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  1. 1 hour ago, Leanderman said:

    If dumbo is running a pro style offense, why is he offering so many dual threats quarterbacks? If I was being recruited by this midget, I would be concerned.

    I enjoy running over Fisher and the aggies as much as they next guy, but let's be real about the pitch to dual-threat QBs. They can reference Jameis Winston and have all the credibility they need from their end, and it will resonate with some of these kinds of targets. 

  2. 39 minutes ago, TexasBeta said:

     


    I know it’s stupid and selfish ... but my wife and I talk about which high school to put the kids in that gives them the best shot at top 7%.

    If my kids end up at aggy Based On their come one come all philosophy I may just shoot myself.

    That’s messed up. Maybe I should give up the ghost.

     

    My daughter was in the top 10%, but not 8%, and that mattered for UT, so she went to ATM with her best friend and I paid for it.  She’s at Johns Hopkins for grad school now and has done some cool shit in a short period of time professionally. It still comes down to what’s within the individual. Still, yeah, it frigging sucks that that’s where she went. 

  3. 2 hours ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    After a quick google search, they don't appear to be very similar. Fowler was committed to FSU for months, but he expressed his concern about their depth chart and publicly visited UF multiple times while being committed to FSU. FSU had two returning star DEs and two 5 star DEs already committed. The first article indicates that once Mario Edwards said he was sticking with FSU, Fowler decided to flip.  So, it was more of a numbers issue, FSU had plenty of warning, and FSU already had two studs committed at the spot.  That's not very similar to the Shavar Manuel situation.

    https://tampabay.sbnation.com/florida-gators/2012/2/1/2763506/dante-fowler-flips-florida-gators-seminoles-national-signing-day

    https://www.alligatorarmy.com/2012/2/1/2763671/dante-fowler-jr-florida-football-national-signing-day-2012

    Don’t let facts get in the way of sarvanaash’s pussyrubbing, sir. 

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  4. 49 minutes ago, Fud said:

    We're not necessarily in disagreement here. I think he's better than LSU's 2017 QB takes for 2018 and 2019, which isn't saying a lot. He makes LSU better, but they're beating A&M anyway both years, and we're beating them in 2019. It's also interesting that Florida and Nebraska didn't push for him, but that could also be indicative of him not being a system fit. 

    Even with a functional retard running the team, LSU will still out-talent A&M, at least for the next couple of years before LSU's weak 2018 classes and on start to mature and take over the team. 

    Yeah, I wasn’t disagreeing. Just adding 2cents and then a meeting started and I had to hit submit real quick before diving further. I agree about LSU beating the aggies the next few years even with Sir Edward Orgeron, Esq., burning down the buildings and program in Baton Rouge. 

  5. 4 minutes ago, Fud said:

    The way I see it is by 2019, one of their two 2017 QBs won't be terrible, or Gunnel/Quad out of 2018 won't be terrible

    Burrows is an interesting guy. I believe he was Mr. Ohio Football coming out of high school and the staff at OSU did not want him to leave. That considered, he really showed nothing at any point to merit optimism as a player besides at best being a game manager and, frankly, more realistically a dependable backup. I’d be fine seeing him go to OU or LSU. 

    OU has tipped their hand in pursuing Burrows doggedly, and they are pursuing him in that manner. They apparently have been given feedback that Murray is getting high pick interest from MLB and he’s being asked to forego football by everyone interested. They also are not very high on Austin Kendall.  

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  6. 11 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

     


    I’m fairly certain that originated from one of our posters at Shaggy. Can’t remember who, but I believe he said he’d posted that statement on another site in jest, but then later in the day he came to Shaggy and apparently quoted himself as a source (not realizing that he’d made the whole thing up to begin with). It was odd to say the least.

     

    HollywoodColt was fucking around in stating $1.5 as the number in a thread, based on a prior back and forth between a group of us in which I'd referenced rumored salaries and that number, Schulz thought he was serious and referenced it somewhere else, and then it spread virally. There is no evidence that that number or anything close to it is correct. We crafted that bullshit in an echo chamber on accident.

  7. Brewster was openly campaigning for a job on Herman's staff and also pushing for an offer from Lincoln Riley. He had no interest in going to College Station with Fisher. He's going to leave and follow the first competitive he fields. I think there's a strong chance it could happen before signing day unless there's some sort of buy-out that is prohibitive. I'd be interested in knowing what he's getting paid, because I guess the dumbasses in CS could be paying him so far above average that he's trapped. Whatever the realities of his contract, the guy hates it there and he can't wait to leave. I cannot wait to hear the bawling from aggies and recruits when he waves the deuce and heads out.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Every year we say this shit just like we say about blowU. And every year the schedule sets up and these sheep fuckers pull out a few Ws that’s gets the media talking before the October rollarcoaster collapse. They likely do the same shit again. Start 5-0. Jumbo is a god. Money well spent. Everyone wants to go to shithole sheepfucking station blah blah. Then they play actual teams with a pulse and get mud holed 

    Hmmm. I'm going to guess that you haven't looked at their schedule, given this post.

