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Magus Ossis

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  1. We need (not necessarily lack, but need): A path to the playoffs, Media availability of our games, A media deal that feeds our AD enough money to keep us in the rich club, At least a few games a year against teams in/around Texas, The OU game, and At least a couple of respectable games against out-of-state opponents including one marquee match-up annually. A weak B12 is not necessarily an insurmountable obstacle to any of these. We don't need any given conference mate to make it work. Even OU was OOC for the longest time. Pig and LSU are not coming, but it's OK. We just need to make sure that we aren't asleep at the switch when we get near the next big junction.
  2. Why don't OU coaches like baseball? No hitter sounds like an impossible behavior standard. Thank you. Thank you. Don't forget to tip your server. I'll be here all week.
  3. Documented by ESPN to be one of the top 32 historic football national brands. Texas, OU, nor USC-- none of them can claim to be an SEC top 32 national program.
  4. Please don't let the joke about Whit turn into a cruel burn after some future scandal.
  5. Wow. Moneyballing football to the point of distinguishing QB from team. I shouldn't be surprised, but I hadn't thought of it.
  6. I'm comforted to know that the B12/SWC footprint representation is (Iowa, depending on how you draw the map,) Castiglione from OU, and Slocum from aggy. 2 votes from our neck of the woods will help ensure Texas gets a fair shake.
  7. I really only disagree with one of the assumptions underlying publishing these historic charts. That would be the assumption that S&P+ isn't a nonscientific data-mining abortion of a pretense at meaningful football team strength analysis. Carry on.
  8. Feel bad for the kid. Keeping his weight under control while nonweightbearing for an ankle injury isnt going to be easy.
  9. Yeah, they sold that loss like it was a super bowl win. And largely seemed to succeed. Was he truly at aggy? I thought he just lived in the land of the lost.
  10. Why would any rational human with choices go to aggy? Answer-- no human is completely rational, and motivated bumpkins hard-sell people in ways that sometimes appeal to the uninformed and/or irrational parts of athletes' brains.
  11. I think with class size and how a few schools are killing it, #6 is more likely.
  12. You overestimate them. Jimbo was resting on his laurels. He got lazy. He’s past his prime. We are primed for a championship run if we can just get a young innovative coach here who has that fire. If NAME is winning 9 games a year at LESSER SCHOOL, (or is running an offense that... or a defense that... etc), imagine what he could do behind the wheel of the Ferrari of college football programs. Sleeping giant yada yada.
  13. Return to play after ACL depends on how it’s reconstructed. The old thinking was wait a month before surgery, but now it’s often earlier if there is also other work to do. Allograft (dead person from bone bank) tendon graft usually 9 months before full go. Autograft (some hamstrings from the patient that he, believe or not, won’t miss) tendon graft usually 6 months. Bone-tendon-bone autograft (chunks of knee cap, shin, and strip of tendon connecting them) usually 4 1/2 months. Optimistically he might be cleared for unrestricted cutting and pivoting (the last activities to be permitted) circa January 2020. Very surgery (and hence surgeon) dependent, though.
  14. We’re a match for each team on the schedule. If the most likely outcome occurred every week, we should arguably end up 12-0. But the games aren’t independent, and bad things happen. No sense planning on bad luck, though. I’m drinking the Koolaid from aisle 12.
  15. With all those gardens, almost as much fertilizer, though.
  16. Broke 4 bones plus tore an ankle ligament would be especially unusual and bad. The fractures that go most commonly with ankle injuries are the lower ends of the fibula (skinny bone of lower leg) and tibia (shin). The most common bad version of this pattern would be a “trimalleolar” fracture: tibia in 3+ pieces and fibula in 2+. As bad as it is, there would be a ray of hope for being back on it in 6 weeks after surgery and on the field by November. Sometimes the tibia breaks through the weight bearing surface instead of around the edges (plafond fracture). That drops the chances of seeing the field this year close to 0. If he broke his actual ankle bone (talus), he’s getting into new levels of bad. To get to 4 separate bones, you’d add another to those, and it you’d be moving into “unlikely even to walk without a little bit of a limp” territory. Bottom line, it probably is about how it sounds: no chance he sees the field before October at the earliest— even that would be a surprise— maybe never, depending on what “broke four bones” means.
  17. The bruise diagnosis on Ingram is good news. Low-grade high ankle sprain on Sterns isn't great, but it isn't terrible. Average return to play for something like that is typically about 3 weeks. Sounds like Sterns is out for camp but is likely to be back in time to get some practice before LSU. Agree with phdhorn that groin doesn't sound like a nothing. I haven't seen anything about Whit through official channels, though.
  18. Volleyball meme + the DL sweep may just be the 1-2 punch that KOs Jimbo's street cred.
  19. My gut is Collins wants to pick Texas in a way that tells himself it has nothing to do with Mom. Well, almost nothing. I have trouble believing that he would rather play on a crappy defense at a crappy university in an Oklahoma suburb when he has the chance to be a part of something special here. If there were some big issue driving him away from us, I think a bigger whiff of it would have found its way to the board.
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