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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
“furtive” is one of my favorite words. I feel like the very sound of it implies its meaning. Also, 💯on some of these people feeling seen, in dark ways, with that post. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Well, yes, in part, that started it. I didn't even look at who posted it. It could have been any of you that I do not have on ignore. I responded dismissively and mockingly. Turns out it was a new guy and he's not having any of it. He's to the point now of lashing out about how little he cares about me and how mean we all are for ganging up on him. I feel super bad about everything now and I've begun to rethink my posting style and proclivities. In the "argument" there's actual legitimate discussion about the RB position in this cycle. FWIW. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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How much less could you care? I'm interested in seeing how far into the depths of your mental mediocrity we can take this. -
Over the course of my first full year at Texas, I lived in a rental home that one of my buddy's parents owned in south Austin. During those first 9 months in town, I had 7 different roommates. I was the only one eligible to return to campus for my sophomore year at Texas, out of 8. I went in with zero AP points because I had no guidance or money in HS for the exams. Multiple other guys went in with 15+ hours already counted due to AP, with A's and B's for each of them. Those fuckers finished at UH, Texas State, ATM, Sam Houston, or working on the ship channel. You are damned straight it can be done. Apparently a good first step for it is to become roommates with me.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
No one is predicting that Texas lands both Crowell and Cooper. No one is even saying they'll land one. We actually discuss this shit at length in this thread, if you'd bothered to read any of it. I've stated in this thread, for months, several things about RB and recruiting in general: 1) Texas wants two RBs, as usual. 2) Texas wants one of them to be KJ Edwards. 3) Texas is looking away from Osborne for the other one. 4) Latimer was a preferred choice of Choice. He was also really interested in Cooper and Crowell. 5) Texas would be happy with any of the three options. 6) If Texas really wants a recruit, barring something insane from Oregon or Michigan, they are going to get that recruit. -
Are you a Titans fan or something? Joe Burrow and Cam Ward have almost nothing in common. I find that comparison comical. Do you think that Ward has a lightning quick release, is a witch at going through progressions in the pocket and wields a fucking cannon? I don't see any of that. Daniels is also a guy that can see all the layers of a defense and limited mistakes in the passing game. The dude went 57/7 in his last two years throwing the ball while rushing for over 2,000 yards. Ward threw 7 INTs this season and was not a rushing threat out of the backfield. On top of that, Ward is shorter, with smaller arms, and tiny hands. They're both black QBs, and that's where I see the similarities ending. Tyler Shough had his only healthy season last year in a pass happy offense and a shitty conference. The fact that he's being mentioned as legitimate draft pick in this cycle is laughable. Who gives a shit what he'd do in someone else's offense? Miami got out of several games through rigged officiating and should have easily been two losses worse last season. They played in a miserable conference and still didn't make the playoffs. The "Cam Ward is a leader of men" narrative has the ACC doing a lot of work for it.
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The thing about Mangino that gets lost in all of the humor over the years about his morbid obesity and everything around that is that the guy was an unbelievable OL coach. He was also an amazing evaluator of talent. Kind of a rotund savant. I know he's allegedly a major asshole, but I've always kind of hoped that Sarkisian would hire him as an analyst to evaluate OL recruits, opposing DLs, our own OL efficiencies/deficiencies, and offer up red zone input. I don't care how expensive his wish list would be. If the guy wants to be compensated in Japanese wagyu gravy and ruby port by the gallon, then we step up and do so. If he needs a towel boy to wipe his ass 4 times a day, Max Merrill needs a gig. If he's defiling Bellmont restrooms twice weekly, have a fucking plumbling crew on standby. This needs to happen.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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My original response included knowledge. You simply don't understand the context of it, clearly. Your comments weren't irrelevant, they were simply wrong. -
If Gerry really believes that there will be a salary cap, he's out of his gourd.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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I'm not your bub, guy. You know what Gerry also says? "It's all going to come down to NIL with most of these guys these days, anyway." Cooper is on campus this weekend with his mom and stepdad. They're not doing that because they think Austin is simply a wonderful place to visit in April. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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N Together Now and Rollin' are both awesome, and I don't give a shit how many of you milquetoast haters think otherwise. Now, Korn? I couldn't name a song from their catalog. -
It's an interesting comparison. I'm not in agreement with you on it, but it's not a bad notion. To me, a big difference is the level of evaluation talent on the two staffs. Look back at that Stoops staff, year 1: -HC Bob Stoops - at the top of the defensive coaching ranks, trends and minds of that era, fresh out of a mentorship under Spurrier, preceded by one with Snyder. -OC Mike Leach - at the top of the offensive coaching ranks, trends and minds of that era, fresh out of a mentorship under Hal Mumme. -Co-DC Mike Stoops - had coached under Snyder for years, played under Hayden Fry. This is pre-burnout, hungry and focused, 37 YO Mike Stoops. -Co-DC Brent Venables - 28 YO, mentored under Snyder for 6 years after playing his way up through JUCO and then to KSU. -DE Coach Bobby Jack Wright - this dude was hired for connections in Texas and throughout the small high school world and juco hinterlands, not as an evaluator. He opened the door to so much random tape that most schools were ignoring that it isn't even funny. He was the guy that connected them to Snow College and Heupel, if memory serves. Even the worst coach on the staff was invaluable for their original set-up. -TE/ST Coach Jonathan Hayes - long time NFL TE and played with Stoops under Fry at Iowa. Coaches for 15 years in the NFL after 3 years at OU. -RB Coach Cale Gundy - dude evaluated and recruited some legends at RB for OU, and then did the same at WR coach. Evaluated and recruited Quintin Griffin, who was a midget that big schools ignored. -WR Coach Steve Spurrier JR - mentored under his father for all of his early life. 28 YO and hungry. -OL Coach Mark Mangino - multi-year OL coach under Snyder, his mentor. -DL Coach Jackie Shipp - Coached all over the country in various programs learning the ropes for a decade before being called home by Stoops. That group was young, energetic, and educated. Some of those guys became famous evaluators of talent. Their classes were almost always under-ranked in the early days. What they did heading into 1999 and then again in 2000, without a portal and not utilizing bags effectively, remains impressive. I can't even imagine what they would have done with the portal and some NIL money. Ugly. Now compare that to the trash heap currently comprising the OU staff under Venables. You keep the time machine, I'm fine here in 2025. Jay Valai, Demarco Murray, Joe Jon Finley, etc.
