Jump to content

closetojumping

Burnt Ends
  • Posts

    15538
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    147

Everything posted by closetojumping

  1. This guy is a once in a generation buffoon. He has no idea what he’s doing. Enjoy this.
  2. Everything the mods have been posting about the OL, while the actual practices have reflected uncertainty to the tune of guys getting moved positions and with 1’s, 2’s and 3’s, has looked like gaslighting. “Serevield sucked last year and in the spring, but now he’s an electric Left Tackle!” Right. They’re having problems there. They were fucked last year until asking Jackson to bite the bullet and play out of position at LT after other injuries. This is why they’ve also been hyping up other TEs with the resident posters saying “really, that guy is coming on? alright!” Their defense was great all year. Losing Knowles is the biggest deal for them.
  3. re: Baker A few good friends who have been to practices last year and since have become raving fans of the guy. Players and recruits love him. Good pick by Sarkisian that had a lot of us handwringing at the time because the dude was a relative unknown.
  4. Autocorrect on iphone. Some of us have it working in our favor, some of us are @SydneyCarton .
  5. At this point, I expect Jaggy as the starter. What has Mosley proven at Texas so far? Not enough.
  6. This is correct. The back and forth otherwise looks specifically personal between posters or disputed out of athletic ignorance and media/AD propaganda naïveté. Baxter may or may not be his old self again. None of us have seen him yet and the nature of his injury should make us all from Missouri. Hey, none of us wrote that shit.
  7. I think part of the problem when the “everybody paid players” trope comes up is the general fan’s ignorance of the difference between $100 handshakes, which boosters have been doing at programs across the country since at least WWII, and the bag game and buying a few difference makers every cycle from street agents for $50k+. Yeah, I’m sure guys at Texas found ways to get drinking money over the years. And yeah, I know for fucking certain Texas and another 125-ish FBS schools didn’t participate in the bag game.
  8. Another post on that thread pulls the inevitable but still hilarious maneuver of claiming hypothetical wins: JJxvi 6:01p, 8/14/25 If Texas had agreed to maintain the series, we would have won in Austin multiple times...
  9. In regard to ATM’s 2025 schedule, they play 5 true road games. This is an issue that has received very little discussion. ATM has been atrocious on the road for a very, very long time. Here is a link to a Texags thread with the usual ignorance, abject stupidity and trope-huffing that discusses their OOC road futility and attempts to rationalize it. One guy, “Mac94” comes along and rationally lays out actual facts while still aggiefying part of his subjective review. I’ve spoilered his data review posts below. Highlights: -ATM has played exactly 4 true P4 road games over the last 20 seasons. Read that again if you’d like. 0-4 in those games. (I’m not counting a non-P4 SMU in 2014, nor should you) -Since 1995, they are 0-8 against then P4 teams on the road. If you include Utah, Pitt, and SMU, although I’m not sure why you would, that record “improves” to 2-9. -Including bowls and fake P4 teams, from 1995 forward, ATM is 13-26, 11-25 otherwise. -Predictably, several goobers try to p-hack and pine for the golden years of Jackie Sherrill and just remove late Slocum and Fran-tastic seasons altogether. The Mac94 guy comes along and reveals that the Sherrill years provided a 7-13 road/bowl P4 record. -Culturally, ATM is a program in a bubble. People can claim that the right coach will come along and fix it. Maybe. I’m not buying it. They’re a historically bad road team for a program perennially opening nearly every season ranked in the top 25. -My view is that ATM goes 1-4 on the road this season. 0-5 wouldn’t and shouldn’t surprise anyone. https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3553009
  10. Bobby’s thoughts this morning on scrimmage outcomes, etc.
  11. Outback has always been proprietor-driven. If the proprietor is present and worth a shit, the Outback tends to be consistent and worth it. If not, the place sucks. I worked at the one near the Arboretum in the 90’s and that place was clean and terrific. Back then, they were pushing big on expansion and began watering down the talent and qualifications of who they let buy-in for new locations. It became hit or miss depending upon location. If I’m out in Katy for some baseball tournament or other terrible reason, they have a good one. The one in Sugarland is solid. Others in Houston suck and the one near the Arboretum sucks last time I went also. That said, my kids love visiting them every time. It’s the least expensive option for a potentially good steak available, in my mind. Good Mexican martinis involve lime juice and little to no actual mix. It’s far less sweet than a margarita. Add olive brine and it’s an entirely different taste and experience. Orange juice may or may not make it into either ritas or Mexican martinis, depending upon where you’re buying.
  12. I’ve been assuming that he’s paid to do it. We know that the ATM AD pays Texags over $1M per year because they’ve had to disclose it. I’m guessing they’re paying others. There is simply no way multiple outlets are this stupid in the same exact way. It’s not like Pate comes about his conclusions differently than Texags or other ATM rags, ever. It’s the same shit every cycle and yet he’s not an aggie. He’s getting paid.
  13. My honest worry is that these guys have so completely gone in the tank on the guy that expectations simply cannot be met. If he catches 35 for 600 and 4 tds on the season, there are various idiots who will be disappointed. That would be a solid first season for anyone. That said, our sample size is one target on a bad read from Arch where Jaggy dropped the ball and then Sarkisian could be seen gently berating Manning on the sidelines and saying “don’t throw it to that guy”. I think my expectations are calibrated correctly. It’s all of you who are going to be crying in your beers as Daylan McCutcheon passes him on the DC after the Florida game.
  14. It’s always attended well and sold out. The Irish love it as well. I’d love to see Texas play Notre Dame there.
  15. I am hoping that Kreul is the next Brian Bosworth in all aspects of - douchiness, running his mouth, being a roid freak with some success that leads to OU fans rallying around every stupid thing he does, just being a very loud heel in general. I was hoping he’d be our version, but I’ll settle for the second coming on their end.
  16. Somehow, you twits have made the subject matter of bagging on Baylor boring. A fucking trademark discussion among lawyers is where we’ve landed?
  17. Smith looked great as a freshman and LeFau looked good last year too. I think people like to get caught up in the notion of zero sum competitions during camps, but my outlook is similar to yours. It’s okay to have a bunch of really good to great ball players at numerous positions who can rotate and keep each other fresh.
  18. Here’s Bobby finally coming clean on why McJaggerson is getting so much camp hype:
  19. Baylor stuff? Which scandal? And, yes, for PSU. There were multiple PCs.
  20. Has this scandal been common? Why would anyone expect the most covered college sports scandal of the past half decade to not be handled on this level?
  21. Here’s a Bucknuts reporter recounting DLC Larry Johnson’s takes on the DT depth from last night. In short, they’re running out of time and the sunshine pumping on a bunch of names who haven’t done much since signing is coming to an end. In the process, the coach is making it clear that they’re going to have to rely on an undersized true freshman as their first wave of depth. They are also lamenting Hero Kanu leaving the program after playing sparingly there for 3 years.
  22. If it isn’t harsh, this day won’t end without couch-burning riots near the Ohio State campus.
  23. They looked like dogshit before SECN cut away. Embarrassing. Kelly should be fired on the field if they lose to NW State tonight.
×
×
  • Create New...