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Posts posted by closetojumping
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Pryor walked without options? When? Where do you guys get this stuff? It just appears here as matter of fact and I feel like I'm missing a thread somewhere.
Paul walked as well? Preston is redshirting and leaving? WTF?
28 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:Weren't the TexAggies talking about needing to get three of Achane, Ngata, and Evans? I guess they can put Evans and Achane in the calculator.
It is remarkable how few of their high level, top targets, pretty-sure-we'll-get-him, Jimbo-knows-how-to-recruit players end up with them.
All their eggs will be in the Evans basket and who the hell knows what he'll do. Probably spike a volleyball into Jimbo's nuts.
We're going to witness Aggie Mercenary Closing 2: Bilbo Aggins Boogaloo with this 2020 class. They've got zero momentum anywhere. They're not lighting anyone's fire with presumed wins over UTSA, Miss State and SCar. And we all agree they could lose to either MSU and SCar, hell maybe both with the wrong bounces. A repeat of the 2018 finish looks probable. They'll sift through the high-ishly rated guys with hair on their recruitment in some form from across the SEC/ACC footprint and buy a few, then make their best bid for Evans and a few others. Problem is, others will match their offer for a lot of these guys, and they'll have better stories to tell.
And if Elko leaves? Hell. A small CFB fantasy of mine is to see Aggie Chad shitcanned, Herman rehires Traylor because he has a flash of enlightened competence, and Arkansas hires Elko to replace Chuckles the Clown Morris. Elko then lands King on signing day as Morris Jr is forced to take the last second aggie replacement offer. Shit.
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I know it’s de rigeur to be down on Texas here, but I get the impression that a whole bunch of you guys haven’t watched TCU this season.
They have shitty QB play and a shitty OL. They have trouble getting it to Reagor because he’s got weak help around him. Their defense sucks on a level within range of our own suckitude.
If you watched the game against KSU on Saturday and you suddenly think Duggan is worth a fuck, you’re giving way to much credit to KSU. They stole a win in Starkville against an overrated MSU team, and they play tough, but they are really short on talent right now. If you read the box score of the TCU/KSU game and you’re deriving opinions from that, well, that’s not the full picture.
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8 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:
Quick reminder: when the “mouthbreathers” on the football board were correctly pointing Strong was a buffoon and was in way over his head, this board scoffed at the notion. This board hosted a “discussion” around Charlie remaining as figure head coach (For recruiting purposes, ostensibly) and relinquishing all other duties to other un-names coaches.
As a group, this board was the absolute last to accept what was patently obvious and had Kansas not happened, the majority of this board would still be advocating for Strong.
So let’s not pretend this little neck of the woods is a place for reasonable discussion.
And I’ll disagree with your “Orlando isn’t getting fired and the idea it will happen is laughable.” I think we lose at least 2 more and look hapless on D the rest of the way and too much pressure is applied for him to not make a change at DC.
To be clear, this ain’t that board ... and a few of us who post often on this board weren’t around at the time, and for good reason. If you think Sydney or I were anywhere within the vicinity of “Charlie Strong should stay on as figurehead” type of thinking, you’d be dead wrong, but I assume you were just thinking about the greater recruiting discussions back then.
This all considered, I don’t understand why a bunch of intelligent guys, and most guys posting on here right now fit that for me, punish yourselves with attempting a dialogue on Sundays after games like the last few weeks. It’s hard for me to feel anything but complete malaise right now.
When I am in Vegas this weekend, however, I am going to put out a bat signal for the sports book that @Tree Fidy was attempting to quote earlier. If Texas is getting points against this TCU team, well, fucking sign me up.
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A handler won’t be the issue with Wheaton, whether he has one or not.
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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
Someone giving it a neg or not doesn't make you any less of a pussy for not posting it, but showing up later and claiming you had it right the whole way in your head.
