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Everything posted by Randolph Duke
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For the past quarter century, the players A&M has recruited have struggled to break .500 in conference play. Miles Garrett was the #1 pick in the NFL draft and while at A&M never played on a team with a winning record in conference play. Not once. Manziel was the greatest player in aggy football history and only played on a team with a winning record in conference play once. No aggy player in our lifetimes has ever played on a team that played a game that if they won would have put them in line to compete for a national championship. Why does anyone think this is about to change? Jimbo Fisher has had sufficient time to change things at A&M. He has changed nothing. They are the same team under Fisher that they were under Kevin Sumlin. Nothing that goes on in College Station has anything meaningful to do with college football. Or any other major collegiate sport. They claim to be a "military school" yet can't even compete in NCAA rifle sports. The ags have no concept of competition. They are not a culture that understand the essence of competition. Teams do not go from struggling for relevance to national powerhouse in one season. For the entire time Evan Stewart will play at A&M, the aggys will struggle to break .500 in conference play, just as they have since before Evan Stewart's parents met each other. Meanwhile, many teams will be in the mix for national championships while Evan Stewart is at A&M. None of them will be affected by anything that goes on in College Station. As long as A&M continues to be run by aggys, A&M will never compete for a championship in any major NCAA sport. regardless of which players they recruit. In year four of the Jimbo Fisher era, he still hasn't coached his players that on third down, receivers need to not break off their routes until they have passed the line to gain. That is basic shit, yet it is an unknown concept at Texas A&M. And the fuckers still extended his contract with six years left on it through 2032. Texas A&M is to be mocked, ridiculed, heckled, and laughed at. Period. Regardless of who A&M convinces to pray at the statue of the great white supremacist and to worship "The Great Texas Negro Killer," A&M will never recruit the types of players necessary to compete for a national title, and they certainly will never affect the fortunes of the athletics program at The University of Texas. Here endeth the lesson. Good luck, Evan. You are an idiot. I hope you wake up to that fact soon, and don't turn into another Leon O'Neal, who at age 22 will spend the rest of his life as a punch line to endless jokes among college football fans in Texas.
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Texas A&M is standing in the way of no program. Texas A&M is not blocking any program in the nation from competing for a national championship. The bullshit that A&M is a significant impediment to any program, other than Texas A&M, is comical. If Evan Stewart wants to play Uncle Tom in College Station, let him. He will be yet another in a long line of players that struggle to break .500 in conference play. That is his choice. The reality is that none of the teams in the hunt for the CFP this year are affected in any way by anything happening in College Station, Texas. It is possible to win a national championship in college football without being cockblocked by Texas A&M. I know you don't want to believe that, but it's true. Texas' problem is Steve Sarkisian, not Texas A&M.
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Nothing going on in College Station has anything to do with the problems facing the UT football program. The problems facing the UT football program are all based in Austin. The quicker people grasp that fact, the better.
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When Texas was up by four touchdowns over OU in the second quarter and still lost the game, it was a hint that the problem isn’t that A&M is kicking Texas’ ass in recruiting.
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Calzada telling aggys to suck his dick isn’t a good sign for his relationship with the fanbase. He obviously hasn’t bought into aggy fairy tale shit. Store that little kerfuffle away. It will be revisited at sometime in the not-too-distant future.
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As expected, the ags are crying about "being robbed" when the officials didn't call a fumble on the punt return at the end of the game. I say "as expected" because aggys never take responsibility for their own fuckups. Never. "Always a victim" should be their school motto, replacing "quantity over quality." Re-watch the last few minutes of the game. In particular, re=watch the 3rd and 2 choice of having a right-handed QB roll left to deliver a pass to the TE who was six feet behind the line to gain. Bad play call, bad execution by the TE who didn't even set up at the line to gain. But Jimbo bears no responsibility for that brain fart. Get the first down, game over. (Notice in Preston's earlier TD run, they also threw short of the line to gain, but got away with it that time. I guess throwing short of the line to gain on 3rd down is what "elite" coaches do.) Watch the coverage on 4th and 7 for LSU. If they play defense on that one play, game over. But Elko bears no responsibility for that brain fart. Stop LSU there, game over. On the play when Jenkinks caught the 31 yd pass that moved the ball into A&M territory, notice it was Leon who wasn't there to cover the receiver. Our old friend Leon. Notice on the game winning score, Leon shows up eventually. After the receiver crosses the goal line. What angle was Leon taking on that play? On the last play of the game, Calzada goes down with time still on the clock and A&M still having one time out. But the ags were "robbed." Not a thing the ags did contributed to their defeat. lol. The ags live in an amazing world. Amazing on so many levels.
