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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I went Rage rather than Neg. I’m not seeing a path to top 5 at this point. -
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I assume he’s going to OU. Kind of crazy that Florida isn’t in the final 3 since many thought they were neck and neck with OU. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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At WR, they're having to account for retaining: Wingo, Lockett, Ffrench, Terry, McCutcheon, and Mosley for the 2026 season. They have 3 WRs that they like already in the fold. If McJaggerson, Niblett, Butler, any, some or all, also turn out to truly be contributors, that's 1-3 more guys on the payroll. Paying a premium for a 4th guy who is very, very unlikely to contribute as a freshman with that lot in front of them, just doesn't make any sense. I see the logic with putting a defensible offer forward and standing on it. If a legacy can't make that work because they need to grab another $500k elsewhere, fuck'em and move on. Honestly, I'm not sure putting as much of a commitment on the last cycle's signees at WR makes a ton of sense either, but they got into a feeding frenzy. Another thing of note is that Moore, McJaggerson, and McCutcheon were the cheapest guys signed in each cycle. We know Moore is a starter who was a big contributor last year. We all know we're being told that Jaggy is about to be a surprise contributor. The staff is telling everyone who will listen that McCutcheon is the most likely freshman to play and contribute early at this point. It's just not clear right now that focusing massive NIL is smart at the HS WR recruit level. I don't think it can be said that is stupid to do so, either. I am glad we were aggressive with Wingo and the haul from last year, of course. Still, I am sure the assessment of this strategy is ongoing. -
I took the wife and kids last night to see this. Not a racing fan, and neither is anyone else in my family, but I heard good things and my wife likes Brad Pitt, so, in. I thought it was a lot of fun. I had zero expectations, so maybe that was key, but I enjoyed it and so did everyone else. I know it was 2.5 hours, but it held the attention of my kids for that period of time and that isn't easy to do. Would recommend.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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As I've said before about him as well as Finley - Fuck him, his dad, and I hope to be able to laugh at his decision in the future.- 7789 replies
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Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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From last year's recruiting thread. @bizzle had them at 9-3. It reads like most of us were thinking in the 7-5/8-4 range but a lot you guys were convincing yourselves of ATM beating ND to open the season. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Good lord. Spoiler that shit. -
Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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I think I am going to start an ATM 2025 football season thread on the football board in a similar manner to what I posted for OU. The current cycle recruiting thread doesn't make great sense for such and then the meta thread on the football board isn't great for that either. I say this because it's a pain in the ass to go back and find what we were saying about them before last season, much less the seasons before that one. Penn State had a public conniption fit about Pribula leaving during the playoffs. You can google that. Some of it was about the current state of being the middle of the playoffs, some of it was about not wanting to lose Pribula's talent. Missouri does a good job of evaluating talent and managing the portal. They scouted and chose Pribula. So, they like him. I assume Missouri goes something like 8-5 or 9-4 because they're not great and they have an easy schedule. I also assume they're good enough to beat ATM on the road, given that I think ATM is mediocre team this year and they're pussies on the road, historically and lately. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Given how deep Texas is in the secondary, the Matthews recruitment just has a feeling akin to the WR position this cycle. What I mean is that SCar will be more desperate to sign the guy than Texas, they’ll bump up their offer into a range in which Texas has to change theirs, and Texas chooses to stand pat. Then, suddenly, darn it, no Matthews to Texas. -
Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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Ah, yes, ATM Football - The Road Warriors ATM is 2-10 over the last 3 years on the road. They have to play 5 true road games for the first time in 5 years. They won 2 road games last year - at a hapless Florida and at hapless Mississippi State. Missouri isn't a shitty team. They were a paper tiger last year and they'll be similar this year, but they'll go to a bowl and they play far better at home than on the road. They have a good QB with mobility in Pribula (transfer from Penn State), they stole an excellent WR from MSU, and they swiped a terrific young back in Hardy from LaMonroe. They melted down off of a terrible referee call last year and Burden literally quit on the team, had a dramatic fit on the sidelines, and they fell apart. That going to happen again, at home? @LSU, probably at night with all of the drunk cajuns, is not going to be close. @Arkansas? Sure, Arkansas got raided in the portal and has little help around the QB. Auburn at home is no gimme. Auburn has a great WR corps, they're going to be excellent in the trenches on both sides of the ball as they return the entire starting OL, and Jackson Arnold has a new change of scenery and some talent. Texas A&M went 8-5 last year, losing 4 of their last 5. They went 7-6 the year before and 5-7 before that. All 3 of those rosters had more talent than the roster ATM is fielding this year, against a more difficult schedule. You guys that come on here and whine that this board always oversells the losses on the ATM schedule are frozen in some sort of lazy time warp from 2021. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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No, but he has started calling everyone “dear boy”, which is annoying. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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As Sydney gets older, he is taking on George Plimpton’s visage more by each passing day, though. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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D3zii: Do you find it hard to hide the fact that you’re gay? SydneyCarton: What are you, what are you talking about? What!? D3zii: Look, buddy, two seconds ago, you were ready to give me a jump. SydneyCarton: A jump? (laughs uncomfortably for a few seconds) … I’m terribly sorry to disappoint you, D3zii. D3zii: Hey, but I don’t have a problem with it. I don’t care if you putt from the rough. SydneyCarton: What are you, “p-putting from the rough”? What on earth are you talking about? -
I guess it might have been discussed somewhere on this thread but not lately. Has anyone ever watched this Australian cooking show “My Kitchen Rules”? My in-laws are British and Irish so they’re always watching and suggesting various Commonwealth shows they find on Britbox or wherever and they told us about this one on Prime. We’ve watched almost two seasons and it’s pretty good, thoughtless fun.
