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Don't forget the EWU vs SHSU game this coming saturday. that counts as week 1.
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Venric Mark news: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jeremy-fowler/24668099/nwestern-transfer-venric-mark-exploring-texas-tech-fcs-schools Says that his two options seem to be to attempt to walk-on at TTU and apply for a waiver or to transfer to a DII school. The waiver at TTU is only a possibility because his mother lives in Lubbock. He's one class short of graduating, otherwise he'd be able to transfer anywhere. He would be an instant impact player at TTU as a punt return specialist. We're trying out 3 true freshmen and 1 walk on senior receiver right now for that spot. Don't think he'll crack the RB rotation considering that he will be arriving on campus in the last week of fall camp. He'd probably play RB at a DII school like West Texas A&M. That'd be an instant start type of situation, even with limited camp time.
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Aug 19, 2014 21:42
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Kibner posted:The only place I have been through that has no reason to ever have humans entertain the thought of living there is west Texas. What parts of West Texas? There are some redeemable areas, but you've gotta get off the expressway for them.
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Aug 19, 2014 23:12
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Heaf posted:All Hail West Texas There is a hell of a lot of Hail. Kibner posted:The interstate to get to New Mexico and Carlsbad Caverns. All I remember seeing is the sky, cracked dirt, and maybe a cactus or bush every couple miles. This was more than 10 years ago, though. 285 that goes up to Carlsbad? That's a pretty desolate highway. Doesn't help that Carlsbad and Eastern New Mexico are pretty crappy places too. You can draw a line from Amarillo to Lubbock to Big Spring to San Angelo to Junction. West of that and east/north of the mountains is horribly ugly. Minus Monahans. Monahans was kinda cool. At least on the Texas side, you can go 80+mph without fear of being ticketed.
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Aug 19, 2014 23:44
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Sash! posted:You know that of the apparently billion square miles of West Texas, that's less than 1% of that region. When you don't cherry pick and just drop Streetview in a random spot, you get this http://goo.gl/maps/c1FzX You managed to find hills! I mean, if you're going to play that game, there's a whole hell of a lot of ugly spots in this state: Street View Game. Your entry actually is fairly redeeming.
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Aug 19, 2014 23:50
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kayakyakr posted:You managed to find hills! I really like the Street View Game. Here's a place that I particularly hate because some 20-something failure of a woman ran a stop sign and screwed up my car on my big road trip last year: Dalhart, Tx Here's the Kermit, TX football stadium. I was supremely disappointed when I found that their team was not "the frogs". And to make it college related, here's the Texas Tech's Jones AT&T stadium as it was a few winters ago. They hadn't finished the video board the last time the car drove by. It actually looks a bit like a stadium from this side.
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Aug 20, 2014 00:00
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MourningView posted:The area in between LA and San Francisco could cease to exist tomorrow and the world wouldn't lose a ton though. Monterrey Bay area kinda owns and Big Sur is pretty, well, pretty.
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Aug 20, 2014 01:56
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So, uh, Kansas has apparently angered the AIRBHG somehow? Maybe Kansas looked at him funny from across that little bit of Missouri? http://www.kake.com/sports/headlines/KU-loses-top-two-running-backs-to-injury-271933171.html?ref=171
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Aug 20, 2014 02:10
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The news org probably got things a little confused. A&M's playbook, if it's in the style of the Leach Air Raids, is a collection of routes and protections that really wind up combining into just a wide a selection as an NFL playbook. You call one of 6 formations, each receiver gets a route, the RB's get their assignments. The QB can make reads at the line change things up, pick a run/pass, whatever. So yeah, they don't really have a playbook, just a set of routes and formations.
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Aug 21, 2014 02:27
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computer parts posted:The SEC East at least has been pretty anemic as of late. The SEC is a conference of disparity. The top of the conference should be expected to be in the championship game or near it each year. The rest of the conference is middling and the bottom of the conference is going to struggle with MAC teams, just like the other conferences. I'd say there's much more parity in the Big XII and the Pac 12 than the SEC. Hell, in 2012, 9 of the Big XII's 10 teams made bowl games. That's pretty good.
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Aug 21, 2014 03:00
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Thoguh posted:I still think the Big XII was the best conference in the country in 2011/2012. But it was really down last year. Not sure yet how this year will shake out but I don't see it peaking again this season. Last year was a pretty bad year for the conference. Only one team had a stable QB situation. OSU, UT, OU, TTU, KSU, the traditional top half of the conference all had absolute messes at QB. WVU and TCU had horrible QB situations too. So Baylor was the only team with a stable QB situation, bringing up a veteran backup, and they were far and away the class of the Big XII. TTU, KSU, OU, and WVU should be in much better shape this year as far as QBs go. OSU is still a question, and UT is starting a walking concussion.
