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Vertigo

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  1. Honestly though, Hamm has a cult following. It's like a car crash of delusion and little man syndrome in our own personal snow globe that we get to shake up whenever we want. It is going to be hard to keep that off the board. 

     

    Plot twist: I have nothing to do with crossposting content. 

  2. 7 minutes ago, 6FigsHandler said:

    My ONLY request is that when we put premium content up, you don't repost the information, since we're a relative start-up who will rely on subscriptions to pay the bills. As long as we can agree to that, everything is fair game

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  3. 11 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    Because neither black nor white have specific wavelengths, they are not considered colors. 

    Bitch Im fabulous

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  4. On 5/13/2018 at 8:38 AM, EvilCaseMcCoy said:

    Some super cool guy called badmofo.  He won the job by deepthroating an entire plantain.  It was quite a contest.  Everyone was told to bring their own banana, but badmofo, being the bad motherfucker that he Is, brought a plantain.  Plantains, as you're probably aware,  are much larger and coarser than regular bananas.  We were all so impressed that we begged him to run this ship.  He celebrated by offering to take on a butternut squash, but after a heated debate, we decided it wasn't necessary.  

     

    Plot twist: he did it anyway.

  5. On 5/18/2018 at 4:32 PM, UT Lawnghorn said:

     

    Sadly, you're both right. Our options at TE are what I would call "serviceable," and yet that could easily be a huge source of improvement from what we rolled out last year. 

    Beck will be a huge help to our run game, and if we run 2 TEs, Leitao should be pretty scary down the middle with CJ/LJH on the outside. My guess is that Brewer may not be up to full speed for at least the first part of the season.

  6. 56 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:



    Just watched Jake's HUDL highlights for the second time. Sweet Jesus, that kid is really, REALLY good and really, REALLY fast. 

     

    Seriously, I just watched for the first time. I don't want to be lazy and throw out a Christian McAffrey reference, but he is kind of that Percy Harvin play everywhere type. Holy shit that would be a huge get. 

  7. 32 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    You can't do that in flip flops. I'm sure he took them off and jumped in his socks.

     

    I guess Charlie is his fashion guru.

    There is a distinct lack of tigers for me to truly believe this. 

  8. 4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I appreciate the work TFB does. I think they're the best of the $9.95ers and I'd consider subscribing when I have time for another board again.

    That considered, I really don't like to see non-scientific thinking applying correlation to a disparate set of facts. It creates a narrative that isn't correct.

    Mack Brown didn't go out of state in part because he woke a sleeping giant, sure, and in part because he got very lazy, very early, and harmed the program accordingly. I'll argue he was lazy-ish about his recruiting approach from the moment he realized he could fill an entire class of Texans and legacy UT people. By the time even 2005 rolled around, he'd cemented the premise that if someone wanted to come to Texas from OOS, they were going to have to recruit Texas aggressively, versus the other way around. As a result, Texas signed virtually no one from OOS for years. Mack Brown failed to exploit the national reach of the UT program out of sheer sloth and hubris, and then he bragged about it, and the press coverage rewarded his idiocy by lavishing him with praise. The program would have been stronger and deeper if Brown had taken a sweeping approach to recruiting the best players available after setting a Texas foundation in each class. Had he done so, Texas would have never run into QB, TB, WR, DL, or LB depth issues during his tenure. UT has been at or near the top in global merchandise sales and viewership from 2000 forward and Brown did little to exploit that national reach. I view it as a sin.

    Now consider Tom Herman's approach. What he's doing now is nothing different in landscape view than Meyer at OSU or Florida, Saban at Bama, Fulmer at Tennessee, ND ever, Miami under Johnson, Erickson, and Davis, and particularly Bowden at FSU and Carroll at USC. Bowden and Carroll are the best analogs to me because they'd created national programs, or took over national programs, inside a recruiting hotbed. They built every class with a foundation of local talent that could compete at their level and continue to keep the program elite. Then they went out and went hunting for the best of the best at either positions of weakness within their own local realm, or simply because they could and felt they needed to in order to win titles. Herman's approach appears to be similar and I hope that continues to develop as he achieves higher levels of performance success at the helm of Texas. 

    So, I agree that Strong did what he felt he had to do out of necessity. I disagree that Mack Brown stayed largely within the Texas border merely because he soundly could. He could have done more, and he didn't. I disagree that Herman is a) doing something OOS out of semi-desperate necessity and b) will change his current approach once he's in a spot to dictate his class with Texas talent alone.  If he does get lazy or myopic about his recruiting needs/reach, history dictates that we should know better, unite as recruitniks, storm the Belmont fortress, and cast him and his minions over the top of the upper westside deck. 

    I agree, Bama could not sustain their dominance without a huge influx of OOS talent each year. As rich of a territory as Texas is for recruiting, the best of the best at each position don't always live here every cycle. 

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