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  1. Spoilered is an update on WRs Gibson and Gibson and confirmation, in indirect ways, that neither will be ready by game 1, and it could take awhile. Venables really is just room temperature IQ guy. I read his quotes, like those in this article, and see nothing but a mouthbreathing rube speaking in unsophisticated platitudes. The part where he talks about their rehabs being "right on schedule" is accidental comedy.
  2. Just so we’re clear, if nowhere else, on this board, at least. Texas wasn’t ready for shit in 2020. They weren’t ready on July 1, 2021, either. They didn’t support what NIL has become. They were fucking scared of it. What they weren’t scared of, they were oblivious to or dismissive of in all forms. So was the rest of the CFB landscape outside of Oregon and, well, a small group of us here and Bobby Burton. Small details may not seem important to you and this may seem like a quibble, but to me it is not. We put sweat into creating IP, aligning various skill sets and personalities, and then helping give it all away for the notion of a greater good for Texas and no longer seeing the UT AD be the disconnected, pious, pompous and trodden-upon snob it had become. We didn’t just create IP that was adopted ultimately across all of CFB, we took risk in bringing it to the forefront and then forcing the powers that be at Texas to see it and embrace it. And as to the notion that we’ll ever go back to just letting Bama and others make a mockery of the rules and get over on our fanbase? Not happening. Texas is not only now self-aware, it is assertive. Should that ever falter, we’ll call the banners again and find a way to go to war.
  3. DeNiro and I literally bumped into each other near the cashier at Aria, both looking at our phones. He was doing a junket for Last Vegas and I was in town for an annual trip with my buddies. He was nice enough, but good lord, he was small. I’m guessing 5’7”, 170 pounds.
  4. I actually have a more absurd rock star story regarding my wife than the one told here. Rimbo couldn’t top it without making shit up. Also, when I was at Texas, I partied one night with Gwen Stefani right before she became famous as the lead singer of No Doubt, which tops the other one or whatever Rimbo would try to make up. All fun, but that will be that for the public football board.
  5. He would have had to have a hell of a time if he did, I know that much.
  6. Ha. I wasn’t on the trip. It was more comical than anything. They had to ask him who he was once he made the pass. Must have been deflating.
  7. Okay, got it. I assumed that was just a given. The dude who OD’d from the Foo Fighters pullled the “do you know who I am? let’s go upstairs and fuck.” maneuver on my wife and a friend of hers on a beach in Cabo about a year before he kicked it. It seems like par for the course for a rockstar.
  8. I hate to wade into whatever this is, but can someone provide an honest answer to what happened with Dave Grohl that would trash his reputation as a rock legend?
  9. I know this sounds spoiled, but it kind of sucks that it looks like Texas will only win one national title this season in college sports. A whole bunch of top 4-8 finishes is a nice consolation prize, but here’s to more titles in the 2025/2026 cycle.
  10. I’m going to be surprised if they’re able to get anything done beyond a Pierce-level hire. They don’t have the money to just go nuts or they’d be spending differently across the board already. The environment there is toxic. They’re surrounded, like in every other sport, by powers in the sport with better history, better backgrounds and locations and more resources. Anyone going there is making a pure money grab. Vaughn would be a fool to do it. O’Connor? Sure, take the money. Sullivan and Vitello? LOL. The one guy they could get that I would have no interest in seeing at ATM is Canham. So I’m sure they’ll not even contact him.
  11. A pox upon your house, sir!
  12. People hate his voice, but he’s one the best color guys and personalities in college football.
  13. Sure, why not? I don’t have the roster in front of me so someone else will have to help. OL: Zuhn; any others are fantasy but that wouldn’t stop The Elk TB: Moss, if he’s recovered and has a good year; He might be thinking that the NFL is really stupid and would draft Daniels or Owens WR: Concepcion would have to have a big year and show something special. Not buying anyone else. TE: The Swede in Elko’s fantasies. Don’t see it. QB: No. DT: Regis with a big year? Hicks out of nowhere? Edge: Howell? No. LB: Scooby Doo? No. York? lol. NB: … CB: Ricks? Hahaha. Chappell? Is this 2023? S: Bryce Anderson has gone backwards. Not seeing it. I count like 4-5, I guess? Not really seeing someone early. I don’t know, maybe I’m forgetting someone obvious.
