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RomaVicta

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  1. Two nets! Count 'em, two! I have no idea what any of this means. I guess I just don't get financial genius.
  2. Not according to this genius:
  3. Or if his offense requires more than 1.04 seconds to release the ball.
  4. Typical TexAgs parrot responses to someone posting an unfavorable opinion: He's always hated us. His brother graduated from tu. Who? People still listen to him? He used to be good (when he opined nicely about us), but now he's turrible. Journalism is dead. (Actually, fairly new but still worn out.) They've been shilling for tu forever. He hates us because we beat his school 32 years ago. This is why we need a journalism school. They hate that we're taking college football over. We're not an 8-4 program [anymore].
  5. Your generation's achievements continue to astound and amaze.
  6. He looks the part. I find it depressing, but we can't tell what it all means yet. At least, I don't think we can. I'm wondering if all of these starting players leaving their schools are doing so based on what guys like them got paid last year in the portal. I don't think there was a glut last year. This year appears to be providing a look at what happens when the market is flooded with good players. I gather from @closetojumping that Texas, a big-money player, is pressed to meet the payroll at current prices. Perhaps the current flood of players drives NIL payments down thus deterring so many players valuabe to their current teams from entering. I'm not happy seeing medium size schools getting gutted. I'm not sure I like the feeling of picking over the free-agent market with NFL attitudes. But who cares, right? They were all mercenaries to start with. That or we've created a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  7. Yea, it's been a pretty rough year for tu and those sippies. If we don't make the playoff, I guess the whole season will have been a failure. And we hoped not to be an 8-4 program. Really sad. Ha ha ha! Sippies all pissed off and crying while we're in our expensive facilities with Cap'n Elko! I so hate it when they call us sippies.
  8. You just don't get it. He's at Texas A and M University. Listen to Bjork. Listen to Texags. It's the best place in the world to coach, and you must earn your right to be there. Robinson is there because he loves it and feels blessed. The last two years have proven that A&M is not an 8-4 program. A&M is not an arrogant and self-important place like tu. Robinson isn't going anywhere.
  9. Over on Texags Ross Bjork recaps search that resulted in Texas A&M landing Mike Elko Let's take a look at Bjork and A&M's uncanny ability to hire three high level coaches. ¹ (Joni Taylor) She joined the University of Georgia staff in 2011, spending one season as an assistant coach, before being promoted to associate head coach. In April 2015, Coach Landers announced his retirement and gave full support for Taylor to replace him. She became only the second full-time head coach in program history.[1][2] Taylor coached her team to a 21–10 record in her inaugural year, including five wins against ranked opponents and an invitation to the NCAA tournament, which earned her the Spalding Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach of the Year award.[3] ² (Jim Schlossnagle) He then served as the head coach of the UNLV Rebels (2002–2003) and the TCU Horned Frogs (2004–2021). Schlossnagle has been named a National Coach of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association in 2010 and by Baseball America in 2016, and he has won 8 conference Coach of the Year awards in his 16-year head coaching career.[1] ³ (MIke Elko) On December 13, 2021, Elko was announced as head coach at Duke.[8] In his first season, the Blue Devils went 9–4 with a win in the Military Bowl. In 2023, Duke began the season with an upset 28–7 win over Clemson, and finished the regular season 7–5. Pretty much all equal in terms of being sitting head coaches. As Bjork says, "It's a testament to A&M." I bet he thought this was really sharp, top drawer, and brilliant. Oh, there's more. We all saw this coming: Bjork is really full of himself: Contrary to all appearances and accounts, he's absolutely correct. Also, I don't think he gets the concept of having chops. I think he thinks it's the same thing as cojones. That is if he knows what cojones refers to.
  10. Had he gone to one of those places, it might actually have some semblance of fitting. I think he must have found one of RC's old suits in the secretary's closet.
  11. It's way too subtle for them to get it, but the funniest part to me is that they want a journalism school so they can train Aggie propagandists. Journalism is dead! Let's revive it by sending out homers!
  12. Um...you've had numerous highly ranked classes. You constantly talk about having the talent to win it all. You're obsessed with your #4 in the country talent rating. Maybe there's something to paying attention to character. Same guy: First sentence contradicts his earlier point. Hi-lighted portion is the kind of specious argument one expects on Texags. The only alternative to obsessively going after the top class without regard for character or roster balance is to abandon high-ranked players altogether. And maybe get past the Mississippi schools, Tennessee, App State, and a shitty Miami team before setting your sites on Georgia or Alabama. Or us.
