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  1. Apparently, Bisontits thought he was leaving for some of that sweet, sweet NIL out there in the market. Whoops, not a lot out there for a t-rex-armed swinging gate of a tackle.
  2. There is a ton of optimism around this recruiting class as it relates to roster fit from folks that look at this more objectively than we do. Folks think they've done a great job of evaluating. Hampton got an upped offer from very little with Bama. "Well, you should sign with them if that's the case." As it pertains to what's left, McKinley is purely a vanity play. He's a momma's boy that could have graduated early and chose not to because she wanted him to have his senior year. They've asked programs about coaching approaches to addressing performance and how much "yelling" happens at practice. But, for the starfuckers, the guy is a 5 star by the services and it would be a win over LSU and a flip from ATM. Sarkisian wants him, at least. Evan is higher on the board and likes/loves football a hell of a lot more than McKinley. Butler is way more valued than Bussey. If they spend much more time on potention 2024 freshmen after this week, Butler is a more likely expenditure of that effort.
  3. If I'm hurting your feelings, you can just put me on ignore and move on. And, you're welcome.
  4. Jackson Arnold's camp presented their case to Venables after the season. Gabriel comes back, Arnold hits the portal. Venables told Gabriel he wasn't guaranteed the starting job next year and he left. This story was from an involved party, but feel free to dismiss it out of hand as that is a reasonable approach to the forums. Might be obvious, but figured it was worth noting to track for future outcomes and similar situations regarding the decisions Venables makes.
  5. Ha. I am honest about what we are all doing here. It's okay to be serious. It's an escape from other things in life and it is a hobby. When you create your talent acquisition/roster management lists for baseball or recruiting, you put thought and effort into those things. There is zero harm in that unless you're neglecting your life responsibilities. And, I don't take this as seriously as some folks always assume. This is entertainment. This one laid me low. Vertigo got the joke. Also, maybe this time, with this post advising me how to behave, this will be the one that causes me to get my shit together. Let's see how it works out.
  6. I'll post some thoughts on what was, what is, and what will still be in terms of the 2024 class for Texas and others in a bit. That said, Evans is absolutely above McKinley on Texas' list of priorities. He's a far better culture fit and he's plenty talented. Now that he's serious about Texas, this is a pretty big recruitment. I went from not caring about this guy as simple fodder for ATM's DL roster to now being willing to be really irritated if he finishes and signs with ATM because of the trend in his recruitment. I am as skeptical as anyone, but AD Mitchell isn't a foregone conclusion to go to the NFL unless I missed an update. He's under no pressure to do so from his seriously wealthy family. One thing that might be more instructive regarding the NIL impact is to look at the top 20 recruits nationally and who they signed with, versus, say the 2015 or 2019 classes. Parity is developing in recruiting, among tiers, and you can see it already impacting outcomes such as the playoffs, or what has happened to programs that have ignored NIL and the landscape shift. Think about Clemson, as an example. To be clear, the work will never end on NIL for football. It would take an endowment for the roster of something like $200M for that to go away. The roster is too big and the competitors/money/fervor/eyeballs are too big. That considered, the Texas NIL machine for football is rolling along far better than most, even if we're always playing from behind. No one predicted Georgia falling behind. I've talked about NIL here since before NIL opened up. Georgia is always going to be a have. The reason for that isn't a rabid and wealthy fanbase. That helps, sure, but the bigger reason is due to corporate density within relevant proximity to the school. No one predicted Alabama falling off immediately due to NIL because of their current position on the national landscape. We did discuss them struggling with it compared to Texas, Oregon, USC, Georgia and a few others. They don't have the same kind of money. And they have been impacted by that. They've struggled to keep up and they haven't won as many of the top of the list recruitments as they used to before NIL. Schools like LSU have been visibly impacted. They don't have the money to win many of the key battles that they otherwise would when the bag game was king. Clemson is actively denying NIL's existence, and that's harming them. There are other stories like these. While any competent HC at Texas should always be able to bring in top 10 classes, NIL is fundamental for exceeding that. The current class is underranked both relative to schools that Texas was up against for various players ranked lower than recruits that many powers paid passing attention to, but also due to the fact that Texas did not pursue a highly ranked QB in this cycle and did not take as many players as other programs due to low attrition. Nonetheless, it is top 5 to the public and we are splitting hairs on quality between Texas, Bama, and Georgia. Ohio State is ahead of Texas but they are the Tom Herman fantasy college football team in which they overload on WRs and DBs in every class and almost fully ignore OL and interior DL, which is showing up on the field now when playing quality opponents. Miami and Oregon are excellent examples of schools that are using a fuckton of money to win recruiting battles. FSU is another example of a school lacking some of the firepower necessary to offset a neighbor's wherewithal. Anyway, I would expect to see a more diverse field of competitors for the playoffs and titles. For most of a decade, it boiled down to Bama, Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, Oklahoma and Michigan/LSU every now and then. Generally, you knew who the five teams were that would fill the four team playoff. This season, 20 teams could make arguments for being a contender before the season started and by season's end, there were still 7-8 teams that could do the same. That's NIL and the portal+NIL factoring in significantly.
