Everything posted by closetojumping
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
He sat the bench on a title team and is now retroactively, with the help of the ever scrupulous Ole Miss and Tom Mars, trying to claim he was sick and couldn't play. He also doesn't have any documentation. This is someone attempting to throw the one thing out that everyone wants to keep - some semblance of an eligibility guard rail. Pavia fucked everyone by getting the Juco rules waived. The NCAA screwed the pooch with the corona year. No one wants to see the 5 years to play 4 rule go away. If Chambliss wins this, and this is one that the NCAA isn't guaranteed to lose, then we will see 30 year olds playing. At that point, just cut the scholarships and school ties from the teams and start over. You came close to getting something right here. Townsend and Winston looked good and neither looked fat or overweight. Townsend, of course, wasn't on campus until June. I thought we whiffed on not getting this guy last year. He's good when the QB is at least functional. Sucks he's going to Florida.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
The guy has literally played 4 full seasons of NCAA football.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Comparing Brown to Blue is as off as the color comparison would be. Brown is a smaller back, but he can be effective between the tackles, if forced to be, just the same as Haynes. That isn't where you want either of them, however. Marshall carried that load and then Kudzal tried to when Marshall got hurt. They didn't want Haynes doing much of it. For the most part, they just wanted Haynes streaking down the field, usually going off tackle or completely wide. As for Blue, that dude had no interest in running between the tackles at all and usually fumbled when he did. Brown isn't like that. The market for top of the line RBs in this portal is short of $1M. I do not buy for one second that someone will pay an injured Justice Haynes 2x or 3x of that. You guys should use some critical thinking skills and look beyond what a player's agent is floating out there. Maybe Baugh and Isaac Brown got $1M to stick with where they were, but I doubt it was much more than that.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Texas already landed a better version of Justice Haynes. His name is Raleek Brown. I know it’s been like 24 hours and all, but for fuck’s sake, guys. Haynes can’t stay healthy and doesn’t spend much time between the tackles. We don’t need lightning and gimpy lightning. We need lightning and thunder. Does anyone know where the bigger back for UF ended up? It’s clear he’s not coming to Texas for whatever reason, but he’s more of what Texas should be chasing.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I thought that was BO&W? He fixes brakes on 18 wheelers or some shit.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
They represent an elite level of luxury travel. What’s that got to do with anything? ”one” is awfully presumptive here. Fishing at Pedernales Falls with my roommates. The assault was brutal, but I don’t remember Nolan Ryan being in the vicinity.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I got slapped by a Japanese snowmonkey once. My act of kindness regarding such matters? Remove temptation. I wish everyone else was a kind as me.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I once bet an arab cab driver $20 that he couldn't get me and 4 buddies from 6th Street to the IHOP by Zilker Park in 5 minutes. He put the pedal to the metal and said "MOTHERFUCKING" repeatedly for 4 minutes while almost killing us and getting us to IHOP one minute early. Nope. Never a thing. Just his agent bloviating to a willfully idiotic CFB media. I fully expect Texas to lose this guy to Oregon. There are like 5 biases that are exhibited between Flood and Harris that will get in the way of the right answer. You don't need to find the quote. I wrote it yesterday in this thread, in the same post in which I said the OSU Edge was asking for like 5x what Texas or anyone else would think he's worth.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Brandon Harris has: 1) Congressional Medal of Honor 2) Fluent in French, Swahili and Mandarin 3) Call of Duty 5 Star General rating 4) United Nations Special Intern for Guam all listed on his resume on the first half of his first page. This guy is a fucking wizard.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I’m not kidding or being sarcastic when I say that some of the allegedly best lawyers in the world have looked at the Texas stuff. If the UT agreements don’t have serious teeth, no contracts do. Whatever the case, the Big 10 contracts will quickly be mimicked if there is any concern for a program about their contracts otherwise, all over the country. Finally something in favor of sanity has shown back up in CFB.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Huge insight, bro. No, really, bro, that’s a big insight. Crushing it. His agent is former longhorn star Mike Davis. Thanks for your help in spurring this guy to the portal because Tech was allegedly going to give him 4x the agreed upon Texas deal. Whoops. I love most of our ex players, but these fucking shitbags who are constantly shitting on Texas due to some petty perceived long ago slight nauseate me.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Wow. You should follow up and tell everyone you got them and just wanted to see who was gullible.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Texas people have heard it. They’re all apparently considering the source. I absolutely think Liucci is doing this for the reasons already articulated on this thread. That piece of shit isn’t really expecting Coleman to pick Texas.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
