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Related to the Hogg thing: right now a small group of traditional Austin Democrats are very quietly feeling around for a “moderate” to primary Greg Casar. Somehow my name came up as a possible supporter or even challenger. What I told them was that even though Greg Casar‘s ideology is not the model for what Democrats need nationally, purging well liked incumbents who represent their district well in a misguided attempt to enforce some kind of hypothetical majoritarian ideological baseline is exactly what we don’t need to do. If someone thinks they can do the job better than Casar, they should run. But I’m not going to participate as a donor or opponent in an attempt to take him down because he wins, and winning is job #1.
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Yup, which is why that David Hogg dude pissed me off. His opening message as vp of the democratic party (at least from the headlines I saw) was that his goal was to "take down" traditional old school democrats, i.e., a person in leadership wanting to attack and ruin the careers of lifelong dems. Ironically, I'd probably agree with him on most policies, including that the party needs to move further left on economic and other issues. But you don't do that by attacking and "taking out" the old school dems. The approach is to say we are going to do all we can to push the party to more progressive policies by encouraging more progressives, young ones in particular, into primaries and treating them equally to everyone else. The overriding complaint has been that the party elites favored Hilary over Bernie, etc., which is probably true, but there were still votes, and she won. The same elites favored Hilary over Obama but he messaged better and got the votes. The dems need to fight it out in primaries, vigorously, but then coalesce around whoever wins, because the worst democrat furthest from your views is still monumentally better than the average republican these days. Fucking Joe Manchin is an example, I probably disagree with his approach to most things, but he's never been maga, and that's probably good enough (also from WV nobody should ever expect a progressive dem, a dem/independent at all is a win).
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In regards to both Hamas/Palestine, Iran, and whoever else we're talking about, these people need to understand that they've lost. This is common in the history of war. The losing side won't admit that they've lost and as a result, more and more people die needlessly. (The Confederacy, Germany, Japan, etc.) Had Japan, for example, surrendered after the fire bombing of Tokyo, we would have never dropped the two bombs. Completely pointless but they simply weren't going to surrender. Hamas and the Palestinians lost. They also lose. Every war they fight, they lose and end up in a worse place. Take the knee. Iran lost. There will never be a nuclear program there, thank god. Just take the knee and stop with all the bullshit. But what you're seeing the Israeli's do here is how you historically win a war. It's not clean like we try to make it. It's why the US really can't win a war anymore. We're not going to level the place or starve them out. You win by doing what Israel is doing. War is hell. That's why it's bad. These people need to take a knee....
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What level of portal pitcher might seriously entertain a Texas offer this offseason? TK's 207 innings represented nearly half the team total in 2025, and I assume her workload won't decrease much, if any. (Of course, the team's total innings played this year was a historically high number.) If we plan on needing 200 or so innings from the remainder of our 2026 staff, I'm guessing 90 of those could end up going to Cam. (She pitched 62 as a freshman.) That would leave roughly 110 to divide among Cit (if she stays), Wells and a transfer. I'm guessing we've seen the last of Cit in burnt orange, but even if she portals out and Wells gets a slightly lighter load than Cam did this year, we're still looking at needing a transfer to cover only only about 60 innings. Of course, those 60 could make or break a team's year, especially if pitched in relief in tight games. And the more I think about it, the better fit that makes Mizzou's Taylor Pannell. A lefty with tons of experience closing out wins in relief is one thing we don't have. She doesn't dazzle with stats but is a proven performer with games on the line.
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I just think it's cool as fuck that he posted a full round like this and we can debate it 😂 You're probably right about hitting on to the green but he also left some putts short. Idk if he's more comfortable on a 10 or 14 vs. the field. I think if you're BDC you need either good iron play and good putting or great one or the other. He's always going to be a menace off the tee unless he's just whiffing shit. Yeah he needs to come back. He was winning a bunch before he left.
