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  1. I only did cursory searches due to the volume of names, but when I looked up Russell, all I saw was Texas showing interest, an SMU commitment and a scheduled UF OV. Is he interested in ATM as well? Or is more like you or I having a strong interest in Natalie Portman, but her having other options that she'd prefer?
  2. In browsing some of the recruiting updates on the aggie sites, it kind of dawned on me that there isn't a ton of serious overlap regarding recruiting targets in the 2025 cycle between Texas and ATM. Let's look at it. QB Lacey, Russell - ATM isn't on the list for either player. TB Stewart, Davison - ATM isn't on the list for either player. WR Ffrench, Moore, Lockett, Harris, McCutcheon, Choice - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. Kelshaun Johnson is giving ATM courtesy mentions but the guy has 5 OVs scheduled, yet nothing for ATM. Marsh - ATM leads big, but the family is trying to keep Texas interested and Texas doesn't want to burn bridges so they'll let him come around and such. This will be claimed as an ATM win and I will applaud it as well. TE Wilson - ATM wasn't on the list. Townsend, Armstrong - ATM is either in the lead or a serious contender in both recruitments. OL Mills, Coleman, Coleman, Brooks, Petty, Gaston, Langi - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. Fasusi - ATM is way behind Texas and OU. Newton, Thomas, Rogers - ATM is a serious contender for these players, but not a leader for any of them. DT Brown, Sharma, Autry, Charles, Wynn, Sims, Guidry - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. Williams - ATM is way behind Texas and LSU. Sanders - ATM and Texas are co-leaders. I don't know how highly this guy is ranked on either board, but I don't feel like Texas has made any kind of push. Edge Lowe, Jackson, Shanklin, Orogbo - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. LB Petitjon, Barnes, Tagoa'i, Cunningham - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. CB Brew, Anding - ATM isn't on the list for either player. Sellers, Currie, Chester - Both Texas and ATM are on the lists with numerous other contenders for each player. Safety Williams - ATM isn't a serious contender. Phillips, Guillory - Both Texas and ATM are in serious contention for each player. So, while ATM is mentioned in some spots, the reality is that the only battles appear to be for a TE, an OL or two, a DT that neither school may want, 3 corners, and 2 safeties. That seems like nothing compared to various other cycles. In looking at ATM's 5 current commitments, Texas was polite around the Rink recruitment, but there isn't an ATM commitment that Texas would actually take. If I find the time and motivation, I'll check out OU and LSU in the same vein.
  3. Couldn't just add the 's could he. I see trash like this typed out and I want to fucking vomit. It's not even a new syllable, you fucking twit. Nonetheless, I hope this guy goes elsewhere and smears his verbal vomit and overrated WR skills onto a different program. Disagree about the Oregon competition. Texas hasn't had problems beating Oregon out for guys under Sarkisian's watch, including 5* Baker in the last cycle.
  4. ATM just got a commitment from yet another DE transferring from UCF. Dude was a team captain, but he amassed 47 tackles and zero sacks last season. Anyway, in reading the moderators on the aggie 247 site, it appears that they're gearing up for a number of new portal exits, particularly from the DL. The strongest part of their roster, with the most talent, is at Edge and DT. They're about to exchange more 4 and 5 stars heading out for more try-hards heading into the program. Another thing mentioned is that they're going to be 5 guys over the scholarship limit in August if they don't have more attrition. I was kind of surprised by this until I went through it quickly. They've swapped out a ton of highly ranked talent with a mediocre recruiting class and a bunch of transfers that zero top 15 programs would have taken. I don't think people, including here, realize just how shitty and untalented their 2024 roster is going to be. I type that without knowing whatever other harm will be done to them in the upcoming portal window.
