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  1. He takes Alabama vs LSU... With the run Alabama has had, most casual fans will watch the Alabama vs a real threat to beat them over a barely top 10 Texas vs a mid top 10 OU... Especially since Texas has not been a name they've heard associated with anything positive in 10 plus years.... How do the numbers look say compared to a Georgia vs KU, or aggy vs Auburn? Let Texas get back to being a top 5 or higher team a few years in a row with and talked about as a legit team to to take it all with 90% of its games on espn/ABC those numbers will come closer to resembling the Texas/ND numbers week in and week out. There are plenty of casual fans that know the Texas name and are UT friendly just based on VY shoving both USC and Bush up ESPNs ass. But it's sucks as a UT faithful to watch years of misery played out weekly and not even slightly entertaining for the casual fan to watch a longhorns team that rarely sniffed the top 25 or even shitty bowl games for years... But let Texas have a few years of being a legit threat with two or three playoff appearance and Alabama continue it's current pace, come the Alabama series, as long as both teams are highly ranked, I'll bet the numbers breaks records. Texas just needs to do its part. We have the upcoming schedules to put us back up towards the top of National Draws. I am curious how the numbers this year compare to comparable games in the other (non overy ESPN hyped SEC) conferences. I do love how everyone wants to compare us to Alabama and not to the teams that have been playing more our level for years... Michigan, Florida. USC, Penn St....
  2. AGGY ... Clemson. NOTE: 4 Years ago aggy dropped their Oregon series (not mutual) in favor of a Clemson one. Oregon had just come off its appearance in the Championship game while Clemson was far from looking like world beaters, and aggy still riding the "we beat Bama" once and the JFF glory year high, really believed this was going to be a cake type win... Should have stuck with Oregon. Lol The Big East. The only conference with a winning percentage vs the SEC... GONE. The B12 second best record vs the SEC.... Barely survived TWO assassination attempts... The SWC third best record vs the SEC... GONE. I wonder what the SWC and the B12 records vs the SEC would be without the aggy many losses and minimal wins factored in. The SWC... Home of the one and only Death Sentence ever passed down. SMU deserved punishment, but the Death Blow was exactly that... DEATH. It was too harsh to hit SMU with seeing there were multiple programs (some in the SWC, several in other conferences) that should have been nailed also.
  3. It's great seeing the love we are getting out of the PAC recruits. Landing Bru could be huge for next year's class. With the PAC down across the board, he could be key in pulling some top talent from the West Coast.
  4. It would be more than entertaining if they lost Green to LSU and we plucked one or two of their top recruits. That just might get Jumbo Frenchie linched in collie town. Especially if we jump them soundly in class rankings. Half that fan base has big time buyers remorse. Funny that we have almost as many SEC recruits (non Texas) as they do. I also expected them to have more Florida recruits as long as JF was at FSU.
