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  1. This is the "paying telephone" version of the story a few of us were told at the time. Finley had recently gotten like a 5th girl pregnant while at UT. The Texas staff had him sit down with Sally Brown for a Sex Ed session. Like, a normal one and not a milf video from pornhub or wherever. She asked him about knowledge about using condoms and he explained that the condoms all kept breaking on him. That's the contemporaneous version told while the guy was still playing ball on campus. I assume one of those kids turned out to be Kaydon Finley, 2026 class WR at Aledo heading to Notre Dame after his dad made an ass of himself during the recruitment and burned various bridges with UT brass along the way.
  2. The Giants are rumored to be in talks with Belichick.
  3. I don't think Sarkisian "hates" coaching at Texas. I don't think his desire to go to the pros has much to do with Texas either. I just think he thinks he can kill it at the NFL level. It's pretty obvious that that is where his head is and where it has been for awhile. Sucks for us. While I don't agree with the idiotic premise that "anyone can win at Texas with NIL now", I also don't buy the implication that there aren't suitable or better replacements for Steven & Five. There's a growing view that, whether anyone wants to replace Sarkisian or not, a short list better be figured out. So, to answer your question from my end, Freeman, Lanning, and Kiffin - their agent(s) would be the first guy(s) I'd be talking to, and I'd make sure the money was right. I'd want those guys in that order. I'm unwilling to consider other options until Sarkisian is actually gone and all 3 of those guys offer "thanks, but no thanks."
  4. You point to Tech and Miami unironically and that is fantastic. Those two teams can compete, talentwise, with the P2 precisely because of what this era has enabled from a parity perspective, and this "era" is only 2-3 seasons old. As stated before, past is no longer prologue. You seem to only be able to comprehend shit directly in front of your face or whatever is in the rearview mirror. The concentration of potential victors is sliding from 3-4 teams each season to 7-10 now and likely 12-15 a few years from now. We don't need you to move the goalposts again or cite more well-known and obvious shit to support whatever point you think you're making. No one is going to be convinced by your certitude during a miasmic period of chaos.
  5. Cool. AreaCode PitBull thinks that parity isn't a factor in CFB going forward and that we may never see a seed worse than 9 win the title. All we can do is watch and point and laugh from here when it happens, or when it doesn't.
  6. Lawson Luckie is in concussion protocol but it sounds like they expect him back anyway. Elyiss Williams is a true freshman that is coming on and will be the next big thing at TE for Georgia. Generally speaking, it doesn't matter which one you were referencing, they're both really good to go along with Delp. I have faith in Texas' LBs to cover their TEs and backs from an athleticism perspective, but not from a scheme perspective. Whatever criticisms of Mike Bobo people want to offer, and many are justified, the guy knows how to get his TEs and backs open. Georgia also has an annoying white guy 3rd down back, named Cash Jones, I think, and he's someone that Texas is likely to magically let open just when we need a stop. I feel like Georgia always has a guy like this.
  7. It's funny how that looks now versus end of the year. Texas has played its 3 shitty non-cons already and has 2 big games in prime time plus a rivalry game remaining. -Tennessee's had some big games already, but they still have Kentucky and NMSU left plus Vandy. The Vandy game will be watched, but that game will have a lot of competition and the other two games will be viewership dogshit. -Bama's Eastern Illinois match-up, as brave and daunting as it is, will have SECN+ viewership to average in to the overall number. -UGA still has Charlotte (SECN). -Ohio State will get the Michigan game boost, but UCLA and Rutgers are more anchors to the OSU numbers in the steaming pile of shit that is the Big 10. The top brands in the league are all going to wind up around the same average, and ahead of the rest of the sport, including Ohio State.
  8. 1) You've been posting on this site long enough to know that you do not have to explain shit like this to other long time posters. Do you think I was on a desert island or in solitary confinement in Huntsville during last year's playoff selection period? No, you chose to be pedantic on a tangent rather than admit the silliness of your overall point. 2) Ohio State was the 8th seed in this era, barely got into the playoffs after the embarrassing Michigan loss, and won it all. No one gives a fuck about the nuance of how they got to that seed but you, because it makes your prior position look inherently false on its face. 3) The larger point was a rebuttal to your larger point - parity is here and referencing the past to make a point about "10-12 seeds, even probably 8-12 seeds, don't really have a chance to win the title" is specious. This isn't 2015 in which its Bama, Ohio State, Clemson and sometimes LSU or Georgia with a real shot to win the whole thing. You want it to be one way, but it is the other. Do you have any evidence whatsoever showing that Vanderbilt is a bigger draw than Texas this year in terms of viewership? If you do, show your work. Otherwise, you're doing your stupid fanboi shit and making broad sweeping generalizations that you wish to be fact because you're excited about somebody or some thing. None of us know who the committee would pick between 10-2 Vandy and 9-3 Texas. The eyeballs would drive that decision. If anyone is actually taking the position that 10-2 Vandy gets in over 10-2 Texas, they haven't been paying attention. In both instances, Vandy would likely be pushing someone else out, but it wouldn't be one of the biggest brands in the sport, who they lost to, who is sitting there with 3-4 top 10 wins.
