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  1. 5 minutes ago, Teamdirtyleg said:

    I don't think I have anyone on ignore yet but yesterday was brutal trying to browse the boards between his spamming and his avatar sodomizing my eyes.  There's always a first 

    Ignore absolutely makes the site more enjoyable. I didn't do it for a couple years to have the pure surly experience but now I've got almost triple digits on my ignore list. Trust me, you won't regret it. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Aggies United. I think it’s their equivalent to Texas One. Not sure if texags has their raccoon hands in it. 

    ctj already added some context, but when I looked into it a bit earlier this year (see spoilered section below), it seemed like all donations to the collective were going through TexAgs. It now looks like they have their own Stripe account that goes to Texas Aggies United, LLC. Smart. I wonder if all the banned TexAgs posters are able to donate now. 

     

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    On 4/24/2024 at 10:30 AM, Bodacious Bevo said:

    Wait, I never knew that their collective is run by/through TexAgs, but it's true. That's incredible.

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    And the part about all the people Liucci bans not being able to contribute is hilarious. 

     

    On 4/24/2024 at 10:32 AM, Bodacious Bevo said:

    Second comment to add this blurb from their FAQ

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    The part about TexAgs "providing content production, technology, administrative, marketing, and athlete activation support and services" is still on their website. Personally, I question the value of that support because their store is currently down. 

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, Fud said:

    Players Texas will see this year in the regular season on Brugler's top 50 big board

    Michigan
    1) Will Johnson- CB
    4) Mason Graham- DT
    21) Colston Loveland- TE
    30) Kenneth Grant- DT

    Georgia
    '8) Carson Beck- QB
    9) Malaki Starks- S
    14) Mykel Williams- Edge
    40) Jalon Walker- LB

    A&M
    19) Nic Scourton- Edge
    24) Conner Weigman- QB

    Oklahoma
    38) Danny Stutsman- LB
    48) Deion Burks- OU

    Kentucky
    17) Deone Walker- DT
    32) Maxwell Hairston- CB

    Arkansas
    39) Landon Jackson- Edge
     

    Our players in Brugler's top 50: 

    15) Kelvin Banks

    23) Quinn Ewers

    41) Jahdae Barron

    43) Isaiah Bond

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  4. 8 hours ago, MrBig said:

    Experience matters but Red seemed like he was unhappy with his role based on that sideline outburst he had in one of the games last year. Red’s exit paves the way for younger guys like Jerrick Gibson to make their mark at Texas, especially after training with Bijan during the off-season. 

    Look how ripped he is, it looks like AI. And he’s our 3rd string RB. We may be down but Sark has fostered a culture where the next man up is just as good as the previous guy. The future is bright here. We’re nowhere near the Kai Money walk-on scenario we were under Herman. 

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    For the record, my comment about wishing we still had Red was a joke that he was the size of 2 RBs, hence having five right now. 

  5. 3 hours ago, texifornia said:

    You'll still probably get the 5th string guys like Red hitting the road, unless they're Max Merrill types that just want a degree.

    I wish we still had Red. Then we'd have five scholarship RBs. 

    1 hour ago, jdhorn92 said:

    Who is the Ramonce Taylor of this WR corp?  He lined up as a back and played both very well before the backpack incident.  That would be our answer.  Not saying RT ran between tackles much, but if we have a guy like that in the WR depths, we should be fine with Blue, Gibson, TW and then spreading some carries to an athlete or two.

    If we were moving a WR, my first thought would be Bolden. He had 21 career carries at Oregon State. But I don't think we're moving a WR for reasons that have already been discussed here. 

     

    Also, just for reference, here are the RB carries and distribution in Sark's time here. 

    2023: 444 RB carries (31.7 per game)

    • Brooks 187, Baxter 138, Blue 65, Red 30, Robinson 12, Wisner 12

    2022: 421 RB carries (32.4 per game)

    • Robinson 258, Johnson 93, Brooks 30, Robinson 25, Blue 15

    2021: 367 RB carries (31.6 per game)

    • Robinson 195, Johnson 96, Robinson 45, Brooks 21, Watson 10

    Average: 410.7 carries (31.6 per game)

    • RB1 19.4 carries per game, RB2 8.8 per game, RB3 4.4 carries per game
      • These are injury adjusted numbers (2021 Bijan had his carries across 10 games). Player carries per game do not add up to team carries per game for that reason.

