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  1. On 1/21/2024 at 6:28 AM, Gut Wagon said:

    Oh, no doubt he's going to play heavier. I was thinking more of the ways in which Sark might use him. Definitely has receiver and return skills to go with that RB vision. Maybe the Reggie Bush comp is better overall. 

    I won't say he's good enough to "defy comparison" but I do think he's his own guy. I do see some of Jamaal in his jump cuts (the reason why Keith Jackson described JC as a "wisp of smoke" in the Rose Bowl, IRRC) and a little of his long speed. I also see some of Bush's short area quickness and shake. He looks better at running through arm tackles than I remember Bush though (I could be wrong - I'm going completely on memory here).

    But if the laser timed 4.43 and 10.8 as a freshman are accurate, then he probably really does have a very legit chance at being the #1 RB in class. As others have said, I just hope Aledo doesn't run him into the ground before he gets here like they did to poor Gray.

    I'm also curious about his receiving skills. One of the things Sark seems to like is having RBs with WR-type hands (Bijan, Blue, Baxter, Keilan - all the way back to Bush. Brooks has damn good hands too). Hopefully, this kid does too. Some of my favorite plays under Sark have been designed passes to the running back (and plays where the checkdown to the back worked out beautifully). 

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  2. 6 hours ago, TheMailBox357 said:

     

    If the "30-day open portal after a head coach leaves" rule & roster pillaging existed back in 2020, would Tom Herman have been fired after the 2020 season? I've always felt that Herman should've gotten another season becuz of the new coaching staff + weird COVID year.

    I was really trying to just ignore you and not do the whole "neg you to oblivion" thing that others are discussing. I do my best not to neg anyone because I feel like it's a waste of my time. Then you advocated for Herman to get another year.

    Now you can get fucked and I hope you're crowdsourced by this time tomorrow

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  3. 6 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Probably not. Sounds like they are just going to make an internal hire with Moore. 

    This would be my guess as well. Despite Ann Arbor not having the kind of corporate sponsorship opportunities as Austin, I would assume that their fanbase/big money is one of the few that can spend neck and neck with UT in terms of NIL. But hey, if someone with exponentially more money than me wants to spend on Graham or Grant, I certainly wouldn't complain

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  4. 8 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    My favorite part is I'm the poster who initially accused the motherfucker of being Ketchum. As a joke. But the guy is so fucking challenged that he couldn't/can't alter his behavior and obliviousness to the point that I'm not sure he understands anything other than pure literalness. He's Drax the Destroyer but stupid and a without the unintentional comedy. And he couldn't alter his behavior JUST ENOUGH to alter perception, so it's bascially become reality.

    He has become Ketchum, Destroyer of Bowls Charity Funds for Dead Kids.  

    It's a really sad commentary on the character of the person we're dealing with here but... FIFY

  5. I love the whole "tEh sRc Is tOo bIg AnD PhYsIcAl fOr BiG XII!!!111" thing. 

    Have these dipshit not played a Matt Campbell ISU team (they have, got busted up, and blocked it out because of convenient memory).

    Have they played Bill Snyder or Kileman KSU teams? Again, yes, they have. The typically resulting beatings have, of course, been memory holed. 

    Have they played some of Gundy's nastiest teams? Remind me: how did those go for the Aggies? 

    I guess they just missed Patterson's TCU teams, which would've been high comedy. 

    OU running that weakside power counter on aggy or playing like they wanted to kill us on 10/7? Hysterical. The Aggies would've folded like a cheap tent after Q1. 

    Oh yeah, and then there's a little team called Texas that made it's bones in the power running game for more than a season or 2, backed by a nasty run blocking OL. 

    Even Tech and Baylor and under the Rapist could get dirt under their fingernails while bludgeoning an opponent into submission. 

    UW? Don't even get me started.

    NEVER MIND that we get treated like the Super Bowl week in and week out in this conference, ESPECIALLY after announcing our leaving. Anyway, we're battle tested and I'm pretty optimistic we can AT LEAST hold our own and win at a solid good clip. Which will if course lead to more delicious "THEM SIPS ALWAYS BE CHEETIN" and "DEM DADGUM REFS!!!" posts and a new level of battered aggy sydrome. 

    In other words, I cannot wait.

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  6. 1 hour ago, satyanash said:

    Scipio Tex: On A Barcalounger Watching Musical Chairs

     

    Interesting article. As much as I would absolutely LOVE to get McMillan to replace Mitchell (and I would REALLY love to get him. He's that type of talent), you have to think we're done at WR now, right? Especially if we get Bolden to be an even better, more versatile Keilan replacement. In any case, our kick returns and 4 WR sets should be absolutely filthy next season

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  7. 3 hours ago, ousux said:

    Pretty sure Bond is the one who amazed me by going up and getting the ducks thrown by Milroe in our game...even if it cost him a vicious hit.

    Hookem Bond, Isaiah Bond emoji869.png

    That's him. Total beast. The few Bama grad friends I have are absolutely beside themselves over this which is an added bonus. They're due for about 25 years (hopefully more) of wandering the desert after Saban's run. And I am absolutely jubilant about that possibility - just as long as they keep beating the aggies

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  8. 57 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

    What about John Burt? Tall and fast but had stone hands. 

