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  1. 4 minutes ago, Rustic Horn said:

     

    I know it really isn't, but didn't this seem inevitable all along for some reason? I clicked this thread thinking "I wonder if here's where it gets announced that he's getting Tommy John". I don't know why that was in my head about this guy. Good news for Houston though.

  2. 2 hours ago, Newy25 said:

    I was too poor to even apply to those schools. The application fees were like 100-200 dollars a school at those places back in the day. It might as well have been a million dollars to me. The one I picked, Notre Dame (because MFing Rudy) made me pay my own way for the interview. I basically had to give up a kidney to do that. 

    I assume when Bragg gets offered by all of these schools they waive the fees since they are offering a full scholarship?  That and all  expense paid visits must be nice. And no interviewing that is required at some of these schools. 

    Fuck it, I'll go. I got recruited by some of the Ivy schools and a couple of small little schools in the NE for football. So I talk to this guy at Dartmouth about a visit. It's November and I'm 17 and poor as fuck and also know that I have a kid on the way, potentially (definitely, it turned out), and I've got scholarships and shit to Texas on the academic side. So I'm like, "how does all of this work?" and he's like "based on all of the info at hand, we can cover half of your fully loaded costs with Pell grants. you would have to figure out how to make the other half of your expenses work. " and I say "how much are we talking about?" his answer "total expenses should come in around $30,000 a year". Click. Not really, I am sure I was nice in getting off the phone, but never took another college football recruiting call again. $15k to my family might as well have been $15million. 

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  3. 15 minutes ago, Fud said:

    They were under the impression that Texas was the favorite. Then after their state of the union type of article, received new information that Bragg was essentially a Stanford lock. Shitty timing for them, but it happens. 

    They're going too far if they're calling him a "lock". This week, mom is winning the argument and he's all "fear the tree!" and shit, but he's gone back and forth plenty.

  4. 33 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    Stanford rejects people with 4.0 GPAs and decent test scores every year.

    Let it go, man. A 4.0 from Devine, TX is like a 1.8 from an accredited high school. They had no choice. I admit, they should have given you more than a 1 day turnaround from your submittal, but that admissions office has a lot of legitimate candidates to rifle through.

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  5. 6 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    That's a bummer - was hoping they'd fill up and he'd fall to us like Carson with tOSU last year.

    I believe this is called "The Oscarian Maneuver". Just sit on your fucking hands until everyone else fills up and then run a mass email campaign to anyone on the 247 Top 1500 that is uncommitted and listed as a DL. 

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  6. 2 hours ago, irishtexan said:


    It’s easy to forget that at one point we were pretty good. And at that time we had reason to trust the coaches. ctj gonna come in with a heaping helping of “I told you so”

    I can’t really do that from that long ago. I mean, the things that have happened between then and now are sort of hard to fathom or discuss in my life. I did somewhat enjoy that visit down memory lane while also getting a little sad. It’s been a long road as a fan from there to here. I can’t help but measure that against things personally and it’s just really eerie and bizarre. 

    All that considered, man, I’d like to see Texas get back to winning a bunch of games every year. Seeing the darkness before the sunset sucked, and the walk through the dark times hasn’t been any better. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Sydney Carton is your most commonly used sock. He's loyal, devoted, and jumps at the chance to hold your jock strap no that's not right, maybe gargle your , nevermind, we'll go with defend your honor. For reasons unbeknownst to me, you decided to retire SLX, which was the one you used when you felt like even your own wandering musings just weren't quite long-form enough.  Finally, you've got HenryJames who you use to talk about UT baseball, beer, and your pretentious standards on taquerias, tortillas, and which types of peppers are actually good enough for people to be allowed to enjoy.

    I think that covers it but someone can let me know if I missed one.  

    HenryJames is an uppity motherfucker, you got that part right. Also, SydneyCarton is about as loyal as Littlefinger. I wouldn’t trust that hillbilly with your back turned. 

    2 hours ago, Machinator said:

    Katfid is his other sock, because who the hell would expect that?

    This one terrified me with its brilliance. 

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  8. 1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

    i typically don't come at things like this the way i'm going to, but yuli needs to see fastballs, and he needs to hit with guys on base.  i don't give a shit what his current hr/rbi totals are.  mixing him up down near the bottom of the order would be doom for a guy with his plate discipline.  if our lineup was clicking like it was last year, sure, maybe hit him 6-7th.  but it ain't.  he should be hitting 5th (not 4th) but correa is out.

    also, are we done with the whole hitting reddick 2 (vs righties) and moving bregs down?  i know that's counterintuitive with the way he's drawing walks, but man it sure felt like the lineup was longer when he hit 6th.

    spring-reddick-tuve-correa-yuli-bregs-gattis-mccann-kemp (or marwin) is a lineup i can get behind against a righty.  if it's a lefty, get stassi in there, bregs back to 2, and sort the rest out.  move gattis to 6th probably.

