Saturday Buzz: Is Texas A&M Now USC’s Big Recruiting Rival?

USC and Texas A&M keep butting heads as the Trojans aggressively recruit the Lone Star State.

Four-star linebacker Tyanthony Smith committed to Texas A&M on Friday but told On3 that he had silently committed to USC.

“I told (defensive coordinator D.J.) Durkin I silently committed to USC and he looked me and my eyes and said, ‘I don’t care. We’re still going to recruit you.’ Once he said that I knew that it was time,” Smith said.

USC and Texas A&M are pretty close in recruiting right now. The Trojans’ class is ranked 10th by Rivals with a 3.69 average star ranking while the Aggies are 14th with a 3.71 average star ranking.

They competed over four recruits this week and there’s going to be more battles before December’s first Signing Day.

86 thoughts on “Saturday Buzz: Is Texas A&M Now USC’s Big Recruiting Rival?

  1. We have enough LB’s and receivers. Losing those two guys is not a major catastrophe. If we lose the running back to Oklahoma, that too won’t be a major catasrophe. We’re loaded with running backs too. The guy I’d really like to get is the D-Lineman from Pennsylvania. They have him as a 3 star but he’s much better than that. Just look at all the big time schools that are going after him…..Michigan, PennState, Auburn, Florida, Miami, ND, Ohio State, Oklahoma, So. Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin and more.

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    1. During Clay Helton’s early years as USC’s head coach he had better higher ranked recruiting classes than ‘Ol Mule Shoe and his boyfriend Alex Grinch.

      That’s a fact, look it up. Maybe if ”Ol Mule Shoe didn’t let his feelings for his boyfriend Alex Grinch get in the way and fired that clown, replaced him with an actual defensive coordinator who doesn’t have his head up his ass, ‘Ol Mule Shoe and USC might be able to attract some 5 star prospects.

      High prized recruits know ‘Ol Mule Shoe’s boyfriend Alex Grinch doesn’t know anything about defense, they’re not wasting their time on that idiot’s so called “defensive scheme’s”…he’s a clown.

      Best ‘Ol Mule Shoe can hope for are washed out players in the portal who didn’t pan out where they were supposed to. No legit prospect is going to put his potential in the hands of ‘Ol Mule Shoe’s boyfriend Alex Grinch…are you fucking kidding me?

      #GETFUCKINGREAL

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      1. Clay Helton never lost to the likes of Tulane like ‘Ol Mule Shoe and his know nothing boyfriend Alex Grinch did…what a goddamn embarrassment that shit show game was.

        Losing to Tulane? Seriously!

        LMFAO!

        OH MY SIDE HURTS FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH!

        THAT CLOWN ALEX GRINCH HAD NO CLUE HOW TO STOP TULANE’S OFFENSE…HOW FUCKING EMBARRASSING!

        AHA HA HA HA HA!

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      2. That was only one game. Pete Carroll lost to a Stanford team that SC was favored to win by 41 points. But I agree about Grinch. Keeping him was a big mistake. There were really good DC’s out there. They need a great defense this year. This is Caleb Williams last year.

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      3. Shut the fuck up, shithead! No one gives a shit what you have to say even if it takes you 6x to post something coherent. Even your boyfriend thinks you’re a moron.

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      4. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plowhorse & & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plowhorse & & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Fake Gabby loves her sock puppets but her repulsive perverted personality gives her away every time. She truly is the Kevin Spacey of Inside USC:

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      5. I agree about Grinch. They should have fired him. I know coaches like to keep continuity in their coaching staff but when one guy is getting a mil per year and not getting the job done, you must move on. As far as Clay Helton is concerned, CH was a good recruiter until the recruits found out that he couldn’t coach

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      6. And yet Mehki Blackmon went from an unrated starter at Colorado with no draft grade to a third round draft pick by transferring to USC. So Alex Grinch and Donte Williams made a difference in his life that you cannot deny. I hope this truth about the power of USC football ruins your existence and deprives of any comfort for the rest of your life.

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      7. Mehki Blackmon…LOL!

        THAT GIRL NOT ONLY WAS GETTING BEAT LIKE SHE STOLE SOMETHING ALL YEAR LONG, SHE WAS ABUSED!

        I DON’T KNOW WHICH GIRL WAS WORSE, HER OR MAXINE WILLIAMS

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      8. This need to belittle people from the small access of existence that this blog provides makes me wonder if you could ever claim any success of note as opposed to the people who are actually doing something. It works like this: You tell lies and enjoy yourself (with a little help from Palmela and her five sisters) while the people you speak so little of get to enjoy life admired by thousands.