    Very, very true - and just as maddening. But at least we'll always have that catch he made against Notre Dame.

    I also shouldn't forget about Mal Williams and Brennan Eagles, either I guess. I wonder how much money those two guys cost themselves by not moving to safety - Williams especially. If nothing else, he was fun as hell to watch on special teams

  9. 10 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Nahlin (IT) mentioned in a question about Texas being ‘done’ at TE that Sark/Texas are very high on Juan Davis.  

    If they're satisfied with Davis, then I guess I am too. This staff definitely seems to know what they're doing when it comes to evals and development.

     

    Unlike some previous Texas staffs... I definitely don't miss a watching a bunch of tall, slow receivers with bad hands running around out there (Lil'Jordan and Colin being the exceptions, of course). 

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  10. 9 hours ago, victory88 said:

    Eat a dick Bama.  Maybe we’ll take some of you’re DL too.

     

    Hook ‘em Bond!

    I like this plan a lot. Just watched Bond's highlights. What a beast. Racking up 650 yards with Milroe is like 1000+ with a better passer. 

     

    Had to to edit to laugh my ass off at the aggie who thinks they'll be able to flip Bond if they can get him on campus. No one wants to go to your white bread, podunk ass school with your atrocious o-line, your QB that's made of glass (and who STILL hasn't shown a damn thing against any real competition), and the bakery's worth of bread you loaded up on in the portal just so you can almost field a full roster. Not without drastically, drastically overpaying - and even then, it's an iffy proposition

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  11. On 1/9/2024 at 2:25 PM, closetojumping said:

    I feel bad for both OSU and Wazzou. I'm not someone lamenting where things have gone in college football, largely because it pretty much all serves to UT's benefit, but I do regret that this happened to those guys and their fans.

    Likewise.  I married into an Oregon State family and, even before that, I had a soft spot for the Beavers. They're just a really easy team to root for. My wife, who's family is from Corvallis, is the first member of her family to go somewhere besides OSU (she went to UT, naturally). And now, her entire family has UT as at least their number 2 college team and some of them even have us as their number number 1. Plus, some of her younger relatives (the ones with the requisite grades and test scores, anyway) are looking VERY hard at UT now after hearing my wife and I rave about it. So although the new landscape is probably going to be very good for UT, I'm definitely going to miss watching scrappy, disciplined, well-coached Beaver teams upset Oregon, UW, and USC and ruin their seasons every few years.  

    On the plus side, all of us at least got to have a good hearty laugh about DeBoer bolting Washington for Bama. 

    It also wouldn't exactly break my heart if her twin professional dancer younger cousins decided to pull the trigger on UT one of these days. One is in community college and the other is on full ride at Oregon and both of their grades and test scores should give them a very solid shot at getting into Texas if they decide to go the transfer route - and they are definitely considering it. And believe me, both of those young ladies are welcome to stay in our guest rooms here in Austin as long as they want 

    (No pics, you sickos. I'm pretty sure my FIL is on here and I do NOT want to deal with the blowback from that shit)

     

    Edit: and, just to keep it on topic, I would cut off my left pinky finger to get Silas Bolden to Texas. Maybe even my right. I watched him all year and he's almost like Worthy and Keilan in one package. Not as good as Worthy but I do think he can be better than Keilan and still has untapped potential. I have no doubt Sark would come up with some incredible uses for him and I really hope we get to see it. Trying to cover him and Golden is the kind of thing that keeps DCs awake at night

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  12. On 1/7/2024 at 2:20 PM, Fondren & Main said:

    Wine country aggy.  Playing for the title and still crying about big bad Texas.  Sad!

    The absurd thing is that they're almost as big and bad as we are. I'm honestly kind of astounded they let DeBoer walk. I have ZERO doubt they could outbid Bama for him if they wanted to. I guess they just didn't feel like ponying up.

    People forget: UW is a HUGE and prestigious state school with boatloads of money and wealthy alumni (WAY more than Bama) and they care about football a lot more than people think. Maybe DeBoer just wanted to try his hand at the SEC. Maybe he gave UW his number and they said "thanks but no thanks." Who knows? But UW has ZERO business complaining about any other school being a big, bad, mega rich meanie. Maybe they don't have our history but they're almost as rich and they can pull all the talent out of Cali they need to be a perennial contender while cherry picking the best players in the PNW. 

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  13. 21 hours ago, Bevo said:

    I watched Spencer Shannon's high school tape and he didn't seem to have much lower body strength and wasn't that coordinated to get open in the receiving game. He has to get stronger legs and stay lower on his blocks for him to be a quality TE at the college level.

