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  1. Some thoughts on their comments, fwiw. 1) Davison was the primary RB target until real NIL discussions happened and his head was in the clouds. It's too easy to find replacement options at RB unless someone is a Bijan Robinson type, and, shit, Texas was on Evans more than Robinson for a while in that recruitment. Oregon went in even above OSU. I'm interested in seeing if he's worth it. 2) Jackson really wanted McCutcheon, for whatever reason. Sarkisian wanted Johnson, but that guy didn't want to be in a class with 2 5 star WRs, even though the pitch to him was about more of the Whittington role. McCutcheon vs Johnson will also be an interesting comparison to watch. I assume Johnson will play much earlier than McCutcheon. 3) Ffrench and Moore went to the schools they went to for the same reason. The writer almost ... almost connects the dots in his Moore write-up. 4) M Terry's camp absolutely had an interest in NIL. However, Texas didn't match either other option and he's still at Texas because of the pitch. Terry is also certainly being taken care of regarding his contract. 5) Texas recruited the Winston guy a lot harder than the rankings would indicate they should. The big utility player idea, if the rumors are true for how the staff is thinking about some hybrid roles, would fit here. He played QB, TB and WR in addition to TE. His film is amusing at times. He's big and fast, but short at like 6'1". I have no idea what level of competition he was playing against on the tape, which I think was junior film. 6) The OL haul this cycle is a case study in a staff seeing something in multiple OLs that the rankings and other programs do not. Christian looks like a JAG to me. The Mills guy looked awesome, so that's a tough loss. Texas went all-in in trying to land Fasusi, mostly because he was the option they liked best OT. They were not as high on the other big name OTs as everyone else. 7) Can't believe Texas landed Tyanthony Smith out of Jasper in 2024. The push from Red Bryant and others there towards ATM seems tough to beat.
  2. My thought is that Anwar is as clueless as ever. Burton gave an update this morning that said that there wasn't a lot of news out of the football office regarding who Sarkisian was talking to, but he would not be surprised by another NFL hire. There are two guys with the ability to directly access Sarkisian and other staff members. Neither of those guys seem to have a feel for where this is going. The Mickens information is being disseminated from the same source to multiple reporters, clearly. Who knows how credible the source is? Is it an agent? Who else gains from that shit getting out?
  3. His younger brother, who I think also played at Texas, coached me in football and baseball my freshman year. Dude was a true shitbag, old school meathead coach. He told me that I needed to quit baseball and focus on football and then literally benched me for the entire season to make a point. He got hired away to the Midland area after that and I think he became a HC and AD down the line. I’m sure he’s fucked plenty of other people over as he’s advanced. They seem like a great family.
  4. Give me either of these guys, but I have to think Belk being the lead guy in the recruitment (and commitment) for RJ Sermons wouldn't be a bad thing for Texas in this recruiting cycle.
  5. I believe Ol'Tito has done some sponsorship stuff in some form. The alcohol prohibition for NIL meant some form of maneuvering, if memory serves, as collectives are not prohibited from taking money from alcohol companies even though the athlets are. I think that was all public and that's where those buffoons are placing "the blame" for Texas NIL. Or, maybe I am misremembering and those rubes really do think that an alcohol company is able to legally fund Texas athletes directly. The corporate NIL stack for Texas is now somewhere at $10M plus if you include Red Bull for Manning. That just basically replaces a chunk of the Dr. Pepper stuff for Ewers. Regardless, the corporate stuff continues to grow. I am guessing the aggie clowns will continue to do the thing where they focus on just one villain to bitch about, whether it's Tito's or Red Bull. Meanwhile, Texas will have the single largest NIL position in the brief history of NIL for the 2025 calendar year. They're not in a battle with a fucking Austin-based vodka company. They're losing a war being advanced on multiple fronts in which the enemy's armaments and fortifications are actually growing as ATM and the rest of the landscape take on bullets virtually daily.
  6. You worry too much. They do stuff like this every year, to some degree. At the moment, there isn't a ton of buzz about them doing so with any local big name recruit. There are more OTs than Texas can sign this cycle, so maybe they get lucky there. The bigger issue is that they don't really have any more money than most other big names, and their single biggest benefactor has buyout fatigue.
  7. The funnier part is that they think that they're really close to being where Texas is on NIL. You see plenty of media putting schools besides Oregon above Texas as well. Ummmm, no. Wish I could say more, but it's kind of scary where things sit today compared to what we know about the landscape.