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Feb 28, 2018: "When you listen to Jimbo talk, you know he can already taste it," Sharp told the Chronicle on Wednesday evening of why he gave Fisher the mythical plaque. "He is driven." https://www.chron.com/sports/aggies/article/Texas-A-M-chancellor-John-Sharp-gives-coach-Jimbo-12717985.php Jimbo Fisher isn't shying away from the championship-or-bust pressure at Texas A&M. "The timeline is now," he said of bringing a title to College Station. "You want to win immediately." https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24113399/jimbo-fisher-ready-win-immediately-texas-am?device=featurephone Whether or not he lives up to his massive deal remains to be seen, but the Aggies will need to see some major improvements in the next few years to keep the good feelings going. https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/tamu-football/regrets-jimbo-fishers-10-year-deal-chancellor-jokes-wanted-longer/
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This is one of those rare days I wish I had more friends who are aggy fans. I can't wait to see next year's aggy cup commemorating this game. I'm voting for this:
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Project 100,000. Google it. It was good enough for John Sharp in the 1960s, it is good enough for aggys today.
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aggys in general don't understand that they don't think the same way other people think. It's a cultural problem of theirs. Remember when they were convinced every 18 year-old urban kid's ultimate vehicle was a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck and Texas was exploiting this to induce recruits to play football at UT? Very few aggys could imagine how anyone could covet a vehicle other than a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck or how an opportunity to obtain a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck would be life changing. Needless to say, I could go on (seemingly forever) about the subject, but I think the point is understood. I have no doubt Liucci read what Sark said and immediately leapt to the conclusion Sark was throwing shade at A&M, oblivious to the fact Sark has far more important problems to deal with right now than Texas A&M. I'm pretty sure Sark has already figured out Texas A&M's core problem is their freak show of a culture, and that moving forward A&M will be no more successful in their endeavors than they have been over the past 127 years. Sark doesn't need to throw shade at A&M or Jimbo. I'm pretty sure Sark is as convinced as most of the college football world that A&M and Jimbo is a slow motion train wreck whose eventual fate is quite easy to predict.
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Sark has to know he is in no position to be throwing shade at anyone. He just lost to fucking Kansas and is about to finish the season 0-7. If he is throwing shade at A&M, he's dumber than I have thought him to be.
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Total Enrollment (Fall 2021): 73,284 Project 100,000 is alive and well on the Texas A&M campus. It pretty much defines what it means to be an aggy.
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How long will Sark be head football coach at Texas?
Randolph Duke replied to perfectchaos007's topic in Football
Unless changes are made in who is involved with choosing the head football coach, firing Sark does nothing. The process that lead to Sarkisian’s hiring resulted in abysmal failure. Firing Sark and allowing the same process to provide a replacement coach will end in abysmal failure. The heart of the problem is cronie politics lead to people being appointed to places of high leadership who are incapable of admitting they screwed up. The screwups are going to get far worse before they get any better. The incompetent(s) bought and paid for the position they were appointed to and as long as the campaign donation checks continue to clear the bank, the one person who could make the necessary leadership changes cares if the UT football team even exists. Just wait until the Sarkisian-caliber screwups start showing up on the academic side. Just a matter of time. -
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The best thing for the team, the university, and the student-athletes would be for Eltife, Hartzell, and Del Conte today to admit the hiring of Sarkisian was a colossal mistake. If those three were the right people to be in the positions they occupy, Eltife would recuse himself from all operational aspects of UT athletics and Del Conte would be charged with hiring a new coach. Never. Gonna. Happen. They will double down on their support of Sarkisian and refuse to admit their mistake. The administrators will support a narrative where the accountability for the failure of the team will be placed squarely upon the athletes. No administrator will be held accountable in any way for this situation. How things actually went wrong will never be discussed It’s the way dysfunctional organizations operate.
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While there may be practical limitations on restricting BMDs and regents from overly-involving themselves with various aspects of UT athletics, the problem is those BMD and Regents who forcefully "lead" the athletics program in the wrong direction are too often never held accountable for their mistakes. We know their mistakes are never openly discussed. In fact, efforts are made to protect them from criticism and accountability and to maintain their ability to continue to over-involve them in places they have shown little, if any, skill or acumen. As long as the ego-driven personal interests of certain BMDs and Regents are placed above the interests of the student-athletes, UT athletics will continue perform below potential. The politically ambitions governor continues to nominate regents who place their personal interests above those of the students and student-athletes. The university administrators place their own personal financial interests and career ambitions above the interests of the students and the student-athletes. The students and student-athletes understand "excellence" and "accountability" are empty words on the 40 Acres. It's one big leadership void.
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Eltife needs to spend less time involved with UT football.
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