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  1. 37 minutes ago, texifornia said:

     

    Who in the holy fuck thought that this would EVER be a good idea? It sends SO many wrong messages and reeks of John Sharp. It's worse than their initial SEC commercial. Just atrocious and atrociously designed. God damn, those fuckers need to get a life, starting with a real identity of their own. I mean, it's their only hope of ever accompliishing anything of note not involving "inventing" maroon vegetables (that began their existance as maroon until we selectively bred them to be orange because orange will ALWAYS be more marketable than maroon, anyway)

    So of course, it will never happen. I'll bet they just claim credit for "inventing" maroon beets or something. 

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  2. Guard Malik Presley? 6'6" is right in line with what we know Flood wants but the young man looks like he's going to need about 5 years in the weight room before he's ready to take on any nose tackles

    Disclaimer: (I'M KIDDING! And doing it poorly. Please don't neg me to Bolivia, basketball fanatics. Looks like a solid add). 

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  3. On 4/17/2024 at 12:12 PM, BigHorn'13 said:

    Demarco Cobbs comes to mind.

    Did reading that name cause anyone else to simultaneously smile and picture Darius White flat on his punk ass back, staring at the ceiling, and missing a few teeth? And all of it being VERY well deserved?

    Cobbs may not have done all that much on the field here but he'll always be a legend for that litttle "rumor" and I hope he lives 1,000 years.  

     

    Edit: I'm afraid I must request, NAY, DEMAND, a Longhorn Legends short on that incident during the last few months of the LHN. It REALLY needs to happen. That and something on Texags' documentary on Brandon Jones and Tarp/Looch straight up arguing and rage pouting with Malik Jefferson after his commitment ceremony 🤣

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  4. 10 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I also posted this on the aggie thread in the football forum, but recognizing that some of you elitists don't visit there:

    The Elk has confessed to his audience, after the first aggie scrimmage, that things are ... not so great right now.

    https://247sports.com/college/texas-am/longformarticle/texas-a-m-football-notebook-aggie-coach-mike-elko-says-team-remains-a-work-in-progress-230249778/#2404181

    "I am a coach, so I do not know how to sugarcoat all of this stuff," Elko said. "It is not great right now, because they are not comfortable in it yet. That is part of spring. It is just learning how the system works, taking more and more reps of it. 

    "The challenge that we will have coming out of spring ball is understanding where we are and having a phenomenal summer so that when we get back to fall camp, practice one, we are 100 days better and not taking any steps back."

    Spoilered the full article in case the link is subscriber only:

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    COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M head football coach Mike Elko covered a variety of topics in his mid-spring press conference Wednesday. Here are five highlights from what he discussed with the media.

    The Aggies are still a 'work in progress'

    A&M is beyond the halfway point of spring football, completing nine of its 15 practices so far. The Aggies also held their first spring scrimmage Tuesday. But in his three spring football press conferences, Elko has seemingly refrained from giving many revealing takeaways.

    Elko does not appear to be playing coy with his answers. He has simply suggested that his Aggie team remains far from a finished product, describing them as a "work in progress." With a new coaching staff and 30 scholarship newcomers this spring, A&M certainly has a learning curve.

    "Every time our kids are going out on the field, they are doing something for the first time," Elko said. "I think that is always a challenge, and that is what makes the first spring so challenging. Very happy with our guys in terms of their mindset, how hard they are working, the things that they are doing to try to get this thing in the right direction. 

    "We have managed to stay relatively healthy, which is huge, and getting a lot of guys out there and getting a lot of reps and a lot of work."

    With six practices remaining, the Aggies should only continue to progress and have a better understanding of the scheme and depth chart. They are expected to have two more scrimmages this spring – one next Tuesday and the other for the Maroon and White Game in Kyle Field next Saturday.

    "I am a coach, so I do not know how to sugarcoat all of this stuff," Elko said. "It is not great right now, because they are not comfortable in it yet. That is part of spring. It is just learning how the system works, taking more and more reps of it. 

