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  1. Watch Texas commit Tyler Atkinson tonight on @NFHSNetwork or go to Max Preps game of the the qeek
  2. All this tells me is Billy boy creeps on Surly
  3. Billy Liucci There's a guy from Texas, and I hope he's listening. I think he's an absolute loser. He takes what I say via the transcript... I don't think it's clicked for him. It's a short-handed transcript, and he goes point-by-point with a crayon. He does a horrifically bad job at it. Get better at what you do, and become a better obsessed loser. I also understand teams get better and worse. Most people think A&M can't get better. It's weird for me, and nothing is guaranteed, and so many teams seem to be a part of a crowded pack. Alabama is part of it, and Georgia and Texas are very slightly above the pack. It's nowhere near what it used to be in the SEC in Georgia's prime and Nick Saban with Alabama or the random LSU championships. It's as crowded as it's ever been for teams to beat each other, especially with the turnover, newness and talent of unproven quarterbacks. Real quickly, look at A&M. They should be better on the offensive line. They are better at wide receiver and tight end. It's not even close. For quarterbacks, it's like Marcel Reed and everyone else in the conference. What jump do they make? It's TBD. I've talked to many people, Reed will be better, but how much will he be noticeably better? I don't know how that translates in-game, but I think his style of play is better as a game player than a practice player. You have to factor that in. Our secondary is already noticeably better. Linebackers should be better, and it's the second year at A&M for Scooby Williams. When you lose Nic Scourton, Shemar Stewart and Shemar Turner, I'm sorry... It's really hard for that group to be better. They weren't bad. I think they will be better to some degree, I'm confident it will be better at every other position. It's TBD on the defensive line, but Cashius Howell had that sack, Rylan Kennedy and Regis are back. Let's be real, it was three first and second-rounders. If it's any other team, we would be saying they would be taking a step back, so let's do that. A&M, I think, will be better, but how much vs. the other teams? When looking at the quarterback, people say I'm not sure about Reed, and I'm going, “Look at the games like LSU, Florida and Arkansas.” South Carolina was rough, and the Texas game... Two of the best defenses for a quarterback and a SEC road game with elite defenses. LaNorris Sellers would scare me. The other teams that would scare. I saw Barstool put Garrett Nussmeier as the Heisman, and LSU is the national champions. I saw him get humiliated by A&M and eaten alive by Alabama on his own field. He completed 43 percent of passes and threw a pick-six against South Carolina that would have lost the game. Everyone goes, “Give me Nussmeier,“ but I see flaws. We are scared of Auburn, right? Give them Reed, if they watch the games and see the numbers... We have Jaxson Arnold coming from Oklahoma... A&M fans would be scared of Reed. If you're worried about his jump, how would you feel about Arnold? Yet, we are scared of Auburn? I don't understand it, but I understand the “show me” factor, and I got to see the quarterback's improvement. I don't understand not applying it to the opposition, not applying it to the teams you play. Another example is if you're A&M, and look, we are all sports fans, and we understand that an unknown guy can be great. Arch Manning may be the greatest thing, could be as good as his uncles, might be a Hall of Famer or Heisman, and win a national championship, but we don't know. He reminds me of Andrew Luck. We've got plenty of guys who live up to the hype. You look at the league with Ty Simpson and Gunner Stockton, and maybe it's Austin Simmons who is the best, and you also look at CJ Carr. We are worried about Reed's jump. We should go: What about the guys he goes up against? Carr has no experience. Going into that game should be an advantage for A&M. The question is, is their defense light years ahead of ours? My point is, if you focus on Reed, it's fair to say I need to see what type of jump he'll make. I think he's so important. If you do that, then hold Arnold, Carr and DJ Lagway and all those guys to the same point. I was more impressed with what Sellers did, and I don't know stats, but I saw what I watched. If he can hone in on his passing, he could remind me of a guy that's actually scary. The other ones, like Reed, have to get better and more consistent to scare me. People in Baton Rouge believe they have the best defensive line in the country from the portal. Dominick McKinley is a five-star recruit and took a picture closer to the