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  1. A few thoughts: 1) I know I've made ranting about the numbers a meme with you guys at this point, but just to hammer it home, Texas doesn't give a shit if it signs 35 guys this cycle. Or adds 10 guys from the portal. Not saying either happens, but there are no counters. They'll take developmental guys and keep going after big names at the same positions. There's zero operational risk to doing so. 2) It's all about cultural risk/impact and Sarkisian believes he's building a meritocracy. Don't like who we're recruiting at your position? Get better or get out. 3) I have said it repeatedly lately, but Texas is not going to get beaten due to money at this point. Pretty much in any sport, but for certain in football. Guys may go elsewhere that Texas was willing to throw money at, but Texas isn't going to be beaten just due to money. 4) They'll take more OL. There are several they're going to stay on, irrespective of the 4 they've committed or the 7 they just signed. 5) I expect Texas to land Shelby, Cook, Gullette, the SOC edge, and 4 out of their 5 top DB targets. 6) I will be surprised if Texas doesn't land Baxter. 7) I will be shocked if Texas lands Hicks, who's being shopped and who isn't in love with UT's scheme for his position. 8 ) Shelby's little sister is going into 8th grade and can already dunk. There is additional upside for landing him if the UT WBB program is a top 5 program soon.
    53 points
  2. It's not Baxter. Walton and Cook with a Gullette maybe. Jesus. Please spoiler that kind of horror porn in the future. ATM did the same thing with Baxter, Hicks, and Muhammed this past weekend that they did with recruits all during the 2022 cycle. They put a mountain of potential money in front of the player and parents, they talked about being the class that cinches the national title for ATM, and talked a whole bunch of shit about Texas. Fisher is making Baxter his response recruit to Arch Manning and they're offering Walter Nolen money. Unfortunately for ATM, as I've been stating for months now, they're not going to be getting their fastball by anyone in this cycle. Everyone is offering money now, and they can frame it in legitimate ways. On top of that, Texas understands fully now how Fisher is hard selling against them and what objections need to be overcome. Meanwhile, ATM has their own questions that need to be answered, particularly why they've never even won their division in the SEC. It works both ways. ATM is going to win the pure mercenary recruitments at a higher percentage of the time than the recruitments in which it's about more than just money. So whoever the Nolen type is, they're going up against UGa, Tenn, Miami, Oregon for them. The guys that feel like football fits for any program, they've got nothing special to offer those guys. Baxter may well decide ATM is his best fit. That considered, he's not a mercenary. He likes Texas a ton. Texas money, I promise you, as well as the admin, has a hard-on right now for bringing pain to USC and ATM with all of their bullshit from the last cycle into the end of the 2022 transfer window. If Baxter goes to ATM, it isn't because Walter Nolen money got it done versus anyone else, especially us.
    52 points
  3. You see that 'Tree-Fiddy' under my name? I pay your fucking salary and I'm not paying you to sleep. With all due respect.
    45 points
  4. https://247sports.com/player/derek-williams-46102611/
    38 points
  5. It appears Baxter removed all his aggy stuff from his IG sometime today.
    34 points
  6. 30 points
  7. Son of a bitch! I anxiously await the site coming back up to see what 5 star committment caused the crash only to find out @immamac apparently dribbled mcrib sauce into the server.
    26 points
  8. You found the profile of a random guy on twitter with the same name (a fake name from Parks and Rec) who explicitly says he's a Richmond Spiders fan on twitter and came on here to dunk on this Burt. You really are a fucking weirdo, no wonder everyone has you on ignore.
    25 points
  9. Per Gerry - RB Cedric Baxter has been in touch with the Texas staff multiple times since last night. Appears to be a good sign.
    25 points
  10. Vacek has short arms and isn’t nearly as athletic as other guys they’re on. Also, he’s a magnet for the Westlake honks on this board. I’m rooting for Oregon. If you combined the tiny hands of Hudson Card with the tiny arms of Vacek and the tiny brain of Reuben Owens’ father, you’d have Oompah Loompah, the football recruit.
