Everything posted by closetojumping
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
That’s a game week thread. I don’t see why you feel the need to attempt to engineer the discussion when nothing problematic is happening here.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Seems like a good theory.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
We’ve reached the point heading into the season where Bobby and Gerry have worked each other into a handwrung fever pitch about their worries for Texas. It looks like they’ve convinced themselves of a loss to Ohio State and then a CFP appearance is fully at risk. I view it as a good sign. I don’t buy for one second that “this is the best Ohio State OL in two decades”.
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CFB Week Zero Preview: Tosaíonn Séasúr Peile na gColáistí 2025 le Farmageddon
I should go to Vegas. Or Lake Charles. Maybe I’ll go to Lake Charles.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Standing on the sidelines and squeezing gatorade during timeouts doesn’t qualify as “played games”.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Hold up. What the fuck? Am I missing a screenshot or something?
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I don’t really mind anyone I trust speaking on my behalf with stuff like this. I’m not gong to resume read or defend myself one iota to someone as witless and feckless as that guy and those like him, and I don’t see his posts to usually know when he’s bawling about me, either. I view his opposition to my positions as confirmation of my general correctness in whatever is being argued. The guy can’t even watch something unfold directly in front of his face and assess it with any accuracy whatsoever. It belittles us all that he’s even vomiting his shit thoughts on this site. We’re collectively worse because he’s present. There are a few like that, but he’s one of the mouthbreathers leading their charge.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I can’t for the life of me remember ever interacting with you, but I feel like you do pop up to say shit like this every now and then. If I bother you that much, just put me on ignore. I’m doing just that right now. You haven’t made a dent in anyone knowing who the fuck your handle is otherwise, so you aren’t even worth the bullet.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Just put that tube on ignore and move on. He’s wrong about everything and usually indignant while he’s at it. Perhaps the second dumbest poster on this site.
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New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
While I don’t think the structure cuts inside of 65, I do agree that the chaff being separated from the wheat at that point should include Purdue, Miss State, Vanderbilt, and a few others of that ilk. Wake, Rutgers, a few others. Has Purdue ever won anything in any sport? Or Rutgers? Don’t be a troll. They were awarded it just the same as any other.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I’ve already told you why he isn’t really an option right now, apparently. No mudhole coming for the opener, probably.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Well, I was just being nice. Hope, as usual, isn’t a strategy for us on this one.
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New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
I'm ... not sure LSU won the title in 2005, my man.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Yeah, maybe I'm way off base here and Chatman is out there all spry and shit, laying asses out all over the place next Saturday. I hope you're on the money.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Yep. That's one of the dead giveaways. I used to try to help them understand other options and such, but these days, "where did that cocktail waitress go ...?"
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B1G catch all thread
To be clear, you'll never see me defend Ole Miss and their scheduling. I have zero softness for other SEC teams or the conference. It's funny, since I posted what you quoted, there's been an earthquake regarding scheduling. Sankey pushing the "we are going to be a leader as a conference in scheduling other conferences to play us" narrative is ramming a dildo right up Cignetti and Franklin's assholes. Now they're going to be on the defensive of a losing argument.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
No, that can still happen. I'm talking about transitioning from the need to feather out for someone that they're not as big of a fan as they think they are when conversing somewhere in public to just realizing that we're on different levels and there's no way for me to discuss the longhorn world in a fulfilling manner and moving on. I don't want to detract from a nice enough person's experience and I don't have the interest to patiently listen to their stories about how wonderful Mack Brown is or Teh Major was such a gamer or whatever.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I’m not sure about where things sit with Brooks. I do not believe he’s a candidate to start in The Shoe, apparently. Buckle up.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I’ve responded differently at different stages in my life. These days, I get really thirsty and wander off quickly trying to find the concession stand or bar or punch bowl or whatever.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Chatman hasn’t fully recovered from knee surgery enough to be viable, apparently. Anyone still expecting Goosby to play against Ohio State hasn’t been paying attention.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I'm talking shit like SECN+. There's apparently data that's been reviewed that shows that most SEC team fans (and ACC and Big 12 for ESPN+) don't even click in to watch their teams play FCS. It's a more than 5x shift up if it's even just a shitty G5 and more than a magnitude if it's a conference head-to-head, but those are really rare. The idea that fans will just watch a team no matter who they play is being debunked in real time. That's a problem for advertisers and that makes it a problem for the platform and they're making that a problem for the conference. No one wants to watch Mercer or Southeastern play their teams, including Bama or LSU fans. Shit match-ups go on the shit channels/streams. The egg is the match-up, the chicken is the channel/stream.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
Sooners Illustrated has published their depth chart prediction for the reason. It's spoilered below and it's a long scroll but a pretty straightforward read. They're not just throwing out wild guesses, this DC is based on practice observations and information gathering. I mock them often for their homerism, but that's part of their job. I actually think they do a good job as a group in terms publishing useful material. Highlights: -They're having to come clean at a lot of positions that the hype they've been putting on some guys isn't going to materialize, in many instances due to injury. -Ott is still struggling with a shoulder injury but they plan on starting him next Saturday. -Jaydan Gibson, after all of the hype of being out of a boot and being ready at some point during camp, still isn't working out and they don't even bother mentioning him in this update. I consider that dude to be a ghost at this point. -The most hype transfer from UAPB ever, Javonnie Gibson, will not be starting the season suited out and is not on the chart either. -Venables' Center choice appears to have won the battle versus the guy that Nagy paid from Stanford, someone he's told people will be starting. -Just look at TE. Some dude from Kennesaw State. Another guy from Pittsburg State (KS). Jaren KanekKanek. -The Keontez Lewis dude wasn't mentioned as a factor in the WR corps until literally this week. He's starting. -Eli Bowen isn't listed. -The Adebawore 5 star Edge is mentioned only in the vein that he may show up at some point. A guy named Taylor Wein, who was expected to be a garbage time player, is ahead of him on the depth chart. -The defense is going to have to do a lot of work this season if this is a team with a record above 7-5.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
They’ve literally announced this week that they’re going to start ensuring that they review the entirety of a team’s performance against schedule. I don’t know why it took this long, but we’re moving there now. One thing we haven’t discussed but it was clear to me listening to Finebaum’s interview with Sankey yesterday, is that these guys have numbers now that are beyond compelling directionally. It’s obvious, but for some reason it hasn’t been to everyone. Big games and big matchups drive interest and value. Of course. Beyond that, however, is the opposite, and that’s getting really understood for the first time. The shit games against shit opponents devalue brands and discourage interest. There were more than 10 SEC vs FCS games last year with under 100,000 viewers allegedly. The only reason to have those was for schedule manipulation that the league supported. They’re no longer going to support that. I’m not saying there will be a mandate, there might be, but there will be ramifications at every level. If Texas is 9-3 with an OOC loss at Notre Dame and ATM is 10-2 with OOC wins against bumfuck u, stumblefuck u and last chance u, and worse losses in conference, ATM isn’t going to get any friendly pushes. That’s where Sankey thinks this is rapidly heading and he’s admittedly driving it there. He flat out said he wants every P4 scheduling other OOC games against P4s, which is why the SEC created their own mandate. They’re looking at adding some other conferences and teams as “preferred” in another tier as well, per his own words. They see the light now. Bigger games lead to bigger dollars, every week of the season.
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CFB Week Zero Preview: Tosaíonn Séasúr Peile na gColáistí 2025 le Farmageddon
These are people from Iowa and Kansas. How enlightened do you really think their tastebuds are?