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  1. 4 minutes ago, Sheep Have Wool said:

    Calling something out as "retard word salad" with something as incomprehensible as this collection of words masquerading as a sentence is certainly a bold strategy. It's especially ironic since you didn't address the post CTJ quoted:

    There it is, in case you forgot. It was followed by this:

    Your surprise that posting those two things led someone to believe that you're a "corches know best!" sorta guy doesn't speak highly of your critical thinking skills. That's not surprising, since your takes seem to be "we didn't need those OL anyway" and "there's no room in the playbook for a guy who can take the top off a defense."

    I'm mostly a lurker and glad for those that contribute more often, but maybe you should think more and post less, because you seem bad at it.

    I laughed. 

    It's not pertinent to this thread, other than to mock HtownRube, but he's also recently advocated for abandoning recruiting DFW, since apparently that region no longer produces talent. This guy is gold.

  2. 35 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    I've already said Mehringer and Warehime should not be retained after their contracts are up.

    It didn't matter who was the coach, Williams was leaving for the NFL after his junior year, so you including him in your retarded word salad is a but distinguish to the discussion of Cuney, Thomas, and McMillon leaving the program.

    2 different coaching staffs started Shackelford over McMillon. So let's not pretend that McMillon was some boss interior OL that was irreplaceable.

    You offered a position that we wouldn't want any of the guys who left. I countered with the reality that every person and their mother would take CW again. There wasn't a caveat in your original position and you don't get to come back later and claim one. And we don't know fuck all about whether or not CW would be coming back if he'd have had a different experience in the first year of the Herman regime.

    As to Shack over McMillon, meh. McMillon graded out higher and everyone would gladly have the guy back on this season's two deep, as opposed to your claim that he was irrelevant. 

    The OLs all deciding to be announced as leaving and a part of senior day, first of all, shocked Herman, and second of all, was done to highlight the frustration and exhaustion with Warehime by the players. Immediately following this event came the rumors of a team mutiny. CDC was named AD a few weeks later and his first action as AD was to examine the health of the roster within the football program. At which point Herman acknowledged that they'd been a bit too coarse with the team in year 1 and had softened up the approach heading into the Texas Bowl. The steps by CDC and Herman have all been publicly fucking acknowledged at this point.The only person who failed to get the memo was Drew Meh, and a few guys on the boards like you.

    And here you are, continuing to defend two coaches who have zero fucking reason for being employed at UT at this point other than they are bros with the HC. They have no pedigree, no proven talent or history of positive performance, nothing to merit defense from anyone. 

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  3. 31 minutes ago, Hamttx said:

    What level of management were/are you in? I don’t wish to disparage you so please don’t take my comment personally. But my experience is with a company that I was employed with for over 40 years. And with a law department of over 30 attorneys. I can assure you going into a strip club was a huge problem. And every year that law department required All managers to sign a Code of Conduct contract. Every fucking year!

    To be clear, I believe your situation, and I believe it to be true for numerous orgs. I'm just saying it's not a standard.

    Without resume reading, the final approval scenarios were for orgs I ran/run. I was part of signing off on another at a global Fortune 500. Like I said, I don't doubt your experience, but it's not a standard because of the vast diversity of orgs on this planet.

    7 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    IU Athletics has reached the point of wanting people to only remember them for the movie Breaking Away. 

    Remember when Bobby Knight choked a player and Indiana, yet again, attempted to defend his actions and poo-poo the whole thing? It's pretty damned reminiscent of the OSU stuff now in some ways. I wonder which side of the circumstance OSU fans were on at the time, and I wonder what IU supporters are saying right now?

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  4. 1 minute ago, Hamttx said:

    Unfortunately yes, it ain’t the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s or 00’s anymore. Almost every company considers those that are traveling while on company business to be “on the clock” while on the road. That they represent their organization the entire time. So yes, behavior such as blowing on G-strings while doing shots of Pappy is verboten. I’m sure there are exceptions, but most employee handbooks spell this out very clearly. A direct result of the Information Age, and law departments that have found themselves embarrassed and liable for an employe’s behavior while on the clock.

    I don't know, man. I've seen plenty of employee handbooks. I've had final approval on a few, frankly. You're being a bit fast and loose with "most employee handbooks spell this out very clearly". You might be right that this is a thing in certain places, but I was alluding the public realm in general. Anyone getting worked up over a dude going to a strip club is stretching their outrage and piety capacity a little fucking thin. 

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  5. 21 minutes ago, kilroydos said:

    It doesn't prove anything at all, but the dots aren't that hard to connect if you believe the report saying that ONE other OSU coach was out with Smith that night and they were both in the area the day before.  And yes, I think it would be odd if Smith tagged one coach in his post and left out others. 

