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Jeff Howe wrote an excellent article about the role of the 2021 class over on OTF. The article isn't paywalled and here's the link: https://ontexasfootball.com/news/articles/the-importance-of-the-2021-recruiting-class-to-steve-sarkisians-texas-program-r1935/ In reading it, I got curious about the totality of the class, versus just the contributors. I found some of the results in looking these guys up to be kind of fascinating. Below, by OTF rank: -Ja'Tavion Sanders - TE- 5 star ride or die for Texas recruit who signed and stayed without knowing much about Sarkisian. Had a great career at Texas and ended up being a 4th round pick in 2024. -Xavier Worthy - WR - Sarkisian's first HS signee and a near 5 star. Had a terrific career at Texas, set the 40 time record at the combine, 1st round pick and the 1st Longhorn to ever score a TD in the Super Bowl, and then he scored another. A budding star in the NFL. -JD Coffey - Safety - 148th ranked player in the country. Couldn't crack the 2 deep at Texas, now a productive starter at ASU with eligibility remaining. -Ishmael Ibraheem - CB - I remember this guy, 215th ranked player in the country, running into problems with the law. I assumed football would be behind him, but he's playing at Southern Miss after not doing much for Marshall the prior two seasons. A pure bust as far as a recruit goes. -Terrence Cooks - LB - a guy that TCU tampered with and Texas didn't want to see leave. He rushed out the door before NIL could fully be explained/sold to the roster. Looks like we dodged a bullet. He hasn't done shit at TCU either. Another bust. -Jonathan Brooks - RB - workhorse RB who bided his time, never threatened to leave, played his ass off and became a 2nd round pick in 2024. NFL future is now uncertain, sadly, due to multiple knee injuries, but he became a star at Texas and a great story. -Morice Blackwell - S/LB - became a major contributor on STs and a solid role player on defense for multiple years, even if a tweener. He's camped/camping for one of the NFL teams, KC maybe, but he goes down as a quality collegiate performer. The type that plays a role for elite programs. -Byron Murphy - DT - came in and quickly established himself as a potential force, which he became. Ultimately an All American, a 1st round draft pick in 2024, and a massive contributor to the rise of Sarkisian's culture at Texas. -Hayden Conner - OG - the less heralded Katy Taylor OL prospect in this class, he went on to have a much better career than his teammate, Bryce Foster, did at ATM. Multi-year starter who still has not blocked anyone in the run game, wound up a 6th round pick in the NFL draft in 2025. -David Abiara - DE/Edge - came in as a low 4 star, did jack shit at Texas, and promptly split for SMU. While at SMU, he did nothing there either. Now he's headed to Texas State where he'll likely matter, by which I mean he'll have mass and take up space. -Jamier Johnson - CB - couldn't crack the depth chart early at Texas so he left and wound up at Indiana. He's been a productive player there and is likely to be so again this season. -Jordan Thomas - Edge - weird deal here where he signed and then left the team due to a family issue. Came back, didn't play, transferred and disappeared. He's apparently on the SFA roster, but I couldn't find any stats. -Derrick Harris Jr. - LB - seemed like a good dude who was vocal with keeping the class together. Never saw any PT at Texas and transferred. He's currently at USF, but I didn't find any stats. -Jaden Alexis - WR - I forgot this dude. Never did shit at Texas, transferred to USF, had some success in 2023. Missed 2024 due to injury but is expected back this season. -Keithron Lee - WR - we were excited about this guy helping at WR. He threw his opportunity in the trash by apparently putting a relative in a chokehold at a party and then buttfucking that person. He was convicted for that felony and 5 others, eventually, as well 12 different misdemeanors involving drugs, guns and other shit. He's currently in prison serving multiple sentences. Sounds like a stand-up guy. Robert Joseph thinks this guy needs to take it easy. https://wtaw.com/guilty-pleas-to-18-criminal-charges-in-14-brazos-county-district-court-cases-in-16-months/ -Juan Davis - TE - lowly-ranked recruit who simply came to campus and took care of his business. Patiently waited and developed into a regular contributor late in his career at Texas. UFA as of 2025, solid late in college though. -Barryn Sorrell - Edge - another lowly-ranked recruit who maximized his capabilities and potential at Texas and became a decorated starter. Eventual 4th round pick in the 2025 NFL draft and one of the key pieces in establishing the Sarkisian regime at Texas. -Gunnar Helm - TE - yet another lowly-ranked recruit who maximized everything at Texas and finished with an excellent career on a semifinal playoff team. 4th round draft pick in the 2025 NFL draft. -Casey Cain - WR - played a little at Texas when Texas was desperate for WR depth. Got passed over by youth and transfers on the DC and left for UNLV. Played some there and is now at Liberty. Meh recruit, really. -Charles Wright - QB - stanners on this site will tell us he's a great guy who loves UT. That's cool and all, but I want guys on the roster to have a greater impact than being a clipboard holder. Transferred to App State, then disappeared. Allegedly made it back to UT in some form, but who the fuck cares? -Max Merril - OL - this nepo baby showed up and stood around for 4 years, collecting a degree and NIL money. Hopefully he goes on to do great things with his family fortune and contributes to Texas football monetarily in the future. -Isaac Pearson - Punter - this guy came over from Australia and then shit himself at Texas. One punt for 15 yards. He later transfers to SMU and becomes one of the better punters in college football. Thanks, bud. **** Transfers: -Ben Davis - Edge - 5 star recruit who signed with Bama. Never did much, came to Texas, helped Sarkisian and Co. establish a no-nonsense culture. I can't remember who he knocked out, but I believe he whipped someone's ass at practice in 2021 who deserved it. Didn't do