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  1. 38 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

    More Wow plays in that game last night than we had in the entire season last year, and not an exaggeration. That's not necessarily an indictment on last year's team. More so just the importance of an injection of elite athleticism in this team that was sorely missing in '21.

    https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/35043775

    Our athleticism definitely took a huge jump up.  Even returning guys look leaner and getting a healthy disu back changes the makeup of these team even more.  I know we'll cool down on the 3s but the combo of defensive length and intensity coupled with multiple people who can thrive in iso and lead to open jump shooters portends well for a good tourny run.  

  2. That was exactly what I needed.  Tcu kick in the nuts, horribly shitty week at work that ended late, pop on my horns and watch them drill a top 5 time with the Moody center sounding as loud as Allen field house.  Thank you Chris Beard for coming back and being who we thought you were.  This team is gonna fuck some people up!  I'm looking forward to the rest of the season and picking Texas to win it all in my bracket, not as a homer who wants a handicap in the office pool but as someone who knows something others don't.  

     

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  3. 8 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Outside of unifying all initiatives under one umbrella, which wasn't a small feat for the parties involved, there are two really big things here:

    1) All players in all sports will be making money at Texas, and in non-trivial amounts. That doesn't even include corporate sponsoring efforts. The goal is to create a competitive advantage for every sport against its own landscape. This will outpace South Carolina for WBB, set the bar in FB, compete with LSU in baseball, etc. 

    2) The LHF is going to play a critical role in driving the fund growth, starting now. The athletic department and CDC are fully behind this and they understand that if you aren't the best in NIL, you aren't winning. The colleges sports world has changed. 

    The original goal of creating something best in class to run alongside the LHF is now fully in bloom. 

    Absolutely.

     

    5 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Yup, thats why we unified. So Texas can point to one organization alone. We just added the might of the Texas AD, compliance and most importantly the LHF

    Thank you both and everyone else involved.  I know unifying our disparate alumni factions and creating a vehicle that both the larger donors and more casual fans can participate wasn't easy but elevating the floor for UT athletic support is huge and getting the sheer number of fans involved that can't give 1000+ but can contribute 5/10/50/100 will be a differentiator from smaller schools which rely on just a few bmd.

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  4. 5 hours ago, someguy said:

    Possibly.  Or Jimbo can tell them that, as head coach for 9 more years, he will loudly complain he isn't getting the resources from the administration to help him win (ask FSU about those complaints) while deciding to let the school recruit itself and downshift into a nice 30 hour/week pace.  Afterall, Jimbo's legacy as  national championship winning coach is already secure, and he can always get another school to believe the problem was A&M administration not supporting him.  Or, he could decide he has nothing left to prove and retire.  Full buy out or else.

    The Aggies can make Jimbo's life hell, but Jimbo can make their lives hell by torching their program/brand for nearly a generation of young players and put them into an incredibly deep hole.  Such is the nature of mutually assured destruction.  Both sides have a certain amount of leverage over the other, but neither one wants to have to use it.

    I mean, he's doing that now.  How much harder could he torch them, especially without bags to help fund his charm?

    5 hours ago, Enchubben said:

    Maybe but why? He holds all the leverage. He can just rack up L after L and destroy that program down to its foundation in as little as 2 years.

    If I’m Jimbo I’m telling these morons that come at me with that shit that if you want me gone, buy my entire contract out or the entire place burns.

    Yes, I want this.

    5 hours ago, tokamak said:

    I could see aggy making Jimbo's life so miserable that he walks away, but it's still going to cost them dearly. They might not end up paying the whole $90m, but they sure as shit aren't getting off scot-free.

    It's a risky proposition for aggy boosters though because they're gonna have to endure several years of pain to make it happen. The name of the game now is NIL first, second, and third. If they shut off the spigot, everyone in the region is gonna feast on their carcass and that will set them back years.

    It does seem quite clear that players on that roster are not getting what they were promised, or thought they were promised, and word is starting to circulate.

