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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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No, this was when someone else shot their wad while Jimbo watched and cheered. -
My reasoning, spoilered below:
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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17 is a lot, that cannot be disputed. It's an interesting look into what roster building looks like these days when done properly. It's one part of the greater tapestry being woven, but it's informative nonetheless. 2021 - Sarkisian and company arrive and immediately assess their roster as fundamentally deficient. Options include forced attrition immediately or working to keep key talent happy by not burning the roster to the ground. Assessing the class of 2021, they mostly let the committed guys sign, feeling like some key elements were there. 2022 - Sign the most talented guys the program can, but also take some culture guys who can play if you squint hard enough. Got to get bigger on the OL. Push dead roster weight out. Get portal help ASAP. 2023-forward - Don't sign anyone who a coach can't stand up and swear to as a potential SEC starter. Don't load up on portal guys, difference makers only. No reason to really push guys out to clear roster space. Players will leave on their own via the portal for more PT. I view that class as a bit of an anomaly. Looking back, it was a bridge class. We didn't see it that way at the time. Interestingly, Bo Davis did. He told a buddy "hey, when we got to Tuscaloosa, we had to sign the John Square types then too. Gotta start somewhere." His takes from that cycle largely sucked, but Texas couldn't get in on the big time DLs yet. -
So it's Bama -13.5 at Doak Campbell? I'd still give the points in a heartbeat. Mike Norvell's buyout is going to keep his job for him for a bit, but the game has caught up to him and then some. FSU was one of the first to really focus on winning in the portal and they had their pick of the litter out of the gates. Not any more. They are starting this year the following guys on offense who are homegrown: <crickets chirping>. Zero guys. The guys they will be starting were a bunch of players from other programs who were casted off or at small schools. Roydell Williams from Bama. Squirrel White from Tennessee (but he's so fast! can he catch?). Duce Robinson from SC. The dipshit loudmouth who was benched at BC is now the starting QB for them. The OL is likely to be 5 guys from 5 different programs that are all on campus for the first time. Defensively, they have like 3 homegrown starters. Most of the defenders they've brought in to start haven't even been full time starters at their prior stops in Bama, Nebraska, UCF, Syracuse, etc. That is a program that lost its soul when they lost their QB and their CFP appearance and they won't see daylight again until there's regime change, if then. I actually hope "The Snub" is a curse that sits on top and shits on top of that fucking place for the next century. No one has been given the benefit of the doubt more when it comes to getting special treatment for title contention than FSU. And they stunk it up every time they were the team that got helped out into the CFP or BCS title game. They get it in the other direction one time, can't get over it, and the rest of us have to hear about it. Take Alabama all the way up to 28 points. They're going to crush FSU.
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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Eleven Warriors projects the OSU 3 deep based on practice observations and insider discussions. Image below. Nothing incredibly surprising. There's debate about Atkinson over Curry and some athletic freak named Julani Thurman not being listed at TE. From the thoughts of people who have been to their practices, the Thurman guy has skillets for hands. Bo Jackson is kicking ass in their fall camp and a few of the mods believe he'll pass Donaldson, if not Peoples, at some point this season. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
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Honestly, for all of the "culture shift" talk from the aggies, those clips do not look good at all. Multiple guys are visibly half-assing their plays and there appears to be no recourse for it. Not great, Bob, if you're an aggie. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
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Here's Karels breaking down his observations on the offense at practice last night. It seems kind of obvious that Reed sucks in the passing game, but it's going to take aggies a while to get there. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Gerry reviewing the 2022 class spoilered below. For those that get upset about the thread meandering, note that this is a guy who lives and breathes recruiting and all he's got to work with right now are class reviews. It's just dead. Highlights: -There are numerous guys who left that are now starting or fighting to start at other P4 programs. Bledsoe at MSU, Bryant at Vanderbilt, Finkley at KU (I think), Brenen Thompson at MSU, Murphy at Oregon State, Austin Jordan at TCU, Agbo at WVU and Swanson at ASU. -Multiple other guys are at G5 and starting. -Bottom line is that a lot of this class was recruited over, so the guys had to leave to get more snaps elsewhere. Excluding the OL, of course, which is the saving grace of this class. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Right now on this board, one of us reading and posting on here is the dumbest of all of us. Half of us are dumber than the rest of us. I feel pretty confident that I am not the dumbest. I feel pretty good about being above what we've all come to call the "BurntOrange&White Line" in which I'm above the 50% cutoff. The seas really get rockier from there. Some of you have truly dizzying intellects. -
Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
