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We talked about the Netflix series in the main aggie thread in football. Its pretty amusing.

Waiting for them and Mississippi State to boycott Netflix. Oh wait, MSU isn't crying about only showing a loss on the series. Never mind.

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On 8/6/2025 at 1:16 PM, texifornia said:

I've always been a little disgruntled that we don't claim some extremely valid older titles while actual bluebloods like Bama will happily go out on some ridiculous limbs to put more years on the board.

the retroactive natty claiming is not what's so incredibly full aggy

it's the 1997 and 2010 "conference champions" shit that is just disgusting

i will be producing a "aggy selfie guide map" for visiting sec fanbases

the wall is #1b to the hall of champions #1a

the wylie e. coyote stairs and the bonfire stonehenge are also top 5 but i haven't done a full ranking yet

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1 hour ago, Deej said:

If you don't have any high points, what were they to do?

Are you kidding?  Fightin' texum bulldogs managed a huge victory over the hardened fire-breathing seniors of Bowling Green.  Do you know ANYTHING about football ya stoopid sip???

 

 

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26 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Are you kidding?  Fightin' texum bulldogs managed a huge victory over the hardened fire-breathing seniors of Bowling Green.  Do you know ANYTHING about football ya stoopid sip???

 

 

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Profiles in Indolence: William Liucci

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Okay, easing into the piece about Scooby. He looks like an SEC linebacker. Coincidentally, he is an SEC linebacker. Good eye there, William!

Pretty snappy last sentence. Concise. Kinetic. Makes me want to know more about this guy you're profiling. Whattaya got?

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Where'd Scooby go? Where'd Dalton come from?

1 What guy? 

2 Ah, so Williams is not yet a difference maker. Maybe he'll improve into one.

3 Ah, so Williams is such a difference maker that his abscense againt Auburn was powerful enough to make a difference in the Texas game. William doesn't opine about the impact on the Auburn game. Aggies must have won that one.

4 Ah, so Williams is not a difference maker anymore. Shifty.

5 William, you couldn't move your dead ass in the chair enough to verify this? Again, maybe you need a friend you can call at the Texas A&M University Home of the Fightin' Texas Aggies from Texas' sports website who can help you out here. I bet somebody there knows. Lazy fuck.

So far, nothing new or insightful or even mildly informative about Scooby.

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Avoid those torn cartilages! Very painful. 

What if he wasn't putting that on tape? No interest from William? Exactly what do the Scoobster's video decisions have to do with your opinion? This is Elko level blather.

Now, for the end of this well-crafted and thoughtful consideration of Scooby Williams. Remember, the last specific reference was what Scooby put on tape, we resume our narrative:

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1 Suddenly, three more guys "are in there." In Scooby's tape? In where? [I did not skip a single word between this and the above.] WTF?

2 So now, we see that Scooby Williams is both the other guy and that guy. Two guys, one scholarship!

3 As it would be were I on the field.

Hard hitting stuff in three lazy paragraphs drifting into and out of coherence.

 

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20 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Profiles in Indolence: William Liucci

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Okay, easing into the piece about Scooby. He looks like an SEC linebacker. Coincidentally, he is an SEC linebacker. Good eye there, William!

Pretty snappy last sentence. Concise. Kinetic. Makes me want to know more about this guy you're profiling. Whattaya got?

image.png.8651ad5153de164664c2bd515c170f5b.png

Where'd Scooby go? Where'd Dalton come from?

1 What guy? 

2 Ah, so Williams is not yet a difference maker. Maybe he'll improve into one.

3 Ah, so Williams is such a difference maker that his abscense againt Auburn was powerful enough to make a difference in the Texas game. William doesn't opine about the impact on the Auburn game. Aggies must have won that one.

4 Ah, so Williams is not a difference maker anymore. Shifty.

5 William, you couldn't move your dead ass in the chair enough to verify this? Again, maybe you need a friend you can call at the Texas A&M University Home of the Fightin' Texas Aggies from Texas' sports website who can help you out here. I bet somebody there knows. Lazy fuck.

So far, nothing new or insightful or even mildly informative about Scooby.

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Avoid those torn cartilages! Very painful. 

What if he wasn't putting that on tape? No interest from William? Exactly what do the Scoobster's video decisions have to do with your opinion? This is Elko level blather.

Now, for the end of this well-crafted and thoughtful consideration of Scooby Williams. Remember, the last specific reference was what Scooby put on tape, we resume our narrative:

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1 Suddenly, three more guys "are in there." In Scooby's tape? In where? [I did not skip a single word between this and the above.] WTF?

2 So now, we see that Scooby Williams is both the other guy and that guy. Two guys, one scholarship!

3 As it would be were I on the field.

Hard hitting stuff in three lazy paragraphs drifting into and out of coherence.

