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Tell us again to "wait and see" for the CFP results. That was fun.

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What does this mean? They will finish ranked higher than us in football, basketball, and softball. Depending on how far the baseball team dives again, maybe that too...

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In retrospect, reading those pists, maybe it's just Teslag thats full of ignirance.

A lot abive get it.

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Am I? I said Tech was soft as butter from a Big12 schedule and would be exposed in the CFP. I was right. McGuire is a clown. Coaches like a clown. And develops like a clown. If it weren't for Campbell's checkbook he'd already be out of a job.

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Tell us again to "wait and see" for the CFP results. That was fun.

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What does this mean? They will finish ranked higher than us in football, basketball, and softball. Depending on how far the baseball team dives again, maybe that too...

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That tech idiot skubalon kept pimping Tech all year. We told him once the CFP rolled around they'd fold in the playoffs like all BIg12 teams to. He kept saying "wait and see".

Well, we did. And we saw.

Also, no one gives a **** about rankings anymore. And did you really just pimp softball but ignore volleyball?

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Yup. Our donors are wussies in comparison.

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...we poor shouldn't complain about what others do with their money. Especially when it would be a dumb decision.

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They can do whatever they want but maybe instead of idiotically spending $50M on coaching buyouts every 4 years it would be smarter to put that $50M into NIL…

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You seem unaware that the NIL era has changed the landscape. Hell, a couple years ago when Tech was a 5 loss team, thry lost to Oregon on a last minute FG . Oregon went 11-1.

Completely different team now, but they've been building this.

Tech will be in the finals vs Georgia (wish it were us) and will probably win it all

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You completely nailed it big guy.

Amazing that some can watch that game and conclude that Tech's defense wasnt as great as advertized, or that one terribke QB performance proved what an offense was.

I guess A&M was a terribke offense because Mismi 3. and first half SC and 2nd half t.u.

it's foitball. bad games hapoen. Most educated posters get that.

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They can do whatever they want but maybe instead of idiotically spending $50M on coaching buyouts every 4 years it would be smarter to put that $50M into NIL…

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you are preaching to the choir, bro

you seem kind of defensive, Teslag.i can tell my ignorance claim hit home.

Good God

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Big 12 is the second best conference top to bittom. Big 10 is good at the top, but would probably go 7-9 vs the B12.

The anti/B12 bias is strong here with some

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That tech idiot skubalon kept pimping Tech all year. We told him once the CFP rolled around they'd fold in the playoffs like all BIg12 teams to. He kept saying "wait and see".

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That statement is literally the definition of irony after watching all of the SEC schools, except a coachless ole mis, get sent to vacation, including us... at home...while scoring the same amount of touchdowns as tech..

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That tech idiot skubalon kept pimping Tech all year. We told him once the CFP rolled around they'd fold in the playoffs like all BIg12 teams to. He kept saying "wait and see".

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That statement is literally the definition of irony after watching all of the SEC schools, except a coachless ole mis, get sent to vacation, including us... at home...while scoring the same amount of touchdowns as tech..

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If you actually think the Big12 is close, remotely close, to the SEC in talent and ability then you should seek help. The Big12 is closer to G6 than the SEC/B1G. and it's not particularly close.

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yeah- you can tell who understands foitball and who doesnt. I think I'm through with this particular idiot fir now.

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That statement is literally the definition of irony after watching all of the SEC schools, except a coachless ole mis, get sent to vacation, including us... at home...while scoring the same amount of touchdowns as tech..

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Since you understand football can you breakdown the CFP final between Tech and Georgia for us?

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If you actually think the Big12 is close, remotely close, to the SEC in talent and ability then you should seek help. The Big12 is closer to G6 than the SEC/B1G. and it's not particularly close.

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No, but they do have a couple of good teams. But that doesn't change the fact that an 11 win SEC team couldn't score a touchdown at home against the what, 3rd place acc team, because they folded like a tent, like they always do. You guys in these glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.

Didn't that "3rd place ACC team" also beat Ohio State? And it wasn't like Ohio State lit the world on fire offensively in that game.

And yes, everyone can and should throw stones at the Big12/G6. We beat every team like those on our schedule this year.

The Big 12 is a weak conference. It's not really worth trying to argue anything different. That's why Tech's strategy is a good one. All you have to do is out athlete BYU and you're good. That's not that hard to do. It's much harder to out athlete anyone in the SEC when the Vandy's and Ole Miss of the world are big spenders.

They don't even play BYU next year. Look that this pathetic pile of garbage. Like I said, it's basically G6. No team making the CFP with this schedule should be seeded higher than 10th, regardless of record.

Ego is crazy expensive. CC has spent a fortune already and he continues to spend. He made Tech a top 10 team this year but he paid for a #1 team. I suspect he will spend until Tech wins it all, then don't know what he will do. He might continue pouring $100M into Tech football or he may divert his play money to buying an NFL team, politics, etc. Who knows. Billionaires live in a different universe than the rest of us.

His problem is that he's not the only billionaire, nor the richest, or the most committed in college football. He's just the most vocal. And at some point you can only buy so much talent and others can buy just as much. Eventually you need development, coaching, and a schedule that prepares you for the CFP. Some of those money can't buy. Look at Indiana's talent profile this year. It's not the best, but it is the most developed and well coached. Tech isn't getting there with Joey McGuire.

