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Posts posted by Magus Ossis
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I can see how PE $ would be attractive to schools that are desperate to finance 2025 and 2026. We are not an aspiring new power. We should not be selling our future for money now-- we have money now. PE gets a cut by offering, in the case rich schools, basically nothing they couldn't do already.
Independent could make it very hard to cut media deals, potentially. A hybrid league of semi-independents could be a version of Prestige worldwide, however. Imagine if Michigan and USC got fed up and approached Texas through channels. A cooperative between those three schools and ND could make independence look very attractive. Imagine a round robin of those as the nucleus of an annual schedule.
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Thumb dislocation = likely not back before playoffs IF it needs surgery. The talk about could have come back tends to make me think that surgery is not expected. Some finger (and thumb) dislocations are stable once popped back into place. Even those, however, are going to be associated with some degree of tearing or peeling of ligaments and some swelling while they heal. I can't remember treating one of these in a skill player, if I've done it for an athlete at all. Wheel of fortune IMO.
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Just now, DFW Horn said:
Your math ain't mathin'
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1 minute ago, DFW Horn said:
Does anybody really believe LSU is a Top 10 team right now?
Like most years, there really are only about 7 true top 10 teams by this stage in the season.
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5 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:
He's an animal, been fun to watch.
There isn't, as far as I know. We're also expressly allowed to do it on the opening kickoff.
My understanding is that there are two warnings given to a home team for throwing items onto the field before the 15-yard assessments begin. Tech has decided to keep one warning as cushion and willingly take one warning on the opening kick.
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4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
Will we hit 1000 before next year’s game? I don’t want to math this morning.
Yes
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6 hours ago, Iceman said:
Texas very seldom does NOT have the most talent on the field. Same for A&M. Y'all have the perfect coach and still never get it done, unless you have a generational QB, again, SURROUNDED by the most talented team.
Yet, other teams will still strap on the pads and lace up the cleats this week. It's fucking weird.
The equation absolutely favors Texas. Save for the miracle of Vincent Young overcoming Mack Brown, ya'll come up short. Repeatedly, Yet you think other folks should stop in their tracks and take a knee. That's why other fanbases laugh at you.
The lion doesn't talk about being the apex predator. It just is.
Texas often has a talent advantage and often doesn't win. How many major-conference teams get excited about knocking off Houston or OSU week-to-week? It is a game of emotion in which better teams or those with bigger names often inspire greater emotion. Texas has still managed to eke out, I think, 14 outright conference championships over the last 60 years. And a few national championships. Remind me how many Tech has by comparison. My recollection is zero of both, but I could be counting wrong.
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I think there were a lot of people that tuned in for some Horn misery but stuck around to watch OU exposed as Schadenfrauds.
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1 minute ago, satyanash said:
wut? Are you forgetting the fumble against blOU last year that Bolden fell on in the endzone? Or the fumble against Arizona State that led to the safety?
You are right sorry 12 more. I was leaving those off.
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I put this on the Gibson recruiting thread, but I'll cross-post. Gibson has a 5/105 career fumble to carry ratio. If Wis fumbled his next 14 carries, his would still be more favorable. Gibson is too great a fumble risk IMO.
EDIT I WAS WRONG it is 12 more. Thanks Satya.
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By way of comparison, Wisner has 0 fumbles on 284 carries.
EDIT if he dropped the ball the next 14 times he touched it, that would still leave him a better average.
EDIT I WAS WRONG ON NUMBERS it is 12 more times. Thanks Satya.
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Gibson had 5 fumbles on 105 career carries. I wish him well, but he did not need to be trusted any more with the ball.
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Took my youngest son for his first OU game. Won't write a novel, but (1) he had the time of his life, and (2) we saw a crazy man lead TEXAS FIGHT standing on the table in the food court a couple of tables down. Good times.
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1. HOOK'EM -- that win felt -- and feels -- fantastic!
2. Props to Mateer for refusing to blame his thumb. My understanding is that he was literally bleeding from his surgical site before the half. How much was he affected or set back-- I don't know, but I doubt the medical guy who cleared him to play less than 3 weeks after thumb fracture surgery went to bed proud last night.
3. Our defense was great in many ways. Just a performance for the ages.
4. Sark has not always impressed me as a Q3 coach. We won the second half 20-0. He had this team mentally tough enough to be ready to play that second half, and he was himself ready to make the right in-game calls.
