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1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:
I apologize I expected YOU to use common sense when crafting your list or to at least annotate it with a LOL. You're right, the responsibility was totally on me to react in a measured and non mocking way to YOUR list or work.
Also, I'm not sure how you define "rant," but I certainly dont define it as one mocking, throwaway sentence at the end of a post.
Push the keyboard away for a bit, take some deep breaths, and pull yourself together. You're completely unhinged over something irrelevant. texasstrong12 didn't come strong with his original premise, but you have gone off the fucking rails this morning. I feel like you're performing a recruiting board rendition of William Foster coming unhinged in a Korean convenience store because the clerk wouldn't him change.
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On 8/6/2018 at 3:26 PM, Patricio Swayze said:
I am fully expecting the same kind of push back as with Chili’s, but I can not comprehend how Casa Ole is still open.
On 8/6/2018 at 9:49 PM, HornOnTheBayou said:Preach, brother. My wife is from SE Texas and swears by Casa Ole. That place is shit.
On 8/6/2018 at 10:07 PM, Patricio Swayze said:
I used to work with a Mexican guy that grew up in Pasadena. He loved Casa Olé. I used to make fun of him for it. I didn’t realize until later that the original restaurant was in Pasadena. Maybe that one back in the day was good? Maybe. But they suck ass now.Whoa whoa whoa!!! Hold up a minute here. We’re bagging on Casa Ole now? Gosh dammit.
Best queso and salsa in the world when they’re on their game. The ones in Alvin and Sugarland are excellent, still.
Of course, I confess to being from beautiful Pasadena and that may mean I’m biased, but good lord. Is no restaurant safe? What’s under attack next, Luby’s?
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16 minutes ago, okiehorn said:
***Texas needs as many weapons as possible on the offensive side of the ball and I’m told a guy to keep on eye on is freshman, Keontay Ingram. It sounds like, based on his current development trajectory, he is, at some point in camp or this season, going to surge up the depth chart.
Is this English? As someone who enjoys using the comma, that's a lot of commas.
Good to hear regarding Ingram, nonetheless.
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39 minutes ago, Treefidy said:
But are you 40?
Why are you conjuring him after he's clearly wandered off elsewhere for a bit? Never use the full handle, never quote the guy. What the fuck is wrong with you? Uncle B appears to be the Recruiting version of Hugo Stigl.... Summon him and he'll rain down a volley of posts on you so fast it will make your head spin.
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26 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:
Everybody freshman is on the Ron Powlus Watch List until they actually do something.
What's that? I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish.
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14 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:
Well I'm hoping his reaction of hostility toward my honest inquisition doesn't mean he's insecure. Maybe he's just having a bad day, or really dislikes John Candy.
Congratulations, you're now aligned with "The Earl Of Texas". Perhaps echeese and cdt23 will stop by shortly to also express their support.
I'm not insecure or hostile, and I'm certainly not having a bad day. I feel like I've mostly been just polite and dismissive. That said, take it however you like, and by all means, continue to live in a world where recruits tell the truth and Drew Mehringer is simply misunderstood, repeatedly. I assume there are rainbows and unicorns everywhere in your world, and the roads are paved with candy. I'm sure it's a nice place to visit.
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16 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:
Offended? Me? Nah.
Let me explain myself: we have a history of what Wilson has said, both publicly, and what he has "allegedly" said to 995'rs, or whatever you want to call them. Then, we have a history of his actions. To me, it doesn't make sense that he'd say what he said to the 995'rs yet say what you and others have reported him to have said. He doesn't seem to operate that way, and it's possibly a reflection of his parents. So I wonder out loud on this forum (is that ok), "who is bullshitting who"? "Who has this right?" "Could it be both?"
Now, I don't mean to offend YOU, but this is the internet, do you know how it goes? You could be the the least in the loop mother fucker on the planet and pulling shit out of your ass and I wouldn't know. I don't personally believe that, you obviously have built up some type of credit on here long before I arrived, so I can put two and two together. But really, I'm just a man looking for answers, wading through the bullshit and the truth, trying to figure out which is which.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm really relieved that you explained yourself here. I wasn't following along in your 13 prior posts out of the last 50 total on this thread.
