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I watched it a bit last night. I hear Doering on XM a lot. His demeanor actually changes when Texas is discussed. The SEC is in his blood as a walk-on fanboy who made it big for the gators from Gainesville and a dyed-in-the-wool SEC family that includes coaches. His career is covering the SEC. Texas having immediate success is an existential threat for who he is. Like, really, this is his life we’re fucking with here, somewhere in his subconscious. I listened to him one day talking about OU basically being a good boy for following their expected rite of passage by “not being ready for big boy SEC football” and now they’re suddenly figuring it out by finding an “SEC ready QB and OC”. What’s funny is what isn’t said - that Texas didn’t have to do that and it irks him to a high degree. It’s no coincidence that he’s talking up OU now. He fucking needs them to be good and for Texas to have a comeuppance. A lot of these SEC talking heads have similar backgrounds. Stinchcomb, Peter Burns, Alyssa Lang, Kubilic, Hester, etc. Hester, Lang, and Kubilic are great and they’re not big honks strictly for the SEC either. Hester has openly admitted he thought long and hard about going to Texas, which is true for those of us who were following back then. McElroy has admitted many times that he grew up loving Texas and all but says they’re one of his favorite teams. He was giddy about Texas joining the SEC. Many of these guys are far less biased. A few of them, however, fucking hate everything about Texas and what they’ve done so far. Doering is the lead dog on that front. It’s a DNA level thing for him because of his home grown biases about SEC sports, particularly football, and any challenge to his long held beliefs are a religious issue. He cannot say good things about Texas unless there’s a “but” and usually he just doesn’t say anything level or positive.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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My response is that I generally agree. Conner was a constant joke his entire time on campus when it comes to the run game and I wrote that for 3+ seasons. Glad he got drafted, but the Cardinals are proven idiots. Majors wasn’t the starter at C for 4 years because he could run block. If Neto gets the LG role, he’s allegedly a force in the run game. Can he protect worth a shit? Clearly, Flood and Sarkisian value pass pro over run blocking, so hopefully he has his shit together. Hutson is objectively a better blocker overall than Majors was. Can he handle the calls and help with the pickups? That’s obviously critical to both run success and not getting Manning killed. Campbell is in a contract year and Goosby looked great when he played. Whether it’s Baker or Cojoe or Brooks that wins the RT role, it’s a Darwinian battle between very talented guys. Williams was a shadow of himself in the end, so give me any of the three choices as an even exchange, at worst, and with elevated depth. I think people underestimate the threat of a mobile QB. He doesn’t have to be running all over the field. He just needs to be accounted for and that changes a defenses approach. That, a healthy RB room, and the ability to actually complete deep passes on the regular take a good deal of pressure off of the OL early.- 7639 replies
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I pulled multiple stunts like this on my mother. She was extremely trusting. This post made me laugh. -
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Spencer Shannon broke 5.0 in the 40 during summer drills, sir. Let’s see you approach that. -
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That’s fucking A right! -
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I could make that play. Any walk-on could as well. Let’s see it against live contact.- 7639 replies
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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First blockbuster injury of fall camp for OU and they haven’t practiced yet. Eli Bowen is not going to be available for fall camp and they are not disclosing the nature of the injury. That’s a pretty big deal given the weakness at CB outside of him. Bowen had an ankle injury in the spring and hardly practiced. They don’t know if this is a complication from that or something new. Where are you seeing this? -
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Gerry is at practice and says that Baxter did not go through the team snaps and doesn’t look close to ready.- 7639 replies
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I honestly don’t even know who in the fuck this is. Is it Dominick McKinley’s little brother? Either way, fuck this guy. Hat on the table when you didn’t get a visit? -
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Here’s an article about how Venables plans to be physical during the fall camp and writes off the injuries from last year as some sort of weird aberration. The last quote of the article tells you everything you need to know and it is awesome. -
He had hernia surgery that he played through last season. I’m not sure he has shoulder surgery so much as he dealt shoulder issues in the spring but has felt fine this summer.
