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Showing content with the highest reputation on 12/17/18 in Posts

  1. If Catalon’s parents are honestly swayed that either TCU or Arkansas are better selections for the off-field safety and development of their son, then they’re probably too stupid to have kin allowed into UT in the first place. TCU had a program-wide drug scandal that Patterson was almost sunk over; they just had a star arrested for repeatedly abusing a woman; and their starting QB for 2018 just transferred. They’re an ongoing mess led by a basketball-smuggling wifebeater. Arkansas just had their worst season in decades. The head coach’s best season as a head man so far is something like 7-6. They had guys who’d rather flirt with opposing cheerleaders than warm-up suspended from their fucking secondary this year. They just had a player busted for the wholesaling of drugs from his apartment. It’s Arkansas. They define mediocrity in every way, and players get busted and fail out of there as often as anywhere. This shit is discoverable in 5 minutes worth of googling. This isn’t why Catalon isn’t coming to Texas. He’s not coming to Texas because he’s worried about the depth chart. The rest is bullshit.
    21 points
  2. Surly enjoyed the Caleb Johnson commitment for less than two hours before getting pissed off about something that may not even happen. Congrats, ladies.
    14 points
  3. This recruiting thread is becoming even more worn than my poor mom.
    14 points
  4. Wow, not only are you a cannibal, but a glutton too.
    13 points
  5. Distal (near the shoulder end) clavicle fractures can be a lot like AC injuries- you're waiting at least 6 weeks for bony healing instead of just following pain, but the prognosis is good, and non-displaced (pieces where they belong) fractures pretty much never get surgery. Medial (near the sternum) fractures are uncommon in football. Midshaft (most common) are sometimes apposed (ends are "hooked on"), in which case they likely heal in 6ish weeks without surgery. "Z" pattern "double" (comminuted) breaks tend to keep ends close together; they heal shorter and crooked but fairly well, with surgery or not based on surgeon opinion, patient preference, etc. Simple breaks without apposition (completely displaced) often take months to heal or fail to heal without surgery. They can be treated without surgery, but most surgeons these days would probably operate if the patient were an athlete.
    13 points
  6. I'm looking forward to the day we recruit so well that everybody gets recruited over, and no one actually ever plays at all.
    11 points
  7. Look on the bright side, he didn't die of dysentery.
    11 points
  8. Oh shit, I looked up Isaiah 30:21: “Ok cool. Hook em”
    10 points
  9. Sounds like you have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
    10 points
  10. 100% this. Trump is the pus-filled boil that can't be ignored. But the infection that caused it is systemic. Lance that fucker, sure. But we need to put in a goddamned PICC line and start mega-dosing antibiotics posthaste if we want to get any better. Strong anti-corruption laws and enforcement. Robust voting rights protections. Actually educate people in our schools. Teach critical thinking and evidence-based reasoning. Just for starters.
    9 points
  11. you can skip to the 5:20 mark to see the 5 or so thieves get their comeuppance if you want immediate action. or you can watch the whole thing as this guy explains how he spent 6 months working up this contraption. and how it uploads itself to the cloud in case the thieves keep it.
    8 points
  12. Where is CTJ? I feel like he's a good emotional outlet for me on this board, because I can read his posts and think to myself, "Damn. At least I'm not as fucked up as that guy."
    8 points
  13. Who is celebrating the fact that we're going to miss on Bru and Sanders? I'm fucking pissed, and I bet most of you guys are too. I'm pissed that we're not getting those instant-impact guys. I'm pissed that we've missed on a ton of in-state instant impact guys, too. I'm pissed that we spent so much time and effort on Sanders and Bru that presumably could've put placed elsewhere. I'm pissed that Drayton, who was hailed as some kind of mythical rainmaker, has totally shit the bed as a recruiter and position coach. I'm pissed that we have a bunch of other coaches on our staff that aren't worth a hot shit, either. I'm pissed that Herman is keeping those coaches around (at least through NSD1) because they, presumably, would help with recruiting, when that's obviously been a bad fucking idea. I'm pissed that we have huge holes on our defensive depth chart and coaches that are so fucking oblivious about their players' mental status that they don't know a player is in a bad spot until the fucking pack up and leave.