camera, and he looks bigger. They think they have the best defensive line because they portaled the hell out of it. It's probably not. They'll tell you how great the interior line is. They got their butts whipped with top picks and NFL Draft pick Will Campbell. In Baton Rouge, they will actively convince you that their offensive line is fine. We're getting told ours is not good. As a collective, we believe in nonsense from elsewhere, and we shoot the holes in it. It's a loser mentality I despise. And it's pitiful. It makes the offseason unfun. I'm not predicting them to be 10-2 and Reed to make a Heisman jump. I'm not saying the Aggie defense is the best in the SEC. I'm just saying apply to the opposition, and don't believe everything you hear from the other schools. If you're not going to believe anything you hear, whether it's from anyone covering A&M, if it's not positive, you meet it with skepticism. Somebody told me yesterday, a good buddy of mine said, “I'm scared of South Carolina.” A&M pummeled them two years ago here. I just think if we want it to be more enjoyable, apply it elsewhere. It's something we talk about on Moving Goalposts. Amanda Atwell makes a great point. I'm looking at Texas, and I have a little more scrutiny on them than Georgia and Ohio State, particularly. They lose a lot, and Georgia and Ohio State lost a lot more on defense. Ohio State's offensive line is decimated. Georgia and Texas bring back quarterbacks. What are we doing with Stockton and Julian Sayin? For the Aggies, it’s easier to apply that. You have to take the Burnt Orange hate glasses off. A&M fans could talk more honestly about Alabama because we don't play them, more than Florida with their jump. You worry about that more, and we haven't talked much about Simmons. Jaxson Dart was tremendous, but if Ole Miss were on the schedule, we would be more scared of Simmons than they would be of Reed. If that's what you see, I agree with you. If you're scared of every team A&M plays and you're saying, "I can't find the wins,” then I don't have time for that. Segment 2 (18:52:26 - 26:38:00) I don’t know the excitement level, but there is a level of hope. I always get excited for football season, but Dave, you seem like a grumpy SOB. I’m trying to enjoy my coffee and my time with Nuño and the listeners, but Dave, you sound miserable to talk sports with. You’re a sports grump. I get what you’re saying, but if you can’t look at last season and go, “Man, for the first year, I'm going to analyze the totality of the season, look at what they have coming back, what they brought in the portal, and I’m going to have some optimism.” It’s almost like when I hear that text, you think anyone who’s in the absolute tank like yourself, that just goes, “I'm going to expect more of the same.” You act like these other people don’t acknowledge the possibility of the 8-4 type season, and you hope that it's not worse. The difference between you and me is that I can acknowledge the possibility of it being better. Just like you are analyzing Florida, making a massive jump, saying Auburn is making a massive jump, but you’re ignoring the losses to South Carolina on defense. LSU, you have them propped up because you’ve been told they should win the national title by media people who you don’t know their motives. You ignore the fact that LSU lost four games this past season, where the golden child threw three interceptions, and the quarterback you’re worried about in Marcel Reed about led their team to 31 second-half points. It’s just a miserable way to be a fan and a miserable way to analyze football. Again, I'm trying to apply the same microscope. To me, the teams are LSU, A&M, South Carolina, Florida, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Oklahoma, maybe Auburn and Missouri even. I just named nine of the sixteen teams. I’d put Alabama in there, too. They lost three in the regular season. Put those ten teams out of 16. I have Georgia and Texas, not that much above them. So little that I don’t think those will be the two teams playing in Atlanta. All of them have question marks. Very little of it has to do with the past. Mike Elko has been here one year. This is year two. Compare his first year to every other coach and their first year. We can do this all day, Dave, but if you’re going to be that miserable all the time, find a collective group of miserable people… Contrary to popular belief, you can find them on TexAgs. Those are the guys I see coming, and I get as far away from them as possible. It’s people who want to make fun of people with optimism. It's like you’re the gatekeeper of hope. It's like how dare you talk about CJ Carr vs. Reed? Again, this is a thing where Dave can take this and go, “See. I was right.” No, you’re not. We’re acknowledging that it's certainly possible, but any of them can go 7-5 to 9-3. Someone in that group will go 10-2 this year. Last year, it was Tennessee. They weren’t much better than anybody
