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Bill Lumbergh

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  1. There's just so, so fucking much to digest here, I'll just hit the high points: 1. If you ever ask a kid if they were cheating/stealing/etc, and instead of just looking you in the eye and saying absolutely not, they rattle off a five minute diatribe of unnecessary information for no apparent reason, they were almost certainly doing it. 2. If, in the process of rattling off a five minute diatribe of unnecessary information the kid mentions that they know other kids who definitely were cheating/stealing/etc who they can tell you about, that kid was 100% doing it. 3. If you ever play poker with Jimbo Fisher and he starts nervously taking his glasses on and off, you'll know you're about to make some money.
  2. I can't help but smile looking at Bama's 5 players from 3 different positions on the Heisman watch list and remembering Saban's recent impassioned speech to the press about how NIL is going to lead to an unfair imbalance in college football.
  3. Total wishcasting, but: - Demas and Stewart seem to be buddies - Stewart's huge "NIL" deal receives significant publicity - aggy coach tweets about how players need not to worry about what financial perks other players are getting - Demas hits the portal Maybe it's not happening here, but it's going to happen for some aggy player/s at some point.
  4. I like your nurses uniform, guy. These are OR scrubs. OH, ARE they?
  5. Q: What did you like about Florida? A: They're really taking care of their players down there, how they're living. That's really what I'm all about right now, a school that takes care of their players. I mean, the guy isn't even trying to be discreet about what he expects, and aggy will no doubt answer the call. Just give them reason to think you're about to take their trans am and drive it around while playing at another school and the cash will come flying in.
  6. I wonder if the fact that Odom is a damn good d coordinator while ours made a big shit sandwich last year is hurting us against teams like Arkansas.
  7. Jimbo told everyone to "trust him" on DC, which they did until he made a horrible hire, after which he took some heat for how underwhelming the hire was. On oline, perhaps he's decided to stick with the "trust me" part but never actually make the hire. If you don't hire a coach, the fans and press can't dislike the hire.
  8. "you can't be a sleeping giant without the sleeping" - aggy
  9. I'll always be nostalgic for the old bowls for sure. When I think about our Rose Bowl vs UM or Fiesta Bowl vs OSU, I'm sad that my kids will never experience bowls in that way. But it was honestly the proliferation of bowls that watered down the meaning first, and then the playoffs and opt outs killed what they once were. At this point I feel like we can either have a bowl system with a highly contested national champion (most years, not every year can be as clear as 05), or a good playoff system that can't coexist with the tradition/importance of bowl games. In nearly every sport, the goal is to arrive at one champion in the most objective way possible. As much as I'll miss the old bowls, I'd still pick the path that crowns a champion based on beating as many contenders as possible. That's the expanded playoff.
  10. This is why I'm in favor of expansion, but at least Georgia and Bama had to beat some damn good teams to get there. That's improvement from the bcs model. I'd like to know how Baylor would've looked against Bama, but you could also argue they lost their chance by losing two games in season, one of which was in November to a not great TCU team. Too many teams will have imperfect seasons to make a 4 team model work. Expansion will allow a non conf champion Georgia vs conference champion Baylor with bad in-season losses be settled on the field. Until then, I'm happier with this model vs bcs. At least the final two aren't anointed by polls by people who aren't watching the games and computers.
  11. That's kind of what I mean. The bowls as a tradition are already done. Opt outs prove that. Players and fans don't care in the same way, and there's no coming back from that. If your want to continue to have those venues as an important part of cfb postseason, they need to be part of the playoffs. That's all I'm saying. The bowls as they exist now have the same importance as the pro bowl, imo. Meaningless exhibitions often without the best players, which means you don't really get the cross conference comparisons you used to get in bowl season.
  12. The playoff gets a lot of hate, but this is why I like it. You can absolutely argue it was a true national championship, because two other teams who looked really damn good all year in other conferences got their chance, and Bama and Georgia crushed both of them. I hated the sec rematch during the bcs era when it was obvious polling favored the sec and it felt like too much built in bias where other teams/conferences weren't given the chance to compete. Michigan and Cinci had solid seasons, won conferences, and both were demolished by the two teams who made the final. I don't understand how you can say they didn't both deserve to be in the game after that showing. I don't like what the playoffs have done to the bowls as they currently exist, but that doesn't mean that the bcs + bowls model was better. Make the bowls part of the playoffs, and players will stop opting out and fans will start caring about bowls again. The 4 team playoff does kind of suck because it only gets you about 1/3 of where you should be with playoffs and it still does damage to the existing system. So just expand, and cfb postseason will be exciting again. Of course, this was all in motion to happen more quickly before aggy threw a fucking temper tantrum and set things back, but we'll get there again.