  9. Hell, beating Georgia would legitimize Texas to a bunch of Texas people who have written Texas off, me included. I still see 8-4. I don't even expect Saturday to be close. Texas winning this game would be fucking stunning, and I'd absolutely take it. Irrespective of Saturday, the playoffs, or anything else, Texas needs to beat Arkansas and ATM both, for rivalry reasons. The offseason is better when that happens, social life is better, life is better. You can p-hack your way into whatever analysis you want, but this is disingenuous at its core. First, removing OU from the outcomes is fucking dumb. Second, Michigan went 9-4 last year after winning a title and beating OSU. We did that to them in their house in blowout fashion and they walked out of that stadium with their proud heads hung low. You didn't say "great" or "elite", you said "good", and Michigan in 2024 was a "good" team. Texas owned Clemson most of the day and won by 2 touchdowns. That's a 10-4 ACC Champion in the waning days of its dynasty era. That was a good team and whining about their small and ineffective comeback doesn't change any of that. In short, your position on this is bullshit. I'm the "resident asshole"? There's got to be a better description than that.
  10. Past is no longer prologue in college sports, and that shouldn't have to be explained. Your argument is dated and wrong. Ohio State was seeded 8th last year, dude.
  11. I see the discussion about BYU and I just don't see those guys closing out 11-1. They look like a team with at least another loss in them, maybe two.
  12. If I gave the impression that I didn't understand where the dialog was coming from, and what the numbers are, I apologize. I was more commenting on what I actually believe about this team, which is that they're going to wind up 8-4 or 7-5 based on what I've seen up to now. You will be able to knock me over with a feather if Texas beats UGA. They should beat Arkansas and I think ATM is a paper tiger, but this team and this staff's performance this year gives me a lot of pause. Look at you, even you are optimistic to some degree. I'm starting to feel like I need to post a reverse jinx thread of some sort. My problem with the UGA front 4 performance is that they weren't putting up great numbers ahead of the game last year and then they lit Texas up. I hope the front 4 really is as weak as they've looked. Obviously the LBs are just about as good as anyone's, and that's the strength of their D. I wonder how much they're going to be used in blitz packages. I assume a lot. This game might close the book for me on Sarkisian. If he trots out another shitty gameplan when there are obvious routes otherwise for fielding a competitive outcome, I'm just going to assume that's what he's going to do every time Texas plays anyone formidable on defense, and begin cheering him on to his exit for one of the NFL roles he's rumored to be pursuing.
  13. Boy, the playoff scenario discussions coupled with the SEC CG scenario discussions are just running rampant on this board. It's somewhat fascinating to see. I hope the optimism is warranted. I guess I'm stuck in neutral with this team. I can't figure out if I think they've turned a corner or not. The first 7.75 games are lodged front in center in my brain for me when I think about this team. I'm still expecting a blowout at the hands of Georgia this weekend. Just thinking about being 0-5 against UGA and OSU over the last 13 months makes me want to vomit. Anywho ... certainly wanting you guys to be right that we're back, baby.
  14. Not trying to be a dick, but why on earth would Fisch leave UW for UCLA?
  15. Boston College for sure. Give me more to the north and the east. Pitt for sure. I wouldn’t mind Rutgers, although others bitch about that past trip. Syracuse? Of course, UW. No thanks regarding Autzen. Those tickets would be complete ridiculous. Stanford sure, Cal no. Wisconsin would be awesome. I actually think many of the Big 10 midwest options would get me interested outside of Michigan State. Tulane, Colorado schools, Utah, sure. Miami would be kind of wild, I think. I would love for Texas to pick up a Dublin game against anyone but Notre Dame. Dublin is one of the best cities I’ve visited over the years and everyone would love it. Playing ND there? It’s a fucking home game for Notre Dame. It would be population of Ireland against the state of Texas to those drunk lunatics.
  16. It feels like Wake could upset Virginia for some reason. I know WF just got blown out and this is a second straight away game, but Virginia can’t really have 9 lives, can they?
  17. Well, who the hell wants to play Kentucky anyway?
  18. BTW, all of this talk about schedule strength and who deserves to be in and blah blah blah, for those frustrated with Notre Dame basically playing a 2 game schedule, losing both, and still all but certain to be in barring Pitt or Navy saving the day, do not go look at ND's schedule for 2026. Only 10 games scheduled so far, but the other 2 additions will just MAC or Sun Belt teams. They basically play no one and will absolutely cakewalk to the playoffs next year. It's pathetic.
  19. The FSU fanbase and their journalists/board mods have all labeled 2023 "The Snub". They think their program still hasn't recovered from it. It was a massive deal for them and remains as such to this day.
