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closetojumping

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  1. 2 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

    I’m curious. What are all of you pontificating, classist, Trumpkin sounding brahmins going to say and do when the Mississippi State Cow College located in the prolapsed anus of the hopelessly backward, uneducated and boring SEC actually does what so many of you have been predicting all week and hangs another L on the Texas Longhorns?  I love Surly as a messsge board but Kee-rist, the clench-mouthed arrogance is worse than Thurston and Lovey.

    I only wish Mike Leach was still coaching there. I have attended Rice, MSU, Alabama and NYU. I don’t much like cowbells but I don’t condemn anyone for where they live or the school they attend (except Auburn, but fuck them).

    Congrats on all of our your worldly virtue. 

    That said, don’t bring politics into this thread, you fucking dunce. No one else did it. No one wants to hear it. Tell some old story about your dad and Bear Bryant or something but get fucked on that other shit. 

    Also, we all know Texas could well shit the bed tomorrow. It doesn’t change anything. Our school is superior to yours, MSU, and myriad others in this conference loaded with mouthbreathing clowns. We know it and you know it. Good for you that your institution is solely defined by the performance of your football program, but we get to have a worldview far beyond that premise, and our university helps enable that. 

    1 hour ago, nnm said:

    I can’t believe no one has made the argument that MissSU is self-aware TAMU. Craphole towns, mediocre academics, little brothers, history of athletic futility (except MissSU has a much better baseball program historically). 
     

    The biggest difference is that MissSU doesn’t act like they’re a blue blood. They kind of accept their place in the pecking order. 

    I avoided bringing up ATM in this thread because many posters here are moths to that flame and then the thread just devolves into more boring ATM discussion. 

    Beyond that, ATM’s academics far exceed those of Mississippi State. It’s a disingenuous comparison on that front. 

    1 hour ago, honolulu horn said:

    Spent some decent time there, and Minneapolis is actually far more fun and interesting than I ever would have thought. The campus is in a very pretty location up on a hill across the river from downtown, the city's music scene is fantastic, and they were badass enough to make the new Gophers stadium an outdoor venue.  

    I can see Minneapolis being fun for a weekend with the right company. I’d take that road trip if Texas did a home and home. 

    1 hour ago, Longboard Horn said:

    One of my best friends went there. His dad was head of a department so he got free tuition 

    They tried to recruit me in HS because some of my teammates were visiting there. I looked them up and their academics fit below my high school’s. That school was academically functioning at a Texas junior high level. 

  2. 3 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

    Am I going crazy or weren't they ranked #1 or 2 briefly when Dak was there? What a crazy ass time that was

    They spent 5 consecutive weeks ranked #1 in 2014 and finished the season ranked #11. That's probably the most relevant they've ever been.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    I’d like to hear more about these tire factories. I’m intrigued. 

    Come down for a visit to the ship channel on 225 here in Houston. I'll take you site-seeing to my old stomping grounds in Pasadena, as well as the lot where the shanty I grew up in was condemned, then we can mosey on over to the Goodyear rubber factory and you can take in all of the sites and sounds your senses can handle. By the time we're finished, you'll feel like you've been to Starkville and back. 

  4. 7 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

    Did a wireless project for the Mississippi Highway Patrol around 13 years ago, I spent way too much time in that fucking state but Starkville is definitely one of the "cooler" places. Also, lol at academic smack talk when discussing athletics, that shit does not matter anymore

    The validity of your first point is called into question by the inanity of your second point. Academic talk is front and center in the original shit talking post because we are examining the entirety of the product, in this case, a shithole institution in a shithole state.

    5 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    Are they soon to join the SEC? 

    West Texas State University would like a word with you. 

    I mean they do have the actually cool Palo Duro Canyon close by and the riveting city of Amarillo... so maybe a bad comparison.

    I was deliberate in discussing "major" or P4 schools as the comparison. There's probably 1000 small or largely unknown schools that we can discuss otherwise. 

  5. 44 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Certainly but would you be excited for a home and home with any of them? Maybe a road visit once but imagine looking at the non-con schedule and its fucking Syracuse

    Part of my point* is that Mississippi State brings nothing to the table. They are in a shit location, with shit academics, with shit athletic history, with a shit brand. All of those schools you named bring at least something to the table, and many of them bring a lot to the table. 

