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  1. 7 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Every now and then someone drops the name Jordyn Tyson. I have no idea if this has any chance of happening, but it would certainly leave me in a state of extreme gruntlement. 

    That’s the kind of guy I’d expect, given circumstances. The level of plaintive whining coming from all directions if that happened would be high entertainment on my end. Dillingham might cry on live tv again. 

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  2. 7 minutes ago, RockyMountainHighHorn said:

    Sooo according to the couple of minutes I spent on a vols message board. 90% of the people are saying they will be better without him…really? He was the main reason they made the playoffs. 5% say that he was tampered with by another sec school. And the last 5% are clearly upset that he’s leaving but don’t want to go against the grain. I understand the importance of showing the team that no one is bigger than the team but damn that’s quite the player to show the team with. 

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!

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  3. 17 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    That’s the fun of it. We are watching his story play out. Maybe he’ll make it back. Maybe he won’t but it’s apparently interesting enough to make you click on the thread again and again. 

    I hadn’t clicked on this thread in months. I already stated why I clicked now. Your stan efforts replaced what I thought might be actual news. Your entire post here is thoughtless projection. 

    7 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

    Honestly, I am surprised more of these guys don't act like selfish idiotic lunatics in similar circumstances.  At 18, he just had $1mm dropped in his lap.  He's never seen cash like that, and it reinforces his belief that he's God's gift to football.  His work ethic slides, and his production slides.  He gets less playing time because he's inferior and now unreliable.  He freaks out, and blames everyone except himself. 

    3 months ago, Cook was on a path to being a career criminal with zero self-awareness or respect for others.  That path has taken a turn and it looks like he's on a positive path.  Great!   He now appears to be on a path to being a productive member of society - or at least off the criminal malcontent path.  Perhaps sitting in a FW jail helped.

    Yes, he lit $1mm of booster money on fire; that's part of the risk of funding NIL, and I suspect it stings.  He has zero chance of returning to Texas and lighting another pile of Texas booster money on fire.  It will be interesting to see how it plays out.  

    In similar selfish-jackwagon news, Nico Iamaleava wants to renegotiate his NIL deal - just 5 days before the spring portal opens.  I see Nico landing in Oregon or at tOSU.

    Those schools have better QBs right now than that mercenary. 

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  4. 3 hours ago, cmontexas said:

    I saw Quan Cosby in person his junior year absolutely destroy Boyd in the state championship game. I was young but I was convinced he was the next Mike Vick. He also played safety and sent 2 different Boyd wrs out of the game on a stretcher

    I remember reading the recaps of his games on the Hornfans recruiting forum. Hell, maybe it was GoBig12, I don’t know. But they were as covered in dramatic hyperbole as any that have ever been produced. William Wallace hasn’t been as glorified. 

    Then I read that he was short, playing 2A and probably getting drafted by MLB. “Well, cross him off the list, then.” Then that dude showed up years later and was a God send for the program. Perhaps the stories were all true. Would like to have seen him, in hindsight.  

  5. 1 hour ago, RGBIII said:

    The combo of Derrick Henry highlights and senior stats is my favorite

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    In 8th grade, I never left the field. On defense I played what our coach called “monster back” and it was basically a strong safety spot sitting with the LBs. In reality, it meant just go tackle the ball. We played a team with a kid who was 6’2”, 240 and meaner than a junkyard dog. The trick was to charge for him as soon as the ball was snapped. I think he had something like the Henry 43/189 game. I had a headache for weeks. 

  6. 2 hours ago, irishtexan said:

    Psssshhhhhh. I only wager for signed first print editions of "Forged of a Hotter Fire".

     

    I have that as well, courtesy of @HenryJames thinking he’s funny. Sadly, I did actually read it out of desperation at one point when I was out of books. 

    4 hours ago, Red Five said:

    Best snow cone flavor: Coconut. Fucking fight me.

     

    2 hours ago, Red Five said:


    Second place: Cinnamon.

    At first, I thought you thinking about Blue Coconut slushies from Sonic and has just never had a snow cone before. “Well, he’s not wrong in that context, really. “

    Then, you follow up with this cinnamon comment and I realize that you’re nothing more than some sort of desperate madman. 

    44 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

    Regarding snowcones - tigers blood and cream from the place that used to be on south Lamar right at Barton Springs. Snow Beach?

    @closetojumping - I'll take the bet. Sounds like the terms are if White Chocolate goes 750 yards or over in any season, I win. If he never hits 750, you win. Is $20 worth your time or do I have to bet like an adult and wager $100?

    $100. We have a deal. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

    Dude.

    I'm in charge of training - and testing - my company's security. The tests use real phishing emails, and the scammers just keep getting better at what they do. We warn people that the tests are coming and they STILL get caught. Hell, this quarter the guy who SET UP the tests originally was caught. If THAT guy can fall for them, anyone can.

    Phishing scams work because they use the way our brains naturally work against us. Same with PR. Doing PR is difficult and unnatural for most people. You can train them and re-train them, and they're still gonna do dumb things.

    And if they're dumb or mean or nasty to begin with, like a good many high school football coaches tend to be, they're going to be more prone to doing dumb things.

    Ain't no need to get personal, but that's how you are, right? Miss the point entirely, then turn it into a personal attack...

    This might as well have been written in Greek. 

  8. 1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Winner gets a burger and a grape snow cone?

