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4 minutes ago, Machinator said:
I’m buying Ewers and Banks stock, as well as Cam Williams, and I am selling all of my Bond stock.
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6 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:
Strickly short yardage i wonder if malik agbo gets involved. Hasnt his name come up several times during camp?
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
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1 hour ago, Machinator said:
Is this what the recruiting board looks like these days? Jesus Christ.
Anyway, Nahlin has capitulated on Fasusi and has optimism on Nick Brooks:
I’m 95% sure I’m going to be wrong on Michael Fasusi. The RPM should be on OU.
I don’t want to take anything away from OU — truly, they have done a great job— but I think Texas believes there are more pressing needs and likely won’t be all in. Keep in mind they love the roster and are focused on John Turntine in 2026.
I would put in an RPM for Texas and Nick Brooks but USC being the contender gives me some pause. From covering other recruitments I have a clear understanding of how aggressive they are. Texas is in good shape, though.
Hey, look man, you left. This place hangs by a thread even with guys like you here. Any minute and this place can start chasing its tail over the dumbest shit ever.
1 hour ago, walker said:Great inside info, thx. What do you think the Miami NIL stuff these days? legit? So much noise about Ruiz trying to "Phil Knight" Miami into relevance, but I thought his company was being delisted and the SEC (not the conference) was investigating them. After Rashada, I'm surprised that more people are not calling bs on them.
Miami has more than Ruiz in NIL. They’ve got their reasons to be doubted but they’ve gotten better on that front.
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I don't think they're moving anyone to TB. That considered, there isn't currently a shortage of backs. There might be, arguably, with other injuries, a need for someone to get involved with short yardage situations. How do midgets like Bolden or Niblett help there? Niblett solves nothing at TB. Good lord.
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I went to check out whatever comments you guys were discussing regarding Gerry and Fasusi and couldn't find shit.
Fasusi was shown a really good time in Norman. Texas, for better or worse, doesn't run the same type of visit these days. If that's enough to push him to OU, okay then. The guy isn't viewed as having a "football first" mentality but is still gifted enough that he could wind up in the NFL if he just keeps his shit together in college. He's a hard recruit to just write off, but there's more risk on him for a player of his athletic level than there should be. Conversely, Rogers is less physcially gifted but, as of his senior year, more interested than Fasusi is at excelling in football.
Other thoughts from bullshitting with friends:
Schlossnagle didn't honestly anticipate the opportunity to get Williams. Internally he was rated as a guy going pro and getting drafted high enough to justify it.
Miami has an allegedly ridiculous offer out there to Ffrench. As of now, seems like Ffrench would still prefer to leave the state and not go somewhere OOS with a lot of family around, like, say, Baton Rouge.
There's still a lot going on with the DT stuff. Plenty of reasons to be optimistic if you need to be, including missing on Sanders, IMO. I'm from Missouri on the Fabulous Kenny Baker Boy at this point.
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I’ve always found the fact that DKR played at OU but became a UT legend to be pretty fascinating.
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1 hour ago, DanTheHorn said:
50+ years well many of olds ain't going to find out and rules and technology probably won't even allow it by then so no it will not live up to your criteria.
This isn’t English.
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1 hour ago, markstanco said:
Expand a bit on special teams. Why do you think it will so great next year? ST has to be a tough group to gauge top 10 or even 50 in August.Texas has elite returners, an elite coverage game, and a top notch kicker. They’ve been in the top 10 under Sarkisian by most groups that measure ST overall. Thinking too 3 and maybe number 1 isn’t some sort of stretch.
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4 minutes ago, MuellerHorn said:
Yeah, I'm going with Golden and Bond. I guess Niblack could be one, but I definitely don't think it's a defensive player.
Well, don’t think too hard on it then.
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5 hours ago, Pdawg88 said:
I’m not in the business of ruffling feathers, if hurts people’s feelings then I don’t want to do it. And it seems like there were a couple people who didn’t like it. I had some good ones lined up too.
Oh come on, don’t be a pussy. Those other guys can go fuck themselves. I need some sooners to mock or read up on.
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Maybe Elko is secretly growing a turtle shell on his back under those muumuus. With Sanders, he’s begun building his army of mushroom henchmen and he’s getting ever closer to launching his plot to capture a local princess or something.
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45 minutes ago, Newy25 said:
This is second hand from a friend but I was told it looked like Bolden had been there all Spring and Bond looked like it’s his first day on the job.Righty-Ooo on one of them. I don’t give a fuck how fast someone is - if the QB can’t accurately believe you’re going to be where you’re supposed to be, good luck fitting into the rotation for long with that as a problem.
51 minutes ago, FreeHorn said:Im guessing when you say “bigger” we are talking about the bigger profile transfers versus the actual bigger sized transfers?
Ha. I think you know fully what I meant. Correct.
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5 hours ago, Jabberwocky said:
West Virginia plays Penn State and UCF plays Florida. Those are games that come to my mind as more important than OSU v Pig.
Great points. I didn’t give my post a lot of thought because of how weak I think the Big 12 scheduling is. WVU versus not just PSU but also Pitt is legit.