"Objection, your honor. "
"Overruled."
"No. No. I strenuously object."
"Oh, you strenuously object? Then I'll take time and reconsider."
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3 hours ago, UncleBuck said:
Of course they're not the same, in how he came to believe or think or say what he said or didn't say, but that's semantics. I'm just saying he's not afraid to say something that isn't very complimentary of the program, so I don't know why he'd say what TFB is reporting he said if he feels the exact opposite. Because I doubt he'd think Meh was his favorite guy on the staff if Meh fucked up in the way that has been reported on here.
Is this how you think it goes with teenagers? They stay straightforward with sound reason and logic above all things? Is that the way it works? Have a blast believing what you'd like, I know I do, but you can spare us the tortured attempts at reasoning on this one.
I don't mean to offend you, but you seem like one dense motherfucker.
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3 hours ago, Stampeder said:
Yep. TFB appears to be as dialed-in as it gets these days. I'll take their word for things until proven otherwise.
You guys believe what you want. It makes sense when recruits preach about their love of Mehringer as they head to other programs and talk shit about Texas. As that continues to happen, go a step further and rather than blame the guys that they'd be playing for, who are also recruiting them, you should blame fans. Maybe it's us wannabe insiders driving Wilson and Higgins screaming into the waiting arms of our enemies, and not actually the guys failing to sell them on Texas. Also, ignore the fact that Mehringer has been straight up pulled off of recruitments for Wilson and Higgins and isn't directly communicating with them. That's a fucking coincidence.
I've been watching Texas recruitniks rationalize excuses for coaches at Texas for 2 decades. If it isn't Mehringer or Giles some of you rubes are twisting yourselves into knots to cover for, it's Tim Nunez or Clovis Hale or Mac McWhorter or Bobby Kennedy or Carl Reese or Greg Davis or the dickhead db coach that Strong had on staff his last year. Rinse and repeat.
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20 minutes ago, bamachine said:
I mean, it may very well be that this new kid or his family might be getting a little "help", then again, it may be 100% on the up and up. I just don't think every time a player goes somewhere he was not expected to go, that it means something shady had to happen. One of my favorite examples was Dre Kirkpatrick. Everyone made a big deal when they saw him driving a two year old Dodge Charger. His mother was a RN at Gadsden Regional Medical Center, the same place my niece was working at the time.My niece had three kids that are from an AA father who skipped out on them. The oldest, named Cameron, of all names, just turned 16 recently. She made him a deal, he will basically be responsible for his little sister and brother, when she is not around and she bought him a 2016 Nissan Rogue, which she bought for 18k cash in hand. Her 5 year old Suburban is also paid for, her house(in a lower-middle class neighborhood), she is still making payments.
Let's be clear here - Bama is an industry leader when it comes to paying players, and they always have been. It's woven into the program's DNA and the criminal's creed of "I gots to get mine because errbody else out there gettin' theirs too" has been mantra with your base for decades. Saban's machine is far more advanced than the days of Mike Dubose or Fran, but yeah, cheating is part of the program's identity.
To those points, Tosh Lupoi is flat out a bag man. If he's on a recruit, it's dirty. Bama has other guys to handle the clean shit. Lupoi transacted with Slick Willie last summer and Waddle never actually waivered. TAMU came in strong at the end but the deal was already done and many folks learned new lessons.
Just do us a favor, since we've all been on Shaggy/Surly together for a very long time - spare us the equivocating and the feigning of ignorance. You know your program cheats like a motherfucker, you know sometimes the prices hit the 6 figures, and you know Lupoi is a piece of human shit with no moral compass and a documented history of behavior to support that. Do us that solid, and we'll spare you the condescension and preaching that used to come with this stuff when guys like me thought there was some hope of integrity being maintained in the recruiting game.