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Bryce Dallas Howard was hotter in each of JW movies than ScarJo in this one. That’s an objective fact. I didn’t realize she’d gotten fat in real life until you sent resentful pics of her lately. Again, I don’t read celebrity gossip blogs like you do. Maybe just watch the movies? I doubt this is something not being discussed by others out there. I’m not saying that ScarJo is done for, as the recent pics you sent show a still hot woman. I’m just saying when you’re watching this movie, you might find yourself wondering if you’d have to butter her hips to get her through the bedroom door after luring her from the bar with a trail of Hershey’s Kisses and the promise of a large DQ Snickers Blizzard waiting for her when she got there.
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I’ve long thought that ScarJo is one of the most beautiful women on the planet, so if I am biased, it’s in a positive direction for her. I say that and then I stand by my argument that she’s a fatty in this one. Mostly like a crossfit fatty. She’s muscular with a layer of blubber. Big arms, etc. This movie was like the opposite of Match Point for me in terms of ScarJo movies. In that movie, Woody Allen clearly had a crush on her behind the camera and it showed. That might be a top 10 “hottest a woman has ever been on screen” movie. This new JW is the worst she’s ever looked. The camera hated her. That said, I said as much to @HenryJames and @SydneyCarton and other friends in a text string and then a vengeful Sydney immediately started spamming the text string with pics of ScarJo lately looking hot and calling me a meanie. Look, I don’t read celebrity blogs, so I missed the latest pics of the lady. Still, no fat chicks for me. I love the ladies of all sorts and always have, but she’s trending towards “nope” in this flick.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I don’t know who wrote it, but someone back on Hornfans once said of Bosworth and Switzer that “If I ever saw either of them walking down the road I was driving on, I’d risk my own life driving into the ditch or off the cliff in order to take them with me.” and that still about sums up how I feel about those two.- 7789 replies
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Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: It's Miller Time
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I forgot, who did Indiana hire? -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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You get reductive sometimes and this is one of those instances. You’re being dismissive on something real and also ridiculous in your claims about your own knowledge of football history. I agree with your takes here. I have chosen not hire north of 100 people over the years because they came across as buffoons on social media, even if it was shit from high school. Beyond that, we’ve chosen not to even consider candidates from shithole opponents including OU, Baylor, and LSU. Petty? Maybe. Or maybe I like to like the people I work with and if you’re going to show me you’re a dislikable yapping dumbass, you can go elsewhere. Having dealt with other folks qualifying as unhealthy diehards the past few years, I can say that there are folks involved with hiring thousands of people between them who are far more extreme than my views on this shit. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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ND literally just outbid multiple teams, including Texas, for 2 different WRs. -
Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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I don’t see any reason to think they’re going to be better than 8-5 any time soon. I don’t see it this year and I’m not just now reviewing things on their end. They’ve done their usual shit where they pump their roster up to anyone who will listen. Elko’s absolutely done some of this himself. He hyped the shit out of his roster to different alumni groups and then to guys like Steele and Pate. Maybe he really believes it, I don’t know. My view is that OU is better for 2025 than people think. Their schedule is so rough that that may still only result in a 7-6/8-5 season. Conversely, everyone is giving ATM the benefit of the doubt for zero reasons. The roster is mediocre. The schedule is tough with all of the road games. I think they’ve finished worse than their preseason ranking in like 11 of the last 12 years with the fluky 2020 season in which they played a schedule that went 30-50 overall being the exception. Beyond 2025? They put together a good class for the 2025 cycle. They’re putting together a really good 2026 class that will be making more money walking in than any of the other classes. So does the cycle of another 20+ guys transferring out, including freshmen, continue when the calendar is near flipping to 2026? Does another mediocre season after The Elk and Liucci have run around telling anyone and everyone that they’re an SEC title contender cause the 2026 class to get picked apart by Texas, LSU, Tech and others? I think there’s a great shot of that. To bring this bloviating post to a finish, I personally just really see ATM trapped in a cycle of mediocrity of their own doing. 5-7 to 9-4 being the range from here to wherever “there” is.- 682 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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There seems to be some growing belief that the numbers in the bag game have changed or something. “half a mil” was an entire budget most years for most of the bag game programs. They all started screeching when NIL unlocked payrolls at wealthier fanbase programs, like Texas, Michigan and Notre Dame. They don’t suddenly have more bag game money than they did 5 years ago. That’s part of why I’m rolling my eyes about the bag game concerns. There’s always going to be some chicanery in each cycle for a pittance of what players can now legally make because dark markets rarely totally disappear. There are still bootleggers selling moonshine, after all. The bigger risks, in my mind at least, are institutional cheating through rev share scams and the newer NIL big swinging dicks not named Texas just continuing to do whatever the fuck they want to do and the NCAA/House clearinghouse police not doing a damned thing about it. The “Saban Discount” was real and it existed precisely because a number of the better recruits aren’t uninformed, blind idiots. These guys have all kinds of counsel around them and many of those around them are actually trying to help. Maybe not as altruists, maybe not always due to blood or love, but they’re there, giving guidance around the player’s future. That is, of course, not all of the recruits and your point stands with a portion of them, just not even a majority, really. -
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Just shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you’re talking about. This take is dumber than a bag of rocks.- 7789 replies
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Two things can be true at the same time. I can enjoy the Turntine commit and still enjoy making fun of the futility that is the Texas Tech football program. Hell, your whole athletic program. You’ve never won a fucking thing that anyone cares about and Texas has owned you in every sport worth discussing. See softball: 2025, as the most recent example. Anyways, I was just posting in agreement with you. Why on earth would Texas Tech ever want to play daddy again in anything? You made a great point.
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