I beg to differ. I can just imagine sir squeeegeeedeeegeee sitting back from the monitor, stroking his goatee, and staring pensively through his monocle at the monitor and quietly, consistently, muttering “dumb fucks. OU is tough too”. Then he’d skulk outside in front of his condo and shout “eloi eloi lama sabachthani!”, towards the sky, wait for a response, hear nothing, and then slink back inside, pour himself a bowl of cheerios, and mutter new insights to himself as he scoffed at our ramblings. That’s pretty manly shit right there, bro.
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55 minutes ago, texifornia said:
well good luck with all that
How the fuck are they in "constant contact"? Is he wearing an earpiece and a GoPro so that Riley and crew can know his every move and thought? Or is this just shitty fantasy pabulum for the dirt burglar subscriber base? It's hard to tell.
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Machinator leaves and everything falls to shit on this thread. The new coaching talk is pointless, at least here on the recruiting thread. I'll be surprised if there are any fucking changes after the season. They'll win enough to justify for Herman that he's right and he's got himself a great staff, and they're generally each weak enough that the prospects of any of them getting poached seem remote. So buckle up, buttercups, and focus on the recruiting aspects. The coaching side of this spectacle is the shitshow to be avoided. Casey fucking Horny. Fucking hell.
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Evans has a great chance to eventually finish between 30-50 on the ESPN list.
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10 minutes ago, irishtexan said:
That's what old white dudes like to think. The Uncle Rico syndrome. It's why they love the movie Rudy. Perhaps the most basic form of wishcasting.
The pyramids were built by some of the hardest working motherfuckers that ever walked this planet. Same for the train tracks in the US. The cotton fields and sugar cane fields saw some of the hardest working people in history. There are literally roads paved with bone fragments in Germany and Poland where people were "hard worked" to death. Fucking Dachau's gate tells you that the ethos of work will set you free. No monuments have been built for washing machines or most of these poor groups. Hard work unto itself isn't a virtue and people everywhere convince themselves otherwise every day. I don't think you can claim that "old white dudes" see it any differently than many, many others out there right now and through the annals of history.
So of course aggies would go there when they've got little else to lean on. They've always done it. Give me some physically elite SOBs, that are trained to work, train and play smart, and mix in the hard work as well, then you're differentiating from the competition. The fucking hard work aspect should be a given.
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5 minutes ago, RabidM said:
Damn... was about to type if he's a willing and good blocker, he could start from day 1... fuck that shit. And fuck Brewer playing almost every snap of the game. He fucking sucks and is probably slower than CTJ.
I would gladly race Brewer right now.
I'm too slammed to be productive on the subject right now, but the continued trotting out of a TE and a TB into the empty sets is hilariously fucking stupid. We've done it for 3 years now and we throw to either position like once every 3-4 games when we do it. The defenses know they can basically just ignore those guys, and they do.
Herman's done a fine job of amassing talent. Texas has more talent on the field than damn near anyone they'll play. Credit there to the staff. Unfortunately, Texas is bad on offense, bad on defense, bad on special teams, and bad on personnel choices across the board. So, no biggie. If we can decisively outtalent every opponent, I like where we're headed.
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Bradford’s heard a lot from Wisconsin and Ohio State, and for a long time. It will be interesting to see if Texas can make a push, and if they want to do so.
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8 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:
The fact that there are some posters who dont have futureman muted is mind boggling.
Fair. I don’t know why he wasn’t on ignore before. I asked myself that after his last weak response and realized, yeah, it was ignore time.
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What I meant to say is that Perroni is lost and has no clue. He doesn't have anything resembling a pulse when it comes to multiple recruitments right now because the landscape is on tilt against ATM. He's just making shit up or copying takes from myopic morons near their program. He's good at both of those things, being a liar and a plagiarist, so it's not incredibly surprising.
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If Texas beats OU this weekend, I expect that experience to seal the deal with Jackson and he'll commit at some point next week. Hell, it could still work out that way if it's a great game that we lose.
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5 minutes ago, futureman said:
is that it?
