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  1. The Astros fired multiple people including the Manager and GM, at the league's behest. They were fined the league-max allowable amount of $5M. They lost 1st and 2nd round draft picks for 2 consecutive seasons. What in the fuck are you talking about with "no real repercussions"? That is about as ignorant a take as one could have on that subject. Good fucking grief, dude.
  2. You realize the guy was talking about the drive when it was 27-7, right? Why not show those? I have no idea what they'd reveal, but that would be helpful to confirming or debunking his point than showing screengrabs when the game had transformed.
  3. Here's something else I didn't realize until right now and, fucking wow. Apparently Texags and Liucci run the official NIL program for the school. I'm not talking about the Texags version. I'm talking about the Texas Aggies United. Some guy on 247 involved with it comes onto a thread about it and declares that Texags and Liucci "only run the servers for us" which is hilariously specious. Oh, does Texags have a monopoly on server management and infosec for aggies? Absurd. Anyway, here's some poster's response who has respect on the board and seems like a relatively intelligent and level-headed poster from other things I've seen. He mentions something that I hadn't considered, but it is quite insidious and he clearly is alluding to it happening before - Texags and Liucci turning over personal data to the AD when they've got a problem with posters. Now, NIL donors will also be at risk. Imagine if @immamac and @blacklab were often turning over info about posters to the LHF or AD? Holy shit. Anyway, here is the post: Mac1014 "RayRay11 said... (original post) It all really sucks. The only thing I’ll say is the Texas Aggies united NIL fund is not going to TexAgs. They run the website for us. That’s it. But Mac knows that." No, I don't know that. Nobody knows who is running this entity, right? Fair or not that would present a challenge for anyone wanting to stroke checks. Nobody knows what all goes on in the Texags frat house, but we do know they are a shady bunch and anything that outfit has a hand in becomes suspect. The blaring narrative right now is that, accurate or not, everyone blames A&M's establishment for being an 8 win school. They want new blood running things and people with expectations etc etc (right?) They want to be like Texas and Bama and LSU and fire coaches after three years of nonperformance. It's y'alls deal of course, and we all applaud you guys for trying hard and spending time playing around with it all. You get to see how the cake is baked and be a part of it so I'm sure it's fun to a point....but think of it like this. If you're a MAGA person, Texags represents the 'deep state' or the 'swamp' if you will....and in the spirit of fairness if you're a liberal, Texags represents MAGA people, (hopefully that covers everybody). So it only makes it tougher to a degree having TexAgs attach their name to it. It paints an image of Muffchin carrying Sharp's luggage on a weekend hunting trip with Jimbo since we've all seen what Muffchin & Co is willing to do to maintain locker room access. Anything with a 'Texags' moniker on it brings up the fact that they work for the athletic department and you never know when they are going to decide to reveal people's personal information to maintain access, or do anything they are told to by the powers that be. Everybody sees how they censor that board, and we see the b.s. Billy puts out there online and on his tours of interviews on the SEC Network with Marty & McGee and Finebaum and what-not. It's embarrassing and nauseating. Of course TexAgs has 854154801 subscribers, so I'm certain it presents a large pool to draw a gozillion $250 p/yr donors from, but I'm guessing you guys are needing more 5 and 6 figure donors to keep players from bolting in the portal. Either way, good luck to you guys because you're probably going to need a ton of money to hold onto talent around here while Jimbo gets QB's crippled and blames it on players not executing for 6 straight years. 4 top 10 classes in 6 years and he can't beat teams that haven't had top 15 classes. That's a hard ticket to sell, I'm sure.
  4. "natty" Maybe this is the problem with Orangebloods and the idiots running and reporting for it. They should stop getting their behind the scenes injury updates from aggies. Also, is the a player in FBS football that doesn't put on their pads aspiring to win a national championship? That's the dumbest, most thoughtless update a reporter could provide. "This athlete really wants to win!" No shit, stumblefuck?
  5. I love it when guys float in randomly to this thread, after story after story has been posted and give it the old "someone tell me why this is a big deal, I mean come on, really?" maneuver. Michigan set up a system, and budgeted for it, to scout and steal signs and playcalls in advance of playing opponents. They married signals to playcalls using analytics and then waited for each play in games to alert both their offense and defense of what was coming. In doing so, they violated a bunch of NCAA and Big 10 rules. It's a measure that tears at the very fabric of the integrity of the game. If I know what 22 players on each snap are going to do, more or less, and you're on the other side and you don't, I have removed significant variance from the game and have taken artificial control of it. This is a big fucking deal and it should piss you off that someone has been doing this if you love this sport.