  7. This is a terrible take and you should work harder to become a better poster here.
  8. 1) Absolutely against the guy coming to Texas even if he wanted to pay for other players' NIL and participate as a walk-on. 2) You know fully fucking well Stewart is too weak to change his circumstances with his circle. I have no sympathy. I cut people out of my world who were causing my future harm when I was younger than this idiot and more was personally on the line. 3) Like I said, he is highly likely to eventually be seeing himself at USC or Tennessee, where he will be a perfect fit. As I said above, I wouldn't take him if he were paying into the Texas One Fund to help others. I explain further, again, below. You should spend more time working on evaluations, then. Higher ceilings, that will be approached by performance, exist with at least 15 guys across the collegiate landscape in 2024. Nope. This is the problem with you, Wulaw, the other draft junkies and the unrealistic recruitniks who prefer to follow recruiting more than watching the actual games. Potential never pays the fucking rent. There is zero reason to be as enamored with Evan Stewart at this point as many of you are. The guy was skipping classes at ATM in month one of his freshman year. He continued with that shit for his duration there. He failed 3 different drug tests while on campus. He quit on his team in both of his seasons there, having to be talked back onto the field more than once. His inner circle leveraged him twice already for significant paydays. They're going to do it again because the guy has that ethereal potential. So maybe potential does pay the rent - for Stewart's dad, I guess. The guy dropped 4 passes this season in limited playing time. He had more than that his freshman year. He's a shit blocker. He's a social media diva. Why in the fuck do people insist on what-iffing a scenario for a malcontent with a proven history of underperformance and undercutting an organization's culture while doing so. Would any of you hire a guy like that? Right. But you'd want TOF and Sarkisian to do so? What the fuck? Like I said, USC and Tennessee are an on brand match for Stewart.
  9. That's like 71-72 guys. That includes guys that haven't signed who may go elsewhere by February. Additionally, that's counting guys who are still likely to jump ship before the portal closes, of which there are rumored to be roughly 5 more of those. Wow. You do drive-bys like this somewhat regularly. You should post the examples in the future. In any event, are people ever allowed to, like, you know, learn? I don't remember having a thought about Bateman when Mack hired him, but he certainly didn't seem like an imbecile at Army so I probably thought the hire made sense. I do remember watching Manny Diaz coach against Dick Rod in a bowl as the MSU DC and thought, "man, that guy's doing a good job containing Robinson (the mobile QB)." Then Texas hired him and I thought he was a solid hire. I was fine with him after year one, as well. By the time he was fired, I was volunteering to drive him to the city limits and drop him off myself. After watching him at Miami as DC and PSU this season, I'm kind of back to thinking he's, you know, learned some things and is an above average DC. It's super weird to gather new data points and then allow those to influence your point of view. I agree that should be something we continue to mock and make fun of on this board.
  10. There are guys on the team and coming to the team who are not interested in dealing with Stewart’s shit, including his demands to be promised a starting spot. I don’t see him being a fit and he’s a terrible culture guy. Get a fucking grip. His dad is definitely still a part of his inner circle jerk. I hope he goes and gets to be TikTok awesome at USC or Tennessee. It would be on brand for both sides.
  11. I can never tell whether or not those guys are just shameless hucksters or such big fanbois that they convince themselves of this kind of stupidity genuinely.
  12. They're really high on all 4 of these guys. They took Kibble ahead of multiple higher ranked options and did so early. They basically told him, now or never. He took the offer and stayed committed. They worried about January's ability to keep his motor running and to be willing to get in proper shape early and he responded with significant work on his body and by having a big senior year. They put effort and resources towards Hills that they easily could have redirected elsewhere and chose not to do so. They expect him to be tenacious. I can't say anything about the punter other than they liked him, took him, and never looked back. My view is that the iffiest players in this class are Dubose (injury recovery to 100% is an open question) and Livingstone (he is a long strider and a poor route runner, one thing can be fixed and one thing may keep the guy from ever consistently getting off the line). If that's the floor of the class, awesome. WR recruiting is a thing of luxury in the first place. There will always be proven talent in the portal at WR if you have a few that don't pan out.
  13. Yeah, this is grim. And terrific. They're going to have to take all kinds of bread in both the portal and, maybe?, the second signing period in order to fill holes on the depth chart. I cannot believe they don't have assistants. I cannot believe they are short on funds. I cannot that Melko is this weak at recruiting. I know "it's aggie" and such, but holy shit. The other thing about their roster and class is that Liucci and his cronies, as well as the 247 guys, continue to warn that more guys might defect after the bowl game when Robinson leaves. This keeps getting better and better.