    I mean, isn't this the move?  If they turn off the money, you have a ready made excuse (Aggy didn't find nil, impossible to compete, kids these days don't respect tradition).  A bunch of red ass insurance salesman from Katy would eat that up...

    5 hours ago, Viper said:

    Jimbo just better be careful passing around the collection jar to a bunch of aggies. He might not like what they fill it up with.

    The best response.  

    4 hours ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

    It's A&M.  They'll probably just pull a Tech, fire him, not pay him, and rely on their immunity and the statutory caps to protect them.  

    Or this would be epic.  Both go down, ugly all around.  Aggy forced to fire Tom Herman to make us cover their next coach and save face.  

    3 hours ago, Not a Sock said:

    Fuck no, I’d show up everyday dig three feet of ditches and watch my employer’s operation come to a halt as they burn through cash dealing with pissed off suppliers and contractors.

    Yeah, but hypothetically, could you watch someone else train your wife while digging that 3" of ditch?  Asking for a friend

    Spoiler

    Actually for jimbo

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, Hornbeliever said:

    I want aggies to succeed juuuuuust enough for Jimbo to not hire an OC.   I do not think worst case scenario is a terrible year for them.....I think worst case for them is to keep the coaching staff as is.

    So back off that concussion drama, Horns.  Let them annihilate Auburn and maybe play LSU really close in high scoring game.

    They can't fire him

    1 hour ago, BornOrange said:

    How are they going to pressure Jimbo to make changes? What kind of leverage do they have? Can they threaten to fire him?

    All Jimbo has to say is "85 million dollars, guaranteed!"

    Yup. 

    There's never a time when Aggy losing isn't the correct answer.  Just turning the spigots off on bags for 2 years while they raise buyout money is good enough.  Or spending the money to buy him out plus money whip another coach to come and not having money to mess with our recruits.  Plus them losing makes them spend more money to keep players...or allows some players to make the jump to a better team (I see you Stewart, Anderson, Turner....). Anytime you can have them waste resources it's a positive.  Jimbo is their Afghanistan.  

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  6. 21 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

    Coaching breakdown

     

    Thanks for posting this and starting the thread! 

     

    Fundamentally, what I see with Sark's offense is a lot of window dressing, intended to confuse the defense, get them thinking and putting single players into conflict, leading to hesitation and sometimes outright freezing the defender, as we saw on the last Bijan clip.  What's great about the offense is that from an offense perspective, it's pretty much the same reads, same keys, etc.  Easy to teach with limited practice time and Quinn's presence and arm talent opens up more of the field than we had previously.  What'll be interesting to see is how they continue to layer more concepts over time as he gets his reps down with the plays they are showing now....

    The other thing that the motion does is to make the pass rushers very hesitant, which may be contributing to why our pass blocking has been better then run blocking to date.  Will be interesting to see what happens as teams adjust to drop more people into areas that we are regularly throwing to...for example, if you start moving a linebacker to cover the flat regularly to take away the te/back combo, you open the box a little more as well as open the seam for a back or backside slot receiver.  Billingsly will add another element as he's not the people mover that Helms is nor the complete TE like Sanders but he'll likely add a level of pass catching that could result in a lot of pain in 12 personnel.  He's also a good enough receiver that you can have him out there with whitt and worthy and then move into 11 personnel if you catch them with an extra linebacker.  A lot of these concepts can also be done with different personnel groups, which makes it hard for those Dcoordinators that like to match their packages to who the offense has out.  ISU will be interesting to see.  On the surface, 3 man front with layered drop 8 should lead to easy running lanes but ISU has been stout against the run.  What happens to those backers once they start to get hesitant with their fits and also have to defend the middle of the field, which we haven't been able to exploit in the past?  

  7. 6 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

    This thread is paying huge emotional dividends for me. Thank you, @texifornia

    It's never about the program. It's always about the head coach. Unless you're Ohio State, and then I guess they just slot anyone and it all works out. 