        Your still a loser compared to the winners you talk about.

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      9. Helton a 55th ranked recruiting class the year prior to his dismissal. Didn’t develop talent and subsequently we sucked. Riley’s 1st full year of recruiting finished as #7, when combined with the portal they finished top 4 for 2023.

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      1. I hope so! There is a close up picture of him on the internet. It looks like a 30-35 year old man. That picture was taken when he was 15.

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      1. pudly pudwacker said  Palaie Gaoteote and Kourtney Foreman were going to be among the best Trojans ar their positions when they were done playing at USC…LMFAO!

        Those two girls aren’t worth a shit!

        WHAT AN ASSWIPE! DOESN’T KNOW SHIT! PUDLY DUMB FUCK!

        AHA HA HA HA HA HA!

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    1. What a lot of kids realize is what that they know what is in the bag. TAM is spending like crazy and again they are going to have a class that falls apart. USC has a class that continues to get tighter. The smart ones realize that.

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    2. Agree with CR. TAM and Oklahoma are going to lose a lot of recruits after a bad year. A commitment means very little. I think USC ends up with Tatum, the running back who is leaning toward Oklahoma and Miller the WR and Smith the LB who are committed to TAM.

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      1. We need to be focusing on bodies in the trenches. What separates the SEC from the rest is their strength and athleticism at the line of scrimmage. If you can’t match that you won’t be competitive. Clemson won a few Nattys because they had 1st round NFL bodies across both sides of the line scrimmage.

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      2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plowhorse & & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plowhorse & & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        How cute, wanna be Fake Gabby thinks she is part of the USC football team.

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  2. Ever been Down South in July and August and try even jogging?–
    If the heat don’t get ya the humidity will.
    It is amazing how those southern footballers get through it all

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      1. I have never seen more MAGATs in a concentrated area that needed some type of dental work. Thanks for posting. It is really eye-opening to see such poor oral hygiene. Take care of your tooth!

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    1. As of last year, Vanguard, Black Rock, and State Street were the three biggest Disney institutional investors. They’re driving this woke BS. Love it that it’s backfiring on them.

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    1. Poor Clarence is a racists white man trapped in a black man’s body. Married to a white woman confirms it.

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      1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Just to be clear, Fake Gabby needs treatment for her paranoid schizophrenia condition. It is a fairly common (and can be severe) mental illness: about 0.32% of the population suffers from it. [Let’s see. There were 331 million Americans in the 2020 Census. I don’t believe they diagnose it (for sure) until one’s late teenage years, so let’s apply it to those Americans and Traitors like Fake Gabby 18 and over. Google says that 258 million Americans are 18 years old & older: 258 million x 0.0032 = 825,600 people adults who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, just like Fake Gabby. In addition she is racist.

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      2. My goodness, this fake Gabby has some real mental issues. She’s constantly responding to someone she refers to as fake Gabby. She’s actually talking to herself in the third person. Major mental issues

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      3. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ &Pudly &LawyerJohn & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ &Pudly &LawyerJohn & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        My goodness, Fake Gaby needs to be forcibly institutionalized at Atascadero State Mental Hospital.

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      4. My goodness, this fake Gabby has some real mental issues. She’s constantly responding to someone she refers to as fake Gabby. She’s actually talking to herself in the third person. Major mental issues

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      5. Stop running pussy boy…let’s meet up….Meet in Vegas. Like your boi slo troll said, if one names the place the other names the time….so man up and name the time or forever be known as pussy boy

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      6. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        My goodness, Fake Gabby claims to know Dana White and says his wife is Morgan Fairchild!

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      7. And I know Dana’s wife…..HAHA! no need to be jealous!

        Morgan Fairchild?…. you must be confusing me with another person you stalk 24/7

        go service your goats, you stupid hillbilly!

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      8. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        HA HA! Plow Horse already destroyed you over that lie, Fake Gabby. You need professional help. Tell us when you are going to fight Plow Horse, we all can’t wait for you to get thrashed.

        Plow Horse
        JUNE 22, 2023 AT 10:23 PM
        Gabby is the biggest pussy on this blog.

        Still waiting for dates, Mr. keyboard tough guy.

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      9. HA HA! I already destroyed you over that lie, Fake Gabby. You need professional help. Tell us when you are going to fight me, we all can’t wait for you to get thrashed.

        Name the time!…. I already agreed to meet in Barstow, dipshit…you senile sack of shit…. aka pussy boy

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      10. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Fake Gabby is too chicken to accept Plow Horse’s challenge to box!