    "Illinois, Syracuse, Minnesota, Maryland, Rutgers, Purdue, Northwestern, Michigan st"

    NW is a great academic school. The rest are mostly decent to good, with Syracuse ranking the lowest at 75, a full 133 spots ahead of Mississippi State. NW is in Chicago. It's an awesome away game to visit if you like a cool big city, murder rate notwithstanding. MSU, Minny, Syracuse, they all have solid to excellent football histories. Minny is in a big city too, albeit not a visit I would call "cool", but I've only visited the twin cities for business. 

    I could get excited about a few of those trips, but I can extol the virtues of some or all parts of those schools and programs with a straight face compared to MSU. 

    *Another part of my point was that running over an also-ran like Mississippi State also gave me the chance to take potshots at multiple other shitheel schools that I don't like or respect in the original post.

    13 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

    Ye of little or no adventurous spirit….

    Spent last night enjoying North Shore Pontchartrain now halfway to Starkville.  

    Sunday night dinner at Galatoire’s and spend night at The Ritz to re-acclimate.

    Reports will be filed 

    Hey, look, I like to take CFB road trips. I was supposed to go to UK and Georgia this year but life stuff intervened. Been on 30+ visits away from Austin either way. That said, I don't have Starkville in my future plans unless I have a kid that becomes a starting QB there or something crazy. 

  6. 59 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Zero chance on planet earth that he only got a single enchilada...sure would be a shame if someone slipped some queso into that salsa right @Wulaw Horn

    Also, that looks like a burrito. I know Ketchum could eat his way through a city block of tex-mex, so surely it's just the picture and he's not actually that ignorant, right?

  7. 13 hours ago, MrBig said:

    The guy was caught on camera eating his fucking boogers, why are we surprised about this? I will die on this booger hill as long as I know Sark will come along and eat it. 

    I can't believe this is a question I am asking in this life, but when was Seven Win Steve caught on camera, eating boogers?

  8. 16 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

    Listen, I realize the Kentucky game was an absolute beating to watch. And for a lot of us, this year has not gone quite as we imagined it. And yet. And ... yet. Do you realize that there are just six weeks of regular season college football left? And that the offseason and its 200-plus days without football lies just over the horizon?

    So yes, it's fine to not be excited about the game tomorrow. It's OK to have some existential dread about the offense. But you should not, for one moment, forget that this is the best time of year. Football games every day of the week. Cooler weather arriving. These are the times, my friends.

    Excited? No. I doubt I could be excited to be playing a shitty Mississippi State team in any universe. I don't think I could be excited to be playing a great Mississippi State team in any universe, either, if I'm being totally honest. I find that school and program to be abysmally boring. They're the SEC version of Iowa State or Indiana or Wake Forest. Indiana is great this year and who is excited to play them? Mississippi State probably would be, I bet. 

    I am, however, anxiously looking forward to the game, for the reasoning you mentioned. There is nothing better than CFB season. I watched Teh Major get win #2 for the year last night against a Georgia State team that is now 1-7. A clash of 1-6 teams, and it was a great game to watch, especially while drinking homemade rye Manhattans. 

  9. 2 hours ago, Helobious said:

    ChatGPT? Also lol at just 2 beta males heeding ctj’s call to arms for a mass negging of me. I am the people’s champion.

    I know you huffed too much spray paint as a child to likely fathom this, but what the hell - I didn't call for your negging. I'm not a moderator and I don't mind if someone, even you, liked some idea of mine and made something out of it. I didn't even neg you, doofus. You could have attributed the source, at least, but my expectations of what you're capable of are so low that I can't even be annoyed about that. I'm just kind of amazed you figured out how to start your own thread.

  10. 2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Oh let me use a bunch of words and anecdotes to get the point across and throw in a strong hedge on all previous points. You do the exact same shit so who gives a fuck. Remember how big of a bitch you were about Baker when hired and then you hedged? Yeah we all remember. Same for sark when he was hired and your latest prognosis with a strong hedge. The only reason you hedge late is because it gives you an out for when you’re wrong. Sack up. You fucking know we’re never winning shit with Sark so cut the bullshit. 

    Hahahaha. @Lerka Lerka here is an example of someone putting in way too much effort. This dude's original post was one sentence long. He apparently went back and looked through posts of mine in order to find subjects he could attempt to poke holes. He edited his post 30+ minutes later. 

    And BO&W, the "we all remember" notion is comical coming from you, given that your use of the royal "we" on this board implies that you're working within some sort of peer set. I thought one of the central tenets of being an incel was always approaching circumstances as an outsider and living without alliances? 

