Bodacious Bevo
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Stop Being Poor
Just as I thought the sunshine pumpers were getting more annoying than the doomers, the doomers come back with ‘Sark is more stubborn than Herman and only hires his buddies.’ Really strong response to pull back in the lead. Great battle between two teams giving it their all.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Stop Being Poor
I agree, but 2 guard draft picks in 2 years (Conner + Campbell) is good enough to sell. Hell, Flood might as well say Hutson will be drafted too and Majors is on the Eagles practice squad. There’s only so much negative recruiting you can do against that. These players didn’t spend the last three months watching Stroh getting pantsed and questioning Flood’s coaching + watching the IOL at other schools so they can have an informed opinion about all the P2 OL coaches.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Stop Being Poor
IT poster has good perspective but poor facts (I think, correct me if I’m wrong on the following). Let’s look at the case though because it’s interesting After missing on Graham/Grant in 2024, we only signed one DT in the winter portal window: Tia Savea. The staff had the benefit of the spring portal window, where they signed Lole and Norton (after missing on Damonic Williams) for a total of three DTs. The springs window no longer exists. I think it’s worth noting that the interior of the defensive line turned out great in 2024 primarily because of the development of Broughton and Collins. They were the real disruptors. Savea was a bust (another advantage of the spring window). Lole and Norton were somewhere between good and great in their rotational roles. The biggest issue is that we don’t have a Collins/Broughton for each of the IOL spot. I can be talked into Robertson as serviceable and a Baker/Brooks combo of some kind on the right side of the offensive line, but Kibble was the only other guy that I’ve heard get positive buzz at an IOL spot. I guess it’d be Chatman or Cojoemat LG? It’s not great that every potential guard is a currently tackle. And the leap of faith requires belief in development that we haven’t seen at IOL, another stark contrast to DT going into 2024 (though we were switching from Davis to Baker). That said, the need levels in the two cases are pretty similar. The issue, imo, is that the calculus doesn’t seem to have changed in the last two years despite: A) an opportunity to learn from 2024 and B) the lack of a spring window greatly reducing the margin for error. I think we can be fine with 2 OL, but that’s opening up a lot of risk if either busts or injuries happen. OL is also unique because they’re often hampered by the weakest link. We need to recruit to the point our fifth guy is solid. It’s still too early for me to get worked up but it’s not looking great.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Stop Being Poor
I'm with y'all in spirit but it's ok to acknowledge the bad misses. This is one
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Kinda bad rep but he does do well to peel off the OL in the first place. The real sinner is #3 on the Arkansas defense, who is unblocked and kinda just slides off the QB
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Stop Being Poor
This is a good post. I don’t have time for the histrionics of the board anymore like I used to in college. Well, I have time to check a thread or two most days, but neither the time nor the desire to post much anymore.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Stop Being Poor
Just dropping a random reminder about the mute feature
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
My two other favorite reddit sports posts
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Stop Being Poor
Woah woah woah. Connor Stroh only stumbled around against Florida for ~ 20 minutes before Nick Brooks took his place at left stumbler. I'm a little disappointed in you satya. That's a detail that opens up so many more doomer angles: the future of our OL is fucked, Flood's whiffing on his big time recruits, it was a red flag that UGA let him get away, etc.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
He did a separate segment from his main show for our game. Since it was played on Friday ETA: It wasn’t that great. And I like Pate
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Texas vs. Texas A&M - 6:30pm on ABC
I think y’all misunderstand who the stadium atmosphere is meant for. It’s not for visiting teams, or players, or recruits. It’s for people like me who are too blitzed out of our minds to notice what songs are playing or what the PA announcer says. Except the mariachi. That never hits. move it to the 2Q.
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
I don't care about if Gilbeau was there to make a play on the ball because he didn't.
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
I’d also add Arch and the WRs making timely plays as a reason we won the game. In the quarters where our offense is good, we’ve been converting third downs through the air. It’s the 2023 Michigan formula, and it’s an area where we can actually find an advantage in this game given UGA’s defensive struggles on third down and with pass rushing.