  5. .Fun fact about Mike Leach. When the Pirate isn't eating, breathing, shitting football 24/7. Or off writing about Geronimo, (he is obsessively into History), what few people know about Leach is that he loves to fish. Salt water mainly... Open water especially. (does love the speckled trout and Red Fish bay action) Off shore marlin and tuna is his favorite. There is a very selective private charter that exclusively (but not set in stone) works a couple of months out of Cancun, and the TIFT tourney and the TWAT tourney. Outside of those windows it's a very rare occasion for it to accept a charter. ( it has fished other tournaments and private charters over the years from Texas to North Carolina, but those are few and far between. The boat is owned by an individual in New Orleans and Chartered out of New Orleans (might be Dallas instead, I can't remember), but the boat itself picks up the clients out of Corpus or Padre. With a rare New Orleans or Houston/Galveston thrown in. Outside of it's short three month charter season, the boat is docked in Port Mansfield until winter tjen it's dry docked in Corpus... When Tech wined and dined Bobby Knight, it was one of those rare occasions the boat took a detour from it's norm... Mike Leach likes keeping a low profile. Not that he minds people recongizing him and wanting the usual hand shake, but the local media makes it hard to kick back and have a few for as long as you want. In a little town named Port Mansfield, which sits off the beaten path, yet about as quick and easy to get to compared to anywhere in Texas if you are flying from Lubbock and renting a car. In Port Mansield, one could kick back in it's little bar without much fuss no matter who you are. In a place where 20 people is a busy night, you don't have to give interviews or constantly have to humor new arrivals who drop by to say hi But Leach wasn't there for the bar. The 1500 pop town has a captian who has 24/7 access to a luxury fishing vessel which is his to use as his own when it isn't on charter. This captain also owns a sweet shallow runner bay boat... If i remember right, Leach's first time on this one specific boat happened right before or just after he had taken the OU job. Even though this charter is discrete a la VEGA STYLE, in little town Texas, nothing goes unknown. My sister has lived there for decades... Soon after he hit Lubbock, he made a couple of failed attempts to book a last second Charter the boat with no luck... But being a name any college football fan would know, the boat owner called the captian to see if he was interested in taking out the future pirate on a spur if the moment kinda deal. The captian said no problem and for Leach to call direct. The captain was told to charge Leach whatever he wanted because it was his money, his deal... Months later, Leach called (this time in advance) to book a spring trip. But the boat would be in cancun during that timeframe, but was given the captain's number so they could figure something out. The boat was already dry docked but the captain invited Leach down to do some floundering (gigging) on his commercial license. Leach took him up on the offer and spent a little time Leach fished with the captain at least once each year the entire time he was at Tech. This became a friendship.. Or it was more like a bromance between a Pirate and an aggy. A t-shirt aggy to boot. This bromance is what led to a crowned knight Bobby Knight Being pampered with a very expensive off schedule blue marlin charter. I never met Leach. I was in Lubbock his entire time. I met many Tech personas but Leach wasn't one. I do however know the captain aggy well enough that he used to email me pictures of his little Longhorn flag hanging upside down when OU would win and also the few occasions aggy did. But he isn't that bad. He does fly the longhorn flag above the aggy flag whenever we beat them or OU. He loves college ball and appreciates good players and plays no matter the colors. He can also dish it out after a loss. He's a t-shirt 2% that has a (great) sense of humor. Then the emails stopped, but only because text massaging became the thing... They still fish from time to time. Now i just need for one of the Tech guys that knows the courting of knight to validate this. The courting of knight is something that few know about, but i bet there is a Tceh boy that knows this is true, if not, I bet one of them can find someone on their boards that can confirm this to be true... I'm also curious if what took place on the USS Minnow's not so maiden voyage. It's something I'm not sure made it to many off boat, a Tech peep would have to chime in if anything was ever said about. What i can only describe as the Ballad of: The Pirate The Knight The Aggy TCEH And the Wigs Note: i didn't bother doing research to make sure everything's 100% factual. This is shit that took place 20 years ago that I've pulled from memory... It isnt like im writing this up for some grade. To the idiot who thinks he knows all about the Air Raid and what was Leach's mentality... You know nothing... You are so far off.. Cute though. Fuck off with your dumb cunt shit. O the ass hat that thinks he knows Briles offense... Im not breaking down plays for you i said what i THINK plain and simple. If you can't see Leach's dna all over Briles shit, then i can't help you.. Let some Tceh alumn validate this post. Then we will go from there...