  5. There's some pretty funny stuff happening on the aggie sites, as expected. Posters have fully committed to the premise that 5 stars are bad. Not all posters, but many, and that's spilling into arguments among the posters about recruiting quality. The value in taking the position that 5 stars are bad is that, with Elko's recruiting approach, poster expectations are aligning with the mediocrity of what Elko is bringing in. Tom Loy showed up with a post stating that things are looking very promising for this guy: https://247sports.com/player/marcus-garcia-46144270/ The competition for this guy is limited to P4 also-rans similar to ATM and then there's the faded blue blood, Nebraska. I don't give a shit if a guy is a 3 star or a 5 star, provided the evaluators are people I trust. We've all lived the experience of this kind of shit, however. 3 star that no top 10 team is in on, taking them early, needing to add 30+ pounds to have a prayer of being effective in college, etc. I wouldn't want to go back to that for all of the rice in China. Anyway, here are some of the more enjoyable comments: analytical "ruxin said... (original post) A mid 3 star? I would hope we like our chances… - Come on. Stars are a Jimbo Fisher evaluation. We have a smarter staff who do their own evals. Look at the kid's measurables and film. And then remind yourself that actual professional coaches know a lot that we don't. Stars ain't the best yardstick. We get 5* busts and 3* breakthroughs. Ainias was a 3*. Speedy Noil was a 5*. Touting stars makes a person look like they are a tshirt fan. 9 upvotes" 313Aggie "Rgibson04 said... (original post) If your competitors are getting 4-5 stars, then we should at least match that - Michigan was ranked 14 in talent composit, Washington was 26th. The game has changed." MacIdaho "ruxin said... (original post) Yes, seriously.Is Denver Harris a bust? Maybe, but he was good enough as a freshman that he got picked up by LSU. His problem isn't talent. Same ... - Aggigeboy86 2 posts below your response to me hit the nail on the head. Most of them didn’t do good here. I don’t care if they had off the field issues or not. They weren’t near as productive as many other 5 star players have been in the past few years for other teams. That was the point I was trying to make. If they go somewhere else and do good they still didn’t do it here, which is what is important to me. Advani80 also understood exactly what I was trying to convey as well." dichotomic "2008 recruiting vibes. Great footwork, ankle flexibility, nice forearms" catorano "Can't have enough Garcias. They practically built Kyle."
  6. The strength of their team is the bottomless depth on the DL and this is what they’re expending their resources on.
  7. Today I learned about mottes and baileys and also the motte and bailey fallacy.
  8. I somehow missed any discussion of Blue being some sort of team cancer, guilty as charged. No one said that either, dum dum.
  9. Pro-tip: If you're going to call someone out then provide examples of why what I said is wrong. Nobody has done that so far.. No one is trying to go into any depth with you because you aren't worth the effort with this kind of bullshit. You're misinformed and blathering voluminously as though what you're spewing has any value for the discussion. It doesn't. You've been pathetically wrong here while first trying to cast aspersions with certitude, and now you're crawfishing with the bitch ass "tell me why I'm wrong" nonsense.
  10. Browsing the board and occasionally posting isn't the same as paying attention. Guess I missed all the Blue controversy. I knew about him entering the portal, but also know he came back out pretty quickly. If the coaching staff didn't want him around he would be somewhere else doing his thing. The guy didn't enter the fucking portal. No one is arguing that the coaching staff wants the guy around. Get a fucking clue here, man.
  11. You are on this board too frequently to not have read the 1000 discussions and updates, many contemporaneously, about Blue's travels to be this fucking ignorant. Holy shit.
  12. You are wrong in every part of this post. It's kind of stunning.
  13. Replace what you're saying with Inception and that is me. I've seen Interstellar probably 20 times and love it. I watched Inception at the movies and enjoyed it, but I have never seen it since. Also to those in this discussion, everyone agrees that Tenet is absolute dogshit, correct? We all watched it at a rented theater during corona while sitting multiple seats apart during the film, so no one could really talk. I walked outside after the movie, waited for the other 15 guys we were with to stand around and said "I just have one question ... does anybody know what in the fuck we just watched?" and then most of us busted out laughing. Great cinematography and score and probably even acting, but just absolutely convoluted nonsense. Also also, the only guy who actually attempted to explain to the rest of us what was going on in Tenet? @SydneyCarton, who was then lampooned for his pedantry all the way to his car.
