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Believe it or not, that's Livingstone repping at DT65 points
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well burnt orange and white complained that I come in here and have a weekly shit fit and he knows more about running a message board than me and is the most intelligent and best poster on the board so I respected his decision to not moderate this thread anymore. Eh, fuck that. I'm going to go ahead and randomly pick 3 off topic posts on every page to win a day off. So if you're feeling lucky go ahead and post off topic shit.57 points
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just in case you are not aware of the circumstances and facts regarding this topic..... the date for saturday's game, 30 august 2025, was contracted 2 years ago during the negotiations between Texas, 0u, the sec, the rig12, disney and fox, which resulted in an agreement that paid 0u's fee to exit the rig12 a year early https://www.si.com/college/2023/02/03/big-12-sec-texas-longhorns-oklahoma-sooners-split-explainer Texas paid our own early exit fee 0u did not have the money to pay theirs consequently, given that Texas could not move a year early without 0u, it was in Texas' interest to find the money for 0u and thus, the venue for last year's Texas-michigan game, which was originally in Austin, was switched with the venue for the 2027 game, which was in ann arbor the venue for this year's Texas-tosu game has always been columbus, however the date, 30 august 2025, was reconfirmed BY CONTRACT during the above mentioned negotiations in february 2023 the 2025/2027 venue flip of the Texas-michigan game was made so fox could broadcast last year's game in ann arbor under the fox b1g contract that change helped create the cash necessary to pay 0u's early exit fee to the rig12 in addition, the dates for the 2025 (ann arbor) and 2026 (columbus) games were negotiated and set during the contract changes which rescheduled these games YOU, tosu, were at the table during these negotiations YOUR league was at the table during these negotiations if you wanted the date changed, you, your league, and your tv partner should have made it part of the deal and despite the above...... YOU, tosu, control the kick off time of the game this saturday YOUR problem is YOUR b1g contract with fox because fox has a baseball contract that negates your ability to schedule marquee night games that would require a national fox ota broadcast YOUR school, team, fanbase and media conflated our refusal to change the DAY of the game with with only 60 days notice, with YOUR belief that Texas was somehow responsible for YOU not getting YOUR night game if your school wanted to change this game to the sunday of labor day weekend so it could be a night game and not violate fox's contract with major league baseball inre: no saturday night b1g national ota games, YOU should have rolled that in to the negotiations in february of 2023, rather than wait until 60 days out when thousands of fans had already booked flights, hotels, cars, bought tickets, and the University of Texas had already contracted it's charter flights, buses, hotels, etc. 2 years ago there would have been time to move back and reschedule all of the remaining non-conference games, and to work with the sec regarding our bye dates, in advance of the 2025 season schedule being set, all of which would have been done for YOUR benefit, not ours, to enable you and your league to get you a night game avoid conflict with your tv contract partner's relationship with major league baseball it's amazing to me how that topic, the fox mlb contract regarding saturday primetime, was NEVER mentioned by your school, ad, fans or media, during their collective meltdown this summer over saturday's kickoff time50 points
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Well here’s my anecdote. I got let go from my job at a tech company that I’ve worked at for 10 years this morning. Oh well.49 points
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Just talked with a former OL who has sat in on multiple practices, and he is drinking all of the koolaid. Pretty much what we’ve been hearing but it’s good to get more confirmation from a non $9.95er - the interior o-line is what he was most excited about, using the words “nasty disposition for the first time in years”. Actually getting good push, and be thinks we have strong backups. - Tackles have looked solid. Nick Brooks is the truth. - tackle depth is his only concern.48 points
