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  1. 4 minutes ago, utfan87 said:

    Why because Linebacker recruiting has been so stellar? From everything I've heard Orlando isn't going to set the world on fire from a recruiting stand point either. Linebacker recruiting is a head scratcher too. 

    Disagree. I think people are stuck in a traditional mindset about the LB position, rather than seeing a problem with how Orlando is approaching LB. Beyond that, Orlando is a plus recruiter, man.

  2. 54 minutes ago, Orange^White said:

    I'll wear this like a badge of honor coming from the most pompous ass , thin skinned, whining bitch on this site.

    Pompous? Sure. Arrogant, condescending, petty, absurd, ridiculous, over the top, outlandish, motherfucker, asshole - I can agree with any of these on a given day. Various other names or adjectives along those lines as well. But thin-skinned and whining? Look in the mirror, sir. I push that button on you whenever I want and you go off every time. If I were thin-skinned, I'd have probably ducked for cover and disappeared the time when Will Lyles threatened to hunt me down on Shaggy. Whatever my flaws, I rarely get "thin-skinned" thrown my way. I'm guessing it's part of every review you've ever had at work though.

    53 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    The three big prizes were Coburn, Ossai, and Ojomo.

    As mentioned above, Coburn was a result of hiring his high school head coach, Meekins.

    The door was left open for Ossai when Sumlin got fired, and Carrington was the guy who sealed the deal.

    Ojomo is an outlier who went largely unnoticed by coaches until late due to another "beaten-to-death" subject, his age. This allowed us to take his recruitment into the post-NSD1 period when we could put all hands on deck for the priority targets.

    Carson and Williams were very nice gets, but they aren't necessarily a testament to our recruiting prowess, and aren't guys you should be viewing as the crown jewels of a class. On top of that they were both still being recruited past NSD1, which worked to our advantage. Even so...

    Carrington closed on Carson, and it's a miracle we even got to that point given that Giles had little effect on that recruitment before NSD1.

    Mike Williams was a late bloomer, and we benefited from Orgeron and his crew being asleep at the wheel. His best committable offer was... Tennessee in the midst of a coaching change? Kudos to the staff for finding him, but this is hardly the typical national (or even regional) recruiting battle on DL that we've been fighting and mostly losing. Jason Washington is also the area recruiter for Louisiana.

    Edit: there are others who are far more knowledgeable about Giles in the Mack era than I am, so I'll pass on that particular topic.

    Mike Williams is drawing fucking raves this summer. I know that has nothing to do with what you're saying, but it reminded me of it. They feel like they straight up stole that dude. I'm interested to see how it translates with the pads on.

  3. 8 minutes ago, Orange^White said:

    Because anything anyone is going to say has already been said ad nauseam. Is there suddenly going to be some new way to say "Giles sucks" that will greatly differ from the previous 10,377 times it's already been said? Some new tidbit that someone's been holding back?

    The post I’ve quoted below you is the part of the really complex equation for bulletin board dialogue that you appear to be missing. The Giles discussion is pushed forward because posters show up to defend him, ignorantly but steadily, or to merely play the “your NOTZ a corches!!!?!” card. This happens with Warehime, Mehringer, Beck, it happened with Watson, MacMcWhorter, Giles under Mack, Greg Davis, Vance Bedford, Tim Nunez, and fucking Clovis Hale. As long that happens, people who hang out on a board like this and know better are going to respond. And guys like you will show to plaintively whine about it. 

    8 minutes ago, joeycovers said:

    Someone explain the Giles hate?  Last year we signed the top DT and DE in state.

     

    Also tapped into the MO pipeline and added Ojomo. 

     

    This year i get it but its far from over. 

    You’re not going to get it because you don’t want to get it, so live in the world you’ve crafted where Giles recruited those top guys and be blissfully happy. 

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  4. 11 hours ago, Fud said:

    I've seen some of the more respectable Bama posters, or at least the ones that other Bama posters listen to, say that this guy is better than Sopsher and Fatti Tutti, and that the latter two are really overrated but still takes 

    Sopsher is lazy and soft. There are legitimate doubts about him making it at the next level. 

  5. 14 minutes ago, Enchubben said:

    Gotta wonder what the exact issues are with DL recruiting. Even if Giles is a dogshit recruiter, he appears to be a great development coach which you think would resonate with recruits.

    Any chance the struggle has more to do with our defensive alignment and not playing a traditional 4 man dl?

