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  1. Jimbo Fisher is the poor man's Mack Brown. aggy will hate to hear this but it’s the truth. The man their new coach most resembles is the same Mack Brown who they hated, reviled and envied for years when he was in Austin. The parallels are eerie but Jimbo is not as good. Both coaches are known for their recruiting but neither one was much of an innovator or an Xs and Os guy. Both managed to recruit that one transcendent player, surround him with talent and ride that to a NC. The biggest difference is that Mack also got very close on several other occasions and has had more sustained and consistent success. Both changed the timeline in Texas HS recruiting by moving it up and offering players in an earlier window. This paid off for Jimbo in 2019 and for Mack throughout his time at Texas. The problem for Fisher is that instead of playing defense, Herman counter-attacked with the indirect approach by going OOS – hitting aggy in the flank. In the end, Jimbo earned a draw in the battle but lost the war. After adjusting to the timeline surprise attack, Herman (and Riley) appears to be pushing them back towards their historical top 15-20 type recruiting for 2020. The major differences from Mack's style are broadcasting large numbers of offers vs exclusive, high hit rate offers and the character of the recruits. Mack often filled up early with some non-elite players to create a sense of urgency while Jimbo recruits a bunch of academic, character and psych risks. Both ended up taking a lot of guys who will never contribute but for very different reasons. The biggest weakness of both Texas under Mack and FSU under Jimbo was Offensive Line. The OL requires the most detailed evaluation and development and both men are more known for their ability to sell to recruits and fans than their mastery of operations details so that makes sense. You can see the disaster that Jimbo left behind in Tallahassee and we are still dealing with the ripple effects of Mack’s errors on that front.
  2. aggy has a culture that virtually guarantees underperformance and tends towards outright failure. Their self-absorption cripples their ability to see anything outside their little corner of the world. Their narcissism prevents them from seeing their own shortcomings. Their paranoia attributes their failures to outside forces. The groupthink discourages any dissent against the "we're allsome" orthodoxy and silences any rational self-criticism that might lead to systematic improvement. The whole thing is a recipe for failure and they never seem to change.
  3. Assaulting women is just traditional for JImbo's QBs. Francois needs to add crab smuggling to his resume to make the top tier.
  4. The inability to process this simple chain of logic causes them to short-circuit and reflexively create all sorts of conspiracy theories.
  5. North Korea may be as out of touch with reality but their government censors everything but the party line. aggy maintains their paranoid delusions in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence day in and day out. Advantage A&M.
  6. Favorite stat in that vein: In 2 years, John Mackovic won the same number of Big XII titles as aggy did over 16 years.
  7. Yeah but leaving that behind was a "100 year decision" - or so I've been told. Of course they weren't quite clear on what was supposed to happen during those 100 years...
  8. http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/23669917/big-12-conference-distribute-3649-million-schools LHN is worth $15 mil annually so I would guess the $18.4 mil for Texas tier 3 is about right. That would make the calculation: Texas: $54.9 mil (36.5 + 18.4) OU: $41.5 mil (36.5 + 5.0) SEC: $43.1 mil OU has little financial incentive to change the status quo and would give up a lot of control to move. Texas is much better off financially in the Big XII than in any arrangement where more revenue is shared with the conference plus the brand control of having our own network. The smaller conference schools are better off than the Pac or ACC even if they get zero for their tier 3. And it's certainly better than any reasonable alternative scenario for them.
  9. Time is a finite resource. Rationalization is unlimited - especially at aggy.
  10. 1) aggy groupthink - they will love him until it becomes "the Baggins: we hates it forever..." and they will all change over en masse while burying previous thoughts on the subject. 2) Jimbo is a good salesman. He's basically the poor man's Mack Brown.
  11. aggy is basically al Qaeda. Our existence offends them and our success makes them completely apoplectic.
  12. Apparently Jimbo doesn't realize that too much carb loading can slow you down.
  13. Yeah, it's just pathetic how Tom Herman fires up his guys to beat the best teams on the schedule with such regularity.
  14. I dunno. All those white chicks look alike to me. [ducks]
  15. Yes and I've made sure to use it for all of my cuck smack and idiot aggy story needs.
  16. Nothing wrong with that model. Might even bet better in terms of bringing talent to the 40 Acres. I still prefer to take back DFW because it really hurts OU and to a lesser extent TCU and aggy. That helps us to beat the first 2 on the field over the long term and stomps on the idea that other programs can easily raid the State of Texas for talent. Discouraging potential competitors in your core market is often more important than expanding your footprint outside of it.
  17. One of history's timeless truths that can never be repeated too often.
  18. I would think the plan it to get fired before then. $75 mil guaranteed allows him to negotiate a hell of a buyout after they've already paid him $30 mil of it by year 4.
  19. I know women who basically remove their eyebrows and pencil in a new one. It's like she did that but with her whole face.
  20. Since it’s recruiting season and the only time aggy actually competes with Texas anymore I put together a few random thoughts on Jimbo’s first year as a sheep shagger. aggy is excited that they will (probably) finish with a top 5 recruiting class for 2019. They seem to have tossed 2017 down the memory hole. Jimbo has demonstrated that he is capable of posting a losing record with FOUR such classes: #4, #3,#3 and #6. Of course the indications are that he’s peaked and 2020 will be a big step down. We may get an early indication by the relative strength of closes for the 2019 with NSD2 next week. Looks like we've Survived the Surge(TM). And recruiting is historically the little guy’s strong point. Baggins left behind a huge mess at Tallahassee on the Offensive Line. And he seems to be continuing that turdition at aggy. With a (reasonably) mobile QB, they gave up 35 sacks in 13 games which is turrible, jist turrible. The aggy OL also surrendered 89 TFLs. Texas didn’t do a great job but gave up 14 fewer TFLs and 9 fewer sacks while playing against a tougher schedule with the Big XII CG adding an extra contest. Any aggy “success” running the ball is an illusion created by their weak schedule. Take out 500 yds against FCS Northwestern State and slightly less ridiculous padding vs UAB and UL-M. You’re left with 3.47 YPC vs SECSEC and 4.3 YPC against P5 competition. IOW, they performed considerably worse running against the SEC average than Texas did vs the SEC Elite. Jimbo has a rep for developing QBs. I’m not really on board since it was mostly recruiting rather than development. Mond DID look better this year but he got a full year under his belt and was still sub-par. 57.5% completion percentage is really bad – especially when a team throws as many screens and hitches as aggy. Think of what I said about Jake Fromm. Take away all the positives except for some arm strength. Throw in a modicum of running ability. That is what aggy is stuck with at QB. Then there is the clown show of aggy pass defense which ranked #106 in the nation. This harkens back to the good old days of the Dixie Chicks Defense and the Wide Open Spaces in their secondary. Jimbo took over a very bad pass defense and actually managed to make it WORSE. The fact that this bumbling was done against the primitive passing attacks of the SEC is a true embarrassment. The one area of true strength for aggy was run defense. They were very good even if you discount performances over G5 and FCS. On the one hand their defensive front is mostly gone after this year. On the other hand this is one area where recruiting can really help a team and Jimbo recruited well here. Gripping hand those recruits rarely contribute much as true freshmen so aggy is pretty much guaranteed to be down next year with a good shot to improve thereafter. I’ll leave the cuck commentary to the professionals. There is plenty of football related grist for smack to lay down on aggy. But the sheeple of Collie Station are convinced they are on the verge of greatness. All they need is a string of "nattys" to be considered a top 3 program. The crash from this high should be epic.
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