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  1. 59 minutes ago, huge said:

    So this is how it goes now?  You don't beat out the returning starter and you transfer?

    He didn't go there to play WR.  If he's got to play WR or DB, he might as well do it somewhere else like tOSU.  They may have Matthew Baldwin's scholly available.

  2. 1 hour ago, LTbear said:

    The last bit is the important bit. CU has a huge alumni base out west. The move was for alumni.

    If CU ever did leave the PAC (say if the PAC fell apart), I think odds are they'd make a case for the B1G.

    For the Big XII I'd take Arky and anyone. Arky belongs here. Pair 'em with Cincy for all I care; that's not a bad get.

    I would take any P5 schools we could talk into switching conferences in order to get to 12 and have real divisions.  Mizzou, Arky, Nebraska, CU, ASU, AZ, FSU, Ga Tech . . . pretty much anybody but Wake. 

  3. They wouldn't play TCU during our period in the wilderness either.  UT, Tech, Baylor and OU all scheduled regular season games with TCU between 1998 and 2012 but A&M refused.  We did get a shot against them in the infamous GalleryFurniture.com Bowl but nutcase Casey Printers threw a half-dozen interceptions on his way out of town to transfer to FAMU.  They would never play us in the regular season though.  Unfortunately for them, they didn't get a choice in the NCAA baseball playoffs and we ended their season 3 or 4 times.  

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  4. 15 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Delton was awful at Kansas State. I mean awful. 

    I really like Baldwin but after that I don't see much. TCU should be in decent to good shape with Baldwin next year but the QB room doesn't inspire much confidence this year. If Delton wins the starting job this year that should tell you all you need to know about the other QBs. 

     

     

     

  5. 32 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    0/2 on Shawn Robinson and Justin Rogers? I didn't see that coming.

    We still have Max Duggan and Matthew Baldwin though.  That's not a bad QB room with the veteran Delton.  Duggan was rated about equal to Robinson and Baldwin wasn't far behind. Rogers foot still has a chance to come around too. Duggan is the one to keep an eye on in my opinion.  The kid was a 4 year starter in high school.  He's got speed (4.58 at the opening, 22.02 200M) and arm strength.  Some insiders are saying he's got the strongest arm of any QB we've had since Boykin.  He might be our Brock Purdy. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Machinator said:

     

    He wasn't going to be a full-time player but it still sucks.  GP said the other day that they were going to limit him to 15-20 snaps a game because of his injury history.  Sounds to me like he was going to try to give it a go his senior season but the injury bug bit again or he decided playing through the pain ain't worth it.  The kid had NFL potential but has been snake bit by injuries since he started 6-7 games as a true freshman.  What's even worse is that Ben Wilson, the soph who was the primary back up to both LB's got injured last week and is out until October.  Looks like we're moving another safety to LB. It's worked before but it would nice for one season to have a pair of LB's like Tanner Brock and Tank Carder or Daryl Washington and David Hawthorne again. 

  7. On 8/8/2019 at 12:44 PM, UDontKnow said:

    Lol. Texas has slow played Ty Jordan's recruitment focusing on other RB targets first. Jordan, while a great player in his own right, is a luxury take as a scat-back (no German/Japanese) for Texas. Jordan was doing his due diligence and looking around, but he wants to stay close to home and doesn't want to go no damn TCU.

    TCU is done at RB as long as Dominic Richardson sticks.  I'm not sure Jordan was ever a big priority. 

  8. 1 hour ago, Chad said:

    Patterson isn't going to surprise anyone unless he resolves that shit show at QB. That's the biggest reason TCU had a down year. It wasn't on their defense and it definitely wasn't on their OL.

    We had a shit ton of injuries last season and still managed to finish 7-6.  Breaking in a new QB who thought he didn't have to study film was another problem.  But a lot of it was on the O-line too.  We graduated 4 O-linemen from the '17 team who made NFL rosters and replaced them with some freshmen and two 5th year seniors who had hardly ever played.  The O-line didn't really start playing well until the last two games of the season.  This year, we return multi-game starters at every position including a potential early round draft pick right tackle.  The line was a huge problem last season but should be a strength this season.  

  9. I think TCU is going to surprise some people.  Patterson has never had two down seasons in a row.  Every season he's had where he's been .500 or worse, he has followed up with a 10 win or more season.  Every damn time.  The defense will be outstanding, the O-line will be better than last season and we will find a QB good enough for the Frogs to finish in the top 3 in the conference. 

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  10. 13 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    Reads like *trigger warning*

     

    Ka'Vonte Turpin.

    Yeah but Turp never played QB and this kid is 6' and 180 lbs., not 5'8" 160.  More like Reagor's size.  If this kid were playing WR at a 6A high school in Texas where they throw the ball around, he would probably be a 4*

  11. TCU got a commit from Jimmy Holiday, ATH from Mississippi.  Plays QB in high school but probably a WR.  Offers from Ole Miss, Miss St, and Tenn.  Kinda pumped about this guy because his testing at the Opening was damn good.  4.38 in the 40 and 4.4 shuttle.  Ran for 1,500 yds last season and passed for another 1,500 yds. 

