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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I wouldn't worry about the bag game. It will always show up in the dumbest of recruitments even today, sure. That said, the monetary requirements have elevated to heights that make it largely irrelevant. LSU, Bama, Georgia, OU, Clemson, etc., these are all programs that are going to repeatedly struggle to hit their nut on the revshare side to begin with, so boosters will be tapped and fatigued. We're seeing that already. $800k used to win a recruiting cycle for Bama or LSU. That seems quaint now. The bigger thing to worry about is when a program with plenty of money starts pushing large sums above the $20.5 revshare allotment into the payrolls and acting like that's not what they're doing. A limited number of programs could do that, but the most obvious one to go there and be fucktards about it sits 90 miles east of Austin. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Don't tell that to @Helobious. He's going to fuck your take up, bro. In truth, I think the last 2 Aussie punters that Texas had didn't work out. Pearson has become really good at SMU, if memory serves, but he never kicked at Texas. I can't remember the other dude's name but it was like Polish or something and he punted for us for a year, poorly. I don't know where he went from Austin, however. I'm a bigger proponent of chickenhawking proven FBS punters into and through the portal. Worked with the Stanford dude and returns on the new guy are positive. But, apparently Banks disagrees, as we have some high schooler teed up to be here next season again. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
If you could see how the sausage was being made in the last cycle, you'd have been plenty worried. It's just best to remember that multiple dudes will be putting a gun to the program's head in December, no matter much we all may like them as fans. Moore, Muhammad and Niblack all got way out over their skis in the last cycle and we could very well be looking at all 3 on other rosters. We don't care and kind of laugh at Niblack's deal, but playing chicken with the other two luckily wound up in Texas' favor with Muhammad and broke some spirit with Moore. Neither would have been good losses. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Pretty sure he's one of those old ass Australian Rules football guys that they converted at their academy. He looks 35 here though. Damn. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Shaw is found money. He had a solid year last year after looking like a huge bust for UNC. Then he gets here and he can't trust one of his legs enough to go through some offseason drills. The word was that they were hoping he could do his best Jermayne Lole imitation and pick his spots to do something in very limited, painful snaps in 2025. Then they scope the guy and he's being openly talked about as someone who could move up draft charts. That's freaking huge and does nothing to denigrate the other guys on the depth chart. Lost in all of this is the very obvious probability that Hills portals in December. Sort of that 2022 class review from Gerry the other day, he's one of those guys getting drowned out by the talent level rising around him. Not a bad guy or bad player, but there's no path forward here. People who have been to the practices say that he stands out from the DT crowd size-wise, and not in a good way. I don't disagree. but we worried about this last year as well. There's definitely going to be attrition every year from here forward that hurts because the roster is simply loaded. I see risk on youth at WR and at TE, depth at QB, RB and in the secondary all being factors. That said, they have a process for managing it all, and money to help. The scouts they have covering the portal have also shown that they are top notch. Sarkisian got to learn under the roster retention master in Saban. Keep putting 10+ guys into the league every year and more players will wait their turn than they would virtually anywhere else.- 5669 replies
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You understand it is bullshit to go back in the early days of a recruiting thread with a volatile recruit and call people out on it, right? In any event, I led the charge in doubting Blue repeatedly through his time on campus at Texas. The guy quit on his HS team, they voted not to take him back, bitched about playing time as a true freshman behind Bijan Robinson and Roschon Johnson, tried to quit, later tried to portal, had massive fumbling issues, never fully made it as a starter and still somehow came through the other side as a draft pick. Zach Evans also got drafted. Elite talent can cause a lot of other sins to be forgiven. Here's hoping he works his ass off and takes a different path than Evans and wins big contracts and prizes in the league. I'm cheering for him like I am every longhorn in the NFL because it certainly helps the program. I'm still in awe that the dude pulled it all off for himself. Also, if there were another guy coming through with all of the same red flags as Blue, I'd still be playing the overwhelming odds that he wouldn't be a take or would bust out. See: Evans, Zach; Hampton, Aeryn; or Alexander, Bear.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
CJ Vogel with a recruiting update today. Someone can put the 2027 part in that thread if they give a shit. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
To be clear, I never said he was dumb. He isn’t. He’s self-made and worth more than the Campbell guy at Tech, allegedly. I don’t really see the Elko hire as significantly different than the Stoops hire other than they knew and liked Elko. Elko was less costly as well. The dumbass in all of this is the former AD and his counsel who cut the first deal with Jimbo and then whoever re-upped without buyout edits. The guy handling the mess would absolutely never agree to that kind of shit in a deal structure. -
“How does this Satchel guy have all of this rep and I can’t recall his posts?” … clicks on profile and reads activity… ”Right. “ We need the ability to crowdsource clowns off of forums and let them contain their dumb fucking rep counts in the Cloak Room. It’s a fucking relentless beating at times from that echo chamber.