Let's see, I've compared you to the worst kind of employee, compared you to one of the worst posters ever, and said the board would be better off if a bus ran you over. I feel like that's a pretty good start.
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1 minute ago, futureman said:
lulz. blow me you slow fuck.
Yeah, I don't know if you're actually hitbyatrain from Shaggy or not, but you certainly match up with him in every incompetent way as a poster. If you got hit by a train or went to prison, or if they just stopped letting you use your computer in the lower levels of HR purgatory at your office, we would be better off as a board and you'd be forgotten within an hour of not threadshitting across the site. Same for that other dipshit on the prior site. It's uncanny, really.
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1 minute ago, futureman said:
george michael is not boy george.
Just now, futureman said:also, last christmas is an abomination.
You really are an insipid dipshit. You are like the HR manager of this site. Humorless, overly opinionated, tone deaf, unintelligent, and always getting in the fucking way.
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7 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:
They print money. They distribute profits every year. Last year it was $100 million. A million dollars for every point of ownership. Not bad. Cash flow plus ridiculous equity increases.
Make no mistake, they want to win. This isn’t Drayton who only cared about the facade of winning. They really, really want to win. They just don’t know how.
We probably both get peaks under their tent, but I'd guess from different angles. My experience with them is that they really don't give a shit about money. They view their brand and reputation, and hiring/fielding "good guys" to be sacrosanct. I think they're viewing it that way out of ego and because it's good for business. They'd rather keep failures around for continuity's sake than dump out of bad decisions with the goal of winning and look cold and expedient.
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15 minutes ago, texifornia said:
Last Christmas is the best modern Christmas carol and he's a legend for that alone.
Well done. I actually like the Carrie Underwood version better though.
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9 minutes ago, Bruh Man said:
What's Roach's issue with Wheaton?
3 minutes ago, Fud said:No idea, but he looks like a 5* to me; reminds me of Etienne
We all just need to be open-minded about Wheaton and how that recruitment develops.
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5 minutes ago, Hozz said:
I was 5 and living in Houston for Earl's first season with the Oilers. I became a Texas fan because of Earl. Local high school was the Longhorns too, that probably helped.
I went to the annual Oilers-Cowboys preseason game in 78 or 79 and learned from a helpful nearby fan that Danny White was a fag (dude screamed it at the top of his lungs every time he got a snap).
Oilers losing to the Bills...man. I was hung over watching the game at a friends house and crashed at half time thinking we were a mortal lock to advance. Later, my buddy woke me up to tell me it was tied. I told him to fuck off and let me sleep. Woke up a few hours later to find him drunk and still drinking, staring at the TV contemplating oblivion.
Oilers leaving Houston destroyed my faith in pro sports and it will never be restored.
Was White really gay? I was too young to know anything at the time and haven't heard his name in decades unless he's also the current AD at UCF.
If I'm being totally honest, I guess I quit on the Oilers the day of the Bills game. That's how I've really always seen it. I only paid passing attention after that. I was a young teenager. We watched the whole game, of course, and I watched my father melt all the way down - moaning, pulling at his hair, jumping up and down and screaming violent shit at the tv, and then a buddy and I went to the indoor batting cages.
I came home about 3 hours later and the living room was dimly lit with the tv off. My mother, who doesn't tolerate much bullshit about sports bringing the atmosphere down, pulled me aside when I came in and told me to just leave my father alone and he'd be better tomorrow. "Um, okay, mom. Where is he?" My Mother: "He hasn't moved. He's still sitting right where we was when you left. You didn't see him when you came in?" I walked back around the corner and sure enough, he was still sitting with one leg across his lap, chin resting on a fist propped up by an elbow, with a 1000 yard stare in the direction of the tv. Woke up the next day and he was fine. It was years before we spoke of that game in the apartment.
