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Beau Vine

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  1. Yoakum 40

    Cuero 21

     

    I went to Wimberley-Giddings.  Wimberley led 14-10 with 6 minutes left and then there were 4 more lead changes.  Won 29-22.

     

    Allen 38

    Dickinson 24

     

    Katy 56

    Atascosita 14😲

     

    Argyle 49

    La Vega 35

    (it was 42-21 at half)

     

    Refugio 35

    Goliad 6

     

    Newton 52 

    Silbee 21 😲

     

    Hutto 42 

    Liberty Hill 14

  2. 45 minutes ago, Treefidy said:

    Lake Travis beating Mansfield timberview pretty good tonight.  

    Timberview has some real players. Hullaby is their best player, not a very good QB though.  Kimber pretty good.  I think Hullabys younger brother is going to be a stud safety, playing CB now but he's big and is good at football. 

    Did LT up and move to DFW and I didn't notice?

  3. 1 hour ago, MuellerHorn said:

    JJ had a passing TD on two attempts, but yes, aggy got embarassed, nonetheless.

    During the 2007 football season Johnson backed up junior Stephen McGee at quarterback. He took 20 snaps the entire season, and 13 of those 20 were running plays. He compiled 161 all-purpose yards for five touchdowns.[2]

     

    This never gets old:

    Spoiler

    He is the Sidd Finch of college football, a player so talented and productive it's almost impossible to believe he's real.

    But Texas A&M junior quarterback Jerrod Johnson is very real. And despite carrying a team with less talent and more freshmen than all the hyped-up Heisman-watch names, Johnson is making a stronger early-season case for the stiff-arm statue than anyone.

    His story -- how he's become one of the most mature and grounded athletes in big-time sports -- is equally inspiring.

    You wouldn't know it, however, unless you took the time to drive to College Station to catch a glimpse of this kid who has run like Terrelle Pryor, led like Colt McCoy, thrown like Sam Bradford. Teammates and coaches respect his tough-mindedness and character as much as so many fans admire Tim Tebow's.
    But television cameras have not followed Johnson's every move. In fact, they have not followed any of them. Not one of Johnson's monstrous games this season has been televised. The director in the truck has not demanded that cameras capture every facial expression and emotion of Johnson's mother, girlfriend or neighbors. Brent Musberger has not cooed over Johnson's greatness or made it seem that when he traipses effortlessly over football turf he could just as well be walking on water. Thom Brennaman has not gushed over spending five or 20 minutes with Johnson, saying your life would be better for it.

    As one Austin columnist put it after watching Johnson run for three touchdowns and pass for three more in a 56-19 pasting of Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday, "Stick [Johnson] in Tim Tebow's uniform, and after the numbers he put up ... the Heisman race would be over."

    Johnson's coming out party figures to come this Saturday, when the 3-0 Aggies take on Arkansas at Cowboys Stadium. And when America finally does say hello to Jerrod Johnson, a.k.a. Sidd, chances are it will want to pay attention to what college football truly is all about.

    Johnson doesn't drink, and never has tried anything stronger than Advil when it comes to drugs. His name is often misspelled or mispronounced. It's Jerrod, as in ja-ROD. He is compared, foolishly, to Vince Young or JaMarcus Russell, mostly because he is a big quarterback and black. He is more polished as a passer, a smooth runner and often the smartest player on the field.

    He made an early impression, literally, on the Aggies program over the summer as he entered his first full season as the starting quarterback. He woke up at 5 a.m. everyday for boot camp-type workouts. He telephoned incoming freshman and encouraged them to meet for 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 practices with veterans. He held meetings with every offensive player, meticulously using a laser pointer to go over individual assignments on every play in the Aggies playbook.

    Johnson has put a once-great football program that finished 4-8 a year ago on his shoulders. He leads the nation's No. 1 offense in coach Mike Sherman's second year in Aggieland, and through leadership and on-field production, he is carrying the Aggies back to respectability.

