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We are talking about the same Joey that got blown out by WSU and was saved a loss vs Abilene Christian because the ACU coach made a bad call on a 2 pt conversion?

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We're talking about the Joey whose team has improved significantly since then and now has his team tied atop the Big 12 standings.

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Just more food for thought, Dave Aranda has a .325 win percentage (13-27 record) in his four seasons around 2021.

1) Two of those four seasons followed Big 12 championship game appearances and New Year's bowls.
2) That's .015 better than the win percentage of Guy Morriss, who followed two of the three least successful coaches in our program's history.

I think the 2021 season -- and Dave's general likeability -- have blinded some fans to just how awful he has been for most of his Baylor tenure.

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I agree with you Aranda is not a HC at the P5 level, I think he would be fantastic in the Ivy or at an Academy.
I just don't think Maguire is or was an upgrade.

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McGuire would definitely be an upgrade. It's indisputable based on the data. One coach has had one winning season in five years, the other has never had a losing season and there's a 160-point gap in their current win percentages.

You can say you don't think Joey McGuire is a great coach, and that's a fair, defensible position. You can't say he's a bad or mediocre coach or that he wouldn't be an upgrade over Aranda based on any relevant evidence or historical standard.

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I don't believe that records are transferrable. I do not think Nick Saban or Urban Meyer could win at Baylor (not that Maguire or Aranda are in the same galaxy as Saban or Meyer). We may be 500 or 1 game over 500, but not a contender. As for Maguire and Aranda, IMO they are interchangeable. Put Aranda at Tech, his winning percentage is similar to Maguire. Put Maguire at Baylor, his winning percentage is similar to Aranda.

Baylor's problems are deeper than Aranda. As long as Rhodes and this President is at Baylor, Baylor is an also-ran.

I am truly starting to believe that Rhule caught the residual of the McCaw/Starr reign that helped him recruit a level we have not come close to since. But we are allowed to disagree.

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Tech is a harder place to win than Baylor is, and he started from a lower platform than Aranda did. Switch their situations and it's likely the gap between the two is even larger.

And both Rhule and Aranda have recruited at roughly the same level Briles did. The difference between Briles and Rhule and Aranda is that the first two are way better at evaluating, fitting and developing talent than the third is.

Our struggles aren't a Baylor problem. They're a Dave Aranda problem.

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Joey's first two rosters at Tech were the best rosters Tech has had in modern history - in substantial part due to the number of super seniors - and that was due very little to his efforts. Let's not forget that some pundits were even predicting a NY6 game appearance for Tech in his second season.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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First of all, it wasn't a four-game difference. It was a five-game difference, which is just under 17 percent of a 30-game sample.

Matt Wells was 13-17 in 30 games at Tech. Joey McGuire was 18-12 in his first 30 games, and has won both of his games since eclipsing that arbitrary "milestone."

The latter is dramatically better. In fact, it's the difference between being well thought of by your fan base and college football punditry at large and being fired midway through your third season.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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First of all, it wasn't a four-game difference. It was a five-game difference,

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Not only is using the term dramatically better silly, but apparently your reading comprehension is silly too.

The other poster said 29 games, not 30 and he said it 3 times in his post.

In the first 29 games, there was a 4 game difference.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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First of all, it wasn't a four-game difference. It was a five-game difference,

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Not only is using the term dramatically better silly, but apparently your reading comprehension is silly too.

The other poster said 29 games, not 30 and he said it 3 times in his post.

In the first 29 games, there was a 4 game difference.

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The other poster wrongly said that Matt Wells only lasted 29 games at Tech. He lasted 30 -- and was dramatically worse than Joey McGuire in that time, which is why Sonny Cumbie finished his last season as interim and he's an offensive coordinator now.

This is an idiotic argument. There's not a fan on the planet who wouldn't say that an 18-12 record (which is now 20-12) isn't dramatically better than 13-17.

And if you need an illustration, there was only an eight-game difference between Art Briles' first four years at Baylor (25-25) and Guy Morriss' (15-31), which is roughly the same percentage difference we're talking about between Wells and McGuire. Only a clown intent on arguing for argument's sake would suggest Briles wasn't dramatically better in that span.

