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Posts posted by closetojumping
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3 minutes ago, statsman said:
Thank God none of you watched the ‘99 KSU game.
We had an OC trying run an offense that he understood as well as Jimbo Fisher understood what he was trying to do, and you’re blaming the QBs.The Apple Turnover game. One of the shittiest games of that period.
I cannot believe there is still this kind of energy around the Simms/MA period. What boring shit.
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1 minute ago, Red Five said:
Yeah, if it's not Littleton, there would have to be an undisclosed injury we don't know about, like DeAndre Moore or Jags. Off the top of my head I can't think of anyone else in the two-deep. Maybe Brooks but who the hell knows what's happening there.
I've asked about Brooks and I think your theory is correct. 3 different groups have confirmed that they know of no injury and that he's also not getting any run for PT in the Ohio State game.
While it would be hilarious if Lockett just straight up beat out Jaggy to start in game 1, the guy Bobby is referencing is almost certainly Littleton.
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7 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:
His tenure and accomplishments relative to his recruiting rankings and pedigree can be objectively viewed as less than overwhelming.
He performed on campus and in games as you would expect a very solid 3* to perform if you look back at his tenure at the school. This happens to a lot of highly rater players, who can also be said to under-performed, or even disappointed relative to their initial hype.
This is also a sports message board - talking about player performance. It's almost all subjective
We're all subjective except for Sydney. He's our idiot savant.
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5 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:
We've all seen your jocksniffing photos. They're not bonafides. You're a Westlake honk who happens to be involved with work that intersects with college athletes in Austin sometimes.
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A Bucknuts reporter fielding questions gave his QB comparison thoughts:
Spoilernavey: How big an advantage, if any, does Manning & Texas have compared to Sayin & OSU in this game, especially since it's the first game of the season?
Mark Porter: Manning has more experience having played some meaningful games in 2024. Sayin only had a few snaps in 2024 and he has a new offensive coordinator in 2025.vHaving a new offensive coordinator means their could be growing pains that are not his fault. Of course if you consider Ryan Day as the DEFACTO OC than nothing has changed.
Edge to Sayin playing at OSU, crowd noise should hurt Manning more than him.
Texas has a new Defensive line, how will the OSU offensive line handle them, this could make Sayin's life easy. Will Howard was the least sacked QB in college football last year, will that continue?
Texas and Arch Manning hold some early advantages—particularly around experience, mental toughness, system familiarity, and defensive readiness. But Ohio State counters with tangible home-field support and a swagger from their national champion confidence.
At its core, the game may come down to execution: Can Sayin rise to the occasion? Or will Manning show he's ready to lead Texas into the spotlight? Expect a tight, high-drama opener where QB performance and early rhythm could set the tone for the season.
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22 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:
That'll free up Moore, Hill, Burke, etc.
I know that may be frustrating to Simmons, at times, but we should be able to take advantage of it.
All of the attention from opponents will surely frustrate at times, but I am confident Simmons will still post big numbers. I feel like natural and instinctive pass rushers are one of those groups in sports who always wind up getting theirs over the course of a season.
21 minutes ago, Red Five said:Bobby stuff. Holy shit on Stroh. And Littleton has to be the true freshman mentioned.
Hearing more and more about offensive lineman Connor Stroh having a very strong fall camp. Stroh has started running some with the 1s on a regular basis, even when Neto Umeozulu is not pushed out to tackle. Stroh’s size and ability to move some of the bigger Texas DLs has caught the eyes of coaches.
Umeozulu has been very physical in camp. But Stroh’s size is just hard to overcome, especially as Texas looks to deploy a somewhat different run scheme this season.
We don’t know what the exact rotation will be - whether Stroh has outright won the job or if he will spell Umeozulu - but suffice to say Stroh is expected to see action on Saturday barring something unforeseen.
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Defensive tackle Travis Shaw has shown glimpses of extreme talent in fall camp. But he’s also apparently been inconsistent at times.
Texas needs 20-30 consistent snaps from Shaw this season.
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While I don’t want to say who, I believe there will be a true freshman in the starting lineup Saturday.
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Quarterback Matthew Caldwell continues to run with the 2s this week.
If it isn't Littleton, who the hell else would it be? One of the WRs? Are you telling me that Jaggy has already been displaced by one of the newcomers?
14 minutes ago, CastHorn said:I feel about posting that photo of the Maryland transfer swimming Stroh to the ground like a Matador. Hopefully it was just a rare misstep.
