Squeeze Army
Wednesday Weekly. I'm really going to miss caring about these after this season. This week, Bill offers an interesting proposal to reverse the Ags' second-half woes.
I want to start a new kind of game for us, but it can’t have any third quarters.
Is this a riddle? I love riddles! Let's see... a new kind of game, that doesn't have any third quarters? Is it... hockey?
Badminton?
Stratego?
Half-deer hunting?
...We are having a heck of a time in third quarters.
Checkers?
Jai alai?
Twister?
Doctor?
It’s puzzling to me. I hear constantly from those of you who communicate with me that you expected us to be much better this year.
Go back and read those sentences in Christopher Walken's voice. You'll be glad that you did.
...Last year, we had great success in the second halves of games outscoring opponents 209-126. In fact, we limited opponents to just 37 points in the fourth quarter all last season. This year, we are being outscored 145-111 in the second half and 93-54 in the third quarter.
Why aren’t we better?
Oh my God. That is just... well, that is just really pathetic. Bill Byrne makes me sad.
...If anyone on our staff knew the specific answer, we would solve it. Turnovers are killing us, I know that for sure. Hence my desire for no more third quarters.
Turnovers are killing us. Being killed is undesirable. A swarm of foggy, disjointed thoughts tumble around inside my dizzy melon. Ergo, I desire no more third quarters. QED.
I’m hearing from a number of you saying we need to improve our offense. Offense doesn’t appear to be our problem.
Yeah. So fuck off, dipshits who think we need to improve on offense!
...Any school averaging over 500 yards of total offense, like we are this season, is doing fine offensively. We just can’t continue to turn the ball over.
See what I mean? Our offense is great! We're doing everything right on the offensive side of the ball. The real problem is turnovers. Whoever those guys are that keep turning the ball over are complete fuck-ups! You should blame them, not the offense.
...Some of you have suggested our coaches should instruct our players not to fumble or throw interceptions.
And it's precisely that kind of counterintuitive brilliance that makes Texas A&M, well, Texas A&M!
Here are some things many of you have suggested that our coaches need to do to make us better in no particular order: Don’t turn the ball over, hang on to the football, don’t throw interceptions,...
...don't fumble, keep the ball, prevent turnovers, maintain possession instead of fumbling and/or throwing an interception, don't not hang onto the football, maybe consider not soaking the players' hands in a vat of delicious popcorn butter at halftime, try to throw the ball to our own players instead of the opposing team's players,...
..wrap up when you tackle, get leverage when you block, stuff the receiver at the line of scrimmage, control the line of scrimmage, and have a fanatical effort. Why do I mention these?
Because you're the kind of twisted sicko who gets his rocks off to publishing lists of things people mention in personal correspondence, that's why.
You disgust me, Byrne.
Because these are things I hear our coaches instructing our athletes to do daily when I go to practices.
The point is, we all want to win. But, we must hold on to the ball to give ourselves a chance.
Oh God. The last thing we needed was to give the Aggy faithful more incentive to clinch their balls on television. Whoooooooop!
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Go back and read those sentences in Christopher Walken’s voice. You’ll be glad that you did."
I did.
I was.
by UTLawgrad on Nov 11, 2011 3:49 PM CST reply actions
“I hear constantly from those of you who communicate with me”
I also hear constantly from people who communicate with ME! That is just too weird.
by jinx on Nov 11, 2011 3:50 PM CST reply actions
I made a tinfoil hat, and now I, too hear constantly from strange people who communicate with me. If I had gone to aggieland, I could have saved myself the cost of the tinfoil.
by Longhorn in Canada on Nov 11, 2011 3:55 PM CST reply actions
Whoever those guys are that keep turning the ball over are complete fuck-ups! You should blame them, not the offense.
Heh heh.
Nice work, as usual, FKT.
by parlin on Nov 11, 2011 3:57 PM CST reply actions
Note to Fake Ken. cc to Bill Byrne
The name of the game you seek is already known. It is called Aggie football.
