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Sooners Illustrated released the sooner spring depth chart and it does not disappoint. I will spoiler it below. Highlights: -Remember that Venables has his team continue to regularly beat the shit out of each other in practice well into the season. I don't even think this is rumor. It's some sort of source of pride and many of the OU insiders are shocked when they go to practices and it. Which leads us to ... -Two of the OL starters (left side of the line) will be missing spring training due to torn labrum surgeries. No big deal for OL, right? Ask Tommy Brockermeyer. -Jayden Jackson, freshman AA DT, will also be missing the spring due to torn labrum surgery. No big deal for a DT either. Right. -Barnes (RB) is missing the spring after suffering a foot injury during winter drills. -Jayden Gibson (WR) is out for the spring after hurting his knee again in workouts. It's alleged that the ACL is torn again, but the mods haven't confirmed. -Jared Kanak, former highly rated LB recruit who was committed to Clemson and then came over to OU as Venables allegedly begged him to stay loyal to Dabo, is still running 4th string and going to split time also working out with the TEs. -Gentry Williams, Peyton Bowen, and Kendal Dolby are not able to practice yet with the team, after all 3 suffered injuries in the fall campaign. Notable, but nothing to blame on anyone. -Finally, I challenge anyone interested to offer up who they'd take from this OU two-deep and place in the Texas two-deep. I'll go first - Burks (Slot WR), Everett (C), Sexton (RT), D Williams (NT), R Mason Thomas (Edge), Eli Bowen (CB). Jackson if he comes back and there are no lingering issues with his shoulder. That's 6-7 for me and only Everett and D Williams are probably starters. It's definitely more than I would take from ATM, but that's a pretty weak group of top end talent for OU compared to the last 26 years.
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Sooners Illustrated released the sooner spring depth chart and it does not disappoint. I will spoiler it below. Highlights: -Remember that Venables has his team continue to regularly beat the shit out of each other in practice well into the season. I don't even think this is rumor. It's some sort of source of pride and many of the OU insiders are shocked when they go to practices and it. Which leads us to ... -Two of the OL starters (left side of the line) will be missing spring training due to torn labrum surgeries. No big deal for OL, right? Ask Tommy Brockermeyer. -Jayden Jackson, freshman AA DT, will also be missing the spring due to torn labrum surgery. No big deal for a DT either. Right. -Barnes (RB) is missing the spring after suffering a foot injury during winter drills. -Jayden Gibson (WR) is out for the spring after hurting his knee again in workouts. It's alleged that the ACL is torn again, but the mods haven't confirmed. -Jared Kanak, former highly rated LB recruit who was committed to Clemson and then came over to OU as Venables allegedly begged him to stay loyal to Dabo, is still running 4th string and going to split time also working out with the TEs. -Gentry Williams, Peyton Bowen, and Kendal Dolby are not able to practice yet with the team, after all 3 suffered injuries in the fall campaign. Notable, but nothing to blame on anyone. -Finally, I challenge anyone interested to offer up who they'd take from this OU two-deep and place in the Texas two-deep. I'll go first - Burks (Slot WR), Everett (C), Sexton (RT), D Williams (NT), R Mason Thomas (Edge), Eli Bowen (CB). Jackson if he comes back and there are no lingering issues with his shoulder. That's 6-7 for me and only Everett and D Williams are probably starters. It's definitely more than I would take from ATM, but that's a pretty weak group of top end talent for OU compared to the last 26 years.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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If it helps regarding the status of Turntine on the board for UT, I've asked Gerry directly about it on the OTF board. I'll post his response here. Last time I heard anything, Turntine was still atop the board and Texas felt good about his ability to gain good weight for the collegiate game. -
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Can you idiots get back to the work of posting aggie idiocy and your comments on said posts? Yard work discussion is a new low. Thanks. -
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I think they would take Cooper above Crowell, but if they could get Crowell and Edwards right now, they’d probably do it and be finished with it. Crowell has a lot more prima donna in him than the other two. Same same. Far and away, $9.95ers rank the OL the worst out of all positions. I think it is due to two reasons: 1) A lot of $9.95ers are clueless as to what they’re doing. The team site guys are often just laughable. Does anyone here think Geoff Ketchum has a clue about the football trenches? I mean, sure, he’s always been a rotund glutton, but the guy stopped playing organized football in junior high. He got the OB job by interning for Bobby Burton and being in the right place at the right time. That’s true over and over for many of the team site mods and analysts. 