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Pretty interesting situation and I'm curious with your insight on NIL contracts. It's common knowledge UF ponied up bigtime to keep him after last season. Surely teams are protecting against "voluntary redshirts" 4 games in right? How do they typically do that? Because I know you can't structure it as "pay for play" and obviously no player is going to sign anything (even if legal) that is contingent on being healthy. But surely that contract somehow protects against a player voluntarily sitting after a shitty start to retain eligibility and portal out next year. Wonder if he is trying to take the position (via the walking boot) that he's injured and can't play. That might could work for a week or 2 but not the rest of the season. The other interesting issue from Lagway's perspective is that his value in the market next year has surely taken a hit. Of course, if he doesn't trust the offense, I guess he can take the position in portal negotiations that he was never healthy and it was really Billy's offense (rather than his awful decision making) that resulted in poor performance.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Completely agree. We are an afterthought right now. If we play shitty (or god forbid lose) to Florida we won't hear the end of it, but we also will get zero credit for a solid win. I don't really see a scenario where OU isn't the trendy pick heading into that game and dominating most of the talk. Our guys will hear from coaching staff all week OU has been prepping for them for 3 weeks straight (which is true). I like that narrative heading into that game. Of course, need to take care of Florida first. -
I assume ABC has the rights to Miami/FSU right? That will almost certainly be the ABC primetime game. I'm guessing Bama/Vandy gets ABC 2:30 and we get the ESPN night game but guess we'll find out tomorrow.
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I was watching at the tailgate without sound. How did they reconcile the 2 catch no-catch calls? I thought they should have both probably been a catch but I don't see how both of those were reversed from the call on the field when they look pretty much like the same play. "Sooner Magic" indeed.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Listened to the Sunday Sirius XM show this AM driving back to Dallas. Not much horns talk obviously but they didn't give Arch or the horns much credit for the blowout given the opponent which is fair. But then went on to say how Texas will be fortunate to win one of their next 2. Talked about how Florida is really solid on D and will be tough for us to score in the Swamp. Then talked about how much better OU and Mateer is offensively than Texas is and how OU should be favored. I don't take exception to any of those points independently. But they did not say a single word about the Texas defense. It's kind of amazing how from the national perspective the only story is Arch and our offense (and we've pretty much been written off given the struggles) and everyone has somehow forgotten we have an elite defense.- 8086 replies
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Never been on a Fri/Sat night but several Saturday and Sunday afternoons. The key is to go when it's not busy and send the kids outside to play and be degenerates (with nobody but kids outside) while parents stay inside and eat and drink. Exactly what you describe in that scenario (my kids are 6 and 8). It's also a solid weeknight place to meet up for a drink and bite. Not many kids around then.
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To each their own, but I'm struggling to appreciate the nexus between Texas One Fund/Burnt Ends and Texas Football and MAGA. I appreciate that Texas is a public institution with Abbot largely dictating policy. But like the rest of the country, the players themselves are largely diverse in every aspect including political beliefs. If people are letting politics impact their sports fandom, then what's the fucking point? I would probably just leave the country at that point. Sports is the best release from all this shit IMO. Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that. I liked what Dan Lanning had to say last week:
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Hey bud, if you want to NFL fan it up and boo your team or throw shit on the field nobody is stopping you. I'll just reserve the right to think of you as a douche and assume you are a poor. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Well yeah, I'm not concerned about Arch or his feelings. I just think it's lame. And you are 100% right, it's NFL fan shit. And I don't think there is a lower class in sports fandom than "NFL Fan". And I never said expecting more from the QB position makes you a douchebag. I was blowing up my text chains last week and will be cussing under my breath at DKR Saturday if it happens again. I said "booing" makes you a douchebag. And I thought the same thing when it happened to Simms and Gilbert. The only entity that should get the boo is the refs after a shit call. But P.S., I also thought it was pathetic when students threw shit all over the field last year if you want to defend that as well. -
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Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
LOL. The "fans" that boo at a college football game aren't the alumni writing big checks. Give me a break. Those guys might bitch and moan and certainly may not write the next check if they don't like the product, but they aren't 'booing' in the stands with the drunks/poors. -
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Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Texas fans are largely entitled fucking douchebags and anyone booing 100% falls into that category. Largely thanks to Sark, we are fucking relevant again after being a middling Big 12 team for 10+ years. CDC didn't take "notice" of shit.- 8086 replies
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When does Saturday Night Live start back up? That will be the real test. If they don't go all in, including parody of Kimmel/being shut down for being Anti-Trump, it's over.
