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closetojumping

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  1. I find myself often stunned by how old some of those guys over there are. @Armybrat would be just one of legion septuagenarian - nonagenarians over there. They almost outnumber the posters using their real names.
  2. While this is sometimes true, it's absolutely not a truth. Many of the guys at both the HS and portal levels are considering "likeliest to develop me and/or scheme me into The League" as pretty fucking important. Saban and Alabama have been getting discounts for years. Texas isn't often the highest paying competitor for a player with NIL. Michigan didn't pay anything for several key transfers during Harbaugh's last season. The list goes on.
  3. They’re being awfully methodical. My current suspicion is that they have a plan with some players who are still playing important games. But maybe that’s just my hope.
  4. 1) This isn’t English. I don’t want to hear about talk to text and such. This post is bad in multiple spots. 2) Ted Cruz was once hosted in a SEZ suite near us, for the Alabama game. Sydney Carton didn’t even heckle the guy. Do we know where Dane Key landed? I like him more than anyone else who has entered the portal so far.
  5. Without speaking out of turn, I’ll just say that part of Bobby’s vision for OTF is bringing that to the table from a personnel perspective.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. As always, your humorless, holier-than-thou banality sucks the air out of a discussion. Well done.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. The mods specifically are stating that Stewart was recruited as, and will play as, an interior DL. 0 DEs in the class.
  14. 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.
  15. If there’s anything I’m in need of, it’s getting traction with the posts I make. Thanks for your support, fella.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Miami could buy OU six times over. They could moneywhip Mateer just to burn OU’s ass.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. “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.
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