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20 minutes ago, Jhawk said:
This is why I brought up Tressel & the tattoo situation. The reason they were ok dumping tressel is probably because they knew they could get Meyer. Getting fired for tattoos is really probably the lowest thing to get fired for. I hate OSU and can't believe they actually got rid of him given the other scandals that have been survived by other schools/coaches (UNC is literally going thru this right now and the coach isn't under any heat from what I've seen). It was easy for Gene to save his own ass because a top 5 coach was out there and they knew they were the best job in the market for a coach in the next 12-18 months. Meyer saying he did everything right really put the pressure on OSU to decide between Meyer and GS in my opinion (or to dump both). The unique thing here is that Stoops is out there and he is arguably a top 5 coach still. The young guys haven't proven anything and Stoops is going to get OSU 11 wins or more this year if he steps in. GS is probably fighting for his life and if he gets some commitment from stoops he probably saves his job. Meyer is positioned to file a suit and possibly get his full buyout but that makes things ugly.
I think you're right, the best thing to do (if you are OSU) is get rid of GS and try and salvage Meyer. But if the big dicks step in and say they won't donate money to the university (non-athletic donors) if Meyer is involved then you have a complete wildcard thrown in the mix and they probably dump GS and UM and try to bring in stoops.
I had an OU friend tell me that he doesn't think Stoops would go because he wouldn't want to tarnish his legacy. That is silly in my mind. OSU has done the 1 year interim before so it isn't unprecedented. Stoops could commit for a year, see how it goes and if he doesn't want to be there then move on and say he was doing a favor for his friends at OSU. If he gets to a national championship game he only enhanced his legacy and might get him to stay for a longer tenure. Really no risk if you are stoops.
Tressel was fired for lying in sworn affidavits to the NCAA, if memory serves. How they got there, whether covering for players getting free tattoos or covering up murder, is irrelevant once that much is understood. Don't trivialize why he was fired as being because his players received improper benefits from a tattoo parlor.
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Kingsbury was prepared to turn Herman down last year, as his camp doesn't see him as a good personality fit. We lost to Tech so it didn't matter. That's coming from the KK side of things, so not sure how much of that has been said to make KK look good or feel better. I see the point, though, so I doubt Kingsbury to Texas happens.
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28 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
You forgot my amazing, vintage smoking jacket. That being said I'm not sure anyone with 4 inch high waters, no socks with their loafers, and pleated dockers knakis and their woven belt is really someone who should be doling out fashion criticism...to anyone. And it's absurd to mock anyone for their fake Patrick Ewing style glasses when you sport a monocle.
In this description, it's not clear to me, but do you have me wearing two pairs of pants?
Also, there isn't a fucking thing wrong with wearing a monocle. I only have one eye in need of sight correction, sir.
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5 hours ago, immamac said:
I'll reach out to PayPal today and see why so many people are having issues with payment through both portals.
Yeah, nothing worked for me, and I tried two separate cards. This was within the last hour.
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18 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
Fuck you, you Tim Nunez apologizing piece of shit. Get the Carl Reese signed photo off your office wall.
I had a meeting with Sydney a few weeks ago. This guy is in his late-30's and shows up rocking a fauxhawk and horned rimmed glasses. It was surreal.
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17 minutes ago, Sejjr said:
So Bitchass Bobby and Fuck Chip Brown were right all along?
No. Not exactly.
First of all, they were wrong to write and post those missives when they did. Brown's motives for doing what he did remain unclear to everyone and might be gambling debt related.
Second, they and other $9.95ers painted the gravity of the circumstances after Tech as near apocalyptic and that was a big stretch.
Finally, they were wrong to use Foreman's dad and Warren's mom as voices for ALL of the parents of the program. Projecting their butthurt onto everyone involved with the program from the player side was fucking idiotic and borderline corrupt.
That all considered, Herman learned some lessons between Tech and Missouri and Del Conte's first views into the football program leading up to Missouri helped there. Herman had mishandled and misjudged the pulse of his team. He was shocked when the OLs opted to graduate early and be a part of senior day. He was even surprised, allegedly, that Warren was transferring. Even a narcissist can have their worldview shaken with enough negative reinforcement and synapses firing.
