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  1. A player can play in 4 games max and retain the ability to redshirt. Not surprisingly, there are rumors of multiple players contemplating phoning in the rest of the season across the country. I'm sure we'll get at least one news story from someone sitting out from here forward. A QB at NCSU did it last year or the year before, but I know there are others that I'm failing to recall. Regarding a medical redshirt, I'm not a staunch rules dork, so I have no idea. Someone would have to go look that up.
  2. My point, using color for those readers who aren't afflicted with Asperger's, was that you've said all of this shit already. It should surprise no one that you went ahead and just more or less said it all again here.
  3. You've articulated all of that multiple times on this thread. It's clear you think voicing all of it repeatedly is productive. You're doing it to make yourself feel better. "If I voice my concerns about all of the worst case scenarios coalescing at the same moment in time, at least others can understand our potential future state and I won't have to be Cassandra alone." You're now taking the position that the defense might be worse than last season. I expect to see you attempting to start really fleshing this paranoia out, while dismissing every performance leading up to your next post. Texas will shut down the UF offense, but you'll be back here wringing hands over how mid-passer Mateer is going to make our idiot coaches pay for their arrogance in putting Guilbeau on an island or some shit. Or you'll argue concerns over the pass rush not getting home or some other shadow that needs to be boxed. You've completely dismissed the results for the running game versus Ohio State because you think OSU strategically deployed a bend but don't break defense and that they could have just shut the Texas run game down if they'd chosen to do so. That's convenient because it unlocks your ability to lament, repeatedly, that Texas isn't going to move the ball well against decent to great fronts (as though every other team does). Then that feeds into "Arch Manning has to be good to great or we're fucked" sentiments and also allows you to highlight that you're not sure the skill guys are there to render aid, either. Then you sprinkle in thoughts about how the RB sucks and the true freshman is the best player there and needs to get the lion's share of the snaps, even though you have no fucking idea how good or bad he is in pass pro or as a receiver out of the backfield, both of which are facets that are kind of important to being a good RB in the Sarkisian offense. Meanwhile, you openly ponder the risk of playing the best version of every team left on the schedule, who will all apparently get better and build improvement for their weaknesses while Texas fails to get better on any end. We get it. Thanks.
  4. The PFF grades are out for Florida's game versus Miami. They're ... not good. Worth noting: -The OL scores suck. We think we've had bad OL scores? UF's mostly look like Connor Stroh's. -Three of the highest scoring defenders all left the game with serious injuries. Dijon Harrison (CB) is done for the year or most of it and just had surgery. Bett, the DT, left with a lower leg injury and did not return. Gates, another DB, left with a shoulder injury and is unlikely to play next week. -Sturdivant, the UCLA WR transfer, scored the best on the WR front, but then he also left the game with an injury and did not return.
  5. I'm pretty far away from NIL contracts at this point, but my understanding has been consistent with your thoughts. I absolutely think the boot is a way of negotiating something with UF, whether that's for Napier or for something else. Lagway famously threatened to walk last year if they cut Napier loose and, of course, they turned the buyout efforts towards NIL once that was made clear. Would the powers that be within the Florida network care this time? Seems iffy. Lagway has everything you'd want in a QB if you choose to ignore the notion that he's made of glass. It wouldn't be an Iamaleava thing if he hit the portal. Anyone in vague need of a QB would be on him and telling both themselves and Lagway that they can fix him.
  6. You are truly gifted when it comes to handwringing. Sweating the Arkansas game, at home, after Pittman has likely been shitcanned and had his bitch tits kicked to the curb, two months from the game being played, is next level. Get a grip.
  7. I wrote this on the Gator thread but I am posting here as well due to game relevance. I doubt this will be a distraction at all:
  8. The rumor is that Lagway is seriously considering a redshirt. Doering acknowledged that as a concern on SEC radio this morning and that dude is in UF’s offices daily. The walking boot is apparently part of whatever negotiation is being attempted, or a threat regarding his interest in sticking around.
  9. I wanted him as well. That said, having watched him last year and more this year, I’m of the opinion that he sucks. He looks like Tarzan and plays like Jane. He’s a more acclaimed Marvin Jones Jr. I thought “well, he’s playing out of position for mediocre coaching” last year. Turns out he sucks at DT as well. He’ll probably get drafted high and suck for one of the franchises that perpetually sucks at the draft.
  10. He was allegedly a Texas lock, but Arch Manning coming to Austin meant that he was heading somewhere else. He could have gone anywhere. He chose to see the places he did and sign where he signed.