    "The challenge that we will have coming out of spring ball is understanding where we are and having a phenomenal summer so that when we get back to fall camp, practice one, we are 100 days better and not taking any steps back."

    QB Conner Weigman is not exactly cemented as the starter

    Going into the spring, Elko named redshirt sophomore Conner Weigman as his starting quarterback. However, that label should not be considered permanent. If quarterbacks Jaylen Henderson or Marcel Reed outperform Weigman in practice, they could conceivably leapfrog him on the depth chart. At least, that is how Elko seemed to describe the situation.

    "Just because you go in the spring as the number one (quarterback), that does not really mean anything other than your number one going in the spring," Elko said. "Conner had earned that right, we felt like from how he had performed. But like every kid in our program, competition is there. So Conner knows there is a level of play that he needs to reach in order to continue to be number one and be number one when we play Notre Dame."

    Weigman began last season as the top option and impressed in his four starts. He completed 68.9% (82 of 119) of his passes for 979 yards and eight touchdowns with two interceptions while turning 12 carries into 63 yards and two scores.

    However, Weigman remains limited from the season-ending left foot/ankle injury that he suffered against Auburn last September. He has been practicing with restrictions throughout this spring.

    "He is not 100%," said Elko of Weigman. "He is not going to be 100% coming out of spring. He is still recovering from the ankle. So he is able to go. He is a tough kid, and it is a testament to him that he understands how important it is to get these reps."

    After what they showed last season, Henderson and Reed appear to have the talent to push Weigman in the coming months.

    Henderson started the last four games last season, though he permanently exited the TaxAct Texas Bowl vs. Oklahoma State early after going down with a right arm/elbow injury. In his three full starts combined, Henderson completed 67.5% (52 of 77) of his passes for six touchdowns with two interceptions while turning 40 carries into 97 yards and two scores.

    As a true freshman last season, Reed initially served as the fourth-team quarterback. But he replaced Henderson in the bowl game and shined, completing 20 of 33 passes for 361 yards with an interception. He also rushed for 29 yards and a score on 10 carries.

    "Jaylen Henderson is getting a little bit more and more comfortable functioning within the system," Elko said. "He is obviously extremely athletic. He does have the ability to throw the football well. Just seeing the game and getting the game to slow down for him a little bit so it can be a little bit more consistent, the way he delivers the football, I think would help. 

    "Then Marcel Reed as a young kid – and you saw it in the bowl game. I think he has really high potential. It is very similar, though. It is, can we get it to be out there every single play? A little less peaks and valleys and a little bit more consistent execution and operation is what we need to get."

    New transfers who have stood out this spring

    A&M has landed 24 scholarship players from the NCAA Transfer Portal this offseason, and only three of them are not on campus yet. After fielding a question about who has stood out among the new transfers, Elko initially dodged it with a quip.

    "I could reword that question," Elko said. "'Hey, coach, you brought in 24 guys. Are there 22 you would like to really get upset by singling out only two?' I am trying to figure out how to word it without doing that."

    Elko eventually named defensive end Nic Scourton (Purdue), offensive lineman Ar'maj Reed-Adams (Kansas) and tight end Tre Watson (Fresno State) as three transfers who have made a solid first impression this spring. He added that Watson has been dealing with a shoulder injury, though, and did not participate in the scrimmage Tuesday.

    Scourton impressing is no surprise. He led the Big Ten in sacks last season with 10 and received second-team all-conference honors. Reed-Adams and Watson emerging are the more interesting developments.

    The 6-foot-5, 325-pound Reed-Adams brings versatility and significant experience. In four seasons with the Jayhawks, he appeared in 31 games with 14 starts. Reed-Adams started his first eight games of the 2023 season at left guard before lining up at right tackle for the final three. His other three career starts came as a true freshman in 2020 and were all at right guard. Reed-Adams will likely compete for one of the two starting spots at offensive guard for the Aggies.

