The latest here:

Hazing allegations.

Can't wait to tell my wife she how lucky she is that she has a bonus hole..

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...n&cvid=f07f296d929044298d7c5988f262f348&ei=39

As you've gotten older does a UT loss on any given Saturday feel as good as a A&M win?

Gavin Grahovac, the #62 player overall in the draft according to MLB.com, has announced he has pulled out of the draft entirely and will attend A&M. That's a huge deal. Grahovac is 6-2, 200, and can literally play anywhere (though he'll likely be an outfielder).

Max Weiner from Seattle Mariners.
Don't know anything about him, but people who do seem to really like the hire

Much more here:

SS Hunter Haas went in the 4th round to Tampa: RHO Nathan Dettmer in the 5th to Oakland/Las Vegas.
Caden Sorrell, another big name in the signing class, has also withdrawn from the draft.

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Okay, I'll admit, last year left me scratching my head a bit, too. But really, even with so much talent, there was so much youth, inexperience and yeah, more injury (sigh). I've said it on other posts. Not a big fan of the odd or 3 man front. I think it was used too much early on last year, even when we weren't that dinged up and it cost us a couple of games. This leads me right into my first point.

Depth - Where should we be strongest this year (in bodies and literal strength, though O Line might argue the point...?!) Yeah, the D Line. For me, it screams, 4 man front. We have numbers across the board, certainly a very good 2 deep, 3 in spots. Now is not the time to get cute. We should be coming at our opponents in waves. The hurry up rules make it difficult to sub, I know, but we should still be sending in fresh guys every series, at the least. Jackson and Nolen should be a big problem for anyone inside. Their backups have played a lot of football. Brownlow-Dindy looked great in the Spring Game. The ends? Wow. Turner, Diggs, Stewart, Overton, Sylla and White... Again, wow! And I haven't even gotten to David Hicks, wherever he plays. That's a lot of really good football players. Use'em.

Discipline - This is the one area where I think Durkin was the most disappointed last season and where he's looking for the most improvement. I believe that's why he took back over the linebackers. We simply have to improve on our assignments. Last season, we were a young team, (still are) and when we lost an experienced guy to injury, you could really see the effect on the rest of the group and team as a whole. It's hard enough when players haven't had that year in the strength and conditioning program. Strong, but not SEC strong. Fast, but not SEC fast. Still, nothing trumps experience. The bull rushes that worked in high school don't work as much. Jumping inside the guard or outside the tackle might seem too "easy" and that's because that's where they wanted you to go. In the prep ranks, you made every play, but here the call may have been for you to hold that gap and wash it to next guy. I've no doubt we have a bunch of smart Ags playing for us, but it takes smart, disciplined, aggression to play great defense. That's what I want to see out of us this season, at all 3 levels.

I haven't mentioned the back 7, but I am hopeful. I believe we're still a bit thin at LB but better than before. Still, we can't be as undisciplined as last year. Plainly, we were abysmal. That has to get better. Teams didn't pass on us because they didn't have to. LBs must be under control and in their gaps, not chasing every play for a home run hit. We saw flashes of it from Russell. Just need a little more consistency. I have more expectations for Harris as well. I think Cooper was just a bit over anxious at times. Durkin will get the kids focused.

I like what we have in the secondary. Big fan of Anderson in the slot. I worry a little about the depth but not the talent. Chappell is a prime scrapper and I see no drop off with Grimes. I think Richardson is out to prove a few points. Again, discipline is key, don't buy the first look and stay deep. We'll be ok.

Rest in Glory, Coach P, and Gig'em!!!

My wife's car is blowing hot air. I thought it just needed recharging but when I hooked up the guage it was reading 120psi. So I think it's something else. Any thoughts?

Hard to keep track of our baseball commits. Have any commits or current players been drafted yet?

There were a number of references, in Cheeky’s retirement thread, to passive income and passive investing.

Besides investing in stocks, bonds, funds, other security what other truly “passive” investments do you do?

Looking to get a new tv for office. Best Buy has a 50” pioneer 4K discounted to $220.

Or is Samsung still the way to go? Similar Samsung is about $150 more.

After years of putting in for the lottery I won tickets to Sammy Hagar’s bday bash show at Cabo Wabo.

Never been to Cabo San Lucas. Need a nice hotel. Price is an object but ok with ~$350 or so per night.

Found a few nice resorts but they’re not close to the cabo Wabo so not sure how safe it will be to take a cab. I plan to be way too drunk to defend myself so any advice is welcome. Thx.

At Texas A&M. She can't take it back now that is what she wants to do. I'm very proud of her.

Transgender players in College Football

I suppose the question that many of us have been asking ourselves since Coach Petrino got hired is, "what's going to be different this year?" If as Coach Fisher has said, a dig is a dig, an over is an over, and so on, the offense shouldn't differ wildly, should it?! Well, yes and no. For the route tree, I would say both coaches as OCs have comparable route trees, with Petrino having much more timing based reads, but more on that in a second. Let's look a little more deeply into what I mean.

1. Jimbo has doggedly stuck with the "solution based" concepts that worked so well for him early on in his career as an OC. It is heavily reliant on everyone seeing the same things from defenses, from base call to adjustments, to the offensive checks on routes, protections and even the drop from the QB. To everything the defense does, there is a counter. When it works, it works efficiently. Kellen Mond, despite some limitations of his own and some in his receiving corps, proved that. So did Calzada and even King, in their moments. But overall, Jimbo's offense hasn't translated well enough to the modern game. Jimbo's offense's were built on having 2-3 adjustments and those mismatches in his favor most of the time. DCs caught on to him a lot over time. He wasn't fooling them often enough and we simply weren't creating the chunk plays we needed. We depended on on long time consuming drives and limited possessions. Just can't score consistently like that.

2. Enter Coach Petrino. I'll be honest. He drove me nuts watching him call plays on the other sideline at Arkansas. I thought, "this isn't that fancy, why can't we stop them?!" As I watched a lot of the old highlights from those games, you know what I saw?! False steps. We couldn't help ourselves. From safeties to D Linemen, we just couldn't help looking at the eye candy. From motion to misdirection to trap blocks, we just kept buying what he was selling. Over and over, the same deep dig route was completed because our LBs kept biting on the play action. It was more of the same at Louisville, except he had Jackson to torture defenses even more. In the Spring Game, I think being short handed and not wanting to put too much on film played a role in the very vanilla showing. I would expect much more motion, rollouts, bootlegs come the season. I'd also expect a lot variety of calls out of traditional run (12 personnel) or pass (4 wide sets). RPO, I think he'll pick his spots. Bottom line, I believe Petrino wants to Conner to have a shot by making defenses show their hand earlier and that will make him a much more effective QB for us.

Gig'em!