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  1. I got my boy out from La Junta. As far as I can tell the whole camp got to high ground well in advance of the bad stuff and watched the camp get obliterated. My son is 8 and they took the younger kids to the backside facing away from the camp and river and did a bunch of games and songs etc. One of the first things he said to me was he asked if they’re still doing the fireworks tonight. I love that camp.
    52 points
  2. "Every cycle is different." Since the 2022 cycle forward, NIL and the portal have combined to create an extremely complicated landscape to navigate. Texas (the Surly/Burton cabal, the AD, Sarkisian and staff, big money boosters) have solved the riddles presented in front of it each time. It hasn't been voodoo or just following the same "process". It's taken a lot of collective buy-in and hard, smart work and some luck each time. Hell, part of why Saban quit is because he couldn't model future recruiting cycles and portal activity into his "process". I don't know how much of the details he's gone into publicly about that, but he's gone into the nitty gritty on it in private, and he's become a plaintive bitch about it. At some point during each cycle, something has clicked for everyone involved and Sarkisian has been able to close on recruits, the current roster, and portal candidates. You can find the moments on the timelines for each period, really. Whatever the case, each cycle from July 1, 2021 forward has involved a spring/summer period of complete fucking shock. This one looks no different. I think a lot of folks are currently flatfooted by how some other programs are initial handling ramifications around House. "Past performance does not really inform future returns." I think this is important to note for this board, largely because there seems to be a reflexive "this is how it always goes" notion from the natives of this forum. I get it, but I'm not personally subscribing to that line of thinking. Why? Because the dynamics of this cycle are, yet again, different. Some of the money being thrown around by other schools, whether because they can (Oregon, Michigan) or because they're desperate (USC, LSU, Florida) or because they cannot help themselves and refuse to fall behind (Ohio State, Notre Dame) is fucking shocking. This is not a case of $100k making the difference. When other offers are coming over the top of yours by more than $1M for non-QB roles, that's just flat out new. Don't conflate some of these situations with a collective getting or staying aggressive, either. Some of this is coming through the school and not subject to the same compliance. It's "rev share" money. What happens if what's reported to be 85% of $20.5M is really $35M because the program can just do that? I haven't read the House agreement, but what I've heard and what makes sense is that if someone is washing through the rev share, no one externally is going to have the mechanisms to see or hinder that, or punish it. So what can programs do if that's the case? Do it as well? Not likely. Most schools cannot. The $20.5M is a huge fucking burden to get to in the first place. Other schools are just not going to take that approach. It seems pretty clear to me that Texas isn't going to do anything of that sort. Keep building through collectives? The burden has now been lightened for boosters at places like Texas, no doubt. However, if Texas wants to reach the mountain top and stay around there, they're going to have to be honest with themselves about it, much as Ohio State and Notre Dame are currently having to be as well. Will Texas? I don't know, but I'm relatively informed and still optimistic. "Maybe everyone is just catching up to us in NIL!?" I feel like this anxiety needs to walk away from the keyboards of this board, if nowhere else. No one is going to "catch" a competitive advantage. There is a very small handful of schools that sit above the rest in terms of access to capital and House doesn't change that. Texas would have to choose to give that up. Is that something a totally aligned organization and its benefactors are going to let happen? It seems unlikely. I think it is fair to think that Texas is still surveying the landscape and not making all of the moves early, but it will eventually take action and flips and surprises will fall in our favor down the line. I also think it is prudent to realize that there's risk on in this cycle that either may not happen or the calculations will be wrong, with timing being yet another factor that could work against Texas out of nowhere. "The current season doesn't really impact the current recruiting cycle." One final thought around all of this is that the performance within the season now matters more than ever. The old thought above this in bold is now an old trope. Money being funneled in for recruiting and roster management is some of the same money recruiting to buyout an old coaching staff and to hire a new one. Florida's money started flowing after they decided to keep Sun Belt Billy. If that flips and they have to fund a big buyout, there will be blood with that roster and recruiting class. If USC fucks the chicken again, they likely still can't afford to buyout Riley, but that obvious future need may well close off the NIL valve and lead to serious attrition even without coaching change. These are scenarios that will play out at multiple schools before the mythical "signing day" in December. I think Texas is going to have another amazing year on the field, so it can only benefit from the carnage within the realm of poor performance and coaching hot seats and firings.