    A&M lacks a cemented starter at tight end, and Watson has the talent to be in consideration. He is seen as more of a receiving tight end but had a productive 2023 season with the Bulldogs, catching 38 passes for 378 yards and four touchdowns. Watson and Henderson were teammates at Fresno State in the 2021 and 2022 seasons.

    Elko also named most of the eight new transfers in the secondary as standout performers. Safety Trey Jones III (Central Michigan) and cornerback Dezz Ricks (Alabama) have been dealing with injuries. Safety De'Rickey Wright (Vanderbilt) is not set to join the Aggies until June.

    "From Marcus Ratcliffe to Will Lee to Donovan Saunders to BJ Mayes … every one of those kids has flashed at times," Elko said. "They are going to add a lot of value back there."

    Bryce Anderson affirmatively moving to safety, other DB tidbits

    As a sophomore, Bryce Anderson entered last season with lofty expectations. He stepped into a starting role at nickel cornerback and looked ready to fill the void that the previous starter, Antonio Johnson, left. But while Anderson had his moments, he mostly produced mixed results.

    Perhaps because he played out of position.

    "Bryce is a safety. We recruited Bryce to play safety," said Elko, who as the former A&M defensive coordinator helped pursue Anderson out of the 2022 recruiting class. "I have always envisioned him being a safety in this defense. He is not playing nickel. I do not think he is a nickel."

    Anderson seems like a lock to secure one of the two starting safety jobs. Which player will claim the other starting spot remains unclear. Jones and Wright bring the most starting experience, but one has not been 100% healthy and the other is not with the team yet.

    Elko noticeably raved about Dalton Brooks, who played a lot of high-leverage reps as a true freshman last season.

    "Dalton Brooks has taken a huge step forward this spring and been really happy with him," Elko said. "He is an elite run-and-hit safety. He still has a little bit of a gap to close in terms of processing and understanding everything that we are doing, which he is doing every day. But I do think he has got some really elite traits, and we are excited about that one."

    With Anderson permanently leaving the nickel unit, that position group will be worth monitoring as well. 

    Going into the spring, Florida transfer Jaydon Hill seemed like the favorite to win the starting nickel job. He started 11 games at nickel for the Gators last season. However, Elko mentioned that incumbent starting cornerback Tyreek Chappell has been cross training on the outside and at nickel. He said cornerback Bravion Rogers has seen action at nickel, too.

    "Nickel is probably a little bit harder than corner," Elko said. "You are a little bit closer to the ball. There is a little bit more going on. From a scheme standpoint, the more reps you can get at nickel, it probably benefits you than always needing them to be out at corner."

    The next step for running back Rueben Owens II

    In an interview with the media last week, A&M offensive coordinator Collin Klein opined that the days of a workhorse running back are "probably not there anymore." The Aggies using a committee approach in 2024 would certainly make sense. Running backs Amari Daniels, Le'Veon Moss and Rueben Owens II shared an equal workload last season, and they all produced similar numbers.

    Still, Owens will be worth monitoring as someone who could emerge from the group this offseason. He has the recruiting pedigree, receiving a five-star rating in the 2023 class. And despite being a true freshman last season, Owens played about as well as Daniels and Moss.

    To reach another level as a player, though, Owens will probably need to improve his pass protection and ability to gain yards after contact. Pro Football Focus gave Owens a 16.8 pass-blocking grade last season. Among the 119 FBS running backs who played at least 50 pass-blocking snaps, that grade came in last. His 2.53 yards after contact per attempt ranked 143rd out of 157 FBS running backs (minimum 100 attempts).

    "He has had a really good spring in terms of doing the things he needs to do to take his game to the next level," Elko said. "He is extremely athletic. He does a really good job catching the ball out of the backfield. 

    "He needs to just learn how to be a running back in the SEC and how to get four and five yards sometimes. He does a really good job of getting the 30 and 35 yards. That is his natural athleticism. We have to get him to be a little bit cleaner at the four and five yards, and that is what he is working on. I think he is getting really good at it."

