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  1. 18 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    also from the pate video caesar's has the aggy over/under line at 8.5 wins

    Makes sense. They have 3 gimme games in which even they would have trouble running out of time (Abilene Christian, UNM, and UL Monroe). They have 3 easyish games that a good team would win, and they could easily do as well (@Miami, Auburn, Jerryworld Pig). They have 3 winnable games in which they have a talent advantage on paper but may be hamstrung by all things aggy by the time they are played (USCe, @Ole Miss, MSU), and 3 tough games by most measures (Bama, @Tenn, @LSU). Assuming they lose 2/3 tough games and 1/3 of the winnable, their possible next loss is the O/U maker/braker*.

    I would not be surprised at 9 wins, but I could easily see them cratering to 5 or 6 if any of a few known issues comes to a boil (Fisher/Petrino, merc disinterest, OL/QB injury, CB depth, etc).

    *Spelling aggified for clarity.

  2. Yeah, yeah. Still dumb. Unless your idea of a great way to spend your 19th year of life (which, by the way, is very hard to get back once spent) consists in smoking weed in your dorm room in a soviet-style people-storage unit in College Station.

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  3. Every dollar aggy boosters spend loading up on DL and WR while they are still running the current iteration of the Circus of the 3 Stars is another dollar unavailable to buy Jimbo out, hire his replacement, and/or fund NIL for a future team that might theoretically have a functional coaching staff.

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  4. Recent regimes have seemed to have too many comfort hires and “buddies” that turned my stomach to see on our payroll, e.g., CH from the Briles Baylor staff under Herman. I know not everyone is sold on PK as DC, but I don’t put him in the same basket. Bringing in hired guns like GP to tune up the D is something else that strikes me as veering away from the comfort zone. I see a staff that looks to be assembled based largely on competence and a roster based largely on ability/potential. It sounds like a no-brainer way to do it, but it hasn’t been this way in a while, from my perspective. Am I crazy? Do we have a big mass of dead weight I’m not seeing?

  5. 1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

    The full article was pasted in the Texas recruiting thread. I copied the below and decided to see if there was a thread over here.

    Fuck these guys. Big time.

    I'm waiting for the Texas Rangers to conclude their investigation into Baylor any minute now. I'm sure the GBI will be just as diligent. 

    The status of wome is taking some hits the last few decades. I have no doubt what will follow from fans and neaderthals is that the women are all gold diggers operating in a money grab.

    Disgusting. When the system protects the predators from prey, the system needs to be brought down root and branch.

    Baylor and Georgia should be nuked from orbit. Many times.

    If the GA AG is an alumnus of UGA, maybe he’ll be just as diligent as (impeached) Texas AG and Baylor alum Paxton has been.

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  6. 1 hour ago, camel at sea said:

    They can't *really* get to B1G numbers, but they can definitely put some highly unrealistic "if... then" clauses into that contract.  The media guys will push the unrealistic possibilities and it'll force those who want to exit to explain to those that don't, that the deal's numbers, as per the PAC friendly media, aren't real.

    "Why would we leave when we're going to get $55M per?"
    "We aren't."
    "It says here in the Canzano article that we are..."


    The SMU thing is interesting because it's exactly what the PAC needs.  They need more inventory but they need that extra inventory to not be distributed into more slices (since that overcomes the benefit of the additional inventory.) SMU Is the kind of place that might sign off on something like that for a year.  If the Ponies ever get their foot back into the P5 door, they'll take advantage.  Their donors have been ready for the NIL era for forty years.        

    Bingo. And they can both word and promote the contract with the optimistic numbers, putting "corrections and adjustments" in the fine print. Headline: "PAC 10 signs deal that pays $58M per annum! More than B12 by wide margin!" But at some point the school administrators have to decide based on actual revenues, not unicorn farts. Color me surprised if there is not some ship-jumping on/before 7/31/23.

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  7. 55 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Men or people with lower body fat are going to have a very hard time floating indefinitely in water. 

    Using a good survival stroke or drown-proofing, most fit people could last quite a while. An out-of-shape person should not be swimming in the ocean.