    51 points
  3. Push boundaries like creating the nation's biggest and best NIL collective, spending more in NIL than everyone else in the nation, while killing the portal and ending with the #1 recruiting class in the nation, LITERALLY LAST YEAR? Other schools are pushing those kinds of boundaries? Oh wait, some 17 year olds made non binding decisions based on absurd potential numbers before fall camp has even started and you for some unknown reason let that ruin your entire mental state...but oh, ah yes, Texas and their vaginal tendencies. How the fuck have you not been crowdsourced yet you thin skinned puta, take your pants pissing over to Orangebloods
    49 points
  4. I'm heartbroken by this event, like many here not one of us 4 in my family doesn't know someone at most 2 Kevin Bacon steps from ourselves who is dealing with loss of human life. So much I could post, including why this storm was so bad - we get lots of Mexican landfall tropical systems that come in early hurricane season and don't. I'll pick that up maybe in a few days if interest. Not definitive answers but good estimates. Mainly I wanted to give a few words on today for ATX and immediate areas: This storm's center is almost on top of us, moving very slowly ENE. It's been bubbling today, that is the early a.m. concentration was up in San Saba/Burnet areas, and now seems to have formed another "barbell end" S/SE of ATX east of San Antonio in the Lower Guadalupe/Blanco area. Watch there in particular the next few hours and take care. However, there are some training storms N to S in W. Travis/Hays. Right now they're not too sated and are moving; however in some spots they're in a long line and could strengthen and douse a given area. It's next to impossible to know exactly where the "reds" will boil up and move. So stay near home or off roads where running water comes into play. Barry's remnants have lost a little punch in the last few hours, but there's always the danger of a "bomb spot" especially as diurnal heating takes place today over the system. Fortunately they ground around us is cooler from the past days' rains and might help reduce the intensity. This storm will slowly slide east of the 35 corridor by sunset or so, and being on the "backside" of it, will definitely decrease the totals. Tomorrow can see more rain but not what we've seen, even in Austin. By Monday this should be reduced to spotty light/medium showers widely scattered. Any questions etc. I'll try to check in. My heart and prayers go out for the grief that you can just feel over this region today. Godspeed to loved ones dealing with this.
    46 points
  5. When Fasusi went to OU last year we all were mostly okay with it because of a 2026 OL we wanted and that OL wasn’t Felix Ojo. Pumped to have Turntine in the class. Checks a lot boxes on and off the field.
    46 points
  6. aggy has been hounding this account all week since the final DC numbers came out, so he tried to help them out.
    46 points
  7. Not for nothing, but it’s fine for you to just not post anything when you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.
    46 points
  8. She and her late husband have been family friends since my dad moved us here in ‘88. I left here when I graduated high school, and never looked back. Until I moved back here a year and a half ago. This is a wonderful place (politics excluded), to raise a child as a family, or a single dad like myself. I went to sleep last night and it was sprinkling. I woke up periodically throughout the night to a torrential downpour. At 8am this morning, my backyard was underwater. That’s when the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I reached out to my firefighter friend, and questioned the three flash flood alerts I’d received starting at 3am. I wasn’t able to do shit, other than load and unload stuff for the first responders. I had to stand down when it came to getting into the fray. I’m having a lot of trouble with what’s going on. I was able to watch a woman rescued via helicopter, from a tree. It reminded me of the footage from 87. People who I’ve known all my life, and consider family, have lost their homes. If these Mystic kids are gone, I’m going to lose my shit. I don’t really pray anymore, but I’ll do whatever it takes to just get some good news. I absolutely hate feeling helpless, and that’s how I feel right now. I woke up today, and planned on a day of drinking. Man, that changed. Sorry for the rant, but it’s been a fucking day.
    40 points
  9. You have phenomenal mirror game.
    39 points
  10. The body of my daughter’s friend has been found. I haven’t seen her image in any of the social media postings which makes me realize that there are just so many babies still out there we haven’t even seen yet. Those poor sweet girls, those poor families 🙁
    36 points
  11. But you can’t remove politics from it. Somebody who would support causing this much suffering is not a good person. They’re great people to you. But they’re bad people. It’s something we all have to deal with. My brother-in-law is a guy whose company I enjoy. He’s been good to me. But knowing his politics and listening to what he has to say about various out groups and the joy he takes in Trump hurting them—he’s a bad person. And I very frankly don’t want to be around him.
    36 points
  12. A post from a friend… This is a tragedy beyond tragedy's. Violent storms on the evening of 7/3 flooded the Guadalupe River which Camp Mystic rests on. The damn broke and all the younger girl cabins down on the "Flats" as they call it were basically submerged. From my daughter Tiny, "Water rose up to the door mom. The only way out was to break the back window and climb out. It was am and I couldn't find my shoes. I was so scared but I kept going. I had my retainers in but didn't want to lose them, so l put them in the pocket of my pajamas. We climbed through the window and headed up the hill. The rocks really hurt my feet and I was so cold and shivering. We got to the top of the mountain and our counselor Annabelle was with us and was so awesome. She kept us safe under a tree. We huddled shivering and singing songs in the dark. Mom I thought I was going to die I was so scared. The thunder and lightening was so loud. Once it got lighter out we made our way back down to the Cypress side of camp and then Annabelle through us over the river and we ran into the dining hall of Cypress where we sat in the dark. They found me some dry clothes. We all just sat there waiting and waiting for hours. Then we were told we were getting on helicopters. Mom I didn't know if I would see you again."
