Search the Community
Showing results for 'we are going to win'.
-
this team is getting zero respect, but we all know that. keep winning series, got to get healthy, this roster is buying into winning. going to be a fun 2nd half
-
Last weekend, I had to take the girl child to the mall. We went to the food court, and she said they had opened a new arcade. I glance over, and it's full of redemption machines and whatnot. Looks pretty boring. She wants to go over, so we stroll in, and I'm just underwhelmed. This isn't an arcade, by God. Foghat isn't playing cranked, there's no sketchy guys off in a corner, and no one has quarters lined up on the marquee of a game. Until I spot in a corner an Asteroids, Dig Dug, Robotron 2084 and some fighting game that I had no interest in.. Oh boy, now I found something. The games don't take quarters, only a prepaid card you tap. She wants to "win" something so I buy her a $10 card, then buy myself one as well. The games I was interested in only used a dime credit per play. My goodness; 10 plays of Asteroids for a buck? The mind reels. After what was probably less than 5 minutes, she came back. She had burned through her card trying to win something stupid, no doubt. I'm still on my first game of Asteroids. She says something like "you are pretty good at this". Well, I once was, but no one else is playing this fossil, so I'm going to quit with the high score. I play some Dig Dug and Robotron, and she was mesmerized with how many moving characters were on the screen at one time. I scored something like 78,000, but man, my 57 year old reflexes aren't what they once were. After the game was over, I spent the rest of my credits on air hockey with her. To be honest, that was more fun.
- 149 replies
-
- 13
-
-
-
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Not a Sock replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
We’re in a NFL style era of championship windows, Sark has to win a title in the next two years with the roster he has built before we are in rebuild mode. I just don’t believe that Texas is going to have some late surge of flips and sign a top 3 class, that just strikes me as wish casting. Either Texas just doesn’t have the free funds to match other offers given how loaded and expensive our roster is. Or we are going to see the most epic, meltdown, drama filled plane crash if schools are the lying to the order of millions of dollars they don’t have. I really just don’t believe it’s the latter, as much as I want it to be. -
If only someone would have analyzed all the players so far and determined that nobody (other than Hunter Brown) is really pitching above their expected contact profile and this isn't some sort of fluke where a bunch of pissrods are getting hit right at people. The bullpen is striking fools out left and right and not walking a ton of guys. Except for Abreu. And that's just his process, you have to respect that. There is nothing unsustainable about anything going on right now except for Jeremy Pena and Hunter Brown. He's been generationally awesome (like 4th best first half of a season for any Astro pitcher ever) when his underlying numbers say he's merely been all start good. And Jeremy Pena's underlying numbers say that he's probably performing like an all star and his actual stats say more like MVP. Beyond that there's more bad luck than good on this team in comparing expected outcomes to actual outcomes. The bad luck on a granular level is probably balanced by the good luck on a team overperfoming pythag level and this team is what it appears to be- 94-100 win type of good. It's baseball so anything can happen coming in- but I'd be shocked if we don't win the division and would expect us to win 95. Maybe that's good enough for the 1 seed- maybe it's good enough for the 3 seed.
-
Allred got the jump on things last go around because the only other candidate that actually stood a chance was Roland Gutierrez. And due to all the special sessions, Roland couldn't do any campaigning and fell behind in fundraising. Gutierrez was the favorite by far of the folks on the ground, the local organizers. Allred was the opposite. He did very little when it came to campaigning in public. What he did do a lot of was coming into counties and being hosted by the local big money donors, regardless of party. The DNC stood by and let Schumer, Jeffries, and others tap Allred as their choice and had already funneled a large chunk of change into his campaign through the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Like millions of dollars. All that came in before Roland even announced. Big money old established donors, particularly in Dallas, jumped onto that bandwagon and never got off. The problem we had in 24 and apparently will have in 26 is that DC is picking our candidates for us, at least at the senate level. They silently endorse their choice with dumping money into their coffers. Then turn around and lecture us on the state level how we should not put our thumbs on the scales by endorsing or denouncing any candidates. It's bullshit, but that is what we face. I somewhat understand it, but at the same time how do you ever build a bench, much less put together a good slate that actually has a chance at winning anything. If Allred wins the primary again, then once again we are faced with trying to whip up enthusiasm to go to the polls for the rest of the races, while the top spot is held by a full on dud. Of course this would be a moot point if voters actually cared enough to educate themselves on candidates. But in their defense, I applaud them for even going to the polls after the endless barrage of fundraising texts and calls they get daily.