  6. You know, I've never heard of anyone spotting Leach in a bar writing about Geronimo on napkins. Or at B12 meetings writing about Geronimo on the back of paper plates. Nor have i heard of sports writers finally getting an informal sitdown with Leach in his office where he's burning the midnight oil with a couple of other coaches writing pages about Geronimo. I can't recall any coach had Leach hand him some notes about Geronimo to improve a dissertation for their quarterback.... But I do know he loves to talk football especially the drunker he gets. He loves to innovate concepts and disguss the feasibility of it working or ways to improve upon old ones. He hasn't been shy about liking a play someone unvails for first time and making some slight variations he sees as ways to get more out of it and gives it to the coach. And it damn sure wasn't papers about Geronimo he successfully trolled the Texas DC with... I look over there a Leach and it pisses me off, and not over a co-book (btw i didn't mean he eats breaths shits football 24/7 in a literal kind of way, dill hole.) But because we spent a decade in qb purgatory and there's Leach over there with his "i don't care who plays qb, just pick straws" approach. We're Texas quite literally. Inside the talent rich state of Texas and couldn't find a qb who could hit a receiver standing still 20 yards away. We recruited some real barn burners, but for the love of god, did anyone actually see them catch a ball? I swear we've had some that had their hands amputated. The precious few times the ball did hit them in stride, it would either go right through where their hands should be, or bounce off of what could only have been stubs. Leach's receivers came in all shapes and sizes. The only thing they had in common was they didn't focus on short distant races... And they could catch the fucking ball... And they could find areas in the D with nothing but grass around them... And they could block really well for anyone with the ball... Yes Leach's Oline were usually big boys... Made up of a bunch of left behinds by the every BIG program in the country... We have suffered on the oline for longer than we've suffered at the qb spot. And it's been painful everytime we have one worth a shit graduates. But Leach's line keeps his qbs putting up yards. Business as usual. We've all sat there watching the game and at sometime are thankful his qbs don't take off. Because there's nothing but thirty yards green if he decided to moonwalk through the gaps. We are thankful Joe Kidd qb graduated last year just to sit there asking where the fuck did this kid come from after your pretty good secondary just got lit up once again for 400 yards through the air. Yes I'm aware the Air Raid was joint effort too... Just like Geronimo. But please enlighten me of the origins... Do you not know there is a pecking order even for schools like iowa Wesleyan and Valdosta State? There used to be a pretty nasty pecking order for talent in Texas HS football. If you are playing organized football there is a pecking order. There's always "those that have" and the "have nots"... But please do share your wisdom..
  7. We are going to win them all... (...that we don't lose) We will not lose a single game... (...That we win) I'm hoping this loss cut deep when they watched the tape. Hopefully they see the shit show they put on for the entire nation (and world) to see and it embarrassed them... Then maybe it will drive them off enough to pull their heads out of their ass and start playing to their potential instead of the other team's. I'll have some koolaid and go with it had a profound affect that leads to some deep soul searching as a team who squandered a season that would have been a playoff berth if they had played each game with the intensity they played the first 3 quarters against OU. It has the positive effect of pissing this team off and they put their foot on the pedal and don't let up until after the B12 title is theirs and they have wrecked whichever poor SEC soul gets offered up to appease an angry longhorn We finish it!
  8. A. .Just because ESPN bitches abouy his offense being a plug and play gimmick so his qbs suck in the nfl doesn't mean it a bad thing. There are 129 other coaches in college (including Saban) and countless in HS that wish they had a plug and play offense. They all would sell their wives into prostitution if they could take a 2* HS qb nobody wanted and have him torching the field like a 4 year starter the first time they take the field, in a system that not only centers around the qb, but is meant to be called at the line 75% of the time. Let that sink in... Leach literally 12th man's qbs as if it's an afterthought like other coaches assign water boys. We wonder lost in the wilderness for years and Leach picks them as if he were picking fruit at Walmart. He won a Hiesman at Kentucky with Couch and a #1 draft pick. 1999 at OU working with Heupel (who Leach brought in) was the Hiesman runner up in 2000. His tech qbs led the 8 out of 9 years he was there. They set several ncaa records like Most yards. Most completions (twice) Largest comeback. FUCK YOU Shawn Twatson the quarterback Whisperer my ASS... Leach takes the average joe kidd that's no smarter than any other qbs out there and makes precision bombers out of them. His recievers run good routes. Rjey also catch the