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RollingPresidential

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  1. 7 hours ago, Deej said:

    I didn't hate them until all the lies they threw out there when they left for the SEC. Couldn't even just make the move and say they felt it was just a better situation for them. 

    Instead, they pointed the finger at us on their way out the door and threw out a bunch of bullshit about us. 

    Fuck them. 

    This. I was in school from '08-'12 and didn't care about them until my senior year when they just wouldn't shut the fuck up. 

  2. 7 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    There is a thread on IT. Apparently the On3 rankings overvalue physical characteristics, i.e. height, weight, hand size, vertical, arm length of prospects compared to where players with similar physical attributes were drafted. The On3 personnel stupidly think they are going to determine the NFL draft instead of how these kids will project and perform at the college level. It makes watching tape and HS production meaningless.

    There is a thread on IT trashing their own rankings?

     

    Edit: they do indeed, at least Nahlin is posting about "how On3 operates." 

  3. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    @RollingPresidential is simply being too binary in his position on “academics” in recruiting. There’s a gap between NW and Stanford and a guy weighting Texas or UF or UNC or Michigan higher than shitholes like LSU or Auburn. They could be looking at LSU, Auburn and Texas and ultimately decide that Texas is the best fit because of the academics. They don’t have to be exclusively looking at Stanford and Rice to be concerned about their future degree’s value. 

    I am vividly remembering being in my high school IB physics class at U-High (known on this board as University Lab, the high school that is on the LSU campus), getting a bad grade on a test, and saying something like "If I don't fix my grades in this class I might end up at LSU." My classmates, 80% of which were matriculating to LSU, were very offended. I'm now a lawyer and my undergrad degree means jack shit, so bully for me I guess. 

    I think what you've said is reasonable, I just don't think it really tips things in our favor as much as we say it does or has overwhelmed other stuff in the past. For an ex-NFLer, as most of these guys think they will be, what does their undergrad degree even mean?

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  4. 21 hours ago, Poe It Up said:

    They’re recruiting better than I thought they would. Gerry said that if Kobe Black and Simmons aren’t committed by the end of July, then they may be more into aggy than Texas realized. Hard to believe. 

    Not saying I don't believe you, but where'd he say this?

  5. 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. 

  6. 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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  7. 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. 

  8. 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. 

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