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Aug 21, 2014 03:24
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Korranus posted:
Errr, Sonny Dykes came over from Louisiana Tech. Before that he was OC at Arizona and got his start at TTU as an OC under Mike Leach. He runs a version of the Air Raid, and they had a rough time of the transitional year, especially since that defense is bad bad bad. They were a 3-9 team in Tedford's last year, graduated a bunch of contributors, and then struggled to put up points or stop anyone on defense.
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Aug 21, 2014 17:43
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Larry Fedora's been in the thesaurus lately.
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Aug 21, 2014 21:44
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My grandfather tried to raise me as a Texas Longhorn. He failed.
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Aug 22, 2014 01:58
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Heaf posted:My whole family basically roots for VT despite living other places or going to MAC schools. My father had no college allegiance, so he adopted TTU when I went there. He'll be joining me for half of my trips up to Lubbock this season.
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Aug 22, 2014 03:44
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Boo This Man posted:Where is the annual thread for people looking to pick a college football team? Start one? Though I don't think we normally have one. We've done adopt a mid major in the past, if that's what you're thinking of?
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Aug 22, 2014 17:24
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Breaky posted:Stop it You gotta stop him first.
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Aug 22, 2014 22:17
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Alouicious posted:people really need to start differentiating schools with identical initials (OSU Ohio State/Oklahoma State, USC Southern California/South Carolina) tOSU, OSU (oregon state), osu (oklahoma state) USC, SCar
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Aug 22, 2014 23:04
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Alouicious posted:I don't know why South Carolina fans don't wanna be SCar. I often call osu okie light. It's not really disparaging, just a way to differentiate.
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Aug 22, 2014 23:10
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Deteriorata posted:We can call Michigan State Mich Light, then. Leave MSU to Mississippi State. But why wouldn't MSU be Miss Light in turn? In serious response, Michigan State has always been MSU for me while Mississippi State has been Miss State.
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Aug 22, 2014 23:24
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MourningView posted:If we go this route then I need to insist that SCar just be COCKS, and that all posts referencing them be in the form of an upside down and backwards visor. scar cocks.
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Aug 23, 2014 00:02
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e: ^^^ I hope he works out for you. Good kid, just unfortunate timing for a wake boarding injury got him passed up on our depth chart. Some info on SHSU vs EWU: Georgia Southern hired away former Bearkat coach Willie Fritz during the offseason. Fritz ran a read-option based offense that was fairly unique to college football. SHSU had been to the national championship 2 straight years before last year's down season where they were knocked out in a heartbreaker to SELU. The new coach is K.C. Keeler who had an up and down tenure at Delaware previously. He won a national championship and went to two others with the Blue Hens, but spent the intervening years having really poor records. SHSU is a bit of an unknown this year under the new coach. I'm not sure if he'll run the same or a similar offense, so there could very well be a bit of a step back. They have a rep for playing a brutal schedule. A few years ago they had A&M and Baylor and they very nearly knocked off both. This year they play LSU. Next year they play TTU. EWU, on the other hand, is the high flyingest of high flying offenses. They throw the ball all over the place and are coming off of two straight semifinal appearances and a national title in 2010. Both of these schools could take on about half of the FBS and give some top 30 teams a run for their money. I fully expect SHSU to upset Central Arkansas later this season if Keel isn't a complete flop. Should be a good game. e2: To avoid double posting, Venric Mark has found himself at NCAA D-II school West Texas A&M. They've been amassing some decent talent, might be poised to make a run at Grand Valley State this year. kayakyakr fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Aug 23, 2014 |
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Aug 23, 2014 18:09
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Got enough people for a GDT today? e: whoops. there is one. USE THE NCAA TAG! jeeze people.
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Aug 23, 2014 20:29
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UH adds an 11 yard line to honor Heisman winner Andre Ware Good idea.
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Aug 24, 2014 21:19
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HooverDam posted:That's cool. Is it going to be on the field itself or outside the lines? I can't quite tell from the article. There are a few pictures in the article. It's on the field.
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Aug 25, 2014 16:44
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Speaking of Iowa State, have we discussed this yet?
