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closetojumping

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  1. When I was a sophomore in HS, we hadn't won a varsity football game in 2 years. We lost our first game on a FG. Second game, away against an inner city HISD school that had many hostile fans in the stands, and many hostile players on the field, our QB had his knee bent in backwards on a hit in the 1st Q. As he screamed on the field in agony, our HC huddled the offensive skill guys up and started trying to talk up our soon to be welcomed to the game JR QB. He'd never played a down of varsity football and he was visibly shaking and looked terrified. The HC said, literally, "fuck it" and put in the starting SR SS at QB because he'd played there the prior year in some spurts late in blowouts. We won and then the JR QB got all week to prepare for Pearland. We won that one as well and he had a fine year. Didn't throw enough to me, IMO, but we damned near went to the playoffs and I enjoyed it. The HC was a former UT player and an old man by that time. He'd seen some shit. He was thinking on the fly. I think Sarkisian is just trying to see around corners. Shit happens.
  2. I found this ESPN article linked on the Sooner 247 board. The mod over there posted it to talk about the Superman play, which I'll never be over, but Vince.Young.Scores. is #3. I think it should be #1, but I can defend Kick Six and Statue of Liberty as #1 and #2 as well. Anyway, didn't see the article posted anywhere and thought the readers of this thread would find it fun. Not really worthy of its own thread, I don't think. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45450737/college-football-top-25-plays-2000
  3. That's what some folks think. I hope we don't get to find out.
  4. Not only is he at LSU, he showed flashes last year and he's going to be a starter this season as a true sophomore.
  5. They don't want the first live fire for a young back-up to be taken in a hostile environment against a highly talented team. The Troy guy was a free take who does not threaten the room. Owens is getting paid to be a quality back-up who could take over due to long term injury. Troy guy isn't giving Texas that kind of answer.
  6. Credit to that dumb motherfucker, he is good at posting thoughts so idiotic that you guys can’t help but respond. Like moths to a flame every time he shows up and starts slinging turds on a thread.
  7. The old “throw out another million” maneuver. Always advocated for by those without the millions. Always the magical and obvious answer no one else has considered. It’s the ultimate ultimate weapon.
  8. Hold up. This guy’s in hydraulics?
  9. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I am saying it is likely quite difficult to find photos where Matt Rhule’s mouth isn’t open. Allegedly, he has a case chronic halitosis that rivals that of a goat-eating bridge troll. He’s got to be rough to work with closely. I assume his assistants receive combat pay for sticking around.
  10. Omahaaaaaawwwwwgggssss!!!! What a fucking joke. Texas needs to put belt to ass on those douchebags next year.
  11. My SIL drives a subaru and he could buy and drive any car he wanted. Dudes swears by it. &nbsp
  12. I went ahead and bought three of them. I’m having them delivered to @HenryJames’ house today.
  13. Did Melton get hurt? Figured this thread would know.
  14. I appreciate the effort to post this, but will make the following public service announcement about these kind of IT updates: We have busted the liars at IT making shit up repeatedly for more than a decade. Nahlin leads the charge in creating information when there isn't really much in truth to report. They're clearly lying, such as in this report, when they mention that they didn't even bring something up, but the source just came up and said something that fits into the narrative they've been weaving in other posts.
  15. Are you saying we’re the Jesus Christ of college sports? Or more of a Gozer type deliverer?
  16. Never Let Me Go My Sister’s Keeper The pre-prom scene, in an otherwise very mediocre movie, is both gutwrenching and terrific. As I was raising my oldest daughter, I think I saw every romcom and chick flick that was created in a decade spanning 2000-2009/2010. Yikes.
  17. Is this the widest gap in time between a post and a bump in the history of this site? Has to be up there.
  18. I love the guy thinking that Texas fans are worried about a recruiting ranking in June. Until I read that, I didn't have any idea where we actually were ranked right now, and I don't care. I view it as a given that the class will finish top5 and likely top 3. Howell lives in redass aggie fantasyland with his thinking. It's a key part of why he's constantly caught off guard by obvious developments with recruits every cycle, and then he does the PeeWee Herman maneuver where he tells everyone he meant to do that and saw everything coming. One thing the OU fans understand quite clearly in conversations on their boards is that their overall ranking doesn't matter in a standalone manner. What matters is how that ranking compares to their rivals and on-field opponents. OU fan will look at a ranking of 17th and shrug, then see that Texas finished 1st and 7 other SEC teams also finished ahead of them and then start to panic. ATM fan will completely ignore what is happening with anyone else and just find a way to crow about wherever they were ranked and start anew, demanding national titles or else!
  19. The guy is a piece of shit. The fact that he is gainfully employed in a people person industry is fascinating. He’s never been worth a shit with what he does.
  20. I don't think I understand your intent or point with this post, so feel free to flesh it out.
  21. @RGBIII had some concrete numbers that he'd heard on Bowman and the numbers both defy gravity and logic.
  22. From Wolk on the Georgia 247 site about Prothro, below. It will well and truly suck if Texas misses out on both Bowman and Prothro, both of whom would be awesome fits for what Sarkisian likes to do. I'm cheering for the Heze Kent guy, just because he's such a ridiculous giant athlete, but Texas would take Kent and one of the other two and do different things with the two. "He just left an official visit to Auburn, and our AuburnUndercover recruiting guy Christian Clemente sent me a very, very interesting update. The top TE target went so far as call Georgia his leader when talking to Christian and others. He said Auburn’s in that No. 2 spot, but still has the Florida and Texas visits coming up. For a dude that doesn’t say a whole lot, notable for him to say quite publicly that Georgia is the team to beat."
  23. I'm outside of that, but not by a lot, and they have reached out to me without realizing things regarding NIL. The cutoff is somewhere between you and I, so I am guessing it's at 1000. Could be as high as 600, I guess.
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