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  1. I was in an airport yesterday coming home and watching some aggie dude in the boarding area wear a zip up hoodie with "Texas Aggies" as uncomfortably large as possible on the front. Then it hit me. In yet another classic aggie maneuver, they have chosen to boil the ocean of trying to unbrand the largest brand name in college sports and then rebrand it for themselves. When people say "Texas", there are zero people in the world who think about the Aggies. Their brand is "A&M". Not Texas A&M...just "A&M". When people say that, they immediately know who is being referred to. It is not a bad brand at all, but it is not what they are pouring money into. They missed their window to call themselves Texas State, which would have been a very smart rebranding for them. But now, they are continuing to waste money and look stupid by fucking the chicken of "Texas Aggies". A big rule of technology sales is to never reply to your competitor by name, because they have spent billions building up their brand to mean something. By not using their name, you strip them of all of that marketing power. But true to form, our competitor has just emblazoned our brand across their chests. Never change aggy.
  2. That background really brings it all home. Nothing says icy whites like an airstrip on a hot day and assorted shrubbery.
  3. Wisconsin is like bad bad. Bama should handle that one fairly comfortably. I expect OU to put on a show at Temple and curb stomp them so that they can divert all the powerball budget to NIL when the gooners get super excited that this is their year. I think Tennessee is fools gold again. If you remember last year, the beat all of their weak opponents by 50+, but got shut down against quality defenses. I think the same thing happens this year. I have a sneaky suspicion that SCar is going to beat Vandy. I don't really know why, but that is what I am going with.
  4. I've seen worse.
  5. Quality effort this week..
  6. This. His fumbles are coming after he has gained 6-8 yards weaving through the middle of the defense. It is very sad.
  7. In fairness, you could say that about literally every offensive system.
  8. Are you the spoon or the coffee?
  9. Yes, Cooper’s team won and he had a big game.
  10. It was merely a comment about guys experiencing true elite defenses for the first time in their college careers. Russell would have to go through that same learning curve. I was just pointing out the fact that the results may not look much different than Simpson in year 1. No doubt he has a higher ceiling and more talent in the long term.
  11. Are these guys incapable of writing an article without a Texas blurb in it? The Arch comment had no connection to the rest of the article. It is the ultimate game of diversion that these rubes fall for every time.
  12. I have some concerns around Milwee as well, but I think the proof will be in how Arch bounces back from this first loss. What I was most alarmed by is how Arch's mechanics broke down in some pretty uncharacteristic ways under pressure. Firing the ball too hard and high was a fairly consistent trend. There were a few where the pocket was collapsing that I can give a pass on, but tons of easy misses. The weird sidearm motion out of nowhere was hopefully not a product of running the Quinntastic quick screens the last couple of years in practice.
  13. Im not sure Russell is going to be appreciably better in year 1 than Simpson. Sure he provides elusiveness and playmaking, but he will get put in a blender like Arch did last week against quality opponents.
  14. I keep going back and forth thinking surely they are too talented to be this bad. Then I remember the Charlie Strong years.
  15. This first call is absolute greatness..
  16. Not with Joey Maguire at the helm. With the benefit of week one in the books, my picks are: SEC Texas versus LSU, Texas Wins B12 Utah versus Arizona State, Utah Wins ACC FSU versus Clemson, Clemson Wins B1G tOSU versus Penn State, tOSU Wins
  17. I don't often say this about a defensive back, but he moves differently out there. Incredibly fluid with great makeup speed and length. The sky is the limit for this kid. He might find himself in the Thorpe conversation in a year or two.
  18. Wasn't it Saban who told Sark to take the Texas job?
  19. The good news is that Arch probably faced his toughest test of the regular season out of the gate and everything will look easier from here. There were really no tendencies to look for, no idea even what kind of defense they were going to run, they had guys who were awesome at disguising coverages like Caleb Downs, and Patricia has multiple super bowl rings as a high quality DC. Sark will never say this publicly, but that gameplan seemed to me to be somewhat tactically vanilla. I don't think he wanted to roll out a bunch of stuff when he didn't really know what he was facing. I am not making excuses, but that is how I would have approached it. Especially if there is a chance I will see them again at the end of the season.
  20. One does not simply matriculate the ball down the field.
  21. Redfaced Bryan Kelly rant about NIL incoming.
  22. No but seriously, how many games do you think it will take Quinn to pass up Zack Wilson on the depth chart? It is only a matter of time.
  23. Love all of this except Sayin is a pretty mobile dude from what I understand. I think he is more likely to spook himself out of the pocket than to sit back and be cannon fodder for our edges.
  24. It took me about two offensive series to realize that Watson's offensive "overhaul" consisted of taking all of the same plays as last year from the shotgun. That is when I went full on PTSD mode into the void.
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