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1 minute ago, William Bludworth said:

I'm finished. Got worked up, I'll admit it. Tbh, after I hit submit, I completely forgot I even went on a drooling rampage. It was 'click', OK what can I do before basketball tonight? 

I didn't know y'all were playing, I'll have to tune in.

e: Ooops I guess you aren't, fuck me.

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1 hour ago, Blotto said:

Meh..... BYU beat Utah by 3 at home, tech beat Utah by 24 in Salt Lake City. And outside of that Utah game, BYU's schedule is pretty fucking soft.  I don't expect tech will have much of a problem at home with BYU. And what the fuck does last year's bowl game have to do with anything? 

I just wanted to throw Sam Pittman beat Joey Mcguire in his third year coaching. It makes me feel better after Billy Napier fucked our faces. 

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1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

I didn't know y'all were playing, I'll have to tune in.

e: Ooops I guess you aren't, fuck me.

Yeah, we play Duke tomorrow at 8, but tonight will still be fun. I'm glad CBB season is back. It gives us fans something to watch along with football, and then baseball in February. It's like the perfect spot for the games. If no teams are worth watching in CFB, I guarantee you can find a CBB game worth watching. It's beautiful. 

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15 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

They are still coached by Joey Mcguire and got beaten pretty handedly by Sam Pittman's Arkansas in their bowl game last year. 

The bowl game where we trotted out 2nd and 3rd string OL, a true freshman backup QB, pretty much 2nd and 3rd string defense, and without our record setting runningback?  Oh, and not to mention, we didn't even have an OC or DC for that game...both had left (one voluntarily, one involuntarily) and the new hires didn't participate in the Bowl prep or game.  Position coaches did the play-calling.

You gotta be all kinds of stupid to judge a team or a coaching staff on that bowl game.  That was nothing more than a glorified B-team scrimmage on our part.

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17 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

I guess we will find out how good they are (I guess) when they play BYU Saturday. They are still coached by Joey Mcguire and got beaten pretty handedly by Sam Pittman's Arkansas in their bowl game last year. 

This is obviously a big measuring stick for us, too. 

I realize the doubts about BYU have to do with a soft OOC schedule, some come-from-behind wins to middling programs, we aren't blowing teams out, and we have a freshman QB. Here's a few thoughts on that. We needed a soft early schedule and ramp up for our freshman QB who showed up after spring ball and has had to adjust to college, learn the playbook, etc. Every week he gets better, looks better, utilizes more of the playbooks, etc. He has become a very capable quarterback and passed every test so far, including not panicking and forcing stuff when we have gotten behind. He has been protecting the football very well so far (*knocks on wood*). He has become a very good QB in the meantime. I did hear something interesting from someone that might know, but I haven't heard this anywhere else. Bear might be slightly on the spectrum and he does not experience stress, nerves, or fear like other people do. Not sure if it's true, but the kid is one cool customer. 

Tech dominated Utah and BYU only won by 3, but that's a super-heated rivalry game. Weird stuff happens. BYU was pretty much in control most of the game and Utah got a very late TD when BYU was running a prevent defense. Also, Kalani's style is not to run up the score, but to slowly choke you out and just win with clock management and defense down the stretch. But Tech did look better against a common opponent. 

The close game with Colorado can partially be explained by: Bear's first road game, Colorado having that game circled after we punked them in the bowl game. They did stuff that we had not seen before. Once we adjusted, we came back and put Colorado away. We jumped out to a 14 point lead vs Arizona, but then we had a long lightning delay and the field was wet. Game dynamic changed after the delay. Iowa State had a bye week before our game and were desperate to win that one, so they threw everything at us. We took the shot and then clamped down on them going 31-3 in the second half. Our coaches have been very good with adjustments, so we seem to perform better in the second half. 

If we win, I will know we have a very good team that is capable of making a post-season run. Tech is the class of the conference until proven otherwise. I do think BYU is very capable of beating Tech tho. I can't wait for the game. 

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57 minutes ago, Crockett said:

This is obviously a big measuring stick for us, too. 

I realize the doubts about BYU have to do with a soft OOC schedule, some come-from-behind wins to middling programs, we aren't blowing teams out, and we have a freshman QB. Here's a few thoughts on that. We needed a soft early schedule and ramp up for our freshman QB who showed up after spring ball and has had to adjust to college, learn the playbook, etc. Every week he gets better, looks better, utilizes more of the playbooks, etc. He has become a very capable quarterback and passed every test so far, including not panicking and forcing stuff when we have gotten behind. He has been protecting the football very well so far (*knocks on wood*). He has become a very good QB in the meantime. I did hear something interesting from someone that might know, but I haven't heard this anywhere else. Bear might be slightly on the spectrum and he does not experience stress, nerves, or fear like other people do. Not sure if it's true, but the kid is one cool customer. 

