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  1. Gerry lamented at the time that Texas didn’t take Golden. He had him ranked really high as a recruit, but it fell on deaf ears with both the staff and his peers. The guy then toils in relative obscurity at UH before he comes to Texas and puts up big numbers. Yet he’s still questioned in scouting corners as maybe just “okay”. Human nature should tell us all that pedigree matters and creates biases, particularly at the high profile positions. That’s happened here in some form. “If he’s that good, why weren’t we hearing about it sooner?” It’s the same reason 5 star busts at QB, WR, and RB will keep on finding opportunities if they’re not hooked on drugs and such. My thesis is basically that if Golden started out at Texas or some other blue blood, the remaining skepticism with him wouldn’t exist.
  2. Taaffe played and sucked. He was criticized for it. When he got better, most people acknowledged that. When revisionists come back on here and act like Taaffe was great from the jump and we were all fools to lament when he’d get snaps in 2022, they just reveal how lazy they are logically and in terms of actually watching football and understanding what they’re seeing. You did that here, and it has nothing to do with Jaggy McJaggerston. Watching Taaffe know where to go and still be seconds late and not make the play didn’t make me think he was an AA. It made me think he shouldn’t have been on the field. But we lacked depth, and he got to play. Then he was better in 2023 and the criticisms started to fade. Then last year happened. No one was wrong about his play in prior periods. As to McJaggerston, most of my posts about him have been in jest. He’s like a great white hope to some dipshit element of our fanbase who want to see a whitey kickass at WR, mostly just because the guy is white. It’s fun to pull at that string. When the $9.95ers hype a random in the spring, it adds to the entertainment. In truth, the guy was a fine back-of-the-class signing and he’s found money if he becomes a star. I hope that is that case, and I hope various goobers attempt to make it a point that I was a meanie and a know-nothing for mocking him as a recruit and then a roster-filling player. I almost need that to happen, really.
  3. Beard is smarter than that, right? He’s going to wind up with a blue blood job if he keeps building at Ole Miss. ATM isn’t much less of a college backwater job than Ole Miss.
  4. Robertson silently committed in the fall. Glad he made it public. It looks like they’re starting to push for public commitments in a few spots so they can thin their board by removing redundancies. Robertson checks all of Flood’s IOL boxes, including being a mean fucker on the field.
  5. The bizarre part about their position on Golden is that the guy has damned near flawless film. He’s good to great at every part of being a WR and then the combine performance took away one of the only open questions. I would still take McMillon at WR1, but Golden has the highest floor of any WR in the draft. Whoever takes that dude likely has a productive WR for years to come.
  6. Here we go. Fuck tempering expectations! Let’s name more of the best white WRs to have played college ball in the last two decades! Wes Welker 2.0!?! Eric Decker starter kit, motherfuckers! 1) I don’t wear jerseys. I’m a grown man and I am not hispanic. 2) 500 yards is dogshit. 3) I’m happy to place a bet with anyone on this board that this dude will catch for 1,000 in a season, ever, while at Texas. Willing to consider any amount of money or other terms for the wager.
  7. This shit is reaching “Troy Omeire is laying waste to this offseason!” levels of hype. “Courtnee Garcia had the catch of the day, yet again!” Right.
  8. I don’t listen to podcasts on UT, usually. Well, then who the hell knows which place he’s from?
  9. They’ll pummel a shitty Kentucky team in this weekend’s series and well a visit from the “we’re back, baby!” morons. Should be funny.
  10. I thought he grew up in GA, went to Iowa due to family issues or work, and moved back a year later when something was resolved.
  11. I love the guy talking about karma, given ATM’s well-known history of being one of the leaders in cheating across all of college sport. Beyond that, Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao Zedong all died of old age after each being responsible for the killing of millions upon millions of people. Bad guys get away with it all of the time.
  12. This is high comedy. Just outstanding work. You worry too much.
  13. This sentiment simply isn't accurate as some sort of rule. The cumulative effect upon a team's record, when adding losses other than on weekends, ultimately has a psychological impact on those judging the sport. Lose one Tuesday night game, no one cares. Lose 3-4 plus 33% of your conference games, it impacts your seed.
