Practice Report From The Asset: Jaxon A Go?

Thanks for keeping us up to date Shuttlesworth!

I wish I could redact the aggy offense.

Saw Jaxon practicing on LHN with some sort of brace on his knee. He was moving pretty well.

Looks like we will have almost a 100%team. May be a good nightvafter all.

Not this shit again.

What no Ash is the man update? Has the Asset given up on the Alpha Male?

Good $h!t JS. I too saw Jaxon on the LHN broadcast of “practice.” It’d be good for a 75% Jaxon to assume his sure-handed role and open things up for Mike Davis in the PA game. Take some pressure off both QBs and Goodwin.

Not sure we need the qualifying prepositional phrase.

Hope I’m wrong, though.

Thanks for the update.
Happy Thanksgiving Blessings (no turnovers on offense; defense 3-4 takeaways would make my holiday)

I’m going to come out and say it. We are going to wreck those fools. They won’t know what hit them. We’re better as the underdogs. These young guys will be up for the game after shitting the bed against the land thieves. I see it 28 – 10, they turn the ball over like crazy and we don’t.

It’s probably a little late for this reminder, but:

Thank you.

What Case can do is hit the shorter routes… IF the running game is working enough to slow the pressure. That could keep things going.
If I were Aggie, I would max blitz every goddamn play. The secondary can’t cover anyway, and if Case gets any pressure at all, he’ll bail and throw a wild one.

I agree. We’ll need to win the TO battle by at least 2 and have a healthy MB and semi-healthy Jaxon.

We should say a prayer to Tim Tebow before 7 tomorrow.

I’ve got a feeling we keep it close enough into the fourth quarter and then our power run cannot be stopped. A&M’s defense plays well but tires out fairly easily. If we get the 3 and outs, their defense will wear down.

The aggy are not worldbeaters. We can definitely go in there and beat their punk asses. I feel pretty optimistic about it, particularly now that there is some better news on the injury front.

Good stuff thanks. Cant wait for kickoff.

We’re gonna kill those fools.

he’s showing more confidence cutting on that sore toe.

Is there any relationship between this toe problem and the fact that Brown has lost a shoe at least three times that I can recall – twice on TD lunges, for sure? It seems reasonable that an ill-fitting shoe might be involved here…

They’re the best defensive unit in the conference and they know it.

Pitching a shutout may be not just our best (and possibly only) chance to win this game, but also a hugely satisfying farewell to agy.

Without being prompted or assaulted, I’m going to apologize for my comment, anyway.

My pessimism is born from optimism that springs eternal in me with every game, only to be smashed like a sheep at an Aggy Thanksgiving.

I hear “Shipley to play…?” and I immediately think, “So you’re saying there’s a chance…?” Then, when he doesn’t, it wreaks havoc on my mind. The cognitive dissonance between what I was optimistically hoping for and reality has driven me to such pessimism that I can see nothing other than a blowout at the hands of the Ags this weekend.

Yet with each game, the despair that was Monday becomes the hope of Friday (or in this case, Wednesday), and I once again think that not only can we win, but we should win if X….Y…..Z….

I want Shipley to play the whole game, I want Malcolm to be at 100%, I want Bergeron to break free and not further hurt his hamstring, I want Case to hit all the short throws and Ash to complete the play-action deep ones.

So when the exact opposite happens in all scenarios…when my hopes go 0-5, culminating in a loss….

Please God let us beat the Aggies.

Good everybody’s healthy so no excuses tolerated. Good luck on that shutout idea even without Gray and Michael . Who’s the starting quarterback this week. Please let it be McCoy.

Shipley is not the difference between winning and losing. Bergeron and Brown hurting LBs is.

aggys are quitters

They quit conferences
They quit winning coaches
They quit second halfs
We go up by 14 points and they will quit in this game too

…..and then I run into Aggie Lurking.