ball. His RBs block really well and are good at picking up blitzes. They catch really well coming out of the backfield. His linemen always give the qbs time. But the most impressive thing is that his teams never drop off when his seniors graduate. His offense keeps going without missing a beat. His player/coaching tree is solid as fuck. HCs and OCs that are regarded by most as successful coaches. They all run Leach's Air Raid with more running back. A lot of their running plays look like something Leach would draw up. They feature multiple backs, 2 TEs. I think he has helped those coaches develop a their signature running scheme to keep fans happy with the young coaches so they could succeed. He is always talking football. Always drawing up plays. Tweaked plays for other coaches. Sitting in bars drawing plays on napkins. Sitting in B12 meetings drawimg up plays on paper plates. Giving late night interviews while drawing up plays with a couple of assistants. He's always talking football. Take a look at Briles Offense... That has Leach's fingerprints all over it... Both are designed around the philosophy of stretching the defense as far wide and deep until they leave gaps and then -Air Raid-dump the ball short and let the reciever/back run into the gaps vacated by the secondary being ran deep. -Veer and Shoot-let the running backs carry the ball into the gaps left by the secondary being ran deep. They both are designed to work with a pocket (pro style) passer and not a dual threat. Yes i know RGIII... He was a freak that could have succeeded in a Twatson offense. The concept for is to get as many defenders as possible away from the line of scrimmage. Easier done with a non run threat qb. That's why Buechel/Foreman produced 2000k yards on the ground on a shitty Texas team. I'm not saying Leach handed Briles a Veer and Shoot playbook one day. But Leach spent quite a bit of time grooming his young assistants to succeed as coaches later on. He's loyal to the ones he brings into coaching. Briles was already an experienced HS coach well known for bringing the spread to Texas, and being closer to Leach's age, they spent a lot of time talking football (Leach's only subject). I would lay odds on the V-S being a joint project between the two. I can't prove it, but it has the same "Controlled Chaos" feel at the snap of the A-R in the play design, it looks like the missing "Running Plays" section from Leach's master playbook, if Leach ever decided to add such a section to the Air Raid. There are things in the Veer and Shoot that could only come from a Pirate's crazy genius. Both the AR and VS were taylor made for a qb like Colt. Not a qb who looked for a reason to run. He was always pass first. But could gouge the shit out of you when he did take off. Leach probably has 3 or 4 new offenses laying around. It's funny how everyone wants to debate whether or not his Air Raid could work at Tier One school because of the demands it makes on the defense... I don't remember a lot of Tech's defenses getting gassed. It just wasn't a word commonly associated with Tech. And the few times i can remember attrition setting in on that D was when we had some big nasties on the line and punishing backs. Those teams gassed everyone. I'm not sure questioning if the AR could work at a Top School is even the right question. I not sure why everyone assumes Leach couldn't draw up running plays to begin with. Personally, i have no doubt he has a playbook of nothing but running plays as thick as his passing AR one (Tech's Leach Playbook was almost 1,000 pages compared to most rarely break 200). But to use Leach's own philosophy, "do something you are good at 100% of the time instead of 50%-60% of the time". "Keep doing it until someone stops you and you can't continue doing it". "If that happens, your not good at it anymore". "Why change what you're doing if no one stops you?" Leach attended BYU where he graduated law school, but he didn't play ball there. He didn't play ball in college, only HS football in Wyoming. He developed the the AR off the West Coast Offense BYU was running while he attended. The WHY behind the Air Raid is the thing nobody talks about, but is the biggest insight into the genius of Mike 'the pirate' Leach. Everyone knows Leach's coaching history or can find it. It was those early stops that raised the question of how to do more with less. How to be competitive against bigger schools (the Jones) And how to do it without relying continuously on getting the above average talent (that any of the Jones' above you are going to take anyways). The AR was not developed to win championships. It was developed by a genius pirate who loved the sport and was given a chance to coach. Where is the fun in playing or coaching if you're not winning? How do you compete against talent heavy teams with ordinary players? How did David slay Goliath? He hit one of his 5 brothers between the numbers with a football. How do you compete against giants when you have no idea what type of skills your going to get each class out of the leftovers. Running backs need some skill and speed plus it's asking a lot for your linemen to move someone they give up 100 lbs to on a continuous basis. No need to count on running to compete with giants... In fact the backs will probably need to soend most of their time blocking if we don't want to get our usual half pint, noodle arm killed. Genius to design an offense that (back then) unstacked the box and moved everyone away from the line of scrimmage. It probably saved a lot of qb lives on little teams. Run everyone away and hit your backs short (because even weak arms can throw 10 yards). Small linemen only have to get in the way of someone and not move them. More with less (or nothing). I'm curious if he engineered a plug and play around More with Take Your Pick -and want another or two?