  20. In a thread of bad takes, including many from you, this is probably the worst. No one in the last quarter century of CFB has been given more breaks than Florida State when it comes to getting dealt-in to the final game or playoff. 2000 - Despite losing to Miami, who had the same record and had suffered a loss to a good UW team in Seattle earlier in the season, FSU gets into the BCS. What did they do? Shit themselves and scored 2 points in a dud of a title game that gave OU it's 7th national title. 2014 - FSU skated by with like 9 one-score wins in a hapless ACC to go 13-0 ahead of the playoffs. Everyone was begging a team to beat these clowns and no one in the ACC could figure it out. Rather than sacking up and letting the 4 best teams make the playoffs (Ohio State, TCU, Oregon, and Alabama), they fucked TCU over and let FSU make the semis. They rewarded everyone by taking a heaving shit on live TV while Oregon ran on a train on them. So, yeah, they did not deserve the benefit of the doubt in 2023 after losing their QB and playing in the shitty ACC. They played 2 ranked teams all season and then faced another overranked mess in the ACC title game in Louisville, in one of the most unwatchable games of the last decade. That FSU team had a 0% of beating Texas, UW, Michigan, or Bama. 0%.
  21. "Trade him for a six-pack. It doesn’t even have to be cold." - Buddy Ryan after one of his players did something to royally piss him off. Yeah, once Mitchell had the two bone-headed plays in the same game, he never really saw much of the field again. I was surprised he got action this past weekend, but I assume that was just the Colts trying to show the league that he was healthy before the trade deadline.
  22. I got busy and haven't really been able to respond to this thread. I wrote this thread with the notion of "what do we think now that we've seen everyone play?" pretty much in the title. Wins at the beginning of the season matter, but they don't matter more than the scope of the season. Fired coaches play a role, injuries play a role, the book getting out on a player matters, etc. Baylor isn't even in the bottom 6, so I don't even understand mentioning them. Jackson Arnold played the best game of his career in that game and Baylor looked totally unprepared. Baylor has won a game they shouldn't have (SMU) and lost one they shouldn't have (Auburn). Tell me that Kentucky slapped around a decent MAC team in Toledo and the argument is more compelling. That said, I don't agree that the bottom of the SEC is any better. My view is that Arizona and Iowa State would be teams 1 and 2 if we ranked the bottom 12 between the two conferences. I'd likely go: 1) Arizona - These guys could legitimately finish 9-3. It's kind of dumb that we're talking about them as a bad team. 2) Iowa State - They have the best win of any of the 12 bottom feeders besides the inexplicable UF win over Texas. I don't know why they've collapsed into a 4 game losing streak, even though I watched some of these games. The CU loss is absurd. They could lose to TCU and still wind up 7-5. 3) MSU - If these idiots have figured out how to win, they could snipe any of the 3 remaining opponents and throw a wrench into the CFP, but I'd need to see another win besides Arkansas in order to believe that they've figured something out. 4) Florida - I think this is the dumbest team in the country. They could beat any team remaining on their schedule, but they'll likely do stupid shit to force a loss rather than take a win. 5) UCF - I only watched them play UNC, so maybe I'm biased here. I've seen almost every Auburn game and I simply hate that boringass team. 6) Auburn - we can talk about their defense but their offense looks bottom 20th of the 137 FBS teams. I haven't checked advanced stats to validate, but in watching 40+ games every weekend, at least multiple quarters worth of each, I can't think more than a few I would argue are worse than Auburn's offense. They should be playing Deuce Knight yesterday and I am assuming he must have told them to fuck off and that he's redshirting and transferring. 7) who the fuck cares, the bottom 6 are all dogshit with Okie State being the only team that any good team could take for granted. Arkansas could fully well beat Texas, but it would be an outlandish and historical upset. WVU just worked UH. SCar has been a competitive loser. UK has thrown in the towel. CU has enough talent to finish 6-6 if their freshman QB can help. I am answering this after the CFP rankings came out, but I was going to mention Iowa first and foremost. We're obviously about to learn more about them, but I like their team and have enjoyed watching them play a few times. Maybe they don't get it done at home against Oregon, I don't know since, as I first wrote, I am not sure of who Oregon really is yet, but I could also see Iowa beating Oregon comfortably and shooting up the CFP rankings. If TCU finishes by winning out, they will be a team that comes out of nowhere. They're 6-2 with a loss against a healthy ASU. They close out against 4 teams with a combined record of 27-8, so they would have earned the consideration. The only other one that literally no one in the media seems to mention is James Madison. They're 7-1 with a tough road loss to 7-1 Louisville. I think they'll finish 12-1 while the AAC teams cannibalize each other. I could easily see them being the G6 team in the CFP and not a team that anyone wants to play.
  23. Wetjen is also a good WR. You draw weird differentiations in order to manage where you think goalposts should lie. Dwight, Wetjen and Dejean were/all excellent college punt returners who happened to be white. Worrying about the pro performance is irrelevant. You made a good point by bringing up Dwight, and someone else mentioning Dejean was also a good point.
  24. You idiots are talking about the next transfer cycle in the last transfer cycle thread.
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