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closetojumping

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  1. I think Alabama is going to have some surprising and serious LOS issues in 2024. I'll wait until the portal is closed to really think about it, but as of right now, and from what I saw in their spring game, there's a good shot that they won't look like the same fronts from Bama since 2008.
  2. The guy is an EDGE all the way. How is this a question?
  3. Burton has been doing this longer than anyone else, is so cautious that I find it irritating sometimes, and is completely aware of the NIL landscape, UT's place in it, and the agent grift of using UT as some sort of pawn. Players want to come to Texas and play for an "it" brand and an "it" staff. There is only one CFP team from 2023 that actually returns its coach. You don't need to squint here and try to find something to worry about on the football or recruiting end. There are baseball and basketball threads for that and you don't even have to squint to see issues for both of those programs in order to satisfy the handwringing itch.
  4. Nothing says SEC OL play like a guy measuring 6'5", 270. The Adam Ulatoski/Tristan Nicholson School of Physical Development churns out another future star.
  5. The biggest issue with the 2023-2024 season is that Terry let Mitchell's faction bully him into giving Mitchell a featured role at a position he had no business playing. They should have let him walk last year and signed other transfers that were interested in coming to Texas and were much better, you know, basketball players. That shit sent everything else spiraling. The team never looked like a cohesive unit.
  6. Burton, this morning, posted the most bullish article he's ever written in regard to Texas recruiting. It's based on what they know is happening behind the scenes with this class and the lack of concern over the direction of NIL and the program. He's saying it's a top 3 class when all is said and done. For those that are less familiar with all of this, Bobby is more often than not very cautious and never bombastic. It's kind of crazy to see this level of certitude from him. It goes back to what I've been saying on here, however. There is a ton of momentum in recruiting, the likes of which we haven't seen since the VY era. If Johnson makes the trip this weekend after his track meet, there is a high likelihood that he is doing so in order to commit. Another cool thing that isn't getting talked about is that Lance Jackson is under-ranked and should be a 5 star. The services might ultimately get wise enough to him to rank him there, but I doubt it. Doesn't matter. He's a difference maker at the next level according to folks who have seen him lately in workouts and studied his film. He's been hurt and is allegedly having a mediocre year in baseball (by draft prospect standards), so that also helps dim down the prospects of him getting drafted early in the 2025 MLB draft for now. Don't be surprised if this weekend is used to inform Lacey that they're aiming for two QBs in the class, and then they offer Russell. Lacey goes home and decommits, then Russell commits. Not saying that for sure, but it would get everyone in a decent space without angry sentiments.
  7. It has been quite the while since utfan87/urinal cake was able to rile this board up with one of his dismissive, brief, negative drive-bys. He’s like the OG 6thStreet. I’m not saying Garrison isn’t coming to Texas, but you guys are starting to place a premium on him that only he and his handlers believe should be there.
  8. Seems like this is the big week. I’m wondering how much action we’ll hear about today versus like Wednesday/Thursday because of paperwork and coaches trying to talk players out of leaving.
  9. The entire team better prepare their anus.
  10. I think he’s a middling guy and wouldn’t want him on UT’s roster, but I love him in theirs.
  11. It’s weird that there hasn’t been an update in thread in months, but that’s not why I am posting. Someone mentioned that Texas has the most individual Masters winners at 3. Not sure if there’s a convenient way to confirm that so figured I’d ask here since some posters always seem to know their shit about whatever sport is being discussed.
  12. I’m abstaining from seriously considering records until the portal is closed. Right now I’d say that’s about right but who the hell knows what is about to happen? The aggie roster, because of circumstances regarding staff transition and so on, has as much risk on it as any out there. There continue to be rumblings of upheaval in some name programs this next week. I don’t know how much of that is media bullshit from the likes of Pate versus true.
  13. “Boy, I know I’ve got what feels like a scorching case of measles, but I really feel like I need to go workout. “
  14. In scouting parlance, there's a notion that where a player was ranked and/or drafted matters years later when looking at the player's performance and expectations in the future. So if a 1st rounder, 4 years later, is busting down in A ball, another team may still trade for him at a discount because "somebody saw something". So what he's saying is that even though Reuben Owens plays like a pussy and can't pass block for shit, maybe he'll eventually turn some sort of corner because, hey, 5 star! In other arenas, this would be called "valuing loss".
  15. Dude, you have a sweet bromance with Nahlin? Y'all are a perfect fit for another. You should just hang out over there and help him huff his farts while the Wells idiot gets visibly high by 10am on video and Ian Boyd puts everyone to sleep with a lunchtime breakdown of why the 4-4 needs to see a resurgence.
  16. Peter Jinkens? Looks like it could be Anthony Wheeler.
  17. Credit where it is due here, you’ve made a post in English and there’s an understandable point in said post. That considered, where are you gathering this? Have you been DMing with Ketchum again?
  18. Why are you @ting me here, clown? Also, that shit already happened like 3 days ago. I wouldn't trust anything you hear about that idiot until the portal is closed, good or bad.
  19. CB continues to be a mystery early in this cycle. There's Brew and then a bunch of question marks around who they really want.
  20. Okay, yeah, I've confirmed that that isn't close to a valid number.
  21. Texas isn't offering 2x $300 if I had to bet. I'll see if I can get some fact based guidance but no promises.
  22. Thanks for clarifying. That was how I read what you were saying.
  23. Listen, Captain Pedantry, it is right there in the text that I pasted from the email. That would definitely be a tsk tsk with a loss of 10 points out of 100 on your reading comprehension homework.
  24. One of the things I've started entertaining myself with is tallying the number of times I see the term, and its adjacencies, "this/the/that young man" in given threads. It's fucking amazing how often it is popping up in either adulatory or scolding tones regarding the players. I feel like that immediately marks the poster as over 75 years of age or as a guy wearing a bow tie daily and buried in the bowels of some sad Fortune 1000's accounting or HR department and still living with his mother.
  25. Auburn West is pretty good. If Texas is playing in the CFP, or playing for the NT, or, God forbid, winning the NT, I agree that they will be absolutely shitting themselves in panic. These guys involved in and around the top over there are trending towards Euro football hoodlum type of fanaticism. Particularly if they have the season I think they're going to have, notwithstanding surprising and crazy shit in this portal window that somehow benefits them.
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