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  1. The inexplicable love being shown for Arkansas on this page can fuck itself in the face. Pig hates us and the feeling is mutual.
    39 points
  2. I just read this whole thread, so I wanted to jump in here. First of all, I appreciate everyone's opinion. And more specifically I agree with some folks here about certain issues. I want everyone to know that we don't think or expect the OTF message board to be for everyone. In fact, we know it won't be. It's simply not what we're attempting to do. There are already places where people are comfortable and where they enjoy being. SurlyHorns is a perfect example of this. Folks enjoy this place. Clearly. Hell, I enjoy it when I come over here, that's one of the reasons I first reached out to Rick, so I totally get it. The second part is really important to me and why we manage the OTF message board the way we do in comparison to other "premium" sites... When I say dozens of recruits, parents of recruits, and parents of existing players on the team watch or listen to OTF daily, it is a very real thing. I think every single recruit who committed to Texas last year - all of them - knows and has watched OTF. I'm not saying that to brag, I'm saying it because that specific viewership brings a certain level of responsibility to OTF as it relates to the university on the whole. In my opinion, it's important to have a place like the OTF message boards and a site like OTF to be relatively clean. Not without opinion mind you, but certainly one that would not shock the system of newcomers either. I feel like OTF does a really good job of holding up that end of the bargain, and we will continue to do so. The third thing is this: While Surly is primarily a message board/community. OTF is primarily a news service with a community attached. OTF is much more like Orangebloods, Inside Texas or Horns247. Each of those sites, I have found through the years, gets extremely provincial. They don't like it when another site is referenced or they get petty about their own reporting, etc. I've been doing this stuff for 30 years and I'm just done with that. I also know that some parents of recruits sometimes subscribe to those sites, visit the message boards, and they see a bunch of in-fighting, followed by nudie pics, name calling, or cliques that live to make fun of others, and the parents immediately think to themselves, what the hell is going on at Texas? Is that's what's best for Texas? So for me, this is NOT about OTF vs OB. Or OTF vs IT. This is really about Texas vs the rest of college football/college sports. And that's what I want the focus of OTF to be about. We appreciate everyone who has joined OTF. We're doing our best to bring you news whether it's via video/podcast or the website and I think we're doing it in a way that is best for all involved. It won't be for everyone and we get that. I just appreciate the folks who have given us a chance and who continue to support what we're trying to do. Thanks, Bobby
    36 points
  3. Presuming the allegations in the indictment are anywhere close to true, lock him up. See, GQP, that's how you do it. IDGAF what "team" you're on. I don't care if it will cost my "team" someone with some seniority in Congress. Fuck criminals who abuse the public trust. Now, GQP....YOU try it. Come on. Give it a try.
    33 points
  4. UPDATE!!! I got an offer. I'll be working as the retirement plan administrator for a mid-sized employer based here in Houston with employees spread across the country. It's a nice bump in comp over my prior role. This is not the job I detailed above. I last talked with them two weeks ago and was told what the hold up is. I'm 95% sure that their offer is going to come in below this one. I think my work here is done. Talk about a wave of relief. Nerves really hit right after the offer call. Wow, just wow.
    33 points
  5. Texas will make a run this year. That initial part of your post is just fucking dumb. The roster is as solid as any in the country. Do you think there’s a flawless roster somewhere in which every spot is manned by veteran 4 and 5 stars? If so, point me to it. If not, get the fuck out with that ignorant take. Tired of seeing it on this board. Ohio State has a shit OL and Will fucking Howard at QB. Georgia has inexperienced offensive skill players and across the secondary. Oregon just lost a ton to the draft on the skill side. Are those not teams that you think could “make a run for a title”? As to the rest, Toia and Alexander had their home schools match big offers. One of those was fucked by a Texas $9.95er. Are you making an argument that Texas should have gone in with something ridiculous for either of those anyway? The original numbers are ridiculous in the first place. Texas wanted no part of Nolen, for reasons noted here repeatedly, and money played no part in that evaluation or non-offer. Honestly, from here forward, when someone laments Nolen, they’re getting auto-negged. I don’t give a fuck if he wins national defensive player of the year at Ole Miss, the Texas staff had excellent reasons to avoid the guy. “It’s not my money” and then ignorantly touting the false notion that Texas was beaten due to money with the names you reference is a solid surly move. No one has an endless spigot. If you want Texas to year in and year out get the top classes and the top guys in the portal, discipline matters. Paying $1M for a good but not great guy at one spot not called QB is the kind of stupidity we should be gleeful about witnessing from our enemy.
