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  1. 51 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    I like that you continue to use his internet handle as his name in real life.  If I ever meet @closetojumping I’m going to repeat his handle frequently and over enunciate each time while winking at him.  

    I’ve known henryjames in person for like 23 years and still basically just call him henry. 

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  2. 26 minutes ago, WBT said:

    Why wouldn't that be offest by guys that returned to college last year for nil and are available this year?

    That article is just whiny bullshit from the NFL. No one is offering 4th-6th round money in NIL unless it is to All Americans. There might 2-3 instances of this kind of thing happening and I doubt it is that many. 

    Now, 7th round and UFA money to get a team leader back? We do that. 

  3. 8 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    Thank you for putting this together.

    I'm interested in transfers. I wonder how many of these transfers transferred from a school where they were expected to start or transferred because they were forced out/told to find greener pastures. I guess what I'm getting at is how many of the transfers were considered "busts" by their previous school but found their form at their transfer school.

    There are a shitton of transfers every year. How many of those forced transfers make it to the NFL?

    Good thoughts and question. That's part of why I was parsing it out. Transfers are skyrocketing and will impact future drafts, for sure.

    Regarding this group, here is what I know:

    -Daniels, Penix and Williams are QBs that had all kinds of options. Two followed a coach they'd played for beforehand.

    -Nix was viewed as a bust at Auburn. He played a lot and could never put it together.

    -Verse exploded in development at his first stop and could have gone anywhere once he entered the portal. FSU was on him before that after seeing him on film against a common opponent (I think Syracuse but not sure).

    -Latu was medically retired at UW. Do we consider Degabriel Floyd a bust for the same reason? I think opinion varies on that.

    -Pearsall upgraded.

    -Guyton and Chop Robinson - I am not sure about the backstories for either.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Tommy Shelby said:

    Old have lived Ragnow on this line? 

    If you read it backwards, you can clearly see that he's trying to deliver state secrets to the Soviets via this forum.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Professor Chesney said:

    This is a very interesting topic, appreciate the spreadsheet work.

    Noticing how none of the 1st round WRs were 5 stars, I wonder how “valuable” a 5 star at one position will likely be versus another position.  For example, is a 5-star WR more likely to be a first round pick than a 5-star DL?  I am too busy (lazy) at the moment to do a deep dive, but a cursory look back at the 5 star WR rankings is kind of shocking.  
     

    In 2021, for example, the industry ranked WRs in the top-40 were: Emeka Egbuka (OSU), JaCorey Brooks (Bama), Mario Williams (lol), and Agiye Hall (lolol).

    In 2020: Julian Fleming (OSU), Demond Demas (lol), J Smith-Njigba (OSU), Kayshon Boutte (LSU), Rakim Jarrett (Maryland) and Jordan Johnson (ND).

    Draft status isn’t the be-all-end-all of player productivity, but only JSN was a first round pick and arguably a ++ player.

    I kind of fatigued towards the end of my write-up and spreadsheet work or I would have dug deeper into the WR element. It's something I've lamented on this board, particularly in terms of how WR rankings can drive up the entire rankings of a team's class. Ohio State does it every recruiting cycle under Day. 

    WR is a flash position and I suspect recruiting rankers are drawn to them like moths to a flame, similar to QB. Who tests well at the camps and also looks amazing on tape will get ranked well, but the diva factor is a big issue there and it gets little review when the rankings are formed.

    Harrison Jr was ranked behind guys with more elite physical traits while being the best route runner in his class and also being a known workhorse when it comes to practice and work ethic. I find it almost comical to imagine the level of utter stupidity it would take a ranker to have conversations with both Hall and Harrison, and the people around them and their coaches, and then walk away and say "yeah, Hall has the most upside". It takes effort to pull off that blunder. Or, it takes a lack of effort and they never spoke to or considered any of the two players' backgrounds and mental makeup when putting the rankings together. 