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Aug 26, 2014 01:24
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Speaking of bowls: I'm a bit of a bowl junkie. Have "season" tickets to my local bowl (Alamo). Have been to most of the local bowl games and a few big ones out of state (Holiday, Rose). I'm going to be in Orlando from the 24th of December to the 1st. Sadly, will be flying out on the 1st, so no chance of going to the Capitol One Bowl, but there's a good shot that the Russell Athletic bowl will be scheduled for the 28th of December (the date is currently TBD, but that's where it was last year), and the Big XII now has a bowl tie in there. What should I know about trying to go to that bowl game?
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Aug 26, 2014 17:33
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Highbrow Slick posted:Rumor mill is shaw was involved in a domestic disturbance and running from police when he jumped off the balcony. Phone postin at work so not able to screengrab twitter Been seeing this as well. Pretty ballsy of him to claim to be a hero while really he was just running from the police after hitting a family member.
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Aug 26, 2014 20:17
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Grittybeard posted:Huh, I wonder how things like this happen? You're a pretty good linebacker, but once you start coaching it's offense all the way. Sumlin's never held a position coaching defense other than as a head coach. TTU's Safety's coach is "Big Play" Trey Haverty. He was a WR during Kingsbury's tenure. He coached at TCU for a few years and they wound up flipping him from WR to safety's coach. Where you play doesn't necessarily mean you can't learn the other side of the ball.
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Aug 26, 2014 23:35
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He's still got my favorite play by play call of all time. http://youtu.be/zd0QT6cZqlw?t=2h33m14s e: screw you forums software, start it at the right drat time.
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Aug 27, 2014 15:27
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DJExile posted:In a little fairness to GSU, they did show a little improvement in later games last year, and they've gone from FCS independents to CAA to Sun Belt in 3 years, which would be a tough transition for a lot of programs, never mind one that's only a few years old. Trent Miles is a good recruiter and is finally getting some of his own kids onto a team that used to be entirely JUCO players and walk-ons. To add some more intrigue to this game, Abeline Christian was a D-II program up until last year. Last year was their first year competing in D-I. So this is about the lowest end of FBS that you can get (well, UTSA started playing football 3 years ago, but they're close) vs the lowest end of FCS you can get.
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Aug 27, 2014 21:26
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Slate Action posted:GSU is maybe the worst FBS team and Abilene maybe the worst FCS team, so it's going to be like watching a high school football game. ACU went 7-4 last year as an FCS transitional team. They're not THAT bad.
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Aug 27, 2014 22:51
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For those who don't know it, this is the best site for viewing what is on tv at what times: http://lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm And it says 5:00 for start of game.
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Aug 27, 2014 23:29
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Democrazy posted:So are we making a GDT for today's game? We can use the one from saturday. Blood Turf. Should already be bumped.
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Aug 28, 2014 00:07
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Sash! posted:For a battle that everyone died at, there sure are a lot of heroes from the Alamo. Alamo was a losing battle but it enabled the Texan armies to win the war. That's why it's held in such a high regard for a complete rout. A more modern version of the Spartans at Thermopylae as fewer than 200 were defending the fort against 1,500, causing 600 deaths among the Mexican troops.
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Aug 28, 2014 01:07
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Party Plane Jones posted:Texas fighting the war so they could have slaves is the little known thing about the Alamo that people forget to tell their kids. Among other things. Taxation, removal of self-governance, and the fact that US immigrants outnumbered native Mexicans 3 or 4 to 1 also contributed. But yes, Texans loved their slaves.
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Aug 28, 2014 01:15
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RumbleFish posted:So the Aggies are doing their Midnight Yell at the SC statehouse and a bunch of our fans are there as well to do competing cheers. You guys haven't learned how to deal with aggie yet... I'd start with smearing dog poop on their buses (Which never actually happened)
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Aug 28, 2014 05:15
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TTU sold out of season tickets for the first time ever this year. I don't know what you guys are bitching about. Helps to have Arkansas, UT, and OU all at home...
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Aug 28, 2014 05:47
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e: Or that ^^KKKLIP ART posted:A couple of people liked my suggestion of NCAAF Week 1: Week 0 Aftermath Thread Yes, I vote for this.
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Aug 28, 2014 19:55
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ReidRansom posted:loving suddenlink. I get home, spend 20 minutes trying to remember my login info, then watchespn tells me I don't have access after all. apparently that's been fixed as of 5 minutes ago
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Aug 29, 2014 00:04
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