Everything posted by closetojumping
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I don't trust restaurants or bars below a certain type of reputation to make me martinis or manhattans, that includes the workers at DKR. Virgin bloody marys, followed by JD/diet coke for me, if I'm drinking. It's crazy you posted this. Growing up around the poverty line, my older brother bought this while working his first job and had it hanging on his wall until he left for Texas. I took over his room and kept that picture with me from there, to Texas, to my various apartments working start-ups in Houston. He thought he'd lost it. I gave it back to him like 10 years ago and he has it hanging in his office at his home to this day.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Not totally unrelated in all of this, do you have this week's viewership numbers posted anywhere yet?
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Well, look, there are servers who come and take orders for drinks, but folks have to go and get their own plates of food. The buffet is better than any buffet on the Vegas Strip and usually has a theme to it. This year, each game featured a menu crafted by a different celebrity chef. Antonia Lofaso was my favorite, and she was a very nice lady, as well. That kind of product will draw you away from your seat for a bit, no doubt.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Shit In One Hand, Hope In the Other, Tell Us Which One Fills Up Faster
Brazell is probably the leading WR at Tennessee and he's very good. He has speed that the NFL will covet and he's not a small guy. Not that you're point is otherwise off, but guys with the physical make-up and production will still get drafted from those offenses.
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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
The only person being thrown out there by folks who would know as being "definitely" out is Akina. Doesn't mean there won't be other changes, but anyone worried that Akina is coming back should stop worrying about it if they can pull themselves together.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Wow. I didn't realize this was a thing anywhere in DKR. We just park in the Manor Street garage, walk across the street to the stadium's SEZ entrance, scan the tickets, take an escalator up to the buffet and bar area behind our suite, then we order drinks, then head out to the seats and watch the band march onto the field. Less than 5 minutes from seat to seat. I thought we had it rough until reading about the trauma you folks are dealing with on the west side. Brutal.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Shit In One Hand, Hope In the Other, Tell Us Which One Fills Up Faster
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Absolutely not. My only kinks are that a chick has to be legitimately attractive and also no fat chicks. And you are embarrassing yourself by rationalizing any moment in time in which O’Donnell was suitable.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
1) That sounds exhausting. What are we, 24 year olds? 2) Do not count me among your brethren. I never had to slump bust with anything near the likes of Rosie or Roseanne Barr and I wouldn’t now for all the money in the world. Yikes.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Not sure why you quoted my post, as I sure as shit have not advocated for keeping difficult OOC games if the committee is going to punish those Ls. If a big OOC loss doesn't hurt you, as advertised, keep them. Otherwise, it's obvious they should go and the committee will have fucked up things further in allowing that to happen.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Hear, hear! and huzzah, good sir! Please keep repeating this on every other page so the rest of us can understand your important point of view.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
BTW, on ND's 2026 schedule, their 2026 opponents' 2025 record is 64-79. That's buoyed heavily by Miami, SMU, USC and Navy. 8 teams with losing records of 2-10, 2-10, 3-9, 4-8, 4-8, 4-8, 4-8, and 5-7. For comparison's sake, the Texas 2026 opponents have a 2025 record of 90-54, 7 teams with winning records, 3 with losing records, and 2 at 6-6. Notre Dame is a 2026 lock and will almost certainly get a bye.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
We understand your position on this, as you've hammered every fucking page of several threads repeating it. Many of the rest of us would prefer to see good OOC games because we actually enjoy the sport. @immamac's point, which you either can't grasp or simply ignored, is that the committee can change the notion on "margin for error" by bringing Texas into the fold.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Shit In One Hand, Hope In the Other, Tell Us Which One Fills Up Faster
