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Newy25

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  1. 1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Brett Favre says hi

    I think we ultimately learned Favre knew the risks he was taking and just took them anyway. He became much more mature and learned to just not take those risks. It was not an issue of him having a low football IQ rather a low football maturity. 

    I hope in Sam's case he is an immature gunslinger like Favre and can learn to reign those risks in. 

  2. To transfer into the business school when I was at Texas, you had to have a minimum of a 3.5 GPA to even be considered.Assuming no athlete special treatment happened here that means Sam had an excellent first year at Texas. Congrats to him. 

  3. 14 hours ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Robinson’s not a horrible prospect but he’s not that great of one either. Medley’s not a horrible take if you already have OT taken care of and you plan to play him at G. If you look at aggy’s 2019 and 2020 classes as a whole, you see a bunch of not overly mobile interior linemen. Each take in and of itself isn’t horrible, but when you’re a school that needs tackles badly, those are not good classes at all.

    Also, finding prospects who could become solid guards isn’t tough. Settling for these guys this early in the cycle (and especially the 2020 cycle) is not good.

    We should all be very well versed in the practice of taking guard prospects early in the cycle by now. Hopefully it turns out for them the same way it did for us. 

  4. 4 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    Hahaha this thread is the greatest. I had a late night working and busy morning, went to the baseball game, phone died and had to catch up on work when I got back, finally get around to reading the thread and I find people learning about Raf, posting pictures of Tex’s jacket, having a legit RB discussion, and questioning EJ’s orientation.

    Recruiting thread is the Tits! 

    FIFY

  5. 30 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    247 apparently had a employee best shoes competition and he didn't win and he's saying that's ridiculous because he has shoes by all of these expensive streetwear brands. Nevermind that they're ugly as sin most of the time...

    That man is 100%,  Special Olympic, gay. 

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  6. 4 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    Not at this stage. Herman is only gonna be really involved when you start talking to profs about classes, direction of the program, stuff with the family - how to grow the man from the boy, how the university benefits you regardless of football. For a meeting like this you'll get position specific stuff (film study - chalk talk, etc ) as well as meeting with Yancey (or his team), the nutritionist,  and a lot of other player-centric between the stipes type conversations and then some time with several players to get a feel for them and for them to get a feel for you. No need to take those next steps if there's problems here (and we can look to several guys in the past few classes that didn't pass the smell test from the current players). 

    I agree that is the normal protocol but this is not a normal recruit. My guess is if they were not already committed somewhere else he would be getting a lot of attention from Herman.  

  7. I dont know why I thought if this just now (maybe it was because of the idea of a head coach changing his travel plans to accomidate a top Florida recruit) but remember when Fred Rouse dropped in for a visit? He apparently showed up smelling of pot and stoned off his balls and that was the end of that recruitment.  

  8. 20 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Tell me which sites were touting this and I will tell you which sites have zero connections to the program. They are only getting info from the staff as pawns. Seriously, list them out and it will be a good data point for all of us. 

    Justin Wells IT for one. 

  9. Just now, Machinator said:

    Good news: Trey Sanders is on campus.

    Bad news: The secret visitor won't make it. That visitor: Marcel Brooks.

    The mystery recruit never makes it in. That's what is so awesome about the mystery recruit. Something always falls though. 

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  10. 1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Eh. Maybe but he was already scheduled to visit on tuesday.

    It's a commit that they are not supposed to say anything about. Caldwell has basically been telling everyone he is about to flip so I doubt it's him. 

  11. 8 hours ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

    Agreed, this thread is full of whining and bitching when none of us have any idea how these HS players will turn out. The NFL is full of busts, and they have 3-4 years of college data + thousands of hours of analysis by professional scouts. 

    Outside of your 5-10 true five stars, this is pretty close to a crap shoot. 

    Some players will want to play for Texas, some won't. Great! 

    The old "recruiting is not that important because some guys do not pan out" sunshine pumper defense. That's one of the best defensive mechanisms of the sunshine crowd when we are not recruiting well at a position. 

    This despite the overwhelming macro evidence suggesting otherwise. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, ShowMeALoss said:

    I just scrolled through your posts and none of them are worth reading, and unfortunately for you and the board, you have been doing this for a while. The fact that you are not getting better at it after so many tries speaks volumes.

    Case in point: here is one of your latest posts: "We don’t want too many smart guys on the team. They can be problematic. They can start thinking about things like preserving their health. We need some dumb guys willing to totally sacrifice their bodies to win. Ya, that’s it." What the hell, man? Only teenagers would reason like this.

    Now carry on.

     

    Not sure if retarded or if we have reached inception level trolling. 

  13. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    Fuck it, I'll go. I got recruited by some of the Ivy schools and a couple of small little schools in the NE for football. So I talk to this guy at Dartmouth about a visit. It's November and I'm 17 and poor as fuck and also know that I have a kid on the way, potentially (definitely, it turned out), and I've got scholarships and shit to Texas on the academic side. So I'm like, "how does all of this work?" and he's like "based on all of the info at hand, we can cover half of your fully loaded costs with Pell grants. you would have to figure out how to make the other half of your expenses work. " and I say "how much are we talking about?" his answer "total expenses should come in around $30,000 a year". Click. Not really, I am sure I was nice in getting off the phone, but never took another college football recruiting call again. $15k to my family might as well have been $15million. 

    That is freakishly similiar to my story. Notre Dame offered me 8k a year. Leaving a gap of.....way more than I could ever beg or borrow for. I was devastated then at the reality that I could not afford to go my dream school. It turns out that going to Texas was the best thing that I could have ever done. 

    Im here in Ithaca for the wife’s reunion at Cornell and I still think Texas is a better school than this place. 

    It may not seem like it to Bragg but Texas would give him every academic and professional oportunity he could get at Stanford. 

  14. I was too poor to even apply to those schools. The application fees were like 100-200 dollars a school at those places back in the day. It might as well have been a million dollars to me. The one I picked, Notre Dame (because MFing Rudy) made me pay my own way for the interview. I basically had to give up a kidney to do that. 

    I assume when Bragg gets offered by all of these schools they waive the fees since they are offering a full scholarship?  That and all  expense paid visits must be nice. And no interviewing that is required at some of these schools. 

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