- It's easy to see how Leach, loving to scheme, tweak plays. Create new plays. Would look back at his Air Raid and spot exactly how he could have went with a system based on the run. You do it all the same as the Air Raid, but instead of short passes into vast green spaces, you just run it instead and call it the Veer and Shoot. But once your Masterpiece is complete, you mothball it until needed. No reason to keep your secondary offense either, but really curious if it would really work. Your young ex-players now assistant coaches you've been geooming will have a hard enough time installing a new offense they know in and out somewhere else someday. And it would end a young career before it started if it's a bust... But an experienced coach, one who has some experience with the Wishbone AND experience in installing a new offense that he had no prior experience with. "Hey buddy Briles," i wonder if it would work if we stopped throwing the ball.. Do you think it help putting the wide outs as far as possible? Merry Christmas, if you want it. It's probably the reason Briles is so secretive with his playbook. It has Leach all over it. So the question to me is, can Leach take advantage of all the extra perks at a Tier 1 school and bring home championships? I think he can. And i have a feeling we will find out soon enough. He's in great shape to take over the PAC with the big names down right now. WSU could easily become the next Oregon. But i doubt he will be there that long. If they finish strong (doesn't have to beat Washington), ir could happen this offseason. If not, another good season next year and someone will bite. He is a proven winner everywhere he goes. The dumbest thing Tech ever did... The way we tanked and are still trying to recover, and OU not looking very OUish a few years here and there, he might have been able to put them in the big game. Tceh winning the big one while aggy still the sleeping in the SEC, would've been epic.
  9. I've always found it comical as hell. Especially when neither of the two teams playing are in the B12. I'll give OU a pass. It's the only signal they know. I can imagine the confusion of casual fans, sitting in sports bars across the country trying to figure out why both teams keep doing the horns down. It's even funnier when you think about how obsessed some schools are wirh the horns down every chance they get on tv. I wonder how many eyes they have sent our way wanting to see what obsession is all about. Hell they may have even increased our fan base. For the causual fan, this year would be awesome to follow. We have played some wild games all year long. For the Longhorn faithful, this year has reduced many expiration dates a few years.
  10. I would give both of derka's nuts to see WSU make the playoffs. I would give his entire little stumpy with pebbles for WSU to take it all going through both SEC teams in the process. I could bathe in aggy misery the entire offseason.
  11. He sold himself out several times last night... Right out of play. Leading tackler in last night's shit show isn't anything to hang a hat on. If he would hit somebody... Anybody... He could be incredible. But he charges like a bull, a blind bull oops quoted wrong post. It was meant for the one you quoted.
  12. There haven't been many Texas players that have spent as much time in the backfield as Hager (including offensive players.lol) It's almost as if he materializes out of knowwhere. Many of times he's gotten the deer in the headlights look from both the QB and RB as an unexpected third wheel in on the ball exchange. Two options to choose from. QB or RB with a 50% chance of getting it right. This is a choice he gets wrong 100% of the time. It's even worse when it's only him and a running back 5 yards behind the line. You can see the holy shit batman, I'm so fucked... Look of panic in the runners eyes, but before he can even begin to weigh his options netween trying hold on to the ball as the lights go out or ever walking again, hager runs right past them like a crazed lunatic. That's when you see his light go on (recognized by two beams of light coming from his earholes like a lighthouse on a black night... You can clearly see his thougjts as he runs past only other person back there with him... I wonder if that who I was supposed tackle... 9 out of 10, he is always having to reach back or to circle back because he either stormed past or wiffed on the tackle due to running himself out of position so he has to adjust at full speed and dive sideways. Very seldom does he get juked. RBs susually don't have the time even if they wanted to. But it doesn't matter because he's already shot past the play either way. If he had the ability to track the ball from the snap, Texas would probably have the number one run defense with -1,000 yatds given up, 8 dead running backs, 7 dead qbs and 1 dead midget ewok wanna be.