You mean a guy like Parker Livingstone? How’d that work out?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Harris is running around acting giddy and talking shit to people about closing Coleman. That's where Brauninger and Liucci are drawing the buzz. Ketchum probably heard about it and passed it along, given that he and Liucci trade notes.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Apparently the Wyoming guy turned out to measure 5'11", 265 pounds. They discovered he was suiting up and playing while wearing a fat suit to make him look more formidable.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I don't hope anyone gets injured and I certainly don't root for career-ending injuries very often. Last guy like that for me was Dallas Turner. I haven't heard much about him lately, so maybe he did get really hurt and that would be awesome. I do, however, cheer for injuries of our enemies when they happen. If Livingstone gets hurt next year, I will smirk and chalk that up to karma.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I don't think graduate transfer get any special treatment any more. They're subject to the same portal window and everything that goes with it.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I'm amused reading this thread right now. I told you guys less than a month ago that Texas was going to see somewhere between 20-25 guys enter the portal. I said they'd try to reload and add something near that range through it as well. A lot of pushback was made on the 25 exits as way too high. Now it might be too low by 5-8. I should go visit the roster thread on the football forum for similar humor. @Wulaw Horn was at least one, I believe, who thought the numbers were off. Maybe I am misremembering but it was at least a few of the regulars. You guys need to embrace all of this. We are witnessing the ground shifting underneath the entire industry's feet in real time. It's extremely rare to be able to live within this kind of chaos as groups rationalize and process and react. I enjoyed being in the middle of the dawn of NIL and predicting its future while most poo-poo'd or sat idly by and we benefitted from embracing it at the time. I feel like this is a new reset, and it's awesome watching all of the blue bloods shit themselves and industry pundits and coaches trying to process it all. One thing that seems certain now, and I didn't even consider this 2 weeks ago, is that the rules for recruiting have changed fundamentally. The guys that will get money will be the guys viewed as truly "can't miss" and even that is going to be tempered compared to the past 4 cycles. Then there will be work done regarding plenty of guys that can't demand any money, but could be developed into talent. I did discuss this about the last 6+ guys added to the 2026 class. They didn't cost anything. I guess a new takeaway with those guys is that, when some of them do start to really develop and fight for PT, staffs are going to have to be really careful about playing them. Beyond that, there's not a lot of room in between. Ffrench got paid $500k+ to come in and disappoint from day one. That is money lit on fire. He's one of many. If you sign guys for that, you'd better fucking play them. I think we're going to see a lot of Bishop, Atkinson and Cooper this fall, for better and worse. When the portal guarantees a reopening of any player's recruitment, the management focus and vast majority of dollars will be concentrated there every cycle. Some bad ass recruit wants $1M? Let him go to Tech or Oregon and either develop or don't. If he does, compete for him when he's ready to play. Rinse and repeat. This also blows up any semblance of the bag game. Agents are taking care of that as they try to bleed every team for every last cent.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Clark has pulled the D'andre Moore Maneuver. He agreed to terms before the bowl and was set to return. He's now asking for something north of 3x the prior agreed amount and trending towards RB1 money. Signing Brown helps in that it takes some leverage away from Clark's end. While he played well in the Citrus Bowl, that doesn't mean anyone is ready to assume he's a 1200 yard back in 2026. I hope Texas gets the deal done, but these haven't gone our way during this portal period, for the most part. I assume Filsaime resigns simply because there just can't be much of a market for him. Sure, he has the 5 star pedigree, but that's it. He's been limited in his snaps for 2 years and, this year when he played more, he didn't light the tape up. There simply can't be a big gap in a Texas offer and someone else's in the portal.