    32 points
  6. I’m not going to go into too much detail for what should be obvious reasons for most of you. But here are some thoughts, some humorous. Missouri put the big offer out there. They’ll be doing more of this. It’s effective and will land them some guys. It will also make other programs really think about how much they want a player. This is usually going to be good for us. They sit on fertile terrain that has often been plundered by Ohio State, OU and SEC schools. Them being good impacts other rosters. Texas will still get who they want if they’re sure they want them - see Ryan Wingo. LSU, as we have discussed on this board, is poor. Baseball-only clowns will often interject Marucci because they are myopic and uninformed. There have been interlopers on recruiting threads over the past few years insisting that LSU will do what they have to do because they did so when only 10-ish schools were playing the bag game and the numbers were a lot smaller. LSU was able to scratch together about 40% of where this allegedly finished and that was scrambling. OU’s choices here have consequences. They focus on football, softball, gymnastics, and targets of opportunity for baseball and basketball. There are knock-on effects for robbing Peter to pay Paul. We will see that impact somewhere, probably in hoops and baseball. The player wanted LSU. They’re weren’t even close. The player wasn’t super interested in OU but the handler was. Good luck inside the new Jimbo Fisher school of roster management being deployed in Norman. Venables seems to genuinely believe that Clemson won two national titles because they had the best DLine in college football. That no doubt helped, but maybe, just maybe, having two awesome QBs that were picked at the top of the NFL draft plus elite skill talent on both sides of the ball also played a role? I don’t know. Weird.
    31 points
  7. From a thread (a few hours old) on LSU 247, in which the mod says all signs point to Oklahoma, and that they came in with a big offer. 😂 😂 😂 😂.
    31 points
  8. 😂😂😂😂
    30 points
  9. now i don't feel so bad about making my 6 year old be a cowboys fan.
    29 points
  10. This is Gus. He joined our family about 6 years ago. As a puppy, he was released from service dog school after biting a trainer. We adopted him afterwards. He is, quite possibly, the dumbest animal to ever walk this planet. His dumbassery has provided our family countless hours of happiness. He is also one of the most loving and gentle dogs I’ve ever known. I’m grateful that Kristi Noem wasn’t his prior owner.
    28 points
  11. It's a Texas football message board and it's people trying to get other posters to say our historic rival Arkansas is a neat place to send your kids. They need to read the fucking room (and maybe get their kids off of TikTok and into a textbook).
    28 points
  12. We are slap in the middle of primary season here in Georgia, just got walk up unsolicited Republican stumpers at the door for the first time. My wife is talking to them, it's not going well for them. All I caught of her conversation thus far was "my candidate isn't on trial for paying off a porn star, insurrection, election fraud and racketeering. How about yours?"
    28 points
  13. *navigates to Amazon.com* *buys Spanish flag* *packs suitcase*
    28 points
  14. Una pregunta, por favor. Donde esta Milwaukee? Tenemos mucho hambre para comida Vaigan.
    28 points
  15. No time for lawyers in a hush money trial to prepare for the person who was hushed by the money to be a witness?
    27 points
  16. Or, maybe, Texas wasn’t willing to overpay for one player and the impact the overpayment would have on the locker room, regardless of whether that player was at a position of need. Being principled in roster building and NIL is more important in the long term. Also, while we are in a great position to make a run this year, we are building a foundation for a long-term run. Not just one year. This shit is for the next ten years. Focusness, bitches.