  14. I have met some downright scary people from longhorn netdom over the decades. People I wouldn't let my children come within 50 yards of, and yet, in reading this, I'm reminded that some of the scariest motherfuckers around this place might be my friends. Bring that imagery into another thread, sir, and I'll view it as a declaration of war.
  15. No. Do you believe everything you read on the Internet, doofus? If we went through all of the things I've been accused/described as or been accused/described as having, I'd be the weirdest and fastest alien chimeric Greg Davis imaginable.
  16. That shit is fucking hilarious. They couldn't be more wrong about several of their talking points if they tried. 1) NIL and LHF donors are dying off and mostly olds. - The olds in the donor base do not, generally, have any interest in helping with NIL. The reality is that the largest donors to NIL are all under the age of 50. The absolute idiocy in their take otherwise is only matched by their bizarre certitude. 2) Asians don't like sports. - Never mind the stereotyping trending towards abject racism and just consider any single poster's own experiences in life on this one. Some of the most fanatical "fans" I've been around have been people of Asian ethnicity. Little league, hs football, Texas sports, whatever. Just a dumb, ignorant POV. 3) Tito Beveridge, that rat bastard, is giving Texas anything they want for NIL. - We've been through this and the complete fallacy of it. As we predicted, it's now fact. I take comfort in seeing their inability to understand circumstances as they are and willful ignorance towards anything that paints Texas as having a sustainable advantage on any front. That stuff has always been their problem and access to constant flows of clear information has done nothing to change it.
  17. History repeating itself just meaning a highly intelligent head coach of a rival/semi-rival hating his mouthbreathing alumni base and seeing his previously middling drinking problems explode into Denzel Washington from Flight levels of alcoholism.
  18. @BurntOrange&White
  19. It's actually really hilarious to see. Tramel has obfuscated on behalf of personalities he's covered for decades. The guy has ridden more dicks than Bonnie Blue. He's not an intelligent guy and clearly he can't judge character to save his life. Watching him attempt to play the victim now is awesome.
  20. When Mike Leach was at Tech, he used to get just absolutely shithoused. Totally torn up. Then he’d get out of his car and walk into whatever west Texas booster gathering he was required to go gladhand at and then go on a heater with outrageous claims about the future of the program. After being found on the roadside, passed out and then driven home by a Tech friendly cop, Texas Tech’s AD then assigned a permanent driver for Leach when heading out to such functions. The rumors have persisted that The Elk is ripping through 3/4s of a handle on a normal day, and he doesn’t like the glad handing and thinks he’s above it. So I can see history repeating itself here: That’s a given. That’s a given.
  21. Doering and the chick who went to SCar (name is escaping me for a second) were doing it on SEC This Morning as well. Mississippi did it that one time, and some idiot after the game claimed that he loved Earley more than life its own self, so now ATM walks through the SEC tournament and then rips through to the CWS and a national title. It’s only been 12+ years for the SEC honks with ATM. I guess at some point down the line these idiots will take a minute and realize that they’re playing Charlie Brown to ATM’s Lucy with the football.
  22. Would Gasparino leaving be something that caused a ton of consternation at this point? I’d rather see him stay, but if he wanted to take his three true outcomes on the road, I would lose sleep about it.
  23. What a spineless position. This poor media member should be absolved of adult accountability and those meanie investors are evil people for holding the adults who signed contracts to the legal standard. Right. Did you sob while typing your post?
  24. Maybe Curtis Ewers can cover Tramel’s portion as repayment for all of the water he carried for the Ewers camp during the past 4 years.
  25. Have you not been to a little league or pre-teen select baseball game in the last 5 years, sir? At least one kid’s walk-up song is a Tiesto song. If you don’t want to get down to business, that’s a personal problem.
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