As Frasier Crane put it, I'm listening.

Two things come to mind:

1. Lane Kiffin saying that close wins were not enough. Progress was not enough. He came here to beat Alabama and win the West and the SEC. I don't like the man, but he stood his ground, made no excuses and hammered home his belief that success was only defined by winning. With Jimbo there is always circumstances beyond his control that cause his problems.

2. I'm afraid that our mismanagement of NIL, and the pouncing of the media and rival coaches on our problems has created a massive cultural problem. Who would have thought that you might create life challenges by giving college age kids tens of thousands of dollars with little training in life skills; kids that come from homes where they had little and saw success as instant gratification? We now have a culture where the kids believe they are on the top of the food chain, not in a position where they have to fight for what they want in life.

We have some bad actors that believe they are they heavy weight champions and never put in the work, never pushed themselves to their limits, believe that they are owed success and demand to be treated like stars.

Our culture was based on the Junction Boys, Earl Rudder, and others that taught us about sacrifice, struggle, and hard work. We have pointed fingers at the SIP's country club atmosphere and softness. I'm afraid we have as big a problem, and believe me, our detractors know it and will use it against us.

We have become our own worst enemy.

I guess election fraud really does exist contrary to the Democrat controlled news media telling us otherwise.

Are reports correct that Russian missiles struck Poland?

At George Ranch High school? Lots of EMS and police .

I haven’t heard much about this since the FCC stopped the NN rules from taking place 2 years ago. Congress did try to slip the rules into their coronavirus bill but it seems like it’s no longer a topic. What do the experts say?

Scroll down a bit in this article and you can see inside Tony Buzbee's Houston home which is on sale for $7.5mm less than the original offer price. Quite a steal .

How to fix Texas A&M? Jimbo Fisher should take a page from Brian Kelly's turnaround at Notre Dame​

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M hasn’t lost this many consecutive games since Richard Nixon was running the nation, and you know how that regime ended.

Tricky Jim — that's fifth-year head coach Jimbo Fisher — is now neck deep in his own jumble, but there is a way out of the woods for the Aggies entering 2023. It will require some serious adjustments, however, corrections that already have cranked up with the recent crackdown of actual suspensions of disruptive players.


Formerly freewheeling A&M has lost six straight games for the first time in 50 years, a streak that should come to a merciless end Saturday when the Aggies (3-7, 1-6 SEC) host Massachusetts (1-9), which doesn’t compete in a league. A&M, not eligible for a bowl for the first time since 2008 in then-coach Mike Sherman’s first season, later closes out its lost season the night of Nov. 26 against SEC West champion LSU at Kyle Field. “I don’t know if this is bad,” said A&M senior receiver Jalen Preston, in choosing his words uncarefully. “But (we want to) piss in their Corn Flakes, you know? That’s what we want to do.”

Toppling the Tigers in what amounts to A&M’s bowl this season would at least head things in the right direction in what might shape up as a tumultuous offseason, although Fisher does not appear headed anywhere else soon with nine years remaining on a fully guaranteed contract paying more than $9 million annually. In other words, no impeachment process by fuming boosters is forthcoming, considering the about $85 million payout attached to such a farcical contract. When Fisher glances across Kyle’s grass at LSU that Thanksgiving weekend, he need only use first-year Tigers coach Brian Kelly as an example of how an entrenched coach can rebound from a bad record.

Kelly’s 2016 Notre Dame squad finished 4-8 — the Aggies’ current course — before the Fighting Irish responded with a 10-3 record the following season, his eighth in South Bend. How did they do it? Kelly started with a painfully long look in the mirror, and stepping away from running his offense to step headlong into running his team.

“We failed and I failed,” Kelly told Sports Illustrated in the offseason following 4-8, and why he brought onboard a new offensive coordinator and new defensive coordinator and in total 17 new staff members. The bold moves paid big dividends, and Kelly was 54-9 over his next five seasons at Notre Dame before leaving for LSU nearly a year ago. Here’s what to expect from Fisher early in the offseason: The announcement of a true offensive coordinator to run that side of the ball, according to multiple insiders, allowing Fisher to pay more attention to the details of running a program in the era of wide-open transfers and name, image and likeness (NIL) goings-on for empowered players.