    8 points
  14. If Trump’s culture of corruption leads to Pelosi becoming president, I may die from laughter.
    8 points
  15. Georgia fan here. Just wanted to pop in and say hello, and good luck on New Year's. If I can help answer any questions about UGA, please feel free to ask. I'll try to pop on here every once in awhile. Regarding the defense, they do a good job of shutting down the opposing team's best dimension. If you're a good passing team (Bama for instance, at least with Tua starting) they will sellout to stop the pass, if you're a run team they will sell out to stop that (see Kentucky/Benny Snell). They lost a lot from the defense last year, and are young and/or inexperienced, so I think that lead to them selling out to stop one dimension of opposing offenses. They did better as the year went along of putting together an all-around good defense. The weakest positions on UGA's defense is their ILBs and Nickel positions. ILBs have improved a good bit over the year, so they haven't been as much as a liability as they were earlier in the year. Our Nickel player is just a little slow. Sometimes he makes plays, other times he gets burned. If you have a good slot receiver, this could be the match up you look to take advantage of. On offense: this will be just as good, or better, offensive line that UT has faced all year. This isn't bragging, just an o-line that has had a lot of injuries this year, and just keeps plugging in the next 4 or 5 star player thanks to Sam Pittman's recruiting. They were semi-finalist for the Joe Moore Award (best o-line in college) last season, and are finalists this season (OU is a finalist as well, along with Bama). I saw someone post that UGA will blitz a lot. This shouldn't be the case at all. UGA doesn't blitz very much at all, and is around dead last in sacks in the SEC. I don't see this changing (although UGA lost their DC to Colorado, the interim DC could switch things up, but doubt Kirby will allow that as this is still his defense). Best of luck to you guys, and I'm interested to see more of what everyone thinks of this matchup. Cheers
    8 points
  16. https://247sports.com/Player/Caleb-Johnson-46056538/ http://insidetexas.com/texas-grabs-juco-lb-from-cali/
    7 points
  17. 7 points
  18. A comment about the RB recruiting. The philosophy of this staff is to go after the top names, and not shy away from the competition, like p*ssy Mac. That means every year we are going to miss on a lot of top players. This is especially true because, despite what you’ve heard from your idiot aggy neighbor down the street, not every program funnels barrels of cash to recruits. We’ve been in it to the end with several top backs, and have a commitment from a very good one. We’ve done this with a good, but not great season. Stop whining. The staff will figure it out.
    7 points
  19. I am going to fisk Jeff Tarpley's Def Comedy Jam piece. I'll spoiler it to save the TL DR fainting couch crowd any eyestrain.
    7 points
  20. All this would scare me more if his house of cards wasn’t tumbling. We still need to stay vigilant and it will be a long fight but I’m still siding with the good guys to prevail in the end. But people relaxing once this asshole is gone will be worse than the asshole’s actual reign. He only exposed what’s out there. The fight needs to be sustained. Today’s youth give me hope. And the olds dying, of course. Sad truth.
    7 points
  21. Yeah, well maybe they should get off their asses and start selling some cookies.
    7 points
  22. Protecting pedophiles to own the libs.
    7 points
  23. It will be Baylor. He will become the next RG III. Every time we play the Bears we'll have to hear about how he wanted to come to Texas but we wanted him to play DB. It is foretold.
