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  1. 2 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Traylor wasn't even on staff when the hit piece was released. Are you saying he was still feeding FCB info on Texas while he was the RB coach at SMU?

    That is the opinion of some yes. Now, as a coach at a competing school in the same state(technically competing against UT), that fact doesn't actually bother me that much, what's bad for UT could be good for SMU, and the whole world knows Traylor hates Herman so.....  I just pointed it out as a tie to FCB.

  2. 1 hour ago, NoName said:

    got any actual receipts for this? or just making shit up.

    Christ! "the myth of Traylor" - when a guy wins 87% of his games over 14 years in TSHXFB, goes to SMU and Arkansas and gets the Assistant Head Coach role at both places then is the 3rd coach ever at UTSA and has success (guys ahead of him were Larry Coker, who won 44% of games and Frank Wilson who won 39% of games, Traylor is currently over 70%) then his results sure seem to speak for themselves to me.

    ...but sure, the "myth" of Traylor is only carried on by 9.95ers lol not from his actual results.

    Tom Herman didn't want to keep him because he wasn't one of his guys, not because he wasn't a good coach. and also of course that is exactly what Tom Herman (why are we believing him in this scenario anyway?) would say to poison the well.

    as a reminder THIS was the Texas Longhorns coaching staff in 2017. certainly an offensive staff of Tim Beck, Stan Drayton, Corby Meekins, Drew Mehringer, Derek Wareheim is just full of juggernauts.

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    Seriously, did I ever claim anything good about Herman or his staff?  If your going to cite win percentage as a determinant factor at small schools in recruiting hotbeds, then I will refer you to Tom Herman's 85% win percentage at UH.  Traylor is a fantastic recruiter, but he isn't the 2nd coming of DKR or Bear Bryant or whomever people make him out to be.  

     

    And yes, it was obvious as could be when Traylor left who he was feeding info to because they all of a sudden fell off the face of the earth on coverage.  Traylor was rumored to be FCB's primary source for info when he was on the staff.  FCB's coverage and inside information dropped to zilch after Traylor was let go and FCB was one of the biggest drum beaters for how big of a mistake that was.  In addition, FCB still goes out of his way to be exuberant in any praise he can possibly throw Traylor's way. 

    Lets look at some evidence:

    Who broke the news that Traylor was being hired.....FCB

    Who broke the news that Traylor got a pay raise.....FCB

    Who broke the news that Fenves, Perrin, Strong, and UT run-game coordinator Jeff Traylor(shocking) flew to Tulsa to hire Gilbert--FCB

    Who broke the news that Traylor wasn't retained---FCB

    Who just had a preview of the game with the opposing coach--FCB

    I am not an insider, but I do know people who know things.  The commonly held belief among them is that Traylor was one of the sources for the Bonito hit piece from FCB.

    "The myth of Traylor" comment has nothing to do with what he did at Gilmer, but it is entirely based on the idiot belief that that somehow makes him this fantastical coach at UTSA that Texas should be terrified of.  

     

    UTSA isn't disciplined on offense, defense, or special teams.  They don't execute particularly well, and talent wise they are good for their level, but there isn't anyone on their roster that we are watching in the transfer portal.  He has the most talented team in Conference USA and that is how he did so well last year until they got beat by SDSU, a game they were supposed to win.  He tried to out-athlete a bad UH team and lost, and managed to out-athlete a pathetically bad Army team.

     

    Traylor is a good recruiter(some would argue that was why he was so good at Gilmer.....but that's another conversation) and a good motivator, but he isn't some giant killer coach, and he for dang sure was FCB's source among others.

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  3. 3 hours ago, OB3 said:

    Why do all the 995ers love Traylor so much?

    He was a mole for 9.95ers like crazy.  It was part of the reason Herman didn't keep him.

     

    The myth of Traylor is heavily dependent on 9.95 loyalty.

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  4. 17 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Yeah, if Card starts there's no reason at all to believe that 4-6 week Ewers report that originated from Fat Ketch. 

     

    So your saying shorter or longer recovery time on Ewers?