Tech dominated Utah and BYU only won by 3, but that's a super-heated rivalry game. Weird stuff happens. BYU was pretty much in control most of the game and Utah got a very late TD when BYU was running a prevent defense. Also, Kalani's style is not to run up the score, but to slowly choke you out and just win with clock management and defense down the stretch. But Tech did look better against a common opponent. 

The close game with Colorado can partially be explained by: Bear's first road game, Colorado having that game circled after we punked them in the bowl game. They did stuff that we had not seen before. Once we adjusted, we came back and put Colorado away. We jumped out to a 14 point lead vs Arizona, but then we had a long lightning delay and the field was wet. Game dynamic changed after the delay. Iowa State had a bye week before our game and were desperate to win that one, so they threw everything at us. We took the shot and then clamped down on them going 31-3 in the second half. Our coaches have been very good with adjustments, so we seem to perform better in the second half. 

If we win, I will know we have a very good team that is capable of making a post-season run. Tech is the class of the conference until proven otherwise. I do think BYU is very capable of beating Tech tho. I can't wait for the game. 

Very great, and well-informed, level headed breakdown. I had never heard that about Beae, either, but honestly, this is where being in the spectrum has its advantages, amongst a myriad of other things. But being basically a human target and not getting rattled is completely different. 

I dislike McGuire, but not tech itself, just want to make that clear. You guys have had some awesome players over the years, and I enjoyed every game I've been to. I've never been harassed or yelled at, and have met some really awesome tech grads through my cousins and friends, who are fellow grads. If it were literally anyone else coaching y'all, much like Briles (albeit far, far much different circumstances regarding the two, quite obviously), I would actually go back to a game. But, I won't. However, I will be pulling for you guys to get to the CCG, and even the CFP because, as you said, I want to see the measuring stick between what McGuire cn do with the talent against someone else with either equal or even lesser,  but still a threat (think Jeanty-led Boise St last year). It will be interesting.

Really pissed it's not a night game on Saturday. That's absolutely tragic. Lubbock at night is something completely different. It's like cursed or something. I call it Monkey Paw stadium at night. It's crazy, weird, and fun as hell when you're playing a team that's (via polls) equally ranked. 

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3 hours ago, Uncle Nate said:

The bowl game where we trotted out 2nd and 3rd string OL, a true freshman backup QB, pretty much 2nd and 3rd string defense, and without our record setting runningback?  Oh, and not to mention, we didn't even have an OC or DC for that game...both had left (one voluntarily, one involuntarily) and the new hires didn't participate in the Bowl prep or game.  Position coaches did the play-calling.

You gotta be all kinds of stupid to judge a team or a coaching staff on that bowl game.  That was nothing more than a glorified B-team scrimmage on our part.

Bro, did you not read where I jokingly said it just made me laugh and feel better because we lost to fucking Billy Napier, so it made me feel better just to throw that in? It's a bowl game, no one cares. Most teams in lower bowls don't even play their good players, it would be utterly stupid when said player is young and is an impact player, unless they're a frosh and can use the game for extra practice. If it's not the CFP, don't risk playing stars or future stars, even when they're just Soph and will leave after next season. Sure, as a fan I want to see the best players out there, but as close to being human as I can be I also would rather see them next season not in crutches. It's CFB and literally anything can happen (see our RB room from last year, and that was just spring summer). 

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17 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

Yeah, we play Duke tomorrow at 8, but tonight will still be fun. I'm glad CBB season is back. It gives us fans something to watch along with football, and then baseball in February. It's like the perfect spot for the games. If no teams are worth watching in CFB, I guarantee you can find a CBB game worth watching. It's beautiful. 

This hasn’t been true in 15+ years, wasteland of a sport, esp regular season  

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Just now, bluto said:

This hasn’t been true in 15+ years, wasteland of a sport, esp regular season  

Personally, as a fan of CBB as much as CFB and CBBaseball, I can can find a game. Yeah, I won't disagree that the game has changed largely for worst since the G-league came into existence, but now that those guys can return to college I think it will pick up again. I still remember when they took away the privilege for kids to jump straight to the NBA (thank God because Durant wouldn't be a legend here otherwise), and it caused people to complain because of of one and dones being a revolving door, but people adjusted years later and it got great. Same for the transfer portal. I'm jealous both UF and UConn have won NC's because of the portal, but I'm hoping at some point we can get to there. Florida was just like us until Billy Donovan, so it can happen, and the same with Villanova before Jay Wright. We can get there, it just takes an actual intelligent coach, good recruiting, now good portal usage, and most of all, luck. 

