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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I don't think there was anything "unintentional" about it. Ol'BO&W's working graveyards this week, so he's sleeping in the mornings. That's why he's only active on here right now in the afternoons. Inventories don't count themselves, you know. -
He has CJ Allen in his teens. Objectively defend taking CJ Allen over Hill. Go for it. Campbell would be a comp if Hill didn't put up the havoc numbers that he puts up. There's not a great recent comparison for an off the ball LB with the size and speed and also production that Hill has. The draft dorks will overthink it and ding him for stupid shit because they cannot help themselves and then some dipshits in front offices will do the same. He'll fall into the teens or twenties and then put up HOF numbers for a decade. He's as sure a thing as there will be in this draft outside of Caleb Downs. Having him in the 30's is fucking dumb and indefensible. Also, yeah, people can whisper all they want about him winding up on the edge. Fucking great. Those guys go top 10 too. It's just idiotic.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Look, I know I am so far in the tank on the notion that OU is wildly overrated this year that I probably can't be helped, but it's these fucking okie writers who are doing it to me. Spoilered is an article talking excitedly about 5 fast risers for OU in this fall's camp. If you've been following, it's unintentional hilarity. Highlights: -Each of the 5 "risers" is in a spot to play due to desperation. -Logan Howland started due to injury last year at LT. He had surgery on his shoulder, missed the spring and was promptly pushed backwards on the depth chart. The great hope at RT was a transfer from juggernaut Western Carolina, dude named Simmons, and he's been hurt all camp. Enter Logan Howland at RT. He's rising again. -Keonteziedeezie Lewis failed at UCLA and Wisconsin. He became a magical wizard for the rabid Salukis of Southern Illinois receiving for almost 800 yards against guys that wouldn't make high school rosters at 6A Texas programs. Now, because other spares they were relying on at WR are hurt, Lewis is "different, man" per the erudite Emmett Jones. Right. -Ivan "Helobious" Carreon has barely been mentioned this past spring or fall camp, but OU's desperate at WR, so they're going to be forced to play him as well. -We've covered the hilarity that is the Jaren Kanak journey. Hullaballoo, Kanak Kanak, Hullaballoo Kanak! OU people are convincing themselves that this guy is going to make a difference at TE in 2025. Their TE room is so putrid that a random transfer from Kennesaw State will be starting and they're going to utilize this Kanak idiot as a wildcard in some form behind him. -They're painting the insertion of Fasusi as the second coming of Kelvin Banks. After they throw his ass out of the recovery center, yank the IV feed from his dehydrated lower left arm, and push him back out onto the practice field for more reps and conditioning, that motherfucker better get back to earning the $750k Nagy is paying his ass.- 1003 replies
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Also, forgot to mention this but the reporters at RedRaiderInsider are saying that Micah Hudson is running 2nd team at his WR spot after a lackluster summer and camp. I laughed.
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While I generally agree with your sentiment, I do want to point out the awe-inspiring irony of your post for those of us on this site who root for Texas. It's almost better if I don't even point it out and torture it any, I think. It's fucking beautiful to admire.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Dvoracek is calling the Irish Bowl this weekend. He must really be confident and secure in his sobriety journey to feel okay on that island. Alcoholism isn't a concept that has reached the shores of the Emerald Isle yet, as far I've been able to discern. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I am not on the Alabraska train envisioned by @Wulaw Horn, simply because they are located in a region that is absolutely drenched in talent. It's why I don't see OU fully collapsing into decades of futility either. DFW and east Texas are too rich as buffer zones to allow the drift into the abyss. That said, I also just don't see Daboer fading out at Bama in the near term, either. The guy is an excellent coach. His staff looks (mostly) really solid. They're loaded on defense, especially in the secondary. They can rock fight most opponents into 24-17 type wins if the offense doesn't click. With Grubbs there, I'm sure the offense will be fine as well. They have 2 NFL WRs, minimum, and multiple NFL prospects on the OL. I'll be surprised if they're not a playoff team and legitimate title contender.- 8050 replies
