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  1. Marion, Choice, and Patterson are grand slams. Marion and Choice are upbeat and energetic coaches that players relate to and respond to exceptionally well, so they have a track record of getting top effort from their players. Both are considered to be solid player developers. Both are outstanding recruiters, with Choice being someone who has a track record of singlehandedly landing upper level talent at positions he doesn't even coach. Patterson speaks for himself. He is definitely an elite evaluator and developer of talent. Especially of DB talent. He could bring back the DBU debate to Texas.
  2. Their recent decommit is all over the place. Many have him at the same odds to end up back at 8-4 as he is at any other of the 350+ schools out there. If he goes back to aggy, they will reclaim the 1 spot
  3. I agree. Adding Houston was dumb as it gets. Dumber yet is that the former SWC members know (or should know) that being so regionalized was one of the biggest death blows to the SWC. Lack of National interest outside of UT, which saw plenty of it's games getting bumped to regional coverage.Especially when playing 1-4 Baylor or 2-3 TCU or 0-5 Owls. SMU getting its pony shot in the head, aggy on National TV and Bowl ban for major violations. (if I remember right, there were a couple of other members on minor probation also the last few years of the SWC). All this added together had the SWC falling way behind the other conferences in National media $s and more and more Texas talent was leaving the state to go play somewhere they would get more National exposure (key back then if hoping for the NFL as a late rounder)... The same issues (non cheating) that plagued the SWC yesterday are the same issues that has UT and OU leaving today. I would've added Arkansas bailing for greener pastures as another nail for the SWC, but in fairness, they only left when they did as political cover for Texas and aggy, who had every intention of following them into the SEC 2 years later. "We tried, but an all Texas conference isn't feasible, so it's every man for himself". But something went wrong between the SEC 'wigs and the Texas two (mainly UT-Deloss). I've never been able to pin down exactly what took place, but whatever happened was bad enough, it took over 2 decades of leadership changes within UT (and for the mouse to spit shine the SEC enough to make it too enticing not to give it a go) before there was a snowball's chance in hell of us joining the SEC. Things should start to get interesting sometime next year. We should start to hear if Amazon, Google, Netflix, AT&T... Are going to make a move or not. And the Pac negotiations should be starting towards summer's end 2023. This Pac negotiation round has a good chance of setting off the powder keg for real.
  4. I wonder if it's too late for aggy to cancel that #1 recruiting class 2022 trophy they ordered... Like everything aggy. They were winning at halftime, and then they ran out of bagmen. Don't know if it holds through signing day, but it will be a kick in the nuts if they come up short on their prized #1 all-time rated class. At least they'll have their excuse in place when they continue to go 8-4 the next few years. There's always next year. Speaking of next year, it will probably be more expensive for aggy. Seeing how they set the NIL pace this year, more teams will be willing to play their game for recruits they want, so aggy will have to really pony up to be competitive at their own game. I wonder how many recruiting cycles aggy will go all in like they did this year, and how that is going to affect donations when it's time to fund their next stairway to nowhere?
  5. Or she's of the 4 legged kind.
  6. I was about to label this Fake News due to the lack of aggy from that list. But I did a recheck before post and I was mistaken. Aggy is all over the list. They're listed under their other name and not the official 8-4 one.
  7. Last year it did. It came earlier than usual
  8. This is a huge get. Some have him as the second best portal player this year (Ewers #1). He can stretch the field and had like 12 TDs as the only real WR threat in a run heavy offense. As long as Ewers (or someone) can hit the WRs, our offense is starting to look scary. Teams might find it hard to stack the box this season
  9. It always cracks me up when I see teams we aren't even playing throwing the horns down. It's even funnier when it's teams from other conferences we aren't playing...
  10. We didn't get snow here (Denver) this year until right before Xmas, and then it was like 1/2 an inch. We were like 2 days short of breaking a 150 year old record. We've had a couple of dusting and like one 4 incher since, so there wouldn't have been a snow game this year. But the second half of October is the better bet for snow games around here. It's about the same in Boulder.
  11. Exactly. The Pac didn't stabilize just because of OU and UT going to the SEC. They haven't figured out how to bolster fan support. They still are struggling getting into the playoffs. They are still bleeding their top recruits to other markets. These things don't help when it's time for them to start negotiating their new contract. To top it, we all know the Big 10 is not going to play second fiddle to anyone if they can help it, and adding Kansas +1 of the other left behinds isn't going to keep them in stride with the SEC, so they need ND or USC plus another bigger fish. It makes me wonder if the Big 12 didn't jump the gun with the 4 they responded with. It might have been wiser to wait until the Pac opened negotiations to see how it goes and to see if the Big 10 makes a move on the Pac. They could've found themselves in position to absorb or merge with practically the entire remaining PAC teams.