    For the tl/dr crowd, Weigman isn't working out as much as Elko thinks he needs to, so Elko is hinting that he might not be QB1 after the spring; Reuben Owens is a pussy who still can't pass protect and goes down immediately on contact; Bryce Anderson is a safety and they don't know who the other safety will be, nor do they have a clue who the corner will be; outside of Nick Scourton and a guard from Kansas, they are in deep shit regarding transfer talent.

    Ok. this is amazing.

    No one knows THE DEFENSE??? Shouldn't like AT LEAST 55% to 60% of these guys already know this system inside and out since, you know, THEY PLAYED UNDER IT? Some of them for several years. How is the D being unfamiliar with Elko's system even remotely possible?

    The offense, I sort of get. The K-State O is not terribly complicated but it's at least new and like nothing any of these players have ever seen. And that's with the objective fact that they don't have more than 3 or 4 (if that) of the type of players they ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE to run it properly. Their OL is a walking woodchipper for A&M QBs and RBs. Klein might actually get Weigman killed on the field this season. Moss and Owens seem... unstable/unbalanced and HIGHLY likely to average like 2.5 ypc behind that shitshow OL. When that starts to happen, a transfer or two would not shock me in the least (unless they have to bring out MORE huge money to keep one or both of them).

    I'm also kind of hoping for a LOT of QB power calls - 6-12 per game - behind that absolutely putrid OL. It's not that I WANT to see Weigman get hurt. I just know that him being seriously injured in that offense is basically inevitable and it's going to drag the Aggies down into the deepest depths of despair since the Kyle/Kyler/Kylest incident and our SEC announcement. So let's just get it out of the way early so we can enjoy the misery as long as possible. You could also call it morbid curiousity about how many hard hits he can take running that play. I've got the over under at 5.5. 

    Then again, maybe it isn't impossible at all for the players to know about either system thus far, Elko. Maybe, just maybe, the team you've inherited (the 53% or so that didn't transfer as fast and as far as they could when you got there, anyway) and then "rebuilt" using second, third, and even fourth rate castoffs... excuse me! I meant to say "highly touted transfers from low end P5 teams, G5 universities, and DII schools." Anyway, maybe this team that you've put all your time, effort, and "talent" into building just sucks complete ass. Maybe they won't ever be ready to compete with anyone decent in their current form no matter what system you employ.

    In fact, maybe it would be better to just nut up and let Moose Muhammad run the wishbone as QB with Moss and Owens as the backs, Amari Daniels as the FB, an Donovan Green and Noah Thomas as X and Y/the TEs/the WRs/whatever you want to call them. It still wouldn't work but at least Weigman would get to live to see 32 and it might be kind of fun to watch. Plus, it kind of worked for Georgia Tech and you all have SUCH AMAZING, INCREDIBLE TOP 4 5 6 talent, you're guaranteed to pull it off. If nothing else, I'd at least tune in to watch someone run the bone again, just like I used to with GT and some of the service academies. 

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  5. On 4/10/2024 at 8:26 PM, closetojumping said:

    Burrell is gone. Okay. 

    Names more likely than others, apparently:

    Red, Cojoe, Robertson, Kirkland, Holmes,  Davis (don’t tell @immamac), and Jordan. 

    No guarantees and there could well be others, but none of those above should shock anyone. 

    Merril is a longer term contributor to the AD and program. I assume he’s there until he’s a GA or something. 

    Not thrilled about Cojoe, Red, Kirkland, & maybe Jordan leaving . There's definitely some upside (which really just means they havent done anything yet) on that list but I guess this is how CFB is now. If you've got chance to win something and those guys weren't gonna play much at least a year PLUS you had a chance to "trade" thejm for Tiaoalii Savea, Amari Niblack, Kendrick Blackshire, Silas Bolden, Isaiah Bond, Trey Moore, Andrew Mukuba,  and Matthew Golden, I'll take that move every day of the week and twice on Sunday. It's REALLY easy dec/sion, actually. Those guyd have already mostlt fulfilled their potential. They're better players in every way than the few we]re losing (although I do thin Red wouod SHINE of given a chance. I jjust think Bolden is a better fit for that position). 