    I'm certainly no daddy98, but I went through a little of his film too and had some of the same thoughts. It looks to me like one of his main issues is that he has a tendency to block too high mostly without enough knee/hip bend (and he's admittedly 6'7' allegedly which makes it harder). I have to agree that he didn't show much in the passing game - but if his role is to be a blocking surface, I have zero issue with the take. He just needs to spend plenty of time in the weight room and working on his technique with Banks (and I'm sure he will). I can say that I love that he's a VERY willing blocker. As long as he spends time doing plenty of squats, working on blocking technique, and preferably developing his hands, I'm perfectly fine with him being a Horn. You can always use a guy like that

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  14. 6 hours ago, Napoleon said:

    For a 6th year senior, that Plummer made poor decision after poor decision.

    Intentional grounding from the pocket when there was no one within 5 yards of him and he had to take two to three steps to his left to dump the ball. That’s 8 yards right there for being a fucking idiot. 

    He played like someone who was used to playing under a slightly different set of rules and against different types of defenses. Like maybe he had only played Flag Football in the past, but never Tackle (American) Football.

    He was just pure trash. But not quite Iowa’s level of pure trash offense… but they were very close.

    He was just awful. One of the worst CCG performances by a QB I've ever seen. If there's a hell, I feel like it involves just watching Iowa and Louisville's offenses from last night on repeat for eternity

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  15. Jesus.

     

    The aggy spiel about how "dang ol Bammer is so much dadgum better now than they were when them dern sips beat em" shit is so stupid, absurd, and played the fuck out. Did they even watch the offensive shitshow that was the SEC title game? It honestly wasn't THAT much better than the nightmare ACC title game I sat through for some insane reason I can't explain. If that shit had gone to OT, I might have gouged my eyes out

     

    In any case, Milroe barely completed 50% of his passes. They're absolutely the same team we beat - and, if anything, we've improved more. If we played Bama tomorrow the same way we played Okie Lite today, we'd absolutely beat them by 14 to 21 instead of 10 (assuming everyone is healthy, good to go for most of the game, and not suspended for a stupid ass targeting call - mainly Worthy).

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  16. 23 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I think there’s a little bit of a misperception about Sarkisian that this post highlights. He’s less of a “nice guy” and more of a “good guy”. He’s got killer instinct and isn’t an overly nice dude. I mean, he’s nice in person, and not some asshole grouch like Fisher or Saban, but he’s not “pushover nice” and will step on your throat if he can and it’s worth it. 

    I'm really, really happy to hear you say this. IIRC, one of your big misgivings about Sark initially was questioning whether he was a "killer" or not. I think you referenced early Mack on the recruiting trail and in his dealing with the press as an example.

    You're obviously far more in the know than I will ever be so hearing you say that Sark does, in fact, have some of that that killer instinct that coaches like pre-decline Mack had (among many, many other great ones) gives me a lot of hope for the future. I sincerely hope Sark hangs onto whatever he's found.

  17. They never cease to astound me. I've watched maybe a quarter and a half of an aggy game this year - and that was part of the hilarious collapse against Miami that anyone with half a brain saw coming. Since it's not 1989, there's pretty much always actual good teams on that I can watch instead. Or at least fun teams who don't run a 1970s offense. That way, I can enjoy seeing innovation and/or intelligent play calling and say things like "wow. That was a cool, really smart play. I hope Sark picks that one up" - see ISU's 4th down TD call last night, as frustrating as it was to watch in the moment (side note: love or hate Sark, it's nice having a coach who actually runs the type of play that elicits that kind of reaction on at least a semi-regular basis).

    Those pigfuckers watch every single second of every single game we play, no matter what the score is, and focus on that shit like they're preparing for the bar exam or the USMLE. Each and every one of those weirdos needs lifelong psychotherapy with accompanying INTENSE psychiatric care and even that's probably not nearly enough.

    I would say lobotomies might do the trick but I'm pretty sure most them have already had one, so... 

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  18. On 11/7/2023 at 10:37 AM, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Further clarifying to mean that the next coach won't be a sitting National Championship level coach (or even Lance Leipold) - it will probably be someone like Jeff Traylor. 

    Do not want. Say wat you want about his coaching but recruiting East TX would suddenly become much, much harder. 

  19. On 11/7/2023 at 9:30 AM, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    What about Gundy? I don't think he's got any desire to leave oSu and he's about to be the unquestioned best coach in a shitty conference, but if aggy offers him $10-$15mm a year he'd have to at least listen. Plus, he hates NIL so he'd be hands off & likely let the rubes try to continue their antiquated bag game.
     

    Got damn. You think there's a poral exodus now. Wait until all those five start prima donnas have to get coached by Gundy. So, in conclusion, I support this wholeheartedly and hope aggy is dumb enough to do it. I'll give Gundy this much, at least: that dude can flat out coach even when he's not keeping his best players. So I guess it would be an upgrade even if aggy loses half their roster. 

  20. On 11/7/2023 at 7:48 AM, Armybrat said:

    Yep, and those morons used to ridicule “Chrissy” Simms - the QB who absolutely dragged his nuts over their goober faces his senior year.

    And every other year he played them. Despite the OU debacles, he'll always have my respect for the consecutive beatdowns he put on aggy. Same with Case. Couldn't throw, could barely run, probably could've found a more athletic potential QB in the stands - but he stood TALL when it counted in MUST WIN rivalry games and I'll always respect him for that. 

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