This makes logical sense, but I don't know the drivers for any of it and would be lying to state otherwise.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Auerbach's positioning is interesting because of who signs her paychecks. There has to be some squirm with the networks, especially NBC. If Texas just says "fuck you" and pulls out of all future difficult OOC games, the other big programs who still schedule similarly would happily follow suit. The programs are all locked in with their rev shares from the networks for the time being. The networks? Losing a game with 16 million pairs of eyeballs watching those ads and trading that in for the duds vs studs changes outcomes. Take away 20 others that post good numbers for dogshit FCS matchups and shit gets real. My one source of hope in regard to Texas having a shot is the idea that the execs can easily see this playing out like that and therefore applying pressure to the talking heads and the committee. These are all humans who are imperfect and money (or the removal of it) changes everything.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Sarkisian went on the SEC morning show today and doubled down on both Texas deserving to be in the playoffs and reconsidering the OOC schedule going forward. He basically said, with the SEC going to 9 conference games, playing a major OOC foe is pointless with the way those losses are currently viewed. He took a number of thinly veiled potshots at the 2 loss teams ahead of Texas, with which I agreed. I don't expect Texas to cancel the home games versus OSU and Michigan, since Texas has already played both on the road. I will be surprised if Texas does not cancel the Notre Dame series. Someone needs to take the step of deplatforming ND and giving them little recourse. They will continue to weasel their way into the CFP until conferences uniformly stop scheduling them. The ND schedule next season is the absolute worst joke in CFB heading into the 2026 cycle. It's fucking sickening. I hate the premise of the OOC being comprised of 3 cupcakes including the boring likes of Rutgers, Purdue, and Wake Forest but it feels like that's where this debacle is headed. Auerbach is being really optimistic about the committee. I don't expect bravery to come from a committee of admins and old coaches.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Shit In One Hand, Hope In the Other, Tell Us Which One Fills Up Faster
The word is that the program is ready to be very aggressive in the portal across the roster in order to maximize Manning's last season. There's been handwringing about retention and allocation for a while, but those same handwringers are now extremely bullish about being aggressive. IOL, TB, TE, WR are all priorities. There's less concern on the defensive side of the DC, although that doesn't mean they're not going to be pursuing difference makers at every spot and trying to find depth in a few places as well. I'm from Missouri on this cycle, personally. I think they're just going to cut bait on some of the higher rated, big contract guys who haven't done anything yet, whether that's premature or not being irrelevant. 2026 is supposed to be the year where it all comes together.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Dude, are you serious here? Texas absolutely amplifies the noise and music. I can take a picture of it from the SEZ next year and post it here, if you’d like. I didn’t realize this was a question (or a concern).
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a Disservice to our sport - let's up the ante - decline the bowl game
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
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2027 WR Easton Royal
Stewart was straight up purchased by ATM. That shit doesn’t work the same way anymore. This is a good get given that Texas is about to lose a lot of WR talent. Texas needs to win in the portal and land Lott because things are otherwise about to get thin.
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Texas WBB 2025-26: Return to the Final Four
Unfortunately, CJ Vogel views his reporting work through the lens of an international spy. He couldn’t be more cryptic if he tried and it is silly and irritating.
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Texas WBB 2025-26: Return to the Final Four
I let my kids talk me into turning the game off and switching to the new Stranger Things episodes when Texas went down by 8 in the 3rd. That’s probably what spurred the turnaround. Great news to discover this morning though. It sucks that Crump is going to be out for a while. Looks like they can still beat anybody without her though.
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Texas Women's Soccer
Good. Here's hoping the new hire is a big success.
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Fast Food guilty pleasures
Bringing a sick kid home from the doctor today and I get the "I am hungry and want Jack In The Box" request that has never happened before today. Okay. They have the worst tacos of any place on the planet, but I've gotten the "2 Tacos for $1.xx" from the drive thru every time I've ever gone through there since age 11. So here I am, 2 tacos later, somehow on this thread. Grim.
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Formidable fornicator Stephon Diggs fashions four fetuses
This is the "paying telephone" version of the story a few of us were told at the time. Finley had recently gotten like a 5th girl pregnant while at UT. The Texas staff had him sit down with Sally Brown for a Sex Ed session. Like, a normal one and not a milf video from pornhub or wherever. She asked him about knowledge about using condoms and he explained that the condoms all kept breaking on him. That's the contemporaneous version told while the guy was still playing ball on campus. I assume one of those kids turned out to be Kaydon Finley, 2026 class WR at Aledo heading to Notre Dame after his dad made an ass of himself during the recruitment and burned various bridges with UT brass along the way.