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Aggie boards and social media now starting to talk about Weigman not showing up to practice. Heisman candidate transfer incoming! Dude is going to light the Big 12 on fire next year at Okie State.

Aggie boards and social media now starting to talk about Weigman not showing up to practice. Heisman candidate transfer incoming! Dude is going to light the Big 12 on fire next year at Okie State.

Obviously I didn’t have access, but I have some friends who did. One actually tried to speak truth to power in his own honest and unrefined way and paid a price for it. Same thing happened when Herman was in charge but the power dynamics for both sides were markedly different. Others tried to handle it more gently and would get left in the dark for small periods in order for Mack to remind them of who was in charge and the consequences for doubting him.

Right. Everyone had it the whole way. Get fucked with this shit. We flew a fucking banner for the Iowa State game in 2010 in the midst of an 5-7 season but before it was fair accompli and the hue and cry from Shaggy posters was panic and angst over alienating Mack Brown. There was also the typical cabal of unfunny and joyless clowns who didn’t like it because of who was doing it, but that’s beside the point. The vast majority of Hornfans/Shaggy posters didn’t want to hear about it and had their head in the sand when it came to looking at what Brown and Co. we’re doing starting 2006. 2010 helped some but not all get religion. Many still defended Mack into the teens. Nowadays, the reality of the past is an orphan. The revisionist history has many fathers. I’ve been here the whole time and the notion that much of the board saw it straight is a fucking joke. I have the scars from it and I am always going to call bullshit on this kind of “shared history”. From 2006-2016, there isn’t a ton of shared history across the posterbase. @SydneyCarton @HenryJames good shit right here.

The dude’s brother is a walk-on there or something. What could that guy possibly be telling him to keep him stably committed? I’ve said it before but if that QB willingly signs with ATM after seeing this season and hearing about the history of QB failure there, he immediately becomes the dumbest motherfucker on a college football roster.

This is revisionist. When I showed up on Shaggy and started posting that the staff was lazy and there was an unwarranted boost that happened for recruits when they committed to Texas, almost zero posters were on board with it. I was taunted and negged and told I knew nothing. When I posted about street agents and told Seastrunk’s aunt that she was full of shit and they were on the take, regular posters still on this site were calling for my banning. Posters on Shaggy were as asleep at the wheel about where things were going as Mack Brown. Numerous folks were basically crying when I said Gilbert was a bad recruit to bet the farm on. Same for Swoopes over Barrett. Same for Mack Brown just deciding to cancel recruiting in Houston. Or taking a commitment from a guy in a wheelchair who was a 2 star recruit at Lake Travis. Or letting Mac McWhorter just add who he wanted within a 50 miles radius and no further of Austin. No, posters here and there didn’t have it the whole way. Glad we do now though. Sure.

So OU is moving a backup CB to WR this week out of desperation. Of course, Venables isn’t framing it that way, and why would he?, but his comments are still classically over the top and unnecessary: "He's not a good receiver.; he's fantastic," Venables said. "He looked really, really good tonight. For a guy who hasn't been working that for a while, he was really, really good…. You know me — anybody that knows me, I don't really sunshine pump. That's not me. I try to use my words carefully, and so anyway, he was actually out there with them and running routes and looked really good and natural, as much as anything." Right. This is slow-motion train wreck shit at this point.

Can we not do the stupid shit with names like “Tenner”? All of the dumb SEC nicknames reek of SEC Rant and idiocy. Everyone here did. It’s fantastic, really. The murmurs of Texas getting unfairly favored are growing. Fuck all of those whiners.

100% Moffitt put on too much weight with this team, but Elko also literally directed that. It cracks me up. I think the guy gets drafted and reshapes his body for the combine if he’s smart. It’s just kind of absurd that they fucked it up even with this guy. I guess he could still go on a run with what they have in front of them. He’s not though. Watch the Bowling Green footage if you want to debunk that claim for yourself.

Because I overtly said there was. It’s not the end of the world. Not everyone will work out. If Mitchell and Niblack not materializing is our biggest problem in a cycle, that is high cotton for NIL commitments. And no one needs to give up on either guy completely yet. Mitchell is still on the team for the moment and no one is down about Niblack being a roster/human problem or wanting to leave.

It really is awesome seeing some of them grasp reality clearly, while trapped in that asylum with others. Some of the others kind of get it, but they’re always going to retreat to red ass when pressed. And then there are the pure red asses with not only the inability to grasp what they’re witnessing, and also, due to their worldview, incapable of grasping what they’re seeing even if they knew football, but also wholly convicted in their righteousness against those who dare to post otherwise. We’ve talked about all of this for a long time and it is all now on display so clearly. Cooper hid a lot of ugly on that defense. No one covering ATM or posting on their sites even vaguely bothered to examine this massive issue. @RomaVicta wrote more about it here than all of their write-ups combined. York is who he was ranked as - a 3 star who should be really turning conference heads in the Sun Belt. He’s a terrible option as a starting LB in P4. The only thing we’ve really collectively missed on in examining ATM heading into the season is Nick Scourton. They hyped him out of the spring game and he had a great season last year at Purdue. Thus far, he hasn’t done shit at ATM in the 2024 season.

