Everything posted by closetojumping
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
It should be pretty easy to look up when classes start at Bama. I mean, I’m not doing it, but someone could. It seems way too early for Bama to be in session.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Oh, wow, so you’re telling me you would take both Cam Coleman and Dakorian Moore if you could? No shit?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Or maybe Owens was always a spare. What the fuck is all of this hypothetical trash? The guy was a mildly recruited low 4 star who came to Texas to be a backup and get a degree. Somewhere along the way, he became convinced he was something other than that and he became a bitch. He is at Arkansas State because he’s not very good, not because Texas blackballed him to other schools. Good fucking lord. Come on, man.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
There has been a rumor about Moore & Texas circulating since Thanksgiving. I will stick my mantra regarding this cycle - I’m from Missouri on that one. Heard too much bullshit just like it in each of the last 3 cycles. I enjoy it, but I am a talent acquisition junkie. Roster management is always interesting, even when the way it is impacted shifts. As I wrote earlier this week, I definitely think recruiting is about to change in fascinating and potentially crushing ways. The Texas money is already taking the position that the guys getting money before they’ve shown college bonafides are a very limited set of “sure things” each cycle. That’s going to be a range of 3-10 each cycle and the rest of the recruits will be purely developmental evaluations. Should actually be pretty interesting in terms of how each school starts prioritizing.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
If this asshole is wrong again, I vote that we riot and show up at his house around 10pm tonight in fucking Conroe and blare airhorns by his toddlers' windows. Just do mean shit to defenseless, tiny humans in order to teach Temu Tom Herman a life lesson.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Texas isn't paying Raleek Brown $1M. I don't care if his camp keeps saying it, but let's keep it clean on this thread for the purposes of the non-clowns knowing what's going on in this miasma of depravity, nonsense, and oneupsmanship.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
He sat the bench on a title team and is now retroactively, with the help of the ever scrupulous Ole Miss and Tom Mars, trying to claim he was sick and couldn't play. He also doesn't have any documentation. This is someone attempting to throw the one thing out that everyone wants to keep - some semblance of an eligibility guard rail. Pavia fucked everyone by getting the Juco rules waived. The NCAA screwed the pooch with the corona year. No one wants to see the 5 years to play 4 rule go away. If Chambliss wins this, and this is one that the NCAA isn't guaranteed to lose, then we will see 30 year olds playing. At that point, just cut the scholarships and school ties from the teams and start over. You came close to getting something right here. Townsend and Winston looked good and neither looked fat or overweight. Townsend, of course, wasn't on campus until June. I thought we whiffed on not getting this guy last year. He's good when the QB is at least functional. Sucks he's going to Florida.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
The guy has literally played 4 full seasons of NCAA football.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Comparing Brown to Blue is as off as the color comparison would be. Brown is a smaller back, but he can be effective between the tackles, if forced to be, just the same as Haynes. That isn't where you want either of them, however. Marshall carried that load and then Kudzal tried to when Marshall got hurt. They didn't want Haynes doing much of it. For the most part, they just wanted Haynes streaking down the field, usually going off tackle or completely wide. As for Blue, that dude had no interest in running between the tackles at all and usually fumbled when he did. Brown isn't like that. The market for top of the line RBs in this portal is short of $1M. I do not buy for one second that someone will pay an injured Justice Haynes 2x or 3x of that. You guys should use some critical thinking skills and look beyond what a player's agent is floating out there. Maybe Baugh and Isaac Brown got $1M to stick with where they were, but I doubt it was much more than that.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Texas already landed a better version of Justice Haynes. His name is Raleek Brown. I know it’s been like 24 hours and all, but for fuck’s sake, guys. Haynes can’t stay healthy and doesn’t spend much time between the tackles. We don’t need lightning and gimpy lightning. We need lightning and thunder. Does anyone know where the bigger back for UF ended up? It’s clear he’s not coming to Texas for whatever reason, but he’s more of what Texas should be chasing.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I thought that was BO&W? He fixes brakes on 18 wheelers or some shit.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