There was a ton of truth to team unrest. There was then a bunch of hyperbole. IT was reporting that there might be like 20 transfers at one point. None of the reporting around the program was helpful, but it all might have helped with the pressure that needed to be applied to Herman's thick skull.
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18 minutes ago, Lonestar88 said:
There's really only one left on this board.
Are we really just down to SydneyCarton as the last Japanese fighter in the cave at this point, re: Mehringer? I feel like there's a few more out there.
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12 minutes ago, Longhornfrenzy said:
He will be on the Sooner site for TFB
Right. My view is that he's a completely different personality type and has a completely different worldview than most of the TFB contributors. It's going to eventually end badly.
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38 minutes ago, Longhornfrenzy said:
Prison boy aka James Hale will now be with TFB
That is going to go down in a glorious ball of flames. Awesome.
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15 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:
Its been many, many years since I felt we were "normally" winning top in-state targets. Last year stuck out and felt nice to finally get some.
I am certainly not saying there are not some very glaring recruiter issues which have been well worn here, but last years class with this staff was a breathe of fresh air in regards to in state recruiting.
The bar isn't 2010-2017 for the University of Texas. Once you get your head around that, your perspective and expectations are going to get a lot healthier. It's been a miserable 8 years, but I refuse to change my expectations. I was there when we ascended the pinnacle and there is no feeling like it for a fan. This is a program with every possible advantage within its reach - it's not my job as a supporter to lower my standards or expectations because Mack Brown got tired, entitled, and lazy, and Charlie Strong couldn't find his ass from a hole in the ground while wondering around campus with a 1,000 yard stare on his face.
I'll take where Herman appears to be headed with this program, but his current wounds in recruiting are self-inflicted.
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32 minutes ago, Machinator said:Team note and practice notes from TFB: https://texas.thefootballbrainiacs.com/2018/08/open-post-wednesday-august-8th/
***Collin Johnson’s expectations are as high as they’ve ever been, and he’s aware of it. After what appeared to be his breakout performance against USC, it seemed safe to expect similar performances for the rest of the year. A USC-like performance never returned and Johnson was even demoted ahead of the Oklahoma State last season. With another year of development under the same coaching staff, expectations are high yet again after he was named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list. He will likely go viral for another one-handed catch before preseason camp is said and done.
His ball-catching skills aren’t the thing being questioned. Once the pads are on, it’ll be his physicality with the biggest question mark behind it.
***TEAM NOTE: Am told Jalen Green has been repping some in 1s and 2s group and then spending time in the 3s and 4s group. Green was talented in high school but my concern with as a guy who appeared to play primarily on athletic ability was how quickly he’d pick things up.
I’m told that the learning curve is certainly there but there is a lot of optimism about what they’re seeing from him and what they think he will become once he does learn the defense.
Quick-Hitters from Open Practice | August 7th, 2018
– Alex BrisenoWe are pleased to have Alex Briseno contributing to TFB. Alex is the sports editor for The Daily Texan.
After taking its NCAA-mandated day off on Monday, Texas relocated to Whitaker Fields for day four of preseason camp.
Here are notes and observations from Tuesday’s practice:
***At left tackle Okafor ran with the first group. Calvin Anderson ran with the second group. Watched some of the offensive vs defensive line reps and Charles Omenihu was doing what he wanted. Coach Hand was visibly upset. Coach Yancy McKnight, however, seemed to be enjoying the show.
Sourced Note via Super K: I continue to ask about Anderson and how he’s doing and I continue to be told that before it’s all said and done, he will be the starter. In fact one source said, “he stoned Hager three out of four times, today”. I’m told the staff is impressed with him.
***Texas has been careful in its handling of graduate transfer running back Tre Watson’s return from injury. The transfer from California was limited in the first two days of practice, only participating in non-contact drills. Herman said he was limited on Sunday as well when the team put on pads, but cranked his involvement up for Tuesday’s practice. Watson is expected to be ready to go on Wednesday or Thursday for the first two days of full-padded practice, allowing him to take the the starting job — if he wants it.