    I don’t agree but I get your thought on hitting Gurriel 4th. I just don’t see the guy exhibiting full strength right now, and it’s hurting in the heart of the lineup. 

    2 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    Good God. CTJ is a beating. A hit and run troll. If I didn’t know better, I’d say he’s a utgrad98 sock.

    I’ve lived and died by the Astros my whole life, mostly dying. You pose a false premise in which volume equals value and your posts alone on this thread debunk that contention. I have a differing point of view on a few players than you, and I despise Hinch, but go fuck yourself for casting aspersions at another regular poster as a troll because you’re too drunk and full of your own weak shit to tolerate a difference of opinion.

    I cheer for the Astros, follow them here, at TCB, ClutchFans, and attend 10+ games a year. The fact that I don’t post as much about them means jack shit about my fandom or knowledge of the team or sport.

     

  9. 30 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

    Ballsy, going with a 8 man line-up

    The fact that Jake Marisnick is not only still on the team but getting regular playing time tells me that the entire organization thinks that if they just keep trotting out the same shit as last year, eventually everything will just "click" and fall into place. Championship winners fall into this trap in every sport unless the coach and the management are truly special. Gurriel batting clean-up is another example of the same folly. Bilicheck, Saban, Golden State, these are the rarities and we're witnessing them at their peak at the same time. They change and modify as necessary to maintain their perch at the top. I had zero hope that Hinch was similar, but I'd convinced myself that Luhnow was.

    Yuri Gurriel is hitting clean-up with 1 HR and 21 RBIs. I know he had a wrist injury, but that's proof that the excuses may be legitimate, but they are not improving the situation. He should be hitting fucking 8th every night until he shows some strength returning.

  10. 1 hour ago, golfclap said:

    As ridiculous as it sounds Sumlin may well have 2 Heisman QBs in the last 7 years by the time this season is over. Between that and the guaranteed contracts there is no doubt that that motherfucker leads a charmed life. He'll drink to that. 

    Khalil Tate under Sumlin's wing could be an absolute fucking nightmare in the Pac 12. I can't wait to see him go off.

  11. 1 hour ago, Wiler77 said:

    According to this page:

    https://texassports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5134

    Taylor started all 12 games as a Sr and 11 games as a Jr.

    Not defending giving him a scholarship, but apparently he was the best option we had at center his last 2 years here.

    His play, and him playing, only cemented the validity of what a few of us were sweating when he was recruited. He should have never been recruited at Texas and he should have never played a down. He quit on the field a number of times, to boot. I listed a bunch of terrible recruits during the Brown era, but I will maintain that his recruitment was the least forgivable. They could have waited until the day before signing day to offer him after evaluating him for another full year. They didn't do that, and they didn't do that specifically because McWhorter and Brown didn't want to put in the work. 

    Mack Brown started his bataan death march to being a TV analyst when he did 4 things, all directly after winning the national title:

    • added more onerous academic requirements for candidates to be recruited than the NCAA required, with additional subjective "character" details needing to be present as well
    • convinced himself and his staff that there was more talent in central Texas within 50 miles of campus than anyone appreciated
    • deciding that almost all scholarships should be committed and accounted for within a cycle before May of the players' high school junior year
    • stopped sending his staff out to scout players on Friday nights during the football season

    Taylor Doyle represents an example of all 4 of those details coming together. He was nice, from a great family and school, and had excellent grades. He was within an hour's driving distance. He committed as soon as he was offered. They never scouted him, as he was recommended to the staff by Gilbert's serial rapist father and Longhorn94. 

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  12. 50 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    Same with grade risks and in other years the rankings would reflect that but since certain trainers have such an influence with EJ, Damon, etc  - as well as certain coaches having influence over Wiltfong.

    Reminds me A LOT of the 2008 year where fucking Ferrell and Crabby and those guys over-weighted the fucking OU class and basically made a mockery of the rankings toward the top. 

    RJ Washington - Stephen Good - and that fucking spare Jermie Calhoun. He was EASILY the worst 5* recruit in the history of ranking services. All those dudes ranked above Andrew Luck? Fucking Joseph Ibiloye and Justin Johnson both were in the top 15 I think. Total fucking spares. 

     

     

    <keanu reeves>Whoa</keanu reeves>

    I just had some major flashbacks regarding that 2008 class. 

    This is going to be a very interesting cycle. It already is. I think Herman's crew has their shit together in their approach, but let's face it, I'm aware of my bias in that thinking. I think the look back on the 2019 signing class for Texas, OU, LSU, ATM, TCU, Bama, FSU, OSU and Stanford will be enlightening. Then again, when was it, 2013? when we saw just an absolutely horrible in-state class overall for Texas? I hope that's not the case this year, but it also gives me some comfort that we're doing work out of state with that concern in mind.

