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  1. 46 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

     

     

    Your "just asking questions" approach to posting approaches trolling. You really didn't know about the no buy out? C'mon.

    honestly, i am a bit removed geographically and in the last many months, mentally (got a few other priorities in life :) ) to remember whether I knew this or didn't, but can honestly say that I didn't recall it during this conversation before it was brought up. And to me, like I mentioned above, it's no skin off my back. If anything, it just goes to make my point, to a degree, that Jimbo has it as good as he wants at A&M and LSU likely will have to sweeten the pot more... especially if they seek Jimbo when their program is in a tailspin.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Regarding Elko, he hasn’t exactly received big time HC offers, but does he have HC aspirations or is he more of a Venables type? Content to stick around at DC and make $2 million a year. 
     

    Elko and Henson demonstrate hiring competency at Aggy in my opinion. Even if our prayers were answered and Elko was hired away, I think Jimbo/Aggy would hire a qualified replacement. 

    As NoName said, I think the feeling among the fan base is that Elko is gone after this season if the right job opens up for him. Elko is I think in his early 40s, so it's not like his boat has come and gone and he is "forever" content to stay at DC. Having said that, I have no insider info and no insight into Elko's thinking about his future plans. It would be great to maintain the upswing in D and the stability of having the same D and some of the same D position coaches, and seeing improvement year after year.

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  3. 21 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

    We already had Jimbo here once. His name was Mack Brown and he thoroughly pantsed your team on the field, in recruiting and just about in every way imaginable. Then we fired him a few years after winning a national championship and playing for another because we thought he had become too mediocre.

    Not that we'd expect you to understand any of that.

    Which brings up a good point-- it'll be interesting to see how Mack Brown does at UNC versus how Sark does at UT. I wonder if some at UT will still wish they kept FUPM or they they'd have brought him in now, after he apparently got his head on straight again.

    Regardless, good to know that you don't think you would be happy to have Jimbo in Austin (and Jimbo, not Mack Brown).  So you would be ok to see Jimbo go to LSU and win a championship there...but just be glad to see him leave B/CS? :D

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  4. 14 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    I'm not sure if you realize this but your program hasn't played in a conference championship game since 1998 and has only finished higher than 3rd in their own division like twice. You haven't won a national title since 1939 and only have 4 top 4 finishes ever.

     

    You're closer to Texas Tech/Arkansas/ than you are Texas/LSU/Bama/Oklahoma.

    How does any of that matter to a coach's decision of whether to stay or go? It's not like Jimbo didn't know the program history of A&M when he took the job.

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  5. 3 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    As NoName highlighted, you had to have known about his zero buyout. It's one of the big items A&M had to give him for him after he visited College Station and saw what he was walking into. He had to have a zero cost escape clause if $75M guaranteed wasn't enough to overcome having to be there.

    It would seem that A&M bent over backward and gave Jimbo all he wanted in order to get him to move to B/CS. They even funded his staffing needs to the point of being able to afford one of the highest paid DC's. Jimbo would really have to be tired of B/CS or feel he has plateaued out...all outward appearances make it seem otherwise.

    Sure, LSU has the winning history as a program. But what's the program's situation at the moment they seek out Jimbo? The instability, the stench... seems like a tough time to go there.  Jimbo can likely win more there than he can at A&M, if long history is indicator; in the short span, if he wins against LSU this season, he will be what, 3-1 against LSU. 

    I wonder what all points are important for a coach like Jimbo (where he is in his career, the money he has, etc.) when making the decision to stay put or jump for another program. If LSU program has some stench around it for legal wrongdoings, and Jimbo has managed to make A&M relevant in SEC West, I wonder whether he decides next year is the time to move to Baton Rouge. Maybe he does.

     

    Then there is also that thing about Elko, and whether he sticks around (likely not) beyond this season. Would Jimbo be able to land another DC he likes, or does he feel that with Elko leaving (and taking some key staff with him?), that he may be best served to leave and end up at LSU?

    Seems possible; not sure how probable, but is possible.

     

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  6. 1 minute ago, NoName said:

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    i mean...

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    uh bad news on this front for you

    https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/8/22/17769874/jimbo-fisher-texas-a-m-contract

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    you think LSU, who takes money from anywhere and everywhere else under the sun for their football program, can't find money for a new coach?

     

     

    Sure, let them hire Jimbo away from A&M. :) No skin off my back! :D

    I assume that would mean they'll pay him and his staff more than he/they are making at A&M. Salary escalation ladder and what not..

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  7. 16 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Brendan Harris is our DoR, and honestly he probably doesn't have the organizational chops to handle that at this point in his career even if he wanted to.

    I'm so far behind the times. I kept thinking you guys still had that guy on staff who has the twitter thing about shusshing in order to say that you got a (silent) commit or something. I am obviously forgetting his name.

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  8. Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

    Because LSU is a lot more desirable job than than coaching football at Texas A&M and even trying to compare the two is literally stupid. 