***It’s obvious Texas won’t rely on any of the current backs like it did with D’Onta Foreman. That was clear last year, and that mentality hasn’t changed. Aside from Watson, sophomore Danny Young flashed glimpses at several points during his freshman year and should also be considered a front-runner to get a hefty chunk of playing time. With Texas willing to give multiple backs time, keep an eye on these two as fall camp unfolds.
***Offensive line coach Herb Hand on the running backs at Thursday’s press conference: “You like to have someone step up and say, ‘I’m going to be the one that wants to be the feature back.’ But it’s going to take the whole stable, just like every other position. You’ve got to have quality depth to be able to play the type of schedule we play. In college football nowadays, you’ve got to have two or three guys you can really count on.”
***Cameron Rising continues to get reps with the ones…
***But, the primary quarterback battle still appears to be between Sam Ehlinger and Shane Buechele. In a press conference Thursday, Herman said Ehlinger would take the first snap, stating, “He’s earned it.”
***Sourced Note via Alex: It’s worth noting that last week I did speak speak to a source close to the program after the first practice who said there was “nothing special” from any of the quarterbacks after day one. In other words, no one separated themselves on the field but that Herman has been “obsessed” with Ehlinger. I’ll reach out to my source later today to see how things have progressed. Most of what we saw today were short passes. So, there wasn’t much to take away.
***Herman said he’ll announce a starter, “When it becomes obvious.” Last season, that wasn’t until the day of the season-opener, so don’t expect an announcement for at least another couple of weeks.
***With 6-foot-6-inch junior Collin Johnson hungry for a breakout season along with the athletic freak in 6-foot-4-inch Lil’ Jordan Humphrey, Texas knew it could have a star-studded wide receiver unit. This isn’t even taking into consideration freshman Brennan Eagles, who officially gives Herman and Texas a good problem: too many receivers and not enough footballs.
***When we first got out there the first the three receivers running with the first team were, not surprisingly, Collin Johnson, Lil Jordan and Duvernay. I did not notice Beck or Brewer on the field. I’m checking with a source on that to find out why.
***Tight ends haven’t exactly made a name for themselves in the burnt orange for a decade. That should finally change this season. It should’ve changed last season, but Andrew Beck’s season ended before it even started after suffering from a fractured foot. That all but destroyed any confidence Herman had in having a strong tight end presence. Now, with a healthy Beck, Lake Travis alumnus Cade Brewer returning from injury and redshirt freshman Reese Leitao available, it should be safe to say Texas will finally have a strong tight end presence.
***Again, didn’t notice Beck or Brewer out there. Interestingly, RS freshman TE, Rob Cummins was out there. Again, checking on the TE situation.
The Longhorns will be practicing at Whitaker Fields for the next two weeks before returning back to Frank Denius Fields in preparation for their season-opener with Maryland. Herman did not hold a post-practice media availability as he has done after the first three practices but is expected to talk after Texas’ first practice in full pads on Wednesday.
Drew Mehringer decided to make an example of Collin Johnson last year because he apparently, in Mehringer's world, got too full of himself and wasn't "aligned". Being buddies with Foreman didn't help him. The WR unit got the worst of the 2017 coaching premise that they were going to beat the shit out of the team until the entitlement wore away. The side effects of that approach included Hemphill-Mapps getting completely disenfranchised and randomly suspended on multiple occasions to the point where he checked out from attending classes by November; Devin Duvernay negging the program to recruits on official visits; and Collin Johnson losing track of which way was up and not knowing where the next kick to his crotch was coming from by the staff. The near total team revolt ahead of the Texas Bowl was a wake up to many on the staff, including Herman.
Some lessons were learned, but not all of them. During film session with WR recruits and their dads this spring, allegedly, Mehringer made a point of talking shit about the existing talent, including Johnson, to the tune of turning the families off completely, or damn near so.
