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Lonestar88

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  1. 2 hours ago, AugieBall said:

    We also got star SDE Malcolm Roach who started for Texas at *checks notes* middle linebacker. 

    This was so infuriating. Roach was really good! It was actually a good eval! And then we played him laughably out of position for almost his entire time here.

    He still made it to the league though, as a DT of course, which is where he should’ve been here.

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  2. 35 minutes ago, Fumbles said:

    I'm just going by the tape on Gibson and to my eye he looks smaller than most of the guys on the field.  Now, that's junior tape, he may have gotten bigger since then.  He's listed as 5'10" and 200 pounds on 247sports, which seems about right for what I see on the tape.  On3 has Gibson listed at 5'9.5", 215 pounds, which may be a more accurate measurement for where he is now.  Regardless, I didn't mean to call the dude Deuce Vaughn or Darren Sproles, I just meant his size makes me worry about him toting the rock 25-30 times a game with his violent running style over the course of a season.   I think he's going to be a really good player and I agree, I think he does work on inside zone.

    How big do you think RBs are supposed to be? Bijan is 5’11 215 lbs right now in the NFL.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    If you think the UIL does a poor job of policing recruiting, you should go check it out in literally any other state.

    No doubt. Most other states stopped trying a long time ago.

    And despite what some think, there is still very much a sense of community at these big programs in Texas. They recruit here and there, but they’re not recruiting entire teams. Except for maybe Allen.

  4. 15 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

    Never said it was in one area did I sport...

    Hell it goes back as far as the MOJO/ Midland Lee, Judson and Sealy dynasties and probably farther back than that. It's more difficult in multi- school districts but can happen there too. 

    Didn’t mean to assume you did, my point was just that by the time you get deep into the playoffs, it’s a bunch of teams doing the same thing.  

    I’ve mostly stopped complaining about recruiting outside of a joke here and there, because everyone is doing it. It’s as pointless as complaining about NIL in college.

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  5. 1 minute ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    Hustling Dave Chappelle GIF
     

    Jerry isn’t losing any money on this thing.   
     

    The big elephant in the room is the TV package and with Bally Sports gone bankrupt and divesting itself of its deals in has with the pro teams in their respective markets, it will be interesting to see how long this last anyway.   

    Reportedly, he only breaks even from it. The last time I saw the numbers reported, NRG stadium was charging triple the amount Jerryworld did.

  6. 28 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

    Two words- open enrollment.  DeSoto- Cedar Hill-Duncanville-SOC were transfer portalling before it was cool.  Samples only took the Duncanville job because they adopted that policy. 4500 kids in an open enrollment school is not a normal 4500 student population. Same can be said for a lower enrollment school, it'll skew athletically.  

    I view recruiting in high school like the steroid era in baseball. It’s widely believed Barry Bonds didn’t start juicing until he saw what Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa were doing with no repercussions.

    Same thing happened in high school sports. In the DFW specifically, Big (and usually richer schools) like Allen and Southlake and Aledo, were openly recruiting (open enrollment or not) with little to no repercussions and everyone else saw it and said “well, me too”. 

    We’re at the point now where I don’t think there is a power program in 5A or 6A that isn’t recruiting. 

    I don’t like it either, but the idea that this is only happening in one place or area is nonsense. People have a blind spot for the schools they root for and always think it’s those “other schools”. It’s everyone that matters.

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  7. 1 hour ago, PTINS said:

    If Katy & Cypress & Sugar Land & Alief & Pearland only had one select high school instead of 10 schools sharing players and resources within the same district, perhaps Texas HS football would look more representative. 

    De Soto and Duncanville looked good yesterday.  But let's not pretend they are playing by the same set of rules as everybody else. 

    DeSoto doesn’t even have 6A numbers anymore, so I don’t know what you want them to do. Building another high school there makes no sense.

    And until very recently, Katy High just funneled all the best players in the area to themselves anyways.

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  8. Almost all of the games stunk.

    Championship week can build momentum if the games are good, you’re more likely to bring in more people who come on a whim. But the games were terrible.

    Attendance was better last year and it was mostly the same teams as this year. That tells you it was about the quality of the games.

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