  6. I am guessing the guys bitching about the cherry picking of a certain amount of games to suit a narrative is doing so without a hint of irony while doing that exact thing when talking about playing Texas.
  7. Torbush. Did not expect that one.
  8. People keep talking about aggie depth and talent for 2024. I would like to know what people are thinking when they do this. I've spoilered my thoughts due to length:
  9. In today's injury update, Fisher stated that Moss is day to day. He stated that he expects Max Johnson to play on Saturday. Fatheree and Grimes remain permanently out. No one asked about Evan Stewart and Fisher didn't mention him. Here's the deal - this guy straight up lies about this shit and his reporters let him. He was very confident in Weigman returning quickly until, well, he couldn't. The wink and nod not asking about Stewart is pretty reprehensible. Watching Carter Karels offer this logic is absurd: "Carter KarelsSTAFF 'Zip90aggie said... (original post) Surprised no one asked for an update on Evan Stewart, rather than assuming he is returning to practice this week.' I will try to ask him about several guys during the SEC Teleconference Wednesday. A&M typically does not know about the status of guys until Monday or Tuesday each week, so it can sometimes be pointless to ask about guys Monday when they don’t have all the info on them yet. Also, there’s a lot of guys to ask about right now." ---- What in the fuck does "A&M typically does not know about the status of guys until Monday or Tuesday" even mean? Stewart didn't play on Saturday. It's two days later. Is his "injury" healing up or isn't it? That is a question that should be asked and a question a coach should know.
  10. There are few things more pathetic in major CFB than the Big 10 West. Thank goodness that shit tank gets destroyed after this season, Jesus.
  11. Their ability to retain Reuben Owens will wholly come down to their ability to be the highest bidder this offseason. That's it. Not sure what kind of market he'll have, so it might not be a big deal, but that dude isn't going somewhere that isn't paying him the most that he could get.
  12. I'll be there in December too. Probably Saturday, 12/17. If you're there then, please do not shout dickbutt or anything else. There's no way I could explain any of it to my wife or the other couple, and, hell, my wife is even familiar with Surly. So hopefully we don't burn it to the ground this week. Or end up at the Spearmint Rhino upon leaving there.
  13. If you're at Piero's on Thursday night, shout "dickbutt" and I'll send @SydneyCarton over to give you a wedgie.
  14. Ha. Yeah, I talked about this in a later post. SMU is "really efficient" except they also suck and would be 4-5, 3-6 or 2-7 in a P5, just like Cincinnati, UCF, and UH. They've absolutely feasted on: Prairie View A&M (4-5 at HBCU level), La Tech (3-7), Charlotte (3-6), East Carolina (1-8), Temple (3-6), Tulsa (3-6), and then beat Rice (4-5) and played OU and TCU somewhat close. They're being rewarded for somewhat close losses to a mediocre and a good P5 team and then acting like a bully against a schedule that would make Bill Snyder blush. They haven't beaten a team with a winning record. The only one left on their schedule is Memphis. People want to worship at the altar of advanced statistics and then you see SMU being a driver of value. Okay then. They should be used and understood, but they shouldn't merit religious adherence. That's where things sit for baseball and I understand that due to sample sizes and total measurable events. That bridge will never be crossed when you're working with limited data points due to one game per team per week.
  15. Reuben Owens can't get many reps on the field because he is a complete liability as a blocker. Stewart may or may not have had an actual injury. Brownlow-Dindy hasn't played a snap in weeks. They're speculating that he's heading to the portal.
  16. Snapcount Tracker: The Texas A&M football team saw 36 of its players receive snaps on offense (18) and defense (18) in its 38-35 loss to No. 10 Ole Miss in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on Saturday. The snap counts for each Aggie player vs. the Rebels – and for the whole season – can be seen below. Offense (81 total plays) Quarterback: Max Johnson (81). Offensive line: Trey Zuhn III (81), Layden Robinson (81), Bryce Foster (81), Chase Bisontis (48), Mark Nabou Jr. (45), Dametrious Crownover (40) and Kam Dewberry (36). Running back: Amari Daniels (50), Le’Veon Moss (20) and Rueben Owens II (12). Fullback: Earnest Crownover (8). Tight end: Max Wright (52) and Jake Johnson (40). Wide receiver: Jahdae Walker (69), Ainias Smith (57), Noah Thomas (52) and Moose Muhammad III (38). Defense (74 plays) Defensive line: McKinnley Jackson (47), Fadil Diggs (40), Walter Nolen (36), Albert Regis (34), Malick Sylla (31), Shemar Stewart (31), Isaiah Raikes (31), Shemar Turner (28) and LT Overton (18). Linebacker: Edgerrin Cooper (69), Taurean York (64) and Chris Russell Jr. (15). Defensive back: Demani Richardson (74), Bryce Anderson (74), Jacoby Mathews (63), Jayvon Thomas (58), Sam McCall (51) and Josh DeBerry (50).
