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  1. 9 hours ago, Plorant said:

    This will be a tough pull.  His dad was a star point guard for Arizona in the early 2000's.  He was on the team with Gilbert Arenas and Richard Jefferson that lost in the championship to Duke who had Jason Williams, Shane Battier, and Mike Dunleavy Jr.  Looks like his dad works for Arizona currently.  

    Well if he played at Texas instead, we'd have 0 chance.

  2. 12 minutes ago, Dark Horse said:

    Everyone hyped for 2026 or has the nostalgia worn off?

     

    sounds like they've addressed several of my issues so I'll be picking it up

     

     

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  3. 2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

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    Steve Sarkisian’s Texas organization is prioritizing three areas when recruiting high school prospects and devoting resources for talent acquisition: quarterbacks, top-notch linemen who can protect the quarterback and blue-chip defenders who can disrupt opposing quarterbacks.

    The approach was driven home on a weekend when Dia Bell (Plantation, Fla./American Heritage) was named MVP of the 2025 Elite 11 competition.

    The Longhorns added another body to what could evolve into a historic defensive line haul, reeling in Vodney Cleveland (Birmingham, Ala./Parker) while maintaining the lead in the race for Kendall Guervil (Fort Myers, Fla.).

    Richard Wesley’s (Chatsworth, Calif./Sierra Canyon) surprise commitment was arguably a bigger recruiting boon than if Texas had landed Dre Quinn (Atlanta, Ga./Buford) last Thursday. The Longhorns are one of three teams left standing for Trenton Henderson (Pensacola, Fla./Catholic) and remain in the running for Temple’s Jamarion Carlton.

    Texas also got the last in-person word with North Crowley offensive tackle John Turntine III ahead of his July 4 decision. Melissa’s Max Wright and Klein’s Nicholas Robertson were on campus with Turntine, who, along with Mansfield Lake Ridge’s Felix Ojo and Malakai Lee (Honolulu, Hawaii/Kamehameha), is one of three elite offensive tackles Kyle Flood is aggressively pursuing.

    It’s fun to listen to Sarkisian, Flood and other coaches on the staff tout the program’s desire to recruit “big humans.” The trope, however, is a way of life.

    Sarkisian, general manager Brandon Harris, director of player personnel JM Jones and the rest of the organization’s approach to roster building in college football has the staying power needed to keep Texas in the national championship hunt for the foreseeable future. While the Longhorns won’t win every battle for coveted players who line up closest to the football, they’re winning enough of them to keep accelerating the program’s growth from Sarkisian’s forgettable 5-7 debut to producing an FBS-leading 23 NFL draft picks from clubs that won a combined 25 games and reached the College Football Playoff semifinals over the last two seasons.

    Of those 23 draft choices, 10 of them manned one of the Sarkisian regime’s foundational positions: one quarterback (Quinn Ewers); one EDGE (Barryn Sorrell); four offensive linemen (Kelvin Banks Jr., Hayden Conner, Christian Jones and Cameron Williams); and four interior defensive linemen (Vernon Broughton, Alfred Collins, Byron Murphy II and T’Vondre Sweat).

    Bell is next in line behind Trey Owens and KJ Lacey to succeed Arch Manning. The offensive line has avoided heavy attrition under Flood and has benefited from evaluation wins with undervalued recruits, particularly what can be gleaned from Trevor Goosby's snaps last season and the early returns on guys like Nick Brooks and Nate Kibble.

    Now, it's time for Kenny Baker and LaAllen Clark to set up their respective rooms for bright futures. Texas is rightfully taking advantage of a 2026 cycle chock-full of difference-making defensive linemen, building the kind of roster that won't need five tackles from the portal to avoid massive gaps in the talent pipeline.

    Missing out on Carthage's KJ Edwards was a significant loss, especially considering how much Sarkisian values well-rounded running backs in his offense. The battles for Jalen Lott and Kaydon Finley could end with Texas losing to out-of-state competition (Oregon or USC for Lott and Notre Dame for Finley), which wouldn't be ideal scenarios for recruits with strong family ties to the Forty Acres.

    Still, since NIL resources aren’t limitless, the Longhorns would rather do what it takes to win line-of-scrimmage recruitments and, if necessary, snag as-needed skill talent from the transfer portal. It's more feasible to go into the portal and come out with Matthew Golden or Adonai Mitchell as opposed to using the significant capital it would take to secure a player capable of immediately impacting the trenches, assuming those types of players are available.

    There’s no wrong way to build a winning program. Nevertheless, it’s hard to argue against Sarkisian’s plan to keep Texas in the top tier of annual contenders to win the SEC and the CFP.

    Makes sense to me. There's so many athletic receivers in the state every year. Might as well take advantage of it and dedicate resources to positions that don't have as much abundance.

  4. 6 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I don't think I understand your intent or point with this post, so feel free to flesh it out. 

    They would rather throw resources at an offensive player they won't even use than a more useful offensive player or, of course, anything on defense.

    A team underachieving with top notch natural resources like that is experiencing gross roster mismanagement in my experience.

  5. 36 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

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    1 Liar

    2 It's not just opponents. You underestimate the appeal of laughing at A&M.

    Did ND have a plane crash or something?

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    Hmmm

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    Didn't A&M have a ton of returning guys last year including the best QB in the SEC, the OL, great RBs, great DL? Some other guys, too scattered about. Terrifying. 

    At least they found another way to slide their name in beside schools that are or have been relevant this century.

     

    Some melodic whistling of tired old tunes whilst strolling by the graveyard.

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    This guy starts like he's receiving the Academy Award for Football Predicting because he thought we'd beat the Aggies. Everybody did!

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    Stupid sip, you didnt have a chance last year but you get all the favors. You were well rested with your joke schedule. Meanwhile, we were over here dealing with Tupac's death and couldn't concentrate on the game.

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  6. 45 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    I got a feeling Kenny Baker might have been a great under the radar hire that people are going to look back at and go WTF were we thinking with their negative takes... 

    I had a good feeling based on the trajectory of his career and the fact that he produced draft picks at western Kentucky or wherever the fuck.

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