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Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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Texas A&M begins official visit season with an action-packed weekend By Jason Howell June 10 The summer official visit season has begun in Aggieland, and Mike Elko and staff kicked things off with a bang. How big was the weekend? Well, here are a few stats: 18 official visitors 6 commitments going into the weekend 1 new addition over the weekend 2 Tanks 11 different states 5 Texas prospects Every single position group represented There was also one extremely highly touted and high-priority 2027 prospect in town for an unofficial visit. High priority targets from across the country descended upon College Station for an action-packed Aggie experience, and they hit the ground at full sprint. There was fishing, karaoke, tomahawk steaks, lobster, brisket, a day on the lake with tubing and a photo shoot with goats that went viral as soon as it hit the internet. When the weekend wrapped and all the airport runs were done, fun was had, memories were made, bonds were formed, and a lot of top targets left town with the Aggies high on their mind. Following the visit, Shreveport (LA) CE Byrd kicker Asher Murray became the newest addition to Texas A&M’s 2026 class. The All-American kicker received his offer last week and scheduled his official visit, so it was pretty clear that momentum was building quickly. On Monday, he let the world know. During the weekend, wide receiver Aaron Gregory and running back Jonathan Hatton Jr turned heads when they announced they were shutting down their recruitments and standing firm in their commitments. Tight end Caleb Tafua and defensive lineman Jermaine Kinsler have also issued statements, and don’t be surprised to hear more from the commitment group. As for the uncommitted group, there is still work to be done, but plenty of momentum was built. Commitments are always the goal, but last weekend, it was not the expectation for a few reasons. Many prospects on hand had visits scheduled to other places over the next few weeks. Most entered the weekend fully intending to take those trips. Several of the guys already had commitment dates set for a later time. At wide receiver, five-star LSU commit Tristen Keys of Hattiesburg (MS) made headlines the day of his arrival by inking a deal with Adidas. Miami joins the Aggies and Tigers as top contenders, and Keys had plenty of people in his ear throughout his weekend in College Station, including QB Helaman Casuga and a fellow standout wideout in Gregory. Aledo (TX) standout and longtime target Kaydon Finley slid a bit further under the radar during his visit, and Notre Dame and Texas have grabbed momentum there over the course of the spring. He was fairly quiet throughout the weekend and has not said much since. Right now, the word is Finley is trending elsewhere. @Evanjacobson12_/Twitter Evan Jacobson is listed at 6-foot-7 and 220 pounds, and he received an offer from the Aggies in April of 2024. The Iowa product has visited A&M in both April and June. At tight end, the Aggies welcomed Evan Jacobson of Waukee (IA), and this is one where momentum seems to be trending in a very positive direction. The Aggies were one of his first offers, and tight ends coach Christian Ellsworth has formed a long-standing bond with Jacobson and his family. He has official visits coming up to Auburn, Florida State and Notre Dame, and if I’m looking at top competition, my eyes are on the Irish. Jacobson does plan to make a decision shortly following his officials. The offensive line had a lot of eyes on it over the weekend. The Aggies have yet to receive a commitment on the offensive front, and this weekend, three top targets were in town: John Turntine, Zaden Krempin and Samuel Roseborough, all on official visits. Again, the word has been positive on all fronts. The Aggies are among the favorites for each and considered top contenders. However, the competition is tough and spirited as they make their moves. Turntine has his eyes on A&M, Stanford, Michigan and Texas; Krempin has A&M, LSU, Michigan and Texas as his finalists; Roseborough has five with A&M, Florida State, LSU, Ohio State and Texas all in the mix. There is a chance all three could end up in Aggieland, but it also would not be a surprise if all ended up elsewhere. The Aggies positively moved the needle with each offensive lineman this weekend, and I would say the best odds are somewhere in between all and none, with the Aggies winning some and losing some. On the defensive side, there was a lot of “Tank” talk, as in edge defender Tank Jones and linebacker Tank King. The Aggies entered the weekend in favorable positions for both and exited the weekend with some strong momentum. Both have had an eye on the Aggies throughout the recruiting process and have visited Aggieland on multiple occasions. So have their families, and the A&M staff has formed strong connections throughout the process. TexAgs Tank King is a 6-foot-2, 215-pounder from Port Arthur Memorial. Both have plans for a few more trips, and then they plan to sit down and make some decisions. Jones has not announced a decision date, but he does have upcoming visits to Oregon and Alabama, and he plans to sit down and make a decision with A&M, Auburn, Miami, Florida, Oregon, and Alabama in the running. King has his sights set on a July 4 decision with the likes of A&M, LSU, Texas