Everything posted by Chuckie Finster
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Are you having a seizure
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Fairly certain teenagers of all generations would have reacted similarly to the things we are seeing in the NIL era. And as a fan of one of the teams best positioned to navigate the era, I’m not necessarily complaining, but it’s unfortunate to so openly watch all of the non-financial factors obviously take a backseat. (And I realize a lot of this has been the case for as long as we’ve been following this stuff, but we used to at least be able to pretend motives were pure.)
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Tough to be concerned with anything regarding the program right now, but to experience the worst recruiting day in months (at least based on the intel being provided here) immediately after beating aggy and clinching a spot in the SEC championship game is an unfavorable commentary on the current state of college football.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
If you really want to see a shitshow, take away the CCG in the era of superconferences and unbalanced schedules.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Resemblance is uncanny.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Is it this guy? https://texaslonghorns.com/sports/football/roster/greg-smith/3490
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Yeah, I'm fine with the current structure. The byes for conference champions angle might be the only thing keeping any eyes outside the SEC/BIG which is good for the sport. If you REALLY want to make conference championships meaningless, take away that bye week reward. There were years where I was absolutely convinced the Big 12 was stronger than the SEC as a whole, but pollsters did not agree. This ensures that those champions will have a fair shot to prove themselves. Also, I've seen a lot of whining about the 5-seed path and how it's not fair. More often than not, the 5 seed will be a top 2-3 team in the country. Some years, it will be a team that was #1 and lost in the conference championship game. A decent draw of seeds, but having to play one extra game, seems like a fair result.
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2023 RB Cedric Baxter Jr.
That 2019 class was cursed, but it’s clear that Whittington and Roschon are two of the most important recruits we’ve signed in decades.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
I think not considering a player committed if they’re taking secret trips is a reasonable conclusion, given the definition of the word. But if you can build a relationship with a player where they let you know about trips before they happen, I think that’s about as good as you can hope for in this era of college football.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
If we don't get a bye, this is up there with the best case other scenarios.
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2025 NFL Draft
They might not be the highest rated prospects, but I have as much confidence in Barron and Helm as pros as I have had with almost any prospect we’ve produced in a while. Convinced they both will excel in the NFL.
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Trap. Or "Why does M. Knight Shyamalan keep getting allowed to make movies?"
There’s a decent Shyamalan premise in here somewhere. Either make Harnett the killer in a big twist at the end that nobody sees coming or make everything think he’s the killer and it end up being someone else. But to broadcast that Hartnett is the dude IN THE TRAILER and then… just… make that the movie is so dumb. And that doesn’t even take into account the countless inexplicable choices made by every single character. When I saw the decent RT score I figured there had to be a decent twist in there… oops.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
texags rumor that Quinn reinjured himself in practice yesterday and might be out Saturday. I’ve seen no confirmation that he even practiced yesterday so I’m sure it’s bullshit (also lol texags) but figured this thread needed a new direction beyond the same three posters arguing past each other.
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Wicked, the movie...
I hate that I know this, but Idina played Lea’s mom on Glee
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24/25 Astros Offseason thread
And tomorrow comes the discomfort.
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2025 EDGE Lance Jackson
Of 2023.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I do enjoy the repeated fact that the team that won last year at night in Tuscaloosa, plays annually in the Cotton Bowl, and has playoff experience is incapable of handling a stadium full of maroon losers.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
If I was a collegiate football player, i would do everything in my power to keep my parents from posting on message boards. “LOOK AT MY SWEET SON DOING HIS FOOTBALL HOMEWORK” gotta be one of the most embarrassing things I’ve seen.
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Game week 13, 2024, Texas at aggy
The stupidity with narratives: If we win, aggy will fall out of the rankings and “Texas hasn’t beat a ranked team!” will still be alive and well. If we lose, “Texas lost to the only two ranked teams they played!” will surely be repeated by talking heads everywhere.
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Road to the SEC Championship
I applaud the amount of alcohol you must have ingested last night to still be drunk enough at 10am to imply that there’s a realistic scenario where the SEC only gets 1/12 playoff spots. Regardless of records, there is no universe where SEC gets less than 3 teams. Period.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
You can point to the lack of great wins, but we are the only SEC team without a bad loss. At some point, “taking care of business” has to matter.
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Non Texas Recruiting 2025: Look at the poors trying so hard
That 2027 game might be a fun one.
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Texas -- a failed state
My wife optimistically questioned if Katy ISD would embrace their diversity (my son's school is genuinely very diverse) and decline to opt into this. Then I showed her how every single Board member (seriously, every one) mentioned extensive Church volunteer experience. We're cooked.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
It's very weird to me that most of the sportswriters would seemingly have a much better opinion of our team if we beat Georgia but lost to, like, Mississippi State.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Took me a good month after he committed to realize that it wasn't some kid with the last name "Smith-Orogbo."