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  1. 2 hours ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    Not liking those percentage chances from IT on Shelby.

    So many people from Friendswood go to A&M that they call it Friendswood North. There will be negative recruiting from all the Aggies in town unless Shelby decides to commit while on a visit. A good recruit from Friendswood will get an unprecedented amount of attention, which to me could be a negative. There hasn’t been a good football player coming out of that town since Jaxson Appel in the 2001 class. I don’t think Shelby is the kind of person who will just go to A&M, but that’s the environment he’s dealing with. 

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  2. 17 minutes ago, Teryor said:

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    — Four-star Orlando (Fla.) Edgewater running back Cedric Baxter already gave his reaction to the official visit with Steve Wiltfong. I've checked around with several people and was told that the staff felt the visit went according to plan. One source I spoke with said the trip resonated with the entire family. This was Tashard Choice's show to run and it's clear that the Longhorns have a leg up from the relationship side with Choice. We'll talk more about the rest of the race in The Stampede.

    — Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei tight end Spencer Shannon spoke with Horns247 shortly after arriving home from Austin. It sounds like the visit was a great success and he gave it an extremely high rating of a 10 out of 10 when asked. Shannon could be off the board as soon as this week. He said he has an idea in mind of who the pick will be, but he wants to talk with the family this week.

    — I have not been able to make contact with four-star Kahuku (HI.) linebacker Liona Lefau as of yet. Texas did a good job on the trip from what I know, but I didn't get the sense there was a massive move made. I think Jeff Choate has done a great job with the relationship, but Texas just doesn't have the comfort level some other schools do like Utah and Oregon. I do think there are some factors that could possibly help Texas down the stretch but I'm working to gather a bit more information for tomorrow morning.

    — I spoke with Zachary (LA.) EDGE Ashley Williams who said he plans to be in Austin this week for a visit. The trip will be unofficial as Williams plans to come in on Thursday and Friday for his first look at Austin and he will return in the fall for an official visit with an eye on the Alabama weekend. Williams would be an intriguing edge body for Pete Kwiatkowski and Texas as they look to find high-ceiling pass rushers.

    — South Oak Cliff cornerback Malik Muhammad confirmed with me that he will be taking an official visit to Austin next week. The Longhorns have been coming on for Muhammad lately. Sources we speak with still give Texas A&M the edge and Alabama is still very much invovled. Texas has been able to do a good job of making up ground and will look to make a move on the trip.

     

    Hopefully Choate's next visit to Hawaii will be to accept his new job with the Rainbow Warriors 

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  3. 52 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Getting tickets to the Chapel Hill regional when they go on sale. Selfishly hoping UT has to go to ECU for the Super so I can watch in person. And my Lions got a 3 seed! 

    Pretty excited about how this all worked out.

    Yale is better 

  4. 4 hours ago, gmr548 said:


    I think the only three you can chalk up as W’s with 90% confidence are ULM, UTSA, and Kansas (lol).

    Bama is obviously going to be a massacre. So we can be reasonably sure of 3-1 on a third of the schedule.

    Given the extensive track record, there’s really no reason to believe Sark will do better than maybe a game above .500 on the remaining two thirds (5-3). That’s probably the ceiling, and .500 even (4-4) or a game below (3-5) represent the remaining share of overwhelmingly likely outcomes. So you get to 6-6 to 8-4. To me, 7.5 actually feels like a pretty good place to set the over/under.

    Since you mentioned it as a likely win, I personally think ISU is a very high probability loss. Sark has not shown he can effectively scheme around that defense and it’s coming right off OU, which will probably be some wild shit, win or lose. I’d be very surprised if that was a win.

    Why is UTSA 90% confidence? Traylor got them to 12 wins in his second year. With Sarkisian as our coach, I can't go higher than 75% for that game. 

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  5. 42 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    1) fucking boo hoo on his comments. these are the things the blue hairs say and then bitch about Texas falling behind on the field with their next breath.

    2) that's true.

    3) this guy certainly got his talking points from an LHF employee and took them to heart. I had a guy at the spring game from the LHF attempt the same argument with me and I literally told him he was full of shit and that if they were going to push that nonsense, it was effectively declaring war to people who want to be competitive on the field, not just with fucking facilities. 

    4) his description of what is happening out there has no conflict with "NIL". he and others can't seem to grasp that. it's their problem.

    5) you know who also has endowed scholarships at McCombs? me. same inside the AD too. I get the letters every year. I've seen some of the people graduate. you know what would give me a lot more pleasure? watching UT win the whole fucking thing again in football before I die. this guy's #5 is more full of shit than a fucking septic tank.

    I have no doubt this bitch's last paragraph is accurate. It's also a typical reaction of what a power center attempts to do when the ground starts moving underneath it. Innovation disrupts, builds, and destroys with impunity once the first spark in an old market is lit. Those with much to lose will try to change rules and move goalposts to protect their turf. They'll usually get humiliated in the process. Instead of trying to lead the way in taking advantage of anything new, Texas is going to whine about change and try to do whatever it can to keep everyone else away from its milkshake. In any event, they have zero data to support anything pertaining to the notion that NIL is dimming donations with the AD or the general fund. Zero. 