-
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Park Gothic replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I’m sympathetic to everyone who’s upset about the recent recruiting losses. Does suck to get repeatedly kicked in the nuts. But at least wait until August before you get worked up about this shit. and yeah, it’s kind of annoying that OTF got us excited about these recruitments that we would have otherwise assumed we’re going somewhere else. But those guys also never promised us that we were going to win them. They just said that we were in them, or that we had a good shot. that could’ve very well been true at the time they said it. I don’t pay anyone $9.95 but if I did, that’s the kind of information I would expect them to pass along. -
I was pretty surprised when I wrote my luck articles that the team was probably a shade unlucky in both pitching and hitting based upon expected results (if you control for who always outperforms their expected stats b/c they are outliers in some ways). Brown and Pena are almost assuredly going to get worse (but from like Cy young and MVP level respectively to run of the mill all star) but everyone else has sort of average luck or bad luck so far (especially Yainer- and maybe the rookie pitchers too btw) to expect a little better performance coming in. If Yordan comes back we are a rolling ball of butcher knives (assuming health from our 4 most important arms in Hader, Abreu, Brown and Framber). But yeah- this team the last 3 years has been a 100 win team ravaged by injuries and stupidity in the managers office and bad luck which disguised it as a 90 win team. I think we are just water finding it's level right now.
-
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Longhornfrenzy replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Liucci is an idiot This is interesting. Kyle Field is ranked at No. 11. I understand these stadium rankings, and you are never the person ranking them. The stadium rankings are always weird, and I don't get worked up, but with Oklahoma, I did, and I don't think that place is loud or intimidating. When I look at these rankings, it doesn't bother me because how do you rank atmosphere, intimidation factor, how loud it is, their success rate... Do you combine them? I've been all over the SEC, and people come visit 10 games with me, and all over sports, whether it's MLB, music, pro entertainment, NFL, NBA, people that have never been to Kyle Field and never been to college football. Kyle Field is as unique, loud and daunting as any place in college football. The problem is when you tank these when you aren't winning as much... You're not ranking Kyle Field and the 12th Man. It's the success at home. How much of that atmosphere affects the other team? That's how it goes. When people say, “They aren't winning at Kyle Field.” That sounds like Longhorn logic. They've won massive games over the years, not enough though and lesser teams like Mississippi State and Appalachian State. The truth is, A&M hasn't been a top 20 program in the last 25 years. Based on their success on the field, they would not be in the top 20. I'm of the opinion they should be there, but we haven't seen it. When you're that, you get upset by overwhelming advantage on the field. If you look at the number of upset wins A&M has had since joining the SEC, it's impressive against the teams we've played. It's the truth. We are one and whatever against Alabama, but every Alabama team is always better. If you look at the last few big games, A&M tends to win. A&M beat LSU four straight times at home, and three times they were in the top 10. A&M beat No. 1 Florida, No. 1 Alabama and came close to No. 2 Clemson, which won the national title. They beat No. 11 Auburn and another highly ranked Auburn team. There have been some nice home wins. I don't count Josh Rosen and UCLA, but when you come in here in a big setting, and you leave the Appalachian State jokes aside, that does, and probably takes away from the talk about home-field advantage. Miami won 50 games in a row and broke a record against Oklahoma in the Barry Switzer era. Those teams are great. If you're ranking how loud it is during big games and excitement, Kyle Field is up there. If I'm ranking the SEC outside A&M, Knoxville is No. 1, and LSU is No. 2. Knoxville during the day was better. Alabama is outside the top five, it's underrated, and people act like it's not a tremendous atmosphere. The problem is that the games I saw were at 2 p.m., and there wasn't much excitement. In 2012, in the fourth quarter, Johnny Manziel and A&M held off A.J. McCarron. The Haynes King 2022 was a great game. I've been to two games at The Swamp, and it's good, but Florida has not had elite years in the last 10. They had a couple under Dan Mullen, and A&M had one, and Florida had two. One year, I went to Florida vs. A&M, and the night game was fun. Texas’s game day, and I haven't been in a long time, but people who don’t understand that there will come a day where I'll go to maybe neutral, but I like to go in our bye weeks. I want to go see Texas vs. Oklahoma, but just watching it and here's what I know, the Longhorns will tell you our atmosphere hasn't been that good and not