People really debating whether Joey is better than Matt wells? Come on

I agree. ******ed argument saying Joey isn't much better than Matt wells

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I agree. ******ed argument saying Joey isn't much better than Matt wells

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It's insane. The current difference in win percentage between McGuire and Wells at Tech is larger than the difference between Briles and Aranda at Baylor, and we have people saying that's not significant.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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First of all, it wasn't a four-game difference. It was a five-game difference,

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Not only is using the term dramatically better silly, but apparently your reading comprehension is silly too.

The other poster said 29 games, not 30 and he said it 3 times in his post.

In the first 29 games, there was a 4 game difference.

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The other poster wrongly said that Matt Wells only lasted 29 games at Tech. He lasted 30 -- and was dramatically worse than Joey McGuire in that time,

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Got it. That is correct, Wells only lasted 30 games.

4 games over a 29 game span isn't dramatic. 5 games over a 30 game span isn't dramatic either.

Is MacGyver better than wells? I'm sure he is, but don't really care because neither are our coach.

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People really debating whether Joey is better than Matt wells? Come on

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I don't see anyone doing that but admittedly have not read every post.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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First of all, it wasn't a four-game difference. It was a five-game difference,

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Not only is using the term dramatically better silly, but apparently your reading comprehension is silly too.

The other poster said 29 games, not 30 and he said it 3 times in his post.

In the first 29 games, there was a 4 game difference.

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The other poster wrongly said that Matt Wells only lasted 29 games at Tech. He lasted 30 -- and was dramatically worse than Joey McGuire in that time,

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Got it. That is correct, Wells only lasted 30 games.

4 games over a 29 game span isn't dramatic. 5 games over a 30 game span isn't dramatic either.

Is MacGyver better than wells? I'm sure he is, but don't really care because neither are our coach.

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A difference in win percentage of .167 is dramatic. And if you compare the entirety of the two coaches' Tech tenures that difference (.182) is even moreso.

If you don't care about or like either coach, that's fine. But that's a significant gap in terms of coaching success. One will hold his job for a long time winning at the clip he currently is. The other couldn't make it through three seasons.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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First of all, it wasn't a four-game difference. It was a five-game difference,

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Not only is using the term dramatically better silly, but apparently your reading comprehension is silly too.

The other poster said 29 games, not 30 and he said it 3 times in his post.

In the first 29 games, there was a 4 game difference.

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The other poster wrongly said that Matt Wells only lasted 29 games at Tech. He lasted 30 -- and was dramatically worse than Joey McGuire in that time,

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Got it. That is correct, Wells only lasted 30 games.

4 games over a 29 game span isn't dramatic. 5 games over a 30 game span isn't dramatic either.

Is MacGyver better than wells? I'm sure he is, but don't really care because neither are our coach.

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A difference in win percentage of .167 is dramatic. And if you compare the entirety of the two coaches' Tech tenures that difference (.182) is even moreso.

If you don't care about or like either coach, that's fine. But that's a significant gap in terms of coaching success. One will hold his job for a long time winning at the clip he currently is. The other couldn't make it through three seasons.

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Let's be honest here. The only reason we are nitpicking at these types of mundane details is because our program sucks and we are unhappy about it.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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First of all, it wasn't a four-game difference. It was a five-game difference,

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Not only is using the term dramatically better silly, but apparently your reading comprehension is silly too.

The other poster said 29 games, not 30 and he said it 3 times in his post.

In the first 29 games, there was a 4 game difference.

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The other poster wrongly said that Matt Wells only lasted 29 games at Tech. He lasted 30 -- and was dramatically worse than Joey McGuire in that time,

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Got it. That is correct, Wells only lasted 30 games.

4 games over a 29 game span isn't dramatic. 5 games over a 30 game span isn't dramatic either.

Is MacGyver better than wells? I'm sure he is, but don't really care because neither are our coach.

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A difference in win percentage of .167 is dramatic. And if you compare the entirety of the two coaches' Tech tenures that difference (.182) is even moreso.

If you don't care about or like either coach, that's fine. But that's a significant gap in terms of coaching success. One will hold his job for a long time winning at the clip he currently is. The other couldn't make it through three seasons.

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Let's be honest here. The only reason we are nitpicking at these types of mundane details is because our program sucks and we are unhappy about it.

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This is definitely true.

But the fact of the matter is, the coaching tenures of Dave Aranda and Joey McGuire will be inextricably linked because we passed on the former to hire the latter. That makes the fact that we suck -- and the juxtaposition of our current position and Tech's -- all the more painful.