Hey Aggie, which of the following A&M traditions is your favorite?

a) bemoaning your inferiority to big brother
b) Sheep humping
c) Glory Holes in the bathrooms
d) Grabbing your own nuts and squeezing
e) Locking arms “and legs” and swaying back and forth
f) Whoop!
g) Male “yell leaders”
h) Annual underachievement
i) “Just wait til next year…”
j) “Hullabaloo, caneck, caneck!”
k) Texags meltdowns

I’ll stop there. I can’t even look at those things without shaking my head in disbelief. What a university.

I definitely saw a big guy with a Walters jersey on LHN last night in shells doing blocking drills. 100% without a doubt was looking for him just because everyone said we has an "undisclosed “illness.”

Either it is a body double or something is off (not my eyes).

Shipley’s close behind… anyone who catch what the QBs throw is a big help.

I definitely saw a big guy with a Walters jersey on LHN last night in shells doing blocking drills. 100% without a doubt was looking for him just because everyone said we has an "undisclosed "illness."

That was just a little pregame trickeration for Shermanator. That was actually Alex Zumberge.

that is… anyone who (can) catch…

To all you guys, I’ve felt the same way for too many years to count. Been through all the shit that you are going through now with the Longhorns. I’ve thrown beer cans(empty) at the tv.Cussed the wife, kicked the dog, pissed my pants, you name it. I’ve felt that if I had done something different in life the outcome of the game would have been different after a loss. I have come to realize that 18-21 year old kids don’t give a shit about my desire for them to win, sometimes it just isn’t meant to be. I still watch every game that’s on tv, still cuss them and the gods. throw beer cans(full now) at the tv, just don’t piss my pants anymore.
Go Horns, Whup ass tomorrow

I’m still hoping for a guest post from Aggie rick. I would love to hear his thoughts on the upcoming game. Hell, I would love to hear his thoughts on just about anything. Always good stuff.

Help us Aggie rick, you’re our only hope.

“I hope he channels his inner James Brown.”

Limping around on one leg and handing off to Ricky sounds pretty good right now.

Hook ’em!!

10horns: why would you waste beer like that?

the general: i lol’d

keep doin your thing, js. been a good week of cosm/carnival reading already.

I’m still hoping for a guest post from Aggie rick.

He’s kinda busy running for President … expect one of his "there are three reasons Aggies win … pressure defense, passing game and … er, and, er … " Whoops! posts soon.

This ag team has shown a tendency to gag. The bigger the game, the tighter the collar. Aggy will be insane tomorrow night. Perfect set-up for a colossal choke job.

“I’m going to hold off on the Humidor post until after the Aggie game. There’s a lot of information from my guy that would divert our attention from the task at hand–pulling off the upset in Aggieland. Look for that on Friday after I come out of my tryptophan/Aberlour slumber.”

Pop a few No-Doz, chug a gallon of Mountain Dew, and chase that with some electro-shock therapy, but try to click “upload” on that cigar report as time expires in College Station! Because, I sure won’t be sleeping until I’ve had a heapin’ helpin’ of Cigar with my egg nog.

Thanks shuttlesworth!

Aggies by 21 easy. Mack will once again shit the bed. Nothing new.

I second that motion Zzzizzzy

hopeful ~ “This ag team has shown a tendency to gag. The bigger the game, the tighter the collar.”

Not sure where you get that. When playing common opponents, Aggie has the better MOV/MOL in 5 games. Texas wins the comparison in only 2 games.

The comparison of results vs. common opponent Baylor is not yet decided. While Aggie beat Baylor by 27 points, I’m far from confident we can match Aggie’s performance. The results probably get worse next Saturday.

HornChamps…

I believe he is referring to TAMU having 2 possession plus leads going into half-time and the proceeding to lay down afterwards to losses.

Somebody feed Gideon before the game so he’ll be less likely to bite on Fuller and Swope first moves. Better yet, just lock him in the training room before the game.

Please start David Ash! I love this guy!

aggie lurking- We dont look for excuses. Speaking of which, what’s your excuse over the last 119 games with The University, for which your school is 39-75-5?
aggie jack- we love the shermanator’s halftime adjustments.

