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This is correct. TOF is not attempting to make a profit. Just no longer working as a 501(c)3 since House excluded that as a legitimate vehicle going forward.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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You referenced the “absolute” tone, so not a knock, but sure, Sarkisian and team have signed enough now that ultimately being perfect on hit rate becomes impossible. Regarding Campbell, I might be alone on this one, but given that he was a 5 star as an OG, I am inclined to give both the services credit for still rating him that highly and the staff if he winds up getting drafted in any round, but for sure any round better than 6. He got a low round draft grade last cycle, allegedly, so he’s got a shot to hit the mids if he has a great year. 2:15 -
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You act as if the posters in this thread had previously been hyping Ojo as some sort of next version of Banks. Maybe I missed that. You can go back pretty far in this thread and find references to guys we trust, like Gerry, not being as high on Ojo as the rankings would suggest. It’s not going to be posters on this board who hammer Ojo from the #1 OL ranking to finishing somewhere in the national 150-ish overall range. Are you implying that when those rankings change that it’s a conspiracy among the ratings services? Or are you just too stupid to follow the logic knot you’re tying in some sort of pathetic effort to seem contrarian? -
Will be buying it and loving it in all of its imperfect glory.
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Dude is 6’8”, 245. I didn’t realize that. He’s huge.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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There’s some notion that Lee is a legitimate flip candidate. Guess we’ll see over the next few months. If Texas misses on Ojo, that at least frees up earmarked money for someone else on the OL (not for other positions). Whoever referenced Sheppard with Ojo nailed it for me. I want him for signing day noise and if he really embraces the developmental experience and becomes a player down the line, awesome. Is that worth $1M to open? No, it is not. Good luck with Tech if that is the path they select. The family does recognize there’s a gap in track records for line development between Tech and Texas. Do they realize the gap is Grand Canyon-sequel? Who knows. I’m still rooting to land the guy, but for the thoughts I espoused and not because he’s some sort of can’t miss prospect. Also, the guy lost every rep at the Rivals camp a few weeks ago. He’s expected to plummet in the rankings. He’s going to wind up as a mid-level 4 star. The hype he adds to Texas’ class in the end isn’t going to be massive. For Tech, everyone covering it will oversell it through signing day. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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This is a highly skilled and time-honored technique, sir. I once saw an A-back shut down All State DE, and future aggie, Steve McKinney in a high school game. Baller shit. Gerry has always had a low opinion of him as a prospect for a multitude of reasons. His behavior as a recruit and attitude about where he is in his development are part of it. With Tech putting an offer out there of roughly double what Texas has discussed with the Ojos, maybe it’s a bullet dodged. Paying major money for a guy who won’t see the field for several years is always a dangerous gamble. What a stunning development for a North Shore recruit. -
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247 apparently has him at 6.05 and 205. That dude must have been wearing lifts and a ruck vest when they measured him. -
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He’s a small LB that didn’t make it past initial evaluations with the Texas staff. -
The annual college football magazine thread
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You can still apparently get a Street & Smith’s, because Steele has them in his forecast tracker/ranker thing that he does. Maybe it has to be ordered? I don’t know, haven’t seen one in a few years. -
The annual college football magazine thread
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Yeah, I got mine from B&N on Saturday. You can see, as your error shows, that he had it more hastily put together this year. I get it, he wants to wait until all of the transfer info is processed and I don't mind it, but there is an element of sloppiness that wasn't there before. He has Malik Muhammad going in the first round and then doesn't list him in the draft eligible CB list of 65. For numerous teams, he has zero recruits in for spring (IFS), including Texas. That dude loves ranking OU and ATM. It's comical. I've said all offseason that OU has a better team than folks think, while everyone is severely overrating ATM's roster. Steele has OU at #9, which is idiotic. Their roster isn't a top 10 roster. Their schedule is pretty tough. Their ceiling is 8 wins. I forget where he ranked ATM, but he ranked them. Then when you read through his ATM page, he basically breaks everything down to "trust The Elk". He overrates York hilariously. Overall, it's still a very fun and informative magazine. -
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Kosi Okpala - Breaker of Dark Streaks, Uplifter of Fucktarded Forums The guy has great size and I assume is from a west African family, which usually translates pretty fucking well to the Texas football program as a culture fit. I'll take it.
