't want to a hire a coach that just had a terrible season and lost to UH and and took a smooth buttfucking from Louisville  recently with top 5 talent.

    That would be a fair point to make even publicly, and Alleva should, if that was the stumbling block. But without specifics it could appear he is making a personality conflict or other "soft issue" points, and that's just not a good look to do in public.  Fisher may be a shitty dude that everyone knows but it makes Alleva look like he is out there trying to make some personal points against Fisher.

  2. 7 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Diestch is headed to Arizona St. (at least according to the one Sun Devils fan I know).

    the dude is made of glass. Maybe Az St situation will work out better for him. highly rated (top 20 rated OT out of high school, IIRC) but never lived up to the potential.  Wrong evals happen with OLs.

  3. 7 minutes ago, TBGFL said:

    Alleva never would have hired Fisher

    When LSU made the move to fire Les Miles during the 2016 season, a now-SEC coach was the name most commonly bandied about as Miles’ replacement with the Tigers.

    While current LSU coach Ed Orgeron took over as the interim coach following Miles’ firing on Sept. 25, 2016, there were many folks who thought Orgeron was only going to be a placeholder coach until the end of the season when the school found a guy like Jimbo Fisher to take over the program.

    On the surface, Fisher to LSU made a lot of sense. He was a former LSU assistant and was the team’s offensive coordinator when the Tigers won the national title over Notre Dame after the 2006 season before moving to Florida State.

    But according to former LSU athletic director Joe Alleva, Fisher was never an option. Not even at the end of the 2015 season, when Miles’ grip on his job was tenuous as the Tigers beat Texas A&M 19-7 to cap off a 9-3 regular season.

    So basically innuendo without any details, from a has-been retired dude, trying to milk some time in the press while "his" team tries to win the big game.

    Maybe he personally didn't like Fisher and sought out "friends in ACC" who will confirm his bias. Maybe they didn't want to pay the money it would take to land Herman or Fisher (as stated in the article). Maybe Fisher was demanding more control than Alleva wanted to hand over. Without Alleva being specific about his criticism of Fisher it feels like Alleva just having a personal axe to grind but doing it publicly.

     

  4. 17 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    The scholarship distribution feature on 247 is really eye opening sometimes

    For example, A&M's OT 

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     B. Trainor (Florida dead weight of higher recruit that decommited from Aggy)

     

    who?

    He is from Hallsville, TX.

    6'7, 330 lbs. 64th rated OT.

  5. 12 hours ago, Fud said:

    They had a lot of who appeared to be promising WRs, but they had trouble getting PT over Davis, Ausbon, Rogers, and Smith 

    This.

    From Jimbo's viewpoint, if guys leave early, better that they go for the draft than to the transfer portal; glad that Preston didn't prematurely decide to leave, because just like that he may get his shot at pretty good playing time next season and onward.

    In the PP (post portal) era, corches probably have to keep recruiting the damn recruits even when they're on campus, especially the ones with talent who know (or think they know) they have talent.

  6. 10 hours ago, markstanco said:
    17 hours ago, texifornia said:
    Wait he's declaring for the fucking draft? Debione "CB that can't outrun a Segway" Renfro.
    Maybe his grades are really bad?

    Maybe he saw jake fromm declaring and thought "shit, if he can go pro I can too"

    Jake, Fromm state Farm aggy? that is like the worlds colliding or something?

  7. 2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Kirk Johnson had a nagging injury bug this year, just FYI.

    He should do well in NFL.  Earl Campbell did ok.

    point taken. 

    work ethic, opportunity presented, innate abilities, all that good stuff. can't be easily translated over.

    anyways, i liked the more pertinent (and erm pointed?) point someone else made, about all these guys not wanting to wait around until next year when A&M finally wins it all... they obviously don't know shit from shinola. ;) haha  

     

     

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  8. Renfro seemed to have improved this year, tbh. better coverage skills, stride for stride matching receivers; ability to jam receiver at LOS to prevent free release; and more than anything else, looking for the ball and thus avoiding obvious 15-yard defensive PIs. 

    Granted, all this is expected from a corner from the get-go. So maybe Linguist at least brought Debby-One to par?  Good luck to him in the next level... CFL, NFL, XFL, whatever.

