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  1. And yet people on this site and idiots in the media think these guys are going to do something better than 8-4. Right now, 4 of their road opponents are ranked, and higher than ATM to open. That doesn’t include @Missouri who very well could be ranked when ATM shows up. So, yeah, sure this is the year they break through on the road and become a completely different program.
  2. I just find their ratings to be askew with CBs more than anyone. I’ll have watch guys, see them get picked on, and then they’ve got a higher grade than the CB on the opposite side of the field who the opposing team was avoiding like the plague. If memory serves, the returning starting CB for Ohio State had a higher grade last year than his drafted counterpart and the dude returning was holding/PI machine who was almost always in danger of getting burnt.
  3. I don’t disagree with this, for the most part. Texas misses out on guys every cycle because the player or the program realizes that Austin and the fishbowl of UT’s brand would not be a good fit. It happens early in most of the processes but occasionally a guy will visit and then one or both realize, yeah, there’s a better fit somewhere else. Bussey, two cycles ago, fit that on both sides. Unfortunately for him, he chose ATM instead of somewhere like KSU that would have actually developed his 5 star talent. My one quibble there is that Tuscaloosa gets a lot of credit from folks as a small town. It is and it isn’t. It’s an hour from Birmingham and that’s a decent sized city. Driving from the airport to Tuscaloosa isn’t a drive through wide swaths of forest or farmland. It’s like driving through smaller and smaller suburbs to an exurb.
  4. I can’t speak for all of these malcontents, but we’ve taken our kids to Disneyland or DisneyWorld every spring break for a decade through 2023. We’ve had fun every time. Although, I lost it on two different trips with strollers while being rushed to get on a bus. I tried to hammerthrow both into a lake. One wound up stuck in a tree and the other one landed perfectly upright, 3 feet from the water. Greg Davis 3rd Down graphic guy got the one by the water and broke it down and brought it onto the bus for me while I kicked dirt and then did the walk of shame with people murmuring and darting out of my way on the bus. The time it got stuck in a tree, my Kentucky football buddy climbed up and got it down for me. My wife and kids and his wife and kids took a different bus. I’m convinced to this day that strollers are designed by angry women who want to make dads look like fucking idiots. Both times I remember, while spinning with the stroller and ultimately letting it fly off into the air, thinking “this isn’t going to end well”. I use PFF a lot and pay the sub. I will say, they’re weakest in their analysis with the secondary. Probably a function of access to footage or something.
  5. It’s a 10 year old’s birthday trip, you dirty shitheel.
  6. I have never worn a jersey to a sporting event, as a fan, in my life. Surely I did not actually make a bet about wearing a jersey if McJaggerson rips off a good season. Right? I’m seeing it mentioned enough now that I’m paranoid I had some sort of delusional break and blindly agreed to stuff while mentally unconscious. That said, I will be wearing a “Grumpy” shirt as part of a themed trio at Magic Kingdom tomorrow, so I guess public humiliation via clothing is not impossible for me. I don’t think my wife posts here surreptitiously, though.
  7. This recruitment could be fascinating. Both schools passed on approaching ATM’s offer. He’s not supposed to be even talking to other schools as part of how they allegedly structure those moneywhip deals. If I were betting on outcomes here, my money would be on ATM going bonkers on him right now and him coming out with a “shutting it down” tweet within the next 48 hours. If not, awesome. After Texas flips Henderson, LSU can always go nuts with a counter offer to Edwards as well.
  8. If the only thing you could run was your mouth, you’d run it all day long as well. It’s the only exercise those rubes can get.
  9. Oh boy. Classic Burton. Anyone calling that dude a pumper simply hasn’t been paying attention. I can see him handwringing over it now.
  10. I’ve rolled my eyes about the Mateer stuff and do not want it to become a thing. As much as I despise OU and want them to lose every game forever into the future, I’ve endured a full 11 months of OU staff and media honks pleading their case about the injuries last year, ands Venables getting credit for living through it, that I’d rather them not get another asterisk season. They have their hopes ridiculously high and I want to see that crushed through normal shit happening, including injuries and on the field freak shit, fine. However, your post does intrigue me. I can get behind the notion of this guy being the next Art Schlichter/Pete Rose type and completely buttfucking and corrupting the OU program from the inside.
  11. While I mostly agree with your post, I don’t want the narrative to become that I hate Jaggy. He’s a longhorn, in any event. Say what now?
  12. None of us were saying that in the posts you’re responding to, you willfully oblivious fucktard. I was mocking the actual obvious, that your fucking coach is claiming that other schools are talking shit about Tech and Lubbock in ways that only that drunk’s low educated audience would believe. Never mind that I’ve actually been involved in this shit and I know you’re patently incorrect about UT football paying players via the bag game, because I don’t need you to believe me. All anyone needs to do is look at what Texas is doing now versus being forced to watch the cheaters run off with the 5 stars in the OL and DL for over a decade and they’ll know “oh, yeah, Texas must have recently started paying players.” It’s pretty obvious and well known that Texas was sitting on its hands while the SEC and Ohio State raided the state once ATM opened the gates. I don’t really expect you to get that, slorch, because you’re equal parts blindly biased and room temperature IQ, but most folks will. My oldest daughter, against my input, applied to Tech in the beginning of her application process. She had great grades and scores but was a worrier. I am not making this up - she got an acceptance response from Tech in less than 7 days from sending the app in. I assume anyone in the top 50% of their high school class that attends there must feel like a fucking genius from day one as they walk around and see morons bumping their heads against building walls as they wear their underwear on the outside of their shorts. Don’t equivocate about the bag game and Texas. If Texas was participating, the hue and cry coming from the cheaters would be as loud as it is now about mean ol’Texas. Now, UT basketball? … sure.