  13. 3 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

    I mean, we offered Taylot Doyle in a wheel chair. To say the bust risk was high is an understatement. 

    I can't remember if you were on Shaggy at the time, but that was one of the greatest threads in my life when he committed. I was absolutely and unapologetically brutal about the sloth being exhibited and how fucking stupid the whole thing was, and of course there were posters foaming at the mouth to defend Mack Brown, Mac The OL Coach Whose Name I Can't Remember, and Lake Travis. It was the single laziest recruitment in the history of the Mack Brown era and there was zero justification for taking him in February of his JR year while he was in a wheelchair, yet people supported it. They quoted the record and Mack Knows Best and shit. It seems like it was the recruiting period right before the 2010 season when the recruiting chickens began to come home to roost. 

    The Garrett Gilbert threads, and Longhorn94's particular efforts associated to them, are probably the best ever though.

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  14. 2 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    You can't just toss out Simmons' thousands of mediocre PAs in favor of a couple hundred where he's been good simply because those are the most recent.  Marwin's 2017 season and his regression this year is an obvious example of why that's a bad idea.  

    Simmons is the undisputed best defensive SS in the game. He had an entire year last year in which he performed well above average offensively for the position in addition to the gold glove defense. He has entered his prime years. The remainder of this year plus the next 3 are his prime period and he's hitting his stride. I would trade that for Correa's next 3.5 right now, largely based on the premise that I think you're getting 75% of games with Correa and 95% of games with Simmons. 

    Edit, given that AS is now on the DL with an ankle problem and no scheduled return date, I'd be neutral on having him vs. Correa. As of today, AS is 3.3 WAR on the year vs. Correa's 1.9 and both are out indefinitely.

  15. 1 hour ago, Butch Had Not said:

    Great to hear. Anyone else you can share? 

     

    1 hour ago, Machinator said:

    While I don't put too much stock into summer reports this early, I thought it was interesting that all of the major sites - TFB, IT, even Wiltfong himself (247) went out of their way to mention Ossai standing out within days of arriving on campus.

    I wish Sumlin were still coach at A&M, but at least he left us one final gift on the way out.

    Anything I relay isn't coming from another board. I'm not on other boards. Just to help you differentiate what bullshit is coming from where. And I'm fairly certain there are times where what anyone is hearing is pure bullshit to drive an agenda, so we're all subject to that victimhood. 

    As far as anything else, Ojomo landed at over 270 already. They don't see a bust in the bunch and when coaches are honest, they can almost certainly identify a bust risk within the first 48 hours of check-in. Hell, if you sign guys like Taylor Doyle, Chet Moss, Clint Haney, Dustin Miksch, Gerald Hanson, Antonio Moore, Jason Barron, Lionel Garr, Michael Wilcoxen, Ian Harris, and Trey Graham, you could know you had busts coming in from just reading Hornfans/Shaggy/Surly. 

    As we've discussed before, I personally really dig how they're evaluating and approaching recruiting. They're not going to land everyone they want, but they've got good hustle on the back-ups and the senior season developments, Oscar Giles excepted. 

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  16. Just now, Hook'Em0608 said:

    I wouldn't take a single one of them over Correa. He's still just a fucking kid, and already a champion. Shit, Lindor slumped most all of last year himself, and he's the only one of those I put in Correa's stratosphere. Mostly because he is also elite defensively. Simmons couldn't even hit the damn ball when he was Correa's age. Bogaerts is worse offensively and defensively than Correa. Lindor is his only real competition IMO. But it appears to me he has fallen in love with the long ball. When he has the skill set to be an Altuve like hitter which is more valuable IMO. 

    It's a subjective discussion, so I'm fine with you not agreeing at all. I don't really care about the prior years, but the go-forward with what I referenced. Simmons was a terrible offensive performer, and now he isn't, so the past with him is irrelevant to me. Bogaerts is in the same neighborhood as Correa and more durable. Lindor didn't slump last year, so I don't follow that argument. He's a demonstrably better player than Correa this year and he's not about to miss 40 games in the fat part of his schedule. He's tons more durable. 

    It's simple, if you like a guy because he's a year younger and marginally better than someone else on the non-counting stats, love Correa to death. If durability and counting stats matter, Correa isn't a top 3 shortstop in baseball. I fall into the latter category and I'm also sick of reading and hearing about how he and his crew, Boras included, think he's going to be worth $400million. I don't see him playing a complete year before his time is up with the Astros, so I plan on laughing a lot when he has to "settle" for something well inside of $200. 

  17. 1 hour ago, Fud said:

    Imart is another CTJ sock account? 

