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RomaVicta

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  1. William's a weird guy. Is he saying he will adopt asses and raise them to be big jerks? He should really consult Olin, TexAgs Poet Laureate, about communicating in English. One of the greatest sentences ever written/uttered: Fascinating. I think now we all have a clear understanding of where William draws his line. He surely knows about rights! Nice things. You feel really good. Nice. There's that top 10 class which is about 7th in the SEC. Nice. Great job with player retention. Nice. The MAC and Missouri Valley conferences aren't getting their guys back! Feelin' good. Optimism. Have another gummy. 1 William is off script. It's Sark's first year that they compare themselves to. Standby for confused parrots. 2 What doesn't? 3 Both what things? Starting 3-13 and something not happening overnight? Those are the same things. 4 In its totality? What? Both things? 5 There is a reality of how you finished, and it should be. WTF? 6 Is there somebody else in the room that nobody but William sees? 7 Inside, William has contradictions. An enema wrapped in an igmo struggling to connect thoughts and words. Yes! You don't want to apply real pressure until just the right moment. That right moment is when the score is 17-14 in a game you lost 17-7 where your coach says you were physically annihilated. If only that perfect moment to apply pressure had happened. Sadly, the real pressure stayed in the holster. Interesting premise, William. I'm sure you're right. It's certainly that and not: I'm beginning to think Olin or William's mom or maybe even Dreamy Brauny should review the meaning of "both" to William. William owns the double negative, though.
  2. Different strokes for different folks. As long as no one is getting hurt, live it up.
  3. Elko doesn't look like he's calling anything. He just walks around on the sideline looking either exasperated or dumbfounded. At least he's always dressed like a millionaire. The white mumu with ol' Sarge never fails to impress.
  4. Thank you, @Longhornfrenzy, as always. Now William Liucci speaks of the situation. He refers to Coach Culture as a dude. William Starfucker wants to get chummy with Elko or at least appear to be chummy with Head Coach Belch. In case he is reading the column, William butters up his soon-to-be close personal friend (who likes butter a lot!) with a ringing endorsement at this very dark hour. Now, William on winning: No shit, Bill. Who are you quoting and what does in the moment momentum mean? How does it differ from regular momentum? So it is with all forms of momentum. One imagines the country with mouths agape and eyes filled with excited admiration of the giant awakening. Everyone would be talking about A&M. "How did a dog ass team like that get to the SEC championship game? They need to take a look at their selection process." Tangible momentum? William doesn't understand either word, apparently. It's right up there with NIL on the list of things Aggies don't understand. No shit, Bill. Gonna be a big jump for the team and players currently on the roster. But, you gotta hit the portal hard because of all the shitty players we have. Here's an interesting rumination on the separation of culture and good football: Um, what's the proof of a good culture? I'm no football genius, but playing disciplined football might be an indicator. Elko said the same thing in his post game remarks. The culture is in, so good football is next. Everybody over there said the new culture had taken hold in the summer (Looky! We have all the players at practice today!) The players said so, too. They still played pretty shitty football. I think the grasp of culture over there is similar to their grasp of NIL and momentum. Here's a terrific idea! I'm sure they're both grateful to you, William. You know, Coach Elko, maybe you could talk to my close personal friend Dave Campbell. Might do you good and drive away some of the sadness. I assume you mean Dan Campbell. Sure, (urp) I'll get right on that. Hi Coach Campbell, it's Loochi. (long, long silence) Billy Liucci. (long, long silence) You the asshole that my girl has been dating that's always asking for a sideline pass? Listen, Bub- No! Billy Li-uuu-cci. Owner and Editor and Proprietor of TexAgs. O God, what do you want? I was thinking you and Coach Elko could get together to talk about his rough season. That's a result of thinking? Yessir. I'll facilitate the meeting if you like. My mom's house would work perfectly. I'll put you on the line with my personal assistant. (dial tone) Hmmm. Must have messed up the transfer. This whole idea reminded me of how TexAgs produced a number of posts suggesting Calzeda be hosted at a BBQ by Aggie fathers and distinguished corps guys who would buck him up and give him tips on manly manfulness.
  5. To a non-gambler, ridiculing a person for not risking more money at a gaming table seems strange. If you're getting a kick out of being at the (evidently) despised $25 table, why risk more? I will say his appearance suggests either the $3 table or beneath a blue tarp would be appropriate environs.
