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Newy25

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  1. 4 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

    And said revenue will stay the same regardless of cheating status. Not saying we shouldn’t, just saying I see where it isn’t a priority.

    Im not sure you can just claim that. If we landed recruiting classes like Alabama and won more titles, I would be willing to bet our sports revenue would go up. 

     

  2. 1 minute ago, Hank_Hill said:

    I mean, yea, it probably is to a lot of people. Because it’s just football.

    Yet we pay our head coach 5M a year and have the the biggest most bloated athletic department in the country. The “it’s just football” argument does not apply at Texas. 

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  3. 26 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    Oddly, there are people in charge of the university that see Texas as an institution of higher learning that also has a football team instead of a football team running a university. 

    Spare me the high road nonsense. The NCAA has defacto condoned payments to player’s families, their relatives and their trainers. We are like the car in the right lane going the exact speed limit while everyone else is going with the flow of traffic. We claim everyone else is dirty for payments but if it has become legalized, is it dirty? 

    If the police office not only waves you by but gives you a trophy if you go 75 in a 65 are you even breaking the law anymore? 

    After it became public that Auburn paid 6 figures for Cam Newton and the NCAA acknowledged it, all bets should have been off. It’s legal to pay players families now. If we are not giving money to FWK and we lose Shepherd it’s only our fault. Not anyone else’s. 

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  4. 13 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Thank god Trump doesn’t have a real ideology he inspires in others to growing a movement.

    It’s the one big distinction between him and the German guy from the 1930s.

    That and the whole mass murder and invading other countries thing. But other than that, totally the same. 

  5. 29 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

     
    This thread has a lot of stupid takes, but this is the stupidest.

    It may be misguided at the QB position but it’s not exactly wrong in all accounts. Wheeler and Hager should have benched in favor of just about anyone and I am sure that made at least of couple of players upset. 

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  6. 46 minutes ago, NorLa Horns said:

    reminds me of when Sam got hurt and Shane went in , so Rising got the headset and clip board and didnt know what to do with it. 

    I said it was concerning, that it showed a lack of buy in,  and got shit on for the opinion. 

    Sam was jumping line in practicce to get more reps, thats buy in. 

    not knowing what to do when you are the next guy up isnt buy in. so color me suprised Rising is looking to leave. He sounds and acts entitled , thinking the job is gonna get handed to him with little or no work on his part. 

    not for the most buy in intensive job in college football. 

    You deducted quite a lot from a two second shot on television of the sidelines. Maybe you should slow down and roll up your jump to conclusions board. 

  7. 9 hours ago, futureman said:

    you sure use lots of words to say not much of anything.  who the hell doesn’t “want to” be good?  of course he wanted to be good.  who wouldn’t?  he probably didn’t “want to” skull fuck the DL across from him and curb-stomp his ass into the fucking dirt on every play.  that kind of “want to” would’ve served him well. 

    A lot of players come into a program and are lazy. Your spiel of thread shitting on any and all football related discussions is tiresome. 

  8. 28 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

    I bet you’re a guy who claims to hate stereotypes, huh? How can there ever be progress on racial tension if we all continue to make stupid ass statements like this? 

    He is the same asshole that called me racist a few times on the Shag. Just ignore him. 

  9. 28 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

    Our incoming QB is always going to be our next savior, right? This time next year he’ll be the backup who’s never taken a snap and therefore unproven at the college level. /Fan logic

    I don’t think I nor anyone else on this thread called him a savior. If you are a backup at another school and scouting out potential places, are you likely to pick a school with our depth chart? You know, the school that is losing QB’s to avoid having five scholarship players on a depth chart where the current starter is a true sophomore? 

  10. 5 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    You sir, are a moron and should never post again. Wonder if they look at another 2019 or even another transfer. Both rising and Thompson leaving could be a big problem. Hopefully we can keep one 

    There really would be no transfer worth anything that would come here. You have your starter and primary backup with two years of eligibility. On top of that, you have a star recruit who is enrolling early. I guess you could sign a development freshman? But what does that really get you? 

    What this means now is no project for 2020. It’s going all out for a Johnson level recruit. 