 LSU and ’bama have a century of aggie pounding to look forward to.

Hook em

75-39-5 means your great grandaddy and grandfathers were good football players. Your teams the last few years (this one included) suck.

Clear enough for you to understand? Here’s to scoreboard for years to come until you guys can sack up and challenge us. Oh I forgot your steers guess you sack up empty-handed now don’t you?

If you sips get lucky and win it will mean nothing. Remember we are going to be in the SEC and compete for national championships every year. Love me, Love Aggie.

Stay home and help momma do the dishes.

Gideon won’t be anywhere near Fuller or Swope by design and that’s a good thing, IMO. Kenny V on Swope and CB on Fuller is the way to go.

Our D has to win this game for us, and I believe they’re up to the task.

Texas, 13 – Sheepfuckers 7.

With the lines Gideon takes on players, am I the only one who thinks he has a glass eye? Dude’s depth perception is garbage.

“Your teams the last few years (this one included) suck.”

We played for the national championship 22 months ago.

And won the motherfucker 6 years ago……….

We are 8-3 since the start of the 2000s against A&M. These last 11 years, our grandfathers and great grandfathers were tuned in to ESPN watching us win. Unfortunately, our children will have to watch LSU and Alabama do the same for a while because Aggie quit.

We have so many national championships just this year that I would get tired just typing them all.

You tards are going to realize you made a mistake by treating us wrong. I think it would be smart if you started by firing that tard of an AD.

So long to Aggy and their klassy ‘tradition’ of hating The University.

Aggie Lurking…

I don’t blame you from not choosing from the list of traditions. They’re pretty embarrassing. I would have a hard time choosing, as well.

Oh, is this the place for Aggie smack?

If you were an Aggie freshman the last time TAMU won a bowl game (2001), you would be 28 now. probably married, maybe a kid or two.

If you were an Ag freshman the last time the Ags won a conference title (1998), you would be 31 now, married, kids, house.

If you were an Ag freshman the last time the Ags finished in the top 10 (1994), you would be 35 now. The Ags didn’t play in a bowl that year due to NCAA penalty.

If you were an Aggie freshman the last time the Ags finished in the Top 5 (1956), you would be 73 now, retired, grandkids. The Ags didn’t play in a bowl that year due to SWC penalties.

If you were an Ag freshman the last time the Ags won a MNC (1939), you would probably be dead now, but if you weren’t you would be drooling in your jello at an old folks home at the age of 90.

If you were a UT freshman the last time Texas did all of those things (2005), you would probably be graduated now.

lol @ Aggie Jack….

do you really think that is important? Are you trying to boost TAMU prestige by referring to your current era domination of things that don’t matter? You imply we will regret your other National Titles like they actually contributed to the Big 12 in any meaningful way?

Most of our playmakers on 2 deep have never played at Kyle Field on Thanksgiving—-and the atmosphere that comes with it. Neither have our OC and DC.

This Aggie team is 19 points away from being 10-1.

With all of the hostilities this year between the two teams (LHN, realignment, litigation, ending 100 year rivalry), I expect our players will find Kyle Field to look more like a large stone table for a ritual animal sacrifice, complete with torches. In this game, their fans will want to see our players waterboarded, drawn, quartered, pulverized, and the remains set on fire.

We’ll see how our young kids respond to that.

Regardless of the score tomorrow night, I’m celebrating when the last seconds tick off the clock. We get to be rid of those backwoods hicks forever. No more agroid dumbfucks to deal with during football season screaming how their longterm season average record of 6-6 exemplifies greatness and how their Walmart budget program is the kind of program every high school kid wants to play for. Good riddance, sheepfuckers. Go annoy your new friends because your old friends are tired of tolerating you.

“Remember we are going to be in the SEC and compete (sic) for national championships every year.”

That’s the funniest shit I have read in months. I thought for a second I was reading Aggie Rick.

