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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Spence is also bigger than Moore by an inch or two and 10-15 pounds. I think the difference is that they rotate way more heavily with the front 4 than with the LBs. They just need more guys at Edge and the dude allegedly has an excellent pass rushing talent. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Good thoughts from Burton today, feeding off of the media sessions yesterday:- 8086 replies
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Swamp247 is saying that Lagway will miss at least the first two weeks of practice. Allegedly, he has a calf strain and they don’t want to risk an achilles tear. I am not on there enough to really know, like basically I might check something with news like this, so basically never, but I think the guys talking about this are insiders, given how they’re being regarded by other posters, and not mods since they don’t have any mod tags. Has this been reported elsewhere? Apparently Napier has an Elko-esque history of being purposely misleading and opaque with injury updates. @gatormarc @Gatorubet @Zeus Not sure who else are regulars that are also gator fans.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The question about Arbuckle is a good one that we don’t really discuss or see discussed. The guy is 29 and has coached one year at WKU and 2 years at Wazzou. How many sophisticated and talented defenses has he had to call plays against? How many experienced DCs with P4 backgrounds has he faced? The guy at Michigan is known for a long career of exotic blitz design. PK is no spring chicken. Durkin killed a guy and all, but he’s not lost as a DC at Auburn. Wommack has been a DC for 8 years, 3 of which were P4 and an HC for 3 seasons. Baker at LSU isn’t one of the highest paid assistants in the country because he sucks. So and so forth. In every one of those situations, one guy will be going through the experience for a first time. -
OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
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Here’s more fanciful nonsense where they analyze 5 of their questions going into the fall camp, apparently feeling good about each expected solution. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Our coaches pulled a guy off the soccer team to be our kicker. A bunch of our guys grew up with him (I didn’t) and largely considered him a complete pussy. I thought they were too hard on him and he was doing fine with FGs early in the year. Game 7 or 8, we’re hosting Galveston Ball for our fucking homecoming. This was when they were a football factory that rivaled some of the famous Miami high schools. We’re down 55-7 and our coach decides to kick the field goal from the GB 20 yard line. The holder gets a bad snap and the ball bounces up to the kicker. The GBall defenders are coming at him in full force. He panics and starts running in the opposite direction. At around the 50, he just throws the ball behind his back, while running full speed towards the GBall end zone, at the GBall defenders. One of them picks it and houses it. Funniest shit on a football field I’d scene since earlier in the same game when Casey Hampton threw our center at our QB for a strip sack and fumble TD return.- 8086 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I can’t tell you how many movie snobs have told me this over the years. With the memory of that trailer, in that moment, I can’t fathom it and refuse to soil the memory finding out otherwise. Dude, I was in my early 20’s, knew it was just a movie, and still was plenty scared. People who weren’t there at the time will never understand it. That period of film had some amazing endings. BWP, Seven, The Usual Suspects, The Sixth Sense. That’s a few of them, with more for sure. Come on. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I went to see it about 3 weeks after it was out. The Internet was useful, but a lot of people were still not using it ubiquitously the way everyone does today. Accordingly, a lot of folks were still confused as to whether it was real, or based on a true story, or just great marketing. Using common sense and the Internet, me and my buddies understood that it was good marketing and just wanted to see the phenomenon and what it was all about for everyone. We weren’t really expecting to be actually scared. Whoops. The theater was still packed to the gills. “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” trailer happened and I exploded into laughter, and that got contagious. Once the movie started, the mood changed really, really quickly. At various points people were running down the stairs to the exits. I don’t remember anyone puking though. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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People who saw it at the theater will never forget it. People who saw it at home all say it was trash. That movie has the biggest split in opinion based on viewing setting that I have ever seen. -
OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
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Position battle breakdown. A little whistling past the graveyard going on with this one. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Pavia reminds me of a couple of vatos locos I grew up playing ball with in all 3 major sports. I love that dude. He truly has leadership magic. That said, sure, I hope Texas beats his ass by 50. I assume LG is going to be a thing too, right? Folks, we’re in deep shit here. Even Codaxx is drinking the koolaid. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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I expect the 2025 defense to be better for a few reasons. 1) The offense isn’t going to constantly pull a disappearing act and run through a second half streak of turnovers and 3 and outs. The Arizona State game is a classic example of an offense fatiguing its own defense and almost costing the team the ball game. 2) Elite pass rush. Texas can send ballers in waves from the edge or the second level. I am comfortable expecting Hill and Simmons to remain elite and that will enable the entire front to feast. 