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Paul Wesley

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  1. 5 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


    This is the year for hardware.

    Yeah, we are losing the best DT tandem in football and a salty, proven linebacker behind them.  Nobody can consistently run between the tackles against 2023 Texas.  

    Also losing our best player (by a lot) in the secondary, a ton of playmakers on offense, our best TE of the past 15+ years, probably our starting QB (and possibly the backup to the portal), etc., etc.  

    We have a little window here to get a conference championship, and we're still alive for a top-shelf bowl and maybe even more.  

     

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  2. Just now, orangebird said:

    Not a surprise, Dusty Dvoracek is a fucking Sooner.  He'd root for Nazi Germany if they were playing against the Longhorns.

    I had the TV on mute for much of the game, much more pleasant viewing experience...aside from Texas shitting the bed in the second half.

    I'm just struck by the almost comical difference between:

    Calm, composed, analytical 1st-half Dvoracek who heaps praise on Texas

    vs

    Final-drive, game-on-the-line Dvoracek, "LATE HIT!  LATE HIT!  YOU HAVE TO CALL THAT!  THAT WAS BRUTAL!"  Just constant lobbying for any kind of a flag against Texas on every snap down the stretch.  

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    That was basically nothing. They just called it because the TCU fucks were pointing. No way these refs saw any movement there. 

    Seems like we had one of those vs KSU last week... defense all just points at someone, and then a few seconds later, refs are like, "oh, okay."

  4. 2 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

    Nobody said if you get the vaccine you won't get covid, you lying sack of shit. 

    It's fucking crazy how truth and reality on the right are manufactured via the relentless repetition of lies.   

    The idea that three years of data are somehow validating far-right anti-vaccine shit is INSANE, yet they repeat some version of "the vaccine is unsafe" constantly.   

    Same thing for Mueller and his carefully documented report detailing months of high-level secretive coordination between Trump's inner circle and the Russian agents who were decidedly anti-American and delighted to undermine our democracy... 

    And now you probably couldn't get through an evening of Fox prime time without hearing some version of "and we all know how vaccines turned out to be a scam" and/or "and we all know how Mueller turned out to be wrong about everything."

    And the audience nods along - so happy and self-satisfied to be so much smarter than the lame stream media sheep.

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  5. 4 hours ago, C-Man said:

    That is amazing that he was diagnosed only a week ago. Wonder what symptoms he was experiencing because in my cousin's husband's situation, he went from playing adult baseball when he was diagnosed for just not feeling well to basically being glued to a wheel chair and not being able to barely speak 4-5 years later. He was diagnosed in his mid-50's and died at 59 or 60.

    Gehrig's timeline is really striking.  He played 2130 games in a row.  He had a fairly abrupt decline in power and coordination at the beginning of the 1939 season.  He took himself out of the Yankees' starting lineup in May, and got the diagnosis a month or two later.  He was 36. 

    He came back to deliver the "luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech that same summer.

    He went from perennial all-star and pro athlete with record-setting longevity to death in like 26 months.

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  6. I remember one of the posters (?Scipio) posting on one of the many former versions of this website -- on the subject of OOC games.  His opinion was that you either A) get a home game for your fans/donors and eat a cupcake, or B) schedule a perennial OOC power (Michigan, Ohio State, USC, Bama, Notre Dame) in a home-and-home.  

    "Don't mess with Mister In-Between" was his observation.  i.e. don't play teams that aren't a national brand (little or no credit for a win) but they're still good enough to get you in their home stadium and beat you.  

    Seems to me that pretty much all of the left-behind schools are Mr In-Between. 

    I could get behind playing a home-home vs a school that's a decent travel destination (Tulane in New Orleans, Colorado in Denver or Boulder).  We're not going back to Waco, Ames, or Lubbock in my lifetime though.  

    That scheduling strategy (and this post) doesn't even take into account the hard feelings and bad blood from our departure.

    I have a lot of beefs with shit that our athletic department does poorly (hire coaches, manage your game-day in-stadium experience).  But I think they've done a solid job of scheduling.  Lots of big-name matchups, a few cupcakes at home.  We've also stayed away from scheduling a bunch of the you've-got-to-be-fucking-kidding-me matchups of our future SEC brethren.  Our Aggie brethren have scheduled Lamar, Abeline Christian, Incarnate Word, etc.  Ugh.   

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  7. For the past few weeks, I keep seeing "treat it like a scrimmage" as one of the main arguments for going for all these 4th downs.  But that argument works both ways.  

    I can't remember the specific time left on the clock vs BYU, but we had a short FG that puts us up 3 scores with 7 or 8 minutes left in the game.  For me, the "scrimmage" argument would be kick the short FG, play defense, then let Arch (who is one rolled ankle away from carrying ALL our playoff hopes on his shoulders as the only healthy QB) run the full offense at full speed.  

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