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  1. Good thread as always. There's not a great place for a weekly potpourri and I don't feel like starting a thread on it, but here are things I've read or found interesting heading into this weekend:
  2. You guys are talking across one another. "Grasping the offense" for a WR is as much understanding the playcalls and route options as anything. A DC doesn't have to know a fucking thing about offensive nomenclature or route options to craft a strategy that puts an OC's plan at risk. It's funny you mention this because I looked into what it would take to outsource crowdsourcing you a few weeks ago. It turns out, India isn't as inexpensive for that kind of work as it once was.
  3. The *problem* here is that Sam Houston State is bad on another level of bad. When Keeler left abruptly, they were wiped out both with the portal and the recruiting class. This team has a good to great shot of going 0-12. They've already lost to juggernauts WKU, UNLV, and Hawaii. They've still got NMSU, Delaware, FIU, UTEP and MTSU on the schedule, and yeah, 0-12 has a great shot anyway. Grim.
  4. The guy's amassed that many posts over a 7.5 year timespan. Who are you, the Andy Dufresne of neg reppers? RIP Sgt Hulk in 2033!
  5. New LB target, per Gerry: Braylon Hodge update Texas linebackers coach Johnny Nansen extended an offer to Michigan State verbal Braylon Hodge(Denver/Cherry Creek) Wednesday night. OnTexasFootball exchanged messages with the 6-3, 215-pounder since the offer was made, both last night and this morning. The Thursday AM update is the scheduling of visits to Texas being ironed out. Per Hodge this morning, September 20 will be a UOV if that one gets locked in. A November official visit is also being discussed, and is very likely. Both Texas and Michigan offered Wednesday.
  6. Mistakes lead to experience and experience often leads to wisdom over time. Reps as a group, with most of the group being young and inexperienced, should be expected to be choppy and inconsistent at the beginning of the learning curve. This was not considered as a collective across the span of CFB (media, fans, etc.) for the Texas offense. It probably should have been. Many people on this thread and across this site still aren't in a spot where they're viewing anything through that lens. I'll be surprised if we don't see progress against UTEP, but I'm guessing it will still be frustrating. Should look better again against SHSU. "But it's SHSU!! They should look good!!" No shit. Then, Florida will be an actual exam for what the team has learned and if they're ready on offense to be a part of a title contender, or not. No. This post reminds me of when someone smells or tastes something, declares it terrible, and then asks you to try it as well. Why the fuck wouldn't I just take your word for it? This is a terrible take. Florida is not a cupcake and will not be considered a cupcake and winning in The Swamp will be a tall order irrespective of what condition the UF program is in at that time. Good lord, man.
  7. Not only would it be impossible, given his rep count, but I'd be against it. He irritates me regularly, but I think he's a good poster.
  8. Correct, but that input will continue to be ignored.
  9. Statistically relevant sample sizes, what are they and how do they work?
  10. I wasn't aware of the sale and ate there in June with my wife. Obviously, nothing had changed then. I'll be there with SC in a few weeks, we'll report back.
  11. Ryan Williams is expected to play on Saturday. The other guys who are out are not.
  12. Texas 66 - UTEP 3 367 yards from the WRs (I assume this excludes TEs?) Bonus Prop: First play from scrimmage 1st Play: something gets penalized and then the first real play is a slow-developing RPO that is really just a RB dive between the Guards.
  13. Is the sweaty, mustachioed, mullet-wearing dork in the forefront of the picture your son or your wife?
  14. Venables stated in his media update today that Javonnie Gibson (WR transfer from UAPB) is nearing a return to practice. He broke his leg in practice last April. They've sold him as a speed merchant, so it will be interesting to see what he looks like.