    27 points
  17. Better, he turns his head when the ball is in the air. He will get that coached out of him.
    26 points
  18. Leftover meatloaf sandwich
    26 points
  19. Some notes from Gerry/Bobby/Vogel OTF streams from May 6th and May 7th MAY 6th STREAM THEY LOVE COLE Who's the best? Jay'Vion Cole's DA BEST!! JOSH PETTY (5* OT) - Kyle Flood went by his school last Tue - Currently has Oregon scheduled June 14-16 - Looking at visiting Texas instead on those dates, moving Oregon to a diff day NICK BROOKS (4* OT) - Visiting Texas June 14-16 - GA favorite; GA/TX top two; Kyle Flood visiting in a couple of weeks LINEBACKER CLASS - 3 for sure - Barnes committed, Texas leads for Pettijohn - Matai Tagoa ("stud, stud, stud") SC commit, Jonathan (Dante?) Cunningham visiting 14-16; Javar Thomas offered, but not visit set up in Spring, which is a concern re him - Transfer DTs - juice worth squeeze? - Kevin Wynn visiting 14th - 16th PORTAL - Right now, don't see another definite guy in the portal, at any position - Doesn't include grad transfers … unlikely to be high level players - 3 or 4 considered portal, only Blackshire pulled trigger; was running third team - Punter may be a grad transfer possibility FAVORITE DT RECRUITS - Brandon Brown - Josiah Sharma - Kevin Wynn - Zion Williams - Myron Charles would be the 5th - Derry Norris sleeper - DJ Sanders - fine as 4th; needs time to develop - FYI, Gerry raves about Brandon Brown (called him a 5 star in his book) - Likely 4 HS d-linemen; 3 for sure, likely 4 Again, likely to go to the portal for dlinemen after this season Amari Niblack running up the seam, could go for 80; need to defend the deep ball vs. Niblack, as opposed to Sanders Just heard from Nick Townsend - his official visit to Texas is still on MAY 7TH STREAM Wouldn't disagree with reports that Texas is on top for Jaime FF, but things could change French is an early enrollee Flood going out to see Fasusi, etc.. Yesterday, thought Texas may be done with schollies, but don't think so anymore. 3 schollies left. Scouring the portal for - A) Immediate help (DT, DB, punter … ) B) Or smaller school guy looking to move up - even frosh or redshirt frosh (not Cormani) Don't see Sark taking any Texas kid that has entered the portal, back John Mills (OT) - Texas and Washington, Texas is the favorite, need to close out in June Jackson Christian - Texas/Ags - curious whether he moves his timeline up John Turntine ('26) - ahead of where Banks was Troy Huhn or Dia Bell - Texas QB may be one of those two ('26)
    25 points
  20. I could never be a professional interviewer. Noem: I don't have conversations about my conversations. Miguelito: What the hell does that even mean, you stupid, ugly bitch?
    25 points
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  22. Tiny quibble here. Respectfully, Bobby actually did say this very thing. I believe it was one of the morning shows, probably late-March. Something to the effect of “guys, I’m just telling y’all, this team is literally a big time, difference maker at DT away from being a legit championship contender next year. Without it, I’m not sure that they are. That’s the only impediment they have right now.” I remember it because I remember thinking, “that’s a bold statement—the last time I saw that secondary they looked like dog shit, and they are sporting a years long track record of underperformance.” The rest of this is long, it is spoilered for space:
    25 points
  23. You’re telling me the guy with a washed up RB coach as a handler pretending that he’s the one being recruited is playing games and asking for an unreasonable amount of money? I hate the new NIL bidding process. I miss the good old days when if a handler wanted to make money off a kid he just fucked the kid’s mom. Simpler times.
    25 points
  24. Man, imagine future people learning about all of this. "Wait so he tried to steal the 2020 election. Everyone watched it happen in real time. Like, he tried so many different ways to steal an election he lost." "Yes." "..... including phone calls that were taped, in which he instructed states to alter their vote count so he would win?" "Yes." ".... including organizing a mob and sending them to the Capitol." "Yes." ".... and four years later, he was the nominee again? Why was he not in jail?" "Reasons."
