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  1. 26 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Damn, their OL must be looking like garbage if they're talking about a complete reshuffle two weeks out. At least I hope so.

    Everything the mods have been posting about the OL, while the actual practices have reflected uncertainty to the tune of guys getting moved positions and with 1’s, 2’s and 3’s, has looked like gaslighting.  “Serevield sucked last year and in the spring, but now he’s an electric Left Tackle!” Right. They’re having problems there. They were fucked last year until asking Jackson to bite the bullet and play out of position at LT after other injuries. 

    19 minutes ago, Fud said:

    If OSU's OL isn't as good as they're hoping they'd be, at least in week one, it makes Klare not being much of a blocker a bigger deal, especially when you consider Sayin not being much of a running threat. If they want to run consistently they might have to play a second TE who's more of a blocker

    This is why they’ve also been hyping up other TEs with the resident posters saying “really, that guy is coming on? alright!”

    17 minutes ago, Yesh said:

    I know they have two new coordinators, but wasn't the Ohio St coaching staff on track to seriously underperform with by far the most talented team last year, until after the Michigan loss they made major changes on both sides of the ball?  Just curious if that was an aberration or if we could see it again this year.

    Their defense was great all year. Losing Knowles is the biggest deal for them. 

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  2. 26 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

    I’m interested to see how Mosley wins the starting job without being here this spring and now missing a portion of call camp. He may be better but at some point he is going to have to practice or I expect ctj’s favorite player might start at Ohio St. 

    At this point, I expect Jaggy as the starter. What has Mosley proven at Texas so far? Not enough. 

  3. 31 minutes ago, TommyGufano said:

    A player not returning to form until the year after the year they return from injury isn't that wild of a notion whether it's from overcoming physical or psychological barriers. Sometimes players look like they haven't missed a beat their first year back. We'll find out how it goes with Baxter. 

    This is correct. The back and forth otherwise looks specifically personal between posters or disputed out of athletic ignorance and media/AD propaganda naïveté. Baxter may or may not be his old self again. None of us have seen him yet and the nature of his injury should make us all from Missouri. 

    23 minutes ago, troph said:

    Maybe we should win, you know a trophy first.

    Hey, none of us wrote that shit. 

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  4. 23 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Texas pretty much has, you fucking idiot. Are you one of the stupid Aggie level idiots who needs the difference in our recruiting now versus 2010-2020 explained to you?

     

    Signed,

    Someone his actually spoken with people dealing with the UT’s compliance department in the NIL era. 

    I think part of the problem when the “everybody paid players” trope comes up is the general fan’s ignorance of the difference between $100 handshakes, which boosters have been doing at programs across the country since at least WWII, and the bag game and buying a few difference makers every cycle from street agents for $50k+. 

    Yeah, I’m sure guys at Texas found ways to get drinking money over the years. And yeah, I know for fucking certain Texas and another 125-ish FBS schools didn’t participate in the bag game. 

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  5. In regard to ATM’s 2025 schedule, they play 5 true road games. This is an issue that has received very little discussion. ATM has been atrocious on the road for a very, very long time. Here is a link to a Texags thread with the usual ignorance, abject stupidity and trope-huffing that discusses their OOC road futility and attempts to rationalize it. One guy, “Mac94” comes along and rationally lays out actual facts while still aggiefying part of his subjective review. I’ve spoilered his data review posts below. 

    Highlights:

    -ATM has played exactly 4 true P4 road games over the last 20 seasons. Read that again if you’d like. 0-4 in those games. (I’m not counting a non-P4 SMU in 2014, nor should you)

    -Since 1995, they are 0-8 against then P4 teams on the road. If you include Utah, Pitt, and SMU, although I’m not sure why you would, that record “improves” to 2-9. 

    -Including bowls and fake P4 teams, from 1995 forward, ATM is 13-26, 11-25 otherwise.  

    -Predictably, several goobers try to p-hack and pine for the golden years of Jackie Sherrill and just remove late Slocum and Fran-tastic seasons altogether. The Mac94 guy comes along and reveals that the Sherrill years provided a 7-13 road/bowl P4 record. 

    -Culturally, ATM is a program in a bubble. People can claim that the right coach will come along and fix it. Maybe. I’m not buying it. They’re a historically bad road team for a program perennially opening nearly every season ranked in the top 25. 

    -My view is that ATM goes 1-4 on the road this season. 0-5 wouldn’t and shouldn’t surprise anyone. 

    https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3553009

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    Mac94
     
     
     