  6. The parrots have created reality through repetition: Sark didn't recruit them. Sark didn't coach them to any effect. Sark has little to do with the success of the program since his second year. They bought him a roster. You know why the idiots who agree with this idiot hold to this? They proclaimed Sark a drunk incompetent who never won anywhere and wouldn't win at Texas. To hold onto that absurdly wrong claim, the parrots in this flock must say coaching doesn't matter in order to hold their ground on Sark. It's the Aggiest thing in the world. Be wrong or do wrong, and the world must be changed to make you right. Every riot they started in the last century was started by the other side doing something horrible, usually to an aged grandmother or war veteran. They're the greatest school and student body in the world and only conspiracies keep the world from seeing the truth or allowing the Aggies to prove their manly manful ascendancy over all. They hit the portal hard. We buy players. A distinction without a difference. ETA: I wrote this before seeing @HtownHorn's post. Alas, I become a parrot.
  7. Good post. They also seem to think only one thing explains Texas' rise under Sark. They don't recognize complexity very well. They have their own 2022 class as a painful lesson that this kind of thinking is just wrong. Sark pays attention to who will fit and who will not fit into our locker room. You still need cohesion within the team. Sark has an excellent coaching staff. Money doesn't just go to players; it must also go to staff. You need a coach with relationships and reputation who can attract staff. @closetojumping kept us posted on Texas' methodical and far-sighted approach to setting up sustainable NIL. I think Aggies really think trucks full of cash back up to players' homes and that's it. You need strategic planning. Self-criticism is key to any successful operation. Hanging on to old approaches and traditions and habits is fatal in a competetive field. That's a ball and chain the Aggies will likely never escape. They're sure A&M is damn near perfect and only needs a tweak or two. They love everything about the place. Longhorns are vicious critics of their school and teams. That's just part of it. I don't know how the whole operation works which is good. I have no expertise. Myriad details matter to success in CFB. The people on TexAgs who realize this will lead a frustrating existence every autumn banging their heads on the walls of intransigence. It's so entertaining. I'm obsessed with it, and I don't care. It's like anthropology.
  8. Too late. The Texas toxicity is here now. Poison from without forever. You forgot a couple: Odd claim that doing poorly in the first year necessarily leads to nattys! Absolute denial that what you just watched was fucking bad, man. Really, really bad. Ouch. That looks like a nickname that could stick. True. I do think USC had a moment of, "I can't believe we're going to lose to these loudmouth nobody clowns." A&M was already convinced they'd won yet again. Wouldn't a great culture have you bearing down instead spiking the ball before you cross the goal line? Isn't this overblown opinion of yourselves part of what Elko thinks he replaced? Fun times ahead. Good to see the SEC patch still proves you're big time. Nothing says "big time" more than having your conference mates nickname you Texas 8&4. Elko isn't the only entity in over their head. I'm reminded of William telling the parrots that big time coaches were contacting A&M last winter dying to be the one to wake the giant. Their selection committee ends up with Mark Stoops and Mike Elko as the top two. I guess Lane failed the phone interview along with all the other big-timers calling to get in on big time SEC football.
  9. Where's the Twinkies? I had 'em right here. I know you love a good Twinkie with your cerveza. Sir, your bet. Just hold your goddamn horses. Honey, is it under those little chocolate donuts? Sir! Your bet. (Turns to angrily toss chip. Knocks over Corona. Farts. Table clears.)
  10. The bowls I've watched have been really good. I usually turn them on for the fourth quarter. I wonder if taking the top dozen teams out of the mix makes for more even match ups and better games. It's funny that the even match up here was A&M with their builiding blocks for next season against an almost entirely depleted 6-6 USC. Aggies would have murdered a team of USC walk-ons and band members, but the second team? Too salty.
  11. The same. I sorta love repartee, but when the other person opens with idiocy, I give a mild smile and just let it sit out there. Very satisfying. I'm a small person to think so, but it's so very gratifying to win with silence. These are tips from the pros for all you kids out there.
  12. Elko belches at press conference at about the 2:10 mark. Burp. Also says his mind is blown that his secondary doesn't understand zone coverage. We've heard about the players showing up for practices, but was Elko there? Defense is terrible. He will never watch another defense that bad. They got the culture of hard work, accountability, caring about each other and the other stuff none of which were there when he took over. Next is building a football team. I think the Elk is in over his head. I think the defensive staff will be shaken up, but weren't these the best guys Elko could draw when he came aboard?
  13. I find it amusing that guys who are not even in the corps of cadets talk up A&M as a military school. Stolen fake glory.
  14. They spent a few weeks trying to tout that as the most exciting game ever played. Sorta like they wanted Manziel to be considered the greatest of all time player.