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7 minutes ago, Saint Tacky said:
Too many to tell. When I was a producer at KTRK-13 I would go to the Oiler practice facility a couple of times a week during the season. Some memories include Jeff Alm pretending he was going to drive his Cadillac into the group of reporters/photogs interviewing Jack Pardee in the parking lot. Did a big fish-tail and sped off. He died right after that (I saw the autopsy report, so don't bother). I remember Ian Howfield crying after he got cut for missing a chip-shot in Washington. Saw Buddy Ryan and Kevin Gilbride's first altercation. Ray Childress got me kicked out of the facility one time for telling PR guy Chip Namias that I had told Ray to tell Chip to "get Jack's ass out here because was tired of waiting for him." Actually collected on a bet with Cody Carlson I had made several years before when he was at Baylor. We were at the same black-tie sorority event in Waco when he was quarterback there and I was a pup at Texas. He was trash talking at dinner and I had finally had enough. We bet on the Texas-BU game that year, and he actually remembered it when I brought it up later and paid up.
I produced Ray Childress' show, and we also had Ernest Givins in studio every Sunday night after home games. They were both good dudes to work with, though Ray's wife (a UT Tri-Delt) was more pleasant to be around. Also did some of the "Off the Field" material and would go along to the players' homes to shoot interviews and b-roll. Bruce Matthews, Mike Munchak, Chris Dishman. When we would go over to the APC and would see Bud Adams' he would always say the same thing to Bob Allen every, single, time. "Hey, Allen. What marriage are you on now?" Then he would cackle as if it was the first time he ever said it. Adams had to have been the inspiration for the Judge in "The Natural." His office was in the basement of the APC, with no natural sunlight and the lights were always dim.
I will also take partial credit in getting Jerry Glanville fired. The day after they lost to the Steelers in the playoffs I was sitting in the office while Bob was doing the six-o'clock and a guy calls from Intercontinental Airport to tell me that Glanville is sitting out there waiting on a flight to Atlanta. Within an hour I had a crew from our Atlanta affiliate on the way to the airport there, but only after Bob got on the phone and screamed at their anchor. That guy would not believe that the Falcons would interview, much less hire Glanville. He refused, but eventually caved. Glanville's face getting off the plane was priceless. He was caught and he knew it. We got the video via satellite about 10-minutes to 10 p.m., and Glanville had made the comment to the effect of he was happy to be there "because if you're not sleeping in Atlanta, you're just camping out." Bob was livid. He called Bud and played it for him over the phone and then went onset and just winged a 2-minute rant on what a piece of shit Glanville was and how he had dissed Houston, the Oilers, errybody. They fired Glanville the next day (or, had a mutual parting of the ways).
Last story. After the Chiefs/Montana playoff loss I got fired for a couple of days. The station was being remodeled and the sports department was outside in a trailer. I had told the security guard to make sure the west side door by the heli-pad was unlocked so I could tapes to playback in time. About 5-minutes before Tim Melton (my favorite guy) went on at 10 p.m. I ran out of the trailer with ALL my tapes. Highlights Post-game. Everything. And, the door was locked. No one was coming. No one was answering the phone. So, I sat down on my ass and kicked in the bottom glass panel in and crawled through. Otherwise, our whole Sunday sportscast would have been Tim tap-dancing for five-minutes. The next day they brought me into the station manager's office, showed me the security tape, and fired me. On Wednesday Bob Allen (RIP) called me and told me to "get back here." I don't know what or how, but he and Tim went to bat for me. Two of the best human beings you could ever hope to meet.
Now just wait a fucking minute here, sir. "Too many to tell"? I think fucking not. If the other stories are anything like what you posted here, sit your fatass down and type some more out ... please.
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15 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:
One of the future Aggy threads should be named "Fatties seeking Natties"
This is pretty fucking great.
16 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:Yeah, I agree, there's no rush. Except the rush to dismiss anything Boy George adjacent.
How could you take any of those seriously? I thought I was clearly being absurd.
33 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:Texas Recruiting 2023: Oh, The Hermanity
I still think this one is solid.
Jimbo 2021: Meemaw's Got a Brand New Bag
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I've proposed the latter one on here. Not sure what's going to come along to top it. Without TARS, it may not matter.