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  1. You're not going to gaslight a board of fanatics who have studied your team for 9 months and actively monitored your forums and read all of your insider updates as if they were our own. -You do not have 4 returning OL starters. Starting a few games in the playoffs or post-injury is not what classifies a player as a returning starter. If that were the case, Texas also has 4 returning OL starters because Hutson has started like 14 games in his career, Goosby started 2-3 late last year and Robertson started a game or two back in 2022 or 2023. -TE is debatable. You guys love your guys and Klare is a stud. Texas loves Endries and its other guys as well. Both programs have highly ranked guys in the TE room and both starters put up great numbers for mediocre to shitty teams last year. You guys seem to want to clearly demarcate an advantage there and it's bullshit. -Downs =/= an entire secondary. You don't even know who is actually going to start at the other safety spot yet. Igbinonigniminious is a penalty machine. He was burnt more than bad toast last season and forced into PI and holding penalties against anyone of value. The other CB position will feature a new guy. Texas also returns an AA at Safety. Texas also returns two other starters at Safety/NB and a better returning starter at CB in Muhammad than what OSU has in Igbo. Texas is in the same position of putting a new, highly recruited starter at CB, whoever wins the job. -Texas evaluated Peoples and passed. We were fine as recruitniks watching you guys take him out of state. Donaldson has taken more bullets than a gun range dummy and Bo Jackson is actively in the process of passing him on the depth chart. Texas has 5 guys it can rotate at RB, one of whom is a returning 1,000 yard rusher and two others who were classified as the highest rated RB in the country coming out of high school. So, no, Ohio State doesn't have some sort of RB advantage. -You and everyone else talking about Manning being advantaged over Sayin simply because he's taken more snaps are whistling past the notion that Manning might also just be a lot fucking better than your 5'11' statue with a nice hairdo. -None of this matters as much as the disadvantage your OL will actually have on the field against the Texas front 7. That imbalance doesn't shake out in the other direction. Good luck keeping your QB upright on Saturday.
    29 points
  2. A rare scouting/evaluation miss by Liucci.
    28 points
  3. I've developed the opinion over time that it would be great to see Texas bring Simms back for a game on the sidelines with some sort of happy hat tip to the guy. I know that's problematic since half the stadium is likely a bunch of idiots who might boo him and there's really no way he belongs in the Texas HOF or whatever it's called. Maybe it would just be great if Sarkisian invited him to come down for a practice and an interview or something. It's just always bothered me that idiots ruined his relationship with his alma mater. His signing with Texas made a giant fucking difference for the program from a national POV early in Mack Brown's tenure.
    23 points
  4. I'm not sure there's a single player who gets run over more from our own fanbase, undeservedly, than Chris Simms. The guy was top 10 in most statistical UT categories in about two cobbled together years of QBing. More than that, people on campus and off, during college and after, have treated the guy like dogshit, personally. I don't blame the guy for having nothing to do with the University of Texas. And I say all that as a Major guy during the time. The guy went 26-6 as a starter, for fuck's sake.
    20 points
  5. 4 different categories for offense and one for defense. Zero for special teams. Seems kinda stupid.
    19 points
  6. Where was this outrage and vitrol when a Minnesota lawmaker was assassinated by a MAGA loving piece of shit?
    16 points
  7. Yeah, because he's not a piece of shit. He loved his teammates, and he liked Austin, but he hasn't been back willingly and hasn't affiliated himself with Texas at all. For a reason. CTJ and I have worked with a woman who dated Simms for awhile in college. She is a foreigner, and doesn't give any fucks about football, which was a big appeal for Simms. She tells some pretty horrific stories about how he was treated on campus. Prank phone calls at all hours, death threats after bad games, being jeered and heckled when he was on campus by other students. Imagine being Chris Simms, looking like he looked, and basically locking yourself in your apartment with a woman who didn't understand or give a fuck about football as a refuge from the shit he received. And it's pretty obvious a lot of those kids heckled him have moved onto message boards.
    16 points
  8. Which is why, as the mob broke through the Capitol doors, my immediate shout at the radio was "they have to shoot them, they have to shoot them NOW!" The choice not to open fire on a mob of violent terrorists openly bent on assassinating members of Congress and overthrowing the government was the pivotal mistake that meant death to the Republic. A nation must defend itself with full and lethal force in such circumstance, or demonstrate it to be a tissue-paper-weak entity that can be destroyed with minimal effort. We chose poorly. And it means our death as a country.
    15 points
  9. Random important update from tonight. My 6-year-old and I were just preparing for football season - hanging the Block-O flag on the house, testing out the OSU cheerleader outfit for Spirit Day Friday, etc. She asked when we were going to make the traditional candy Buckeyes to give out to friends, so I told her we do that at the end of the season, you know, before we play Michigan. She looks at me with a worried side-eye, pauses, then says "if Michigan wins I'll get you two beers and a wine."
