Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, December 2, 2024

  • Man, I’ve been busy lately and just haven’t had time to commit to blogging. Work-related stuff is taking up a lot of bandwidth, especially outside of normal working hours. Today, I’m just going to throw some stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
  • I was expecting President Biden to go back on his word and pardon his son, Hunter. However, I didn’t expect it to happen last night. If anything, I would have thought he would have released the news on Black Friday when nobody pays attention to the news or his last days in office. I haven’t had a lot of time to think about it, but offhand, I think it’s a smart political move. If Republicans are in an uproar about the abuse of presidential pardons, they are about to take over the White House and Congress next month and do something about it. But they won’t, and it’s not all that different than Trump pardoning his son-in-law’s father in 2020, who will become our ambassador to France in the new administration.
  • Punching a player with a helmet really isn’t that effective.

  • Stanford brings ex-star QB Andrew Luck ‘home’ as new GM

Luck, 35, has accepted a newly created role at Stanford, which will place him above the entire program and is a distinct evolution from the traditional college general manager role. The hire could loom as a harbinger for structural changes in college football front offices across the sport.

Luck’s role involves everything Stanford football touches, football-wise and business-wise. The football-specific duties will include managing the coaching staff, the player personnel staff, recruiting, roster management and the student-athlete experience.

This will be interesting to watch since college football has changed so much recently with NIL and conference changes. One thing the article failed to mention was how much his father’s background as an executive for pro and college football teams and conferences may have played. I’m still ticked he was robbed of the Heisman Trophy twice.

  • The aftermath of divorce continues to make holidays challenging. With me, it’s not the relationship aspect; it’s the entire loss of family and seeing what my kids have to settle for.
  • DaughterGeeding is a Stars fan, so I took her to a game. Since we don’t get to spend as much time together as I’d like, I splurged on tickets and took advantage of a Black Friday sale. Here are some pics. A lot of time I like to bring in my DSLR, but this time I only used my phone to snap pics.
     
  • One thing I like to do during a game is track when a player gets on and off the ice. For those of you unfamiliar with the sport, they spend just about a minute on the ice before they go back to the bench. They expel that much energy and the game is very fluid. It was something hard for me to track, but the new video board does an exceptional job, as you can see at the bottom of the screen. When a player gets on the ice, their time is in white. After 30 seconds, it turns yellow and then red after 45 seconds. The longest I saw a play stay in was around a minute and 37 seconds. 
  • Thirteen years in the SEC, and Texas A&M has yet to compete for an SEC championship. Texas punches its ticket in year one with a victory against the Aggies.
  • Just a reminder that as much as aTm likes to tout that Kyle Field is an intimidating place to play and is some massive home-field advantage, the ESPN analysts beg to differ.
  • As much as this state likes to brag about how great and storied this rivalry is, that is one crappy trophy to play for.
  • There isn’t another school in the country as obsessed with someone else as A&M is with Texas. It’s such a little brother mentality. The last time the Aggies played the Horns, they lost by a last-second field goal on their home turf. They waited 13 years to get revenge and then got run over again on their home field. If you don’t think they got run over, look at the game stats. The Aggies didn’t even score on offense. Let’s not forget that the Aggies made it all the way to the baseball championship against Tennessee and lost, and then their baseball coach immediately left them for Austin. And three years ago, the A&M athletic director flew out to SEC Media Days to try to prevent Texas from joining the SEC.
  • Arch Manning is doing things that hint he’s a legend in the making. On his first play as quarterback this season, he rushed for a touchdown, and on his first play against the Aggies, he rushed for a touchdown.
  • An Aggie friend who has always been into high school and college bands, especially the Aggie band, sent me a text absolutely livid that the Longhorn band didn’t let the Aggie band finish playing their song when the Aggies marched onto the field, saying it was classless. I’m not sure what was behind it. It was a cruddy thing to do, but it sure did play into the whole rivalry/hatred thing. Of course, I could have followed up with this classless act by an Aggie at College Gameday. Here’s the backstory.It certainly pissed off the Texas players and provided extra motivation.

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