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  1. Position battle breakdown. A little whistling past the graveyard going on with this one.
  2. Pavia reminds me of a couple of vatos locos I grew up playing ball with in all 3 major sports. I love that dude. He truly has leadership magic. That said, sure, I hope Texas beats his ass by 50. I assume LG is going to be a thing too, right? Folks, we’re in deep shit here. Even Codaxx is drinking the koolaid.
  3. I expect the 2025 defense to be better for a few reasons. 1) The offense isn’t going to constantly pull a disappearing act and run through a second half streak of turnovers and 3 and outs. The Arizona State game is a classic example of an offense fatiguing its own defense and almost costing the team the ball game. 2) Elite pass rush. Texas can send ballers in waves from the edge or the second level. I am comfortable expecting Hill and Simmons to remain elite and that will enable the entire front to feast. 3) Elite talent on every level. Simmons, Watson, Hill on the front 7. Muhammad and Taaffe behind that. That’s to say nothing of the other guys also being highly regarded for the most part. Where is an actual weakness that isn’t just handwringing? Like I said, if we have all of this stud talent and experience all over the field then it’s either a top 3 defense that puts the fear of God in opposing offenses or what the fuck are we doing here?
  4. Is that Strait? Ketchum’s homerism and, at that time, willingness to hoist his lardass into his vehicle and attend HS games actually paid off here. He was begging for Texas to pursue Strait. Also, everyone wanted Kendrick Turner. I think that dude was a top 150 recruit. His issues were mental and folks just didn’t evaluate that aspect well back in the day.
  5. The pressure from the DEs, OLBs and Hill has a chance to be elite. If that’s the case, it’s going to make the DTs look really good since only so many guys can be double-teamed or a focal point in protection. Beyond that, as Codaxx pointed out, there is legit talent within the DT room and a lot of it will be here for more than 2025. People discount January, but the staff thinks he’s a difference maker and is a likely starter. I am not really sure why we’re not excited about him. He checks a lot of boxes. Watson is supposed to be a stud. The other guys aren’t chopped liver and they’re likely to be able to redshirt the freshmen, if they want to do so. Scipio also pointed out the important aspect of turnovers being somewhat random as well. Yes, there are ball hawks. There are also roles that get more chances and Star is one of those. An elite pass rush will also translate into picks. It wasn’t like Mukuba was a turnover force at Clemson. I think expecting turnovers to be on par with 2024 on the defensive is reasonable. Either this is going to be an elite defense starting multiple All Americans or what the fuck are we expecting?
  6. The guy would have to just decide that he preferred Texas for reasons other than money. Texas isn’t being outbid by Oregon right now. He’s coveted by everyone recruiting him as one of their highest guys on the board regardless of position. Think of him less as a safety and more of a potential wizard. He can cover like a corner and he can see the future like the best safety prospects every 5 years or so - Ed Reed, Earl Thomas, Mathieu, Downs. He’s also a bad ass returner. That comes from someone that graded all of those other guys and sees him in that light and has confirmed where he is on everyone’s boards. If Texas landed him, he’d be 1b to Atkinson’s 1a and, yes, I know that Texas is signing some amazing talent in this class.
  7. It sucks to not land Benjamin. That guy looks good. All Dogs Go To Heaven is a movie I watched with my oldest daughter probably 20 times in a one year period. Good lord.
  8. I ate there a few weeks ago. Extremely loud. Otherwise, the food was top notch.
  9. And it was posted first yesterday, and discussed then. There's jack shit happening today.
  10. Is that a serious question or a joke that's sailing over my head?
  11. I was listening to Hester and EJ Manual today on Off Campus on XM 84 and they unveiled their #25 team today - Oklahoma. They did a good job with it, talking to the voice of OU, some dude named Howland or Rowland. He gave you every OU trope imaginable. It was awesome. High expectations in Norman! The roster is top of the SEC competitive! Mateer is going to competing for the Heisman and Ott will be a force to lead the conference in rushing! The defense is going to be amazing! Anyway, later on, EJ went through his view on Mateer after watching him in all of his games last year on tape. He was polite and gave the platitudes you expect the media to give about the guy, but then he actually got honest. He said the guy takes way too many sacks and that isn’t going to cut it with OU’s schedule. He was fine with his arm but questioned his read speed, which he also thought could be a problem. Bottom line is that that dude, who watches a lot of QB tape, isn’t sold. It’s a lot of the same stuff we’ve talked about here, but usually the talking heads have been lazy about looking at the guy beyond just checking his stats.
  12. That dude is made of glass.
  13. I honestly don’t care what any mocks or scouts are saying about Concepcion in regard to him having high draft pick potential. That guy is a possession WR with mediocre size and speed and he just had an inexplicably down year. Now he’s in Klein’s offense, which doesn’t exactly feature WR talent. He’s not elite in any way and there is no way his freshman season was good enough to merit leaving early being drafted early. It’s ridiculous. In fact, all of those guys you listed are somewhat absurd as early draft pick considerations with the exception of Singleton. Brown has hands of steel and is a return specialist. Branch is playing for Bobo after being a middling WR for great offensive mind. Anderson is coming back off of major injury. There will be emerging surprises, for sure, but those guys seem farfetched. If I had to pick a guy that could wind up shooting up the boards, it might be Noah Thomas. He’s got elite size and great hands and he’s not exactly slow. Georgia will showcase him.