  4. Muff Chin A lot more checks than minuses last year for Reed, so I don't see any reason why not to expect it. I think that's kinda where everyone we talked to in the SEC was. Some were saying they were more in the wild card boat. It was with people that were more bullish than the stuff I read. Outside of that, people don’t want to hear this, but I thought Texas players carried themselves well. Anthony Hill Jr. is a good kid. He's a great player. You wish A&M would’ve got him. There are A&M guys that Texas fans, if they were honest, wish were in burnt orange. Moss is one of them for sure. You heard Jordan Rodgers talking about Arch Manning on our show. A lot of people agree with me about Manning on the take that I get screwed for on social media, but I believe it’s there. I haven’t seen this comparison, but there are some areas where he reminds me of Andrew Luck. Really big arm. He’s 6-foot-4 and can run. Luck could really run. He's difficult to tackle. It’s too early, but it seems like he has that “it” factor about him. He comes from a football family. I know it's not the Mannings, but it’s Oliver Luck. I wouldn’t be surprised at all because I expect Manning to be really good. I just think there are other guys that have proven more than him so far, and I think, as a first-year starter going through this league with a new offensive line, there will be a struggle. Nobody doesn’t think he’s not going to be good. People are just like we’ll see. If Manning has a year like LaNorris Sellers did, he’s going to be a problem at the end of the year and in the playoffs. I just agree you can’t show me highlights of him against Mississippi State or Louisiana-Monroe. I know someone said, “What about Kyle Field? Sure. I'm like, “Yeah, he’s a big dude that can run and is tough to tackle.” I’m fascinated by what Steve Sarkisian will do. Are you going to take advantage of that? Because the SEC linebackers, defensive ends and safeties, if you get tackled by them enough, you won’t stay healthy. It’s going to be really interesting to see. How much do you let these guys run in the SEC when so much depends on those guys being on the field? Same with DJ Lagway. He's a monster. He looks like he can absorb a lot of hits, but he’s been banged up more than any of those guys. Segment 2 (16:56:27 - 7:12:29) I felt like A&M played well enough last year. You heard Elko. It’s what I’ve been saying the whole offseason. No, they didn’t finish. No, losing to Texas at home and not scoring an offensive touchdown is inexcusable. Yes, everyone should be disappointed. Yes, they should have beat Auburn. Let’s not forget games one through eight, and I do mean Week 1 because of what Notre Dame ended up being, because as you watched that game, they could have beaten the team that played for the national title. Then they beat LSU and Missouri, and on the road at Florida. Not that Mississippi State is good, but that’s a place that has always bothered them, so they cleared a hurdle. They won in Jerry World. That start was outstanding, but the finish was disappointing. The season in its totality was very solid and encouraging Year 1 under a first-year head coach in the SEC. Period. We don’t like the taste it left in our mouths, and that’s fine. I thought the mindset is that we saw what we were capable. The guys in the locker room know what we can accomplish. We also ate some humble pie down the stretch. Ar’maj Reed-Adams had that quote that is going around. Texas is trying to make a deal of it. He was obviously just annoyed at the framing of the question, which was set up “playing the greatest players in the world next Thanksgiving, how do you plan to survive four quarters?” His answer, and you heard it from Taurean York and Will Lee III, was that we know it wasn’t our best effort. Obviously, the other team has a lot to do with that, but we still had a chance. Nobody said A&M should have won that game, but we were still in that game. If you’re a Longhorn, raise your hand if you didn’t think when it was second-and-goal at the 1-yard line, “Damn, it’s going to be 17-14 with six minutes left.” If you know how football goes, we’ve seen it on the flip side way too many times, against great teams and teams that have no business beating us. That night, A&M had no business finding themselves in that position, but they did because they created a few turnovers and blocked a punt. If you’re a smart Longhorn fan, you’re not watching that game thinking it’s dicey if A&M had scored there. The Texas offense hadn’t scored in the second half. If A&M had gotten a stop and gotten the ball back, they would have had it last. Texas had controlled the whole game and should have put A&M away early, and they didn’t. That’s what I think a ball-knowing burnt-orange fan would have been thinking at that moment. You’re hoping for a false start or a fumble at the one. You had to stop A&M three times, and to their credit, they did. But, it’s not crazy at that moment to say A&M had a chance to steal it, and it wasn’t a sure thing, but what Reed-Adams, Lee and York said is that they know they’re better than how they finished
