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Just now, BurntOrange&White said:
So you agree a softball player deserves the same revenue split as a football player. They don't.
Deserves got nothing todo with it.
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5 minutes ago, Lou_Sassle said:
No no...Venables is comparable to Strong.
Venables is still a much better coach than strong. Y’all seem to forget just how dog shit we were under Chuckles.
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39 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:
Herman never had a losing season and never lost a bowl even if he was a douchebag.
Herman also never got blown out.
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21 minutes ago, Armybrat said:
He is wearing a toupee to cover the severe burn scars all over his head.
He was shot down while piloting his helicopter in Vietnam in 1968. It caught on fire, burning off his nose, ears, hair, and his forearm that he was holding over his eyes (saving his eyesight).
He spent two years recovering through many surgeries at the Brook Army Hospital burn unit in San Antonio, with many months lying face down.
Then many months more with his good arm strapped up by his head while a strip of flesh was attached to grow him a new nose.
In spite of the severity of his wounds, he recovered well enough to remain in the Army, becoming a helicopter battalion commander and eventually retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
Along the way he married a beautiful Army nurse, adopted a child who grew up & graduated A&M, becoming a nurse herself.
Unfortunately his wife passed away a decade ago from an aneurysm.
Their daughter got married and recently made him a proud grandfather who enjoys making the infant smile by singing military cadence songs (clean ones) to him.He is a true BAMF
He and Mrs. Brat were a steady couple from their high school senior year until they broke up their last year in college.
We are all good friends to this day.Why wear a wig when he can wear the fact he’s a BAMF?
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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
That’s not a mantra.
It certainly is a mantra, it’s just not a good one. It’s mantra of the mediocre who spend all their time discussing greatness instead of being great. This is the exact type of gimmicky shit you do when you don’t have any real football accomplishments to talk about.
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14 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
What is the goat mantra (*mantrum) that they are leaning into?
Greatest of all time. It’s one of those compulsive things that kids constantly say about everything. It’s nowhere near as stupid to the recruits as it appears to y’all.
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15 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
Did you seriously not know this was a thing.  
also 900 number.I am 31 and have never used a fax machine in my life.
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28 minutes ago, Bevo said:
I found it pretty exciting back in the old days. We would have a big recruiting day and I would run to the home office to look for Jerry Scarborough's fax and typically the machine would be jammed or out of paper. I would bitch to the dog about it being screwed up and just assume that it was a good recruiting week. Nowadays, we are getting all these guys to commit from god knows where. Back in the day we wouldn't even know who they were. It is nice to save paper these days though.
You used to get recruiting updates from a fax machine? Like they just sent you a print news letter?
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38 minutes ago, Texas Wahoo said:
The Clearinghouse is 100% going to get sued.
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What about T&F? OTF was talking about how outdoor T&F is 90% recruiting and something Texas just isn’t very competitive in. Also that can land Texas more Olympic medalists and which is alway a win for the Burnt Orange and Red White and Blue.
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14 minutes ago, immamac said:
Fucking finally.
Okay now what do we do with burnt ends? Keep it going or pivot slightly?
Keep it going. The Clearing House is going to get sued the second they try to deny a players NIL deal.
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37 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:
First, let me say that the Aggies fucking suck. Because their culture and approach to football sucks. Even when they recruit well, that culture infects the players and they get progressively worse the longer they're part of the program. 5-star recruits and good coaches will never view the school as anything more than a paycheck. They are country rubes who will happily buy snakeoil if it's pitched to them the right way. And the right way is anything that feeds their baseless sense of superiority. It's a bone-deep problem that will never really be fixed, only temporarily ameliorated.
Second, if I can /unjerk and take of my burt-orange-colored glasses, I think Elko is a good fit for their program. He is not a great head coach - everyone is wildly overrating his two seasons at Duke, which can largely be explained by Riley Leonard, weak competition, and low expectations for the program. He's not Snyder at KSU or even Fitzgerald at Northwestern. He's an average coach who managed to get a basketball school to play competent football. That's a commendable feat, but not an indicator of high quality or long term success. He is a good defensive mind and a decent recruiter. Despite his personal slovenliness* he has always struck me as more or less having his act together. I don't think he's going to cause some massive scandal for their program, nor do I think he is going to piss off too many people in the AD. So, altogether, I rate him as a fine coach. Competent enough on the field and not a complete dumpsterfire of a human.