     

    i guess I just have an irrational fear of losing any young player even if we have a replacement lined up that's better than the young guy will probably ever be. I guess you can call it Jean DeLance or Adrian Colbert PTSD...  But we DEFINITELY didn't have the calibre of coaches we've got now during th 13 years that must not be discussede

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  6. On 4/10/2024 at 8:49 AM, Helobious said:

    My most hated athlete of all-time is David Ortiz fwiw. I can be objective. I’ve known of Martinez since he was a recruit because of his status as a homie, but I mean he’s done nothing but show out at the P5 level. Thought it’d be worth it to bring him in since he’s at the top of his game, vs our current RB’s who while talented are still growing/learning. But fuck me I guess. 

    I have nothing against you. I just noticed your avatar and decided to be a dick:

     

    Anyway, what are your thoughts on Manny Ramirez , Pedro Martinez, Bronson Arroyo (best series he ever ptiched. Schilling was right about him having a brass pair. At least during those 7 games), Orlando Cabrera, and Pedro Astacio (and I KNOW I'm fogetting a shotloads of Latinos on that team)? More or less likable than Schilling, Wakefield, Youkilis, Trot Nixon, Kevin Millar, Varitek, Dae Roberts, and/or Damon (who's half-Thai so  I don't know if he counts). 

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  7. On 4/10/2024 at 8:14 PM, TexEx15 said:

    Cross posted for those that do not venture to the Football board.

    I can't help but trust Sark's judgement on assistants. Too many homeruns and I'm HAPPILY pretending the Stoops thing never happened. I love the energy and teaching techniques (as opposed to just screaming in a kid's face, which passes for "coaching" at WAY too many places). But most of all, I liked seeing take a stab a developing Broughton's enomous latent potential. If he even partly succeeeds, I'll be a very gruntled guy and Broughton might be drawing an NFL paycheck nexy year as a UFA. Hopefully, he can get Collins to take the next step too. Because, if so, our DL could be almost as filthy as last year but better at pass rushing... 

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  8. 3 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    I am beginning to pick up some very positive feelings toward him. I think Sark is pretty good at evaluating recruiters.

    I am cautiously optimistic. Obviously, Choice was a grand slam and Nansen might not be quite that good (who is, though?) but I think he was huge hire too. Jackson looks to be pretty damn solid too. In any case, I think Baker is going to be good. Probably (hopefully) very, very good. Brown still being committed and Lance Jackson jumping on board are definitely positive data points.

    I just wish D'antre Robinson would have been a little more patient because I think he's going to be a good one. That's on Robinson, not Baker, though. Plus, he has to play for Chip Kelly now. Hard to stay mad a guy who fucked up THAT badly, Bo Davis or not. 

  9. 3 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Every deployment I would fuck up some plate shawarma so this tracks 

    It seems to me like shawarma is theoretically "nature's" perfect nutricious food. Healthy, insanely delicious, packed with lots really good veggies and nutrients. 

     

    That said, as much I love them (and I REALLY do love them. I could seriously eat shawarma for just about every meal, including breakfast), give me a far less "perfectly nutricious" bacon double cheeseburger or a big ass ribeye 9.9 times out of 10. Fried chicken and perfectly cooked BBQ work too. 

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  10. On 3/27/2024 at 9:05 AM, irishtexan said:

    Reading all that would be tantamount to kicking myself in the dick. No thanks.

     

    That's pretty much exactly how typing it felt. Except it was like I was just doing it over and over and then I kept going anyway because I was spurred on by the Ja'Quinden Jackson vs. Danny Young rage (if you couldn't tell, and you can read, so I assume that you can, those Danny Young pitches still keep me up at night). Once I got going, I just couldn't stop. And to the person who asked about Erick Fowler, I actually did start to write about him (and a few others I'm sure you'll all remember) and decided I'd already had enough self-inflicted, 5-star powered nut shots.