    24 points
  11. Probably bc it’s more about the performance of prayer than the intrinsic value of it
    23 points
  12. My guess is that the 3 silent commits are Err, Bah, and Dee.
    22 points
  13. Roach and Anwar choosing to go on vacation right before the dead period was some incredible foresight.
    21 points
  14. 21 points
  15. 19 points
  16. Yeah--that's bullshit. And you wanna know how I know? Just go to a Michigan-Notre Dame game. People really reveal who they are when football is the backdrop--witness the innumerable cries of "tackle that n-----" you'll hear at many a Texas high school football game. In any event, you go to a Michigan-Notre Dame game, and you'll see that nasty Upper Midwest anti-Catholicism on full display. Yeah, man--there's plenty of real hatred for flesh-and-blood Catholics in this country. But let's talk about the 1920s and the KKK, since your raise it . . . . During the two or three decades on either side of the turn of the Century, this country experienced a real spasm of political violence. Part of it was along the same lines as that seen across Europe at the same time, when numerous political leaders were assassinated by anarchists (e.g., Tsar Alexander II, Empress Elizabeth of Austria) and nationalists (e.g., Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Jean Jaures). America had that same batch of political assassinations (e.g., Presidents Lincoln and McKinley). And aside from the targeted assassinations, we also had a bunch of bombings (e.g., the Wall Street Bombing). But, this being America, we also had to add on the layer of race-based political violence, ranging from the political terrorism of the KKK to the Tulsa Race Massacre. Nobody in America remembers that shit. You maybe remember from some paragraph in a high-school history textbook the names "Sacco & Vanzetti." But what did they do? Does anybody remember? Does anybody remember that McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist? Or that anarchists blew up Wall Street in 1920? Or that the Attorney General's house in Washington was blown up in 1919? Fuck no--because we Americans are really good at telling stories about ourselves, but very bad at remembering our actual history. Like, we'll tell ourselves that the North won the Civil War. Much like in a hundred years we'll say that we won the war in Iraq because we went in, captured the enemy capital and occupied the country. Just like with the Civil War, we'll just omit the fact that we then encountered an indigenous insurrection against our occupation, that in due course the American people got tired of subsidizing an occupation against that insurgency, that in the course of the occupation we managed to oversee the creation of a terrorist organization that would bedevil us for decades, and that for good measure on the way out, we betrayed our allies and left them to the tender mercies of the people we had been fighting together. But I digress. Where was I? Oh, yes--the political violence of the turn of the Century. It was all fueled by (1) gross income and wealth inequality, (2) a corrupt ruling class that disfranchised the majority, and (3) the inability of our purportedly democratic institutions to handle the conflict. Sound familiar? That era was only brought to an end by the New Deal/Post WWII creation of the modern bureaucratic state, which managed to channel and regularize political discourse and greatly reduced income/wealth inequality. But this is the exact thing SCOTUS and the GOP are trying to tear down. So what they're going to do is reinstitute the environment that led to the political violence of that earlier era. And I suspect we're going to see a return of that violence. I absolutely think we're going to see assassinations. It's virtually impossible to assassinate the president; it'd actually be quite easy to assassinate a supreme court justice. Or a senator. Or, for that matter, a mayor or district attorney. Shit sucked in the 1910s. It's about to suck again.
    19 points
  17. Gerry was just asked if they were done for the night. ‘Hell no’
    17 points
  18. I remember creating a thread on Shaggy several years ago asking why we are having religion shoved down our throats by the radical rights, and I was reprimanded for saying that as most posters believed I was overreacting.
    17 points
  19. Like @Reagan1k, I'm not sure where else to put this, and I need to vent. I've written extensively about how unbelievably useless and lazy my SIL is. Working from home as a pharmacist was too much for her. After realizing that walking from her bedroom to her office to answer prescription calls was "just too much", she found a doctor willing to diagnose her with some sort of throat problem that "prevents" her from talking. Anyone that's every been around her knows this is bullshit. So, she has been on some disability/ADA thing where she doesn't have to work, but still gets paid. This has been going on for 3 years now. She's sits on her ass and eats all day. She's got to be pushing 350 at this point. And, she complains about everything. Since she lives only a mile away AND refuses to do anything social (i.e. no friends), my wife feels obligated to bring her along to anything we do. We're staying at a Disney resort with friends at the moment. SIL shows up last night just in time for dinner. She bitched at my autistic son multiple times, complained about her drink, complained about her food, then blamed my wife when she didn't like her food (did I mention the 350 lbs?). Oh, and we paid for her meal. Get back to the room, and it just so happens she ends up in the bed next to our's, snoring all night. We have been planning this trip for 3 years. My wife and I have worked extra jobs (tutoring, training, etc...) so that we could enjoy the hell out of this trip. And now??? It's kind of funny because my wife and I are currently playing the game where she's avoiding eye contact with me because she knows I'm about to blow up. Anyway, thanks for listening and sorry for the lack of humor.
    17 points
  20. 16 points
  21. Williams gave Suchomel this quote after originally telling him (i.e. right before he left Austin) he was going to wait until the Fall : “A lot of things kind of changed,” Williams said. “I recognized the decision I’d been wanting to make. It felt like right time, knowing Arch (Manning) just committed a few days go. Then with all the other players that just committed from the 23 class coming in.” Never let someone tell you momentum in recruiting isn't real
    15 points
  22. Apparently there’s a trio of commitments lined up today. Per a 247 Baylor reporter. He said that “Texas fans are going to be very happy, that’s all I can say right now”
    14 points
  23. If Hill commits to Texas I will start a gofundme page to send Choate back to Hawaii. He found jesus or something there.
    13 points
  24. Pro Marcy, who decided to abort because it is her body, her life, and no one else’s business.
    13 points
  25. Waaaahhhhhh. Arch committed like three days ago. You had a cow because we took a couple of projects.
    13 points
  26. One of my friends that isn't super high on Stroh did say this about him: -He's mean and loves to compete. He basically goes to compete at camps on any weekend when he doesn't have a visit or obligation. His feet have gotten better and he's a big fucker. He loves deadlifting and he's doing all of this shit from a family with money. Normally, that's an immediate sign of softness to me but this guy isn't that. Given that numbers don't mean a shit, I get it. If he winds up being a menace at guard, they hit the jackpot. If they felt like they were done at OL after taking him and Cojoe, I'd have an issue. -He was not high on either guy from the get-go, but that predates the waiving of the 25 man limit. It's understood that these are the kinds of recruits that go to TCU or Okie State and can turn into excellent players.
    13 points
  27. Chatman is a top 100 player and Goosby is likely going to make a big move up the rankings (he has NFL measureables). Both were being pursued by the bigger programs Stroh and Cojoe are massive humans who have the size/strength that tingle Flood's plums. Sam Pittman from Arkansas was very much after Stroh and so was aggy despite what there propagandists are saying now. Arch commitment is what got these guys, who Flood identified early, to commit right now rather than dragging out their regional recruitments.
    13 points
  28. Just post your phone number here and I'm sure we can get that corrected. In fact, go ahead and post your address too just in case you don't hear the phone and we have to drag you out of bed.
    13 points
  29. One of my cannabis induced deep thoughts was that the reason Trumplandia went nuts when they lost and were screaming about specific election machines (every accusation is a confession) was that they had hacked those machines in 2016 and changed votes to win, ran the same play in 2020 but vastly underestimated turnout and didn't change enough votes.
    12 points
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