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  1. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    He doesn’t hate Texas. He just really, really doesn’t want to be seen as a “homer”. He desires that his press box fellow journalists view him as an impartial writer. To support that, he is extra critical of Texas, the hometown team. 
     
    It’s too bad that he is a mediocre enough writer that his press box mates assume he is a homer anyway, and assume he is telling the truth when he speaks the worst about Texas and Longhorn players. 

    Good grief.    He can be half as impartial and still have credibility with his pack of fellow journalists.      If you want to take a look at a real talking point regenerator disguised as newspaper journalist,  Brent Zwimerman who writes for the Houston Chronicle is that type. He just runs with whatever Bjork and the AD Dept or Billy at TexAgs feeds him.  

  2. 11 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    If we are going to schedule those teams they ONLY come to Austin. It's that simple. No home/home.

     

    OOC games unless vs a big time opponent like Michigan, Ohio, etc should be home/home but other OOC games should only be played at DKR. It's that simple. We shouldn't travel to UTEP for instance.. 

    For football, yes 100%

     

  3. 19 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    For sure in Baseball. Probably Men's Basketball as well.

    Same for the ladies side for Softball, Volleyball, and Basketball.     All the sports have other options in the state, but for the sake of building up the strength of schedule and seedings, playing a Baylor or TCU as much as we don't want to play a Rig 12 school is much better than a Sam Houston for example. 

    7 hours ago, slorch said:

    the same can be said for Texas and the Beard situation.  Evidently the driving force behind this conundrum that really isn't one.

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  4. 14 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    We will probably get them every once in a while in one of those Big 12 vs SEC early season tournaments as well as be matched up in the Regionals.

    I don't see any need to have a series with them though. Lubbock is a long trip for one of those Tuesday Night games as well.

    Wouldn't doubt Baylor, TCU or Cougar High shows up in our schedules way down the road  for a series or a one gamer due the fact it would be shorter road trip if we need to fill an out of town game.

  5. 6 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    don't underestimate penalties like hands to the face in the endzone instead of a hold and safety.

    i still cannot believe that was a thing that happened. 

    the thing is, the big xii has been fixing games for years and years and years. they've gotten pretty good at it, even calling garbage time holding against outmatched opponents so there isn't a big 0 next to holding penalties

    The last part of your post was very evident the last two games, especially last week when finally an opposing team got called for holding.   The fact that one penalty almost never got called on an opponent  this season going up against a top defensive line is mind boggling.  I guess it would be if one really didn’t know what was going on.

  6. 2 hours ago, mdmost said:

    Again, no. If Michigan loses, it only makes Ohio State look worse. If Michigan loses that only helps us if we win. 

    Doesn’t matter.  The committee will decide the Big10 deserves a spot in the top four.     Kind of like all these years they stuck Norte Dame in there.    It didn’t matter they played a shit schedule, they were Norte Dame and the Big 10 schools like OSU and Michigan are treated the same.   
     

    I looked at the bios of the members of this committee.   There isn’t one member on there who looks like they would be an ally for Texas when push comes to shove .   It’s skewed with members who have been involved either through their own education or careers in PAC 12, ACC and Big 10 country, particularly Ohio.     Biases matter.   

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  7. 1 hour ago, Horndog said:

    Counterpoint to the "Texas was lucky they got Bama early" argument:

    For years we have heard about what a meat grinder the SEC schedule is, how every game is a war, that they need to play a powder puff late in the season to recover from the rigors of the 8- game gauntlet, yada yada.

    It's lucky for Bama that they played us early in the year while they were still fresh and before all the SEC games took their toll. 

    Bama need a hail mary like miracle to beat a team that got humiliated a week before by aggy....   New Mexico State version.

    I agree the meatgrinder thing is tired and old.   A few years ago it might have been true when Florida, LSU, Bama and UGA were always top four and one of the mid tiers like Auburn, MSU and Ole Miss would have a good team and make it interesting.   But it's almost always been about where the SEC teams were placed in the media polls and the fact they'd get eight or nine teams in the pre season polls and let them fight it out, it took on the illusion of a meatgrinder.   Then you get them in bowl game and they get exposed like we did UGA in 2018 Sugar Bowl...   Oh they didn't want to be there was the excuse, but regardless based on the conference hype they should've crushed us.

    It's the same damn thing with the Big 10 with Michigan and Ohio State.   And Norte Dame.

  8. 14 hours ago, victory88 said:

    What has Elijah Robinson done to show he can run a program and recruit against Texas, Bama, LSU, OU for the elite regional talent.  What coaches are going to come work for him.   Dude is going to flame out big time at aggy.

    He beat ACU and let the players pick their uniform combinations for that game.    That’s what Looch said after that spectacular victory.  

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  9. 1 hour ago, Sir Ulrich said:

    • Moral victory talk about almost beating LSU

    • He knew what the Stoops reaction would be. Wonders if Whittingham would have been received better. 

    •Stoops was gonna take less money to be there. (LOL)

    •References Bama needing a starting WR and they'll double what he's getting here. (Stewart?)

    •Elko and Fisch not out of. Mentions they like Sumerall but won't be him. 

    • The board was leaning to saying yes to a Stoops hire until they floated the name. 

    •Tries to justify the hire and how it would have been a top 5 hire they could have made. 

    • The parameters of the search don't include a high salaried coach unless it's a top name.

    •Mentions Day never had any interest at all despite the media talk. 

    •They got stiff armed by DeBoer 

    •Still won't go after Lane and mentions how much of a circus he is. 

    •If he was a betting man it'd be Elko or Robinson. 

    •says he's waiting for a trash talker from twitter to show up. 

    •Says Texas and the aggies hire from the same waters. 

    •the hire will happen in a day to 48 hours

    •Reminiscing about how amazing the Bama win was with no real connection to the search. This lasted for 10 minutes. 

     

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  10. 1 hour ago, Hookem2147 said:

    From
    Liucci

    Long story short, this one never got to the finish line and the roadblock was tonight's meeting to approve the hire involving the A&M brass.

    With this news breaking as I type, I can say I've never seen anything like this but have also been on the phone with every level of this thing throughout the night and think this is very likely to go one of two ways for the Aggies:

    The Ags pivot and tab former DC and Duke boss Mike Elko and team him with Elijah Robinson and a new-look staff or simply remove the interim tag from E-Rob and revamp things from there accordingly. Either way would be wildly popular with players and the current recruits.

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