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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Spoilered below is a write-up on OU’s second practice earlier today. It’s pretty awesome. Highlights: -Injury problems have already started. We knew that Eli Bowen was hurt, but the fucking guy is limping around in a boot. What the hell is going on with OU’s medical group? Beyond him, multiple potential starters and backups are already not practicing. Tatum is hurt again, like clockwork. The Gibsons aren’t close to working out. -The skill players besides Ott are objectively terrible. Their WR group is dogshit. The TEs are worse. -The OL has holes all over it. Nwaiwu wasn’t at practice and they had a true freshman working with the ones and twos. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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I agree with this. When everything starts to slide towards irrevocable chaos around here, I show up and restore order. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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If that dude is returning punts or kicks, our season has careened sideways in a manner that will see this site burned to the ground and many posters with it. -
Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
closetojumping replied to bigup2dahorns's topic in Food and Travel
One thing I noticed for sure in June is that all of the casinos have lower minimum tables for craps and blackjack. I saw $15 at Aria and everywhere else, even on weekend nights. I’m hoping that holds. $50 mins last year was a fucking joke. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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Via Sikahema was of Pacific Islander descent and was truly force in the return game. The only similarities between that dude and Jaggy are they’re not black and played WR. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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At some point, I’m sure I did. My view about his college game evolved but doubted it again for the NFL. Outside of being white WRs, are you also comparing their skill sets as similar? -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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An alleged doctor involved with OSU medical stuff said it is “an inverted low ankle sprain, will take anywhere between a few days to a few weeks before he’s back out there”. I know various doctors and perhaps even a nurse could tell us what “inverted low ankle sprain” means. -
Here’s a snippet about Ohio State’s NIL situation fed to Bill Kurelic from one his AD sources. The one thing he’s not telling them, that @alincoln previously noted in one of these threads about OSU for this cycle is donor fatigue. I’ve since heard the same. They’re not going to get Hiter, apparently losing him to Michigan, and their class is just “good” and they’re not in on a ton of remaining prospects for the cycle either. “ ** The why of NIL? … Why? That seems to be a common question among ’Nutters when it comes to NIL. There’s a belief that Ohio State has missed out on several high-caliber recruits because other programs are willing to amp their NIL game when the Buckeyes are not. We’ve asked around - a lot - and have a few vibes to pass along today and in the next few Houses about that. As one might expect, there were strong opinions on how Ohio State is approaching NIL and WHY. We will dive deep on that. Today is a little more basic. One source in the know’s opinion on the biggest factor working against the Buckeyes is “it’s a way more level playing field.” While Ohio State did not get off to the fastest start in the NIL era, your Buckeyes were elite over the last 18 months. Ohio State was among the best at generating funds and was “up there with Oregon and Texas” when it came to available NIL resources. Then came the NCAA change on July 1 that allows schools to directly spend up to $20.5 million annually on athletes. “Now literally everyone has money,” our source said. “That’s the main reason why it’s so tough. Lots of leverage out there.” More to come … a lot more.”
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
This is getting ri-fricking-diculous now. Nahlin is a proven idiot and this is just reinforcements for the fight in that argument. This roster is loaded up and down. Jaggy McJaggerson isn’t cracking the top 70, folks. This is also getting hilarious. The build up on this guy is trending past absurd and straight into plaid.- 5715 replies
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I laughed. Hey man, smoke all of the beef you want when Texas comes to town. We usually do as well.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Ha, bravo to Stewart for being willing to address it and provide the origin reason. He’s another rock star who has hit on my wife, in front of me and 8,000 other people, while he was in his 70’s. That dude is still chasing pussy. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I’ve never heard the “Rod Stewart is gay” urban legend. That guy has slayed more pussy than entire NBA teams. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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I’d never heard that before. I laughed as hard as I have in months, through the entire segment. When Rome was like that, he was as good as anyone. In the late 90’s, one of the Austin stations picked up a syndicated show called “The Don and Mike Show” It was two irreverent guys talking shit about anything and everything and they were often hit and miss. They had a segment where they’d just rapid fire phone calls and people would voice their hot takes, the guys might interact, and then they’d go to the next call. I’m listening while driving one day and they flip to a call and it sounds like dead air but you can faintly hear something. One of them stops the phone guy from flipping and says “turn it up, there’s something there”. They turn it up and you can hear it clearly - cheeks clapping. That brought the house down on the show for the rest of the day. I was swerving in my car I was laughing so hard listening to their commentary from there, once they recognized the noise. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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Gerry’s been the leading voice across even the national $9.95ers on Sharma as potential college gamechanger at DT. Even he is surprised by how that guy looks. He wasn’t penciled in to be in the 3 deep rotation but he may force his way in. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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It’s been like 25/26 years, but if memory serves, part of the hook in the whole thing is that you never actually saw anyone killed. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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I would argue that Downs and maybe even Styles are more or less as important. The big deal with the DL is that they have almost zero depth and, without Houston, pretty much no experience. Without naming names, a try-hard newcomer on the defensive side hit Baxter late on a meaningless play. Pretty much altered the entire course of the season by being an idiot. I don’t think it matters now. That dude, with the way he went down and being carted off the field, he ain’t making it back for the opener. I was really hoping to play them at full strength, too. -
Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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I haven’t gotten around to making an aggie football 2025 thread like I wanted to, so spoilered below is the first Gigem247 writeup on the first fall practice. Highlights: -remember the WR hype we fed y’all last season? We were just kidding. Those guys all sucked, except the ones who are returning. Guess what? This year’s WR is fucking awesome. -I skipped the backup QB section, honestly. I assume Reed will get killed or yanked at some point this season and another spare will become the next great aggie hype QB. -the interior OL all lost a lot of weight after Elko enforced bloating them up as fatasses heading into last year. The backups, though, it looks like they were given the “gluttony” from Seven treatment during the offseason. Holy shit. -
For last year’s UF game, the chefs grilled or smoked a 5 foot gator, I don’t remember how it was prepared but it wasn’t fried, and then also served fried gator bites. This is at the buffet for the south end zone suites. I thought it was a funny set up to go with everything else they served. The bites could have really been any kind of chunky white meat. The grilled or smoked stuff was unique and good though.
