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GJ Winne

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  1. That's because it's just about impossible to find a consistent gold from helmet to jersey to pants. We just went from a more mustard-ish gold to a shinier version and it looks so much better.
  2. I mean, we’ve been D1 for 40 years now…
  3. Very much so, although it would be nice to have Air Force and UNLV. Why the MWC and PAC2 didn't just merge is mind bottling. Even now, adding TXST to that mix for 14 would be better than a Pac8 and whatever the MWC is going to scrap together separately.
  4. Not really worried about Kinne running off anywhere any time soon. Unless he pulls a rabbit out of his hat and figures out a way to win 10 games this year, he's in SMTX for a couple more years. He has the rep of a Leach style offensive mind, but overall, I don't see that in our offense, other than flashes here and there. The plan and playcalling vs Baylor 2023 was glorious in it's execution, but that hasn't been the standard since. Leach wanted his players to find the green and get there - be/attack where the defense isn't. I know I'm always right as the armchair QB/OC who doesn't have to call the plays before he sees them, but I do find myself continually seeing giant gaps in the defense pre-snap and us just ignoring them. He's nowhere near ready for a P4 gig.
  5. Keff is the closest thing to a $9.95er as we have. Solid dude, good writer - was with the Statesman until they jettisoned everyone. He put out his early depth chart prediction this week. Starts at 12:00 in the youtube video.
  6. 2025 Sun Belt Conference college football projections, preview Texas State Bobcats Head coach: G.J. Kinne (third year, 16-10 overall) 2025 projection: 93rd in SP+, 6.1 average wins (4.1 in the Sun Belt) It's weird that we've gotten this far and haven't yet brought up the team that finished 48th in SP+ and nearly beat CFP-bound Arizona State last year, right? That probably tells you how much of last year's Texas State team is no longer in San Marcos. G.J. Kinne both inherited and defied perennially low expectations at TXST in each of the last two years, and he'll have a chance to do so again after losing his offensive coordinator (Mack Leftwich), starting quarterback (Jordan McCloud), leading rusher (Ismail Mahdi), top three receivers, three offensive line starters and 14 of the 18 defenders with at least 250 snaps last season. Kinne is a fearless transfer portal aficionado. He brought in another 36 transfers this season, including three quarterbacks (Pitt's Nate Yarnell, SMU's Keldric Luster and former Auburn blue-chipper Holden Geriner), eight skill corps guys and 19 defenders. This year's transfer haul is a mix of semi-proven G5 or smaller-school guys -- running back Greg Burrell (UNLV), slot receiver Tiaquelin Mims (Southern Miss), linebackers Ayden Jones (Prairie View A&M) and Cole Nilles (Bryant), corners Jaden Rios (East Texas A&M) and Malik Willis (Campbell), safety Javis Mynatt (Wofford) -- and young and unproven power-conference transfers. There are some former blue-chippers like Geriner, receiver Mavin Anderson (Cal), defensive tackle Bryce Carter (Virginia) and linebacker Terrence Cooks (TCU) in the mix as well. Kinne has quickly grown accustomed to asking members of a transient roster for immediate contributions, but when it came time to replace the Texas Tech-bound Leftwich, he went with a familiar face: Landon Keopple is a former small-school coordinator who joined up with Kinne about five years ago and understands Kinne's modern spread as well as anyone. A Kinne team is going to score points, but defensive improvement was a key piece of last year's first-ever top-50 finish. Coordinator Dexter McCoil returns star end Kalil Alexander (11 run stops, 6.5 sacks), and corner Trez Moore and safeties Ryan Nolan and Darius Jackson were decent rotation pieces last year, but most of the 2025 lineup will be new. That's an opportunity for improvement or regression. My guess is that the Bobcats defy projections once again, but if the defense falls off, that will be difficult.
  7. The upgrade that matters is the money. SBC has an absolutely shit media deal and our travel costs are double half the rest of the conference, which is particularly painful. [Allegedly] we'll go from ~$2M to $7-10M annually. As far as an upgrade competitively, there's no question about that. Better name recognition in the PAC, especially among mouth breathers. Damn sure better travel options for the fans - that's the one that most of my friends are excited about.