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
closetojumping replied to bigup2dahorns's topic in Food and Travel
Why the hell would they ever close Javier’s? That place is always packed and also beloved. And, yes, a killing spree would be in order. Starting with you. -
I’ve been to Lubbock. As fond as I am of Michener, he’s full of shit with that quote. It’s a nice attempt of gaslighting on your end, but get fucked for doing so. As to other shitholes not catching shade: 1) Ann Arbor isn’t an “unappealing place”. You accuse people of having an opinion of places while having never been there and then you go ahead and do it yourself. You sound like a fucking idiot with that take. 2) Those other shitholes all catch shade by anyone objectively talking about them. They’re all terrible places per the opinions of numerous people who have been there. 3) Comparing Austin to Calcutta is one of the dumbest things ever posted on this board. Given that this board is swamped with idiotic takes, this should be viewed as an accomplishment of some sort. I’m rewarding you and your continued bullshit with neg rep. Going back and negging your terrible McGuire vs Briles post as well. Purposefully misleading bullshit is not welcome here, shitbag.
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Why on earth would we seek new material when we are usually entertained by your behavior with the same ol' same ol'? You have a giant button right there on your virtual chest that says "push me and I'll get pissy and whine about mean ol'Texas on a Texas board".
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a) Joey McGuire was steering recruits away from Texas when he was running shit at a football factory. He negative recruited Texas at Baylor in ways that were dishonest. Then he went to Tech and ran his fucking mouth. Don't give yourself too much credit. Those of us who follow recruiting have disliked that drunk motherfucker for a long, long time. b) We're Texas. You're Tech. We're not "coping" about shit. I'm pointing out the level of commitment it takes to sustain being nationally competitive in this era. Texas is and will be fine. You seem confident in Tech doing same. Clearly, the guys talking to The Athletic feel the same. Good for you guys. c) I didn't mention ATM, albeit others did. I tend to agree with your thoughts on them relative to anyone else, Texas Tech included.
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Today's practice report from a noticeably nervous Carter Karels. I assume that The Elk's media secretary was standing over Karels as he wrote this, holding the Aggie247 media credentials over a small vat of acid. Highlights: -Terry Bussey isn't making any sort of move to win the 3rd starting WR job and Karels is hinting that they're thinking about moving him back to the secondary. Let's see, 5 star "ATH" on verge on making second position switch in two years while not making starting lineup. Is that good? -He tried to paint Reed as performing better and then goes off the rails and highlights him being a member of the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight while trying to complete passes beyond the 15 yard area. -Zuhn continues to get highlighted by the aggies playing Center. There's not going to be a good way to spin things if that goes to Center, Fatheree is a starting OT and Nabou replaces somebody at OG. -Generally speaking, as I've been saying, it looks like it is starting to dawn on these guys that their WR room pretty much sucks. TK Norman, who they have been hyping all offseason as a workout warrior, can't catch a cold. Some guy named Ashton Bethel-Roman might win WR3 by default. Jerome Myles is coming off of severe injury, Bussey we discussed, and then after that, it's a few guys named Bob. - @Longhornfrenzy and @JesusSweatDuck if you guys pick up any actual practice or team reporting in your work on Texags, please add it here so we can compare notes between the sites and find some actual truths about their outlook in there.- 469 replies
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You are perpetually insecure about discussing Tech. No one is saying you don't have a chance. There's also no "message" to come off of here. Tech has never won a fucking thing and until they do, they're an easy target to mock. It's fun and you shitting yourself each time we do it only provides the chemical hit in our brains that we're looking for when we write this stuff. I, for one, do not wish to ever see Tech close up shop. I enjoy rooting against Tech and making fun of their ongoing ineptitude as an athletic department. I don't know how this will all end with the moneywhipping and not winning, but I do know that it will be hilarious in unintentional ways.