    10:56a, 8/14/25 
     
    Lets see (OOC Power 4 games away from Kyle):
    1995 L @ Colorado 21-29
    1995 W vs Michigan (Alamo Bowl) 22-20
    1997 L vs UCLA (Cotton Bowl) 23-29
    1998 L vs FSU (New Jersey) 14-23
    1998 L vs Ohio St. (Sugar Bowl) 14-24
    1999 L Penn St (Alamo Bowl) 0-24
    2000 L @ Notre Dame 10-24
    2000 L vs Mississippi St. (Independence Bowl) 41-43
    2001 W vs TCU (Gallery Furniture Bowl) 28-9
    2002 W @ Pitt 14-12
    2003 L @ Virginia Tech 19-35
    2004 L @ Utah 21-41
    2004 L vs Tennessee (Cotton Bowl) 7-38
    2005 L @ Clemson 24-25
    2006 L vs Cal (Holiday Bowl) 10-45
    2007 L @ Miami 17-34
    2007 L vs Penn St (Alamo Bowl) 17-24
    2009 L vs Arkansas (Arlington) 19-47
    2010 L vs Arkansas (Arlington) 17-24
    2010 L vs LSU (Cotton Bowl) 24-41
    2011 L vs Arkansas (Arlington) 38-42
    2011 W vs Northwestern (Texas Bowl) 33-22
    2012 W vs Oklahoma (Cotton Bowl) 41-13
    2013 W vs Duke (Chick-fil-A Bowl) 52-48
    2014 W @ SMU 58-6
    2014 W vs W Virginia (Liberty Bowl) 45.37
    2015 W vs Arizona St. (Houston) 38-17
    2015 L vs Louisville (Music City Bowl) 21-27
    2016 L vs Kansas St. (Texas Bowl) 28-33
    2017 L @ UCLA 44-45
    2017 L vs Wake Forest (Belk Bowl) 52-55
    2018 W vs N.C. St. (Gator Bowl) 52-13
    2019 L @ Clemson 10-24
    2019 W vs Oklahoma St. (Texas Bowl) 24-21
    2020 W vs N. Carolina (Orange Bowl) 41-27
    2021 W vs Colorado (Denver) 10-7
    2023 L @ Miami 33-48
    2023 L vs Oklahoma St. (Texas Bowl) 23-31
    2024 L vs USC (Vegas Bowl) 31-35

    So looking at current power 4 teams that we played OOC either in bowls, neutral site, or true road games we are 13-26 since 1994. Very few of those were true road games but in those we are 2-9 against current P4 schools ... but SMU, Utah, nor Pitt were P4/5 at the time we played them so excluding those we'd be 0-8
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    Looking at things since Jackie was hired ... we have:

    1985 L @ Alabama 10-23
    1985 W vs Auburn (Cotton) 36-16
    1986 L @ LSU 17-35
    1986 L vs Ohio St. (Cotton) 12-28
    1987 W vs Notre Dame (Cotton) 35-10
    1988 L Vs Nebraska (New Jersey) 14-23
    1988 L @ LSU 0-27
    1988 L @ Oklahoma St. 15-52
    1989 L @ Washington 6-19
    1989 L vs Pitt (Sun Bowl) 28-31
    1990 L @ LSU 8-17
    1990 W vs BYU (Holiday) 65-14
    1991 L vs Florida St (Cotton) 2-10
    1992 W vs Stanford (Anaheim) 10-7
    1992 W @ LSU 31-22
    1992 W @ Missouri 26-13
    1992 L vs Notre Dame (Cotton) 3-28
    1993 L @ Oklahoma 14-44
    1993 L vs Notre Dame 21-24
    1994 W @ LSU 18-13

    Using the "glory era" of the SWC we were 7-13 against current P4 schools and 3-7 in true road games.

     

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  6. 10 hours ago, Mittens said:

    Had Outback a month or so ago (80yr old mom's favorite spot) and it couldn't have been worse.  On a slow Saturday lunch, w/ maybe 20% of tables sat, it took damn near an hour to get our orders and my ribeye was ass.  If I have to suffer that place again, I'll go w/ that smashburger.

    Outback has always been proprietor-driven. If the proprietor is present and worth a shit, the Outback tends to be consistent and worth it. If not, the place sucks. I worked at the one near the Arboretum in the 90’s and that place was clean and terrific. Back then, they were pushing big on expansion and began watering down the talent and qualifications of who they let buy-in for new locations. It became hit or miss depending upon location. 

    If I’m out in Katy for some baseball tournament or other terrible reason, they have a good one. The one in Sugarland is solid. Others in Houston suck and the one near the Arboretum sucks last time I went also. 

    That said, my kids love visiting them every time. It’s the least expensive option for a potentially good steak available, in my mind. 

    5 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

    Wasn't the Mexican Martini just basically a margarita in a shaker with orange juice? No wonder they had to limit us at two. Man, I generally like our Generation but that was a bad era for us. 

    Good Mexican martinis involve lime juice and little to no actual mix. It’s far less sweet than a margarita. Add olive brine and it’s an entirely different taste and experience. Orange juice may or may not make it into either ritas or Mexican martinis, depending upon where you’re buying. 

  7. 16 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

    I only watched the first 30 seconds or so. Because the video was annoying, but in a way that any video made by a high school kid is annoying. Did he do something douchey later in the video? Because I didn't see anything in the part I watched. He was just talking enthusiastically about the gear he got. Basically an unboxing video, which is super common and has been a thing for more than a decade. 

    I don't think this kid is worth whatever OU paid for him and I doubt he amounts to more than a tweener / specialist in college, but we don't need to be all sour grapes about it. I say this while acknowledging your plea for immunity. 

    I think the joke is that the dude didn't like wearing condoms (who does) and just wanted to say something sufficiently shocking to get her to leave him alone. But it was almost certainly apocryphal. 

    The end purposely went under the pulling blockers. Which is fine, depending on who was assigned contain - it can be the end (in which case he fucked up) or the LB (in which case he did his job). Typically ends are coached to lean into the pulling blockers to cram the play inside while keeping contain, but I've noticed more and more than ends (or "edges" now) are going underneath the pulling guard. If I remember, Ethan Burke did that as a freshman. Colin Simmons did it a lot last year too. I think kids are maybe just being coached differently these days. 

    I am hoping that Kreul is the next Brian Bosworth in all aspects of - douchiness, running his mouth, being a roid freak with some success that leads to OU fans rallying around every stupid thing he does, just being a very loud heel in general. I was hoping he’d be our version, but I’ll settle for the second coming on their end. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    is a press conference common in these kinds of things? I don’t think I’ve seen one before?

    Has this scandal been common? Why would anyone expect the most covered college sports scandal of the past half decade to not be handled on this level?

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