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  1. 3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I agree with Fud. I’m extremely excited by the prospect of Whittingham being a legitimate rb and wr dual threat player. The options on matchups and personnel packages are off the charts for a guy who might be elite at both positions. I’d hate to just leave him back to wr, almost as much as I’d hate to leave him at rb and not utilize his extremely rare position flexibility. 

    Kyle Whittingham? He’s got eligibility and he’s coming here? That is a fucking masterpiece of recruiting. Coach on the field never made better sense. 

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  2. I read the book and then watched the movie. The book was great. The movie was good but overrated. 

    I don’t know much about the Hoffa case or the rebuttals to Brandt’s story, but what I read seemed plausible. I’m interested to see where the thread goes. I was born after Hoffa disappeared, but the story has never truly left the mainstream and it’s always intrigued me in terms of whether or not they’d find his remains or solve the case. 

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Getafix said:

    247  / Roach / Alfred Collins

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    He said he was very impressed with the Texas win yesterday. He watched the game with the Texas signees in attendance. Of note, Collins’ family was at practice today, and a few of them were seen in burnt orange.

     

    Well, a number of them graduated from Texas, so I would expect they might be wearing burnt orange today. 

    I continue to believe that Collins has known he’s signing at Texas all along. 

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  4. 4 minutes ago, ChemicalHorn said:

    I don’t really think the kid had the intentions of committing to Texas just to boost a GoFundMe page. Regardless in the end he comes off looking like a real jackass after all the publicity he drummed up talking about his mom and how important she is to him. But I’m sure he won’t regret moving halfway across the country from his ill mother in what very well could be the last months of her life.

    It’s hard for me to not believe that he pulled a stunt. He almost committed to USC in the summer. Then the drumbeat of his mother’s illness causing him to want to stay home. Then the Texas commit. Then the pushing of the GoFundMe page. Then, “see all of you naive dipshits later, I’m heading to fucking Salt Lake. “ I don’t know the guy, so I can only judge him on his visible actions and those make him look like a huckster and a piece of shit, but I’m sure he’s really a “great kid”. 

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  5. 4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Think @Katfid54 deserves an encore after Duv’s shaky handed performance last night. 

    Boy, of all that hawt takes on the boards over the years, fatkid’s “Duvernay has bad hands” take ranks up there with whoever once projected that “Greg Davis is sandbagging the offense for the OU game” in 2004. 

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  6. 12 minutes ago, ShowMeALoss said:

    After the longhorn nation came together to support his mom, his decision was especially shitty. They far exceeded their GoFundMe target, and I don't think it was because of all the Utah fans.

    Seriously, fuck him. He played a game. I’ll be rooting against him. The bitches lamenting his plight are just rubes who haven’t lived long enough. 

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  7. 16 minutes ago, TommyGufano said:

    Surely they know the only measurement we want is Card's hands. What a tease.

    He’s had work done on them. Family hired a full-time hand consultant. He’s apparently got those babies able to spread about 8.5 inches these days. He’s getting hand transplants from a midget donor that died last year tragically in a freak accident during a box jumping competition at the local crossfit. They’re hoping the operation kicks him up to at least a 9.5 spread. 

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  8. 44 minutes ago, Leanderman said:

    If he does enroll at gomersville, poultry science maybe his calling in life?

     

    28 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    He already knows he can lay an egg so he's probably feeling pretty confident about poultry science.

    I’m guessing he’s headed towards a calling in life that involves spending a lot of time on a porch, pushing 5 bills, and blaming everyone else for his problems. 

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

    As I’ve already said, I believe Herman should have been fired at the end of this season if this program truly wants to take winning seriously. However, he wasn’t fired and unlike some people who want to carry on their tantrum, I’m not letting my hurt feelings cloud my judgment.