  17. I think there are serious maturity issues with individuals on the team who are otherwise solid to excellent players, irrespective of their age/class. It seems like big leads become something of a problem for maintaining focus. That's maturity. I think Texas misses Catalon in this regard in the secondary. Beyond that, and I was watching the game from the South End Zone so I do not know if this is true or just how I felt while watching it unfold, but it looked like Kwiatkowski went soft in coverage after picking up the 27-7 lead. They marched it right down and scored in ways that they weren't able to move the ball earlier. After that drive, Murphy pulled his stupid fucking stunt and you could feel the ground moving on all players on each side of the ball. KSU's fans started a "KSU! KSU!" chant during the stoppage before the extra point attempt at 27-27. The stadium collectively boo'ed them down for it, the team missed the EP and Texas seemed to get some footing again. College football is a beautiful sport in part because of the mysteries it provides each week with the behaviors and momentum shifts of young men.
  18. Ha. Jimbo will tear a page out of the Sir Edward Beauregard Orgeron, IV Esquire playbook: 'Coach, you got $76 million dollars on your contract; we’re going to give it to you.’ “I said, ‘What time you want me to leave and what door do you want me to walk out of, brother?’”
  19. I'll start mixing in some Eight Win Esteban for you. Let's hope a Nine Win X becomes a need soon.
  20. There are 65 P5 teams. If you would take Chandler Morris over 33 starting QBs on those 65 teams because of a QBR buoyed by Nicholls fucking State and SMU, then have at it. I mean, if you come back and say you would, you're either lying to carry your specious position forward or you really don't have any idea what in the fuck you are talking about and just stare at the data all day while the games are being played. The last defense with a pulse that Chandler Morris played held him to a QBR below 23. This will be the best defense he has played all year, should he play, but hey, maybe he's got some serious Donovan Smith in him and you can hang your hat on that happening again. I'm not a strict eyeball test guy and I am not a slave to statistics. You live and die by the latter and dismiss the former. That's fine, but you can spare me the "maybe you don't understand how the FPI is calculated" nonsense. I review all of the advanced statistics. I also know that there is a very high degree of bullshit coming out of them at this point in the season if they are still factoring in last year and preseason rankings. They're all mostly full of shit on how they incorporate SOS into the advanced ratings output, too. None of them incorporate injuries either, but, hey, live and die by them. Seven Win Steve does too! TCU is still chasing Colorado. KSU made a mockery of them. They've feasted on Nicholls State, UH and BYU, defensively. They had an excellent game against SMU on that side of the ball and SMU is a darling opponent in the advanced stats machines, including FPI, but that's a laughable issue for anyone paying attention. Texas Tech is poo and TCU was hapless against them for stretches. I absolutely believe that TCU can beat Texas, but they are a bleh football team. A bunch of you advanced stats honks are offering up the not-so-fast on them today, I've seen it now in articles and on 3 sites. Due to limited overall data sets, advanced stats in college football are always going to have flaws and there are teams every year that are mysteries even to the designers of the machines. If TCU is rated as anything but an absolute mediocrity this season, they are one of those teams.
  21. The guy is a billionaire. He's just out there doing whatever the fuck he wants and that appears to be trolling the entire Falcons fanbase. I'm not sure what they did to him earlier in his life, but he appears to really fucking hate those people.
  22. "Smoke"? You guys need to go back and watch the play where Moss got hurt. It looked Willis McGahee-esque. They didn't show a replay and they went to extended commercials. I get that Fisher waxed positive about him not needing surgery, but he did the same about Weigman. I assume the guy has to be done. Regarding Johnson, the player would also need to want to come back. People on the ATM side are indicating that he's completely done.
  23. They switched from man to zone. They might as well have shown him video of them running a train on his girlfriend. He fell completely apart after the script ran through and KSU started adjusting coverages to deal with Mitchell.
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