    35 points
  13. Hook 'em! https://247sports.com/Player/kosi-okpala-46145173/
    34 points
  14. Welp, one of the confirmed fataliies is a 9 year old who was one of my wife's preschool students in Tarrytown. Her brother is one of my grandson's close friends.
    33 points
  15. 33 points
  16. No. That’s exactly seven fathoms.
    31 points
  17. If we’re talking about systems state officials have available…just treat life-threatening floods like they react whenever a cop gets shot: Blaming the NWS is chickenshit. But the next time I see Texas state officials take responsibility for dropping the ball will be the first.
    30 points
  18. 6th street as the voice of reason in this thread means that we have crossed the point of no return.
    30 points
  19. FWIW, the Miami mods told their 247 board that Miami is not expected to land Johnson.
    30 points
  20. CTJ hates white people. He once burned a Bucc ees beaver in effigy in front of my house. Spray painted "chalky go home" on the garage, which didn't make sense because i was home. Put a hate letter in the mailbox addressed to "milky." He refers to a group of 3 or more Caucasians as "Idaho." Urinated on Jason Sehorn's front porch in front of Angie Harmon.
    29 points
  21. I needed some good news.
    28 points
  22. Posting that number publicly is a recipe for some bad feelings in the locker room.
    28 points
  23. The only reason to be negative about recruiting or the state of the program right now is because you view life with the worst of expectations to psychologically protect yourself from disappointment, or you’re a troll who likes to wind people up. Or you’re just ignorant and lack any sort of perspective. The reason to follow recruiting closely for me is in part so I have some sort of realistic expectation for our chances of landing some of these kids. There’s not a single target that’s gone a different path than Texas that I’m surprised by. Part of that is because I probably follow recruiting a little too obsessively, but for anyone posting regularly on this thread, that describes you, too. The KJ Edwards commitment felt like it came out of nowhere. The rest of them I felt like I had a good idea they were going to go the way they went. Texas is in great shape. I have followed Texas recruiting in times where the head coach was so scared of rejection, and loved to brag how often he hit on all his targets, that he was scared to death of going after prospects where the chances of landing them was 50/50. These guys have their big boy pants on. Plus, in an era where football recruiting is more transactional than it ever has been, if the budget isn’t there for a player, it’s going to impact our chances considerably. I recently asked a guy in the industry how often Texas loses a recruitment where UT is the highest bidder, and he said in his estimation it was about 1 out of 10. We’re still in June. We have a great recruiting class forming. We have more studs ready to commit. We rarely lose flips to other schools (although we’re not invulnerable to it). We regularly flip kids from other schools to Texas. How the season unfolds will create more opportunities in recruiting. The class we sign in December is going to be outstanding. We’re in a good place right now.
    28 points
  24. Just so we’re on the same page here, you do realize that you’re actively engaging with one of the lowest IQ, highest vaginally juiced fucktards in all of longhorn netdom, right?
    27 points
  25. Just shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you’re talking about. This take is dumber than a bag of rocks.
    26 points
  26. 4 friends have kids at mystic, all 4 safe
    26 points
  27. My wife is on a mom’s thread for my daughter’s cabin from last Mystic term. Things are coming in fast and furious, but apparently a cluster of four girls has been spotted, is temporarily safe, and is waiting to get rescued from high ground.
    26 points
  28. maybe I’m losing my vision as well because I don’t see the problem here, suzi.
    25 points
  29. https://www.threads.com/@catherynlittlejohn/post/DLc0pIrvoVo?xmt=AQF0YqHYhT8R2Alw2TcBIDW_ap5TWdWbrcsAREIHgiYTqw
    25 points
  30. Just found out our very good friends lost their toddler while their river house was ripped apart in Kerrville. Mom saved the older child. Absolutely devastating.
    24 points
  31. Oh fuck off. Your guys are already literally blaming this on evil Biden weather modification and shit. Whereas the sane people are noting that state authorities have an easy mechanism to send statewide alerts out: they use it whenever a cop gets a hangnail, even in the middle of the night. But for this? Nada from state authorities. This state is poorly run, and it’s getting exponentially worse by the day. The only thing holding shit together are some local governments - which are run mostly by regular Texans, your neighbors - and volunteer decent Texans. There will be a shitload of failure analysis after this, but don’t worry your little head, nobody in the group that has run this state for the past 30+ years will take any responsibility. We’ll just hear the new official state motto: “It could have been worse.” My fellow Texans are fucking dying, and not one of those fuckers cares about anything but themselves. Makes me want to puke.
    24 points
  32. Its summertime, so for some the panties ride up a bit too snugly as they pace back and forth wringing their hands. When discomfort could simply be relieved with a gentle tug of perspective on their bunged up panties. Now that I have addressed the incessant drone of summertime whine... One of the things that I think is fantastic about the guys we have on campus is that despite they are bonding in a manner never before seen at Texas, we have record academic performance from record talented group of players! Herman departed with a 2.33 GPA average, this Spring the GPA average is 3.31! One of the hardest things a coach does when they take over a team is try to "change the culture." You hear it time and again. As at first the new head coach is usually forced to add lead motivator and lead disciplinarian to their coaching duties until they can indoctrinate enough upperclassmen with their culture to take over the motivation and disciplinary roles. Look at WTF Sark has done! He now has upperclassmen that can lead both on and off the field. The upperclassmen now are the disciplinarians, and motivators, they hold the newbies to a hgher standard. A standard that has been passed to them from Sark and they have bought into. The bottom line is that you have to not only be an amazing athlete to get a fat NIL check from the University of Texas, you have to have the right sort of mindset, attitude and smarts. I love that Sark has chosen wisely kids that realize that academic performance is important!!!! The main reason I think smarts are important? Because smart kids tend to be able to see past themselves. If you cannot see past yourself, then you can never truly create the sort of team every coach dreams of. One that sees itself as a collective with a common goal, rather than a collective of individuals with personal, then team goals. That's how you end up with a kid like Arch Manning, willing to let his personal aspirations take a back seat to perhaps obtain a greater team goal. And smart kids... are a lot more likely to understand success takes a lot more than simply very talented individuals. It takes individuals dedicated to a goal greater than themselves. things like personal development on and off the field are what makes pinnacle goals like National Championships possible by building the "right kind" of team. SO... whenever we miss out on a guy I always wonder what all the dynamics are. Beyond simply writing a check. Because at TEXAS, we can write all the fucking checks we want. But it's the kid beyond the physical talent that will determine the quality of your team in the coming years. And tight now we have both the most talented, and smartest team we have had on campus in a while. So relax! Finish out your July 4th weekend, and pull those wadded up panties out of your ass if you are one of those. We are in a good place recruiting, and a good place with this team from a talent perspective. And we will continue to be, as long as we keep handing our shit the way we have been. And if we miss out on Freshmen, we simply move to the transfer window. All we need do now is keep on this course... and very, very, very good things are ahead. Hook'em! And prayers to all those in the Hill Country whose lives have been turned upside down by this weekends tragic flooding.
    24 points
  33. Kosi Okpala - Breaker of Dark Streaks, Uplifter of Fucktarded Forums The guy has great size and I assume is from a west African family, which usually translates pretty fucking well to the Texas football program as a culture fit. I'll take it.
    24 points
  34. How many NIL deals have you done or been a part of or read or seen anything about other than the news? Compliance has always existed, just because it's delloite who can torpedo the deal doesn't mean there hasn't always been someone who could torpedo the deal. What you are seeing now is SCHOOLS being able to offer money in addition to the collectives that were already going, and in many cases in lieu of the collective (many have been shuttered or combined with the internal AD) the reason a lot of the parity is happening now is because schools that didn't have their NIL shit together all of the sudden have millions to throw around. Its going to be terrible for them, they are going to mismanage rosters, overpay for players that aren't high enough impact, do really stupid shit to be part of the Joneses etc. Texas already has a machine, it has discipline, it has a roster retention plan, it has depth, and it has the resume for a program developing players into NFL players.
    24 points
  35. Here's the thing about "it's funny to piss off the liberals, sweet liberal tears" reasoning that so many of these fuckers employed. WHY does this shitbaggery "piss off liberals?" It's NOT because liberals are pissed about losing things for THEMSELVES. It is LITERALLY because "liberals" are concerned about how these policies affect everyone, INCLUDING "MAGA Lady Suzanne." I don't fucking depend on Medicaid, I almost certainly never will. Medicaid evaporating doesn't directly affect me personally, not in the slightest. But....it would hurt millions of my neighbors and countrymen, and I don't want that to happen to them. So, the idiocy of MAGA choosing a path of "I like to piss off group X, which cares about other people, by voting for policies that will hurt 'other people'" is so perfectly stupid, and the absolute bullseye capture of our times.
    24 points
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