  5. 9 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Put me in the camp of, "We don't really know how good this Bama team is, yet, and therefore we can't draw too many conclusions about us." Bama played a similar game on the road at Florida last year in week 3 winning by 2, and the Gators turned out to be a steaming pile of 6-7 meh and fired their coach. Bama still has an iffy OC, they played extremely undisciplined for a Saban team, and they don't seem to have the firepower at the skill positions or on the offensive line as they traditionally do.

    I think we learn a lot more about Texas, this week. We already know that we've got injury problems at the most important position, that we're playing an opponent that's going to play with their hair on fire, and there's a better than zero chance we come out flat. They rose to the occasion when adversity hit last week, can they do it again? Maybe in some way, not having a healthy QB room gets everybody to focus in a little more?  We *should* dominate the trenches. We seem to have an advantage at wide receiver if we have somebody to get them the ball. I'm hopeful that we come out and physically dominate them for four quarters, but I've seen this team lay an egg too many times over the past 10-ish years to give them the benefit of the doubt based on one game. If we play disciplined, smart, mistake free-ish football, we should cruise. If not, we're in for a dogfight.

    irrespective of what kind of a team Bama has, you can conclude on the basic fact that it didn't resemble any of the games last year with the defense in the backfield at the snap of the ball or our defense not knowing how to do basically anything as a sign of improvement.  So I think we beat an appex Bama?  No....but even so our boys were vastly superior to anything that took the field last year.

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  6. 2 hours ago, Fud said:

    I wouldn't assume UTSA's secondary sucks because of the raw yardage they gave up against Army. That offense is a whole different animal and DBs end up getting lost in play-action conflict after selling out on the run that they won't necessarily see against other offense. They gave up only 6.4 YPA vs Houston. 

    The problem against army wasn't that they got lost in traffic....most of the big plays were straight go routes, flags, or posts.  The problem for UTSA is their secondary is slow.  They are big...but they are slow.  Isaiah Alston is Army's go to deep threat and he is big and slow(entered transfer portal last January and had no takers)....and still burns UTSA repeatedly on straight routes.  Army's running backs abused UTSA linebackers on basic wheel routes coming out of the back field.  Also, UTSA didn't load up the box all game long against army, they ran a lot of 4-3 and even nickel.  If they give Texas the 12 yard cushion they gave army it will get ugly......and Texas actually has speed.  Army's light oline routinely moved the UTSA defensive line backwards, not talking misdirection, just flat out 1st and goal from the 3 and the dline for UTSA ended up 3 yards deep in the endzone.  UTSA has a safety who is a good tackler, the rest like to dive and arm tackle.

     

    Could we blow it against UTSA....sure....I mean we lost to Rice......but....I just can't see it.  Our Oline should maul them. Whomever we line up at running back should have room to run. Army consistently got pressure with a 3 man rush.....I mean I just don't see the trap game.  Sure we feel good about ourselves, but we didn't win and we won't have our starting QB....there's lot of reasons the players won't coast this week.

     

    As for who is playing QB....Texas doesn't need their QB to win this game, they need them manage the offense.  I know I know...last year, kansas, 7 game losing streak, whatever whatever whatever......Last year we had the equivalent of wet toilet paper for an oline and our defense was trash, whether they are as good as they looked or not against Bama, the oline is light years ahead of last year both in regards to talent and execution.  It's amazing what giving a coach a real offseason to coach an oline can accomplish. Same with the defense.  We may very well not look quite as great against UTSA, but we will still look far better than last year.

     

     

    We should be 4-1 going into Dallas.  We shall see if that happens.

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  7. 11 hours ago, Ghost of Shag said:

    I hate to go all Satya here but some of you guys are high. Top 15 team at the end of the year? 4-1 going to The RRS? 

    If Card is the quarterback, much less if he has a high ankle sprain (and Depp’s info better measure up or he should get net bombed into oblivion), we aren’t getting to RRS at 4-1. 

    Big 12 offenses are going to be better than Bama’s was. Not more talented, but more proficient. They will play with faster tempo and will exploit areas—like the middle of the field—that were open against Bama but BoB wouldn’t take advantage of.

    I’m thrilled with the apparent improvement on defense but getting up for a game against the #1 team in the nation in front of 105,000 at home is easy. Going to Lubbock is a different story.