  9. 11 hours ago, KYHorn said:

    Look, I'm not one to cast stones, especially since I incited the cheese fiasco of Summer '19, which really seemed to grate on some of you, but... wait, what are we talking about again?

    so you're saying that wasn't any gouda? Ricotta be kidding me!

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  10. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Finley might be a fine coach, and an OK recruiter (although aTm boards certainly bitched at his ineptitude), but the point was that I don't think anyone was crowing about taking Missouri's TE coach, who's first on field coaching role was at Missouri two years prior to being hired by aTm. Even if he performed fine there (he had talent to work with there as well). My point was that it wasn't exactly a slam-dunk, big splash, go get the best of the best at the position hire. 

    Isn't it usually the case that coaches go hunting for assistants in their own coaching tree first and then cast the net wider? Jimbo having longer experience than Herman is more likely to have coaching connections and people he has worked with or has recommendations on.  Isn't that also why UT may be looking at bunch of assistant coaches who all coached at Shippensburg Univ in PA 10 years ago, as one of the resident denizens of this forum pointed out a while back? :) 

    Only a guy like Saban can bring in fired head coaches at big P5 schools and have them as assistants or analysts.  Most other corches, sitting or standing national championship winners or not, tend to stick to guys they know and have worked with in the past.

     

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  11. 4 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Imagine Vernon Broughton not going to Texas and committing to South Carolina. I'm sure everyone would assume he just likes Palmettos 

    So you're comparing Texas to Rutgers in this scenario?! Fadil Diggs' home state doesn't really have a big time college football program last I checked (nor an NFL one, while we're looking. haha)

    State of Texas has established college football programs and still plenty of top talent goes out of state for various reasons, and not all go to top programs out of state; some last year ended up at Illinois, for example. 

  12. Surly you jest? Is there smoke on Diggs looking to Penn State, or is Penn State suddenly pursuing him more? I don't have any insider info.

    The Inky had an article on him from the time of his verbal back in the Spring. A&M's DL coach is a graduate of Diggs' high school and they two seem to have bonded well. The current coach of his high school also ended up down south, to Tulane, for his college playing days.

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    Diggs said a big factor in his decision was a local connection. Texas A&M’s defensive line coach is Elijah Robinson, a Wilson graduate and most recently an assistant coach at Baylor.

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    “Me and [Robinson] can relate to each other,” Diggs said. “He went to Wilson and came from Camden, and me and him can talk if I am not feeling comfortable."

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    Diggs said he did his homework during his recruiting process. He made unofficial visits to Texas A&M, Florida, Penn State, Virginia Tech, and LSU.

    He said Texas A&M and the SEC are a perfect fit.

    “Me playing against the top guys -- Alabama, Kentucky, LSU -- I feel like I am testing my skill level by going against those dudes every year,” Diggs said.

    While Diggs said he enjoyed his recruiting experience, he’s glad it’s over.

    https://www.inquirer.com/high-school-sports/new-jersey/recruiting-football-south-jersey-fadil-diggs-woodrow-wilson-texas-20190805.html

  13. That last poll is kinda cool also on the fact that Ms. "I'm top tier candidate" Kamala Harris got polled lower than Tulsi Gabbard who she thought she could just ignore and/or send her communications strategist on twitter to badmouth. But ever since Tulsi landed that punch on Kamala in the August debate, Kamala has been sucking for air.

  14. 6 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    I hope I don't get negged for this, but I think Huckleberry and SuingToGetAMessageBoard have good takes. I'm not good with logic, but perhaps a different way to view it is to reframe it slightly to understand that she is talking more about equality than she is menstrual cycles.

    For example:

    Not all women walk, and not all who walk are women. Accessibility equality is simply equality.

     

    Disability activists participating in the "Capital Crawl" on March 12, 1990.

     

    It isn't quite the same thing, and I am not very good with words, but that was the idea. But, drawing out one little thing and focusing on the menstrual cycle or the wheelchair misses the bigger picture about the governance of our country and who we elect to represent us.

    I see your point, but also question what is being asked here; are transgendered people currently not given equal access to menstruation health and hygiene products? They can buy the same range of products that women can, isn't it?

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