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  1. the imma-stickied post at the top of this thread is 3 years old (end of june 22) that post lists a draft of the 32 teams that will make the cut the acc buyouts are now doable and their grant of rights are dead the end game is upon us here's the draft list of 32 from 3 years ago: Ohio State Texas Notre Dame Michigan Penn State Florida Georgia Alabama Wisconsin Oklahoma USC LSU Oregon Tennessee TAMU Florida State Auburn Michigan State Miami North Carolina South Carolina Missouri Nebraska Washington Iowa UCLA Clemson Virginia Tech Arkansas Ole Miss Kentucky Arizona State
  2. how was that not a card? and another non-card spanish foul
  3. does texags ever acknowledge or quote graham? does billy have an embargo on urls for graham's stuff, or his name, like he used to do to prevent mention of the shag? way to go graham now elk is going to get grilled on this ad infinitum +++ https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/texas-aggies-texas-longhorns-rivalry-18661302.php 240211 Texas A&M football: New coach Mike Elko sparks UT rivalry Brent Zwerneman 6–8 minutes Sam Craft/Associated Press COLLEGE STATION — Mike Elko pushed the right buttons in keeping five-star playmaker Terry Bussey of Timpson on board in Texas A&M’s class of 2024. Then Elko, the Aggies’ new coach who’s also new to the state’s grandest rivalry, pushed one more button for fun Wednesday. “We’re the flagship program in this state, right?” Elko said during the traditional signing day. In unexpectedly opining on an oh-so serious subject in Texas, the Ivy League graduate and history major used the most common word in English to fuel the hype of this state’s collegiate version of the Super Bowl. To wit: Though minuscule via vocabulary, the difference between “the” and “a” in Elko’s sentiment is wider than Big Bend National Park. Take what then-A&M athletic director Ross Bjork said when he first adopted the stance that A&M did not want Texas and Oklahoma to join the Southeastern Conference from the Big 12. “A&M is a flagship university, and with the size and scale of our place, we should have our own stand-alone identity in our own conference,” Bjork said in July 2021. Bjork and much of the rest of the Aggie brass got in line with the rest of the SEC, however, when league commissioner Greg Sankey informed A&M it didn’t really have any say in the matter. UT and OU are now set to enter the SEC in July, and A&M and UT are finally scheduled to play football again for the first time since 2011. The Aggies’ consolation prize in the whole deal is hosting the first game of the reunion on Nov. 30, despite also hosting the last one 13 years ago. Elko, who was A&M’s defensive coordinator from 2018-2021 under now deposed coach Jimbo Fisher, has never been a part of A&M vs. UT. Neither has fourth-year UT coach Steve Sarkisian, although his personal rivalry with A&M runs much deeper than Elko’s with Texas. Sarkisian set the single-game passing yards record by an A&M opponent as BYU’s quarterback in 1996. “I didn’t know that was still true,” Sarkisian said with a grin during an appearance last year at the Touchdown Club of Houston. “But thanks for the reminder.” The “flagship” volley of Elko, hired from Duke to try to lead the Aggies to their first SEC title as the Longhorns and Sooners give the powerful league 16 programs, quickly received backing from his new employer. “Texas A&M is the state’s oldest public institution of higher learning, the only land-, sea- and space-grant university in Texas, and educates more people every day than any other school in the Lone Star State,” A&M boasted via social media not long after Elko’s signing day press conference. The responses to the A&M post were colorful from both sides, with one UT fan chiming in, “Awww that’s cool, now let’s talk championships.” That is indeed the part where A&M has some serious catching up to do in coming years, particularly in football. The Aggies last won a national title in 1939 and haven’t played for a national championship since. Their highest finish since ’39 came under Fisher — No. 4 four years ago. Fisher’s A&M program peaked at that point and was a combined 12-13 over the last two seasons, leading to his firing in November. UT won national titles in 1963, 1969 and 2005 and played for a championship in 2009. The Longhorns also made the four-team College Football Playoff this past season for the first time, something the Aggies have not accomplished (although they were a debatable fifth following the 2020 regular season). The CFP is expanding from four to 12 teams this coming season. In a prime example of an offseason topic as fans already are missing college football, there was some social media debate on Elko’s exact wording on the flagship front, but there is no mistaking his “the” instead of “a.” Elko was speaking at the time about the importance of building relationships with Texas high school coaches. “If we’re one of those (flagship) programs, there’s a certain relationship we need to have with the high schools in this state, right?” Elko explained. “And a part of that — and I’ve said this to all these (coaches) — a part of it is recruiting, but a part of it is just being a resource for high school coaches in the state of Texas, right? It’s part of our obligation to pay it forward.” Webster’s Dictionary defines “flagship” as “the best, largest or most important one of a group of things.” Writers across the state for decades have described UT and A&M as Texas’s “two flagship universities” in sidestepping any unwanted missives from either side via snail mail, e-mail and, for the past 15 years or so, social media. Elko chose a more singular route by ignoring the other “flagship” altogether, along the way helping add a little offseason spice to the overdue return of a rousing rivalry — one that includes the dissecting of two words totaling four letters.
