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dick commented on the blog post Thank You, dick 16 minutes ago
i just saw you risked $400 to win $800. That’ll buy a lot of diapers. Congrats.
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dick commented on the blog post Thank You, dick 21 minutes ago
No problem. I do futures all the time so I have obsessed over that decision many times. Letting $100 25-1 odds ride as long as you can is much more intense.
We need to get some more betting previews going here for the tourney. We can link to marchtomarch.com or whatever.
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dick commented on the blog post Thank You, dick 21 minutes ago
No problem. I do futures all the time so I have obsessed over that decision many times. 2 to 1 is just a bet and it wasn’t like you were invested in that bet for a long time. Letting season long $100 25-1 odds ride as long as you can is much
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Two Down, One To Go 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
You guys got absloutely screwed. Toughest bracket by far. Even Lehigh is the toughest 16 seed. The committee did you zero favors.
Here are my thoughts if you’re interested.
http://marchtomarch.fantake.com/2010/03/14/react-to-ology-early-look-at-the-madness/
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Kevin Berger wrote a new blog post: React-to-Ology: Early Look at the Madness 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
Hold on a second…give me a chance to pop in some ear plugs as Dick Vitale waxes indignant about some selection snubs. Count down to mocking a Selection Committee member on the world wide leader is T minus 15 minutes. Great television in any event. Here’s my early rants and reactions to
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post NFL Draft: A Mockery 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
Mike Iupati will get taken by the Cowboys if he’s on the board. I wouldn’t hate a Golden Tate pick, but we have much bigger needs along the OL and secondary rather than getting another WR. We already have a ton of money tied up in the position (when we pay Austin).
Whispers are
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James commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
Bob Knight wearing a St. Louis Cardinals polo. Nice.
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Ibas water bottle wrote a new blog post: What ever happened to Luke Schenscher? 2 hours, 16 minutes ago
We earned a 7 seed and will face Georgia Tech in Milwaukee on Thursday. If we survive that we face Ohio State in the second round. Shoot well and we can make the sweet 16. I’m relieved that Lunardi missed on his 8 seed projection for us. I’m much less worried about Ohio State than
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 45 minutes ago
Virginia Tech not getting in is a joke.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
Baylor may be the best team in the South.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 50 minutes ago
Wow, louisville as a 9 will give Duke all they want in the second round.
The TAMU vs. UTAH state battle of the aggies might be played in the 40’s.
Siena will beat Purdue. Bank it. They probably win their next game.
Nova as a one seed an overseed.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 50 minutes ago
Wow, louisville as a 9 will give Duke all they want in the second round.
The TAMU vs. UTAH state battle of the aggies might be played in the 40’s.
Siena will beat Purdue. Bank it. They probably win their next game.
Nova as a two seed an overseed.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 51 minutes ago
The South, Duke will lose to AK Pine Bluff, mark it down. I kid.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 55 minutes ago
Don’t listen to Seth Davis, Texas is a shell and Wisconsin is over seeded as a four. Kentucky will run them out of he gym. Kentucky walks to elite 8 where WVU will have something for them.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 56 minutes ago
It won’t matter because Marquette will beat New Mexico in the second round game.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 57 minutes ago
West Virginia draws New Mexico as the 3. Kansas fans do triple face palm.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 58 minutes ago
Kentucky gets screwed by drawing WVU. The good news is the Cats got a pretty good top of the bracket draw.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
Texas gets a manageable first round game. UK will smoke us.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post Texas Basketball is Dangerous 3 hours ago
We’re live blogging the selection show over here if you’re interested.
http://marchtomarch.fantake.com/2010/03/14/ncaa-selection-show-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-507
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 3 hours, 3 minutes ago
The West is the weakest bracket. Perhaps the weakest I’ve seen in some time if Onuaku isn’t 100%
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 3 hours, 5 minutes ago
In the West, Syracuse has a walk to the sweet sixteen, but Butler can give them problems.