what it should be. There are usually more talented teams at home, but in the last few years, the people who say they've done great things there, and say, “It's gotten better.” Those are the people I believe. Look who they are getting at DKR. I don't care about rankings by their name, how much did Aggies really care? That was Rosen calling out the 12th man. Brady Cook did it last season, not smart to do. In Austin, they were playing Baylor, Kansas State, Kansas, even Oklahoma State, a rival of Texas and beat them under Mike Gundy. It's so much different with the powerhouse teams, they get Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and the Aggies. Think about the last three years when they went to Alabama, Georgia and A&M. They got Florida, and they go, “Oh, it's not great, but look at the history they have.” That's one of the benefits they will get. I tried to tell Texas and Oklahoma fans I've been in the Big 12. It had Bob Stoops, Mike Leach, Matt Brown and Bill Snyder. That league was up. It still doesn't come close to the atmosphere, what you see year in year out now. I knew the first year A&M played in the SEC, and the first game was Florida at Kyle Field, and LSU came that season, and you went to Bryant-Denny Stadium and all those great places. It is awesome. In Starkville, it's a college football environment. It's one of the worst stadiums, but there's an atmosphere. It's going to bring up the environments in Austin and Oklahoma. Moreso, if Texas enters a game thinking they can beat Alabama or Georgia, they have all season to think about it. It's interesting because I do think there's a week offseason to think about it. Florida, South Carolina and Auburn are all massive games, but my point is none of those teams are rivals, and I'm circling this the whole offseason like Notre Dame or when Texas was coming. I go, “Oh, that's at least two ranked football teams, Auburn TBD, South Carolina with a potential Heisman candidate in LaNorris Sellers and Florida with a Heisman candidate with DJ Lagway.” A&M will play at Notre Dame, Auburn at home, at Arkansas and home vs. Mississippi State. You look at the first three games Florida plays before A&M, they play at LSU, at Miami and host Texas. They got a tougher road start, maybe. Do we know Auburn is not going to be as good as Miami this year? For Payton Thorne, I don't hate him, but they lost to such a bad quarterback last year. The year before, Thorne got benched, and Robby Ashford beat A&M. So, do we know Auburn will be better than Miami? Notre Dame and Texas are very comparable. Texas fans think they are above hearing that. One of those teams went to the national championship, beating Indiana, Georgia and Penn State. Segment 2 (20:05 -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
BurntOrange&White replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Gerry Hamilton Recruiting: Where things stand on Friday morning The Texas Longhorns currently have a recruiting class ranked around No. 10 to 12 in the country with a lot of runway remaining. There are three scheduled announcements today with the Longhorns not the favorite to win out in those. It gets very interesting Saturday and Sunday for Texas, however. OnTexasFootball remains the same, the Longhorns are very likely to sign a fifth straight top 5 recruiting class at the end of the day. Here is a look at where things stand starting the morning of June 27: June 27 announcements ... Damari Simeon, DL, Richland (N.J.) St. Aug OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Ohio State over Penn State Chace Calicut, S/LB, Houston (Texas) North Shore OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+ OTF's take: Georgia over Texas as of last night Malakai Lee, OT, Honolulu (Hi.) Kamehameha OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Michigan over Texas. The Longhorns will stay on Lee until signing day. June 28 ... James Johnson, DL, Fort Myers (Fla.) Northwestern OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Could go either way between Texas and Georgia. More Texas chatter Thursday, with more Georgia chatter to begin the week. June 29 ... Xavier Griffin, LB, Gainesville (Ga.) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star OTF's take: Could go either way between Texas and Alabama. Both have felt good at times in recent weeks. Family in Tuscaloosa. July 2 ... Kendall Guervil, DL, Fort Myers (Fla.) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Texas leads Georgia and Florida Trenton Henderson, EDGE, Pensacola (Fla.) Catholic OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star OTF's take: Florida leads Texas with LSU No. 3 July 3 ... Kosi Okpala, LB, Houston (Texas) Mayde Creek OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+ OTF's take: Texas leads Penn State and Baylor July 4 ... John Turntine III, OT, Fort Worth (Texas) North Crowley OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star OTF's take: Texas leads Michigan Kaydon Finley, WR, Aledo (Texas) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+ OTF's take: We lean Notre Dame here as of today. July 8 ... Jalen Lott, WR/ATH, Frisco (Texas) Panther Creek OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: USC or Oregon July 10 ... Jamarion Carlton, EDGE, Temple (Texas) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+ OTF's take: Texas leads Baylor and Penn State July 11 ... Samari Matthews, CB, Cornelius (N.C.) Hough OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Texas sight lead over South Carolina. Could go either way. July 12 ... Hezek Kent, TE, Brunswick (Ga.) