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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Can you Austin idiots shut the fuck up with the boring discussion you can take to the "I'm going to bore you with city boundaries and local eateries" board? Connolly put out his "Most Important Players in CFB 2025" article, listing the top 40. Manning is predictably #1. Hill and Simmons are the only other horns mentioned, albeit not ranked. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45899578/the-40-most-important-players-college-football-2025 -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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Update from today's practice spoilered below. Highlights: -Demarco Murray was living out his fantasy and again in the OU backfield taking snaps during part of the session. The okies are down to two healthy RBs that can go through drills. -Half the WR room is out. Burks is doing some drills, but not many. -Simmons (projected starting RT) like has a concussion and hasn't been out there since day 1. -The Defensive Ends and their position coach were behaving like idiots in public. -
Dvoracek has turned his life around and he's also not a completely biased, mouthbreathing sooner like so many of his ilk in the media. Biased when discussing OU? Sure. Biased when discussing Texas, unless it's Texas/OU Week? Not really. He's a great color guy for CFB and he does an excellent job on his show. He does his homework. Does that make what Sydney pointed out irrelevant? Absolutely not. The guy did all of that shit and Stoops let him come back anyway. I'm merely pointing out that multiple things can be true at the same time. He's not a pure okie honk like Ikard, Knowkah or Plank. Those guys cannot help themselves when discussing OU or Texas and they often get to have national platforms when doing so. I lend a lot more credence to Dvoracek's opinions on the sport, programs, players and coaches than I do the other guys. It's similar to the LSU honkers like Burns or Caroline Fenton versus Jacob Hester, except Hester didn't get shithammered and beat his best friend into a coma when he was younger.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Awesome, happy to have you. First thing to do is put the dumbass you quoted on ignore and you'll then be far more likely to enjoy yourself and also not clog up threads arguing with a room temperature IQ troll.- 8086 replies
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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@RomaVicta Is that really the picture that Buchanan used in his article? -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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For more than a decade, I'd look at who Texas was returning on the OL and then read about how they were looked at in the preseason magazines and my head would almost explode. "Yeah, we're returning 3 starters in 20XX, but they all sucked. They all lacked physical requirements that would enable them to be good. What are you guys looking at?" I feel like that right now when I consider the OU OL situation. None of those guys looked good last year. They keep talking about Nwaiwu as some sort of asset because he stayed healthy and had the most starts. He competed with Cam Williams for most penalties, but his weren't just false starts but also personal fouls in back-breaking moments. He missed more assignments than Billy Madison. That's one of your budding OL stars? Okay, then. -
This prompted me to look up George O'Leary and then to deal with the subsequent shock that that resume padding motherfucker is still alive. 78. Wow. The fucking Irish, man.
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Apparently, there is some real buzz around Zuhn being moved to Center. Tarp offers his take, spoilered below. He does that whole write-up and fails to analyze the impact of having Crownover and Fatheree on the field at the same time. If they're rolling Fatheree out at RT, he's either been miraculously rejuvenated to the shining 18 YO recruit that he was, or he's about to set a record for sacks allowed at the P4 level. The idea of Reed having to throw more because Zuhn fucks up their running game at C is also extremely gruntling.- 486 replies
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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Here's a link to a YT segment from Sooners Illustrated mods and insiders who have attended the practices and talked with coaches and those around the team. They're discussing their view on progress and questions so far: -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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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.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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?- 1044 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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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. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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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. -
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.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Most of us aren’t dorks about airport call signs. What the fuck are you goobers talking about here? -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Pickryl doesn’t belong in this discussion. He was going to be awesome and injuries killed his career. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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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. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
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You’re trying to convince a non-diehard how to cheer. Good luck with that. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
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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. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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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. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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.- 8086 replies
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