    24 points
  25. This is Jesse. He joined our family about 2 years ago. We don’t know his story. He was abandoned and nearly killed when tranquilized by animal control. The vet who treated him knew us and that we had other vizslas in the family. We adopted him. He is, quite possibly, the sweetest animal to ever walk this planet. He can be slow to accept new people which we assume relates to being mistreated previously. But once familiar he won’t leave your side. I’m grateful that Kristi Noem wasn’t his prior owner.
    24 points
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  27. Aileen Cannon should be impeached and removed from the bench.
    23 points
  28. And now, heeeeers Stormy: And the trial is on break. Trump walks out, on a break, ahead of his sizable legal team and today’s entourage. Stormy Daniels has been telling a similar version of this story for at least 13 years, since a 2011 interview that was not published at the time because Michael Cohen, then Trump’s fixer, threatened the publication, "Life & Style." At the time, Daniels said that regarding Trump's offers of putting her on The Apprentice, she came to wonder “if he was just flat-out lying the whole time,” according to a transcript. She said, “I didn’t have any unrealistic expectations of actually being on the show; I figured my chances were 50-50.” The interview was ultimately published in 2018, after the story of the hush-money payment came out. One of the undercurrents of this testimony is how mocking and derisive Stormy Daniels is of Trump. In her telling, she was experiencing him that same way in real time during that evening in 2006. She has described him as being arrogant, and interrupting her while she talked. Stormy Daniels says that Trump told her she reminded him of his daugher, presumably Ivanka. “She’s smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well,” Daniels said Trump remarked. Stormy Daniels now takes on the defense's argument about her directly, saying that it was Trump himself who invited her to come on “The Apprentice,” not the other way around. This is fascinating, because we have seen many times the way that Trump accuses his adversaries of the same faults that he’s accused of. Here, Daniels is suggesting she wasn’t the one trying to use “The Apprentice” — he was, for sex. Stormy Daniels says she asked Trump during their dinner: “Are you always this rude? Are you always this arrogant and pompous? Like you don’t even know how to have a conversation.” Trump clearly mouths “bullshit” as Stormy Daniels recalls playfully spanking him with a rolled-up magazine, and saying he was much more polite afterwards. I wrote recently about how Trump’s advisers see the process as its own punishment in this case, and this testimony underscores that as much as anything. This testimony is hard to listen to for the audience; Trump is image-obsessed and controlling, and this is belittling by Stormy Daniels. Stormy Daniels says that during her dinner with Trump, she asked about his wife. He told her, she says, not to worry because the two did not “even sleep in the same room.” Trump and Melania were married in 2005, the year before this encounter. Trump shakes his head slightly and gives a sour look as Daniels says he told her that he didn't sleep in the same room as his wife. Trump is well known as a germophobe. Stormy Daniels has previously said that they had sex without a condom. This section of testimony — in which Daniels says she told Trump how frequently she was tested for sexually transmitted diseases — could help bolster the credibility of her story. Juan Merchan, the judge, has asked Daniels, who is on a long digression, to slow down. She has been speaking quickly the entire time she has been on the stand. Stormy Daniels has been directing many of her answers about the meeting with Trump in the hotel suite — which she described as much bigger than her home — directly to the jury, which is mostly expressionless. He was 60 at the time of this meeting, and Daniels was 27. The jurors are completely inscrutable as they listen to Daniels express very specific, well-honed opinions about adult films. It reminds us just how little we know about how they are reacting to this. Stormy Daniels says that Trump took an interest in the business aspects of her industry and asked about unions, residuals, and health insurance, as well about S.T.D. testing. Stormy Daniels is now talking about meeting Trump for dinner. She says that when he first emerged from his hotel suite, he was wearing “silk or satin” pajamas, which Daniels compared to those often sported by Hugh Hefner. She asked him to change, and he returned in more standard dress clothes. As Daniels is talking about entering Trump’s hotel suite, Trump whispers to his lawyer. He can’t stand feeling or appearing weak or powerless. But that’s exactly what he is here as Daniels is describing, in extensive detail, an encounter he continues to maintain didn’t happen. Daniels is describing Trump’s suite in Lake Tahoe in