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Couple of bigger transfers need to get their shit together and act like they know the playbook and want to fucking win.
Sydir Mitchell wouldn’t make a 7 deep at this point. Maybe mix in a salad and some grilled food for like, maybe, the next half decade.
Collin Simmons will be a double digit a year sack guy starting next year and should be disruptive early and often this season.
Daniel Cruz is apparently a mean motherfucker on the field.
Texas has a shot to have the overall best special teams in the country if the punter is even just average. It’s a complete wild card that remains an open question until one or two of them are facing live fire. Let’s hope someone has some cajones in Ann Arbor. I’m guessing Texas has to punt a bit in that game.
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USC is going to cost the aggies a pretty penny, if nothing else.
3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:I think this was a storyline in Lost, but it’s been awhile.
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I wish @Pdawg88 was still keeping up with the countdown.
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21 minutes ago, 'stache said:
Also not our fault that the mighty sec pigs are bad this year. Game was scheduled years ago. And yeah, SDSU is probably well in the top half of quality non-con opponents for the Big XII.
Sadly, Okie State probably has the most respectable non-con in the Big 12 this year.
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8 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:Boisterous blowhards often get ahead. If you constantly shout stupid things loudly enough, many rubes will mistake your confidence for the truth.
Look, man, if you've got a problem with my posting behavior, just put me on ignore let's move on without all of the personal attacks. Geez.
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It's funny, Sanders isn't the type of recruit a major program should be putting a bunch of money towards. He just isn't a high ceiling recruit and he has a low, low floor. But if you're losing all visible momentum in a recruiting cycle and are about to be shutout on multiple other recruitments that are far more competitive for higher end players, maybe the approach to score a victory, somewhere, anywhere, isn't that idiotic.
The guy was supposed to announce tonight. Someone close to the recruitment decided to push it out early and shut everything down.
I think Elko is an excellent defensive coach, but I've not seen a ton of evidence that he's a great developer of talent. Sanders is really, really going to need development. I'm happy he's heading to ATM.
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19 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:
Sims is way better. Once you get past the obvious names (Charles, Wynn, Williams, Brown), Sims is who they should be focusing their flip efforts on.
A Sharma/Charles/Sims 3-man class would be acceptable in my eyes with a 4th guy if it makes sense or just use that spot for the portal.
The 2025 DT class was never going to be the solution for the 2025 DT depth chart. The portal was always going to be the primary source in plugging those holes. But a solid 2025 DT haul would be a good first step in trying to get us out of the cycle of seemingly needing 4 quality DT's every damn year out of pure necessity.
You are a tough person to please, man. Sims/Charles/Sharma would be outstanding. That’s prayer-level shit at this point in time, though.
As to solutions for a position group for a next season, in truth, everyone has that issue somewhere. Notre Dame is playing their 3rd transfer QB in 4 seasons due to similar issues, as an example. Texas has pieces for 2025 already and Sharma is as good as anyone could hope heading towards that season a freshman. Even one more dude of high quality decompresses needs given the portal.
1 minute ago, Getafix said:How many of you have watched the guy play? Liucci is the aggie hobo version of Geoff Ketchum. He has an uncanny ability to be completely wrong on everything with his program and has a loyal customer base constantly cheering him on as he does so.
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We’ve been through this and there are many reasons why DT recruiting is on Sarkisian, Banks, and Harris. The first two have turned some position coaches into order takers and they’re picking the targets. Then Harris has seriously mishandled the work with the recruits’ camps and understanding what it takes to actually land these guys.
That said, I have a very hard time not looking at the Sanders recruitment and absolutely seeing it as a Kenny Baker failure. No one handcuffed that recruitment. Do we find out more in a bit? Did ATM get wild here and Texas either wasn’t ready again or just decided it wasn’t worth it? Does that absolve the position coach from whiffing on this softball?
I have been adamant that this recruit is a project and I’d be happy to see him going elsewhere. He’s built like a cupcake stuck on top of two toothpicks. He’s soft as Charmin. So, sure, ATM, go make some hay.
Passing on Sims and Derry, two better prospects than Sanders who had Texas at the top of their list was fucking dumb. Are those guys All SEC candidates if they come to Texas? Maybe. Can they project well as quality depth? Yes they can.
So maybe deciding that through sheer will of the recruiting leadership that the program will just fall ass backwards into 3-4 of the absolute best DT candidates in the country with an 80% close rate wasn’t a great strategy. Maybe go get some guys projecting a notch below that who could also develop if the DL coach is as awesome as advertised and not subject the program to either wild ass final days/weeks ahead of signing day that may or may not work out or the dice roll of pursuing the 1-3 awesome DTs that enter the portal and will cost seven figures for certain.
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Man, Kenny Baker really is crushing it.
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15 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:
I see you still have Gideon and Joseph as your DB coaches in the game.
I’m terrible on defense. I’m basically the UH’s offensive output around 1989 with Carl Reese coaching my defense.
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You never know when you’re going to be needed, from my view. Needed for a sprint, a sprint relay, for WR depth, maybe as a running back or offensive coordinator. It’s why I’ve always got a pair of cleats in the trunk of my car and in my suitcase.