Syracuse gets KSU as their two so it looks like either Kentucky or Duke is stuck with WVU. Tough break. Pitt as a three is a joke. If I’m Self I’m really pissed now. KU
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HenryJames commented on the blog post As if we didn’t already like Traylon Shead enough… 3 hours, 8 minutes ago
What’s the background on this photo?
The AP captions reads
Cayuga’s Traylon Shead, a Texas recruit, flashes the ‘Hook ‘Em Horns’ sign to Gov. Rick Perry during the awards presentation after Cayuga beat Bronte 66-60 to win the Class A, Division 1 basketball championship. Perry went to Texas A&M.
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ghostofagroundgame commented on the blog post NFL Draft: A Mockery 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Carlos Dunlap is going to be an incredible pro. If he goes to the Ravens that is going to suck for their opponents.
I can’t see McClain going that high. And I keep hearing that Claussen has dropped.
What are the chances of the Steelers drafting a QB early? They can’t feel
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 3 hours, 12 minutes ago
Georgetown as the 3 seed in the midwest make this a monster bracket.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 3 hours, 13 minutes ago
Ohio State vs. Kansas should be championship game, not an elite 8 game.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 3 hours, 14 minutes ago
Holy crap, KU got screwed by getting the toughest two seed. I’d be pissed if I was Self.
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Kevin Berger commented on the blog post NCAA Selection show open thread 3 hours, 15 minutes ago
Midwest 1 goes to Kansas, no surprise they deserve it. They’ll face Lehigh who happens to have a pretty athletic frontcourt for a 16.
Kansas got a tough breaking drawing Maryland on the four line. There was talk the terps could be a 3.
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ghostofagroundgame commented on the blog post As if we didn’t already like Traylon Shead enough… 3 hours, 17 minutes ago
That is really great. An auspicious beginning.
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Kevin Berger wrote a new blog post: NCAA Selection show open thread 3 hours, 20 minutes ago
Syracuse gets screwed by getting the fourth number one seed.
Midwest 1 goes to Kansas, no surprise they deserve it. They’ll face Lehigh who happens to have a pretty athletic frontcourt for a 16.
Kansas got a tough break drawing Maryland on the four line. There was talk the terps could be a 3.
Holy crap,
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Kevin Berger wrote a new blog post: Evan Turner is the Best Player in the Country 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
For my money the race for Player of the Year isn’t all that close. Sorry John Wall. My apologies Wes Johnson. Evan Turner is the most dynamic and talented player in the college game today. He’s built like a hybrid wing, handles like point guard, and shoots it like a sniper.
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Objective Aggie said:
September 6th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Sad to say I agree. This was a terrible, mindless hire and we are going to be irrelevant for some time. If the defense hadn’t been opportunistic (meaning they caught the ball when it was thrown directly to them), we probably would have lost this one as well.
And Sherm does need a makeover. Badly. Unfortunately, the only 5 well-groomed homosexuals that will come to visit him this season are the Yell Leaders.
EyesOfTX said:
September 6th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
That last line is hilarious. Seriously, he was an awful hire. Nothing good is going to happen for the program while he is there.
the aggie echeese said:
September 6th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Mike is the best coach – imagine what he could do with Greg Davis
Black Scholes said:
September 6th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
The dude loves his camp shirts. Even Parcells and Weis aren’t afraid of the tuck.
Woody Bombay said:
September 6th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Jerrod Johnson: What’s the deal? Good or not? Significant playing time this year?
Dave Bowman said:
September 6th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
The guy need to tuck his shirt in.
Objective Aggie said:
September 7th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Johnson showed me something on Saturday. He showed me he is 2 years younger than McGee. That alone is enough to start building for the future with him. He also avoided pressure well and made a lot of good decisions against a blitzing defense. He threw a few away that should have been, he completed passes when he should have. Give him all the 1st string repetitions and start him against Miami.
