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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
closetojumping replied to RaysBoomBoomRoom's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I spent 2 years in college waiting tables at Pappasito’s. If you think for a second that just saying the word “fajitas” and that being that for the order is a thing, you are getting mocked and laughed at in the restaurant kitchen by your server and his/her friends after attempting it. I imagine you are a running gag for any server waiting on you, but this would add to it. I had a guy insist one time on ordering only “fajitas” and he told me to educate myself when I asked for clarity. I got written up when he complained about initially receiving vegetable fajitas as his entree. It was worth it. -
2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
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Sadly, it appears that I order way more manhattans and martinis in public than either of you. I’ve ordered both from bartenders all over this country and they will ask for clarity or often just make a manhattan with bourbon. Most default a martini to vodka or ask which way as well. This really isn’t even a discussion. If you think I’m off on it, try ordering from different places than your frequent hangout. -
Hard pass on Isaac Brown. He’s another guy that doesn’t understand the difference between being hurt and being injured. He’s an outstanding talent, but he was getting bad advice this fall and listening to it. Texas just let a RB walk with these same issues.
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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
closetojumping replied to RaysBoomBoomRoom's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I’m not a cocktail snob, so my view is “no”. A regular bourbon manhattan is smoother. I like more of the bite but would never shun a well made bourbon manny. Are you also of the opinion that martinis and gibsons can only be called such if they’re made with gin? Do you have a handlebar mustache that you wax daily, sir? -
2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
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My sweet Lord. Reading the thread since the Muschamp hiring is borderline exhausting. Some of the hawtest takes on this recruiting board, ever, on here between pages 45 and 48. I was quoting posts at first and by the time I reached 20, I just deleted them all, said “fuck it” and made myself a rye manhattan. If you can’t be excited by the Muschamp hire and all that that implies, wow. PK did really well, but he basically recused himself from having to be involved with talent evaluations and was regularly pining to get back to the west coast. Muschamp had agreed to take the DC role when Sarkisian was hired and helped handpick the staff. His wife stunned everyone and refused to agree to moving back to Austin. She loves Austin and returns several times a year to visit with friends and shop. She didn’t want to leave while the kids were in college. So Muschamp had to bow out. PK was a great back up, but Muschamp is who Sarkisian wanted from the jump. Muschamp is hands on with talent evaluation, with all of the game planning, has deep knowledge of the Georgia nemesis, endless energy, and will never be a yes man. He will tell Sarkisian straight up when he thinks he’s fucking up. The guy used to eat Greg Davis alive, in front of Mack Brown.- 2505 replies
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Pallilo was always fun to listen to when I still listened to AM radio. He didn’t suffer fools easily, whether they were callers, guests, or just athletes/celebs in stories of the day. That said, he pretty much could never admit when he was just wrong, and he loved having the last word on a caller who disagreed with him by cutting them off, hanging up on them and talking down to them when they couldn’t respond. He was famously dismissive of Altuve as a major league prospect while he was putting up big numbers in the minors. People would call in and ask about him being called up and Pallilo would say he wished they would call him up so he could flop and people would stop asking about him. I assume he did a mea culpa at some point, but I never heard it.
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You’re just clutching your pearls because some posters aren’t being particularly nice to each other. None of my posts questioned the validity of Derka’s feelings on the subject or right to post about it. Pancho didn’t do that either. Mocking the guy for his monotonous redundancy is not telling him that he can’t post. That’s a lazy take. I interact with the guy rarely. I don’t think Pancho is a Derka-chaser either.
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I'm in this forum everyday. I choose to not interact with you most of the time because you are a mess of a human being and I get that, and many times your takes are fine and solid, even if redundant. But, sometimes I tire of your Cassandra Complex behavior and I feel like squashing a bug. As to the whole "locals rule!" position you're hovering around with who qualifies to be present and posting on the basketball board, bless your heart. My resume regarding basketball experience and knowledge is just fine regardless. I don't see the need to post daily on it in order to be qualified to read and post here when I feel like it, irrespective of your juvenile approach to who you think is qualified to be here.
