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  1. 35 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Yep. Read an article the other day saying the Lions drafted the wrong Tennessee QB. I was baffled because his only argument was age, not production. He didn't even pretend that Goff could get hurt, he basically just made the argument that by the time Goff's contract is up Hooker will be 30 and out of a job (which wholly untrue), and Milton would be younger. Never mind that Milton is terrible, but he made the argument that he's mobile (which he didn't show in college. He was a statue) because he ran a 4.55 in the 40. The writer is a moron. 

    i am continually amazed at how terrible these people are at basic talent evaluation and cognitive thinking when it is literally their jobs to cover this stuff. 

  2. 27 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

    Simmons and Moore are the best pure pass rushers

    Finkley gets pushed around a little too easily.

    Akana was highly recruited but at 215 lbs needs another real year of S&C.

    Walton and Tapp are total unknowns. 

    Burke is solid, Sorrell looks maxed out and is not a pass rushing threat

    Tapp has been developing nicely, and keeps growing. It would not surprise me if they move him over to Jack behind Sorrell. Akana seems to me to have been a bad take. 215 lbs and the guy is almost 21. I doubt he ever really sees the field. 

  3. 4 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


    Finkley flashed last year and I thought that he might be ready this year but you've got to think that Simmons, Sorrell, Moore and Burke are going to be there and we're hearing great things about Walton, too.  We're running out of snaps. Finkley would start on almost any team.

    It's an embarrassment of riches, though I'm not embarrassed.

     

    Finkley is a good player and he got better late in the season, but he has a real ceiling on his physical attributes due to his length. He is a good player to come in and spell a starter, but I bet Vasek and/or Tapp passes him with a strong spring. He also plays school though, so who knows if he would leave. The other guy I am a little concerned about is Billy Walton. The staff loves the guy, but with Simmons and Moore coming in, I wonder how many snaps he actually gets.

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  4. On 3/26/2024 at 8:28 AM, closetojumping said:

    No, the guy he linked is the recruit I was referring. I'll bother learning how to say and spell his name if Texas lands him.

    Folks are high on Lefau though, no doubt. I don't know if anyone is comparing him to former longhorn greats the way they are with the Cali recruit, but things look promising.

    Tagoai is a jet off the edge, but still small. If he tipped 190 I would be shocked. Still a very good looking prospect. 

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  5. 50 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Some things to think about for this cycle:

    -The ranking of this class will only be limited by how many high school players Sarkisian wishes to take. If they take 27+, I think they'll be ranked in the top 3. Less than that, top 5.

    -They're getting outreach from players and their camps at multiple positions. NIL rep helps, but so does putting guys into the league and running a style of play that guys find attractive. In a stacked in-state class at WR, they're getting national interest and could take basically whoever they want. OL looks similar.

    -Notice how they're working OVs for more players than they have scholarships available at numerous positions. You're seeing it at OL, Edge, DT, TE and DB. I would not be surprised to see some more Nate Kibbling happening this cycle at some of these spots. You want in? We need your commitment now or we can't take it. We have a bunch of guys coming in next week for the same position if we don't have your commitment. Obviously that isn't going to happen to the truest 5 stars, but it could happen at a very, very high level of talent in various spots. 

    -Notice how they're not working on back-ups at a few spots. That indicates, to me, that they know who they're getting and the NIL element is already sorted. There isn't a backup plan for RB1, MLB1, OLB1. 

    -Some of what Texas does at the HS level is going to be informed by this next transfer cycle. They're expecting to lose some guys at the 3rd string level even they don't want to do so. They have to no matter what. If they lose 4 OL instead of 1-2, that means 5-6 OL instead of 4-5. Similarly at LB or DT. Positions that they'd generally do better developing than grabbing from the portal will play a bigger role in the class.

    -The QB thing is kind of weird and might get weirder. 

    -If there is more than another 1-2 commits ahead of June, I'd be kind of stunned. 

    I don't fully comprehend why the QB situation with Lacy is even a thing. Is it just a territory pissing match with Auburn and Bama as they muddy the waters with NIL? Is he not fully sold on *gasp* having to sit more than 1 season? Is he even fully convinced he wants to come here?