and Notre Dame vying for his talents. Things have been pretty quiet with Lakeland (FL) linebacker Malik Morris, and shortly after his visit, he posted and deleted a statement about his recruiting process being open on his X. The Aggies have been in the running there with Florida and Miami a couple of other schools to watch, and right now, it appears things are trending closer to home. Then there was the secondary with Carrollton (GA) cornerback Dorian Barney and Flowood (MS) Hartfield Academy safety Bralan Womack in town. Barney and the Aggies have flirted back and forth throughout the process, and at times very heavily. There were a few times over the last six months I would have declared the Aggies the favorite, and as he wraps up his visit and looks toward his July 5 decision date, the Aggies are among his finalists. However, coming off this weekend, I do not get the sense he will end up in Aggieland. The Aggies have two commitments and are in strong contention for a few top targets, while Barney has some big options on the table himself. I get the feeling both things are trending in different directions for both parties. Womack is another who has been a frequent visitor to College Station, and he has been very high on the Aggies throughout the process. Over the weekend, it was another strong effort for the guys in Maroon as Womack eyes an August decision. Ohio State has been the longtime favorite by prognosticators and analysts, and it is hard to ignore the Buckeyes and Womack’s affinity for Caleb Downs. However, the Aggies are right there in the mix and have been for a while and should not be ignored. TexAgs Texas A&M offered John Meredith III after his 2024 camp performance. The Aggies also hosted 2027 Euless Trinity cornerback John Meredith III on an unofficial visit. A&M was one of his first offers, with Jordan Peterson leading the Aggies’ recruiting efforts, and Meredith was able to spend quality time around the staff as well as get in some fishing, which is always a plus with him. There is still a long way to go, but the Aggies are right in the thick of it with plenty of competition for one of the top corners in the 2027 class. Away from the official visit weekend, the Aggies do have a mid-week battle for a top in-state target as Mansfield (TX) Timberview safety Chance Collins announces his decision between A&M, Texas Tech, Utah and West Virginia at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Make sure to check out his Instagram (@chance.collins8x) for the live announcement. Collins is coming off an official visit to Texas Tech over the weekend, and the Red Raiders generated some strong momentum. However, Collins will be in College Station on Tuesday with his Timberview teammates for A&M’s 7-on-7 camp, which is always a good thing. Then it's back to official visit season, with another strong group of visitors expected in town this coming weekend. As always, we will post a list soon and keep you updated throughout the week, so stay tuned. -
Several years back, I was in a pretty hotly contested injunction fight against a small oil company. It was led by the kind of guy you'd expect -- a hothead who was used to always getting his own way. After a half day of hearing, it was obvious that he was going to lose, and we were going to block his project. The judge told us to go into the jury room and talk, based on what had happened so far, and see if we could work out a deal. I sat in a chair on one side of the room. He was pacing on the other side, with his lawyer. I told him - in a pretty measured way - how this should work out. It meant he was going to have to move his project from the planned location. That pissed him off. He came at me, and it was quite apparent that he intended to throw a punch. And I distinctly remember thinking "I'm going to leave my hands here by my side, so - in front of multiple witnesses - he punches someone who isn't a threat, and didn't even raise his hands. Because then, I WIN." His lawyer ran the same calculus, and ran over there to grab his client and turn him away. It would have sucked to get punched in the face. But goddammit, I'd have not only won my case on all points for my client, I'd have had a nice high-dollar assault suit to go with it. Letting the bad guy do bad guy shit where everyone can see and no longer deny they're a bad guy is one of the ways you can win big. Wasn't looking forward to the bruised face. But couldn't back away from the opportunity for the big win.
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I’m all for people waving the Mexican flag if that is their home country or their heritage. Hell, maybe it’s not and you just want to show support for people that are being caught up in all this BS. But realize the optics are going to be bad. The American idiocy needs simple messaging with as little nuance as possible. It’s confusing when people that don’t want to be departed to Mexico are waving Mexican flags in the face of cops. You become a much more sympathetic figure if you’re waving an American flag signaling that you are hoping for a better life here. We all know that the tatted up guy waving a Mexican flag in the face of a cop is going to play right into the disinformation playbook of the right. On a completely separate note, where was this energy during the election? The left love to squabble over minor policy differences while a wannabe dictator gets elected. Then they fill the streets all pissed off. Win. Elections.
