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closetojumping

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  1. You come across as a blast at parties. Bedlam in the spring would be awesome.
  2. Would you do it if it retards the process and potentially leaves you without a spot at one of the more attractive schools? We're not talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars for a commitment. It's usually 4 digits, low 5's.
  3. I have spoilered Kurelic’s latest from Bucknuts. In reading that board and having a vague understanding of who’s who there, the impression I get is that he was a recruit OSU was keeping warm, but his offer wasn’t committable. One regular had him in a group a while back that was “not NIL relevant” or “ready”, can’t remember which. His older brother was offered and recruited by OSU and went to Clemson, which still pisses them off. Not sure who that was. They seem to think that ATM pulled the momentum play and paid him to commit. I can’t tell if that is bullshit or not, but LSU, USC and ATM are all allegedly doing that in this cycle. Other programs view that as desperate.
  4. With Katoa heading elsewhere after the Robertson commitment, I’m assuming they’re locked in with the other IOL they covet and couldn’t make promises to Katoa that others could. They’re picking who they want at OL in this cycle.
  5. I wrote about the transfer/NIL outlook in the Archmania thread on the football board a few days ago. I’m too lazy to go find it, but it’s there if you want more info.
  6. It’s like SkyNet setting off a nuclear war, but the mouthbreathing rube version where he just starts launching one dumb fucking post after another, setting off barrages from other counterparts with the same room temperature IQ. We’re here to be victimized by it all, just taking blow after blow until we each throw our hands up and go do chores. We need to send one of the least messed up, most intelligent representatives of this forum back to 2018 and somehow prevent all of them from registering.
  7. It’s a 3 way tie for 5th, you mental dwarf.
  8. If I thought it would make a dent in your blockhead, I would explain why using transfer portal rankings for any sort of validation of a school’s progress is fucking dumb. Instead, I’ll just laugh at your continued idiocy and move on.
  9. More practice reporting sadness from Carter Karels below in the spoiler. Highlights: -From reading the thread and some others, it actually sounds like they have to pass their notes through someone in the football office before they're allowed to publish anything. I find that disturbing and extraordinary. -They're putting Hicks in a starting slot during spring practice to prevent transfer concerns, but everyone and their mother knows that the Iowa State transfer was made starting promises to ink there in this last cycle. -The DE and LB positions look like absolute dogshit. I am not sure safety or CB are much better. -Bryce Anderson has made around $350k in his career at ATM. They've completely destroyed his NFL potential and he's just generally "in the mix" at safety. Congrats, buddy! Sorry Sarkisian hurt your mom's feelings once! -From what I can tell, this team doesn't have a gamebreaker at any position, on either side of the ball.
  10. I tend to trust Gerry intrinsically with all of this. I don’t think there’s anyone better on the evaluation end and he puts in the work with the families, agents and staffs. He seems to remain confident in Texas landing Turntine at LT. Just seems like Texas and Turntine aren’t as resolute as he is in terms of that ultimately happening. Still early, though.
  11. Hahahahahaha! Pull the inverse of the Bill Stewart Maneuver. God, I haven't thought about that story in a long time and I just laughed out at both that scenario and Fisher doing something akin to it.
  12. Strong work by Nahlin in his reporting that Wingo had a "quiet 28 like Jordan" or whatever stupid shit he said about Wingo's first week. The guy went down in practice #2 and won't be seen again in the spring. The dude has a long history of just making shit up, no different than Ketchum and Chip Brown. As to the spring and the portal, seeing that Washington is down with a shoulder injury and might be out for a long ass while, I agree that they need to find an experienced guy in the portal. It sucks that Townsend isn't here this spring. He's missing a good opportunity. A top WR, top TE, PK, another solid DT and 1 or 2 BPAs is an additional $3-5M to the largest payroll in CFB. That's a lot of scratch and we might be in the process of finding some sort of ceiling. I am saying this with absolute certainty on the current payroll plus new transfer cost side, but cannot be certain on the "can we find the dough?" end. That said, I am tempering my expectations that all of those transfers will be found and afforded. You all should consider doing so as well.
  13. Unless I am missing something, there are only 5 people left who can win - ztejas if UCLA wins it Jameslaw if SCar wins it and does so against UConn buildertex if Texas wins it closetojumping if UConn wins it Js1 if SCar wins it and does so against UCLA
  14. I hope one of our enemies hires Fisher, in any capacity. I've listened to his guest appearances on XM 84. He was on "Off Campus" for 2 hours each Tuesday during football season with Jacob Hester and EJ Manual. He couldn't be talking to two more sympathetic guys than those two, who played for him and clearly like the guy. They think he's gotten a raw deal and Fisher seems to think he was shitcanned due to ignorance and impatience. He hasn't learned anything and wherever he lands, he'll help fuck the place up in his signature ways. With NIL now, his approach in recruiting is also obsolete. I would love to see any SEC school hire him.
  15. No, she’s wrong. Had she written: ”The aggies made a terrible mistake hiring Jimbo Fisher.” then she’d be right. We talked about it on this board. They fucked up going all in on a guy with visible flaws, pissing people off at his current place of employment and actively throwing his program into a state of collapse. If you paid attention, you could see the problems from the jump and then watch it all amplify when those dumb motherfuckers upped the ante with him and gave him a raise and an extension with zero downside protection on their end. They are the dumbest administration in the entire landscape of college sports. Firing Jimbo Fisher is a symptom, not the problem.
  16. I grew up in a neighborhood that was like 90% hispanic. wedo loco for life, holmes.
  17. This would be the toxic relationship that only Surly could handle.
  18. I'm trying to understand why I should give a fuck where a high school recruit currently projects to the NFL. What's going on here?
  19. In the middle of last season on a recruiting thread, future depth chart at WR came up and we discussed it. I remember saying that the dude was hearing mid-rounds from the feedback loop and asking why he wasn't valued more. He basically does everything really well and he has okay size. We all kind of settled on the premise that he's not elite with his speed. Then he kept putting up numbers against good opponents and then the combine happened. There aren't many out there, but the number is more than 1 of people who get credit in the draft process and are still stuck on the sentiment about him from mid-year.
  20. I read that and thought "100%, Nahlin is making most of this up". I assume we'll hear some injury news and that some of the guys he's naming as being factors didn't even participate.
  21. Bagwell broke his hamate on three separate occasions, if memory serves. The first time was in 1992 or 1993 at the end of the season. The second time was a day or two before the 1994 strike, the season in which he won the MVP. Unlikely he wins it without the strike. I can’t remember the third occasion, but he fully recovered each time. It did take awhile.
  22. I feel like 500 yards can happen with a great offense and garbage time when the team is playing 14+ games. I’d be willing to move the bar to 750 though.
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