  11. Lockett was never going to sign to play where Moore was heading. Texas would have taken Moore over Lockett. Johnson wanted to be the main man in his signing class and Lockett wouldn’t have enabled that for him. Wesco was never interested in Texas. His sister played soccer at OU and he was way more interested in OU. I asked about him yesterday and, as of yesterday, two people anyone here would trust do not think he’d look our way should he enter the portal. Clemson mods seem to have real concern about multiple potential transfers and recruiting class attrition. Quinn is one. Burroughs is another. Both young WRs on campus as well.
  12. He also nails how Texas simply doesn’t give a shit about the rest of the league. He’s usually pretty good. Who the fuck thinks Texas is rolling in this game besides a couple of noob posters? You think a gimpy Lagway is gonna be the real difference maker with his legs, huh?
  13. The Big 10 has never had an interest in OU. Ever. That shit is hilarious. You think the SEC holds its nose in its dealings with OU? Ha. The Big 10 appropriately views that institution and its base as regrettable trash. I also enjoyed the part where, in a thread expressing angst over being called out by the league for obvious in-game cheating, one of the posters attempted to accuse the rest of the league as being cheaters while OU remains virtuous. That truly is a fanbase of the basest metal.
  14. This is correct. Moore didn’t want Momma’s family hovering around his life moment by moment.
  15. Healthy? Uh, okay. They just lost a starting CB for the year. He underwent surgery this morning. They have multiple starting DLs and several backups who aren’t even practicing. The QB is in a boot. Several WRs are still out. The availability report will tell us what we need to know next week, but Napier isn’t known for taking it easy at practices during their off weeks.
  16. Sankey wholeheartedly admits that they have a strategy for dripping out schedule information to maintain heightened interest. I doubt they just roll it all out tomorrow. I’m betting no dates and I’m kind of dubious about them even telling whether the games are home or away.
  17. No shit? That has nothing to do with my response. I've taken the position, which I thought was a given until reading these last few responses, that they're not going to repeat match-ups for Texas and OU before pitting them against the rest of the conference first.
  18. The whole point of having locks is to enable the conference to move the other match-ups around with impunity. Every school in this conference wants a Texas home game. They've talked about that for 3 years on SEC radio and Sankey's said as much, adding "and Oklahoma" into that sentiment, but we all know that OU isn't moving the needle in the same way. The notion that Sankey is going to tell people at Auburn or SCar or LSU "no" in order to put Vanderbilt and Kentucky back on UT's schedule is purely overthought fan fiction.
  19. I have a hard time being flippant about Bama and I have a hard time taking Missouri seriously. Missouri is good again this year, on paper. Let’s see how things look after they face October.
  20. So we go: -Texas State -Ohio State -UTSA to open and then we know we 9 of the following 10 teams: -OU (lock) -ATM (lock) -Arkansas (lock) -Alabama -Auburn -Ole Miss -LSU -Missouri -South Carolina -Tennessee That is going to be a gnarly bitch of a schedule. Should be a lot of fun. The missed opponent is going to be a really big deal. I'm guessing all of the teams that Texas has rarely played will be on there, SCar, Tenn, Auburn, Ole Miss. Then you have the game in Baton Rouge that makes up for the 2020 miss. So you're left with an argument over ratings and money for UT/Bama versus the fact that it's been longer ago that Texas last played Missouri. I'm guessing no Missouri. Wow.
  21. Lott's been offered DK Moore money and he's not believed to be nearly as good. There's a lot of expense now and continuing in the Texas WR room, so Lott would have to really want to come to Texas. The dad hasn't given up hope, at least.
  22. The last line in the SEC press release is targeted directly at ATM or Arkansas, or both. Not saying only them, but certainly at least one of them. They can both eat shit, regardless.
  23. -SMU sucks. I've been able to watch them a few times and they're just not very good. They play defense as though they're allergic to 3 and outs. -BC is mediocre. I don't know, we really don't have enough data points on any of these teams yet. I've seen enough of Clemson to agree with the premise that 3-9 is possible and not making a bowl game is plausible, but from an alleged talent perspective, Clemson will have more talent than of the team left on the schedule. If Swinney can right the ship, they could easily also finish 8-4 or even 9-3. He's written something similar before and from what I can tell, it's some sort of inside baseball riff on Klubnik's dad being a known asshole in Westlake.
  24. I guess I have to give credit to Treaty Oak for the phenomenal troll job, here. You idiots taking his post seriously is quite something to behold.
  25. Guys, can you please all not be idiots? Holy shit. I read this thread when it updates. BO&W is an idiot and has no impact on my behavior.
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