Can you please post that image again? I want to be able to text it randomly to my buddies during the game when his 360 pound ass is getting ragdolled sideways by Eddrick Houston.
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1 hour ago, statsman said:
Yes. And you’re horndfl?
Yes, a long, long time ago.
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2 hours ago, statsman said:
I discovered the Austin360 board, back in ‘96, on Netscape. The AAS had message boards for all the major Texas and B12 programs. The Longhorn bbs was the most trafficked, and it was real easy to view the others.
The TT board on Austin360 was interesting. The small community was in harmony about:Texas had nothing over TT
TT fans were better fans than Longhorn fans. The Texas fans were jerks
TT had overtaken Texas, as a program, if people would just pay attention, and was in process of surpassing the Horns.
It’s funny how much time can pass without things changing at all.
You're formerly TaylorTRoom, I've always presumed. Correct?
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11 minutes ago, HenryJames said:Didn't you yell at some Colorado mom and her kids?
Weren't you there with me? It's been a long time. But, yes, some fatass woman with a tiny husband and two pre-teen kids was getting into her minivan and turned around to a group of us and started yelling that "texassss sucks" and other inanities. I told her she needed to drop a couple hundred pounds and stop embarrassing her little husband and idiot kids in public. I believe her son now posts on this site as @Chewbacca.
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15 minutes ago, Codaxx said:
not much to it. I was told by a former player (WR) that Strong's staff was a mess. He told the story one day in the middle of practice Watson was running the offense and got into an argument with Koenning. Before you know it coaches and players had to hold Les back from kicking Watson's ass. Apparently Koenning did not like Watson and this was brewing for awhile
I know Les. He's a great guy and loves Texas. I think he'd fight Shawn Watson right now if the two of them ended up in the same room.
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20 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:
Yeah, the 2001 championship game was an interesting moment. Simms completely shitting the bed followed up Major orchestrating a near comeback was a vindication but it ultimately meant nothing. I would rather have been wrong and we win than be right and we lose.
I will say that to this day, the second half of that game was one of the best "part of the crowd" experiences of my life. We were a slow moving wave of burnt orange that surged forward about 8 rows towards the field. Everyone was screaming, bouncing off each other, reacting to each play en masse. It felt electric. Sucks that we lost, but still a good memory.
18 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:Nothing about that night was good.
The only time in my life in which I have vomited while perfectly sober and healthy was in the parking lot of the Cowboys' stadium immediately following that game.
9 minutes ago, MuellerHorn said:Heard was a top-100 recruit as a dual-threat QB. Swoopes started out higher before being re-ranked and reclassified to an athlete. Gilbert was QB3 (after Barkley and Shepard) in his class. Sam outperformed all of them combined at Texas. However, Heard was the real non-factor. At least we'll ahve Gilbert at Nebraska and Swoopes' 18-wheeler as good memories during a horrible time for Texas football.
It sucks that we lost the content from Shaggy. One of my favorite threads was one I created on the recruiting board that tracked Swoopes' performance his senior year of high school. There were a great many posters on Shaggy and 247 who argued in support of Mack Brown's choice to take Swoopes instead of JT Barrett as some sort of "trust the corchez!?!" amazing evaluation. "He's the next Vince Young!" was posted numerous times, including in an article with that title from Howe on 247. Reading about that guy slowly going 1-9 or 2-8 with terrible stats at his 2A high school had some of them pulling their hair out throughout that fall.
I appreciate Swoopes for what he was at Texas, but, man, those were dark times as a fan.
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11 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:
I don't necessarily disagree with your assessment of Ehlinger's talent or abilities as a QB, although it seems a little needlessly inflammatory (but I understand your tone based on the context here). Anyone who watched Sam with any kind of objectivity could see that he was more of a fullback who could throw the ball well enough rather than a top line QB. If someone is arguing that he had a great arm or processed things quickly...well, they don't know ball. But he was the best we had, and he played hard, and he played for a dumbass HC. We won a lot of games despite Herman because Ehlinger refused to turtle up. I think what most people who are fans of Ehlinger liked about him are intangible qualities - toughness, leadership, love of Texas. Even with all his flaws, I'm still a fan because he loves the school as much as I do, and it showed. It has little to do with his actual level of play. I think this image sums it up:
Who was rating these guys as QBs? I love Swoopes because that poor bastard was an great TE that was forced to play QB because Strong had no idea what the fuck he was doing. But not because of anything he did under center.