  15. Who on earth is letting you manage and hire people? You don't think the overall quality of someone's education has an impact on their performance in a job? If you're talking about senior roles, fine. Entry or lower management roles? Yes, that shit matters. We were hiring entry level folks for the same analyst position for years at a start-up. The role required very little knowledge or experience but involved complex problem solving in a truly chaotic environment that involved 70+ hour weeks for years. The role also required self-management to some degree. We rewarded that with low pay. Oh, and also, the right person would basically learn what MBA schools teach, but like 10 times over and many successful in the role went on to accelerated management or founder careers with success. What we eventually learned was that a few schools, or groups of schools, had exceptionally high failure rates and we chose to just stop hiring from those places out of necessity. LSU, Stanford, and non-Penn Ivy schools were the main ones. LSU because the people we kept getting from there were too stupid to handle the work, simply put. They also were not given the tools in college to understand how to be proactive for their own growth and learning in a business setting. It was unbelievable how consistently bad those employees were. The non-Penn Ivies and Stanford because they were far too entitled and educated in theory versus actual business world understanding. Those folks needed to go into consulting or a Wall Street management program. Once we applied that filter, 1 year retention in role soared. So, yeah, you're absolutely full of shit if you don't think quality of degree earned matters. The best workers who went on to further success were not UT people, btw. We had plenty of UT people do well, but plenty failed out due to the same entitlement shit as the Ivies. The best group, by far, were UH grads. I've seen that playout elsewhere over the years as I've gotten older and hired for various roles or partnered with various people and teams.
  16. The Piero’s news is completely depressing.
  17. Make sure you are sitting down when you read this: " Redshirt freshman wide receiver Aeryn Hampton is no longer with Alabama, coach Kalen DeBoer confirmed Wednesday. DeBoer said Hampton has not been with the team since early in fall camp. Hampton was listed on Alabama's Week 1 roster but was not spotted in pregame warmups at Florida State. He was not listed on the Week 2 roster for ULM. Hampton was a four-star prospect in the 2024 class who flipped his commitment from Texas to the Tide in December 2023. He appeared in three games last season, catching one pass for six yards before suffering an injury before Alabama's bowl game against Michigan. Then-Alabama coach Nick Saban spoke about Hampton, who was then known as Bubba, on early signing day in 2023. "Bubba's kind of a dog, man," Saban said. "He's one of those guys that's a great competitor and makes a lot of plays. Whatever he plays on offense, wherever he plays on the field he doesn't come off the field very often. They had a very successful season this year -- I know they had a disappointment in the playoffs but this guy's a great competitor, can do a lot of things and we're really excited about having him." Alabama currently has nine scholarship receivers on its roster: Germie Bernard, Isaiah Horton, Ryan Williams, Rico Scott, Lotzeir Brooks, Jalen Hale, Cole Adams, Jaylen Mbakwe and Derek Meadows. It has three committed receivers as part of its 2026 high school class in Cederian Morgan, Brian Williams and Owen Cabell.
  18. It's taking forever to submit a new post. I'm skeptical it's just me.
  19. This all came about because Dvoracek and Kannell were examining voter results yesterday morning. They mocked hers and then they really got after some writer named "Cokie" or some such out of Baton Rouge. His stuff was just over the top old school SEC homerism. I'm guessing he's getting lit up in social media as well.
  20. They were right, that play and the situation around it pretty much personifies the whole start to the season for the Texas offense. Stroh should be completely embarrassed by that play on a deeply personal level.
  21. He may work in hydraulics, where degrees aren’t as critical.
  22. I view that as a smart act of self-preservation for your sanity, man. Who would want to keep being reminded that they went to a quasi-juco that has never won anything?
  23. I think this is a great post and is solid counter-energy to what @Wulaw Horn and his band of invertebrates have otherwise been putting forth on this thread.
  24. Oh, I’ve seen you say that, I’m just kind of lost on why you do. This is entertainment. I don’t feel serious at all. It feels seriously to you, but that’s just pride, fucking with you, Butch. I do find it amusing when you get so worked up that you start calling posters like myself and statsman “dumbfucks” when you know we have college degrees from Texas and you may or may not have paperwork that says something about Texas Tech on it.
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