    7 points
  24. By philosophy and design, Kirby Smart’s defense is designed to stop the running game first and then the deep ball. It makes perfect sense in a league where the typical style is run, run, deep shot. We’ve discussed the personnel choices he’s made in terms of trading size for speed. But I wanted to look in more detail. I’ve seen Georgia play several times this season but only payed close attention to their SEC CG appearance. No sane person is going to compare Texas to Bama today so I went back and watched some of their other games against the stronger teams on the rest of their schedule. It would be hard to argue that there is higher average talent among the group of Florida, Auburn, Kentucky, Missouri and LSU than at Texas so this seems like a reasonable comp. Most of my observations are based on those games. Georgia’s defense usually does an excellent job shutting down the ground game between the tackles. It displays some weakness vs off tackle runs, especially cutbacks outside once the LBs step to fill inside gaps and significant weakness against run game extensions to the perimeter. In pass defense they rarely get beaten deep but often have trouble with intermediate routes, especially off play action and with covering the flats. The 4i-0-4i front is commonly used (both Texas and Georgia do it). It puts 5 defenders (3 DL and 2 ILBs) inside the OTs. That has a distinct tendency to shut down interior running since it commits 3 guys to clog the A gaps. The inside shade on the OT does allow that man to block down on the DE to stop flow to the outside, which helps to explain the soft spot off tackle. It's risky to pull an OG against this front since the 4i DE can just follow the puller to the ball, so a good blocking TE/H-back is very valuable against this front. Against a pure running team like UK, Smart played a lot of 5 man fronts to set the edge, provide backside pursuit and contain but that will be tough to do if he goes nickel against the Horns. Coverage emphasizes mixed looks that usually end up with cover 3 or quarters to stop vertical routes. Good design to stop big plays; not so great against teams that throw a lot of intermediate routes 10-15 yds downfield. Combine a mobile Texas QB with the worst pass rush in the SEC and those safeties are often going to spend a lot of time far downfield with LBs trying to cover the intermediate stuff. Being forced to cover longer gets every level dropping deeper, which helps to explain Georgia’s problems defending the flats. Safties covering Duvernay and CJ deep, LBs trying not to lose LJ dropping 10-12 yds off the LOS. Who does that leave when Beck, Ingram or Watson releases to the flats or a short crossing route? Even without a delayed release, UGa had trouble covering receivers out of the backfield, both RBs and motion WRs. I’ve often been told I am extreme OCD. My sister says I really put the first 4 letters in analyst. But everyone should go with their strengths.
    6 points
  25. We’ve reached peak satyanash.
    6 points
  26. Nah. Still in the "treatment" room.
    6 points
  27. I agree, but you have to remember there are some big battles that aren't being talked about because we already won them months ago. Jake Smith comes to mind.
    6 points
  28. When EJ can talk down to you, you're not doing very well.
    6 points
  29. Great discussion. For anyone who's relatively young and/or hasn't hit that gigantic facial tattoo of a warning sign yet (e.g., killing someone driving drunk), the thing to keep in mind about stopping is that a lot of us think at some point "I definitely drink more than anyone else, may be a problem drinker, might even be an alcoholic, but I'm not ready to quit so I'll just keep going until The Time Is Right". CeleryMan made reference to this. That thinking involves a powerful delusion, though, namely the idea that your drinking is like gingerly feeling your way down a staircase in the dark but doing so with a tight grasp on the banister and hell you're OK to keep descending at this rate. That all seems really good until your drunk ass wildly misses a step and goes tumbling down three flights, landing in a bloody heap. That last paragraph may be metaphorical for you, or literal. Either way my point is, where you TELL yourself you'll get off is only nominally a matter of choice. If you are like me, you'll blow through a whole bunch of things you swore you'd "never" do before you reach your stopping point, because I went from thinking who wants to chug warm vodka at 630 in the morning? to I better chug this warm vodka at 630 in the morning or I'm going to die. And I did that fully expecting that the heroic moment where I reached Total Clarity and knew I had to quit was right around the corner.... but wasn't today, of course. Right now, there are thousands of alcoholics in America who did not set out last night to get arrested for felony DUI or kill someone in a car crash or beat their wife or children or God knows what else, but did those things because their physically warped frontal cortexes and even more warped moral centers put them in a place where the awful, destructive, and painful drinking that was about to cause those calamities still seemed like the drinking they'd fallen in love with. I wish I'd quit sooner, but I'm grateful to have quit at all. I didn't quit before my alcoholism became a pathology that still tells me "it wouldn't be that bad to live under a bridge, if you could drink the way you want to, all the time." So I have to be ever vigilant that the conscious part of my brain greets that subconscious sales pitch with a hearty FUCK YOU BRAIN, because if it doesn't, I am one good drunk away from being a drag rat.