TTRoom, that’s why we pay you the big bucks. Brilliant.

If you were an aggie the last time …oh hell. You’d still be an aggie.

I think the atmosphere of OU game will help prepare our young pups for Kyle field

10Horns, how did you feel when the Aggie intentionally put his helmet on Marty Akins’ previously injured knee in order to take him out of the game in 1975? Aggies are classless pieces of shit and it disappoints me when Mack puts a half ass effort into this game. We should haven’t lost to ATM but a single time since 1998. I am hopeful that these Longhorns can give them a proper send off, but I am not overly optimistic.

Competing for National Championships in the SEC?

Here are the historical records against this year’s powerhouses in that conference of big time football\small time academics:

vs. Arkansas: Texas 56-21 TAMU 24-41-3
vs. LSU Texas 9-7 TAMU 19-27-3
vs. ’bama Texas 7-1-1 TAMU 1-3

Oh, and Aggie “competed” with OU at 11-19-0 during the Big 12 and before. National Champions? heh.

Aggie Jack,

Get out of here with your AGGIE ASS! Nobody likes you, you are a pain and the sec sucks, dude.

I’ll watch you with your fat girlfriend on tv crying.

TaylorTRoom FTW. Also, excellent post on Aggie’s history of Napoleon-complex fueled violence earlier this week (yesterday?)

Question for anyone willing to chime in.

Couldn’t we manufacture some offense with the wishbone? We have all the personnel. A fairly athletic QB that can’t really pass to save his life, two good RB’s, a good blocking FB, a couple decent blocking TE’s, and a spun down OT that is a great blocking TE. That might give us enough leverage, if for nothing more to burn up tons of clock and let our defense win us the game.

“We have so many national championships just this year that I would get tired just typing them all.”

Men’s Outdoor Track & Field 2011
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field 2011
Women’s Basketball 2011

You seem to tire easily. But congratulations; can we talk about football now?

Your teams the last few years (this one included) suck.

This argument, seriously?

Isn’t sucking the last few years (if by few you mean two—Texas was 13-1 in 2009) better than always sucking?

Clear enough for you to understand?

I’m still a little fuzzy. Could you explain what Texas finishing in the Top 5 of the AP poll 5 times during Mack Brown’s 13 year tenure versus Texas A&M’s two Top 5 finishes IN THEIR ENTIRE HISTORY has to do with my grandparents?

I love all the hate week (minor annoyance week?) vitriol that gets spewed around here and BON around this time of year. I can’t participate at home, because my wife is an Aggie (the only capital-A Aggie I know) and she doesn’t put up with too much smack. So I’ve gotta do it silently on the keyboard.

All of that having been said, I hate all (but one) of these fuckers with a passion. I’ll be a nervous wreck before the game starts, drunk by the time it’s over, and either gloriously smug when my aggie in-laws arrive on Friday (if we win) or still drunk (if we lose) and probably on a head-on collision with a divorce. Shit happens. Life is important, but this is football god damn it.

Much as I want to win and remain married, I suspect this year’s aggie team and the atmosphere at KY field will do us in. Probably not in spectacular fashion (holla, defense!), but I just don’t see us being able to manufacture enough points to win. Call it something like 20-13.

Hope I’m wrong and aggie chokes, coughs up an early lead, shuts the crowd up, and then just spirals down into worry, despair, and eventual disaster before time runs out on their season and their history in the Big XII.

Yellow Dog said:
November 23rd, 2011 at 2:49 pm

"We have so many national championships just this year that I would get tired just typing them all."

Men’s Outdoor Track & Field 2011
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field 2011
Women’s Basketball 2011

You seem to tire easily. But congratulations; can we talk about football now?

Yellow Dog…
You forgot to mention the 2011 Sheep & Goat Fucking Team along with the 2011 Meat Judging Group… ATMC, we are going to miss you!