 

Scooby Williams is basically Aggie DD Lewis. He looks the part, which is why he was a top 150 national guy coming out of high school. The problem is, he has the instincts of a dead lemming. Good luck betting on that dude to be a "difference maker" for their defense this year. 

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14 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Scooby Williams is basically Aggie DD Lewis. He looks the part, which is why he was a top 150 national guy coming out of high school. The problem is, he has the instincts of a dead lemming. Good luck betting on that dude to be a "difference maker" for their defense this year. 

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26 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Scooby Williams is basically Aggie DD Lewis. He looks the part, which is why he was a top 150 national guy coming out of high school. The problem is, he has the instincts of a dead lemming. Good luck betting on that dude to be a "difference maker" for their defense this year. 

sir, i must take exception to your denigration of dd lewis

from his wiki (edited for data that's no longer current)

Although he was a great college player, Lewis was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round (159th overall) of the 1968 NFL draft, because teams thought that he was too small to play in the NFL. As a rookie at training camp, the team tried him at center, before moving him to outside linebacker.

In 1969, he spent what would have been his second season doing military service. In 1973 after serving as a backup for four seasons, Lewis took over the weakside linebacker position, when Chuck Howley retired, and held this position for nine straight years.

His best game was in the 1975 NFC Championship Game, when he intercepted two passes in a 37–7 victory against the Los Angeles Rams, helping the Cowboys become the first wild-card team to make it to the Super Bowl.

To this day, he holds the Cowboys playoff record with 27 games played. During his NFL career, Lewis played in 12 NFC divisional-round contests, one NFC wild-card contest and nine NFC Championship Games. He made five Super Bowl appearances while winning Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII. During the 1980 season, he became along with Larry Cole, the first three-decade players in franchise history.[2]

Lewis played for 13 years and started 135 consecutive games until his retirement after the 1981 season.

Although he was never selected to a Pro Bowl or All-Pro squad, he served as defensive co-captain in 1977 and 1978. In 1984, he was named to the Cowboys Silver Anniversary Team. 

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7 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

sir, i must take exception to your denigration of dd lewis

from his wiki (edited for data that's no longer current)

Although he was a great college player, Lewis was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round (159th overall) of the 1968 NFL draft, because teams thought that he was too small to play in the NFL. As a rookie at training camp, the team tried him at center, before moving him to outside linebacker.

In 1969, he spent what would have been his second season doing military service. In 1973 after serving as a backup for four seasons, Lewis took over the weakside linebacker position, when Chuck Howley retired, and held this position for nine straight years.

His best game was in the 1975 NFC Championship Game, when he intercepted two passes in a 37–7 victory against the Los Angeles Rams, helping the Cowboys become the first wild-card team to make it to the Super Bowl.

To this day, he holds the Cowboys playoff record with 27 games played. During his NFL career, Lewis played in 12 NFC divisional-round contests, one NFC wild-card contest and nine NFC Championship Games. He made five Super Bowl appearances while winning Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII. During the 1980 season, he became along with Larry Cole, the first three-decade players in franchise history.[2]

Lewis played for 13 years and started 135 consecutive games until his retirement after the 1981 season.

Although he was never selected to a Pro Bowl or All-Pro squad, he served as defensive co-captain in 1977 and 1978. In 1984, he was named to the Cowboys Silver Anniversary Team. 

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The Cowboy DD Lewis was profiled in My Weekly Reader back in my school days. He became a fave even though, I suppose now, his play wasn't actually memorable. The Cowboys had great linebackers in the late 60s, or so I was told.

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47 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

sir, i must take exception to your denigration of dd lewis

from his wiki (edited for data that's no longer current)

Although he was a great college player, Lewis was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round (159th overall) of the 1968 NFL draft, because teams thought that he was too small to play in the NFL. As a rookie at training camp, the team tried him at center, before moving him to outside linebacker.

In 1969, he spent what would have been his second season doing military service. In 1973 after serving as a backup for four seasons, Lewis took over the weakside linebacker position, when Chuck Howley retired, and held this position for nine straight years.

His best game was in the 1975 NFC Championship Game, when he intercepted two passes in a 37–7 victory against the Los Angeles Rams, helping the Cowboys become the first wild-card team to make it to the Super Bowl.

To this day, he holds the Cowboys playoff record with 27 games played. During his NFL career, Lewis played in 12 NFC divisional-round contests, one NFC wild-card contest and nine NFC Championship Games. He made five Super Bowl appearances while winning Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII. During the 1980 season, he became along with Larry Cole, the first three-decade players in franchise history.[2]

Lewis played for 13 years and started 135 consecutive games until his retirement after the 1981 season.

Although he was never selected to a Pro Bowl or All-Pro squad, he served as defensive co-captain in 1977 and 1978. In 1984, he was named to the Cowboys Silver Anniversary Team. 