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Kent likes Texas the most. A couple others have higher NIL offers currently. Kaiden Prothro, TE, Bowdon (Ga.) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Georgia leads Florida and Texas Early July announcements expected ... Felix Ojo, OT, Mansfield (Texas) Lake Ridge OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Texas leads Ohio State and Texas Tech. Tyler Atkinson, LB, Loganville (Ga.) Grayson OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star OTF's take: Texas right there with Georgia and Clemson Brayden Rouse, LB, Marietta (Ga.) Kell OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Tennessee leads Texas and Alabama Keawe Brown, TE, Corona (Calif.) Centennial OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star++ OTF's take: Texas leads Boise State August decision expected ... Davon Benjamin, DB, Westlake Village (Calif.) Oaks Christian OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF's take: Oregon slightly leads Texas -
i’ve watched so many videos on this guy, read so many articles, read every reddit thread, etc- half the people think he’s nowhere near the level of striker we need to win trophies this year, and the other half swear that he’s going to come in and unlock everything from day 1. it’s so hard to form a concrete opinion on such a polarizing player. i will say this: 1)his size, athleticism, and physical profile are exactly what we need. he is the prototype, that’s for sure. 2)his bundesliga experience >>>>> gyorkores’s experience in portugal. 3)reading between the lines, whoever we sign in the attack will have been someone that arteta and the board have been keyed in on for years, and they already know who it is, and it’s just a matter of timing + paperwork before it’s official. ipso facto, they are *sold* on this player. my own opinion, which again, i’m not even super strong on based on just how polarizing this guy is, is that he appears to be the best realistic and available option on the market whether i like it or not, so if it is him, then i’m going to be very excited due to arteta’s track record with signings, especially guys who are “his” guys who he’s really pushed for, which sesko reportedly is. we’ve got no problems creating chances, and in fact we don’t even have problems scoring goals; we have problems getting too many goddamn draws because we all too often couldn’t get a goal when we really really needed one. is he that kind of player? one who can step in and finish all of those chances and turn those draws into wins? that will be the question. again, he is the prototype- tall, super quick, nba athleticism, and can score the type of goals that auba, alexis, and rvp could score to win you a game. but can he do it right away, this season, in the EPL? i guess we’ll find out, assuming he is the guy.
-
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I am now absolutely cheering for Texas to go after Estrada. It’s a win-win for this board. If he sucks, we get to mock Helobious. If he’s awesome, it emboldens Helobious to get even more outlandish with his nonsense, and it helps Texas.- 8266 replies
-
- 29
-
-
-
-
-
And you just completely moved the goal posts. No one is going to dispute that the Japanese were going to lose in 1944 and early 1945. We were going to win by that point. The issue was how many more Japanese (plus Brits, Indians, Aussies, Kiwis, Chinese, Americans, etc) would have died.
-
The logic just doesn’t even come close to adding up. Not everyone over reacts to the stupid things that Trump tweets. But by your logic, we have Putin sitting in Russia contemplating an attack on Germany. Germany, who’s two biggest trading partners to the tune of over half a trillion are the United States and China. Germany, who is the fifth most powerful country in the world by most analysis. Germany, who buy all accounts is the strongest member of the EU. And what exactly in your scenario does Russia think that they will gain from invading Germany? Are they going to take it over? Are they going to force Germany to buy more oil and gas from them? But even though the idea of Russia invading Germany is so far-fetched to the point of not even really needing to be talked about, and even though Russia knows that if they did for some reason invade Germany, that China and the United States and the European Union and the UK would all mobilize against them instantly, in your mind it is possible. However, if Germany suddenly had a nuclear bomb, then Putin would decide against it? I can just see Putin thinking to himself that he could invade Germany and take on the US and China and the EU and the UK and somehow win (knowing full well that those countries have literally thousands of nuclear weapons) but mighty Russia could probably pull it off. But if Germany decides to get a nuke, then it would be too hard.
