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  1. Why are there always weirdos who have to show up and whine about extra college football being played? It used to be “oh great, another meaningless bowl game, womp womp”. Then it became “why do we need more than a 4 team playoff? all of the bowl games are now meaningless, womp womp”. Now it’s “why do we need to expand to 16 teams in the playoffs? why do they keep playing bowl games? we only need to see the two best teams play, womp womp.” Ridiculous. We are in the doldrums of the sports calendar. I would murder every poster on this thread if getting a college football game on this afternoon required it.
  2. When the aggies are buying guys, Liucci and staff know and they’re overtly bullish to the point of outright bragging before the player makes the announcement. When they’re not just moneywhipping a guy, you see posts like Howell on Turntine. Even though they’ve made a ludicrous offer to him, he and his family have not pulled the trigger and are concerned about, you know, actually getting developed for much bigger paydays later. I still think he’s taking the ATM offer due to the alleged gap between it and what Texas finds prudent. It’s just insane to pay major dollars for a guy that isn’t likely to contribute for 2 years or more. I guess he’d start right away out of need at ATM or something.
  3. Is Byron White some analog in your earlier era as a student or something? I’ve never heard of the guy. I have like 500+ posts on this site that qualify as humblebrags or outright brags, and that post wasn’t one of them. What is the brag?
  4. Both guys appear to be 3 star jaggers. DNW.
  5. I played against White in HS several times. He really was a very fast, tiny little guy. He had a class with one of my girlfriends in college and tried the “I’m a football player” move on both her and friend of hers at one point or another that semester. Shoot your shot, but maybe find girls that aren’t taller than you in order to see the move land. Regardless, he did too much on the field to merit me lumping him into that list.
  6. It’s alright to be little bitty, unless you’re a turbohyped jagger who turns around and goes 4 for 47 across 16 games for a season. We’ve got a Matt Davis clone on our hands, folks. Your basic Jeremy Jones. Courtnee Garcia is going to question his production.
  7. The fan letters are a true treasure each fall. Texags usually manufactures at least 3 each season and I cannot get enough of them.
  8. The guy thinks he’s a WR. I’m glad they stayed away.
  9. Nagy telling Venables who to play is awesome. This keeps getting better and better.
  10. Regarding OU's schedule: 8/30 5pm - Illinois State - Another season where OU courageously schedules an FCS school. Is anyone else a better midget-puncher than the fucking okies? They're going to look like a top 5 team as they win 84-7. 9/6 6:30pm - Michigan - My small write-up from a few weeks ago on Michigan for 2025 is spoilered below. I posted it on this thread when someone asked about them on page 1, but here it is again below. Bottom line is that this could be a defensive dogfight. Both defenses should be pretty good and ahead of both offenses, probably by a lot. Gaylord is a tough place to play, but Michigan is arguably more talented and experienced. This is a "show me" game for Venables, along with the RRS. If he wins this one, OU's pushing against their ceiling and might be looking at 9-3, even. 9/13 11am - @ Temple - Yep, OU is going to Philly. I honestly don't think that's a bad H/H/A deal, provided you like Philly. I personally dislike Philadelphia more than any other major city I've ever visited, anywhere on the planet. Angry, shitty people. Dirty overall landscape. Usually, the weather fucking sucks. But, hey, the history is awesome. I'm talking more about the city than Temple because there isn't much to discuss with regard to Temple. They return their atrocious QB and a 4 time transfer to challenge him, 3 OLs, the SHSU RB that followed new HC Keeler, and 2 CBs. That's all the starters. Temple opens against UMass, also with a new HC, and Howard. They'll be 2-0 coming into this game and the hype leading into will be through the roof. A mole rat's roof. 9/20 2:30 or nighttime - Auburn - A lot of people are sleeping on Auburn for 2025. Maybe that's justified, I don't know. Freeze has been a disappointment. Arnold has been a disappointment. But, Freeze has recruited really well. Auburn has, potentially, an amazing WR corps. They return 3 OLs, a likely 1st round pick at Edge and the entire secondary except Jerrin Thompson. DJ Durkin has yet to kill anyone there, also. This one should be physical. 