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closetojumping

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  1. Dunning-Kruger Effect on full display here.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. @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.
  19. Moore had agreed to a number heading into last December that people could make sense of, even if it was high and based more on hope for 2025 than anything he’d done up that point. They then waited until Texas had sorted its commitments out to retention, to guys in the portal and the signing class, at which point they doubled their ask, bringing it up massively. The choice was to meet the ask rather than risk not having a replacement and even facing, if I remember correctly, the premise of him leaving before the ASU or Ohio State game (can’t remember which). That ultimately impacted the ability to land other portal guys who had an interest in Texas at other key positions. Now the dude is asking for something like $1M. I hope Texas laughed in his fucking face. I think he is worth backup money to someone else, but they’ll find someone desperate and he’ll get $500K or something. For Texas, having him on the roster and drawing a paycheck puts other players at risk of leaving. So, yeah, fuck him.
  20. They had Allgeier the Spare getting exactly the same amount of carries as Bijan yesterday. The Falcons seem like an organization that actively works to pull the bookshelf on itself repeatedly. I also found myself wondering if he’s not nearing some season milestones that would trigger contractual payouts that the Falcons are trying to avoid paying out? I’d think “surely not” in most circumstances but they’re a truly shitty organization.
  21. Ha. This is quality shade. That said, I feel like the “what happened with Steven & 5 in the offseason?” discussion has become sort of ubiquitous and not something niched away somewhere.
  22. Given the totality of their personnel losses heading into the portal period, plus what they’ve spent on this 2026 class, there’s almost no way they have enough to spend in the portal for what it would take to reload. The money guys are not stupid for ATM and Elko isn’t either. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re telling themselves that they’ll develop the youth, be smart and picky in the portal and regroup with an 8-4 season that catapults them back to the playoffs in 2027. They were gifted an unbelievable schedule this year. They get the two gifts in South Bend with the dropped XP and the flagrant holding no-call. Then, they face Auburn, Florida, Arkansas, and LSU all right in the midst of structural program collapse. Missouri with a 3rd string true freshman QB and whatever the fuck was going on with South Carolina’s program this year. Just insane shit where opponents were committing suicide in front of them at every turn. Next year, no way that happens. The 2026 schedule and their personnel losses guarantee nothing regarding 8-4 or better but they think that’s their absolute floor.
  23. Boy, the driveling buffoonery has exploded all over this page. Good grief. I scrolled through and half the page is on ignore and the quoted posts by others certainly reminds me why. Come on, man. This has been discussed on other threads. A head coach doesn’t miss Jr Day because they’re sick. They miss Jr Day because they are selfish assholes who let their demons get the better of them and then they have to go somewhere and get help drying up again.
  24. Everytime I get this image, I find myself fantasizing about kicking imma in the nuts as hard as I can the next time I see him.
  25. The only reason I didn’t have my Ole Miss pick as a top 2 pick is due to the coaching change. I didn’t go insane and pick Tulane though. Just marked the game down to the mid 30’s.
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