I personally like watching this years Texas Team because they have no Quit in them. I hope Major gives Harsin an idea of the importance of this game. Wasting Ash throwing bombs when he gets in the game is not a good idea. RTDB Ash. Defense, Somehow i think Manny Badger knows how important the game is. Badgers mean business when they come out of the hole. Its not personnel that lost the last two games, its the offensive play selection. Imho.

We could do some wishbone damage if Bergeron were healthy and we ever practiced it. Timing might be a small problem.

I’m not getting my hopes up based on a bad knee, a turf toe, and a hamstring being healed enough to make a difference by tomorrow night. Given all the trappings associated with the game this time and our limited weapons, I’ll say 27-11 in favor of the agriculturals.

A few interesting stats:

Tannehill gets worse as the game goes on…. (1st half versus 2nd half)
From TD to INT of 17:5 to 9:6
1st: 66.1 % comp. Throwing 17 TDs & 9 picks
2nd:60.7 % comp. Throwing 9 TDs & 6 picks
VS.
Longhorns Pass D
1st: Allowing 60.9 % comp. & 6 TDs & 6 picks
2nd: Allowing 54.2 % comp. & 3 TDs & 1 pick

TAMU pass D:
1st: allows 60.9 % comp. Allowing 6 Tds and getting 4 picks
2nd: allows 63.6 % compl Allowin 11 Tds and getting only 2 picks.
VS.
UT Passing:
1st: 54.7 % comp. throwing 4 TDs and 8 picks
2nd: 59.5% comp. throwing 11TDs and 2 picks

TAMU Rush D:
1st: 2.4 ypc & 8 TDs
2nd:3.05 ypc & 14 TDs – There’s a story in that alone
VS.
UT Rushing O:
1st: 4.70 ypc & 12TDs
2nd:4.78 ypc & 10TDs

TAMU Rushing O:
1st: 5.6 ypc – 20 TDs
2nd: 5.1 ypc – 7 TDs
UT Rushing D:
1st: 2.8 ypc – 5 TDs
2nd: 3.4 ypc – 5 TDs

Don’t forget the Aggies national dominance in trolling over the past 5 years.

And a few road stats for us all to be worried about… as if 2 dozen underclassmen, their first year in a new scheme, playing at Kyle field won’t be enough….

On the Road UT averages…
Offense
27 ppg. with only 13 TDs total.
348 ypg. @ 4.98 yards per play.
61% Passing yards…

Defense
26.5 ppg with 13 TDs allowed
372 ypg @ 5.11 ypp
68% Passing yards….

You guys could have adopted the attitude of " anywhere anytime motherfucker " but instead your AD is hiding behind scheduling difficulties and amazingly enough some of you believe it.

Nobody else buys it . Everyone else thinks you are pussies ‘cause we stated we’ll continue to play you and all you do is make excuses. You should be embarrassed. It’s a PR nightmare that we are winning and after Thursday we will find reasons not to schedule you on any terms.

Do you really think playing us hurts your recruiting or helps us ? Seriously are you that insecure???

Hey… but we haven’t lost a game that we have gotten an interception or fumble in.
But…. we haven’t had an interception or fumble against a ranked opponent.

As the year has progressed…
we have gone from 5.7 to 4.3 penalties per game
3rd down % has gone down 4%
our PPG has gone down 10.

We haven’t had an interception since September (hey but we have thrown 2).
… Or recovered a fumble….

Aggie Lurking -

I know math is hard, but try to bear with me here: Schools in a ten-team conference playing a round-robin schedule must play nine conference games. That leaves three non-conference games available to schedule. The University of Texas has its three non-conference games scheduled through 2017. The first available schedule date is 2018 – which, coincidentally, DeLoss Dodds has said UT would revisit the aggie game.

If you or anybody else seriously believes UT is afraid of a team they’re 8-3 against in this century, then no amount of argument is going to convince you otherwise. Likewise, if you believe that UT ought to go even one step out of its way to rearrange its schedule to keep the aggie game after the lies, lies, and damn lies spewed forth from College Station since last summer, then, again, no amount of argument is going to convince you otherwise.

