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16 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

Am I on crack or does the ad not expressly call it "A Truly Colossal Kolache"? 

Are they talking about Earl being, "A Truly Colossal Kolache" or the kolache food item?  Lulz.

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

Am I on crack or does the ad not expressly call it "A Truly Colossal Kolache"? 

Man, I can’t read that old ad! 
 

Dammmit! It was The Big Earl!

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Posted
16 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Three 5 stars from Florida in this cycle is gruntling

We gotta keep them in the fold.

Florida recruits seem very flaky and indecisive. 

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Posted
27 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

The thought of a 5-star RB from Miami coming to Texas is pretty amazing. This Sark fellow has chutzpah.

I heard he is committing in a hot tub.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We gotta keep them in the fold.

Florida recruits seem very flaky and indecisive. 

Bell ain’t going anywhere. Johnson flipping again would cost someone a ton of money sounds like. Cooper will probably be a fight yea.

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2 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Bell ain’t going anywhere. Johnson flipping again would cost someone a ton of money sounds like. Cooper will probably be a fight yea.

Def not worried about Bell

Mostly Johnson and Cooper.  Johnson was committed for all of like 2/3 weeks before he flipped. 

Posted
22 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We gotta keep them in the fold.

Florida recruits seem very flaky and indecisive. 

Funny how they tend to gravitate to he who offers them the most money. Sort of like Texas and Georgia and California recruits

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On 7/15/2025 at 10:56 AM, irishtexan said:

Pat McAfee is the college football version of Aaron Rodgers and Joe Rogan. He's for dumb-as-shit 20-something white man-children who all think they're "alphas", swear by the carnivore diet, and couldn't find a clitoris if you expanded it ten-fold and provided GPS.

Given that the food discussions on surly revolve entirely around chicken fried steak, brisket, chili and the like, I'm guessing about 90% of the users here LARP as obligate carnivores. Y'all need to eat your vegetables or this place will be a ghost town in a few years.

Also, you can now throw Dave Portnoy into the above category.

Ryan Glasspiegel: Fox Sports Nearing Deal for Dave Portnoy on ‘Big Noon,’ Barstool on FS1

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Fox Sports is poised to make another big bet on Big Noon. The network is nearing an expansive deal with Barstool Sports founder and social media personality Dave Portnoy that would include him appearing on its college football pregame show. The deal would also involve Barstool content being featured on FS1, sources told Front Office Sports. The deal has not been finalized, and a Fox Sports spokesperson declined to comment. 

Fox introduced its Big Noon college football window in 2019. Traditionally, all the best college football games had been stacked in windows later in the afternoon and evening. Seeing the annual ratings success of Michigan–Ohio State, Fox posited that it could garner higher viewership for its top Big Ten or Big 12 game of the week by programming it against lesser competition from rival networks. At the same time, it launched the Big Noon Kickoff pregame show to go head-to-head with ESPN’s College GameDay. 

Portnoy would join Urban Meyer, Matt Leinart, Brady Quinn, Mark Ingram, Chris “The Bear” Fallica, and host Rob Stone on Big Noon. Charles Woodson also appears on the show on special occasions.  Portnoy and Barstool Sports have always done well with the coveted 18-to-34 demographic, and Fox would be betting on this move being a counterpunch to Pat McAfee—who started his media career at Barstool after retiring from the NFL—on GameDay.

Portnoy is a Michigan grad and has appeared frequently on Fox News and Fox Business Network programming for the past several years.  Earlier this week, The Athletic first reported that FS1 would have sweeping cancellations, with Breakfast Ball, The Facility, and Speak coming to an end. Barstool content is expected to fill some of this FS1 airtime, likely via a licensing agreement.

Details were not immediately available about which Barstool personalities will be included for this deal, or whether this would mean a new show or existing franchises, such as Pardon My Take, get repopulated onto the network. The Twitter/X account BackAftaThis first suggested that Barstool personalities would be appearing on FS1. 

 

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Posted

It’s sort of annoying the CFB Saturday morning shows are solely trying to appeal to the lowest common denominators - trashy t-shirt fans who don’t go to games and the young crowd, who doesn’t really watch TV

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Posted
6 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

I might need to start skipping all pregame shows moving forward. 

I never watched the "Big Noon" pregame show anyway.

Only Losers play at Noon!  Fox still can't change my mind.  Lulz.

