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  1. Gerry said this am that he believed that QE would be coming back. He said I didn't think that at the beginning of the season. I don't see it. I know the family is putting feelers out about it, but I don't see it. I think when push comes to shove, the dad will wilt and want him in the draft.
  2. I was going to say this in response to Bodacious and you mostly cover it. They benefitted from numerous opt-outs or quarantines all season with the LSU and UNC teams especially being nothing like their normal selves when they showed up for ATM. 2020 CFB gets a very large asterisk from everyone and deservedly so. There was so much fuckery moving in various directions that nothing about it resembles a normal season, other than Bama winning the title. Hypotheticals about what might have been for any team are fine, but what actually happened was a bunch of weird shit and the only people fooled by ATM's record that season are the aggies reading and listening to Liucci.
  3. The notion of the "second flip" is coming from Nahlin hearing some different things from different sources and him drawing his own conclusions. A grain of salt should be involved in this thread regarding the expectations for anything else. You're relying on the deductive skills of a simply idiot who has been wrong over and over in this cycle, otherwise.
  4. The $160M is a result of a large capital drive that has been going on for months. Pledges have been made that include buildings being erected that will have booster names on the building. This shit has been announced.
  5. Elko is pushing hard for the gig. All of the defensive coaches are stanning for him. His team's regular season ends in 12 days and you wouldn't have to pay buyouts on the defensive side. He'd hit the ground running in recruiting and the portal, and he'd retain the defensive guys on the roster because they all know him. Outside of Kliff Kingsbury or Schumann, Elko is the hire I would like to see ATM make the most. He's beaten no one and the record he has put up ties heavily to an excellent QB. In addition, if the stories are correct, ATM idiots would need to start treading really lightly on the jokes about Sarkisian and booze.
  6. Carrot Top was just on our flight back from Vegas. And yes, somehow, @SydneyCarton, the Kramer of this site, sat next to him and they got into some sort of argument in first class.
  7. “Efforts with real news and something to discuss. “ That’s not a sentence.
  8. Shadrach Banks. Denver Harris. Damien George. Kris Ross. Zach Evans - who was a fucking bust and problem for his teams in college, btw. It is not a high school to be ignored, but if the recruit doesn’t check every single box on the evaluation and seem like he’s really excited to come to Texas, hard pass. Sanchez didn’t check a bunch of the boxes, apparently. He’s not a “miss” if he’s not a target, dipshit.
  9. Well, I haven't heard anything lately, so maybe he transfers somewhere else and plays next year. He's never factored into the UT plans for the 2024 roster. If you look at the family's behavior since high school, the dad has pushed him ahead towards the moneygrabs over and over, irrespective of readiness. I'm highly skeptical that changes this cycle.
  10. Fixed it for you. I honestly don't know how interested he was in Texas, but Texas is not focused on pursuing players from North Shore and won't be during Sarkisian's tenure. That doesn't mean they won't go after a guy or two, but they also think there are better places in which they should be building a pipeline.
  11. Hahahaha. I forgot about that. And him. Geez. I called him a pumpkinhead one time and his mother came unhinged on me in a family gathering. "look, he's a big headed freak. that thing is freakish. you have to know that, right?"
  12. This could be a really grim experience as a recipient, or something awesome. There are some hot moms that attend their kids' games and then there are some real pigs running around out there. I hope for your sake that it was the former.
  13. Your original point was fine. You are arguing with a simple idiot and there is no hope of enlightening him or resolving the difference of position. He didn't understand your generality, then he got specific, then had the audacity to argue that that specific, an actual 2020 2nd round pick who hit 3rd for the Rangers in the WS, didn't matter. Then he constructed an alt universe where no 2nd rounder drafted by the Astros in that same draft would have possibly mattered in this past season because ... because. Ignore it from there. Never wrestle with a pig. They're just going to enjoy it and you'll just wind up looking and feeling dirty.
  14. One of my best friends growing up scored 4 touchdowns in one game against Pearland our senior year. It really was, sadly, the high point of his life. He's in prison last time I checked. Probably telling everybody about that game, though.
  15. I'm not sure where things sit now due to how poorly Murphy has played the last two weeks, but before that, there was growing belief that it was a given that he'd be gone by the holidays. That was not a belief based on UT wanting the guy to leave or him being unhappy. Other schools threw out some real numbers after the spring game and some of those offers might still be standing. Other groups have reached out more recently. Don't call me a liar if I get the school wrong here, but I *think* folks involved with FSU's NIL had reached out lately. Maybe after people watch film of these games there's less interest, but I doubt it. He has assets that cannot be taught. Coaches can convince themselves of anything. There will be teams looking for quick fixes at QB and everyone and their mother knows that Murphy isn't starting over Manning next year.
