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UTEX90

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  1. I don't blame the cop for pulling him over or even arresting him for the suspicion of driving while impaired.  But to put the statements in the paperwork that have nothing to do with arrest but are derogatory to young men who have nothing to do with the arrest and fine entertainment establishments is just bush league.

  2. 6 hours ago, Yesh said:

    I don't know who originally said what, but plenty of people have pointed out that when a booster contributes say $100k for to TOF, they are doing it for the return of having a better football team, not because they expect to receive $120k as a ROI for example.  You can call that irrational spending I guess.  But just because someone is willing to do that, doesn't mean they do it blindly.  If you are a Texas booster, you can say look how much better the team was with Golden and Mukuba, without those guys we probably don't make it to the semi-finals.  On the other hand, if you are a Texas A&M booster who contributed to the 2022 class, you would rightly say that money was lit on fire for absolutely no benefit.  Would that be reason for an A&M booster to have donor fatigue and be weary to give more, even if it is already irrational spending?  I would think so.

    I think another reason involves location, school culture, exposure and history.  This is what the true blue bloods have that the aggies lack.  If aTm and Texas are offering the same in NIL,  how much more would they have to pay for you to go to College Station when you have other options?  Most of their problems have nothing to do with money, it has to do with other factors that are attractive to young athletes.  Location, prestige, other NIL opportunities, exposure, reputation, winning tradition, and pride.  Some people are smart enough to realize that the biggest bag isn't necessarily the best opportunity.  Yes, there are players who will chase the biggest bag, but look at how most of those individuals end up.  See the 2022 aTm class.

    I think some of the boosters are realizing, all things being equal, they just can't win.  There was a time when they thought they could throw money at a problem, especially when they had SEC/Jimbo/Johnny Football momentum (and some of the internet fans still think they can), but the fact that they didn't make a leap when they were alone in the SEC, dropping bags, Jimbo, 2022 Class, etc. coupled with our recent success and their lack of it has to have some of their donor base facing reality.

    If my son was a 5* athlete the price for him to go to aTm over Texas, Alabama, Fla, Ohio St., Ga., ND, Mich, USC, LSU (just to name a few) would be exponentially higher because of the location, culture and history of the program.  That is their real problem and not one anyone on TexAgs will ever see as a factor.  "Big bad Texas is outspending us."  Their only problem with NIL is that other programs have it too not that they don't have the support for it.  Their problems are not fixable because they are their tradition. 

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  3. Their SoS is higher because they have to play us.  Our SoS is lower because we play them.  That is it in a nutshell.

    Common Opponents:

    Fla.  - aggies away.  - Texas at home.

    Ark. - aggies neutral site - Texas away.

    Miss St. - aggies away - Texas at home

     

    aggies:                                                 Texas:

    LSU - at home                                     Georgia - at home

    Mizzou - at home                               Kentucky - at home

    South Carolina - away                       Oklahoma - neutral site

    Auburn - away                                   Vanderbilt - away

    We play them at home while we are on the road, but our schedule is a piece of cake because we are playing a weak aggie football program and they have to play the powerhouse University of Texas.  Nevermind, they are getting us at home and we play away.   Their biggest argument for us having an SEC cupcake schedule is that they suck and are dragging our SoS to the dirt and theirs is tougher because they have to play the juggernaut that is The University of Texas.

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  4. 18 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    Last year, I forgot to wear my Sam Ehlinger jersey once. For one game. Guess which game it was? Texas-OU, the one regular-season game we lost. I explained this to my wife while I picked it up to put it on this morning.

    "COINCIDENCE!" she barked at me.

    "What, are you meaning to tell me that what I choose to wear has no impact on the actions of 44-odd men on a field in a stadium a thousand miles away from here?"

    Been with her nearly 30 years and she still knows nothing about football.

    My current cap is undefeated.  I feel where you're coming from.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    they fail at nil because they have to overpay to get mercenaries who will tolerate the bullshit

     

    I really think this the head meeting the nail, except they don't tolerate the bullshit at the end of the day.  They have to overpay to get the elite to come there, because it's a shithole.  Then they get there and realize what they have gotten themselves into.  Then they do anything, including self destruct to get themselves out of there. Stewart, Demas, King, years ago Murry, etc.  Manzel is the only person socially and chemically altered enough to stay and endure it all.  And if Mike Evans wasn't there to make him look halfway decent he would have flamed out too.

     

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  6. It is simply amazing to me that they think they are the equivalent or better in terms of brand, history, facilities and location.  I go to CS way to often.  aTm is the entire culture of the city wherever you go.  The contrast between environments is stark and has to weigh into the equation.  There are just recruits that are not going to want to live there.  Some kids may not want to be in Austin either, but if I was a recruit and had to choose between where I wanted to spend my next 3-4 years, CS would be near the bottom of college towns I would choose.  I still don't understand any Texas kid choosing to live in Columbus, Ohio, but it happens every year.

    Some of them are using the proper logic of Texas just made the playoffs.  We need to win this year.  But that still wont matter for kids that want to play for a high profile blue blood program and live in a town like Austin.

    I can't believe I am saying this but Fayetteville is more appealing than College Station.

    They just can't fathom that their environment can be off-putting to a lot of the population, and they are the one's creating the creepy environment. 

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  7. 11 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I think I posted this in one of the baseball threads but never here. Brauninger is involved with a select baseball organization called, shockingly, "Twelve", and they're based, shockingly, out of Katy. After the Schlossnagle Maneuver, they announced to the parents of their organization that no players on their rosters were allowed to visit or talk to Texas. They're not a good enough organization to make that demand, but they are clearly insecure enough and dumb enough.

    When you see their teams, you know who they are before you can read the names on the jerseys. The coaches are all either swole fat or just fat, all with beards and many mullets, sunglasses with the connectors, usually in crocs. The dads fit the same profile, all wearing maroon at least partly. The moms are as stereotypical as you could imagine as well, jorts and bedazzled tops, "BASEBALL MOM" on either hat, shirt, or both. Baseball earrings as gaudy as a Mardi Gras float. 

    I was involved in select baseball for way too many years as a pitching coach and miss the shit out of it on rare occasions.  Golf was a better vicarious way to satisfaction with my own son, but I continued to coach after he graduated.  Having said that, I live in Katy so I am on the front lines.  The 12 are just like all other things aggie.  They limit their ability to be elite by branding themselves and eliminating a lot of truly elite players that wont wear that uniform or associate themselves with what the color and number it represents.

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