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closetojumping

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  1. I'm glad to see the notion that Perkins is pushing things back and looking to get educated better on his choices before committing to ATM. I view that as a win for the new staff. 

    Regarding Julian Humphrey, I played against his dad when he was at Ball, back when Galveston was so loaded with talent that they eventually had more players in the NFL than any other high school. That is usually an honor carried by one of the Miami schools. The guy was a complete fucking badass. It was like watching a fucking racehorse when he got into the open field with the ball in his hands. God. Galveston Ball was such a brutal fucking place to play a football game. I was on their field getting pummeled 34-0 and 51-3 my sophomore and junior years for their Homecoming games. Also, Bobby Humphrey from Bama and the Denver Broncos is a close relative. 

    Regarding Megwa, I guess they politely included him in there. I'll be cheering for the guy whenever he gets to commit to a school excited to take him.

  2. 17 minutes ago, ShowMeALoss said:

    You expect people to read the the few pages of the thread before posting? I read the replies since satya posted the BON tweet but I didn't see anything helpful other than the board's customary insults hurled towards him. What I don't understand is that despite getting the same treatment from the board over and over again, Satya keeps posting them. What kind of a person does that? 

    sarvanaash keeps posting because he's a borderline sociopath with self-flagellation and gloom serving as his primary motivators for his behavior.

    9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I guess you missed the post that was bigger than the rest and required reading. See below. As for Satya, who knows. My money is one some kind of sexual wretchedness. Like he can only get an erection when someone shits in his mouth and he can only ejaculate when he swallows it, but in online form as well as physical. I'm no psychologist, but I think that's some year 1 textbook type stuff.   

     

     

    This was too much. Just reference a Hot Karl or a Chilidog and we'll be close enough to getting it. Maybe Cleveland Steamer. Just spare us the explicit breakdowns of your kind, and sarvanaash's kind of deviance, sir.

    1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I don't believe it's a conjugation issue if the person things Of and Have are the same word with the same meanings. Also, lets talk a little bit further down about the "slight big of hesitation." Make WinningIsHard is a reverse size queen. 

    How about if they frequently mistake the word "thing" for "think"?

  3. 24 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    How many kids does Sark have? I hope he has sons on the football team at Mater Dei for the next 15 years. 

     

    I wouldn’t count on it. Guys with as shaky of a track record as his rarely pan out. 

    Whoever told you Epps looked good should go reassess their entire life. He’s always been soft and slow. His ceiling was a guy who could catch a fade in the end zone. He hasn’t even reached that yet. For someone who plays a TE 99% of the time, Herman fucked up that position almost beyond belief. At least we have Wiley.

     

    It's already been addressed, but I didn't hear from someone that knows football. I was referring to the $9.95ers getting all of their intel from dipshits like Drew Mehringer. I could have just as well been talking about Courtnee Garcia or Artie Ellis, both of whom drew rave reviews in one offseason or another and were foisted upon us by various $9.95 mouthpieces. It's been a theme for Internet immemorial when it comes to UT offseason reporting.

  4. On 1/26/2021 at 8:08 AM, RGBIII said:

    D.D. Lewis was my favorite player as a kid

    D.D. Lewis of the Texas Longhorns looks on against the North Carolina...  News Photo - Getty Images

    Good lord. 

    When we began to truly turn on Carl Reese in earnest on Hornfans, DD Lewis was one of the biggest complaints. His instincts were shit and he was largely useless outside of randomly landing on fumbles. There were so many people shrieking "trust the corchez!!!!!??" everytime one of us would write a new rant on Mugging Linebackers or the lack of LB development. It became a hysterical topic, and as this was unfolding, Katy was becoming more and more intertwined with Mack and Sally, and getting more and more controlling of the site's content.

    It was during this period when a new week of photos from the prior game were released by the UT AD. Those would get subsequently linked to or posted on HornFans. One of the photos had a TB, with the ball, running directly to the right in the photo. Meanwhile, DD Lewis, directly across the LOS was in full sprint to the left, directly away from where the play was going. It was fucking hilarious.

    I copied the image, wrote a thread title that said "A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words" and simply posted the photo without comment. The howling from the Reese/DDL defenders, including Tyrone Jones, who posted on the site, reached a very loud roar. There were 300 responses in less than 20 minutes. People making threats at one another, multiple people calling me a motherfucker for posting to which I didn't even add verbiage. Just a bonkers fucking thread. Texas must have lost that game from the prior weekend, thinking about the reactions now.