  11. 3 minutes ago, Lerka Lerka said:

    Fatalistic certitude & nattering nabobs. Ok

    You guys are trying way too hard. 

    What I wrote took virtually no effort. I'm usually posting to avoid actual effort in some form.

    "nattering nabobs of negativity" is a famous line from Spiro Agnew from when, I believe, he was being pressured to resign from the vice presidency during the Nixon regime. Again, I'm guessing that took no real effort. 

    If you want effort, we should have a real alliteration or metaphor contest as it relates to this season and our varying levels of despondence. 

  12. 50 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Ryan Day was on the verge of getting fired last year after the Michigan loss. He stepped in, they had a great playoff run, and look like they have things figured out now. But that one example can't do all the heavy lifting. There are different variables and it's impossible to replicate. 

    OC duties were snatched from Jimbo and he was fired not long after. 

    If Sark wants to give up play calling, great. If it's forced on him at all, we're probably doomed. 

     

    There are plenty of examples of guys who were valued for their work as OCs or DCs who eventually gave up the playcalling role as an HC. Saban, Drinkwitz and Mack Brown are easy examples to recall either due to proximity or recency. There are many examples of guys who refused to drop being a playcaller and it cost them their jobs. Will Muschamp and Billy Napier are easy examples for this board. 

    Now, name the guys who called plays and won national titles, real quick. Spurrier is one. Who else? Sir Edward Beauregard Orgeron, Esq., certainly didn't. Meyer? Nope. Smart? Nope. Swinney? Nope. Carroll? Stoops? Nope. I guess Jimbo Fisher, somewhat hilariously, is another.

    Point is, you can find one about every dozen years or so who did it. The rest of the guys dating back to the early 90's were all very involved with their sides of the ball, but they recognized what needed to happen in order for them to truly win. There is a boneyard full of HC tenures in which the guy couldn't let go of his shiny object and cost himself, his program, his players, and the program's fans a shot at greatness. It's just selfishness. We've already pointed out that the results for Sarkisian are visibly short of elite and the trend is decidedly negative, and the sample size is not small. His case for continuing down this path is paper thin. 

  13. 5 hours ago, LCHorn said:

    I don’t think he would be done that fast, but he’s going to be dealing with more intense NIL donor fatigue this offseason and CDC is going to be unable to shield him from making semi-public* his plan for fixing it.  

    *in other words, it’ll leak out a little here but it’ll mostly be shared with the luxury box types.  
     

    I know everyone is repeating that Sark the OC has to go-which is weird, that’s his strength.  Sark the GM is what needs to go.  

    Sarkisian as a CEO has been close to elite. That cannot be said for his performance, ever, as an OC while also the HC. Sorry. You cannot find data and cite it to support a counter to the notion that the OC role is not a strength for Sarkisian while also head coaching. 

    As to the rest, a lot of you guys are chiming in about how this will be handled before the season outcome is even known. If Texas somehow goes 9-3, no one here has a fucking clue what will or won’t be done in public or private. 5-7 to 7-5, sure. Above that, we have no idea. 

    41 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

    This is laughable. Name the amount and I’ll bet you he’s not fired or forced to resign before the ‘28 season. 

    I want Sarkisian to work out and win titles at Texas and I think he can, which isn’t how I saw the hire on 1/2/21. That said, I feel like him failing ahead of 2028 is a reasonable hedge to my outlook, based on what I’ve seen this year. If you’re taking bets from anyone, I’ll take the counter to your position for $500. 

  14. 4 hours ago, JohnnyTapia said:

    Is it true Becton was hired because the players under Herman complained about Yancy McKnight so CDC went more towards a speed/endurance ST coach in Becton?

    ST was in reference to Special Teams, not Becton. Also, whoever told you that CDC played a role in hiring Becton seems super informed. 

    2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    I’ve heard sark and flood are beefing.  Weird that flood would want big humans to play finesse.  
     

    he will likely be the manny to mack brown ie fired mid year 2026 to save his own job

    I keep hearing this shit about Flood and Sarkisian “beefing” from you guys that like to sniff some the farts of some of the more idiotic $9.95ers in Texas’ orbit. I’ve asked about it to several folks and it sounds like this is bullshit or story-inflation. 

    Beyond that, I just fucking typed out that Flood isn’t calling the shots with approach to how the line needs to be blocking. Sarkisian has always run a soft offense, long before Flood was involved. 

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