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  1. Good. This is good. Are we supposed to be ashamed? This is how recruiting works in most organizations, particularly at the corporate level. This is how it works in lobbying. Fuck, this is largely how it works in dating. What’s the point of having an advantage if you don’t fully utilize it? Spend that fucking money. Ntm, the AD probably saved a bit on the fairly low key re-recruitment of Quinn. The department will see considerable returns from Arch being at Texas. That kid is the biggest boon to Texas Athletics since Kevin Durant in terms of visibility, and he will spend a lot more time on campus. You think Georgia didn’t see returns on their investment over the past few years? Who are the difference makers on the team currently? Ewers, Bijan, Worthy, Sanders, Banks, Overshown? 5-Star guys recruited by every national program. You do what you have to in order to distinguish yourself amongst your competition in those recruiting battles, and it’s not like they have a recent track record of overwhelming success to lean on. Put your best foot forward. Spend the money. I say add another million and transport the entire ProKick contingent each year so Banks et al. can hand pick the next Dickson (the family ties route didn’t work). Buy a few cases of Vegemite to leave under their pillow at the Four Seasons and you’re golden. I’m leery of the “let’s raid Texas Wesleyan” strategy, even if Texas is now 1/3 in Aussie punter hit rate. Keep swinging. And yes, I do believe the low-rent Ed Hochuli wannabe is a Big XII official. And he fucking sucks too.
  2. No, fuck that guy. He likes to beat his chest every time tech does anything slightly productive, but most of the time he is busy being a petty little bitch toward other fan bases in order to drive engagement because their own product is shit. His own followers fucking despise him because he is the biggest fairweather fan around and will turn on tech as soon as they struggle. His support of tech is largely contingent upon how well they are doing relative to Texas, and he still carries a grudge re beard despite claiming their new coach was the brains behind the operation all along. He also tried to dunk on Texas baseball after tech lost in regionals..it didn’t go well even among his own followers. What that moron doesn’t realize is that tech has been ranked in the AP top 25 for exactly TWO WEEKS (none consecutive) in the past EIGHT fucking YEARS, the most recent of which was four years ago, and that eight years of futility includes a period when they had a future nfl hc and a future nfl mvp leading the program. They suck, he sucks, and we don’t owe those semi-literate sacs of herpes fluid a goddamn thing once we leave the conference. Fuck them.
  3. While reading their rage posts about King over the past two weeks, I remembered that I saved a post I read from those dolts when he was named the starter a few weeks ago: “It was never a battle. Fisher always knew. Just wanted all the QBs to work off their asses and compete at highest level.” My first thought was—Weigman gave up a senior year of baseball and possible draft opportunities and Johnson left LSU for a fucking charade? I’ve since been trying to decide which is worse—King being demonstrably better than the other two guys, or Jimbo (and his rotation of nominal qb coaches) being incapable of accurately assessing the capabilities of the guys in that room…Then I realized the ambiguity over where the incompetence resides is the very essence of aggie fandom—it is seemingly undetectable yet somehow omnipresent (them settling on the explanation that “new army not passing it back” is to blame is just the cherry on top).
  4. I just want to say, on the eve of reaching page 100, many thanks to @texifornia for creating the thread and largely maintaining the flow of screenshots. This is some of the most entertaining content anywhere. Thank you to everyone for contributing in this space. I just finished revisiting page 75 and it has gotten better with age.
  5. Right, Texas fans cherry-pick single outcomes to define entire seasons…that’s fucking rich coming from a team who hasn’t had an opportunity to play in an actual season-defining final game (we won’t talk about how they did when it was just the eternal scoreboard on the line..) since the Packard 120 was the most popular car in the country, Gone with the Wind was the #1 film, Over the Rainbow was the hottest song topping a smashing hit from the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Hitler kicked things off on the cover of Time as its Man of the (previous) Year..Stalin was on the cover the week they won the championship in 1940. Ever since, cherry-picking otherwise meaningless individual game successes is exactly how you describe the entirety of their fucking major men’s athletic programs. We’re still hearing about the heroics of 2012 in Tuscaloosa despite the fact they shit the bed in Baton Rouge. And how Johnny refused to lose against duke..yes, duke in his final game. We continue to hear the bullshit fucking seven OT game vs lsu was a cfb instant classic despite a bogus call at the end of regulation and that somehow all the points they scored over ELEVEN periods of football are indicative of an awesome offensive display (yes, you scored 74 in eleven..ou scored 77 in three). And, you would think that they were totally hosed by the playoff committee for the second straight year last year after they defeated the mighty crimson tide because they casually forget to mention they lost to ole miss and lame duck lsu (having lost to arky and the other miss previously) after that triumphant victory and then those fucking cowards refused to play wake in the bowl..which they never include in their tales of last season. One team from that game last year played for the national championship, the other printed shirts to celebrate the upset win..but it’s the longhorns who assign value to meaningless results.
