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  1. Chip Brown was on SEC Radio this morning and Anwar Richardson was on College Sports Today yesterday and I found myself turning the channel after listening to each one talk for about 60 seconds. How is it that people that bland, uninformed and unconnected are the ones that get on national shows and talk about Texas? It’s pathetic. Ben Hartsock tried in both instances, as he happened to be a host on both shows this week, to spark up the “Should Sarkisian bench Quinn Ewers” premise. Neither guy being asked shut that shit down and allowed a meandering conversation to ensue about it. Also, Ben Hartsock is the dumbest of all hosts on XM. He’s genuinely a room temperature IQ idiot and he also never shuts up.
  2. Who knows? Your premise suggests that an overpayment to one player by one team resets the market for all players for all teams, or that Tech and Oregon will just go ahead and sign 50 DTs apiece. So, sure, maybe some of that happens. Good luck to those agents and DTs expecting everyone else to do stupid shit like Texas Tech, I guess. Well, that’s a shame.
  3. UCLA’s campus is as nice as it gets. People rip on the ghetto beyond the USC campus but you don’t deal with it or notice it while there. If we’re talking scenic and warm, I don’t know how one beats Pepperdine in Malibu.
  4. Retaining rosters is more expensive than portal and high school combined. If you’re going to pursue productive, proven players from the portal, you need plenty of capital. That said, LSU is doing okay in the portal and they’re relatively poor. When you get below the very elite in the portal, the numbers appear to come off pretty quickly Some programs are betting more on projects or failing pedigree or G5 and FCS players. That route isn’t expensive at all. As in high school recruiting, some idiot with a lot of money can impact various recruitments. The DT from UCF is a good player, just like Damonic Williams was a good player. Neither guy is worth $1M+ and there are others near their replacement values or that can be combined to get to replacement value who cost a fraction of their numbers. Oregon spent big on positions of need last year, wiping everyone else out. Some of those guys hit and will be high draft picks. That’s a level above what the idiots at Tech and LSU and OU have tried.
  5. As always, your humorless, holier-than-thou banality sucks the air out of a discussion. Well done.
  6. Not sure about the peanut guy, but the article didn’t discuss him at all and the whole article was about what in the fuck they are doing at Edge. So it’s either oversight or he’s a DT or LB in their projections.
  7. There are serious pros and cons to the Branch duo. For the WR, he’s a one trick pony but has elite quicks and is great in the return game. Seems like someone Sarkisian would figure out pretty quickly how to use. The safety is jaggy but if he’s not expecting to start, he wouldn’t be dead weight on the roster. He could contribute on special teams. Anyone worrying about WR being expensive, any one of the really good ones is going to cost you.
  8. The mods specifically are stating that Stewart was recruited as, and will play as, an interior DL. 0 DEs in the class.
  9. Now that funneling money to recruits and their handlers through a fucking church isn’t a game changer for talent acquisition, let’s see how great you guys keep looking over time.
  10. If there’s anything I’m in need of, it’s getting traction with the posts I make. Thanks for your support, fella.
  11. Sadly, this is likely an upper echelon thinker from the low grade academic institution that is Clemson. 1) Learn the oh so subtle differences between there/their/they’re, doofus. 2) Your program literally has a verb named after it for its historic chokes and collapses over the years. Do you understand the irony of this with your original post? Guessing not. 3) Even the dumbest of opposing posters and their fanbases usually are able to navigate towards the proper forums for the content of their posts. Hell, no fanbase is dumber, until I guess, now, than LSU fans and even they are able to generally select the right board for their topics.
  12. Not sure where to post this but it is too comical not to post somewhere. Lincoln Mackovic signed zero! DE/Edge guys in his 2025 class. He signed one LB. The mods on their 247 site are semi-losing their shit about how he’s handling their roster. They have like 4 DEs total. Braylon Shelby is one and his PFF numbers are bad. Anthony Lucas is another and he can’t stay healthy. They’re having LB issues with the portal and the posters are very over Riley and his paltry defensive personnel depth. It’s really gratifying to watch. USC fans are as arrogant as any and obviously Riley is an easy CFB villain to despise. They’re trapped with each other for years, I hope.
  13. Miami could buy OU six times over. They could moneywhip Mateer just to burn OU’s ass.
  14. Here’s a morning shot of overt racism from the aggies on 247. This is in the middle of a thread about Hudson where they’re debating the veracity of Hudson NIL demands. It bled into UT NIL discussion/ignorance and complaints about all of them gol’durned Mexicans in San Antonio buying Walmart Texas gear.
