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MarkInAustin

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  1. An example of negative, without trying?
  2. About Hayden Conner - I think he may stick but not at OG. C or RT. Pass pro, and smarts, but not a road grader. What do y'all think?
  3. An Aggie walks up to the library reference desk and orders a cheeseburger, fries, and sweet tea. The librarian whispers "This is a library!" The Aggie whispers back: "I want a cheeseburger, fries, and sweet tea."
  4. TO add to CJV's question about OU whether anyone aside from Burks can get open, will OU's OL give him a full three seconds to throw, against at least half the schedule? They get Michigan on 9-6, so we should have an early take. I am one who generally wants OU to take care of their other business so that Dallas is a big deal when Texas wins. A rivalry game can lose its luster when one of the teams regularly is barely a .500 performer on its season. But I understand the alternative view, because, paradoxically, I want Aggie to lose every single game they ever play in every sport and if that means we never have to play them again I am OK with that. I came of age in an era when UT vs. OU was the featured midseason intersectional game on national TV, seemingly always pitting two top 5 teams. Also, my oldest daughter took a full five year ride including a year in Europe as a National Merit Scholar at OU, which was a godsend for me after the S&L and real estate bust of the late 80s. She never became an OU fan, however, and neither, of course, did I. Outside Texas, the Aggies were just another game on TV. If I had grown up in Texas before college I would have probably viewed Aggie with more respect mixed with the disdain. But I just don't care about them and their "traditions". I understand that it is a good academic university and one of my granddaughters might have to go to engineering school there if she is only in the top 6% of her class rather than top 5%. But she says she will go to Purdue or Arizona if that happens. So it has affected my family in that way even though the two generations after me are Texas born and raised.
  5. I wouldn't sell Aguilar short. He can pass and run and I think is more stable than Nico. It will be interesting to see how he fares at TN.
  6. Vermont making the big move. Thanks, Joe.
  7. My personal recollection is that pitching sidearm to 3/4 was way easier on my arm than pitching straight overhand. In high school I sensed that it was easier on my shoulder as my whole body pivoted in the nearly exact plane as the arm motion. But I have read that the overhand thrown slider is the toughest pitch on the elbow. I don't have a muscle memory to go with that, but I accept it - science! We did not have actual medical knowledge of any of this in 1960, btw.
  8. In the 2024 Spring Game, IIRC, on 4th down and five, he made a TD catch, flying horizontal for the ball. I thought our scholarship guys must be truly great if the team has a buried PWO who is that good. Gets his degree and a chance to sign as a grad student and shine as a ballplayer somewhere? I wish him well in grad school, in football, and in life. Hook 'em!
  9. Would you rather see him at ASU or GA? That is the question, CJ.
  10. I would see that as a game changer for GA - and a corresponding disaster for ASU. He seems that good.
  11. Not a reflection on UT at all. That logic could extend to paternalism for 600,000 alums. And that is disregarding the significant possibility that the allegations are celebrity extortion.
  12. I am thinking h and fl are an even match up. But I think h will win. I wouldn't bet either side without several points given because something like who gets hot from out is unpredictable. Nobody is likely to give me the points to make my day because the teams are really evenly matched.
  13. duke played h tougher than i thought. i think they will beat fl. we knew they had the most and best pro prospects but i wondered about their ruggedness against the sampsons of the world.
  14. We also had a power forward who shot well over 40% from out. Remember?
  15. Tre. Wasn't much used on the lob but I think he had it in him.
  16. compare defensive front usages; roughly, 2-4 and 3-3 mainly.
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