    Herman has been given the opportunity to do what should have been done three years ago, hire some coaches with worthy of their title at the University of Texas. Regardless of what we think of our douchebag head coach, the coaches he’s hired so far have a track record, in the positions they’ve been hired for, which make them worthy of the title they now hold. 

    I don’t give a shit about their head coaching tenures at some shitty ass schools because that’s not what they’re being hired for. I can think of multiple failed of failing HCs that would be an absolute steal as coordinators or position coaches. 
     

    TLDR; I’d be excited to find out Herman got axed this evening if something better was in place, but he’s here and doing a better job with hires than most expected.

    The implication here is that you’re seeing it all clearly and the rest of us are just so blinded by pure rage that we simply can’t see anything he’s doing straight. Yep.

    I enjoy using incendiary words online and watching people react. It’s never not been entertaining. It’s also an interesting exercise in coming to an understanding of who can actually see the logic and constructs of a position, and who is merely going to emotionally react to words they don’t like. You’re the latter here.  

    No one is against hiring the right guys. Some of us are done with maintaining the suspension of disbelief. There is no compelling reason, logically, at this point to just go with whatever the HC and his guys want when there’s no evidence that objective thoroughness was applied to the process. None. You can emotionally choose to go there because it takes less energy or makes it more enjoyable and that is fine. But you’re not applying any defensible logic when doing so. 

    As to this continued premise being offered by you and others that HC gigs don’t matter - you’re just fucking wrong. HC gigs provide insight to how guys make personnel decisions at the staffing and player level. They’re evidence of general competence or lack thereof when it comes to strategy. Is it an end-all, be-all indicator? No. But it’s a data point and you’re showing your ignorance by dismissing it. 

  10. 3 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

    “On defense” was implied, but you knew that. 

    I don’t get why I knew that? Pitt has had a middling defense in a shitty conference under Narduzzi. He’s a conservative old school idiot who surrounds himself repeatedly with the same type of thinkers. His defenses are therefore regularly going to look better than they are. He hasn’t innovated in his life. His teams are boring as fuck and are meh in a shit conference. He willingly hired and retained Shawn Watson. Why in the fuck does this guy have any credit with you guys? I’ve seen at least 25 of the Pitt games in the last 3 years. They beat the shit out of the FCS teams and trash G5 schools and shit the bed against good offenses, with this year’s PSU game being the exception.

    Pitt isn’t some foreign team to me that I haven’t seen play. Have you guys watched them at all? What is it about Narduzzi or Partridge at Pitt that has y’all excited? I’ve given you plenty to respond to based in reality, so if I’m off and you guys know better, let’s get to it. Or you can just admit that you are applying the benefit of the doubt in multiple directions on this one for no reason.

     

  11. 1 minute ago, Casual Encounter said:

    It would suck to have a guy that’s only proven to be a good DL coach, coaching the DL. He needs to be good at everything else too. Fuckity fuck fucking-a.

    Not what I said. You’re going to continue to be intellectually bankrupt when it comes to Herman during this cycle though, so you aren’t really worth the bullet for further elaboration. You are totally in the tank for a guy without any need for the benefit of the doubt at this point. 

  12. 3 hours ago, Ricky Butler said:

    Yeah, me too. Narduzzi seems like he knows what good looks like.

    Narduzzi “seems like he knows what good looks like”, huh ? This fucking guy hired Shawn Watson as his OC AFTER he flamed out here. Sorry, he doesn’t get the credit you want to claim. 

    3 hours ago, gmr548 said:


    It's the comfort hire angle. If Ash wants his guy and Herman allows it, some are interpreting that as a lazy comfort hire.
    Nevermind that 1.) This Partridge guy appears to be significantly more accomplished than Mehringer and Warehime combined and 2.) The same people whining about it are probably also whining about Oscar Giles on staff.

