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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
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Venables stated in his media update today that Javonnie Gibson (WR transfer from UAPB) is nearing a return to practice. He broke his leg in practice last April. They've sold him as a speed merchant, so it will be interesting to see what he looks like. -
Who on earth is letting you manage and hire people? You don't think the overall quality of someone's education has an impact on their performance in a job? If you're talking about senior roles, fine. Entry or lower management roles? Yes, that shit matters. We were hiring entry level folks for the same analyst position for years at a start-up. The role required very little knowledge or experience but involved complex problem solving in a truly chaotic environment that involved 70+ hour weeks for years. The role also required self-management to some degree. We rewarded that with low pay. Oh, and also, the right person would basically learn what MBA schools teach, but like 10 times over and many successful in the role went on to accelerated management or founder careers with success. What we eventually learned was that a few schools, or groups of schools, had exceptionally high failure rates and we chose to just stop hiring from those places out of necessity. LSU, Stanford, and non-Penn Ivy schools were the main ones. LSU because the people we kept getting from there were too stupid to handle the work, simply put. They also were not given the tools in college to understand how to be proactive for their own growth and learning in a business setting. It was unbelievable how consistently bad those employees were. The non-Penn Ivies and Stanford because they were far too entitled and educated in theory versus actual business world understanding. Those folks needed to go into consulting or a Wall Street management program. Once we applied that filter, 1 year retention in role soared. So, yeah, you're absolutely full of shit if you don't think quality of degree earned matters. The best workers who went on to further success were not UT people, btw. We had plenty of UT people do well, but plenty failed out due to the same entitlement shit as the Ivies. The best group, by far, were UH grads. I've seen that playout elsewhere over the years as I've gotten older and hired for various roles or partnered with various people and teams.
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2024: Bags Don't Beat Bankrolls
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Make sure you are sitting down when you read this: " Redshirt freshman wide receiver Aeryn Hampton is no longer with Alabama, coach Kalen DeBoer confirmed Wednesday. DeBoer said Hampton has not been with the team since early in fall camp. Hampton was listed on Alabama's Week 1 roster but was not spotted in pregame warmups at Florida State. He was not listed on the Week 2 roster for ULM. Hampton was a four-star prospect in the 2024 class who flipped his commitment from Texas to the Tide in December 2023. He appeared in three games last season, catching one pass for six yards before suffering an injury before Alabama's bowl game against Michigan. Then-Alabama coach Nick Saban spoke about Hampton, who was then known as Bubba, on early signing day in 2023. "Bubba's kind of a dog, man," Saban said. "He's one of those guys that's a great competitor and makes a lot of plays. Whatever he plays on offense, wherever he plays on the field he doesn't come off the field very often. They had a very successful season this year -- I know they had a disappointment in the playoffs but this guy's a great competitor, can do a lot of things and we're really excited about having him." Alabama currently has nine scholarship receivers on its roster: Germie Bernard, Isaiah Horton, Ryan Williams, Rico Scott, Lotzeir Brooks, Jalen Hale, Cole Adams, Jaylen Mbakwe and Derek Meadows. It has three committed receivers as part of its 2026 high school class in Cederian Morgan, Brian Williams and Owen Cabell. -
It's taking forever to submit a new post. I'm skeptical it's just me.
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This all came about because Dvoracek and Kannell were examining voter results yesterday morning. They mocked hers and then they really got after some writer named "Cokie" or some such out of Baton Rouge. His stuff was just over the top old school SEC homerism. I'm guessing he's getting lit up in social media as well.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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They were right, that play and the situation around it pretty much personifies the whole start to the season for the Texas offense. Stroh should be completely embarrassed by that play on a deeply personal level. -
He may work in hydraulics, where degrees aren’t as critical.
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I view that as a smart act of self-preservation for your sanity, man. Who would want to keep being reminded that they went to a quasi-juco that has never won anything?
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I think this is a great post and is solid counter-energy to what @Wulaw Horn and his band of invertebrates have otherwise been putting forth on this thread.
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Oh, I’ve seen you say that, I’m just kind of lost on why you do. This is entertainment. I don’t feel serious at all. It feels seriously to you, but that’s just pride, fucking with you, Butch. I do find it amusing when you get so worked up that you start calling posters like myself and statsman “dumbfucks” when you know we have college degrees from Texas and you may or may not have paperwork that says something about Texas Tech on it.
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I found a copy of Barry’s book one time in a bookshop in Bellevue, WA. Cost me $3.50. Probably should have spent that on a venti Redeye instead.
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Yet here we are, Texas in the SEC, two of biggest brands in American sports, loving life and winning Director’s Cups on the reg. And there you are, titleless across the board, with your biggest supporter running ads on TV begging Congress to do something to bring Texas back into your jealous, loving arms.