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Just saw this post online… Zen priest, Peter Coyote, on protest: "I’m watching the Los Angeles reaction to ICE raids with trepidation and regret. Three years ago I taught a class at Harvard on the “theater of protest”— designed to help people understand why so many protests turn out to be Republican campaign videos working directly against the interests of the original protest. A protest is an invitation to a better world. It’s a ceremony. No one accepts a ceremonial invitation when they’re being screamed at. More important you have to know who the real audience of the protest is. The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, Congress,etc. The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust; who will not embarrass them. If you win them, you win power at the box office and power to make positive change. Everything else is a waste. There are a few ways to get there: 1. Let women organize the event. They’re more collaborative. They’re more inclusive, and they don’t generally bring the undertones of violence men do. 2 Appoint monitors, give them yellow, vests and whistles. At the first sign of violence, they blow the whistles and the real protester sit down. Let the police take out their aggression on the anarchists and the provocateurs trying to discredit the movement. 3. Dress like you’re going to church. It’s hard to be painted as a hoodlum when you’re dressed in clean, presentable clothes. They don’t have to be fancy they just signal the respect for the occasion that you want to transmit to the audience. 4. Make your protest silent. Demonstrate your discipline to the American people. Let signs do the talking. 5. Go home at night. In the dark, you can’t tell the cops from the killers. Come back at dawn fresh and rested. I have great fear that Trump’s staging with the National Guard and maybe the Marines is designed to clash with anarchists who are playing into his hands and offering him the opportunity to declare an insurrection. It’s such a waste and it’s only because we haven’t thought things through strategically. Nothing I thought of is particularly original. It was all learned by watching the early civil rights protests in the 50s and 60s. And it was the discipline and courage of African-Americans that drew such a clear line in the American sand that people were forced to take sides and that produced the civil rights act. The American people are watching and once again if we behave in ways that can be misinterpreted, we’ll see this explained to the public in Republican campaign videos benefiting the very people who started this. Wake up. Vent at home. In public practice discipline and self control. It takes much more courage." — Peter Coyote Zen teacher and author/narrator, with Ken Burns Note: Carry an American flag. As the administration creates a fake emergency to justify a state crackdown, it's important to honor the values and vision of democracy for which we're advocating. When the Enquirer came for pics back in 2017, I smiled a big toothy grin and held a big flag as it felt so empowering and good to stand with my adult daughter, pastors, Franciscans, nuns, kids, parents, grandparents and some women from our women's groups for the values we tried to pass on. After the protest, we sang and marched to a church where we heard poignant witness of immigrants trying to build a better life for their families against insurmountable odds. Many Marines, National Guardsmen and vets are over on Threads and Substack expressinging their disagreement over being used by this lawless administration. Peace, santi and shalom to all. [emoji3522] — Leslie Flood Hershberger
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Texas just made a joke of the old adage, "Defense wins championships." Although along the way there were some epic defensive plays made in clutch situations, we'd all agree it was far from a strong season in that regard. In terms of our 2025 roster, I love that it was assembled as it was. A largely homegrown team despite having another of the best homegrown players in the land not even playing an inning all season. Texas fans should be proud of how this squad was constructed and developed. Credit to White and his staff for that. Going forward will be interesting. We know future major college champions in every team sport are likely to be a strategic mix of talent from various sources. Toward the end, not even master recruiter and developer Nick Saban was doing it all with his own HS recruits. I don't think Sark, Schloss, Miller or Schaefer will ever try to prove they can. And no matter how well White recruits from the HS ranks, he'd be crazy not to keep adding transfers strategically. I look forward to seeing who comes aboard over the next few weeks to bolster a strong freshmen class. The idea is to keep adding better talent than you already have. I do hope adding transfers remains the exception and not the rule in Austin, in all sports and in all cases not involving transition classes. I'd even love it if the vast majority of our players in all sports continue to be from within Texas, but that's an increasingly tough stance to maintain in such a competitive athletic landscape.