Posted
11 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Oh cool we found a worse meathead

Do not give that twerp the satisfaction of being referred to as a meathead. He wishes. 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

I never watched the "Big Noon" pregame show anyway.

Me either.  I typically avoid gaggles of douchebags.

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Js1 said:

young crowd, who doesn’t really watch TV

While I dislike the methods, appealing to this group is key to the whole enterprise's survival in the future.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, texifornia said:

While I dislike the methods, appealing to this group is key to the whole enterprise's survival in the future.

Sure.  It never made a lot of sense to me to try to capture that demographic on a Saturday morning.  Especially now with cord cutting. 

Unless Game Day was in town, I was hungover and still asleep until 15-30 min before gametime.  And after college?  Still hungover and asleep until 11am. 

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Posted
5 minutes ago, texifornia said:

While I dislike the methods, appealing to this group is key to the whole enterprise's survival in the future.

You bring up the crux of the matter.  A lot of us fondly remember a golden age of college football wherein the entire enterprise had a sense of history and decorum that gave gravitas to the proceedings.  There was a generational aspect that we carry on into adulthood.  That’s why it’s worth so much money, at the end of the day.

 

I would argue that dumbing it down to the lowest common denominator and featuring a bunch of crass, flavor of the minute celebrities degrades that very institutional sense of decorum and seriousness and will contribute to the erosion of the generational aspect.

 

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so I would liken it to bringing Howard Stern and Andrew Dice Clay into the mix at the time.  How many of us would remember watching games with our family as fondly as we do with those clowns running the show?

 

Of course, I don’t know shit about fuck and I enjoy yelling at clouds, so take it for what it’s worth.

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Posted
41 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Given that the food discussions on surly revolve entirely around chicken fried steak, brisket, chili and the like, I'm guessing about 90% of the users here LARP as obligate carnivores. Y'all need to eat your vegetables or this place will be a ghost town in a few years.

Also, you can now throw Dave Portnoy into the above category.

Ryan Glasspiegel: Fox Sports Nearing Deal for Dave Portnoy on ‘Big Noon,’ Barstool on FS1

 

Counterpoint: This herd could stand to be thinned...quite a bit. 

25 minutes ago, Scholz said:

Me either.  I typically avoid gaggles of douchebags.

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Brady Quinn just has a knack for looking wildly uncomfortable at all times. Like he's been holding in a massive fart or worse for 10 years. I used to think he was so uncomfortable because he was covering for some closeted homosexuality. But the less people care about homosexuality, and the older I get and the more I've had to watch people be latently uncomfortable, I'm starting to wonder if the guy just isn't a straight up serial killer. 

He's like a more handsome, much less slovenly Ted Cruz in that regard. I wonder if he has often ruminated over what it's like to be with his human wife. 

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Posted
30 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

I never watched the "Big Noon" pregame show anyway.

Only Losers play at Noon!  Fox still can't change my mind.  Lulz.

Honestly, and I hate myself for this sometimes, but Big Noon is far better than GameDay. I don't mind Leinart, Quinn, and Ingram is OK, but I liked Bush better. 

GameDay is for the lowest common denominator, imo. You can tell Saban hates that white heater wearing dork, Herbie only got under my skin when he said we were a cesspool (which we were in hindsight), but otherwise he's not too bad. I miss Ben, his loveable, adorable Labrador. May Ben rest in the heavens, sitting at the end of the universe watching the stars and planets for eternity, until the universe collapses in on itself and we are all reunited with our loved ones. 

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Posted
38 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Portnoy fan boys coming to the defense in 3….2…

I don't like the guy, but that intro to Cheers is still the all time best. Credit where it's due. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, satyanash said:

(Justin Wells) "It's just a better environment and better culture”: Texas five-star flip James Johnson talks big decision

 

The Culture Wars, begun they have....

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46 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Given that the food discussions on surly revolve entirely around chicken fried steak, brisket, chili and the like, I'm guessing about 90% of the users here LARP as obligate carnivores. Y'all need to eat your vegetables or this place will be a ghost town in a few years.

Also, you can now throw Dave Portnoy into the above category.