The Westlake honks are not quite a cult, but they do love them some Westlake boys and have a hard time seeing any flaws with those red and blue colored glasses. It would be like me demanding that Charlie Wright getting more playing time just because he went to AHS.
I was a Major truther back in the day and even I never hated Simms. He was a solid QB and he played hard. Plus he played for Texas. I always told people that even if I preferred Major as QB1, that doesn't mean that I won't support the guy actually taking snaps. I swear there were Texas fans who wanted us to lose just so they could be right about Simms. Besides, my issue was with Brown who actually made the decision. The hate for him never made sense - it always seemed like it was based on the perception that he had everything handed to him because of who his dad was. Which is disconcertingly similar to how Aggies and Sooners talk about Manning these days.
Weird how history seems to keep repeating itself.
I like Ehlinger fine as a former player. I liked him at Texas fine for the most part. I thought he sucked as a freshman and called him a loser before he went on to have solid rest of his career, making me look like an idiot as he did so. I have acknowledged I was wrong on the loser comment on the old Ehlinger thread. It doesn't prevent folks who really, really love Ehlinger from bringing it up any time I hurt their feelings on something else. You see one of our resident Westlake lovers doing that here because I apparently don't appreciate Klubnik to the appropriate levels that his Clemson performance demands. Regardless of all of that, it's never not fun to rile up those with I Am Sam sensitivities.
To your point about that 2020 OU aftermath, I will also always appreciate Ehlinger doing what he did. And fuck Caden Stearns forever. I will never value that asshole as a former player.
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2 minutes ago, Vertigo said:
Love all of this except Sayin is a pretty mobile dude from what I understand. I think he is more likely to spook himself out of the pocket than to sit back and be cannon fodder for our edges.
That's not correct. He's not known for being mobile. "Statue" was hyperbole for entertainment purposes, but if that guy is having to move much at all, they're in trouble.
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12 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Man, if we god forbid don’t win, your posts are gonna age like milk, as bad as mine did running up to the election. We might be shunned from surly together 🤣
I'm not guaranteeing a win. I'm merely pointing out the absurdity of the claims being made about all of these suddenly conjured OSU "advantages". They have one clear advantage - they possess the best WR room in the country. Never mind the fact that Texas held JJ Smith to 3 yards and 1 catch 8 months ago, I acknowledge freely that the OSU WR room is awesome. Outside of that, these are 2 of the 3 best rosters in college football 2025. Anyone claiming a bunch of OSU advantages otherwise is attempting to read the future in tea leaves.
9 minutes ago, Borrominion said:Responding to a couple points - yes, Igbinosun is a penalty nightmare which drives OSU fans BONKERS, but he also makes a lot of great plays and is a net positive overall. His ridiculous interception at PSU might have been the difference in the game. And at the other CB spot, Mathews is not really a "new guy" - he's played a lot and played well. For RB, we've seen enough of Peoples to know he's going to be good - and as I said any advantage OSU has there is probably contingent on TX RB health.
"New guy" meant new starter. I figured that was kind of obvious. Guilbeau has been at Texas for 3 seasons. He won't be new to the field either.
Peoples looks fine. You're comparing him to a room with multiple players ranked higher than him out of high school or with better numbers and experience than him in college, and Baxter has him in both regards, and then saying "gee, I think we might have a better RB room". That's objectively comical.
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Just now, TreatyOak said:
I didn't "save" any posts. I just went to the Sam Ehlinger thread and pulled it. No big deal.
I'll let you guys handle the finer points of playing QB. Just showing how people here trashed Sam days before he played one of the greatest games by a Texas QB against OU. And yes, I am proudly hopelessly biased. I supported Ewers and will support Manning. Hope Sam lands on a team.
You don't have to feign giving a shit about players that aren't from Westlake. Anyone who has been on this site for any period of time knows that you're a Westlake stan first and foremost and anything else, including Texas football, is an afterthought.
Just one other thing, though. The next time you're masturbating on a Zoom call with Sam, will you do the rest of us a favor and ask him if Texas is back?
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15 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:Yeah, because he's not a piece of shit. He loved his teammates, and he liked Austin, but he hasn't been back willingly and hasn't affiliated himself with Texas at all. For a reason.