    Comparisons? He averages twice as many passing yards (320.3 to 160.7) as Tebow.
    He has three times more rushing yards (196 to 61), more rushing touchdowns (4 to 1) and a higher passer rating (167.0 to 150.9) than McCoy.
    He's thrown more touchdown passes (9), with a higher completion percentage (67.5), than Ryan Mallett, Jacory Harris and Terrelle Pryor.
    He averages more total offense per game (385.6) than Taylor Potts, Jimmy Clausen and Todd Reesing. His passer rating is higher than Case Keenum's, Zac Robinson's and Max Hall's. He accounts for more points per game (26.0) than any other player in America. He ranks in the top 11 nationally in every passing category, as well as in total offense (third behind quarterbacks Greg Alexander of Hawaii and Case Keenum of Houston).

    He stands 6-foot-6 and weighs 245 pounds. He is a powerful runner with a deceptive and long stride. He can throw the ball 70 yards, with ease. At the Peyton Manning camp over the summer, he beat McCoy, Bradford, Greg McElroy and a couple dozen other Division I quarterbacks in a passing skills competition. At the camp, the Manning family patriarch, Archie, told Johnson, "You have it all."

    And in just three games in 2009, Johnson has thrown for 1,157 yards, rushed for those four touchdowns, passed for nine and thrown zero interceptions. Zero. He has started just 13 games in his collegiate career, but is on pace to obliterate long-standing Aggies records.

    Already, he has posted four of the school's top nine single-game total offense performances. He has four of the top six all-time single-game passing marks (a career-high 419 against Kansas State last year). He already has established the single-season record for touchdowns (24) and is on pace to become the all-time completions percentage leader.
    His is Sidd-like in every way.

    Growing up in the Houston suburb of -- appropriately -- Humble, Texas, he was considered a pro prospect in baseball and basketball. As a sophomore in high school, Johnson clocked 90-mph on the radar gun with his fastball. As a junior in high school, Johnson earned a basketball scholarship to A&M. Current Marquette coach Buzz Williams, a former assistant at A&M, said of Johnson shortly after his commitment in 2005, "he could start for us right now."

    But there's more to Jerrod than numbers and skills.
    He is the son of a high school teacher and high school administrator. Pam and Larry Johnson's faith and compassion ran so deep they took in nearly two dozen foster children while Jerrod and his brother, Marquis, were growing up. When Jerrod was 3, the state took custody of the child of one of Pam's friend. Pam's heart broke at the thought of the child, a boy named Kendall, not having a home. Larry and Pam went through foster parent training and raised the child until the state found a permanent home.
    From then on, the Johnsons gave foster children everything they could -- holiday parties, gifts, vacations, a church home, a family's love. They accepted kids of every age, so long as they were boys.

    Some of the children were infants. Some were young teens. Some were children of crack and heroine addicts. Some suffered from severe developmental and health issues. Some simply were abandoned. Some were black, some were white, some were Hispanic. It never mattered.

    "We didn't care if they were special kids, overweight, sick, and we didn't see color," Pam said. "We didn't talk about any of that in our family. We're all related. It doesn't matter what color."

    The children did everything with Jerrod and Marquis, a former Prairie View A&M end now coaching strength and conditioning at Eastern Michigan. The boys treated the kids like family, playing with them, kidding them, shooting hoops, teaching them dance moves or songs, helping with homework.

    "Some people told me that by taking on all these kids, some with [behavioral] problems, that it would rub off on my kids and they would be problems," Pam said. "The opposite happened. It taught our boys to value family."

    Some foster children stayed with the Johnsons for years. One such child, Joey, suffered from DiGeorge Syndrome, a degenerative neuromuscular organ and growth condition. Joey loved to dance and became very close with Jerrod, who has a deep love for music and dancing. Not long after Jerrod left for College Station as a freshman, Joey suffered heart failure as Pam was leaving for work and died in her arms.
    Another boy, Joe, was part of the family for nine years, longer than any other, and was like a brother to Jerrod and Marquis. Joe was diagnosed with developmental issues, but Pam didn't buy it. She gradually reduced the amount of medication Joe took, while Marquis and Jerrod taught him how to play basketball. Joe made the varsity basketball team at Smiley High in Houston, where Pam taught, graduated high school and lives in a group home in the Houston area.

    With deeds as much as words, Larry and Pam taught their sons to accept everything and everyone. And to take nothing for granted.

    Larry took on extra jobs to help pay for all the expenses of raising his boys and foster kids. A former Texas A&M safety and wide receiver, Johnson became one of the Humble area's most beloved coaches and administrators.