  14. When there is recruiting news, we post it and discuss it. We are in the doldrums until 8/2 or Kreul does something.
  15. Colt McCoy and, I think, other former players are investors.
  16. Get out of my head! All of these. I watched Poltergeist at a friend’s house whose parents were mostly absent. I had nightmares every night for like a month straight and my parents were furious. Also watched “Heavy Metal” because it was animated and on cable and so my parents just assumed it was fine for a 6-7 year old. Whoops.
  17. I opened this thread projecting them somewhere around an 8-4 regular season as a ceiling. It could go higher with some really fortuitous breaks, but with that schedule and the shortfalls discussed here, just seems like 8-4 is the best outcome a sooner can reasonably expect. They’re for sure better than many think, but Phil Steele has them making the playoffs and ranked 9th in the country. That’s idiocy. Are they going to pitch 8 shutouts with a defense that draws comparisons to the 2001 Miami defense? GTFO. As to that Alabama game, the best way to describe it is that Jalen Milroe had the ugliest meltdown of his career in that game.
  18. I own a copy of that book in great condition from its first and maybe only? print. I’ve used that term since Hornfans in this context: “If Texas ever decides that it has a payroll to meet, then the rest of the sport would actually know what buying players looks like. “ Well, now there is a payroll to meet and the rest of the sport’s hair is on fire. It cracks me up to see idiots on boards or Twitter or even some on the radio shows now implying that Texas has always been paying players. They do this without a hint of logic, clearly. “Hey dumdum, do you know how I know that Texas wasn’t buying players before NIL? Who’s gonna tell him?”
  19. My parents didn't know what they were getting everyone into when they took us to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. My little brother was like 5 or 6. The sacrifice scene turned him white as a ghost and I'll never be able to get the dinner scene out of my head. Hollywood was going insane around that time and one thing the Karens of the 80's got right was the PG 13 rating due to that movie and, I think, Ghostbusters and Gremlins.
  20. I was like 7 when Octopussy came out and my dad took me and my brothers to see it. I remember, even at that age, waiting to see the pussy. Very disappointing.
  21. I've been sworn to secrecy and haven't even told my core friend group, but what he's alluding to with something big coming for NIL will also just be really fucking big for UT athletics. And it will also be hilarious. Regarding the back-up QB battle, there are no doubt multiple posters on this site who are grinding their teeth right now that Trey Owens isn't going to cut it.
  22. Regarding item 3, I think you've mixed some of it up. Slocum was having an affair with his secretary. His wife discovered it somehow, while Slocum was running a fall practice. She drove up to the field, got out and started dumping a bunch of his clothes and personal belongings onto the grass. Then she told him not to come home and tore off in her car. Slocum spent awhile after that on his office couch, or his secretary's place, who knows? Eventually, he reconciled with his wife and moved back home. Slocum is one of those public personalities that gets a lot more credit in various ways than he should. Of course the aggies all talk about him in a hagiographic manner, but regular ol'college football talking heads will also celebrate the guy when he comes up or stops by somewhere. Slocum was Sherrill's lead bagman. He was a fucking cheater if there ever was one. He was a driver in taking them to the brink of the abyss (death penalty). Those idiots should wake up everyday and thank God that SMU was even more craven and pathetic. After all of that, and when Slocum was in control, he continued to push the cheating. ATM was banned from bowls and television in the fucking 90's, for Christ's sake. It wasn't until the last embarrassment in the mid-90's that ATM got religion about cheating until they entered the SEC. Slocum also gets a lot of credit as some sort of terrific coach. I respect his defensive scheming at the time with how they ran their version of the 3-4 and how well they did it. That said, a lot of idiots can be awesome at something when they're cheating and most of the competition isn't, or not nearly to their levels. Gene Chizik won a national title. Les Miles won a national title. Ed Orgeron won a national title. Beyond that, the guy was actively damaging to his offenses as a head coach. It was often great comedy to watch that dumb motherfucker sell "opening up the offense" during the offseason around the state and then the aggies online and in your neighborhood would lap it up. After he was shitcanned but stayed forever an aggie, he went out of his way in multiple seasons, once on the board of the Harris poll, in trying to fuck Texas over from top 2 contention in the BCS. He was actively working against Texas in 2008, publicly even! He is also an alleged repeat offender as a philanderer. So, sure, great guy. When he dies, even people on here will offer kind thoughts and prayers and all of that shit. Just show me the location of his grave, so I can drive over to it and spit on it.
  23. It really does amaze me how they can craft shit out of whole cloth and then wear it as the obvious truth from there forward. Tito's Vodka isn't giving anything to NIL. They're a vice company according to the NIL rules and they can't. They do a sponsorship to TOF for low 5 figures, and they're doing sponsorships of that ilk in other places. Do they do a lot of sponsorship with UT? Sure. As with other programs. The notion has now reach "giving 8 figures to NIL" and that's probably the most absurd thing I've heard those goobers say in a while.
  24. You missed the softball. closetojumping: "Farther" relates to distance, "further" is a definition of degree. You should have said "further". Park Gothic: Are you challenging me, Mr. CTJ? closetojumping: Not any more than you challenged Coleridge.
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