CTJ and I have worked with a woman who dated Simms for awhile in college. She is a foreigner, and doesn't give any fucks about football, which was a big appeal for Simms. She tells some pretty horrific stories about how he was treated on campus. Prank phone calls at all hours, death threats after bad games, being jeered and heckled when he was on campus by other students. Imagine being Chris Simms, looking like he looked, and basically locking yourself in your apartment with a woman who didn't understand or give a fuck about football as a refuge from the shit he received.
And it's pretty obvious a lot of those kids heckled him have moved onto message boards.11 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:He's talked about it on his show. People telling him that his dad got him in at Texas. He said "I'm not even sure my dad knows where I went to college. He didn't care at all. It wasn't my dad on the phone to Mack Brown bitching about my playing time".
I've developed the opinion over time that it would be great to see Texas bring Simms back for a game on the sidelines with some sort of happy hat tip to the guy. I know that's problematic since half the stadium is likely a bunch of idiots who might boo him and there's really no way he belongs in the Texas HOF or whatever it's called. Maybe it would just be great if Sarkisian invited him to come down for a practice and an interview or something. It's just always bothered me that idiots ruined his relationship with his alma mater. His signing with Texas made a giant fucking difference for the program from a national POV early in Mack Brown's tenure.
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3 minutes ago, Borrominion said:For OSU, 4/5 OL positions are returning starters. Talent/experience-wise, I would take OSU at OL, WR (easily), TE, defensive secondary. Perhaps at RB depending on TX health status. I think talent and experience are more or less a wash overall between the two teams. As stated in my initial post, I'd give TX with a slight advantage at QB because of Manning's game experience, and a bigger advantage on the sideline because OSU is breaking in new coordinators. If forced to predict I'd say TX wins 28-24 but one play could break the game in either direction.
You're not going to gaslight a board of fanatics who have studied your team for 9 months and actively monitored your forums and read all of your insider updates as if they were our own.
-You do not have 4 returning OL starters. Starting a few games in the playoffs or post-injury is not what classifies a player as a returning starter. If that were the case, Texas also has 4 returning OL starters because Hutson has started like 14 games in his career, Goosby started 2-3 late last year and Robertson started a game or two back in 2022 or 2023.
-TE is debatable. You guys love your guys and Klare is a stud. Texas loves Endries and its other guys as well. Both programs have highly ranked guys in the TE room and both starters put up great numbers for mediocre to shitty teams last year. You guys seem to want to clearly demarcate an advantage there and it's bullshit.
-Downs =/= an entire secondary. You don't even know who is actually going to start at the other safety spot yet. Igbinonigniminious is a penalty machine. He was burnt more than bad toast last season and forced into PI and holding penalties against anyone of value. The other CB position will feature a new guy. Texas also returns an AA at Safety. Texas also returns two other starters at Safety/NB and a better returning starter at CB in Muhammad than what OSU has in Igbo. Texas is in the same position of putting a new, highly recruited starter at CB, whoever wins the job.
-Texas evaluated Peoples and passed. We were fine as recruitniks watching you guys take him out of state. Donaldson has taken more bullets than a gun range dummy and Bo Jackson is actively in the process of passing him on the depth chart. Texas has 5 guys it can rotate at RB, one of whom is a returning 1,000 yard rusher and two others who were classified as the highest rated RB in the country coming out of high school. So, no, Ohio State doesn't have some sort of RB advantage.
-You and everyone else talking about Manning being advantaged over Sayin simply because he's taken more snaps are whistling past the notion that Manning might also just be a lot fucking better than your 5'11' statue with a nice hairdo.
-None of this matters as much as the disadvantage your OL will actually have on the field against the Texas front 7. That imbalance doesn't shake out in the other direction. Good luck keeping your QB upright on Saturday.
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7 minutes ago, Laguna said:
The correct answer is Chris Simms. Arrived in a limo, had repeated position battles with a JAG, never even had an all conference selection. Fumbled some of the most talented rosters in Texas history. Pretty straightforward.
I negged you not because you have a dumb fucking take, which you do, but because you're new here and seem to be under the impression that there aren't consequences for being voluminous and just spraying the board with stupid shit. Rep is sadly our only currency, but it can be used to ultimately crowdsource out early new poster stupidity.
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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:
It’s starting to smell like “Shawn Watson” and Texas fans and insiders rationalizing that fire. Ass is ass
I know this is pathetic, but one of the most entertaining periods as a poster on the longhorn boards for me spanned from the hiring of Charlie Strong to the aftermath of the first Notre Dame game in year 2.
