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  1. 2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    bugs bunny opera GIF by Looney Tunes

    Leopold! Leopold! haha

    Nice reference for the Buffalo/Kansas situation.

    For a Philly guy, there is also the Philly connection-- Leopold Stowkowski was famous for spurning the baton and conducting simply with his hand gestures...and he did that during his long association with the Philly Orchestra as its music director (made most famous for recording the score of Disney's Fantasia, and also appearing in some Hollywood movies on screen, famously in Deanna Durbin-starrer 1937 hit One Hundred Men and a Girl. 

    He must have been a major cultural icon of that time for him to be featured like that in Looney Tunes.

     

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  2. Elko supposedly turned down offers closer to his mid-Atlantic roots, so it would be a dumb move to then pick up and move to Kansas of all places... zero momentum, zero local recruiting, perennial bottom dweller program. I suppose it can also be a good move to go where nobody has any expectations, and then turn heads... and then quickly move on to better opportunity elsewhere. If he left now, he surely would hand a full cupboard to the next DC at A&M, rather than making use of that potential himself.

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  3. Oh, and while I'm visiting briefly, Leon O'Neal is probably going to be a better preacher or speaker on a talking circuit that an NFL player. He is probably setting things up for that career move. lol.  He should nonetheless not get into tweet battles with anybody, obviously. I guess he just can't help himself, or he loves getting a rise out of people. hah

  4. 9 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Top WR signees means exactly what it says. The main point being that your highly ranked WR recruits have underperformed in this system, and the top 3 receivers you listed highlights that.

    I'm still holding out hope for Demas to turn it on in between his ears this upcoming season.  Of course, that will only matter so much if he has a QB worth a damn to throw him the ball... and that is TBD, it seems, but not looking great, tbh.

  5. 2 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Your RBs and TEs getting most of your passing production isn't making the point you think it is.

    A. Smith isn't a RB in true sense; that workhorse position is really belonging to I. Spiller.  Smith is a gadget guy and I wouldn't hold that against him nor against Jimbo for moving him around all over the field to get him the ball.  I think Sark probably does something similar with any super-fact guys on your team who have good hands and good feel for the game. I give you the pass catching TE as "problematic" if you're a WR, since that does vulture off the passing game. But as you can see, still decent passing yardage per game. It's a balanced attack.

  6. 1 hour ago, Fud said:

    A&M's top WR signees the past four years 

    2018- Jalen Preston, 11 catches in his career

    2019- Dylan Wright- 0 catches, transfered

    2020- Demond Demas, 0 catches

    2021- Shadrach Banks, in the portal after his early enrollee spring game

    "Top WR signees" means what, exactly? It's not like WRs don't get to show off their talent at all.  The recruiting stars fall by the wayside and players must show their stuff in practice and such.  It's a different system, but seems it allows adequate opportunity to shine for those willing to put in the work. Chase Lane was a 3-star out of high school.  Prima Donnas probably don't do well, blue collar receivers that block, and do everything else, probably get to play more. Top 3 receivers and receiving yards from last season at A&M vs at UT:

    Ainias Smith:  564 yards, 6 TDs

    Jalen Wydermyer: 506 yards, 6 TDs

    Chase Lane: 409 yards, 2 TDs.

     

    Joshua Moore:  472 yards, 9 TDs

    Brennan Eagles:  469 yards, 5 TDs

    Jake Smith:   294 yards, 3 TDs.

     

    Even total receiving yards for each team isn't that far off, nor receiving yards/game. 

  7. First up: Which in-state school is the most overrated and why?

    some kid: oklahoma state, just because.

     

    I suppose the kid must live in Okla-fucking-homa, although I figured this was a Texan sports magazine polling in-state (meaning, Texans) 'cruits.

    Or is this an a-ok signtal for TX to annex OK?!

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  8. When Herb Hand was hired away from Auburn, I remember folks here generally very gruntled. He was coming over as a savior and was going to turn boys into men. After all, his Auburn OL had just won a bunch of awards and was graded out as one of the best in all of college football.  He was highly regarded. So what happened? I guess he was highly "regarded" and not regarded...? just sucked at recruiting? or became lazy upon landing the coveted job in Austin?

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  9. 1 hour ago, bizzle said:

    i somewhat agree with this . . . but damn weigman has some tools and his highlights are fun to watch. elevated a program that hasn't done much lately either. 

    low floor, crazy ceiling. 

    TBH, his highlights made me think of Johnny Football, especially his penchant for escaping the rush in the pocket and weirdly finding an open receiver after making crazy passes. I wonder how much of that will Jimbo allow. I'm afraid Jimbo will drill more thinking and standing in the pocket into this guy and therefore make him less fun to watch, gain slightly on his passing efficiency, but at the loss of his running/scrambling abilities.

    He seems like a better match for someone like Sumlin lol.  But I hope I'm wrong.

    It would also be great to take both the QBs in this class...different styles, although Klubnik also scrambles.  Probably less than 1% chance of landing both, though, I'm guessing. That's not how Dickey and Jimbo operate.

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