  13. If you never made it to the toilet scene or the garage scene, I don't think you fully experienced breaking bad. It is a heavy show, for sure. If you don't like that, it's going to be hard to keep watching. But it's masterfully written and acted with an interesting premise that they do a good job evolving over time (which is where a lot of shows with interesting initial premises seem to falter). It's easily top 5 all time tv for me.
  14. Bizzle is futureman level trolling at this point. Everyone, not just Texas, but EVERYONE is talking about aggy going all out to buy the #1 class. Fisher all but admitted it when asked about NIL. Lucci has implied the class was bought, but using super secret NIL that aggy has decided not to brag about for the first time in the history of anything. After all of that, Bizzle comes here proposing that this was all up and up, similar $ to what the other players were paying but dadgum Jimbo Fisher just found a way to get'er done where Saban, Smart, etc fell short? Give me a break. There's no way he possibly believes that bullshit. Anyone with eyes and the ability to pass a 2nd grade standardized test can look at the context clues and reasonably determine what happened here. Bizzle is just poking the hornets nest by pretending to be this naive. We all know how this class happened. The thing we likely DO disagree on is whether Jimbo will do a damn thing with all of this talent. That is actually a topic worth a reasonable debate.
  15. Last signing day and coaching hires, at least on paper, seemed positive. Outside of that, it's hard to find many others. I'm going the "choose optimism bc I'm a fan" route, but I know full well it's blind optimism not rooted in much. I tuned out entirely after the ou collapse this year, something I didn't even do that early in the season during the Charlie years. Like any fan, I'll get excited again for next season, but it won't take much for me to tune out again if things don't look massively improved. After 11 years of believing we'll turn the corner, it's pretty easy to see when we haven't and find other uses for that Saturday time.
  16. Tbh I was shocked when Brent Z posted something questioning the official story, and had to go make sure it was actually him and not a fake account. My guess is that, for at least a few minutes, he got mad that he was blatantly lied to about something so easy to disprove, and posted his real thoughts on the situation. I'm sure someone in the aggy admin put in a friendly call reminding him what hand feeds him, after which he stepped back in line. I didn't save the tweet, but hope someone else did. It was a rare moment of independent thought for Brent. Must have been frightening for him.
  17. For anyone who didn't follow the whole walk on QB/Brent Z Twitter thing: 1) aggy announces they're bravely running away from playing wake forest 2) national media hurts aggy's feelings by calling their running away not so brave 3) Brent Z is told a lie, which he proceeds to print, that even the walk on QB was not available due to CO-VID 4) Walk on QB owns Brent and aggy with a tweet showing his multiple negative test results and proving he was eligible to play 5) Brent Z responds to walk on's tweet in a way that appears to doubt what he was originally told by aggy admin 6) Both the walk on qb's tweet and Brent's response to it magically disappear, nothing to see here 7) Now only the original tweet with the lie from Brent Z about the walk on being unavailable is still alive on Twitter 8) The health and safety of the walk on QB are unknown and likely in doubt after he publicly shamed the ministry North Korea is actually blushing at the brazenness of the whole ordeal.
  18. Trying to catch up on this thread a day late is like trying to read about a Chinese government blunder a day later. Every tweet and texags post linked here has been completely scrubbed, even the Brent Z tweet about the backup QB disputing his eligibility. The ministry must be working overtime to make this disappear.
  19. This year suggested to me that none of our defensive coaches want to coach pk's scheme...including pk.
  20. The details have been covered here before, but this should catch you up.
  21. Say it with me one more time: they. don't. even. have. a. defensive. coordinator. Out Georgia'ing Georgia is...something.
  22. I haven't paid much attention to aggy's class. I knew it was good, but I was surprised to see that they have 4 of 247s top 10 national players in their class. What is most surprising is that 3 of those players are on defense. Has any school ever signed three of the top 10 players in the country on a side of the ball for which they don't have a staff? I guess I could see Saban doing this on defense, given everyone knows it's Saban's defense, but with aggy the defense is a complete question mark with Elko gone. Those five star out of state guys must have really fallen in love with the spirit of aggyland to have stayed committed even after losing their coordinator. It's really quite something.
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