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TheFlyingBoat

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  1. yes I meant 50k from the pancakes haha
  2. Honestly I don't get what there is to investigate. We offer them, at a minimum, $150,000 a year if they're an OL. Honestly what's surprising is we're not getting better OL talent, but I guess these are Flood prototypes so hopefully it all works out.
  3. I mean what’s the guy supposed to say? “Yeah I saw that locker room at Bama. In there, they’re bigger, faster, badder, and better coached than us. We’re fucked.”?
  4. So there's a lot of talk about the 3 stars bringing down our average. I think that begs the question as to what a realistic ideal class looks like at every position (including recruitments we already lost but in theory had a decent shot at) and how we measure up to that. I'll be generally operating off of Bodacious Bevo's position counts because I largely agree with it with a few changes. Realistic Ideal Offense QB: Arch RB: Baxter, Wisner WR: Cook, Pettaway, Niblett, Hale, Greathouse TE: Duce, Kaiuway, Randle OL: Sewell, Heard, Deal, Robinson, Chatman, Reed (17) Defense DL: Hicks, Spencer??? EDGE: Gullete, Shelby, Vasek LB: Ant Hill, S'Maje, Lefau, +1 CB: Toviano, Malik, Matthews, Bell S: Williams, Johnson ATH: MHP (16) === (33) QB: nailed the realistic ideal with the best QB in the country and a true bellcow on the recruiting trail RB: looks like we're in great position to nail the RB1 of the class and have a great RB2 behind him WR: Got Cook and Niblett already. Going to lose Greenhouse to ND, oh well. Pettaway is still on the board. Hale is looking good, but has unknown character concerns or something causing schools to hesitate. Jonah Wilson seems ok enough, though had a weaker junior year production wise than I would have liked given his solid sophomore year post-conversion from QB to WR. TE: If we somehow pull Duce it'll be incredible. If not. the TE class will be largely forgettable to me and I'll just hope 2 years from now they'll have been well coached and serve as a surprise breakout in their junior year. OL: Not a huge fan of Stroh or Goosby, but with no counters it isn't the worst idea to offer them a spot and see what level they can get to. Cojoe is young but has potential as well, but isn't on the same level as the ideals either. Chatman was a great get though and I trust Flood on these evals way more than I trust myself or scouts. Heard seems to be trending towards LSU which I dislike. Sewell is out. DL: In better shape than expected for Hicks and have Spencer locked up. EDGE: In decent position for all candidates. Hope to see some start to commit. LB: Went from a position of weakness and doubt before Lefau to a position of hope at this point. Major position of need has a chance to get filled with talent CB: In a good position for Toviano, should see a commitment from Malik soon, Matthews and Bell would both also be great to have. S:Already have both safeties committed with 5* Williams dropping as part of Arch-mas and 4* Johnson having committed earlier. ATH: MHP is a fun athlete, we're in a good position for him, and I can't wait to see him play for us and see what he can do
  5. Wrong on everything but the brisket and some of the things that don’t matter
  6. On a more serious note, without the necessary transfer to buff up key weak points on defense I see it as wholly unrealistic to expect to beat Alabama or even Baylor (a team that will return elite lines that will dominate us on both sides). That's 2 highly likely losses. Assuming we go 3-0 against ULM, UTSA, and Kansas, we're going to need to go 6-1 against the Big 12 minus Kansas and Baylor. The RRS is a coin toss no matter how good either team is and we know this because Charlie Strong's worst team beat an Oklahoma team that went otherwise undefeated that had Baker at QB, Mixon and Perine at RB, and Shephard and Westbrook at WR all while getting humiliated by Notre Dame and choking away at home to Cal on a missed XP. Oklahoma State should also be a reasonably difficult team to beat. I think with this team we're looking at 8-4 and 9-4 with a bowl win given the massive improvement in line play I expect in the back half of the year. To see us at 10-3 after a bowl game I'd need to expect an improvement on defense that I don't think the transfers we got can produce.
  7. Fun fact: The Texas 2005 team scored 50.2 ppg. Not relevant to anything really, but that's why it's just a fun fact.
  8. Let’s get some more big beef!
  9. It may be too early, but I think this will be the best new show of the year.
  10. While I think the show was phenomenal I think S5 & S6 were the two weakest seasons (while still being very solid). I think there was a lot more fun to be had with certain characters. Far too little time was spent with Jessie Eden (the character interactions between her and Tommy were so fucking well done), Ada (a critical part of what made family interactions so great), Pol (she should have had the second most lines imo), and Michael (a great foil for Tommy and a really fun source of drama both as an ally and as an enemy). Also, Arthur was too much of a caricature of himself in S5, though they largely fixed that this season and did a FUCKING FANTASTIC job with him in the final episode, holy fuck. Really speaking S5 and S6 could have benefited from two more episodes apiece that would have allowed them to take a slower pace with every scene. Every single modern great show seems to have this problem where they decide they're going to deny their golden goose their swan song (how do you like that mixed metaphor). Why they insist on this after the fiasco of GoT is beyond me. Thankfully the writing and acting is still top class here by and large so whatever issues there were were outshone by all that was good about it.
  11. I think mediocrity is a bit harsh and I say this as someone who criticized S5 contemporaneously. Certainly relative to its peak where D&D could simply lift the screenplay from the book it was quite mediocre, but compared to the general corpus of TV it was solidly at the borderline of acceptable and good, perhaps slightly closer to the acceptable side. Season 7 was when it became truly middling, carried only by prior world building, beautiful set design, phenomenal casting, and good will powerful enough to look past most faults. Season 8 was impressively bad in execution (I am largely ok with the grander plot points). But S5 and 6 certainly had its redeemable moments.
  12. Ok let's take this a little bit more seriously than you did. 2022- Quinn Ewers wins Heisman 1 (Texas plays Bama OOC) 2023 - Quinn Ewers wins Heisman 2, goes pro/ Arch RS (first year in SEC) (Texas likely plays Bama as an OOC game in addition to the SEC schedule) 2024 - Arch RSFr starts and wins Heisman 1 (second year in SEC) (Texas does not play Bama) 2025 - Arch RsSo starts and wins Heisman 2 (third year in SEC) (Texas does play Bama) Despite the lunacy of predicting 4 Heisman wins a row, my scenario is still more plausible than Texas' first SEC game being in 2025. Do better you coelenterate.
  13. Realistically we only hit 5 here, but god it would be great to hit 6. Before the Pac-12 jumped off a cliff though this chart is why I wanted to go to the Pac-12 with OU. Had we gone with them that is 25 of the 27 times a school has accomplished that feat and 5 of the 7 institutions to do it. It would also be 4 of 4 Institutions to do it this century (Stanford, UCLA, Texas, OU). SEC is where the money and more importantly the recruiting focus is nowadays so there we must be.
  14. This thread is gold. If you go later on you'll find out that Kyle Rittenhouse is the moral equal of the teenagers that charged Normandy and Calais on D-Day and that firing on people during a riot as Rittenhouse did is more honorable than serving in the military while Joe Biden is president.
  15. The fact that he ended up at Blinn may be the cherry on top of this story
  16. HD then Agent 99! Let's find our way into the finals!!!
  17. Did BurntOrange&White actually go here? I know standards were lower at all universities 40 years ago...but was the standard for basic reading comprehension that low that long ago? Or did old age make him stupid?
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