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closetojumping

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  1. This is the year in which some guys are going to truly learn their actual value, it appears. Texas is alleged to be getting aggressive at upgrading key spots and letting guys walk who think more of themselves than the market likely says they should. Moore, in particular, pulled some bullshit late last year and that pretty much destroyed all goodwill once he did jack shit to justify his contract this fall. Good luck with the "NFL", which I interpret to mean UCLA or Colorado or SDSU or some other program downgrade for moderate NIL. Not saying Texas will go to the portal for WR, just offering Moore as an example of spots that can be upgraded, sometimes with development within, sometimes with standouts from the portal.
  2. Barnes was the top LB in his class and he's looked good at Texas in workouts and practices, allegedly. Spence is also likely to return. Atkinson will play if he's healthy. Looking for more than that, with other guys also developing, seems like overkill. If someone surprisingly goes pro or transfers, fine. If someone enters the portal and they're a known badass with interest in Texas, fine. I think "potentially" was a reference to whether or not Spence returns, not that they think they're in need otherwise.
  3. “Potentially” means a couple of things depending upon the position. 1) They’ve done everything they can to not spook Cooper before he arrives on campus. They had to sell the Georgetown guy to him as a non-threat. They’re not going to come out and say “yep, got to get us a top line RB to get that room in order”. Some of you guys have been really dense about the RB room and Cooper this whole cycle. 2) “Potentially” at other positions likely indicates ongoing conversations with current roster players about staying or leaving. Beyond that, you didn’t mention Barnes at LB, who is hardly “nothing”, Jesus. At DT, they don’t have anyone to replace Brevard besides Sharma, and he’s an unknown quality. Getting a known entity from the portal to support that spot is likely viewed as critical, and I’d agree.
  4. This is correct. Glasscock was not a yes man and had his own pov. Sarkisian wanted a “smooth process” and was fine with him leaving. It’s never not comical to me when people here or elsewhere want to laud Harris.
  5. I don’t even remember making a prediction list for this cycle. 5 is the lowest number, by far, that I’ve ever gotten. This was a fucked up cycle. Might be that way going forward as a new norm?
  6. Weed, perhaps? I’m not sure how generous he is but it’s a pretty widely held belief in the media circles that Wells is higher than a kite on a daily basis.
  7. I have now edited again for posterity:
  8. Ha, that's awesome. I changed that title like 10 times though. The premise was covering the season, not predicting it. Those other ones are what they are meant to say. Also, I can't help it that the SEC fucking sucks.
  9. In the pantheon of ridiculously stupid thread titles, where does this one rank? I have it just behind "Sam Bradford Seems Like He Sucks" and running neck and neck with "This Alabama Team Is Going To Gargle Balls" (they won the title in 2017 after I posted this on Shaggy). I'm not sure what would even be in 4th or 5th place, but this site is loaded with dumbasses heaving text onto the forums, so perhaps I'm missing a few.
  10. The guy I'm questioning, happily without waiting to see if anything can be done to clean his mess up, is Kyle Flood. I've been patient and haven't questioned his recruiting choices, but now Texas is at a stage where depth is problem, talent looks like a problem and development, at least on the interior, is a problem. Sure, the portal might be able to solve some of this, but we've mocked Badenbaugh for exactly the shit Flood is doing now.
  11. Seems like Wells is flipping to Auburn. I guess losing out on Cleveland and Wells pretty much sucks across the DL. Well, you see, that assembly line for this offense needs to keep on rolling. We're not going to have the current athletes dropping passes forever here, now, are we?
  12. The talk of wanting Wingo gone is idiocy.
  13. Moore should move up to the mountains and stop bothering people or something. It feels like there are a handful of OLs who are being told of the opportunity to go be fat somewhere else.
  14. I don't trust restaurants or bars below a certain type of reputation to make me martinis or manhattans, that includes the workers at DKR. Virgin bloody marys, followed by JD/diet coke for me, if I'm drinking. It's crazy you posted this. Growing up around the poverty line, my older brother bought this while working his first job and had it hanging on his wall until he left for Texas. I took over his room and kept that picture with me from there, to Texas, to my various apartments working start-ups in Houston. He thought he'd lost it. I gave it back to him like 10 years ago and he has it hanging in his office at his home to this day.
  15. Not totally unrelated in all of this, do you have this week's viewership numbers posted anywhere yet?
  16. Well, look, there are servers who come and take orders for drinks, but folks have to go and get their own plates of food. The buffet is better than any buffet on the Vegas Strip and usually has a theme to it. This year, each game featured a menu crafted by a different celebrity chef. Antonia Lofaso was my favorite, and she was a very nice lady, as well. That kind of product will draw you away from your seat for a bit, no doubt.
  17. Brazell is probably the leading WR at Tennessee and he's very good. He has speed that the NFL will covet and he's not a small guy. Not that you're point is otherwise off, but guys with the physical make-up and production will still get drafted from those offenses.
  18. The only person being thrown out there by folks who would know as being "definitely" out is Akina. Doesn't mean there won't be other changes, but anyone worried that Akina is coming back should stop worrying about it if they can pull themselves together.
  19. Wow. I didn't realize this was a thing anywhere in DKR. We just park in the Manor Street garage, walk across the street to the stadium's SEZ entrance, scan the tickets, take an escalator up to the buffet and bar area behind our suite, then we order drinks, then head out to the seats and watch the band march onto the field. Less than 5 minutes from seat to seat. I thought we had it rough until reading about the trauma you folks are dealing with on the west side. Brutal.
  20. Are we going to have to see an idiotic Dallas Wilson discussion on every new page of this thread?
  21. Absolutely not. My only kinks are that a chick has to be legitimately attractive and also no fat chicks. And you are embarrassing yourself by rationalizing any moment in time in which O’Donnell was suitable.
  22. 1) That sounds exhausting. What are we, 24 year olds? 2) Do not count me among your brethren. I never had to slump bust with anything near the likes of Rosie or Roseanne Barr and I wouldn’t now for all the money in the world. Yikes.
  23. Not sure why you quoted my post, as I sure as shit have not advocated for keeping difficult OOC games if the committee is going to punish those Ls. If a big OOC loss doesn't hurt you, as advertised, keep them. Otherwise, it's obvious they should go and the committee will have fucked up things further in allowing that to happen.
  24. Hear, hear! and huzzah, good sir! Please keep repeating this on every other page so the rest of us can understand your important point of view.
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