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They're "pushing" rope, right now. The SEC may not even get 4 teams in this cycle if merit matters and chalks win out. The 4 autobid thing makes a lot more sense with 16 teams.

Watching that fat buffoon try to sell a no-name committed to Tulsa, who ATM hasn’t even gotten on campus yet, is both gratifying and hilarious.

Dude, it was like a streak from 1979 or some shit. Fucking that streak up was way more egregious than just a decade of scoring. I’m also bitter to this day about it. Similarly, Mack Brown left the cupboard bare on the development front and the streak of consecutive years with a player drafted ended immediately after he left. That futile shit happened again with Herman’s exit, but Brown ruined the record.

I can’t believe Beck is talked about still as a high draft pick. He’s shown nothing but reasons not to draft him. Ewers is made of glass and has the potential to have the yips after any given injury period. Both guys look like busts in the making. I agree with the sentiments that this draft has high risk with the QB class.

In my defense, I did preface it with the notion of “keep winning”. Getting doubled up by mighty Boston College and rolled at home by James Madison and heading towards 7-6 or worse didn’t achieve that. Good for the UNC boosters deciding that they weren’t going to be held hostage.

This is a fine response to the point, not that I agree with it. You could have just posted this the first time and taken a good position.

The guy has made more than $1M in two years at Texas and he was only a part time starter his freshman year. At no point has he been “cut short”. Texas thinks it’s got its head around the roster, Muhammad included. He’s being cute with his rap lyric choice but I don’t think this is something to really worry over.

This is more logic fallacy delivery on your end. No one is claiming that the Big 12 is terrible and the other hyperbole you sling with it. I said the Big 12 needs to stop scheduling the FCS teams and add more P4 teams. I said the Big 12 doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt that the SEC does, competition-wise, whether that is fair or not. That led to your descent into buffoonish rhetoric. “hey morons, we already play P4 teams!” - again, no one claimed they didn’t “yeah, well let’s look at the SEC scheduling then whaddubout that, huh!” - SEC scheduling is irrelevant to the Big 12 scheduling issues “oh sure, you guys just hate the Big 12. i guess we should just shut it down then, meanies!” - this is a bullshit, losing approach to fruitful community discussion, you fucking baby I guess this behavior works somewhere The okie state sites? The Cloak Room? In psyche wards somewhere? With elementary school classrooms? Regardless, it’s bandwidth drain here. It’s not that hard to see Big 12 exclusion this year. You’re overstating the improbability of it. No one is claiming it is probable either.

This post appears to be some sort of exercise in performance art. It somehow snakes its way through avoiding the point in its rebuttal altogether. It’s kind of fascinating, really.

Everyone thinks in certainties at their own peril for the next month with recruiting and transfers. I’m assuming very little and being optimistic nonetheless.

Gerry wouldn't be placing the guy in the "Maybe" category if he didn't believe Texas has a real shot. I think what he means is that it's likely that no one has seen the final volley from any of the schools here, so the odds favor the home team that doesn't lose 5 star home grown targets very often.

Growing pains? Of course. It would be absurd to expect to replace 4 starters on a Moore finalist OL and not have some growing pains. That's especially true when two of the guys the program will be losing are probable 1st round picks. That said, there's no reason to not expect the unit to be pretty damned good anyway. The OL coach and S&C program are proven and most of the players will have plenty of experience. I don't worry much about ranking on the OL. The $9.95ers miss on OL by a dramatically wider percentage than almost any other position on the field. Goosby was a high school basketball player with a ton of athleticism. He'd be fine starting this year except for the fact that there's a top 15 draft pick in front of him. Baker actually was highly rated along with Campbell and Neto.

They like Niblett, so losing him seems like it would be a blow. They usually hang on to the guys they want, and he wouldn't be expensive to retain.

No shit you guys mostly have one P4 scheduled. Credit to WVU for having two in multiple future seasons. The issue is that the Big 12 cannot afford to keep scheduling FCS teams while having only one or less P4 teams in the OOC. They're not going to get the benefit of the doubt the way the SEC does when it comes to the cupcake. They need to be boosting their resumes with the OOC talking points. It's natural we'd only be discussing the Big 12 here given the history for posters here, but everything I'm arguing is true also for the ACC. My hope is that the SEC gets served a giant shit sandwich this year and every year forward. The majority of the SEC fans are mouthbreathing rubes and the media fellatio given to the SEC has always been sickening. Texas showing up and mostly rolling through the "grind" should shut a lot of the nonsense up, but it hasn't. "They're all cannibalizing each other!" Sure. Or, most of the teams are mediocre and should not be getting the benefit of the doubt. Don't lose home games to Kentucky. Don't get blown out by OU. Maybe win the gimme against Arkansas or Vanderbilt or Florida.