    Texas Football from 2010 to 2021: masochistic genital torture at it's most joyless, anguished, hopeless, and utterly miserable (sorry, Sark - there was still way too much Tom Herman mentality left on that 2021 team. Also: Casey Thompson started - which is basically the same thing)

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  11. 11 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    The simple way to sort this, if they really like Russell (and there is growing evidence that they do), is to just tell Lacey next weekend or whenever he's in Austin next is that they're taking 2 QBs in this cycle. He goes back to Bama and decommits, then Texas takes Russell. Moore decommits this summer and commits to Texas shortly thereafter. Bing bang boom.

    really like KJ Lacey. I think the upper middle class man's Bryce Young comparison's are dead on. He's going to be a stud.

     

    That said, give me Keelon Russell all day, every day. Frankly, at the rate that Russell seems improving developing, it's not that close. He's a must get whether we take 1 or 2 QBs. I certainly woudln't complain about getting Lacey - not one bit, even if he's the only QB in the class - but if we have the option and only wind up with one QB, it should be Russell. 

     

    Then again, I remember another QB named "Russell" (first name, this time) who just seemed to get better and better and we wound up not getting him. That turned out GREAT because we still wound up with a top 20 prospect and the top pocket passer in the country who wound up winning a Super Bowl ring. I'll always look back fondly on the name "Garrett Gilbert."

     

    No, wait.  Sorry. What's the polar opposite of "fondly?" Ah well. At least Shepard (and that other state traitor Craig Loston, for that matter) never wound up doing shit either. Speaking of "state traitors," fuck Jamarkus McFarland's do-nothing, never-was ass too. 

  12. 15 hours ago, MajorTexas said:

    What’s your favorite era of the dead?

    That is a tough, TOUGH question. Leaving out stuff that's not technically from "that era" (like the Misfits, George Clinton, Sonic Youth, Minor Threat, the Descendants, Jawbreaker, Screeching Weasel (before Ben Weasel hit a girl, anyway), Arrested Development (the music group AND the show, actually) etc.)  I was really into a lot of different stuff. I loved the Murder City Devils, Cursive, Explosions in the Sky, the Toadies, Grandaddy, the Desaparecidos, the Appleseed Cast, Captain Jazz, Metric, the Faint, Stars, the Roots, Weezer, Belle & Sebastian, Modest Mouse, Sunny Day Real Estate, Reggie and the Full Effect, the Get Up Kids (and the New Amsterdams), Alkaline Trio, AFI, Against Me!, Outkast, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Rancid/Op Ivy , Smashing Pumpkins, the Postal Services (although I was never a huge Deathcab fan), the Silversun Pickups...

     

    I could go on and on and on - and I was lucky enough to get to see most of those Acts while I was in school. Even though Austin was definitely starting to change for the worse back then, it was still nothing like it is now. We got a LOT of great acts coming through to play small, intimate venues, which was always awesome. Now that I'm an old (even an occasionally drug soaked one), I have no idea if that's still the case

     

    Anyway, it's really hard to pick a favorite. I guess I can say that Cursive and Alkaline Trio particularly resonated with me back then even though, musically speaking, Alkaline Trio really wasn't anything special. Then, when bands likes the National, Frightened Rabbit, and We Were Promised Jetpacks came along just a little bit later (missed Frightened Rabbit's first SXSW shows - it was a promo for their real show that they did at the old Urban Outfitters of all places in 2006 -  by like 15 minutes. I must've walked by to visit my then-gf/now-wife at work while they were getting set up. This was at least close to "that era" I guess. It was after I'd graduated and before I'd heard of them but I would've been hooked immediately. Then, after I had been really into them for years, I couldn't make their last shows in Texas in 2017 or 2018 because I was at a work conference out of state and Scott Hutchison killed himself like 4 months later. 