    My takeaways: rushing attempts per game has been consistent over Sark's tenure. In a perfect world, we're looking at something like Blue 18 carries per game, Wisner 10, Gibson 4. We don't live in a perfect world though and the situation is more grim than I thought prior to doing this math. We can still overcome it with some injury luck, but we'll likely be counting on Gullette/Page/whoever to give us a minimum of 40 carries this year. Probably more like 60 and it could go over 100 if our top three guys miss more than a couple games. Especially if we have a 16 game season. 

    Two subpackage/scheme things to watch: 1) Wildcat. Roschon and Red probably ran that 25+ times per year. I imagine that's probably dead now given that it's success was declining and we now don't have the body type for it. 2) Sark's use of motion. People like to call it the Keilan role, but it's flexible. It's just whichever athlete Sark has on the field that he can move around to get certain reads or calls from the defense. Keilan was the primary guy for it in 21/22 and Sark ran him with it more. Last year the improved WR core ate up his play time and the carries given to whoever was motioning declined, which was more in-line with what he did at Bama. I'd expect that to continue this year. 

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  6. Personally, I don't think transfers should be eligible. Maybe a Ryan Watts kind of situation where they came in without much experience. But they should probably have to be here for at least three years. 

    Anyways, here are my qualifiers and the kind of season they would need to win. 

    - Mo Blackwell. Significant and positive contributor. 

    - Juan Davis. Significant and positive contributor. 

    - David Gbenda. All-SEC honorable mention. Sure, he played a lot last year, but he's always been an afterthought. If he puts together a really good year and gets drafted in the early-to-middle rounds, that meets the criteria for me. 

    - Vernon Broughton. All-SEC honorable mention. See above. 

    Collins has spent way too much time in the Longhorn public eye to qualify for me. He's had actual expectations every year since 2021. Gunnar Helm has been too good to qualify. Maybe if he's like an All-American. All the other seniors are returning starters, transfers, or walk-ons. 

  7. 43 minutes ago, walker said:

    Great inside info, thx.  What do you think the Miami NIL stuff these days?  legit?  So much noise about Ruiz trying to "Phil Knight" Miami into relevance, but I thought his company was being delisted and the SEC (not the conference) was investigating them.   After Rashada, I'm surprised that more people are not calling bs on them.

    Rashada was UF, not Miami 

  8. 10 hours ago, TexArcher said:

    I have to say, making Kyle Field boo a little after a 3-and-out at 45-21 might be my favorite ever video game moment.

    There's been a couple of times that booing has stood as a small but nice feature. Like I'm winning and driving on offense but get flagged for holding. The crowd starts booing me. I start to think, "What more do these fuckers want?" then I realize they're booing the refs. 

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  9. Ethics tangent incoming

    The merging of scholarship and roster limits are another change that, imo, disrupts the system that many know and love, but really just makes CFB more normal and less exploitative. 

    Putting aside talk on how this impacts Texas and CFB as a whole, it's kind of crazy that teams have been able to have students do all the work of being on the team without any kind of financial support. How much time do walk-ons spend on football every week? 20 hours? 40 hours? And they're expected to do it largely for intrinsic rewards while being completely dismissed as second-class players by the public (not this site). That's not to mention the equity discussion around requiring a student to pay ~20k/year to be on the team.

    Walk-ons are just a weird dynamic that shouldn't exist in modern CFB.  

  10. I'll play but can't afford to do the buy in. I could throw in 50 or maybe 100 if someone sponsors me for the rest. Instead of sponsored ad reads I'll read off your sponsored smack talk. On Xbox. 

    All that is if we get the numbers of course. This is a really great idea. Hope we get some numbers. I have some time to help with things for the next two months. 

  11. 2 hours ago, Scholz said:

    Yeah he’s a traitor, POS and wasn’t fully bought in. Even though he got within 1 out of winning it all and just because he took his dream job with his good buddy as his boss.

    Fucking full blown imbeciles. And fan fic liars. Losers.

