I agree that the Texags baseball and basketball forums are fucking awesome right now.
-there are a couple of threads on the baseball board that were started during or just after their first loss to Vanderbilt. They start rationalizing how to turn things around, starting with a win or two in the next two versus Vandy. The progression of each thread gets more and more hilarious.
-there’s a poster sunshine-pumping about this being a great season for basketball and thanking Buzz Williams. At first, some aggies call the guy out as a troll and I was inclined to buy that. Then, the poster returns and proceeds to ardently defend both the season and BW as successes, and measures each against the arbitrary last 25 years. It’s awesome.
-a common thought pervasive on both 247 and Texags about the tournament loss is that Michigan was horrifically “underseeded “. These losers make this argument every fucking year in which they lose to a lower seed. They made it about Penn State two years ago. That thinking is one of best insights into the overall aggie mentality and why they’re never going to win anything. “If only a shittier team was placed in that spot, then our higher ranked team would have actually done something. “ Right.
-the baseball posters are starting to work in some thinking that, what they really need to do, is go even further over the top with NIL. They need random boosters to pay a $3M buyout to a guy that would have taken the job without a buyout provision. Then, after spending more money on NIL in baseball than any team has ever spent (including LSU in 2023), they need random boosters to enthusiastically double-down and buy all of the quality in the portal and in recruiting to help the unnamed new-new HC win the national title in 2026. Never mind that a bunch of their current roster was deemed worthy of massive NIL and will be transferring after the season to contenders.
Sadly for these idiots, the word on the NIL front for baseball is that the boosters involved did it as a one-time thing to avoid the humiliation of a roster collapse and to “show Schlossnagle who runs the show.” LOL.