As has been said here and many other places many times before, you don’t get to ask your spouse for a divorce and then say, “But, hey, we can still do Thanksgiving together, right?”

Fuck off, aggie. Regardless of the numbers on the scoreboard, The University of Texas is the real winner tomorrow night when the clock hits 0:00. From that point forward, we’ll never have to see another aggie game that isn’t scheduled solely on our terms. You think you hate the Longhorn Network now? Wait until LHN banners are pasted all over KY field for the resumption of this series in about 2019.

ADT2, I have already tried to reason with Lurking 8th Grader, but like most junior high boys, he wont listen. Hopefully, his mother will come home soon and kick his ass for posting obscenities on the web.

FUCK A BUNCH OF AGGY.

Yeah, I hate getting sucked into these types of arguments. There’s no winning. Even as I’m typing the reply, I’m thinking to myself, “Fuck it, go do something else, don’t let these retards get to you,” but as evidenced by the presence of my post above, I rarely back off and go do something else.

I really can’t wait to be rid of these people. What was it DKR said about cockroaches…?

The scheduling is in a way an excuse, especially for other sports. The reality is that A&M treated the conference and the state of Texas like shit and now they are getting payback. We’ll start playing A&M again at some point, but this is punishment from us and hopefully from the rest of the Texas teams in the conference. Man up, Ags! Take your punishment and understand that it is punishment and not fear that drives this.

You still don’t get it. The punishment will be the scoreboard we will hold on you and point out anytime we want. You will compound that by appearing afraid to play since you will have lost 4 of the last 6 as well as the last 2 games. Meantime we will smugly say anytime motherfuckers you are the holdup not us. Game set match

Aggie Rick, were the hell are you at when we need you the most? You are an integral part of this site, and we need your daily input kind sir! Can I get a whoop, double up whoop, whoop!

Grease up the south end and bend over, aggy.

You’re gonna get rode hard and put up wet in the s$c. Gutless, gay sheepfuckers.

We’re going to fuck their shit up.

If you sips get lucky and win it will mean nothing. Remember we are going to be in the SEC and compete for national championships every year.

Someone please explain to me how the sheep-fuckers can’t see they are becoming the sheep.

Aggie Lurking, I think you miscounted…you actually meant to say “4 of the last 12.” I love how you guys quit counting whenever it’s convenient.

Or maybe you can only count to six. Who the fuck knows. I wish I didn’t care but clearly I’m a sucker for a retard with a stupid argument.

Jesus (the local Jesus, not the make-believe one), I hope you’re right. I might go out and dance a little jig afterwards.

Actually, ADT2, it is an established historical fact that Jesus did in fact exist around 2000 years ago. That would make him real, not make believe. If you want to insult an entire religion, try making legitimate arguments.

Or better yet, keep religious insults off of a sports based website.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Case has a chance to become a Longhorn legend tomorrow. His roommate Shipley will be there for him if at all possible.

There is nothing worse than going through life as an Aggie.

Case instead of a Longhorn Legend is going to be a goat.

Jesus Shuttlesworth said: November 23rd, 2011 at 7:24 pm
We’re going to fuck their shit up.

You know…I had you making be believe this for the OU game. I think I will just assume we are going to get rolled. Kind of reverse psyc type of thing.

Ricky nailed it. The A&M administration just can’t keep their fucking mouths shut and exit gracefully. Not surprising given their history. Even now the UT administration gives a fairly benign excuse for not wanting to play and the Aggies show the self control of a 5 year old with the “scared to play us”‘theme. The fact is, as an entity, we don’t see A&M as worthy of playing us anymore. Consider yourself grounded until you can stop acting like a bunch of classless assholes.

Or better yet, keep religious insults off of a sports based website.

I’ve refrained from typing it for so long but; This.

And I’m not religious at all.

I have the feeling that once Sasha passes the bar and has a few cases underneath her girdle she’ll be hell in heels.