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
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The Athletic Scoops Sark interested in NFL Jobs
Sark running off Sam seems like a dumb narrative and it also seems like everyone has forgotten how this program actually developed a good culture for the first time in more than a decade. 5-7 with 6 straight losses, a bunch of blown leads, Iowa State spanking, Kansas, etc. were all an important part of the culture shift. That was the Unfreezing stage that’s required for Moving, for those familiar with Lewis’s model of organizational change. I would’ve loved to have Sam back at the time, but it’s weird to look back with hindsight and wish there had been continuity from Herman’s teams. We needed the rot to be exposed so it could be removed and replaced by young guys growing into leadership roles like Bijan, Roschon, JWhitt, etc. You can’t say 2023/24 are defensible results but 2021/22 are not. The former are a result of the latter. They’re inextricably linked.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I get we’re sad and mad, but I still hate revisionist history. Our 2023 run defense was elite, but the pass defense was easily our biggest issue as a team. The dynamic of that team was not like the last two Also, to the playoff discussion, the way we get in at 9-3 would be that the committee uses their new criteria to drop our out-of-conference loss to Ohio State. I don’t know if that happens, but the narrative leading up to the game is that neither team should be punished for scheduling it if they lose. I don’t think there’s really a path to us getting in at 9-3 on resume or eye test.
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Week 7 2025: Texas at Kentucky
Pass rush could still be elite. OU 3Q was the first time all year we had a lead against a P4 team and we had 4 sacks from then on. I will say that I haven’t been very impressed with our blitzes. We haven’t been very good at getting opposing OLs to miss assignments. But we still have some great individual pass rushers (Simmons and Spence especially).
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My Red River Rivalry Experience 2025
I will say that you could feel our fan base was on edge pregame. OU chants were generally louder, though nobody that I interacted with on either side was overly confident. That punt return TD broke it all loose though and the celebrations matched. A funny thing was that the area we were at in the fair had two big screens with a 15 second desync between them. We were in the middle so we could watch both. The left screen was the one that was behind and also the one with the rowdier crowd of mostly OU fans. So we watch the punt return on the right, go crazy jumping around with some other Texas fans, then get to turn around and watch it again on the left, complete with sad sooner reactions. From there the day was just glorious.
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My Red River Rivalry Experience 2025
Over the past two years I have really enjoyed the new annual tradition of watching the game from the fair then walking in during the fourth quarter and sitting in empty OU seats for the end of regulation and The Eyes. This time, as my buddy and I waded through the mass Sooner exodus, we joked about whether we should take that dejected family’s seats, or maybe sit where those angry frat bros had been. Lots of choices. Once inside, one sooner guy was pretty upset about the game and decided to start talking shit. Buddy just yelled back to take the L and keep walking because we were gonna go take his seats now. The Eyes were awesome, of course. We got to go to the tunnel to watch the players exit and yell nice things. Buddy got a huge smile out of PK for yelling at him that he’s the truth or something similar. Wife got a high five from Baker and McDonald. This year was a top 3 RRS experience with 2018 and 2022. ETA some pics in spoiler. They’re kinda shitty to avoid faces
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- 2025 Game Week 6: RRS Texas v OU
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2025 Game Week 6: RRS Texas v OU
Fuck yes. Another chance to pitch my patented 2 QB system. First iteration was Thompson/Card, then Quinn/Arch, now Arch/Caldwell. Here's how this one goes. Caldwell takes the snap. He keeps the ball for all short throws. For intermediate and deep throws, he checks to see whether the DT is running past our LG/C untouched. The default read is that the DT has thoroughly embarrassed Stroh/Brooks/Hutson, in which case he hands the ball to Arch so that Arch can try to evade the DT and make the throw. If the defense had a communication issue and had no DL on the field at the snap, Caldwell keeps and makes the pass. On run plays, Caldwell can do whatever the hell he wants because he and Arch are both perfectly capable of running for what's blocked and going down on first contact.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Bobby also predicted a 3-2 start into 10-2 finish preseason so he’s not as unprepared emotionally as most of us (though I doubt he’s still thinking 10-2 lol)
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2025 Game Week 6: RRS Texas v OU
I agree with the sentiment that we need more of these, but Arch hasn’t been very good at them. Against UF the throwback screen to Clark was low, the inside screen to Endries was late and got him lit up for one yard, the TD throw to Wisner was late, and he nearly threw a horrific INT on an RPO. He had a couple other RPOs that were completed, but one was still a bit off target. Against OSU he had the miss to Wingo on the final 3rd and 5 among others. Another game he had the turndown to Livingstone on the rollout that would become an INT in the end zone. Still think we need these to stretch defenses horizontally and get reps for improvement, but I get why it’s not just an easy fix for Sark, especially since this was the plan for the entire offseason.