  6. Just looking at that single return it could truly be a game changer in terms of scheme. You have stationary targets that you can actually create blocking assignments and other plays with. It looks dumb as shit, but I kind of like it. 

  7. 12 minutes ago, nnm said:

    I don’t want to wade into the cesspool, but is Texags blaming their NCAA loss to Houston on the refs, despite Houston fouling out 4 of their starting 5?  Would be perfectly on brand. 

    No clue, but it wouldn't surprise me to see at least one "At least we lasted longer in the tournament than the sips" due to their having a later tip off. 

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  8. On 3/24/2024 at 8:46 AM, Chooky said:

    Some cities will be told "no."

     

     

    Why would you even take this picture when you have an entire season to play before you hit the draft? Can you imagine if Quinn was posing with NFL team hats already, the shit storm that would cause?

  9. 10 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    more of the same in Athens. 

    So he was driving drunk while trying to endure paper mache porn stuck to his windows? Ahem.. I wouldn't know anything about paper macheing porn to windows. 

  10. This is just an intern level journalist acting like Arch owes him something. He can’t fathom why Arch didn’t allow him an interview when they allowed literally zero interviews during his recruitment. “Oh man… lighten up. I have a studio apartment to pay for. First Kim Kardashian no showed for coffee, then President Biden ghosted me, and now Arch Manning won’t talk to me. This is bullshit man.”

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  11. 20 minutes ago, deft said:

    “By announcing this in such a context, Del Conte has the plausible deniability of saying he was talking about one of the big questions relevant to Texas Athletics moving forward. However, he also was the first to announce it, giving the impression that the Longhorns are the leader in the arrangement.”

    Didn’t aggy try to break the news first that big bad tu moving to the secsecsec? Or negotiating to do so? By that comparison, was aggy the leader in the decision to bring Texas to the conference?

    And also didnt they scream and throw fits in the floor to every media outlet that would listen saying that the first game back was at Kyle Field when no such conversations had taken place?

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  12. 1 hour ago, ousux said:

    Consider a recent instance: Chris Del Conte, at a Q&A session on the Texas campus, announced that they would be playing Texas A&M annually. This is an interesting point of political maneuvering. Let me explain.
    By announcing this in such a context, Del Conte has the plausible deniability of saying he was talking about one of the big questions relevant to Texas Athletics moving forward. However, he also was the first to announce it, giving the impression that the Longhorns are the leader in the arrangement. Not only this, but a necessary consequence was revealing that the SEC would be moving to a different scheduling model than the one that they had previously been operating under!
    This is the kind of underhanded politicking that we can expect from our neighbors to the west.
    There’s an undying, obsessive concern with image out there that leads to putting people in positions of power out there that are experts in, if nothing else, public relations and image management.

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  13. 23 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Well check out the big brain on BurntOrange&White ;)  

    It's a little low on the FBS pecking order, but still checks some boxes.  But our fancy SEZ & new NEZ scoreboard/seating configuration aren't gonna pay for themselves.  2025's San Jose State, UTEP, Sam Houston State, and Vanderbilt...that's 2/3 of our schedule that's not gonna get favorable TV coverage and likely kick-off in the morning on ESPNU or some shit like that and kill concession/catering revenue and TV eyeballs.  Ah well, gonna be some growing pains in the new format.  

    You act like this is different than every other SEC team. They have the same schedule configuration and half the teams play Vandy. We are the draw, not the other way around. We got pissed because Fox perpetually put us in their national timeslot at 11AM for over half of our games every season and we were playing Kansas, Iowa State, and Baylor. Are you the chair of the concessions committee?

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  14. 6 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    It’s 100% sec. 

    I have heard otherwise from media types. It doesn't meet the SEC criteria of "accretive addition", so it would be a debatable pickup for the SEC other than locking B1G schools out of Florida. Florida doesn't want them there, and they have shown that when they don't get their way they will be a petulant child shitting in their high chair out of spite. If I were one of the P2, I would think twice about having them in the conference. It would be hilarious if they shot their way out of the conference, and then did not get an invite from the P2 and had to settle for the B12. That said, if they are going to all of this trouble, surely they have a wink wink acknowledgement that they would get an invite somewhere right? Right??

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