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closetojumping

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  1. Seems like a hedge commitment for Texas. If they’re feeling like they’re going to close well on 3 guys higher on the board, I’m betting he doesn’t make his visit.
  2. Where was an attempt at policing in what I wrote? I commented on comments, which is literally the reason for this thread.
  3. I don't like the hire, personally. I like everything else this offseason, but the Akina hire is uninspiring. Here's hoping he's still got it, I guess.
  4. Ha. Right. We are caught in a maelstrom of overthinking this one. This shit is building up into a Cat 5, given the personalities involved. This is going to be overthought for another 25,000 words, I suspect.
  5. All of those teams crave the perception of “momentum” in the recruiting cycle. Those are all paid unofficial visits without some other guys being serious about the recruitment. Let’s see who gets the OVs. Almost. It’s not the offer, it’s the fact that ATM will pay for every demand ahead of an actual signing right now. -Pay a guy to unofficially visit and pay for his family? Sure -Pay for a commitment? Sure. -Pay for a visit? Sure. -Guarantee playing time? Sure. -Bad mouth your own depth chart? Sure -Pay a better number for a signing over Oregon, Texas, Ohio State or others? Uhh, maybe?
  6. The money had absolutely zero to do with this. There isn’t a donor out there begging for a random assistant hire. No they will not. Good lord. Texas has a ton of young recruiting support and Akina has all of the skins on the wall otherwise. I’m nowhere near 73, buddy. He’s the opposite. This is a bad take and you should feel bad.
  7. You saved yourself there at the end. There is no way that subject can be discussed without Chuckles being right in the middle of it. I think she would have been gone after this past fall but the ladies pulled out the conference title. She’s got to be hanging by a string.
  8. Yikes. I haven't followed Clark since she moved on to the WNBA and I don't even want to know what she's done to inspire hatred.
  9. I guess I've not kept up with Swoopes. What platform is she on in which you guys are seeing her behave so angrily, and about what?
  10. I guess we're all kind of just shrugging on this. I feel like Sarkisian has a great chance to upgrade here.
  11. Serious question - is Sheryl Swoopes actually rich?
  12. You should start a RB thread where you bawl all over the current depth chart and everyone can laugh at you as you do it.
  13. Harold Hill certainly thought so.
  14. 1) If you’re going to feebly attempt to reply, have the spine to quote me. 2) Your first paragraph reads like performance art, but you’re a low IQ individual, so it can’t be that. Still, I’m impressed that you were able to say something offensive about a man and women in the same sentence. 3) You seem like you’re too dumb to understand this, but I’m in a charitable spirit so I’ll try to explain my prior post about Seven Win Steve. I was being self -deprecating. The opposite of patting myself on the back. 4) You are one of best examples of the Dunning Kruger effect to have ever posted on an Internet forum. You don’t know jack shit about virtually anything, ever, and yet you post your obvious stupidity with the absolute, naive certainty of a teenager.
  15. I rarely encounter him and it’s not been worth the effort. I assume he’s a Cloak Room slob of some sort, since he apparently posts plenty but I don’t see many of them. Almost like he’s on ignore anyway, I guess. I find it regrettable that I like this name and may steal it from you.
  16. Exactly. I wasn’t talking to you, dummy. I was talking at you, politely telling you to run along because the adults are having a discussion. Reggie Wilson is a mediocre name for the thread and has already been addressed multiple times.
  17. I understand Gerry’s position of being from Missouri as it pertains to Texas taking basketball seriously. That’s a legitimate position. That said, there are multiple reasons why Texas will take basketball very seriously with the right hire. It needs to be someone who energizes everyone - the admin, the fans and the money, as Beard was doing. The admin needs and wants men’s basketball to be top ten like every other sport besides women’s soccer. It’s a money sport. It’s high visibility and impacts the school’s brand. The money guys want to back a winner. They spared nothing for Beard. They’re not going to let a couple million dollars be the gap that prevents title contention. Know-nothings will now point to the Toppin “recruitment” as evidence otherwise. I’m too bored with that canard to do anything but be dismissive. The fans were coming when Beard was at Texas. They show up for WBB. They’ll show up for a men’s program that isn’t boring generally and just putrid, at times, to watch. Again, I don’t think the ceiling is $4.5M if there is a “right guy” that Del Conte hones in on. CDC will vet a candidate with a couple of the guys if he thinks they have a real insight to offer. Sarkisian doesn’t really ever seek non-peer or mentor counsel when it comes to staff. We can all think what we want about Ivey’s NBA coaching prospects, but he’s made it known he’d be very interested in the Texas coaching job. I do agree with everyone who says he fails to check key hiring boxes for CDC.
  18. Indiana is one of only a few states I’ve not visited, which doesn’t bother me. My little brother played in a world series tournament for 2 weeks in Lafayette once. When he came home, I asked him what Indiana was like. “Dude, it’s nothing in every direction for as far as you can see. “ Okay, then.
  19. I’m right there with you. One thing I enjoy each cycle is seeing weird visit lists. This is the weirdest one I’ve seen so far.
  20. The guy is a young hustler. He paid his way through the first part of his college while playing football. He was homeless for part of high school, in fucking Compton. He’s spent his last few years grinding as a talent and recruiting analyst which is low pay, long hours thankless shit. An added hand holder in the RB room and with recruits on Gameday and visit days seems worthwhile.
  21. Oliver Luck wanted Texas to recruit Luck. Texas did not and Harbaugh was aggressive with him, including violating NCAA rules in the process of doing it. Texas didn’t recruit Luck because Gale Gilbert raped Mack Brown and Greg Davis’ confidence in landing his son if they signed a star in the class ahead of him.
  22. I could see that working, but geez, that’s ridiculously early for a guy with Blue’s flaws. I’ve seen sentiments from folks on Twitter that compare Worthy’s speed and what they think Blue will do at the combine. I get the psychology of needing analogs and then lazily putting two speedsters from the same school together. That naturally draws the second guy higher in peoples’ minds at that point. To me, Blue is flawed in ways that Worthy wasn’t at their respective positions. I’d be happy for the guy, though. Having another guy light up the 40 and then being used in cool ways by one of the better league offenses would be a big deal for the continued growth of Texas football as an “it” program again.
  23. I was in a meeting to plan through NIL development and growth after Sarkisian’s second season. I called Sarkisian “Seven Win Steve” and it was like a record screeching to a halt. Six faces just staring back at me. I’ve had it thrown back in my face by a few of them multiple times over the last two seasons. These folks apparently take their coaching access and relationships pretty, pretty seriously.
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