  12. That's kinda my thought. So aggy doesn't have all the money in the world? But then again, going head to head for the other recruits wasn't on display in front of the world like going head to head for Ewers. He was the biggest story for all sports outlets at that time. We all saw just how scared aggy is to lose on the National stage. Then again, if they started to feel like they weren't going to get Ewers, they could've Covid out of the chase, which seems to be their new "ran out of ____" feel good... Maybe they were scared to risk going for it and having their committed QB start shopping around and end up missing out on both QBs and possibly Stewart (and others) also?
  13. Here's a question for aggy. When Ewers hit the portal, he had 3 schools on his short list of places to land, Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech. When someone with his potential lists you as one of his top three, you at least get him on campus and have a sit down to see where you stand. Schools not on that list, or even in this state made runs at him. Everyone did... Everyone but aggy, that is. So what caused aggy to back out? No matter who you had a verbal from, Ewers would've still been the #1 overall recruit in the Nation this year, and the biggest prize on the table, especially for anyone looking for a QB. So my question is, did aggy run out of bagmen? Or was aggy scared to go head to head with Texas?
  14. JJ needs to fire the entire coaching staff, the entire team, put the Cowboys up for auction on Ebay, and then fire himself....
  15. This tells me that population matters. The Texas/California market combination or the Texas/Florida market combination is the biggest win win for everyone. As long as OU (most of their cock sucking fans live in Texas), aggy, or LSU (plenty of East Texas eyes follow those swamp ags). But for Max $$$, the University of Texas should play for a National championship every 3 years.
  16. Deion shut down some of the greatest WRs to ever play the game. If you've ever seen him sandbagging down the sideline and intercept the ball thrown to another reciever down the middle who has his double coverage beat, you would understand. No other defender in the history of the NFL shut down half the field in the passing game like he did. QBs would take the extra second to be sure Sanders wasn't anywhere near that side of the field. That in itself led to vets getting sacked once or twice extra per game, and newer QBs getting obliterated the entire game by the defensive line.
  17. This right here. I've never seen anyone else sandbag like PT. He would get "beat" by three yards and wait for the ball to be in the air before closing the gap (often enough) for a pick 6... There were plenty of veteran QBs who would not throw the deep ball to the side Sanders was covering no matter how "beat" the WR had the coverage. Hell, teams would prefer to punt the ball out of bounds 30 yards or so than to hang one up deep for PT to get his hands on. And this is NFL QBs, Wars, and punters, not college, we are talking about. He did hate contact, but when it came down to it being him or a TD, he would make the tackle, or the block at that time.
  18. FTW.... You just summed up aggy's entire existence in 6 words. Well done!
  19. He will do well at Corn. That doesn't mean corn will do that much better. They are still shit.
  20. It will all crumble when they unleash their master plan next season, which is basically COVID out of all their SEC games so they can go undefeated...and still end up 3-1.
  21. It's funny how they all remember the 80s and 90s to be aggy glory years, but forget the 80s and 90s also coincide with aggy probation years... How does that aggy code go again?
  22. Their D has been solid for awhile and talent wasn't their problem. Now they are loaded for bear for sure. #1 class with all their eggs in the defense's basket is going to have the same outcome it's had since Jimbo took over. A great defense can win you some games, but with today's attack offenses, there will be several teams that will put points on the board and once aggy aggy falls a couple of scores behind, they probably aren't coming back.
  23. This off season has been so much better than the season by far and it hasn't even officially started yet.
  24. What you are seeing is almost two decades worth of ESPN shoving the SEC down everyone's throat sending the nation's top recruits flocking to the SEC, especially to 'Bama, who ends up with the cream of the crop, as the top of the food chain. And Saban is one hell of a coach, so his depth chart is full of players every year that would start at almost any other school, so injuries doesn't affect them like it does the mere mortal teams
  25. I remember my first BB team, learning the fundamentals. 1 step meant one step, and they'd call that shit every time, sometimes even when all you took was one step... I actually watched my first NBA game that year... WOW... Wasn't that like 17 steps dude just took? Is this some rule I've never heard of? If you don't dribble, you can just run the ball like a football?!?... Didn't work.
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