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  1. 12 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

    How long until an IT mod posts that he's hearing Wiggins may be in?

     

    10 minutes ago, Viper said:

    15 mins, 30 tops

    Well, I’ll even be vulnerable for once and admit that it isn’t like I fact-checked since I’m not a reporter. I took my friend’s word for it who is in Tuscaloosa. So hopefully the actual reporters fact check and either confirm or debunk it and make me a fool.

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  2. Just now, Sgt. Slaughter said:

    Not possible, I was unequivocally told Coleman was being retained as WR Corch.

    Well, I don't know titles or anything. We may be looking at no TE coach and 2 WR coaches? Maybe Coleman goes back to being an analyst. I don't have a clue on that end.

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  3. 10 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Nahlin said as much a couple days ago when posters were trying to decipher his 'code' - f they knew who the hire was they would let the site know - even if they didn't 'report' it.  But they don't.

    I mean - if the hire hasn't been made and Sark is still interviewing guys - what should the sites be reporting? 

    They should be reporting just that - "we don't know, however we do know interviews are happening, and when we know more, we'll tell y'all." Instead, they fed the "it's Golding" take by the time the title game arrived.

    That notion came from Bama honks, entitled in their minds to perennial top 5 defenses, tweeting that Golding would be cut loose after the season following the Ole Miss game. The tweets led to Bama board discussions. Months later, Golding, a golden boy of Saban's, is getting his ass kicked out the door for, wait for it, Will Muschamp riding in on a white horse to Tuscaloosa. Oh by the way, with that, now apparently Golding is coming to Texas as an also-ran with Sark. Golding was not mentioned anywhere by anybody until last Wednesday. By last night, he was a done deal. Today? Nope, was never happening. Fucking ridiculous.

    7 minutes ago, NTVTXN said:

    Sadly, this hits close to home, as Texas Football has been quite the circus the past 10years or so...🙁😖😣😡🤬

    11 years.

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  4. I’ve heard talk that more announcements are likely to come tomorrow versus today. I guess I struggle to buy that outside of where someone is not already locked in as a coach. The psychology of making someone official matters, and you’d prefer to be able to proclaim guys as part of the answer before anyone else can potentially reach out. It just takes unnecessary risk off the table to announce quickly. I will be disappointed if we don’t see a flurry of announcements before or around lunchtime. 

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  5. 23 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Any chance Gerry makes shit up

     

    20 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

    Yes, but still a lower chance than most other $9.95ers.

    The guy doesn’t make shit up. If he’s guessing, or doesn’t know, he’ll phrase or say so accordingly. 

    13 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Doubtful 

    Recruits probably texted Carrington. My guess is Thompson, Stewart, and maybe Blue 

    Exactly. 

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  6. 35 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    To make @Coelenterate Fuccboi's point crystal clear, Quay has a kid, multiple downward-trending decommitments, and attends a school that pulls from some pretty downtrodden neighborhoods. 

    Put the pieces together. 

    Honestly, as a data point, the only one that matters is the string of decommitments. There just aren’t a lot of guys out there who have committed to more than two places during their recruitments that turned out to much at all. It’s some sort of personality flag that they’re monumental fuck-ups not worth pursuing. You got to kiss a lot of those frogs to find a prince, it appears. 

  7. 10 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    Who dis:

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    MSFHorn used to be pretty connected. Haven’t seen posts from him in a long time, but it’s worth noting. He’d know shit that the $9.95ers wouldn’t from the booster side, provided there is something there to know. 

    8 hours ago, Teryor said:

    Nahlin's an asshole for waiting till after the game to say that it isn't Golding

     

    8 hours ago, Newy25 said:


    You assume he knows anything. Recent data points suggest most are on the dark now. 

    Yep. The Golding thing was bullshit the whole way, as some of us suspected and posted about all along. It was just this dipshit trying create a scenario of correlation that wasn’t there. 

     

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  8. 12 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    Even if Coleman won't be used as a recruiter, his WR group was nothing special this year. Couldn't beat press coverage on the outside.

    Bringing him back is not the recipe for replicating Alabama's WR attack.

     

    You quoted me as though I’ve offered a value judgment on keeping Coleman. I didn’t. I’ve offered ways in which he could still be on staff that aren’t just “he’s the on-field coach.” I don’t know whether keeping him in any capacity is good or bad. I lean towards “next man up” and showing him the door, but that wasn’t in my post. 