  6. That was hilarious. I swear it looked as though some of those players were trying to throw the game. Could this game wind up being like Texas beating ND, where both teams ended up being shit? I follow FSU in part because, like Nebraska, they are one of the few teams that have slipped in stature as much as Texas has over the past several seasons, and basking in their misery is therapeutic given how shitty the past dozen years have been. Anyway, their fans have not been very optimistic about the team’s prospects this season. They were feeling a bit better about this game as the week progressed, but I’m not sure exactly how much anybody should take away from it.
  7. I’ll never forget being at the tcu vs lsu opener at Jerry world awhile back when the massive Jumbotron broadcast a busty coed bouncing right out of her tube top to the entire stadium (possibly the tv audience as well) after a big play. I’m pretty sure it can still be found on tiger droppings.
  8. Somebody was talking recently about athleticism (or elite measurables) at the position re Robinson. Weren’t Irby’s numbers off the charts coming out of hs? Btw, his was the second ugliest injury I’ve witnessed (smu’s rb had his femur snapped in a shitty bowl game I was at about a decade ago). I was surprised he made it back on the field two or three years later. Wasn’t he the recipient of Shipley’s trick play td pass vs a&m? Had to be devastating losing to Shipley’s arm and McCoy’s legs..
  9. Catching up on the thread—Were you being hyperbolic here? With all due respect, if you think Billy Pittman ran a 4.9 his entire career, you are out of your fucking mind. His speed was extremely affected after his knee got fucked up in the national championship. He never regained the explosiveness, but 4.9 his whole career is preposterous. I believe he ran in the high 4.5s after that injury and was signed as a udfa with the chargers. He wasn’t the fastest guy, and they did have good chemistry, but you do not finish second in the fucking nation in ypc if you can’t outrun somebody at some point. Between the injury in the rose bowl and the fumble going into the end zone vs tosu, the trajectory of his career diverged and he never was the same after. Nate Jones with Colt? Yeah, I could see that comp. Hell, John Harris somehow had a stellar senior season catching passes from Swoopes.
  10. I’m sorry, I just saw this. Unfortunately, I was not in attendance. I just got psyched up reading the updates. Totally agree with everything you said re the setters, the different MB cast this year, and size at OH. Size kills in the middle. I think about BYU and Nebraska having those gargantuan MBs. Definitely a different look to the blocking aspects of the game. Hooker was the most freakish OH I had ever seen, but Elliott has had a complement of ridiculously athletic and taller players there nearly every year. Not that it matters, but for some reason I always want to assume Parra is Bricio despite the fact that Elliott clearly made reference to Neal when Parra signed. My brain just pictures her on the serving line and nowhere else, so I appreciate the point about her on the block with Caffey. I also have to say, I appreciate the explanation about bigger setters. I have watched a lot of broadcasts and lurked a bit on the vball message boards, so I am sure I’ve heard or read something about it before, but I’m thankful for you sharing it again here. I know there was a lot of discussion on that very subject when we went from collins (whom I thought did a more than admirable job pitching at her size, but have no idea if that is accurate) to shook..oh, and UK definitely abused Gabriel in that match. I also echo @TwiceHorn re Fleck’s importance to this team reaching its potential overall. I have followed the team for quite a long time, but I am still very much a novice, so I too really appreciate the discussion you and @Js1 and others provide here be it personnel, strategies and tactics, or general news. The only issue I’ve had with Elliott is just that his teams are so talented, but there always seems to be that one team that they don’t match up well against, they know the matchup is a problem, yet they are simply unable to muster whatever it takes to overcome that barrier. I thought they had gotten past it in the 2020 season after soundly beating Nebraska and Wisconsin, but I was discounting UK. Texas has been extremely fortunate, and when you have the talent at such a level where you only have to worry about two or three other teams, that is a damn good problem to have. I wished they had the mental fortitude to finish those tough ones, but I know that is bs on my part because I have seen Elliott’s teams dig deep and win close matches (frankly, where I’ve turned the match off). The truth is that there isn’t another coach I could even think of that I would rather have at Texas. I don’t know how geno gets his teams to be so ruthlessly efficient while simply bludgeoning their weak conference opponents, but even he has struggled to close the deal in the tourney since Stewie & co graduated (granted, after four straight, matching what Rose did in vball). Like you said, Elliott has been extremely consistent. If he wins another championship, the perception changes. I hope this is the year.