First-year defensive coordinator DJ Durkin likely is OK heading into 2023, considering the Aggies rank 39th nationally in scoring defense (allowing 22.2 points per game) despite their many ills in slowing the run. Durkin has sparkled in comparison to play-caller Fisher’s offense, which ranks 108th nationally out of 131 teams in scoring (21.5 ppg).

In 2016, seven of Notre Dame’s eight losses were by 4.6 points per game, and none of those seven were by more than one score. Sound familiar? Four of A&M’s seven losses have been by four points or less, including at then-No. 1 Alabama on Oct. 8, and five of the seven were by an average of 3.8 points per game.

“Is it far away? It can be, but it’s also very close, too,” Fisher said of getting competitive once again in the SEC. “It’s not like it’s unreachable … when the (players) can see they can stay right here and do it — I believe our players believe that 100 percent.”

That is Fisher’s next big task: Convincing the majority of players in his top-rated class of 2022 to stick with the Aggies instead of seeking wins and glory and NIL deals elsewhere.

“You’ve got to keep grinding and grinding and grinding,” Fisher said of his message to his players going through A&M’s first losing season in 14 years.

A&M and Fisher have levied a bevy of suspensions of late, too, including four freshmen in perhaps finally running a much more disciplined program than he has in his first four years in College Station. The idea being if a touted player refuses to conform to rules, he’s not needed in the program, anyway.

A scant two years ago, A&M sat at 8-1 in the pandemic-shortened regular season and was in the mix as one of the four teams in the 2020 College Football Playoff. The CFP committee ultimately pegged Kelly’s Irish over Fisher’s Aggies in a decision still prompting A&M fans to snarl.

“It will get back in gear to where it needs to be,” Fisher promised of his program that has the worst SEC record among the league’s 14 teams (by percentage points over Vanderbilt).

Kelly was effusive following the 2016 season that he had messed up and needed to get things right in his program. Fisher has not yet reached that stage of self-effacement, but perhaps it will come in the offseason.

One thing is certain in a wildly uncertain era under Fisher: A huge dose of humility could not hurt as he tries squaring away his flailing program starting with, like Kelly, kindly stepping away from an awful offense.

Been a dud compared to expectations with the exception of Florida.

I had family & friends over today for barbeque, mostly burgers & dogs, but also six pieces of salmon. I marinated the raw salmon a few hours in a soy citrus sauce, and then cooked the salmon properly. But after cooking, I poured raw marinade as sauce back on top of the cooked salmon.

I just realized this after everyone is gone. How worried should I be?

Should I tell everyone who attended? That's very embarrassing and I'm afraid no one will trust me after this. But I better do the right thing.

Hope you guys can help...

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Declined $25M player option. Was this expected? Any idea what he will bring in FA? Coming off a likely Cy Young year, but almost 40.

Actually pretty torn between the two.
I feel Trump brings a bigger wave of voters but that also brings up more democrat voters.
Desantis feels more like a conservative pick but not sure how he actually does heads up.

Nice framing in his flip video. Go to FL, get a Lamborghini. It's clearly the message they want to convey.


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Kendrick Rogers just got drafted into the XFL for the San Antonio Brahmas. good for him

Just wanted to post this before our game kicks.

Anyone know any wood stain that is a nice looking maroon? Would still like to see the wood grain through it and not be solid maroon. Building a gym for my boys and want to do the walls in maroon.

Know Ags have serious injury issues but horrible offense and defense cannot play 3 good plays in a row........

Conner, hesitant and poor throws.........that is why you do not play a fish behind a crappy OL...

Not big on the guy thinking he's Howard Cosell, but entertaining.

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I think he has moved to the top of head coaches I would seriously consider to replace Jimbo.
I still think Gus Malzhan, too, would be good. He beat Alabama three times. Recruiting at A&M would be easier than it was at Auburn.
Maybe. Just maybe. We might be able to get Dabo Sweeney away from Clemson. But, I think he would leave if St. Nick were to retire at Alabama.

First real question was about the sleeves. "That was an internal issue and we handled it in house and that's all I'm going to say."

Evidently as we are going into a huge wind in the 3rd quarter and have no healthy WRs or TEs. We decide to throw the ball on 14 of our last 15 plays in the quarter. Just a coaching masterpiece from a guy who makes $9.5m a year.