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I know Disney + has already been a money drain. No idea what gets ratings on ABC. But if actors from what ever the most popular shows either stopped working or let it be known they won't be extending their contract, it would definitely hurt Disney. Or hell, if nobody showed up for the Oscar's that would make a statement. I'm guessing hollywood is all talk and not more than a handful take any stand. But in theory, if there are material financial implications at ABC/Disney, at least executives at the next media organization Trump/FCC attacks will have more to weigh when deciding what to do. I mean Trump's administration intentionally put ABC between a rock and a hard place. There were going to be financial implications either way. They chose the administration and I hope collective effort makes the choice harder for the next organization put in that situation.
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Maybe this is already starting to happen but the Kimmel thing has given a real opportunity for those in the entertainment industry to hurt Disney with their wallets. Perfect opportunity to simply stop working for Disney owned and operated entertainment companies (instead of just virtue signaling on social media and/or at awards shows). Will be interesting to see if any big names actually take that step.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
LOL. Beat me to it. We had a top tier line in college football the past 2 years. They weren't perfect but pretty damn good. Numerous games (including Bama '23) we were able to just run the ball in the 4th quarter at will to put the game away. Numerous games when Ewers struggled last year we were able to lean on our run game. See in particular down the stretch (Kentucky, A&M, Clemson). -
Thanks for making my point. If there isn't news or interesting articles posted, this thread shouldn't be bumped every few minutes, and all the political bickering would be taking place in "Charlie Kirk" thread on 1 forum instead of the same exact posters carrying on the exact same conversations in the "Charlie Kirk" thread on this forum as well.
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This thread is Exhibit A that the Cloak Roomers (on both sides) are completely incapable of distinguishing between the 2 forums. I'll never understand why they want to have the same political debates on the same topic in 2 different forums but pretty clear at this point posters that want updates on actual "news" go somewhere else which is a shame.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Skipper replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
What was their plan?. If you would have listed it, the buyer would have required title insurance. Doesn't the seller need to show up in person with ID etc. at title co at closing to sign over the deed? -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
WTF. You are actually expecting Sark and/or the staff to either panic publicly or leak that they're fucking panicking through insiders? You think because they aren't throwing stones at players or projecting panic that the offensive staff is not taking the offensive collapse seriously? They are doing and saying exactly any competent or rational person would expect them to say under the circumstances. Nobody is going to tell you exactly what is being said behind closed doors in meetings nor should they. JFC dude. -
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Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I listened to Klatt earlier today and he's theory is game is moving too fast for him so he's processing too quickly/not letting the play to develop. I.e., moving on from his first read too soon before it opens up then pressing resulting in his mechanics getting all out of sorts. He talked about it for a few minutes in more detail but it was a plausible theory. -
I've never had a bad meal there but possibly some nostalgia clouding that as I've been going for 20 years now. Maybe an off night if that is the review (never had bad sides or a steak that wasn't solid) although haven't been in over a year though now that I think of it. Pappas Bros. might be the best with the worst location. Haven't been in almost 10 years and doubt I will any time soon. Plenty of good steaks that are half the drive or less and might actually have a place nearby for pre or post dinner drinks.
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Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
You mean the guy that's not playing because he has a concussion? Hard to be a "consistent, solid, contributor" when injured. -
My only real complaint from a portal perspective is potentially WR and that's a bit hard to judge given injuries. But maybe should have pushed for a guy like Barrion Brown and Aggy seemed to clean up really well at receiver also. We haven't seen Mosley and Moore is hurt so maybe that won't look like a mistake a few games from now if we get healthy. I think it's really difficult to find starting level OL in the portal and even if you did there are downstream effects to your pipeline. I don't think our OL is a "portal issue". We were always going to take a step backwards this year losing so many starters, but if this crew can't improve by the time conference play starts, then safe to question prior evaluations and development of that position. Otherwise, we seemed to manage the portal extremely well at DL and Kicker/Punter to fill those holes. It's pretty obvious the biggest issue is this team is the QB position and I'm fairly certain nobody saw that coming and not sure how you manage/prep for a Manning to mentally lose it over a couple of starts. Sark is saying all the right things in the press conference. Hopefully some of that positivity works on Manning. Maybe all he needs is to hit a few in a row and he'll snap out of it.
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I'm listening and haven't had any issues with what he's had to say. Spinning things about as well as you can under the circumstances and keeping it positive. Not much else you can do.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
WTF are you even talking about. I have zero desire to relitigate coaching decisions from last year in the 2025 game thread (or the OSU game this year for that matter). What I'm certain of is "game management" against fucking UTEP when our offense was actively hitting rock bottom in a game we still had no actual risk of losing means absolutely nothing for future game management in conference play. If you can't understand that, I don't know what to tell you. Moving this clown to ignore.
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