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    8 hours ago, Vertigo said:

    In order of want, I would go Moore, Ffrench, Lockett. All three are ballers, but Moore has a little something extra getting separation from defenders. Ffrench looks to be a nice combination of YAC and physicality, and Locket is just a speed merchant with great hands. 

    8 hours ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    K. Johnson is a good bet to be in the class.  Sounds like Sark has him high on the board.

    That WR class would be ideal. I'd take that in a heartbeat. I'd take 3/4 of it in a heartbeat. Moore, Lockett, and Johnson would be huge. Kelshaun Johnson seems like one of those kids who's going to be underrated by recruiting services because they don't bother to take a closer look but he appears to be absolutely electric and fast. Moore and Lockett would be great too. Obviously, the main reason is because they're such incredible talents. But the added "fuck you" to LSU and A&M would also be a nice bonus. I don't know much about Ffrench except that it looks like he's also really, really good but will be the hardest to pull off because of location

  14. On 3/14/2024 at 6:25 PM, mr. sunshine said:

    I've got a buddy about a decade older than me who attended in the 70s. Plan II and obviously whip smart. Graduated law school with honors here while my not so smart ass was relegated to Lubbock when the powers that be finally detected my dumbassedness.

    Anyway I've got friends who attended in the 70s, 80s (me), 90s etc. and they all had fond memories but the 70s absolutely ruled. Best movies, TV and music ever

     

    I have to admit, I'm very curious about what it's like now. I'm sure the music isn't close any of those eras (not even the early 2000s when I was there and we got to see acts like the Murder City Devils, the Toadies, Metric, Polyphonic Spree, Reggie and the Full Effect, Belle & Sebastian, Against Me!, etc. pretty regularly for pretty cheap). And we made it a point see George Clinton annually plus Snoop, Weezer/Jimmy Eat World, the Foo Fighters, and the Smashing Pumpkins when they came (I think that list sounds right? I may have the years mixed up. I too was filled with drugs). My nearing college-age kids still wear shirts for those bands (plus folks like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, the National), so I'm sure there's at least some good music floating around here in Austin that the olds like me just aren't aware of. 

    The massive uptick in corporatization sucks complete ass but it is interesting to me that there are still a lot of great local food options, including some that are still somehow affordable. Plus, while we're on the subject of drugs, any idiot with a credit card (physical or digital), an internet connection, and a mailing address (even a dorm based one) can get pretty much whatever they want shipped them overnight these days - and you don't even have to use the Dark Web because there are a LOT of "research chemicals" sitting in a legal gray zone that are every bit as fun and interesting as the ones they can actually arrest you for - and did I mention that that they're inexpensive? Sometimes very much so.

    Forget Delta 8, 9, whatever - put 65 mg of 4-HO-MET under your tongue or snort 175 mg of 2-Fluorodeschloroketamine some time and tell me you didn't have a completely (mostly) legal religious experience that was just as good as anything you ever got from the very illegal parent chemicals. Throw in some methallylescaline with that 4-HO-MET and... whoa. WAY better than any illegal candy flip you've ever had. There's a HUGE blind spot in federal law for this stuff and the lone attempt to actually sort of fix it was, in my professional legal opinion, very, very much unconstitutionally vague. And it wound up not even applying to the vast majority of these chemicals.

    TV and movies? ¡No problemo! Again, with an internet connection and a password from mom and dad or a buddy and you've got access to whatever you want. Sure, the actual cinema blows. But there are still occasional bright spots. And with respect to TV, there's probably more good shows out there right now, old and new, than even the laziest, most couch-attached college kid could actually sit and binge.   

    Anyway, like I said, I think things here are still interesting and "weird" in ways that olds like me probably haven't anticipated. And in ways that are still very Austin and very UT. So if you'll excuse me, my Fluorexetamine appears to be wearing off and now I'm confused and possibly lost. 