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https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46020555/college-football-vince-young-rise-texas-legend-began-ohio-state When Young spoke candidly, everyone listened and responded. The season before, in 2004, the Longhorns trailed Oklahoma State 35-14. Brown opened the locker room doors and was about to give a halftime speech. "'You ain't got to say s---, we know what the f--- we got to do," Griffin remembered Young saying as he cut off Brown. "It's hilarious now, but in the moment, you're like, 'Did he really just say that?'" In the second half, Texas outscored the Cowboys 42-0.47 points
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1 Why would anyone do that when there's a summary? You ever listened to yourself, William? Beating. Beeeee-ting. 2 The word you're looking for is summary. A transcript is a word-by-word record. A short-handed transcript, I'm guessing, is a transcript that needs more employees. I know, William, it's the short-handed transcriber who makes you sound dull-minded again here. 3 I'm sure you're right. Listen, I have plenty of posts around here. Pick one and show me how it's done. Oh, and thanks for reading! 4 That's a mission statement for one of our schools.47 points
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I'm more excited this year than 2009. It's 2005 for me in terms of the last time I had more confidence. I thought the 2009 team was razor thin and that the OL was a piper tiger. I remain shocked to this day that Texas made it to the title game and was controlling it before Greg Davis' dumb fucking playcalling. My perspective has very little to do with Arch Manning. I really would like for him to be awesome, but the Texas football team, and all of us, don't actually need him to be awesome. He needs to be solid. Beyond that is all found money for this team. This is the deepest roster for Texas in most our lifetimes. There are dudes at every position and in every class. The storyline used to be that the Alabama second team was a top 10 team. I never fully bought that, but top 25 for sure. I see this roster in that same vein. The defense's second team is probably a top 10 unit, or close enough to argue it. There is that. I think the hype and the anti-hype at a national and casual fan level is all driven by the interest in Manning. That's fine. I just think it is misplaced. Kannell and Dvoracek taking Texas in the #8 spot of their rankings is a great example of the anti-hype. They're almost solely reacting to Manning and thinking they're coming across as savvy that he and the OL will have growing pains. Guess what? They will. The opposing team still has to score more than 17 points if and when that happens. Good luck with that. The Manning focus from every direction is burying this team's lede, and I'm a-okay with that.45 points
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Bobby dropped this in his update today: ”There’s a little positive chatter behind the scenes on recruiting. Texas is gaining some confidence on a pair of players currently committed elsewhere.”45 points
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In the quiet of an offline conversation, Sarkisian is capable of expressing genuine disdain for the ATM football program. He’s not a fan of Elko either. A lot of it carries over from Fisher and Elko fucking the state of affairs for everyone while he was still at Bama. A lot of their bullshit about him with recruits and the media (feeding negative shit to their people in the media and the national guys) started when he was there and carried over to Texas. Fisher is a piece of human shit. Excluding Elko from that label for the time being, but he’s not some jolly kind man just because he’s fatter than Santa Claus. So it is funny to me that the aggie fanbase is so desperate to hate him. They have a pathological need to both deify their coaches and vilify the Texas coaches. Sarkisian will never say a negative thing about them in public, yet they’ll manufacture their anger because of some psychological shortcoming as a fanbase that only they possess. In any event, he gets them in ways it only took the bonfire game for Mack Brown to comprehend. I think he’s going to do everything he can to blow them out everytime Texas plays them.42 points
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Comically relevant to the Kreul discussion with OU. They've been recruiting WR Davion Groce for this entire cycle. They've been up against Baylor and, to a lesser extent, UF the whole time. Groce's camp recently indicated in the last month that they were likely picking OU over Baylor, despite BU putting a good offer together. The player announces tonight and OU has considered him in the bag for a while. Update today is that Florida has come in off of the top ropes with a big time offer. Groce's camp has allegedly given OU this afternoon to match or beat. Remember that part about OU coming in with something crazy for Kreul? Well, that was done when they thought they had Groce locked up at a different number. I'm guessing they're going to have to pass on one or the other. If they pony up for both, I assume that is going to lead to some serious retention issues with the portal if they're not prepared to pony up around the table for experience already on the roster at Edge and WR. Watching OU get put in Sophie's choice after Sophie's choice is only going to get more entertaining.40 points
