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RomaVicta

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  1. It's interesting that some of the TexAg-gies insist that all the 2022 guys who aren't performing well for the Aggies must be busts. I think, seriously, that it might be a good subject for research by a journalist or maybe a sports scholar. What brought those recruits to A&M? I mean look into the spectrum of influences obviously including money but what were the player expectations when they arrived in College Station? What were the other draws? How did they perform while at A&M? Did the unruly 5-stars arrive as such (likely) and did the environment culture there propel them further beyond acceptable conduct? How many were actual busts in the end no matter where they played? Why did they choose their new schools (see above) and what impact did choosing a school where they didn't stay actually have on them? Same questions for those who went on to do well. I know someone here will give simple answers to those questions ("money" to all of them would be probably least imaginative), but I'd like to know if it's more complex. I suspect it is. I'm not confident that sportswriters are the ones to sift through complication. They're largely dullards.
  2. I guess that I bought into Elko's intellect (Ivy League!) and his legendary accomplishments, that you describe, at Duke. Without thos filters, it's hard not to conclude that the guy may actually be kind of an idiot. From the 247 article on their DE pick up today from the portal. He wanders in his speech from the obvious to the impenetrable. 1 Really important to get really talented guys. Really, Mike? 2 Three lines to say "It's important (probably really important) to balance youth and experience on your roster." Instead, we get circumlocution and...well, maybe change the context: No officer, I'm not drunk. It's important, and I've read this and said it many times, that time and consumption of alcohol, really important, I only had a couple of beers two hours ago and who our future is. 3 Older guys and veterans are the same thing. 4 Is this to say, (see 2 above) that balance of youth and experience are important to your roster management? Have another drink.
  3. There is nothing remotely surprising about this second term for Trump. Who he is and what he plans to do was right there under everybody's noses in bright, clear sunlight. Ignorance is no defense. In my lifetime, there has never been an election that painted a clearer picture of the American electorate.
  4. That would be a shame. The first two seasons have been excellent. Anything well-done is good with me. If that is the case with the shapeshifting or if that is not a critical element of the narration, I'll be fine.
  5. I think their man-bun QB out of Pearland was second team All-district. I think that was before Jimbo, but I'm not sure. Ags were pumped. You may be talking about this guy. Elko, Coach "Culture," likes these guys to prove themselves in the Missouri Valley conference before bringing them in.
  6. The show is losing me pretty quick. I saw mention of the books being good. Is that so? I really liked the first season and the world that has been created. This second season is a lot of profound worry dialogue and the plotting is pretty dumb.
  7. Shapeshifting is the sci in sci-fi? Sounds more like fantasy genre to me. Also, shapeshifting is a lazy device in any kind of story. And I hate the word. Don't make me come off the porch and really scold everyone!
  8. Getting kind of Football Board in here. Smells like bile and shit.
  9. Reagan's self-fulfilling prophecy. Such a broad shit river of a legacy that figurehead for greed has left for that shining city on a hill. I've recently come to the conclusion that his presidency was more poisonous than Nixon's.
  10. Who knows how to win a national championship.
  11. Yes. I just accepted he must be a smart guy with great potential from his resume. The Ivy League thing seems more like Herman's Mensa membershit as each day goes by. There is nothing special about Elko's mind or philosophy. He sounds like a jock who has become a pretty good assistant coach. He doesn't look the part either. I'm a fat bastard, and I know going with a white mumu with a stupid image just below the mammaries and resting on the promontory isn't a great look. Nothing is a great look actually, but you can damn sure do better than that. He's not a bad guy like Sherrill or an asshole like Jimbo. It's a shame clearing those low bars doesn't make you a good head coach.
  12. I bailed 30 minutes into the first episode. Had I known a shapeshifter was to come, I never would have looked at it at all. This is like the week-old, unrefrigerated afterbirth of Dune which has been excellent so far. So much talk about things I can't see. Maybe make a movie to dramatize the story? Silo is falling into the same hole. Constant meaningful talk in slow scenes that don't advance any story. I feel like the writers fall in love with their story and feel it can't go wrong. It immediately does.