I was miserable as a fan of the program, but being on the boards was somewhat therapeutic because there were posters everywhere showing their true colors as absolute imbeciles. Beyond some sort of idiotic personal need for Charlie Strong to actually be worth a fuck, and tied to that, was the constant rationalizing of Shawn Watson as a legitimate choice and employee in the role of Offensive Coordinator.
It was cheap entertainment, but I'm not a snob. Lampooning people pitching for the guy "after watching film on YouTube" before the 2014 season all the way through "Watson has completely overhauled the offense!" heading into the 2015 season was the only happiness I could find as a fan at that time.
Jeff Howe wrote a series of articles on 247 that 2015 summer with insider quotes and his own analysis about how the offense was being changed. I would show up on the thread for each article with one or two sentences mocking his takes and a mass of $9.95er lemmings would climb over themselves to attack me and defend Howe and Watson. Pulling all of that up after the 38-3 wonderment in South Bend was one of the most gleeful and villainous moments of my posting experience.
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4 minutes ago, Nivek said:
Yes, replay was available back then, but it had to be initiated by the refs in the booth who were affiliated with the home team's conference during the regular season games.
1 minute ago, alincoln said:Hence why they reviewed the Swede catch but not the Melton TD.
Texas benefitted greatly from poor replay review in its adolescence during the 2005 season. I can't really complain about the Melton non-TD on the opposite side of the ledger from VY's knee and Charles' non-fumble in the national title game.
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1 minute ago, MuellerHorn said:
Ummm, what?
Squints, Heard, Swoopes... There are multiple more overrated QBs in the past 15 years, let alone players, to have ever taken a snap at Texas.
Not stanning for Ehlinger as some phenom, but he was a very productive player for us during what otherwise could have been another horrendously shitty couple of years at Texas during an already horrible stretch historically for the program.
Maybe we have different definitions of the word "overrated". Who is even rating the three guys you referenced? I'm talking about players that are beloved or liked by the masses for perceived performance. Anyone talking up those three for any reason besides one game against ND for Swoopes or a couple of early season ethereal tilts in like 2015 for Heard is out of their fucking mind and not worth having discussion. I don't even recall anyone ever speaking about Gilbert's time at Texas positively.
You can't swing a dead cat around Texas fans without someone telling you what a great QB Sam Mehlinger was/is. To me, this is night and day. I am not saying I Am Sam sucked, far from it.
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13 hours ago, TreatyOak said:
This is a perfect addition to the Quinn Ewers thread to show that nothing ever changes around here.
Here is my post I cited from the Sam Ehlinger 2018 thread page 35 that I posted an hour after Sam led the win over OU. I had been collecting a tiny bit of the Sam vitriol from the thread and shared it after the game. I cited all the posters for each comment and I have to admit that some of them are pretty funny! You can see the usual suspects below, haha.
Apparently, I had apolgized to you, @Derka, but had retracted my apology for the below comments, which is funny.
And @closetojumping, you seem to not have been too big a fan of Sam. Just saying. And @6th Street, before the game, you wanted to switch us to switch to Kyler and OU takes Sam.
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I went back and pulled these comments from this thread. All of these comments were posted here AFTER our first victory at K-State since 2002. I'll let the words speak for themselves. Moving forward, my greatest hope is that we support our players, cause they're really awesome.
"Not at all. I just prefer to have a different type of QB than what Sam has to offer." T’Boo Ted Marshall
"...in other words we wouldn't be surprised if blitz packages and disguised coverages lead sam to turning the ball over, or if OU decides to blitz on every single 3rd down and 4+ because sam has proven that he can't hit an open wr even when he has a clean pocket. we won't be surprised if accounting for 6 total offensive points vs OU results in a blowout loss." Goo Punch
"Either they teach Sam how to throw a football or find someone who does. Beck gets paid $800k to coach our QBs." 6th Street
"That first long pass where the WR was all alone and Sam missed him by a mile, I think that there’s no fixing that." XYZ
"I don’t think his football IQ will improve much…" closetojumping
"I don’t think Ehlinger is good enough to merit the other guys not pushing him or not passing him. ...unless Mehlinger just totally shuts it down by being a part of a 12-2 season here this year or something." closetojumping
"Outside of mocking Lolinger…" closetojumping
"He is inaccurate, that is fact. Completion % be damned. Watch the game with your eyes." Fico
"Half of his completed passes are shit throws that if he was accurate would go for considerably more yardage." Fico
"That is not opinion, it’s fact." Fico
To which Viper responded...