    When Jerrod played elite summer-league basketball from 2002 to 2005, helping a Houston hoops team reach the AAU Elite Eight three consecutive years and the Final Four once, Larry Johnson was a volunteer assistant coach. The travel team featured such future Division I players as Johnson, Arizona point guard Nic Wise, Nevada-Las Vegas forward Darris Santee, TCU guard Jason Ebie, Texas Tech forward Mike Singletary, Bucknell wing Stephen Tyree and Rice footballer Pierre Beasley. Yet while all that front-line talent scrimmaged during practices, Larry Johnson often took bench players to the other end of the gym to work on rebounding, shooting, footwork. Everyone mattered.

    The lessons stuck with Jerrod. When he woke before dawn to work out and organize meetings and scrimmages in the summer, he made sure every player on the Aggies depth chart and walk-ons got calls. At his 21st birthday in July, Johnson and his friends organized a party at a College Station nightclub. College kids acted like college kids all night. And Jerrod sang, danced and partied, but he drank only sports drinks and juice. He has, however, promised Aggies teammates that if they make it to the Big 12 title game, he will, "take a sip" of some wine or champagne.

    The college football world is about to become impressed with what Jerrod Johnson has become. The one person he most wishes could be at Cowboys Stadium to watch the next step in this marvelous season, however, will not be there.

    In December 2007 while the Aggies were preparing for the Alamo Bowl and just months before starting his first game at quarterback, Jerrod received a call from his brother. He said he needed to come home because Larry was in the hospital. It was only after Jerrod arrived that he realized his father had suffered a massive stroke.

    Even until his final few breaths, Larry Johnson was trying to help kids do things the right way. A former Humble High student called "Mr. Johnson" asking for advice on transferring to another college on that Saturday afternoon. Jerrod clicked in to talk with his father. Then, Pam's mother clicked in.
    As Larry Johnson handed the phone to Pam, he mumbled something. He then collapsed to the floor. Two days later, Larry died with his sons and wife by his side.

    At Larry's funeral, Jerrod spoke in detail of the lessons his father taught him. Marquis did an impeccable, humorous impersonation of how his boisterous, affable father would implore kids to always do the right thing. On the front row of the church sitting next to Pam was Joe, the Foster child who spent nine years with the family.

    After the service, hundreds of former players and students greeted the family and shared stories of how "Mr. Johnson" affected their lives. A year later, the basketball court at Humble High was renamed Larry Johnson Court.

    On a recent Saturday evening in College Station, Pam Johnson walked into Kyle Field with her mother and two young children -- a 3-year-old Hispanic boy named Anthony and a 2-year-old black child named Trey. Both of their mothers are drug addicts. The babies were in awe of the game-day surroundings and all the people. They never had seen anything like it.

    Larry Johnson never got to see his son start a college football game. But whenever Pam does, and every time someone else does, what they see is exactly what Larry Johnson wanted: a kid who treats everyone around him the same, no matter where they're from, what they look like or what's happened in the past.

    It's how he became one of the best college football stories you never knew.

     

     

  4. ·

    Edited by Beau Vine

    1 hour ago, TexasMan said:

    You can just skip around everywhere for the unbridled optimism. 

    Gabe Bock: "Leon O'Neal will get 2 picks and hold Etienne to under 100 yards rushing" 

    Here's Looch's rambling delusions about Texas though from 1:00:45 - 1:10:00:

    "It doesn't matter what Texas does in their game v LSU... BUT, if aggy wins and Texas loses, it's a wrap for the state... unless Texas goes undefeated after that and goes to the CFP"(???) 

    And of course, he has aggy winning 31-23.

     

    At 1:33:00, the McKinney brothers come in to have their mouth breathing takes as well. 

     

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TexAgsRadio/~5/W9Lr7sT89wA/0121407-xogw.mp3

     

    "Really, it's a bigger game for Clemson." "They're the ones who should be nervous going into the game tomorrow."

    despicable me lol GIF

  5. 58 minutes ago, Foggy Notion said:

    Dat baw sounds like an assheaux. 