  13. Bobby knows exactly what he’s doing.
  14. Do you actually believe that this is something other schools are dumb enough to tell recruits? You cite 2025 as a reminder of the times and then you appear to be willfully injecting typical McGuire bullshit directly into your system. You post like a fucking dunce. Evil Tech Fearing Opposing Coach: “Oh there are no roads in Lubbock. It’s all caves and mud and shit. “ Dumber Than a Sack of Hammers Recruit: “Yikes!!” <hangs up, dials Joey Fucking A McGuire> Dumber Than a Sack of Hammers Recruit: ”Oh noes, I can’t come to Lubbock, coach, you guys lack first world infrastructure!” Joey McDUI: ”Don’t you go believin’ them lying sips and bears, boy. Lubbock not only has roads and plumbing, we also got a damned Jason’s Deli and a Chili’s. You tell them other sonsabitches you were born to watch titles being won on tv while you sit in your dorm during a dust storm in By Gawd Lubbock, Texas!!!” Oh yeah, that tracks for sure.
  15. There are 8. Ohio State bests the pack and y’all do not appear to be counting them.
  16. Another thing regarding OL at Texas is that Baker ended up costing Texas, and its NIL supporters, far more than originally projected. Everyone knew that was dead money for at least one year. Sounds like he’s doing well, so maybe that’s it. But that experience immediately created pressure around the OL and dead money, from the money. So things got tight in the last cycle and this cycle. The revshare stuff may have loosened some of that pressure, especially now that there’s better clarity on acceptable NIL.
  17. Maybe I’m clueless, but I would be really surprised if LSU considered ATM a rival.
  18. The Off Campus #14 is South Carolina. So today they announce that and then they have Patrick DiMarco on to talk about the Gamecocks for 2025. He’s a former SCar Fullback and played for a while in the NFL. The juxtaposition of listening to this guy after listening to Chip Brown this morning is stark. This dude couldn’t have honked more for South Carolina if he’d have been given a bullhorn. They couldn’t get him to say an objectively negative thing about their outlook for this season. The closest he came was saying that they might lose a couple in the middle of games 6-10. Give me a little of that from our asshats every now and then. Good lord.
  19. They were blindsided by ATM going ridiculously rich for Krempin. They are paying an IOL OT money in part because Texas was steering guys away from visiting ATM for June and it ticked them off. It’s kind of amusing in some form, but not in the context of needing that body. Ojo straight up Perrillouxing them is a different lesson someone needs to learn. If a comparable guy wants to commit to you but you’re taking the in-state guy instead, best make sure he isn’t a flake. Flood shot himself in the dick on the Lee recruitment. They’re allegedly resolute on getting another quality guy in this class, Lee or otherwise. It reads like a well-intended article not trying to take shots at Texas while praising the program. That said, I doubt anyone ever wins 6 titles in 13 seasons ever again. So, the premise is silly in general, but it’s certainly drawn traffic.
  20. Here's an anonymous analyst giving Kurelic and Bucknuts his thoughts on replacing the pressure aspects lost from last year as well as the changes being added by Patricia.
  21. Here's a Tarp article assessing the LB room. The long and short of this one is that they don't a single complete LB. They have 4 guys that they think can play and then 3 other guys who have never played, one RS Freshman and two true Freshmen. The 4th LB, Jordan Lockhart, ran amok against McNeese State last year and has otherwise done nothing. Depth is a problem at LB for ATM this season. Without the same talent on the DL, injury risk increases and more plays will need to be made.
  22. I get it. I have friends that know the guy well and they're not fans in even the vaguest since. They view him as a stain on the entire profession. He's a throwback sports journalist, which isn't a good thing. He's allegedly a gambling drunk who can be paid to write shitty things about any entity, but he's talkative and jovial if you aren't a threat and potentially will be buying the drinks.
  23. I will think about it more as that weekend approaches, so maybe I change my opinion by game time, but right now, I'm assuming Clemson is going to beat LSU like a borrowed mule. I have no faith in Kelly, or LSU for that matter, in an opener like this. They've done nothing to earn the benefit of the doubt. LSU is rebuilding their entire OL against what will be a top 5 national front in Clemson. Nussmeier has gathered more hype for someone who's done little to merit it than anyone since Spencer Rattler. "Did you see that 10 yard dig!?! What a throw!! Legend!!" They've frankensteined their defense with hopeful starting additions at DT, Edge, Safety and CB. I know Harold Perkins is hell on wheels against Arkansas, but I have a hard time assuming he's going to be a force in this game. Weeks is awesome, but he's one guy. McKinley might be on the verge of becoming a stud, we'll see. They've got pieces, but it's all been sewn together rather quickly if it's to be an asset against an explosive offense in Game One. Kreul reminds me of highly touted recruits coming out of some of the well-moneyed football factories in Texas. They look great on film, but how much more room do they have to develop? If he's maxed out as a freshman, he can still be an asset. Unless he has more room to grow, however, it seems like his upside is 5 sacks a season in overwhelming passing situations. I'd take that, but I don't have to have it. Nagy deciding that OU absolutely had to have him just illustrates the gap in the two programs right now. Also, something I hadn't really thought through until now is that Nagy is going to cram this guy down Venables' throat. We think he's a DPR on the Texas roster. Nagy is telling everyone he's a 5 star. Anyone think that that loudmouth is going to be fine watching his prized evaluation sit on the sidelines until 3rd down all season? Seems unlikely. "He'll be fine against the run. Get him out there. We're not paying him a million dollars this year to only be out there for 20 snaps a game." As a freshman.
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