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  9. 1 minute ago, Purgatory County said:

    Moreover, Perry sponsored a Christian cult's takeover of UT's powers that were.

    You are a fucking imbecile with the sense of humor of a German shithouse janitor. I hope you wind up getting gangraped by chimpanzees after falling into their habitat at the local zoo.

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  10. 13 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    "can't no school...buy a kids heart" 

    His top 2 schools were Texas & Aggy.

    He choose Texas. I'm pretty sure we know who was trying to buy something

    I think it is important that we hold off on getting incredibly high and mighty at this time. The landscape is changing and Texas isn't trapped in a time warp back to 1985. Let things unfold on numerous recruitments. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, Machinator said:

    He's a good developmental corner. Someone here previously comp'd him to Kobe Boyce, which I agree with. If we don't get him, I trust the staff and Jason Washington can identify and bring in someone similar if we miss on Banks. I'd like to have him, but I don't see it as a major miss if we don't get him.

    Pretty sure that was me, but fact check it if you like. My bigger point is simply in support in the thinking behind this post. There's nothing wrong with Banks. He'd be excellent depth at Texas and he could turn into a starter. If he doesn't, he's a good character player with enough athletic skills to compete on special teams and graduate. We're not going to capture an elite CB in Texas for this cycle, mostly because there isn't one, but also, the next best things are either fucktards that shouldn't/won't get offers or they're turned off by our depth chart. We're going out of state at CB and if we don't land the targets, we'll find some projects or certain depth. 

    I'd tap the brakes on writing Banks off. You guys put a lot of value in fucking crystal balls. A crystal ball is allegedly supposed to be a prediction of where a player winds up, but they've been bastardized into becoming barometers for where a player might commit. Especially at this time of year. Also, EJ Holland is a fucking twit and he has no clue on what the UT strategy is. They do not give one fuck if Banks decides to commit for some reason to ATM. They'd like to have him, but it needs to make sense in the grand scheme and no single player is going to change their approach, short of a RoJo issue. 

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  12. 11 hours ago, Mantis Toboggan, MD said:

    Casey Hampton was the most dominant high school player I ever played against. By played against, I was a sophomore on the bench and watched him violently abuse out best lineman by throwing him 5 yards into the backfield every play. That guy later played div 1 (kind of) at NM St.

    Best guy I actually played against was Quentin Jammer. That Angleton team was dogshit. It was Jammer and a bunch of slappys. Jammer was FS and I was TE. Like a chickenshit, I decided to cut his knees every play even when we were no where near the action. He ended up kicking me in the head and drawing a Personal Foul. Possible highlight of my HS career. Jammer was also the QB on offense and it appeared that the offensive philosophy was to let him run around and do whatever he wanted because the rest of the team was terrible. We were winning late in the 4th quarter until a play in which I was split out and obviously had Jammer in man coverage on me. I could see our inexperienced soph qb looking at me and I was nodding my head “no.” I ran a 5 and for a second thought I was about to catch it until Jammer came out of nowhere, pick 6’ed it and we lost.

     

    9 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    I never played against Hampton but as a former fullback from roughly that era I ran into a few fireplugs of his type. Beaumont Kelly had a dude named Thomas Kelly and trying to block or run over him was like trying to take on a fat telephone pole. I remember I'd head in the hole screaming like a little Catholic banzai warrior (I went to Strake) and just get stood up, no matter how hard I tried. It was like trying to knock over an old-school fire hydrant....But I know Lewis was like 2/3 the athlete Hampton was. I mean, that short little dude could fucking dunk! God damn that's power. He really should be in the HOF, but NGs don't rack up stats, so he probably won't, but he was one of the greatest players of the Mack era for sure. 

    Galveston Ball, at one point in the late 90's/early 2000's held the title of having "the most players in currently in the NFL from a single HS". I think one of the Miami schools usually holds that. Anyway, they had badasses up and down the roster for years. Hampton was the most dominant of all of them, but they had a ton of unbelievable guys. 

