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  1. Smith looked great as a freshman and LeFau looked good last year too. I think people like to get caught up in the notion of zero sum competitions during camps, but my outlook is similar to yours. It’s okay to have a bunch of really good to great ball players at numerous positions who can rotate and keep each other fresh.
  2. Here’s Bobby finally coming clean on why McJaggerson is getting so much camp hype:
  3. Baylor stuff? Which scandal? And, yes, for PSU. There were multiple PCs.
  4. Has this scandal been common? Why would anyone expect the most covered college sports scandal of the past half decade to not be handled on this level?
  5. Here’s a Bucknuts reporter recounting DLC Larry Johnson’s takes on the DT depth from last night. In short, they’re running out of time and the sunshine pumping on a bunch of names who haven’t done much since signing is coming to an end. In the process, the coach is making it clear that they’re going to have to rely on an undersized true freshman as their first wave of depth. They are also lamenting Hero Kanu leaving the program after playing sparingly there for 3 years.
  6. If it isn’t harsh, this day won’t end without couch-burning riots near the Ohio State campus.
  7. They looked like dogshit before SECN cut away. Embarrassing. Kelly should be fired on the field if they lose to NW State tonight.
  8. It seems like Cooper is looking to be the only back in the class. Edwards jumped the gun on an offer to somewhere he doesn’t want to go because the money wowed him. I’m fine with the outcome, personally.
  9. That guy saying he wished Manning went to Georgia so he could cheer for him has to be the tiniest dicked poster ever. Just flat out admitting he’s living vicariously through a conference opponent so he can enjoy wins. What a fucking pussy.
  10. I couldn’t believe he was projected (and then taken) in the 1st round. He was picked on regularly and just looked like he sucked. But, hey, he started for Saban in the secondary. I guess anything could happen from here, but he still looks like he sucks. I legitimately thought this was a scene from Sling Blade at first glance.
  11. I am just lazily going off of the generally accepted list of 8 blue bloods that someone wrote about in a defining book in its time. Hell, I don’t even remember the book but I am sure Google or Wikipedia would tell you. This list is generally who is being referenced from that original notion: (in no particular order) -Texas -OU -Nebraska -Alabama -Ohio State -Michigan -Notre Dame -USC I don’t remember the methodology or criteria and I am not convicted about this list changing or not. It just kind of exists for me. It’s no different than public Ivy designation. I don’t care if people want to move Miami of Ohio or William & Mary out or not, just tell me why and don’t remove Texas. Please and thanks. I haven’t bothered to research it myself, but my father, who is as big a CFB fan as any of us and played at Rice, has gone on at least 100 rants in my lifetime about the lack of merit in Penn State’s history. Most of those rants predate Sandusky and Paterno’s pedophile factory. The claim is that Paterno was a scheduling coward as an independent constantly set up his schedule for outcomes that he then didn’t get credit for from the voters, which then led to him perpetually whining in front of mics and cameras. Apparently, that pedo enabler threw a hissy fit in 1969 that Nixon awarded Texas the title live on tv after the Arkansas game. Texas responded by getting PSU invited to the Cotton Bowl. Paterno then called that a UT home game, declined, went to Miami and played in the Orange Bowl where he continued to bawl about Texas. Maybe the blue blood lable-ers are from the same era. The last paragraph. What in the fuck. I laughed. Absurd.
  12. 2nd Scrimmage update spoilered below. Highlights: -The offense is now awesome. -Fasusi running first team. That’s mostly due to an injury to their starter and no depth, but they’re all spinning it that the guy is their Kelvin Banks. -Similar update for Fodje. He’s going to have to play this year, but that’s awesome news. -Still holding a bunch of guys out due to injuries.
  13. You can’t see it for the same reason you couldn’t get into Texas and wound up at Tech in the first place - you aren’t smart enough to see anything on your own. Even when something is spelled out plainly to help you follow things, your room temperature IQ gets in the way.
  14. Ohio State insiders are talking more and more about Serevield moving from OG to LT “seamlessly”. Right. Additionally, the Minnesota transfer, Phillip Daniels, might be their starter at RT. They’re acting like that’s a good thing but he was an also-ran for them in commentary from the spring and summer. Apparently he has gotten into a fistfight at almost every practice with someone. Finally, an insider reveals that Day is treating the Texas game like it is Michigan. “He knows this game is a big deal nationally. “ Yes, please. Prepare for this game the same way y'all have been preparing for Michigan the last 4 years.
  15. Lots of buzz out there today that the NCAA is dropping whatever they have left of a hammer on Michigan tomorrow. Ohio State boards are flat out giddy.
  16. How many lower leg injuries are ever actually “minor”?
  17. Jermichael was apparently the biggest issue in that recruitment. His ego and expectations sound as large as his child support obligations.
  18. I thought about putting both letters in caps but figured it would get figured out. I was taking a thinly veiled potshot at this thread’s resident cyclone.
  19. Huh? She started as a student at the school newspaper for Indiana and covered the Knight story as it unfolded. He famously called a meeting with her and bullied her, threatening to get her expelled and other shit. She keep investigating and writing the story anyway. She’s taken very seriously and for good reason. If that happens, every weak contrarian in the media will be picking them to win. It would be outstanding. I don’t think they beat both Auburn and Michigan though, maybe neither.
  20. Washington passing Shannon has seemed preordained to me. Were it not for Washington missing the spring, I doubt it would have to be a thing. That said, I don’t think they’re bullshitting us about Shannon being a good blocker. If they play him in situations, they’re doing it because they want to, versus having to do so.
  21. Key, I think. I was hoping Texas would talk to him. Pundits have been harping on “Matt Rhule in Year 3s” as a thing. I assume he went to double digits or close at Temple and Baylor and they expect it at Nebraska. Fine by me. I would absolutely love to meet Nebraska in the playoffs.
  22. Schtick or not, I fucking love it. It’s always acerbic and backhanded and then it spins you guys up to respond. And y’all usually make good points that i agree with, or least Al tries on his end. It’s work the occasional 3 minutes of my life. His work on the sooners is often even better.
  23. The most unbelievable part of Daniel’s’ 2023 season is that he was (mostly) uninjured while running amok. Cheap shot from fuckhead Dallas Turner aside. The Iggy hype the OSU boards are fomenting reminds me of the CB at Bama who was picked on constantly and then taken in the first round of the 2024 draft. Did that guy have a good rookie year? I remember debating him in that year’s draft thread. That image you guys have been quoting is hilarious. That looks like a 350 lb man getting easily ragdolled.
  24. Go back through the various aggie threads where people retread the trope “this site always underestimates ATM and then we’re all disappointed when they beat expectations”. This thread, 2026 recruiting thread, the 2025 football thread, and Tell Me Abour ATM are good starters.
  25. Elko is Fisher Part Deux regarding being a star chaser. For Georgia to not even feign interest on an in-state guy means there’s something seriously problematic. Is he a tweener? Is he a made gang member? Is he asking for QB money? It has to be something.
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