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He thinks his biggest duty is to make salty comments about others... so the mayorship of NYC might be a great fit for him. The Yanks love a loudmouth.

Hope is gorgeous, but BAS is fine too.

Mizzou is going to roll out a qb we don't have much film on, they will game plan the first quarter or even the first half. Hopefully A&M can stagger but hold on... Elko does well with halftime changes and comes back strong in the 3rd quarter...

But it's all too much hope. BAS it is for me. Plus, BAS is useful currency in Austin more often than not.

A&M can still go 8-4. It's not like late season collapses are unheard of with Texas A&M football teams going on for about 15 years now.

Until proven otherwise, Aggies should just not run our mouths. We came very close to losing to Arky, and got lucky with the win over ND. Maybe the luck runs out at Tiger Stadium this week...

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I think we are going to find out just how good Elko can prepare a team to play in an insanely hostile environment against a team that has no real shot at the playoffs, but can thrive off wrecking others.

Old A&M loses this game by 14 points. Elko's A&M, I mean, its possible, but not probable that A&M wins it.

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Elko hype is going to get into high gear if he wins this game, and he knows it. Already getting "rat poison" about the Penn State job and Yahoo! Sports writing a fawning piece about him.

I'd hate for A&M to lose another outsider coach trying to bring winning ways to Aggieland (the Yahoo! Sports piece mentioned an ex baseball coach). But it would be nice to see the Ags win an away night game, that too in Red Stick.

Maybe the Ags win a close one? I don't know. I honestly don't trust Reed, he's probably good for a couple of inopportune INTs leading to our decent D getting gassed and gashed.

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Nice to know the new rule caught it as intended and forced aggie to take a timeout.

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The real tell will be to see how evenly and how often this rule gets applied. When blue bloods of the sport get assessed then we will know it's for real. And even then, there's so much in a football game that goes unnoticed because it's a fast paced, dynamic sport. Teams and players get away with a lot, as long as they don't get caught.


Teams and coaches are known to say and do whatever to win. Saban hated the HUNH offense, until he bought himself a copy of it. And he was against it, in the name of player health. I bet his earlier teams feigned plenty of injuries when facing HUHN offenses.


"Four years ago, Saban tried to take down the entire revolution when he said of hurry-up offenses, "Is this what we want football to be?" Alabama's coach cited health concerns over plays being run too fast.

Now Saban is the one trying to run defenses off the field with the tempo he once despised, tongues dragging.

"It works well for us," the coach said Saturday, almost shrugging. "It's when we play the best."

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Should warrant multiple game suspension for the player, coach who signaled, and head coach.

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I thought you might say it should be a felony offense, with no chance of early parole. 10 years to life. And eleventy billion in fines to Texum Ayeundem.

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Is it true that most people who live in Philly proper actually hate Villanova basketball?

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I would say that is more true than it isn't. How did you know?

College basketball is big in this town, with a traditional local "league" fiercely competing for bragging rights. The Philly Big 5 are Penn, Temple, La Salle, St Joe's, and Nova. Belatedly, Drexel has been added too. They all compete in different leagues but always have each other scheduled in the OOC part of their schedules.

Only Villanova is located outside the city, in the post Main Line suburban area. So I can see why, once again, it could be the "urban" "blue collar" versus "suburban" "rich" "white collar". Even though Penn is Ivy League and by default the richest in the grouping, and La Salle and St Joe's share the Catholic affiliation with Villanova.

Villanova also has won the most, so maybe they're more easily hated by the fans of the rest of the teams. :lol:

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The big money Ags didn't listen to him. *Insert Dennis "Dumbass" Franchione*

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BMAs are some of the dumbest of dumbfricks to walk this God's Earth, and certainly in Texas. Having money doesn't equate to having brains, that's for sure. Which is also why so many coaches in living memory have robbed the BMAs blind:
Dennis Franchi-phony!,
Kevin Sumlin,
and worst of all-- Jimblow Fisher;

Billy Kennedy, mbb:-- only 2 out of 7 years with the Big Dance and took a program that was handed to him with 6 out of 6 previous years in the Big Dance, a brought it many notches down;

Rob Childress, baseball:-- went to post-season every year, but only made it past the Regionals half of the years, and when he did make it to Supers, got beat by his eventual replacement, Schloss... who should have been money whipped years earlier.

Joni Taylor, wbb: took a nationally prominent program that admittedly Gary Blair was allowed to run for a few years too long, and completely ran it aground the past 3 seasons, and yet has a job that pays her $1.5 million, making her 7th highest paid women's bb coach in the country. She has gone 2-14, 6-10, 3-13 in the SEC. I bet I can probably achieve those numbers and I won't ask for $1.5 million.

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I genuinely, honestly, truly, sincerely think God has some kind of beef with the Texas A&M University athletics department.

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'God' helps those who help themselves.

The bedshitters running my alma mater's athletics department wouldn't know "excellence" if it hit them in their heads and smacked them on their asses.

Complete amateurs, but with access to huge budgets. The big moneyed Aggies who donate their millions are fools, obviously. Or are happy to dump good money after bad. I'm not a millionaire, granted, so I wouldn't know. But I know the "good old boy network" that's the Aggie bubble. It's not good.

Letting your winningest baseball coach walk-- that too to your ideologically hated in-state rival-- was not good, really bad, sort of thinking that gets you into the status quo.

The women's basketball team and program are moribund. That's after the previous guy (Gary Blair) won the program's first national championship, then was allowed to kind of plateau out (that happens to championship winning programs, i get it-- just look at Old Yella Teeth at Asstin), but then worse-- the program keys were handed to a coach who didn't show greatness at her previous stop and has shown nothing but dumpiness in her present stop, but nobody could be bothered. Instead, Vic Schaeffer was allowed to first to go Miss St (ok, granted) and then to Asstin, when it was abundantly clear that the Blair was going to be hanging up and needed proper administrative oversight to make it happen. Now, Shaeffer has Asstin winning more than losing, by a fair margin, the least that I can say.

The men's basketball coaching change is going to be "interesting" to see. Early returns on the recruiting trail don't seem promising, but I'm open minded and willing to be persuaded.

The softball shite, OTOH, happens. Ball bounces the wrong way. There's always a first for everything-- and this happened to be A&M's turn. So long as the program doesn't skid, fans should happily take their lumps. But win something, damn it.

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Wasn't this known a couple of months ago?

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Yes. The news was known even in Philly, to those of us who follow along. Perhaps Phillytiger9 has slow internet connection :rotflmao: