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  1. 13 hours ago, Getafix said:

     

     

    1)  MOST may not prioritize or even consider academics.  But " ... a single recruiting report ..." ? Are you kidding me? 

    You don't think academics were a factor in Justice Finkley coming here?  Or Hayden Conner?  Or in Elijah Higgins and that OL picking Stanford? 

    2)  Someone saying academics are important means they should disregard every other factor and make a choice on that basis alone?  Choosing a great blend of academics and football ... that's not consistent with academics being important?  If playing close to home and family are important to Colin Simmons ... why is he considering schools other than UNT/SMU/TCU ??

    3) Oh, btw, in many areas of engr, and Comp Science, Texas is up there.  (In CS, they're #11 in undergrad, and #8 in grad, per US News.)  You know who's not ranked ahead of them in CS?  Duke.  Northwestern.  Vandy.  (Debating Texas' academic ranking versus those of the other schools you mentioned isn't central to the point, anyway.  Just saying if you wanted to pick elite CS schools (rep/ranking ahead of Texas) that play competitive football, then other than Stanford, pick Cal.  For elite CS schools that DON'T play high level football, go with CMU or MIT.  Duke/Northwestern/Vandy don't belong in either category.) 

     

     

     

     

    I'm sure they were a factor. I'm not saying it doesn't matter at all, I'm saying that we overrate it. I just severely doubt that a 5* kid from Acadiana that could go anywhere is gonna make his choice based on the computer science department. 

    13 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    McKinley appears to be a rare breed. Louisiana kids, especially those good at football, don't usually go to public school. I'd expect the computer science comments from a kid at Newman or Ursuline. Good for him. I wish him well. Hopefully he'll be a Longhorn. 

    This is more true in basketball (or at least was when I went there). 7(or 8, not sure about John Ehret) of the On3 top 10 in Louisiana go to public schools. A lot of the private schools in small town Louisiana were originally established as "religious" schools after Brown v. Board. They have some black athletes, but it ends up with situations like the Clinton, Louisiana public high school being all black despite that town being about 50/50 black/white. 

    I really really hope we land this kid. Just not holding my breath because he says he wants to be in computer science. 

  2. I do not credit a single recruiting report that uses "academics" as a data point. Why is the kid not choosing from Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Duke, and Stanford then? I am very proud of my UT degree but I think this board and others get way too spun up about that. A high school football player that "cares about academics" is just one that's not going to start in the gen ed program. McKinley will be surrounded by a bunch of boat salesman, beverage distributors, and lawyers with LSU law degrees (the only kind in Louisiana) telling him you can still get rich going to LSU. The pressure to go to LSU when you are just a regular high school student (shitty basketball player profile aside); I cannot imagine the amount of folks buzzing around that kid right now telling him to go to LSU, computer science interest or not. I'll believe it when I see it when we get one of those big hogmollies out of there. 

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  3. 44 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    Jimbo entirely ignores character and fit for both recruits and staff.  Going to be fun to watch.  Maybe they catch lightning in a bottle one year.  I doubt it though.

    I hope that when they go 8-5 in year 9 of Jimbo and he still has a lower winning % than Sumlin they are pointing to 2020 as the proof in the pudding. 

  4. Just now, Dbeasy said:

    There have been quite a few stories now about A&M players being baked, such as before class, in the locker room after a game, etc.

    While drug use is everywhere in college football, including at Texas, I do wonder whether recruits see more prolific use and a more loose and out of control culture at A&M vs other schools. It certainly seems that way.  That definitely would attract a certain type of player and repel another type, and explains a lot of the problems they’ve had. I haven’t seen any indication they even realize they may have a problem. 

    I mean, Jimbo's thing going back to FSU was to let the players run shit, for good or ill. 

  5. 7 minutes ago, CashMcCoy said:

    UGA fans on the Wingo prediction from Wiltfong:

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    After reading yesterday’s article, not having that UGA mental makeup sounds like a great sign. Also funny because they are the textbook example of buying your way back to relevance.

    That AJC article seemed to be detailing stuff as bad as the worst Baylor stuff. All we need is the Kirby Smart text messages saying "Hm, a stripper? Then I guess it [the rape] is not so bad."

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  6. 1 minute ago, Getafix said:

     

    Hank South (Horns 247) wrote an "article" on the Wiltfong CB of Wingo to Texas. 

    In that, he proclaimed "The Crystal Ball now reads 100 percent in favor of Texas."

    Yay! Woo hoo!!! 

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    lol. Reminds me of how for years and years the 247 CB always said "A&M" for every top recruit in Texas because Perroni would CB them as soon as A&M offered. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    "rockwalltxag" just made his post up out of his own fantasy of what "sip" people probably think. I don't think I've spoken to one UT fan that is highly confident of immediately winning big in the SEC in football. Has anyone here heard that from friends and family?

    This month, I've had 3 aggies approach me, 2 in Vegas while I was playing craps on separate occasions. All 3 felt immediately compelled to tell me they're an aggie, to which I said, "Oh, sorry about that". Then each of the 3 felt compelled to tell me that the SEC is a meat grinder, that we don't know what we're getting into, and that we aren't going to be the big boss of the conference. They remind of Ike Clanton's first encounter with Wyatt Earp in Tombstone.

    Yeah I get told this all the time from my LSU friends (I went to high school in Baton Rouge at ULab) and my family and whoever else I talk to. Every time they say that Texas won't be able to 'boss around' the SEC, I just say "ok, great."

  8. 3 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Well he did work at Orabgenloods for like a half decade so this checks out. It also makes your next sentence even more hilarious. 

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    The McNeese St, a&m degree, youth sports trifecta. It’s no surprise he fought Taylor Hamm on the sidelines of a high school football game. That motherfucker dreams of saving enough money to buy a track home in Montgomery County. 

    Is Brauninger the one that Billy sent to Malik Jefferson's house the night before he committed? Then harassed Malik at the all-American bowl practices about whether he could flip before early enrolling?

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