    In reality, I have a hard time forming an opinion on Coleman because:

    a) Tom Herman’s predictable and shitty offense limits any particular group’s effectiveness and

    b) Whatever anyone thinks of Sam Ehlinger, he was never accurate with throwing to the outside or deep, and this year he sucked shit through a straw at both. I don’t care about why that happened, it simply did happen. 

    So maybe Coleman sucks, maybe he doesn’t. I won’t be excited if he’s retained in his current capacity, but will be mostly pleased if he’s used off the recruiting trail as an extra coach. 

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  9. 1 minute ago, FloridaHorn said:

    Not cross at all, just stating opinions and scattershooting like 99.9% of the rest of the board. You act as if Texas is above making dumb fucking moves, yet I present the last decade plus as evidence to the contrary. Whether or not new coaches are announced before the game remains to be seen, as does the intelligence of said moves...However, those two things are not mutually exclusive when it comes to the Horns and their decision makers. I simply stated that it would not surprise me in the least if there is news on the coaching staff just prior to the game. The only confirmed hires at this point is Gideon, Drayton, Davis, Joseph and Coleman (in some capacity), it is not far fetched to think that someone leaks Flood or Wiggins, or even Golding tonight.

    Ha. I admitted to the stupidity of Texas and its penchant for such behaviors, so I'm not "acting as if" anything can't happen. The "cross" line was a joke that some picked up.

    We should place a bet though. I think this is a hill you and I should die on, for sure. We could do avatar replacements, money, board banishments forever, some other digital feat of stupidity or instability, you name it.

  10. 2 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:

    Unpossible….this is unadulterated fantasy speak...CTJ told me so.

    Why FloridaHorn, are we cross? What an ugly tone. I tell you what, we should have a bet on it. You can take the position that Texas will release the assistant coaching list right before gametime of the college football national title game to "make the biggest splash" and I'll take the position that that reads like fantasy and will not happen. Let's bet something on it. 

    Also, that's the dumbest fucking PR move ever if they actually do that. Tomorrow would be a great day to do that shit. Tonight is terrible timing and just stupid. So, hey, maybe it does happen since Texas always does stupid shit like that. 

    Also also, remember that time right before the Bama/ND semifinal in which they announced Sarkisian to Texas in order to "make the biggest splash?" Yeah, me neither. 

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  11. 6 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    I didn't think Carrington was an analyst and as director of recruiting he could talk to recruits but not do visits unless he is a coach.

    I'm just asking about what the rules are not whether you can bend or break them.

    We are bookends on the subject matter. I don't know or care about the rules, only how the roles are functioning in the real world environment. So I have no clue on the do's and don't's, just the are's and aren't's and one of the aren't's is a hands off approach for the analysts within these programs, particularly Bama's. 

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  12. 2 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    analysts can coach practice and during games?  I thought they couldn't coach on the field at all.

    They coach in practice 100% of the time. I am fairly certain that's also the case at Texas. It is for sure at Bama. You can go and find easy footage of Chuckles, Applewhite, and Stoops on the sidelines, this year, at Bama games. They're not there as spectators. 

    Does that fit into NCAA guidelines? Maybe, maybe not. Doesn't matter, as that is how it works. Sarkisian isn't going to witness that at Bama and go somewhere else not do exactly that.

    This is a level 1 source for me regarding how Bama handles assistants. It is a person in the inner circle, attending their games, and talking to me directly, as we've been friends for decades. 

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  13. 28 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

    So odds on favorite this Monday morning is Golding still?

     

    24 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Golding is 100% tea leaf reading, so I guess it depends on how much stock you put into that 

    This is absolutely correct. Might it be Golding? Ok, sure. That is conjured from the minds of $9.95ers either way. They’re deductive and know the space, so they might get it right. I do not believe for a second that any of them know with any level of confidence or depth. 

    A simple test on things like this is how much chirping and rechirping they’re all doing, to the point where it becomes crowing. We’ve watched it for years, you know how it works. 

    When I read or hear “it’s gotta be, doesn’t it?” followed by a bunch of circumstantial reasoning, I’m immediately dubious. That’s the case here. 

    6 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:

    I told my son the same thing yesterday. Sark and CDC have done a great job controlling the narrative to this point. Why not drop a couple of names just prior to game time for some free publicity and to get a few key recruits attention?

    No one is going to give one shit about a DC rumor at Texas just before a CFBNT game between two big, undefeated brands. That’s fantasy. 

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