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  12. 14 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

    OT but who are you hearing will win the starting QB job for TCU this year? Seems totally up in the air as to who starts game 1, but I’d bet Duggan will be the starter by the end of the season.

    The word on the 247 site is that Delton was the front runner after the spring but that Duggan is coming on strong.  However, you've got to remember that Collins was out in the spring due to his lis franc fracture from the Baylor game.  He just got cleared for full activities early this summer.  I'm in the minority but I like his chances better than Delton.  Collins was lights out when he came in against OU until he cut his throwing hand in a freak accident on the sidelines.  I think we scored on 4 of his first 5 drives and he had two long TD passes and another 50 yard bomb that put us in FG position.  Those drives were the best quarterbacking we had the entire season.  While he had some pretty mediocre games later on, I think that his ability to go vertical and avoid turnovers at the same time fit what we need in the offense.  Give the guy a better O-line and a sold running game and I think he can do some damage. 

    Duggan might still be the future but I would put money on GP going with the more experienced and safer option over a true freshman given the potential of this team.  We've got 3 senior starters on the O-line and 5-6 guys with significant starting experience there, two good senior RB's, one more year of Reagor before he goes pro (probably the same for Blacklock), and a stacked defense.   I have a hard time believing someone as conservative as GP is going to give a true freshman the keys to the car over a 4th year junior when he has a team that could contend for a conference title.  I know people are marking TCU down as a 7-5 or 8-4 team this season but really think that 9-3 or 10-2 is more likely because I think the defense will be that good and because GP's teams always bounce back for double digit wins after a bad season. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, Magus Ossis said:

    Honest question: who was the last overseas prospect to succeed on a high level as a D1 QB? Somehow my gestalt impression is that is unlikely to work out, no matter how physically freaky he is.*

     

    *until he transfers to OU for his last year of eligibility

    Gotta be a Samoan who did that.  I just don't know which one. 

  14. TCU's first 2021 recruit is . . . a QB from Germany. 

    The kid is a physical freak:

     

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    At nearly 6'6" and 235 pounds, Honig possesses NFL size as a 17-year-old. And the part that has coaches and scouts really interested in the 2021 prospect is what he can do with it.

    Honig's 38-inch vertical is better than any quarterback has posted at the NFL combine since Robert Griffin III in 2012, per Pro Football Reference. His 123-inch broad jump would tie for fifth among QBs at the combine in that same time frame. And he complements his hops with a 40-yard dash in the 4.7s and has hands that have been measured at 11 inches—a measurement B/R draft expert Matt Miller says is the largest he's ever heard of.

    "He's enormous, strong and athletic," says Barton Simmons, director of scouting for 247Sports. "He has very unique physical traits and a cannon for an arm."

     

    https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2844066-if-you-were-to-build-a-quarterback-this-is-what-it-would-look-like

  15. 30 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    I like Texas Tech grads a lot, in fact, they are the most normal sociable people to be around, especially compared to Aggy dorks, but no one hiring gives a shit between a Texas Tech degree or Alabama degree. 

    Unless the person hiring is a Tech grad.  More likely that than a Bama grad in DFW. 

  16. 34 minutes ago, UcancallmeSurly said:

    A:   Couldn't get into UT, wouldn't go to A&M.

         

    Ole Miss, Arky, Bama & OU are the hot options when you get declined by UT & joining a cult/living in Guyana Station while waiting 4 years for the mill to produce your diploma doesn't appeal to you.

     

    OU I understand but I know a fair number of Texas kids who have gone off to Bama, Auburn and Ole Miss and come back home.  There is a bit of culture shock for kids raised in DFW.  I have a friend whose kid is at Ole Miss and likes it but he said he heard the N word with the hard R more times in one semester than he had heard in his entire life before leaving Texas.  I have another friend whose kid is mixed race and lasted one semester before he bolted and came back to Texas.  I think a lot of the Texas kids who go off to the SEC schools would actually be a lot happier at Tech if they could get over how ugly Lubbock is.  The Tech campus is nice and a Tech degree is probably better for job prospects in Texas than an Ole Miss or Bama degree.

  17. Ole Miss is having a really bad week, first the girl murdered by the douchebag from Fort Worth and now this:

     

    https://www.propublica.org/article/ole-miss-students-pose-with-guns-in-front-of-shot-up-emmett-till-memorial

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    OXFORD, Miss. — Three University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house and face possible investigation by the Department of Justice after posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign honoring slain civil rights icon Emmett Till.

    One of the students posted a photo to his private Instagram account in March showing the trio in front of a roadside plaque commemorating the site where Till’s body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River. The 14-year-old black youth was tortured and murdered in August 1955. An all-white, all-male jury acquitted two white men accused of the slaying.

    The photo, which was obtained by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica, shows an Ole Miss student named Ben LeClere holding a shotgun while standing in front of the bullet-pocked sign. His Kappa Alpha fraternity brother, John Lowe, squats below the sign. A third fraternity member stands on the other side with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. The photo appears to have been taken at night, the scene illuminated by lights from a vehicle.