much on the field at Texas, but cost us nothing and helped right the ship. -Ray Thornton - LB - came over from LSU. I don't remember him doing a fucking thing while on campus and not sure where he's at these days in life. He could be selling insurance or playing rugby in New Zealand, you tell me. -Keilan Robinson - RB - came over with Sarkisian and became a multi-year contributor and a great story. Drafted in the 6th round of the 2024 NFL draft after never really being a starter at Texas. -Ovie Ogfunanabdfugbo - Edge - transfer from Notre Dame who looked like Tarzan and played like Jane. Helped on some level on defense for a year or two before leaving to LSU. At LSU, he apparently looked good in early practices and that led to the room temperature IQ coonasses honking that they'd stolen one from Texas. I believe he wound being a non-entity for one of the worst LSU defenses ever. -Devin Richardson - LB/FB - came over from New Mexico or NMSU, doesn't matter, and promptly did nothing at Texas. Have no idea what happened to him. So this was an unheralded transition year class that wound up contributing 8 draft picks, including 2 1st rounders, and double digit starters. It also included a future hedge fund manager, a prison gang leader, and multiple starters for other programs. This was a pretty good group and they overachieved compared to this board's expectations.35 points
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A bit of earnestness I’m sure I’ll regret. I am not a Catholic, I am a believer. I do not think that the pope is infallible, even when speaking ex cathedra. The Catholic Church, like every institution of the Christian faith, is not infallible and quite often has been significantly worse than that. In the late 1970s Karol Wojtyla became John Paul II. He was also not a perfect or infallible man, and at times he could be rather worse than even that. But this man proclaimed from the chair of St. Peter to millions of Central and Eastern Europeans that the inhuman and anti-moral system they lived under had lost all credibility and moreover, that they didn’t need to be afraid anymore. And while that may seem simple and trite, in the 1970s and 1980s fear was as much a part of that corner of God’s creation as castles and beer and dumplings and sour cream. Fear hung in the air, written in red, blown in from a leaden gray Moscow sky. Millions of people decided to believe him and acted thus. Catholics and non-Catholics and atheists and Jews and within ten years the fear was gone, the Soviet barracks emptied and the castles and beer and sour cream and dumplings remained. No one had to shoot at anyone, no superpower intervened. Maybe it was God or maybe John Paul II or maybe neither. Maybe it was just people who looked for a reason to stop being afraid. Today a friend with Slovak passport, Hungarian name, Jewish roots, and secular worldview— a sensitive and intelligent woman, a graduate of Columbia j-school, an award winning anti-corruption crusader— wrote that perhaps the selection of Leo XIV will serve as an “impulse to calm an agitated America or to return to basic values like care for your neighbor and empathy.” Maybe so. It’s possible. Deus vult.18 points
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Hopefully a future Texas tackle ... And, for no particular reason 🙄, cross-posting this ...15 points
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Sorry, this is normalcy bias talking. This is a fire on the bottom floors of the building we live in. It just feels like hyperbole to you because we are on the upper floors, and you are guessing that somebody will put it out before it gets up where you are. So you are looking at all the people scurrying around and the chaos below, and it looks like they are overreacting. The fact is that this emergency has not impacted the lives of people in our socioeconomic strata does not make it less of an emergency. And if it’s heading our way. Whether or not it gets to us depends.14 points
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I don't know guys. Sending dudes to prison torture camps with life sentences on the basis solely of whether we like their tattoos or not seems, I don't know, just absolutely fucking evil. Real nazi shit. Rioting in the streets stuff. Impeachment. Etc. Oh well.14 points
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Counterpoint: He's looked like hammered dogshit for years now, he's not in jail, he's the president of the united states who doesn't give a fuck about governing, he's immune from prosecution, he's surrounding by an army of sycophants and dick suckers, 40% of America will suck his dick if he asked, and he probably played golf 3 times this week, and he's grifting more money than he ever has in his life.14 points
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"Support the man. Oppose the policy." Lol wait what? If you oppose his policies then what are you supporting? Felonies, rape, cruelty, hate, corruption, etc?13 points
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nsiap ... Holy shit. This is so fucking amazing. Watch til the end for the extra lulz. MTG subpoenas the guy and then fabricates bs about him. Sooooo busted, and her reaction is priceless. Thanks Rep. Stansbury for calling her out.12 points
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Someone should make a gif from that Braveheart scene where Longshanks sends the archers during the melee. Put dotard's face on Longshanks. "Sir, won't we hit our own base?" "Yes.... but we'll hit the libs as well"12 points
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UNC trustees supposedly have voted to ban the girlfriend from the football facility. https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/bill-belichick-girlfriend-jordon-hudson-banned-north-carolina.html12 points
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Some kids get cancer while this guy walks around relatively healthy. There is no god.11 points