    Isn't it sort of accepted that Herman and Smith ran around together during their time on staff?

    Again, I don't think this says anything negative about Herman.  He's clearly a guy who knows how to keep it under control.

    Am I following correctly that people are giving one fuck or another that a college football assistant coach went to a strip club while traveling? And am I supposed to be concerned if that coach was Tom Herman? What level of teetotaling bullshit are these fucking people trying to lower us to at this point? I wish the last time I was on the road with buddies and we went to a strip club that we had only spent $600. If only. Of all of the shit that dumbfuck Smith did, turning in an expense for $600 at a strip club seems like the least surprising or worrisome. I fucking hope Herman was the guy with him. I'd respect him more.

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  6. 14 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Man, how did I forget? Either way, points to the crapshoot that RB recruiting below the obvious high-end guys is.

    Excuse me, sir, but I'll have you know that I had D'onta Foreman pegged as a future 2,000 yard back from the moment they gleefully and aggressively recruited him.

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  7. 1 hour ago, USMCHorn said:

    The moment you mentioned RHM as a criticism of CTH I immediately knew you didn't know what you were talking about. RHM, as good as he was on the field, couldn't even transfer to a DI program because his grade were so trash. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.burntorangenation.com/platform/amp/2018/5/15/17358736/reggie-hemphill-mapps-signs-trinity-valley-cc-texas-longhorns

    When a player becomes disengaged and disillusioned, they'll often times stop going to class. RHM stopped going to class in November. This wasn't a scenario of a player not being able to make the grade. He was an inexperienced moron for ceasing his classwork. Still, it's not hard to understand the correlation between his position coach breaking him down to the level that they guy wanted to quit the sport and him not making the grades.

    1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

    Not too mention of the OL that left, every fan would be openly rooting for them to be completely replaced on the 2 deep.

    Gee. Hmmm. You know, it's weird, but I would like to have Connor Williams back and it isn't even fucking close. As well, and I know you won't understand this, but Jake McMillon coming back would also have been plenty helpful for the two deep. In fact, if Dumbfuck Derek Warehime doesn't show up and immediately yank the guy from C, where he was solid in 2016, and replace him with Shackelford, who has sucked at that spot from the moment he was inserted there, McMillon would probably still be here. 

    You guys that defend guys like Meh and Shithouse are just company-line toeing honks. You're an embarrassment to fandom and I'm ashamed that we have to fucking coexist with your rabid stupidity.

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  8. 10 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Most 3-star backs, including the ones OSU gets, are products of their coaching and OL/playcalling. Occasionally one of them does turn out to be a world-beater (hi Kareem Hunt!), but that's pretty rare. There's a reason most big programs are going after the same small group of players.

    Solid hattipping of Kareem Hunt. If only Texas recently had a worldbeating, lowly starred TB that annihilated the competition with a subpar coaching staff and OL. 

  9. 1 hour ago, victory88 said:

    Yeah,  how the fuck is the marine still employed.  That OL is hot garbage.  The best part is aggy has convinced themselves they will contend this year bc of Jimbo.  Clemson and Bama are going to butt fuck them and aggy will put up a banner in celebration.  

    I don't go over to their boards, for better or worse. I keep seeing various folks reference that the aggies believe they are "going to contend" this year. Is this real on their forums? Like do they really see the light coming towards them as daylight? Because it looks like a train from where I am sitting. That depth chart up above is sad. Just flat out sad.

  10. 15 minutes ago, victory88 said:

    No way Carter stays.  The guy wants to play immediately and bitches when he doesn’t.  Texassports lists Watson as a grad transfer rather than a senior but he has one year to play correct?  Kirk Johnson is listed as a junior but I don’t think anyone including the coaches are counting on him.  Kyle Porter may grad transfer out like someone mentioned since he’s buried in the depth chart.  Tristan Houston should be playing at Texas state.  There is a real possibility that we have Young and Ingram next year with no one else worth shit.  We absolutely need to take 2 decent backs this year.  I’d put bets on Brown and a guy like the LA rb... hollins I think? Unless LSU implodes, don’t see Cain going anywhere else.  His dad lives in Baton Rouge.

    His dad lives in New Orleans, I thought. His dad isn't the only influence in his life, either. 

    If I had to pick today, I'd say Cain goes to LSU. But I don't have to pick today, and neither do you. The guy has maintained that he's going to carry this up towards the second signing day, has he not? There's a shit ton to happen between now and then, including an entire season of football. If Texas had written him off and wanted two backs, they'd have two backs committed by now. 

