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I think people complaining about the *free* information dug up by other posters spending time to do so is, frankly, doltish as fuck, esp when considering how much drivel on this board is just smart asses needlessly pumping their own inflated egos. Thanks @Machinator, @Fud, @satyanash, @texifornia, @NoName, and others for taking the time to bring actual recruiting info to the board, however skewed that information reveals itself to be.

Some people put the blame for Lincoln’s assassination on John Wilkes Booth, but Lincoln’s refusal to duck is another reason.

Organisms evolve over time. They evolve especially quickly in response to extreme environmental pressures. Some of those adaptations prove to be evolutionary dead ends and die out. Others become dominant species as their adaptation gives them a major advantage in the new environment. Established species can either adapt to new conditions themselves or die. Football is a competitive game but football in the Big XII has become brutally competitive at nearly every level. Look at the way coaches in the conference scrap for every bit of advantage using scheme, alignment, matchups, tempo, misdirection, deception, disguise and unique personnel. It’s also impressive how diverse the ways Big XII coaches try to create advantage. Despite the conference rep, Patterson, Snyder, Herman and Campbell do a lot of their damage on the defensive side of the ball. We’ve seen TCU’s base nickel designed to spill runs to the overhang men and Orlando and Campbell’s creation of the 3-safety dime. On offense, Herman creates advantage by adapting single-wing football, just as Snyder did before him. Both also run SLOW tempo to frustrate fast-paced offenses but can mix it up with fast pace when appropriate. And then there’s the Air Raid… Leach brought the Air Raid to the Big XII and forced the other teams to adapt to it. Many tried to defend it but in the end the dominant response was to emulate it just to keep up on the scoreboard. Snyder ran his 4 corners offense to slow it down with the occasional backdoor cut for a quick strike. But the first really successful response to the Air Raid was to move from predominantly man coverage to zone and mixed coverages. Bend but don’t break became the order of the day as conference defenses would give up 400+ YPG and hope to hold under 30 points. Then run heavy spread attacks at Texas and elsewhere began to counter the Air Raid with offense. Ongoing development of spread passing added to the downfield threat and exploited mismatches all over the field. Defenses had to adapt further to keep up. Eventually, Big XII DCs could expect to see ZR, Air Raid and Single Wing offenses in consecutive games. Those who could not think and adjust quickly didn’t last unless paired with an overwhelming offense. In personnel, nearly all of the Big XII QBs are mobile; very few are NFL prototypes. For the lower-ranked teams this is often making a virtue of necessity; for the higher ranked it’s a deliberate choice. The unconventional Wes Welker redefined the slot WR position at the college and to some extent NFL levels. LJH is also a mold breaker. How many teams would start an Ewok at QB, much less earn him a Heisman? At the risk of dredging up painful memories for our fan base, it’s not the first time OU burned people with a midget in the backfield either. Speaking of dangerous midgets, KaVonte Turpin and Darren Sproles anyone? Also at a time when the NFL is rapidly moving towards the “fast twitch” guys, the Big XII is causing problems with power forwards at the WR position. The SEC, B1G and PAC’s top teams generally try to win with sound but conventional schemes and superior players. tOSU is a partial exception on the offensive side of the ball. The last man who tried to win that way in the Big XII was early Mack Brown. Brown manhandled the incredibly talented but rather conventional Nebraska. But he ran into a buzz saw of innovation from Bob Stoops, Mike Leach, Venables and Mangino at Oklahoma. Mack was derided as Coach February for years until he too went unconventional with Zone Read based run spread. Then he switched to a pass based spread attack when his personnel matched that scheme. Even in Mack’s declining years, he was still trying with Harsin and _iaz, though mistakenly in the latter case. You can see those other conferences slowly adapting to change that is centered in the Big XII. Dabo is already there. He rules the ACC with an offense incorporating spread concepts, disguised defenses and maximizes the very good talent recruited. Credit Meyer as well as Herman for the power running spread but his defenses were still very vanilla. Kirby Smart consulted with Tom Herman after Bama’s 2014 NCG loss. Saban has replaced the 360 lb NT he used in 2009 with a guy under 300 lbs. But the changes are both slow and at the margin. I expect those changes to accelerate as Texas becomes more of a threat to their position. OU should have been a warning shot across the bow but the SEC elite haven’t changed much in response. I have no doubt they rationalize it as the Sooners being “just a finesse team” and aren’t taking the one loss too seriously. They’re wrong to do so but that’s on them. Do they really think a jump pass to the FB up the seam is a finesse play? Maybe they should ask their safeties how they felt after tackling Sermon with a full head of steam. It’s going to be harder to ignore Texas punching one of their elites in the mouth, taking away their running game and beating them by being tougher and more physical. We’ll see how they respond Already tl;dr but it's the offseason. So many aspects to examine. Discuss.

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What exactly did your mom do for a living?

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Lol, why is it that every time a new thing is brought to light, someone jumps on this thread and says "Well, if that's the ONLY thing..." It's not the only thing. It's just yet another piece that's been revealed which makes it increasingly probable that the Mueller case will tie this thing all together soup to nuts.