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Some of us care. I thought the idea of a bunch of Tech idiots sending a bunch of tortillas to Yormark and his gaggle of idiots was funny. Nobody but Tech fans thinks the tortilla thing is a great element of college sports. Every person who has ever witnessed it on tv that I've been around is like "why the fuck do they do that?" and then no one watching has any explanation for it. I've had tech people explain it before and the explanation and reasoning was so inane that I can never retain what the fuck it was that they claimed. That said, I'm in full agreement that Tech should generally be allowed to do it. Of course, I was also proud to see our student section go berserk on the terrible call last year against Georgia and turn our north end zone into a trash heap for 15 minutes and I laugh every time Texas gets embarrassed on some also-ran program's home field and everyone storms it, so maybe I'm just an idiot as well.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Well, it never ends for some folks, no doubt. I’m sure part of the daily routine at B&OW’s job at the warehouse is getting pushed into his locker by his boss, Hervé.- 8050 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Good info. I just generally see McShay as a buffoon. Biases undoubtedly make him worse. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
There is basically a 0% chance I’ll be around. But I am cheering for all of you. I am going to my autistic sophomore’s scrimmage tomorrow night. He finds some sort of peace inside a helmet, so I’m cheering for him. Scary as a parent, though.- 8050 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Like I said, there’s a good shot he doesn’t play against OSU. His hand isn’t in a cast and allegedly nothing is broken. It got wrenched and they had to pull things back into place. It’s a pain tolerance and effectiveness thing. They’re worried enough to be moving everyone else around to see if there’s a lineup that isn’t hideous without him. My hand got slammed between two tacklers’ face masks once and I dislocated a finger. A phalange was sitting on top of the next bone. The solution? Bite a fucking towel and pull while the doctor pulls in the other direction until the bone slips back into place. That shit hurt for a week and still gives me problems 35 years later. But I never missed a game and I caught passes for my damned program. If Goosby isn’t out there on 8/30, I’ll be judging him. -
So the tweet below is a follow-up to a farce post from the same account about UCLA selecting a different QB than Iamaleava. I cannot figure out if the DM from Nico is real or not. I want it to be. I can see it that way. But maybe someone here knows better.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Here’s an article where the writer attempts to put lipstick on a pig with the WR room. He tries to talk up a bunch of guys that played last year and looked like total ass. Remember, these guys were a big excuse for their season. “Their top 5 WRs were out!” Well, then if that was an issue, the guys playing must suck, and they did. Yeah, they were young too. Now they’ve had more time to develop and Emmett Jones still doesn’t want to start any of them. Then the writer tries to sell the reader on the transfers and hypes a guy who couldn’t get on the field at UCLA or Wiscy and had to go to Southern Illinois to put up decent numbers. Next up is Sategna, from Arkansas, and his 1 TD receiving last year to go with less than 500 yards. He concludes with “if only the Gibsons were healthy, that’s who Jones is relying on to start with Burks.” Jayden Gibson didn’t play last year and then shredded his patellar tendon a second time in early rehab. This is a guy they’re counting on to start? He’s still not even going through drills. The other dude broke his leg in spring camp and now they’re surprised he might be taking longer than they expected to come back. Can’t win without those UAPB transfers! For those wondering if it is wishful thinking that OU is overhyping their roster this year, just read this article and think about what we know about their WRs.- 1003 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I don't believe that for a second. The ramifications of either one doing such a thing go beyond the scope of impacting just their school and Texas. What tinfoil hat wearing shit have you gotten yourself into these days? -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
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We are nowhere near that. Unless they really struggle with UTSA or get pummeled in South Bend, I assume we won't start seeing that deliciousness until November as they free fall. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I know *why* it happened, just not sure something that wild has played out recently for anyone. I'm sure it happened in the past with just 8 or 10 teams in conferences and 4-5 OOC games every year. The rules changes being discussed is exactly to help the committee justify an example like taking a 9-3 Baylor over a 10-2 Indiana. Do they do that? We don't know. No shit we have no idea whether this change actually has an impact. My view is that it damned sure could and should. Taking the "I'll believe it when I see it" position is fine, but it doesn't mean everyone else is just immediately balls deep on the premise that this changes everything. I hope it does with the scheduling, but, yeah, maybe nothing happens. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I think he left out "gargle the balls of" in the middle of his ragepost. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Texas going @Bama, @Michigan and then @Ohio State three years in a row has to be something unprecedented. I was pretty surprised to see that Bama has started scheduling multiple P4 OOC opponents each season. I'm hoping Texas follows suit, especially if the conference keeps dragging its feet on the 9 game schedule. I heard a while back that there was talk about extending the Notre Dame match-up into 2030/2031 once Florida became a conference foe. I guess that's not going anywhere because it would have been easy to add announce. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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Either they just evaluated laps around the rest of the field with signees from the last few classes or these guys are completely full of shit. Fasusi, Thomas and Fodje were highly ranked, but two of those guys are OL. Starting true freshmen on the OL should be rare and due to absurd skills. I knew they'd start using the Banks comparison if they started talking about starting Fasusi. It's bullshit. That will be fun to watch. Fodje playing a lot when all they've been doing is talking up their returning OL is comical. If that dude is pushing for heavy PT, your returners sucked as we suspected. Thomas was a national 150 guy, but he's being mentioned because their WR room is both dogshit and a mash unit. Thomas is good at everything but doesn't have an elite skill/talent. He will be interesting to watch if they rush him out there. Okoye's hype I can believe. Guillory's hype I don't believe. They *need* one of their young CBs to be good, in the same vein as Bowen last year. Haynes apparently hasn't shown much, so Guillory needs to be that guy. Their secondary is taking reps against that shitty WR room and shittier TE room. The okies do not seem to be capable of wrapping their heads around the perils of analyzing performance in a zero sum setting. The Newcombe guy is JAG-certified. If he's playing, I'm laughing. Blaylock was so talented and awesome that Texas, LSU, ATM, and Bama never pushed, even though he visited each school unofficially multiple times. Again, they *need* this guy to be good. Ott already got dinged up. Barnes is replacement value talent. The other RBs are all jaggy and hurt. Blaylock has been getting reps out of necessity. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
People make decisions based on emotion and then justify those decisions with whatever reason, rationale or logic they can summon or leverage. The committee leans heavily on their internal formulas to justify their decisions. They did that this past year. They admit doing that in this press release. So, yes, it will matter. Will it make everyone happy? No. Will many autists who follow all of this whine that we're not leaving it totally up to machines or a formula or transparently receiving the decision-helping tools? Yes. If you don't think this is going to put more pressure on OOC scheduling, I don't know what could be done to actually alter your POV. The build-up to the early OOC games this season has been enormous. The media is giving the programs Texas, OSU, Florida, OU, Michigan, Bama, Clemson, FSU, LSU, ATM, Auburn, Baylor, and Notre Dame a ton of credit and, really for the first time, the pansy schedulers are truly being ridiculed. Indiana and Penn State are being mocked aggressively. These rule changes further embolden the CFP committee to follow suit and, if having to split hairs, lean on SOS to justify a difficult decision. If Texas loses close road games to Ohio State and Florida and then loses the CCG in OT again, a 10-3 Texas is getting in versus a 10-2 Indiana who lost to Oregon and PSU and played virtually no one else. This rule change likely helps someone immediately this season. Schedule tough OOC games and don't lose ugly games and you have a great shot of getting into the CFP. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
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Traylor was being wooed by TCU and maybe? Tech when Sarkisian was going 5-7. They cut a deal in the contract extension for him at UTSA that diminished the buyout if he took a job at another school in the UT system or ATM system. That wasn't an accident and you can go look it up. I added the ATM system in there, but I think that's right. Have things changed? Sure. Texas is in a totally different place these days. Likely/hopefully never matters for UT. ATM, however? Maybe. I thought he would have been a good hire instead of The Elk, but we'll likely never know that one either. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
A professor did it as some sort of survey for a study. The results surprised him and they went out and got it published. It's not like it was just some clickfarmer leveraging the Texas brand. I forget the methodology, but I feel like there was a plurality of voting involved, not just naming one opponent.
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