    I don't know who this Imart character is, but he must be quite the wizard. Also, can you dickheads give me the running list of my socks these days? I'm struggling to keep up. 

    I did used to enjoy crafting socks for absurdist performances, when I had the time. dibollhorn on Hornfans - I'll go so far as to say that one qualified as performance art. I doubt most here would recall, but using ridiculous and unhinged deep east Texas stupidity was an easy way to rope regular posters into climbing over each other to attack him. I based him on what appeared to be a real life poster named "bullardhorn", who I am fairly certain was actually killed in a meth lab explosion in or around the town of Bullard. But I digress...

  18. 2 hours ago, Seasick Sailor said:

    He's been arguably the best SS in the game since 2015, particularly if you focus only on his offensive numbers.

    SS stats between 2015 and 2018:

    # Name Team G PA HR R RBI SB BB% K% ISO BABIP AVG OBP SLG wOBA wRC+ BsR Off Def WAR
     
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    1 Francisco Lindor Indians 475 2125 74 294 253 52 8.0 % 14.2 % .190 .312 .293 .352 .484 .355 121 3.9 57.6 54.7 18.8
    2 Carlos Correa Astros 421 1829 76 246 287 31 10.8 % 20.4 % .209 .325 .285 .363 .493 .364 133 6.7 80.2 10.1 15.5
    3 Corey Seager Dodgers 355 1528 54 220 179 9 9.6 % 19.6 % .192 .352 .302 .372 .494 .369 133 6.5 69.6 28.3 14.9
    4 Xander Bogaerts Red Sox 506 2203 47 318 265 39 7.2 % 17.3 % .139 .344 .296 .351 .434 .340 110 18.9 45.0 23.7 14.7
    5 Andrelton Simmons - - - 488 1957 26 217 191 39 7.1 % 8.3 % .106 .296 .281 .335 .387 .314 98 2.0 -2.4 73.1 13.9
    6 Brandon Crawford Giants 502 1988 54 216 272 17 7.7 % 19.9 % .170 .313 .269 .329 .439 .326 106 0.7 13.7 55.5 13.7
    7 Didi Gregorius Yankees 499 1986 65 237 249 23 5.1 % 13.7 % .163 .285 .272 .314 .435 .320 99 12.0 10.0 33.7 11.3
    8 Jean Segura - - - 478 2107 42 284 198 93 4.6 % 15.0 % .133 .337 .299 .338 .432 .332 106 9.5 25.8 8.5 10.5
    9 Elvis Andrus Rangers 479 1979 37 251 224 74 7.0 % 12.7 % .139 .313 .287 .338 .425 .329 101 10.9 14.2 10.5 9.3
    10 Asdrubal Cabrera - - - 477 1903 62 227 213 14 7.3 % 17.7 % .177 .309 .277 .333 .453 .336 113 -11.8 18.8 6.2 8.9

     

     

    I get it, but the injury component cannot be ignored. Volume matters and the adding stats are relevant in the conversation. If you could have Lindor, Bogaerts, SImmons, or Correa for the next 3.5 seasons, how would you rank your desire? It's subjective, but I'd go Lindor, Simmons, Bogaerts, Correa in that order. Correa is going to continue to handle himself with kid gloves in order to reach the next contract, and the other guys seem fine as replacements with either elite skills or better durability.

    Across the landscape of the game, I'm glad we have Correa as a core member and our shortstop, but I don't view him as a the unquestionably best shortstop in the game. Seager's injury and future health have me feeling the same way about him, hence me not ranking him as a top 4 guy I'd want at SS.

  19. I am starting to laugh when I hear talk of Carlos Correa being a $400million man. He’s made of glass and misses 40+ every year and, frankly, his offensive numbers are good, not really great. I’m sure he’ll go on the DL and miss the next month+ just as we face competition we should be destroying. Ridiculous. 

  20. 5 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Assuming A&M lands a top 10 class, it will be interesting to match up their 2019 class against our stellar 2018 class. The way things are going, the only place where they'll have us beat is TE and maybe DL.

    To that point, I spoke to someone involved with covering CFB recently and they’d spent time with the staff since the 2018’s all arrived (except for JA due to his HS finishing later) and they are fucking pumped. They don’t see a reach in the crew and, offline, they’ve been pretty straight previously about guys who show pretty quickly that maybe they ain’t gonna get it done. The staff is fucking raving right now. So yeah, ATM can fill up on all the bread they want. 

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  21. 6 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

    Well, like Dome Driver I was a 9 year old at the time.  But my thoughts are based on the video that Sleepygrad posted.  Jackson at :11 and the cheerleader at 2:45.

    Got it. Is that really Keith Jackson? I didn’t recognize his voice at all. The cheerleader on the field after the play is insane.  That would be a huge flag in this day and age. I’d never noticed him. 

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