harveycmd

Hua!

That's good stuff. I must say, this Olympic cycle has been strange in many ways. It's hard to root for American guys with pearls in their hair and painted fingernails. It's like Caleb Williams with his painted fingernails crying in the stands in his momma's lap.

It's not what the NCAA as such thinks; rather, it's what Michigan's peers think, and they think there's no doubt Michigan blatantly cheated. The scale of this is so much bigger than any other sign stealing operation known of or alleged to this point that it requires a collective response. Like it or not, at this point, the NCAA represents the institutions in question.

It's true that the fan base of the guilty team isn't likely to completely accept the meaning of the punishment, but that doesn't really matter. The games were played, but they weren't played with the structure and rules that legitimized the games. Everyone knows that (even the guilty). Publicly acknowledging it is necessary for maintaining legitimacy.

What seems most significant here is that there is no way Michigan can reasonably claim it was only Stalions and maybe a couple of GAs. Clearly most, if not all, of the staff was in on this. If the NCAA doesn't vacate a number of their wins, it's a joke.

Afro Kobe was the best, which why Sark has a quote about the Momba mentality over the door to the lockerroom. Gerry notwithstanding.

Thinking about SEC snobbery has me wondering. The SEC has the most titles this century, but do they have the best team? Probably not. I think Everyone would agree that Georgia's best team was 2021, but they weren't undefeated; they lost to Bama in the SEC title game. Problem there was that they didn't have a difference maker at QB. LSU's 2019 offense was among the best, but they really weren't that great defensively. Bama's 2015 team was complete, but they don't really seem to stack up with the greatest, most talented teams of all time. Bama's 2020 team was a great offensive team, but it was the weird Covid year that's hard to figure. So we go back to the first decade of this century. USC won a title outright, and shared (claimed) another. That said, it was almost universally claimed at the end of the 2005 season that the Trojans that year were the greatest college football team ever. Problem is they lost the title game to someone else.

Bobby and Gerry have said the Longhorns want this guy. I hope we stay away from the flakes.

ojo

Guy ran like a gazelle.

I think something like this will happen, although I'd bet there will more than thirty. This will alter the dynamic, but the apex position Texas enjoys will remain. Someone might ask, "What about California?" California is declining and fragmented. As a result of this, there is not the same level of state pride in college athletics in California as there is in Texas.

I've been listening to quite a few SEC talking heads opine on the "Texas won't run the SEC" mantra. I have yet to see or hear anyone grasp the totality of the dynamic at work. They keep wanting to talk about idiotic things like voting. Now, the proper analogy for Texas running the Big 12 isn't voting (you don't vote your way achievement) but rather influencing through power politics and economics. For example, the US runs NATO. Member countries have a vote, but they don't have the money and the power. The US has the money and power. That's the deal. As American citizens we think we should run NATO because we foot the bill and back it up with military strength. Likewise, Texas is more economically vibrant and has more overall political power than other SEC states because Texas has more overall wealth and has more depth of talent because of its population. Georgia and Florida can compete with Texas in these areas when viewed from a per capita perspective, but they lack the size to measure up in totality. I don't think these guys can wrap their minds around this. It's not a matter of completely dominating the football field. Obviously Texas hasn't done that. Texas provides the engine that literally powers the conference (Big 12 or SEC). Look at the roster for the Sooners and you will immediately see what this means. Texas won't exercise the same level of control over the SEC that they did over the Big 12, but you can't wish or vote away inherently natural strengths.

My next post is this. Tom Horn to rustlers.

I'm not too high on Michael Terry or Jonah Williams. Guys without a true position, aren't very likely to be very good. I'd rather have Ffrench, Fasusi and Brooks.

Reading stuff from NFL reporters on the Cowboys contract talks seems to me liking reading five year olds talking about nuclear physics. When has it ever worked out for the Cowboys when they gave a big extension to a current player who hasn't produced in the clutch? I'll tell you when: never. They shouldn't pay top dollar to Prescott, Lamb or Parsons until those guys deliver clutch time in the playoffs. These NFL media guys are idiots. Cowboys haven't advanced past the divisional round, yet they say they should literally pay these guys more than every player at their position. Why? I say let them all walk and backfill with talented guys at 5% the price.

I know this may not be the favorite topic for Longhorn fans, but I've been watching for the last couple of weeks, and I'm going with Olin Buchanan. Nunez is just pretty boy stupid. Every day he can't wait to say Texas isn't ready. If you're that focused on someone other than your own team, you don't have much confidence in your own team. Furthermore, he offers nothing to back it up. Listening to Liucci is like listening to a lefty stoner talk about politics. Buchanan actually says reasonable things. That said, A&M is not nearly as stupid as the Sooners, which is why I'm confident A&M will be better long term. Those criminals keep saying they beat Texas last year so they must be better this year. When you ask them if Kansas, OK State and Arizona are better since those teams beat them last year, it's crickets.

I think Lacy is the odd man out. After Arch we either go to Owens or Bell. If Arch stays to play three years, it's probably straight to Bell. If Arch stays two years, I say Owens for a year.

Furthermore, Paul Howe chose Texas, not Oklahoma.

Tom Horn.

I didn't say it was purely fake. They now say it was fake. My point is they can't have it both ways. They want to disavow Riley but claim the awards they won while he was there are a great part of their "tradition." Their tradition is cheating and getting away with it.

OU idiots think the Selman name makes it okay that they cheated all those years. Cheating is cheating.

You guys are something, Wheels not withstanding.

Thanks, Gerry.

Yes he did. Not more than me in this thread. Context boys, context.