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Vertigo

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  1. Just keep playing NCAA 14 then.
  2. Yeah, not enough alcohol on the planet to make my rank go more than 2 deep, and even that is a stretch. 2 is more of a winter special. Probably more feasible in December than June. Edit: Looks like #2 is their coach, and shows upside potential.
  3. Surprising on Williams considering the hype he has gotten, but if I am looking at his hudl with fresh eyes there is nothing that is jumping out at me as being elite.
  4. I have actually spoken to the head of marketing at EA in the last 12ish months. They understand the scrutiny on this game will be intense. I told her that they better not screw this up. The developers and project leaders on this game are hardcore CFB fans, which gives me hope that they will get it within the zip code of being a great game.
  5. No, it is not an entirely different engine. It will be built on the Frostbite engine, which is what current Madden is built on. It will not be a reskin of Madden however, it sounds like EA is going to go heavy on RPO offenses, and still have the option based attacks in the game to go with all of the other flavors you see in CFB. I am really excited for it. The look and feel of the game will be very unique. I am curious about the physics, but will just have to wait and see on that.
  6. The note on Baker is interesting, but wake me up when they are saying this after pads come on. I doubt he is going to be moving people like Cam Williams in the run game. My biggest concern with Simmons putting on weight that fast is losing flexibility and explosiveness. He will need to do an equal amount of work to get that back. Sydir Mitchell not vying for starter snaps is not gruntling. Lefau and Bledsoe news is very gruntling. Roberson being compared to Crawford is lol
  7. You mean delivering a huge bag to a kid prior to him ever stepping foot on campus and having his parents force him into a school due to being the highest bidder is not a sound recruiting strategy for long term development? I did not see that coming.
  8. We arent in the SEC until July, but Makuba and Filsaime probably puts the kaibosh on that.
  9. Neither were clean, but what they did paled in comparison to what they were capable of, which is maybe a better way to say it. Texas isn't a total boy scout either if we are being honest, but admittedly far cleaner than those two. We only really flexed on the B12 the last 2 years, and we see how fast we turned shit around and reminded the also ran programs like Iowa State, Baylor, and K State who the fuck daddy was.
  10. Yeah, being a first or second round draft pick and the running back for the Dallas Cowboys sucks balls.
  11. There is probably a lot of truth in what you say. Tons of schools profited on the big boys like Texas, USC, Georgia, etc running cleanish programs while they were able to load up what resources they had to outbid for key recruits. But honestly, if this is their mindset already then they very well may become the next Nebraska. Unable to compete and adjust in changing times. Anyone thinking the NCAA is going to do anything but implode into itself like the dying star it is has already lost.
  12. Honestly, I am sure this would get swatted down quickly if any school really cared about enough about it to challenge. I am sure some enterprising lawyer could argue that photo shoots and decorated hotel rooms are forms of NIL, and thus not able to be regulated by the NCAA.
  13. Liucci may have just had a stroke.
  14. TCU and SMU (also Liberty) have dropped formal affiliations with religious institutions over the last decade from my understanding. TCU has a divinity school that is no longer part of the campus officially, but those students can access TCU facilities.
  15. It is going to be extremely rare that you have two undefeated teams in conference playing for a championship. Maybe not so rare to have two 1 loss teams in the championship. It would be a fairly simple exercise to give the conference champ title to the team with the better record. The tie breaker could be better conference record first, followed by better overall record. You could call it co-champs if they are still tied, but you could also move to whoever has the higher rank in the CFP if you just absolutely wanted one champ. In the new era of the expanded CFP, I can guarantee you that most coaches would prefer to not have to play that extra game in prep for the playoffs.
  16. You are correct, even more reason to do away with CCG and maybe even drop a non conference regular season game and go back to 11.
  17. How can this be when the B12 runs through Lubbock? TCU is getting a recency bias bump, no way they are 5th. I would put WVU, UCF, KState, and even Iowa State over them.
  18. Nah man, K-State and Iowa State for sure have us on the list. They really have an irrational hatred of all things Texas to the extent that it is a boogie man complex. Baylor, TCU, and Tech as well. Nebraska, Arkansas, OU, A&M. That leaves two more schools and I have no idea where those are coming from. Houston and Rice maybe?
  19. Enjoyment of recruits and players is at the bottom of the list for the NCAA, but this is right in their wheelhouse. Making completely arbitrary rulings on random minutia is what the fat bureaucratic slop pigs want to wallow in all day every day.
  20. Going to 16 teams will ensure that every team needs to play 3 games to win the title. That will drastically impact the regular season. I could see conference championship games going away since the top teams will essentially play an NFL schedule.
  21. Gerry has hinted that Texas wants more size at that position and isn't really pushing for him. This is Zac Swanson 2.0 as a frame.
  22. I truly wonder if it is possible for them to have a thread on texags that does not mention us. I am not sure I have ever seen one.
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