  14. I enjoyed my trip to Boston. Thanks to those who provided thoughts on this thread. Thoughts below for anyone else visiting down the line: The Freedom Trail was excellent, as hoped. Had Bell in Hand Ale at the The Bell-in-Hand along the way. Would do again. Went to the Fenway area on Saturday and they were having their 2024 Red Sox Open House. We got to go on the field and walk the entire fence line, go into dugouts, the press box, you name it. That shit was cool. Had drinks at various pubs along Landsdowne afterwards for awhile. Visited MIT since we have a kid who really wants to go there and might have a shot. Not a good campus to visit. Walked shopped Newbury with my wife and she thought the shop options were strong. In terms of restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I'd rate them this way: 1) Yvonne's - cool menu, really cool vibe inside, great service. We had the "Lazy Lobster Dumplings" as one of the dishes and could have had 5 helpings of that. 2) Parker House - did this for lunch and did the chowder, the scrod, the Boston Creme Pie and Parker House rolls. Just thought the whole thing was cool inside that hotel. We sat at the table next to the one JFK proposed to Jackie at and didn't know it until the end. Fun shit like that. They serve high quality food and it was not ridiculously priced. 3) Sorellina - Solid Italian. We had a lamb Lumache that was excellent but almost too al dente. Everything outside of that was excellent. Their rendition of veal saltimbocca was good but weird. It was basically served as involtini and took away from the flavors, I think. 4) Four Seasons - We stayed here and had high tea one lunch and they do a great job with it if that is your thing. My wife is British and when we spot high tea, I find that we somehow wind up doing it. 5) Bricco - We liked it, but I didn't view it as anything that outpaced quality Italian places in Houston like the original, non-chain Carraba's, Di Marco or Coppa, depending upon dining style preference. The eggplant bake for an appetizer was outstanding. I'd recommend it, just not above the other two dinner places from our visit. 6) Tatte - Local chain of breakfast/brunch/pastry fare. I had a lamb shakshuka that is as good as anything like that I've ever had. This place smokes places like it in Houston such as Common Bond, IMO. It's a chain and it was breakfast, so whatever, but I'd like one around the corner from my office in Houston for breakfast once every week or two.
  15. If we're having an attrition discussion, I look at this way: 3 OLs (we have a bunch of OLs, some aren't going to make the 2 deep, some will see that as reason to leave) 1-2 DTs (unless a terrible hail mary is completed by someone else, at least one big time DT is coming this way) 1-2 Edges (we've just got a bunch of them and not all of them will be making what amounts to even a 6 man rotation at the 2 spots) 1-2 WRs (there are always prima donnas in the WR room, someone will get the itch to walk) 2-3 DBs (again, too many bodies for everyone to make the 2 deep) 1 LB 1 ST 1 TB 1 TE I would be surprised by larger numbers at any position. I would not be surprised by this kind of activity at any of these positions. I would be surprised if there was activity at every one of these positions. You'll get a mix here to get to 7-9 exits and an 84-85 man roster that is damned near fully optimized. As to names, I haven't heard of any. They like guys like Swanson and Burrell and Cajoe. There just aren't many guys that they wouldn't like to keep. I expect some pain.
  16. Speaking of tips, on one of my first shifts waiting tables, I was in the smoking section of the Black-Eyed Pea. As I delivered the check to this table where the dude has been smoking the entire time through their meal. That grizzled idiot looks at the check and then looks at me and says: "You want a tip? Don't smoke in bed! Hahahahaha!" One of the old broads working the section next to me apologized and I asked her "why?" and she explained that that was actually going to be that guy's tip. She was right. But, hey, I've never smoked in bed, so I guess the dude really influenced me. Anyway, this thread is the Internet version of that experience.
  17. You guys get spun up about the wrong things. Nothing has changed for Bolden since he committed. Could he have a change of heart? Sure. That said, they have a place on this team for him that involves plenty of touches. Whether or not they took a couple of jaggy true freshmen has no real bearing on the WR room. If they leave, okay. If Niblett leaves, okay. They’ve got like 6-7 guys who will plenty of snaps this year and then 2-3 of them will go to the NFL. Rinse and repeat.
  18. It’s not just that codaxx is codaxxing this thread as expected, you’ve also got Red Five just pulling at the string constantly. Both of these men need a swift kick to the gonads.
  19. Tony Jeffery/Jefferies/? was also in that class couched by Rivals as an ATH but recruited the whole by Texas as a WR, if memory serves. It was a beast of a class on the WR end.
  20. I want to start the 2025 transfer thread and might use that to do it. Probably about time and it needs happen before one of these humorless bastards gets their mitts on it.
  21. When is this thread title not accurate? It could be the second part of almost every thread title on these forums.
  22. We are going to see some TB attrition. There’s a reason they’re taking 2 every time they can.
  23. I feel like weve been as clear as we can since December on a lot of this. There’s been a reserve in case the right few guys entered the portal. 2 DTs. They may not wind up with any, but I think at least one is a better bet. They also know of a punter. 2-3 guys from the portal, plus Auburn, gets you to 92-93 guys with an 85 man limit and hardly any dead weight. Now some of you dorks can start worrying about the numbers.
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