    14 points
  10. For this, the Biden administration, Merrick Garland, Jack Smith and even the Democratic Party can only be considered abject failures. The Democratic Party failed to stop fascism and barbarism when it was right before the eyes of the entire freaking world. The Jan 6 committee provided the details. Bottom line, the Democratic Party simply let Trump et al off the hook... after he tried to overthrow the government. As a consequence, secular democracy is toast. Total Failure.
    14 points
  11. We need an AI video of Sam Ehlinger throwing touchdowns to Parker Livingstone.
    14 points
  12. Goddamn they just free hand that shit? I assumed they had some sort of template or a machine. I can't even help my 1st grader put stickers on his diorama.
    13 points
  13. We were locked into this track the moment we failed to prosecute the fascist insurrection attempt. History is a pretty clear guide on that, despite how upset it makes most people to hear
    13 points
  14. This was posted and discussed on the last page, probably while you were on forklift duty.
    13 points
  15. I don't necessarily disagree with your assessment of Ehlinger's talent or abilities as a QB, although it seems a little needlessly inflammatory (but I understand your tone based on the context here). Anyone who watched Sam with any kind of objectivity could see that he was more of a fullback who could throw the ball well enough rather than a top line QB. If someone is arguing that he had a great arm or processed things quickly...well, they don't know ball. But he was the best we had, and he played hard, and he played for a dumbass HC. We won a lot of games despite Herman because Ehlinger refused to turtle up. I think what most people who are fans of Ehlinger liked about him are intangible qualities - toughness, leadership, love of Texas. Even with all his flaws, I'm still a fan because he loves the school as much as I do, and it showed. It has little to do with his actual level of play. I think this image sums it up: Who was rating these guys as QBs? I love Swoopes because that poor bastard was an great TE that was forced to play QB because Strong had no idea what the fuck he was doing. But not because of anything he did under center. The Westlake honks are not quite a cult, but they do love them some Westlake boys and have a hard time seeing any flaws with those red and blue colored glasses. It would be like me demanding that Charlie Wright getting more playing time just because he went to AHS. I was a Major truther back in the day and even I never hated Simms. He was a solid QB and he played hard. Plus he played for Texas. I always told people that even if I preferred Major as QB1, that doesn't mean that I won't support the guy actually taking snaps. I swear there were Texas fans who wanted us to lose just so they could be right about Simms. Besides, my issue was with Brown who actually made the decision. The hate for him never made sense - it always seemed like it was based on the perception that he had everything handed to him because of who his dad was. Which is disconcertingly similar to how Aggies and Sooners talk about Manning these days. Weird how history seems to keep repeating itself.
    12 points
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  18. Which gets us back to this thread and the idiocy behind someone claiming that we only want Ewers to succeed in the NFL to win a stupid internet bitchslap fight. No. Fuck that. We want Ewers to succeed in the NFL because he's a Longhorn. Because it looks good for Longhorns to do well in the NFL, it helps the program, and means one of our guys is doing well. But mostly... because he is a Texas Longhorn and always will be.
    11 points
  19. Watch Trump spin this all on Walz and how "out of control" things are in Minnesota as a way to get troops in Minneapolis all the while not doing a single thing to limit the amount of guns that are abundantly available for people to use to kill children.
    11 points
  20. Ummm, what? Squints, Heard, Swoopes... There are multiple more overrated QBs in the past 15 years, let alone players, to have ever taken a snap at Texas. I'm not advocating for Ehlinger as some phenom, but he was a very productive player for us during what otherwise could have been another horrendously shitty couple of years at Texas during an already horrible stretch historically for the program. The dude willed us to victory despite a myopic egomaniac as his HC, glaring other roster inefficiencies, and has only gotten better in the NFL (although, he did just get cut). Sure, many here have an inflated opinion of his skillset at Texas, but the dude should be celebrated for many reasons.
    11 points
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    11 points
  22. I don’t think it’s a majority that want it, but combine the ones that do want it with those that shrug their shoulders or don’t pay attention and walla
    10 points
  23. Seriously, I don’t get constantly blaming a party. The majority of American voters are racist, sexiest, loud mouth pieces of human garbage. How does the opposition party change that? β€œHey, the undocumented people are good hardworking people contributing to the economy and supporting their families. Let’s reform the system so that they can do so legally.” It’s not about policy, it’s about hate. That’s the American majority.
    10 points
  24. It's also a total failure on the part of the American people. We're still too comfortable to do much about it.
    10 points
  25. That guy was not ass vs Texas. I watched that game and gained a lot of respect for that kid. He got the living shit beat out of him and had 0 WRs to work with in that game. Not saying he is a 1st round QB, but I dont get the "was ass my dude" comment based on the conditions he was forced to play in.