    Out season always rode on Ewers being healthy. Without him, we’re a 6-6 team. We hope. 

    Seriously?  Tech who needed overtime to score 33 on defensive juggernaut Cougar high?  I am sorry but the pirate isn't in Lubbock anymore.  Their defense won't be harder to defend than Bama's was.  They don't have the linemen nor the the athletes....

     

     

    As for Card, he was the better QB at the end of last season but got injured.  The biggest difference for him going forward is we have a functional offensive line to not have him getting drilled every snap.

  8. 3 minutes ago, TexasPride10 said:

    I’d be right there with you on this if not for the fact that Card is also injured.

    I'm sorry, the cult of Traylor is what it is, but UTSA isn't a well coached team.  Traylor recruits well and he out athletes marginal teams but they aren't some well disciplined giant killer.  We could hand it off 60 times to our backs and we will run them off the field.

  9. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    I feel like I read or saw an interview somewhere years ago that they made that "window" out of sugar in order for it to break without harming the actor when he headbutted it. 

    Most glass for stuff like this is made out of sugar.  Elementary school me was shocked to find out the window that Shawn Michaels threw Marty Jannetty through was made of sugar and not glass.

  10. 6 minutes ago, Okcool said:

    I know it should go on coach’s thread, but fits the post above. Coach Choice is a bad man.

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    Tashard the Right ChoiceBy: Super KPosted on: August 5, 2022

    We have yet to see what coach Tashard Choice’s running backs will do on the field but…c’mon…it’s Bijan and RoJo. Not a difficult pair to coach or lead to success.

    But in terms of recruiting, we’ve already seen him have success landing in-state RB, Tre Wisner. Choice beat out a formidable opponent in DeMarco Murray. Earlier on, the Sooners had a lead for Wisner and Choice was able to quickly turn the tide.

    Last night, I was talking to the parents of an OU target, 4-star DB, Makari Vickers (Tallahassee, FL). They are just coming off a visit to Norman. In the course of the conversation, they were talking about how during the recruiting process a big thing for them was finding coaches they connect with – coaches who are genuine.

    And completely unprompted (as it was a recruitment related to OU) they brought up Tashard Choice. They absolutely raved about him. Makari’s father basically said that if Choice was the position coach at Texas, the Horns would have very much been in the mix for Makari.

    Hearing that gave me more confidence that the Horns will likely hold off a push from Georgia and land 4-star RB, Cedric Baxter (Orlando, FL). Should that happen (and sources on the Texas side believe it will), that’s an incredibly impressive haul for Choice in his first year.

    And, Choice will have gone into Georgia’s own recruiting territory and taken Baxter just as UGA is coming off a national championship.

    Choice and I happen to have a mutual friend and you’ll recall that when he was hired I mentioned that said friend spoke very highly of Choice. But, to see it in action on the recruiting trail and to hear his name in a conversation completely unrelated to Choice or Texas, corroborates what I’d previously heard.

    Heck of a hire and I imagine Lincoln was none too happy to lose him.

     

    Since when is D Murray a good recruiter?

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  11. 3 hours ago, Thatguy said:

       I love people outside of the situation telling people in the know what did or did not happen. I am telling YOU what happened and why USC is on the board. No one else made that offer. And now you are questioning whether she is as good as being stated? Her touching 10.5 on video can easily be found online. Houston Skyline is the best volleyball program in the city. They literally pluck away everyone's best players. Go look at their 15's top team and you will see a pic of her on it. They have been begging her to come over for a couple years now but mom didn't want to make the commitment(drive), as they are way across town. She had been playing club close to home. However, with Braylan soon to be gone they can start focusing on her so she just took their invite for this upcoming season. She didn't even have to try out, and everyone in the city is trying to get on that team. You don't play top team for Skyline unless you are uber talented. Ask Madi Skinner or her sister. She also just made Friendswood's varsity vball team as a freshman which is a big accomplishment with the talent and lack of senior movement they have this year. Oh, she is also ranked number 45 in the country in the 26 class in basketball. It should be pretty obvious at this point that I am extremely close to the situation. Like, "had I asked when I saw them last night they probably would've told me" close. But being where I attended college I didn't want to press the issue. Also, Pops Shelby played for pig so my swaying is not appreciated anyway.