    Deal. Although I prefer half mango/half peach for my snow cone, should I win. 

    1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    You and your bets. 

    You've been kissed by the fire, sir, but that shouldn't make you bitter.

    16 minutes ago, RabidM said:

    You giving odds? 

    No. Stop squatting to pee and tell me what you'd like to wager. I have a Manny Diaz Texas football if we need a baseline. I have a first print edition of Meat on the Hoof as well. Not even close to mint condition. I also have a number of antique clocks that no longer work, but are accurate twice daily. We can take this wherever you'd like. 

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  9. 1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

    You originally responded to a post of mine where I spoke generally and not specifically about this guy. You'd said merely that he's a coaches son. I responded as much in humor about the cliche you object to as I did to making a real point. 

    The mystery is why you took it so personally. I intended no slight. I do not intend one now. Your combativeness is usually top flight insult humor. Maybe keep your finger a little further from the hair trigger.

    I look forward to your blistering retort if it's up to your usual standards.

    I could have been responding to anybody about the subject of Hicks being an idiot who should know better. Quoting whoever, I guess you in this instance, was using it as a vehicle, not an affirmation or rebuke. 

    The only thing I took personally was the thoughtless and witless messaging on "huuuuuurrrrrrr durrrrrrrrr corches are stupid" rather taking the time to actually gather the point. Too many times, I hold the patrons of this board to a higher standard than a decade+ of interactions should sanely allow.

    We're being disputatious at this point, as boring as that implies.  

  10. 3 hours ago, RabidM said:

    I'm feeling pretty good about my WR1 prediction. 

    I offered a bet for whatever agreed rewards if the guy goes over 750 in any season while on UT’s campus. We should make a wager if you’re excited about Jaggy. 

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  11. 6 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    Yeah, and I can teach my cat to bark. I can teach him that shit for weeks!

    He'll still meow. Because he is a fucking cat.

    Now, if you try to teach a dumbfuck PR... I reckon you'll get similar results.

    I read a book called “Waiting For Your Cat To Bark” once. Many of the principles and concepts taught within still apply to digital conversion, really. 

    Anywho. Getting one’s head around basic do’s and don’t’s when speaking to the media or in a public setting isn’t some Herculean task. Don’t make it out to be voodoo or alchemy solely because it’s beyond your personal reach, Rimbo. 

    I’m no fan of high school coaches and their mental and emotional capacities, so believe what you want. The original point was simply that a recruited 5 star with a helicopter dad that understands the arena should not have been dumb enough to have said what he said, but he did anyway. This board’s primal, tedious need to diverge off onto boring tangents can get fucked on this one. 

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  12. Based on what he eventually said, yes, Lotus of Siam is a great choice. I’ve been many times and the food will not disappoint.  It also won’t cost an arm and a leg and the vibe will be good for a family including underage kids. 

    That said, I don’t see it as a must every time. To each their own. We mix it in. 

    With everyone I ever go with, the only two musts are a strip steakhouse, of the highest quality, and Piero’s, which is unequaled in terms of Vegas mobbed up Italian. I am pondering buying tickets for a long Vegas weekend with my wife right now just thinking about this. 

    When I am with my wife only, we also always go to Le Cirque. Going with dudes would be weird. Going with a SO, it is the most certain guarantee of pussy afterwards outside of being a teenager or using Rohypnol. 

    Because I always stay in Aria, I always wind up at Javier’s in an unplanned way. They have the best queso flameado on the planet. Their margaritas are also at the top of the mark. 

    Anyway, for future reference to others. 

  13. 38 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    I think the answer precedes the question. High school coaches are hardly mavens of discretion and etiquette.

     

    21 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Yeah I’d imagine many football programs have cultures that include some toxic masculinity. 
     

    aggy does too, as an institution. So the aggy football program behaving thusly shouldn’t take anyone aback. 

    Local high school coaches are taught PR framework for public/media speaking purposes. Is this new information for you guys? Irrespective of their personal views, they know how to handle a microphone, normally. Coach's kids are expected to know better than the average kid regarding many facets of the game, hence that attribute being valued in recruiting evaluations. But let's not let that interrupt a good honking session around how fucking dumb and animalistic high school coaches are.

  14. 18 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    I will be curious to see where an upstart school like Texas Tech lands after a few years.  Cody Campbell is throwing around huge money and they spent their way to the top football transfer portal class.  They may not have the depth of NIL funds that some other schools have, but they have a motivated billionaire who is flexing more than any other single donor in the college landscape. 

    To put it In "The Wire" terms, Texas is Stringer Bell.  Ohio State is Avon Barksdale.  Oregon is Fat Joe.  Tech is trying to be Marlo Stanfield.  But Tech might just be Bubbles.  Aggy is Frank Sobotka, over-inflated sense of importance and never actually in the game. 

    There is no true terrain for Tech to take and hold in this game that Knight hasn't already taken. You can't move Lubbock and make it more desirable. You can't improve on the surroundings and non-sports experiences. You can't brag on academics or offer branding value. The only thing they can offer is a lot of money. That works at times, but if it worked a ton, their team would look a hell of a lot better than it does. They do not remind me of Marlo Stanfield at all. They're Brother Mouzone. Hired muscle that can be a pain in someone's ass, but a side player never reaching the big stage. 

    ATM is Ziggy. Come on. 

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