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Matt Wells was the HC for 29 games at Tech. McGuire in his first 29 games as HC had 4 more wins that Matt Wells in 29 games. Is it better yes but not at the dramatic level some here act, thus far.

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Matt Wells left Tech with a .433 win percentage. McGuire's is almost 200 points higher currently. That is dramatically better. Any arguments to the contrary are silly.

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What's silly is using the term dramatically better when pointing to a 4 game difference in over 2 and a half years of football.

4 games in that time span is about 1.5 games per season and neither the 4 games nor the 1.5 game difference per season if averaged, are dramatically better.

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First of all, it wasn't a four-game difference. It was a five-game difference,

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Not only is using the term dramatically better silly, but apparently your reading comprehension is silly too.

The other poster said 29 games, not 30 and he said it 3 times in his post.

In the first 29 games, there was a 4 game difference.

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The other poster wrongly said that Matt Wells only lasted 29 games at Tech. He lasted 30 -- and was dramatically worse than Joey McGuire in that time,

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Got it. That is correct, Wells only lasted 30 games.

4 games over a 29 game span isn't dramatic. 5 games over a 30 game span isn't dramatic either.

Is MacGyver better than wells? I'm sure he is, but don't really care because neither are our coach.

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A difference in win percentage of .167 is dramatic. And if you compare the entirety of the two coaches' Tech tenures that difference (.182) is even moreso.

If you don't care about or like either coach, that's fine. But that's a significant gap in terms of coaching success. One will hold his job for a long time winning at the clip he currently is. The other couldn't make it through three seasons.

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Let's be honest here. The only reason we are nitpicking at these types of mundane details is because our program sucks and we are unhappy about it.

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This is definitely true.

But the fact of the matter is, the coaching tenures of Dave Aranda and Joey McGuire will be inextricably linked because we passed on the former to hire the latter. That makes the fact that we suck -- and the juxtaposition of our current position and Tech's -- all the more painful.

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You are definitely mired in fan misery. I say that because once we get caught up in the would have/could have / should haves with past moves, that usually means one thing: our team sucks.

If its any consolation, you can look at it from the very simplistic viewpoint before dave was hired.

Candidate A: The DC for National Title football team. DC for 9-10 years in college. Never been a college head coach

Candidate B: Assistant head coach/ TE / DE coach at school B for 2 years. Never been a college head coach.

If that was how we wrote their resumes, candidate B is never getting hired over candidate A.

I want to add - I did not want to hire either guy. So my list would have been entirely different.

joey will hang 40+ on us....with no mercy shown....

If Joey hangs 40 on us .it's not because he hates us..it's because we suck ..

Joey has nothing but good memories of his time here and harbors no ill will to the administration.

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If Joey hangs 40 on us .it's not because he hates us..it's because we suck ..

Joey has nothing but good memories of his time here and harbors no ill will to the administration.

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I'll disagree. It's a rival game, respect for the institution or not, this game has been circled, highlighted etc on his calendar since it was released. He will prove a point at home to the TT - I would drop 70 on Baylor.

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Joeys incredibly overhyped. But at least he's able to get Tech bowling…. Something Dave can't seem to do even with incredibly weak schedules

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Joey in Waco would get real talent from Texas to come. It's a nice and easy destination compared to Lubbock.

Believe he's a better judge of talent than Aranda. (Unless it's true that administration has final decision)

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This is what Florida man doesnt understand about Lubbock. Nobody wants to drive 8 hours from Houston or 6 hours from Dallas to go to college when they can be right in the middle of the state close to Austin/Dallas and Houston. Waco is not a hard place to recruit to if we have a coach that knows what he is doing.

I thought recruiting has shot up dramatically since the administration decided to bless NIL last December. Now the vast majority of those kids aren't here yet. But I thought the 25 class jumped into the top 25.

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If Joey hangs 40 on us .it's not because he hates us..it's because we suck ..

Joey has nothing but good memories of his time here and harbors no ill will to the administration.

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I'll disagree. It's a rival game, respect for the institution or not, this game has been circled, highlighted etc on his calendar since it was released. He will prove a point at home to the TT - I would drop 70 on Baylor.

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He had a chance to prove his point at home 2 years ago and we drilled them.

He got us back last year.

Saturday is just another game against another team for Tech. This isn't circled on their calendar as some sort of revenge game.

