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I guess there are a few things that cause me to not loathe Tech as much as some other in-state and rival schools. You guys could always rile up your rival, Texas 8&4, better than anyone when y'all won. I always enjoyed that. And, you're also not allowing a rape factory to be run inside the AD in order attempt to win shit. So you're also not Baylor. And even though your academics are on a level that would make a Neanderthal cavewoman cry, so are OU's and at least y'all are Texan. So you have that going for you, which is nice.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2027: I remember watching his dad play
closetojumping replied to BornAndRaised's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Attendees for SJSU: Confirmation on a few visitors coming in this weekend for the Longhorns' season opener against San Jose State. *** Antwon Sanders, Houston (Texas) CE King High 2027 RB ... 6-foot, 205 9 Offers: Arizona, Houston, Oregon State, San Diego State, Texas A&M, Tulsa, Toledo, UNLV, Sac State Audric Williams, Pflugerville (Texas) Weiss High 2027 WR ... 6-foot–3, 190 2 Offers: Texas State and UNLV Jordan Frohock, Pflugerville (Texas) Weiss High 2027 WR ... 6-foot-2, 180 4 Offers: Nebraska, Tulsa, UTSA, Jacksonville State Will head to Ole Miss on September 27th. Vincent Moody, Killeen (Texas) High 2027 EDGE ... 6-foot-3, 220 0 Offers Visited Oklahoma week one. Dillon Mitchell, Houston (Texas) CE King High 2028 ATH ... 5-foot-9, 155 19 Offers: Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Texas Tech + more One of the fastest players in the country. Mitchell ran a 10.07 100m this spring, breaking the record at the 15-16U national meet. Oswald Jacquet III, Houston (Texas) CE King High 2028 DT ... 6-foot-2, 290 3 Offers: Texas Tech, Sacramento State, Georgia State Nationally ranked in shot put. Placed 2nd in Junior Olympics with a throw of 57'4.25" in July. -
My issue? I stated it. You guys are always trying to keep Texas attached to you or aiding you in some form. The very loudmouth we're discussing here, Campbell, was publicly bawling as Texas left for the SEC because Texas wasn't interested in committing to a Tech home and home for 20 years like he'd been claiming. I don't give a shit that Tech is "trying" to compete. I don't even understand that argument. Competition is the fun in college sports, or a big part of it. Your issue? It might be reading comprehension. I wasn't referencing the academics as something in regard to athletes. I kind of follow recruiting a little. Only for like the last 35 years. I think I figured out that academics didn't mean a whole to many recruits in roughly 1992. I was referring to academics in the form of "I can never really find anything to help me align with Tech in any form as they're constantly trying to yoke themselves to my alma mater. " I also never said that Tech needed Texas money to survive. Campbell is one of the folks implying that risk, however. He's publicly stating that college sports is broken and in need of fixing, largely because of the financial issues across the land. He's not an altruist. He's not arguing that for Austin Peay or Tarleton State's sake. If you believe otherwise, I guess say so, and I'll leave you alone as I don't enjoy conversing with naive fools.
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What is incorrect or dated about what I said? Have you guys rocketed up the academic rankings and I missed it? Did a bevy of football talent move to greater Lubbock? Have you won a fucking thing lately? Lots of eyeballs and fans springing up suddenly? No. This is exactly what Cody Campbell is shouting to anyone who will listen. Your ability to stumble into accidental points that favor another poster's POV is almost surreal.
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They also lost their deep threat to the NFL. He got picked up by somebody, although I don't know if he made the team and I have forgotten his name. SJSU also lost much of the strength of their defense, 3 guys in the secondary, to the portal. The previous Navy coach, Ken Niamaiatuailuatlamatatchapa, is their HC. They run an absurd version of the spread and throw the ball constantly. They *only* threw is for like 66% of the time this past weekend, but they averaged around 75% passes for every offensive snap last season. The best (but not perfect) recent comp for their offense is Colorado State, in terms of teams Texas has played. If folks are expecting a bunch of sacks, they're going to be very disappointed. On defense, they have a guy that is about Taurean York's size at LB and he's really their only good or better player. He had 15 tackles on Saturday. They're a very small defense overall. Also, their kicker sucks. I was hoping SJSU would be a bowl team again this season, but with the loss to CMU and the losses on the roster, that seems unlikely. This will be a blowout and I doubt we learn a whole lot. Maybe we get to know the secondary better with all of the passing, but the personnel on the other side will determine some of that. If they're just terrible, I doubt we pick up much on that end either.
