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UncleSonny

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  1. Pretty sure no one on the board thinks he's reliable as the only rb take this class anymore, but taking the information we have not everyone is ready to pull his offer immediately and write him off as a person and player.
  2. Agreed on basically all points. Mo Clarett and Mike Williams both made “selfish” decisions and quit on their respective teams early, but OSU and USC still got a lot of value out of them before they did.
  3. The rumors that he is a malcontent who had a huge blowup with his coaches and rage quit the team is more of a red flag than if he made a considered decision to skip his last year to protect his health for cfb.
  4. Nah, if that was his evaluation of Blue he would have been harping on it before, explicitly. No reason to be coy, that’s just a player evaluation. He doesn’t shy away from calling out prospect weaknesses, even ones that committed to Texas. From the IT commitment story: Nahlin needs to be seen as the smartest person on the board and it drives him crazy if it appears he was caught unaware of something, hence that post.
  5. Agreed, a 5.5 still converts to a 1 on the binary scale.
  6. Yeah, this: and this: put the coaches in a tough position where they really have to thread the needle, fair/reasonable or not.
  7. Gerry doubling down that the coaches should cut bait and saying he's known about issues for a while but he won't go into details. Also, this made me lol: Open your eyes people! "Need a RB in the class who runs between the tackles" is so clearly code for "Blue has issues with his coaches and will be opting out of his senior year on 5/20". Nahlin won't stand for anyone thinking he just may have gotten scooped on a story.
  8. Oh shit, interesting...well that's a new one. I'm gonna guess this is going to bring the #takes.
  9. Did they mention the aggy representation on that list? I saw this tweet earlier: I know Spiller is getting some hype as one of the top rb prospects but there is no fucking way even Kiper is dumb enough to put Ainias Smith as the 3rd best back in the draft is he?
  10. Alternatively, knowing what we know about this staff, their early returns, Terrell's agenda, and the fact that the comments are anonymous, the comments aren't disturbing at all and are literally meaningless. Coming in as a new staff and without even having the ability to see recruits in person they have closed on a few big targets and they are right in the mix with pretty much every target we could reasonably hope for. They have secured official visits with most of them when they will finally be able to meet prospects in person and make some big moves in some of those recruitments and close out the leans. All while recruiting has been at a standstill across the country for the past few months. We're fine.
  11. The backlash to the backlash against Guy Fieri has grown so prominent that we've swung back around to having a positive opinion about him is pretty much the majority stance. Admittedly he seems like a good dude but lets not forget he's a guy in his 50s who says shit like "this is gansta!", "off the hook", and "lets go to flavor town!" and dresses like this: I'll be happy when it swings back around again and I can call him a tool without my friends and family correcting me about how much he does for small businesses and all his charity work.
  12. https://uproxx.com/indie/bob-dylan-albums-ranked-80th-birthday/ Really good (albeit long) Steven Hyden article ranking his studio albums. Pretty solid ranking, I think I'd have "Blood on the Tracks" at the top personally.
  13. Their rankings have borne that out. Ewers have been in his own tier as a qb and (almost) consensus top 2022 prospect for years. Manning is sometimes ranked as the top 2023 qb but some services have had Nelson above him and I haven't seen a list that had him as the top prospect in the country. He's always top 5 so it's a matter of degrees, but Ewers is a more uncommonly talented prospect.
  14. I used to print out those novel length matchup previews Longhorn Bob would do before every game and read them while taking a shit. I was pretty young so I can't speak to the quality of the writing or analysis but I loved diving into those things and getting deeper context about our upcoming games. Weirdly Bob is partially responsible for my Longhorn football obsession when I was in middle school/early high school to now.
  15. I, for one, am excited you were so proud of this joke you decided you needed to post it on both the football and recruiting board.
  16. I'd expect after a strong year on defense (and knowing they are poised to take a step back) next offseason is the year Elko hits eject as well.
  17. John Goodman should pop in for at least a scene in every movie. If he's not available, cast Stephen Root.
  18. On the bright side for USC they got a longer tenure from Carrington than they got from Kliff before bolting for the NFL.
  19. I have no idea what you are trying to argue at this point. Our upside is our 2nd best squad we've had in the last 30 years? Um, yeah that would work for me.
  20. My expectations aren't conference championship or bust this season but it's completely reasonable to expect improvement the first year with a new staff. Any improvement from last season puts us right in the thick of the title hunt. Last season we won 7 games in a shortened season, took the conference champion to 4 OTs & lost by 3 to the conference runner up; it's crazy to act like we are looking at a long term rebuild to get to (conference) championship caliber. This site unanimously wanted Herman fired in part because he was way underachieving giving the talent he had. You are overstating the challenge of a coaching transition. When a blueblood school makes a real coaching upgrade they see improvement fast, as in the first year. Notre Dame - 2009: 6-6 2010 (Kelly's 1st): 8-5 Ohio State - 2011: 6-7 2012 (Urban's 1st): 12-0 Michigan - 2014: 5-7 2015 (Harbaugh's 1st): 10-3 Florida - 2017: 4-7 2018 (Mullen's 1st): 10-3 Oregon - 2017: 4-8 2018 (Cristobal's 1st): 9-4 I think Cristobal is the only coach on that list who inherited an established, quality qb. Maybe Sarkisian is a huge upgrade and maybe he's not. There are exceptions to good coaches starting slower but lets not act like it's exceedingly rare for a new coaching staff to take over a team with a lot of talent and hit the ground running. And we do have a lot of talent relative to the country and our conference.
  21. Wrong. Huh? Who gives a shit about the spring game? What could even make a spring game "middling"? If we have to temper our expectations because of his substance abuse history we've made a huge fuckup with this hire.
  22. Nobody finds more five star qbs that no other school seems to be pushing particularly hard for than aggy. To be fair, I think Weigman is a better prospect than King.
  23. Not sure if you are serious about spoiling a minor plot point in a movie that came out 9 years ago and has made a billion dollars but apologies, here you go:
  24. Btw, I saw too late that I have a typo or used the wrong word in about every other sentence but considering the amount of sleep I’m running on if the post is halfway comprehensible I’m counting it as a win.
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