  8. You're a couple days late w/ the news, but it's appreciated none the less.
  9. As much as I like to shit on Sammy State, their stadium holds 14k. Granted, they're currently putting $60M worth of renovations into it, and will end up with a capacity of...14K. That's how high school the stadium is. I do agree they should be in FCS...but truth told, I think TXST should be too, and Rice and UNT and UTSA and UTEP and 40+ other current FBS schools.
  10. Right. The question mark was about the timing.
  11. TXST to the PAC8(?) to be announced soon? I think our deadline to be in/out of the Sun Belt is end of month. We also got a letter from the AD today, mostly rah-rahing us (w/ a donation link), but also talking about how we're all in, going to be expanding scholarships/paying players via the House Settlement deal, and those of us who have been paying attention know we're not writing all these checks w/ SBC money. President has been consistently subtweeting that we're going to the PAC as well as dropping hints in person.
  12. I haven't been, but TXST has played there a couple times recently and it has never been remotely crowded on tv (stream). Yes, I'm aware of the differences between our programs/fanbases - just saying. It holds 5200, so I wouldn't think you'd have any problem getting tickets. I'd call the Rice ticket office and ask them when single game tickets go on sale, and set yourself a calendar reminder to call back on that day. Can't imagine you wouldn't be able to get great seats, especially if you're early on the purchase.
  13. No need to go all that way. We got a dead body farm right here at home. https://www.txst.edu/anthropology/facts/labs/farf.html https://www.texastribune.org/2015/07/25/slideshow-body-farm/
  14. One of my fraternity brothers is a director for these cunts. Was pretty close to him in college and it has been one of the most disappointing evolutions to watch him go from one of the most liked, life of the party type guys to a grifting Trump sycophant. Going to CPAC, Mar a Lago to sniff the orange asshole, popping up on OAN or whatever to talk about how great their dear leader is and how buying their service helps get God back in this country...mind you, I saw him a couple weeks ago and the only thing he could talk about was when he came out to Lake Travis 20 yrs ago w/ me and got to see big fake tits out in the open and drink rum out of slut's bellybuttons. Not surprisingly, he's an SLC parent and one of the dickheads who pushed for the 10 Commandments in classrooms. Saw somewhere that Patriot Mobile candidates went 0-11 this weekend. No clue how accurate that is, but here's to more failure for those fucks.
  15. Kyle Finnegan pitched 1 inning today, with 1 strikeout. As of today, his career numbers are 300 strikeouts, in 300 innings pitched, in 300 games.
  16. I hate where we live in the CFB ecosystem. Kid is money, and I think he crushes it in Austin. Good for him, good for Texas.
  17. If this lands him back home in San Marvelous, I'll happily take it. We're fucking ass and don't have the money to fire our coach, so if we can back into some legit talent, I'm all for it.
  18. Texas Southern isn't even on your schedule.
  19. Hate the Tuesday game, but whatever - it's where we live in the ecosystem. Hopefully the weather is nice and we can rally everyone to the game. At least there's only 1 weekday game this year. Silver lining to the Tues game is it's the only game in 20 days - that's pretty valuable 2/3 of the way through the season.
  20. 2025 Schedule: Aug. 30 Eastern Michigan Sept. 6 at UTSA Sept. 13 at Arizona State Sept. 20 Nicholls Sept. 27 Open Oct. 4 at Arkansas State * Oct. 11 Troy * Oct. 18 at Marshall * Oct. 25 Open Oct. 28 (Tues.) James Madison * Nov. 8 at Louisiana * Nov. 15 at Southern Miss * Nov. 22 ULM * Nov. 29 South Alabama *
  21. Kinda have. 15-10 vs ranked teams the last 3+ years. But yeah, not everyone is a blue blood that doesn't dogpile. Some of us have to take a lot from every big win.
  22. attabobcat. video: https://x.com/TxStateBaseball/status/1894610177824805300
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