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Magus Ossis

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  1. If Petrino is an ambitious and immoral tactician, better equipped at this stage in his career to bully midgets than to slay giants, it is just possible he has a coup already schemed up. That would be a real shame.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. So diselenides (as opposed to sulfides-- chalcopyrite) of copper, for example, are not sometimes (copper) pyrites?
  5. 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)
  6. It is literally true that A&M doesn't stand for anything
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Hitchhiker’s thumb is a classic finding in a form of dwarfism known as diastrophic dysplasia.
  10. 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?
  11. 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.
  12. I love the laments of not winning in “either” of the big 3 and of being satisfied with “mediocracy.”
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Unless you are a dead collie. In-state acceptance rate for class of 2024 was 64%.
  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. That depends. Some aggy are technically enrolled at Blinn. ASU may have passed the others, though.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. FWIW 1604 has publicly apologized and is apparently early in sobering up. I call for cutting him some slack.
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