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We've broken this down and watched it for years in the recruiting forum. "The only problem for Oregon is that, well, you can't move Oregon." Same holds true for Tech. You guys can find recruits and transfers to moneywhip, there is no doubt. There is also no doubt that the vast majority of recruits and players do not want to live in a dust bowl located 6 hours from anything. At least Eugene is pretty. The Norman reference doesn't work. OU built their program by cheating. They leveraged their competitive advantage - an ingrained, core-DNA level lack of integrity or shame - to achieve outsized results versus the competition. Their willingness to buy players was often a bridge too far from where Texas or others were willing to go. That's a bygone era. Being able to pay as much or slightly more for given players isn't really a competitive advantage. When Oregon and Texas go head to head and they both really want a guy, it's like a 50/50 split on who wins. Michigan overbids and still loses guys. Same for Bama or Georgia. Yet those places all have tradition and many not named Oregon sit in hotbeds for talent. Tech has a chance to put a fine roster together, that is not being disputed. Sustaining that and then actually achieving anything with it deservedly being disputed. You guys have never won shit and you have a dipshit for a head coach. Start with a conference title. Hell, just get to the game for once. Then maybe talking beyond that looks something less than laughable to the rest of us. Also, I know Campbell and the other guy are billionaires, but Texas is fielding a $40M+ roster this year and a big chunk of that is corporate, not only revshare or collective. Tech's going to get virtually zero support from the corporate side. If Tech is fielding a $40-50M roster each year, because that's what sustaining success is going to take, those dudes are going to burn some net worth. They're not Phil Knight or Larry Ellison rich and they don't have the collective wealth of both the UT base and the UT AD.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The counts in Little League are strictly enforced these days. The same is true for select tournaments. I get the skipping back and forth, so if parents are idiots, I guess that's a factor. I know I don't let my kid pitch more than once a week unless the first appearance was minimal, but he's almost always a starter so that isn't often. -
I can go along with most of your well-balanced and reasoned post with the exception of one really glaring item. Your argument regarding the WR situation is the same one I hear every year from people about PSU, whether in the media or in the magazines. Phil Steele last year, paraphrasing, "last year WR was a weak spot because the receivers failed to get separation. this year they bring Julian Fleming (VHT #1!) and I expect them to be improved." If I felt like it, I'd grab the 2023 and check it as well and I bet he'd be saying something similar then, too. Pena from Syracuse was a fine WR last year. The dude from Troy is supposed to be electric. The guy from USC is more fool's gold. Is that enough to lift the passing game above the fray? I don't see it, and that's especially true when you consider that Warren had a dream season. The next guys at TE might be pretty solid, but that would still be a huge drop off. In any event, the real issue isn't WR or the OC or anything else other than Franklin himself. He's an obnoxious choker. He gets tight and his team's get tight and then he turtles the playcalling on offense. His record in big games is historically bad. Mack Brown looks at his record against Ohio State and thinks he needs to loosen up. In general, the guy is an overpaid pussy. You guys will never win a national title with that uptight penis-head running your program.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
My son is now 11 and these past 12 months in his select world (12U) and Little League (11U+12U), we've been around 6-7 kids with "little league arm" which is basically the pre-pubescent version of serious elbow problems. I don't get it. This isn't an overuse thing given all of the pitch count and rest rules for kids these days. I've heard it's a burgeoning epidemic in high school, even. In the 80's and 90's, it seemed like maybe a couple of guys a year would tear their UCLs and require TJ surgery. Now the Astros alone have like 5-6 guys going through the process. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Whether it is true or not, some folks I know who've seen Clark at practice seem to think he looks good and healthy. Achilles injuries, similar to but not on the same scale as UCL injuries, are becoming more common. I think the NBA saw more this year than something like the last 5 seasons combined or something. As those injuries become more frequent, repair approaches should improve recovery as well. What I'd like to understand is how both types of injures can also be better prevented. -
Regarding LSU: 1) Nussmeier did incur a knee injury at practice yesterday. Initially, reporters were lied to and then did their own lying, claiming nothing was wrong. Since, the answer has become "it's nothing serious". Chris Hummer reported that to Geaux247 earlier today. That's then followed with "he is likely to miss some practices to rest up", which sounds like it's not nothin'. 2) The front 7 has been blowing up play after play during media time. The OL looks so bad that one of the homers has published a story (spoilered below) claiming that some of it is learning curve with 4 new starters, 2 positions of which (RG & LG) the starters still are not known, but a lot of is LSU's newly dominant DL. Right. Nothing to see here, folks. Clemson doesn't have a very good DL for the opener, so LSU should be a-okay. 3) LSU has lost 5 straight openers, several in bizarre fashion including last year's loss to USC. They're about to lose a 6th straight with a shit OL and a gimpy QB.
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
If you know how to read Tarp, you'll understand that the article below is telling his audience his anxieties about what he's seeing and hearing regarding the secondary's ability to play the run, specifically since it was so terrible at it last year. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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Okay, come on. Context matters here. Baylor was an absolute backwater program by the time Briles got the job. They were the bottom of the college football barrel. A complete shithole program. That is not where Tech was when McGuire got the job. Not even close. McGuire inherited a fucking bowl team. Briles took over a program that hadn't had a winning record in 12 seasons. Baylor went 3-9 the year before with wins over juggernauts Rice, Texas State, and Buffalo. They went 0-8 in the Big 12 and lost in those games to finish the season by a combined score of 352-108. Thanks for forcing me to somehow sound supportive of or sympathetic to Art Briles.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Not one of those guys would take a job that reports to a guy like Nagy, but the bigger overall issue is that a coach needs money to win big and OU just doesn't have it. There is no cavalry coming.
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