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pigmeat markham

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  1. Really good QB. 20 plus offers. Georgia recruited him very hard. Tech wanted him over Maverick McIvor. Leach actually doing some recruiting in Texas. Hasn't had much luck though.
  2. I'm old, so I've seen a lot of football players. Likewise, honesty compels me to admit I'm a Tech fan. But watching him game in and game out, I can say without reservation I believe Gabe may be the best football player I ever saw. He was truly amazing. To this day, people still talk about a play, similar to the one above, where he ran down maybe some 60 yards down the field a RB for the then number one ranked U of Washington.
  3. Read the other two myself as well, one of them my own gin-you-ine signed copy compliments of my son. I raised him right. Yeah his visits to the Hub are always well received. In my eyes and apparently in the eyes of most, what's not to like? And that dating and marriage stuff is indeed tip top.
  4. Have real doubts about TT being the favorite. This may have been covered in the above mentioned article as I can't access it, but TT is willing to let him play some offense which appeals to him. Friends with another kid TT is recruiting pretty hard. Fwiw, says he will visit TT and LSU this summer and that his previous final four are no longer valid.
  5. Kind of interesting he feels so comfortable returning to Lubbock. We all know what ButtFumble will be doing Monday.
  6. Caitlyn Jenner could have been a masked rider? Who knew? I guess though, she does qualify as being a member of that select group who is only mostly female. It's kind of interesting that so many of us here have the banned thing in common. Perhaps a commentary on the culture here. I've been banned from pretty much every TT site multiple times as well.
  7. Amanda did alright by me. She let some friends and me have our own forum that was not listed publicly. More than decent of her and it was appreciated.
  8. RP is so bad it's literally intolerable for me. Haven't even visited in I couldn't even tell you when and don't plan on doing so. Not an option. Been a member over on Red Raider Sports for years and they do on occasion present some worthwhile news, though with twitter, their value has diminished greatly. Most of the posters are really bad, not to mention unknowledgeable. The guy that runs the board is a complete asshole IMO and the owner/publisher is on TT's payroll so you can imagine how much candor and actual truth you get. I hear stories of a "secret", invitation only message board that's not bad.
  9. Well, after 5 years and a 16-29 conference record as well as a 30-33 overall, I don't think requiring a winning record to stay around is unreasonable. I mean the guy has won 6 conference games in the last two years combined. Thank goodness for Kansas.
  10. Hard to say exactly. Six wins enabled him to keep his job last year. Hocutt seems to have great manlove for him. Surely, if he doesn't have a winning record though.....
  11. Of course you make a very good point, but I'd also suppose you'd agree there is certainly a need for a head coach to have some degree of interpersonal skills in dealing with the media, alums, donors, players, people/staff management, etc.
  12. Fwiw, and I don't know this from personal experience, but have heard directly from someone who would know, that Gibbs, while being a really good coach, sorely lacks some of the intangibles along the lines of finesse and tact much needed by a head coach. Maybe that's what TT needs though, who knows?
  13. Perhaps the most dominant DT I ever saw play. Blue chip and Parade All-American, he started all 4 years at Tech and was the first DT taken in the 83 NFL draft. Taken by the Steelers in the first round as the heir to Mean Joe Greene. To this day people still talk about him running down that RB for the then number one ranked U of Washington some 60 yards (or whatever it was) down the field. A rookie season October car wreck left him paralyzed and ended his NFL career after 6 games. Great is an over used word for athletes, but he truly was. RIP https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/sa-football-legend-gabriel-rivera-dies/273-574300426
  14. Yep ButtFumble, ML is still "doing the exact same stupid shit at WSU". At least we agree on that--he's had 9 win seasons in 2 of the last 3 years. Also received a PAC 12 Coach of the Year award too. Same ol', same ol'. And he lost a game he shouldn't have. Remember when Nick Saban at Bama lost at home to La-Monroe? Can he not coach either? It's football, it happens. And I'll have you know I'm thinking about turning you in to the message board EEO dept. for not being an equal opportunity ranter. Nobody in modern TT football history has been worse at recruiting, game management, special teams and winning than Kliff. Yet all quiet on the ButtFumble front. Selective, very selective.
  15. Buttfumble, whew, you're out there dude. It doesn't matter to me a bit if you don't like Mike Leach, but seems to me there would be value in getting a grip on reality. His W/L loss record alone pretty much debunks the gist of your overly emotional rants.
  16. Given your unrestrained and unjustified bitterness, I'd have to guess as a kid, Mike Leach must have stolen your candy. Your remarks defy reality.
  17. Pretty much is an asinine opinion. Given your underachievement criteria, as TTU has won more football games in the last three years than UT, TT is currently a better candidate for realignment than UT--which is of course absurd. Regarding realignment attractiveness, let's repeat it together shall we, "big picture", "big picture".
  18. Kliff apparently telling Manziel stories out of school on barstool podcast. Ags don't like it a bit. https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/2961540 That Halloween, Manziel was famously photographed dancing with a woman while wearing a Scooby-Doo costume at a party. According to Kingsbury, who was A&M's offensive coordinator at the time, the photo was taken the day before the Aggies were set to leave for Mississippi State. Manziel missed the team's offensive meeting that morning. Kingsbury said he and the staff were trying to cover for the star quarterback, hoping he can at least make it to the final walkthrough in College Station. We'll let Kingsbury take it from here: "Johnny has some crazy excuse. His roommate pulled the plug on his alarm clock, or something, electricity. But we already know what he's been doing. "So he misses the offensive meeting, trots out to walkthrough -- Coach Sumlin (former coach Kevin Sumlin) doesn't know at this point that he's late -- goes through the walkthrough, probably, I think, still a little intoxicated at that point. "We do our deal, (he) gets on the plane, goes to Starkville, plays the best game I've ever seen. At that point, I'm like, 'This kid is not human.'" Manziel was 30-of-36 passing for 311 yards and rushed for 129 yards and two touchdowns in a 38-13 win over the No. 17 Bulldogs. He eventually won the Heisman that year and let the Aggies to their first top-five finish in the final Associated Press poll since 1956. Between gamedays, one rarely knew what they were going to get from Manziel, as Kingsbury's story indicates. But on Saturdays that season, Manziel nearly always delivered, which is probably why staffers didn't mind covering for him.
  19. Make a blind man talk about seeing again.
  20. I wanted to see the part about him tapping those ol' dirty leg gals.
  21. I am among KK's biggest detractors. Think he should be gone. I will say though, he's not above running off a player even if it hurts some. See the recent dismissal of Quan Shorts, a WR with some talent and a little experience on a team without much WR experience to speak of. True or not I have no idea, bit have heard Sumlin was Manziel's bodyguard.
  22. Yep, all the O-line returns, but I honesty don't think they're that good. Ultimately, seems to me this season will go as the QB goes. Agree Kliff knows how to coach up a QB, but there are major concerns about the individuals involved. Duffy has got some real skills, but many questions remain pertaining to non-football issues. I just don't think Carter is good enough. While Bowman has been a really nice surprise, he is after all a true freshman (did go through spring practice last year though). Overall, i look for the defense to be some better and the offense to be worse. No experienced WR's either.
  23. Well, if your preferred yardstick is points allowed, they finished 6th there as well, 3 points behind the 4th place finisher. My point is hardly that they were some killer, monster of a defense, but rather they were pretty consistent with the norm in Big 12 defenses last season. They were so bad for so long, it seems many believe that's still the case.
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