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And it wasn't just Tech's QB. It was their OL. Their WR's. Their RB's. And even their back end on defense. And depth up front. Tech's vaunted defensive line was worn out by the end of that game That's where the high school recruiting, development, and strength and conditioning helps with depth in late games. They never had to do that with their schedule. They need to build a complete well coached battle tested team to go far in the CFP. Going to be hard to do in that league.

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Yes, because their offense/QB couldn't move the chains, keeping the tceh defense on the field. For 38 minutes to be exact

Don't discount their lack of depth.

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One problem with that other approach is that if you make it purely about money you tend to get a certain type of player. And you also begin to collect talent, rather than build a team. And that's a bad combo when you have poor coaching like Joey McGuire.

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Poor coaching? Tech just had their best season ever and they won 12 games by 20+ points each. Hardly an indictment on McGuire's coaching ability!

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We don't have that singular sugar daddy who has made it his mission to buy the best players across all sports. UH somewhat has that with Fertitta, but I think he's been more of a T Boone type putting money into infrastructure for the program rather than direct NIL payment.

We have many well to do donors who as a collective can put up good money, but in that instance we are operating as a business looking to pay market value for the right players, and even get some under the radar bargain players rather than the hottest name. Campbell has basically put it out there that if you are the best at your position, let him know the best offer and he'll beat it. Him, not the collective. When one person strokes that/those checks, you can have that level of autonomy to make those kind of offers. That's not what we have, to the best of my knowledge.

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Wow some just post nothing but assumptions. Rage posting I guess. Tech doest have just one billionaire boaster. We just happen to have one that is very vocal. And really putting money into mostly NIL ?? We just dropped 240 mill on new facilitates in the last few years. But carry on with all this denial or whatever makes you feel better.

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His problem is that he's not the only billionaire, nor the richest, or the most committed in college football. He's just the most vocal. And at some point you can only buy so much talent and others can buy just as much. Eventually you need development, coaching, and a schedule that prepares you for the CFP. Some of those money can't buy. Look at Indiana's talent profile this year. It's not the best, but it is the most developed and well coached. Tech isn't getting there with Joey McGuire.

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You seem really upset. ITs just a game calm down.

Are we about to get an economics lesson as well in this thread?

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One problem with that other approach is that if you make it purely about money you tend to get a certain type of player. And you also begin to collect talent, rather than build a team. And that's a bad combo when you have poor coaching like Joey McGuire.

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Poor coaching? Tech just had their best season ever and they won 12 games by 20+ points each. Hardly an indictment on McGuire's coaching ability!

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Look at their schedule and level of talent compared to said schedule.

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His problem is that he's not the only billionaire, nor the richest, or the most committed in college football. He's just the most vocal. And at some point you can only buy so much talent and others can buy just as much. Eventually you need development, coaching, and a schedule that prepares you for the CFP. Some of those money can't buy. Look at Indiana's talent profile this year. It's not the best, but it is the most developed and well coached. Tech isn't getting there with Joey McGuire.

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You seem really upset. ITs just a game calm down.

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What about that reasoned calm post makes you think I'm upset? I was right about everything in regards to what tech is as evidenced by the CFP.

They are what they are. I'm not upset. I'm gloating.

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I feel like we tried this a few years ago with Jimbo's war chest when we signed the "best class in history." Pretty much blew up in our face. Seems like we need to find the right players, not the "best" players.

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Where is this record? I mean he had some great portal additions last year for sure, but a great record? What did I miss?

McGuire was the first Texas Tech coach to ever beat UT & OU in the same season.....that was his first season, before NIL was a thing, with a 3rd string QB from Lubbock Frenship

McGuire is the first Texas Tech coach to ever go four straight seasons with a winning conference record. He's made a bowl every year. Every single one of those seasons he lost games directly and solely due to QB injuries. He's had a QB miss at least one game due to injury in each of his four seasons.

He was a missed facemask call in Fort Worth away from making the title game and playoffs last season, before "buying a roster" was a thing. He beat both teams that eventually played for the Big 12 title and the Arizona St team that took UT to the wire in the playoffs.

When you factor in that he's had to start 12 different QB's due to injury and that his entire 2025 season was coached with a QB who broke his leg in game 1, he's done an amazing job. He's won A LOT of games every single place he's ever been. He turned around Cedar Hill, he was a major part of Baylor's turn around and now he's taken Texas Tech to their first Big 12 title and CFB playoff game. How is that not a good, to great, College Football coach?

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Massive revisionist history and sugar coating here.

Before Tech decided to buy rosters in a decimated conference, he was a .500 coach in the least talented major conference. Just last year, the dude was taken to overtime by Abilene ****ing Christian, got trucked by Baylor, lost to Washington State, and then managed to scrape their way to a bowl loss to one of the worst, if not the worst, SEC team in Arkansas on the way to a 5 loss season in the Big 12.

Crown him if you want to.

Not a single thing I said was untrue. Texas Tech was one game away from the Big 12 title game last season, lost one game due to a missed facemask call and he had already beaten both teams in the title game.

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Obviously he's spending money in EVERY sport, which is fine, but how/why is one guy outbidding us, tu on bigtime talent. I can understand passing on good not great players, but tech has consistently gotten the best players especially on the DL.

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Here's something to consider. Is he outbidding us?

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Not a single thing I said was untrue. Texas Tech was one game away from the Big 12 title game last season, lost one game due to a missed facemask call and he had already beaten both teams in the title game.

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This isn't saying a whole lot. And everything I said was true as well, and you glossed over all of it.