  15. There’s no comparison between the two, and I expected someone to attempt this one. The math dorks can chime in if they feel like it.
  16. He graduated. That’s a different kind of transfer for me. I feel the fans of the school in which a transfer gained a degree should always be able to claim him or her, even if the final school will get the official credit in drafts and wiki and such. Good for him. I certainly remember the name. I can’t remember, did we back off or just lose the recruitment? My response wasn’t claiming that woman was a 10, just that she was easily hot enough for the middle aged fatasses on this board. Ava Gardner. Is there even a modern equivalent to that woman’s hotness? It seems like the 50’s were a good time to be a dude in Hollywood. Gardner, Monroe, Loren, the chick who got decapitated, numerous others of similar outstanding building.
  17. “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elton John!” I have met and seen too many people from the boards over the years to believe for one second that any heterosexual poster on here wouldn’t be all over that.
  18. Did you know the common use of the name "guy" is a derivative of the Gunpowder Plot? Not kidding. Guy Fawkes was, of course, the immediate fall guy for the attempted act of terror. He was at the location of the bombs and working to set them off. People saw him coming and going and when reporting to authorities, kept mentioning a "guy" doing something with explosives. They celebrated his efforts posthumously each year on the 5th of November by burning human-like effigies called "guys" and the name eventually became synonymous with random fellas all over the globe. Which could lead me to how ATM posters view Texas as sort of the institutional version of V to their institutional Chancellor Sutler, but some might consider that a full digression.
  19. Haven't heard anything, but, fucking A, let's try to will it into existence!
  20. When Dabo Swinney was named Clemson's full time head coach in December of 2008, he did the most Mack Brown thing possible that a Mack Brown Jr. type could do. He started calling around the HC coaching fraternity, asking to come visit and sit down with various HCs across the land. Many turned sweet, young Dabo down outright, as they were too busy with their own offseasons or bowl prep to care enough to help the hillbilly upstart and his staff. Still, one man did answer the call, and invited Dabo and his staff down to visit, right smack dab in the middle of Fiesta Bowl game prep - Mack Brown. They all spent 3 days in Austin, gladhanding and chumming it up. Swinney's spent some time this week with the local Clemson press talking about that event and how happy he is to be heading back to Austin. After all, he spoke before the SMU game of preparing to make a run to be the first 3-loss national title winning coach. He thinks he has Clemson peaking at the right time (nevermind South Carolina whipping them in the trenches less than a month ago) and they're ready. Running into Swinney's open armed optimism is a thin-skinned and panicked Longhorn netdom, who have spent the last week+ manufacturing ways in which they need to be worried about this upcoming, first-of-its-kind home playoff game against the underdog Tigers. Having watched a small and slow Clemson team play backyard bully in a truly abysmal ACC all year, I can do nothing but smirk and mock each of these plaintive whines on the boards, as I know Texas is about to stomp a mudhole in Clemson's ass. "But closetojumping, Dabo's a wizard and he's won the playoffs twice before! Sarkisian just eats his own boogers on the sidelines in postseason games!" While it's true that Swinney has won two national titles, those days are long in the rearview mirror. Clemson only made its way to these playoffs through the backdoor, by beating an AAC team with too much hype. This Clemson team has some future NFL players within its ranks. Mafah, if he hasn't taken too many bullets, seems like he'll be drafted. It's early, but TJ Moore and Bryant Wesco look like future stars. Antonio Williams, an older Clemson WR, is the current star and will get next level looks. Briningstool at TE is good but not great, yet he's going to the Senior Bowl and will be drafted. Defensively, Barrett Carter, Sammy Moore, TJ Carter, and Peter Woods will all likely play on Sundays. Peter Woods gets a lot of hype for a dude with like 21 tackles and 3 sacks in 7 or 8 games this year. Oh well. From there? Slim pickings. That's the difference between now and years past. Some of the players I named are true freshmen. One is a true sophomore. They're not loaded with upperclassmen ready to go high in the draft. They have upperclassmen good enough to go somewhere in the draft, and that's it. They have an average OL as usual, with a couple of OTs who could go in the mid-late rounds, but they're never been a power in that key personnel area and this year is no different. Meanwhile, Texas is loaded with draftable players and future NFL high round picks who cannot be drafted yet. While Sarkisian's bowl and playoff record, thus far, do not inspire confidence, this roster talent should. If anyone honestly believes that the slack-jawed yokel roaming Clemson's sidelines with his 1000 yard stare and openly breathing through his mouth is some sort of X's and O's threat, they've not watched much Clemson. "Now come on, CTJ, have you seen Texas' redzone offense