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Somehow I missed that Bronco Mendenhall was the HC at Utah State. I thought he did some good stuff at BYU and should have either left earlier to a bigger P5 school or just stayed in BYU. Virginia has been a stupidly tough place to win since George Welsh tapered off. It seems like it should be a better job than it is. It’s a top school in a cool city in a state with decent talent and plenty in the near environs. The alums don’t seem to care though and I can’t imagine NIL is good.

The wheels are really gonna come off if Reed gets injured at all.  If he is healthy 8-4 seems about right. All of a sudden MSU is a bigger problem and Florida not as much. 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Bronco Mendenhall

He’s had one of the strangest HC paths I’ve ever seen. 
 

UNM associate HFBC (HC in waiting under Rocky Long)—>BYU—>UVA—>commentator—>UNM—>Ut St.  UVA must have been really toxic. And then a return to UNM was the best he could do?  Then USU?  Is that really a step up over UNM?  

There must have been some strange things going on in his personal life for that kind of journey. 

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10 minutes ago, nnm said:

He’s had one of the strangest HC paths I’ve ever seen. 
 

UNM associate HFBC (HC in waiting under Rocky Long)—>BYU—>UVA—>commentator—>UNM—>Ut St.  UVA must have been really toxic. And then a return to UNM was the best he could do?  Then USU?  Is that really a step up over UNM?  

There must have been some strange things going on in his personal life for that kind of journey. 

He is LDS and I’m pretty sure that would have been a culture clash with both the bourbon set and the nerd set at UVA. UVA for years wanted to be Harvard all week and then Alabama on Saturday, but the Harvard set usually won fights.  It’s a hard job. A really hard job for institutional reasons. 
 

If he was going to be successful at NM he was going to have to go and raid Utah, Arizona, Colorado for recruits and he can likely do that easier at Utah State. NM has woeful high school football. And he gets to be at home and close to grandkids as he winds down his career. 
 

I think he’s a case of a guy who got the perfect job for him (BYU) and only realized it after he left. 

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6 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

Does this Bill Connelly guy have a head injury?  Picks A&M for the playoffs and no Texas, also surprising amount of ESPN guys have them picked.  

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ESPN has some kinda weird affinity for aggy. I can't get my head around it, either.

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17 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

ESPN has some kinda weird affinity for aggy. I can't get my head around it, either.

 

All media does. 

I suspect it’s because they just like their “traditions” and think it’s cool so they associate that with the good things of college football. My conspiracy theory take is they just want someone—anyone—in the state of Texas to be better that UT so they can bash on Texas because that brings in ratings. It’s why they were jizzing themselves at the thought of the Texas/A&M rivalry resuming and the first game being at Kyle. You never hear media/podcast bros jizz at the thought of Texas/A&M being played at Texas, it’s always they want to see that game at Kyle because “it’s cool” and the whole win/loss record thing just amazingly escapes them.

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24 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

ESPN has some kinda weird affinity for aggy. I can't get my head around it, either.

My conspiracy theory is that they whine, lobby, and ultimately pay for extra media coverage. 

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1 hour ago, DFW Horn said:

ESPN has some kinda weird affinity for aggy. I can't get my head around it, either.

54 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Rollercoaster fetish.

49 minutes ago, Pancho said:

All media does. 

I suspect it’s because they just like their “traditions” and think it’s cool so they associate that with the good things of college football.

the aggy herd goes 2 ways:

they generate guaranteed clicks and views

or

they bitch in unison en masse in numbers unheard of for any other fanbase

i recall 10 or 15 years ago there was a tv broadcast controversy where aggy were slighted by a prior game running over and dallas and houston stations did not cut over to aggy and it resulted in 350000 yes let me spell that out - three hundred and fifty thousand - complaints

the media has learned: pretend aggy are normal and feed their delusion of relevance and avoid advertiser angry letters about bad pub generated by telling aggy truth

regarding traditions.....

for their first 12 years in the sec, before aggy home games, the ministry talking points on dogs, milkmen and the e.king gill fabricated fantasy, which were handed over in broadcast team production meetings the day before the broadcast, were mindlessly parroted by the announcers, and aggy were happy

when we joined last year, the mindless parroting stopped

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It is my dream that one day UT will be ranked higher than aggy in Harmon's rankings. It will mean we've finally arrived.

Until then, I gently weep under my Winnie The Pooh blanket. 

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Gonna add this one, just so you can compare it to the Texas writeup:

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"I'm not sure this makes you feel any better about what Texas looks like this year after a truly horrid opener."

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