    He’s a notoriously lazy recruiter with no self-awareness. Oblivious and indifferent will get you beat in the recruiting game. It’s not anything more than that. He doesn’t like doing it, so he fails to do it enthusiastically, and he doesn’t hear what the recruits are telling him, even when they’re saying nothing. 

  6. 2 hours ago, texifornia said:

    Yeah can't say I expected Giles to pull off an in-state legacy

    Using the iconic pieces of the state outline as the dividers on the bottom is pretty neat gotta say

    Giles is so fucking bad. I mean, he’s one of the laziest, most disconnected pieces of shit to work a phone for a college since Mac McWhorter. 

  7. 11 minutes ago, utexas8 said:

    Has to be Caldwell. I think wells RT’d the photo of him in the Texas jersey awhile back, today.

    No wai! It's got to be Oscar Giles working that fucking grind and bringing in Carter. The man is relentless.

     

    Here's how Oscar spends his time during the dead period:

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  8. 3 minutes ago, bizzle said:

    your slow march towards crazy on this website is a hell of a thing to behold. and i am here for it.

    I've been where you're at, man, and I feel for you. You really, really need this coaching hire to work out and you've convinced yourself that it will, and cleanly. Anyone or anything referencing otherwise must be a rube, a loon, or both. 

    That all said, I've merely aged like a fine wine. I'm taking a position based on what I believe, just like I always have. 

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  9. I know we've touched on this, but it is pretty interesting to watch what is happening in BCS. They're taking a bunch of character issue guys and grade risks, and a bunch of mercenaries or players with bad hangers on within their circle. This will either blow-up hilariously and the attrition will ultimately be off the charts, or this has the makings of an outlaw program with no moral compass a la ATM under Sherrill, OU under Switzer, and Miami generally. That's somewhat ominous to me. 

    Look at the players:

    2018-

    -Bobby Brown - a flake who juked around with multiple schools until the last second and also looks like Tarzan but plays like Jane.

    -Tank Jenkins - auction

    -Jashaun Corbin - auction

    -James Foster - auction that the in-state schools more or less ignored until Bama got desperate late.

    -Vernon Jackson - flake who thinks he's going to play TB at ATM and be a star. Note: Oscar Giles failed to offer him the opportunity to start out at TB until the afternoon of signing day. Strong work, Oscar. 

    -Leon O'Neal - an undertalented, overrated prima donna who expects to start early and be a high draft pick after 3 years. A shattered worldview for this guy will be one of the greatest aggie meltdowns in years.

     

    2019-

    -Erick Young - TankedBevo's plaintive protestations aside, this dude pulled a stunt I've never even seen before and showed us who he is in the process.

    -Bobby Wolfe - the 2019 version of Leon O'Neal. Getting these two goobers in the same DB film room will probably asphyxiate everyone else due to a lack of oxygen being present when they're done talking/beating chests.

    -Bobby Williams - a stud who shut everything down in one visit and is not speaking to anyone else, anywhere. ATM struck an absolutely great deal here with the family.

    -Jeffery Carter - he has a turd hanging on to him that has caused many programs to end pursuit. It's pretty bad if that happens. He's a stud player with a helicopter parent firing RPGs from above, so it should be awesome to witness. 

    -Kenyon Green - I told the story of his dad allegedly trying to find a bidding war for his kid's attendance to an all-star game. I've never heard of that one before, but it's hilarious. Anyway, another one who thinks he's one thing, but he projects as something else, and not a person around him has ever told him otherwise or thought it themselves.

    -Tarian Lee - needs a brain transplant to get into college.

    -Andre White - another guy who visits one time and shuts everything down and won't speak to anyone. Okay.

    -Beason and Brooks - I don't think ATM is done looking at either of these two.

    They'll also look to close around signing day on some of the purer auctions with guys who either never visit or mention them until the final 2-3 weeks of this period, or guys that the local programs simply will not touch, hence their availability. 

    Can you build a program around these types? Florida did it, but they also had a transcendent leader who kept the thugs in line. Things went sideways when he was done. Earlier examples don't fit due to the high, high level of talent that was being purchased, and locally, for OU, ATM, and Miami when they were doing what they were doing. All three of those scenarios ended badly nonetheless. Only ATM was incompetent enough to not win at least one MNC during their run. 

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  10. 2 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    I haven't really been following recruiting outside of Texas - so someone help me out and explain what the fuck is going on with Clemson's recruiting.  They've got more 3* than aggy currently committed.  Only one top 125 player.  They have a lower avg ranking than Jimbo's fucking Olive Garden of a squad.   