     

    LeClere posted the picture on Lowe’s birthday on March 1 with the message “one of Memphis’s finest and the worst influence I’ve ever met.”

    Neither LeClere nor Lowe responded to repeated attempts to contact them.

     

    It is not clear whether the fraternity students shot the sign or are simply posing before it. The sign is part of a memorial effort by the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, a Mississippi civil rights group, and has been repeatedly vandalized, most recently in August 2018. Till’s death helped propel the modern civil rights movement in America.

    Five days after LeClere posted the photo, a person who saw it filed a bias report to the university’s Office of Student Conduct. The complaint pointed out there may have been a fourth person present, who took the picture.

    “The photo is on Instagram with hundreds of ‘likes,’ and no one said a thing,” said the complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica. “I cannot tell Ole Miss what to do, I just thought it should be brought to your attention.”

    The photo was removed from LeClere’s Instagram account after the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica began contacting fraternity members and friends. It had received 274 likes.

    Kappa Alpha suspended the trio on Wednesday, after the news organizations provided a copy of the photo to fraternity officials at Ole Miss. The fraternity, which honors Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as its “spiritual founder” on its website, has a history of racial controversy, including an incident in which students wore blackface at a Kappa Alpha sponsored Halloween party at the University of Virginia in 2002.

     

    20190725-emmett-till-inline-2.jpg Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, takes down a bullet-riddled sign honoring the slain youth, whose death helped propel the civil rights movement in America. (Courtesy of Emmett Till Interpretive Center)

    “The photo is inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable. It does not represent our chapter,” Taylor Anderson, president of Ole Miss’ Kappa Alpha Order, wrote in an email. “We have and will continue to be in communication with our national organization and the University.”

    After viewing the photo, U.S. Attorney Chad Lamar of the Northern District of Mississippi in Oxford said the information has been referred to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for further investigation.

    “We will be working with them closely,” he said Thursday.

    University officials called the photo “offensive and hurtful.”

    University spokesman Rod Guajardo acknowledged that an Ole Miss official had received a copy of the Instagram picture in March. The university referred the matter to the university police department, which in turn gave it to the FBI.

    Guajardo said the FBI told police it would not further investigate the incident because the photo did not pose a specific threat.

    Guajardo said that while the university considered the picture “offensive,” the image did not present a violation of the university’s code of conduct. He noted the incident depicted in the photo occurred off campus and was not part of a university-affiliated event.

    “We stand ready to assist the fraternity with educational opportunities for those members and the chapter,” Guajardo said.

    Vandals threw the first sign in the river. The second sign was blasted with 317 bullets or shotgun pellets before the Emmett Till Memorial Commission officials removed it. The third sign, featured in the Instagram photo, was damaged by 10 bullet holes before officials took it down last week. A fourth sign, designed to better withstand attacks, is expected to be installed soon.

    News of the suspensions and referral to the Justice Department came as Till’s cousin, Deborah Watts, co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, was already planning a moment of silence Thursday to honor her cousin with a gathering of supporters and friends dressed in black and white in “a silent yet powerful protest against racism, hatred and violence.” Thursday is Till’s birthday. Had he lived, he would have been 78 years old.

    This is not the first time Ole Miss fraternity students have been caught up in an incident involving an icon from the civil rights movement.

     

    20190725-emmett-till-inline-3.jpg Weems taking down the bullet-riddled sign. (Courtesy of Emmett Till Interpretive Center)

    In 2014, three students from the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house placed a noose around the neck of a statue on campus of James Meredith, the first known black student to attend Ole Miss. They also placed a Georgia flag of the past that contains the Confederate battle emblem.

    According to federal prosecutors, the freshmen students hatched the plan during a drinking fest at the house, where one student disparaged African Americans, saying this act would create a sensation: “It’s James Meredith. People will go crazy.”

    One pleaded guilty and received six months in prison for using a threat of force to intimidate African American students and employees because of their race or color. Another student also pleaded guilty. He received probation and community service after he cooperated with the FBI. A third man wasn’t charged.

    All three students withdrew from Ole Miss, and the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity’s national headquarters shuttered its chapter on the Ole Miss campus after its own investigation, blaming the closing on behavior that included “hazing, underage drinking, alcohol abuse and failure to comply with the university and fraternity’s codes of conduct.”

     

    Shirley L. Smith and Debbie Skipper of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and Thalia Beaty, Benjamin Hardy and Claire Perlman of ProPublica contributed to this report.

    Jerry Mitchell is an investigative reporter for the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization that seeks to hold public officials accountable and empower citizens in their communities.

    Email him at Jerry.Mitchell.MCIR@gmail.com and follow him on Facebook at @JerryMitchellReporter and on Twitter at @jmitchellnews.

    If you have any information about the people who took this picture or who appeared in it, please let us know at Mississippi@ProPublica.org.

    Correction, July 25, 2019: An earlier version of this story misidentified John Lowe as holding an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Lowe is squatting beneath the sign without a rifle.

     

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