Ryan Glasspiegel: Fox Sports Nearing Deal for Dave Portnoy on ‘Big Noon,’ Barstool on FS1

 

I admittedly only really encounter McAfee during Gameday or some other thing leading into a live sporting event, so maybe that's why he doesn't freak me out the way apparently many people are with him on this board. Portnoy? I run into him on Twitter, or his stupid cronies, way more than my reading habits say I should. I see his fucking face in articles in my Apple feed as well. I have tried to mute and/or ignore that bigmouthed clown as much as possible. If it wasn't for low class, he wouldn't have any class at all. Fuck that show.

43 minutes ago, Js1 said:

It’s sort of annoying the CFB Saturday morning shows are solely trying to appeal to the lowest common denominators - trashy t-shirt fans who don’t go to games and the young crowd, who doesn’t really watch TV

I'm no longer in the young crowd and I am not a lowest common denominator viewer or buyer. I view the guy as an addition to Gameday and entertaining. I never watched wrestling and I don't watch his show. I know for a fact, however, that I am not a user group of one. Do you know how I know that? Gameday ratings jumped by adding that guy. There's a reason they keep upping the ante to keep him around on there, as well. He's "widening the tent" when it comes CFB interest and viewership. Grumble all you want, but he's doing more good than harm when it comes to CFB.

9 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

Sark probably

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Quality safeties can be found in the portal every year, unlike DTs and LBs, at least in volume. I'm interested in seeing whether they want to battle on this one or feel content to pursue other options that open up in their senior cycle and/or the portal. 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

Honestly, and I hate myself for this sometimes, but Big Noon is far better than GameDay. I don't mind Leinart, Quinn, and Ingram is OK, but I liked Bush better. 

GameDay is for the lowest common denominator, imo. You can tell Saban hates that white heater wearing dork, Herbie only got under my skin when he said we were a cesspool (which we were in hindsight), but otherwise he's not too bad. I miss Ben, his loveable, adorable Labrador. May Ben rest in the heavens, sitting at the end of the universe watching the stars and planets for eternity, until the universe collapses in on itself and we are all reunited with our loved ones. 

we were disfunctional but not a cesspool.  That was full on pussy herbstreit.

that said does anyone really care that much about these pre game shows anymore? It's on in the background in my house until there is an actual game on.  Portnoy is good for them because these shows are built for clips to go viral and to have maybe the last 10 minutes hold the viewer for the following game.

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Posted
14 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

Honestly, and I hate myself for this sometimes, but Big Noon is far better than GameDay. I don't mind Leinart, Quinn, and Ingram is OK, but I liked Bush better. 

GameDay is for the lowest common denominator, imo. You can tell Saban hates that white heater wearing dork, Herbie only got under my skin when he said we were a cesspool (which we were in hindsight), but otherwise he's not too bad. I miss Ben, his loveable, adorable Labrador. May Ben rest in the heavens, sitting at the end of the universe watching the stars and planets for eternity, until the universe collapses in on itself and we are all reunited with our loved ones. 

I guess auto-correcting away from "wife beater" to "white heater" is a good thing?

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7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I admittedly only really encounter McAfee during Gameday or some other thing leading into a live sporting event, so maybe that's why he doesn't freak me out the way apparently many people are with him on this board. Portnoy? I run into him on Twitter, or his stupid cronies, way more than my reading habits say I should. I see his fucking face in articles in my Apple feed as well. I have tried to mute and/or ignore that bigmouthed clown as much as possible. If it wasn't for low class, he wouldn't have any class at all. Fuck that show.

I'm no longer in the young crowd and I am not a lowest common denominator viewer or buyer. I view the guy as an addition to Gameday and entertaining. I never watched wrestling and I don't watch his show. I know for a fact, however, that I am not a user group of one. Do you know how I know that? Gameday ratings jumped by adding that guy. There's a reason they keep upping the ante to keep him around on there, as well. He's "widening the tent" when it comes CFB interest and viewership. Grumble all you want, but he's doing more good than harm when it comes to CFB.

Quality safeties can be found in the portal every year, unlike DTs and LBs, at least in volume. I'm interested in seeing whether they want to battle on this one or feel content to pursue other options that open up in their senior cycle and/or the portal. 

I'm guessing you run into Portnoy because he's shoved himself into the business space, and then politics, as some kind of mouthpiece or authority on things. So he casts a much wider net than McAfee, who mostly stays in his lane. Portnoy is a piece of shit. 

