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Posts posted by Pato del Muerto
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Wish I could square up a soft toss like that. Amazing.
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6 hours ago, Post Oak said:
Im surprised the day wasn't busier.
The Greinke thing doesn't faze me. We weren't going to catch them in the next 2 years anyway.
It’s be nice to have the assets to trade for 3 TOR pitchers in 23 months and still have the best offense in the league.
But that involves knowing how to acquire talent.
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Astros are ridiculous
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1 minute ago, Magus Ossis said:
Couldn’t resist repeating the apt error from earlier today. Old habit? Privilege? Concession? Yore rite, your right, you’re right.
It wasn’t an error, it was an attempt at humor since there was an ad hominem attack and ctj is kind of a homonym because it is being used as an acronym for two different things.
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Shit, are we in danger of running out of super blue chips to commit this early? Wheaton and the OL guys?
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I still don’t see anything wrong with Tom herman’s personality or how he responds at press conferences. What do they think they see?
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37 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:
Everybody knows this was a dumb post, but I like how you made it after that ESPN blurb on the Brock bros that had a quote from Blake saying exactly why they're visiting so many schools and that there's even a quote about how the kids may not want to be taking so many visits.
The No. 1 recruit
Since the full ESPN 300 started in 2013, Trey Smith is the only offensive tackle to hold on to the No. 1 overall ranking. A spot largely dominated by defensive lineman, Smith proved to be a special talent -- and now Tommy Brockermeyer has a similar opportunity.
Brockermeyer debuts as the No. 1 prospect in the ESPN Junior 300, and though this is a preliminary list of underclassmen, he has a chance to hang on to that top spot once the full ESPN 300 is released after the class of 2021 finishes its junior season.
The 6-foot-6, 280-pound tackle from All Saints Episcopal School in Fort Worth, Texas, has a strong connection to the Texas Longhorns. His father, Blake, and his grandfather, Kae, both played football at Texas. Blake started in the '90s and was a first-round draft pick by the Carolina Panthers. Kae played in the late '50s and early '60s.
Tommy's older brother Jack was recruited to play in college but decided not to pursue an athletic career and currently holds a 3.92 GPA at Rice, where he is studying economics and managerial studies. Then there's Luke, another older brother who currently plays linebacker at Texas.
On top of that, Tommy has a twin brother, James, who is an ESPN Junior 300 offensive lineman. Ranked No. 229 overall, James is a 6-foot-3, 255-pound center. And if that weren't enough, both their mother and grandmother went to Texas.
"I think they've narrowed it down pretty good to a handful of schools that are in their wheelhouse, and Texas is going to be in the picture," Blake said.
"It's actually hurt [Tommy and James] in recruiting because a lot of schools don't recruit them or won't recruit them because of the Texas ties because they just assume they're going there. It's definitely not a done deal. It's obviously going to be one of the leaders, but there's also Alabama, Clemson, Stanford, Michigan. There are some good schools out there."
Blake is currently a defensive analyst at SMU, where he has been for almost two years. SMU was the first program to offer the twins, and the family has talked about Tommy and James playing for their father, but it isn't something he is pushing. Blake wants to ensure that Tommy and James see the right programs and make the right decisions for them, Texas or not. Having been on both sides, as a player and now as a coach, he understands the pitfalls and potential hazards of making a blind decision.
"I'm showing them pretty much every top program in the country, whether they might think, they're like, 'Why are we going to Iowa, Dad?'" Blake said. "I'm like, 'These guys know what they're doing,' and then after they go and see it, they say, 'Yeah, I get it.' I'm going to give them the best advice I can give them because I know the whole process, and I've seen it all and done it all.
"You can't ever guarantee things are going to happen the way you want and coaches are going to be there, so there's a lot of different aspects you have to look at."
I read it, and it’s what got me thinking about the post I made. If, during the process of properly informing their decision, they find a place that they think is a better fit, they should choose that place.
If that were to transpire, certain elements would effort to use that against our recruiting efforts. So it would amount to more than just losing one great and/or one good OL prospect. It would allow for the “even they don’t want to go there” narrative to have legs.