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Mostly it comes down to how well Texas T&F performs. Everybody is focusing on USC, but T&F needs to score some points in T&F to pass Stanford. I don't have the breakdown in points to know Stanford's projected final score. There is a limit to the number of sports that can go to the DC total, so i can't tell how many points (if any) Stanford will gain from baseball. Adding in the 50 points Texas will get from baseball, Texas needs to score at least 27 points to pass Stanford's total after 35 sports counted. The track and field point totals for T&F seems to come from the 64-team category of https://nacda.com/documents/2023/11/22/ScoringUpdate2023.pdf. In a 64-team event, a team would gotten 27 points in 2024 by finishing 47th, which would have required a team to score either 4 (men) or 5.3 (women) points in the 2024 T&F championships (https://flashresults.ncaa.com/Outdoor/2024/scores.htm), which translates to a 5th (M) or 3rd place (W) finish in just a single event. Given that Texas has runners seeded first or second in a few events (M 100 hurdles, M 400 hurdles, W 400 hurdles), this does not seem to be a high bar, which is presumably why nobody is talking about it. Winning a single event gives a team 10 points in T&F, and that would have translated to either 27th (M) or 32nd (W), which would have translated to 47 or 42 DC points. I'm assuming that Texas doesn't have other low-performing sports that are currently included in the overall count that would no longer be included in the score (though they have highly seeded jumpers on the women's side and should place fairly highly). believe that last year women's cross-country was included in the total before T&F, but those points were eventually excluded because UT passed the threshold for number of sports included in the score). I'm also assuming that Stanford is not expected to score enough points in T&F for their scores to be counted above other sports that are already included (though they have . Something doesn't add up once I add in baseball total and track projections to the totals posted above after 34/37 sports included, so we may have some low-scoring sport that gets the points thrown out after T&F. Given all of that, USC currently trails Texas by 132.75 points. They would get 135 points if their teams both finished 10th. The pivotal events for USC are the sprints (M &W 100m, M&W 200m, and M&W 4x100 relays) where they have a lot of entries (though several are on the fringe for scoring points (below 8th gets 0 points). From the seedings on the men's side (https://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1outdoor25/men_qualifiers.htm), Texas would by my unofficial count actually finish ahead of USC on the men's side (34 pts to 31 pts), though that would require wins in both of the hurdle events. USC men have also qualified in 4x400 and single participants in both hurdles, all 3 jumps, and shot put. Texas women do not look so good based on seedings, with only three events seeded to score (Garrett in 400 hurdles (2nd seed) and the 4x100 relay (5th seed), along with an 8th seed in shot put (1 pt), so that total is thinner. Seedings don't map to rankings, so mileage may vary. So the short answer is that there is really no short answer. Texas has to do well enough in T&F to pass Stanford's total and stay ahead of USC's total, and that's a pretty fluid picture. I would really like to know if Texas has a sport total that is expected to fall off the total after T&F and would like to know the same for Stanford. That's apparently not in play for USC.
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I think it was a symptom of us looking too far ahead. IMO. I watched the UTSA dugout when they were down 6-1 against us and their body language said they were gonna win it. Then later when it became 8-6 we looked like we were headed to a funeral. I mean we always look too fucking far ahead. the chicks in our UT sports get this. Why don’t the dudes? Cuz clearly our gals have no problems winning MNCs go roadrunners. Meep meep.
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If the intentional walk were executed and Texas loses game 1, TK pitches game 2 and we probably win that, since we got some adjustments on Canady. It took a billion errors for Tech to score off TK yesterday. They are lucky we lost focused or it’s 10-1 (5) Actually interesting to see if Tech won game 1, goes Tech sit NC and go for the win on Friday with her rested, while Texas was either pitching day 3 TK or Mac to start.
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Of those 6, I feel pretty good about Women's Golf and beach volleyball eventually winning a title under their new coaches. Men's outdoor track and field has been close and Texas recently won an indoor title, so I would not be surprised if we won one relatively soon. Men's basketball is likely always going to be a bit of a long-shot, soccer is obviously hampered by the coach, and we do not seem to care about cross-country at all, so I am not sure that one will ever happen.