This is just how I see it, personally. I still love it. Got to watch our women's team last night, tonight we get to see how Miller and co do against Duke (win or lose, I'm glad we're not pussies who are afraid to schedule anyone in any invitational). The Florida/Arizona game last night was awesome to watch. Seeing Zona beat UF was not something I expected, which is what's (this is just my personal opinion) better about CBB than CFB- you get to see way more upsets, you get so many more games, and it falls perfectly in-between CFB and baseball, and extends into March-early April. 

Outside of really good match ups right now, CBB is better. Had LSU held up its end of the bargain, Saturday night Bama/LSU game would have been epic, now it's just meh. We're on a bye, and the tech/BYU game is dumbfuckingly at 11AM (absolutely abominable, imo. Should be a night game instead of the Bama-LSU dreg game now). Plus Saturday we get to see Texas men's CBB at 2pm, and switch between that and the Oregon-Iowa game, then if you don't want to watch the Bama nut over the face against the morons, or ND-Navy (it's tradition, so I'll be flipping back and forth), you can catch the Mich St vs Arky CBB game (love watching Izzo go to work, and Calipari at Arky now is...interesting). If you want to stay up late, you can catch Gonzaga take on ou in CBB at 9:300pm, instead of watching literally the dregs of CFB on the West Coast play. Friday we have our women's team taking on #24 Richmond at 7PM.

So as you can see, to me, I think it's just perfectly set up. I understand why some people don't like it or enjoy CBB anymore, I do. But you (not you, specifically) kind of have to move with the ebbs and flows of sports in the world these days. We went from zero NIL and bitching about the BCS just 10 years ago, to bitching about the CFP selection, and now we're 4 years into bitching about NIL. Some things will never change, and that's bitching about literally anything. 

Posted
19 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Bro you're pissing yourself over fans camping out for a big game. No one is on your side here.

I think he's taking the Dennis Taylor persona a little too far.

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28 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Bro you're pissing yourself over fans camping out for a big game. No one is on your side here.

I guess the key point here is I'm not concerned with people "being on my side ". 

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On 11/4/2025 at 10:41 AM, Crockett said:

This is obviously a big measuring stick for us, too. 

I realize the doubts about BYU have to do with a soft OOC schedule, some come-from-behind wins to middling programs, we aren't blowing teams out, and we have a freshman QB. Here's a few thoughts on that. We needed a soft early schedule and ramp up for our freshman QB who showed up after spring ball and has had to adjust to college, learn the playbook, etc. Every week he gets better, looks better, utilizes more of the playbooks, etc. He has become a very capable quarterback and passed every test so far, including not panicking and forcing stuff when we have gotten behind. He has been protecting the football very well so far (*knocks on wood*). He has become a very good QB in the meantime. I did hear something interesting from someone that might know, but I haven't heard this anywhere else. Bear might be slightly on the spectrum and he does not experience stress, nerves, or fear like other people do. Not sure if it's true, but the kid is one cool customer. 

Tech dominated Utah and BYU only won by 3, but that's a super-heated rivalry game. Weird stuff happens. BYU was pretty much in control most of the game and Utah got a very late TD when BYU was running a prevent defense. Also, Kalani's style is not to run up the score, but to slowly choke you out and just win with clock management and defense down the stretch. But Tech did look better against a common opponent. 

The close game with Colorado can partially be explained by: Bear's first road game, Colorado having that game circled after we punked them in the bowl game. They did stuff that we had not seen before. Once we adjusted, we came back and put Colorado away. We jumped out to a 14 point lead vs Arizona, but then we had a long lightning delay and the field was wet. Game dynamic changed after the delay. Iowa State had a bye week before our game and were desperate to win that one, so they threw everything at us. We took the shot and then clamped down on them going 31-3 in the second half. Our coaches have been very good with adjustments, so we seem to perform better in the second half. 

If we win, I will know we have a very good team that is capable of making a post-season run. Tech is the class of the conference until proven otherwise. I do think BYU is very capable of beating Tech tho. I can't wait for the game. 

