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That's him. Total beast. The few Bama grad friends I have are absolutely beside themselves over this which is an added bonus. They're due for about 25 years (hopefully more) of wandering the desert after Saban's run. And I am absolutely jubilant about that possibility - just as long as they keep beating the aggies

Very, very true - and just as maddening. But at least we'll always have that catch he made against Notre Dame. I also shouldn't forget about Mal Williams and Brennan Eagles, either I guess. I wonder how much money those two guys cost themselves by not moving to safety - Williams especially. If nothing else, he was fun as hell to watch on special teams

If they're satisfied with Davis, then I guess I am too. This staff definitely seems to know what they're doing when it comes to evals and development. Unlike some previous Texas staffs... I definitely don't miss a watching a bunch of tall, slow receivers with bad hands running around out there (Lil'Jordan and Colin being the exceptions, of course).

Agreed. I think Helm is better than a lot of us realize. Also, I'm assuming Holden Staes is probably already taking classes at fake UT so that window has closed?

I like this plan a lot. Just watched Bond's highlights. What a beast. Racking up 650 yards with Milroe is like 1000+ with a better passer. Had to to edit to laugh my ass off at the aggie who thinks they'll be able to flip Bond if they can get him on campus. No one wants to go to your white bread, podunk ass school with your atrocious o-line, your QB that's made of glass (and who STILL hasn't shown a damn thing against any real competition), and the bakery's worth of bread you loaded up on in the portal just so you can almost field a full roster. Not without drastically, drastically overpaying - and even then, it's an iffy proposition

Likewise. I married into an Oregon State family and, even before that, I had a soft spot for the Beavers. They're just a really easy team to root for. My wife, who's family is from Corvallis, is the first member of her family to go somewhere besides OSU (she went to UT, naturally). And now, her entire family has UT as at least their number 2 college team and some of them even have us as their number number 1. Plus, some of her younger relatives (the ones with the requisite grades and test scores, anyway) are looking VERY hard at UT now after hearing my wife and I rave about it. So although the new landscape is probably going to be very good for UT, I'm definitely going to miss watching scrappy, disciplined, well-coached Beaver teams upset Oregon, UW, and USC and ruin their seasons every few years. On the plus side, all of us at least got to have a good hearty laugh about DeBoer bolting Washington for Bama. It also wouldn't exactly break my heart if her twin professional dancer younger cousins decided to pull the trigger on UT one of these days. One is in community college and the other is on full ride at Oregon and both of their grades and test scores should give them a very solid shot at getting into Texas if they decide to go the transfer route - and they are definitely considering it. And believe me, both of those young ladies are welcome to stay in our guest rooms here in Austin as long as they want (No pics, you sickos. I'm pretty sure my FIL is on here and I do NOT want to deal with the blowback from that shit) Edit: and, just to keep it on topic, I would cut off my left pinky finger to get Silas Bolden to Texas. Maybe even my right. I watched him all year and he's almost like Worthy and Keilan in one package. Not as good as Worthy but I do think he can be better than Keilan and still has untapped potential. I have no doubt Sark would come up with some incredible uses for him and I really hope we get to see it. Trying to cover him and Golden is the kind of thing that keeps DCs awake at night

The absurd thing is that they're almost as big and bad as we are. I'm honestly kind of astounded they let DeBoer walk. I have ZERO doubt they could outbid Bama for him if they wanted to. I guess they just didn't feel like ponying up. People forget: UW is a HUGE and prestigious state school with boatloads of money and wealthy alumni (WAY more than Bama) and they care about football a lot more than people think. Maybe DeBoer just wanted to try his hand at the SEC. Maybe he gave UW his number and they said "thanks but no thanks." Who knows? But UW has ZERO business complaining about any other school being a big, bad, mega rich meanie. Maybe they don't have our history but they're almost as rich and they can pull all the talent out of Cali they need to be a perennial contender while cherry picking the best players in the PNW.

I'm certainly no daddy98, but I went through a little of his film too and had some of the same thoughts. It looks to me like one of his main issues is that he has a tendency to block too high mostly without enough knee/hip bend (and he's admittedly 6'7' allegedly which makes it harder). I have to agree that he didn't show much in the passing game - but if his role is to be a blocking surface, I have zero issue with the take. He just needs to spend plenty of time in the weight room and working on his technique with Banks (and I'm sure he will). I can say that I love that he's a VERY willing blocker. As long as he spends time doing plenty of squats, working on blocking technique, and preferably developing his hands, I'm perfectly fine with him being a Horn. You can always use a guy like that

I was going to say the same thing. I wasn't really sure I wanted Stewart to come here. I definitely do now just to see the TexAgs meltdown

He was just awful. One of the worst CCG performances by a QB I've ever seen. If there's a hell, I feel like it involves just watching Iowa and Louisville's offenses from last night on repeat for eternity

I know this is an old post but I hope this kid turns out a metric fuckton better than Jack Plummer. Not that it'll be super hard for him to do that - this shit tonight was genuinely painful to watch

Jesus. The aggy spiel about how "dang ol Bammer is so much dadgum better now than they were when them dern sips beat em" shit is so stupid, absurd, and played the fuck out. Did they even watch the offensive shitshow that was the SEC title game? It honestly wasn't THAT much better than the nightmare ACC title game I sat through for some insane reason I can't explain. If that shit had gone to OT, I might have gouged my eyes out In any case, Milroe barely completed 50% of his passes. They're absolutely the same team we beat - and, if anything, we've improved more. If we played Bama tomorrow the same way we played Okie Lite today, we'd absolutely beat them by 14 to 21 instead of 10 (assuming everyone is healthy, good to go for most of the game, and not suspended for a stupid ass targeting call - mainly Worthy).