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To be fair, there's been some inflation since the 1940's for whatever you desire. -
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There is a market for fucking celebrities? How is the first that I'm hearing of it? What are going rates? I assume someone like Melissa McCarthy is probably pretty inexpensive, but your basic Sabrina Carpenter is a bit pricey. Is there an arbitrage opportunity related to maybe age (like, say, Jane Seymour or Halle Berry) or psychosis (Britney Spears)? -
I have 3 boys. They begged to watch this. I took my wife, youngest daughter and 3 boys to see this one this evening. I read both books in the 90’s and convinced a troop of my friends to go watch JP on opening day and it became loved. I hated the 2nd movie but have been easy on all of the other ones. This new one was terrific for what it was. If you don’t want to watch a Jurassic Park movie, don’t go. If you dig those, this one is just fine. Also, ScarJo is a fatty. She needed 6 more months of work before filming. It was unfortunate to see.
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“Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: We’re Going To Repeat A Lot Of NIL Discussion” If we have to choose a Green Day motif, can we choose something other than their most terrible song? ”Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Dookie”, for instance. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Sadly, the title of this thread still works very effectively. The direction of the comment doesn't feel the same right now, however. Might be time for a change. "Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Swing-And-A-Miss Steve Rides Again" "Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Still Doing Better Than Oklahoma" "Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Hoisted By Other Fucktards" "Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Getting the Chokehold Buttfuck" I don't know. Something along those lines. -
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It's as I've been saying, one of three things is happening, probably all at different places: 1) Programs are making up money and hoping to backfill it on success and rev share later. (USC, at least) 2) Programs are foregoing what they have on campus to make big offers to recruits and build from there. (ATM, Florida) 3) Programs are going to wash through more than $20.5M and call it all rev share, whatever the numbers are. (LSU) There are probably some morons who just aren't calculating the current roster much at all for future monetary needs and just assuming "it will work itself out" when, indeed, it very well may not. -
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List of thread derails, from best types to the most inane, insipid shit imaginable. 1) Arguing over hottest famous women. 2) Arguing over hottest women on campuses. 3) Personal stories about random subject matter triggered by some mention in a recruiting update. 4) Cheese puns. 5) Campus weather discussions. 6) Academic dick-measuring among schools competing for a player. 7) Reliving terrible shit in Texas football history. 8 ) BBQ snobs finding their way from the food board to discuss brisket smoking nuances and other super dumb shit associated to BBQ snobbery. -
WR/TE, no doubt. OL is a push. They're returning one actual starter, a part time starter (started because the actual starter went down to injury in game 10) and a transfer starter from Rice. That's a patchwork OL to open the season. At least Texas will have 3 guys with actual starting experience on the Texas OL opening the year. I don't see how RB or QB is up for grabs. Sayin is a redshirt freshman who has never played. We've seen what Manning can do and he's got an extra year in his system. At TB, they return a 3rd stringer true soph, with the equivalent of Gibson's numbers, and the oft-injured starter from WVU. Texas returns a 1,000 yard rusher and 2 other guys with substantial experience. Atkinson on the OSU Edge, the UNC transfer, is solid. But you're right, I think the DLs are imbalanced in favor of Texas. Same at LB. Texas returns more experience and talent in the secondary. Ohio State has the best overall player in Downs. Their returning starting CB, the only other returning starter, was burnt more often than Tom Herman's toast. They return everyone from a good special teams units. I think this is actually the biggest issue for Ohio State versus Texas in game 1. Hartline wasn't ready the first time he got the reins of the offense. Is he going to have everything in rhythm against the best defense in CFB in game 1? I don't see it. Matt Patricia is a fucking buffoon. He's been hated just about everywhere he's been and then ultimately run out of town due to performance. They replaced a borderline genius DC with this guy, and he's got to have 8 new starters working cohesively within the unit against what portends to be one of the better offenses in the country.
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I was talking about returning 1,000 yard rushers. Of course there'd be 50+ across 135 2024 FBS teams. Surprised it's not more than 51. The premise was that Wisner was part of a large, returning crowd of 1000 rushers and I was skeptical of that. Looking at the list provided by SimkinsMan, my skepticism is mostly justified. There are 26 returning 1,000 yard rushers. 5 of those are QBs, 3 of whom play in run-first systems. Another guy is a triple option offense guy. 8 of the 26 played last year in a P4 program, and Wisner is the 5th highest rushing RB in that group. So, it's not really super looney for a magazine to be listing Wisner as a 3rd team preseason AA. Here is the list of returning 1000 yard FBS rushers for 2025, which features interesting information about where some of these guys are landing:
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There are 50ish RBs returning to FBS that rushed for over 1000 yards last year? That doesn’t sound close to being right but I haven’t looked it up. Mostly, I just think Athlon is being lazy because he’s one of the only P4 returners that did rush for 1000 (in 16 games).
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Ohio State and Texas made payrolls of $25M last year. The 2025 Texas numbers were fucked up in terms of the layer cake when delivered to Bohls, but in the grand scheme, correct. He described them incorrectly but the total was right.
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