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Venables told him there was going to be open competition in the spring. There’s been pretty intense booster pressure and family pressure pushing for Arnold to be the guy. So Gabriel split.

Boy, this Tenple QB is shockingly terrible. They have to have someone else better than this.

He did the same shit when Mackovic was failing and then when he got fired. He’s a been a talentless assclown for forever and was easily the worst part about the gameday experience. For the people who have the gift of not noticing the PA announcer, well many of us do, so fuck Bob Cole and fuck you too.

I’d be really surprised by another DE/Edge. Gerry’s commented publicly about Texas having interest here. I’m guessing he’s talking about someone else if he’s acting secretive about it. I don’t know if he is, but the original poster’s framing of it made it seem that way. There is a lot of hair on the Simpson recruitment. I’m interested in seeing how serious Texas is with him. Whoever lands him is going to have to really want to get him into school.

Hey man, you’re a regular here and a good poster, but come on with “UTx”. It’s either Texas or UT on this board. Outside of clowns around Knoxville, everyone in the world knows who UT is referencing and you’re on our board to boot. Texas is just fine though as well and preferred.

Thanks, @immamac

There is a wannabe handler involved who is anti-Texas because they won’t deal with him (and they don’t need to) and probably a “relative” to boot. That’s why the LSU idiots think they’re getting him in the end. They don’t understand, or want to understand, that the landscape has shifted. Giving some shady dipshit $75k in a bag isn’t going to change things for a player that doesn’t want to be near that element and has the promise of a much better arrangement that he controls for himself. Someone can feel free to tell those stupid motherfuckers accordingly. They’re going to be hinting at a switch for him for four more months as their contact strings them along.

@immamac can we get the player’s name spelled correctly?

To be clear, 2 of the recruits never made it to campus and several of the transfers either didn't make it to campus or got there and almost immediately left. It's actually worse than what the various site rankings are reflecting for them.

Sanders is a lazy and entitled narcissist. He didn't make one in-home visit and did very little travel to high schools. If you go there and kiss the ring, good on you. Otherwise, he'll just keep "winning" in the transfer portal. For this next cycle, CU's class is currently ranked at #78 by On3. They have 7 commitments, one of whom is Quanell X Jr out of Houston, their highest rated player and a low 4 star WR overall. The class is ranked 16th out of 16 Big 12 schools, and is the lowest ranked P4 program, as well as being two spots below Oregon State, the lowest ranked Pac12 team. With seniors leaving and netting negative in terms of total net adds from the portal (they're -3 net headcount through the portal this past cycle), the amount of recruits Colorado is adding isn't even above roster replacement.

This is straight up made up shit by this guy. They have no idea who has access to what in these collectives so they're doing everything off of hearsay, at best. I know the guy has received zero insights from TOF. Just made it up and now it's a list that people are talking about and will eventually be touting on the radio and podcasts.

The national commentary for Colorado this year has been on par with what Chewbacca was saying on here this summer. The discussion on talent goes like this: "Colorado should have a vastly improved defense and OL." When anyone asks "why" in that regard, the answer is either "because reasons" or they cite Deion's use of the transfer portal. The portal? They did the same shit this offseason that they did last offseason. Almost half the roster was turned over via the portal. Many of the guys coming in are from places like Idaho State or Florida A&M or Villanova. There are a bunch no-PT or garbage-PT castoffs and 3rd stringers from P4 schools as well. They're all apparently going to magically start fulfilling their potential under the mentoring wizardry of Prime Time. In recruiting, they added like 10 guys. It's kind of stunning how poorly they handled that side of it. With all of that considered, their new amazing OL is something like 1 guy returning from last year's shitty OL, one 2023 Jackson State transfer who didn't play last season, a true freshman, a dude from UTEP, and a guy from Indiana. They're allegedly using less of a TE in this season's offense so the decent TE transferred out and they're expected to mostly be running with 4 wides. That's the "improved" OL we're going to witness tonight. If any of that personnel has changed due to injury in the last few weeks, the other guys on the OL look less glamorous than starters from UTEP and Indiana. It should shock no one other than media blowhards and CU honks if we see Shadeur Sanders running for his life tonight. As it pertains to this big defensive upgrade? It reads similar to the OL "upgrade". 7 of the 11 expected starters were ... wait for it ... part of CU's defense last year. That includes all of the shitty linebackers, a shitty safety and a backup edge. Now, they have Travis Hunter at one CB spot and we know he's good if he's able to stay healthy and absorb 120 snaps. The other CB might be a dude that played safety last year for Liberty so that should be no big deal, right? Right. Shilo Sanders is a decent safety, albeit apparently not a decent person. Two DL transfers were 2nd team or 3rd team All Conference somewhere, so they could be a bit better.

That update is unbelievable. That guy is truly fucking clueless.

Mackovic is a decent analog for Herman, I guess. One thing that benefits Herman in these discussions is that he got fired at the right time. The 2021 team was going to be bad no matter what and his recruiting was nearing collapse. The advent of the portal as we know it was just occurring. He was disliked by his players on top of flailing in recruiting. I think he was headed towards insane disaster if no one had intervened. I could see 3-9/2-10 instead of 5-7. One thing I really like about Twelve Win Theven is that the players like the guy. Even if he stumbles again, I would be kind of stunned by some sort of mass exodus.

I don't go over there much because the content is crap and the posters creating it are dumber than a sack of rocks. In addition to that, the posters affiliating themselves with UT have to mostly be socks from other fanbases. I've seen multiple handles get basic shit absolutely wrong about Texas in ways that even a casual UT fan would not. On top of that, most of the UT handles don't post on UT sites I've seen and they mostly have IQs in the room temperature range, common amongst posters on that site alone.

