Everything posted by Magus Ossis
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
Could be Saban said to throw the guy whom he helped save his career and get the Texas job under the bus re his alcoholism. Or could be that Saban leaned heavily on Golding to win at his job.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Is this unintentional humor? Is it a running joke about which I'm ignorant?
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
So you're saying Chuck Norris wears Arch pajamas?
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
USC and Miami would be nice choices
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
Ankle sprain in a boot months later does not add up. If he shredded his ankle and had to have the ligaments reconstructed, I wouldn't still have him in a boot. There is something rotten in Denmark.
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SEC Catch-all Thread
Schools in the state of Alabama have apparently won 183 of the last 120 championships.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
Why do you hate so hard on his value as a QB, then?
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Aggy ran out of time about 27 seconds too late that night
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Aggy is ND's home opener. Purdue, a nothing-burger by most estimations, follows them on the schedule. ND has a bye week to tune things up after opening against Miami. NI certainly showed us last year that anything is possible, but I'm expecting this year's roller coaster "early setback" to be way way back.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
True hilarity would be including, rather than some B1G team, another SEC as the bubble team presumed to have "taken their spot." Especially if that team had the same record but actually looked good other than a narrow loss at Kyle after which said other team got their star QB back from injury,
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
There is a Mack thread, and his picture popping up here is not a reason to merge it into this one
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Tell Me About Michigan
Practically in the 360 era
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Tell me about Texas Tech
With the new rule against simulating weapons, Tech will be drawing carb inspiration from its tortilla-tossing heyday and changing the hand sign to "buns up."
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Yes, arthroscopic-assisted ACLs are very different, as are rehab protocols now, than what was done a couple of generations ago. Technically, I would call the LCL (lateral collateral ligament) the anterior part of the PLC (postero-lateral corner, not to be confused with the PCL, posterior cruciate ligament). Depending on whether he avulsed (pulled off) or tore mid-substance on his LCL, he might have had different surgeries; with a high-level RB like him, my guess is that he had some graft sewn in there unless it was obviously strictly avulsed. I can't remember with certainty, but I think the early concern was that Baxter had torn PCL, too. Not tearing PCL and not tearing more of the posterior portions of the PLC (eg Popliteus) would take some of my concerns away regarding aggressive early motion in therapy and hence help him be better positioned for a potentially faster and more complete recovery. Once he is this far out, his recovery trajectory is more about how rapidly he can re-train and how well he re-adapts to full go.
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Tell Me About Michigan
No Consequences At All
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I would probably have to find a way to make that game.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
I'll be honest. If they only threw them around in the stands, it would be one of those quirky traditions that make CFB cool IMO. Less fun for the clean up crew, but that's a small issue. The real problem is that throwing anything at benches or the field is out-of-bounds for me. And BTW, I think there is HEB in Lubbock.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
This is a particularly bold statement. I suggest that you take a brief holiday from expressing such extreme opinions and consider a few objectively determinable points, including: Did the story you reference make explicit mention of the relative paucity of future NFL players on DKR's teams? What is the current preseason #1 (AP and Coaches), and how often was that true in the past? How many players has that team had drafted over the last two years, and where does this number lie wrt its historical median and mean? Did that team have a policy in place formerly requiring players to document their accommodations and any vehicle they might be seen driving so as to help verify that they were not receiving any impermissible benefits? Is that school winning a higher percentage of recruiting battles for 4* and 5* athletes from regions and against schools traditionally associated with the "bag game?" You are free to opine that to you the difference does not matter. This is a feeling on your part about which you are likely the expert. But I advise dialing back the demonstrably false claims.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Aggy got it a little mixed up. They are a sleeping 800-lb capuchin monkey with a sheep fetish.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
I have to part company with you here. A total collapse of a season that they can blame on the Mateer scandal might mean we get to watch them in the dirt AND keep the current staff in place. Plus, what is bad for OU is by definition good.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
Having a different opinion also doesn't mean I'm not malicious, arbitrary, and stupid, FWIW.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Whatever its shortcomings, Tech is not A&M. If Campbell keeps pouring money into the football program and holds the coaching staff accountable for what they are given, Tech will become a player. They will have few other schools that are likely to match what Tech will spend for the B12's access to the playoffs. Tech, like Texas, was not a big bag-game school. Now that CC is writing checks, they too are in a new era.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Texas doesn't owe Tech the time of day. Texas helped Tech "abandon" its conference mates in the Border so it could play big boy ball in the SWC. Tech rode our coattails into the Big 12. Tech was all too happy to be a part of the hate-on-Texas program that saw our league commissioner, no less, take sides against us. Maybe if Tech wants to play us in Austin occasionally as one-offs, we could meet. Two problems with that: (1) it would mean a loss of the opportunity for a less hateful school to boost its profile, and (2) Tech, so far as I know, thinks instead they should be in the bucket with Michigan et al-- home and home. No. TLDR: sorry the single biggest day for your economy every biennium got canceled. Well, bye.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Friendly correction: they require either passing the 4th grade or promising that you tried hard the third time through.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
No team doc is going to let a potential ACL tear walk around unbraced or without crutches. Not without first getting their reply to the state board and their checkbook handy.