I have definitely grown tired of the flippant use of Jobu, but there will be hell to pay if anyone trashes L. Ron Hubbard between now and game time.

former, I hear you man. We practiced really well that week. Even better than this week, so who knows. Not sure which club will show up, but if we get any kind of QB play we’ll win. Our defense is that good. This site was telling you we would be tops in the league months before anyone else. The writers here, sans me, are that good. Keep the faith bruh.

I want to know what the Asset says about the staff firing up this team to believe that this game means something. I am sick of Mack saying its no different than Tech, Baylor etc. It always seems our two rivals come out wanting the game more than our guys.

The fact that we’ll have a game plan going into this game as opposed to the year prior should be worth 14.

It’s funny that the overall opinion from both sides is that Texas is in trouble in this matchup and will require and offensive miracle to win. If you were an outsider and simply looked at the facts, Texas has fewer losses this season and is ranked while aggie is not, you might think Texas has the advantage.

Come on, now, TeddyRGB – you ought to know better than that. Logic does not apply in College Station.

Our D stuffs teams that can’t pass.

Our D stuffs teams that can’t run.

But against teams that can do both, our D gave up 55 and 38 points.

Aggies can do both.

……and just like that, 1776 has me fretting again.

Son of a bitch. Not you, ’76. Me.

1776-
 blaming the D for giving up 55 against OU is kind of silly, considering the 21 points the OU D scored. Yes OU and OSU scored some points on us, but our defense is damn good.

I’m not saying we are going to shut them out but I agree with Jesus that if we get any kind of quarterback play we’ll win. Unfortunately, that’s true but also highly unlikely.

This game pretty much goes on form alone. The better team invariably wins. This has been just as true for the past 5 years as for the past 50 years like it or not. When we have better football players and better coaches we consistently beat aggy. When it is the other way around, they come out on top. This year they have the upper hand in both categories. I like it not.

The period of this Wednesday through Sunday – with who knows how many millions of layabout males with little to do beyond metabolizing over-indulgences – this is when LHN needs to be “free” on the ’net.

Has anyone asked or otherwise ascertained from, say, TW, how big is the ESPN/LHN asking price? It’s some amount per subscriber, I know – but translate that into actual dollars, someone. And what do they get for it? I assume some amount of Local Ad time – how much, and what is the Local Ad Market worth, then. This extends to other cable carriers, of course, it’s just that TW is what I see when I make the three-weekly trip to Austown, and I assume that their situation analogizes to other carriers and other locales… but perhaps not.

^ so in 06 and 07 their core of Fran, McGee, et al was simply just better than Mack, Colt, Charles etc…..right.

In prior years aggy had better coaching (even Fran). But hopefully, Mack will actually allow this group to coach. On game day, Mack is not my choice for Head Coach. Every other day, absolutely, but on game day, No!

One of my main gripes with Mack has been that he doesn’t seem to be able to motivate the team and get them angry enough to kick ass and take names when Certain Rivals – you know who they are – oppose. Besides losing to those we ought to beat handily, this has also resulted in seriously embarrassing ass-rapings interspersed with unexpectedly difficult and narrow victories. Although every possible opportunity presents itself – I’d think so, anyway; wouldn’t you? – to turn the team into a pack of slavering wolves, ready to descend on Kyle Field and loosen a tide of blood and guts to speed agy on its way out… you’d think so, but our experience has been that although the team may excite itself to such levels, we can’t count on it, and if it does, it won’t be because Mack leads them to it.

I hope sincerely that the team feels about this the way I do, and I think most of you do, too: a literal once-in-a-lifetime chance to stick a cork in something and declare it finished.

colt was injured in 06 so Fran/McGee is better than injured Colt/GD. We were shitty in 07 despite the magical ten wins being reached, so Flash’s analysis still holds.

Having said that, I’m not sure either team is that much better than the other this year. We suck on O, they suck on D. Movable object, meet resistable force.

