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closetojumping

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  1. I’m kind of ignorant on some of this, but I read the Friday night numbers as really strong. Is that wrong? It seems like this could become a pretty big deal with the way Fox is handling it and the numbers following. Hell, the freaking late night game on the CW on Friday drew over 500k. Also, is there any way to get data regarding the Texas/ULM stream? I know it was off in the hinterlands of the CFB landscape, but I’m wondering if there was any kind of bump due to Manning’s first start.
  2. I was mistaken regarding Anderson. He’s actually listed as probable, so I assume he’s playing.
  3. I was mistaken. Anderson is not questionable, he’s probable.
  4. Shanahan is out. I don’t even know if their $9.95ers know who is going to play C on Saturday. Anderson is questionable and that usually means he won’t play. That dude’s NFL stock is collapsing in real time. Good luck to them at S.
  5. Shanahan is out. I don’t even know if their $9.95ers know who is going to play C on Saturday. Anderson is questionable and that usually means he won’t play. That dude’s NFL stock is collapsing in real time. Good luck to them at S.
  6. Apparently the dude was swayed by Iowa State. Oklahoma has lost two DTs recently and now they’re going to have to reopen recruiting the position. Also, they should really look into Bear Alexander in the portal.
  7. I didn’t want him and USC deserves him. Fuck that fat shitbag.
  8. Guys, please keep up of the legal conversation on non-competes. The rest of us are fucking riveted.
  9. Geez. The aggie fanbase is loaded with weak-willed men. Ron Swanson would not approve.
  10. Christ. How much weed do we think this guy smoked? Is Captain Doobage running through so much of that shit that he’s at risk of flunking out or something?
  11. Has anyone watched the guy? I’ve seen a little of him. He’s a far better running QB than passing QB. UNLV is winning as much because of their defense as anything.
  12. I actually have been. Agreed it’s dead, which is kind of nice. Went to Carbone for the first time last night. It was fine, I don’t blame anyone that likes to go there. For. me, Piero’s is way better, way less expensive and you can almost always get a reservation, even day before-ish. The server last night explicitly stated that the Carbone veal parm was better than Piero’s, out of nowhere. So I had to try it. It was good but Piero’s is the best I have ever eaten, anywhere. And $45 less expensive. They’re building some sort of structure in front of the Bellagio fountains that I don’t recall reading about here. It looked permanent but construction and engineering are not my bailiwicks. The conference I attended was at Caesar’s, so I played some blackjack to bide time when the craps tables were dead. They were paying 3/2 on blackjack, which I haven’t seen on the strip in forever. I thought it might be a Caesar’s empire thing, but no, I played some blackjack with my wife after eating brunch at Mon Ami Gabi yesterday and it was back to the shitty 6/5.
  13. Are they saying this on their boards or something? Last I was over on the ND 247 board weeks ago, Loy or Lemming or one of their guys was touting the promise of Carr, the highly ranked true freshman. Taking a new QB every year seems unsustainable, but it’s a new frontier, I guess.
  14. Some thoughts are best tucked away and left to enjoy all on our own, Skipper.
  15. Man, that is really ugly and bad for everyone involved.
  16. Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?
  17. I have a friend who was dating Simms during that whole thing. She’s French and doesn’t give a shit about football, so she was totally ignorant and unprepared for what unfolded. Listening to her describe the overall experience and what he went through is both sobering and surreal. Mack mishandled it all, but Texas fans embarrassed all of us in that debacle. Texas should invite Simms back and recognize him the way they do so many of the past greats and celebrate him at a game. They’ve never done it. I know he never won a conference title and choked against CU and those teams never beat OU, but damn. My fear if they ever did have him on the field and show him on the big screen is that a bunch of the same fucking idiots would make his return feel shabby. That wouldn’t be on Mack. That would be on pieces of shit among our fanbase.
  18. Not really. He punched down just fine and then famously “got a ring” for all of the apologists and Lake Travis honks to point to, but beating up a bunch of midgets as a “can’t miss” five star isn’t anything to debunk his bust status at Texas and reveal the fact that he was overrated and sucked.
  19. I thought it was taking effect completely for this cycle. If not, my bad.
  20. He’ll be sitting a year, then. So will Arnold, for that matter.
  21. Aggie boards and social media now starting to talk about Weigman not showing up to practice. Heisman candidate transfer incoming! Dude is going to light the Big 12 on fire next year at Okie State.
  22. Aggie boards and social media now starting to talk about Weigman not showing up to practice. Heisman candidate transfer incoming! Dude is going to light the Big 12 on fire next year at Okie State.
  23. Obviously I didn’t have access, but I have some friends who did. One actually tried to speak truth to power in his own honest and unrefined way and paid a price for it. Same thing happened when Herman was in charge but the power dynamics for both sides were markedly different. Others tried to handle it more gently and would get left in the dark for small periods in order for Mack to remind them of who was in charge and the consequences for doubting him.
  24. Right. Everyone had it the whole way. Get fucked with this shit. We flew a fucking banner for the Iowa State game in 2010 in the midst of an 5-7 season but before it was fair accompli and the hue and cry from Shaggy posters was panic and angst over alienating Mack Brown. There was also the typical cabal of unfunny and joyless clowns who didn’t like it because of who was doing it, but that’s beside the point. The vast majority of Hornfans/Shaggy posters didn’t want to hear about it and had their head in the sand when it came to looking at what Brown and Co. we’re doing starting 2006. 2010 helped some but not all get religion. Many still defended Mack into the teens. Nowadays, the reality of the past is an orphan. The revisionist history has many fathers. I’ve been here the whole time and the notion that much of the board saw it straight is a fucking joke. I have the scars from it and I am always going to call bullshit on this kind of “shared history”. From 2006-2016, there isn’t a ton of shared history across the posterbase. @SydneyCarton @HenryJames good shit right here.
  25. The dude’s brother is a walk-on there or something. What could that guy possibly be telling him to keep him stably committed? I’ve said it before but if that QB willingly signs with ATM after seeing this season and hearing about the history of QB failure there, he immediately becomes the dumbest motherfucker on a college football roster.
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