I’m at a sporting clay event in Dallas. This dude is in my group.

Sounds like Kyler may be going the NFL route. Word is he's trying to put on 2 pounds to combat NFL defenses.

Schumer and a Botox riddled Pelosi mashed together like two overly prepped cadavers in a David Lynch scene was a nice touch. What better way to mend the divide between the DNC and the rural working class than to lead off the year with the New York and San Francisco faces of a monopolized political machine? The best way to shed the appearance of snooty coastal elites is to make two of the poster definitions of coastal elites the face of your party. Next time they should both be holding martini glasses to get that Great Gatsby look to warm over welders, electricians, farmers and small business owners. The DNC couldn't get laid in their own wet dream.

I voted yes less because he brings anything new and more because it tends to remind people that this is technically a recruiting board.

Zoroastrianism is just one word, you dumbfuck Cheerio-eating shitsipper.

Does not even count facing #9 in spring game

republican middle america: we don't like coastal elites! also republican middle america in 2016: we're totally voting for this billionaire from manhattan from a wealthy family who went to an ivy league school also republican middle america in 2012: we're totally voting for this billionaire from a wealthy family who lives in massachusetts and went to an ivy league school also republican middle america in 2000/04: we're totally voting for this millionaire from a wealthy new england family who went to an ivy league school (twice) also republican middle america in 1988/92: we're totally voting for this millionaire from a wealthy new england family who went to an ivy league school

Nope. It's similar to having watched Greg Davis call a 5 yard hitch underneath the linebackers on 3rd and 7. It doesn't cause emotional trauma. It causes 4th down. It's ineffective. It's still enough to beat New Mexico State, but it'll be a problem in the future. Your inability to recognize or tolerate criticism in the glaring flaws of your infallible party structure seems a bit more emotional than simply pointing out the huge scabs. You're right. Pelosi and Schumer's bizarre rebuttal last night was a resounding success with the American people and nobody thought it was an anemic and silly display of mediocrity.

Let's be very, very honest here. (this is a diatribe! 😉 ) There have been Democrats that have voted for walls and other barriers in the past. There have also been Republicans who voted for things like DACA and comprehensive border security legislation. Both of these are true, and there was a bill that passed with STRONG not token bipartisan support out of the Senate. It was not allowed a voter by Paul Ryan because - I would not pass with ONLY Republican votes. This is not what our founding fathers intended and in fact had the spirit of the constitution been followed (as Ryan claims he cared so much about) and there would have been honest debate, likely some amendments (perhaps even poison pill) but the bill would have passed easily. IF the bill passed without amendments then it would have become law and the "border" would have ceased to have been an issue for the GOP. I don't think any of these statements are disputible in the least. In my opinion the single biggest problem with the way our congress currently works is that is does not follow the spirit of the founders. Instead it's a stubborn and childish, well... we can't even play with the toys unless I get to make the rules to ensure only I can win. The practice of NOT allowing debate nor votes on legislation that would EASILY pass is NOT how our founding fathers envisioned the system they designed. In fact these artificial and capricious decisions by a single elected official simply derail the representation of the people in our government. I am against this whether used by Dems nor Pubs. The use of these tools in the House of Representatives, is the most egregious, because by design it was supposed to have the most free debate with the fewest restrictions. Having debate and votes overruled by a single person elected from a single state's congressional district is simply NOT representative democracy the way our founders intended. Today we have the same tactic taking place in the Senate. One of two senators elected from a single state is refusing debate or votes on bills that would EASILY PASS. Again this is not what our founding fathers intended. The Senate was designed as a tempering body to political swings in the House in it's design giving smaller population states more voting "weight" to thwart more rapid changes that would likely come from the House which is more reflective of current political moods at any point in time simply because of shorter elections cycles. FREE DEBATE, and in turn the ability to vote in BOTH HOUSES was what our founders intended. The GOP strategy of not allowing votes or debate on bills is un-American in all honesty. Simply because it thwarts the representative government our founders intended. I will equally criticize Dems when this happens, but it has not been the case often that I can recall bills being blocked that would EASILY PASS, at the rate the GOP has adopted. Indeed what this stupidity creates is having two men elected by a single state as having the exact same veto power as the President. In fact their veto power is even stronger, because it cannot be overriden legislatively. It's the biggest proplem we currently have in our government and not only is the biggest source of endless gridlock, but also creates the most friction between elected representatives. How would you feel if you were elected to congress and some guy from another state elected by a similar population as yourself told you he was king? Sadly this is the result of stupidity like the hastert rule in the House, and stealing of Supreme Court appointments in the Senate. If we let debate, and VOTES be taken a LOT of the problems we argue about today would have already been taken care of... Vote and put bills on the President's desk. We have a vehicle to over ride the President's vote, we don't 9in the short term) have the ability to over ride the private decisions of self-declared kings of the Senate and House who prevent votes and debates. It's bullshit!

Just keep posting them. No one gives a shit except the known recruiting board blowhard.