  5. Billy Liucci With the revenue sharing model, now everyone will be competitive with the money. The only thing I'll say about Texas right now is I don’t think they should’ve paid that much for Felix Ojo‍. For that amount, I don’t know what these other guys got. I would’ve never recruited him. I won't say A&M never did, but they were going over Zaden Krempin‍ and John Turntine‍. You could say the Aggies got Krempin and Samuel Roseborough,‍ who have just as much of a chance to be successful college players. Same with Turntime. Here’s where Texas fans are going right now. They eye the NIL deals getting turned down by Deloitte. They think they’re doing nothing in the grey and everyone else is in the grey and that all these recruits will decommit. The deals being turned down in those things will affect the players on campus. The players on the roster. Some of these recruits that you think will decommit will get to their schools and not get what they thought. If you say man, that portal is going to be insane in another year or two, then I'd agree with you. Let’s not do this thing that A&M isn’t losing Brown over money. That A&M didn’t lose Boobie Feaster‍ over money. They could have gotten more at those other schools. They didn’t lose them over money. Texas isn’t losing people over money. What they're doing is their threshold for any individual player is different than the A&M, USC, Alabama, Houston, Texas Tech and Baylor. You mention Tilman Fertitta. This has nothing to do with Cody Campbell. These guys can take it to the other level, but when you talk about Baylor, Texas Tech, Houston, Virginia, Kansas and Arizona, they don’t have this crazy alumni base. Fertitta and Houston basketball alumni are different. Now, they have $14-17 million to spend that they didn’t have. Can they do an 85-man roster that competes with LSU, Florida, Georgia and Michigan? No. Can they do that for one player? Yes. A handful of players? Yes. With the Cody Campbell money. Texas Tech can fight. What they’ve done is they went all in on what I thought was not that impressive of a portal haul. I think it's impressive for them, but they’re playing in the Big 12. I like what Tech is doing. I think Tech understands Tech. Like softball, “Why would you pay that money?” Look at the spotlight it got them. Why would you pay that money for Ojo? Personally, I’d buy two linemen for that. When I first saw that number, I thought you could get three five stars for that money. Now, you see the reality of a little under eight a year guaranteed. You could’ve got two for the price of one. I think Mike Elko would do that. I think Steve Sarkisian would do that, but that’s Texas Tech. The pop they got from beating out Texas for Ojo is worth it for them.
  6. Liucci is an idiot This is interesting. Kyle Field is ranked at No. 11. I understand these stadium rankings, and you are never the person ranking them. The stadium rankings are always weird, and I don't get worked up, but with Oklahoma, I did, and I don't think that place is loud or intimidating. When I look at these rankings, it doesn't bother me because how do you rank atmosphere, intimidation factor, how loud it is, their success rate... Do you combine them? I've been all over the SEC, and people come visit 10 games with me, and all over sports, whether it's MLB, music, pro entertainment, NFL, NBA, people that have never been to Kyle Field and never been to college football. Kyle Field is as unique, loud and daunting as any place in college football. The problem is when you tank these when you aren't winning as much... You're not ranking Kyle Field and the 12th Man. It's the success at home. How much of that atmosphere affects the other team? That's how it goes. When people say, “They aren't winning at Kyle Field.” That sounds like Longhorn logic. They've won massive games over the years, not enough though and lesser teams like Mississippi State and Appalachian State. The truth is, A&M hasn't been a top 20 program in the last 25 years. Based on their success on the field, they would not be in the top 20. I'm of the opinion they should be there, but we haven't seen it. When you're that, you get upset by overwhelming