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closetojumping

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  1. I don’t think that’s any sort of goal for UT when there is so much going on across the landscape.
  2. Unless things have changed, no one on the Texas end was working on Cam Coleman. Him entering the portal has been buzzed about for months, so him announcing that he’s going in isn’t exactly news. It has always been viewed that a bidding war will transpire and someone will give him stupid money. Do of that what you will, but if Nakos is actually getting good information here, that would be a big surprise. I do think OU and ATM are players for him, though. I think Texas will get a quality WR in the portal, but they’ve clearly focused on retention and what they have coming back in the room. It shouldn’t be a surprise if the WR that Texas lands comes with his WR coach.
  3. How is Flood “twisting in the wind”? He’s being asked to do his fucking job, and hopefully better than the way he’d previously performed it, until he isn’t. He’s being paid 7 figures to do so. What in the fuck is twisting here? Cam Coleman and Ryan Wingo are damned near identical players. Coleman dropped passes and had key fumbles this year and he also managed to mix in a couple of sideline tantrums for good measure, which we didn’t get from Wingo. The reaction on this board to Coleman is fucking idiotic. He’s a good WR with a lot of shit to clean up. There’s a part of me that doesn’t believe you actually watch games. Not just you, I guess, because this take keeps appearing with Baugh, but you for sure.
  4. Clark was on campus for all of what, a week? before tearing his achilles? “by all accounts” are the same accounts telling us ahead of this season that this team could win a title or that Kyle Flood would have his pick of the litter in OL recruiting. As to “Maxwell”, if you are talking about Baxter, the biggest problem with him, which made him a completely limited asset, is that he refused to play when even mildly dinged up. That was true as a freshman and this year, and that helped keep the room in a constant state of flux. If he hadn’t been such a pussy, he might have wound up being great as a freshman. Many of you guys have a very low expectation for the RB room.
  5. I have no idea whether or not there’s a legit plan and, if so, whether or not it is a good plan. I don’t think anyone knows. Part of the problem with anyone receiving information right now is the reliability of the source. These guys have been bullish on things or viewed things as a given and then been dead wrong, and lately.
  6. Boy, when Wulaw gets on one of his sunshine-pumping heaters, look the fuck out. It gets contagious and suddenly the board is convinced that Texas has a grand plan and, just like PeeWee Herman, meant to do that. I’m hopeful, but I’ve heard enough bullshit over the last few years that ultimately failed to materialize with the portal that I remain from Missouri until Brandon Harris and Steven & 5 prove otherwise.
  7. I feel like his eligibility is probably expired. Also, he’s a middle-aged white guy. Why do you want that guy playing?
  8. Dunning-Kruger Effect on full display here.
  9. Texas’ brand isn’t being damaged by playing a bowl game against Michigan. I thought you had some form of background in marketing, therefore having at least a tangential understanding how brands and branding work? Good grief. In the same post you somehow then argue that Texas should have pussied out and stayed home. Who has done that? Notre Dame. Do you know who is actively having their brand devalued due to poor leadership decisions? Notre Dame. They did what you propose, numbnuts. There is no cabal. I didn’t neg you, that I recall, at least. You had bad takes and people collectively ran you over for them. It takes no organization. It’s crowdsourced board policing. It must not have felt good because you whine about it constantly and you’ve now apparently formed a conspiracy theory to rationalize it all. Get a fucking grip.
  10. You have 21,000+ posts on this site and have petitioned the admins on multiple occasions to help you change your profile handle. I’m honest enough with myself to know that I take this seriously. Texas sports is one of my favorite hobbies and this site is my home for it. You could just admit that you had a snarky take that couldn’t stand up against daylight and move on.
  11. You’re also not wired very well for basic logic. The two outcomes are going to be by and large unrelated. Scream to the rafters that a Rising-like injury for Arch Manning says otherwise, and that will still just be a you problem.
  12. You’re not as clever as you think you are with nonsense like this. I guess you could be simple enough to actually believe your post added some kind of point? Maybe you’ve never bought expensive jewelry before and really think the price is actually related to the raw materials?
  13. You are apparently a “title-ist” as a fan. Titles or it sucks, right? That kind of shit is insufferable. I happen to love CFB in general. I like big games. I like bowl games. I like seeing stars play. Not having fun as a fan unless a title is won is the hubris of which you lament. Thinking that that should be so regular that it should be the only expectation is sad yet laughable. Good luck with it, though. We’re all excited to see your future Cassandrian posts in which you tell us you saw difficult game X loss coming and no one would listen.