EyesOfTX said:
September 7th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I agree. It is obvious McGee does not throw the ball well enough to run this offense. Time to go with someone who might eventually be able to.
South '06 said:
September 7th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Jerrod gets the start in my book, mostly based on the fact that our o-line is abysmal and he has a natural ability to scramble and avoid sacks.
And articles like this won’t be necessary every week will they? You knew we were going to suck. We knew we were going to suck. There really isn’t a reason to keep revisiting this :)
South '06 said:
September 7th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I’m hearing McGee is done. Needs surgery on his throwing shoulder.
I know most of you don’t give a rat’s ass, but you gotta feel for the guy. He didn’t have the kind of career his sophomore season hinted at, but he had his moments. Sad to see his career capped off that way.
topo_gigio said:
September 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
“And Sherm does need a makeover. Badly. Unfortunately, the only 5 well-groomed homosexuals that will come to visit him this season are the Yell Leaders.”
My side hurts from laughing at this. Thank you!
LesterHaze said:
September 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Yeah we suck alright, but at least our coach is a fat, unkept slob. I don’t know South ‘06, I kinda vote for more and harsher satire. Giggling may be the only thing which gets us through this season.
I’m firmly in the JJ camp at QB. At this point who gives a sh*t if we win 2 games or 6 games? This abortion of a season needs to immediatley become three months of early spring training.
EyesOfTX said:
September 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Don’t worry, South – I’ll get tired of this eventually. :)
marc said:
September 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
hard to believe he needs surgery, he has only thrown four passes over 10 yrds in five yrs,
absolut said:
September 7th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Where is the Sherminator auctioning is game shirts for charity? We need a new tent cover for our Austin High Maroon merchandise sales area for home games.
steven said:
September 7th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
a&m this year is showing that fran actually may have maxed out on the mediocre talent he was stuck with in aggieland. unless the ags improve quite a bit, i do not see them winning any more games this year aside from army. baylor will enjoy beating the ags this year and futre years to come. whoever the big shots are that are actually running the aggie program, they should be rounded up, tard and feathered, and yhen shot. their incompetence is astounding. in an era where all the other teams in the b12, including historic the bottowdwellers, are improving, only the ags seem as if they are being left behind, as if they are determined to go backwards while everyone goes forward and passes them up, now even including baylor.
Statalyzer said:
September 7th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Johnson showed me he can lead a team to 3 scores and 200 yards and get bailed out by a defense.
coach Callahan said:
September 8th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Steven, the guy that is running the aggie program is a tard. He will still be happy to take your money though so he can sink it all into the womens arm wrestling team while he goes after that all sports trophy.
steven said:
September 8th, 2008 at 9:38 am
well he sure as hell hasn’t been helping and if he had anything to do with the disaster that was that scuzzy flake callahan then you sir have all the right in the world to be bitter and vengeful, but as far as a&m is concerned, i do not think all the blame can be laid at his feet. no what has been going on at a&m was happening long before he got there. the problem with a&m as i see it is that they are so obsessed with keeping up with texas that they are blinded and they keep making irrational, senseless, and boneheaded decisions. a&m instead should be playing to its own inherent strengths of which it has many and build up from there after laying a solid foundation. one would think that the aggie big wigs would know better than to react in big business decisions out of childish jealousy, but i guess not. for example those duffuss heads should have made the less headline grabbing hire of art briles instead of sherman, even though the sherman did not exactly light the world on fire either. in my opinion, briles would have been a much better fit at a&m than sherman. now just watch, i am telling you guys, from now on to the near future, baylor will be beating a&m on a consistent basis and it is just going to be a laugh riot for the rest of the conference.
Objective Aggie said:
September 8th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Good points Steven. Now would you please use some punctuation?
ponderos said:
September 8th, 2008 at 10:44 am
The Sherman hire makes Davie seem like not such a bad idea afterall.