  13. You do anecdotal really well.
  14. Featuring the wit and genius of Mike "Ivy League" Elko Let's see that opening tease: the grabber, my man. Irony! A place where few Aggies have gone before let alone even found. Let's go to the source: Fabulous news, Olin. Not having these guys play is, as you say, "a good thing." But what does articulate Penn scholar Elko have to say about the program, the "real program," which you most assuredly are? 1 Remaining in the same place when you suck is not a good strategy. Ivy. League. 2 Gotta play really well to be really good! IVY. LEAGUE. Okay, Coach, lay on some insight. Is it good for the culture? Game prep! Run on to the field! Oooooh! A trophy! All those things. Odd that he doesn't mention extra practices. The Aggies are usually very proud when most of their team shows up for practice, and most of them show up on time. It's a pretty big deal in Aggieland. Coach, RomaVicta here, tell us what this matchup between (a) big named school(s) (and A&M) means to the Texas A&M Fightin' Texas Aggies from Texas? Wow! One wonders which is the greater intellectual achievement, getting into MENSA or graduating on a fooball scholarship from an Ivy League school? Impressive are both to be sure. Lastly, Coach Elko, in one definitive sentence, can you tell us how this process fits your plans going forward? I'll take that as a "no."
  15. Well, at least he has the charisma of Patrick Mahomes to carry him.
  16. There is. Some of what I like to stream originated on cable and a few on the networks. I can't stand commercial breaks anymore since I started streaming years ago. I haven't read the whole thread, so forgive me if I am repeating someone else: Look to other countries. Korea is my favorite at the moment. They have created zombie series that I love even though I was all zombied out when I first saw them. Their other genres are interesting as well. Characters have dimension. The plots have interesting twists. Their production values and casts are first rate. The studios and big producers being interested only in massive gross revenues has killed the creative niches where they used to dabble with some pride involved. Only money-making directors can push the bland envelope of good versus evil sprinkled with wisecracks. It's blasphemy, but I blame Spielberg's success for some of this. His template is simple even if his skills are extraordinary. I thought Kubrick would be the last artist to work with a studio budget. Thank you, Chris Nolan for making me wrong.
  17. A last visual of profound meaning sure to make me revered throughout the land: Her progression of appearance represents the ideal notion of the soul of America in some ways. Such beauty gone to such horror. Same goes for her.
  18. My friend, we've landed on the same island. All of our strengths of argument and reason and honesty and good faith are defunct.
  19. And those are the guys the Aggies used to claim pride in being themselves. It's the whole original meaning of tea sippers. Aggies were out doing the real work while the effete Longhorns sipped tea on the porch. The manly manful actual men prefer UT. For phony, go to aggy.
  20. I love masturbation preference arguments carried out by people who have a separate hard drive dedicated to sexy images of women they say they wouldn't actually fuck. Especially on the recruiting thread.
  21. Ride that plane all the way down. It's a little one and maybe won't crash too hard. I think the concern about aging leaders is old paradigm analysis. That doesn't mean it's not valid in its place. It means it doesn't make a shit in the current denouement of a lost struggle to keep a republic going. A new Pepsi Generation isn't going to do much. The young voted in droves for the current direction even if it wasn't a majority of them (women anyway). I'm sure Pete Buttigieg running the Dem Party would have turned that around lickity toot.
  22. Even the jokes are repetitive to the point of tedium. This is kind of lazy or nervous because it can't even identify for whom this is true. There are people demanding action. There are bereaved parents and community members going hoarse pointing out the obvious. One political side doesn't give a shit. One political side doesn't have the votes. Most of the voters can't be bothered with more than Ten Minutes Anger or Ten Minutes Sadness. Hell, it's inaccurate to even say that there are actually thoughts and prayers. Even the sincere people don't really think about or pray for whatever recent slaughter/cruelty skitters across their twitter accounts. People aren't crowding the churches or kneeling in private. They just write T&P, and they're good to go. It's not all political. A lot of is just American now. All three trays could be empty for something a little more poignant.
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