  15. Lose four of your last four, it's a disastier. Lose three of your last four, it's a hell of year. There is a lot riding on the Midnight Yawn Bowl against a 6-6 team that's lost all of its players. I'm not sure about the coaches' outrage at a factual statement. Oh, wait, William isn't reporting on the team; he's reporting for the team. Weird statement no matter what. It's culture, understanding stuff, feelin' good. Look at all the injured guys and guys no good teams want coming back in true Aggie fashion! They're bought in. They see the light. Guys who, other than Savior Bussey, couldn't crack the starting line-up on an 8-4 unranked team. Gonna explode sometime around midnight to night. William, 50-something, lives with his mother in College Station where he conducts himself as a 20-something bro, and he finds USC using a star linebacker makes their defense weird? Weird indeed, William. Weird indeed. It should be tough, a real test. We should score lots of points on them. That's what happens when you face a real test. You beat the shit out of them. Maybe it's jet lag.
  16. I know nothing about Harris' recruitment except he was coveted. Were there signs about what was to come? Did Texas pursue him ardently?
  17. I felt shitty that the olds made FB so cluttered and dull (here's my new grandbaby! I ran my ninth 10k, The Geriacstravazana! Yummy pancakes. Here's an article I read that you should read.) that youth fled from the reminders of the general dullness that life has waiting for them. I occasionally go on FB to spread my insufferable bloviations somewhere else to give you guys a break. It's disappointing that so few people write or share anything interesting. I don't care what you read that made you feel blessed to live in Tomball.
  18. Hate white white culture? No, dumbass. They hate you if they even know who you are. I can hate the martial ardor of Japan that led to the Rape of Nanking and Comfort Women and the Bataan Death March. I would have hated the Japanese had I been alive at the time of the war. I could still appreciate Japanese art, ceramics, and their austere aesthetic. If some Japanese radio guy started denying the Japanese army did anything wrong in WW2 and that they were the actual victims, I'd hate that guy. Just like I despise American influencers who promote fear of things that don't exist. In short:
  19. We've got t-shirt fans all over the country and in Mexico if I'm not mistaken. A great many people want to see Texas good because it just feels we should be one of the teams almost always in the running. People wanted Alabama to come back. They're another national name. When we are good, we have people all over the country sporting the emblem. I don't think you see that for many other contenders. I think part of it is the elegance of the Longhorn emblem. Another part is that Texas really isn't tied to a specific region, so it's easy to feel included no matter where you're from. Of course, people will pull for underdogs against us. Once we win an NC (that's natty for all the idiots who've never sniffed one in the audience), some will want to see us taken down a notch: that's all just human nature. The new variable is the horns down gesture. That could catch on. It does appeal to the negative side. On TV, you see (losing) fans from other teams giving the gesture as though it's a death ray gun that will have some sort of profound impact on Longhorn fans. It's weird. I think the Aggies making a big deal about the Big 12 rule regarding hand gestures probably set this up in the SEC. The sips hate it when you do the horns down. They used their toxicity to create a rule against doing it.* The Aggies would be congratulating themselves on having one of their lies work against Texas, but they won't admit it's lie. I don't like the widespread use of "hate" in sports. It was considered a very strong word for most of my life. Maybe that's changed. I always pull against the Aggies except in a few rare cases where they've been an underdog but were fighting hard. Maybe 4 times in my life. I don't hate them. I despise their weirdo culture that paints Texas as evil rather than simply a rival. And their turning sports into a holy war. And their constant lying about the past. Fuck, maybe I do hate them. But nobody else! ETA * We had a receiver named Johnson Davis who scored a touchdown against Tech at Tech. He faced the endzone stands, did their guns up gesture then holstered the gun. That's it. The ref through threw a flag for taunting. We went to the Big 12 because players were not being penalized for doing the horns down. It was about whether or not to respect a school's hand sign. There is no rule specifying the horns down. The Big 12 ruled that no such negative gestures should be made. Fuck the lying Aggies.
  20. I like Herbstreit. He loves college football and seems to back that up with how much he knows. I don't hold grudges against things people say one time so long as their being honest. You can be honest and wrong. I don't get the hate. Klatt is great right now. I suspect he'll say enough things he means over the years to come to make different fan bases hate him...and never forget. Klatt will be the same person. So it is with Herbstreit. I get so bored with the idiots who overpopulate sports commentary. Herbstreit is far better than that as is Klatt. I'll admit that I don't follow this as closely as many of you do. He called us a cesspool. That was low and wrong. However, we sucked at the time. He doesn't hold an opinion when the facts change. Maybe we should try the same thing.
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