  13. Dressin' like a millionaire. If that's a bespoke suit, it's saying, "Save me!" My build is closer to his than to Brad Pitt's, and I don't have need for a suit much. With his money, I'd have a perfectly fitted one. He's running and is the face of a big operation. It's his job to project and inspire confidence. Plus, I imagine tailored clothing feels great. ETA: I see that I'm on the cutting edge of responding to this.
  14. And, so close to killing another player. Just a few more blasts to Johnson's caved-in rib cage. Sigh. He'll never be the serial killer he is in his dreams.
  15. Yep, gonna be pretty rough. Texas has it hard in the grind. Yep, Texas has an easy schedule again. No grind. Yep, it's kind of a soft schedule but a grind at the same time. Makes perfect sense. Yep, the sips is lucky so they avoid the grind with luck. Milroe and that offense were critical in Texas controlling the ball for more than 7 minutes at the end of the game against the Crimson Tide D. Yep. It's gonna be a hell of grind against the great Arkansas team that has improved immensely since the thread was started. No off weeks in SEC! Yep, gonna be a grind to play traditional SEC powers like OU and MIchigan. Yep, pretty easy especially since Arkansas has declined since the middle part of the thread. No grind. That was fast, the Hogs are back! Devastation looms in the grind. GRIND! Yep, Florida, Kentucky, and Miss State have been on the same course as Arkansas and are forces for Texas to reckon with since their first mention earlier in the thread. Yep, not to much of a grind. Arkansas has evidently had a plane crash and Miss State has stumbled from the ranks of the comparative juggernauts. Gonna be a breeze! Yep, with SEC talent, the mighty Ags got their ass kicked. tu doesn't have SEC talent. Sadly, an ugly grind is on the way for the unsuspecting, soft tu longwhorns. Yep, cakewalk (whatever that is). Not only do we catch Arkansas and Miss State in the trough of their rollercoaster ride of formidability, but we get Georgia in Austin. Just another cake on the cake walk. Cake does not grind. All of you can. You'd win the natty in holding discordant ideas at the same time if there were a competition. There's not a competition because nobody else has institutionalized schizophrenia.
  16. They developed putting people on ignore before the internet. Impressive.
  17. I abhor the US prison system and the way so much of the public embraces the notion that long sentences spent as a victim to the strong is justice. Our prison system and vengence lust is among the most shameful things about the US in my opinion. I think I part ways with you on punishment/imprisonment being the only "rational" if used to deter crime. You seem to further assert that a person shouldn't be imprisoned if we can be certain deterrence won't work. I doubt that's what you mean to assert, but that's the way the language reads to me. I do believe that punishment by humane incarceration is a good policy. One abuses one's liberty if it's used to commit offenses against other citizens. The cost should be paid in forfeit liberty. I think our society functions better knowing that there are consequences for crimes. If the convicted commit another crime after release, then they pay by forfeiting more liberty. Abstracty, I'm fine with capital punishment for heinous crimes. I oppose capital punishment in this country because it's applied unjustly and too many mistakes are made. I saw Donald Trump commit high crimes. I'd be fine with hanging him for them. That won't happen. I want him in a cell providing a much needed example of blind justice. If he jets off to Argentina or Saudi Arabia, I want him brought back in chains for the same reason. I'm fine with the idea of punishment. I despise our system for its cruel inhumanity.
  18. According to a professor of mine, often this banishment was applied to persons getting too popular and holding too much sway with the people. Such a person could become a demagogue and lead the people to bad ends. According to the same professor (Gareth Morgan? RIP), such a banishment could be source of pride. These men were rich and could live in a nearby city-state. They weren't propelled into the desert or College Station.
  19. It's a big mistake not to keep this formula secret. Now everybody knows how to win a natty.
  20. I don't have any personal issues. I would have worked for a fraction of the price with the provision that I don't ever have to dance around doing their weird songs and cheers.
  21. You think any coach with self-respect, dignity, and proven ability wants any part of this: I don't see Kiffin or Day or anybody wanting any part of that without huge money.
  22. He's coming in ready to work day one. Gonna toughen up the team. Knows how to win a national championship. Understands A&M. Reveille sniffed his ass and nuts and barked approvingly. Widely respected. Buddy close to the tu team says they're all shitting their pants and pissing themselves. Sitting winning coach. 'Nuff said.
  23. They'll switch to incentive NIL so the players honored with a scholarship will have to prove they are good enough. This isn't an 8-4 program! Unless, of course, they have a pretty good year.
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