    Dude.... I'm not doubting SC offered, nor am I doubting she is that talented.

    My point is as talented as she is and as highly ranked as she is....the offer is meaningless.  A) If she is as good a recruit as they are projecting her to be, she'll be able to pick her school to play volleyball on. B) It's an under the table offer.  SC can forget it every happened if Braylan isn't a contributor for them or if she ends up not being worth taking. Won't be the first time it has happened...heck from what my Volleyball friends say about Crouch, he's probably done it before.  C) From what I am told the only difference between men's basketball recruiting and women's volleyball recruiting is how involved the shoe companies are. Texas didn't not offer a kid like her with a brother like Braylan because of some rule that no one can ever point to actually being enforced.  If they are telling you SC offered it and Texas didn't........I think they are feeding you an excuse.  But I admittedly don't know them, but it doesn't make any sense otherwise.  Thanks for the info.

     

    I used to live in the wood.  Nice place.  I am assuming they live in Friendswood lakes or around Centenial park at that price....maybe by the high school.

  12. 4 hours ago, Thatguy said:

      

       Texas didn't bring the daughter in and make her an under the table offer. They are 3 years apart and there is a chance that if he stayed for his senior year they would be on campus at the same time. That's a smart recruiting pitch for a tight knit family already doing well for themselves. You guys laugh but funny how USC is one of the last two standing.

    Genius.  You think USC is the only one who did this if she is that good?  Schools have doen this forever.  Darrell Royal promised Tommy Nobis his Brother's would have scholarships to UT....guess what Bud Wilkenson promised the same thing at OU.  Same thing with Earl Campbell and countless other recruits.  If she is as good as is being stated every college with a volleyball team is doing it, but it doesn't matter if she is that type of player she can probably pick where she goes.  If she is a marginal or borderline level recruit.....that's where the offer has actual value. It's harder to get a volleyball program to play ball on a player they don't think will contribute....

  13. 6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

      The daughter is 6ft and touching 10ft 5inches at 14 years old. The vball scholarship offer is not a crock. She will be one of the most sought after vball recruits in the country if she keeps developing, maybe even a bigger collegiate recruit than Braylan.

    If thats the case its an even bigger crock...considering she'll have her pick of schools whether he goes to USC or not.

     

    As for the SuperK update.....it's more a UGA is trying to weasel into the conversation not so much they are an actual threat.

  14. Just now, Bevo said:

    My comments were that our edge recruiting sucked, that we didn't seem to have a plan for edge and that our pool party seemed useless and unorganized. It upset you and quite a few others, but I stick by it. I haven't commented on Hill.

    Actually no...you started playing Satya's greatest hits because you thought the pool party was unorganized and we weren't getting recruits.  Then when others called you out on that, you pivoted to the edge recruiting complaint.

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  15. Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

    It’s not. Shut the fuck up. You need elite talent to win championships. It’s proven. Settling for guys under that tier gets you to the ND’s of the world and Oklahoma’s. Making the playoffs but getting ass fucked by the teams who are landing the elite talent. 

    Well....that would be a world of improvement over the last 13 years? So how about we work on that before we go all @Bevo or @Satya because we missed on one recruit....  

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  16. 3 minutes ago, FunkSoulBrother said:

    My understanding from your posts was we weren’t going to get outbid or more of if we lose Hill it won’t be because of bags.

     

     

    2 minutes ago, Irieguy said:

    Same.

    Ya'll both lack reading comprehension than.  CTJ has said for over a month that if A&M went all in on Hill with a ridiculous offer it would be hard to counter.

     

    NIL and such counters the typical bag game, but flopping one giant bag on a recruit is a different matter.

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  17. 3 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

    I appreciate the pick me up, and the sky is definitely not falling. However, it sounds like Gullette is surrounded by some family members that may be susceptible to Aggie methods of persuasion, and the “car won’t start” excuse for not attending is going to be a big red flag for him if he manages to make it to BCS this weekend. 

    Guillette has a family member who wants him to go through the process and not jump before he has done his diligence. Not the worst advice to be giving a kid in his position. 

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