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  1. Gerry Hamilton Posted 11 minutes ago OnTexasFootball has been informed that Texas A&M is out of contention for 5-star OT John Turntine III Texas vs. Michigan is where we hear the most noise right now. There is confidence in Austin ahead of July 4th announcement. Michigan does think they are in it. Stanford is the third team on the list. Jinx
  2. The university can and should. Also, insiders/BMDs need to cease all info flow immediately. It's fucking insane.
  3. What's coming is worse than any of this. This motherfucker is about to be an even bigger cancer for UT athletics than he always has been.
  4. The House settlement is a burden to any program without a ton of money. It adds to the mix of capital that the program needs to raise each season. I'm sure SEC revenue growth and playoff dollars will come in handy for OU eventually, but they aren't there yet. The House settlement "helping" is when schools like ATM use it as an excuse to just start paying guys whatever the fuck they want from their own coffers.
  5. Guy who played Gaston at DisneyWorld level shit.
  6. I don't know whether you've been around and just created a new handle, or you're new here. On the chance that you're new here, just a heads up, but the poster you quoted is a complete fucking imbecile. Just voluminous, insipid troll, trying to find people ignorant of his uncreative schtick to respond him so that he can then flood a thread and irritate the rest of us. OTF has maintained for awhile that those two guys are highly unlikely to go to the same school. It doesn't matter where either one will be lining up.
  7. OU’s “Champ BBQ Weekend” turned out to be a giant wet fart. They landed Jandreau because his parents pushed him to stick with his brother. They landed a kicker. They landed a 3 star Edge over UCLA and Colorado. Throughout the weekend, Nagy was live tweeting hints at big things about to happen, getting posters worked up. I’ve listened to this guy over the years and there’s always been a hypeman element to him trying to rally viewers and participants to the Senior Bowl in Mobile. I didn’t realize that would carry over into OU GM territory. It’s gotten to where the sooner posters have rapidly gone from “Trust Nagy!” to mocking his tweets. It’s glorious to witness. Afterwards, multiple other “big” targets indicated to the Sooner Illustrated mods that they were now looking elsewhere. The overriding theme? Oklahoma is poor. They wanted competitive offers to compare to other schools and they didn’t get them. They lost an IOL from Pasa-get-down-Dena! who is now choosing between TCU and UH. The guy went to OU this weekend, the mods said OU felt really good about the visit, then they spoke to him later in the day and he said he was choosing elsewhere. Same story for a 4 star DT they really wanted. They’re also all over a WR named Dandridge that Georgia really wants and expects to land. The mods are trying to keep hope there while clearly concerned. The mods and a board “insider” are all now talking about OU prioritizing the portal over HS recruiting and telling board denizens to stop focusing on the HS recruiting rankings. In the span of 48 hours. “Expect fireworks in the portal in December!” That program is heading south in a hurry. They’ll have a decent team this year, but sustaining any bounce back will be elusive.
  8. Don’t make it harder than it has to be. ATM took it to ludicrous speed and Texas had no interest in escalating to plaid.
  9. What's absurd about the take that someone flushing their roster into the portal is some sort of negative, coming from the aggie regime, is that they likely have convinced themselves that they didn't, in fact, just do that. Now, some of it was flushed by the roster itself, and some of it was Elko flushing it like one of his post-binge drinking grumpies, but it was flushed nonetheless. On top of that, they're doing it again in this cycle. They're aggressively throwing NIL at recruits and being parsimonious with their current players, sending the message to many of them that they need to hit the fucking road in December.
  10. Okay, hold up. A woman in a football uniform? I agree. Nurse uniform? I can't go there with you, sir.
  11. A private yacht, or the QE2 to Southampton, are the only ways I’d ever take a cruise. You people in this thread disturb me.
  12. This is it! This is the big one!
  13. There’s a similar thread on the 247 Georgia board where they’re whining about Texas doing “illegal” things with money and not staying within the NIL “cap”. It’s a delicious read. I’d post it, but I don’t care enough about the rest of you people right now to put in the work.
  14. If it helps at all, no one else knows a fucking thing here, either.
  15. Have you seen something somewhere to indicate that that might not be the case?
  16. FYI, I mixed up my names. Miami thinks they're landing both Lamar and Cooper, not Lamar and Crowell. Wolk thinks UGA is completely out on both Crowell and Cooper.
  17. "I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque." What exactly does he "know"? Is your friend Kevin Trudeau? Jason Higdon? Gotch Yarbrough? When and where did this originate? I missed it, and it is fucking awesome.
  18. Thoughts from the Georgia side, per Wolk, for a few targets: -Jae Lamar (RB) decides later this week between UGA, Clemson and Miami. Georgia had four OVs from TBs this cycle: Lamar (from Georgia), Hiter, Crowell and Cooper. UGA does not expect to land the other 3 and the eggs are in the Lamar basket. Miami mods, who are often idiots and laughably wrong, believe that Miami is landing both Lamar and Crowell. Regardless, UGA being out for Cooper and Crowell is news to me. -Georgia thinks it’s landing Calicut, per intel from a source close to Calicut at North Shore. Why does Texas ever fucking bother recruiting that shitstain program? What a fucking waste. -UGA seems to think it is out on Malakai Lee, but holding out hope. -They’ve lost confidence in landing James Johnson.
  19. You think Fawcett was exicitedly tweeting about an edit for a guy who has been committed to Texas for a year? Okay then.
  20. Yeah, that reads like they might not have pushed or let him do any pushing either. Sort of like @BurntOrange&White on his prom date.
  21. 9 for me. I think damned near everyone is surprised. They don’t just take commitments for momentum like many schools. They’d push back on him committing if they didn’t feel great after fully vetting him. They know they’re in this against Oregon, OSU and potentially the imbeciles at USC, so they’re not naive on what it is going to take to sign him. No reason not to feel good here.
  22. Why are there always weirdos who have to show up and whine about extra college football being played? It used to be “oh great, another meaningless bowl game, womp womp”. Then it became “why do we need more than a 4 team playoff? all of the bowl games are now meaningless, womp womp”. Now it’s “why do we need to expand to 16 teams in the playoffs? why do they keep playing bowl games? we only need to see the two best teams play, womp womp.” Ridiculous. We are in the doldrums of the sports calendar. I would murder every poster on this thread if getting a college football game on this afternoon required it.
  23. When the aggies are buying guys, Liucci and staff know and they’re overtly bullish to the point of outright bragging before the player makes the announcement. When they’re not just moneywhipping a guy, you see posts like Howell on Turntine. Even though they’ve made a ludicrous offer to him, he and his family have not pulled the trigger and are concerned about, you know, actually getting developed for much bigger paydays later. I still think he’s taking the ATM offer due to the alleged gap between it and what Texas finds prudent. It’s just insane to pay major dollars for a guy that isn’t likely to contribute for 2 years or more. I guess he’d start right away out of need at ATM or something.
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