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You methodically built up tremendous credibility on Surly over many years. It’s been an impressive run. But you just completely destroyed it all in one post. You are now on the level of Rocko, TxTow, and Helobious.39 points
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We are going to kick this off Saturday night instead of the usual Sunday morning because we don’t have any data points from Texas playing a game to incorporate into the weekly preview. Texas is undefeated and hasn’t played a game. So, of course, we are 10 feet tall and bullet proof. Is this true? Yes! Look, for any of our fans who don’t get it, we are about to see our best defense since 1983. We have a Manning under center. We have the best offensive coordinator in college football. This is all designed to freaking kick ass and take names. Usually, in a big game, I spend a lot of time mocking and ridiculing the opposite team and fan base, but I’m not going there with this game. I’m not going to bring up the fact that they are a bunch of meth addict, jort wearing, community college, townie drop outs. I’m not going to make the point that they cheat. I’m not going to bring up the fact that they are the worst combination of degenerate southern dipshits and midwestern morons. I’m not going to point out that in a conference full of academically good schools they are the clown college. I’m just going to say that winning in the shoe, morning or night, is something Texas is absolutely at home doing. Their frosh QB is going to see ghosts. Their basically new defense is going to get shredded. We are going to fuck their shit up. Texas 31, Ohio State 13. Eat a bag of dicks Buckeyes.38 points
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Howdy folks - Buckeye in Austin here, checking back in for the first time this season. Best of luck to y'all this weekend. I have zero feel for how this game is going to go - both sides with obviously extreme talent but inexperience at some very important positions. I think TX has a slight edge at QB given Arch's game experience last year, and a significant edge on the sideline since we will be breaking in two new fresh coordinators (even though Hartline will have a nice safety net given that Day has spent most of his career calling plays). Calling it a wash over the other positions (TX with an advantage at DL and LB, OSU at OL and WR, etc) I would expect TX to pull out a close win, and a blowout in either case seems extremely unlikely...but playing this monster in Game 1 just adds an unaccountable weirdness factor. My 6-year-old daughter fortunately loves me very much and wants to root for OSU to make me happy, but as the lone actual Austinite in the family she is torn. She'll be wearing a TX dress underneath her OSU hoodie for this one.38 points
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Due to the bizarre meta nature of topic discussions on this board, discussing Texas A&M for the 2025 football season, like those before it, has become a bizarre exercise in either posting on the ATM recruiting thread or the football board "Tell me about A&M" thread, neither of which actually wind up satisfying the purpose of staying updated on the team. This is a similar phenomenon for every other team any of us would give a shit about besides Texas itself. Given that, I decided to start a new thread for the express purpose of tracking 2025 itself for Texas 8&4. I'll post my preseason thoughts here, and then I, and hopefully others, can provide updates towards and into the season when there's something new regarding the aggies. Will I be the only person tracking this thread and wind up posting to myself in an echo chamber? Wouldn't be the first time. Still, it's our little brother rival and I get tired of trying to parse signal from noise in other threads when it comes to their team. In regard to their outlook for 2025, here are my thoughts, offense first: QB: QB1 Marcel Reed (Soph); QB2 Jacob Zeno (SR); QB3 Miles O’Neill (FR); QB4 Brady Hart (FR) – Reed is slight and short, coming in at 6’2”, 180 lbs. Neither of those are accurate. He’s shorter than 6’2” and likely 5-10 pounds less than the sad 180 in his listing. He’s not some witch with escapability, but he is mobile. Klein likes to run his QBs and Reed’s arm isn’t begging to be heavily utilized. I wouldn’t be surprised if he got hurt and stayed hurt, prompting 7th year guy Zeno to fit into aggie fans’ favorite role, the elevated