    If you look at other classes, 5 star WRs don't fare much better. For every JSN or Garrett Wilson, you get numerous Bru McCoy/Chris Marshall/Jadon Hazelwood/Theo Wease types. 

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  6. The bad boss one with Pierce Brosnan and Will Farrell. 

    The Sinatra Group

    The one where Farley is a tourist on the Japanese game show. Holy shit. 

    If it can still be found, the one(s?) where Will Farrell plays Robert Goulet and starts crooning rap songs. 

    Oh man. So many. 

  7. 8 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    Uh, why? The NCAA has quite literally never recognized any title prior to the playoff era. The NCAA never awarded nor recognized the title, the BCS did, which the NCAA had absolutely fuck-all to do with. Prior to the playoff era, post season games were exhibition in nature. The NCAA only recognizes conference championships, not BCS national championships. This is the whole "M" in the "MNC" thing.

    You know what I meant. Unvacate their losses for that period or whatever. I was passing on what guys like Dan Patrick are saying on various shows. Most of us know what the NCAA does and doesn’t recognize. The last time I saw some idiot explain MNC on a board was like 20 years ago, good lord. 

  8. 5 hours ago, Napoleon said:

    Sean Payton only coached Bridgewater & Wilson, if I recall, and neither was Payton’s first choice. 

    Kind of a stupid take for a coach entering his 2nd season with the Broncos. 

    Dumber take - that tweet or the Broncos taking Bo Nix? Right. 

  9. 33 minutes ago, HookEm said:

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    I have no affinity for UConn.

    Any objective observer looks at CBB right now and thinks, "man, Hurley and UConn look like they're building a dynasty."

    HookEm on Surly looks at CBB right now and openly states, "Texas would have beaten UConn in the Final Four last year. Rodney Terry has Texas on the brink of greatness."

     

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  10. 41 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    In a neutral site game, yes they probably would have beaten us by double digits too.  But if Texas was playing in Houston, the atmosphere would have been wild. We would have packed 50K+ fans into NRG for that game. 

    Plus, it isn't like they were 1990 UNLV. They were seeded worse than us. They lost 8 games, including two losses to Xavier (who we beat by 12), and also lost to Creighton, who we beat by 5. 

    FWIW, I also think we would have beaten Michigan if we had made it to Houston in football.  Flame away.

    Blah blah aggie this aggie that we would have won if this and that. There's no joy in flaming a sunshine-pumping dipshit. I didn't say it was wrong to have your fantasies. You just don't need to subject the rest of us to them. It's pathetic.

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  11. Jerry Johnson has now entered the portal for ATM. Fisher brought him in last summer as a transfer from Rice to play back-up fullback. He never played. His dad was an assistant S&C coach at ATM until The Elk showed up and laid waste to that organization. Johnson's younger brother is Chantz Johnson, an LB they brought in for that amazing 2023 class. To my knowledge, he never sees the field either. They're now at 85 players for the fall if they do not lose any other guys (including Chantz) and do not add any additional portal players. 

    The Elk is being praised on their board for cleaning out dead transfer portal weight from the Fisher regime. As this praise is heaped on, the entire poster base ignores or fails to grasp the similar mediocrity of The Elk's portal work as well.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said:

    25 minutes any time other than Game Day. Time frame will vary greatly depending on what time you’re leaving the airport that Saturday. The golf course will packed by 9 am for that one. Getting there by 8 will get your vehicle on the course, but it’ll be a bit of a wait to get through the gate. If you’re just paratrooping in for the game and land at 10 or so, you’ll be able to get to Ann Arbor in no time as most will get there early, but you’ll have to park 3 miles from the stadium and walk. Even if you take a cab/Uber, you’ll get dropped off a couple of miles away.

    While will they drop you off that far away? If I hired black car service for the day, would that work any differently?

  13. 11 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    Blake Corum in the first seems ridiculous to me.

    I realize that LTtxfan may be too dense to follow what's going on with that unfunny attempt at creating a funny mock draft, but come on, man.