 

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Posted
24 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

we were disfunctional but not a cesspool.  That was full on pussy herbstreit.

that said does anyone really care that much about these pre game shows anymore? It's on in the background in my house until there is an actual game on.  Portnoy is good for them because these shows are built for clips to go viral and to have maybe the last 10 minutes hold the viewer for the following game.

That's how it is in my house. Just background noise, nothing more. I can't sit and watch the same drivel, regardless of show. 

22 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

I guess auto-correcting away from "wife beater" to "white heater" is a good thing?

If you're a pyromaniac that's a dream for some 

Posted
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Def not worried about Bell

Mostly Johnson and Cooper.  Johnson was committed for all of like 2/3 weeks before he flipped. 

Lmao I got negged  by 9 people for saying the obvious yesterday. Felt like I was on texags. Maybe it came off wrong but that’s all I was saying was damn dude was at Georgia for like 12 days. 

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13 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

That's how it is in my house. Just background noise, nothing more. I can't sit and watch the same drivel, regardless of show. 

If you're a pyromaniac that's a dream for some 

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Gerry - Best Class Scenario: July 16 edition (Wed. 1:48pm CST)

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OTF Premium Best Class Scenario: July 16 edition (Wed. 1:48pm CST)

 

Gerry Hamilton

By Gerry Hamilton

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Best Class Scenario: July 16 edition

The Texas Longhorns are knocking on the door of a fifth straight top 5 ranked class after the commitments of 5-star linebacker Tyler Atkinson and the flip of 4-star++ defensive lineman James Johnson from Georgia. Steve Sarkisian and staff have the ability to begin the 2025 season ranked inside the top 5 if they win out for one of the nation's top prospects this weekend. 

This class will not be complete by the start of the season, however. There will be needs remaining at linebacker, offensive tackle, edge and potentially wide receiver and defensive back for sure. That provides Texas with a high ceiling that could could challenge for a top 3 class by December. 

OTF brings the latest edition of the BCS. 

QB (1) ...

Dia Bell, QB, Plantation (Fla.) American Heritage #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star 

RB (1) ...

Derrek Cooper, RB, Hollywood (Fla.) Chaminade-Madonna
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star
Commitment date:
 July 20

WR (3-4) ...

Jalen Lott, WR, Frisco (Texas) Panther Creek - *Oregon commit
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ 

Kohen Brown, WR, Waxahachie (Texas) High #AllGasNoBrakes 
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star

Chris Stewart, WR, Pearland (Texas) Shadow Creek #AllGasNoBrakes 
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star

TE (1)...

OL (4-5)...

John Turntine III, OT, Fort Worth (Texas) North Crowley #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star

Malakai Lee, OT, Honolulu (Hi.) Kamehameha - *Michigan commit
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ 

Max Wright, OT/IOL, Melissa (Texas) High #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star

Nicolas Robertson, IOL, Klein (Texas) High #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+

DL (4-5)...

James Johnson, DL, Fort Myers (Fla.) Northwestern #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ 

Vodney Cleveland, DL, Birmingham (Ala.) Parker #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+

Corey Wells, DL, Petal (Miss.) High #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+

Dylan Berymon, DL, Monroe (La.) Ouchita Parish #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+

EDGE (2-3) ...

Richard Wesley, EDGE, Chatsworth (Calif.) Sierra Canyon #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star

Trenton Henderson, EDGE, Pensacola (Fla.) Catholic *LSU commit - or- Jake Kreul, EDGE, Orlando (Fla.) IMG Academy
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star and 4-star+
Commitment date for Kreul: Last half of July 

LB (3) ...

Tyler Atkinson, LB, Loganville (Ga.) Grayson #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star 

Kosi Okpala, LB, Houston (Texas) Mayde Creek #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+

DB (4-5) ...

Davon Benjamin, DB, Westlake Village (Calif.) Oaks Christian
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++
Commitment date: August 2

Samari Matthews, CB, Cornelius (N.C.) Hough #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++

Hayward Howard Jr., CB, New Orleans (La.) Edna Karr #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star

Yaheim Riley, N/CB, Austin (Texas) Anderson #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star++

ATH (1) ...

Jermaine Bishop, CB/WR/Ret, Willis (Texas) High #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++

Specialist (3) ...

Jake Collett, K, Ringgold (Ga.) Heritage #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star

Mikey Bukauskas, P Prosper #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star

Trott O'Neal, LS, Plano (Texas) Prestonwood #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star 

 

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