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  1. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    Well CDC has nothing to do with that. Tuition $ has nothing to do with $12 nachos and Plonsky's harem of lesbians.  Seems a weird place to bitch about it, CDC can't walk over and start firing people in the Tower.

    Some of you guys are fucking dense. 

  2. 8 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

    To transfer into the business school when I was at Texas, you had to have a minimum of a 3.5 GPA to even be considered.Assuming no athlete special treatment happened here that means Sam had an excellent first year at Texas. Congrats to him. 

     

    3 minutes ago, Goodman said:

    Still subjective, reference letters still carry a great deal of weight. With a 3.5 today, you have to either be very lucky or have the right people in your corner to get in.

    You see? This is why it’s best just to be accepted in upon applying in high school. Then you don’t have to reduce yourself to this plebeian shit. 

  3. 9 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Rivals might as well just start calling it the "Top 100 guys who have attended our camps. P.S. Bonus points if you're a sooner commit."  The only top 100 list I would care less about would be if Kurt Bohls started putting out a Top 100 list. 

    I'd even care more about @futureman's list.  Preview: Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Rashan Gary, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle, Waddle. 

    Much like a fantasy league, I think we should each compile our Top 100 list for 2019 and look back on it for the lulz later. My Internet betting radar is now on high alert.

  4. 13 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    You seem to have a fundamental inability to comprehend anything I say. I didn't say anything near what you said.  If Herman is encouraging Sam to take hits (like he claims to be in his pressers), that's a bad move and would not be a good sign for Herman as a coach. It would not mandate his firing.  If Herman coaches Sam not to take hits and he does it anyway, then that's on Sam, not Herman.  It's a pretty straightforward and, should be at least, uncontroversial stance that Sam can't maintain his style of play and his coaches should coach him to not take so many hits.

    Lulz. Not saying he's anywhere near as good as either of them or even has that similar of a play style, only referring to those guys games as it applies to taking/avoiding hits when running.  Russell Wilson, IMO, is pretty much the gold standard for a running QB that doesn't take hits when he runs.

    Dude, you don’t always have to be a lawyer, right? I knew what you were saying. Just fucking around because you lobbed me a softball. 

  5. 19 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Lulz. Sam has always seemed like a really smart guy and this appears to confirm it. It's what makes me hopeful that if the staff sits down with him and clearly explains that it's better for the team for him to take less hits than it is for him to fight for that extra yard each time (regardless of Herman saying in pressers that he likes the way Sam plays), that he'll be able to change how he plays. Having said that, book intelligence and mental control in the heat of battle are two different things. RGIII could never learn to take less hits, but other guys have been able to.  If Sam doesn't change his play style this year, then we'll have to move our hope of finding a great QB from him to Rising and/or Thompson because Sam can't stay on the field playing this way.  

    If I'm Beck, I'm showing Sam clips of Russell Wilson over and over this offseason.

    I'll also add that If Herman and Co. are actually encouraging Sam to keep playing how he did last year, like Herman implied in some of his press statements, then that would go a long way in making me think that Herman just isn't the right guy for the job. What happened at tOSU the year they won the title is not a repeatable model. 

    Mentioning Sam Ehlinger in a post that includes RGIII and Russell Wilson as loose comparative references. Impressive. Also stunning. 

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  6. 3 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Yeah, Ricky unfortunately was a little bit of a national joke towards the end of his career with his break in Thailand to go smoke weed for a while and all that. He's not tremendously relevant anymore except as part of a history of success.

    I think Texas should be showing these guys highlights of Blaine Irby and Kaelen Jakes. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

     

    I wouldn't be excited if we grabbed Robinson, but I wouldn't be mad either. He's a decent prospect and could turn into a good center in 2-3 years. He doesn't show the potential to just flat out maul people like Bragg, but he has good feet for an inside guy and with a couple years of strength training, could become a more powerful run blocker. 

    All that said though, I agree with Fud. I don't think our prospects of getting him are very good if aggy wants him (which I'm thinking they do with losing that kid to Clemson) due to all those connections. It's not too big of a deal. I think we can find someone similar without too much trouble. 

    Meh. You guys are seeing ghosts. He has connections to TAMU, but he’s interested in Texas. UT straight up fucked up Preston’s recruitment because Mehringer is a clown, but Manvel isn’t Katy. I’m not saying he won’t be an aggie, I’m just saying you guys are playing Eeyore when it isn’t merited. Long way to go with this one.

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  8. 22 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    SIAP. Seems like Sam isn't too bad at this whole school thing.

     

    This is one of the more stunning things I’ve read in weeks. The on-field IQ of this guy is single digits, yet he’s entering McCombs. Knock me over with a feather. 

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  9. Just now, TonyTexas said:


    You do realize that he only hits cleanup when one of the top of lineup players is out, right?

    Deeply penetrating and insightful post right here. Truly enlightening.  

    The origins of this discussion were that Gurriel shouldn’t be hitting clean-up or anywhere close until we see power return. The injury he had is notorious for sapping slugging percentage from hitters. It’s idiotic to have him hitting in the fat part of the lineup until we see a return to form. Maybe today is the start, but it hasn’t been there, in the five hole or replacing an injured Correa at clean-up. 