I'm interested in seeing whether the coaches have improved on their personnel choices on offense this year. Last year was a fucking joke in term of selecting personnel. The number of empty sets in which we slotted out a non-functioning TE instead of rotating in another WR was astonishing. The amount of carries and snaps Kyle Porter received because he had "the right attitude" sent the message to everyone, fans included, that the best players won't often play. Naashon Hughes doing nothing for hours on the field while others rode pine. Taking forever to get Gary Johnson steadily on the field. The WR rotation overall was a fucking joke. I keep waiting to see Kyle Porter start creeping up the depth chart due to some amorphous notion associated to team spirit or "picking up the rush", which were used last year, even as he often failed to pick up the rush. If that dude remains 5th on the depth chart, and we hear about freshman getting 1st and 2nd team snaps on offense all over the field right up to Maryland, I'll start to think maybe we turned a corner.
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19 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:
This board will spontaneously combust if we lose out on Wilson twice because of Meh, with the second being to aggy.
Longhorn94 would never let that happen, sir.
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1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:
I feel like some people here forget where we came from. Mack used to lock in classes by now and was praised for it only to bite us and set the program back a decade. The luxury the Texas brand gives us is we can wait and kids will still want to come here. You take the high end kids when you can, try and fill you needs early, look for the late bloomers and then work on flipping the commits you want and think there is a shot at later on. It's August... this crap belongs in November at the earliest.
You know who got away with deploying this strategy to great avail? Bobby Bowden. So maybe if Herman rolls off one of the greatest 35 year runs in CFB history he can take his sweet time watching the 5 stars and top 100 national guys commit to whoever they like before he hunkers down with them the two weekends before signing day and has like 8-10 of them flip to him when the faxes roll in. See also: Nick Saban. Until then, I'd prefer we not start from ahead, then fall dramatically behind due to insouciance and/or incompetence, and hope multiple variables swing to our advantage between September and February.
I'll say it again: anyone arguing in favor of anything positive regarding Drew Mehringer is either anti-Texas or utterly lost. Anyone defending Oscar Giles' recruiting, particularly if they're referencing guys credited to him by 247, is showing themselves as lost and they should read more, learn some shit, and then come back to post again after figuring out how to spare the rest of us some time.
This isn't about the 15 commits or how we numerically finish. Nor is it about ATM's current class by comparison. This is about not winning top targets in-state that we normally would and should. Excuses for the myriad misses is nothing short of equivocation. If you need to do that to make yourself feel better, have a ball. Putting it out here as some sort of voice of reason for the rest of us merely reveals to us that you haven't been paying attention or that you're a direct descendant of Pollyanna, and her spirit lives on through your posts.
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46 minutes ago, HenryJames said:Surly call in show with Derka. Who wouldn't watch that?
I’d like to do a call-in with you, me, and Derka as the round table. Turn it into a longhorn variety show. Have a political segment where jimmyjazz and Hugo Stiglitz alternate between shouting and sobbing at Johnny Sack, who lights his cigar by setting a $100 on fire and holding it to the end of the ciggy, and just generally acts smug to whatever jimmyjazz and Stiglitz are saying. Have a recruiting section where Sydney Carton basically just screams at callers while sarvanaash sits quietly in the sidekick chair and bites his fingernails. Have a current affairs segment where brisketexan attempts to read at least one headline before exploding into a tear-filled, red-faced tirade about the decline of humanity. I’d close every show by challenging the worst caller to a fight and telling Derka that Shaka Smart is a coaching genius. I like where you’re going with this.
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A 2018 College Football Postcard from the Ledge
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This is just a shotgun firing of some CFB related stuff that's interested me lately as I've caught up on the preseason magazines and been following various news updates from places of interest.
Texas Experience Depth
I alluded to this somewhere previously, but Texas is looking more and more likely to start 18 upperclassmen out of the 22 possible starting positions. The last time we came anywhere close to that? 2009. I thought maybe 2014, but when you look back, Strong, for better or worse, cleaned house heading into the first year and we lost like 12 returners in the offseason. Mack Brown and Tom Herman both chose not to do that when they took the Texas job. Brown learned his lesson at North Carolina when over 20 guys were removed from the team during his first 18 months, and he subsequently went 1-10 in his first and second years and barely held on to his job. He also admits to sobbing in his car in the parking lot after a game during this run, which is nice.