  14. Good update here from Gerry: Football recruiting notes OnTexasFootball delivers a few football recruiting notes to go with your morning brew. Roseborough back on campus ... Clearwater (Fla.) High 4-star++ OT Samuel Roseborough was back on campus a few days ago, marking his second visit of the spring with another to come. Of course, his mom now lives and works in Austin, so the 6-foot-5, 275-pounder is around campus more than most prospects. OTF can report that Roseborough rated recent visits to Michigan and Texas A&M behind Texas. OTF believes the Horns hold a decent lead right now. OTF continues to believe the Longhorns lead for Roseborough, 4-star+ IOL Toa Katoa (Euless, Texas/Trinity) and 4-star+ IOL Nicolas Robertson (Klein, Texas/High). And the Longhorns are at least a 50-50 shot with 5-star OT John Turntine III (Fort Worth, Texas/North Crowley), 4-star++ OT Felix Ojo (Mansfield, Texas/Lake Ridge) and 4-star+ OT/IOL Sam Utu (Orange, Calif./Lutheran). Two defensive lineman to know ... IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.) via East Northport, N.Y. 4-star defensive lineman Preston Carey has real interest in Texas. OTF expects the 6-foot-4, 310-pounder to make an unofficial visit in April. Depending on that visit, a June OV is likely/possible. The Texas staff likes Carey over the ball. He's seen as a more athletic version of Bill Norton. As OTF has mentioned, 4-star+ defensive lineman Damari Simeon (Richland, N.J./St. Augustine) will visit April 12. Texas is expected to make a big push so long as Simeon is close to the listed 6-foot-3 and 270-275 pounds. Ohio State, Penn State, Tennessee, Auburn, North Carolina and Oklahoma are considered the main competition early on. In case anyone missed this with the wild day on the Forty Acres ... Marietta (Ga.) Kell 2026 4-star+ Brayden Rouse tells OnTexasFootball he is making an unofficial visit to Texas April 17. Rouse, 6-3 and 210-pounds, was offered by Johnny Nansen January 29. The Peach State rangy LB with closing speed has June OV’s scheduled to Michigan June 6-8, Georgia June 13-15 and Tennessee June 20-22. Texas will be working to replace on of the June visit dates with the first ever visit to Texas next month.
  15. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
  16. Good post. Many of us knew and stated on here that Richardson was going to be a bust, and for the exact reasons being extolled on this thread. Milroe seems like a carbon copy other than taking more bullets in college. If that dude is drafted in the first round, or, hell, the fourth round, I will laugh out loud. Eberts in a class by himself. I can’t believe he has media credentials. His site is terrible, he’s a terrible follow on Twitter, and he has no connections or insights.
  17. I believe Doug Ginapp is who you are thinking of, sir.
  18. On the one hand, we lost the two fastest WRs in each of the last two drafts and one of the fastest RBs in the land for this draft. Objectively, a team almost has to be “slower” losing those three. On the other hand, sarvanash works his ass off to find the negative and then dwell on it. He never disappoints. What are you doing?
  19. Any of the Freakshow varietals are good and usually under $25. The Duckhorn whites are also in that range and my wife and her friends seem to like them.
  20. I went to see Texas versus WVU on their last trip to Morgantown. We spent a long weekend in Pittsburgh and loved it. Had a car take us into and out of Mortantown as promptly as possible. Good trip.
  21. Remember that there are schools desperately trying to push large NIL numbers early in the cycle. They’re trying to fuck up/muddy things for everyone or they’re trying to lock guys in and prevent future visits to other schools. Meanwhile, Texas is not having NIL conversations for the most part. That comes later. In other words, ATM, LSU, and USC are operating in fantasyland.
  22. Off the top of my head, the list would be shrunk by Okie State and Minnesota, at least. Not sure about any others.
  23. Holy shit. Liucci might corrupt time and space in order to reach across sites and ban that poor bastard in both places. AgTx needs to be watching his six because publishing something that accurate about that organization is a very dangerous thing.
  24. Worked up? You’ve been bawling with volume all over this thread for days on end. It might be funny if it wasn’t such a bandwidth drain to the readers. My bet offer still stands. I already explained why you’re a crybaby dum dum about NIL and your last post is just more ignorant, tiny-handed fist-pounding.
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