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Snapcounts for week 1 spoilered below. Not a lot of highlight points for this one, really. -
Neuheisel is on XM 84 regularly pushing the same vague agenda as what Campbell appears to be doing, and that's unifying the conferences as one entity to negotiate contracts on their behalf with the content platforms, among other things. One would have to be a naive fool to see that as anything other than creating a uniform market cap across the conferences and programs. It is the same shit as always - Texas Tech and others wanting to coattail the bigger guys without bringing much of anything to the table. My issue when Tech and its people in the state legislature or rubes like this brotoxxed clown start trying to dig into other schools' pockets, usually Texas' pockets, is that you guys truly do not actually bring anything to the table. I can't think of a single redeeming thing about the athletic program at Tech that would soften my view of that bullshit. You guys have never won in anything of significance. I follow any of the college sports in which UT participates, so I know you've won at T&F a few times and you have that WBB title from the 90's, but none of that does it for the regular fan. Your academics are unmitigated trash. You don't have a talent base that others could plunder by associating with Tech. No TV eyeballs. Small fanbase. Mediocre brand. Like, show me something to offset the view that Campbell is just another Tech shitheel trying to bring everyone not named Tech back to Tech's bottom-feeder level.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
As of this moment? Sure seems like it. Maybe after Georgia makes Sarkisian and Manning look like buffoons again in November, I'll change the thread title to something like "Texas Football 2025 - Getting Kicked Like A Bitch". -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Hey man, we didn't need the imagery of you fucking Jeff Howe. I've been blamed for a lot of stuff on the boards over the years. Some of it justified, some of it absurd. What I've never been blamed for, however, is posting a thread title that cost us a game. Solid work. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Venables claimed on his coach's show on Sunday that Fasusi and Simmons would be back this week. Then he caveated that with "if they're cleared in time". Bizarre. Regarding their RBs, I found a thread discussing them. Tatum has a hamstring problem and might get back to practice this week. Blaylock either had a stinger or he has a clavicle injury. Rumors are ranging from "no big deal" to "broken collarbone and will miss significant time" but the mods on On3 are saying he's missing a few games. With Blaylock hurt, OU has one fully healthy scholarship RB, their beloved former 5 star, Javonte Barnes. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Here's more on Ott from Venables. Dude has a shoulder injury and can't just run back out there and take a bunch of bullets. Here's OU's coaches and writers whistling past the graveyard as they rationalize poor OL play and a poor running game. Arbuckle says they were getting shoestring tackled or there would have been some big ones! Venables likes their chemistry on the OL! Highlights: -they went into the game with 3 potential starters not cleared to play: Fasusi (rabdo), Simmons (concussion, been out for the whole camp after day 1), and Ozeata (I think shoulder recovery) and then they lost Everett (Center) and Sexton (LT) to injury during the game. -If you're keeping score at home, they head into the Michigan game potentially starting their 3rd string LT, backup C, true freshman backup RG, and multi-times benched backup RT. Nothing to see here, folks. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
So, week one, OU beats the mighty Illinois State Whatevers to the tune of 35-3. Link to the box score is here: https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401752675 My thoughts (discussed some of this on the meta OU thread, but this is the season thread, after all): -OU has not fixed anything associated to the OL. Mateer is mobile enough, but really, Arnold looked as good on Friday night as Mateer did on Saturday night in terms of mobility. ISU picked up 1 sack and 4 TFLs. ISU flushed Mateer plenty as well. The big problem for the OU OL was getting push in the running game. They were pretty much dominated by the ISU front 7 when trying to tote the rock. OU averaged 3.2 ypc and their longest run of the day was a 12 yard jet sweep. For illustrative purposes, against FBS Temple to open last year, OU ran for 220 yards, with 2 runs over 30 yards, and 6.1 ypc. -The offense lacks playmakers. Anyone talking up Burks is doing so on pure hype. He had a fine game and all, but ISU was incompetent defending the pass. No one jumped off of the screen as electric in the passing game. When Jaran Kanak is a leading receiver, things have careened sideways in recruiting for your program. -Whatever talent is lacking in the WR and TE rooms certainly isn't made up for in the RB room. This group looked downright mundane. The best back on Saturday night was their true freshman, Blaylock. I don't know if Tatum was hurt, suspended, or just got caught fucking Demarco Murray's girlfriend, but I don't think he even played. Barnes was his usual pedestrian self. Ott is either hurt, in the doghouse, or both, as he hardly played at all. -OU was throwing late in the 4th quarter, had to put up 2 TDs in the 4th to make the score look okay and they left their starters in until the end. I couldn't believe it when they sent Mateer in for another drive in the middle of the 4th. -OU's defense looked good/great and about what you would expect against an FCS opponent with their talent. The real test is coming this week. I'll post some articles from the OU side on the post mortem for week 1 and whatever they're discussing for the Michigan game coming up as well. -
I've been laughing at all of the folks I see across the media and Twitter who are talking about OU positively after this weekend. There is no way any of them watched that game or even bothered reading a box score if they think OU looked good. OU fans, the one who aren't totally in the tank with the sunshine, are handwringing on their boards, right now.