You’re welcome.
by Longhorn in Canada on Nov 11, 2011 3:59 PM CST reply actions
Sounds like Bill Byrne has channeled his inner Jack Handy:
“When you hold onto your ball, really tightly, no one can take it away from you. Unless it’s a Grizzley Bear. And it’s mad.”
by stevo67 on Nov 11, 2011 4:06 PM CST reply actions
First of all, I like our chances of sending those impertinent turd burglars off to the SEC! SEC! SEC! with a stinging home loss. That is going to be vintage sweet nectar along the lines of personally dancing on their field after closing out the SWC on their punk asses in 1995!
With that out of the way, I am REALLY, and I mean REALLY going to enjoy watching those goofy little retards get their asses handed to them in the coming decades. It will be just like a replay of their Big XII experience – which I have enjoyed immensely. You simply CANNOT beat 3 and 4 touchdown losses at home to the Iowa States and Mizzou’s of the world. THAT is comedy gold!
Maybe in 15 or 20 years when they have a couple of baby steps behind them and they luck out into one of their 8 – 4 type of high water years I can revisit the joy of seeing their homely faces up close and personal as they meekly shuffle out of the state fairgrounds when we whip their asses in the Cotton Bowl. Of course, that presumes that they peak in a down year for us, so what are the realistic probabilities of that happening? Til then, I’m gonna have to sustain myself on a series of additional 3 touchdown losses at home to Mizzou, I suppose.
by Felonious Monk on Nov 11, 2011 4:11 PM CST reply actions
How that asshat continues to keep his job and make boatloads of cash is beyond my level of comprehension. Just one of these rants and should be enough to get him fired.
Drink of choice for the night: Sierra Nevada Torpedoe
by craigbiggiosdirtyuniform on Nov 11, 2011 4:31 PM CST reply actions
I joined the Carnival late. Were we this funny when we were 5-7? Or too busy trying to find pitchforks?
A bud of mine, who earlier this year took the day off in order to start tailgating in College Station for the OSU game, has his head buried in his head moaning that they are going to really S-U-C-K their first few years in the SEC.
(but he doesn’t regret the move)
by JMS on Nov 11, 2011 4:39 PM CST reply actions
Shortly after the agroids dismantled SMU, local talk radio legend Chip Howard (if you’re ever unfortunate enough to be in Bryan/College Station betwixt 4-6 pm on a weekday, tune to 1150 AM and pretend you’re hearing it all in Christopher Walken’s voice… you’ll be glad you did) compared the Fightin’ Texas Aggie offense of 2011 to the USC offense of 2005, and exclaimed, “It would really surprise me if this unit doesn’t turn out to be better than that Trojan offense.”
The comedic value of agroid simply cannot be replaced. Fortunately, the hygienic value of agroid is very easily replaced, otherwise I might actually miss these guys.
by Walden Ponderer on Nov 11, 2011 4:48 PM CST reply actions
“…If anyone on our staff knew the specific answer, we would solve it.”
Wow. Sounds like aggy is on top of this whole losing thing.
by Cult McCoy on Nov 11, 2011 4:52 PM CST reply actions
OH my. is this real? are byrne and little in some kind of competition for senility? maybe they just have a private bet as to who can make the most idiotic pieces untill there is official recognition
by wisconsinhornybadger on Nov 11, 2011 5:00 PM CST reply actions
Bill Byrne has nothing on that aggy cheerleader running for President. Surely, we will always get to tell aggy jokes and laugh at their strange and sicko ways?
by Flash on Nov 11, 2011 5:43 PM CST reply actions
I admit that Walken’s reading is better, but try Philip Seymour Hoffman channeling Capote. That works too.
by Dmitri Kissov on Nov 11, 2011 6:06 PM CST reply actions
This is a joke, right? This is somebody pretending to be the athletic director of a major university and writing like a retard, because nobody who holds such a position could actually be that stupid. I mean, no university would ever allow that. It’s just a parody. Right?
by radical drops on Nov 11, 2011 6:27 PM CST reply actions
The sad fact is this is real. Oh my lord he should just not do this.
by Newy25 on Nov 11, 2011 6:28 PM CST reply actions
“Were we this funny when we were 5-7? "
Oh yeah, it was.