    Katy ended up removing the photo and locking the thread. She then sent me a scathing PM about how sweet DD Lewis is and how hard Reese works and that I'd become mean-spirited. I'd hung out with her some by then and was like "oh come on Katy", and she then got super pissy and threatened to suspend for posting a fucking photo. The photo ended up also getting removed from the UT site, magically. Campus Loop(y), an echeese level shithead, became a moderator on the FB board shortly thereafter. That period is when the downfall of Hornfans began and posters started splintering to other sites, or attempting new sites. Probably 2003/2004. It all beget Shaggy, then Surly. 

  5. Never noticed this thread for some reason. I've coached a 3 years and 5 straight seasons but took this spring off. My oldest boy is playing as an 11 year old and tried out for the majors, where his friends are. He's a very different little guy mentally and coordination-wise as a result but he has worked hard to be competent on sports fields. This Saturday he had a terrible tryout and I was preparing myself to have the talk with him about being positive playing in the minors again. Then we found out on Tuesday that he got drafted. It's pathetic, but we were so pumped and so was he. I talked to a coach in the draft that I've coached with in prior seasons and he confirmed he was the last kid picked. By the skin of his teeth! I'm happy for him.

    My just-turned 7 year old, alternatively, was first kid drafted last night in the 7-8 age group, allegedly, so we're bookending, I guess. Got a 5 year old who is a giant but the youngest age possible with a birthday at the end of August. I've offered to help any team that drafts that little psycho, just so I can try to ensure he stays in position and faces the right way before each pitch. Should be fun.

    Good luck to everyone, especially the coaches. Until I got involved 3 years ago, I didn't realize how real and arduous the volunteer work really was. I had 12 of our 14 fall games starting at 5:30, which meant a 4:30 arrival. I had to leave my office twice a week for 3 months at 3:45. That and one shitty, shitty fall parent burned me out for the spring. Respect to those doing it.

  6. 4 minutes ago, CoachEmUp64 said:

    Brennen is from Panhandle

    West TX = Oil

    "Texas is booming" could be referring to next oil boom out west with the closure or Tar Sands, and Keystone XL.

    Derail recruiting thread in 3....2....1....

    Am I doing this right? ORRR should I just mention 200m track times lol

     

    How in the fuck is the statement "Texas is booming" a mystery to that dipshit Suchomel or people on this board? It's quite clearly exactly as you're calling it. For fuck's sake.

  7. 21 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    Reading the tea leaves,  some sources are saying that the staff isn't high on Charbonnet and others are saying Texas is pursuing him. It sounds like both are true, because depth. 

    Well, you're at least reading my tea leaves, albeit obviously not on staff. I watched the guy plenty in 2019 and viewed him as okay. Like, Kenny Hayter okay or something.

    19 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Processing WRs right now doesn't really create room because they won't reach the 85 even with a full class, so the only reason to do it would be to just have fewer WRs in the room. I'd keep them around for emergency depth, but they'll probably start leaving the program from natural depth chart over the next year 

    My view is that there is more than one logic string to play out on this. Your take is logically fine, but it's also not absurd to decide to whittle down excessively high numbers anyway. If you don't need'em, lose'em. Guys who aren't going to contribute on the field and aren't glue guys in the locker room add net negative value. Lewis isn't bringing anything positive to the table. Harrison has no one advocating in his corner whatsoever. 

    11 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    Was Omeire's camp breakout real? He's as Tom Herman a receiver as they come. Curious if Sark has developed an opinion yet and whether we should expect/want him to stick around. 

    People seemed to buy-in to the Omeire hype that I wouldn't call gullible. I remain from Missouri on the matter. Nothing heading into his arrival spelled promise. I heard amazing shit about Malcolm Epps ahead of seeing him in a game, too. Omeire went from big and slow to big and slower with his injury. I don't know, maybe we get lucky though. We're due.

  8. 47 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    How much did PK have to do with the 2 transfer pickup at edge rusher?

    How bad is OL recruiting looking for 21? Any hope at all outside of Uke? Are we going to have to go the transfer market?

    What is the biggest hole the staff sees right now between the roster and current class?

    I can honestly say we didn’t discuss any of this. I’ll ask next time if I can remember. 