    This isn’t really a debate. Gandorf threw out an easy, lazy take perverting the original discussion, but yeah, I’m sure we’re all good to go now and his power outage has in no way contributed to our offensive woes in the first part of this season as he’s hit 5th and now 4th. Baseball is of course all about a single game performance to negate a third of a season’s issues. 

  10. 3 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    our cleanup hitter is 4-4 with two doubles and a bomb.  we should hit him 8th until he figures it out.

    No doubt it’s all figured out and totally justified to see him hitting there. He’s got two HRs this season, both against the Rangers and two months apart. Give him the silver slugger at first base already. 

  11. 2 hours ago, Snacks said:

    ah, shit... people around here hate 425 for some reason... they also hate 33 stack... and fire zone blitzes...

    pretty much anything run by Strong and Diaz is hated... for no tactical reason that I have heard.

    of course, we do all of these now, so they're great again.

    You’ve gone off the rails as a poster over the past few years. It’s been bizarre to observe, really. 

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  12. 14 hours ago, Machinator said:

    IT and 247. TFB remains silent after starting this whole thing.

     

    14 hours ago, Newy25 said:

    Justin Wells IT for one. 

     

    13 hours ago, satyanash said:

    Does getting info from the coaching staff not count as having connections to the program?

    Those sites just showed you they were either used lazily and carelessly by the staff, revealing that they have almost no value or they’re so disconnected from the going’s on inside of the football program that they don’t even have a source to invalidate the most absurd of rumors. 

    Herman, whatever his flaws, speaks to very few media outsiders about recruiting, and has punished staff brutally for doing so. Wyatt isn’t on this staff in part because of talking he did in their last year at Houston. 

    IT and 24/7 obviously have dealings with recruits, parents, players on campus, and street agents. This is known. What’s also been obvious is that they have dick-all for resources inside the staff. Chang or BC had to have laughed about this one. It’s pretty obvious the street agent is the tail wagging the dog for some of these guys. EJ Holland is damn near a pimp for street agents. It appears that Wells isn’t much better. 

    But hey, that’s using awareness and common sense. Maybe I am wrong and Texas is pursuing serial rapists with IQs hovering around 75 and street agents draped all over them. I guess we’ll see. 

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  13. 2 hours ago, Machinator said:

    Good news: Trey Sanders is on campus.

    Bad news: The secret visitor won't make it. That visitor: Marcel Brooks.

    Tell me which sites were touting this and I will tell you which sites have zero connections to the program. They are only getting info from the staff as pawns. Seriously, list them out and it will be a good data point for all of us. 

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  14. 52 minutes ago, PNWhornsfan said:

    My actual guess is that even with their war chest this year, they still don't have enough $$$ to go around and they're trusting the Marine to produce more studs from the JAGs.  After getting torched by Wake Forest, I'm sure they're probably spending a small fortune on Wolfe and Banks and hoping that doesn't happen again.  And if Nakobe Dean is serious about the Ags, the only way that makes any sense is if there's a ton of $$$ on the table.

    When you use the term “small fortune”, what is the ballpark of what you’d think a small fortune is? Would you say, like, $70,000 is a small fortune for a guy like Banks? Or were you thinking more or less than that? Hypothetically. 

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  15. 10 minutes ago, Machinator said:

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    Dadgummit, that ol’car just wouldn’t start. 

    Hornsby thinks Brewster is full of shit. If anyone remembers the DJ Williams recruitment, sans Albert Hollis, this one could go in that direction on sweet, sweet Brewskie. 

  16. 17 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

    Dipshit here again, the only thing I'm scared of is having another team full of highly ranked players shit the bed during the season, for what feels like the 10th year in a row. 

    You should probably begin work preparing your anus, then.

  17. Fucking amateurs. Throw a party and make a giant punch bowl full of Skip and Go Nekkid, have wife/girlfriend invite many wives/girlfriends over. A couple gallons of lemonade, a sixer of pilsner, a liter of vodka or everclear (if you have the balls), throw in a little gin, mix all together and you’ve got yourself a party. Do not let anyone drive home. 

  18. 7 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    So, recruiting is really important, but not the end all and be all. Like we already knew. Lot of violent agreement happening here.

    You might be missing the point. I’ll wait to see if totallynotabuttpirate sprints back on here with 3-4 more revelatory posts to confirm that. 

  19. 4 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

    Yea, I really enjoyed the last 9 years of great TX recruiting! We really kicked some ass. 

    We've gotten our shit pushed in regularly by teams full of 2-3* players. 

    Bama, with loads of 5* winning every year skews the "macro evidence". 

    Do you need to have a great class regularly to win? Yes, but crying out your vagina every time we don't get a prospect who may or may not pan out,  is just silly. 

     

    Outside of sarvanaash, who actually does the “crying out your vagina” routine when a recruit goes elsewhere?

  20. 2 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    I find it amusing that pretty much everyone on this board (sans Satyanash, probably) is chomping at the bit to welcome USC, which is absolutely loaded with talent and experience at every position (except for experience at QB) to DKR this September, but even the hypothetical of playing Stanford in a neutral site game sends us into the fetal position.

    It might not have come across this way, but I was just being silly. I’d like to see the schedule filled with nothing but the best and the brightest, even if I know most would rather see a clearer path to the CFP. 

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