        He’s calling you out, Cowardly Gabby.

        Plow Horse
        JUNE 22, 2023 AT 8:33 PM
        Gabby: I didn’t use the term “white guy.” The CEO of Ocean Gate used the term white guy. I suppose that reading comprehension isn’t one of your strengths. But since you brought my wife into it, something that you would never do if we met face to face, let’s meet up Mr. keyboard tough guy or are you going to chickensh*t out like you normally do. I work out at a boxing gym in Pasadena, CA. Name a date and time and I will make a reservation.

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      1. BECAUSE HE HAS FUCKING MENTAL ISSUES!

        He’s a sad lonely old man who has no life and feels better about the situation when he’s stalking people 24/7. He’s been doing this same shit on Scott’s blog for many years. He was such a blog disgrace he had to stop using the “gotroy22” username.

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      2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Why are you such a dishonest lib toady for Fake Gabby?

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      3. My goodness, this fake Gabby has some real mental issues. She’s constantly responding to someone she refers to as fake Gabby. She’s actually talking to herself in the third person. Major mental issues

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      4. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        My goodness, Fake Gabby sure loves getting her fair share of abuse.

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      5. Just to be clear, gotroy22(aka fake gabby) needs treatment for her paranoid schizophrenia condition. It is a fairly common (and can be severe) mental illness: about 0.32% of the population suffers from it. [Let’s see. There were 331 million Americans in the 2020 Census. I don’t believe they diagnose it (for sure) until one’s late teenage years, so let’s apply it to those Americans and Traitors like Fake Gabby 18 and over. Google says that 258 million Americans are 18 years old & older: 258 million x 0.0032 = 825,600 people adults who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, just like Fake Gabby

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      6. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plowhorse & & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plowhorse & & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        I love it when Fake Gabby’s pea brain hits tilt and she has to copy what I have already posted. Mission Accomplished!

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  3. TAM is lower tier SEC school, they just throw bags of $$$$ at recruits n then they transfer after one season Miller, Smith, and Lockhart will be leaving . Most of the kids are just looking for who is going to pay the most forget about the university. The way SC is looking at it they are saving spots for late big time flips to complete it’s class. Why is everyone think we are going to fall flat on our face when we go to the big? We will own the Big look at our record against the Big teams. In court cases all you have to do is present evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. If anybody thinks otherwise I don’t know what they are smoking.

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    1. slow down whipper snapper…..you’re letting the cart get in front of the horse. Last time we played Ohio St. we got our ass handed to us.

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      1. Both OSU, SC will continue to be big time teams vying for the top recruits across the nation. As long as we have LR and his ability to draw top skill playmakers n Qb’s, I will put my trust in LR. We will shock all haters moving forward we will have DC’s having nightmares wondering how are we going to cover all that size, speed, athleticism, physicality nobody. Next year we are going to beat the crap out of the Big, even with a new QB. Our defense will be a lot better. With or without Grinchy these new talents will overcome his coaching IQ. I’m just speaking from what I see moving forward we will be back on top in the next year or 2.

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      2. I am not drinking the kool-aid!!!!! Until I see a substantial improvement in the defense I will continue to stay cautiously optimistic. I am just as much a fanatic as you, but you need all phases to win championships, offense, defense, and special teams. I hope your prediction is right.

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      3. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        No one is a bigger wanna be Kool aid drinker than you, Cowardly Gabby. It’s one of your multiple personalities.

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    2. I KNOW for a fact if they play in the snow and frozen tundra,like they used in Nov at ND…odds are they will lose…hope for zero Nov games in B10 country.

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  4. JUST TO BE FAIR, I shall point out that rivals indeed has SC 10th…they also rank stanford 8th and they have 20 3star recruits;why would wolfie ignore 247/scout putting SC at 7th and on3 SC is 5th…why? waiting for an answer…

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    1. It’s called confirmation bias. You cherry-pick the information that supports your narrative and disregard any information that challenges your narrative. We have a few MAGATs on the blog who suffer from extreme confirmation bias!

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    2. Tim rivals is garbage don’t pay attention to their evaluations on players. I agree with u on playing in the snow. Well only time will tell, short passes and a strong running game will nuetrilize the snow

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      1. wolfie uses rivals…as in all the time, not me…hope you are correct about passes to really cold hands from cold hands being the counter measure…running game always works well with a good passing game too…fight on.(can we still say that?)

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      2. Remember that the last game in November will be UCLA in Los Angeles. It rarely snows in the Midwest during the first week of November. We are talking about two possible cold weather games but likely less because the Big 10 will probably schedule one of those weeks in Los Angeles.