    10 points
  26. It is wild reading those mouth-breathers' boards. Every position is a position of strength and possibly the best ever. Every inexperienced incoming player is better than the outgoing All American who was taken in the top half of the NFL draft. Manning is a first year QB and will look like one, spending the whole afternoon on his back and rattled by the Legend, Matt Patricia's, exotic schemes. The Ohio State laundering staff won't even have to wash Sayin's jersey come Saturday night. He'll just hand it off all day to their elite RBs who will gouge Texas' Downy-soft defensive line. Already better than Manning, the veteran Buckeye signal-caller is sure to complete most of his passes, but might skillfully throw one or two away like a veteran Drew Brees or Tom Brady. Their backs will run for 15 yards on 2nd and 10 anyway. Dumb motherfuckers.
    10 points
  27. I am stealing this from IT, but it pretty strongly refutes your argument. Here is link. https://www.on3.com/teams/texas-longhorns/news/whose-offensive-line-is-more-experienced-texas-or-ohio-states/ Ohio State has two projected starter with three years at their school. Texas has three players that can say they they have been in the meeting room and on the practice field with Kyle Flood. Texas has 12 combined years of listening to Steve Sarkisian in team meetings, offseasons being built up by Torre Becton. Ohio State has 10 combined seasons in Columbus. Consistency has to matter. However it isn’t just the consistency. Something often lost in the counting OL experience shuffle is that Cole Hutson has 1,314 career snaps and 13 starts from the 2022 season. When counting both offensive lines, he comes in just shy of the second most experienced OL in the upcoming game. Texas not only has the edge on years in the system, they hold an edge in career snaps among the projected starters. Texas has 3,670 snaps to Ohio State’s 3,312 total career snaps. When counting total starts, Ohio State gains a slight edge with their 49 starts over Texas’ 45, but again it is far from the lopsided nature that has been sold by some. Granted there is something to be said about the accuracy of the grades from PFF, and the small sample size for the Longhorns. But the PFF grades come in with a strong Texas lean. Only one Longhorn in 2025 registered a grade lower than 62.5, the best from a projected starter grade for Ohio State. The gap between the two teams experience is much smaller than advertised, and might even be flipped as to who is the most experienced. Both offensive lines will have their hands literally full of the best defenders each team may likely face in 2025.
    10 points
  28. Sam's story is a bit Rudy, a bit Vince Papale, and a bit legit. I can understand why some Texas fans deify him. He was far from a bad athlete, but he was far from an elite athlete, too. "Tough" goes a long ways. One of my HS friends was about as everyday an athlete as they come, but he was fucking relentless. Ended up having a cup of coffee in MLB when we all told him to give up baseball after high school. He was having none of that. D1 to juco back to D1 to rookie to A (you get the idea). Still coaches in the minor leagues. Some guys just don't quit, and a lot of weekend warrior types see their reflection in that.
    10 points
  29. Wednesday - Health + Options at DT - Bobby Shout out to Surly and Burnt Ends!
    10 points
  30. It's been said that you could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. But what if the crime being looked at by the grand jury involves a ham sandwich? Guess we found our answer.
    10 points
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  38. Amazing that MAGA is utterly silent when it's a shooter following the directives from MAGA about exterminating vermin (brown people in El Paso, for example). We don't need to do ANYTHING to get people inspiring racial violence off the streets. Nope. They just aren't a problem, and we need to keep supporting a regime that stokes those fires. Why? Because they agree with it. We hispanics are vermin to be exterminated. That's what they believe, it's what they support, and when we are gunned down, their response is to...keep supporting the movement that preaches that. Never, ever, ever listen to a MAGA when they tell you that any kinds of shooting are bad, and that the type of person and beliefs that led to it are a problem. Because as our country has faced a spate of acts of violence by MAGAs, not only have they done nothing to address THAT, they have doubled down and amped up the rhetoric and hate. So, fuck 'em. They have no rights or grounds to speak to any of this.
    9 points
  39. Weren't you there with me? It's been a long time. But, yes, some fatass woman with a tiny husband and two pre-teen kids was getting into her minivan and turned around to a group of us and started yelling that "texassss sucks" and other inanities. I told her she needed to drop a couple hundred pounds and stop embarrassing her little husband and idiot kids in public. I believe her son now posts on this site as @Chewbacca.
    9 points
  40. I don't really take much exception to your points here. Perhaps to simplify, I'd say OSU with a clear advantage at WR, while TX has it at QB and DL. The other positions kinda fall into the "well we like our guys and you like yours so let's just suit em up" category. It's close enough IMO that the natural breaks inherent to the game, and how each team responds, probably decide the outcome. With its coaching consistency I think TX should be a slight favorite going in, since the bevy of unknowns is otherwise pretty much equally weighted on both sides.
    9 points
  41. We trusted the process. And the process failed us.
    9 points
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