Hey Tex Long;
I too am sick of the fact that Mack does not take these games personally (at least in public). We have never been motivated against aggy since he has been here and only beat them when we have superior talent. Even in 05 and 09 we struggled because they were more motivated and fired up than us.
I don’t expect that it will be any different today. I just wish for once, Mack could get them to play above their heads in a big game where the conventional wisdom was that we did not have a chance.

Maybe we can find some – enough – of whatever it was we had on hand for our Fare-the-well Appearance in Lincoln, last year (well, pretty much every year, huh?). Would love to see our two-headed quarterback show us a reprise of the one-of-the-too-few performance by Garrett Gilbert. Ash was supposed to be the running QB, yeah? Let’s see some.

Oh, hell, I don’t give a fuck HOW we do it, let’s just DO this thing, and drive a stake through its heart. Running, passing, shutdown D, kick returns, takeaways… any or all.

“The fact that we’ll have a game plan going into this game as opposed to the year prior should be worth 14.”

Did we have a game plan for Mizozu?

“Did we have a game plan for Mizozu?”

Obviously yes. Our D held them to 17 and no one could plan for Fozzy to get his knee jacked.

What ails us no longer has to do with the plan, rather, as some of the latest posts reveal, Mack’s ability to fire-up a team. We’ve had this discussion ad infinitum; so, again, why get your hopes up that we will see “Mack’s wild pack of insanity” devouring opponents like a Les Miles team. Instead get ready for another episode of The Muppet Show where, despite the losses we take along the way, we usually get our 10 wins and the season ends with a musical number, while the realists, like me, are sitting in the upper balcony like the two old farts wondering why everyone else has rallied around the near-do-well Mack “the-frog.” Aw shucks, our hopes were dashed in October in Dallas, but we overcame to almost make it, then we lose to an underdog and win the bowl game (that means nothing) and talk about how great next year is going to be.

We’ve sung this song too many times. C’mon! You guys don’t get it yet?

I was pissed when Case threw his tantrum, but after more reflection, maybe he’s pissed because he realizes that he woke up in an episode of The Care Bears instead of The X-Men for which he thought he had auditioned.

I am sitting here with my top button undone feeling really pissed that in about four hours Mack’s handywork is really going to piss me off.

Mack does not have the killer instinct like Saban, Stoops, Meyer, others have. Mack does not HATE to lose, like those guys do. You get the impression that after a loss, Mack wished he would’ve won, but is out having a nice dinner with friends somewhere. Do you envision Saban or Stoops doing that? No. You envision them dreaming 99 ways to put up 70 on their rivals. They don’t want to beat their rivals, they want to crush and humiliate them—-which impacts recruiting.

Stuckinmn,

Not sure what TX-OU game you were watching. OU threw for 370 yards against us. Are you suggesting it was not our D’s fault that LJ threw for 370 yards? Please…

Obviously our defense hasn’t improved a bit since OU/OSU. We’re doomed.

Since OU/OSU? Let’s see. Tech threw for 380 yards against our D. That leaves Kansas, Kansas St, and Mizzou. And they can’t throw. So, yeah, I think we’re vulnerable against the pass big time. Is there some reason I shouldn’t think that? I’m listening…

Yeah, and one TD when it mattered.

Persuasive stuff

You’re right, our defense sucks and we don’t have a prayer. Everyone knows it’s yards and not points that matters.

you pull the Tech game out as evidence of our defense sucking? Did you watch the Tech game?

All i’m saying is if your evidence of our D sucking is a claim that OU scored 55 on us, that might not be the most persuasive as turnovers by the offense contributed to many of those points.

I’m drunk as hell and will regret this in the morning, but hey 1776, do you still think our defense sucks?

Jesus, we appreciate everything you do here.
Now that your buttered up. wasn’t there something about posting The Humidor yesterday?

Jesus – For Christ sake – post the Humidor bro! Give the people what they want! I need some post Aggie beat down recruiting (good) news.

where’s the humidor post? i need my religious fix.