DD Lewis coached my 5th (or maybe 6th, don't remember) grade basketball team. He did a fine job, but he kept using football analogies. We were supposed to learn how to run a two-on-one fast break by thinking about the option, etc, etc.

He was a nice guy and a nice coach, and for a metroplex kid it was pretty cool to be coached by former Cowboy. 

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2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

The Cowboy DD Lewis was profiled in My Weekly Reader back in my school days. He became a fave even though, I suppose now, his play wasn't actually memorable. The Cowboys had great linebackers in the late 60s, or so I was told.

dd lewis and my dad were doubles partners in tennis tournaments at canyon creek in the late 70s

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3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Scooby Williams is basically Aggie DD Lewis. He looks the part, which is why he was a top 150 national guy coming out of high school. The problem is, he has the instincts of a dead lemming. Good luck betting on that dude to be a "difference maker" for their defense this year. 

Shockingly D.D. Lewis qualifies for a NFL pension. I wonder if Scooby wiil as well? Granted all you need is to play 3 games in 3 separate seasons, but Lewis was actually in the NFL for 7 seasons after going undrafted.

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18 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Scooby Williams is basically Aggie DD Lewis. He looks the part, which is why he was a top 150 national guy coming out of high school. The problem is, he has the instincts of a dead lemming. Good luck betting on that dude to be a "difference maker" for their defense this year. 

The fact that Looch is pointing to Scoob and York as two of the four difference makers on A&M’s defense should make the Aggie faithful feel quite grim.
 

They won’t, but they should. 

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29 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

This place is really the only place selling the aggy roster as trash.  It’s also the place probably taking the most critical look, but we tend to be overly pessimistic with regard to them.  

If a site wants clicks, talk up aggy. 

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Aggy sucks balls. Their roster is trash. Media living off that 22 class and rivals rankings to say aggy has a great roster. Their weak sec schedule is the reason ole 8 and 4 will probably happen. I’m still trying to figure out why the sec media is always propping them up. 

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42 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

This place is really the only place selling the aggy roster as trash.  It’s also the place probably taking the most critical look, but we tend to be overly pessimistic with regard to them.  

All those other places talking them up as conference and national contenders every year have a much better track record.

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38 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

This place is really the only place selling the aggy roster as trash.  It’s also the place probably taking the most critical look, but we tend to be overly pessimistic with regard to them.  

I don't see it as pessimistic. It's pretty realistic and has been for years. We're not predicting 4-8 here. We're just saying 8-5/9-4 is their absolute ceiling and 6-7/7-6 shouldn't shock anyone, and then we've backed that with reasoning associated to roster analysis, schedule analysis and coaching analysis. If the analysis is shit, fine, I'll do a mea culpa on my end after the season. If we're right yet again, can we stop with the stupid lamentation that this site always overestimates ATM's downside? They haven't finished a season ranked since 2020. 

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25 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I don't see it as pessimistic. It's pretty realistic and has been for years. We're not predicting 4-8 here. We're just saying 8-5/9-4 is their absolute ceiling and 6-7/7-6 shouldn't shock anyone, and then we've backed that with reasoning associated to roster analysis, schedule analysis and coaching analysis. If the analysis is shit, fine, I'll do a mea culpa on my end after the season. If we're right yet again, can we stop with the stupid lamentation that this site always overestimates ATM's downside? They haven't finished a season ranked since 2020. 

It really is amazing that they went years in between road wins and outside of their redasses nobody talked about it. 
if Texas lost 2 games in a row on the road, one to Georgia and the other to the 85 bears people wouldn’t stop shutting up about how Texas sucks on the road. 
The laughably low standard they are held to while being talked up is nuts. The proper response is mockery and ridicule until they actually accomplish something. 

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45 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

It’s the QB, stupid 

It really is. Aggy has a decent to good OL with experience, a nice RB (if healthy), some good wide receivers, and an average to good defense.

It comes down to Reed. If he has taken a step forward as a passer, his ability to run really elevates the offense. If he's the same QB, then he has serious deficiencies that can be exploited by a defense that can cover WRs and get up field.

What we've seen so far from very limited exposure to their fall camp is that Reed has not advanced much as a passer. If that's the case they probably are an 8-4 or 7-5 team again. 

 

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13 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

It really is. Aggy has a decent to good OL with experience, a nice RB (if healthy), some good wide receivers, and an average to good defense.

It comes down to Reed. If he has taken a step forward as a passer, his ability to run really elevates the offense. If he's the same QB, then he has serious deficiencies that can be exploited by a defense that can cover WRs and get up field.

What we've seen so far from very limited exposure to their fall camp is that Reed has not advanced much as a passer. If that's the case they probably are an 8-4 or 7-5 team again. 

 

Well, "good" might be a stretch on those WRs. If they get 2023 Concepcion that's a start at least.