Nope. There's no "revenge".

But you can bet it's circled W. Let's take that away from them.

The hate for West Texas will never make sense to me. People out there will still stop and help others on the side of road.
They get 4 seasons instead of summer and not summer.
There are 40k plus kids from DFW, Houston etc that seem to be quite happy there, enough so to stay engaged after they graduate.
Some of y'all act like Waco is heaven on earth.

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The hate for West Texas will never make sense to me. People out there will still stop and help others on the side of road.
They get 4 seasons instead of summer and not summer.
There are 40k plus kids from DFW, Houston etc that seem to be quite happy there, enough so to stay engaged after they graduate.
Some of y'all act like Waco is heaven on earth.

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I've lived in Abilene for 17 years now, and there a lot of things I love about West Texas. But I also understand why a lot of people would not care as much for it.

I just accept that this, like most other things, is a "different strokes for different folks" situation.

I liked Lubbock and I love Waco. Don't get hate for either

To the outside world, folks arguing over Lubbock and Waco as sexy destinations must seem funny. Like two West Virginians arguing over the best dentist.

Lubbock and Waco have one thing in common. They are WAY nicer than they used to be, as towns. The Waco argument should be that more parents and family of more kids could more easily drive to more games. And, if in the off chance your son doesn't make the NFL , his Baylor degree and network will mean more in my humble opinion.

Ps... a ton of West Texas is great. Less so the panhandle but I love Big Bend out to El Paso. I love the desert.

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I liked Lubbock and I love Waco. Don't get hate for either

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I don't hate Lubbock. Waco is convenient. DFW is one of the hotbeds of high school football. One and a half hours is a reasonable distance from home and an easy trip for the players and their families.

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If Joey hangs 40 on us .it's not because he hates us..it's because we suck ..

Joey has nothing but good memories of his time here and harbors no ill will to the administration.

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do u spin for cnn on the side??

Haha.. you're just creating drama where none exists.

its a slow wednesday night....

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The hate for West Texas will never make sense to me. People out there will still stop and help others on the side of road.
They get 4 seasons instead of summer and not summer.
There are 40k plus kids from DFW, Houston etc that seem to be quite happy there, enough so to stay engaged after they graduate.
Some of y'all act like Waco is heaven on earth.

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I've lived in Abilene for 17 years now, and there a lot of things I love about West Texas. But I also understand why a lot of people would not care as much for it.

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I've been out that way a bunch. My inlaws farm cotton in Roscoe

Abilene is the only city I'd live in within an hour or so of Roscoe area in general. Not too fond of lubbuttucks.

There's a little town called Alpine about 4 hours southwest of Roscoe that I like quite a bit. North of that is Balmorhea State park, a hidden gem.

There are definitely some neat things to be found. There's also a whole lotta nothing in between lol

Thanks for letting us have him! Dave Arana is definitely looking like the right hire. I fully expect for Tech to win this game by at least 3 scores. Glad Sawyers family will be able to watch him throw 3 picks!!

The reddest raider

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If Joey hangs 40 on us .it's not because he hates us..it's because we suck ..

Joey has nothing but good memories of his time here and harbors no ill will to the administration.

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I'll disagree. It's a rival game, respect for the institution or not, this game has been circled, highlighted etc on his calendar since it was released. He will prove a point at home to the TT - I would drop 70 on Baylor.

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He had a chance to prove his point at home 2 years ago and we drilled them.

He got us back last year.

Saturday is just another game against another team for Tech. This isn't circled on their calendar as some sort of revenge game.

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Sooo… if he DOES hang 40 on the cubbies, did he have this Saturday circled or is BU really that pathetic? Which is it?

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Stefano DiMera said:

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If Joey hangs 40 on us .it's not because he hates us..it's because we suck ..

Joey has nothing but good memories of his time here and harbors no ill will to the administration.

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I'll disagree. It's a rival game, respect for the institution or not, this game has been circled, highlighted etc on his calendar since it was released. He will prove a point at home to the TT - I would drop 70 on Baylor.

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He had a chance to prove his point at home 2 years ago and we drilled them.

He got us back last year.

Saturday is just another game against another team for Tech. This isn't circled on their calendar as some sort of revenge game.

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Sooo… if he DOES hang 40 on the cubbies, did he have this Saturday circled or is BU really that pathetic? Which is it?

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Both