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  1. There is basically a 0% chance I’ll be around. But I am cheering for all of you. I am going to my autistic sophomore’s scrimmage tomorrow night. He finds some sort of peace inside a helmet, so I’m cheering for him. Scary as a parent, though.
  2. Like I said, there’s a good shot he doesn’t play against OSU. His hand isn’t in a cast and allegedly nothing is broken. It got wrenched and they had to pull things back into place. It’s a pain tolerance and effectiveness thing. They’re worried enough to be moving everyone else around to see if there’s a lineup that isn’t hideous without him. My hand got slammed between two tacklers’ face masks once and I dislocated a finger. A phalange was sitting on top of the next bone. The solution? Bite a fucking towel and pull while the doctor pulls in the other direction until the bone slips back into place. That shit hurt for a week and still gives me problems 35 years later. But I never missed a game and I caught passes for my damned program. If Goosby isn’t out there on 8/30, I’ll be judging him.
  3. So the tweet below is a follow-up to a farce post from the same account about UCLA selecting a different QB than Iamaleava. I cannot figure out if the DM from Nico is real or not. I want it to be. I can see it that way. But maybe someone here knows better.
  4. Here’s an article where the writer attempts to put lipstick on a pig with the WR room. He tries to talk up a bunch of guys that played last year and looked like total ass. Remember, these guys were a big excuse for their season. “Their top 5 WRs were out!” Well, then if that was an issue, the guys playing must suck, and they did. Yeah, they were young too. Now they’ve had more time to develop and Emmett Jones still doesn’t want to start any of them. Then the writer tries to sell the reader on the transfers and hypes a guy who couldn’t get on the field at UCLA or Wiscy and had to go to Southern Illinois to put up decent numbers. Next up is Sategna, from Arkansas, and his 1 TD receiving last year to go with less than 500 yards. He concludes with “if only the Gibsons were healthy, that’s who Jones is relying on to start with Burks.” Jayden Gibson didn’t play last year and then shredded his patellar tendon a second time in early rehab. This is a guy they’re counting on to start? He’s still not even going through drills. The other dude broke his leg in spring camp and now they’re surprised he might be taking longer than they expected to come back. Can’t win without those UAPB transfers! For those wondering if it is wishful thinking that OU is overhyping their roster this year, just read this article and think about what we know about their WRs.
  5. I don't believe that for a second. The ramifications of either one doing such a thing go beyond the scope of impacting just their school and Texas. What tinfoil hat wearing shit have you gotten yourself into these days?
  6. We are nowhere near that. Unless they really struggle with UTSA or get pummeled in South Bend, I assume we won't start seeing that deliciousness until November as they free fall.
  7. I know *why* it happened, just not sure something that wild has played out recently for anyone. I'm sure it happened in the past with just 8 or 10 teams in conferences and 4-5 OOC games every year. The rules changes being discussed is exactly to help the committee justify an example like taking a 9-3 Baylor over a 10-2 Indiana. Do they do that? We don't know. No shit we have no idea whether this change actually has an impact. My view is that it damned sure could and should. Taking the "I'll believe it when I see it" position is fine, but it doesn't mean everyone else is just immediately balls deep on the premise that this changes everything. I hope it does with the scheduling, but, yeah, maybe nothing happens.
  8. I think he left out "gargle the balls of" in the middle of his ragepost.
  9. Texas going @Bama, @Michigan and then @Ohio State three years in a row has to be something unprecedented. I was pretty surprised to see that Bama has started scheduling multiple P4 OOC opponents each season. I'm hoping Texas follows suit, especially if the conference keeps dragging its feet on the 9 game schedule. I heard a while back that there was talk about extending the Notre Dame match-up into 2030/2031 once Florida became a conference foe. I guess that's not going anywhere because it would have been easy to add announce.
  10. Either they just evaluated laps around the rest of the field with signees from the last few classes or these guys are completely full of shit. Fasusi, Thomas and Fodje were highly ranked, but two of those guys are OL. Starting true freshmen on the OL should be rare and due to absurd skills. I knew they'd start using the Banks comparison if they started talking about starting Fasusi. It's bullshit. That will be fun to watch. Fodje playing a lot when all they've been doing is talking up their returning OL is comical. If that dude is pushing for heavy PT, your returners sucked as we suspected. Thomas was a national 150 guy, but he's being mentioned because their WR room is both dogshit and a mash unit. Thomas is good at everything but doesn't have an elite skill/talent. He will be interesting to watch if they rush him out there. Okoye's hype I can believe. Guillory's hype I don't believe. They *need* one of their young CBs to be good, in the same vein as Bowen last year. Haynes apparently hasn't shown much, so Guillory needs to be that guy. Their secondary is taking reps against that shitty WR room and shittier TE room. The okies do not seem to be capable of wrapping their heads around the perils of analyzing performance in a zero sum setting. The Newcombe guy is JAG-certified. If he's playing, I'm laughing. Blaylock was so talented and awesome that Texas, LSU, ATM, and Bama never pushed, even though he visited each school unofficially multiple times. Again, they *need* this guy to be good. Ott already got dinged up. Barnes is replacement value talent. The other RBs are all jaggy and hurt. Blaylock has been getting reps out of necessity.
