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17 minutes ago, Chili dog said:
Look at Jim bragging about what he found digging in the bargain bin at Ross.
This guy is a once in a generation buffoon. He has no idea what he’s doing. Enjoy this.
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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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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:Your TE section fails to even mention Endries. Seems like a big gap in your analysis
As for your DT section, you emphasize age a lot, but you fail to mention Baker as DT coach. Returns are early but Collins and Broughton borth did jack shit until Baker got here and developed them. There’s a non zero chance Baker is really good, and can get more out of our older transfers than you might expect, plus young player development better than expected. Broughton sucked until his literal last year, and collins was inconsistent, so it’s not like they weren’t old and strong enough their junior years. It was teaching.
Baxter was a true Freshman, and he struggled early in the season. We all saw it. But he noticeably improved as the year went on, which is all you really want to see from a true freshman. You might be selling him short here. By the end of the season he was looking every bit the five star.
re: Baker
A few good friends who have been to practices last year and since have become raving fans of the guy. Players and recruits love him. Good pick by Sarkisian that had a lot of us handwringing at the time because the dude was a relative unknown.
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12 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:
You take the time to spell this the French way but can't be bothered to click Paste as Plain Text. You are a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, facially covered by a backwards balaclava.
Autocorrect on iphone. Some of us have it working in our favor, some of us are @SydneyCarton .
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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.
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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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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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Another post on that thread pulls the inevitable but still hilarious maneuver of claiming hypothetical wins:
JJxvi 6:01p, 8/14/25If Texas had agreed to maintain the series, we would have won in Austin multiple times...-
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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
SpoilerMac9410:56a, 8/14/25Lets 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 0-8Spoiler
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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Bobby’s thoughts this morning on scrimmage outcomes, etc.
SpoilerSteve Sarkisian will meet with the media immediately following this morning’s scrimmage.
It’ll be interesting to see exactly what Sark reveals.
After all, there is an open competition for the back-up QB role. There’s a group of players contending for a various combination of roles in the secondary (I heard yet again about Graceson Littleton’s ascent last night). And then there’s the health of the team, particularly the sidelining of Stanford transfer Emmett Mosley V most of the last week.
In other words, there are a lot of open questions, questions that scrimmages are specifically designed to answer.
We’ll see if the head coach decides to give us any of those answers or if he’s found them himself later today.
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The NCAA’s decision to prioritize financially penalizing Michigan rather than enforce substantial, lasting scholarship reductions (10-percent is a farce) fails to create any real deterrent to others in the future. It does so yet again.
What does someone have to do to get truly penalized?
Connor Stalions dressed as an opposing staffer and was on the sidelines of a future opponent’s game in an effort to steal intel.
Find me something more egregious than that - outside of gambling and illegal recruiting - that directly can effect the outcome of game in an institutional manner.
It’s just ridiculous what Michigan did and how they benefitted. That image of Stalions in a fake mustache and fake coaching credential will forever tarnish the image of Michigan.
The punishment IMO does not match the crime. Far from it.
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Gerry and I talked about the Texas run game in this morning’s Saturday Conversation.
Texas finished 69th in the country in rushing yards per game a year ago.
If Texas wants to win a national title, that figure alone must improve.
Perhaps it’s the rehabilitation of Cedric Baxter, perhaps it’s the threat of a QB run game, or maybe it’s the makeup of the interior OL (or perhaps a mix of all of those factors) that can do the trick.
But if Texas wants to win big this season, running the football effectively has to be a major piece of the puzzle.
Furthermore, if Texas can effectively run the ball, the Texas defense will get just that much better as a result.
Hook’Em!
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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.
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23 minutes ago, Js1 said:Ah. Explains a lot. I don’t care enough about Pate’s (or anyone on TV doing football bullshit) personal life
I’ve been assuming that he’s paid to do it. We know that the ATM AD pays Texags over $1M per year because they’ve had to disclose it. I’m guessing they’re paying others. There is simply no way multiple outlets are this stupid in the same exact way. It’s not like Pate comes about his conclusions differently than Texags or other ATM rags, ever. It’s the same shit every cycle and yet he’s not an aggie. He’s getting paid.
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23 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:Do not ever break character. If Livingstone excels, going to be hilarious watching the rubes attack.
My honest worry is that these guys have so completely gone in the tank on the guy that expectations simply cannot be met. If he catches 35 for 600 and 4 tds on the season, there are various idiots who will be disappointed. That would be a solid first season for anyone.
That said, our sample size is one target on a bad read from Arch where Jaggy dropped the ball and then Sarkisian could be seen gently berating Manning on the sidelines and saying “don’t throw it to that guy”. I think my expectations are calibrated correctly. It’s all of you who are going to be crying in your beers as Daylan McCutcheon passes him on the DC after the Florida game.
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12 minutes ago, texifornia said:
Been mentioned as a guy we're recruiting in the background. This is... not the best data point
I’m with you. Miss us on this one.
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4 minutes ago, Crockett said:
Dublin is great. Wonder how many fans will travel vs locals attending...
It’s always attended well and sold out. The Irish love it as well. I’d love to see Texas play Notre Dame there.
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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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Somehow, you twits have made the subject matter of bagging on Baylor boring. A fucking trademark discussion among lawyers is where we’ve landed?
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1 minute ago, Foosters said:Gerry posited that Smith's ascension doesn't necessarily mean a one for one replacement with a current starter, but rather the staff would really like to give Hill more plays off during the course of the season to ensure he's healthy and fresh in January. Seemed like they think Smith can provide tons of snaps at either LB spot.
Smith looked great as a freshman and LeFau looked good last year too. I think people like to get caught up in the notion of zero sum competitions during camps, but my outlook is similar to yours. It’s okay to have a bunch of really good to great ball players at numerous positions who can rotate and keep each other fresh.