     

    What's funny is that a lot of McCombs students (I was one) sitting on the other side from you would agree about wanting a football championship even over receiving a scholarship. Leaders who seem to be most successful have a killer instinct to do better and create something that's actually worthwhile; competitive people don't sit still or settle for a lower standard. There's no sense of vision, risk taking, or significant investment at the highest levels of the athletic department or the administration. It's no different than the lazy pro sports owners who sit on their profits while fans beg hopelessly for them to leave town, claiming that it's the fault of the fans or the players when they fail to put any real investment into their own business. It's all about perception and the narrative about what people think of them, not about achieving real success. I would even take the AD just making a reasonable attempt in trying to achieve success and failing. But for the most part, they're just making excuses and waiting for success to come to them. 

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  6. 44 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    Also, I realize I’m beating a dead horse, but it’s a horse we’re going to collectively club for quite some time because of all the scar tissue that’s formed, but I can see a vision from Beard, and him taking active steps to bring that vision into reality. Over the previous six years there was none of that, either during the season or the off-season.  It was such a feeling of helplessness. Every major recruiting victory just brought a deepening sense of despondency, a “why in the fuck would you come here? So your talents can be wasted in our hodge podge non scheme?”

    I can see a team that’s going to be demonstrably better than last year’s team, and I was very pleased with what last year’s team was able to accomplish, so that’s a good jumping off point. 

    We’ll always have people transferring out. Other schools will, too, but we’ll have more because Beard is fearless and adamant about his coaching style, and part of that style is to be aggressively tough on the players playing for him, and to put them in a relatively strict structure on offense and defense. That’s not going to be conducive to recruiting and detainment on a lot of levels. He’ll have to be selective in who he goes after as far as top talent. 

    He’s also not going to be a big fan of adjustments or flexibility. We’ll hear a lot of naysayers about those qualities, and they’ll have some merit. The problem with a certain amount of flexibility is that you can lose what your grounding principles are, and what you see as making you successful to win. I remember in Popovich’s heyday reading about how he would lecture his teams on doing the same things over and over again, even when they weren’t working, because it’s been proven they do work, and the other team is going to wilt and fail due to a lack of confidence because they don’t have the same commitment. Wooden talked about some of the same things. Different league and different era of course, but the approach still has merits. It’s still an overall organizational philosophy more than it’s particular to any specific time and place. 

    It’s going to be frustrating for a significant portion of our fan base until/unless it results in a championship, because that’s how fans are. I saw the same dynamic from KU fans over the past few years, many of whom are now eating a lot of crow for their continuous loud and consistent criticisms. Not that Beard is in the same league as Self in terms of career accomplishments, but he has the same organizational outlook that doesn’t brook a lot of “flexibility” in how his team is going to be run. 

    The big thing for me is that defense will always come first, and paramount to that is a defense being able to switch across all 5 positions. That’s a non negotiable over an entire game (I could see a shot blocker getting limited minutes even if they can’t switch that well) which means a certain level of mobility along all 5 positions, and length at the guard and wings - REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY CAN DO ON OFFENSE.

    That means Texas will almost certainly be in the top 10 each year for adjusted defense, and they’ll likely be nowhere close to the top in adjusted tempo. Whether that will be a formula for winning championships remains to be seen. It certainly wasn’t the formula this year for even getting to the Final Four. But I am excited to see how this plays out over the years, in ways I never was with Shaka Smart over his last four and a half seasons. 

    I'm sure you mean that the low tempo formula wasn't successful for Texas in particular this year, but the low tempo formula was clearly the preferable style in terms of outcomes in the tournament overall. Houston (Arizona) and Saint Peter's (Purdue) especially outperformed by playing at a slow tempo. Villanova made the Final Four. Gonzaga and Arizona, the best high-tempo teams, lost earlier than expected. 

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  7. 21 hours ago, nnm said:

    The Ballpark was a mistake from the beginning. It was a Camden Yards clone, built in the nostalgia afterglow of the revitalization that followed from Baltimore’s new stadium. And it was (is) a beautiful retro-style ballpark. 
     

    The problem is, IT’S IN TEXAS!!!  No new pro facility should be built without a roof and A/C in Texas. Especially for a freaking summer sport. It was a disaster from day 1. 
     

    Minute Maid and Globe Life don’t have one tenth of the character of The Ballpark. And no one cares. At least one can go to a July game at those venues without stroking out. 

    Globe Life Park was kitschy and boring. It had artificial character but didn't have the natural character of an urban neighborhood nor the character that comes from winning a lot of games. Globe Life Field is no better for those same reasons and honestly just seems cheaply designed with little attention to detail. Minute Maid Park is the clear best of that group because of where it's located, a design that used old Union Station really well, and a winning ball club 

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  8. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    My jury is still out on Sark.  For one thing, he can actually call plays.  Beyond that, he can recruit.  Whether he can make the right calls in terms of building a staff is a concern.

    He torpedoed his own resume with his drinking.  I hope that's behind him.

    It’s not a long CFB season, yet Sark has continued his trend of laying an egg three times a year. That’s the same number as Beard, but Sark has done it over roughly 1/3 the games. It’s only been one year, but that’s not promising 

  9. 17 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

    If we can’t get out of the 1st Round next week, then I’m saying it now: This year will have been a step BACKWARDS from Shaka, and the jury will be fully “out” on Beard being any better.

    Shaka got six years without good reason other than to ride out his contract. Beard made the tournament in year one with scraps. He's not getting fired any time soon. 

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