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  15. 3 hours ago, victory88 said:

    Had he come time Texas, the narrative would have been that Texas can’t develop 5 stars.   Glad he is someone else’s bust.

    1 hour ago, Thiefery said:

    U know his dad would be for sure..  

    I'll always have distaste for the twins ever since they were outed in the group chat for recruiting Milroe and others to Bama..when they were taking a visit to UT at the time.

     

    it's like they were enjoying watching twist in the wind or something

    I should have mentioned this as a bright spot a well. If Flood couldn't get anything out of this kid during the short time he coached him, imagine how poorly he would've "developed" under Herb Hand (just typing that name makes me simultaneously nauseous and violently ragey). 

    If Tommy had come here and busted (more like "when he came here and busted"), it would just be more of the same old "SEEEEE, Y'ALL!!1 YOO TEE/TEE YOO CAIN'T DEEVELOP NO FAHV STARRS" from A&M, OU, and every one of our new conference "friends." ESPN would probably run with it too.

    Those chuckleheads just don't understand for even one second that development under Mack, Charlie, and Herman has nothing to do with development under Sark - which is a MASSIVE improvement from anything we've seen since... I don't even know. Maybe Tomey (RIP) and Robinson (also RIP)?

    Even if the vast, vast majority of those douchebags didn't completely lack the critical thinking skills to see the very obvious difference, they wouldn't give a flying fuck because they also tend to lack intellectual ethics and honesty. 

    So forgive me if I don't post "fuck the Brocks" a whole bunch because it's clear to me they did us a huge favor by not coming here. 

     

     

    All that said, fuck the Brocks. 

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  16. 20 hours ago, mr. sunshine said:

    In my efforts to further derail this thread from gravity/humility whatever I offer my 60 year old reflections. Went down to Rainey St with a buddy this pm who fortunately was paying for all way too much food and booze and other stuff that's only OK in Austin. Southwest Fest is going on and I used to have my internal compass set on that. Attended the first one in 95 or 96(?) and ended up at Sholz Garten smoking a hog leg Bob Marley with a friend in the great wide open. Gotta admit I was insufferably paranoid at the time but not so surprised nobody gave a shit especially the police. I graduated from UT in the 80s when the only law was the Golden Rule. Ecstasy was perfectly legal. 
    The doorman at any club on 6th Street could sling it in full view of the local popo without any repercussions whatsoever. Developed in the chemistry department at UT the same time frame as it was at UC Berkeley as I understand it but in my defense I was full of drugs at the time. Some things never change

    Anywho I guess the point of my old man yelling at clouds rant is that what I consider hipster doofuses were actually welcoming. I was an elected persecutor in southeast TX for 12 years, an assistant DA for 3 counties out that way and a county attorney pro tem when the elected one developed brain cancer God rest his soul. If you've followed my boring trevails I somehow ended up back in the 512 somehow. Like Brer Rabbit used to tell Brer Fox "don't throw me in that briar patch" until Walt Disney censored that shit and last time I checked Uncle Remus, the African American gent at the center of all that controversy was actually the fucking hero

    Again I'll discontinue my threadshitting and  just thank the Good Lord above for this blue island in a sea of unreasonably red (no CR intended that it is what it is. Much love to all of you and yours but you're all surly assholes so enjoy hell

    Do you maybe have a kid or nephew or something, named danger_snax? You're still too lucid to be him but I can see at a least little resemblance in style

     

    I did enjoy the post, though. Sounds like I showed up at UT few years too late

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  17. On 3/8/2024 at 10:10 AM, closetojumping said:

    He's out on a limb with Harris. I don't want that guy in the class if he is taken at the expense of other big time WRs. 

    While we're at it, I saw that Texas is bringing Marsh in for an OV. I hope that never materializes. 

    I taught a couple of years in the Katy area before grad school and still know a few folks there. I don't want that kid or his mom (especially his mom) within 100 miles of our program. Let him go be Lane Kiffin's problem or something. Better yet, let him blow up A&M's locker room. Yet again. 

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