  13. Bama's only glaring weakness on either line is their RG... Aggy did NOT see this coming at all. Where most of our fan base knew our team could win/lose any game left on the season. It sucked and most of us thought we would win, but it wasn't a complete shock we lost either. Aggy didn't see this coming. They assumed they would win out the remainder of the season just like clockwork. Every aggy team is the ONE until it's not. Next year the the sleeping giant midget awakens. But at least we are SEC tough. And we have Alabama (that many of us are secretly starting to like more than aggy). It's fun to root for a winning team. But aggy is great too. Aggy is one season away from being equal to Bama so aggy isn't ready to tell the world they like cheering for Alabama more than aggy anymore. It's hard to win all your games in the secsecsec. Only Alabama can do it. But it's hard for them too. That's why they are scared to aggy. They know if anyone is going to beat them, it's going to be aggy. But it really doesn't feel like a loss in the SEC. Every team is sec tough so a hard fought loss doesn't suck so much. Instead it feels kinda good knowing your team is playing elites like Alabama and how they see aggy as equal and know it's just a matter of time before aggy is winning championships every year and Alabama fans will be cheering or aggy. Alabama knows everybody beats everybody in the SEC so even when we lose to a brother, aggy is still feared and respected. They all tell us we would beat tu no matter if we are 7-5 and tu is 12-0. It will show in the polls tomorrow when they drop out and we climb to 11th or 12th. They will get kicked out of the polls for getting blown out by the likes of OU's little brother we always beat, and we will jump up for our hard fought defensive struggle with our brother. It was another close quality loss. We are definately the best 3 loss team in the country by far. Stupid sips thought they were back and going to the playoffs. They are garbage and will not be in the playoffs now. Only SEC teams can make it with 2 or 3 losses. Aggy should win the rest of our games since everyone left sucks. Aggy wil probably make it to the playoffs since the world knows we can beat Alabama and we hung closer to Alabama than anyone this season. Whoop
  14. The odds at blocking a punt or forcing a shank with pressure is better than an onside recovery. Onsides are used when you are in LITERAL hail mary mode.
  15. The entire prized SECSECSEC were peewee level compared to Suh. What a beast. We were lucky to get that 1 second back.
  16. Take the loss, Pussies. And good game pokes. Your team played inspired tonight unlike ours... Until it was too late. We got Texas'd tonight. Clawed back in with a chance to win just to have that door slammed in our face. Fitting. Hager would be a beast if he actually tackled the ball carrier. Hell if just recognized who had the ball and got in front of them instead of shooting past them looking at the wrong guy, we would probably be the run D in the country. Refs sucked once again... The punt call was a joke. As were a couple others. But it wasn't the refs that cost us this one. This one was lost in multiple areas. _iaz running the defense while Orlando took an entire quarter to take a shit was one big reason. Orlando's ability to make adjustments at halftime is amazing. It's almost as amazing as his ability to wiff on what to expect from teams at the start. I think someone needs to teach him how to use the remote because obviously he's never watched game film on any opponent. At times his calls look genius, but guaranteed to be followed up with the WTF call shortly after. I swear this fucker is a gemini. Half Mike Ditka (generous), part Manny _ias. I don't recall ever seeing a team have so many big plays--HUGE plays--get called back over stupid penalties that are completely unnecessary... HERE IS LOOKING AT YOU, SENIORS. How can our seniors be this undisciplined. Unreal. So many Bonehead mistakes for a senior class. We do have heart and that Texas FIGHT we've been missing for a long time. One game at a time. This team is still ahead of where most of us thought it would be at the start of the season. It's a young team with plenty of room to grow (thank you jesus) I was still a little hesitant on Sam (gun shy), but after tonight, (for me) he is for real. I've never would've believed he could become a rock solid field General after last year. His turnaround has been unparalleled in school history. The wheel he hit tonight, for me, will rank high as one of the prettiest connections in school hostory. I never would have believed he could inprove his accuracy this much since last year. It makes me wonder if there wasn't a shoulder (or something) injury last year. Either way, Sam I Am! Herman. I still don't know what i think about him... He has the tools to be a great coach. But he can look completely clownish too often during games... I hope it's just lack of experience and he will find the grove between aggressive, smart, conservative, big, and sane. Hopefully each of these games are something he is learning from right along with the team... Overall he has been good for Texas and is laying the foundation Strong promised of mental and physical toughness our program is supposed to be built upon. On to the next... Hopefully this is the one where the team and the coaches show up for all 4 quarters and give us fans something to get excited about for the rest of the season and especially looking at next...