-
A great day for the progressive side of the Dem party but let's tap the brakes a little if we think this message will play across the country. Swing state voters, especially the "undecideds" aren't going to go for this like the primary voters of New York City. I would be content if it just gave some backbone to the candidates that they can win by being a true Democrat and not run on being a lite Republican.
-
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
SL Xpress replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I don't know. The last 3 years have been pretty awesome. I'm a lot more calm this year than I was last year. I figure everything is going to work out just fine. No reason to go into conniptions in June - or bask in recruiting glory, either. I'd rather they say yes to us than yes to someone else, but it's all going to work out either way. I know this. There's not another program fans of other teams in college football dread going against in recruiting more than Texas. Not that they can't win any of the battles, but right now we be scary. -
"Embracing socialism." When the governing regime is literally promising to just hand out money to Americans. "We're gonna give everyone a $5,000 Trump DOGE rebate!" "We're going to give a $1,000 Trump account to every citizen baby born!" "No taxes - AT ALL - on tips!" Don't hit me with any shit about actual political ideology. Promises to hand out free shit are the bread and butter of populist bullshit, which is the only remaining strain of American politics. I guarangoddamntee you that if the Dems just promised to give every person in America an "early Social Security dividend" of $25k, they would fucking win more elections. And the best part? They wouldn't have to deliver. Just win, take office, and then say "we tried, but Trump and Elon stole your money!" Nevermind that the word "socialism" doesn't even mean anything anymore. It's a code word that applies to literally everything that isn't "make sure all money ends up going to billionaires." That's it. Anything that advances any common good? Socialism. Fire departments? Socialism. Building roads? Woke socialism. Providing clean water? Woke, DEI socialism.
-
Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
SL Xpress replied to Machinator's topic in Football
I'm not sure what we're disagreeing about. Sure, very talented teams win in spite of shitty coaching. But programs don't succeed year after year unless the coach has something going for him. Larry Coker won a national championship with one of the best college football teams of all time. He finished in the top 5 his first 3 years as a coach. Does that make him a great coach? What I'm saying is that Charlie Strong and Tom Herman wouldn't have ultimately succeeded at Texas regardless of the talent level they inherited. They were bad coaching hires. If anything, I'm grateful both of their tenures were as short as they were. The last thing I'd wish for us as a fan base is to put up with more years with either Charlie Strong or Tom Herman because they inherited more talent. From that perspective Mack Brown did us a favor. Blaming Mack Brown for what transpired after him is missing the mark, IMO. Other than cock blocking us from hiring Saban. That I absolutely blame him for. Him and Joe Jamail and Deloss Dodds, among others. So that counts, if we want to go that route. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
BornAndRaised replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I don't know how long you've been in the recruiting thread, so apologies if it comes off disrespectful. From my POV we're carpet bombing the DT board because real legitimate contributors are hard to come by and even harder to win in the portal. Maraad Watson was a welcome anomaly, but you're not going to find true difference makers in the portal on the DLine. Everyone wants them. I know we've had good experiences with our past portal haul, but the idea is to raise the floor and develop lines from the HS ranks rather than have to drop a few million on a DT every transfer portal period. I think it's extremely unlikely that if we get to 5 or 6 DT commits that they're going to start looking around. At the very least they'll stay a year, collect their money and the cream will rise to the top. Thats what an elite program looks like. Quit being a pussy about the numbers. -
Saban told him to be wary of the job. Saban's personal experience with one group at Texas trying to hire him while another group successfully cock blocked the hire caused him to caution Sarkisian on the difficulties of getting everyone on the same page. Sarkisian should get a lot of credit for the turnaround, but having the support of Eltife and Del Conte, and having everyone aligned has been extremely helpful. Along with outside groups taking initiative with NIL even while the athletic department was uncooperative. It's been a team effort. But if the coach isn't the right fit, then none of the rest of it matters. It feels great to have the right fit in place. Along with you, I had a lot of question marks, and the first two seasons sure helped to support that. There are a lot of favorite parts of this interview, but one of the big ones that helped change my perspective was going over Carroll's history prior to USC, his first year there, then Saban's coaching history prior to taking the Alabama job, and his first year there. I knew Carroll was a lucky win for USC as a coach. Mike Garrett was a terrible AD for USC. No one wanted to work for him. They kept striking out on candidate after candidate. Then Carroll threw his name into the ring and Garrett grabbed at it like a drowning man lunges for a piece of driftwood. Saban coming out of Miami was a huge can't miss hire for Alabama, though. No one realized how dominant he'd actually be - how could we? - but everyone knew he'd be great. When LSU hired him it wasn't that obvious, but he'd done some good things at Michigan State. But I feel like I didn't have as good a perspective for Sarkisian's outlook until he went over the respective careers of his great mentors like he did. I also loved him talking about sitting down with Monte Kiffin when he was at USC with Lane Kiffin on staff. Or talking about the coaching trees out of Mike Holmgren on one hand and Mike Shanahan on the other. And any time Kyle Shanahan's name is brought up I always think about how he came to Texas because he wanted to learn offensive scheme and philosophy from Mack Brown and Greg Davis. It's like something out of Ripley's Believe It or Not.