    Quote

    in about a 15 minute period, he
    cussed and yelled more than most men do in their entire lives. He came
    in to the locker room to his new team and stood there staring at his
    team. He started to talk in his strong Cajun accent and immediately began
    yelling at his new team that this 4-7 **** isn't going to cut it. He
    talked about how the last game he coached was the national championship
    and screamed that it was a god damn embarassment to win anything less
    than 10 games. He went on yelling about how he recruited Leinart and Bush
    and that that he didn't come to Ole Miss to have a losing
    season or even to go to this bull**** Cotton Bowl and get thirteenth place.
    Thirteenth place is bullsh!t and he came here to win.

    He said that his team was going to play defense and hit hard.
    goddammmit his team was going to play with ******* passion and they were going
    to whip some ***. He then passed a box around the room and said he
    wanted every earring in the room in the box. He isn't going to have any
    fucking wimpy girls on his team and wanted every piece of bull**** earring
    in that box right now. With the team stunned faced with about as
    opposite a person as one could have to Cutcliffe, Coach O started to walk
    towards the door. He looked back at the team as they passed around the box
    and said, "I'm going to walk out of here right now, and when I come
    back in here, I'm going to have my shirt off, and I want everyone of you
    mother... to have your shirts off too."

    He walked out and everyone, confused, started taking their shirts off.
    Sure enough, O walked back in, bigger than alot of the guys on the team,
    without his shirt on. He started yelling and telling the team that they
    needed to get loud. He said, "When I point to this side of the room, I
    want you to say 'Ole Miss.' When I point to this side, I want you to
    say, 'Wild Boys.'" Standing there with no shirt on with every guy in the
    room shirtless, started pointing to each side of the room. Half the
    team would yell, "Ole Miss" while the other would yell "Wild Boys."
    Apparently it got pretty crazy and guys started flipping chairs, yelling, and
    throwing cooler across the room while chanting Ole Miss... Wild Boys.
    He then stopped and said, "One more thing. If any of you mother...
    thinks you can take me, you come up here and get a piece of me right now."
    He gave everyone an opportunity to come up and fight him and said,
    "That's what I thought," and walked out of the room. In another story, Lane
    was out passing with another player, and Coach O apparently ran up to
    him, tackled him, stripped the ball, and took off running down the
    field.

     

  6. 7 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Someone finally voted for Arizona.  I almost didn't put them on the list, but they're even with Philly, ahead of Mets and MIL, and their remaining schedule is baby soft.

    Now ahead of Philly, 3.5 behind the Cubs.  Their finishing stretch: 6 against CIN, 6 against SD, 3 against MIA, 4 @ Mets, 3 against STL.  13-9 seems very doable, which would get them to 86 wins.  Maybe not enough, but Luvullo has done a great job with this team regardless.  

  7. 12 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    I'm going to invent a fireproof box for charging electronic devices and make millions.  Crazy to think a lithium battery killed 30+ people.

    edit: actually there are already a few in amazon.  

    maybe move on to a tamper-proof festival cup lid?

  8. 3 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

    I love small town Texas! I grew up in a small town and eventually lived in a big city. Advantages and disadvantages to both but I honestly prefer to be around less people. One thing i absolutely hate about small towns is they operate on their own traffic rules. Drive east away from Dallas and you'll run into a town called Gun Barrel City. The folks there use the middle turn lane as their own merge/acceleration lane. So if you're trying to turn left to get on the main road, normally you cross 2 lanes, the turn lane, then your lane. Nope. These folks turn into the turn lane, stop, put on their blinker, then wait to merge. Very annoying.

    WHere do people not do this?

  9. 4 hours ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

    Grew up in small town Texas, so won't ever live in one again.  I want more of a "small city" than a small town.   The dream one is Bend, Oregon.  Love that place.  About 100k in population, and just gorgeous.  And yeah, it is all perspective.  100K feels a lot smaller than 1 million or whatever the Austin area is at these days.   Unfortunately, expensive as all get out, so loses any financial 'wins'.   Kicking myself for what I could have bought when I first visited it, but at the time my job wouldn't let me go full remote.

    If not Bend, then some other small city in the Pac Northwest.  That's the fantasy, at least.  The climate and scenery out there is just perfect for me.  

     

    Bend is pretty much the meth capital of the west coast.

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