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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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  2. 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. 

  3. 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. 

     

     

  4. 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. 

  5. 1 hour ago, Machinator said:

    You don't need to be a professional to see that a guy who was temporarily suspended from his high school team, is a potential qualifying risk, and has been a bit of a drama queen for the stretch run of his recruitment might be a flake at the college level.

    But how can you be sure if you have not personally given him an examination? 

  6. 13 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:


    Contribute? Yah, sure as shit had some hope he'd contribute if he signed, that's why a lot of us have talked about him on this here recruiting message board. I'd take a chance on that.


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    A lot of us have been pretty consistent in saying that you cannot even count Shepherd as a commit because of the high likelihood that he either a) will not qualify b) decommit or c) flame out even if he does qualify. 

    Linemen are the hardest to project because they need someone to dedicate themselves to their craft for 2-3 years sometimes before they can really contribute and that requires humility, discipline and determination and those traits tend to be absent in guys like Shepherd. His need for constant gratification and attention are directly at odds with what is required mentally for him to develop into a tackle. 

     

  7. 7 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

     


    I won’t disagree with the underlying point, but you realize USC has 9.95rs also, right? They would be doing the same thing. As big of a catch he would be for us, he’d be even bigger for their class.

     

     Bru is going to USC. It was worth the shot but it’s over. 

  8. 4 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Colt Barber started a hashtag of "P2W" and a bunch of baylor folks are tweeting it. 

    I'm pretty sure its meaning is "pay to win". 

    I think they are now accusing Texas of paying Hookin. So we've gone from "lying", to "deceiving", to "they are cheating". 

    When do you go from being a journalist to being a booster? He is the Taylor Hamm of the Baylor network but with a slightly. better personal life. 

  9. 1 minute ago, fellside said:

    I'm just going to piece together a Bru McCoy conspiracy theory real quick.

    1. DeGabriel Floyd's tweets suggested he had confidence Texas was landing someone else and he's been recruiting Bru hard.

    2. There are reports that Bru favors Texas, but USC is more comfortable because of the location and people he knows.

    3. Tom Herman said that he expected to land 1 or 2 more LOI's THIS signing period.

    4. Bru apparently is sending his LOI this signing period.

    Conclusion:  Bru is already in

     

    The one or two more signings is likely a reference to Shepherd and Hookfin. Bru is signing with USC. 

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  10. 5 minutes ago, NoName said:

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    Per 24/7, they haven't heard that ATH Bru McCoy signed yesterday but he has been accepted by both Texas and USC.

    Coach Mehringer has spoken with the famiy in the last 48 hours and he's still scheduled to announce his decision at the All-American Bowl on January 5th.

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    Also from 24/7, they expect OL Isaiah Hoofkin of Fort Bend Dulles to sign his LOI before the early signing period ends.

    Things are trending positively for Texas, but it isn't a slam dunk.

    If you want to know how weird this recruitment is, the Hoofkin family claimed they weren't aware of all the problems Baylor has had in the past.

     

     

    That is absolutely astounding that they did not know of Baylor’s issues. 

  11. If you do not want schools to tell recruits you run a criminal organization where rape, steroids and even murder were at times condoned by your major coaches well, there is something you can do about that. 

    Stop fucking raping people and covering up murder. But by all means, get mad at us for telling a recruit to look it up. 

  12. 1 hour ago, futureman said:

    whose time?  your time?  not our time.  get a grip you fragile nitwit. 

    It’s hard to know when you are being satirical because, well you are not very funny. But wasting our time indeed. We went in on Sanders and we don’t really have a viable backup plan. That cost us more than “time”. It has the real chance of causing harm to our roster. 

    We need to decide at some point if we are going to play the game. Our strategy is kind of a half pregnant approach of going after southeast blue chip players but not willing to pay for commitments. 

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