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I think...I think...we are going to win.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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First, let me say that the Aggies fucking suck. Because their culture and approach to football sucks. Even when they recruit well, that culture infects the players and they get progressively worse the longer they're part of the program. 5-star recruits and good coaches will never view the school as anything more than a paycheck. They are country rubes who will happily buy snakeoil if it's pitched to them the right way. And the right way is anything that feeds their baseless sense of superiority. It's a bone-deep problem that will never really be fixed, only temporarily ameliorated. Second, if I can /unjerk and take of my burt-orange-colored glasses, I think Elko is a good fit for their program. He is not a great head coach - everyone is wildly overrating his two seasons at Duke, which can largely be explained by Riley Leonard, weak competition, and low expectations for the program. He's not Snyder at KSU or even Fitzgerald at Northwestern. He's an average coach who managed to get a basketball school to play competent football. That's a commendable feat, but not an indicator of high quality or long term success. He is a good defensive mind and a decent recruiter. Despite his personal slovenliness* he has always struck me as more or less having his act together. I don't think he's going to cause some massive scandal for their program, nor do I think he is going to piss off too many people in the AD. So, altogether, I rate him as a fine coach. Competent enough on the field and not a complete dumpsterfire of a human. But I think the best thing Elko can do for A&M is raise the floor and keep the program "respectable" until their financial woes lighten up. And I think Elko knows that to, and you see it in his recruiting. He's looking for FCS and G5 players who will value A&M as an opportunity. The blue chip prospects will always treat A&M like everyone else does - as a paycheck. A place where they're willing to play if A&M pays them enough. But those players never give a shit. They'll never buy in or play hard.** Elko needs to bring in enough "hungry" players from the lower level who will buy into the Aggie bullshit because it's the best shot those players will ever have. Plus, those players are all A&M can afford at the moment. Once Elko has enough of those guys in the program, he can (potentially) end up with a team who at least cares about winning. They won't be talented enough to win championships, but they might be good enough to catch a great team napping and sneak their way into some better than average seasons. But those will be few and far between. I think 8-4 seasons are exactly what they'll keep getting under Elko and I think that's best he'll ever be able to do. He's an 8-4 type of coach and they're spiritually an 8-4 type of school, so it should be a good fit. But that's the trap that Aggies can't see. If they get the talent needed to win championships, they'll end up with a team full of individuals that are only there for the money. To get a team of players who work together and actually care about winning, they've got to bring in a lot of OKGs*** who don't have the talent to play anywhere else but are willing to work hard and develop. In other words, A&M is a middle-tier development program. But if that's the case, why doesn't A&M perform as well as schools like Oklahoma State, Wisconsin, Kentucky, ISU, etc.? A&M has more money than them, they should be better. The reason is that A&M refuses to accept that it's a middle-tier development program. Schools like Oklahoma State know who they are and they play to those strengths. Elko is a perfect coach for that kind of program. But he won't work out at A&M because they can't let go of the fantasy that they're a top tier program. They won't actually commit to being a development program which is what they need to do in order for Elko to actually succeed. Why is that an immutable quality at A&M? See my first point. The fans and boosters are too easily duped. As soon as they achieve any level of success, they start to believe that success should be the norm and open the door to coaches like Jimbo and players like Evan Stewart, who are happy to part these proverbial fools from their money. Even if they end up with an RC Slocum, eventually they'll convince themselves that they deserve better and fire his ass for another snakeoil salesman. It's the same thing that happens when some asshole wins the lottery - the money is just fucking gone within a couple of years.**** Because the reasons why he's an asshole didn't suddenly disappear just because a ton of money suddenly fell in his lap. A&M can have all the goddamn money in the world, it won't stop them from being A&M and it won't fix their problems as a program. I almost feel bad for Elko. It's a sisyphean task ahead of him and he does not have the BMI or the blood pressure for that kind of stress. He'll get them to perform at a reasonable level in light of their inherent limitations, and they'll hate him for it. * I know we like to talk about the man like he's a fat drunk, mostly because he is, but I won't do that here. Glass houses and stones, etc. ** The entire '22 class makes this clear. That is a perfect example of what happens when a school like A&M tries to build a roster like Bama, but they don't have a guy like Saban to tame those egos. *** a/k/a bread, but like wheat bread so it's kinda good for you. **** Not assholes like the people on here. Y'all are assholes but not the specific kind of asshole I'm talking about. I'm talking about some jobless Jethro with a suspended license and 5 kids he can't support. I'm sure y'all could blow some lottery winnings as well as Jethro, but for different reasons. 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You know way more about softball than I do, but it always felt like this was going to go 3 games. Part of that (to me) is the “rivalry” aspect of it with tech feeling like we left them behind. But it’s also a championship series. We’ve been in this situation before. Maybe it’s the caffeine talking, but I feel good about tonight. The analysts, I think, will pick tech to win, they’ll have faced a rested TK, could be naturally tight because people expect them to win, they’ve been getting bombarded all night/morning with notes from tech fans about winning because tech is rarely in these types of situations.