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  11. 47 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    Maybe, Devin will learn to run better routes and Collin will learn to play hard instead of looking at himself in the mirror. What I am saying is that if Herman had real depth last year, Devin and Collin would have been sat until they improved while better players saw the field. Then after Collin became tougher and Devin learned better route running, they would see the field and we would be a better team for it.

    You have some of the worst instincts as a poster that I've ever seen. When you think about taking a position, think again and do the opposite. Go full Costanza. 

  12. 30 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Sounds like we're going to need an LSU meltdown. Which Coach O is more than capable of supplying, but still.

    I think the dude’s just been quiet this summer, so gurus then assume it’s all over but the crying and texifornias of the world tumble over the cliff behind them. 

    The recruiting of Cain will last into winter. 

  13. 4 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    Kelly's article in the tweet is pretty good. Jones is so close to being a high impact player. He puts him self in position to make plays but just doesn't make them. Needs to take the next step. I remember IT or TFB putting out a really similar writeup on him towards the end of last season as well. 

    I feel like he has the ball skills of an amputee. I hope some sort of switch comes on for him this year, though.

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  14. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

    Fucking cheating shitbags. So they've already started the clock with the NCAA. Solid work. Craig is a fucking bagman and so is Peveto. Bad guys here to do bad things. I wonder if ol'bizzle will drop by to accuse me of being crazier than a shithouse rat again because I dared to opine that these fucks were cheating as though the rules simply didn't apply in BCS. 

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  15. 28 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Haven't some players gotten into college because they're special ed, thus getting around clearinghouse eligibility requirements? That's probably how

    Yeah, for sure. Casey Hampton didn't have a prayer of getting into Texas until he received an accommodation to take the SAT either orally or un-timed. He had a true learning disability but a normal IQ. The guy I'm referencing allegedly has an IQ around 75 and is basically non-functioning in the classroom. 

    My daughter is in Teach for America and chose "location of highest need" thinking they'd send her to inner city Chicago or Los Angeles or something. Nope. They dropped her right into rural Mississippi. You have to pass a state reading exam in 3rd grade there in order to pass to 4th. They stop socially promoting at that grade. Her first year, she had 85 kids for whom she was responsible. The parents and teachers basically just don't give a shit. She had a 13 year old in her class, multiple 12 year olds and like 20 11 year old kids. Not one accommodation out of 85 kids. When she was done filing the paperwork at the state and fed levels, 27 kids qualified and almost every one of them passed to 4th grade. Sometimes, someone just has to give a shit. Sometimes, though, someone is just borderline retarded. 

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  16. 12 minutes ago, George Clooney said:

    Yeah, I don't really like them either. Everyone is talking about their game against LSU, but nobody is talking about their game at Toledo. Toledo is quietly a solid team, and the Glass Bowl should be packed. They got lucky in their conference schedule because they only have one tough road game (Virginia Tech). They'll probably go 10-2 or 9-3, as is tradition for a Mark Richt-coached team.

    I think LSU might actually beat Miami in week one, but that just may be me creating anxiety. 

    Overall, the ACC is a steaming pile of shit this year. It's Clemson, and then a whole bunch of nothing. Boston College? GTFO. North Carolina/NCSU/GaTech/Wake/Duke are all a bucket of meh or worse. Pitt/Syracuse/Virginia are hot garbage. Va Tech is fine as a top 25-35 team. Same for Louisville. That leaves Miami, FSU, and Clemson. FSU is a wild card. Miami will finish the season unranked. Clemson probably lives up to its billing as a CFP team, and the whole conference is basically basking in that glow.

  17. 32 minutes ago, futureman said:

    he’ll need to improve quite a bit to be a first round pick.  

    I'm not disagreeing here, but I'm curious who you or anyone else thinks are the top DBs in CFB this season? Greedy Williams at LSU is an easy pick. After that, maybe the Miami safety. Maybe. And then it's anyone's potluck. I definitely could see Boyd emerging as a guy taken in the middle rounds with a strong season and combine. I don't think I thought that would happen watching him even as a sophomore. If only he wasn't prone to boneheadery.

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  18. 34 minutes ago, Fud said:

    There's more. Probably more like five strikes. He'll fit right in at learning slow university. 

    I have never heard it confirmed, but in the early days of this cycle, one of the guys from DFW not named Brooks was rumored to pretty much just straight up special ed. If true, how does that recruit get into college, outside of Chris Vaughn level academic fraud? Whatever the reason, Texas also stayed the fuck away from that guy as well.

  19. 8 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

    I don't see any news stories on him when I google his name but I suppose that does not mean a lot these days

    Well, there aren’t any news stories on him, yet. There’s a multitude of reasons why Texas has zero interest. He’s even scared off the aggies. One of the key reasons is that he might be a little rapey. Another might be that he’s got a handler with the worst kind of behavior. 

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