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Paul Wesley

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  1. Awww... Al is good people. And I say that as someone who saw realignment very differently from him over the last couple years. Let's distinguish between fellow sports fans (and good posters) who happen to root for a different school vs. mouthy bitches like Matt Campbell and Joey McGuire.
  2. I was a few days late seeing this clip... Just "Wow." Hiding under Texas' skirt by claiming that a "Big 12 team" is in the SEC title game... I mean, WTF? First of all, it was apparent that by 2023, Sark had assembled an SEC roster (as evidenced by a double-digit win over the SEC champion on their home field), but we were still shackled by TV contracts to the Big 12. The idea that Texas is "Big 12" team in December of 2024 is just such loserspeak - he should be embarrassed for trying to "claim" us somehow. Reminder: In reality, it was a lot more one-sided than 57-7 would lead you to believe.
  3. Yes, Bama is getting way too much love. That said (and sorry if already discussed) it is arguably that very same love for Bama that propelled Texas all the way to #3 last year.
  4. Yeah, Liberty and Texas Bowls are SEC vs Big 12. Sankey and the SEC have been very strategic about choosing bowl matchups for their teams. I'll bet Sankey sends the Aggies *anywhere* other than those two spots... just to avoid the potential of getting a deflated Aggie program matched against Baylor, Tech, or TCU. All three of those programs would be super excited to hang an L on them.
  5. It's probably too much to ask... but there's a scenario where they get sent to the AutoZone Liberty Bowl to get rolled by a Big-12 also-ran.
  6. I hear you, but the advantage is 1) offensive rhythm, and 2) don't get drive-killing false starts by making your linemen hold their stance for 25 seconds per snap.
  7. Youngest player to ever fumble in the Iron Bowl?
  8. Michigan's offense is fun to watch because of the creativity and the explosive plays. It just puts so much pressure on a defense to have to defend between the tackles AND the tight end 6 yards downfield.
  9. So I watched a couple of the aggie postgame shows - because I enjoy that kind of thing - and it's crazy that after a collective hour of analysis, not a single aggie pundit/writer/former player said, "We're just not very good." They all wrestle with losing to Auburn like it's the Goldbach Conjecture... "I just don't understand!" "This team is a TOTAL MYSTERY!" No one: "We're not very good. We only beat Bowling Green by 6. Our big home wins were against wildly overrated teams. Our big road wins were against a decimated Florida and 0-7 Mississippi State." Instead, they're just SHOCKED to lose to Auburn, as if Vegas (and everyone who watches college football outside of College Station) didn't have this game correctly identified as a pick-em proposition. I will grant you that UT *also* had a relatively easy conference schedule. But the difference is that our defense shows up every single week, and even when our offense plays poorly, we beat these mediocre teams by multiple scores.
  10. Hoping any or all of Ole Miss, Aggies, and Bama drops their road game today. ... and yeah, that targeting flag came waaaaay late, didn't it?
  11. Strymon website says it needs 300mA minimum. Maybe it's just not getting enough current? Do you have a Strymon power supply from one of the other two? I'd try substituting one of those first.
  12. Grown-ass man play by Simmons
  13. There was no reason to snap that would have hit 2:00
  14. I don't think there's a credible argument for "that's not holding." It is. There *might* be an argument for consistency, i.e. don't suddenly flag something that hasn't been flagged all day... but I kind of doubt the DBs on both teams were getting to yank the receivers hard enough to pull them off-balance on every snap.
  15. Yeah, if they're really interested in player safety, then taking a free full-speed shot at a punt returner who is standing still and looking up into the sky - that ought to get you ejected along with 15 yards and a 1-game (or more) suspension. Sometimes I feel kind of bad for a defender who gets ejected for "targeting" when they're running up to make a play on a QB who's either already getting tackled or is about to slide. A lot of it comes down to guessing if the runner is going to slide head-first, feet-first, or not at all... and if the defender guesses wrong, they get ejected plus they have to sit out another half. I've seen several "targeting" collisions that seem like bad luck as much as malicious intent. Contrast that to sprinting 45 yards toward a defenseless guy standing straight up.
  16. Really? I had to subscribe because I was taking an economics class that required access. The day my subscription started, the banner headline on their front page was "An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm," where they loudly proclaimed that a child victim who got pregnant via rape and had to leave the state for an elective abortion was fictitious and did not exist (Biden had publicly referenced the case)... except they soon found out that she **did** exist and they had to print a retraction (I'll let you guess if the retraction got the same banner-headline treatment). That is decidedly not the behavior of a "top notch" news room. I didn't read the WSJ prior to that, and I thought they just catered to stodgy investment banker types. I was kind of shocked at how "Fox News" they were. The victim-denying headline story was far from the only story that seemed to be purely political propaganda and had not a fucking thing to do with business/investment/finance/Wall Street. I mentioned my surprise to a finance friend of mine who does investment analysis, and he laughed and said, "You know they're owned by Murdoch, right?" No, I didn't know that. Anyway, the class ended and I unsubscribed the first possible day I could.
  17. The kickoff hold had a huge effect on the game. It was the kickoff after Georgia went up 7-0, and we were in excellent field position to answer a score with a score. Instead, we're snapping it 60+ yards back from our own 8 (? - this is from memory), and end up punting from our own end zone and Georgia got an easy FG to go up 10-0. I was at the game, so I don't know what replays showed on TV, but the replay on the Jumbotron left 100,000 Texas fans looking at each other and asking, "Holding on WHO?"
  18. Weird that ESPN writes a feature story on an egregiously bad call getting corrected, but not one about a head coach who shoves the other team's player for no reason.
  19. I would like to congratulate Husker fans on the way you've dominated your new conference. You were right. You just needed to get away from mean old Texas.
  20. That guy is an incoherent beating. I am dumber from having heard him talk.
  21. Yeah, Sooner fans should panic. The talent disparity on the field yesterday was the widest I've seen in Texas' favor. The only comparable talent disparity in my lifetime was probably 1987, when OU was ranked #1, and the line for the game was something obscene... like 30 points... and they fucking covered. Oof. The rosters of the two schools have made seismic shifts in the last 30 months or so, and they've been in opposite directions. OU has a lot less talent than they did under Riley. We have a lot more talent overall compared to the Herman years. Herman had a number of NFL players, but also a LOT of JAGs, and we had BIG drop-offs from starter to backup at almost every spot. Our roster right now is pretty ridiculous. I mean, you could take our backup QB and a couple of "backup" WR, and all three would start at most every program in the country. The OU offense is Shawn Watson-era bad. I mean, they don't have a line, they don't have a QB, they don't have skill guys, they don't have a system, they don't know what they fuck they're doing, and they don't have a plan to fix it. As others have said: Venables was a really great DC in an era you could steal signals. Right now he's totally getting outclassed in every phase of this rivalry game, and it's pretty obvious that he has no fucking idea how to fix it. Mississippi Fucking State had better players, a better gameplan, and better execution vs Texas than OU did in the game they've been scheming up for 365 days. And yeah, I'm aware that their entire WR room was out yesterday. But several of those guys who were out were pretty JAG-ish. And I'm not sure having them play would have made it worlds better. What were they going to do with those WR - call MORE drop-back passes and have Hawkins make MORE downfield throws while running for his life? That translates into more sacks, more incompletions, more possessions thanks to those clock-stopping incompletions. Very high chances for strip sacks and picks. They'd probably have been better off yesterday running zone reads or down-the-line option football. Those couldn't have failed any harder than that little delayed misdirection handoff and a bunch of QB draws. Yes, I'm gloating.
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