Posts posted by Thatguy
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Just now, NBHorn7 said: Believe it or not, but OTF is saying that Christian Clark might enter the portal.
Sounds like he wants a new deal like Wisner did.
This is the way of college football now.
Look at it from his perspective. Sark parked his ass on the bench with nary a care about his future. Now all the sudden the tables have flipped and he should be loyal? If Wisner didn't ask for more money and CJ was healthy Clark would've never seen the field. Now he has a little leverage and is probably pissed.
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1 hour ago, Hookem10 said: That makes sense in all but what about the players that do develop , do they not talk. Also I’ve been waiting for a lot of teams that burn bridges get fucked but it seems we’re the only bad guys I guess. I’ve seen and read plenty about player a-b-c from a high school get fucked or pushed out from a certain high school and that high school still sends players to same school. With money involved it might change that narrative maybe. Before nil Oklahoma would have a Texas player flame out and they would push him out or Alabama would do the same thing and ppl would be “ high school coaches won’t let their kids go there anymore , they cut the line for Texas kids “. Newsflash , they still went to those schools.
These kids are technically pros now so they better get used to business decisions. Earn your pay and make yourself indispensable and you will be paid. Just like any job in the real world.
Most of the dudes in the portal are leaving their school because they aren't being utilized, which means they aren't Jeremiah Smith. So the negative stories outweigh the positives. The Big Dawgs are usually using who they recruited. So burning bridges is way more harmful to us than it is to a lesser school.
Times are different now. When Bama was pushing out players, they had 5 stars on top of 5 stars, so they still won, and kids like going to a winner. However, look at them since the portal. Line isn't great. Can't run the football. Defense is shaky. They no longer can just load up on 5 star kids, so misses and kids opted elsewhere hurt a lot more than they used to.
You are thinking about the last part wrong. You said earn your pay. Well, Sark has a short rotation so unless someone in front of you gets knicked up, you aren't getting an opportunity to earn your pay. Seriously, Lockett came in and grabbed two balls and a touch. He probably been pissed off the whole season knowing he was balling in practice but couldn't crack the lineup. That little bit of run he got might just have saved him from entering the portal.
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1 hour ago, William Bludworth said: "Successful" doing a lot of heavy lifting there, bud. If successful you mean getting cleaned up by aggy, UGA, Michigan, ou, and Vandy...you know, schools that were ranked and he did nothing to alter the games, then sure, he's been a rousing "success." Lol, wtf were you watching? He scored against the likes of Arky, SJSU, and Miss St, oh and he scored in the first game against Ohio State late, but SUCCCESS!!!! Those 8 drops were fucking awesome, too!
Tell us more about how he did against his supposed "peers" in the upper echelon of programs and blue bloods and rivals? A no-show, you say? Well holy shit! Look at this fucking success story.
Vs aggy, ou, UGA, Vandy, and Michigan
Ryan Wingo- 26 catches for 319 and 3 TDs - 12.27 per reception
Parker Livingstone- 12 catches for 158 and 1 TD - 13.17 per reception
Only one of these guys were we trying to scheme open and get the ball to.
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1 minute ago, Hookem10 said: Fuck cignetti and why Stan for an ou receiver on a Texas message board boss ?
You are missing the big picture. Livingstone and McCutcheon are both from Lovejoy. Say they both get pushed out after their first year you can say goodbye to getting recruits from Lovejoy going forward. Same with Dibble and the punter from Atascocita. I worry about us burning bridges to high schools that have good talent because of our inability to get kids coached up/minutes/ keep them feeling like they are part of the program. All these kids know each other and are paying attention to what's going on with the classes before them. They talk. If our high school recruits keep not working out we are going to start losing them. That's my real worry.
That's the shit that was happening in the 2000's. Ricky(we all love Ricky) was having his issues staying on the field. Cedric flamed out. The big 3 receivers flamed out. We started to be known as the school that couldn't develop offensive players. Then we stop getting them. Texas has not produced one Mike Evans. Look how many LSU got. That's my worry. You start to develop a rep and then the well dries up.
