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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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The plus in LGBTQIA+ is for cat lovers. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Using that .gif with Oregon involved in the recruiting is like posting a video to Jump Around with Wisconsin as the competition. Cheeky. -
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Don't forget he loves Galveston. LOVES IT! -
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Well, they changed the state law in 1999 with Senate Bill 89 to help prevent another Kingwood scenario. In honor of the thread, Houston would now have to "recruit" an area in order to annex them. -
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Technically League City is right next to Houston. It's not the same as Georgetown is to Austin, because Austin hasn't aggressively swallowed up the neighborhoods next door to it. When Houston annexed places like Clear Lake, Alief, and Kingwood, it made the places next to it very close. League City abuts the city of Houston in the areas it annexed in 1977. I doubt there's another major city in the United States that has more aggressively swallowed up its ETJs. I know there isn't one in Texas. If you look at DFW, Dallas is landlocked by all the suburban towns around it. It can't grow. Houston made sure they weren't going to have the same issue. Against those neighborhoods wishes, at least in the case of Kingwood and Clear Lake. -
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Shipley's. GTFO with your Dunkin Donuts. -
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I see this kind of post all the time. Like a message board is supposed to be some kind of hive mind. I see it from content creators who depend on engaging with their audience, then blame the audience for demanding contrasting actions on the part of the content creator. I mean, I see it from all segments of the population regarding all sorts of things. There can be a group that thinks Texas should be fiscally responsible in terms of their overall budget, their budget within positions, their budget with current players and upcoming retention --- contrasted with their budget for the acquisition of new talent. And then there can be an opposing segment that so desperately wants the dopamine hit from a talented teenager creating validation and affirmation for their favorite college sports team that they excitedly wish for other people to spend a small fortune to get the kid to say yes. People can hold contrasting opinions. Within the same person, frankly. One of the things that makes people most interesting to me is when they can simultaneously feel strongly in support of two opposing sides of the same position. It happens to me, too. But mostly I think it's a group of people who are very comfortable with spending someone else's money with no real limitations, and then a group of people who hope Texas has a plan they're trying to follow in terms of roster payroll. -
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We need to step away from the jump to conclusions mat. There is no way to accurately speculate what the future is going to bring other than it's going to be very different than what it is now. Acting is if this is the final form of college sports - and college football specifically - and even more specifically, college football recruiting - is silly. Eventually there will be some kind of federal legislation, because that's the only avenue that can bring some resemblance of stability. Until then the whole ecosystem is going to be whipsawed from one direction into another based on the most recent court cases/settlements, new state laws passed to give the local programs a competitive advantage, and how different programs find ways around various restrictions. But acting like what has been going on the last few weeks is a harbinger of what the future will look like is silly. At the end of the day any sales pitch needs the opportunity to get your foot in the door. Relationships still matter. They always will. Success on the gridiron will make a difference. But when we're talking about millions of dollars being thrown around for individual players, of course that's going to often trump how many playoff appearances, NFL draft picks, or individual accolades are being earned. But it doesn't mean they don't matter at all. -
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It wasn't just the high school knock on him. That was the knock on him early in his college career, too. But with Casey Hampton as his teammate, that wasn't going to cut it. To Shaun Rogers' credit, he got on board with Hampton, and they turned into one of the most fearsome duo of DTs we've ever had, which is an extremely high bar, frankly. -
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I root against everyone who had a chance to go to Texas but chose to go elsewhere regardless of the reasons. It’s different when they didn’t get the opportunity, but I enjoy being petty. There’s a lot of making fun of the 9.95ers on this thread, but I feel like I’ve been steered correctly on my expectations for pretty much every recruitment this cycle outside of maybe KJ Edwards. I know some people are disgruntled because we apparently led at some point with a lot of targets, but once the bigger NIL deals started rolling in the 9.95ers adjusted accordingly. Him declaring for Oregon surprised no one who follows On Texas Football. -
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That's fanciful. First of all, Akers shouldn't have sent Curry out there in the first place. Just send out the regular punt team. They'd never practiced it. Akers put Curry in a position to fail, and that's all there is to it. Secondly, Texas was going down to mediocrity whether Akers won the championship or not. That '83 team was ridiculously loaded. But the recruiting behind that team had already been eroded. Third, Akers wasn't that good of a recruiter. He recruited well in spite of himself. He would regularly slow play players, telling his staff, "you got to make them want it." He was terrible with African American families. Completely tone deaf. The staff would prep families for his in home visit, telling them what he'd say before he'd say it so they could just nod their head at how ridiculous he sounded rather than get offended. Also, I don't know what you mean by a panic hire. The athletic department was poor at the time. Deloss Dodds wisely took a back seat regarding the head football coaching hire because he didn't want that to be a part of how he was measured for doing his job. If he just took marching orders on that hire he could go back to fundraising and make that what he was measured by. There's also no way the state legislature was going to let Texas go anywhere without A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech. Not without paying the price of opening up the PUF to all state schools, which wasn't ever an option. -
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That's the intent of the House settlement. It's unclear how it will be enforced. We know some of the mechanisms. We do not know how effective they will be. We can also surmise it will be tested by programs seeking a competitive advantage. In addition the House settlement has multiple legal challenges it will have to face. Also, there are other legal challenges to the NCAA that were not covered by the House settlement. The Texas One Fund has said they will retain independence from the athletic department, even though donations go towards Longhorn Foundation points. They have now pivoted to creating partnerships with local businesses for NIL opportunities to be given to Texas student athletes, rather than asking for charitable work. I don't have a clue how any of that works, but that's what they've said. -
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I think a big part of the point of spending $1 million on a softball pitcher was the message "if you're good enough, we're willing to blow our budget on you, too, so come to us and let's make a deal." It's unclear just how much of their wealth the Double Eagle guys are willing to invest in the football program specifically, and the athletic program in general, but it's obviously quite a bit. And unlike Phil Knight or T. Boone Pickens, they're pretty young. As far as declining enrollment, a good way to reverse that is to field a good football team. It's hard for me to envision Tech becoming a new Miami of the 80s through early 2000s. Or the SMU of the early 80s. But they could be like A&M under Sherrill and Slocum. Dominate their conference with no top 5 finishes. Look at what a golden age Aggie fans think of that as.
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