Or conversely, we made a litany of the dumbest fucking mistakes possible and gave the game away.

I don't mean that as a slight to BYU because a large part of being a good to great football is avoiding mistakes (which BYU has done all year - winning is a skill), but Rocco Becht has absolutely lost his mind, our receivers couldn't catch the clap in Lubbock, our defense is down to it's 8th string, and our punt coverage unit is literally trying to give opponents the ball (we've made the same mistake in 4 games this year).  IMO that game was less about BYU and more about ISU.  The first half was a demonstration of our potential, and the 2nd half was a demonstration of why we're 5-4 on our way to 5-7.

I do think it would be best for the Big 12 if BYU wins out in the regular season and loses the CCG.  You'll absolutely get in at 12-1 and I think you can definitely beat a first round opponent.

Posted
1 hour ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Act like you've been there before...key word is ACT

 

 

 

"Hey college kids!  Stop having fun!  Pretend you're bored with being good!  Take the joy out of life!"

Jesus Christ.

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6 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

"Hey college kids!  Stop having fun!  Pretend you're bored with being good!  Take the joy out of life!"

Jesus Christ.

I'm familiar with the Bible, and I don't think Jesus Christ ever said that.

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Posted (edited)
2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

While I despise byu fans and that university, good for them in helping out. I hope she makes a full recovery

 

 

They raised a bunch of money for a local charity in Ames when they were in town a few weeks ago.


There's some really reprehensible shit in the Mormon Church with their treatment of racial and sexual minorities, but they also seem to have an immense capacity for doing meaningful good in the world.  People are complicated.  I think BYU definitely generates more good in the world than some of the other problematic Christianity based universities.

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1 minute ago, Al_4_ISU said:

They raised a bunch of money for a local charity in Ames when they were in town a few weeks ago.


There's some really reprehensible shit in the Mormon Church with their treatment of racial and sexual minorities, but they also seem to have an immense capacity for doing meaningful good in the world.  People are complicated.

I mean it’s not complicated why they do it, but that is a topic for another forum.

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9 minutes ago, Pancho said:

I mean it’s not complicated why they do it, but that is a topic for another forum.

I just meant that it's complicated how people can have the capacity to be complete pieces of shit in one moment and then legitimately decent in another.  Our brains are wired to want a simple "good/bad" dichotomy but so many people/entities exist in a muddled middle, capable of both.

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3 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I just meant that it's complicated how people can have the capacity to be complete pieces of shit in one moment and then legitimately decent in another.  Our brains are wired to want a simple "good/bad" dichotomy but so many people/entities exist in a muddled middle, capable of both.

Once again, it’s not complicated and fairly easy to understand. It’s just not a topic for the football forum.

 

 

 

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Jacob Rodriguez's wife has been posting this every day lol

Honestly, he deserves consideration because he's demonstrably having a better season than Manti T'eo did that year he finished 3rd or whatever.

 

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34 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

They raised a bunch of money for a local charity in Ames when they were in town a few weeks ago.


There's some really reprehensible shit in the Mormon Church with their treatment of racial and sexual minorities, but they also seem to have an immense capacity for doing meaningful good in the world.  People are complicated.  I think BYU definitely generates more good in the world than some of the other problematic Christianity based universities.

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16 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Once again, it’s not complicated and fairly easy to understand. It’s just not a topic for the football forum.

 

 

 

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I understand that the LDS Church is trying to whitewash it's image in order to grow it's membership and make more money at the end of the day.

I just don't think that level of calculation applies to the average person.  I tend to be a little pollyannic and give individuals too much credit.

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2 minutes ago, Welshy said:

set it off GIF

I'm just saying they're better than Baylor and Liberty.  Not the highest of bars.

I'm not sure Baptists and Evangelicals do any good to offset the bad.  Sorry if I'm CRing here.

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2 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I'm just saying they're better than Baylor and Liberty.  Not the highest of bars.

I'm not sure Baptists and Evangelicals do any good to offset the bad.  Sorry if I'm CRing here.

That you, Dallin H. Oaks, Head of the Church of Jesus H. Christ of Latter-day saints?

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26 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Jacob Rodriguez's wife has been posting this every day lol

Honestly, he deserves consideration because he's demonstrably having a better season than Manti T'eo did that year he finished 3rd or whatever.

 

That is one of the coolest pics ever.  

And whereas most folks can't pull off the mustache/porn-stache, I gotta admit John Curry wears it very well.  /notgay-nottherer'sanythingwrongwiththat

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