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1 minute ago, Codaxx said: Wait. He was a decoy on the second one and ended up being the checkdown. He did not even run route. What about that proved his ability to get open?
the 3rd one was a play design; he did not have to beat anyone one. The A&M defender was put in conflict and got caught looking at the shallow route.
The 1st one was man and I think we can agree the route was poor and he misplayed the ball. If you watch the replay, the area Livingstone vacated by jumping backwards and extended his arms forward (that is not a technique taught to WRs) was the area the DB ran through. I said the ball was a little behind, but rounding of route is part of the reason. This why I love your Arch criticisms. You see him throw a deep out with a defender in his face, you admit the WR ran a poor route, and your criticism the throw is about a yard inside. It not the protection. It is not the route, which you admit was poor, but still want to use as an example that the WR is doing everything right and him leaving is on Arch and Sark.
I said he gets open, not does everything right. Of course hig game needs work he is a freshman. That's what WR coaches are for. I am not going to spend a bunch of time arguing with you. You won't find a single coach that will say that was a good ball. Not one. I will also send you the all 22 for all the games I have and you can point me to where he struggled to get open. The Tape doesn't lie. Cignetti, a guy who does a pretty good job of evaluating talent, offered him a spot. The kid isn't a five star, but he is a solid player, especially considering he is a freshman.
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19 minutes ago, Codaxx said: Just look at the route. Do you think an out route should look like that? That is the definition of a banana out route. He cuts at what the 49/48, stops at the 44, and jumps back to the 43. Without that jump back it might be a PI or a catch, not sure why he did that. That is not good WR play. Yes, it is little behind based on a sloppy route, but that is not a bad pass from a QB that gets knocked on his ass on the attempt. Kind of what we saw most of the year, WRs not helping the QB
Bro, there was nothing the receiver did or did not do that was going to stop the DB from getting to that ball by where it was located. I get the receiver didn't run the crispest route, but come on bro. Location was off. It's okay to say "Arch threw a bad ball". It's not going to hurt you. He threw plenty of good balls later.
But we are getting away from the point, which is he gets open easily on his targets. We just didn't really target him.
My goal in 2026 is not to argue with you as much. So I concede the ball location part of the discussion.
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2 minutes ago, Codaxx said: First one is on him. Sloppy route (rounded that off) and no idea why the hell he is jumping backwards on that at the end. Have to attack that ball. Solid throw by Arch with pressure in his face.
2nd one is just a fake screen. Good job by Arch to just get that pass off. Ball is not on target, but expecte with that much pressure.
3rd is just a simple hole in the zone.
Ball was thrown behind him on the first one giving the DB a chance to break it up. How, in any world of football, can you blame that on the receiver? Wow. Ball should be thrown to the sideline. Receiver could've attacked it better but that was 100% an off throw. 2nd one if Arch puts that anywhere but on his feet he has 10 more yards, maybe more depending on blocking.
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40 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said: I'm not going to get into that other than to say this NIL and portal shit is the fucking devil and we are not above the unsavory side of it.
But if you doubt me check my post on the staff thread 20 minutes before Muschampmas went down.
Somebody that knows what's up. Shit is ugly. Protect your sources.

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1 hour ago, Codaxx said: i think i will take that bet. I would bet he is losses to Moore and Wingo in a race. He is a P4 WR. I do not think people are questioning that. There is some talent there, but his biggest issue is he lacks an elite trait. Struggles to get open in the first 10 yards. He is a bit of a long strider, probably why he ran the 200 and 400m in HS. Not particularly quick. Good speed, but not a guy that can consistently run by DBs. Takes him a bit to get to top speed. Good at tracking the football. The hands are what cost him money this year. He was better than most Texas WRs at making contested catches (that is not a high bar) but I still doubt he caught 50% of the 50/50 throws. If you assume Texas gets Cam Coleman, he probably has limited role in next year's offense. They are both similar type of X WRs. You also have Lockett in that role.