back-up QB. RB: RB1 La’Veon Moss (SR); RB2 Reuben Owens (Soph); RB3 Amari Daniels (SR); RB4 EJ Smith (SR) – Moss was having a quality season last year before going down to injury. It sounds like he’s recovered and aggies are justified in expecting another good season. Owens went down early, came back late, and continued sucking from his Freshman year. Few RBs have been hyped this far into their career without having broken an arm tackle or 4 ypc (3.9), but this guy gets discussed every time an aggie preview is discussed. Daniels is the personification of average and Smith is worse than that. Moss needs to stay healthy for ATM to do much on offense. TE: TE1 Theo Melin Ohrstrom (JR); TE2 Amari Niblacj (SR); TE3 Nate Boerkircher (SR); TE4 Micah Riley (SR) – The Swede is “really coming on!” and then we’ll see him this fall continue to disappear into the field, like a magic trick. They started talking shit about Niblack in the spring, but that’s been toned down. Now that it’s clear he’s allergic to contact and won’t learn the playbook, let’s see them smirk about luring him away from mean ol’Texas for $500k that Texas had no intention of matching. Today I learned that “Boerkircher” means “also ran” in Dutch. Micah Riley is rushing Sigma Chi this fall and might not even be able to attend most practices. WR-X: WR1 Mario Craver (Soph); WR2 Ashton Bethel-Roman (Soph); WR3 Jerome Myles (FR) – Craver was a good get from the portal. He averaged over 21 ypc last year at Miss State and he has 3 years left to play. He’s a burner. Is he going to be a world beater in Klein’s offense like the aggies believe? Right. They also talk up this ABR guy a lot but I don’t recall him in a game or in recruiting. Myles is a 5 star that didn’t get to campus until this summer. Why on earth a 5 star WR would go to ATM to play for Klein is beyond me. It’s not like money isn’t available elsewhere. WR-Z: WR1 Terry Bussey (Soph); WR2 Jonah Wilson (Soph); WR3 Kelshaun Johnson (FR) – Bussey’s displaying all of the issues discussed about him before he landed on campus – he’s raw, he’s been sheltered in 2A and the bright lights are a lot, and he’s not necessarily actually a WR. They’re talking about incorporating a bunch of screens and jet sweeps to leverage his size/speed combo. Wilson, former UT commit who Texas didn’t want to lose, went to UH to be their star and busted out. Johnson is another guy that Sarkisian wanted who didn’t want to have to fight for the limelight in a crowded WR room. WR-Y: WR1 KC Concepcion (JR); WR2 Isaiah Williams (FR) – Concepcion had a great freshman season at NC State and became a well-known weapon to CFB fans. Bizarrely, he had a terrible sophomore year without injury. His numbers got worse while the rest of the offense’s numbers got better. NCSU lowered their NIL offer for the upcoming season and Concepcion left their locker room looking for a sucker in the portal. Found them! The aggie talking heads talk about this guy as though he’s a burner. It’s bizarre. He averaged less than 9 ypc last year and less than 12 ypc in 2023. Meanwhile, the aggies poo-poo the loss of Noah Thomas to the portal and the Georgia mods are drooling about his performance so far in their fall camp. LT: LT1 Trey Zuhn III (SR); LT2 Lamont Rogers (FR); LT3 Robert Bourdon(FR) – Zuhn is a good OT, the aggies claim he’s a great OT. He’s not a mauler, but he’s competent and stays in front of his guys pretty well. Depth behind him is horrific, so aggies need to pray he stays healthy. LG: LG1 Chase Bisontits (JR); LG2 Ashton Funk (FR); LG3 Isendra Ahfua (FR) – Bisontits is getting all kinds of hype from the ATM side. I think Liucci said something ludicrous like he’s going to be an early draft pick next year. He’s a better Guard than Tackle, that’s for sure. I’m sure he’ll continue his progression from dogshit to mediocre to perhaps above average. Again, he better stay healthy because depth is an issue behind him. C : C1 Mark Nabou (JR); C2 Kolinu’u Faaiu (SR) – Nabou went down early against ND and missed the year. The aggies are high on him coming back. He was decent in 2023, so if healthy, this could be a solid return on the OL. Notice the depth behind these guys here as well. Attrition in the portal from guys like Shanahan could cause some ugly chickens to come home to roost this season. RG: RG1 Armaj Reed-Adams (SR); RG2 Blake Ivey (FR) – Reed-Adams was one of the 3 players that The Elk took to SEC Media Days and he’s a returning all conference caliber player. He is actually someone they’re hyping as a quality draft pick and I believe them. Ivey is a guy with a history of shoulder issues. This, again, is a really thin spot on their OL. RT: RT1 Demetrious Crownover (SR); RT2 Reuben Fatheree (SR) – Crownover has turned into a league average RT, which is saying a lot. He was atrocious early on at ATM. Fatheree