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EJ Holland is a simple idiot and a pathological liar. I’m pretty stunned he still has a gig in this sport. He’s never worked a day in his life at that job.
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I know this kind of thing is hard for you to gather, but the conversation was around 1st round grades and how it’s a take every year that there is a shortage of them. You misread that as an invitation to tell us about overall draft classes. Some are deeper than others? Really? Wow. No one asked you to find anything. There is always someone, and that someone here is you. Utterly oblivious but never in doubt.
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Last year they whined about the lack of first round grades, as always. What in the fuck are you talking about?
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Given that Texas is loaded at safety, I’m going to be really surprised if Williams is in store for much PT this fall outside of special teams. I guess if Filsaime just doesn’t come along and they have a rash of injuries, things could change. Seems like he should be just fine playing baseball through the CWS finals.
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Did you watch the games, or are you doing that thing you do with recruiting sometimes where you stared at the stats long enough for them to tell you how to feel? Some guys have it. Maybe JW turns out to be UT’s version of Gregg Jeffries or Carlos Hernandez or something, but in the first two games I’ve seen of the guy, his talent pops on the tv screen. We can decry small sample size, but the guy was planning on signing as a top 10 round pick in this upcoming draft until he had one really bad showcase camp last summer, thankfully for us. His raw tools as a HS sophomore and junior were viewed as elite. That and $5 might get you a cup of coffee these days, given how MLB is viewing HS talent, but it’s also enough to tell us that, maybe, wait for it now … good college coaching might develop that elite talent into a quality college starter or better.
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One unlikely person helped Texas figure some things out really quickly at the dawn of all of this stuff. That person? Abraham Lincoln. … No, actually, Lincoln Riley. Why Lincoln Riley? He tampered directly with Xavier Worthy and offered him $1M that he did not have at that moment in time. The offer came with less than a day of portal window left. The Texas end had to figure out really quickly what it could do, wanted to do, needed to do, and how this stuff needed to be proactively sorted in the future. That doesn’t mean anything is perfect, but a lot of turbulence has already been put behind Texas compared to many other programs. BTW, in that same cycle, Jordan Addison took the same offer. He’s still waiting to get paid most of that money.
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The level of getting down in their feels about “today’s state of college football” is unbelievable now. They’re projecting the downfall of college football because they’re poor and think everyone else must be as well. Here’s one of my favorite takes today:
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Miami has allegedly tampered with him and offered him $1M. We’ll see if there’s any truth to that, but that’s how it is being framed on Sooner Illustrated. One of the alleged “insiders” and several of the moderators are really touting Nagy as a wizard who is going to reshape their whole org into a machine. Washing machine, maybe. The current set-up looks hilariously dysfunctional. The “GM” reports above the AD. The HC reports to the AD and the AD reports into the same role as the “GM”. That structure means the HC is absolutely fucked. He’s lost control of personnel evaluation to a wonk who cast out of the NFL personnel world. The guy was in purgatory running an annual bowl camp in Alabama with less than 10 employees and doing his own PR. That dude now controls who Venables has on staff and the make-up of his roster. He doesn’t even have to meet regularly with Venables or consult with him. “But ctj, that’s how many NFL orgs work!?!” The idiotic talking heads on XM 84, including guests from ESPN, Fox, SEC/ACC/Big 10 networks, The Athletic and so on have all convinced themselves of the argument. “OU’s ahead of the curve. This is the way things will be structured at all schools in the future. Look at Stanford as well!” Maybe. Maybe CFB HC’s are as fungible as NFL HC’s. I’m not sure I see it that way. There’s way more variance in numerous aspects of CFB that don’t exist in the NFL. One in particular is that the budget for the roster is nowhere near parity across the sport, even in each conference. OU can pat itself on the back about being disciplined and essentially telling Stone to walk with a big pay cut. Do Texas or Georgia have to do the same thing with their freshmen 5 stars going into their sophomore season? No. They do not. Who is better off by the time the ball kicks off in August?