Trump's tweets are like a box of chocolates.

Accepted: "Such a great shirt. I needed 27 of them for all the family, but only found 25. Ran out of shirts. I still count it as a win. Get yours."

Hot off the press

So he’s predicting four SEC teams in the playoffs?

As what? A mascot?

I don't need to, that's all she ever talks about. Shooter's little cock this and Shooter's little cock that, I keep saying Mom if it's that small stop blowing him behind the Piggly Wiggly but she needs $$$ for her scratchoffs

Tangent about our govt workers who aren’t gonna get a paycheck this week: Traveled today through ABIA. TSA was fully staffed and...I did something I’ve never done before - I got distracted and left my laptop at the checkpoint. I realized when I was already on my flight. Called my office and had my secretary call TSA and track it down. They had it by mid afternoon, and said I could come get it between 8 am and 8 pm. Problem: my return flight didn’t land till 8:15. I landed and decided to run by the TSA office at 8:20 just to give it a shot. As I walk up, a woman on her phone outside asked “may I help you?” Yes, is the lost and found open? “You here for a laptop? Your secretary called.” She stayed late to wait for me to come get my laptop (that is, to fix MY screwup). And she won’t be getting a paycheck. Had to give props to one of the lazy govt leeches the GOP has such good feelings for.

2016-17: 2017-18 2018-19* *not including tonight's 2-22 performance. National recruiting class rankings: 2016- 2017- 2018- That's worse than Charlie Strong. That's recruiting as well as Rick Barnes and performing markedly worse than Tom Penders. That is complete coaching ineptitude. He underachieved at VCU- fact. He is the only one of his coaching contemporaries at VCU to not win a conference title despite being there 2-3x longer than every other coach- fact. His miracle Final Four team was universally hailed as *the worst team to ever be allowed into the tournament*. The fact that a team with that type of ceiling didn't even deserve a tourney bid says it all. Fire Shaka Smart. Hire Musselman, Buzz, Cronin, Beard, Few, hell, go get Kevin Keatts if we have to, just please rid this program of Shaka Smart. It's so depressing to watch his teams. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All I know is I'm Derrian Brown's biggest fan, and he will make a difference. He's better than Noah Cain. He, Smith, and Whittington may be the 3 best signees we've had in a long time. All three are difference makers.

FIFY

Have any of y’all ever tried to deal with someone with a mental illness? It aint easy and is in fact the toughest thing you would ever have to deal with it. They are not rational at all and some of those people desire the conflict to help them cope. Now just imagine having to deal with such a person who is not only mental ill, but is not only the most powerful person in the world, but has the back of some of the most powerful people in the country like the senate majority leader and a certain segment of the media who are profiting on that person’s illness for ratings and money. Damn near impossible. That is unfortunately where we are at today. They will continue to seek to harm and profit as long as they are able to do so. This isn’t trump anymore. Its cocaine/benedict Mitch and the rest of the traitors/republican party who are really ultimately to blame for this shitstorm and their obsequeience to a mentally ill president who is weakening this country tremendously. They could end this tomorrow.

They why didn't trump take 25 billion last year for the wall? The deal was done and wrapped it and he lit it on fire because it helped DACA recipients. Riddle me that, you flat headed fuckstick

Permit me to put forth a counter-argument in this one instance. As against Trump at this particular moment in time, the Democrats need to play it (small-c) conservative. Trump is losing this fight all on his own. He's got the losing side of the argument on the merits. And, with last night's speech, he's got the losing side of the argument on the substance. You don't want anything that would distract from that. For example, a Bobby Jindal-type performance would have been a disaster because it would have given our fickle and shallow media something to focus on other than Trump's terrible ideas and worse performance. Whatever you think of them, Chuck and Nancy are professionals--they'll give a decent performance without any game-changing mistakes. They may not inspire anybody to charge an enemy machine gun position, but we don't need that right now. We just need to step off the tracks and watch this runaway train careen off the tracks.

It's food that tells you how good the food was before all the other food moved there.

The jump from Cheerios to Honey Nut Cheerios is like the jump from Deondrick Glass to Zach Evans. I frankly don’t appreciate them being lumped together in this thread.

I think all this Orlando speculation is just that, but if he does leave, I would be just as interested in looking at Iowa State's Jon Heacock as I would be in the traditional big names like Aranda.

And when there were no Cheerios to be found, ctj ate sand.

Sorry about your financial situation. /CTJ

More like Asleep at the Wheelfuckinghouse.

Hpslugga it’s also an unconcisous bias and response men have to strong and forceful women. Disregard, discredit and - if (and only if) attractive - reduce to an object of sexual desire or worse sexual conquest. If she were a man everyone would be talking about her future and how she should have presidential aspirations and with some seasoning she will be one of the great politicians of her generation.

Someone should remind them that there's a sizable group of fcs schools who also play and lose against the top sec teams each year. It's not exactly an exclusive club.

Here's my gif version: Should have gif'd this as well

Alex Leatherwood started following Herman and Hand. https://247sports.com/Player/Alex-Leatherwood-80818/