  16. Terrance Brooks is doing what he's coached to do, I know that much. His father coached him to be a bully at the position who plays up on the LOS. What would that guy know, right? Anyway, he's made his view clear to some folks that he doesn't understand what in the fuck they are teaching or trying to do at CB. The Texas secondary does not lack talent. There are problems with how the personnel is being managed, what they're being asked to do, and how that is being coordinated with the front seven. If it doesn't get addressed this offseason in some form, I'll be surprised and disappointed.
  17. My first year playing tackle football was in 6th grade. City league stuff. The head coach would go into these bizarre tirades at practice about his "system" on offense. These were like 10 minute rants at 10-12 year olds in 5th and 6th grade. I remember just looking around at everyone on a knee while this fat, moustachioed lunatic yelled at the top of his voice above us with his whistle swinging violently around while he jumped in kids' faces. The subject matter? Each of his plays was designed to go for 6. Each and every one of his beautifully designed plays should be a touchdown play if the fucking idiots on the field could execute on it. I always think about those moments when I read or hear stories of coaches with their beautiful systems being player agnostic. All of them are full of shit. That dude's day job was a backhoe driver for a construction crew. We scored once that entire season on a toss sweep that I took to the house for 80 yards after getting hit in the backfield. We went 0-6 and the closest loss was 24-0. Hell, Arthur Smith is the spitting image of that imbecile. As a general rule, if you're not a fictional soccer coach, a coach with a moustache cannot be trusted to be successful. Of course there are exceptions, but a good rule nonetheless.
  18. One thing we know - recruiting is the canary in the coal mine regarding Fisher's exit. He stopped recruiting at FSU when he knew he was heading out. If he quiet quits at ATM, recruiting will be the first casualty.
  19. Supposedly these are two of the issues with the shitshow in BCS right now: 1) The money isn't super excited about perceived options on the market. Questions being asked around assistant coaching options haven't been answered in ways that get anyone excited. There's the notion of meh-if-you-do and meh-if-you-don't. That's not going to open up a bunch of wallets. 2) All of their chest-beating, including Sharp and Liucci doing so repeatedly and loudly, about money is now a problem. Gentle outreach into the agent world has been met with "it's gonna cost ya" and the expectation that anyone willing to head to BCS would receive similar treatment in the new contract to what Fisher had - meaning no performance based clauses and no tempered buyout. Plus the money would be in Fisher's range or higher. They don't have that kind of money. Hell, no one does. Texas couldn't muster $26M now, plus another $8M to release assistants, then pay another $5-20M in someone else's buyout, then be on the hook for a fresh $10+M in HC salary, plus $5M to the requisite assistants, plus the annual $7M on top of that to Fisher. That shit is insane. Perception is more important than anything else to ATM. They've now hoisted themselves by their own petard, in the aggiest of ways. They are either going to have to take the public beating of being mocked for keeping Fisher and not actually being nearly as loaded as they've claimed to be for years, or they're going to sacrifice numerous other projects and programs to get rid of the guy and hire a suitable replacement. If they try to middle it and fire the guy but make a cheap and unimpressive hire, they're still going to face enormous ridicule.
  20. The Strip House, sir, and you know this from very painful experience.
  21. Yeah, I watched him do it too. I don't get the fanboying for the guy, but it's been a thing since Sarkisian showed up and started recruiting him. People have told me, with some regard to NIL retention, that he's gone in the offseason because a lot of schools have been recruiting him through back channels. My reaction is "cool. good luck to him."
  22. No, he couldn't be more wrong. I am not surprised that you wouldn't understand. His point wasn't that they still got to keep the title, his original point was that the organization cheated without significant retaliation from the league. You should be able to understand the difference and his attempt to move the goalposts.
  23. So unless MLB more or less just shut the fucking organization down, there were "no real repercussions". Had they taken the title, people would be bitching about the org still being around. It's obvious you don't know shit about program building in baseball if you don't think losing the 1st and 2nd round picks for 2 years is a very big deal to an org. Yeah, people care about draft picks. Tucker, Correa, Bregman, McCullers, and Justin Verlander are all former 1st round picks. Max Scherzer and Corey Seager are former first round picks who have also recently played a major role in winning multiple world series. People care about losing highly accomplished executives. Losing Luhnow fucking hurts to this day. Strong take, though.
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