2) OL evaluation is truly benefitted by seeing guys in person. Most of the $9.95 crowd see a guy in person once or twice at a camp, if that recruit is lucky enough and interested enough to attend one. Few of them get out on the road and watch them in drills at their school or at a local game. Few get to know coaches from repeat appearances to catch-up, which is when the best of the best get to pick up nuance around the character of a recruit, potential distractions due to family, gangs or pussy, etc. And no, contrary to the stooge you quoted, HS coaches don’t just randomly hand out full film of a player. One other thing to keep in mind about Gerry and Bobby - they actually talk to a ton of college coaches and analysts. They’ve both been doing this for decades. If Gerry’s really high on a guy at OL, DL, TE, or LB, you can mix into your thinking about that player that, hey, Texas might really like this guy too. I’m not saying that means “trust the coaches”, but it’s a data point. If you think Banks and Flood know what they’re doing, that’s a good way to discern for yourself that maybe the national rankings on a player aren’t worth the ass sweat seeping into Ketchum’s couch on a daily basis.- 3598 replies
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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Motivational jargon. The silhouette of the naked girl from 18 wheeler flaps. His favorite kind of sandwich. The usual stuff we're all into. -
Texas Women’s Basketball 2024-2025 - We SEC Ready
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Is he implying that it is league jealousy that had LSU getting voted up and Texas players getting snubbed? If so, I agree. If not, well, that's what I think and I'm still confused by his last sentence. I feel like we saw this in CFB as well. These hillbillies and rednecks don't like Texas coming into the conference and immediately being elite in a sport. Sucks for the players, but I do find the envy entertaining. -
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Looking back, he was one of the more “meh?” hired at the time. No one had a strong criticism, but no one here was excited, either. Seems like a great get at this point. -
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The Iron Bowl is a lot like the Texas vs ATM game in a normal cycle. Diehards watch it. Occasionally something is on the line. Mostly, no one but those two fanbases give any kind of shit. One of the more eye-rolly things over the last decade+ was listening to talking heads wax nostalgic about the game since it had gone away. “Does everyone miss that match-up? The ratings never suggested so. “ They couldn’t name Texas vs OU for obvious reasons, and they couldn’t name Michigan vs Ohio State because they’re going to cling to the notion of SEC primacy until that is wrung from their cold, dead, tiny hands. -
Apparently, I have 38 people on ignore. -I'm fairly certain at least 3 of them are dead. -Another 2-3 are on there because they're old and posting old, and a lot of it. -Multiple shitposters who do so at volume. One has no place else to go. One may be the dumbest motherfucker on this site and unloads his stupidity at clips that would make Dutch Schaefer or John Rambo envious. Another guy has already been mentioned. He is wrong constantly, or was when he wasn't on ignore years ago, but is always absolutely certain that he's right. There's actually two like this, the other one appears to have been a big fan of Tom Herman. -A few are tedious tautologists who try to get everyone else to do their thinking for them and then try to be contrarian once they've gotten someone to spell out the answer they were first pursuing. These are recruiting board regulars. -There's like 5-6 who are probably okay. I still see them posting and I can't remember why I put them on ignore years ago. I've clicked on posts in this category in the past and decided to remove someone from the list every now and then. -Finally, this dude was a physicist who later starred in Space Balls whose sole purpose appears to be the biggest JAQ'off on the entire site, at volume.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Dia Bell comes from wealth. He’s not shopping himself out to the highest bidder. On top of that, QBs at Texas have access to NIL that few other places do. The LSU guys are not only simple dumbasses, they’re known liars. They’re often wrong, but never in doubt.- 3598 replies
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How do you think this is all going to work out for each of us here, Derka?
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It’s always felt like an inevitability, but it is still surprising that it took 20+ years before we’d have an interaction where I was included in one of your idiotic manic episodes. Regardless, I’m negging everything you’ve posted here and hope many others do the same. The football board does need gatekeeping, actually, precisely for moments like this where a shitposter comes unhinged and decides to ruin the experience for everyone else.
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Fair is a four letter word. It didn't merit two long posts with rants about Derka being the board's Tupac, with all eyes on him and shit. Dude is over 40. Get a fucking grip. And also, I negged Post Oak just now to your point, since it was deliberate trolling and not helpful.
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What does "fine" mean? I didn't say they'd have a losing record, just that they lost a shit ton of talent on the roster and with the staff. No one gives a fuck what Vegas has posted. They post numbers to attract bets not to predict outcomes. Why do you feel the need to let us all know that they're not going to fade into irrelevance? Has anyone, ever on this board, intimated as much about Ohio State football? I damned sure haven't, and I haven't read anyone else claiming as much. Saying they'll struggle to finish in the top 10 isn't calling for their downfall.
