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Magus Ossis

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  1. Our only away games OOC should be one every two years from H/H series against out of state opponents that are marquee teams and/or desirable travel destinations. An exception could be playing at NRG for a "return home game" against Rice or in the Alamo Dome (with plenty of seats allocated to Texas) against e.g. UTSA. We already play in Dallas. We don't need to sacrifice our home game opportunities to give money and the chance to play spoiler to Tech, Baylor, TCU, Houston, OSU, etc. We gave Baylor their going away present already. If they miss us, they can save the dump we took on their face and bring it back out to sniff it occasionally.
  2. This is the part that gets me. Let the team doc look at him. If somehow there is no doc around, let the trainer look at him. When in doubt (especially at a level of play as big-time as P5 FB), put him in a boot and on crutches until you get an MRI. There is pretty much 0% chance of a routine MRI of the ankle, the same study one would use definitively to diagnose and characterize sprains in high-level athletes, missing a talus fracture. Any idiot should know that you start out protecting the patient in case the injury you hope didn't occur actually did.
  3. While alumni gave $20 handshakes to players etc, there has always been an enormous gulf between the coordinated large-scale bag operations at some schools and the spotty officially discouraged misbehavior at others. When aggy coaches were directing fedex cash deliveries, Texas was making athletes report what they drove and how they afforded it. Now we are institutionally in the game.
  4. It varies based on whether this is osteochondral, posterior process, lateral process, body, or neck. Best case for him is if it is a simple lateral process fracture. There is a high risk of AVN with more serious neck fractures. That’s super bad. Even if this heals up (and it can be slower than the average bone 6 week time), significant and early arthritis does occur with lots of these.
  5. A little talar fracture can be analogous to a little pregnant. Here's hoping the kid recovers from this without serious long-term ankle problems.
  6. The curse can’t be lifted until every piece of his treasure is returned and the blood of one of the betrayers is spilled.
  7. Or have the stadium play clips of "they'd rather lose to Alabama and Georgia than KSU and ISU" and "Take care of business in Austin" on a loop to a highlight reel of us beating Bama, ISU, KSU, and some Sugar Bowl vs UGA.
  8. The relegation model would not necessarily have to have a major impact on either the $ going to each school or to the teams available for the media contract if the relegation is internal to the PacWC or the B12. You arrange the schedule so that both the upper and lower divisions play complete round robins at their respective levels. Unless/until those leagues get more members, you probably have some cross-division games. You might protect a rivalry or two. If two conferences introduced the model, they could arrange inter-conference play between select upper and lower division teams from each. You make the lower level teams ineligible for the CCG (if you have one) and CFP autobid. All the teams are still technically part of the same conference snd same TV deal with the networks.
  9. Fourth quarter teams tend to win tough games. We have looked like a serious fourth quarter team this year. One will never be able to assess the present without accounting for the past, but things change and the present is never the past. Are we going to the CFP? I don't know. Will we win the b12 this year? I don't know. Am I concerned about our ability to win b12 road games this year? No. As stated elsewhere, statistics almost demand that even very good teams lose occasionally, and losses are more likely on the road than at home, so a road loss is a strong possibility. But 2 would surprise me. Many people who never expected us to beat Bama will be hard to convince that beating them soundly is a reason to change their paradigm for evaluating Texas under Sark.
  10. I’m not sure whether this is meant to imply any culpability on Sanders’ part. We have a non-CU player taking a terrible cheap shot on a CU player, and you have other people who don’t play for CU reacting inappropriately to the cheap shot. This. The death threats are wrong, they’re a big deal, and that guy should have thought about it more instead of trying wrongfully to injure a human.
  11. It has been 700 days since aggy won a true road game
  12. It is still extremely early in his career, but through 2 games he is averaging just over 6 YPC rushing. This would, if continued, break the previous record for NFL RBs held by some dude name J Charles 🤘
  13. I would never. My guess is that you would never. I hesitate, after all the things they've done publicly and proudly, confidently to rule out anything foolish or unethical aggy might do. Even Tech was dumb enough.
  14. I'm not sure which US stadiums have it yet, but hybrid turf seems like the best solution to me. It is grass reinforced by synthetic fibers through the root level to minimize tearing up of the field with use. It requires water, of course, but that can be done with reclaimed water and minimal evap if the field is designed properly. Also, to the extent it uses water, a large percentage of that water goes to fixing carbon out of the atmosphere. Please no CR replies arguing about climate change. I'm not taking a position on that with this post.
  15. Abstract link What this literature does not even address is the cumulative wear the higher impact surface causes in joints. If you live long enough, your knees will eventually wear out and you will need them replaced. Major factors that affect just how long that is include your genes, your BMI, and whether you spend your days inflicting high impacts on your knees.
  16. A night like tonight does not happen by accident. It doesn't even happen easily for a good coach. Sark walked into Texas during our seemingly interminable age of mediocrity, hired good assistants, recruited good players, developed the team, self-scouted, went into Alabama, and won convincingly. The same man has coached both our biggest MOV ever over OU and all of CFB's biggest MOV ever at Saban. If and when he has a bad game in the future, people need to remember the magnitude of what he has done in less than 3 years here. The future is bright and burnt orange. Thanks to Coach Sark, thanks to Quinn and all the guys, and HOOKEM!
  17. 1. Love him, hate him, whatever. Call him Prime or whatever. Sanders was the reason for that result. When the line was set at 4 TDs, everyone knew who Briles was, who Dykes was, who left TCU, how last season ended against UGA. They knew about TCU’s close wins. And no one outside the CU locker room gave the Buffs a chance. TCU may have lucked into the NCG last year. They may be bad this year. To deny, however, that yesterday’s result was not a dramatic vindication of what Sanders is building is daft. 2. Of course better coaches have a better chance of winning by more and of winning close games. The problem is that even great coaches can’t prevent the enormity of chance from hitting them with the one event that drags them down to a loss when playing in one-score games. Even Nick Saban can’t keep the best player in CFB from uncharacteristically coughing up the ball in OT. Better coaches may only regress toward .550 instead of to .500 in close games, but they are governed by the law of averages as well.
  18. I think one question (to which we obviously can't have an answer until at least 2024) is to what degree the audience that has interest in Texas and OU has a secondary viewing interest in teams that are in a league with them. Does, e.g., a tOSU fan have more interest in watching Northwestern than he would Georgia Tech? The numbers for the B12 contract are based on, among other factors, viewership to date of the remnants. They do not account for the potential decline in secondary interest after the departures. This is one reason why some say that the next contract will be the one that establishes how the 12 can do longer term without Texas and OU.
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