Black Scholes said:
September 8th, 2008 at 11:15 am
“…what has been going on at a&m was happening long before he got there. the problem with a&m as i see it is that they are so obsessed with keeping up with texas that they are blinded and they keep making irrational, senseless, and boneheaded decisions. a&m instead should be playing to its own inherent strengths of which it has many and build up from there after laying a solid foundation…”
Hard to read, but you make some good points.
Texas – and/or TU if you prefer – should always be capitalized.
coach Callahan said:
September 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Word up here is that one of the conditions of Byrne sneaking off to A&M was that they had to hire coach Fran. He’s been a problem for you even before he was a problem for you. He bankrupted our football facilities to try to win that all sports trophy. Please accept our condolences.
'01 Ag said:
September 8th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
“…from now on to the near future, baylor will be beating a&m on a consistent basis…”
That is a pretty bold statement, especially considering near distant and distant history. Everyone else on the Big 12 Southside may kick our ass, but Baylor? Baylor has not been able to succeed since the Big 12’s creation. You think that’s because they hadn’t hired Art Briles? It’s not. It’s because they are at a fundamental disadvantage due to being the lone private institution in a division full of large public schools. The gap between Baylor and A&M – arguably the next best, or should I say worse, team in the B12 South – has very little to do with the coaches.
So, even using your assumptions – and right now all they are is assumptions – the Briles and Sherman hires are not going to change much in the Baylor v. A&M match up.
I am not Dollar Bill’s biggest fan, but his coaching hires at A&M on the whole have been strong…strong enough to give his most recent big hire more than two games and six months before writing him off. You should consider doing the same.
HenryJames said:
September 8th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
A&M is 20-1-1 against Baylor since 1986. Now there’s probably a better chance that winning percentage goes down rather than up in the next few years, but I still don’t foresee Baylor being much of a threat to A&M.
steven said:
September 8th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Assumptions? Whats wrong with assumptions? When attempting to foresee the future that is all we really have to go on after all. Of course some assumptions are better than others. I would say that from the present my assumption that Sherman will be, at best, no better than mediocre would have higher odds to come true than your assumption, ‘01Ag, that he could turn the aggie program around. He probably will not even measure up to Franchione. The aggies look absolutely dreadful this year and I mean literally one or two wins dreadful and quite of bit of the blame has to fall on Sherman’s shoulders -so much for being great gameday coach, thats out the window. Also he does not seem to be a great recruiter either and he has not exacty excited the fanbase and potential recruits -so much for being able to inspire or to out charm other recruiters. And will you all be singing a different tune after Baylor whips up on the Ags this year? Cause from what I can see, Baylor already seems to be the better team this year. Basically, Baylor did not so much catch up to the Aggies as much as the Aggies fell to Baylor’s level or below. And if Baylor is already at the same level as the Aggies this year, do you think the Aggies will be able to outpace the Bears while Briles is at the helm there? I don’t see it happening. Briles has already excited the fanbase at Baylor and I suspect that he has already excited potential recruits as well. He also has potential superstar in his freshman QB who even as a true fish is more exciting and frankly better than anything A&M has. You don’t think potential recruits aren’t going to be excited to play with a player like that? Now I do not know about Byrne’s other hires, but it seems pretty clear that he screw up on his most important one and he possibly did so twice. Briles had the potential to be another Gillespie, except a football version of him, if A&M had just gone ahead and done the obvious and hired him. Both he and Mr. Clyde come from small towns, worked there way up from the bottom, have life long Texas connections and are innovative in their field and this happens to excite young recruits.
As far as the institutional advantages or disadvantages are concerned, I believe that at least in the short run they can be overcome by just plain having a better and more attractive coach. As important as those instiutional things are, if those considerations were the end all and be all then how could anyone explain A&M’s slide to the cellar of the B12 given all its supposed advantages. It is not too unrealistic to think that Baylor will become what Tech is to A&M today, odds are that at least this season, the Ags lose to Baylor and that fish QB for Baylor is only going to get better and better, so good luck trying to beat in the future as well.
'01 Ag said:
September 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I disagree.