    9 minutes ago, cafe society said:

    Has there been speculation behind the scenes that perhaps a heretofore unknown 3rd party has entered the LJ recruitment, hence the stalling/indecision?

    None that I have heard. 

  9. 9 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Uke, the OT. Hear anything there?

    Nope. Thought about just saying that I didn’t hear shit. 

    3 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

    Any truth to the camar Wheaton is off limits out of respect for saban? Bama losing their OC and rb coach had to of given him at least a slight big of hesitation. Sorry if this was already confirmed on here. 

    Not sure about how amicable it was, but yeah, that shit got shut down. He isn’t coming to Texas. 

  10. 20 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    My handle gives me away as a Charlie apologist, and his tenure at USF ultimately proved me wrong, but I still think, sad as it is to say, that he was a better coach than Herman. Do you really think Herman would have won more than six games with Tyrone Swoopes at QB and that absolute dogshit offensive line we had? As for the idea that he raised the talent level, idk know about that. Bijan is the only player obviously better than any Charlie brought in. The fact is, Charlie really did leave the program in slightly better shape than what Mack left him with. A better human being could have built on it and succeeded, but he was just such an arrogant dick, he just didn't have it in him.  I really don't think he will ever succeed anywhere else. His psychological problems are incurable. Narcissists don't get better; they just dig in and double down. 

     

    15 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Mack left behind a Florida State / Jimbo Fisher dumpster fire -- no offensive line or defensive backs or QBs, after Ash. Graveyard of coaches. As bad as Charlie was, Herman would have been worse, if for no other reason than he would have lost the locker room on top of all the other shit we had to deal with. 

     

    4 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Oh, I know full well he will be remembered that way, but as bad as he was, given the contexts they both coached in, I think Herman was even worse. Clone the rosters and have them duke it out; it would be a regard fight but I think Strong would go 6-4 in a ten-game schedule, because Charlie's clones would like him more. We tend to overmagnify Strong's gameday blunders and underestimate Herman's, like his almost never successful key fourth-down attempts at conversions, taking points off the board constantly, and more importantly, he'd be playing the Kyle Porter clone while Strong would be playing the Chris Warren one.  

    Hahahahahahahaha!!!! It's like fucking clockwork with your idiotic ass. Go write love letters to Chuckles offline, dipshit. Spare the board from your silly, insipid, weak equivocating for a fucking joke of a coach. We don't owe that fucking idiot one iota of loyalty or apology and yet you show up every time his name is mentioned to tear at your clothes and sob in agony for his dumb ass. 

  11. 25 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

    I'm in no way defending how shitty that team was but out of curiosity I looked up that 2008 Washington schedule and they had an brutally tough slate. Their ooc games were BYU, OU, and Notre Dame (Charlie Weis version, but still). Played three teams that finished top ten (OU, USC, Oregon). Played 6 teams that finished in the top 25. 

    Did almost get a win in the Apple Cup against a terrible Washington State team that only won a single other game but lost what had to be an absolute classic in double overtime 16-13. 

    Sorry for the digression but not like we're super focused here at the moment. I'm drinking the Sark Kool-Aid completely but I appreciate golfclap's attempt to keep us relatively grounded. Every concern he's brought up is reasonable. Anyway, it's Tuesday, hopefully we get some good news soon.

    It's pathetic, but I am pretty sure I remember watching that Apple Cup. It was like watching a train wreck and I was in awe. If it wasn't that game, I don't know what it could have been. 

    Washington has always been an interesting school to me. It's never been clear why they're not a regular power, but maybe that's simply because I love the weather up there. I really do wish Texas would schedule a home and home with them. They're ideal for it.

  12. I find it hilarious that Fields is rated as highly as he is. I expect him to bust completely. I mean, completely. The NFL can be pretty tough when, you know, you're not able to constantly throw to wide open receivers against far less talented defenses.

    Also, I'd like to see New England whiff on getting a QB. I'm interested in further witnessing just how much of a real genius Bill Belichick is without Brady.

  13. 3 minutes ago, Fud said:

    USC's LB coach is named Vic So'oto. There's no way they don't win this one 

    While I agree that it seems almost certain that he'll wind up at USC, it's absurd to me that a guy leaving a dumpster fire at a place like UTenn will be willing to run into the burning house that is USC. 

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