But I think the best thing Elko can do for A&M is raise the floor and keep the program "respectable" until their financial woes lighten up. And I think Elko knows that to, and you see it in his recruiting. He's looking for FCS and G5 players who will value A&M as an opportunity. The blue chip prospects will always treat A&M like everyone else does - as a paycheck. A place where they're willing to play if A&M pays them enough. But those players never give a shit. They'll never buy in or play hard.** Elko needs to bring in enough "hungry" players from the lower level who will buy into the Aggie bullshit because it's the best shot those players will ever have. Plus, those players are all A&M can afford at the moment. Once Elko has enough of those guys in the program, he can (potentially) end up with a team who at least cares about winning. They won't be talented enough to win championships, but they might be good enough to catch a great team napping and sneak their way into some better than average seasons. But those will be few and far between. I think 8-4 seasons are exactly what they'll keep getting under Elko and I think that's best he'll ever be able to do. He's an 8-4 type of coach and they're spiritually an 8-4 type of school, so it should be a good fit.
But that's the trap that Aggies can't see. If they get the talent needed to win championships, they'll end up with a team full of individuals that are only there for the money. To get a team of players who work together and actually care about winning, they've got to bring in a lot of OKGs*** who don't have the talent to play anywhere else but are willing to work hard and develop. In other words, A&M is a middle-tier development program. But if that's the case, why doesn't A&M perform as well as schools like Oklahoma State, Wisconsin, Kentucky, ISU, etc.? A&M has more money than them, they should be better. The reason is that A&M refuses to accept that it's a middle-tier development program. Schools like Oklahoma State know who they are and they play to those strengths. Elko is a perfect coach for that kind of program. But he won't work out at A&M because they can't let go of the fantasy that they're a top tier program. They won't actually commit to being a development program which is what they need to do in order for Elko to actually succeed.
Why is that an immutable quality at A&M? See my first point. The fans and boosters are too easily duped. As soon as they achieve any level of success, they start to believe that success should be the norm and open the door to coaches like Jimbo and players like Evan Stewart, who are happy to part these proverbial fools from their money. Even if they end up with an RC Slocum, eventually they'll convince themselves that they deserve better and fire his ass for another snakeoil salesman. It's the same thing that happens when some asshole wins the lottery - the money is just fucking gone within a couple of years.**** Because the reasons why he's an asshole didn't suddenly disappear just because a ton of money suddenly fell in his lap. A&M can have all the goddamn money in the world, it won't stop them from being A&M and it won't fix their problems as a program. I almost feel bad for Elko. It's a sisyphean task ahead of him and he does not have the BMI or the blood pressure for that kind of stress. He'll get them to perform at a reasonable level in light of their inherent limitations, and they'll hate him for it.
* I know we like to talk about the man like he's a fat drunk, mostly because he is, but I won't do that here. Glass houses and stones, etc.
** The entire '22 class makes this clear. That is a perfect example of what happens when a school like A&M tries to build a roster like Bama, but they don't have a guy like Saban to tame those egos.
*** a/k/a bread, but like wheat bread so it's kinda good for you.
**** Not assholes like the people on here. Y'all are assholes but not the specific kind of asshole I'm talking about. I'm talking about some jobless Jethro with a suspended license and 5 kids he can't support. I'm sure y'all could blow some lottery winnings as well as Jethro, but for different reasons. "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best
His comments at the event he spoke at show that the cult hive mind has already gotten to him. It’s also a perfect example of how the national media misses the very important sub text when talking about A&M. Elko said they are going to be a premier national football program and will have 12 draft picks. So he has set the bar at exactly where Texas is, and it’s clear that they’re incapable of assessing themselves and can only judge progress and success by looking at others.