  11. I remember when Muschamp beat them in college station in 2012 (manziel’s first game?) and he said something like “disappointing all these people is a lot of fun.” Personally, I’d point to a career record with only two losses registered as more indicative of a “Jordan-esque” will to win, but then I’d show the tape of vy bringing his team back from down 28 at the half in Stillwater, the 4th and 18 conversion in Lawrence, the crazy flip pass to benson with four guys wrapped around his legs in Fayetteville, and the late 4th quarter game-winning throw to limas in the loudest part of the horseshoe to add color to his two clutch rose bowl mvp performances (both of which featured a game-winning drive in the final two minutes to complete a comeback)..but to each his own. When you think about the fact that he went through that entire final season with Nordgren as the ONLY backup (pretty sure one of the mccoy twins was nominally ahead of colt at the time), in the context of the last twelve years, it adds to the “Jordan-esque” aura of vy. Note: To think bohls witnessed all of that (excluding the USC game) and still decided to fuck vy is rage-inducing. That motherfucker had seen the best player in college football perform up close every goddamn week for two fucking seasons. What a dick. Manziel was great, but he was more like Allen Iverson.
  12. Two of the very best to play the position ain’t bad. That hit reminds me of the one JC put on AJ Hawk in the ‘shoe.
  13. Is it true that he played for four different hs teams in four years? If so, it seems like 12 months might be about as long as people are willing to expend the energy trying to get him on track with little progress. With all due respect, after five years, he might need to help himself.
  14. Oh, my apologies. I knew you weren’t that dense.
  15. Of course not. He was splitting time..on a team that played in the national championship the year before. What does starter at rb even mean? He was being talked about as one of the few players who would be a candidate to go direct from hs to pro if Clarett’s lawsuit was successful. I’m pretty sure he still went for over 100 in that first lollipop game, then he went for 200 against ut, and finished the season second in heisman voting as a true fucking freshman. But no, he wasn’t a day one starter, but he became the starter and played a lot, which, if you believe some of the stories, is why Mack didn’t land him. Will do. I hate the term.
  16. Goddammit, which one of you motherfuckers ran over God’s dog? Seriously though, people need to get this “generational” bullshit out of their fucking heads. It is used too much and the way it is used should really only apply when assessing a player in retrospect (ask yourself—was brady generational when he was splitting snaps with Henson? Was Rodgers generational when he was playing at a juco? Three-star mahomes?). It is a descriptor utilized generally when talking about physical talent and much more applicable in sports where one-on-one ability is taken into account. That is the antithesis of what the qb position entails. Basketball? Absolutely. Baseball? Sure. Tennis/Golf? Yep. I can see a RB (Peterson) or WR (Moss, Calvin Johnson) getting that tag. I can see a freak athlete on defense getting it (LT, Deion). In my opinion, the only arguable generational qb (ie. dominated his peers in hs, walked into a college program and did not miss a beat, becoming one of the best at his position early in his college career) I can think of is Lawrence. I’d put Vick and VY in that category, but that had more to do with their ability in space or when the play broke down. So, can Quinn deliver the football in ways most of his peers cannot? I think that’s fair, but that is only half of the fucking equation at best. Btw, most “generational” player in football right now? Justin Tucker.
  17. If you were creating a fantasy team just based on anecdotal info (with some random ties to the last championship Texas team), this one is as good as it gets—nba bloodlines, nebraska-trained (super) veteran, ucla all-American, Hawaiian flavor, Mexican serving specialist, Setter from Colorado, Bay Area MB, MB named Molly (I know RS), east coast OH, homegrown talent, national champions, olympians, usnt coaching experience, and Wonder Woman herself leading the charge. 2012 was so long ago. And honestly, 2009 still sticks in my craw. Texas, and Elliott specifically, have had way too much talent pass through Gregory to only have one banner over the past two decades to show for it. I’d argue it has been the most talent-rich program on campus, certainly of the last fifteen years, if not the entirety (swimming always has an argument here, but Eddie is also the most consistently excellent SOB in collegiate athletics). The talent is there, it always has been. The finish is what has been missing. So, here’s to hoping this talented team (I don’t see any obvious holes in this one, but I’m a lay person) finds its chemistry early, stays relatively healthy, finishes every match this year (in the tourney at the very least), and puts a fucking end to the championship drought. I’m ready.
  18. Not that it matters, but I think it was just a hair more nuanced than that. Lincoln to sc with Bedenbaugh might have had the juice to get Campbell. Bedenbaugh staying in Norman effectively eliminated both schools from the equation. Lincoln hiring Henson away from Jimbo helped indirectly with that class (they did get dewberry but that was always going to happen) by presenting less appealing options down the stretch but directly with this class because addazio kind of sucks, in my opinion. I know, wrong board.
  19. 2022 Fall Camp: Dicknanigans
  20. Has anybody conveyed that message to Rogers? Maybe that will alleviate some of his fears about competing.
  21. Me coming to this thread: Bewildered and bemused. I’ll spare everyone my professor stories and save them for my book..or memoir.
  22. The real question is: if this is the immediate change jimbo felt was absolutely necessary, wtf did dickey have them doing all this time?
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