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  1. I was ready to call a Sengun/Giannis trade nuts but I just looked up his stats and Giannis is really, really well rounded. I’s probably favor standing pat because of health concerns (particularly due to age and mileage), but a healthy Giannis on this team is undoubtedly a stronger squad.
  2. If that had any merit our 2025 o-line would be rockstars. We ran out a very good DLine this year and every bit comparable or better than Georgia.
  3. I love a good explainer but I don't have the attention span to sit still for 54 minutes looking at someone with a cold sore. Cliff notes?
  4. What makes you think Vasek’s future portaling is up to him?
  5. Speaking of that, there‘s a fun NY Times Op Ed today from someone positing that the Supremes are actually trying to rescue democracy because the Legislative Branch has ceded so much of its authority to the Executive. They truly are the bulwark against continued despotism! Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
  6. I’m not following your point and was referencing that offer in my post. You think another team is giving him the Jabari contract as a restricted free agent? I think the most likely scenario is a sign and trade after the season and that’s mostly if it’s mutually beneficial, and not because Tari has some kind of incredible leverage.
  7. Tari Eason is going to into restricted free agency and there's no immediate need to trade him. I'm a little skeptical that another team is going to be offering that much more than the reported Rockets offer for someone who's missed a whole season's worth of games in his first four seasons of play.
  8. Mocking west Austin partisans is 2nd only to Aggie jokes as a source of mirth. Interesting that, if you're correct about the numbers, the are predominately on the offense.
  9. Re: Henry, Jr., it's a win simply if we made OSU dig deeper into their pockets for him.
  10. Phil Klay with a really good piece on this in the NY Times, I'll gift it because the whole things is worth reading and some good St. Augustine quotes for@Kyrie Eleison, @Brisketexan, and @Ghost of LL that used to contribute to the old Hornfans philosophy thread. What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes Choice quote:
  11. Haha, always one of my favorite surly shout-outs.
  12. Why would we be happy about Michael Huff leaving? Hah, I was thinking the same thing. So I talk to a couple of former GA's and guys that have had an analyst title and they will report to not knowing shit outside of their position group, which makes me wonder who is the "source" that can comment on the entire roster.
  13. I meant to add something to this effect and I agree; I’m not particularly bullish on Texas’ chances in the playoff this year and I’d rather the coaching staff have some early mover advantages going into portal season. I started taking a look at the roster for dead weight and I didn’t see that much behind the guys that played. There’s a lot of first and second year guys behind older players, and maybe they are candidates but it’s hard to know. Guys like Neto, Vasek, and Will Randle are more obviously passed over and those are easy. Maybe a couple of RB, a couple of the 2nd year “DB” who don’t have a clean position fit or OL that seemed passed over by a freshman Brooks at LG.
  14. That's 25% of the roster and terrible roster management (more concerning, NIL deployment) if it happens to that degree. I get there's inevitably scouting misses but that's way past trimming a little fat.
  15. I'm going to take the under but wow if it's even close to this number.
  16. When I say in his favor, it's evidence that he's able to make adjustments that lead to improvement. Again, I don't think we have visibility into what was going on in practice. Why, for example, did it appear Stroh was working? One of my biggest complaints about the $9.95 coterie is they don't seem to dig into these kinds of questions and I think it's partially because Flood is one of their best sources. I'm not trying to defend Flood, I don't care who the coach is as long as they are pancaking defensive lineman and I have a suspicion that a good bit of the under-performance is unrelated to Flood's efficacy as a coach.
  17. Just playing this out, but do you? How do you know that Flood didn’t recommend grabbing lineman in the portal last winter and Sarkisian told him that money was getting devoted to DT? I think if you want to fire Flood it also needs to be because the line got dominated by Georgia in 2024, performed poorly in the Sugarbowl versus Washington, and that was with a Lombardi award winner and other lineman with lots of experience/NFL prospects. One might say that’s true of any top 5 vs top 5 match-up but it’s evident we aren’t matching the success Alabama’s offense had under Sarkisian and that was the standard presumably when you hired him. In his favor, the line clearly improved between Florida and A&M.
  18. I'm still bullish on Alphabet because a) they aren't getting broken up during the current admin and b) they are monetizing AI in a way that's going to become increasingly clear the others cannot do so yet. Not sure if this is a 2026 impact, but I'm long-term bearing on Meta because it has nowhere to grow and I think ultimately the end user recognizes the product has social harms. I liken it to a Diageo or Constellation Brands, in that consumer tastes are shifting away from it not because of policy changes but consumer preference for something healthier. Also, parents are going to continue to push for later adoption of mobile devices and it's absence in schools, and this later adoption I think will help disconnect successive generations from habitual social media engagement (it'll still be huge, just less so). I'm a little bearish on Amazon, too, but I think the market already recognizes they are struggling to grow revenue. Maybe even more than Meta, there's also some externalities that Amazon has exploited and that make them far more exposed to policy changes (like the tariffs, but also product fraud, huge amounts of product waste, very capable management in direct competitors, etc.)
  19. Hmmmm...., I do wonder who might be most responsible for collecting intel and advising the coaching staff on this....
  20. My impression is that the real GM is Sark, and he doesn’t want to move off Harris because it’s comfortable. This might also account for the decision making paralysis when Sark is absent.
  21. I appreciate Bobby’s ongoing contribution to Texas athletics, but he looks like someone who just lost his trailer in a tornado and shouldn’t be in front of a camera.
  22. Also that dude is invulnerable and health is a skill. I’d still be laying on the turf if I took a hit and flip like he did in Gainesville.
  23. I'm over MWND at anything over $100 and as a novelty.
  24. I don't want to exaggerate the testimonial on it, but I was talking to one of the GA's that worked under him at Texas and he said good things. That said, I'm more intrigued by schools hiring NFL guys that have more of a scouting background and are used to the role or have been a direct report one. None of which describes Brandon Harris, of course. Paying that dude $600K a year when Glasscock makes $425K is nuts.
  25. I was talking with someone that worked with Babers at (I think) 1300 and he said Babers was blazed out of his mind every day and that was partially why he wasn't aspiring to more than radio. This was before marriage and children so I'm sure that's old gossip. Honestly I try to avoid anything that doesn't have Gerry in it. The other recruiting/general purpose OTF guys don't offer any particular insight doing post-game grades and the coaches surprisingly seem to be only a little better (i.e., they aren't doing film break-downs). It's kind of shitty that the Dunn/Applewhite radio show remains the most intriguing post-game review on Texas football I've listened to and that lasted about six months and was fifteen years ago. Say what you want about Scipio, at least he offers more than "yeah, that was really bad", or "the line really struggled with X".
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