    Before Clear Brook/Springs/Falls, it was just Clear Creek and Clear Lake, and they had a concentration of stud talent. Both schools had some standout talent that went on to play D-1 and the pros. I played personally against Steve McKinney and frustrated the shit out of his aggie ass as a crab-blocking A-back for an entire game my sophomore year. He played DE and was a known badass and basically just wanted to maul me straight up, but I only weighed 190 lbs and wasn't stupid. He was a whiny bitch on the field and has proven to be one in real life later on as well. Lake had a ton of talent including guys that went to ND, LSU, ATM, Texas, you name it. 

    At the time, the district also included Texas City (they were 5A once) and the Pasadena schools including Dobie. Texas City had the most unbelievably intimidating guy I ever played against. He was a year older than me - Vernon Crawford. He went on to play at FSU and then the Patriots. He's astonishingly now a HC for a HS somewhere in Washington, I think. A leader of men who I figured was bound for prison. He lined up to cover me during a game my junior year and stood about 6'4", 240 as a senior. He told me "I remember you from last year, little whiteboy, I'm going to kill you and fuck your mother", and I believed him. And I wasn't little. Later that same year, I'm lined up next to him on the free throw line in a district game at Texas City's gym. He literally punched me in the face and took the rebound - no whistle. Straight up face punch. I guess there was just something about me that pissed that dude off. 

    I played varsity against ballers that went to the NBA on the bball court, a ton of them, and did the same in baseball. In baseball, I was fortunate to be in an age group that wound up being elite and left the Houston area regularly to play nationally/internationally at ages 13-18, so I played against damn near anyone you can name that made it to the MLB who played elite youth ball or HS ball in Texas from 1989-1994. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Reading this reminds me of that Fake Ken Tremendous who used to edit the shit out of those Bill Little essays over on Barking Carnival.  Fake Ken, I wish you would come over here and edit some 9.95

    BrickHorn wrote under the FKT handle. He's posting over here. I'm sorry you're one of the 20 people who thought FKT was funny. 

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  14. My dad played football at Rice in the late 60’s. He took us through the campus growing up a few times. He said the female dorms were known as “The Zoo” and “The Cow Palace”, and I am not making that up. 

    My view is that if you are looking for a new place to troll for your ilk, you are surveying the right kind of landscape. Good luck snorting for truffles, sir. 

  15. 8 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    Ole Miss game could go either way as well with the way that game has gone recently. 

    I wonder if ULM could give them a scare week after Clemson.  They return a lot from an offense that was pretty high powered last year.  

     

    4 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    As much as I would love to see ULM pull off an upset, they were only 4-8 last year. Still, if it turns into a shootout, it could get interesting.

    Hell, if we're reaching that far, UAB was a bowl team last year and pretty good. They're building the same way Kiffin is at FAU, so they'll have talent with anger issues. If the wheels come flying completely off of ATM next year, I guess 1-11 is possible and it would be one of those moments in life where I can't help but simultaneously recognize the work of a higher power, while also contemplating whether it gets any better and if that might not be the right moment to go out. Obviously, I think 6-6 is a far more likely outcome.

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  16. 8 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Not too mention that South Carolina, Kentucky, LSU, and Ole Miss are not very good. While Arkansas and Mississippi State have new coaches. They face 3 good teams in Auburn, Alabama, and Clemson. The rest of the schedule is somewhere between complete joke to average 7 win P5 school.

    I disagree. Fundamentally.

    South Carolina is good and getting better. They will have an extremely well-coached defense with talent, and they have developing stud at QB who should only now be entering his freshman year of college. 

    Kentucky is turning into a decent program under Stoops and is in line for another bowl game this year. The schedule helps, but they're not a pushover program at this point.

    LSU, as much as we like to mock The Ogre, won 9 games last year and returns a stout defense. I expect them to continue to decline, but they're not "not very good". 

    Maybe, somehow, ATM is favored in each of those games, but the prospect of them winning them all, or close to it, seems low. If they're an average team playing 6 other average teams, then I feel reasonable in expecting 3-3 from those 6 games. That, plus 0-3 against the big 3 on their list and you've got a 6-6 ball club, with a strong possibility of seeing either 5-7 and 7-5 as well.

    My view is that they're not winning 7 games in the regular season. Whether they wind up 4-8 or 6-6, I won't be stunned. Higher than that and I am legitimately surprised. 

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    Regarding Tyler Johnson, his father is an executive for a Fortune 1000 and is apparently an extremely analytical guy. He’s not going to be rushed into decisions and he’s not going to have his son feel that way either. It won’t surprise me if this carries very easily into the fall, even without Texas having a true competitor for his signature. 

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