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Sanders is like Anthony Richardson when he was coming out. He looks like a laughably obvious bust. I said it about Richardson at the time and I'm saying it about Sanders now. I know that does not make me unique, just part of a camp that's done both, but it's not nearly as big of a camp as I figured it would be, honestly. I also like how Cam Ward feigned entering the NFL last year, got a mediocre grade and then went to Miami. Now he's going to be the 1st overall pick? Okay, then. I watched him play like a fucking idiot in multiple games. I never thought he looked like a 1st round pick or anything close to that. I'm interested in observing how truly wrong I am, I guess.
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I follow OU football. Without looking it up, I cannot remember who “RSJ” is. It’s a grim list. On their sites, they seem to be singing in unison that Burks got high 6 figures/low 7 figures. That’s insane. He quit on them last year and he wasn’t some worldbeater when he played. They love him because he beat their own defense’s ass in the spring. R Mason Thomas can fuck up an FCS team. He can really get after a G5 team on the schedule. Marvin Jones JR is a JAG who has now made over a million dollars due to his parents being smart with how they named him and lazy recruiting ranking evaluations. They have like 10 guys on their roster that I would trade someone for, and even those guys don’t look like they’re getting developed.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Your certitude is lacking in foundation, distracting and lazy. If Texas truly decides they have to have one of those guys, they’re getting one of those guys. Some of you guys have learned nothing.- 3239 replies
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
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We’ll see. Mateer was dogshit against top 60-ish defenses last year. He’s going to face a bunch of those this year. Same for his OC. -
Darnell McDonald, Chip Ambres, Quan Cosby, etc., etc.
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It seems kind of obvious in hindsight. I didn’t feel like he was a 1st round lock, but assumed 3rd round would be the floor. Thinking about it, how much film is out there on the guy and how much is positive? He committed a ton of penalties, he whiffed on assignments regularly, he was hurt and ended up coming across as out of shape, in part due to injury. He would have gotten a comparable pay deal in 2025 had he come back versus being a 5th or 6th round pick. I think he could be a steal there, given how inexperienced he is. If he keeps ratcheting up the learning curve and hones his body into better shape, he could play for a decade+. Unlike people fading Banks, I do understand why folks are moving Williams down.
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So excited to go to the SEC with these Tennessee assholes
closetojumping replied to TexasEd's topic in Football
To build on this and to remind from further up thread - we discussed this guy contemporaneously during his recruitment as a fucking mercenary that most programs wanted no part of once they dug into to his details. He checked all kinds of red flags - multiple HS’s, talked about money first, had a helicopter dad, didn’t make multiple progressions on film, known as a “me first” guy in recruiting circles. The dude is not a “kid”. He’ll play as a 21 year old this year. He was directly involved with this whole debacle. He thinks he’s way fucking better than he is. He’s as likely to be a flame-out cancer in the locker room at UCLA as he is a productive starter. He’s not a victim. I’m going to enjoy actively cheering for him to flop at UCLA. -
So excited to go to the SEC with these Tennessee assholes
closetojumping replied to TexasEd's topic in Football
Neuheisel’s full of shit on the one. Most guys entering the portal think they can make more elsewhere or are just doing what players have done for over a century - trying to find a sweeter depth chart for PT. Guys have been trapdoored for forever and a day. Guys haven’t been constantly asking for raises or putting a gun to the head of a program for more money each semester for over a century. That shit is new, it is built for mercenary exploitation and the players and their camps are the cause of it. -
I don’t get all of the hate for Jerry Jones around here. I fucking love that guy and I hope he lives forever.
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Texas Baseball 2025 - The Schwining tradition starts here...
closetojumping replied to petscii's topic in Baseball
Sometimes pitchers just get dead arm for a bit. Nothing’s torn, but they’ve just pushed their body beyond its point of tolerance. In that kind of a case, dude’s have been out of 2-6 weeks and then can magically pitch again. Not always, but it happens. Not saying that’s the case here, but you don’t need a battery of tests to identify a torn UCL or rotator cuff. Maybe there’s a a small blood clot issue or something. It’s odd that they’re going in for further examination if it’s already known to be something legitimately structural. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
They talk about and so did LZ, apparently. I know we’ve all had a good laugh at what Elko and that old ass S&C rube are doing, but it really is unbelievable. They want an overweight roster, I guess to fit the image of their head coach. What’s headscratching in all of this is why they insist on getting involved with, and paying top dollar for, pass rushers. There has to be some delusion in there somewhere. -
The same people saying that the Stone deal was screwed up before Nagy are the same ones who were claiming a few days ago that this was all intentional and that Nagy was fine with him leaving.
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It’s honestly shocking how inept they look at this moment.
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