  14. 5 hours ago, HookEm said:


    Hurley is a better coach and UConn is a better program, but last year in a virtual home game they were only up by four with five minutes to play… and we were playing without our two starting bigs, one of them a 1st team All Big 12 player in Disu.

    I am also convinced we would have beaten them in Houston if we had made the Final Four.

    Just keep that kind of stupid shit to yourself, please. That is embarrassing, idiotic, pollyanna sunshine-pumping that makes the whole board look like idiots in having it in our presence. UConn has won by double digits in every match-up they've played in the NCAA over the past two seasons. 12-0, all double digit wins, and they beat Miami by 13 fucking points in the game you're implying. It is aggie shit to claim to win games that Texas never played, especially against superior opponents. Christ.

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  15. 6 minutes ago, nnm said:

    I think y’all have Billy all wrong. He’s figured out the con game, and has been fleecing the rubes for decades, including employing his family and friends. He spews the propaganda they want, and empties their pockets as a result. He reinforces their hive mind and ensures they never reach full self-awareness. 
     

    Has anyone ever seen Randolf Duke and Billy Liucci in the same place?  I didn’t think so. 

    You give him too much credit. He really does believe all of his bullshit. He's dumber than a sack of bricks.

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  16. 2 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

    The current competition for this kid doesn't seem great in terms of "staffs putting guys in the NFL and regularly in the playoffs":

    • Cal
    • Florida
    • Nebraska
    • Texas
    • Washington
    • USC

    Maybe I'm underselling the value of UW and USC evaluations, but I'd rather see schools like Michigan and Georgia coming after this guy. To be clear, I know nothing about this. Your comment just piqued my curiosity so I looked up his 247 page.

    Michigan was on him hard when Harbaugh was running things. UW was on him hard when Daboer was there. Those programs had the best OLs in the last 3 years. Cal is down the street so that is ignorable. Rhule's evaluation skills are as good as anyone's. When his crew is on someone, you can rest assured that the player is fucking tough and loves football. 

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  17. 7 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:
    1 hour ago, closetojumping said:
    My son is usually picking up with the CBA Cubs 10U when we encounter their team. His normal select team is an 11U team for whom he plays up, so it's random when he's free and feels like playing "down" but he likes those kids. We also run into them in District play and I assume that will be the case this year on the 10U level. 

    What 11u team? We are usually at a ballpark almost every weekend. Others here have kids playing 9,10 and 11.

    The Bull Sharks, either Black or Blue unless they're playing on the same weekend and then he's with the Blue.

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  18. The least correlated rankings to actual collegiate performance and NFL draft picks are on the OL, with IOL being worse than OTs. I look at the schools fighting over this guy versus his ranking and then compare it to someone like TJ Shanahan, the polar opposite situation, and kind of roll my eyes. Last I heard, Texas really wants this guy. 

    I've never been a big "trust the coaches" guy when it comes to recruiting, but there's something similar that I've been following for years now when it comes specifically to the LOS. Who is Texas competing with for any of their DT, OT, C or OG targets? If the competition consists of programs and/or staffs putting guys in the NFL and regularly in the playoffs, okay, good, that's a strong sign that a low ranking can be ignored and a high ranking is confirmed. If that isn't the case, your program is heading towards late-stage Mack and could wind up careening towards Tom Herman/Derek Warehime/Herb Hand catastrophe.

  19. 32 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:

    Who does your kid play for? She is honestly really down to earth. Cal also. I've sat and had some really cool conversations with them. Since we've been on our new team, she has always been really kind and nice to my son. Congratulations to him on pitching or whatever he did that weekend.

    My son is usually picking up with the CBA Cubs 10U when we encounter their team. His normal select team is an 11U team for whom he plays up, so it's random when he's free and feels like playing "down" but he likes those kids. We also run into them in District play and I assume that will be the case this year on the 10U level. 

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