-
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
BurntOrange&White replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Bobby Couple of recruiting notes: - Alabama RB Ezavier Crowell is slated to make his decision tomorrow. Texas remains highly involved as of late yesterday. It will be Texas or Alabama. I know conventional wisdom says Alabama here for an Alabama product, but it said the same for Justus Terry and Georgia a year ago. This recruitment has a somewhat similar feel to me, just earlier in the process. - I reported yesterday that North Shore defensive back Chace Calicut may be trending toward Georgia. That remains the case. But Texas continues to recruit him and recruit him hard. There have been a couple of different times in this recruitment where Calicut was on the precipice of announcing a decision for multiple schools. That means that not only has he been torn about this decision but that he has also been susceptible to various pitches. We see that all the time in recruiting. We’ll see what pitch and program wins out. Georgia recruiting him as a corner may sound nice to his ears, but if his true calling is as a safety, that year at corner would do nothing but put him a year behind in his development at safety. Again, I think there’s some recruiting left to do here. We’ll find out which way the decision cuts on Friday. - Texas and Michigan appear to be the teams standing out for New Jersey defensive tackle Damari Simeon. Simeon is ranked one of the nation’s top five defensive tackles and his relationship with Texas DL coach Kenny Baker has been outstanding. I lean Texas at this moment, but like others, this decision hangs in the balance until Friday. - Malakai Lee, the huge offensive lineman from Hawaii, is set to announce on Friday. This is one of those recruitments where we don’t think any school knows where he’s going, at least not at this time. In other words, he’s not tipping his hand in the slightest, not to reporters and not to colleges. I will add this. Based on feedback from multiple college programs, we can throw the recruiting rankings out with Lee. The various services all have him outside the top 100 in the country. There’s not a school out there that views him as anything less than a top 50 prospect in the country. He’s that talented. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
BurntOrange&White replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Gerry Hamilton Some Wednesday AM Recruiting Thoughts 1. Texas has continued to battle for 4-star++ running back Ezavier Crowell (Jackson, Ala./High), as we have said. Everything we have heard for weeks is a Bama vs. Texas decision likely with Georgia and Auburn the other OV's. And that has also been Bama having the most confidence since early May. The Longhorns are considered the competition for the Crimson Tide due in part to Ezavier and mom both truly liking the Texas program and everything it can provide. 2. Confidence remains in Austin on OTF 5-star OT John Turntine III. With that said, OTF doesn't believe he has informed the winning school of his decision ahead of the July 4 announcement. OTF doesn't believe the winner will be Texas A&M - barring a reverse course from Tuesday. We do believe Texas and Michigan are very much in it. And Stanford hasn't thrown in the towel. 3. There has been some saying Texas would shut down defensive line recruiting with four commitments. That is not the case. The Longhorns would absolutely go to five in the class. Texas has continued to receive positive feedback from 4-star++ DL's Damari Simeon, Kendall Guervil and James Johnson early this week. How the dominoes fall will be key here. Simeon's commitment date is June 27, Guervil July 2 and Johnson expected in early July. 4. OTF believes Texas is very much in the mix for 5-star LB Tyler Atkinson (Loganville, Ga./Grayson). We continue to believe that it's not a likely scenario 5-star's out of the Peach State Xavier Griffin (Gainesville, Ga./High) and Atkinson end up at the same school. Griffin is scheduled to be the first off the board June 29. Griffin is Texas vs. Alabama with Ohio State and FSU the other OV's. 5. OTF 4-star++ OT Malakai Lee remains a slight mystery as of Tuesday afternoon. He had not informed with winner and losers in the race based on what a source told us. Texas vs Michigan with Georgia in it, and Alabama battling after falling behind is the race. OTF does know that Lee can envision himself playing for the Longhorns. We also expect the family to move to the state where Lee plays in college. Lee has multiple family members that live in Dallas currently. 6. Texas wants 5-star EDGE Trenton Henderson (Pensacola, Fla./Catholic) as badly as any prospect on the board. The Longhorns also know they are working from a position of making up ground on Florida headed into a July 2 decision. LSU is battling. 7. Haven't heard anything to back OTF off of believing the Longhorns are in the best spot for 4-star+ LB Kosi Okpala (Houston/Mayde Creek) ahead of a July 2 or 3rd decision. OTF believes Texas would take both Okpala and Calvin Thomas, as of Monday. -