  4. for the past 75 years, 0u has been buying national championships by handshaking or bagging the signatures of texas kids, especially from north texas the numbers may have been an order of magnitude less and most of the money was spent on the original commit but what comes around goes around plus, switzer and stoops karma is a bitch
  5. it's worse than bad faith in consideration of their annual auf payment, it's treasonous
  6. the whole thing was fucked up from the beginning new york has zero connection to the space program other than the parades in the 60's enterprise should have gone to la for a dozen reasons endeavour should have gone to houston and the astrodome would have been perfect this timeline
  7. oh don't get me wrong - i'm not advocating for italy at all they fucking stole 2 points from us in '06 - we were the only side to take anything from them as hosts in that tournament - but i also get the feeling that england are uefa's darling brand at this time..... pun intended
  8. #teamcarli love the kit
  9. yes absolutely totally correct and that doesn't change the fact that, like the announcers said, after calling NOTHING for One Hundred and Twenty Nine Minutes that call is never made in a men's match
  10. that pk is never called in the men's game announcers are correct - ref decided the game
  11. human nature requires the existence of an "out group", an "other" to vilify this latest rash of aggy/dawg genital ulcers is a feature not a bug (TM brisket) aggy pioneered anus rash in football in the 19th century aggy and smu destroyed the swc, but we took the high road, and now 30 years later are somehow blamed by aggy for the demise - and we say nothing everyone not named corn voted against osborne's partials, but we were vilified while the rest of the league voted with us yet sat silently while we took the fall and still took the high road i could keep going with the rest of the history from the past 25 years but it's not germane to the point (which has nothing to do with the germans)..... we are BIG EVIL TEXAS no matter what we do, don't do, say, or don't say we are the 'out group' - we are the 'other' we've spent the better part of my lifetime taking care of others' interests with equal devotion to our own it's time to live up to the hate and act in our best interests - embrace the hate use the fully-armed and operational battle station destroy the schedule win in athens and on 28 november the target is 78 points for, 0 against fuck 'em all
  12. italians went full sam on the hour and survived for 36 minutes, nicked cross created a rebound equalizer on 95+
  13. 7 mins = injuries
  14. the cross was deflected - that's why the save was rebounded
  15. don't truncate sidebar: the ivies were never in the 'business' of football despite their dominance of the first 70ish years of the sport; the league formed in '54 but didn't start play until '56, and for the next 25 years made regular statements of the amateur-ness; then they were kicked out of division 1 in 1981, they didn't choose to go 1-AA on their own
  16. classic poacher's goal against the run of play keeper should have done better
  17. this is exactly what i was going to post
  18. looch is a lazy fucker his recruiting page still has a pull-down menu for the looch 44, but the last class he published was for 2022 https://texags.com/football-recruiting/liucci-44/2025 https://texags.com/football-recruiting/liucci-44/2024 https://texags.com/football-recruiting/liucci-44/2023 https://texags.com/football-recruiting/liucci-44/2022
  19. for posterity schumacher crossing north bank before 250704:
  20. so this is the location of the previously discussed flood gauge panning 90 left from sw to se
  21. thanks for your help west kerr https://www.co.kerr.tx.us/historical/pdf/Schumacher Crossing - marker fact sheet.pdf 0°04.162N / 99°19.292W your city & county need some gis training
  22. and for posterity so we can do a before/after compare when the imagery updates:
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