and special teams play?" Setting aside the futility of the raging Arch vs Ewers debate, featuring masturbatory fantasies about Sarkisian casually dropping in a complete red zone playset for Manning in the postseason, I think there are reasons for promise and optimism for Texas in the RZ this game. While Texas has been mediocre scoring in the RZ due to, mostly, Bert Auburn gargling more balls than Mia Khalifa, Clemson's RZ defense has also mostly been dogshit this season, allowing points on more than 83% of their drives. This isn't Clemson from 2018 - their front seven is good but not great. They can be run on and they're not elite on pass defense either. Texas needs the offensive line to show up wearing men's jock straps underneath their uniforms and not in the pink panties they wore against the UGA front. Do that, have even Decent Quinn Ewers show up with them, and Texas gets to 20+ on the offensive side. What about the rest of it, STs included? Clemson actually has substantially worse STs than Texas in most facets. They've had a bunch of FGs missed and blocked. They do basically nothing in the return game and just lost their main return guy for the season against SMU. Their coverage teams are average to boot. All we need here on special teams is for Silas Bolden to not be a complete fucking lunatic and for someone to bring some positive karma in Auburn's direction by shaving his head and keeping him away from Scott Norwood and Ray Finkel. "I don't know, closetojumping. I don't like their running game or turnover margin advantage." The Clemson running game has been mentioned on this board and OTF as a source of concern. There's always going to be an affinity for Klubnik on the boards because of the Westlake alumni honk network. "Cade's over there being whiteboy awesome again! He's a dual threat, by gawd!" Right. Look, the Clemson running game is in trouble. It's not just that Texas is a truly elite defense, but their personnel is also a problem. Klubnik's nothing special and easily spied. Mafah is seriously banged up and can't handle 20+ carries without serious wear and tear - their own writers are talking about this. The back-up just tore his ACL. The only defense within range of what they're about to face was Georgia's or SCar's and both shut them down on the ground. As to TO concerns, part of why Clemson doesn't turn the ball over is due to the laughable schedule and competition they've played. In Clemson's 3 losses, Klubnik threw 1 TD and 2 picks. The turnover margin in those 3 games? 0. Clemson's feasting on TOs in their 9 wins against mostly overmatched competition. The Clemson offensive game plan is usually to protect Klubnik from himself and work the short passing game while attempting to pound both he and Mafah until the weaker opponent breaks down. Against better teams, the Clemson running game has been held in check and they've been forced to try to let Klubnik and the young WR corps, along with Briningstool, win the game. They're 2-3 in those contests, with wins against an overmatched SMU on the last play of the game and Pitt in the final minute of the game when Pitt failed to spy Klubnik adequately and let him go streaking. "Sure, CTJ, but we've never played these guys and their brand terrifies me in my feelings." Clemson has beaten 10 teams this season with a combined record of 54-66. That includes an 11-2 SMU team that played virtually no one and shit itself twice against decent competition. I already discussed the two teams they beat with a winning record - a wildly overrated 11-2 SMU and a team in a disastrous state of collapse at the time of play (and continuing now) in 7-5 Pitt. The rest of their competition has either been dogshit that they obliterated, like a 5-7 FCS Citadel, or teams that paired up with them well and kicked their ass, like Georgia and Louisville. If you watched Clemson at all this year, you know that they looked slow and small against SCar and Georgia. They looked great against Wake Forest and North Carolina State. How do you expect them to match up against Texas, on the road? I'm thinking mudhole, to the tune of Texas 27 - Clemson 10. I'm not real sure how Clemson climbs above 13, even if Bad Quinn Ewers and Evil Bert Auburn show up and try to give the damned thing away. Thoughts? Hook'em
  21. In the hierarchy of condescending and generic man names, where does "champ" rank for most people? I think "fella" is the absolute bottom of the barrel. Somebody at the grocery store or Blockbuster video store calls you "fella" after shoulder checking you, it's high time for fisticuffs. "Champ" probably tumbles in slightly above that for me. I get called "champ" and start looking over my shoulder for Ricky fucking Schroder. After that it's "bud". When that waxed mustachioed bartender tells you to "check your vibes, bud" after you dressed him down for telling you that a martini can only be made with gin, it's time for a swift kick to that fucker's crotch. "Friend" doesn't exactly set me off, but it does let me know that I could I never be that guy's friend. Sitting atop the chain of common appellation condescension has to be "guy". It subtly signals both tones of derision and moderate respect, all at the same time. Dismissed as time warps from the early 20th century are pal, mack, and jack and anyone using those terms in common parlance should immediately receive an atomic wedgie.
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