We're close. I swear to God we have to be. I know that because we have $30M players who I never want to see pick the shirt up again. Who are getting benched in crap competitions with our C team playing. That is a hallmark of a country that has the talent to win a World Cup or at least go very deep. We just have to figure it out.
-
If Haliburton doesn't get injured, I think the Pacers win game 7. It will be a huge "What-If?" for future discussions, as the Thunder were shooting horribly all game. 11/40 from 3, 22/31 from the line, only 40% from the field overall. They won the turnover battle handily though 23-8. The Pacers offense was just awful without Hali for 3.5 quarters, and I think he would have easily made a 15 point difference over 35 minutes. Having that threat changes the way the Thunder play defense too, and he's so much better at moving the ball and keeping the offense flowing. It's sad to see him go down to injury, and we got robbed of a great game 7 and a definitive champion, much like the Toronto/GS series.
-
We learned a long time ago - and Ukraine has proven a stark example of that in modern warfare - airstrikes don't "win" shit. You don't accomplish real goals on the ground without....boots on the ground. Want to take out Iran's nuclear sites? It's going to take troops going into each of those facilities to do so. Anything less is mostly a show that results in buying some time, maybe. Countdown to Trump being outraged that people are questioning his tactical and strategic brilliance, and ordering a ground invasion because goddammit he said so?
-
Based on the pieces left on the chess board, yes, that would be the smartest play. BUT... Based on the situation as it stands, and as we should expect from Israel and its lap dog (the United States), I don't think they'll be satisfied with anything LESS than regime change. Which means that the Iranian regime is backed into a corner, and Bobby's option listed above (the most rational one) is off the table. The Iranian regime faces an existential challenge, period. A cornered dog will bite. Really, it's the only option the dog has. That's why a SMART play is to always leave your opponent a way out. We (Israel and it's 100% controlled proxy) have no intention of doing that. I'm not saying it's a WINNING play for the Iranian regime. I'm saying it's likely their ONLY play, based on my admittedly non-expert view of the dynamic. Other expert-types share that view, though (see the piece in Foreign Affairs). Yes, it is, but, to temper that a bit....it's also textbook Medvedev. He is the world's designated nuclear saber-rattler. Seriously, he's mentioned using nukes five thousand eleventy times re the Ukraine war, for example. No, I don't think that any country is ready to "directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads," because doing so means taking full ownership of how Iran eventually uses that warhead. A nuke that says "made in Pakistan" goes off in Tel Aviv, Israel 100% launches a reprisal strike against 1) Iran and 2) Pakistan. Pakistan knows that, and isn't going to stick its neck out on this. Russia knows that, and while it might otherwise stick out its neck, it has bigger problems right now. China isn't going to allow itself to get roped into Iran's dumbfuckery. Neither is North Korea, for all of L'il Kim's idiocy, turning over his fate to the whim of mullahs isn't something he'll do. And, we're pretty much out of any reasonably likely suppliers. So, this is just Dimitri being Dimitri, and mostly, him giving Tucker Carlson talking points directly from their mutual boss. You and I attend the same denomination. The people of Iran, along with the people of Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, and Russia all got specific prayer mentions this morning. Because, you know....human beings, children of God, all that Jesus-y stuff.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... COOKIE MONSTER!