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Texas is landing Ffrench for the same reason it lost Moore - they don’t want to be surrounded by a bunch of family while in college. Maybe that sentiment changes once they’re on campus (hope not for Ffrench), but that’s the attitude now. Also, were Texas to flip Moore, which they’re not going to, Lockett is gone. Maybe folks would make that trade, but either way it negates the premise of “finding room for Moore”. As to Terry, he will get a shot at WR until he decides otherwise, if that’s important to him. Sometimes it works out for the player. We can all have our opinions of how he got there, but Bru McCoy was similar in that he was going to get a shot WR wherever he went and then he’d eventually flip to LB. Well, that dude is still playing WR and allegedly has an NFL grade at that spot.

Some of the best aggie tropes of all time are in these recent posts. It’s glorious. That said, my favorite part about their new nonsense is that they think the portal is a way forward for success. Outside of a guy from BCS, they didn’t win a ton of portal battles for quality players that the big boys also wanted. The portal works if you have a program putting guys into the pros, offering immediate PT for a potential playoff team, in a great location or a historic brand. The portal is their enemy and this coming weekend starts to unveil that for many who haven’t been paying attention. Hell, yesterday featured Haynes King and Chase Lane. It’s already revealing itself as their enemy and they can’t fathom it. This isn’t English. It’s not officially a Texags joint, but they have their hands in it by “managing the website and tech”. The word is that they’re skimming a non-trivial double digit percentage of all donations off the top due to “fees”.

The beauty of this quote is that it highlights how either clueless or dishonest the aggie mods are. I have friends involved in one end or another of this part of the college sports world who were adamant, and remained so, that ATM was out immediately after naming Earley the HC in baseball. Meanwhile, the pieces of shit at Texags, led by that bloviating fatass Brauny, acted like ATM was in this until the very end. They have been lying to their subs for two months, blatantly.

If you mean football this year only, it is UCF, who may well win the Big 12 and make the playoff. I don’t view that as likely, but I do view that as plausible. That wasn’t the point of the post you originally responded to, you intervening idiot. Stop just showing up and attempting to move the goalposts to suit your interests. Christ. You get old fast.

FSU isn’t “bad”, but the preseason talk about them has been lazy. We’ve discussed it a lot on this board. DJU is a known mediocrity, the WRs aren’t the same level, they lost a ton on defense and replace them with guys far below that level. They have an absurd schedule. They’re more likely to be 8-4 than 11-1 heading into the postseason. Whether they lose this game or not, they’re losing multiple games during this season. I’ve been saying 8-4 and feel good about it watching all of the preseason fluff get knocked off in this game.

I keep expecting the DJ U pick on these long passing downs.

The FSU front 7 is just having their pants pulled down on an international level. It’s getting somewhat uncomfortable to witness.

Mike Norvell just vomits words.

Same. Watching some of the PR talking points being pushed by various schools get crushed in the first few weeks is always fun as long as it isn’t your team. Speaking of, I expect to see a whole bunch of absurd shit being pushed out by the texags PR department to be put to bed next Saturday night.

All I’ve heard about is how mature this FSU OL is. No one in the media cared to check on whether or not that age was matched with talent. Whoops. Georgia Tech is dominating the trenches at this point.

Agreed. He’s highly regarded because he profiles really well at LB and flex TE. He’s an interesting prospect.

Boy, that Pete Thamel is full of shit, man. This FSU front 7 is getting pimpslapped.

Credit to Norvell for understanding how shitty his QB is. They’ve attempted 10 passes and none of them beyond 10 yards. Hell, I’m not sure one has been thrown beyond 5 yards.

Only 3 things can happen when DJ Uiageileoeolaiai passes, and all 3 of them are bad.

Both teams kicked ass on their opening scripts. Now let’s see who has their shit together making adjustments in the pouring rain.

I really do hate that man.

“If the Seminoles are going to reach their potential with DJ Uiageileiaiaiaua under center” … they’ll go 8-4 and watch the ACC title game on tv.

Saban is impressive. In his 70’s but is throwing out stats and names from schools all over the country. He’s a methodical dude. I’m betting he spent the summer immersing himself in data across 135 FBS programs. They said Corso is with them next week in CS.

McAfee opens the show today saying he hammered 30 Guinness with the fans last night. Some people can’t stand him but I find him entertaining on Gameday.

FSU fans booing Herbstreit loudly everytime he speaks. Pretty funny. The first Fansville commercial was great, I thought.

The Co-op needs to order a statue of this motherfucker from China and mount it in their back parking lot. That way, all of the fucking idiots who think this angry ball of goo did anything of consequence while on campus can have a place to worship and leave gifts of remembrance.

I’m glad they’re tracking this and will also be talking about this as the season moves towards the playoffs. The more pressure applied to the ACC and the SEC to play 9 conference games, the better. The fact that the ACC doesn’t already do this is indefensible. If Yormark isn’t the idiot I think he is, he’d be pushing this disparity for why the Big 12 runner up should absolutely be getting into the CFP, irrespective of whether that pushes the ACC runnner-up out or an SEC team.

Yeah, I call this "The Freeze Maneuver" but one could also call it "The Venables Angle" or some such. Freeze basically sold "my current roster sucks" to recruits during the prior cycle to the tune of a top 10 class. He wasn't kidding either, as he has 2 freshmen WRs either starting or playing in the rotation and the WR corps last year was the worst in P4 and one of the worst generally in FBS. Venables was doing the same shit in the cycle before last and I think that closed as a top 10 class too. I don't know if Elko will be as effective as those two, but he's not taking a bad approach if he knows his team is going to suck. All of the hallmarks are there for everyone to be "surprised" again by ATM's performance. He's desperately hiding information, the roster is severely overrated, they have injury issues, and what information is leaking is a constant drumming of negative insights and opinions.

I don't think any regular on here feels any other way about this. OTF is allegedly going to work towards this approach in their rankings, but it requires some subjectivity. So does the other shit, is my point. I've spoken on this for multiple cycles in regard to Ohio State. They're never not in the top 5 of the rankings. Awesome. Then go look at each class. They flat out short OL recruiting. It's comical. They overstock on WRs and CBs and get tons of credit for doing it. While I agree with some of this, I do think a major difference between the league and CFB is the point of view around longevity.

Here's more for everyone's consideration around the notions of development and evaluation. Michigan's recruiting classes ranked by OTF from 2018-2023 (this is the reasonable period in which a player could be expected to have contributed to the Michigan title run in 2023): 2018 - 28 2019 - 7 2020 - 10 2021 - 15 2022 - 9 2023 - 18 Now, here's Texas A&M in that same stretch: 2018 - 14 2019 - 4 2020 - 6 2021 - 8 2022 - 1 2023 - 15 Now, where does the evaluation value end and the development value begin? I don't know. Either Michigan just evaluated better than damned near everyone else, including the gurus, or they developed better than everyone else, or both. I lean more towards development but would give it a 40/60 split in my head. They kicked ass either way. Measured against that, ATM is probably the biggest failure at evaluation, development or both in the entire country among the P4 schools. Elko was there for 4 years of that and I'll argue evidence of his failures at one or both are clear in looking at the draft results. Jaylon Jones and Demarvion Leal were 5 star recruits who were not drafted to that pedigree. Those are guys actually drafted from their defense following these periods, which is saying something for ATM. A lot of their highly ranked guys flatly bombed. So, do we have justification to trust the coaches? Or should we worry about ATM-esque results? I think at most places outside of DB, you're okay leaning towards trusting the coaches right now.