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  1. The certainty about the number 3 is what I find interesting. For Sark and Flood to go from "we have never taken a portal OL in our time at Texas" to "we will get 3 starters from the portal this year" is a big leap that I won't believe until I see.
  2. Interesting that Gerry is confident about 3 IOL. I really hope that's true but honestly I'm not getting my hopes up for more than 2 and even 1 seems possible. Unless we fire Flood and the new guy wants to remake the room.
  3. Vasek's just an example. If they feel like he's not over the injury stuff, or he's not actually good enough to hold the fort in the event of a Lance Jackson injury, then sure cut him loose. But it's interesting to me reading this thread and others around Surly, and you'll find damn near every player who isn't a surefire starter or a freshman discussed as a transfer possibility. And on an individual, player-to-player basis, that makes total sense. But we do have to fill out a depth chart, whether it's with guys that are already here or ones from the portal. I mentioned Vasek specifically because I was looking at our depth chart at edge the other day. You've got Simmons and Jackson as your starters. Great. Spence mixing in, that's good. Then Zina, who I feel like I haven't seen much about, and Orogbo who I'm almost certain I saw something along the lines of "promising but not ready". I'd say you need at least one more body in that mix. You can go to the portal and get the edge version of, I dunno, Cole Brevard, to come in and join the rotation and it likely works out OK. But it's not free; by definition you have to pay that guy more than what his current team is willing or able to pay him. Not to mention you don't really know what kind of guy he is, don't have a great handle on his medicals, etc. The post I responded to was concerned with losing the sort of "middle class" of our roster. Guys that probably ain't gonna end up stars but can fill out the depth chart. To be perfectly honest, I don't remember Vasek hardly at all this season but the official stats claim he played in all 12 games. Seems like he could fall into that category, unless, as you say, the ask is nonsense.
  4. I had some of the same thoughts about Vasek, as he's come up some on here recently. Obviously there's injury concerns in his case, but to me that seems like a guy you'd like to keep around because you need depth that you feel good about playing. The roster can't just be badass starters, freshmen behind them, and nothing else. As you say, getting experienced guys out of the portal to fill out your 2nd string probably isn't going to be very easy.
  5. Very considerate of the side piece to wait until after signing day to blow up their program
  6. I'm bored while eating lunch so threw this together. The Athletic's All-America teams.
  7. Yeah everyone says the Christmas party is cool, but we did Disneyland for spring break this year and my 8 year old never made it all the way to the fireworks. She crashes hard. We'll see. Not seeing anything about Runaway Railway at first glance. I do know that Big Thunder Mountain is gonna be closed while we're there, which is a bummer.
  8. Thanks. You and @mdmost crush this thread. We're staying at Wilderness Lodge. Four days in the parks but I think we're skipping Animal Kingdom. Maybe two days in Hollywood, can't remember what my wife said. We're also doing the Christmas party one night. The mouse fucking owns my ass right now (but it's gonna be awesome, I'm pumped). edit: for MK and HS, the strategy I came up with on my own is pretty similar to what you have. I've got Epcot fucked up though. Didn't realize that Guardians is the best ride. The plan I came up with was to rope drop Test Track, get a multipass for Remy's, and buy a single pass for Guardians. What do you think?
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