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Apparently, multiple WRs still haven't signed their stuff. I don't think we can take anything for granted until the portal closes or guys announce things publicly. I also think they're going to work on other WR targets once Coleman announces he can't turn down the offer from Tech or that he wants to stay close to home for momma and way less money from Bama.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I'm not getting into Burton's relationships with anyone on the Texas staff. That said, he's a smart guy in an information business. Running over the Texas program and its staff repeatedly probably isn't helpful for what he's building. As to wondering if I'm listening, don't. I don't listen to their stuff for many reasons, but mainly because that's not my media of preference. I read their stuff more or less each day, however. Bizarre post in the way you hedge some things that we know are occurring or have occurred, and then take a face value other shit that hasn't been confirmed anywhere. -Cam Coleman - Texas is 100% not the highest bidder and it isn't close. I guess you'd need to physically see the offer sheets to believe it? -Richardson - Texas does not believe that he and his agent are serious and his agent has used Texas in a non-serious way before. They leaked visiting Texas to the media before Texas had spoken to the guy, allegedly. -Zion Williams and Miami guy play different spots, with ZW being a NT and the other being a 3, I think. If ZW doesn't announce for Texas today, I'll be both surprised and dismayed. That one was done before he finished his paperwork. The Miami dude is making like 4 more visits, so if he leaves without shutting it down, I assume we can write him off. -The Okie State guy thinks he's worth about 5x what Texas or likely anyone would pay him. I have zero expectations that they'll talk him down, but, hey, they're bringing him in, so we'll see. -There's no "smoke" trying to retain Barnes. Muschamp is being forced to actively recruit the guy back to the team and that might not be enough. When Harris offered the guy new terms, he basically told him they were bringing in other guys more valuable than him and his snaps in 2026 wouldn't look any different than this year. Bear in mind, Muschamp never said that. Nansen never said that. It's become evident to Muschamp that Texas is being shockingly mismanaged. I don't know why he's surprised. He worked there before. There's always some massive and inexplicable dysfunction happening inside that organization. -It's not certain that Texas and Black are parting ways. There's a lot of risk there, but they'd prefer to keep him. They're just not guaranteeing a starting spot. This is true for multiple players still unsigned right now. -Texas still wants, and believe they lead for, the FSU Safety.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
You can blame Harris directly for having several meetings in which he is the only staff representation and he walked out thinking the player was good to go, and the player walked out thinking they’d been given an exit interview and then submitted paperwork for the portal. A recent example is Bo Barnes. Plenty of others. I have met with and spoken to Harris directly. He is an unimpressive buffoon who thinks he’s really smart. He’s not well-liked among players or staff and he’s at Texas because he’s zero threat to Sarkisian’s agenda except when accidentally and actively fucking it up. When people on this board, usually after signing periods and portal periods when the dust settles and Texas has done well, rush to give Harris praise and passive aggressively make comments about doubters and haters questioning him or Sarkisian, all they’re doing is telling the rest of us that they are know-nothing dunces. And yes, Sarkisian was happy to see Glasscock go and he’s become one of the best in the entire country. Kiffin, asshole and sociopath that he is, doesn’t give one shit about being questioned by his staff. The right answer wins for him, that’s it. I expect him to do well at LSU accordingly.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Allegrio supposedly makes his decision today. Ohio State feels really good about it. Brown is on campus and could announce something today if it is good news. Bad news would be heading home "with a lot to think about". Ulauvoavoau is on campus today, expect Texas to give him "a lot to think about". New OL targets will be announced and discussed right here! Bo Jackson may enter the portal, leaving Ohio State. He wants a big new deal and they're balking. Sound familiar? That dude is better than Clark, Wisner, whomever at Texas other than potentially Cooper. Everyone is going through this near the top of the sport. There are a bunch of good Safeties out there, so traction there might be a thing. I'm sure Cam Coleman "has a lot to think about" with Tech allegedly offering to double the Texas number. I'm writing him off. Anywho ...
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Texas Softball 2026 - Running it Back.
Sorry if I missed this, but I do keep up with this thread and don't remember seeing it, but have rankings come out yet? Where do you aficionados expect Texas to be ranked versus other expected powers, OU, Tech and otherwise?