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Huckleberry

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  1. Oh they definitely paid illegally for decades, but now that there are legal ways to earn money their bags look a lot smaller.
  2. It's definitely mostly the above. As others have pointed out, Alabama was getting a significant discount because of Saban's track record, players are not giving them that discount anymore. Deboer may be a good coach but he obviously does not have nearly Saban's track record or reputation. Not to mention he apparently is not the biggest fan of recruiting and keeping players right now is a matter of salesmanship and recruiting dozens of guys that you don't even know. A non-natural recruiter can land good classes with hard work and relationship building if he's not good at selling. But in this situation you have to be a salesman because you don't have the relationships. Apparently he either doesn't care for it or isn't great at it, or both.
  3. It wasn't "think of the children," it was the fact that these are adults whose freedom of movement was being illegally and nonsensically restricted. That was at roughly the same time everyone realized these are adults whose freedom to earn income was being illegally and nonsensically restricted. Are you a coach who makes money? You can move somewhere else as often as you like. Are you a regular student? You can, too. Oh you play sports? No, you're stuck. The system used to treat them like children. Now they have the same freedoms as other adults. Sucks to suck if you're not a very desirable destination.
  4. Perhaps it was someone else but I'm going to blame you anyway.
  5. This is the second time you've made a comment like this trying to generate traction. Do you have something you want to say?
  6. Well we didn't win the national championship last year so that should be the goal.
  7. I had a question about this that one of you recruiting honks didn't answer or at least I didn't see it. I thought the NLI bound a player for one year, regardless of the portal, etc.
  8. I don't know, maybe Texas really does have a $100M payroll. Sounds like everyone else should just give up.
  9. To believe this is ironic would require believing that the Republican Party actually gives a shit about individual rights. Or that it's actually cared about them at any time in the last half century. You can't possibly still believe that.
  10. It would have ended a long time ago if he would answer a question and provide the evidence that has been requested.
  11. Holy fucking shit. "You guys shouldn't believe everything you read from biased sources. Here's a screenshot from The Right Scoop."
  12. Of course. The issue obviously being that he works for the one fanbase that is eternally eager to swallow the bullshit and never question their dear leader. If this exact offseason happened at Texas there would be internecine warfare in the Texas fanbase. Pumpers and haters have their place alongside calm realists. A&M doesn't have haters. Hell, they even run off their calm realists.
  13. I remember all the way back to a year ago when the satya brigade mocked people who said running back would be okay in 2023. "WE JUST LOST A GENERATIONAL RUNNING BACK AND A FANTASTIC LEADER AND FOOTBALL PLAYER IN BIJAN AND ROSCHON AND YOU THINK WE'LL BE OKAY BASED ON GUYS WHO HAVEN'T PROVEN ANYTHING LIKE BROOKS?!?!? OKAY SUNSHINE PUMPER!" It's almost like that's always a stupid take because nobody can prove anything before they get playing time and running back is the most fungible skill position. This doesn't guarantee we find a good running back but it's certainly stupid to spend time worrying about it.
  14. Player who snaps the ball can be an eligible receiver if he's on the end of the line. But more importantly based on what I've read in the Aggie screenshot thread, we run everything so we can just make them change the rules so everyone is eligible.
  15. Here are the 2023 composite rankings of dozens of objective systems of these two sets of opponents. Rankings from here: https://masseyratings.com/ranks?s=cf 2023 Big 12 final 5 regular season games: #76 BYU #15 Kansas St. #53 TCU #35 Iowa St. #38 Texas Tech 2024 SEC final 5 regular season games: #111 Vanderbilt #59 Florida #81 Arkansas #41 Kentucky #34 Texas A&M There's definitely someone in this discussion who is blinded by BS, but it's not who you think it is. I was wrong, though. The Big 12 stretch isn't just comparable, it's objectively tougher than the SEC stretch. You better hope they all get better for your argument, because you need them all to improve by an average of 22 ranking spots to even up those schedules. Holy shit the SEC top-to-bottom toughness is such bullshit.
  16. We don't know that because it's wrong. And the orange-colored glasses accusation doesn't even make any sense because I'm comparing one Texas schedule to another. You have swallowed the kool-aid but that doesn't mean everyone else has to do it. The SEC is not "top to bottom" stronger than the Big 12 since existence. Its top teams have been stronger over time. There have always been crappy teams in the SEC and there have been at least a half dozen seasons where the Big 12 was a better conference than the SEC (before teams started defecting). It's not naïve, it's objective fact, at least objective fact from the perspective that I think my objective computer measures are solid. Vanderbilt, Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas A&M next year is at this point objectively pretty much the same as BYU, Kansas State, TCU, Iowa State, Texas Tech was this year.
  17. lulz I mean some team will probably step up but as of right now we finish with 5 straight games against teams more likely to be unranked than ranked. At least none of them are considered Top 25 in any of the early preseason lists.
  18. How are the Nationals not named after a city? The City of Washington is coterminus with the District of Columbia but it wasn't always.
  19. Obviously I'm sure he's new to that area but it still looks funny to say you signed an international free agent from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
  20. Oh sweet Jesus please happen. Tired of the Ohio Shitheads never completely missing on a hire.
  21. Because Alabama and Georgia never had close games against weaker competition.
  22. Yeah, loving Blues Brothers and hating Christmas Vacation raises a lot of questions about texifornia's childhood. That's some weird shit. Now personally I don't hate Blues Brothers, it's fairly average with some good moments. But the above opinion is wild.
  23. We're in the SEC the same year there's a 12 team playoff starting. It's essentially impossible to back into anything now. Hoping Alabama stays like they've been is silly. Try hoping Texas takes that position instead.
  24. For real. Last time I was down there for a cousins graduation (against my will) was 2011 and it was nowhere near what I consider a metro area. To me it was like a smallish/medium sized Texas city that runs together with a small city that grew up around a college..far from a metro area. As I've always said, it's a suburb without an urb, which makes it completely shitty.
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