I just had a flashback of all the camp reports we heard about what an "amazing connection" Hales had with Garrett Gilbert during camp. God, those were dark days

I will never, ever, ever get tired of seeing this pic posted (and have posted it a few times myself). So if you ever want guaranteed rep from me, post this. Almost too beautiful/glorious/enticing for words. Assuming there's no photographer or any parasitic agents or whatever there (and, obviously there are, of course) I would give my middle nut to be the third wheel there. Seriously. Let me use it one last time and I'm good. That's really all I'll ever need it for again. Disclaimer: if my wife comes across this post somehow - doubtful, but you never you know - I was CLEARLY hacked. I would CONSIDER blaming SydneyCarton, closetojumping, HenryJames, NoName, and few others but it's CLEARLY that Mailbox357 fucker's fault and he should be drawn and quartered for this offense. I just hope they can find a rack large enough for Ketch's ginormous ass. Maybe they can Blood Eagle him instead

I'm really, really happy to hear you say this. IIRC, one of your big misgivings about Sark initially was questioning whether he was a "killer" or not. I think you referenced early Mack on the recruiting trail and in his dealing with the press as an example. You're obviously far more in the know than I will ever be so hearing you say that Sark does, in fact, have some of that that killer instinct that coaches like pre-decline Mack had (among many, many other great ones) gives me a lot of hope for the future. I sincerely hope Sark hangs onto whatever he's found.

They never cease to astound me. I've watched maybe a quarter and a half of an aggy game this year - and that was part of the hilarious collapse against Miami that anyone with half a brain saw coming. Since it's not 1989, there's pretty much always actual good teams on that I can watch instead. Or at least fun teams who don't run a 1970s offense. That way, I can enjoy seeing innovation and/or intelligent play calling and say things like "wow. That was a cool, really smart play. I hope Sark picks that one up" - see ISU's 4th down TD call last night, as frustrating as it was to watch in the moment (side note: love or hate Sark, it's nice having a coach who actually runs the type of play that elicits that kind of reaction on at least a semi-regular basis). Those pigfuckers watch every single second of every single game we play, no matter what the score is, and focus on that shit like they're preparing for the bar exam or the USMLE. Each and every one of those weirdos needs lifelong psychotherapy with accompanying INTENSE psychiatric care and even that's probably not nearly enough. I would say lobotomies might do the trick but I'm pretty sure most them have already had one, so...

Do not want. Say wat you want about his coaching but recruiting East TX would suddenly become much, much harder.

Got damn. You think there's a poral exodus now. Wait until all those five start prima donnas have to get coached by Gundy. So, in conclusion, I support this wholeheartedly and hope aggy is dumb enough to do it. I'll give Gundy this much, at least: that dude can flat out coach even when he's not keeping his best players. So I guess it would be an upgrade even if aggy loses half their roster.

And every other year he played them. Despite the OU debacles, he'll always have my respect for the consecutive beatdowns he put on aggy. Same with Case. Couldn't throw, could barely run, probably could've found a more athletic potential QB in the stands - but he stood TALL when it counted in MUST WIN rivalry games and I'll always respect him for that.

Sanchez was not a miss because 1) we REALLY didn't want him all that bad for reasons other people might like to go into (but I will not touch on here) and; 2) he was never coming here here anyway. tOSU bound all the way. Would like to wish him the best, but... fuck tOSOU. Also I expect another Denver Harris type situation, tbh - or worse - and I'm not solid on him AT ALL as a "good kid." On the plus side, we get to see aggy, many of whom are ABSOLUTELY SURE they're getting him, get left at altar yet again. Which is always good for a hearty laugh. Plus, it may be even funnier than the Kris Boyd and Holton Hill decisions put together (remember Luicici trying to arguue with Boyd? This could be even better!) if enough of those goobers drank the maroon kool aid. Good clean fun, IMO

In addition to being very big, he also looks pretty damn fast and seems to have solid hands. Maybe we'd be interested in targeting McAlister as a replacement for Mitchell since he's probably gone after this year?

Stupid sip. Even the worst offenses in the SEC would hang 77 on any BDF team Legette being out bailed them out so bad. If USCe's OC had even half a brain (and that's anyone's guess. He IS a football coach, after all, so I'm skeptical), he would have just gone to him on every other play and aggy wouldn't have ever been able to find an answer

That too. Just unbelievable how much wasted DL talent at aggy. I can't believe more of them haven't transferred already, bags or no bags (although I'm sure there's more coming this offseason). I genuinely wonder how many of those guys are blowing their shot at the pros. A Whataburger sack stuffed with 10s and 20s is peanuts compared to NFL money

You mean you don't think having 3 down lineman with 82 on the roster is good strategy? You, sir, must not be squeezing hard enough

You'd think with Elijah Robinson and a a DL group that's basically 7-deep with four and five stars, they'd at least be decent at rushing the passer enough to cover for their wretched secondary a little bit. But from what little aggy I've watched this season, they can't even manage that. That level of incompetence is almost impressive (something I find myself saying about them pretty regularly)