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18 minutes ago, RockwallJim said:
First time poster, long time reader. I'm looking for a forum to get inside - intelligent recruiting updates. A place friendly enough for me to feel like there are no such things as stupid questions. Have I found it?
If you’re a long time reader, you don’t need those questions answered. So, are you a sock or a troll?
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3 minutes ago, Thiefery said:
is BayLOL spelling next?
I think gaylor is the more common pejorative bastardization.
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I don’t see how you can read looch and come away thinking you got anything other than opinions that can fit into your aggy worldview.
How many guys that didn’t choose aggy were this close to choosing aggy, or would have chosen aggy but for circumstances beyond their control? Broughton being the most recent. If only the decision were up to him with no input from others, he would have been aggy.
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19 hours ago, clapclapclap said:
"There are many things that should never go near a vagina and ice lollies are up there.
I see what she did there.
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54 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:
The guys replacing those starters are significantly more talented, so it’s a question of inexperience and how fast they can pick up the scheme, whereas last year our defense’s issues were depth and talent. Orlando’s defense was an immediate turnaround at both UH and UT, so he’s shown the ability to get guys ready quickly in his defense and most of these guys have had at least two years repping his scheme and training under Yancy.
On offense, we have a junior Sam and 4 guys who’ve proven to be at least solid starters on the OL. We have a good mix of proven starters and talented young guys at the skill positions.
Overall, I think our offense will almost definitely be better than last year and can hopefully carry the team early while the young guys on defense get acclimated.
3 losses is definitely possible, but if we win even just ½ out of OU and LSU, it seems likely we get to 10 wins in the regular season (as long as Ehlinger stays generally healthy *knock on wood*).
The guys replacing the starters were the depth that you say we didn’t have last season.
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1 minute ago, Fud said:
This is the worst post I've seen this week
Well thank you. Trying to think like a high school kid is tough but it seems like i managed.
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4 minutes ago, Bam Bam Sam said:
That's the thing, the whole "family wants him at AU" play is bunch of horse shit. Chris' family and he met with engineering advisors on each of his visits here. Family supposedly wants the best for his life after football. Auburn can't hold our jockstrap in either of those categories. I thought it was all smoke, but after he pushed back the commitment date, I have to admit there might be more to it. I'm still not too worried.
Any chance he wasn’t accepted into the engineering school here? Would he know that so soon?
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Being a douchebag shouldn’t preclude you from the hall of fame.
In fact, neither should excelling during the steroid era because you were on steroids. Almost everyone else was as well.
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To channel my inner satya, if Texas ends up not landing the brockermeyers that’s a bad look that other coaches will use against us and that will land with recruits.
Even though I’d personally understand if either or both decided to go elsewhere.
Hell, coaches might already be asking recruits to think about why those two aren’t already on board and are visiting all these other programs.
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Here’s the flaw he’s asking to be pointed out: pitchers will realize he’s not swinging, and that 58/32 ball/strike ratio will shift dramatically.
His rules are that they don’t know he doesn’t have a bat, but they would quickly notice that he’s not swinging, and become braver.
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Most died in the fire but over a quarter were decapitated?
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Rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
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At least ewu, in that gif at least, doesn’t wear all red at home to blend in with the turf.
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Shut the fuck up, donny
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15 minutes ago, Machinator said:
Small consolation is that I won't have to see the abbreviation "CTJ" and momentarily wonder why some 40-year-old verbose message-board poster is going to fix our linebacker issues.
Machines are never going to be able to understand ad homonym attacks.
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3 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:
Now that’s how you start a fracas
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I’ll take “so they can talk to their grandparents and other Brazilian family members” for $100.
Also to CLEP out an easy 9-12 credit hours eventually.
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The Climate thread
in Cloak Room
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If the best ways to get off of fossil fuels are nuclear, wind, and solar, why do we let NIMBYs of any flavor say no to nuclear and wind? If nat gas is half as dirty as coal, why are we fighting it in favor of these other things, only to then refuse to have the others because people don’t like how wind farms or solar arrays look, or are scared of nuclear?