I think Caleb Williams comparisons should be few and far between. The only things they have in common are above average speed, they’re black and they played, at least for a bit, at OU. Hawkins isn’t an uber athlete with an amazing whip. He looks like a twitchy improviser who can make some chicken salad out of chicken shit when the pocket breaks down. He’s not going to read a defense and then go to work like a surgeon, especially as a true freshman. I’m of the same mind as South Austin. I assume the family is already negotiating with a new suitor chasing fool’s gold. To be clear though, statsman, the story is funnier than “letting Gabriel get away”. The Arnolds pushed for assurances and more money and made Venables make a choice. OU told Gabriel to hit the bricks. They made a choice. Their media mouthpieces, their $9.95ers and even Gabriel shared their versions of that story this offseason. Some of these buffoons like Plank and Ikard were almost gleeful in welcoming the dawn of The Age of Arnold while yeah-yeah-yeahing the kicking to the curb of an excellent and proven college QB. As to the portal and such for a new QB, well, we’ll see. There are bunch of issues with that premise: 1) If Hawkins does okay this year, they’re risking losing him if they go shopping. 2) If Hawkins does okay this year, they’re going to have to pay him too. 3) We don’t know what a new OC is going to want to do. 4) QB portaling is seriously hit or miss and extremely high risk. 5) If you want a “sure thing” when it comes to landing a QB in the portal, you better have some serious bank set aside to land that dude. At least Texas or USC could point to actual corporate money that gets spent on their QBs. OU’s hit would be almost completely with the collective, and that creates a ripple effect and other choices.

No one is being the “poster police”. Now, maybe we’re being the “asshole police” or the “dumbass police”, I guess.

Look, man, if you’re looking for a 500 pound competitive food eater to join you in some contests in the future, no one here is against it. None of us want that dead man walking near the Texas football program though. At one point on Saturday, I thought he was going to have to be lifeflighted off the field for a water break. Florida needs a team of Jawas just to manage this guy.

To be clear, no one knows what in the fuck you’re attempting here. Fix it or stop posting it.

Beyond everything else, it’s pure fiction that people on this board have been worried about DE/Edge recruiting.

Exactly. Great scene and what I was paraphrasing. Another great scene. I wish the quote from the gifster actually said what Palminteri said: “Now you’s can’t leave.”

Mack Brown used to wait until after OU embarrassed Texas before letting things fly with the freshmen and the playbook. Watching the game the other day, I was reminded of that. Those two idiots are living similar lives. South Carolina will be interesting due to the defensive front at SCar. If Norris can get healthy and get experience, I guess that’s a sneaky matchup.

I don’t know about that one, but for sure they are on Dijon Lee. That said, so is Georgia. The Georgia mods seem to believe that he is the likeliest flip that they are pursuing this cycle, fwiw.

I think previous regimes is a driver of the whole point. The ecosystem at Texas for folks with that background is highly conducive for on and off field success. I don’t have an argument as to why, but it seems clear. The fact that Texas academics matter to these parents in ways that they don’t with other demographic sets is also huge due to the differentiation in that matter with the other major programs. Particularly on the engineering side. I assume Texas has already sorted this stuff and is using the data to their advantage in the overall pitches, but it’s a fun discussion. Also, keep Gabe Muoneke away from these conversations, probably.

Oh, I like the updates. But this is a moment in the season where that map really does look like one big pile of shit to me.

My view is that JT Sanders was a flex TE. He blocked in-line sometimes, but most flex TEs at a high level will give you that. Call it what you want, but they wanted Niblack to fill the Sanders role and it’s not taking shape, yet, at least. Now there’s transfer risk (not saying he’s talking about leaving, just being real looking at it) and, if so, serious money poorly spent. If you think you can find another JT Sanders willing to sit and learn for a year and then be that guy, you take them out of HS every time. That’s what they’re thinking with Terry. If you have weapons at both TE and Flex TE, the offense becomes that much more of a juggernaut.

I have no idea if that would work, but just remember that Georgia and Bama will absolutely be promising earlier playing time. I don’t know if this valid or not, but I wonder if Texas has a superior case to make for how they’ve helped African immigrants and second generation kids from those families achieve success on and off the field. Similar to what a UW, BYU, or USC can claim with the Pacific Islanders. Maybe many schools have done it to the level of Texas, but it feels like a lot of guys have thrived at UT with that background.

Yeah, she’s terrific. At least we know @Pdawg88 is one sooner with taste.

The Mathis recruitment has the “go get fucked” element for Texas with Bo Davis. If that guy wants to come to Texas, it doesn’t matter who else is coming. Given scholarship expansion, 6 DTs wouldn’t surprise me. Neither would 4 and 2-3 portal guys who are good additions but don’t break the bank. It now seems really clear that they’ve expanded their DE/Edge number to 3 and they’re getting Hilson this weekend barring something super weird. That will be the best DE/Edge haul in the country, following what probably was in the 2024 class. There’s a growing notion that if you want a flex TE to be terrific in Sarkisian’s offense, they need to be homegrown or a transfer who will be patient and work within the system for a few years. I think that plays a role in why Texas seems to really want Terry.