  8. Well, the guy's been a silent for months, so it's good to see that Scruggs is really plugged in here.
  9. I've been a part of a number of bachelor parties in Vegas and many other gatherings with 8+ people. My view is the same as others - plan on going out with groups of 6-10 at most, outside of the strip club/stripper event. In doing so, if you start now, you'll have no issues booking the restaurants of your choice along the strip.
  10. Yeah, @torre reminded me about the injury offline yesterday. Here's hoping that JW can go at some point this year and be found money for the baseball program. Seems doubtful, but sure, no harm.
  11. I didn't have "The Father on ALF will commit to play at Texas." on my radar for 2025, so this is a surprise for me.
  12. Good shot that this is the case.
  13. Wait, what? This guy tried to murder his ex-wife? I need the full story. No wonder he hasn't seen his son, who I am sure is super pleased that his dad tried to commit murder.
  14. Was he the guy wearing pleated blue jeans?
  15. I agree wholeheartedly about GW Fins, as its proximity to Bourbon Street makes the people watching entertainment almost a certainty. That said, going to the far end of the bar is the key. When the overweight fatty wearing only lingerie and a tiara stumbles through that door to order a to-go cosmo, you do not want to be her target of opportunity seated next to the door. Or, fuck it, having read a bunch of you peoples' takes on women on this board, maybe that would work for some of you.
  16. Are you drawing those conclusions because they're 2 of the most idiotic posters on this site? They're not idiots due to inexperience. They're idiots because they've got room temperature IQs. At least Helobious is entertaining with his absurdly stupid takes.
  17. That schedule looks appropriate. Tech is an outpost of a program. It makes sense that they'd schedule poo in the non-conference. The Big 12 schedule, and I guess every team's Big 12 schedule is like this, looks like a bunch of bum fights versus some of the saddest try-hard brands known to CFB, with Tech of course leading the pack. I assume Tech goes somewhere between 5-7 and 8-5 as always.
  18. Jesus Christ was only 33. I doubt there is a poster on this site younger than JFC.
  19. I'm curious about what anybody here thinks of Jonah Williams for this season. He's obviously a true freshman and the team is stacked, so I assume he's not expected to play much? Does anyone know whether he's being worked on as a pitcher? Or OF?
  20. All of this is really grim. I just assumed he was in his 70's, if not 80's.
  21. Until I saw the non-edited post quoted where the dildo comment was made, I didn't understand where the "homophobic slur" reference was pointed. I read your quote of his 3 times trying to understand what I was missing. "Great, is there some new way of using an old word that I now have to stop using?" Phew. You might as well be kicking the old guy's walker out from underneath him. Just put him on ignore and he can verbally vomit all over this board with impunity as the septuagenarian version of spyder2yguy. Trust me, it's an easy fix. I'm not sure about the dildo part of this as I'm admittedly happily inexperienced, but I do know I apparently feel this way about sunglasses and umbrellas, as I seem to lose 20+ of each product to the public domain each calendar year.
  22. My wife and I thought this would be fun to watch. Turned it off after 15 terrible minutes and started watching season 2 of The Night Agent.
  23. Donnie Brasco is overrated tripe. I've tried to watch it 3 or 4 times in my life and have wound up finding better shit to do and never finishing it. That includes turning it off at least once and turning the tv over to a Chopped or something else like it. The Untouchables gets knocked because it's not off-broadway enough for a lot of you guys who fancy yourselves as enlightened movie critics. Capone beats the literal brains out of a guy with a baseball bat. Ness throws Frank Nitty off of a fucking building to his death (I know this factually didn't occur, but it's a satisfying ending). It's set in Chicago at Capone's height. There are several iconic movie scenes and lines with great fucking actors in them - the blood oath scene with Costner and Connery; the mounty border raid "The surprise is half the battle." "Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."; Ness confronting Capone in his hotel; and of course the train station with the stairs, the shootout, the stroller - "You got him?" "Yeah, I got 'em." .... "Take 'em." bang! It's a movie about Al fucking Capone and Elliott Ness, was written by David Mamet, directed by Brian De Palma, and Connery won the academy award for Best Supporting Actor. It is about as gangster as a movie can get and it was really well done. I don't expect it to be in many gangster top 5's, but deriding it is silly. ********* Also, for everyone who obsesses about Goodfellas being at the top of the heap, I don't even think that's Ray Liotta's best gangster movie. Copland is one of the most underrated movies of all time. The cops were the gangsters, Harvey Keitel was terrific, a coked out Liotta was fantastic and Stallone was actually really good as the buffoonish foil to Keitel's menacing mob of miscreants. Oh, and DeNiro had an amazing scene while literally eating a sandwich and going on a tirade with his mouth full.
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