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I watched it a bit last night. I hear Doering on XM a lot. His demeanor actually changes when Texas is discussed. The SEC is in his blood as a walk-on fanboy who made it big for the gators from Gainesville and a dyed-in-the-wool SEC family that includes coaches. His career is covering the SEC. Texas having immediate success is an existential threat for who he is. Like, really, this is his life we’re fucking with here, somewhere in his subconscious. I listened to him one day talking about OU basically being a good boy for following their expected rite of passage by “not being ready for big boy SEC football” and now they’re suddenly figuring it out by finding an “SEC ready QB and OC”. What’s funny is what isn’t said - that Texas didn’t have to do that and it irks him to a high degree. It’s no coincidence that he’s talking up OU now. He fucking needs them to be good and for Texas to have a comeuppance. A lot of these SEC talking heads have similar backgrounds. Stinchcomb, Peter Burns, Alyssa Lang, Kubilic, Hester, etc. Hester, Lang, and Kubilic are great and they’re not big honks strictly for the SEC either. Hester has openly admitted he thought long and hard about going to Texas, which is true for those of us who were following back then. McElroy has admitted many times that he grew up loving Texas and all but says they’re one of his favorite teams. He was giddy about Texas joining the SEC. Many of these guys are far less biased. A few of them, however, fucking hate everything about Texas and what they’ve done so far. Doering is the lead dog on that front. It’s a DNA level thing for him because of his home grown biases about SEC sports, particularly football, and any challenge to his long held beliefs are a religious issue. He cannot say good things about Texas unless there’s a “but” and usually he just doesn’t say anything level or positive.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
My response is that I generally agree. Conner was a constant joke his entire time on campus when it comes to the run game and I wrote that for 3+ seasons. Glad he got drafted, but the Cardinals are proven idiots. Majors wasn’t the starter at C for 4 years because he could run block. If Neto gets the LG role, he’s allegedly a force in the run game. Can he protect worth a shit? Clearly, Flood and Sarkisian value pass pro over run blocking, so hopefully he has his shit together. Hutson is objectively a better blocker overall than Majors was. Can he handle the calls and help with the pickups? That’s obviously critical to both run success and not getting Manning killed. Campbell is in a contract year and Goosby looked great when he played. Whether it’s Baker or Cojoe or Brooks that wins the RT role, it’s a Darwinian battle between very talented guys. Williams was a shadow of himself in the end, so give me any of the three choices as an even exchange, at worst, and with elevated depth. I think people underestimate the threat of a mobile QB. He doesn’t have to be running all over the field. He just needs to be accounted for and that changes a defenses approach. That, a healthy RB room, and the ability to actually complete deep passes on the regular take a good deal of pressure off of the OL early.- 5715 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I pulled multiple stunts like this on my mother. She was extremely trusting. This post made me laugh. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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Spencer Shannon broke 5.0 in the 40 during summer drills, sir. Let’s see you approach that. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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That’s fucking A right! -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
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I could make that play. Any walk-on could as well. Let’s see it against live contact.- 5715 replies
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
First blockbuster injury of fall camp for OU and they haven’t practiced yet. Eli Bowen is not going to be available for fall camp and they are not disclosing the nature of the injury. That’s a pretty big deal given the weakness at CB outside of him. Bowen had an ankle injury in the spring and hardly practiced. They don’t know if this is a complication from that or something new. Where are you seeing this?
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