    Coordinators are gonna go get a few of their guys. Graham Harrell was supposedly talking to position coaches. Any other DC would have brought a couple of assistants. That's not necessarialy a bad thing when said guys have had demonstrated success at the P5 level, which appears to be the case. It's a far cry from going and getting Drew Mehringer and Casey Horny and bringing along Derek Warehime when better and/or less rapey options are readily available. Critical thinking isn't a surly specialty though.

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    I realize that “well, that’s just surly and we’re all idiots” is some form of comforting refrain for some of you dipshits, but you can go fuck yourself stating that I lack critical thinking skills. Point that turret at one of the mouth breathers or get more thoughtful with your shittalking. 

    Maybe some of us would continue to wish for seeking out the best coach available. Maybe I’d like to see a Texas-ex with youth, street cred, Nigerian connections and a now proven capability to recruit and develop talent, at a Big 12 foe no less,  be the guy getting the gig versus a Big 10/ACC retread. Maybe I’d like to see Texas make a run at the DL coach at Clemson. Maybe a little of that before we bro up? “But closetojumping, this guy coached JJ Watt a decade ago!!!!”  Right. There go my critical thinking skills. 

    In any event, all I did was say Partridge is a concern. I didn’t say he’d be a failure hire. He needs more scrutiny and skepticism than what you guys are offering though. He’s a buddy of a DC who’s coming fresh off of hiring the worst P5 coaching staff in modern history, but yeah, let’s give the guy a blank fucking check to bro up. We’ve never seen that before and it’s never gone wrong here. 

    The actual critical thinking skills that are lacking here are the ones coming from people who see Wisconsin from a decade ago and give the nod of approval. Ash has proven nothing as a manager when it comes to personnel and Partridge’s most recent history is mediocre. He failed hilariously at FAU - literally not improving a single year during his tenure.  At Pitt? Meh. They’ve been a defensive mediocrity in the ACC and he was passed over while there when they replaced a DC. 

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  13. 8 minutes ago, TheGhost said:

    Good chance Chris Ash will bring in his former college teammate from Drake Charlie Partridge.

    He is the current DL coach/AHC at Pitt. 

    This is our concern, dude. Fuckity fuck fucking-a.

  14. 1 minute ago, GRHorn said:

    Thanks for clearing things up. Lol my friend 

    Sorry, but offering what I feel comfortable with at this time. I told you guys long before he was a household name in recruiting that Evans was going to be a fucking epic cartoon of a recruitment, and I'm passing along a similar but different warning about the scene coming up with Wheaton. If Texas gets him, I'll be all for it, if that helps.

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  15. Just now, GRHorn said:

    Was Collins ever a silent? You counted him as one of the numbers in the class before the team shit the bed. 

    Yes. I've never wavered in the belief that he signs with Texas. Hermanticles the Impostor and his merry band of dildos have done their level best to fuck up the recruitment, but Texas still believes he's committed. 

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  16. 25 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    He probably gets Quay back for 21' and can get us Wheaton, JoJo, Ibraheam, Shemar Turner, and whoever we want from Duncanville.

    The Wheaton recruitment isn't exactly going to come down to who is which staff. His is going to be an interesting recruitment to witness. I'm not implying a Zack Evans type of circus, either. 

  17. Rhule is pretty amazing. I thought he'd bust at Baylor. He clearly did not. I figure he'd do well in the right organization at the NFL level given his brand of coaching as well. I'd like to see him get the hell away from Waco, that's for sure. Baylor loses like 12 starters from this year's team, so they'll struggle to get to a winning record, but if anyone can do it, I assume Rhule can. 

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  18. 48 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    I can see the aggy "We played the best" t-shirts now.... how proud they should be. Their kids will be talking about this period for generations.

    I know it shouldn't perplex me since I've been around aggies my entire life, but holy shit this kind of thing still throws me for a loop. They're proud of losing. Like, really, truly proud of losing as though it's an asset and other people should be jealous. It's akin to us bragging about giving LSU their toughest game of the year - which we're not doing because IT WAS A FUCKING LOSS. Amazing. 

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