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Money wasn’t even a top 3 consideration for the move. That’s an easy trope to throw out there and no doubt it makes programs like Tech feel better when that’s what fans like you think, but it’s actually laughable in the context of Texas. 1) Power - the Big 12 was a drag on Texas’ brand and AD competitiveness. 2) The Future - Future contracts across multiple platforms, including streaming, were going to be shutting more and more conferences out. 3) Peers - Texas was tired of the ankle-biting across all sports, politics, and media. Campbell actually contributed to this with his efforts to fuck with the PUF through political allies in the legislature. Texas wanted to affiliate with programs with similar goals, needs, and wants. The Big 12 made no sense on this level. You can argue that money underpins all of those things, but that’s because you’re new to money as a program. Money is a given for Texas. Other shit had to matter more. You idiots finally made other shit matter more. The 2015 game between Texas and Oklahoma State was the beginning of the end and exemplifies the need to address all 3 points I reference and there is zero worry about money when examining the issues with that event. The Big 12 tried to big dick Texas in the aftermath, no one nationally saw it or cared because it was in the Big 12, and they all just joined in pointing and laughing with Texas’ Big 12 brethren at Texas’ futility in yet another embarrassing loss.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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BO&W woke up today and he chose stupid. Just a fucking frozen rope of stupid being slapped all over the board. Will Johnson played against Texas. How and what he did otherwise is totally irrelevant. Michigan did not field a “bad defense “ against Texas last year, either, you fucking dummy. Texas whipped Michigan’s ass because Sarkisian had a great gameplan and he had the offense do what they wanted against an uber talented defense because, you know, he’s been regarded as an offensive scheming wizard due to performances like that. Your stupid is so loud, my watch is giving me decibel warnings.- 8086 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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When is the last time you've presented some sort of idiotic position or premise and I've given it a serious response? I honestly can't remember. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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You are the Helobious of OL evaluations and opinions. The more certitude you use in discussing the OL issues and talent, the more confident I get that things will be sorted more sooner than later.- 8086 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Why are all of y'all leaving the running game results for the most recent OSU game out of this as well? Texas didn't lose to OSU because of an inability to run the ball. Correct. He instigated multiple fights and allegedly has temper issues. Why would you want an angry guy hitting your opponent in the mouth on the OL? Give me the guy who will belly rub or fall on his face. -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Neto isn’t playing much because he’s a fucking idiot and they’re worried about him missing an assignment in pass pro or committing a stupid penalty. People involved with the spring and summer thought he was the best player at LG - if he could be trusted. Robertson is supposedly the best C on campus but then they’re benching the unit leader or pushing him to LG where he’s been meh when playing. The bigger complaint about Flood should be centered around what he’s actually valuing that pushes actual performance to the background. -
I don’t expect an upset. 73-0 would surprise me, though. I assume Bama winds up covering.
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Questionable this week for Bama's home game against Wisconsin in which Bama is currently favored by 21.5 points: -WR Ryan Williams (concussion) -RB Jam Miller (shoulder) - Deboer said he will probably play this weekend. -DT Tim Keenan (Ankle/Tightrope Surgery) - unlikely -OLB Jah-Marien Latham (lowerl leg injury) - unlikely
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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And Tope Imade to you as well, good sir. WTF?- 8086 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Comparing OL plug and play from the portal to DTs plugging and playing are two different things. Going and getting a good fit at an OL position to mesh with the rest of the group is one thing, going wholesale into the portal is another. Not only would adding 3-5 guys mean a complete retooling of the starting lineup, but also telling 5-7 guys to hit the fucking road, decimating continuity and development of those on campus. Everyone on this thread is completely overreacting to the OL play for the first two games. The PFF score might not have been great for some of them against Ohio State, but the unit played well enough to win in that game. They played overall poorly against SJSU, but that's also what this 3 game stint is for - playing up a learning curve. We've seen OL play come together year after year with Flood. Christian Jones and the one giant dude who played for just one year as a 5th or 6th year guy and brags on Flood regularly whose name I forget both showed more in a year under Flood than they had in multiple seasons under prior coaching. I'm fine with expecting another OT in this class and wish it would be a five person instead of a four person class, so maybe they seek one more guy or two in the portal this cycle, we'll see. Turntine is ready to play from a technique perspective on day one. Is he going to be physically ready? Again, we'll see. I'm also fine with a bunch of mix and match experimenting at C and LG. I just don't think we're doomed at either spot, nor should not adding a transfer last cycle be viewed as an epic fail. Wingo looks plenty fast on the field. He's gripping and trying to make plays before the ball is secured. If he settles down, he's going to have a big year. The plays are there. That all said, you sound like a fucking idiot with your whines about the guy's speed.- 8086 replies
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