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We are winning game 3 and Canady is going to have a lot of trouble late in the game and the long ball is going to be back. Get ready to light the Tower.
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Or we wont be. Not giving your all to win a national title game is going to be a very tough pill we all will have to swallow if the girls come up short tomorrow.
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Here we go. We're winning this.
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I want to see them win too, but I never get 1/10 as worked up as you are here even when Ewers was fucking up the OSU semi final. Just calm down and have faith a fresh Kavan will deliver tomorrow and they'll hit this girl for a few runs. These are our young ladies. I'm not going to verbally abuse them or the coach that always makes the super regionals every season he coaches. Have faith and relax. Tomorrow's a new day and we have the advantage.
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Just got back from 8 days at the FO. Saw Andreeva, Rublev, Rune, Musetti, Schnieder, Alexandrova, Vondersova, Kudermentova, Greekspoor, Baptiste, Ostepenko and Ethan Quinn. (Not spelling all that mess correctly). Thoughts: 1. No booze on the court at RG is brutal. My daughter and I were chugging Stella between sets. Fucking degenerates.) 2. the Women are so much more powerful than I thought, or even then they were 5 years ago at the US open, the last time I went to a major. They are very big and powerful. Massive legs. 3. Sat right behind Andreeva, and the signature lice are awful. Halfway through the end of what may or may not be the final set, the 8-14 year old kids (and some adults) start flooding the forward seats with balls and paraphernalia in hops of a signature. It sucks. They worm into every available free space. Makes for an awful 30-45 minutes 3. Musetti is the most graceful player I've seen live (never say Federer play live). He glides. He's also the real deal. The one-handed back-hand is almost discordant to see live. 4. French open only having one mens match for night session is bullshit. If you ever go to the french open, buy day sessions. Much better bang for your buck. 5. Do NOT got to the french open when PSG wins the Champions League and the entire town riots. We had a couple sketchy nights getting home from the stadium, and getting TO the stadium once we saw roving gangs evading hordes of French motorcycle benny-hilling across the highway. Daytime fires/looting. It was a trip. 6. In general, the crowds, the sponsors and the organizers were top notch and very friendly.
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I could make the argument that we are close to having rock solid evidence that a million dollar player in softball is not going to win a title either. LOL
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I can't agree with you there. I'm not rooting for them, but I'm indifferent about their success.* Winning the director's cup is a big deal to me. I watched as Stanford dominated this thing for a couple of decades because they fielded so many more sports than we did. Now that they've limited the advantage having extra programs gives Stanford (I'm not completely on board with this, since I think fielding more teams should be incentivized, but that's a different topic) with only the top 20 results counting, Texas has been dominating. Personally, I love it. *That's not true. I get a great deal of entertainment value at watching their reactions to repeated failures. So I'm not indifferent. I also can't imagine being indifferent about them winning a national championship in football. I'm not concerned about it, but that wouldn't be an ideal outcome. I still remember OU winning a national championship in football in 2000. That was a dagger through the heart. I'd prefer they remain awful, because that's fun. But I'm not going to be too bothered if they manage to become good in something aside from meat judging.
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Probably. But we are one win away without her. What does 6 fewer losses get us? A better seed, maybe an SEC title and we don’t go to 3 in our super regional We are doing fine without her
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