     

    Swinney has a process that is proven, at this point, so there's some level of "Trust Dabo" that even I would buy off on. That said, yeah, it's weird that they don't have more than 1 regional 5 star on board. I'm sure they'll get there. I know that everyone around here was handwringing about Clemson signing a top 5 class and they may get there with some big additions or pure volume, but if Texas winds up signing 27-28 guys, I don't see Clemson keeping them out of the top 5. 

  11. 5 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I dont think thats the “papa” in question man. I read that as Cine has a kiddo.

     

    4 hours ago, UDontKnow said:

    You mean, he pulled a ctj? 

     

    4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I believe CTJ refers to it as “pulling a Jerrell Wilkerson.”

    I guess more or less all correct. 

  12. 6 minutes ago, TankedBevo said:

    Get recruited relentlessly for two years with its supreme highs and lows and see if you don't want to have fun with it once you've made your decision. I hear nothing but shit talk about not only the Texas 9.95ers but the rest of the recruiting paysites being nothing but goobers and shills and when a recruit finally takes them for a ride he's going to get some shit from some fanbase.  If you think for a second that if he had done the same thing and picked us you wouldn't be peacocking and grandstanding I call bullshit 

    No, I’d think it was a fucking douchebag move if he committed to Texas too. Don’t fucking project your loose foundation onto the rest of us. 

    What he’s doing here is one of the trashiest, shittiest things I’ve seen one of these dickheads do. Fuck him and fuck you too. 

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  13. 9 minutes ago, Fud said:

    If we're going to knock kids for making faux top threes or fives leading up to their decisions, then 90% of highly recruited prospects are going to have the same "character" concern 

    What you’re referencing is one thing, naming a top 3 and then picking another school is something else. And you know that. 

    This guy doesn’t have his hand out and his reasons for not considering Texas revolve around the last class. Those aren’t issues. The top 3 shit is first rate garbage and not an every day thing. Don’t fucking equivocate. 

  14. 2 hours ago, Vertigo said:

    Someone spiked your koolaid with some weird shit man.

     

    2 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Herb Hand joined the staff, so not entirely the same group of fuckheads. But please, continue. It sounds like next you were going to run your car in a closed garage, but then predicted 9+ wins. I’m intrigued 

    Meh. I'm capable of being excited about certain aspects of the program without viewing the offensive staff as anything but what it is - a trio of dickfaced stumblefucks and some otherwise competent guys who are moored to them and their mediocrity, much like us as fans. 

     

    1 hour ago, Lobo said:

    Thank y'all for letting me know that many members of the current team didn't play between 2010-2016.  Good to know.  

    My point was we're 5-11 on neutral fields from 2010-2017 (.313 is pretty fucking awfuL0.  That's markedly worse than our home schedule and our away schedule.  

    Maryland is a neutral site game this year, so I am just hoping we reverse the trend and have a kickass trip in the meantime.  

    What is our record against OU during this timeframe? Texas is 2-6 against OU during this timeframe. Remove this and the 5-11 goes to 3-5. The other points people made are relevant and you're grasping at straws on this one. We've sucked on neutral fields because we've sucked generally. Add to that the fact that we play a normally highly rated rival who enjoys publicly buttfucking us on a neutral field and you've got less of a reason to have high anxiety about playing the mighty turtles on a neutral site.

  15. 19 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

    Orlando will have the defense squared away.  I feel confident about that (well, as confident as one can be about Texas football in the last decade).  

    I have no faith in the offense.  None.  I'll believe it when I see it.  

     

    I'm with you on this one. There is nothing we saw from a year ago that can inspire even a fucking shred of hope regarding offense coming into this season. I expect the same terrible bullshit from the coaching staff on offense that we witnessed all last year. I expect terrible playcalling with nothing resembling an actual plan and even worse personnel decision-making. It won't shock me in the fucking least if these morons don't even start Anderson at LT to open the game against Maryland. 

    Anyone expecting anything better from the same offensive fuckheads on the coaching staff has their head planted firmly up their asshole. I expect Texas to win in spite of that because of the defense and because it is Maryland. I expect that Texas will win 9+ games this year in spite of the absolute ineptitude of Beck, Warehime, and Mehringer because of the defense, conference talent turnover, and at some point, Herman will be required to start calling the plays on offense.

  16. I am loving the fact that we could witness a cataclysmic event of idiocy and arrogance when Leon O'Neal and Bobby Wolfe wind up on the same campus together. If those two wind up feeling slighted for any reason, the whole world is going to hear about it and it will make Kris Boyd tweeting during halftime of the RRR look like amateur hour. 

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