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RomaVicta

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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!
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. They developed putting people on ignore before the internet. Impressive.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. It's a big mistake not to keep this formula secret. Now everybody knows how to win a natty.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. I know they don't understand the concept of projection, so it's strange they so completely personify it. They shit themselves with fear when they found out we were coming and then leaked the story in the first of their pathetic efforts to stop it. After Dodds said he saw no future in playing them, they challenged us to play anytime & anywhere. A few years later, a new AD at Texas says, "Okay, let's do it." Proving the impotence of their challenge, they slink away. I'll even argue that hiring Jimbo at all costs was a product of fear. It seemed like the only chance that they could find a wizard to lift their curse of bizarre behavior and mediocrity. As in so many things Aggie, the result was humiliating failure followed by failure of accountability. That school's best hope is for the 2%ers they are admitting by the boatload will dilute the poisonous tradition of fear and loathing. Percentage of normal people graduating from A&M is on the increase. I don't know if they care enough to try to change that hidebound asylum for the chronically insecure. They even try to make their cheer yell leaders scary looking to frighten those they themselves fear. Look what they did with the exuberant joy of a team cheerleader. They even banished the word cheer. They must always present as tough to hide their fear. I'm big and scary! Be afraid of me! I have facilities like you wouldn't believe! Got an army, too! Shoo! Be scared. Perhaps the blowfish is their sleeping giant.
  18. I think this is exactly it. Their AD laid down the law that A&M is not an 8-4 school but all about championships. We got the facilities and the backing. And it's A and fucking M, the waking giant you're all afraid of! If you beg hard enough, you just might be lucking enough to get an incentive based contract where you'll have to prove you can take us to the championships that have always been our destiny! Only sitting natty coaches or those commenting on college football need apply. Just a stunning misjudgment about who they are on the football terrain. From the first premise about who they are not, it's a display of grandeur delusion never seen outside of an institution. As you say, such majesty, wonder, and potential awaiting the lucky premiere coach. Their recent fame is falling from top 6 to non-bowl eligible last year, having their idiotic contract extension to an already idiotic contract generate scorn and disgrace for them, and now breaking up with the wife they committed to and thinking the future was filled with movie-stars, models, and the young and nubile. Just a few years ago, they got slapped down from their imagined importance when the SEC brought OU and us into the league. Lesson not learned. Fucking idiots.
  19. That is funny. I hadn't thought of that, to tell the truth. Jimbo was too strict! We want Coach Robinson! Gummies for everybody! Practice attendance optional!
  20. It's the only ranking they've done well in this century. Somebody has their current talent level at #4 in the country. That's top five, baby! In 2022 they won a natty in recruiting. Number one, baby! It's. All. They. Have.
  21. He doesn't want Day messing up his surprise announcement that he's returning to football at A&M for a 5 million dollar base salary plus incentives.
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