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I don't think much about you at all, really. However, speaking of ubiquity, that's your presence on any cause that you deem worthy, and sometimes that same subject is something I also give a shit about, and then there's simply no avoiding your robotic and formulaic posting drama that you've conducted by rote for going on two decades. I'd have to be blind not to notice it, same for any other longstanding poster on the boards. That's the thing about narcissists that they can never fully grasp about themselves due to the nature of their psychology - they're really boring and repetitive individuals. It's not an interest level from others that merits a response outside of a few family members who have no choice but to care about the individual, it's the voluminous banality with which they insist upon themselves to everyone else around them. Folks who otherwise wouldn't give one shit get tired of it and call it out. To the narcissist, "if you don't care, why are you so focused on me!!?". To the other humans, "If you would shut the fuck up with the rapid fire onslaught of the same take over and over and over again, we wouldn't be interacting, you dumb and boring motherfucker. "
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Is that really a question, though? We're all familiar with Derka's bullshit. He has a pathological need to play Cassandra on any subject matter in which he's interested. This thread helps him establish, firmly and full-throated, that he was out on Sean Miller first. He told all of us first. No one would listen!!! He told us and we sat by and did nothing!!! What the fuck is wrong with all of you??!??! Do you not know ball or are you just a bunch of fucking sunshine pumping CDC apologist, god damn you!! Never mind that no one on this site outside of a few known pollyannas are doing anything but behaving like normal fans at this moment in time. There is zero entertainment or value in sprinting out to the middle of the forum and lamenting the shame and futility of the Miller hire unless you're a narcissist who needs to show everybody how right you are and how stupid everyone else is. Most of us just want to root for the program and hope some of what they're seeing isn't so damning that we're going through the whole process again in 4 years, even though we probably will be and we all fucking know that, but there's no fun or value in starting with that premise right now. The least surprising thing I've witnessed in a very unsurprising day so far is that Derka started this thread. It actually gave me pause and I had the thought: "wait, he hasn't started one of these already?"
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A market inefficiency for the portal and recruiting has been that many schools are treating RB like they're an NFL org, yet the issues at RB aren't the same between CFB and the NFL. Who gives a shit if a guy can only take so many bullets? That's an NFL problem. Is that being addressed now by schools starting to go really big on RBs? Seems likely. Only so many schools can commit major money to QB, RB, WR, depth, and retention. The main market inefficiency exploitable at the moment is just having one of the biggest chip stacks. Corporate NIL is the other, I guess. This helps Texas at QB, where the corporate NIL side is pretty substantial. If Texas lands Lacy or Baugh, to go with Cooper and retaining Wisner (we'll see on Wisner), they're flaunting their largesse for this cycle. That could be a $2M+ room. No, "we" don't think that's true because of anything $9.95ers are saying. I think it's true because it has been fucking true. Handwringing over two positions that are being handled in both recruiting and the portal to address personnel mistakes and then decrying that as an example of retention issues is bizarre. "We" should be concerned about the mistakes that got Texas to the spot of being thin at LB in the first place, not blaming retention now. It's a byproduct of the stupidity of taking just 1-2 LBs in every cycle. At RB, I'm still somewhat fascinated that some posters here continue to worry over it. They'll have 5-7 guys in the RB room and multiple guys in the room will be high impact players for the 2026 season.
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Missouri sure as hell pays on the NIL side, both for recruits and transfers. WTF?
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True, but this is true of every fanbase and many of them are way, way dumber than ours. Also, you guys don't always have to take the bait en masse. Assume a stupid take will get pummeled into submission and there's no need to add your own thoughts and reading it feels less like an epidemic. BTW, all of this talk about the talent in the WR room and not a one of you fuckers has deigned to mention the bastard child of Alan Jackson. You guys are slipping and you should all be ashamed.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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Sounds like a number of players are starting to realize that there aren't greener pastures for them elsewhere in which they can get paid gobs of money while not being WR1 or TE1 or OG1 talent (yet). We'll all wait and see, and I'm sure a number of guys are still heading out, but the count so far has been less than expected. It's been assumed that some groups will be throwing crazy money around in the portal and maybe that's not happening (yet).
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