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Watching Tom Herman 2.0 coach OU and Steve Patterson 3.0 be the AD at A&M has given me a stiffy.
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The Lombardi trophy wall is absolutely embarrassing. That’s an NFL team award. Do they also have all of Mahomes AFC conference trophies? What about the AFC west banners? I
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I didn’t realize Gwen Stefani is 55 years old and NO doubt was formed in 1986. I mostly associate them with the 2000’s.
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1 hour ago, ztejas said:
Nah, that’s definitely Nickleback and Creed that everyone pretends to hate.
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10 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:
Last summer at his concert in Europe, he made a strange, random comment about Taylor Swift being fake and him being authentic.
Grohl quipped that his band calls their tour the "Errors Tour" because they "actually play live," referencing Swift's Eras Tour.
Aside from it being an uncalled-for comment at someone who is propping up the entire entertainment industry and providing plenty of $ for the cities lucky enough to host her concerts, his shitty concert was sparsely attended. Of course, the Swifties have been harassing him since. Following that, he got exposed for his personal life issues.
Quite a few artist made comments about Swift and the Eras Tour, not just Grohl and all of them can get bent. The Eras tour is by far the most impressive concert I have ever been to and it’s insane that Swift was able to do that for like two straight years.
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11 minutes ago, Boko Bevo said:
That's a wild take. While geography may not move the needle like a big ole bag of money, the school's location is definitely included in the calculus for most of these kids. It's also helpful to the program when kids enjoy the area enough to stay put during the summer months prior to Fall Camp. The continuity built during pass shell and summer S&C can be the difference in a championship season. The city of Austin is a feather in the cap of Texas recruiting.
The ratio of championship off seasons in places like Austin, LA, Seattle and Miami vs championship off seasons in shit holes like Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, Clemson and Athens is firmly in the latters favor. Championship caliber programs have their players stay on campus because that the expectation and culture of the program that is built to compete at the elite level. Austin is nice so hopefully our players stick around in the offseason is the kind of unserious approach to football that defined Texas during our 2010’s dark age. Now obviously in the era of NIL having access to Austin’s corporate NIL is an absolute super power to turbo charge the football program.
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59 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but it never fails to make me question my sanity when I see Drew Allar mentioned as an NFL first rounder. That dude sucks out loud against decent competition. And mediocre competition. Motherfucker had worse stats than Quinn Ewers and he played all his the fucking games last year. And the year before. That guy sucks so fucking hard that the line at the truck stop glory holes can go for miles.
Hey man, I'm not sure those guys want their names being thrown out there on a public board.
Josh Allen has broken the brains of NFL GMs. So expect massive white dudes with big arms and mediocre college production to be selected in the first round on an annual basis.
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3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
Yes, that’s my point. The concern is we’ll just go back into the world of playing with one hand tied behind our back. And scum fucks like tuberville know to publicly point to Texas, because it works and we don’t do shit about it.
The thing that gives me hope is that the SEC and its troglodytes won’t let Texas retreat into its high castle. They will be relentless in their mockery of Texas if we fall into a slump and not being in a conference full of little sisters of the poor also means won’t be able to lord over the conference from an administrative position. Being ass in the SEC is going to be an utterly miserable experience that will make it really for people at Texas to white knight.
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24 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
The problem is his opinion will be the general consensus. He si by les out Texas. Not Ohio State, who cheated for decades AND now has a massive NIL war chest. Not Oregon. Texas. And it will be the narrative.
That’s nothing new. DKR and Texas just let OU and Switzer drag their nuts all over us, Mack bent over for Saban and the SEC to come into Texas pillage our recruiting grounds. Dodds sat on his high horse while A&M and Nebraska went crying to anyone who will listen about evil Texas destroying the Big 12. Negative narratives about Texas thrive because lets them thrive by not combating them.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Posted · Edited by Not a Sock
Also we no longer endlessly debating and watching G5 film on what our new O/DC is going to install to fix our offense or defense. While we also discuss how the former blue chip recruits that have regressed will be coached up like the G5 3rd round picks our new coaches had put in the league before being hired by Texas.