  17. We kinda hung with Alabama's 2nd string for two quarters. Another fine quality loss. Put it on the wall.
  18. We can probably dust this thread off and get ready for things to start heating up as the season starts to wrap up. Things out west are getting interesting (for non PAC fans). Last year there were tons of rumors swirling around during the Texas vs USC game about a realignment meeting taking place. They were spiraling so fast that Scott had to publicly address the rumors to put them to rest. This years game had hints of a continuation of those talks taking place during the USC-Texas golfing event. Informal talks that are not PAC12 related... Over the past 3 years, there has been a steady buildup of displeasure within the PAC12 schools over money compared to others, perception of strength for the playoff committee, failed network, unable to land Direct TV. It starting to reach a boiling point this off season but recent events serve ro only make the situation more volatile. The leak of the replay fiasco and the "Leach texts" to yahoo severed the conference leadership from its members (intentional or not) when there was no support for the head office. I will be shocked if he survives this offseason. But that doesn't solve the PAC issues which is probably the only reason they haven't fired him already. For those still waiting on that PAC bus, not happening... Here is some reasons All the P5 conferences distribute over 90% of the revenue between the schools other than the PAC who distributes around 78%. The PAC schools received a little under 29 million last year of total revenue distribution where the B12 received over 34 million. That's a little over 5 million difference without t-3 deals factored in. For Texas, the total was close to 50 million, with OU, Kansas, and WV a little behind. The small schools in the big 12 are almost doubling what the Pac-12 network pays out... For schools like Texas, OU, and Kansas, the PACNetwork would have to double what the SECN pays out for us to only lose 3 million. And it just gets further apart from there. This year we are supposed to distribute 6.5 to 7 million more than the pack which is part of the problems with the pac. There are a lot of articles out there covering problems out west. http://arizonasports.com/story/1612450/larry-scott-defends-pac-12s-shaky-year-eyes-future-changes-in-college-sports/? https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/pac12/2018/07/27/pac-12-needs-washington-savior-amid-concerns-leagues-future/844363002/? https://awfulannouncing.com/league-networks/commissioner-larry-scott-not-optimistic-getting-pac-12-networks-directv.html? https://www.oregonlive.com/pac-12/index.ssf/2018/09/pac-12_commissioner_larry_scott_says_night_games_u.html? There are serious money concerns. Concerns of the Arizona schools being targeted by the B12. Fears of Colorado wanting to go home and taking Utah with them...Which have led to some very revealing articles that don't portray a healthy conference. Meetings with UH smells of desperation. https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/video/university-houston-meeting-pac-12-expansion-way ADs becoming vocal about falling further behind each year. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/06/12/panic-pac-12-conference-quickly-falls-behind-rivals/686880002/? National media starting to realize there are major problems out west that's threatened stability. https://www.cbssports.com/g00/college-football/news/cracks-are-forming-in-the-pac-12-will-they-be-patched-before-its-too-late/? Local media unquestioning stability... https://thespun.com/pac-12/pac-12-networks-struggling-revenue Local media placing teams in new homes. https://thespun.com/big-12/conference-realignment-pac-12-breakup A surprising article from USCs dedicated 247 site might be the most telling of all... https://247sports.com/college/usc/Article/ITS-OVER-PAC-12-SO-FAR-BEHIND-IT-WILL-NEVER-CATCH-UP-119936857/? But what could easily become the final nail is ATT sponsorship expires and negotiations are not bringing in DirectTV so Larry threatened to end the partnership... https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/pac-12/could-att-walk-away-from-the-pac-12-networks-and-take-directv-with-it/ The deal expired the end of August, but it seems an extension was agreed upon moving the date to November at which time ATT is expected by most to walk away and to pull PACNET from UVerse. Compete breakdown with ATT could easily break the PaCamel's back.