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I don’t think the hot blonds are willingly going after the giant fat guys that are generally broke at the clubs and parties. -
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Bo Davis was paying Bama co-eds to sleep with recruits on recruiting visits when he was at Bama. Somebody started to chirp about it and Saban reluctantly had to send him packing. Later in his career, including his second stint at Texas, he was a surprisingly less effective recruiter. Weird. -
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Texas was one of them. They thought they’d landed him and he was the WR “no one is talking about” that I was saying could be coming into the program. He’s a stud. -
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Wait until you see them near one another. Butler got into the doghouse for one reason or another and there was the notion that he’d just transfer out and everyone would be fine with that after the spring. Didn’t happen. I assume we’re looking at a fork in the road starting today - he either turns mental and performance corners immediately, or we never see him in the field and he’s gone in December. They recruited Bolden in to return punts and be a contributor in the WR group. They didn’t realize they’d recruited and paid for a complete fucking lunatic on punt returns and couldn’t fix his approach. Trust is the number one thing they now care about on punt return. Butler is the best candidate talent-wise, by all accounts. Only one problem. They allegedly don’t trust him, at all. -
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Man, you guys can overreact to shit in a hurry. Taaffe is not moving to NB for the base defense. I will shit a golden cowboy hat and light BO&W on fire if that happens. Regarding punt return, the options that would have been a net addition to the current roster talent were attached tonight mediocre receivers looking for 7 figures. Beyond that, Banks himself dials up PB calls way more often usually than last season. Akina is a big punt block guy too. I want to see more punt block efforts, personally, so this is great news.- 7639 replies
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I really like Florida’s young skill talent on offense. If Lagway can go, with the experienced OL and the Wilsons and Baugh and the like, the O side should be pretty damned good. With Roberts still involved on the D, I see little room for optimism there. In any event, thanks for the thoughts on Lagway’s health.
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Spence is also bigger than Moore by an inch or two and 10-15 pounds. I think the difference is that they rotate way more heavily with the front 4 than with the LBs. They just need more guys at Edge and the dude allegedly has an excellent pass rushing talent. -
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Good thoughts from Burton today, feeding off of the media sessions yesterday:- 7639 replies
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Swamp247 is saying that Lagway will miss at least the first two weeks of practice. Allegedly, he has a calf strain and they don’t want to risk an achilles tear. I am not on there enough to really know, like basically I might check something with news like this, so basically never, but I think the guys talking about this are insiders, given how they’re being regarded by other posters, and not mods since they don’t have any mod tags. Has this been reported elsewhere? Apparently Napier has an Elko-esque history of being purposely misleading and opaque with injury updates. @gatormarc @Gatorubet @Zeus Not sure who else are regulars that are also gator fans.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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The question about Arbuckle is a good one that we don’t really discuss or see discussed. The guy is 29 and has coached one year at WKU and 2 years at Wazzou. How many sophisticated and talented defenses has he had to call plays against? How many experienced DCs with P4 backgrounds has he faced? The guy at Michigan is known for a long career of exotic blitz design. PK is no spring chicken. Durkin killed a guy and all, but he’s not lost as a DC at Auburn. Wommack has been a DC for 8 years, 3 of which were P4 and an HC for 3 seasons. Baker at LSU isn’t one of the highest paid assistants in the country because he sucks. So and so forth. In every one of those situations, one guy will be going through the experience for a first time. -
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Here’s more fanciful nonsense where they analyze 5 of their questions going into the fall camp, apparently feeling good about each expected solution. -
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Our coaches pulled a guy off the soccer team to be our kicker. A bunch of our guys grew up with him (I didn’t) and largely considered him a complete pussy. I thought they were too hard on him and he was doing fine with FGs early in the year. Game 7 or 8, we’re hosting Galveston Ball for our fucking homecoming. This was when they were a football factory that rivaled some of the famous Miami high schools. We’re down 55-7 and our coach decides to kick the field goal from the GB 20 yard line. The holder gets a bad snap and the ball bounces up to the kicker. The GBall defenders are coming at him in full force. He panics and starts running in the opposite direction. At around the 50, he just throws the ball behind his back, while running full speed towards the GBall end zone, at the GBall defenders. One of them picks it and houses it. Funniest shit on a football field I’d scene since earlier in the same game when Casey Hampton threw our center at our QB for a strip sack and fumble TD return.- 7639 replies
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I can’t tell you how many movie snobs have told me this over the years. With the memory of that trailer, in that moment, I can’t fathom it and refuse to soil the memory finding out otherwise. Dude, I was in my early 20’s, knew it was just a movie, and still was plenty scared. People who weren’t there at the time will never understand it. That period of film had some amazing endings. BWP, Seven, The Usual Suspects, The Sixth Sense. That’s a few of them, with more for sure. Come on.
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