Arguing that Tom Herman is a bad coach is a weird hill to die upon. You can't really believe that, right? I can't stand the guy and I am glad he's gone, but @Frank Drebin's already done a good job of addressing why he doesn't fall into the category of "bad coach" much less "worst coaches in history". We don't need to look very far to find proper candidates for "worst coaches in history". Texas has had a few doozies. Ed Price, Chuckles, and Jack Chevigny all can easily be argued in favor of being bucketed into the "worst coaches in college football history" list. I agree that that is a thread waiting to be created because there is some genuinely hilarious shit out there about some of the disasters that could be named in that thread. And interesting things as well, I guess. Jack Chevigny, I've known of for years, but I didn't look him up until today when I was trying to recall his name. He died as a marine corps officer on the first day of the battle of Iwo Jima (a really, really bad hill to die upon). RIP. Never coached again after being fired at Texas and was also the guy who scored the winning touchdown in the "win one for the Gipper" game at ND vs Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Chevigny

Sanders pretty much sucked last year against teams that had a decent or better defense. I'm sure the terrible OL played a big part in that. NDSU will be competent at a minimum on the defensive side of the ball. For a guy getting ongoing hype as an early 1st round pick, shouldn't everyone expect this dude to be worth a fuck tonight? If he goes for 400+ against these guys, I'll be impressed.

We had rented out one of the suites and had about 20 people in it. Next to us on one side was a group of Arkansas fans who had done the same. Everyone minded everyone's own business until late in the 4th. With a few minutes left in the game and plenty of booze now in their bloodstream, the Arkansas hillbillies decided to start talking shit. We jawed back a little and then they kept running their mouths, mostly thoughtlessly with comments like "Texas sucks" and "Fuck Texas". My little brother had finally had enough and gave them a dismissive hand gesture waving them off and said, paraphrasing, "We're Texas. We're mediocre now but we'll be back on top soon. You're Arkansas, you're mediocre forever! This is your biggest game in years and it's at a shitty bowl game against a .500 team, you fucking hillbillies. It's pathetic." With that, the Arkansas folks shut up and went back to minding their own business. It was a fun and bittersweet moment, and looking back, it still is. I didn't think Strong was going to make it, but I didn't think it would be almost a decade before Texas was discussed in the national title picture again. Good lord. Ian Boyd is the Charlie Strong of football analysts.

I don't blame them. I would pimp Colorado and Sanders for as many clicks as possible before everything burns to the ground in Boulder over the course of another losing season. Beyond that, it should be a good game and Deion is must-see tv whether because folks love him or because they like watching slow motion train wrecks. It might just say a lot about making a decision to leave for Los Angeles while staring down the barrel of another winter in Fargo, ND. Probably some of both.

He’s a tub of goo who might die of heart failure on the field this Saturday.

I’m unapologetic about it and have said as much on the boards for 25+ years. Cheer for your opponent at full speed all you like, and I’ll laugh and roll my eyes every time I see someone saying as much.

I cheer for injuries. Not on specific players except for Dallas Turner and other dirty fuckers like him, but just generally would like to see all opponents more injured than Texas. It’s a violent sport, people are going to get hurt, give me as many people getting hurt that we play as you can, dear football gods.

You've got to believe in a team returning 6 starters total being coached by a dude whose most recent HC experience is at the mighty Holy Cross, home of Gordie Lockbaum. Maybe don't put your mortgage money on them and dial it down a little.

Good link. You didn't even mention the best part! RC Slocum apparently stole Tim Brown's towel from the Japanese game: "I got a towel that he gave me over there," Slocum said, describing a long white linen with Japanese writing on it above gold stitching that says "TIM BROWN, UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME, JAPAN BOWL." A sweet towel. It hangs in a frame on the wall of Slocum's house in College Station all these years later, which came as a surprise even to Brown. "Wow!" Brown wrote via email, his only response to questions for this story. "I have more questions than I do answers. Maybe Coach can fill in the blanks." It's a bit of a mystery to Slocum, too. "I don't know how I got it, either," Slocum said, laughing. "We joked about the Cotton Bowl towel over there. I spent a week with him. We had a great time." In the frame, Slocum also stuck a card he got later, from a 1991 set of cards that had a "Heisman Hero" series. Brown's card is autographed, with the inscription, "To Texas A&M and the 12th Man." ******** Slocum has always been miscast as some sort of great dude because he comes across publicly as this affable idiot. In reality, he's a shithead. Dude was sleeping with his secretary and got publicly outed for it by his wife. He engineered the aggie bag game under Sherrill and kept it going full bore after taking over the program. It was only under the threat of the death penalty and severe sanctions including tv bans and bowl bans did that idiot disassemble parts of it. He's actively lobbied against Texas on a number of issues over the years and has been a constant feed to writers in terms painting Texas in a bad light. Of course that simple idiot would steal a dude's towel, forget that he did it, and then brag about it and put it on display.

Sherrone Moore and Wink Martindale were interviewed by The Michigan Insider this week. They acknowledged that the interior DL is the most banged up unit on the team. Rayshaun Benny is expected to be a key part of the rotation. He's coming off of a broken ankle injury and can play on it, but he's not nearly 100% and won't be when they play Texas. Mason Graham has missed practices but will play Saturday. They've been cagey about info on Graham's injury. I think that is something to watch on Saturday in terms of how much and how well he plays. They have another guy that they want to see step up, but he's a pussy and is constantly "hurt" at the 3rd starting LB spot. They might as well have called the dude a goldbricker. They have two transfer LBs, one from Nebraska and one from Maryland, who will also start. The Maryland transfer is a thumper but not a sideline to sideline guy, as far I can understand in terms of the comments. The Nebraska guy is the defensive playcaller and he's also apparently an "overthinker", per Martindale, who can think his way out of plays sometimes. Okay then.