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Ohio State returns two star players, one on each side of the ball. They lost like 25 starters and regular contributors, their DC, OC and other assistants. If they finish in the top 10 next season, Day deserves an award.
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Here’s the thing, dum dum - anyone else could have made your Helm point, had folks respond, the conversation works its course and the thread goes on. You, however, have to turn the discussion into your victimhood, and then your dumbass can’t let it go. It’s a real mystery what’s going on here. You turn the circumstances, largely innocuous, into “OMG, here everyone goes again! this is so funny! why won’t they let it go and stop talking about me!” rinse and repeat, ad nauseum. I’ve usually been in your court, but mostly because you keep it ringfenced somewhere like the basketball board and some of the guys that post at you really are trolls. This isn’t that. So shut the fuck up and stop talking about yourself and your victimization on this thread. No one wants to hear it.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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I haven't had any problem with the way Choice evaluated and recruited at TB. Anyone bitching about him as a recruiter in aggregate is clueless. At TB? Okay, here are my thoughts: 1) Sarkisian apparently wants to take two RBs every cycle. While many RBs are warming up to the idea of sharing carries, the bluest of the blue still often bristle at that. 2 of the top 4 RBs in 2025 did not want another RB in their class (Dear/Kromah). 2) At one point or another, Gibson and Baxter were each the #1 RB in their class. Baxter showed flashes of being a star. If he can recover and stay healthy, he's got all conference potential. I realize that @Red Five would like to see Texas cut Gibson immediately, but I think the guy fits the mold of what they want running between the tackles if he can hold onto the ball. 3) Simon was also a top 5-7 back in the last class. 4) There were discussions of cutting Wisner lose and taking the commitment of someone else in his class. Choice fought to keep him and now that looks like a solid evaluation. So the guy signed 3 guys in the top 150 of each cycle, all top 5-7 or better at TB in that class. One showed a lot of promise in a reserve role as a freshman. Another guy that was completely off the national radar just had an amazing season when injuries struck. The two new signees and Christian Clark are hard to have an opinion on, but there's plenty of reason to think Symon could be a big contributor. Last year, two of the better RBs in college football were an unknown Texan playing for Boise State and a transfer from Sacto State at ASU. There are many years in which the highest rated RB recruit isn't considered a transcendent player. If you sign highly ranked guys with some raw guys mixed in and then they're all developing well, what else do you want? There isn't a Bijan Robinson in every cycle. I hope this new guy is awesome or he signs the next Bijan, or both. That considered, until proven otherwise, I'd much prefer for Choice to have stuck around.- 3598 replies
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I think that's who he meant. No one on this board thinks highly of David Stone and his alligator mouth. Let us know when that blowhard shows up and actually does something.
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I'll play*, but I'm an "aggregate record" guy when it comes to this stuff. I won money on the 2024 sooners by taking the under of 7.5 wins. I didn't know where 6+ losses were coming from, but I didn't like the schedule and I made fun of the OC and QB spots actively on this site long before the season started. I sure as hell didn't see OU blowing out Bama, though. Spoilered schedule thoughts below:
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This was still while Choice was a leader on the RB room decision-making, but the initial plan was Edwards or Osborne, plus Latimer if they could get him. If not, just take both Texas guys. I feel like now, it's take Edwards and then land a bigger difference-maker, preferably Cooper or the dude out of Bama. They seem like they've moved on from Latimer and they're not willing to make RB1 assurances to Osborne. We'll see how it plays out, but I'm guessing they're going to push to lock up Edwards more sooner than later and then run the gambit. I don't find the strategy concerning. Edwards is fine being part of a 2 RB class, supposedly. More and more guys are seeing things that way due to better understanding of the consequences for being a college workhorse when it comes to NFL value. -
I can't even believe Ewers vs. Howard is even a discussion. Good grief. I don't expect much from Ewers in the pros due to his fragility and self-sacking. I'll be surprised if he goes higher than the 3rd round because of those things, but he's got a whip, so that may be too much for someone to ignore. Watching him this season was frustrating. I'm kind of cheering for a Colt McCoy career where he's just not able to be an every week starter, but he can be a terrific backup in spurts. If that's the case, the guy could make $75M+ in a 10+ year career and look good doing it. The bust label would be avoided with a later round pick and that kind of career. I'll be shocked if Ewers becomes a top 10-ish starter for many years in the league. Given that I consider Ward and Sanders walking busts who will solve nothing for whoever drafts them, and guys like Dart to be flavors of the month, I think my description above for Ewers' career could make him the most successful QB in this draft.
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