    Edit: this is assuming  you lose both 

  11. Just now, ClubWhatever said:

    The truth.  We’ve had some guys express that they might want to transfer. I’m not going to name names. We are having discussions with them and their families to see what’s best for them and the team. 

    I assume you just starting watching football what, since last Thursday? 

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  12. 1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

     


    Both are gone in my opinion, because their reasons for leaving are different and not impacted that much by each other. Rising doesn’t want to run that much. I always wondered about that when they signed him. Thompson thinks he’s too low in the depth chart and even if Rising leaves he could still be looking at 3rd to 4th. Of course if he goes somewhere else, in order to play he’s going to have to find a unicorn situation.


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    Look I don’t pretend like I have any insight. It certainly is possible. I think this portal is going to create a lot more anxiety amongst fans and soon people will realize this kind of thing always happened and we just never had a database to let us track it. 

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    1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

    Ok, who are we signing at QB in the second signing period? What redshirt freshman can we swap for another dumbass redshirt freshman at another school?


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    I doubt we see them both leave. If they did it was because Shane stayed and with Johnson enrolling early, there would be no need to get another QB. 

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  14. 10 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    Well, you have to want to actually be an offensive lineman for reasons beyond just being able to get your hands on other dudes. I don’t know if he checked “every” mental attribute. “Want to” matters. 

    That’s where this gets difficult. If we are working under the assumption that OL with the most upside recently are players who have not even come close to reaching their physical potential in high school (as evidenced by the average star rating of pro bowlers), what are your mental evaluation checklists? If it were any other position it would most likely be centered around their likelihood to stay humble and motivated to keep working to maximize their potential 2, 3 or even 4 years down the rode. It would also include a run down of obvious red flags like grades, off the field issues, distance and family support system. 

    You never wonder if a guy that played WR in high school “wants” to play the position. But in the case of Hutchins, he was still growing into his body playing power forward when DeSoto coaches asked for help on the offensive line. Then schools started offering him based on his base athleticism. How do you know in 3 years a guy that just started playing a position will live, eat and breath blocking techniques? 

    Hutchins had a great family support. He made good grades. He absolutely owned the gym. He is a yes sir, no sir type of student. What other checks are you going to run on a high school student to guage the “want to”? He absolutely wanted to be good. This was not a Ben Wells type situation. 

    I guess if there were easy answers to this someone would have figured it out by now. 

  15. Despite futureman’s best attempt to badly mimick Hank Scorpio and derail an actual discussion on football, he accidentally stumbled upon an interesting data point while being an idiot. 

    Marcus Hutchins is the player that clouds the discussion even more. He was the undersized, basketball player with super high athleticism and a strong work ethic. I saw him alley-oop dunk a ball over a few Duncanville players and thought who the heck thinks this guys is an offensive linemen? He also loved football and was a very physical young man. But he was a total bust . So you think you just sign 240-260 athletes and grow them into linemen and you have it figured out. But that is just as hard as well to project as well. Hutchins also checked every mental attribute you would want in a football player. 

     

     

  16. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    White guy here as well, but at some point, it’s time to break out the truth. Strong was named as the other man in the Louisville booster lawsuit. He was fucking another woman at Louisville and when it all came to light and embarrassed his wife and kids while at Texas, he slept in the office or in a guest room at his own house for the final year of his time at Texas. The “good guy” narrative is literally something white people are using to fend of the blunt instrument of blanket race-baiting when a minority takes humbrage to a white person leveling criticism at a minority that doesn’t feel good. 

    I would be lying if I said being called a racist did not enter my mind before saying he is a dumb motherfucker. Probably because I was routinely called a racist on the old Fire Charlie Strong thread on the shag. 

    He reminds me a lot of Chan Gailey. I thought Gailey was a great guy. Treated reporters with respect and was not a cesspool of a human being like Switzer before him. On the old ESPN Cowboy boards I would qualify all of my Gailey criticisms with “look I like him as a man but”....

    And like Strong, he really struggled processing all of the in game elements and would fuck up basic shit. Give him a more defined scope like maximize offensive personnel and play calling and he thrived. Give him a head coaching job and his brain literally melted down. He did not have the mental capacity to process everything he needed  to.  

    Strong is the black Chan Gailey. 

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