advantage on the field. If you look at the number of upset wins A&M has had since joining the SEC, it's impressive against the teams we've played. It's the truth. We are one and whatever against Alabama, but every Alabama team is always better. If you look at the last few big games, A&M tends to win. A&M beat LSU four straight times at home, and three times they were in the top 10. A&M beat No. 1 Florida, No. 1 Alabama and came close to No. 2 Clemson, which won the national title. They beat No. 11 Auburn and another highly ranked Auburn team. There have been some nice home wins. I don't count Josh Rosen and UCLA, but when you come in here in a big setting, and you leave the Appalachian State jokes aside, that does, and probably takes away from the talk about home-field advantage. Miami won 50 games in a row and broke a record against Oklahoma in the Barry Switzer era. Those teams are great. If you're ranking how loud it is during big games and excitement, Kyle Field is up there. If I'm ranking the SEC outside A&M, Knoxville is No. 1, and LSU is No. 2. Knoxville during the day was better. Alabama is outside the top five, it's underrated, and people act like it's not a tremendous atmosphere. The problem is that the games I saw were at 2 p.m., and there wasn't much excitement. In 2012, in the fourth quarter, Johnny Manziel and A&M held off A.J. McCarron. The Haynes King 2022 was a great game. I've been to two games at The Swamp, and it's good, but Florida has not had elite years in the last 10. They had a couple under Dan Mullen, and A&M had one, and Florida had two. One year, I went to Florida vs. A&M, and the night game was fun. Texas’s game day, and I haven't been in a long time, but people who don’t understand that there will come a day where I'll go to maybe neutral, but I like to go in our bye weeks. I want to go see Texas vs. Oklahoma, but just watching it and here's what I know, the Longhorns will tell you our atmosphere hasn't been that good and not what it should be. There are usually more talented teams at home, but in the last few years, the people who say they've done great things there, and say, “It's gotten better.” Those are the people I believe. Look who they are getting at DKR. I don't care about rankings by their name, how much did Aggies really care? That was Rosen calling out the 12th man. Brady Cook did it last season, not smart to do. In Austin, they were playing Baylor, Kansas State, Kansas, even Oklahoma State, a rival of Texas and beat them under Mike Gundy. It's so much different with the powerhouse teams, they get Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and the Aggies. Think about the last three years when they went to Alabama, Georgia and A&M. They got Florida, and they go, “Oh, it's not great, but look at the history they have.” That's one of the benefits they will get. I tried to tell Texas and Oklahoma fans I've been in the Big 12. It had Bob Stoops, Mike Leach, Matt Brown and Bill Snyder. That league was up. It still doesn't come close to the atmosphere, what you see year in year out now. I knew the first year A&M played in the SEC, and the first game was Florida at Kyle Field, and LSU came that season, and you went to Bryant-Denny Stadium and all those great places. It is awesome. In Starkville, it's a college football environment. It's one of the worst stadiums, but there's an atmosphere. It's going to bring up the environments in Austin and Oklahoma. Moreso, if Texas enters a game thinking they can beat Alabama or Georgia, they have all season to think about it. It's interesting because I do think there's a week offseason to think about it. Florida, South Carolina and Auburn are all massive games, but my point is none of those teams are rivals, and I'm circling this the whole offseason like Notre Dame or when Texas was coming. I go, “Oh, that's at least two ranked football teams, Auburn TBD, South Carolina with a potential Heisman candidate in LaNorris Sellers and Florida with a Heisman candidate with DJ Lagway.” A&M will play at Notre Dame, Auburn at home, at Arkansas and home vs. Mississippi State. You look at the first three games Florida plays before A&M, they play at LSU, at Miami and host Texas. They got a tougher road start, maybe. Do we know Auburn is not going to be as good as Miami this year? For Payton Thorne, I don't hate him, but they lost to such a bad quarterback last year. The year before, Thorne got benched, and Robby Ashford beat A&M. So, do we know Auburn will be better than Miami? Notre Dame and Texas are very comparable. Texas fans think they are above hearing that. One of those teams went to the national championship, beating Indiana, Georgia and Penn State. Segment 2 (20:05
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