Look. I don't pretend to know what he ran. All I know is what he put on tape. He was open when we targeted him. 80% of the time he was on the field he was just out there to run off defensive backs and create space for who Sark wanted the ball to go to. So you can see him running 1/2 speed knowing it's not coming his way, and true to that, Arch never looked his direction. For example, he was targeted 3 times vs Aggy. He was open all 3 times. Two of those were not caught. I will let you judge where the ball was thrown whether or not they should've been. Keep in mind that these are part of his "drops".
I have All 22 of the offense vs Ohio State, Kentucky, MSU, Pig, Georgia, Vandy, and Aggy. That's pretty much consistent in every game. You are more than welcome to the film if you wanna take a look. That's why I get so irritated at the way Sark runs his offense. We bury guys in the rotations and progressions and keep them there, even when the other dudes aren't playing well. Imo, a better ball on the two "drops" and Parker finishes the game with 3 for 60-70 or so. McCutcheon same thing. Just out there being a decoy and running off DBs for the other guys.
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13 minutes ago, Cruz in Aledo said: I agree. There is no reason to revise history. He is pretty talented and will only get better.
Exactly. Dude reportedly was one of our fastest receivers coming in and he didnt have trouble getting sep on the field. Let's not act like he didnt have talent. He had his shortcomings but he had talent.
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1 hour ago, William Bludworth said: Livingstone was clearly average to below average, but after digging on Moore (I always liked before I saw the numbers) in 2024 he only had 3 dropped passes on 39 catches, 456, 7 TD's.
2025 he also only had 3 confirmed dropped passes, with 38 catches, 532 receiving yards and 4 TD's.
Overall he has 77 catches, 988 receiving and 11 TD's, and 6 drops in two seasons as a starter.
Now Livingstone was below average because we don't like him anymore. Keep in mind as a freshman he had 516 yards and 6 TDs on only 29 targets. He had drops for sure but he wasn't chopped liver. We are going to get somebody out of the portal older than him with his exact stats and talk about it being a solid pickup. I hate the portal sometimes. Ughh. Also, when all of your receivers are dropping the ball you might wanna look at why. Targeting a little off? Ball being rifled at short distances? We need to catch the ball but we also need the ball to be more catchable.
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19 minutes ago, Darth Tron said: 4th and 18 was awesome, but being down to 2004 Kansas with 4 minutes to go in the final quarter and needing a miracle play to pull it out doesn’t really support that he was college football’s god quite yet. We beat them 66-14 the next year when VY ascended.
I mean dude threw for 289 and rushed for 114. We had almost 600 yards of offense. Sometimes it be what it is.
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3 hours ago, Vertigo said: I am hoping that Quinn isn't the guy keeping the seat warm for their first round pick/free agent signing in 2026 once they clear the cap space.
Ewers opportunity came at a terrible time. End of the season. Nobody gives a shit. Best player out for the season. Next receiver just wants to get the season over with. Starting TE goes down. Then Achane goes down. You get to play Cincy but then Burrow and both star receivers are back, and they are one of the best teams in the league when they are healthy. O-line hasn't had the same 5 most of the year. You beat the Sooner's ass, then you get one of the best teams in the NFL when YOUR roster is a bunch of dudes that were serving your table last week.
That said you showed some good things. Sure you had some dumb turnovers, but you showed some great things too. Ball was out on time and target. Throwing dudes open. Different arm platforms, like the TD this week throwing around a free rusher for the TD. If he gets to start the season with a healthy Hill, Achane, Waddle, and a couple other pieces he could show he belongs. Dolphin talking heads seem to like him, and it appears he saved his coaches job. The fact that they got him on the cheap should be the reason they try to tread water to get cap space, and that's all the time he needs to do what he needs to do.
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Just now, The_Great_Hornsby said: Dont carry water for Livingstone. He was welcome to go to any other school in the country except A&M and OU, and what is the first thing he does, he is up at OU. Fuck him. Bleeds burnt orange my ass.