"…Yeah, I'm really not sure why people can't agree with this."
"We would have a much better shot at winning this Sat if we could trade QBs with OU" 6th Street (My personal favorite)
"Sam could learn a thing or two from Case McCoy on how to hit an open WR." 6th Street (this one is also pretty amazing)
"...we're still allowed to point out that he hasn't exactly been inspiring a lot of confidence in his play heading into the ou game." Goo Punch
"…because we're winning none of his obvious flaws matter or are allowed to be discussed. because we're winning we all have to sit around slurping our mediocre qb, right?" Goo Punch (Goo Punch, I retract my apology)
I find it kind of sad that you both saved posts from 7 years ago and also feel some sort of need to recall them, but I'll humor you due to your effort.
Ehlinger is the most overrated player to have ever taken a snap at Texas. He was a fine concussed battering ram for Tom Herman when there was a need for that, but you and others stan for him as though he's some sort of deity. He had an okay record in college for a guy with the accuracy of WW2 bomber scope and he's managed to hang on as a fringe guy in the NFL. We'll see him glomming on to the Texas media machine for a paycheck soon enough and idiots like you can jack off to his image regularly when that happens. So you have that going for you. Or maybe he'll go sell real estate with other former spare QBs like Chance Mock and Case McCoy, I don't know.
When you clowns attempt to reference posts about Ehlinger being a mediocrity as some sort of "receipt", I laugh. Like not metaphorically, but literally. It's one of the things a few of you cling to that you think bothers me in some way, and I find it predictable but sadly entertaining, like watching reruns of Cheers. The guy was okay in college. That anyone finds his college performance as some sort of validation for their fandom speaks to the reality that there is always a dumbest person on a thread or a board. The world needs the simpleton, God love'em.
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Some freshman class talk on Bucknuts, plus some hilarity where they attempt to claim that they're doing things above board, but Texas, Notre Dame, and Michigan are all behaving unfairly with NIL and recruiting. I actually think these people are stupid enough and naive enough to believe that they're actually clean when they've been cheating since the day Urban Meyer showed up on campus. Dumb motherfuckers, all of them.
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** As advertised ... The Buckeyes’ 2025 recruiting class was ranked as the No. 4 class in the country in the final 247Sports Composite team recruiting rankings.
And according to one of our team sources who has seen the 2025 signees in action during the Buckeyes’ fall camp, this class is the real deal.
“This freshman class is going to make a big splash," the source began. “Devin Sanchez, Faheem Delane, Bo Jackson, Riley Pettijohn, maybe Zion Grady, I think you’ll see those guys this season. And there are some other guys that are going to make a big splash eventually, but maybe not this season because their room is so strong right now. This class is really, really good.”Only 96 hours to go!
** ‘Contradiction Hall of Fame’ … One of our sources must have been bored yesterday because he tuned into the Bucknuts Morning 5 .. and even claims he listened to the entire show. No, seriously.
“I listened to your podcast yesterday and I agree with you and Dan mostly on the NIL stuff and not getting into bidding wars for high school recruits,” the source said. “Spending money on retaining your best players and paying for proven good players via the portal is a wise course of action. There is no disputing that in my opinion.
“However, why can’t we do both? Not to the degree that some programs are doing, but more along the lines of what Oregon and Texas are doing. Dare I say, even Michigan. It’s like we’re trying to play by the rules when no one else is. If the Michigan cheating scandal didn’t prove the NCAA has no power to do anything of import, nothing will. These guys literally said in their report that what Michigan did deserved a postseason ban. Then that same report declined to issue a postseason ban. Put that one in the Contradiction Hall of Fame. First ballot. Unanimous.
“Anyway, if it’s our stance that we’re not going to get into bidding wars for recruits, period, no matter what the NCAA is doing? I’m OK with that. But if we kind of have one foot in and one foot out because we’re fearful of the NCAA punishing us down the line, that would be malpractice. First of all, are they going to punish everyone? Because everyone seems to be doing it. Secondly, and most important, they have proven they have no power with the inexplicable Michigan decision like I said.”
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
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I consider myself a moderately intelligent person and I have no fucking clue what this means. I read it three times and still got nothing. It’s similar to when someone goes on a rant about misusing the term “begs the question”. They do it with conviction and so I feel like “man, they must be right, but I have no fucking clue what they’re trying to teach me here. “
I do know one thing though, if this level of pedantry doesn’t bring this thread to a screeching halt, nothing will.