  14. I’ve found that being a borderline sociopath has actually benefitted me as a fan of CFB over the past 4 years. Seeing things develop for what they are and not being burdened with sentiment enabled me to find a path in the chaos that ultimately helped in all of the change. I do understand not liking the business and purely transactional aspects of it all. The thing everyone needs to either remind themselves of or realize is that there was a major transactional component before all of this, going on almost 20 years, and Texas and many other schools were being fucked because of it. The whole “having integrity and not being a shitty fucking cheater” thing kept routinely getting in the way. Once that’s framed right in one’s mind, it makes it all easier to swallow. I know you know this, but there are others who do not seem to grasp any of it.
  15. Nothing about any of this is unique to Texas. I read plenty of other fan boards. We’re one of least idiotic and least myopic of any of them. No doubt this site, and even this thread, has plenty of stupid, but its overall behavior isn’t anywhere near a lot of the clowntowns out there.
  16. You and two million other imbeciles run around this world on a daily basis with “very close” sources connected to Texas athletics. It’s fucking nauseating. I’m not confirming or denying shit because I have no idea. I don’t waste people’s time texting or calling during the holidays to find out the latest NIL or personnel news and if I did, I’d then likely never wind up hearing a damned thing. People volunteering info like that are also almost always full of shit and don’t know a fucking thing. In the last two months at social gatherings and kid sport events, I’ve had at least 10 different people attempt to tell me some sort of scoop about Texas athletics and each one of them was either patently wrong or passing stuff off from the summer that was more stale than a crouton. Outside of one “connected” aggie, these were all boosters and some of them are lawyers who are actually friends with some of the big NIL drivers. Still wrong.
  17. Why do you guys even pay attention to the sport? It sounds completely joyless for you. Also, why single out Arch as you bawl all over yourselves and rub your twats? Just make the spineless argument you really want to make and tell us all that Texas should have bitched out of this game completely. Maybe wrap all the returnees in bubble wrap until the Ohio State game and then y’all can pound your fists angrily and demand repercussions with the staff when the players all look rusty and out of sync as well.
  18. I’m not sure his “advisors” are advising for shit. If they were, they’d have been telling his dumb ass not to put the majority of his NIL into shitty, gaudy jewelry. They also wouldn’t be telling him he can get $1M from some other school. Having seen your posts and takes over the years, nothing you’ve “heard” has any link to any credibility for the rest of us on this board.
  19. On two separate occasions in a discussion with an aggie, I have heard with my own ears the claim that they would have won every game against Texas from 2012-2023. I had one guy start to get both vehement and visibly angry when I mocked his nonsense with “yeah, I know, you guys are undefeated in all of the games you never played. The aggies are absolute badasses in alternate universes that only you can conjure. “ They fervently believe that nonsense. It’s something to behold.
  20. I actually don’t hold grudges very well. I mostly bring it all up because it’s entertaining. The whole recruitment of that idiot and our collective dialogue on him around here, with your regular interjections, was great sport. I don’t have a Harvdog voodoo doll that I poke holes in or something. On the list of posters I’d like to give a running kick to the nuts from this site, you’re not even on it.
  21. They locked Stewart up last year for $1.5M/year for the next 2 (25 & 26) seasons. Texas did something similar for a higher figure with Simmons then as well. I don’t *think* anything has changed regarding that deal for Texas and Simmons.
  22. Looks like I Linda Ronstadted you on that one, Glen. If nothing is the charge and he still isn’t worth that, one might say the guy was worthless. I’d like to think that in the spirit of the holiday season, I will eventually look past the comedy of the Tunmise recruitment and all of the terrible shit you said at the time about me as a human and as a poster. I’m trying real hard, Ringo, to be the shepherd.
  23. I was just trying to frame the abject idiocy and absurdity of this singular page in my head when I read your post. Someone new to this site or planet, stumbling into this page for whatever reason, would have no fucking clue what was going on here. None. I think this page is surging in like 4 different directions at once, and almost none of it has anything to do with the actual coaching staff at Texas.
  24. Recruiting ability actually matters now more than any time in the last 15+ years now that everyone is paying for players. There will always be true mercenaries, for sure, but every staff needs outstanding recruiters now. Not bagmen. Recruiters.
  25. @Harvdog Please let us know where sweet, sweet Tunmise is headed for his next sophomore season. I assume he'll be back in town today and participating at the Harvdog family Christmas dinner festivities tomorrow evening. I look forward to being regaled with more tales of what a great "kid" this 23 year old is, and also why I am a piece of shit for calling him out early and often as a fucking mercenary who isn't worth the texting charges required to stay in contact with him.
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