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  1. Anyone expecting more from the handle "Cheeky Schneider" is doing it wrong.
  2. What did he do now? Also, I forgot about this one but last week I was driving and listening to Doering and Burns because XM 84 had some boring coach interview going. At one point, Burns said that Texas didn't really impress him with their entry to the SEC last year. Doering, to his credit, said "Really? Because I was expecting them to have to make major adjustments across most sports and they really outperformed what I was thinking and won the Director's Cup." Burns replied "Just focus on football, they didn't impress." Doering: "Well, they finished in the top 4 of the country and went further than anyone else in the SEC." Burns: "You know what I'm trying to say." Peter Burns is the absolute honkiest of the SEC honks. He's also not very intelligent and fails to fathom that. He's talks as though he's smarter than everyone else in every segment and he's constantly wrong and completely myopic. Doering is terrible, Burns is worse.
  3. Unlike ATM, OU fans are in a spot where they've experienced excellence for so long that they still expect it, despite reality saying otherwise. Reading their boards, they really believe with certainty a few central tenets that are objectively wrong or questionable 1) Mateer is about to rip off a Mayfield-esque season. 2) Manning is overrated trash. 3) Their defensive front is elite. 4) The same OL from last year that was one of the worst in all of FBS is suddenly going to be really good. 5) Last season's injuries were anomalistic. I am loving this shit. We went through it at the end of the Mack Brown Era. They squeezed an extra decade+ out of their run. I hope they parish into the CFB nether regions for the next century. Where's the twist?
  4. Gerry drops a few interesting tidbits in there that hint at something more. 1) His DT note doesn’t make. A “sleeper” but it would have to be a “dude”? How many hidden gems at DT are there at this stage? Or is he saying one of known guys comes back around? 2) He keeps talking about the guys committed to Oregon. All things were equal and Benjamin took Oregon. All things were not equal and Lott chose Oregon. I don’t know what could flip Benjamin but matching Oregon’s offer for Lott appears to be an option if Texas wants to go that route. To date, they don’t see Lott on that level. 3) This is another mention of the Ole Miss LB commitment. Clearly, there’s something going on in that recruitment for Texas.
  5. I’ve flown in and out of Orlando for business or with family at least 15 times in my life and will be doing it again next week and had zero understanding that its airport sign was MCO. Dumb.
  6. All of us here give a shit, of course, but we just know where this is headed. I’ve pondered a scenario where a capital envelope for NIL and other program needs is offered as a commitment for when a new coach is hired. I don’t think it would take a ton and could largely be crowdfunded. Probably just fantasy though. I think her best result was winning the SEC tournament last fall, but that’s me being subjective. I enjoyed that shot being fired across the bough right out of the gate.
  7. Most of us aren’t dorks about airport call signs. What the fuck are you goobers talking about here?
  8. Hitman is the best of his that I’ve seen. I also liked Maverick and Twisters, but Maverick isn’t his movie and Twisters, I’m sure, isn’t liked by snobs. Everybody Wants Some viewed as you described for me, which was I thought it sucked. Some of us aren’t as old and worked a fuckton through college. That movie looked like it was made for a very niche group of aging fratboys and was outright boring from beginning to end.
  9. Pickryl doesn’t belong in this discussion. He was going to be awesome and injuries killed his career.
  10. This guy has zero opportunity cost associated with him. He’s not costing Texas some other option, he’s been mentally and emotionally evaluated and they’re fine with him, and the NIL isn’t bankrupting the program. It’s bizarre watching people worry over this one.
  11. You’re trying to convince a non-diehard how to cheer. Good luck with that.
  12. He's a shithead. I'm sure he's still over on IT being as passive aggressive, frat-tastic dipshit. Or maybe he's dead now. Old enough to be, for sure.
  13. Venables cannot help himself! They are stacking injury upon injury early this year, again. -"Ott hurt his shoulder, no big whoop." Right. Luckily RBs don't use their shoulder much. -Jake Taylor hasn't been the same since his knees went out on him playing catcher in minor league ball. If they have to play that guy, they're in trouble. -One of their hopes at relevance at TE broke his fucking hand and they're poo-pooing it. "He plans to play through the injury." Please have that guy out there as an eligible receiver with a broken hand so every defender can completely ignore him. -"Oh, btw, the offensive line kind of seem like they suck." Okay then. -They're really hoping they play Fasusi early. I am as well. He's not Kelvin Banks. This would be awesome.
  14. Spoiler below is everything The Elk had to say after their practice today. It's mostly platitudes, but there are a few interesting notes. Highlights: -He perpetually condescends the journalists with nitpicky eyerolling issues about the way a question was asked. He seems like a pleasure to be around. -Zuhn is crosstraining at Center and they're examining a scenario with Crownover at LT and Fatheree at RT with Zuhn the starting C. Wait ... what? Maybe they're worried about what @pyrofiend discussed earlier. -His word soup on team "identity" is the kind of shit @RomaVicta lampoons on the Negative Screenshot thread in the recruiting forum. I read the paragraph twice and still don't full follow it all. -He apparently hasn't been watching Reed throw in drills because he seems to be really high on him.
  15. They took the field in the first practice as the starting duo. Hence them being referenced as much. In reality, everyone gets too focused on who starts at too many positions. QB? Okay, sure. WR or OL? Fine. LB? yeah. But at positions where we know they rotate a ton of guys equally, such as RB, Safety and DL, it doesn't really matter.
  16. No, this was when someone else shot their wad while Jimbo watched and cheered.
  17. My reasoning, spoilered below:
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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."
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