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  1. I forgot about their view that Texas hiring away their baseball coach was some sort of national scandal in which everyone is shaming Texas for making the move. I don’t think I ever heard anyone nationally treating it as anything other than Texas big brothering ATM and finding it amusing. The only time it will ever come up again will be when Texas plays ATM, and it certainly won’t be cast as a mark of shame for UT. This is truly delusional fantasy shit.
  2. I was being serious with 8-5. Mateer is a good dual threat guy. They return most of their OL. WR/TE will likely be mediocre and the backs are fine. The offense could go back to being somewhat above average. Defensively, they lose 3 of their best players but they have talent. The DL will be good. The back 7 is sketchier but I’m sure Venables will figure it out. The schedule is tough. Ceiling looks like 9-4 and the floor looks like 6-7. I’m going with 8-5. If there’s big movement in the second window either way, my view is subject to change.
  3. He’s Black Mamula. He’s got bust written all over him and I am here for it. Membou and Campbell over Banks continues to astound me. Banks has better film than either of them. Banks has better measurables than Campbell. Campbell’s measurables are frankly comical. Watching these mockers overthink this is still amazing.
  4. They want to see arm talent and then to split hairs over the rest of it as nuance. Arm talent is like porn - you know it when you see it, as the old judge said. Ewers had the easiest arm talent in the building yesterday and a bunch of people paid to know that are saying as much.
  5. Time to end the “Helm is an idiot for continuing the combine” crusade, man. You’ve never made a decision like he did in your life. I get that it goes against your grain. I’ve made a few along his line and never expected the critics on the sideline to understand. You stated your point, it’s noted, and time to course correct back to draft discussion in this thread. The rest of us are not interested in seeing the thread further derka’d or immamac’d or jimmyjazzed or ztejas’d. Fuck us all for wanting to talk draft here. Christ.
  6. I thought that was a longstanding rumor. Maybe the DUI was isolated though. I’ve never hung out with the guy or anything.
  7. He’s a drunk and he’s old at 62, but I would take a decade of Mark Few running things. He was impressed with Moody when Texas blew his team out in Beard’s fateful second season. Before Texas was forced to hire Terry, Few had expressed real interest and was going to be a shocking potential hire.
  8. I doubt it. OU is going to be a good team next year. People haven’t looked at things critically yet, but when they do, they’ll see that OU has a lot going for it. The schedule is unforgiving, but getting to 8-5 is a solid outcome and Castiglione isn’t an idiot. 2026 could be hideous. OU is having all kinds of panic regarding the House settlement and competing in NIL. They’re worried more about ensuring softball and gymnastics remain competitive than figuring out a new way squeeze blood from the stone in football. That’s a seachange driven by a clear-eyed view of the landscape as NIL has rapidly changed the game. No one needs 2500 words on how football is OU’s identity and they’ll do whatever it takes. It is known. What is now known as well is that they don’t have the weaponry in storage left to maintain that war. As they retreat and rally the ranks, the hills they’re going to die on are the two in which they honestly think they can continue to win titles.
  9. I’ll only have 30 minutes before taking my wife on a date. I’ll just follow this thread for updates, I guess.
  10. Sorry I didn’t scroll to find this, but what channel is this on? I tried to find it on ESPN+ and had no luck.
  11. On this board, we were selling Arnold before he ever stepped onto your campus. He’s a camp hero with a helicopter parent from a system offense with no elite skills. He had no business being ranked the way he was. Contrarian rubes like that fatfuck pedophile Mike Farrell ranked him over Arch Manning … just because. They wanted everyone to know how smart they are. Arnold may play better at Auburn, but there’s nothing there to get excited about other than his overrated recruit ranking pedigree.
  12. If it’s Neal Brown, that would be lucky for us. I have a good friend who played with Brown and is still buddies with him. We’d get more snippets, probably.
  13. Coach 8 is closer to the truth than the rest of them.
  14. Without going into a bunch of details, the 501(c)3 side of TOF will be ending shortly. The House settlement is specifically ending that aspect for all programs. Independent NIL work and TOF LLC related work will continue, including uninterrupted for the subs and stuff. NIL support above the university/AD payouts is still going to be essential and corporate NIL will be critical, due to many of the concerns voiced here about the return of bags and other such if there isn’t more active support to ensure players feel like they’re getting their value.
  15. I've skimmed his stuff this time around. It looks like a lot of pseudo-math lumped in with his opinions in an effort to look credible. I get it, but anyone putting weight on his numbers early in the season is messing with fool's gold.
  16. It’s only a good hire if the guy is calling the shots on personnel, like a NFL GM. And that’s assuming that he’s actually good at that these days. It’s bizarre looking from my view. It pleases me. OU looks lost at that this point.
  17. You guys are doing a ridiculous amount of handwringing about this. As corporate NIL grows veins into the Texas athletics department, and that's happening for sure, fearing the unhinged offer will become more and more pointless. The Canady scenario is not the norm, even for Tech. Barring lunatic-level shit out of nowhere, Texas is sitting pretty. And if there were going to be lunatic-level shit, we'd be hearing about it already.
  18. There's like 8 OL drafted in this mock of the first round. None of them are Kelvin Banks Jr. That shit is laughable.
  19. It’s the local elementary school PE coach, everybody! Replete in your Bike shorts, tucked in Polo, long tube socks and a whistle, you’re going to punish all of us because one asshole stepped out of line.
  20. You posted the wrong pic, doofus.
  21. Being a Title-ist looks like a miserable fucking life.
  22. I see two issues: 1) It’s just kind of retread feel to the hire for many of us. It’s also a position coaching role, as opposed to simply being an advisor. 2) Some people think that anyone over a certain age, I guess maybe 65?, is a worthless fucking drag on society. They either need to sit in their rocking chair, watching Matlock reruns while they eat their tv dinners, or they need to be taken out back and shot, leaving their carcasses to the coyotes and critters. I’m in group 1, but I agree with your sentiments.
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