  19. We are scared to play aggy... So we ask Alabama if they are interested AFTER aggy turned us down... With the Alabama game, we had Ohio State reach out to me and ask to move our game back a couple years because they were able to schedule Notre Dame. I understood that. I said, “Okay, but let me find a game before we do that.” The athletics cirector at Alabama is a dear friend of mine and said ‘Hey, do you want to play a home-and-home?’ And I said ‘Yeah, let’s do that.’ And we were able to do that. We talked briefly to A&M. A&M was already booked at the time and couldn’t do it. Alabama had an opening and away we went. Usually it’s not that easy. We are now working on games for 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032. The AD at TCU will not touch football scheduling until 2031. That’s how far out I booked TCU. I booked every game of the decade from 2020-2030. BON: So you actually have already talked with A&M about a potential game? CDC: Yeah, I said “Hey, if I’m able to move this game does it make sense?” But see the problem isn’t that they said no. It’s all about the timing. So Alabama kicks a cupcake to the curb to play their first home and home since 2011 to play us, but aggy was already booked. CDC was gentle in this interview. Class Act for not slamming classic aggy. Running since halftime of our very first game and still running today... Sad thing is their first team is probably their best team... This is NOT a competition. We are undersized and outclassed by Varsity. Able to admit defeat at the hands of a vastly superior team. No reason to continue falling on their swords just to prove they can take an ass kicking (literal). NO EXCUSES.
  20. A game is not lost when you have a chance (legit in these cases) to win/tie with time still on the clock you fucking ass clown. Take your stupidity back to texag. Your aggy is shining through. I'm sure your daddy Bama and the others that own that ass do not like you leaving the house without permission. So take your ravaged pillow, sheep, lego logs, mason jasr and milk men with you. You belong to the secsecsec now so there's no reason for you to be around the bdf these days. Chow now.
  21. They tend to forget it worked just fine when he was an Kentucky. I would like to see Leach at Arkansas. Close enough to Texas to take advantage of his existing contacts and reopen that Texas Pipeline. Leach Back to torching SEC defenses and owning aggy would make the SEC worth watching.
  22. A win is a win... I will take 6 shitty wins over 6 quality losses any day.... This team might be garbage. But it is 6-1 garbage instead of 3-3 trash. That is a good thing. This team could easily lose the rest of it's games this year. But on the flip side, this team could go on a terror and smoke anyone unlucky enough to be in the way... Who knows how it plays out. They could have easily lost 3 of 6 of the they won.... They didn't ... They could have beaten Maryland and were in position to blow out every one else... They didn't... Speculate about could've, would've, should've all you want because it doesn't change shit... Still 6-1. Still ranked 6th.
  23. It's great that we can pick and choose which stats to use from games. Sounds way too familiar.
  24. That's what happens when you don't choose wisely... Michigan smokes the horns in Rose Bowl.. Strike 1 tOSU by 17 in the Shoe... Strike 2 (outside of Colt's first yr, we owned tOSU since to the point that they were starting to develop a Nebraska type complex). OU to expose Texas in the RRS... Strike 3 Aggy to win B12 south... Strike 4 USC in blowout... Strike 5
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