3) Elite talent on every level. Simmons, Watson, Hill on the front 7. Muhammad and Taaffe behind that. That’s to say nothing of the other guys also being highly regarded for the most part. Where is an actual weakness that isn’t just handwringing? Like I said, if we have all of this stud talent and experience all over the field then it’s either a top 3 defense that puts the fear of God in opposing offenses or what the fuck are we doing here?- 8086 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Is that Strait? Ketchum’s homerism and, at that time, willingness to hoist his lardass into his vehicle and attend HS games actually paid off here. He was begging for Texas to pursue Strait. Also, everyone wanted Kendrick Turner. I think that dude was a top 150 recruit. His issues were mental and folks just didn’t evaluate that aspect well back in the day. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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The pressure from the DEs, OLBs and Hill has a chance to be elite. If that’s the case, it’s going to make the DTs look really good since only so many guys can be double-teamed or a focal point in protection. Beyond that, as Codaxx pointed out, there is legit talent within the DT room and a lot of it will be here for more than 2025. People discount January, but the staff thinks he’s a difference maker and is a likely starter. I am not really sure why we’re not excited about him. He checks a lot of boxes. Watson is supposed to be a stud. The other guys aren’t chopped liver and they’re likely to be able to redshirt the freshmen, if they want to do so. Scipio also pointed out the important aspect of turnovers being somewhat random as well. Yes, there are ball hawks. There are also roles that get more chances and Star is one of those. An elite pass rush will also translate into picks. It wasn’t like Mukuba was a turnover force at Clemson. I think expecting turnovers to be on par with 2024 on the defensive is reasonable. Either this is going to be an elite defense starting multiple All Americans or what the fuck are we expecting? -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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The guy would have to just decide that he preferred Texas for reasons other than money. Texas isn’t being outbid by Oregon right now. He’s coveted by everyone recruiting him as one of their highest guys on the board regardless of position. Think of him less as a safety and more of a potential wizard. He can cover like a corner and he can see the future like the best safety prospects every 5 years or so - Ed Reed, Earl Thomas, Mathieu, Downs. He’s also a bad ass returner. That comes from someone that graded all of those other guys and sees him in that light and has confirmed where he is on everyone’s boards. If Texas landed him, he’d be 1b to Atkinson’s 1a and, yes, I know that Texas is signing some amazing talent in this class. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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It sucks to not land Benjamin. That guy looks good. All Dogs Go To Heaven is a movie I watched with my oldest daughter probably 20 times in a one year period. Good lord. -
I ate there a few weeks ago. Extremely loud. Otherwise, the food was top notch.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Well done. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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And it was posted first yesterday, and discussed then. There's jack shit happening today. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Is that a serious question or a joke that's sailing over my head? -
OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I was listening to Hester and EJ Manual today on Off Campus on XM 84 and they unveiled their #25 team today - Oklahoma. They did a good job with it, talking to the voice of OU, some dude named Howland or Rowland. He gave you every OU trope imaginable. It was awesome. High expectations in Norman! The roster is top of the SEC competitive! Mateer is going to competing for the Heisman and Ott will be a force to lead the conference in rushing! The defense is going to be amazing! Anyway, later on, EJ went through his view on Mateer after watching him in all of his games last year on tape. He was polite and gave the platitudes you expect the media to give about the guy, but then he actually got honest. He said the guy takes way too many sacks and that isn’t going to cut it with OU’s schedule. He was fine with his arm but questioned his read speed, which he also thought could be a problem. Bottom line is that that dude, who watches a lot of QB tape, isn’t sold. It’s a lot of the same stuff we’ve talked about here, but usually the talking heads have been lazy about looking at the guy beyond just checking his stats. -
That dude is made of glass.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I honestly don’t care what any mocks or scouts are saying about Concepcion in regard to him having high draft pick potential. That guy is a possession WR with mediocre size and speed and he just had an inexplicably down year. Now he’s in Klein’s offense, which doesn’t exactly feature WR talent. He’s not elite in any way and there is no way his freshman season was good enough to merit leaving early being drafted early. It’s ridiculous. In fact, all of those guys you listed are somewhat absurd as early draft pick considerations with the exception of Singleton. Brown has hands of steel and is a return specialist. Branch is playing for Bobo after being a middling WR for great offensive mind. Anderson is coming back off of major injury. There will be emerging surprises, for sure, but those guys seem farfetched. If I had to pick a guy that could wind up shooting up the boards, it might be Noah Thomas. He’s got elite size and great hands and he’s not exactly slow. Georgia will showcase him. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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When there is recruiting news, we post it and discuss it. We are in the doldrums until 8/2 or Kreul does something. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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Colt McCoy and, I think, other former players are investors.
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