    I hope this is an absolute miserable 3 or 4 years or however much rope they give Venables. 

    This doesn't erase the 2004 shutout, or the blowouts Stoops inflicted on us in the early 2000s, but ending a 24 year streak of not being shutout sure feels like a nice bit of revenge to me. The schadenfreude reading through the OU takes is so satiating for me. 

    Good to see you on the board!  I see three years.  Joe C. won't let them flounder too long, unfortunately.  

    One can hope but if the wheels really come off this year with defense being the main reason, an impending move to the sec and Texas righting the ship, there will be tremendous pressure to make a move earlier but hard to see why major school firing someone without at least 3 years.  I do think they've got enough talent that they'll be more competitive and be decent in the future but with bv, I think they've got their own Charlie Strong, a defensive coordinator who requires elite talent and a transcendent QB to field a competitive team.  And remember, Clemson played 3 tough games per year in a watered down ACC during his time, not that different from Louiville

  8. 9 hours ago, troph said:

    Seriously guys, check me on this - most points against OU since 1900?? Largest margin of victory over OU since 1900?? 

     

    5 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    That is the most points we've ever scored against them and (therefore obviously) our biggest win ever over them.

    Yup.  Biggest shut out loss for them previously was 47-0.  And let's be honest, this could easily have been 70-0 if Sark decided to make a statement.  It was eerie just watching it, watching their body language, watching the stands empty out.  It was like their souls had vacated and all that was left were husks going through the motions.  They didn't even try to throw late just to keep the clock running and not make the score worse.... Never seen a team and coach just give up like that.  Truly joyous to watch.

    Really hoping we keep the pressure up the rest of the year.  OU was hapless but I'm not sure many teams are going to be able to handle us as the young starters grow up and get more confident, assuming we stay healthy.  The defense gets a lot better when the offense is putting pressure on the other team to score every drive or get further behind.  

    OU will play better once Gabriel gets back, though hoping their pain continues another week when they play KU.  

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  9. 2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    ...in the 3rd quarter.

    I saw OU do something I've never see them do in 33 years of watching this game.

     

    They quit.

    And OU sucks....I know it's not what you were aiming for but it's true.

    I honestly think it's why Sark just ran every play towards the end.  Once they assumed the submissive pose it felt wrong.  That's why Sark is a better man then me.  I would have thrown some play action in there and scored another 21 points.

     

    Jim Kelly Kick GIF by Warner Archive

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  10. 5 hours ago, UDontKnow said:

    Eh at most (realistically), I see 2 more losses for them. Ole Miss and maybe S. Carolina next week. I would love to be wrong and have them lose out. But I see 8-4/7-5 as the most likely final record for them.

     

    5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Damn, the schedule sets up really well for 8-4. Big surprise. 

     

    5 hours ago, texashorne said:

    They have the capability to win out. I'll say that much. Something tells me they will fuck it up though

     

    Save yourself the suspense... You know how this story ends.  The creepy choreographed yell practice is a ritual which jinxes good teams to play down to the Aggies and allows them to reach the magical 8-4 record. Either that or Aggy spent their nil dollars bribing BOB to call one of the worst games I've ever seen.  Bryce Young masks so many deficiencies in play calling.  Good thing Aggy will know everything is fine and you just need King and the young players to mature in Jimbo's offense.  

     

     

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  11. 30 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    that motherfucker Auburn!

    i keed

    God damn it Laramie...That kids has been nails until this year.  He probably just felt pity...he'll learn to let the hate flow. 

    2 minutes ago, Covri said:

     

    Honestly, and you can't turn rewrite the past but the what if of a healthy Quin.  Hopefully this is the first of many and OU suffers through the years of misery we went through.  A healthy Quin opens up the entire playbook.  Imagine how good he'll be once he really gets a few more games under his belt, though hard to imagine we'll play a worse defense then OU sucks. 

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