Is Robertson just in the dust bin at this point? I haven't given OL much of a thought, either. I feel like that position group is finally being handled about as well as we could dream. Guys are getting years of development before being forced to play, they're all huge, and they go 3 deep. Whoever's starting is likely to be pretty fucking good. I know they think Goosby could be a one and done guy, right after Banks and Williams go in the top 50 picks.

Charles is currently committed, so the post didn't reference him due to that being considered a given. Florida has thrown the offer his way, Texas has handled that and doesn't plan on losing him. The bag game is alive and well with the old school cheaters across the country. It's like moonshine or black market bookies/betting. There will always be a place for just handing a HS football coach and eventually a dad or uncle $50-$75k to short circuit a recruitment. It's not a big market these days, at all, but the Chace Sims-esque recruitments still show-up. Texas should have been more serious with Sims when he wanted to commit in the early summer. Instead, Sarkisian wouldn't let Baker pull the trigger. Sims wound up being under-ranked and is a damned good prospect. This recruitment reminds me of the Jacoby Matthews recruitment where the player had no interest in going to ATM but those around him made damned sure he signed there. Ruined that dude's career, too. He flunked out and disappeared.

The problem for players using the spring window is that it increases their inability to crack the two deep elsewhere significantly. People around players are now telling players that if they're going to leave a team, they need to do it in the winter window.

Given that the roster is deep and talented, there just aren't many losses that will feel great. Objectively, that's just how it is going to go if the current staff continues to do well with roster management. I assume: 1-2 DEs - Akana, Finkley 2 DTs - Bledsoe, Mitchell, Bryant 1 S - Roberson 1 LB - Gullette (he tried to leave last year) 2 OL - Cajoe, Chatman, Stroh, Agbo 1-2 WRs - Dubose, Butler 1 TE - Niblack, Shannon, Randle 1 P/K - Kern I haven't heard anything about any of them, but they'd all have reasons to leave, or, also likely for many of them, they're all candidates for a trap door too.

Yeah, that’s what I meant by “completely possible”. You’d have to have further chaos in the Big 12 before Tulane is a candidate. That’s said, we’re only talking about ASU and ISU each losing another game for it to be a legit thing.

I know I’ve said this a few times in the Left Behind thread, but the Big 12 needs to stop scheduling cupcakes in the non-con. They are pussifying their OOCs and adding FCS and G6 opponents almost exclusively. That’s not going to help their arguments. A few 10 win teams that beat even middling P4 OOC teams and avoided FCS games would be able to proudly pound their chest that both belong in the CFP irrespective of Big 12 title game results.

Tulane would have beaten a very good Memphis and a good Army to close out their run. I am not saying it’s likely, but it’s closer than people think it is. Also, OU is not a Big 12 team any more.

So it’s completely possible that if Boise State wins out and Tulane wins out, the Big 12 gets shut out from the CFP altogether? This shit keeps getting better and better.

Many of these SEC simpletons, aggie fans completely included, do not appear to watch many games at all. The games their teams play in? Sure. After that, it's a lot of p-hacking to find the results they want to focus on from box scores or, even sillier, just looking at standings. This Texas defense basically goes 22+ deep with playmakers all over the field. They were smothered by Notre Dame's defense and yet they're expecting a different result against a strikingly similar opponent. SCar has a great DL and that's fine and all, but overall the Texas defense is significantly better in the back 7 and with depth. Good luck, dummies.

Wolken goes for the throat on Brown in that article. No pussyfooting around there and it's a good read.

That is some laughable bullshit, right there. 79 tackles, 15 tfl, 7.5 sacks, 1 INT and 4! forced fumbles leading the best defense in the country and he's snubbed for several asshats? Fucking dumb. Chris Paul Jr. - 82 tackles, 10 tfl, 2.5 sacks, 0 INT, 0 FF Danny Stutsman - I wish this idiot was returning for another year of tackling ball carriers 10 yards past the LOS. - 100 tackles, 8 tfl, 1 sack, 0 INT, 0 FF Carson Schwesinger - Leads the country in solo tackles with 79, 121 tackles overall, 8 tfl, 3 sacks, 0 INT, 1 FF Barrett Carter - brand pick solely - 61 tackles, 10 tfl, 3.5 sacks, 0 INT, 0 FF Jalon Walker - another brand pick, his only strong performance came against Texas with 3 sacks - 48 tackles, 7.5 tfl, 5.5 sacks, 0 INT, 0 FF Hill has better stats, by a significant margin, than all 5 of those guys. The tfl + INT + FF numbers double or better every other guy from the impact stats perspective. He's also the only dude with a pick. Hill also leads the best defense in the country on the #3 ranked team. Holy fuck, what a joke.