You know who's going through a housecleaning of sorts right now? Ol'Jimbo at ATM. If my count is right, they've lost at least 5 returners (Harvey, Martin, Bussey, Marchiol, someone else I can't think of right now, maybe one of the Anderson twins, it could be more than 5 for sure) since last season and they have a big class on the hook right now with limited seniors set to finish up and open spots. May he wind up in similar circumstances to Chuckles and FUPM.
Speaking of Experience, or Lack Thereof
According to Phil Steele, do you know who returns more experience than anyone else in CFB this season? Fucking Kansas. Sort of the old "I've got good news and bad news" joke with "First, the good news is, you're returning a shit ton of your players with on-field experience. The bad news is, you're returning a shit ton of your players with on-field experience."
Georgia Southern is #2, but more relevant on the national scene is Wisconsin at #3 and Florida at #4.
Wisconsin is a weird program. They may be the greatest irrelevant program in the last 20 years of our sport. They're almost always very good. They've been to the Rose Bowl on multiple occasions since the mid-90's. They were 12-0 last year before losing a close one in the Big 10 title game. Yet no one took them seriously as a playoff contender, really at all, and no one ever does. This year, they bring back almost everyone, they have a standout running back and OL, and a manageable schedule. They play BYU in the non-con, which looked tougher when scheduled than it does now, and then they have to go to Iowa, Michigan, Northwestern, and Penn State. I guess it is unlikely that they go unscathed through that, but I view them as a strong darkhorse for the playoffs.
And what about Florida? Meh. They're less talented than they should be. Mullen is an excellent coach. I assume they'll be a bowl team, but I'm not sure all of that experience is very formidable.
Flipping the experience concept and looking in the other direction, Steele has LSU at #129, TCU at #120, and Okie State at #119 in terms of on-field experience returning. That output for LSU reflects their returning players with experience before two returning starters were suspended for major offenses in the past few weeks. LB Tyler Taylor is the alleged getaway driver in a pawn store robbery and is charged with numerous felonies. See ya. Edward Ingram, the starting RG, is suspended indefinitely for unspecified reasons, but the LSU mods on their boards haven't sounded optimistic. The monster that ate Chasen Hinds, all 360 pounds of him, is now sliding in from tackle and backing up the guard positions for depth. This is a guy in need of a redshirt and a body reshaping, and this is the kind of trouble with development that a program in chaos gets itself into. LSU opens on Labor Day Sunday in Arlington against Miami, and then plays at Auburn 13 days later.
Regarding TCU, this is the year for Texas to turn things back around against Fat Patty. We play them during a tough stretch, but I'm tired of excuses, and tired of blowouts at the hands of those sweaty fuckers. Last year's game finished with a loss at 24-7, but anyone who watched every game knows that Texas was its least competitive all year against TCU. It might as well have been 100-7. The game never felt within reach.
Okie State is in possession of a dubious piece of scoreboard on Texas as well. The longest active winning streak at DKR is held by Okie State at 4 in a row. We have experienced a winning streak at home of that length once in the last 8 years. Embarrassing.
Speaking of Winning Streaks
Without cheating, do you know who has the longest winning streak in D-1?
I assume a lot of folks would wind up remembering pseudo-national champion Central Florida. They're now coached by loudmouth shittalking okie, Josh Heupel. So I am cheering for them to head back into the primordial college football sludge that is the lower tier of the AAC.
But here's one for you - which P5 team has the longest active winning streak heading into this season?
Apparently it's Northwestern, which is fun, at 8 in a row. They open CFB this year on Thursday, 8/30, against Purdue in a conference game that should actually be fun to watch.
Anyway, I realize that for some, more than 280 characters is kind of big deal for them to read, but I figure there's got to be a few people on here who've been thinking about stuff like this and might have some thoughts as well.