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  1. 7 hours ago, RollingPresidential said:

    It's German! https://forum.orusports.com/index.php?/topic/12447-mystery-solved-a-possible-solution-for-the-unconventional-pronunciation-of-abmas/

     

    Gerry seems to think we're in on some other guys that haven't entered yet. 

     

    31 minutes ago, BigDSteve said:

    I think I am going to steal this!  Whenever I screw something up, it all turns to shit:  #AggieUp

    Not as many people are familiar with the "Doppel-G-ie" (ggie), but it is pronounced "ssit," somewhat similar to the "Esszett" (ß) making the "ss" sound.

  2. Sanders literally had his staff clean most these guys’ lockers out. If you showed up and your stuff was in a pile, you knew how your post-spring-game meeting was going to go in advance. Some of the guys, like Courtney (the one who publicized the lack of access to Hudl), still had lockers but chose to leave.

  3. Point: OU was without Dillon Gabriel when we curb stomped them last year

    Counterpoint: Gabriel started in their 6 other losses, and Venables coached all 7

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  4. 3 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

    Assuming the SEC moves to a 9-game, 3-6-6, league schedule to maximize TV revenues, I think our 3 future OOC games should include;

    1. a made for TV game against the top B1G, ACC, and what's left of the PAC (or MWC if it implodes). Notre Dame, obviously. Home & home
    2. a match-up against former Big 12/SWC teams. They'll expect home & home, too
    3. a TX-based D1 program; UTSA, UTEP, Texas St, ACU, SFA, SHSU, UNT, and SMU. We've really loaded up on our system schools, moving forward, playing one every season thru 2031. These are home games.

    Future schedules align like this, but what's the point in playing Wyoming? Or San Jose St? Yes, they're home games and should be gimme wins, but have gotta be TV ratings losers.

    Colorado St is okay, I guess, as a home cupcake. But, I'd rather see Tech, BU, TCU, UH, and OSU on some type of rotation for nostalgia. I don't want to play any of them too often. Indifferent to KU, KSU, and ISU.

    We really don't need as many cupcakes with a 12-team CFB Playoff, so I'd rather play fewer stinkers if it can be avoided. I think season ticket holders will agree. TV partners are pushing for it, too.

     

    That's nice, but really our former conference-mates that spent so much energy hating us can jump in a lake. If they want to play us, they can get in line like every other tier 2 school. I like the idea of a marquee H/H. I would be in favor of having two models for the other two non-con games: HH/H for tier-two opponents and pure H for the "filler" game. That would give us 4 conference home games, 2 (occasionally 3) non-con home games, the RRS, 4 conference road games, and (usually) 1 non-con road game (coordinating to ensure our marquee road game doesn't happen in a tier 2 travel year). Schools may need a little cash from us for the non-marquee agreements, but our home games generate enough revenue that both schools can come out ahead by playing them more at DKR.

    I would be in favor of giving scheduling priority to schools that increase recruiting exposure and are travel-friendly (i.e., no return away games in places like Manhattan, KS). Even the "filler" games need to be someone worth watching, even if the game isn't in too great of doubt. No App State, haha.

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  5. 1 hour ago, TKthunder2 said:

    How does 2-7 work?

    Oklahoma and aggy every year then…

    year 1: Alabama, Miss St, Florida, Tenn, Mizzou, SC, and Arkansas

    year 2: Auburn, Ole Miss, Georgia, LSU, Vandy, UK, and NOT Arkansas?so who?

     

    To play everyone evenly it has add up to 15 (3-6-6=15 or 1-7-7=15). 2-7-7=16

    Am I missing something here? Yes you could rotate teams but that seems like it would be more difficult on your home and away schedule and allows people to bitch and moan when they catch the toughest non rival team in that extra rotation 2 years in a row.

    It also would slowly over the years adjust the schedule. If they set it as a predictable  repeatable rotation the SEC can make sure to try and balance home/away schedules for the conference members to try and avoid extremely tough schedules one year and weak schedules the next and give them good home schedules year after year. If you’re slowly adjusting the schedule by one team a year there is a chance that you end up with a home schedule of SC, UK, MSU, Vandy.

    This right here. 2-7-7 means you will have a (presumably rotating) intermediate frequency opponent. 3-6-6 is clean, but 2-7-7 would work if the league were at 17 teams.

  6. 53 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    “Jimbo Fisher says improving his team's fundamentals is the key to having a successful spring camp: "At the end of the day, more football games are lost than are won."

     

    Huh?

     

    6 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    Seems like so far they're fundamentally quiters.

     

    Just now, Deej said:

    Seems like it's a 50/50 proposition.

    This isn’t tricky. He’s talking aggy games.

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  7. 18 minutes ago, USC Traveler said:

    There’s no doubt the conference office would take them.

     

    Would the actual schools (who all recruit in FL) want to turn FSU and Miami into much more formidable competitors by making them SEC members ?

    If the SEC keeps them out, they’re much easier to recruit against in the BIG, which SEC coaches will portray as a second-rate conference, much as they do with the ACC now.

    Would Saban, Smart, Freeze, etc and their successors rather recruit against them as BIG or SEC members.  I have no doubt as to the answer.

    Sankey has a lot of sway, but he ultimately works for the schools.  If they don’t want it to happen, then it won’t happen.

    FSU isn’t UT.  It’s definitely not a slam dunk.

    I don't know how much recruiting-rivalry calculus coaches do, and I don't know how accurately I could do it regarding future hypotheticals either. If you are marking FSU as less of a recruiting threat to your school with FSU in the B1G, to what degree is that offset by tOSU and Michigan (among others) becoming greater threats with a local opponent?

    The strategy might involve SEC plucking just enough choice fruit to make the leftovers less valuable to the B1G: take Clemson and FSU, let B1G go after GT and UM. Atlanta is still going to be SEC country, irrespective of whether the local engineering school affiliates with the snowbrat crowd, and Miami would be in, shall we say, a somewhat geographically incongruous conference alignment.

  8. 3 hours ago, TheMailBox357 said:

    From what the UT 9.95ers have said over the years, pre-2002 recruiting cycle you kept up with recruiting through newspapers, magazines, local/regional high school sports shows, & etc.

     

    2 hours ago, Beer Drinker said:

     

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    53 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Change pre-2002 to "pre-internet". 

     

    22 minutes ago, Beer Drinker said:

    JFC dude.  Were you even alive in 2000?  Some of us were and were enrolled at UT when Mack was mopping up in recruiting and Bobby Burton started his website documenting it all.  

     

    17 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

    Rivals started in ‘97 I believe, fuck, Max Emfinger and his perm were scamming dumb fucks to pay for faxes back in 1979. Recruiting news has been around a long time, and as soon as the Internet was a thing in the mid to late 90’s, there was recruiting news on it.

    What these responses are saying. Look, mailbox, just stop talking and do yourself a favor. Let this horrible side-track end. Those of us who have been following online recruiting info since the 90s have a hard time reading your stuff with a straight face. When you have no idea what you’re talking about, and especially when you’ve been shown as such, just stop posting for a while.

    please and thank you

    mo

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