    Yeah it's incredible. This man was a paid psy op, checked out in April, purposely tried to lose games, recruited players off the team, etc, and yet he's still your most successful coach in 85 years!? Like, do they not understand how absolutely pathetic their athletic department would be if that were the case? Inb4 'their program is pathetic!' and I get that, but they're taking it to a whole new level. They honestly believe Schloss was trying to lose and completely tear the program down - and yet he's their best coach in 85 years!

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  12. 43 minutes ago, immamac said:

    According to who? See this is why rankings are stupid. The aggregate national rating is just going to be the On3 number and the OTF one is Site Rating. Simple. Then you get the state rank, I can change that to national, but I don't want to have 50 rankings on this thing, they are nearly meaningless datapoints since the rating is a rating that is comparable through years not just this class. 

    I agree with your take. Personally I would go with OTF Rating, composite national rank, composite position rank. And I would change "Site" to explicitly "OTF Rating"

     

    Slightly off topic but related, and this isn't feedback for you specifically immamac, but I wish that OTF would take a different classification system than star ratings. I like their opinions on prospects, but I don't think a star rating from OTF adds much value when the other sites have a national team and rate every prospect, not just the ones Texas recruits. If they had a scale that read more like a big board I think that would be more useful: backup plan -> take -> priority -> must get, etc. It's a Texas-only site and info on where the prospect stands for the coaches would be great. 

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  13. 12 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    Reportedly we're taking 2 TE's. Jordan Washington already committed and Michael Terry (SWITCHBLADE) reportedly had a great visit last weekend.

    Uh Washington was a 2024. He's already on campus. We have Emaree Winston committed but it seems like there might be a mutual parting of ways there. IIRC we had Armstrong and Nick Townsend above him. 

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  14. So just to add a bit to the lambo conversation

    A one year lease can come as "low" as 30k depending on the model. The university and collective are not paying for them. The marketing director of the dealership has talked about how this is purely a financial decision and how he's not a CFB or Texas fan. He also said that the program caught the attention Lamborghini HQ in Italy. The dealership is going into year three of this and have expanded the program over time, which would indicate they view it as a success. They also hired JWhitt as an intern for awhile. And their target audience isn't just the Austin market, it's all the NFL players that our players are now going to be around.

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  15. On 5/21/2024 at 2:29 PM, Tex Long said:

    Someone in the stats biz oughta break down passes into Air Yards and Ground Yards. Find out that 75 yard passing TD was 5 Air Yards and 70 Ground Yards, and the next one was 45 Air Yards and 2 Ground Yards...

     

    10 hours ago, Tex Long said:

    It is, but it doesn't get shown much, and Air Yards not at all. I'm fucking lazy, show it to me, don't make me go through the p-b-p to calculate it. 

     

    1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

    Looks like nice stuff. Ima go get a magnifier and see if I can read it. Thanks.

     

    45 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    II'm using a desktop right now. I'm sitting with my face about 3 feet from a 40" screen. I can read the text okay, pumped up a couple CTRL+ times. But I can't read the text size in the image. I can probably save it and use irfanview to plow it up where I can read it, but I haven't done that yet. Putting eighty-lebben columns of data on one view doesn't help at all.

    I've been getting needles in the eyeballs monthly for oh, 5 or 6 years to fight off AMD, and it's a losing battle. I'll try to not complain so much.

    Thanks for the advice. Yes, I know there's a magnify function bult into the OS, and it sucks.

     

    31 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    I get it, too. Like about 90% of what we see on Surly, it's a matter of my opinion is right and yours is wrong. Fire the coach and then quit posting for a week. Oh, and buy a new monitor.

    Incredible

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  16. 55 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    Ticket prices are set by demand, not labor costs…

    I’m specifically thinking of an increase to the seat gifts for season tickets. Like a portion of the gifts get set aside for revenue sharing or something. Demand is already much higher than supply so there’d be no issues if you’re limiting it to that basic economic perspective. 

  17. Also, the transfer portal is the elephant in the room. I don't think we can really know how this will affect the sport as a whole until there's a resolution on transfer rules. Compensation and mobility are too interrelated to look at one without the other. 

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