minute detail, every aspect down to the color of the tiles. She seems to have a photographic memory. Other presidents have had their secret affairs whispered about over the years — think John F. Kennedy — but it is surreal to have Stormy Daniels describing an encounter with Trump in this way, live from the witness stand. Stormy Daniels says that the first person she mentioned the dinner invitation to was her publicist, which to some extent gives the defense some ammunition, as they’ve painted Daniels as a grifter who was seeking to use Trump to benefit her career. The prosecutor, Susan Hoffinger, may be leaning into that in the same way her team has elicited damaging testimony about Michael Cohen: They’d rather that jurors hear it from the prosecution's witnesses up front, rather than allowing the defense to spring it on the jury as if the state were trying to hide it. Daniels recalls that her publicist urged her to go to the dinner, and asked her: "'What could possibly go wrong?'" Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, is asking about Trump inviting Daniels to dinner. Daniels says that she was approached by “Keith,” meaning Keith Schiller, Trump’s ominpresent bodyman. She says he took her number, though she refused the invitation initially. Daniels testifies that she saved Schiller in her phone as “Keith Trump,” and that his number remains in her phone to this day. Prosecutors are now showing the famous photo of Stormy Daniels and Trump in the gift shop at the Lake Tahoe resort they met at in 2006. One juror smiles as Stormy Daniels describes her initial reaction to Trump’s dinner invite: “No,” with an expletive attached. Stormy Daniels is recounting interactions with Trump after meeting him, and then getting a message he wanted to have dinner with her. She is asked to point him out in the courtroom, and she does by his navy jacket, pointing directly at him. He sits with no reaction. Trump looked at Stormy Daniels as she identified him but he hasn’t been reacting in any visible way to her testimony so far. We've seen none of the head-shaking and muttering that he did when he was on trial for defaming E. Jean Carroll. Some of Trump’s advisers and attorneys thought his reactions during that trial ultimately hurt him with the jury. Stormy Daniels is now describing the golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in 2006 where she met Trump. In a notable line, she says she knew that he was “as old or older than my father.” Daniels says she didn’t have a very substantive discussion with Trump and didn’t know much else about him. She knew he was a golfer, she says — they were on a golf course — and that he worked in reality television. And she knew of his show, “The Apprentice.” That year, 2006, marked the height of that show's popularity, and renewed Trump’s celebrity for a new generation. Stormy Daniels is a quick talker, and the prosecutor has asked her to slow down at least once to let the court reporter catch up. She intersperses her testimony with small laughs. Her storytelling is fluid. All I can see is the back of Trump’s head, so I can’t see his reaction. But I can see the angle of the witness stand, and the bench where the judge sits, and it looks to me as if the corner of the bench might be obstructing Stormy Daniels’s view of Trump. That may be helping her to relax a bit, as she talks about her podcast and a documentary film she appeared in. Stormy Daniels details how she recently got fired from a podcast because she was reluctant to continue talking about this case and about politics. This is an important bit of testimony that could rebut Trump’s lawyers’ argument that Daniels has made a career off of her sexual encounter with Trump. Stormy Daniels is now going through her résumé, including mainstream movies she appeared in like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” The prosecution is drawing out other work experience, including directing music videos, doing comedy, writing books and making podcasts, perhaps to show that she is more than just an adult film actress. As Stormy Daniels details her adult film career, Trump leans back and closes his eyes. As Stormy Daniels talks about moving from stripping to acting in adult films, she is continuing to talk very, very quickly. Though it's difficult to understand what she’s saying at times, the reaction is understandable. This is a witness talking about starting to act in adult films in front of a courtroom full of reporters and the former president of the United States. Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, guides Stormy Daniels toward talking about writing and directing adult films. This could be a savvy move, depending on the jurors’ reactions. Instead of dwelling on the sex itself, Hoffinger focuses on the professional aspects of the industry and gives Daniels credit for not just acting but steering the productions she was in. Prosecutors have made a point to note that Daniels did nude modeling and adult films as a way to make money and survive. She said she was scared to do her first pornographic film, but at the age of 23, she got a contract with Wicked Pictures, which makes them. As Stormy Daniels testifies about her background and life story, Trump is consistently whispering to his lawyer Todd Blanche. Trump has often had his eyes closed during uncomfortable moments of testimony in this trial. So far during this testimony, he is keeping them open. Stormy Daniels begins to talk about her career as a dancer — she began stripping, she says, because she made more money doing it than she did “shoveling manure,” work she had done previously at a stable. Her nervousness as she continues to speak very quickly could endear her to the jury — but this is a witness where the mentality of the jurors, a total mystery to us, is really important. Sex brings interesting reactions out in people, and Daniels's story is headed inexorably toward a story about sex. It’s hard to express how infrequently Trump is forced to come face to face with people who accuse him of impropriety, or people he has attacked. Stormy Daniels fits both categories. Stormy Daniels had a tough childhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her parents split up when she was young and they had very little money, in her telling. All of this potentially creates a sympathetic portrait for the jury, humanizing somebody who is probably known to most jurors in one way: as a porn star who alleges she had an affair with Donald Trump. Stormy Daniels is walking the jurors through her childhood, looking at them as she talks. One female juror smiled and appeared to be laughing quietly just before Daniels was brought into the room. Daniels is quickly walking through some of her early biography: raised in Baton Rouge, wanted to be a veterinarian, editor of her high school newspaper. “The people call Stormy Daniels,” Susan Hoffinger says. She walks into the courtroom, dressed all in black, almost a robe with a hood on it. She takes the stand and is sworn in with her hand raised. Daniels sounds nervous as she spells her name. She has glasses pushed on the top of her head. After Daniels passed him at the defense table, Trump glanced in her direction. They did not make eye contact. Several members of the jury noticeably perked up when Stormy Daniels's name was called as a witness. Prosecutors and defense lawyers just had a lengthy sidebar at the judge’s bench. This is ahead of Stormy Daniels coming in, suggesting it’s about what prosecutors will be allowed to ask her. They had settled whatever they were discussing and gone back to their tables, then two minutes later went back to the bench. They’re now heading back to their seats. The jury looks transfixed.
    23 points
  29. Fayetteville is terrible and the Arkie business school is a joke. This place is not our office and we don't have to pretend that people with stupid kids going to clown college are doing great things.
    23 points
  30. You're not wrong but it's still hilarious to see a proud dad thinking that posting about how great the University of Arkansas is on a Texas football forum was going to go any other kind of way than "good luck with your child's special needs."
    23 points
  31. I'm a surly dad now! Our daughter was born early this morning at 12:55AM happy and healthy. So incredibly thankful for the healthy baby and momma ❤️
    23 points
  32. That says just as much about them because his policy positions are cruel, ignorant and downright anti-American
    22 points
  33. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/06/geoff-duncan-endorses-biden-trump-2024 Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan on Monday endorsed President Biden and said that his fellow Republicans should back the Democrat's re-election bid instead of voting for former President Trump. Why it matters: Duncan was seen as a target for centrist political group No Labels, which announced last month it was dropping plans to run a unity ticket this November. What he's saying: "Unlike Trump, I've belonged to the GOP my entire life," Duncan wrote in an op-ed published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday. "This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass," he wrote. Duncan said it's "disappointing" to see Republicans "fall in line behind" Trump, and added that "the GOP will never rebuild until we move on from the Trump era, leaving conservative (but not angry) Republicans like me no choice but to pull the lever for Biden."
    22 points
  34. Deion Sanders is a thin-skinned, grifting, insecure, 57-year-old man adorned in jewelry and excess to fill the massive emotional void that not even a hall of fame NFL career could fill and is so easily distracted that he has to remind kids far less than half his age, even one who just plays for Austin Peay, that he's better than them and makes Tom Herman appear grounded and emotionally mature. Also, he's a total dick. There. We're back on track.
    22 points
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