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Dems are the only party that advocates for campaign finance reform, watchdogs, nonpartisan redistricting commissions, and judges who support voting rights. The list goes on and on. And yes, dems can also be corrupt. And when they are action is taken. But here’s what will blow your mind. People like you, who lump the two parties together, are the reason no action is taken because it conflates who is behind things like the Citizens United decision. Repeat after me: Democrats want to get money out of politics. Voters don’t care because they can’t tell the difference.11 points
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Talking to my mom this evening. Her: "We have a new pope. Another liberal pope." Me: "Well, Jesus seemed pretty liberal." Subject changed immediately.11 points
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Good stuff. It's incredible that Sark got 8 drat picks and 2 first round picks out of this class considering we didn't land a single 5 star, only landed 4 guys in the top 250 and only 2 guys in the top 150. One of my favorite parts about following Sark's program has been watching guys actually learn how to play football and develop year over year. We hadn't seen that in Texas in more than a decade. Hell, a lot of our guys would be good as freshman and get worse each year. Following college football is a lot more fun when you get to witness the progress of guys year after year.10 points
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if you aren't trans or if a loved one of yours isn't trans then there is no side for you to be on. none whatsoever. the both sides is what to do about it - treat it or wait to see what happens, those are two sides to the issue when you take politics out of it. the side that wants to interject politics into it with legal bans from a party that turns around and says "but parental rights" is fucking hypocrisy at its finest. and the states that want to let a child determine their own future without parental involvement - at least to me - is problematic as well. So yes there are two sides to the issue among sane humans who chose to accept transness as a mere fact and chose not to politicize it. to put it bluntly, there are facts that are immutable at this point - gender dysphoria is a real thing, transition is the best treatment for those with gender dysphoria. there cannot be both sides on the facts. there can be both sides on how to treat it. those who advocate for bans don't believe transition is an effective treatment (but they realize they can't really stop adults at least not right now from transitioning). facts are not both sides, what to do about the facts can be and here it's how to go about treating the situation humanely and effectively. anyone who cannot join that conversation deserved to be banned from the conversation - and frankly I'm not talking about Ana, I'm talking about the larger society. there I said it, facts are not up for debate.10 points
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Exactly. My entire life Dems have been advocating for the middle class and generally trying to make the system fairer for the average citizen. Even when they succeed in passing such legislation, the republican SC strikes it down with various forms of Calvinball that do not apply to republicans. The real problem is all of this is relatively boring and does not stimulate the amygdala like hate and fear and therefore is significantly less motivating and profit making as the rep platform . The only counter is to redirect the hate and fear towards the billionaire class, but this will require ruthlessness, exaggeration, and outright dishonestly to really light up those fear centers. This is unsavory, and educated people will recognize it for what it is and call it out, therefore the dems will never do it.10 points
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I am constantly amazed by so many posters' ability to remember shitty plays with this much accuracy. I just file that whole game as "bad" and don't think about it.9 points
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Hey Google, How many people died from Ford Pinto Fires? Thanks Google. How many people have died in Tesla Fires?9 points
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Oh you know what he's supporting...9 points
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Shoe jackass's response to everyone dunking on him:9 points
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So you’d say that the thread titles on this site are deteriorating and getting worse? I bet there’s a thread to discuss this phenomenon; if only the thread titles made any sense. College professor perspective: I’ve changed most of my writing assignments to prioritize thoughtful student engagement with the materials. AI really likes to tell you about things, but so far, doesn’t do a great job of engaging with things in a meaningful way. There’s a difference between a student thoughtfully considering and struggling with new concepts and a machine telling me about everything that’s ever been written on the subject. On the surface, the AI version looks smarter, but it demonstrates no real analysis or human thought. It’s just a catalogue of ideas. Also, its tone sucks. I like to run important emails through AI just to make sure it hates my tone. I’ve have learned a new appreciation and respect for students who are bad writers, since they are likely not cheating and failing honestly. — For this thread, the iPhone keyboard is getting worse every year. I have more and more typos and it sometimes randomly inserts several words in place of one or two letters.9 points
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I don't think you guys fully understand what is happening here. I keep hearing about these so-called Dem strategies. As I said before the D party only gets in power when people are frustrated with the Rs. Why? They can't beat the racists and the other people have tuned them out. The problem is ALL our politicians are lining their pockets and allowing Capitalism to eat the middle class. Until someone runs against the corps and uber wealthy we are going to be like this. High taxes on the rich. Get lobbyist out of Washington. Caps on donations. No investment in the market by politicians. Close tax loopholes. You get the picture.9 points
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