5. I have hope.
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On 9/30/2025 at 8:17 AM, DaggerHorns said:
She’s in a better place now….
I thought she was now campus trapped in a box under 6 feet of aggy dirt, facing the doggie scoreboard.
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I don't understand why undefeated D2 and D3 teams aren't ranked above the 1-loss teams in this system. They have perfect records, after all.
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On 9/23/2025 at 5:42 PM, Butch Had Not said:
@Magus Ossis don't you know a few things about hands?
On 9/23/2025 at 7:59 PM, closetojumping said:Okay, I’ll go. Not a doctor but just experienced first hand some trauma for someone right in the same body region.
My middle son just broke his forearm at the wrist in the most Tim Krumrie/Joe Theisman fashion possible. Nothing but skin and tendon holding his hand to his body. 11 Y0 in warmups for his first tackle football game ever. Gruesome shit they wouldn’t replay on a telecast.
Took the ER room with 4 people to make 4 attempts before successfully resetting it, per an ER doc. We weren’t in there while they did it. That was on a Friday night. The recommended orthopedist saw us on Monday morning, he had surgery with a pin placement on Tuesday, and they put him in a hard cast 8 days later. That was last Wednesday. If everything is okay, he gets the cast removed in 3 more weeks and then has 2-4 weeks of rehab and can go back to baseball and basketball if he’s pain free.
Anyone saying Mateer will be back in 3-4 weeks is completely full of shit. Bet the over.
Sorry didn't log in for a spell. Preliminary de rigueur never happy about injury to a person but haha to OU. Will OU try to play Mateer in a month? Maybe. Is he stupid enough to play then? Unlikely. Will his fracture be healed? No. It will not. I am unsure exactly the nature of his fracture, but if the rumors that it is a thumb fracture requiring surgery are true, I have a hard time imagining myself letting him throw within the first six weeks.
Sorry about your kid, CTJ. Average non-ortho, even ER, docs are bad at reducing all but the easiest chip-shot fractures. Kids with open growth plates heal about twice as fast as healthy young adults as a general rule. If the kid has a mid-forearm fracture, it won't be full strength until at least 6 months, but it should heal decently on the schedule you mentioned. Fractures closer to the wrist are solid once healed.
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I am not a QB expert. Should I be concerned that in the highlight video above, I did not seem to see much of Arch's helmet pointing in one direction and then the completed throw in another direction? Was it there and I missed it? He definitely looked better this week, but I am not certain that I saw evidence this week that he can go through reads and make a good throw to the second or third.
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Iceman isn't a total idiot, but he is like the guy "correcting" the orbital calculations the guy next to him completed accounting for relativistic effects because his buddy "erred" by not quite getting what Sir Isaac would have. I guess the Pierian Spring's waters don't taste good enough for some to drink deeply before posting.
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I thought we quit having to pretend the B12 administration was neutral toward Texas when the commissioner was recorded publicly cheering against us. For Tech, btw. I am sure our Tech visitor can provide plenty of other examples of other conference officials expressing a desire in favor of one of their member schools losing a game prior to officials in his employ officiating said game. B12 refs were and are bad, maybe not the worst. Their calls are marked by incompetence, unconscious bias, and deliberate favoritism, depending on the ones at issue. And often their calls are correct. Blind squirrels and nuts.
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Aerohorn nailed it. If all wins were created equal, beating a D3 team would matter as much as beating Ohio State. But they are not, and it does not. The Texas team that is ranked, e.g., above Oklahoma has a significant continuity with the Texas team that beat OU and Michigan last year. Polls are imperfect, and there would be future upsets of higher-ranked teams by lower even if there were a perfect way to rank teams today. Nevertheless, the idea that people should not hold or express the opinion (polls being the collected opinions of groups) that some teams with lower win percentages as of game 2 are better than some with better is fatuous. Maybe Kent State could play middle school teams during the summer and be the rightful #1 for being 7-0 before the season starts for anyone else. Then you could have a win over #1!
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Just now, Sawbonz said:
Anyone want to take a stab at the sunk cost fallacy and how it applies to Sark’s usage of Ewers at the back end of last season and the playoffs?
I don't know what he was thinking, but this seemed possibly to figure into it.

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Have not read thread closely. Assuming OSU and UGA win this week, 2 of our 3 losses will likely have been to the eventual 1 and 2 overall seeds. If this were March Madness, with our wins, we would not even be a bubble team. And yes, I mean for a 12-team field.