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  1. On 12/9/2025 at 8:54 AM, FloridaHorn said:

    Sad story really. Patty talks kid into skipping her senior year of high school because Patty didn't expect Landry to be so good. Kid makes huge sacrifice for the program and Patty buries her on the bench. Should be a cautionary tale for future recruits. 

    There's more to it than that.

  2. 51 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Did anyone watch Underwood this season and see the #1 QB recruit material for which he was hyped? He seemed okay. No doubt he will get better, but I didn't see a wizard on the field. 

    I agree, but then I wonder about how to form any conclusions about any QB in a Sherrone Moore offense.

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  3. I’m trying to imagine what belief is off the table for someone who earnestly believes a 10 year old has multiple major programs offering scholarships.  This is way beyond flat earth or faked moon landing territory.  I’m sure there is something that would be more outlandish and unbelievable, but I’m coming up empty.

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  4. 24 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Moore leaving ultimately to the portal instead of the NFL is what I've been arguing now for weeks. If he goes to the NFL end of things, he's an UDFA based off of what I have seen. He'll get a shitty grade or already has one. The agent will put out feelers and someone in college will be willing to throw $500k at him for another year. Good luck for everyone with that. 

    That said, that's a significant clearance of payroll without taking a major roster hit. Either one of the younger guys is ready, or several are, or they can bring in someone elite or offering a more efficient spend with similar productivity. I'd take any of those outcomes over Moore getting his ask again from UT.

    Moore is the poster child for how this era hinders development.  He came in as a guy who “did everything right”.  Then he pulled that leverage move where he threatened to transfer, Texas caved, and the combination of the money and “winning” the leverage play put him in a different mindset - and whatever steps forward you would want to see in development from a sophomore to junior year sure didn’t seem to show up on the field.

    Hindsight is 20/20, but Texas would have been better off finding an established G5/lower P4 guy looking to prove himself for 2/3 the money.

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  5. I don't understand where Notre Dame's leverage is coming from.  They need the CFP more than the CFP needs them.  If Notre Dame whines and cries and refused to sign onto whatever CFP arrangement is ratified by the conferences, their recruiting will absolutely tank - why would any player with options go to a school that can't win a national championship?  What fan would think a playoff champion would be illegitimate because a weakened Notre Dame wasn't participating?  

    Notre Dame deserves no special treatment - they are not bigger than the sport.  If they want the protections and guarantees affording to conferences, they should join a conference.  If they insist on being independent then they get treated as any other independent.  If their record and strength of schedule merit inclusion, they are eligible to be included.  Nothing more, nothing less.

    Why do so many administrators feel the need to bend the knee to Notre Dame?  What on earth can Notre Dame possibly do?  They have no leverage, yet they make demands and expect special treatment.

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  6. On 12/1/2025 at 10:21 AM, Helobious said:

    Calling my shot, SA Johnson upsets LT this weekend. I think Johnson has a decided athletic advantage and an explosive offense, I expect a shootout with the Jags winning. 

    Dickinson wil beat North Shore, also in a high scoring shootout.  

    LT 27 SA Johnson 19

    North Shore 46 Dickinson 29

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  7. 8 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Laila Phelia is healthy and doing well at Syracuse. She has started every game this season and is shooting 41% from behind the arc. 

    she's playing with fire and probably should retire for her own good.  I posted an article from a syracuse paper a while back outlining her eye issues.  It's good to see her doing well at Syracuse, but she didn't have a future at Texas.

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  8. 13 minutes ago, yoladu said:

    i know it's been mentioned, but the mariachi band literally drained all the energy in the stadium Friday night. it was palpable.

    Mariachi bands have their time and place. A football game teetering on the edge is not one of them.

    This is 10000% true - both Mariachi performances were total energy drains.  I like the Mariachi's in the 4th quarter of the Sam Houston St. type games, but it is way out of place in any kind of intense game atmosphere.

    I understand and embrace the entertainment aspect of the stadium experience.  I know it isn't for me and, for the most part, I neither enjoy it nor am particularly bothered by it.  I also go to most away games.  Other than the OU and Michigan experiences, every place does it more or less the same.  There does seem to be a bit of competition, wanting to be the one with the newest or latest gadget.  DKR seems (mostly) ahead of the curve on that with the drones and lights and such - though UGA had this coordinated wrist light things that produced a pretty remarkable light effect during timeouts.  

    I realize this is probably too much to expect, but I wish there was more flexibility/adaptability.  I understand there is probably a script that is produced ahead of time that they follow, but it would be great if there was more of an ability to read the room, so to speak, and make snap decisions on what will best work.  The mariachis went over like a lead balloon early in the game - I know it would suck for them to get cut later, but rolling them out again later was a disservice to the team/stadium.  Knowing when to stay out of the way, or when to do a crowd favorite.  Is 4th down coming up?  Did they just give up a long TD and need some pumping up?  Is momentum building to a crescendo?  There needs to be more adaptability.  

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  9. 5 hours ago, Helobious said:

    Get ready for some epic fucking title games between LSU and tOSU the next few years. Day and Kiffin are arguably the 2 greatest CFB coaches of all time, now both with keys to unlimited resources and talent rich programs. This is bad for us but good for the sport. It will also cool the coaching market for a bit as no one is going to want to pay these insane sums just for CFP exits each year.

    You are finally using your powers for good.  I, for one, applaud this development.

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  10. 1 minute ago, thepop said:

    Cept he has a maroon jersey on

     

    Ah, now I understand what you mean.  I just interpreted that as a crappy rendering of burnt orange, but that is probably a misfire on my part.

  11. 21 minutes ago, thepop said:

    This makes no sense. Reggie was the winning player.

    right - Reggie was making the choking sign to the NY Knicks.  The graphic isn't suggesting Reggie Miller was choking.

  12. 2 hours ago, Js1 said:

    If she wants to coach again, and I’m sure she does, the worst thing she could have done is quite quit. CDC ain’t gonna give her much of a recommendation otherwise. 

    Again, she is not a bad person. Obviously a class act the way she handled the obvious end of her tenure and kept recruiting until the bitter end. The anti-Mack Brown. 

    she obviously needed to go, but Kelly was the best human being among the UT coaches.  

  13. 6 hours ago, Welch said:

    Petrino was asked about this in the PC and he actually thought *Arkansas* got a favorable spot on that punt.  So ackshually it does fit the thread narrative.

    (Should start at right spot but jump to 7:30 otherwise…)

     

    In the stadium I thought it went out of bounds much closer to the LOS than to where it landed.

    my seat at the stadium had a perfect angle to see the punt, and to my eye it was called accurately.  It had weird spin where it was out of bounds but not slicing away, so it was consistently a few feet wide, but consistently so.  

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  14. The game in Fayetteville last year was one of the tamest game environments I've ever seen.  The supposed hatred people love to wax poetic about is overblown.

    Players on both will be more motivated by Brad Spence moving from Arkansas to Texas than any sense of historic rivalry that was last relevant several decades before they were born.

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