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RollingPresidential

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  1. Can’t believe anyone pays $9.95 to those sites when @closetojumping actually says what’s going on. Imagine IT or whoever writing something like what he wrote about Bryce Anderson above. I know some people who knew B Harris at LSU. Seems like a ‘nice’ guy but from what CTJ says, seems ill-suited for a ‘director’ role. Don’t think it’s catastrophic that he’s staying on in the role but also not a great data point. Weird that the defense was god awful and everyone kept their job.
  2. I am in agreement with quigley. I think we are disagreeing on the nature of sleeping giant. LSU was a mess with potential to not be a mess, Saban got there, and it was no longer (as much of?) a mess. I do know a fair amount of the history and from basically what, 1971-2001 LSU was, at best, where Texas has been the last ten years? If not considerably worse. My first year living there was the Saban title and my last year living there was the Miles one. I appreciate your perspective, I think we are just disagreeing on semantics.
  3. I’ll namedrop and say I went to HS at ULab with Nick Jr. and Kristen Saban (she’s quite crazy). Lived in BR from 2003-2008. Played HS basketball with the son of Dan Radakovich, new Miami AD, when Dan was deputy AD at LSU. TAF has that thing running on autopilot most of the time, that’s how bad O has been the last two years. I *wish* Texas donors were as committed to the team being good as TAF people are. Instead we have Dallas and Houston factions fighting each other for skybox space or dumb controversies about the school song. Washington’s not a sleeping giant because the State of Washington doesn’t produce the most NFL players per capita like Louisiana does (or is at least in the top 2-3). All the other giants are mostly woken up (except our beloved Texas Longhorns).
  4. They were absolutely mediocre - hence the “sleeping” part. Saban optimized the AD (and tax-shelter hospital scams or whatever) to wake that up. 2019 was the first time since the 2003 Saban team where they looked like they had a competent coach on both sides of the ball, and they won a title and played for another in the middle there. Kelly is a better coach than they’ve had since Saban. If he hires weak/conservative coordinators and doesn’t have the recruiters though then they’ll keep bleeding the North LA kids to Bama et al and he’ll wear out his welcome there fast. It’s an easy place to coach because the talent there is so rich and the people there (in the southern part of the state) will do anything - including funnel money through a charity hospital - for the team. Debating whether something was a sleeping giant pre-2003 seems odd given that since then, they’ve had two terrible coaches and won what, 9 games a year? Sleeping or not, it woke up.
  5. I don’t think this is accurate. I believe the coach before Saban, Gerry DiNardo, was the one who referred to them as a sleeping giant, and there was a story around BR in the early 2000’s that Saban picked the job because he looked at the per capita NFL players per state and agreed with that assessment.
  6. I mean since Winston he’s had one “good” team (last year’s A&M). Mond definitely developed under him but I don’t think he’s particularly well thought of by NFL people either. Dude’s a B coach with an A-A+ bag game.
  7. How are they still using "SEC-ready"
  8. Did you enjoy that game in 2018? I was there, KU was driving to win. And then the next year they almost beat us at home. Herman made every game like that, no matter the opponent. Obnoxious style. I hope Sark mudholes teams so the backups actually get some run that's not Yancy McKnight injury related. A&M was highly overrated last year (shitty, coo-magnon offense) and IMO we'd have beaten them if we played them (healthy Sam obviously). But they're capitalizing on the finish and the hype and the fact that the bagman game just got easier, not that they weren't doing it before. Point taken on the outside people, but that Nick Williams guy that Aggy hired seems like someone we should be hiring. And the AD tweeting out nerdy PowerPoints about how good we are at following the NIL rules continues to give me the impression that despite recent actions to the contrary (the SEC move in particular) we are still content with the "we're texas" shit and making money. If y'all are happy with that, fine. I've lived outside of Texas for a decade now and the football team is the first thing people know about the school. Would like it to not be embarrassing, and getting the for sale recruits helps with that.
  9. lol ok. I've been lurking/posting intermittently on Shaggy since 2014. You can neg me if you want but there's no reason, none, that Texas should not be 'in' on the Walter Nolens or Bear Alexanders or whoever else is 'for sale.' That's how you win. Was hoping hiring Sark and a bunch of battle tested Bama guys would mean we'd stop getting in our own way but sounds like we've managed to fuck it up again. Only A&M has a real coach this time. I like what Sark did in the transfer portal and am excited for the on-field product - no more 23-17 late victories over 2-9 Kansas teams, hopefully. Obvious new coach and last ten years of shit aside, this recruiting doesn't seem to be what was promised. Hope I'm wrong. But who was the last straight flip we got from A&M, Omeire? If Harold Perkins makes the call for A&M, not thinking us going 10-2 or whatever is gonna matter. Ditto for Denver Harris. We have to play the game if we want to win.
  10. Also last year I wanted Herman gone and had no hope for recruiting.
  11. Eh, I guess? 2014-2015 felt like Charlie was in over his head, we weren't getting anyone, and A&M had all the momentum. Seems that way right now to me (at least on the crootin' front). Realize that Sark is facing some headwinds Charlie wasn't but we have this staff of ex Bama bag men and can't get anyone to visit.
  12. Boy things have not seemed so bad on the recruiting front since 2014.
  13. Complaining about cheating is very dumb. We should also cheat and cheat better, if by “cheat” you mean remunerate the benefits of the kids labor (or potential labor) to them in exchange for them playing for Texas. We won’t win shit until we stop being high and mighty about this bullshit.
  14. This is what makes programs into contenders, yeah
  15. There is no reason for Texas to have the governor on with these type of bag man things, if that’s what’s happening. It’s entirely hubris. Pay up or keep being mediocre.
  16. Mhm. Really sad responses here.
  17. Why is Broughton no lock to sign
  18. Does anyone have any idea what's going on with Anthony Cook?
  19. So what are the odds these kids stick
  20. The beginning of that article says "it's a down year for defensive players in Texas." I hope the recruits in Texas know that appears to be what Elko thinks of them!
  21. Damon Sayles appears to have changed his CB on Shepherd.
  22. I think the question is whether we actually get the last visit
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