9/27 - OFF 10/4 3pm - Kent State - Another brave scheduling match-up in the non-con on the part of OU. I assume Kent State will be the worst FBS team yet again, even with Delaware and Missouri State joining the ranks. 10/11 2:30 - Texas - Rubber meets the road for Venables with this game. I predict pain. 10/18 11am - @ South Carolina - SCar has two of the best players at their position in the country in Sellers (QB) and Stewart (Edge). They have to replace a metric ton around both of them. SCar is going to be overranked heading into this season and, by that, I mean they'll be ranked. Still, I'm sure they'll be a tough team and they certainly have no fear for OU after last season. 10/25 11am - Ole Miss - Yet another team that is likely to start the season ranked and will not finish the season as so. Kiffin has to replace almost every starter this season. I think Ole Miss is headed for an FSU 2024 type of year unless they really hit on all transfers. 11/1 2:30 or nighttime - @ Tennessee - Crazily, Tennessee will also likely open the season ranked. They lost most of their starters on offense and they're going to battle in the SEC with the former App State QB as their starter. Woof. They return most of their defense, but they lost 2 of the front four and Pearce. The front seven was the key to their team last season. 11/8 - OFF 11/15 2:30 or nighttime - @ Alabama - Bama returns numerous high quality starters, including Ryan Williams, Miller, and Proctor on offense. They also return Keenan JR, Lawson and most of the secondary on defense. Bama hosts LSU the week before and that might be a giant help to OU, coming off of a bye. The talent disparity in this game is gigantic. 11/22 11am - Missouri - Mizzou was a paper tiger in 2024 and everyone knew it. Once they were exposed later in the year, the bloom was off the rose for 2025 expectations. They lost key talent all over the field. I expect them to struggle to get to a winning record. 11/29 2:30 or nighttime - LSU - I did a write-up on LSU on a recruiting thread discussion and I've spoilered that below. The bottom line is that LSU is going to be good this year, but they're also not a top 10 team. Nussmeier gets a ton of credit for being a guy that can really hit a 10 yard out or dig decently. Outlook: I've continued to think that this team is better than they're getting credit for, and after thinking through the schedule, especially when removing brand vaneer for some of these teams, I'm still thinking that OU is a 8/5-9/4 team in 2025. That's probably good enough to keep Venables on as HC, and to keep us happy.
  11. Regarding the OU Special Teams, here you go: PK: PK1 Tate Martell (SR); PK2 Austin Welch (SR) - OU pushed hard for numerous kickers this offseason and they whiffed repeatedly. The dude that Texas picked up from Texas State received a hard push from the OU staff. Luckily, he thought better of leaving central Texas for a suburb of Oklahoma City, for God's sake. Ultimately, OU had to settle on taking the former QB, who resurrected his career as a PK at UTSA, apparently. Dude went 19-23 last year and also 35-36 on EPS. Welch is yet another transfer from Kennesaw State on the OU roster. Is it a good sign if your program raided the storied Kennesaw State roster this spring? Probably not. Anyway, he sucked so badly this spring that Venables and Doug "Freakin" Deakin, the OU ST coach, had to go out and spend legit NIL money on the 6 time transfer Martell. P: P1 Jacob Ulrich (Soph); P2 Grayson Miller (SR) - Another Kennesaw State transfer, unbelievably, is Ulrich. Dude had a solid season last year punting for over 45ypp. He ranked 35th nationally in NPA. Seems solid. As to Miller, there isn't anything you could tell me that I wouldn't believe. What the fuck does anyone know about a backup punter? My understanding is that he spends his summers in Rangoon, taking luge lessons. This spring, he was caught in the quad wearing a meat helmet, otherwise nude with a freshly shorn scrotum, with a Zoroastrian named Vilma chasing him whilst carrying a burlap sap and a thick reed. KR: KR1 Isaiah Sategna (JR); KR2 Taylor Tatum (Soph) - Sategna is a better PR than KR, but he did both at Arkansas and OU needs a guy. Tatum returned a few last year and, given that they're breaking their bank to start the previously discussed Jadyn Ott at RB1, Tatum needs something to do if he's not going to get restless. PR: PR1 Isaiah Sategna (JR); PR2 Peyton Bowen (JR) - Sategna has averaged almost 10ypc as a punt returner, and that's solid. He was 11th in the country in 2023. Bowen averaged 8.36ypr last year, is coming off of turf toe surgery, and struggled at times with judging punts correctly. Bowen made multiple boneheaded decisions to catch or not catch punts last year. ST Coaching and Outlook: OU brought in Deakin from SDSU before last season and OU's STs made a big jump overall on the season. They went from 127th nationally in ST Efficiency in 2023, to 41st in 2024. That's pretty terrific in terms of improvement. He's going to have to work some magic to have OU at or better than that level in 2025. They lost most of their key contributors in every facet of their group, save Bowen at PR and he was likely the worst of the lot. Fun note about Deakin is that the OU SID team must really not like or give a shit about the dude. He's the only person on OU's roster of players, coaches, and analysts, at least as far as I saw, without a bio on their site: https://soonersports.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/doug-deakin/1211 . Deakin played at SDSU as a walk-on and then coached their for 14+ years before heading to Norman. His SDSU units finished in the top 10 of STE nationally 3 straight years before he split in 2024.
  12. They kicked a starting CB off the team a few years ago. I think he went to Georgia, won a national title, and then got drafted.
  13. For anyone else ever reading this, avoid Ann Arbor except for the game itself. Stay at the MGM Detroit, uber to and from the game (it's a breeze), take in the food scene in Detroit and eat at some of the terrific trendy places that have emerged, bet on some other games, play some craps, and go to a couple of the cool museums. Ann Arbor is overrated as all get out.
  14. Okay, then, Mr. Mallory, then why does Rice play Texas?
  15. I didn't know who this guy was until I clicked on the link. Wow.
  16. Kinne doesn't sign enough Mexicans to Helobious' liking, so he views his entire ethos with disdain.
  17. Am I the only guy who is going to be really surprised if Texas doesn't wind up signing at least one quality RB in the 2026 class? It just seems farfetched that they go 0-fer at a position like that. Maybe they have to dig deeper in their evaluations to find a new fit, but there's time for a brand and program like Texas with this recruiting staff and the NIL machine. Discussion about not signing an RB seems absurd. Evaluating the 2026 RB room is even more ludicrous. The odds are there's 2, maybe 3 guys from the current roster as part of that group.
  18. If it was about proximity, I’d have mentioned as much. Don’t insert it. His dad is as much in favor of him getting all the money he can as the kid. Fuck both of them and I hope he rots in USC purgatory with Riley if he goes that route. If Oregon, fuck him there too. He has everything he needs at Texas.
  19. The aggie recruiting blitzkrieg!!! Well timed in mid-June.
  20. My initial thinking is that they might be using the majority of the House allocation for recruiting. That would be fucking nuts. As to your question, I don't know. They went apeshit with the 2022 class before NIL was fully formed. They bought that class for like $8M and left everyone scratching their heads and vowing vengeance. This time around, they don't have some endless spigot and everyone else is overtly paying players, too. They might be catching Texas off guard with wild offers for Texas targets out of the blue here. Turntine and Krempin wouldn't surprise me, as I said, because they're trying to go nuts against the Texas head to heads. I can't say Ojo would be anything but a complete shocker. I'm also questioning how sustainable this is for the duration of the cycle if Texas decides to ramp up. Problem is, that might risk blowing up rooms and the roster, so that might be really stupid. If ATM is saying sayonara to their pre-existing roster for the sake of recruits after this season, good luck with that approach. Regardless, this is following the template of the 2022 class and the same money isn't behind it. These idiots might really be using the House deal mostly for recruiting 2026 players. Obviously, this season is going to matter a whole fucking bunch. Players don't want to go somewhere mediocre and be mediocre, no matter how much money is being thrown at them.
  21. The good thing about a match-up with Penn State is that I'd enjoy printing a burnt orange "JoePa Knew" shirt and wearing it to the home game.
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