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Gigem

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1163 on: November 15, 2025, 05:40:43 PM »

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Meh, most good teams have a game where everything goes wrong, nobody seems inspired, and the fates are just against you.  Often against inferior opponents.  Happens to many good teams, and great teams will sometimes find a way to overcome it all and win anyway.  Maybe A&M is a great team this year.  

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1165 on: November 15, 2025, 08:31:32 PM »
31-30

Beamer won't make it onto the team bus this afternoon.
Beamer's last, worst, most-critical decision was to forego the FG try on 4th and 1 up by (IIRC) 13 points. It was the worst bonehead move of several bonehead moves he made in the 2nd half. He took a near-insurmountable lead and game-managed it into a loss.

South Carolina would have done better had they taken a knee on every offensive snap in the 2nd half.
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1166 on: November 15, 2025, 09:10:40 PM »
A&M fans, if you don't believe now....when?
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1167 on: November 16, 2025, 12:00:32 AM »
Beamer's last, worst, most-critical decision was to forego the FG try on 4th and 1 up by (IIRC) 13 points. It was the worst bonehead move of several bonehead moves he made in the 2nd half. He took a near-insurmountable lead and game-managed it into a loss.

South Carolina would have done better had they taken a knee on every offensive snap in the 2nd half.

Perfectly stated and so true.  

Ags are by far the better team, but that was true in the first half as well.

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1168 on: November 16, 2025, 07:52:00 AM »
A&M fans, if you don't believe now....when?

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1169 on: November 16, 2025, 09:10:37 AM »
Beamer's last, worst, most-critical decision was to forego the FG try on 4th and 1 up by (IIRC) 13 points. It was the worst bonehead move of several bonehead moves he made in the 2nd half. He took a near-insurmountable lead and game-managed it into a loss.

I thought exactly the same thing.

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1170 on: November 16, 2025, 09:21:07 AM »
I thought exactly the same thing.
I’m sure you remember the UCLA/A&M game from 2017. We blew them away in the first half, and well into the second half we were up by 30 points. I forget the exact margin but it was large. Our QB ended up going down with a season ending injury, and the freshman QB Mond was sent in but he was a disaster.  The bad thing was that we had ran all over ucla for hundreds of yards, and I guess Sumlin wanted to get some game time for his new starter. He ended up like 2/13, while UCLA led a furious comeback and won the game. 

Somebody later posted that if we had simply ran the ball every play or even 90% of the plays no matter what we would have won simply based on how long the clock would run. We could go 3-out every set and won. 

It was said the money guys decided right then and there to fire Sumlin, it was a foregone conclusion. 
Mond ended up being a pretty good QB and for a second or two Fisher looked like a decent coach. 

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1171 on: November 16, 2025, 09:26:19 AM »
My Longhorn wife was in agony for most of the game last night, and at the point UGA recovered an onside kick, she determined that UGA is evil and cruel, and decided they are her new villain.  It was adding insult to injury, I thought, and a little bit asshole-y, but then, I'm of the mindset that says if you don't want to be piled on, then be better. 

She was already put out that Oklahoma and A&M are having good seasons while she has to watch UT underachieve, and as it became obvious to her Texas wouldn't have the time or the firepower to mount a comeback, she lamented "I'm tired of losing to Georgia!"  She glared at me, apparently expecting me to say something.  

I said, "Well....we're all tired of something.  Georgia is tired of losing to Alabama.  Alabama is tired of losing to Oklahoma.  And Oklahoma is tired of losing to Texas.  So it's kind of like the circle of life."  

Whatever it was I was supposed to say, that wasn't it.  

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1172 on: November 16, 2025, 09:40:43 AM »
Man....Arkansas is a bad team.  

That game was there for the taking, but this year, they are just a little better than us at finding ways to lose.  

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1173 on: November 16, 2025, 09:48:14 AM »
Man....Arkansas is a bad team. 

That game was there for the taking, but this year, they are just a little better than us at finding ways to lose. 

Always 3 pts short. 

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1174 on: November 16, 2025, 09:56:52 AM »
It's always one thing or another with this team, maybe that will change under the next HC.  

BK put a world-beater offense in the field in 2023, if they'd had this defense they would cruised to another NC.  Hell, even a top 50 defense would probably have been enough.  

This defense is elite when not facing a true dual-threat QB, even a serviceable O could probably have made a playoff team, though likely not a real NC contender.  But like Sean McDonough said last week in the Bama game, they get inside the 20 and it's like they hit a force field.  Gandalf the Grey says "You shall not pass!"  (actually, they do pass, and it's incomplete, or the QB gets sacked out of FG range.)

This year's place kicker, Ramos, became our all-time leading scorer for a reason.  Nobody settles for FGs like we did under Kelly, sans 2023.  

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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #1175 on: November 16, 2025, 10:10:08 AM »
A few bounces of the ball and Texas is back in that game.  It was not really a blow out at all.

 

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