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Ott is injured, in the doghouse, or maybe both. He played sparingly and looked like a spare doing it. I don't know whose OL is worse - OU's or Alabama's. Alabama's OL was depantsed this past weekend and I'm expecting so see something similar for OU this coming weekend.
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I don't disagree about thinking they're talented, as I have the same struggle. On paper, they have a lot of highly ranked players who, on the field, look like shit. I feel similarly about Deboer. The guy has won everywhere he's been. Why does he have 4 losses to unranked teams in his first 14 games at Bama? That's wild shit. Auburn was making up an affair scandal to get Harsin fired after his 4th loss to an unranked team and that didn't happen until his 25th game. We have discussed this, likely including earlier in this thread, but the last few classes that Saban signed, while as highly ranked as ever, weren't as well regarded off the Internet by guys I trust on evaluations. There was a halo effect, similarly to what was afforded to Mack Brown in the end at Texas. If Deboer's staff isn't excellent at development, and it's looking rough right now, then they've got a little bit of a doom loop going. I'm sure everyone is somewhat overreacting and they'll wind up 9-3 and pushing for the playoffs, but what I saw in the trenches and the footage folks are passing around on the quitting, those things are real. Bama has a brutal schedule ahead of them, so they'll need to turn things around quickly. at FSU (L) ULM Wiscy BYE at Georgia (L) Vandy (? surely this is a W, right?) at Mizzou (?) Tennessee (?) at SCar (L) BYE LSU (L) OU (?) FCS at Auburn (?) We can quibble about those 4 Ls coming to fruition, but we can also argue about the ?s as well, as those aren't sure Ws either. This shit has an outside shot of becoming hilarious.
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Castellanos is so awesome that he was benched last year at BC. He is a baby when it comes to handling adversity. He pouts and quits. Wait until a team is containing him and forcing him to be a pocket passer and watch him lose his shit. The reality is that Alabama was absolutely owned in the trenches on Saturday and then they quit. It reminded me of what the best Bama teams under Saban did to many of their opponents. FSU just made Bama excited to get on the bus and go home. That OL is B-A-D and FSU's front was eating their lunch all day. Every time I looked up, FSU was in the Bama backfield. It was somewhat hilarious. FSU recorded 3 sacks and 7 TFLs but you could have told me they had 10 sacks and 20 TFLs and I would have believed you. They held Bama to 87 rushing yards. Conversely, FSU ran for 230 yards, averaging 4.7 ypc. Castellanos spent most of the day free to do whatever he wanted. 31-17 might as well have been 54-17 because it felt more like that watching that game.
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Did anyone actually watch the Illinois State game? OU sucks, even more than usual. They have zero playmakers, the OL is terrible, the running game is hot garbage. They were shutout in the 3rd qtr, still passing late in the 4th qtr and played all of their starters until the final whistle. This was against an FCS team. They put up 14 points in the 4th, with a late touchdown, to make the score look presentable.
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2025 CFB Playoff Predictions - Often Wrong, But Never In Doubt
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The only thing we learned, or clarified for those who already knew, is that I am an imbecile for thinking Toledo was worth a shit. It’s going to be a long season for Kentucky. -
Good lord, man, how many times has this happened to you? Just a bullshit attempt at gaslighting. Fucking dumb.
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I can tell you guys that the Georgia fans are not fans at all of Texas. I was reading a thread earlier on their 247 site it is glorious how much they hate Texas. A bunch of them are admitting to their board, sheepishly, it appears, that they're going to be rooting for Ohio State and against a fellow SEC team for the first time in their lives. Others are simply wishing for a meteor to strike the Horseshoe at about 12:05pm (their time) tomorrow. Imagine how those imbeciles are going to behave when Texas starts beating them.
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Just as I typed that, Yea Alabama reports that Roberts has been cleared for FSU. The mods on 247 are saying he'd play only in an emergency. Either way, he's not retiring as some had worried on their boards.
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Alabama enters the season with 3 critical, upperclassmen starters out for extended periods of time. Jaeden Roberts (OG) has been in concussion protocol for over 3 weeks and is not expected to play tomorrow. He has a history of concussions, hence the duration on this protocol, and there are rumors on the Bama sites that he may be done. Tim Keenan (DT) had tightrope surgery this week on his ankle and is expected to miss 3-6 weeks. Jam Miller (RB) broke his collarbone and is out through at least the next few weeks. I think they've been underestimating recovery time on this injury. Alabama plays @FSU, ULM, Wisconsin, BYE, @ Georgia (9/27). All three players are potential All SEC or better players with NFL potential. All three players are at risk of missing every game through Georgia.
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