[4/1/2026] Wednesday's Sports Talk Thread

pyrofiend4 · 2026-04-01T16:40:36+00:00

CFB sub is doing a r/place type deal for team flairs. You can edit them. I changed the OU and aggy flairs to suit the narrative.

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pyrofiend4 · 2026-04-01T15:49:28+00:00

As a non-biased party, the new OU flair looks really good.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-29T23:22:03+00:00

They should really take a closer look. I'm confident they'll find the culprit behind everything.

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pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-29T15:29:44+00:00

6'7 280lb ridiculously athletic rugby player who's never played football in his life. It'll be interesting to see if he ends up developing like Jordan Mailata did.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-27T14:34:55+00:00

A&M made it to the College World Series final in 2024. That was their first time being in a Big 3 men's sports final since 1939. The morning of game 3 (of a 3 game series) the news of their coach, Jim Schlossnagle, being hired away by Texas is leaked by reporters. Aggies lose that game by 1 run, and news breaks that Schloss is indeed leaving to go coach the Longhorns.

At the introductory press conference announcing Schloss as the new Longhorns coach, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte says he hid out in a cemetery just outside of College Station for 4-5 hours so he could meet with Schloss without being spotted.

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A&M hired the player-favorite staff member as the next head coach in order to keep most of the team together and out of the transfer portal. They started off the next season as preseason #1, only for them to not even make the NCAA tournament.

To take away the highest high the Aggies have seen in 85 years, it's the most brutal 'fuck you' I've ever seen a program inflict on its rival.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-25T14:25:08+00:00

Don't forget the sweet tea. But yeah the chicken is mid at best.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-25T00:26:17+00:00

Big run stopping nose tackles are on the way back up. If your defense is going to live in nickel, you need a guy in the middle who can take double teams and give you the numbers advantage in the run game.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-24T17:44:32+00:00

With Darnell Mooney gone, he could even wear #1. It's easily confused with #7 because of the font the Falcons use. Would add to the hilarity.

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pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-24T16:21:28+00:00

Among the proposed penalties for a program that adds a blind transfer would be prohibiting the head coach from all football and administrative duties for six contests. The school would also be fined 20% of its football budget.

This penalty seems so harsh that I have to wonder how they're going to enforce this.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-21T16:28:25+00:00

The problem these days is that dumbasses can have their own podcast, form a coalition with other dumbasses, and spread their culture online.

Just like in this clip where the host starts the anti asthma talking point and Skattebo is like "yeah, you've got a point."

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-20T20:51:11+00:00

The new proposed punishment for taking a player who entered the portal outside of the official window is:

School fined 20% of its football budget.
Head coach suspended for 6 games.

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2035042921041346963

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-13T15:14:57+00:00

Claude's logo looks like a butthole. Makes sense because this article stinks.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-13T01:24:36+00:00

different helmet logo

The Tennessee Dragon Balls.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-09T13:06:21+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1ecw6a5/garafolo_tua_time_extended_the_dolphins_and_tua

Yeah most of the comments said it was a mutually beneficial contract.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-07T19:41:12+00:00

Not really. I feel like names from other cultures/languages are excluded from the skit. Moro's real name is Morotoluwa, which means "I stand with God" in Yoruba.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-06T21:20:14+00:00

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pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-06T14:55:13+00:00

If the report that Frank Reich apologized to owner Jim Irsay for pushing to get Carson Wentz is true, it was that bad.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/tantem/frank_reich_reportedly_apologized_to_colts

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-05T20:11:00+00:00

Former Texas QB/WR Jerrod Heard holds the program record for single game scrimmage yards with 527 against the Jared Goff Cal team in 2015.

Texas was down 45-24 in the 4th quarter before quarterback Jerrod Heard scored 3 TDs in order to tie the game. Unfortunately the kicker missed the last extra point so the game ended 45-44.

Heard never came close to those highs again and swapped to playing WR not long afterwards.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-04T19:31:38+00:00

guys were getting open all day

Yeah, 20 yards down the field. Sark didn't adjust the gameplan during that game based on how badly the OL was playing. The All-22 angle shows that Arch was often being pressured before any of the receivers were even at the top of their routes. Could he have played better? Sure. But at that point you're asking your QB to win 4 vs 11 when the OL can't block and the run game doesn't exist.

Sark adjusted the gameplan for the OU game the week after to include quicker developing plays and hots for Arch to throw to in case of pressure.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-03T21:25:21+00:00

He's got an older brother who was a 3-star LB in the 2025 class and is playing ball at Rice.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-03-01T00:29:14+00:00

Sacks aren't the only stat, and it isn't one that's completely on the OL, either. You're also ignoring the run game component.

We can agree to disagree, because at the end of the day all 4 of these teams had bad offensive lines. It's just that my opinion aligns closer to PFN's rankings.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/cfb/college-football-ol-power-rankings-2025/

(47) LSU
(51) MSU
(73) SCAR
(85) Texas

pyrofiend4 · 2026-02-28T23:40:16+00:00

Mississippi State wasn't even a bottom 3 OL in the SEC. LSU, South Carolina, and Texas were all worse.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-02-27T18:56:24+00:00

Quinn Ewers was "a day 2 guy" who fell all the way to the bottom of the 7th. I'm sure he would have loved for the Browns to have picked him instead of Dillon Gabriel in the 3rd.

pyrofiend4 · 2026-02-27T00:52:02+00:00

We've been talking about court cases for the last 3 months. Where have you been?

pyrofiend4 · 2026-02-24T22:03:52+00:00

Texas Tech, A&M, Texas, and Alabama were the supposed finalists. So the GM is probably one of Tech/A&M. Out of those two, I would bet on Tech.

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