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Tottenham Hotspur 2025-26: For a Few Trophies More
Captain Ron replied to Captain Ron's topic in Futbol
Damn. So close. -
Tottenham Hotspur 2025-26: For a Few Trophies More
kingkoopa6 replied to Captain Ron's topic in Futbol
Poop -
Well damn. We had it
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Texas Football 2025 Fall Camp - Kicking the Sonofabitch In
Rimbo replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
That's a pretty common flaw with judging DBs. I remember that being an issue with Jammer... the best DB on the field is the guy with 45 snaps and no other statistics. -
Steel spine, yeah right. We're the people sitting in 68 degree AC all day listening to bro country and complaining about brown people that make me pick English on the ATM.
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Texas Football 2025 Fall Camp - Kicking the Sonofabitch In
oldhorn2 replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Jesus!!!....so far Sark has made it to Fred Akers status....almost. If he wins one he will make it to Mack Brown territory. He has LOTS of wins to achieve before he makes it to the rate air of St DKR..... I say this and I love the guy, but goddammit!!! -
Also, I know nothing of this bar other than it has my new favorite name. https://www.thedownandoutbar.com/
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Tottenham Hotspur 2025-26: For a Few Trophies More
Captain Ron replied to Captain Ron's topic in Futbol
Man this is gonna slip away. Back to back misses. -
Texas Football 2025 Fall Camp - Kicking the Sonofabitch In
Rimbo replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I can relate to that; in 1999, I told my family I kinda felt sorry for OU. I will never, ever, EVER make that mistake again. -
Bumping this as the new trailer is out. I like this series for silly fun. New/final season takes on AI.
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Texas Football 2025 Fall Camp - Kicking the Sonofabitch In
Plorant replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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Texas Football 2025 Fall Camp - Kicking the Sonofabitch In
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I just find their ratings to be askew with CBs more than anyone. I’ll have watch guys, see them get picked on, and then they’ve got a higher grade than the CB on the opposite side of the field who the opposing team was avoiding like the plague. If memory serves, the returning starting CB for Ohio State had a higher grade last year than his drafted counterpart and the dude returning was holding/PI machine who was almost always in danger of getting burnt. -
Peeing into the ocean while you're swimming takes a conscious effort to let your bladder go.
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Captain Lurker started following Robert E. Lee HS in Tyler TX up for a Name Change Vote
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Just to dovetail on this, because I feel like this is an important point regarding Texas recruiting. This isn't for a Texas Tech audience. This is for fellow Longhorn fans. I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole of the 70s and 80s, because that's it's own thing, but it did set a foundation for the pure as the driven snow approach the administration, the coaching staff, and frankly, all of us fans took regarding our football program. In the late 90s Mack Brown arrived and shifted the entire dynamics for how to recruit Texas. He locked the state down. Texas went on a facilities spending spree that no one else could even approach. Brown was a Svengali wizard with closing skills even Alec Baldwin could admire. But things changed towards the middle of the 2000s. There were mistakes made on the Texas side, so it's not all on every one else. But this is when 7 on 7s first becoming popular, where you were falling behind in development and exposure if you didn't participate. It was the beginning of the personal trainer era. All of this had been going on in basketball since the 80s, but high school football coaches had held on as the gatekeepers, at least in Texas, into the mid 2000s. Saban was the first to industrialize the new dynamic. Suddenly Alabama was tossing out 300+ offers per recruiting cycle, with the caveat that they weren't "committable" offers. To make it committable, you had to make it to one of the Alabama camps. How were you going to get to one of the camps? Well, Alabama would pay your way. This was the start of the paid unofficial visits, which are basically de rigeur and have been the worst kept secret in college football recruiting for a decade and a half. They would spread around hefty bonuses to third parties who could get talented players to their campus. Soon the whole SEC was participating in these shenanigans, and not long thereafter, the rest of the college football world as well. Especially Clemson, Oregon, and Ohio State. Mack Brown, and then Charlie Strong after him, refused to play this game. We wouldn't do anything to establish relationships with third parties because we still felt like the key relationship was with the Texas high school football coaches. We also wouldn't move up our recruiting cycle, because Mack Brown felt like kids should finish their junior season first. So not only were we not compensating players in the same way schools like Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State were doing, we also were refusing to work with third parties, we weren't willing to