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Does anybody know the last time a draft was held where all of the blowhards were proclaiming that there were actually 32 or more round 1 grades in the draft? I’m guessing it’s never happened. A lot of the purpose about “there are only x round 1 grades this year” is to make scouts and evaluators seem like they’re really fucking smart doing this super hard job. It’s all bullshit.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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There’s a thread on aggie 247 about Lance Zurlein evaluating the aggie draft prospects and he concludes that Turner is the best of their prospects and that all 3 will go in the first 70 picks. The thread tumbles into angst about those guys not really doing anything at ATM and handwringing about Elko and his program’s development skills, or lack thereof. Then this guy flies in over the top with an all time heater: Byew said... (original post) I could be wrong but I think the personnel was different than a typical Elko D. I think it might be far more effective this year with less talent. -
As Derka slowly pulls up to the keyboard and prepares his sausage-fingers to hammer out their next bloviating post, monastery dirge music plays quietly from his boombox nearby as he contemplates this being his lot on this spinning rock. Then he shouts: “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?!?” and then that keyboard gets the beating of its life.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
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Best friends are honest and with each other. Your kid sucks.- 8950 replies
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Only Jesus can climb up on a cross faster than Derka.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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That loser is really scraping to claim victimhood with this baseball season. He really is a pathetic bitch. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
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Good shit right here, @immamac -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
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It sounds like this Shipley guy makes a lot of stupid relationship decisions. If you’re letting a sooner “mentor” you, something went off the rails a while back. Then you marry an aggie while still in college? Time to start looking forward to Texas Football 2025 - Stone Cold. -
I think you kind of have to view NIL circumstances as photographs in time, rather than a motion picture. A lot of guys are getting $1M+ for 2025. It’s only been a minute since Downs got that. QBs have been getting more than $1M+ from the jump. Kickers, just so we’re clear, are still nowhere close to anything like that, no matter how hard folks in social media or on other threads here want to honk about it. For clarity, there are multiple non-QBs getting $1M+ on the Texas 2025 roster. Few would argue that those guys aren’t worth it.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Texas was never in on Downs. Georgia tampered with him and they were backslapping themselves. Ohio State came in over the top with $1M/year and Georgia and Bama were cooked. Texas got Mukuba for a fraction of that and the upgrade to Downs would have been marginal and would have cost Texas Mukuba and Filsaime, if not also D Williams. Probably another position due to salary reqs as well.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
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He did not get close to $1M. Not even vaguely close. Don’t just make shit up on here, especially with something that makes us sound really stupid. Miss us on that shit.- 8950 replies
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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I read this, after watching this tub of goo trade actual talent into the portal with a bunch of JAGs out of the portal and I’m momentarily perplexed. Does The Elk really believe that he’s got a great roster? Or does he just realize that that’s the only thing he can say to aggie reporters and fans that will keep them quiet for the most part? This a bad team he’s about to field. Dumbasses who don’t follow them will drive by and say “yeah, yeah, yall say that and then they always go 8-4”. No, sometimes they go 5-7. The ceiling for this team in 2025, barring something wild in the portal in the next few days, is 7-6. The schedule is unforgiving, they lost key talent, and the roster is hilariously overrated. I fully expect the lazy AP voters to have them in the top 20 and I am excited about it. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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This is where I am at on Auburn. He made more money last year than 99.9% of the 20-21 year olds in this world and he fucking choked repeatedly and cost us a SEC title and altered the way they had to gameplan for the playoffs. Go look like an idiot and miss field goals somewhere else, Sideshow Bert.- 8950 replies
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I hope they go four straight for the earhole on her today. What bullshit. LSU is a piece of shit institution in every possible way. The education is below Texas high school levels, the institution effectively revels in cheating, and the people coming out of that place are fucking trash. The worst employees, as a group, that I’ve ever had work for orgs that I’ve been a part of have been LSU grads, by far. We eventually just filtered those resumes and candidates out they were so bad.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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The guy who played Gaston at Disney World got shithoused on July 4th a few years back and attempted to launch a large firework off the top of his head, decapitating himself. Gaston Gramatica just made the equivalent to that move in recruiting.
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