Brother, again it's not really about Parker, you get that right? It's about what we are doing to drive away players. As an employer I've had stretches where people were leaving our organization and I had to figure out why? To me Sark's short rotations and misses on talent eval are reasons why.
I get it, pre NIL and portal, when a player left he was never to be seen or heard from again and everyone was like "great call". But things are looking a little different. Our number 2 and 3 receivers jumped in the portal. That's never happened before. Our top 3 running backs. A lineman that we were grooming to replace a senior. Now we are in a position where the same dudes that fucked up the first evals, like the O-line, are in a position where they absolutely have to hit on their evals in the portal or we are in deep trouble. It just doesn't seem like we are making good moves.
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2 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said: There’s a poster who works in the athletic department and was on the field for the bowl game and 3 posters involved directly with NIL all saying the exact same thing and @Thatguy is still scrambling with the bullshit?
Scrambling? I've remained steadfast in my stance. Someone asked why would the coach lie. I pointed out the coach's policy on entering the portal. It's understood that you cannot receive official offers until you are in the portal, but there is our coach saying call us back if you don't get the offer you think you are worth.
The point is he is doing that to protect the program reputation. Now we all understand that is what you are supposed to do. We expect that. But make no mistake it is still a lie. Just like the coach doesn't come out and say he pushed out 12(random number) players because they weren't good enough. To protect the program.
Now I know a lot of people played sports here and a lot didn't, but coaches nowadays use playing time to force kids to drop out of their program. It's the PC era. They even do it at the high school level.
My daughter is a high school senior. She committed to play college vball the July before her junior year. That December her college coach got fired. The coaching search took a few months, but then the new coach called immediately after being hired and said she was reevaluating her needs. The previous coach had misevaluated and had a bunch of dead weight on the roster. We knew she was going to have to push someone out to make room for us because the previous coach was honest about her mistake and cryptically said the same. This season goes by and two of her scholarshipped outside hitters immediately go in the portal. She didn't tell them they no longer have a scholarship. She told them she didn't see much of a role going forward. Kids wanna play so of course they are gonna go elsewhere. I am sure no one that hopped in the portal for us was told their NIL was being taken away. I am sure every player still woulda got their money to stand on the sideline. However, if you tell a kid who had dreams of making it to the next level your role will be significantly reduced, they are going to leave 90% of the time. Money on the table or not.
That is all I am saying.
For me, this wasn't even about Parker as much as it was the amount of kids being pushed out or choosing to leave in general. We seem to be losing more than we are getting back and all it takes is an injury or two and you are ass out.
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19 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said: That's kind of my point. McDaniels needs to go tomorrow. His act is old there. What was once a young and upcoming coach, is now stale. They are behind Buffalo, NE currently. As long as Josh Allen is in Buffalo, the Dolphins in this form won't be as good. We will see how good Maye is going forward. no idea if he's a flash in the pan.
Miami will need to assess if their offensive talent you mentioned warrants going to find someone like a Darnold/Cousins who can tread water without having to tear it down. But nothing worse in the NFL than treading water with no real chance to win anything. Sort of what Dallas is doing this year. It's best to blow it up if that's the case. Not sure what the QB free agent market looks like or what the draft will hold for them.
also, there defense doesn't match their offense. If you are going to have a quick game offense that takes 12 play drives to score, you sure as shit can't pair it with a defense that can't stop the run. It takes you forever to drive the field and then you come off the field and let the opponent grind down the clock with their run game leaving you with very little drives over the course of the game. The Pats ran for 243 tonite.
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I follow recruiting I just don't participate on our board with the blowhards, and that's exactly what I said. We don't get guys in the rotation and we expect them to feel something for the program? Why would they? No snaps and a kid is hearing you aren't good enough to play here. Some snaps and a kid is hearing you are next. Throwing kids some scraps matters. It shows you believe in them and then maybe just maybe they don't bend your ass over when it comes time to negotiate.