continues to be listed as a viable candidate on their roster for PT, but I don’t see it. He is a shadow of his pre-injury self and they’ve been really reluctant to give him snaps. Good luck if Crownover is hurt. The aggies have been big on touting that they’re returning their entire OL for this season. Anyone would, I guess, but based on last year, are they managing anyone’s expectations effectively? No. This OL has a chance to be decent, which would be an improvement. It’s not going to win the Joe Moore Award, and that’s what those assclowns are talking like. If the injury bug shows up at all in BCS at the OL positions, those guys need to light their cigarettes right about then, because the lack of depth in that area on their roster says they’ll have just been fucked. Offensive Coaching: Collin Klein gets talked about every year as some sort of up and coming coaching star. His hire was lauded as a stroke of wizardry by The Elk in the winter of 2023. Apparently, none of the people talking in that way bothered to look anything up about the guy. He had his playcalling duties removed at KSU. KSU had no issues with helping the guy pack when he let them know that ATM had reached out. Then the aggie fans watched last season and perpetually scratched their heads about the offense. Klein likes to use the QB in the run game a lot. Reed has the speed for it, but he’s bound for injury with overuse. The OL is expected to be a force, but those expectations seem lofty. The skill talent is being hailed as a source of strength for the aggie roster as well. The WRs might be better, but that’s a guess right now. There’s nothing interesting at TE. Moss is a good one at TB. All in all, the offense has a chance to be above average if they can stay healthy, but expecting some type of top 25 performing unit, which is how they’re talking, seems farfetched.37 points
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I'll be so thrilled if this kid's back to 100%. What a boost it could be, to get an elite RB back. And he sounds like a great kid (esp. the last comment in the clip.)37 points
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Yeah, my Canadian model girlfriend probably won’t be able to visit now either. Because of the politics. So that’s why y’all have never met her.37 points
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Well my brother who is the textbook middle child, 7 at the time, convinced my mother, who is a saint and all things innocent and good, to take us to see a "porky pig" movie. He must have seen a preview and knew what he was doing because on the opening scene of Porky's Revenge when PEE WEE's girlfriend flashed her boobs and then shows his cock to the crowd she yanked me by my arm and him by his ear all the way out of the theatre. This is the same brother who also convinced my mother, who would not buy us loud music because it would disturb my father, that Quiet Riot was considered classical.37 points
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Looks like OU went in with something crazy. Guys on Sooners Illustrated who seem to know some things believe that Nagy decided that he's a "must-have" and couldn't concede him to Texas. I know I would have liked to have gotten him for multiple reasons, same as many others here, but this is one situation where it is both a certainty that OU is spending money they don't really have, so that's going to impact their roster and recruiting elsewhere, and they're also dramatically overpaying for what the player is really worth. I'd say good luck to the guy, but if he's going to OU, fuck him. And fuck OU too. Another thing I think this does is make Texas more willing to flip Henderson later. I'm sure they'll keep looking for a good answer that doesn't involve doing something crazy for Henderson, but I do think it opens up some room to get stupid if they wanted to with the flip.36 points
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Michael Terry will win four Biletnikoff Awards here.36 points
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The reason I didn’t go to Dublin was because my home town was having its 125th. My dad drove this IH 1206 on our farm float, with his glass of Black Velvet riding on the fender. Didn’t spill a drop.35 points
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If you have 5 DTs, then you don't have two. --Satya, probably35 points
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I remember the first time I yelled "BREAK HIS FUCKING NECK!" at a TX/OU game and an older woman in Texas gear looked at me with a horrified look on her face. Then I said "well I hope he recovers and has a good life but just can't play football anymore" and she just nodded in a way that indicated okay that's acceptable.35 points
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