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  8. Where to draw the line could prove very tricky for NCAA with enforcing a ban on donor perks related to collective donations. RGBIII could obviously give a more informed answer, but I'm fairly certain that the TOF is essentially a normal 501c3 that happens to have contractual relationships with athletes among its expenses, when you get down to it. Does NCAA think it can ban perks for donors to charities? Good luck drawing that line. How much business transacted with athletes, under which conditions, at what remove? They can try to close the barn doors, but the horse is out.

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  9. 16 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    My slot is 3:10 on 6/30, but I’m expecting to be on the road all afternoon. The email said it won’t work on the mobile app, so I may have to trust the generous soles in Belmont to pick my seats. What could possibly go wrong?

    Don't trust them. They'll walk all over you.

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  10. 1 minute ago, BluTechsan said:

    Ok, perhaps no one has forgotten.

    But I can garrandamntee you that 14 years later there are folks that have no clue whatsoever about the suspension

    This is no doubt true in our world of widespread ignorance. But they were never going to pay Leach. To suggest otherwise is fatuous at best. Leach underestimated how petty and self destructive (and destructive of what they professed to defend) the people who ostensibly want the best for Tech were willing to be. He may have been happier in the final analysis; he received better treatment elsewhere once he got back into coaching.

  11. I have a couple of friends/colleagues whose families are among those who still tell themselves good riddance. They use his never disclosed officially but often speculated private life to tell themselves that “he had to go.”

     

    edit families who were in the crowd that ran him off

  12. I wouldn’t mind seeing them at a hard-earned 4-6 going into the last two weeks of the season, including a brilliant near-win over Bama. Then they dominate mighty ACU and drop a huge turd into LSU’s punch bowl for a second season in a row to improve from last year’s five wins by exactly one. Cleetus cheers the turnaround, Jimbo stays, the mercs leave, and 24 is set up to be a flaming pile of slightly-used Collie food.

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  13. 9 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I got turf toe the second game of my senior year in HS. A blocked LB fell onto the back of my foot after I’d been tackled. Snap! Big toe was stuck down in the turf and broke instantly.

    The coaching staff got metal shop to carve a metal shape of my shoe’s sole the next week, then they wrapped it in foam, I took 20 advil an hour before the next game and played the rest of the season like that with very little practice in between.

    The process of playing on it stress fractured all of the other toes in the foot throughout the rest of the season. I caught a lot of passes and didn’t quit on my team, but doing what I did permanently disfigured my foot and I’ll deal with pain from it for the rest of my life. I wouldn’t wish turf toe on my worst enemy, especially playing through it. I feel for what Deion is going through, as that sounds like the worst shit. 

    I’m sorry about your foot. Most of us take for granted that our feet will let us step on them thousands of times a day and won’t nag us let alone torture us with pain. I hope someone can do something for your foot someday.

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  14. 2 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    If you take the new 69 P5 schools and divided them in 3rds, you have 23 big names, 23 medium names, and 23 small names.

    BYU and WVU would not be classified as big names.

    If you are looking at all of DI then sure, but we’re not talking about basketball, we’re talking about big time football.

    I agree the Big 12 will be fine, no need to exaggerate… 

     

    15 minutes ago, FartingDreamer said:

    With all due respect you are quite wrong about BYU and WVU.  BYU is a Top 40 brand with a built-in national base and WVU is a Teir 3 brand as well.

    Do you see how your rebuttal falls just short?

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  15. 4 hours ago, FartingDreamer said:

    If "if's" "ands" and "buts" were candy and nuts.....

    Wreaks of PR desperation. 

    I’m not sure whether I’m missing some subtle (or otherwise) feigned ignorance of English idiom and usage here.

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  16. 2 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Part of me hopes we get the 1st home football game just to watch them melt the fuck down over something as stupid as first home host. 

    I think restarting the series by beating them with another game-ending FG might be too much for my blood pressure, but it might be the most poetic way to do it. For the historic lulz, restarting in Austin and winning the first few would forever give aggy more fuel for its conspiratorial alternative history. If only we hadn't bribed the man to move the game in the pivotal year of 2024, all of history would have been different, etc.

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