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15 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

It really is. Aggy has a decent to good OL with experience, a nice RB (if healthy), some good wide receivers, and an average to good defense.

It comes down to Reed. If he has taken a step forward as a passer, his ability to run really elevates the offense. If he's the same QB, then he has serious deficiencies that can be exploited by a defense that can cover WRs and get up field.

What we've seen so far from very limited exposure to their fall camp is that Reed has not advanced much as a passer. If that's the case they probably are an 8-4 or 7-5 team again. 

 

I think you're giving a very generous assessment of their defense. They lost 3 high draft picks off of the strength of their and replaced them maybe league replacement level talent. That's going to impact that back 7 as well. If their defense is top 8 in the conference, I am going to be surprised.

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2 hours ago, Hookem10 said:

Aggy sucks balls. Their roster is trash. Media living off that 22 class and rivals rankings to say aggy has a great roster. Their weak sec schedule is the reason ole 8 and 4 will probably happen. I’m still trying to figure out why the sec media is always propping them up. 

 

1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

It really is amazing that they went years in between road wins and outside of their redasses nobody talked about it. 
if Texas lost 2 games in a row on the road, one to Georgia and the other to the 85 bears people wouldn’t stop shutting up about how Texas sucks on the road. 
The laughably low standard they are held to while being talked up is nuts. The proper response is mockery and ridicule until they actually accomplish something. 

I think it boils down to nobody caring about them enough to scrutinize them closely. The best thing I ever hear about them is "they could be contender" or "they just may be a dark horse." I don't think anyone ever picks them to win the conference or the national championship. The analysis and predictions are base on cursury reviews.

We focus on them and know them better than others because we do care about them. Many of us are obsessed or borderline obsessed with them. Anthropologically, they present as an undiscovered Amazon tribe with a crazy notion that they are the center of the flat earth and that anyone outside of their frequently collapsing circle of wood huts would want to be part of the tribe if only they knew how wonderful it was. 

Psychologically, some of us obsess over them because they're like a street person following you on the sidewalk shouting weird insults and proclaiming you to be the devil incarnate. Because you are not dressed in military camos bought or stolen from Academy, you must be a coward. Because you speak with an understanding of the difference between lose and loose, you must a fag. Sometimes, when they approach too closely, you give them a smack and they fall down. 

I'm obsessed in these ways. I've more than once been asked where I went to college. Only Aggies have responded with a look of disgust and sometimes a hiss. Other negative reactions are just sports-related and nothing so personal. 

They bear watching.

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11 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

 

I think it boils down to nobody caring about them enough to scrutinize them closely. The best thing I ever hear about them is "they could be contender" or "they just may be a dark horse." I don't think anyone ever picks them to win the conference or the national championship. The analysis and predictions are base on cursury reviews.

We focus on them and know them better than others because we do care about them. Many of us are obsessed or borderline obsessed with them. Anthropologically, they present as an undiscovered Amazon tribe with a crazy notion that they are the center of the flat earth and that anyone outside of their frequently collapsing circle of wood huts would want to be part of the tribe if only they knew how wonderful it was. 

Psychologically, some of us obsess over them because they're like a street person following you on the sidewalk shouting weird insults and proclaiming you to be the devil incarnate. Because you are not dressed in military camos bought or stolen from Academy, you must be a coward. Because you speak with an understanding of the difference between lose and loose, you must a fag. Sometimes, when they approach too closely, you give them a smack and they fall down. 

I'm obsessed in these ways. I've more than once been asked where I went to college. Only Aggies have responded with a look of disgust and sometimes a hiss. Other negative reactions are just sports-related and nothing so personal. 

They bear watching.

They try so hard to be the cool kids and the sports programs everyone envies, but then reality seems to get in the way. They know we don't take them seriously, making them extra happy to mistake other SEC schools' tolerance of them as genuine support. It's like thinking your untalented kid's piano performance was great just because some other parents overcame the cringe long enough to clap. 

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1 hour ago, SimkinsMan said:

It really is. Aggy has a decent to good OL with experience,

 

Their OL is pretty much the same from last season, and most of those guys had 2-3 years of experience entering last season. So, there really wasn't much talent left to be developed out of those starters heading into the season. As a result, what we saw from their OL last year, which was decent/average but definitely beatable by good defenses, is going to be about the same we should expect for them this year. Expecting that they are going to be better this year vs last just because of more experience should not be assumed.

Case in point: Kelvin Banks, Hayden Connor, and Jake Majors from last year. We had seen what they were able to do with 2+ years of experience. Did we get anything significantly better from them last year? No, they all pretty much met expectations that we had seen over the previous years. They had tapped into their potential, and having that experience starting only meant that our OL didn't have to experience some growing pains of having new players there.

To sum up my point, no one should expect anything different out of their OL than what we saw last year just because "they have experience." The "experience" resulted in an average product last year, and we should expect average again this year.

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