  14. If you just put that dum dum on ignore, you'll never think of his idiocy again except every now and then when some rando quotes him. You're a bigger man than I am. I don't know the player, so fuck him for his behaviors. I hope his career sucks and he lights the Alabama football program on fire with whatever nonsense he brings with him. This is college football, I'm fine being petty. I have no idea if this happened, but you are correct in that, if Texas has agreed to something with a recruit, they will not entertain something different at the last minute. It is similar to the stance Sarkisian has taken with the portal. "If you want to sit down and talk about transferring, that is fine. If you put your info into the portal, you cannot come back here." But, again, we won't know much about this one for a little bit.
  15. You just don't say the kind of shit that he says about Texas without there being bad blood. He seems deliberate with his comments. It's gratifying when it all works against him. I find him to be an easy villain as an opposing fan.
  16. Being patient and waiting for the next window, if it should be needed, is a smart thing for a player to do in Weigman's situation. Good points. I guess I don't expect most of these guys to actually do the thoughtful thing with regard to team loyalties and the portal these days.
  17. This kind of astute yet brutally honest summary of my existence is a cut to the quick, sir. It hurts and will not go unrequited. Please don't leave. We need bold men with backbone on this board to show us the way. Your journey on the recruiting board could be really enlightening.
  18. Serious question - has Weigman's camp or the ATM United group announced his return? Things seem really, really quiet in that regard. Also, I am still fascinated by the scorching hawt takes that their roster is going to be really talented in 2024. They've lost a ton of talent over the last two cycles and they have not replenished it with quantity or quality. I hear people in the media still referencing talent as well. Eventually, someone is going to dig a little deeper and see what we've seen, right? I guess I hope not. I hope they open 2024 ranked, again, and then collapse.
  19. Few things are more productive on a bulletin board than a new guy showing up to offer advice, including gems like "your not a corchez!!?" You will know when I'm triggered on something. Batting dipshits away from terrible takes isn't a "get triggered" thing. The "wouldn't it be so cool if Evan Stewart transferred to Texas and then caught the game-winning catch at Kyle Field next year!!!" fan fiction is the kind of unoriginal nonsense that you slapdicks are better off jacking off to in private and leaving the rest of us out of it.
  20. Reading Texags and 247 and watching the aggie masses respond, and having some knowledge about things going on behind the scenes, it's crazy to me that Orwell was writing as much about the future of the aggie state of being as he was the Soviet Stalinest Era when he penned Animal Farm. That dude saw the future.
  21. Morons like you keep bringing the guy up. I said I didn't give any thought about Stewart playing for Texas. I give plenty of thought to arguing against it when the Evan Stewart clown car shows up on a thread on Surly and a bunch of you goobers file out of it and start spewing nonsense about how cool it would be for him to show up to Texas and cause locker room problems while bitching daily on social media. No. This is our lot in life. We are tied to a football board population of posters who are aggie as fuck about getting over on aggies.
  22. There isn't a single poster on this board rooting against the guy. If he comes to Texas and lays waste to the record books, awesome. If he's an annoyingly (to our opponents) productive 3rd or 4th option, cool. If he's a glue guy that everyone likes on the team, fine. If he portals in a year because he'll never sniff the field, no big deal. Texas invested very little (to zero) time, NIL and energy in landing Livingstone and they clearly think he's worth the roster spot. There's no real opportunity cost with this signing. On top of it all, if the guy is awesome, a bunch of imbeciles on this board can mock me about it by pulling up some one-off post and scream at me about how wrong and mean I was. That all considered, there are some people super excited about getting the guy. That part is bizarre to me and what I've enjoyed mocking at times during this cycle. There are 15+ actual badasses in this class that seem far more intriguing, but to each their own.
  23. I have not given any thought to Stewart doing anything at Texas since December of 2022. Fuck that guy. And no, I don't derive a lot of value from bad things happening to ATM. I enjoy the threads here about their idiocy, but they're a quaternary thought, at best, in my mind when it comes to any given Saturday. Texas beating and embarrassing ATM, in and on any field, is always gratifying, but it's also a divine right. It should be a given.
  24. I am fine with Parker Livingstone being taken as one of the last guys in the class. I remember making jokes this summer to rile people up calling him Jaggy McJaggerstone, I guess. More power to him if he does well at Texas. If he doesn't, I'll just add him to references of Dustin Miksch and Clint Haney the next time we take an iffy white WR recruit and root for handwringing defending that take. Also, I saw Garth Brooks in concert at the Colosseum in Vegas last weekend. He was doing various covers and threw out an Alan Jackson reference for a brief moment. I'd be lying if I said my right eye didn't start to twitch.
  25. I'm circling back to notifications and say these two. What am I supposed to be doing with these?
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