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Here’s Bobby finally coming clean on why McJaggerson is getting so much camp hype:
SpoilerIt’s encouraging that wide receiver Parker Livingstone appears to be taking another step forward during training camp, but, at the same time, we’ve heard very little about Stanford transfer Emmett Mosley V outside of the first few days.
Why?
According to CJ Vogel, Mosley has not been fully participating in Texas’ practice for a while. We knew he was held out of the first scrimmage but this injury has gone far beyond that.
We believe it’s a re-aggravation of a lower leg injury he sustained this summer that also sidelined him for several summer workouts.
We’ll do some more digging. But Mosley has not been full go much at all this training camp. And that means a circle of four at receiver may really just be a circle of three headed to Ohio State.
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Listening to CJ Baxter speak to the media yesterday afternoon brought a smile to my face.
When describing his return to the football field, you could hear the actual joy in his voice.
He specifically talked about how he called his dad after the scrimmage on Saturday and told him that he was more excited about getting tackled again than he was scoring a touchdown.
It’s easy to see why Baxter is not only a favorite among the team but also among the coaches. That kind of attitude can be infectious.
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Wide receiver Ryan Wingo talked about some of the newcomers impressing him.
He mentioned all four freshman receivers. But it was his response about freshman defensive back Kade Phillips that caught my attention the most. Wingo singled out Phillips among all the DBs.
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Likewise, Colin Simmons spoke highly of the progress of Justus Terry and Lance Jackson, specifically this week following the first scrimmage.
Hook’Em!
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6 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:
I mean I get that I was just asking in general….was there a PC during the Penn St or Baylor stuff?
Baylor stuff? Which scandal?
And, yes, for PSU. There were multiple PCs.
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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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Here’s a Bucknuts reporter recounting DLC Larry Johnson’s takes on the DT depth from last night. In short, they’re running out of time and the sunshine pumping on a bunch of names who haven’t done much since signing is coming to an end. In the process, the coach is making it clear that they’re going to have to rely on an undersized true freshman as their first wave of depth. They are also lamenting Hero Kanu leaving the program after playing sparingly there for 3 years.
SpoilerEither Larry Johnson was being very coy while meeting with reporters on Thursday, or Ohio State does have a depth concern at defensive tackle.
It is very likely the latter and should not come as a surprise to anyone. Head coach Ryan Daywas clear in the spring that OSU would continue looking for a DT in the portal, but wouldn't just take someone for the sake of it. That player would have to be better than the projected backups and they were not able to land anyone of that caliber.
So, 15 days before the season-opener against Texas, here we are.
I don't think it's time to set off alarms, because there are several players in the mix to fill the spots on the two and three deep. Also, the starters are expected to be good with junior Kayden McDonald and sophomore Eddrick Houston.
In case you missed our story on Johnson, here is part of what he said when Bucknuts asked him about who is stepping up to provide quality depth at defensive tackle.
"There's a lot of guys like Jarquez (Carter)where I could start to throw names out," Johnson said. "My thing is that if I can get six guys to play as one, we have a good deal. And that's the whole approach."
We found it highly interesting that Johnson brought up the name of the 6-foot-1, 288-pound Carter, a true freshman. We had heard he would very likely be in the mix and would not redshirt, but considering he is the only projected backup that Johnson singled out, he could be in line to play even more than we anticipated. Carter was a 4-star prospect in the 2025 class, and was ranked as the No. 18 defensive lineman in the country and the No. 198 overall recruit in the country, per the 247Sports Composite.
Could true freshman Jarquez Carter provide much needed depth at DT?(Photo: Adam Cairns, USA TODAY Sports)
But what about some of the defensive tackles who have been here for a while? We were expecting Johnson to say more about guys like Will Smith Jr., Jason Moore and Tywone Malone. When asked on Thursday if any of them are stepping up – and keep in mind he singled Smith Jr. out in the spring as someone who was playing well – he steered clear of name dropping.
"I've seen a lot of guys step up," Johnson said. "To me, the measurement isn't where they are; it's where they're going.
"And I'm pleased where we are right now. Absolutely, I think we've moved forward. We're a different group than we were in the spring than we are right now. But we've still got some work to do. And that's my job, to get them ready to play in the Texas game."
Again, perhaps Johnson was just being coy. If you take him at his word, he's happy with where the group is at, but knows they have to keep improving. There is a strong possibility he just didn't want to declare to the media that the Buckeyes' defensive tackles are going to be a force this season before any of them had started a collegiate game.
However, the vibe I received from the always-cool Johnson is that he's at least mildly concerned about the situation. Ohio State needs to hope that both McDonald and Houston stay healthy – the latter already had a scare on the first day of camp when he hyperextended his knee – and at least two of the backups provide quality depth. I am still a bit confused as to why Hero Kanu transferred, especially knowing so many spots would be available. But perhaps the current Longhorn just believed he would not be in the mix after playing sparingly as a third-year sophomore last year.
In closing, it sure sounds like Carter is more than just "in the mix," and if that's the case, just one of the veterans would need to rise to the occasion. It's definitely now-or-never for Malone, who is a fifth-year senior. It feels like now-or-never for Moore and Smith, although they are just third-year sophomores. Eric Mensah is a redshirt freshman and someone else who I hoped would have a strong camp and cement his spot on the two or three deep.
Therefore, the topic we spoke at length about throughout the offseason – OSU's lack of depth at DT – remains a concern with the season knocking on the door.
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If it isn’t harsh, this day won’t end without couch-burning riots near the Ohio State campus.
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Can you two assholes get together and fuck or go to DMs for the rest of us here’s sake? Thanks.