They represent an elite level of luxury travel. What’s that got to do with anything? ”one” is awfully presumptive here. Fishing at Pedernales Falls with my roommates. The assault was brutal, but I don’t remember Nolan Ryan being in the vicinity.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I got slapped by a Japanese snowmonkey once. My act of kindness regarding such matters? Remove temptation. I wish everyone else was a kind as me.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I once bet an arab cab driver $20 that he couldn't get me and 4 buddies from 6th Street to the IHOP by Zilker Park in 5 minutes. He put the pedal to the metal and said "MOTHERFUCKING" repeatedly for 4 minutes while almost killing us and getting us to IHOP one minute early. Nope. Never a thing. Just his agent bloviating to a willfully idiotic CFB media. I fully expect Texas to lose this guy to Oregon. There are like 5 biases that are exhibited between Flood and Harris that will get in the way of the right answer. You don't need to find the quote. I wrote it yesterday in this thread, in the same post in which I said the OSU Edge was asking for like 5x what Texas or anyone else would think he's worth.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Brandon Harris has: 1) Congressional Medal of Honor 2) Fluent in French, Swahili and Mandarin 3) Call of Duty 5 Star General rating 4) United Nations Special Intern for Guam all listed on his resume on the first half of his first page. This guy is a fucking wizard.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I’m not kidding or being sarcastic when I say that some of the allegedly best lawyers in the world have looked at the Texas stuff. If the UT agreements don’t have serious teeth, no contracts do. Whatever the case, the Big 10 contracts will quickly be mimicked if there is any concern for a program about their contracts otherwise, all over the country. Finally something in favor of sanity has shown back up in CFB.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Huge insight, bro. No, really, bro, that’s a big insight. Crushing it. His agent is former longhorn star Mike Davis. Thanks for your help in spurring this guy to the portal because Tech was allegedly going to give him 4x the agreed upon Texas deal. Whoops. I love most of our ex players, but these fucking shitbags who are constantly shitting on Texas due to some petty perceived long ago slight nauseate me.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Wow. You should follow up and tell everyone you got them and just wanted to see who was gullible.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Texas people have heard it. They’re all apparently considering the source. I absolutely think Liucci is doing this for the reasons already articulated on this thread. That piece of shit isn’t really expecting Coleman to pick Texas.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
You mean a guy like Parker Livingstone? How’d that work out?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Harris is running around acting giddy and talking shit to people about closing Coleman. That's where Brauninger and Liucci are drawing the buzz. Ketchum probably heard about it and passed it along, given that he and Liucci trade notes.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Apparently the Wyoming guy turned out to measure 5'11", 265 pounds. They discovered he was suiting up and playing while wearing a fat suit to make him look more formidable.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I don't hope anyone gets injured and I certainly don't root for career-ending injuries very often. Last guy like that for me was Dallas Turner. I haven't heard much about him lately, so maybe he did get really hurt and that would be awesome. I do, however, cheer for injuries of our enemies when they happen. If Livingstone gets hurt next year, I will smirk and chalk that up to karma.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I don't think graduate transfer get any special treatment any more. They're subject to the same portal window and everything that goes with it.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I'm amused reading this thread right now. I told you guys less than a month ago that Texas was going to see somewhere between 20-25 guys enter the portal. I said they'd try to reload and add something near that range through it as well. A lot of pushback was made on the 25 exits as way too high. Now it might be too low by 5-8. I should go visit the roster thread on the football forum for similar humor. @Wulaw Horn was at least one, I believe, who thought the numbers were off. Maybe I am misremembering but it was at least a few of the regulars. You guys need to embrace all of this. We are witnessing the ground shifting underneath the entire industry's feet in real time. It's extremely rare to be able to live within this kind of chaos as groups rationalize and process and react. I enjoyed being in the middle of the dawn of NIL and predicting its future while most poo-poo'd or sat idly by and we benefitted from embracing it at the time. I feel like this is a new reset, and it's awesome watching all of the blue bloods shit themselves and industry pundits and coaches trying to process it all. One thing that seems certain now, and I didn't even consider this 2 weeks ago, is that the rules for recruiting have changed fundamentally. The guys that will get money will be the guys viewed as truly "can't miss" and even that is going to be tempered compared to the past 4 cycles. Then there will be work done regarding plenty of guys that can't demand any money, but could be developed into talent. I did discuss this about the last 6+ guys added to the 2026 class. They didn't cost anything. I guess a new takeaway with those guys is that, when some of them do start to really develop and fight for PT, staffs are going to have to be really careful about playing them. Beyond that, there's not a lot of room in between. Ffrench got paid $500k+ to come in and disappoint from day one. That is money lit on fire. He's one of many. If you sign guys for that, you'd better fucking play them. I think we're going to see a lot of Bishop, Atkinson and Cooper this fall, for better and worse. When the portal guarantees a reopening of any player's recruitment, the management focus and vast majority of dollars will be concentrated there every cycle. Some bad ass recruit wants $1M? Let him go to Tech or Oregon and either develop or don't. If he does, compete for him when he's ready to play. Rinse and repeat. This also blows up any semblance of the bag game. Agents are taking care of that as they try to bleed every team for every last cent.