A different kind of funny though. Kind of like “The Day the Clown Cried” funny.
by CrazyJoeDavola on Nov 11, 2011 6:29 PM CST reply actions
and a hat tip to you FKT, with the adding of Christopher Walken’s voice to dollar Bill you have kicked it up a notch. From here on out dollar Bill will always be coming across with that smooth Walken vibe.
by Weisse Versa on Nov 11, 2011 6:48 PM CST reply actions
I have a sickness for Aggy losses and the only cure is more cow bell, IMO.
by Newy25 on Nov 11, 2011 7:13 PM CST reply actions
“We are off to Manhattan, Kan., this weekend. For a preview of SEC football, you need to look no further than the Kansas State offense and defense, and special teams. Their offense is predicated on keeping the ball away from their opponent while their defense and special teams win the battle for field position. I am very impressed with their kickoff and punt returner.”
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Reading between the lines, Bill Byrne is saying “K-State is just like the SEC teams that will throttle us starting next year. The Wildcats are good in all 3 phases of the game, so even if I’m not impressed by our own team, I’m certainly impressed with everything that KSU has to offer. Whoop!”
If ever there were a Big 12 AD Follies program, Bill Byrne would win going away (pun intended).
by PoofyBevo on Nov 11, 2011 8:14 PM CST reply actions
This was Wednesday? Is it too much of a coincidence that the same day Bill said “but it can’t have a third quarter” that another prominent Aggie forgot the THIRD item on his plan? Perhaps he took Bill’s suggestion too seriously. He should have named the first, second, and fourth department he’d eliminate.
Anyway, shouldn’t he be running for president of the SEC instead of the US? Listening to the Aggie propaganda you’d conclude that that’s the most powerful position in the country.
The key to understand Aggie actions is to first remember Aggies are always delusional (not sometimes, not on certain items (SEC), always). If they win, it’s followed by delusion, if they lose, delusion, when they make a decision, delusion. If we win, lose, or make a decision, delusion.
by tdwalsh on Nov 11, 2011 8:24 PM CST reply actions
Other than the Jay Mohr bit, which always cracks me up (well, maybe YOU), the funniest thing about this is that Aggie fans write their A.D. advising the coaches to teach the players to wrap up and not fumble.
by Juice on Nov 11, 2011 9:28 PM CST reply actions
I had to look at the actual page to see if this real. It is.
Wow…
by Brian Combs on Nov 11, 2011 9:29 PM CST reply actions
How that asshat continues to keep his job and make boatloads of cash is beyond my level of comprehension.
Two words: women’s sports. He gets big bucks every time chickball, soccer, and the other non-revenue sports do well. It’s a great gig (‘em!) for him, and quite frankly I couldn’t invent a better match for their school than the clodhopper that is Bill Byrne.
by Orange Marrow on Nov 11, 2011 9:33 PM CST reply actions
Anyway, shouldn’t he be running for president of the SEC instead of the US?
Not a chance. The SEC would never elect a commissioner/president who is as stupid as the original Aggie Rick. The United States? Unfortunately not so smart. Pray for us all.
by Longhorn in Canada on Nov 11, 2011 9:43 PM CST reply actions
It is SOOOOOO incomprehensible to me for Deloss to ever bring the attention on himself like this. You have to wonder, if you are a head coach, what it means when the AD issues an opinion on what is right or wrong about your sport.
Bill – you are a CEO. Act like an executive instead of a sports blogger. The fact he gets away with it shows what a collection of dumbasses constitute the Agroid fan base.
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