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  1. Way too much discounting of team 2 going on here.  A front court of Shaq, Duncan, and Lebron?  That's filthy.  All this discussion of which little guys are guarding other little guys is moot.  Lebron will lock down any of their best back court or wing players.  Duncan and Shaq protect the rim.  There is a reason those 2 won 9 titles between them.  But MJ will just take this personally...

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  2. 17 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    I think what I gather from videos I seen is basically AAU is essentially not teaching fundamentals and it's pretty much just a pickup game out there. While in other countries it's more fundamental based and etc.

     

    I think you're seeing this at the NBA level with the international takeover of the game. International All-Star team would essentially shit on American All-Star team in the NBA. 

     

     

    I see.  So it's a case of what they are not doing rather than they are doing something differently.  I can see that.  It does appear that international players care more to a certain extent about passing rather than volume scoring.  The ones being drafted early do seem to contribute more quickly than the American lottery players.  

  3. 3 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

    Point taken. However, I for one wish we would continue to play you guys. I like your fan base. Y'all are friendly and chill af

    Agreed on the fan base portion.  Matt Campbell on the other hand has become quite a little bitch.  His antics I'm sure are easily looked passed by his fanbase but it's a really bad look to the opposition.

  4. 8 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Great post and dead on. The part about the 3* that "Texas didn't even offer" is as common for us as you, believe it. It's fucking nauseating and I can't wait for less of it. That will pop up against the local non-con and damned near no one else from the conference. Baylor, Tech, TCU, and Okie State games against UT have had that shit said 10,000 times by the announcers. 

    Gratuitous spam. No shit this is happening and everyone on this thread is aware of it. Pull it together.

    Hell Greg McElroy said it about himself this year during the OU game. 

  5. 3 minutes ago, Trojan Man said:

    There are a lot of similarities between USC going from the Pac 12 to the B1G and Texas going from the Big 12 to the SEC.  One that I think both teams will seriously benefit from is no longer being the only 800 pound gorilla in the room (USC) or 1 of 2 800 pound gorillas in the room (Texas and Oklahoma).  Coaches and teams in the B1G/SEC aren't going to spend a grossly disproportionate amount of time prepping for USC/Texas and treating it as their Super Bowl like schools in the Pac 12/Big 12 do.  People talk a lot of shit when USC/Texas lose to teams like Oregon State, Arizona State, Iowa State, Texas Tech etc but it's a different kind of tough to get through a schedule where every conference opponent treats you like their biggest game of the year while you really don't care much about most of them.  Every B1G/SEC schedule will have multiple opponents on USC's/Texas' level which makes it harder for the underdogs to laser focus on you.

    Here are Baylor's games before and after Texas this fall: Long Island, Texas, at UCF.  They can dedicate the entire previous week to extra Texas prep and still have that game over by halftime.  If they have a hangover the following week against UCF that's still a winnable game.  Even if blowing their load vs Texas costs them the UCF game I'm sure Baylor's fans, players and coaches would accept your offer if you guaranteed them a win over Texas followed by a loss to UCF.  This Super Bowl shit isn't feasible in the SEC or the B1G and that's a major reason why those conferences have fewer upsets.  If Mississippi State has a stretch of Alabama/Texas/LSU and they treat their game against Texas the way Baylor does they will get their ass handed to them the week before and after playing Texas.  Even if it's a more manageable stretch of Arkansas/Texas/South Carolina there will still be other juggernauts on Mississippi State's schedule eventually and the Davids can only get up for so many David vs Goliath types of games a year, so being in a conference with more Goliaths means you're less likely to catch David on his giant killer day.

    There's also the fact teams in the B1G/SEC have less history with USC/Texas and thus less motivation to circle the calendar and play with their hair on fire that week, though this is more pronounced for USC since Texas is a better regional fit in the SEC than USC is in the B1G and Texas has more rivals in their new conference.  In any case, USC will benefit from no longer playing against teams that live on California recruiting and I'm sure there will be a similar benefit for Texas playing fewer games against teams built on Texas recruiting.  Every fucking conference game I have to hear the announcers talk about how so and so on the other team is a local boy who grew up a USC fan but USC never offered because he was a low 3* recruit and now he comes into the game with a massive chip on his shoulder.  I'm sure there are similar narratives for Texas' Big 12 games.  Put about 50 more of those chips on the shoulder for every Big 12/Pac 12 game played by Texas/USC and it starts to explain why these teams that shouldn't be able to compete on paper give Texas/USC a lot of trouble.

    Agreed with you on all of your points.  But, I had to comment because of the "Here are Baylor's games before and after Texas this fall: Long Island."  I had to look that up because I never heard of a football team called Long Island.  Sure enough: Long Island University Post Sharks. What the fuck.  These Baylor pussies are unreal.  SMDH

  6. 7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    You guys should take a look at all of the edges that Texas is bringing in. I think the idea is to make an aggressive, credible push for Simmons, hope LSU has a disappointing season, and then you try to win the NIL pitch at closing, but in the meantime, get on and stay on as many other potential starting quality EDGE recruits as you can find. Given the dearth of Edges in the portal, I assume they're going to take 2-3 of them on the recruiting end and also Simmons if they get lucky. 

    Well, that's what Texas is doing, so I guess so. Bama is doing the same this weekend.

    This seems like the strategy they had with Anthony Hill last year.  Hopefully, this works with Simmons this year. 

  7. 1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

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    Same thread about UDub and Oregon to the BIG. This goes to the scholar argument above:

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    Michigan? No. Tech? Maybe.

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    This fucking rube.  Of course the Service Academies are national.  In order to apply to those universities you need to obtain a nomination from your congressman.  Every state is represented in those schools.  To apply to A&M, you just need a pulse. 

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  8. 2 hours ago, texifornia said:

    Cincinnati's new practice facility is going to be incredible. For those who don't know, their campus is full of cool contemporary buildings - they've spent on huge names like Michael Graves (an alumnus), Frank Gehry, and Thom Mayne and it shows.
     

     

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