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      1. Gametv rivals is the worst agree. Just remember PC used to get players from every where back in the days, it’s no conciendence that LR is trending too in that direction. Just look at WR starting next season in the Big Duece, Branch, Lemon, Hudson Ware, Pellum, Mathews Lane Brown too much size and speed. We will out athlete like no other program has done since PC and NS has done for Alabama after PC left. Nobody wants to talk about how Nick came up after sanctions, now the tables will turn. We must get into Alabama n LSU country like they come into our backyard.

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    1. =Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plowhorse & & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar =Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plowhorse & & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

      Fake Gabby is too much of a coward to fight Plow Horse.
      Fake Gabby got humiliated by Plow Horse and now tries to go back to her internet bully routine!

      Plow Horse
      JUNE 22, 2023 AT 9:57 PM
      Gabby:

      You have offended my wife, my mother and my father. All sexual inferences. I let the first two go because they are both deceased but not my wife. You are the one who offended my family, not visa versa. I have never brought your wife or parents into anything. It is therefore my call – boxing gym in Pasadena CA, Mr. tough guy. Give me a date and I will make the arrangements. Stop being a chickensh*t.

      And nobody believes you are friends with Dana White. If you ever read the news, he is a staunch conservative who left the country during Covid so that the Dems. couldn’t shut down UFC. He wouldn’t allow a pussy leftist like yourself anywhere near his octagon. Rummaging the dumpster outside of the premises for plastic bottles redeemable for 20 cents doesn’t mean you know Dana White you leftist, racist, pussy.

      Give me available dates.

      Cowardly Gabby is a chicken!

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  5. Give me a break Clownsters, bozo FB hasn’t got the pesos to hang with Tixas A&M FB recruiting.

    I know the rah-rah’s would love to spend all of Dumpster U’s endowment fund on FB recruits but, but, but…

    FYI bozos, I ran into a Chinese guy wearing a stupid bozo FB, baseball cap, and I politely asked him how the FB team might do this year.

    LOL, he didn’t know SUCC had a FB team.

    SUCC chokes on.

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    1. LHF,
      History lesson for you. USC football 11 national championships are 8 more than A&M, which has 2 more than your gutties. Time to sit down and let the grown ups talk football.

      bRuin football under .500 and no bowl game, book it!

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      1. Those bozo FB NC’s you’re screaming about were VOTED (Bribed is more like it.) to, not won in PLAYOFF COMPETITION, like UCLA BB single elimination NC’s.

        Get a Grip Ms. Bimbo. Hell, Clown U even takes credit for a FB, NC that Emperor Garrett unilaterally mandated to DUMPSTER U w/o a soupcon of NCAA sanction.

        Shit, the greatest ex-bozo BB player is still Cheryl Miller, Reggie’s sister.

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    2. The idea that you would speak to anyone politely stretches the boundaries of reality. So, in this alleged conversation, were you speaking with your employer? A little curious.

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      1. Always nice when lib dems put people down by calling them homophobic slurs.

        You wannabe.

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    3. How is Cheryl Miller better than Paul Westphal or Gus Johnson? Why do you refer to basketball so quickly? Are you that ashamed of UCLA football?

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      1. Remind me TW, you certified 3 Ball, how many BB NC’s did PW and GJ win.

        Ah would that be ZERO?

        C. Miller did win a BB NC.

        #Damn you’re a stupid F**K TW.

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  6. Jimbo Fischer has to prove he can win in the SEC. Lincoln Riley has to prove he can coach a conference winner into USC and compete for a national championship. I just don’t think Jimbo can make a difference in such a loaded conference, especially with Oklahoma and Texas joining. It makes sense to target A&M players since they’ll transfer if the program falls apart. And with Bobby Petrino, who would stab Jimbo in the back to become head coach, that is a real possibility. It’s like an episode of Game of Thrones in College football at the FBS level right now.

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  7. Only Owns would believe that an NBA career that leads Paul Westphal to the Basketball Hall of Fame career is more insignificant than Cheryl Miller’s championships run at the collegiate level. While I thank you for acknowledging Cheryl’s greatness (as one of the best basketball players, male or female) I have to let you know that comparing apples to oranges (or men to women) is patronizing and intellectually faulty at best. Cheryl did not have to compete against the same number of teams that the men compete against. Cheryl had the benefit of playing with other Hall of Famers such as the McGee twins.

    But you can try to be “woke” and patronizing to women with your equivocations. You’d make a great PR man-oops, sorry, person (because I don’t know your pronous to refer to you) for Carol Folt.

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