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Magus Ossis

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  1. So diselenides (as opposed to sulfides-- chalcopyrite) of copper, for example, are not sometimes (copper) pyrites?
  2. Copper pyrite would like a word with you. (As long as we're being technical and straying briefly away from important topics like Futureman and 80s hype videos)
  3. It is literally true that A&M doesn't stand for anything
  4. We will be a top team when and only when we can reliably pressure and contain from the edge. I’m hopeful but unconvinced the missing pieces to the puzzle are on campus.
  5. The coach for that 1967 Tech win over Texas was Longhorn alumnus and member of the UT Men's Athletic Hall of Honor JT King.
  6. Hitchhiker’s thumb is a classic finding in a form of dwarfism known as diastrophic dysplasia.
  7. Frankly it is arguably better for us if aggy luckstumbles its way to 8 wins this year. Obviously Jimbo + Petrino = divorce; there is no actual danger of the pairing leading to long-term offensive success. Let it marinate one extra year due to an unexpectedly slow fuse. How nice would it be for this gang of the usual suspects still to constitute the aggy football braintrust when we arrive in '24?
  8. You guys should put that report down and read something with more relevant information. Like a random teen fashion magazine from last year or a bunch of sheets of used toilet paper.
  9. I love the laments of not winning in “either” of the big 3 and of being satisfied with “mediocracy.”
  10. A significant bone contusion often heals on the same schedule as a fracture. Without getting to examine his foot and look at his MRI, it’s hard to say how significant I would call it. Assuming the diagnosis is correct and that it was serious enough for him to miss the Xavier game, it sounds like the team needs to be ready to go on without counting on him for any more minutes this year.
  11. I was talking more about a team culture of never lying down, always expecting to win, that generally protects from losing winnable games when there is adversity. One example that comes to mind is Bama. Granted they are talented, but they haven't lost to a team with a losing record in I don't know how long. I think aggy at Kyle in '21 is the only unranked loss over the last five years. I would like to see Texas develop the kind of culture that helps our players always expect to win. VY was more than a physical freak-- he was a winner, and the team around him were winners.
  12. One of the things that Sark said in his presser recently was extrapolating from the importance of players continuing to improve. He stated that coaches including himself had to continue to improve. I am willing to grant sobering up as one improvement. I am curious what if anything he is doing this offseason to improve himself as a game-day coach. There is some truth to dividing opponents into those who can beat us, those that can upset us, and the "safe" games, but that scheme depends not only on not losing key talent but also on a solid team culture. Losers lose games that winners never would. I am not sure whether we are winners. I hope that we are.
  13. Unless you are a dead collie. In-state acceptance rate for class of 2024 was 64%.
  14. I wonder in which sense of the word they intend that they are goons? So many great choices: Nazi soldiers, idiots, kidnappers. Definition 4, while unflattering, at least isn't explicitly racist or stupid.
  15. Their schedule is softer than the Staypuft Marshmallow Man. NM win @the U - toss up because their starters might still be intact ULM win Barn win Pig win Bama - humiliation on the home field. The lack of depth will bite them. @ Tenn - loss USCe - toss up because who knows if the gamecocks will ever amount to anything @ Ole Miss - loss MSU - toss up because at home against new coach after Leach ACU win despite no meaningful QB left healthy @LSU - horrid season-ending loss Bowl - forfeit Bottom line: great roller coaster potential, especially should they get by Miami. O/U at 6.5 wins
  16. That depends. Some aggy are technically enrolled at Blinn. ASU may have passed the others, though.
  17. Yeah, OT deficits are not insignificant in the CFB death spiral. Poor aggy. OK, Moro Majima the aggy, tell me you try to use words you don't understand without telling me you try to use words you don't understand. Oh, and nice use of literally.
  18. Unless Donovan is ready to come to Texas this year, there is not a huge crowd of jaw-dropping candidates waiting for us to snatch them up. If we are going with less than a home-run hire, Terry makes sense for a lot of reasons, most of which I will not rehearse here. In his first turn at the wheel of a major men's team, he has us two games away from matching our best result ever. What he did at UTEP is potentially informative, but the best indicator of how he is likely to coach Texas in the tournament is more likely to be (granted, a limited data set) how he has coached Texas in the tournament. Chasing some other "maybe" or "probably" when we have at least in some sense a S16 coach would be foolishness. Hope that Donovan surprises us and comes or, failing that, that Terry has grown in team-building under Beard and brings us right back next year without his interim tag.
  19. FWIW 1604 has publicly apologized and is apparently early in sobering up. I call for cutting him some slack.
  20. You’d think it would have an apostrophe, just like all those other possessive pronouns, amirite?
  21. CB has a solid plan to ensure nothing like what happened (that was nothing like what you think) will ever happen again: (1) sabotage her phone charger so his next cray cray GF can't call the police without asking to borrow his phone, and (2) don't wear glasses around his cray cray GF so she can't ask for a good choking by messing with them.
  22. Link In this article, Robbins is presented as rather politic and uncommitted. He manages to throw in a vote of confidence in Kliavkov's negotiation skills and multiple compliments for the Pac. He minimizes the idea of leaving over a "small" difference in payouts. He also mentioned his support in the past of uniting with the B12, friends he has in the B12, and the fact that this is a business decision, all without ever directly answering what negotiations he may have already had with the B12. He seems to know a thing or two about business, based on his tenure leading the Texas Medical Center. Unless the article does a really bad job of cherry picking quotations, it sounds like Robbins confirming that AZ is ready to jump if/when the Pac numbers aren't competitive.
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