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closetojumping

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  1. I like Fisch as a coach at a place like Arizona. I think he's going to consistently get a program like that to 8-5/9-4 records and they'll love him for it. Sumlin gutted that program. Watching Arizona games towards the end of his time there was brutal. Fisch's work there has been excellent. The bigger problem here is that ATM cannot handle being an 8-5/9-4 program, even though that is high performance for them, historically. No, instead, they don't just want a national title contending coach - they want a coach doing that year in and year out, and they want all of that right now. Texas A&M is the Veruca Salt of college football. They lack any self-awareness and they are entitled, rich, impatient, myopic, and dumber than a sack of rocks. They've never won a fucking thing, they are as average as unbuttered grits, and they're trapped in a triangle of college blue bloods (Texas, OU) and recent multi-decadal powers (LSU). It's wonderful to witness their complete obliviousness to their predicament and willingness to pull the bookshelf on themselves repeatedly as a result.
  2. My heart aches that your child won't understand the wonder and joy of: Oh's, Cocoa Pebbles, Capn Crunch Berries, Grape Nuts with 3 spoons of sugar, Frosted Flakes, Chocolate Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Life, Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Frosted Mini Wheats until they get to college and realize what you've been depriving them of, selfishly.
  3. Something else to consider is that one of Tech's good DTs is likely out for this game as well as their solid MLB. They've got a good DT to account for and good safety play. They're otherwise pedestrian on defense, especially without the injured and/or redshirting talent. I think bowl eligibility decompressed everything from the Tech end. Reading their 247 board and reading both the quotes from the staff and players after the UCF game and from the posters regarding the Texas game, everyone sounds resigned and relieved. I do not expect this to be a jihad game for Tech. Would McGuire and the boosters love to get the big victory? Sure, but it is now a luxury. I do think, with senior night and everything at stake for Texas, that Texas will be up. In watching that game and then seeing the stats, I'm shocked that Ballard had 20 attempts. It seemed like Liepold was going out of his way to prevent Ballard from throwing the ball.
  4. This isn't the kind of thing to post in a public forum. Confessing to borderline child abuse is a grim cry for help.
  5. As we've discussed previously here, everyone should expect the majority of UT recruits to drop over time in the On3 rankings as long as the current guys handling them are in charge. They think they're really smart and penalizing recruits that commit to UT is good business, since they believe they'll be justified when the players don't live up to the height or get drafted well.
  6. I think Gabriel will be 24 or 25 next year when he's buckling the old chin straps. It's all kind of annoying. NFL quality QBs aren't staying for 6-7 years, so schools like Texas kind of get screwed.
  7. Kittley wants an excuse to turn to the pass. There was an alleged come to Jesus meeting after the KSU game and he was given the mandate to impose the run. I expect Texas to shut down the run completely. Kittley will see the eye candy of the intermediate passing game and go for that. He doesn't have the horses for it. Texas doesn't seem to care a whole lot about giving up 300 yards passing if they can get to the QB and shut down the run. Tech has nothing at WR that is worrying. The QB is a below average P5 QB. The OL is mediocre. If this game doesn't look a lot like BYU or better, I'll be surprised.
  8. You spend a lot of time each week, and during the offseason, shitting yourself over all of the ways Texas will lose and fail to live up to standards. It seems like hard fucking work, so, good for you, I guess.
  9. Just want to give a shout out to @closetohumping for paying out on our wager. I mean, it was a terrible bet, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I feel like other guys took me up for less money, but I don’t have the inclination to go digging through pages trying to find it. Now if OU could lose this week to TCU …
  10. Oh, I don’t know, it may be appropriately remembered. I dare anyone to make the argument that they could sit through a second viewing. The Oscars have had some really bad phases, kind of like Texas football. The ‘80’s weren’t kind to either.
  11. Shedrick’s my boy. That was a fun game. I assumed the handwringing on this board would be at 11. Y’all did not disappoint. Glad this isn’t a loss that they’ll have to apologize for all year. Whew.
  12. Great, now that bitch-titted, Meatloaf-looking motherfucker can go ahead and get that shitty team up for one, and only one, game next year against Texas. It’s too bad for them that those fucking idiots don’t get to play Texas every week. Fucking mediocrities.
  13. Those dorks continue to win a metric fuckton of games they never play, all the while we are getting our asses whipped in a bunch of games we never play. I like the part where they talk about the hypothetical beating Texas would take if they had to play Alabama. Man, it’s too bad these things can’t get settled on the actual field.
  14. We need a moniker for 10 Win Steve. It is imperative if we’re to expect him to get to Eleven Win Esteban.
  15. When they were 3-0, you bet your ass I was sweating it. 6 wins. We marked 5-7 bowl eligibility as trash and not the intent of the bet. You have my payment info in prior DMs. It was nice doing business again, good sir.
  16. They tout this like it’s a good thing. This is insane.
  17. We didn’t understand what we had until it was too late. I’d gladly give him away for free right now. Maybe try watching some other CFB games besides Texas every now and then. Jesus.
  18. Nothing wrong with being a Major fan, I guess. My wife and daughter had the bright idea to adopt a cat for my daughter’s birthday a few years back. Instead of getting a kitten, as agreed to, they brought home a juvenile that turned out to be a fucking “savannah cat” descendent with orange fur named “Cheeto”. My wife renames this little asshole “Major”. So I’ve had Major and one of his fans irritating me with bullshit for long after the actual dipshit got busted nailing a fat trainer and shown the door at UT.
  19. Not by people who knew what they were talking about who worked at Bama or cover the sport.
  20. Schumann is benefitting from just being in Smart's orbit. People around the sport and who know those guys don't see Schumann as some sort of wunderkind. I would love that hire. Swinney is Jimbo Fisher Part Deux. His folksy shit would work at ATM to an extant, but he's an idiot beyond the schtick and the game has passed him by, even though he's pretty young. He won before the portal and before NIL by creating the whole notion of family and running payments in a high quality bag game through a church and with the help of a $9.95ers helping funnel things. On top of all of this, he'd cost an arm and a leg both in the Clemson buyout and in salary.
  21. Ha. No shit? Quoting me from 5+ years ago kind of hints at that.
  22. Who is terrified of Traylor coaching at ATM? I think it is a crapshoot as to whether or not he would work out there, but I think there are guys I'd prefer to see them land, like Swinney or Schumann.
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