    6 points
  30. This is one of the best articles I have ever read. It will scare the shit out of you. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/how-trump-made-war-on-angela-merkel-and-europe What does Putin want more than anything? The dissolution of the Western Alliance. Trump is doing everything he can to destroy that alliance and, unfortunately, he's succeeding. Here's my simple theory as to why Trump hates Merkel: she's unattractive, and he doesn't want to fuck her. He's a misogynistic asshole who has no use for women other than as ornaments for himself and his ego.
    6 points
  31. (responding to LHF goofing on Hamm having a Horns247 account)
    6 points
  32. Go back to the Ohio state boards. Please.
    6 points
  33. His aggy wife divorced him. His aggy coach revoked his credentials. His aggy boss fired him. His aggy boss fired him. (Different one this time) His aggy competitor tried to fight him. His aggy fan base mocks him. Methinks the aggy network would prefer a different messenger.
    6 points
  34. I don’t think it’s possible to really understand marriage until you pay to fed ex Christmas cards.
    6 points
  35. Do not fucking start another Stanford academic debate you fuckers.
    5 points
  36. I'm agnostic regarding George S. but this is a failure of an interviewer. This reeks of someone who just wants questions answered but doesn't care about those answers. How is the next question not, ”so you admit there was collusion.” The media is failing this country and the Sunday Morning shows deserve their fair share of the blame. We must demand better from TV news. These odious hooligans are giving you the answers to the test you heedless fucks. Don't be so impotent. Get some fucking answers.
    5 points
  37. Date night dinner on Saturday. Wife: Jordan's(friend of one of our children) mom is being a bitch about blah, blah, blah. I want to have my parents over for Christmas, but my mom ,.....blah, blah, blah. I am so tired from running the kids to practice till o'dark thirty....blah, blah, blah. Incredulity: Offers a bunch of ideas about how to deal with bitch list. Wife: Upset with all suggestions. Incredulity: pissed off wife is upset Wife: "I just want you to listen, you don't need to fix the problems" TLDR: It's not about the nail.
    5 points
  38. I agree with this. I think our functioning American democracy has been exposed as a somewhat delicate balance where equilibrium has been maintained by opposing conservative & liberal forces whose power ebbs and flows and where each side has traditionally been tempered by some sense of responsible stewardship of the nation. Where that collective sense of responsibility was present in both parties and managed to mostly outweigh the lust for wealth or power that any individuals might have. The radically conservative forces controlling the GOP now, though, are different. They care only about the interests of wealthy, white Christian males born on American soil. They have been building towards the present for decades, have had absolute federal power for two years now, sold their soul to get it and have thrown any sense of responsibility to a greater good into the shitter in their attempt to line their pockets, entrench their power and secure some sort of ultimate victory against liberalism. Trump is an amoral, criminal asshole who has no right being President, but he’s just the logical conclusion to the conservative rush (pun intended) towards evangelical, nationalistic, authoritarian and plutocratic dittodome over the past 30 years.
    5 points
  39. No, it isn’t. Charlie Strong is one of the most disorganized dufuses in the sport. A year removed from the program, you think he’s calling around with contacts in the NFL and talking up players on the Texas roster. That’s fanboi bullshit from Chuckles Strong Apologists. Seattle scouts the fuck out of Texas. If you think Poona Ford was some sort of secret to them that needed a boost from some mindless rube in Tampa, then you have your heads firmly shoved up your assholes when it comes to how this shit works. Charlie Strong is the worst coach in the history of Texas football. Please stop going out of your way to insert him in shit like this. If he was this good, he’d still fucking be here.
    5 points
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