compensate players for visiting the campus on an unofficial visit, we weren't helping defray costs much less financially reward people for bringing talented players to campus. And in the meantime all of us - and I include myself in this - would feel good about how tight we were able to wear our halos. I remember the first time I had my road to Damascus moment was when it was apparent we had a legitimate shot at Saban. At the time he felt like he had no chance to compete with Bear Bryant's legacy at Alabama, but if he could become the first coach to win 3 national titles at 3 different schools, that's something he could be remembered for. It's laughable now, but at the time none of us - including Saban himself - understood the dominant run he was about to go on. I thought about it, and realized I wanted to win so badly in this new environment, that if hiring Saban was the price we had to pay, I was all in. Then Dodds and Brown managed to cockblock him, and the opportunity vanished. I remember when we were hiring Tom Herman, and I told a collection of hardcore fans that we were going to start working with third parties and paying for unofficial visits, and everyone was aghast. "Oh, we don't do that at Texas." Yeah, we don't, and we're getting our heads handed to us in recruiting because we don't. You have to make the decision whether you're willing to compete in the big time, and right now we are literally making the deliberate decision we don't want to. It's not possible to compete in this environment without working with third parties and without helping with unofficial visits. That's anywhere. I'll also say that the reason Texas is in the position it's in regarding NIL has very little to do with the coaching staff or the administration. People don't understand how hard it is to do anything from the grassroots level without buy in from the heads of the organizations they're ostensibly trying to help. It's one of the hardest things in human society. It's unbelievably hard. I'm not going to say the administration sabotaged NIL efforts, but they sure didn't make it easy. They saw it as a threat, not an opportunity. The folks who worked on NIL at the beginning are heroes to me. I mean that literally. I did nothing to help, but as a fan I get to reap the rewards of unending cold calling, unending hearing the word no, unending education of the stakeholders. Yes, we have a rich alumni base, but not that many of them wanted to invest in NIL. We don't have a Phil Knight $30 billionaire whale bankrolling our entire operation. Even now the administration would prefer in some ways to have the $20.5 million figure be the ceiling for payroll costs, but if we abided by their wishes we'd be ceding the field to the Texas Techs of the world. I say ad nauseum that you have to have the right coach. All the support in the world doesn't matter if the wrong guy is in charge. Neither Charlie Strong nor Tom Herman nor late Mack Brown would be successful in the current environment at Texas. It would simply buttress their collective incompetence. I feel like Sarkisian is the right guy. I can't say I felt that when he was hired. I certainly didn't feel that way after his first two years. But the way he's built the program, the way he's built his staff, the consistent development I see in Longhorn players in ways I never have before. The narrative he paints about changing the culture, with the GPA, the "way you are some of the time is the way you are all the time" line, the way he and his staff vet the players they go after. The work ethic. The transparency. The results on the field. I'm a believer. But without being willing to compete in the same way the programs around us are competing would tie the hands behind the back of whoever the head coach happened to be. I am grateful the people who are in a position to make these kinds of decisions are choosing the path they're choosing.
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I got in 1 min past 4pm and 1800 In line. Over one hour wait. I will check the price, but now most likely will pass for now.
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Texas Rangers 2025: Pitching has been fire. Bats not so much.
gofuckyourself replied to ztejas's topic in Baseball
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Texas Rangers 2025: Pitching has been fire. Bats not so much.
HuntinHorn replied to ztejas's topic in Baseball
SmashBurger with the wheels! -
Burger flipped into a yuuuuge insurance run.
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Texas Rangers 2025: Pitching has been fire. Bats not so much.
Herbie Hancock replied to ztejas's topic in Baseball
Burger gonna need an oxygen mask after all that chuggin’ -
Texas Rangers 2025: Pitching has been fire. Bats not so much.
shadow_operative2.0 replied to ztejas's topic in Baseball
Hey, an extra run! -
Texas Football 2025 Fall Camp - Kicking the Sonofabitch In
Sell Mortimer Sell replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Sorry to divert from the Disney talk but this triggered me. I remember going to see UT play UH in the Astrodome in 1983. UT won 9-3 and I was never so pissed after a win in my life. Mossey Cade intercepted a pass and returned it to the UH 1 yard line, you guessed it, FG. Walking out of the stadium I remember seeing UT's total yards for the game was 90 something. It was embarrassing. After the 1984-1989 stretch I decided I'd never again be mad after a win. -
'could' I 'could' close a game this week for the astros
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