    I hear you.  I feel that that might make sense for a coach still climbing the ladder. I suppose the only (and obviously very important) reason for Jimbo to bail and go to LSU would be if he thought he could more likely win a ring there than at A&M. Didn't LSU try to land him in the past but he refused? or the timing didn't work out for some reason? If LSU sputters this season and Jimbo has 10 wins, I imagine he would feel just fine staying put.  Beyond winning, would LSU be able to buy out his contract or pay him more than he is getting paid right now? Desirability is also in terms of $$, on, especially as Jimbo is in his mid-50s now.

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  9. All that fan board crap on Banks is rather funny, considering so many Ags hated to see him go to Bama and thought of him/his special teams coaching skills very highly. Did Banks pick up his stripper dating habit only once he left for Bama? I doubt it.

    O well. That's the sort of hypocrisy that's funny to witness.

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  10. 2 hours ago, Viper said:

    why would Jimbo care about goodwill from running his mouth off when he has a guaranteed 6 more years on his contract?

    see, that's been the standard narrative on Jimbo and his contract with A&M.  Which is why what CTJ wrote makes little sense. Why would he leave the comforts of a 10 year guaranteed deal only to go over to LSU who would be desperate and impatient after having fired Ogre. Heck, Ags are happy just to have gotten into one NY6 bowl game and winning it...that likely bought Jimbo a couple more years of cushion already. His whole take on Jimbo felt off a bit.

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  11. 11 minutes ago, NoName said:

    when everyone under the sun says he is a bag man, he's a bag man.

    if you think the reason UGA is stacking up top notch recruiting classes is because they are smooth talking guys into recruiting trips you need to open your eyes or take off your SEC colored (they are crimson colored FWIW) glasses.

    who is in the bagman role at UT now? Just wondering. Or you guys don't have any bagmen?

     

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  12. 1 minute ago, NoName said:

    since joining the SEC, A&M is 1-8 against Bama

    Average margin of victory for Bama in the last 8 games? 22.5 points

    getting beaten by 3 TDs is absolutely the definition of shellacked. i am too lazy to dig into box scores for each game, but how many of those games have even been competitive going into the 4th Q

    for comparison, the margin of victory in the last 10 years of Texas OU games has been 11 points, and this includes a 42 point OU win in 2010. last 5 years is 7 points.

    He wasn't there for all 8 of those games. He is responsible for 3. And I didn't say anything about history, but my wording was implicit that if he gets shellacked "again"...meaning, he has been shellacked before.  So I don't know what your problem is.

     

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  13. 5 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Man, half of your own boards are like "Yay ca$h money! More auction recruitments! We stole UGA's bag man!" and everyone knows the NCAA is even more toothless than it was in the 80s. 

    You're like the only aggy fan left trying to say "well we can't say for sure if anything's going on, you guys."

    probably because i don't follow those boards. lol  i rather come here for a more nuanced take on things.

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  14. FWIW, Jimbo put more pressure on himself to win, and win now, by running his mouth off about beating Saban's ass. It's a double-edged sword. It can keep his program "fresh" and maintain the attention of recruits (the life-blood of a program), and if he gets shellacked again in that game, then he could also lose a lot of goodwill. But he is already going into his 4th season... so he knows the timeline.

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  15. 17 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I caught up some yesterday. ATM's hiring of Nick Williams away from Georgia should signal to everyone that they're going to do what they desperately need to do in order to sign anyone who is pretty much only about the money. They're getting as brazen with their activities now as they've been at Georgia, with Williams in the middle on both fronts. Bear Alexander is a prime example here, and Williams is the connect. 

    If you see someone like Denver Harris taking a midweek visit to ATM after he's straight-up ghosted them, you know the recruits are talking and the buzz is that ATM will get you paid. 

    Staff and Jimbo are openly talking about "taking care of the family" when the parents visit his ranch while the recruits are hosted with an embarrassment of party and luxury riches. 

    Fisher has a growing concern that you can't actually win at ATM. If they buy a bunch of top 3 classes and still can't get it over the hump, he doesn't want to miss a shot in Baton Rouge. Will see how the window works out. ATM isn't kicking ass in the portal because a) they've not planned for it well and are scouting and reacting within it poorly and b) players who have been on campuses somewhere and already gotten paid aren't as gung ho to further relegate themselves into a new shithole. This is a tell to the staff at this point that it's not exactly an equitable shangri-la to recruit to compared to places like Austin, Los Angeles or football hotbeds with rabid fans that aren't also fucking weirdos. 

    That's all shit to watch.

    ok, this started off on even keel but then veers off a bit, IMO.

    As far as I can tell, UT has been scavenging the transfer portal because it's new staff feels the need to fill urgent holes.  And as compared to previous regime changes, this staff is luckier because of the dynamic of more talent doing the transfer portal dance and so there is more talent to pick. Jimbo and A&M likely don't feel the urgency and having established a couple of full cycles of recruiting, don't want to dip into the transfer portal if they can help it. Where they wanted some immediate help, they targeted it-- for the OT. They wanted a different name but I think he ended up at OU, but still got what looks to be a workable starter who transferred from Tennessee.  Which other portal targets was A&M seeking desperately or should have been seeking? I honestly don't know.