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From Bobby in today's thread letting more info out. If he's got the okay, we're okay. "Wingo is back. He was truly dehydrated. That’s not a one day return. Campbell was a mild concussion. Granted that’s the first time I’ve mentioned the concussion with Campbell but there’s a reason for that. Unsure why you’re not buying it or what there is to buy. You guys have to trust us a little at least by now."- 5274 replies
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The Aggie247 guys seem to revel in the feeling of walking on the razor's edge with The Elk. They colored outside the lines too often last year and received one practice suspension and several phone calls in which they were upbraided and threatened. Posting this kind of stuff is why Liucci's crew gets to attend numerous practices that Karels and Tarp do not. I'd like to hear Tarp speak candidly about Elko over a beer. You can tell in his writing that he really doesn't like the guy. -
Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
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Both guys were back and practicing yesterday, no? And no, I don't think drinking was an issue. Many of these guys on this team are "my body is a temple" types with NFL aspirations, from what I understand. Yeah, I don't think there have actually been any true "personal issues" up to this point. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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“We have top 5 talent “ is a refrain that has started cracking me up. The Elk has gone out and sold that to the masses and he’s had his media carnival barker yelping it everywhere he isn’t. The notion has taken hold, not just with the aggies but with the Pates and SEC honks of the world. This has happened without any actual examination of the facts. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
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Are you calling the guy a T-Rex? -
I was purposeful in my wording in order for logic that you espouse here. They weren’t “good”, but you guys were maligning their seasons and both were above historic (post 1960 for Minnesota) standards for their programs. Vandy isn’t sneaking up on anybody this year. I love Pavia, but it’s a tough ask to walk into Tuscaloosa and Austin and pick a giant off in either place. If I squint, I can see 6-6/7-6/6-7. I agree on Kotelnicki. He’s highly regarded and what he ran with Liepold was sophisticated. James Franklin is a rape-enabling pussy and he’s the problem for PSU’s offense. I have ZERO doubt that that penis lookalike is going to shrivel up like George Costanza against Ohio State. Probably Oregon too, but OSU is a given. Franklin is the worst kind of villain in college football. A true weasel with a history of doing bad shit but then … he’s also really boring and predictable.
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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I think we can comfortably surmise that one of them was the guy who was severely dehydrated. Bobby wouldn’t say who that was at the time. I have heard from multiple people that Williams’ hamstring continues to be a bugaboo of his carrying over from the spring. I hope he can keep it loose from here. -
To be clear, Minnesota wasn’t a bad team last year. Vanderbilt wasn’t a bad team last year either. They both might be pretty good this year. Why are they being implied here as bad teams? Minnesota might win 9 or 10 games this season given a forgiving schedule.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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Not only that, Texas gets a chance to play the guy. -
Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
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I think Downs is one of the best defenders in CFB without question. That said, part of why Barron won the Thorpe is because Downs’ numbers were trash. He changes games and that sometimes doesn’t show up in the counting stats, but you figure he’d stumble into a few more than zilch in some categories. Note: this predates the playoff run and I haven’t looked to see how those games may have changed his numbers. Pre-playoffs, he had a bunch of tackles and little else. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I thought about posting his picture as the epitome of aggie and then I thought “these bastards can’t help themselves, he’ll get posted. “ Surly FTW!- 469 replies
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
closetojumping replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
There are much smaller stadiums in both the ACC and Big 12. Sure, BYU isn’t one of them, but have some perspective. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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One of my favorite stories of genius obsession leading to historic greatness. Hendrix wore everyone around him out working through getting that song perfect. Some have argued that is cosmically contributed to his untimely death not long afterward. Is this Joseph Addai? Or is there another Sharpstown alum with whom I should be familiar? -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Food, particularly Texas-related food, and music. Both of these things are wildfire when it comes to magnetizing the worst kinds of fucking dorks residing on this site. The only thing more dangerous to play with is politics. How do we take things in a different direction here? Should I just make up some recruiting shit? -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Here's an article where Tarp is trying to gently let his readers know that their DTs this year are very likely to blow goats.- 469 replies
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
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Here's an article from Tarp gently trying to warn his fanbase that Marcel Reed pretty much sucks:
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