    As for Nick Williams-- I have no idea what his qualifications are, but even if he is just a bag man or a smooth talker for on-the-road recruiting trips, that is hardly different from many other programs that employ that sort of a person.  Jimbo likely felt the need for one, saw Georgia stacking top notch recruiting classes, and has proceeded to pick a few of the staffers from that program... three by now (Coley, Malchow, and Williams). I just see that as the usual SEC dog-eat-dog... there is a lot of "inbreeding" among the coaches/staff. I'm just glad that Jimbo felt the urgency to act, and got down to business.

    I just tire of the whole bag man talk. If there are recruiting violations, then lets get those addressed; if there is a whole lot of gray area about these things, then let the game be played and there should be no assumption of some being above board and others being always dirty.

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  16. 5 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    You one of them Two-percenters? It's interesting how many A&M grads I've met in the last ten years who say so right off the bat. And I believe them. Maybe there is hope of diluting that bizarre, sick culture yet.

    I would qualify, yes.

    I've not been back on campus in many years so not sure how much it has changed but from reading it seems it has changed quite a bit.  I can tell you that when I was in school the student population was still about 85% white, and most of it was suburban or rural. Though of course engineering and hard sciences buildings were crawling with Asians of various sorts even then.  I've grown socially conservative SINCE my college years but not when I was in college, so there's that twist, but now it seems the campus is a good mix of liberals and conservatives, which is great.  And A&M scores higher with regard to on campus free speech, better than, say, Berkeley for sure. 

    But yea, as far as college sports and shit, I was a 2%-er because I was too busy earning my engineering degree to bother with sports... I had neither the time nor the money to spend. I developed the interest only after graduating and settling in a career.

    I'd think I'm also one of the few that chooses to move to Philly and live an urban lifestyle. And I'm a minority in many other ways, as well, in practically any room and any situation. :D That's ok, I'm used to it and am comfortable in my own skin.

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  17. 2 hours ago, FunkSoulBrother said:

    Not sure if I should ask this in this thread or the 2023 one but how confident are we that we’ll land one of Ewers or Manning?

    off-topic, and sorry about that, but couldn't keep my eyes off the hot model in your profile pic. dang! good choice. 

    and yea, i have no clue about where either of the QB ends up. :D but i'm drooling over that profile pic.

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  18. "Draftable" upper classmen who want to leave should be good for any new regime, I imagine. They're guys of the previous staff and yet them going to the League makes room on the roster for the new staff to work with, and if they do get into the NFL (even via the UDFA route), then that's one more name with your college's brand out there. The extra room can also attract new talent who increasingly wants to see the field early and often.

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  19. What is position depth for safety at UT right now? Bryce Anderson likely can't start right away at A&M. But it's all about how the sales pitch is made, I suppose.

    Again, I think A&M's most impact need is at shutdown corner spot; I sure hope landing Nick Williams from UGa is what's about to pay big dividends in this regard. Having recent ex NFL-pro Antonio Cromartie on staff (along with his version of the "swagcopter"-- remember that!? lol-- doesn't hurt either).

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  20. Bear's twitter post during his OV to A&M pretty much said what was going to happen. He had tagged one of his school coaches (guess that's the guy who drove him to C/ST?) who is a Bulldawg fan but his post was that he started from zero and had nothing, and has to make decisions that are right for him. 

    I think it's great to be wanted, and to have your choice of where to go.  All this bag stuff is fan board innuendo until proven otherwise. :)

     

     

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  21. 32 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    I was a journalism student when I first came to UT. Rabid Longhorn fan. What could be better than getting a job as a sports writer covering your favorite team and other college teams? Either that or be a news reporter.

    A few years go by, and I notice the tedium of reporting the sames things over and over every year. The games and teams differ, the dialogue not so much.

    To top it off, a newspaper sportswriter wrote a column complaining about how the athletes give the same answers year after year. That may have been the moment that I realized that sportswriters are (as a group) the dumbest people in the world paid to write. Hey, Ace, why do you think you get the same answers? Could it just be that you ask the same questions every year?

    Perroni epitomizes my opinion except things have got worse because he doesn't have copy editors or content editors.

    Player X was blown away because A&M hit it out of the park and gave Player X plenty to think about. The Aggies made up a lot of ground on The University of X who was considered to be in the lead. The visit was way better than Player X expected. He loved the family atmosphere and the fact that A&M is in the SEC. All the pieces are in place to win. Jimbo knows what he's doing.

    I suppose I should be happy for Perroni and the other troglodites at Texags for having maxed out their potential on the bottom rung of the intellectual ladder.

    That's the reason why a lot of the "regular" reporting/newswire type of shit is already automated and has been for a few years now. Computer programs do this job. At least in financial reporting I have seen this happen, and probably in sports reporting too-- for example, in writing out the game summary.  Humans probably are now mainly involved with writing fluff pieces or over-arching thematic stuff happening in their particular wheelhouse or (rarely) in the investigative arena.

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