  11. People make decisions based on emotion and then justify those decisions with whatever reason, rationale or logic they can summon or leverage. The committee leans heavily on their internal formulas to justify their decisions. They did that this past year. They admit doing that in this press release. So, yes, it will matter. Will it make everyone happy? No. Will many autists who follow all of this whine that we're not leaving it totally up to machines or a formula or transparently receiving the decision-helping tools? Yes. If you don't think this is going to put more pressure on OOC scheduling, I don't know what could be done to actually alter your POV. The build-up to the early OOC games this season has been enormous. The media is giving the programs Texas, OSU, Florida, OU, Michigan, Bama, Clemson, FSU, LSU, ATM, Auburn, Baylor, and Notre Dame a ton of credit and, really for the first time, the pansy schedulers are truly being ridiculed. Indiana and Penn State are being mocked aggressively. These rule changes further embolden the CFP committee to follow suit and, if having to split hairs, lean on SOS to justify a difficult decision. If Texas loses close road games to Ohio State and Florida and then loses the CCG in OT again, a 10-3 Texas is getting in versus a 10-2 Indiana who lost to Oregon and PSU and played virtually no one else. This rule change likely helps someone immediately this season. Schedule tough OOC games and don't lose ugly games and you have a great shot of getting into the CFP.
  12. Traylor was being wooed by TCU and maybe? Tech when Sarkisian was going 5-7. They cut a deal in the contract extension for him at UTSA that diminished the buyout if he took a job at another school in the UT system or ATM system. That wasn't an accident and you can go look it up. I added the ATM system in there, but I think that's right. Have things changed? Sure. Texas is in a totally different place these days. Likely/hopefully never matters for UT. ATM, however? Maybe. I thought he would have been a good hire instead of The Elk, but we'll likely never know that one either.
  13. A professor did it as some sort of survey for a study. The results surprised him and they went out and got it published. It's not like it was just some clickfarmer leveraging the Texas brand. I forget the methodology, but I feel like there was a plurality of voting involved, not just naming one opponent.
  14. To that prior post, this just dropped and I view it as great news for teams like Texas and UCLA that actually add tough teams to their OOC schedules.
  15. I am sure there is a better thread to post this, so someone should, but I'm in a hurry and saw this update on SOS changes with the CFP analysis and committee. Pretty fucking big deal. It's great for Texas and anyone who actually schedules aggressively OOC and it's great for rewarding those kinds of games in general.
  16. Couple of thoughts: 1) Michigan singing "Hail To the Victors" with a guy named Hiter on their team next in Germany is going to make people uncomfortable, I have to imagine. 2) Cignetti at Indiana might be able to say "just google me" in reference to winning, but you can also use Google to realize what a pussy that gasbag is with his scheduling. Dude showed up to Indiana and immediately canceled multiple P4 OOC match-ups and then replaced them with cupcakes. They play Old Dominion, Kennesaw State and Indiana State this season for their OOC. If they're anything close to the playoff discussion, unless they're undefeated with wins over Illinois, Iowa, Oregon and PSU, it's without merit. They were a fucking joke entry last year but everyone gave them a benefit of the doubt. Notre Dame proved them to be a fraud. This year, they bring a bunch of guys back and add Mendoza (QB from Cal getting draft buzz). If they're 9-3/10-2 or even 11-1, fuck those guys versus a 10-2 option with a harder schedule. Marler is an 8 conference game loving SEC honk, but he has a point here:
  17. One of the insiders on Aggies247 is opining about the DT roles and depth. I say "insider" because they all defer to him as such and he's attended practices and appears to talk to people in the program. Hicks has beaten out Onyedim to start alongside Regis. That got people wondering if Hicks is suddenly "coming on and playing like a 5 star" and the guy said "no, he plays high and lacks explosiveness but he works hard" and then they realize that, magically, Onyedim didn't blossom after leaving ISU for a final year at ATM. Apparently he's got either conditioning or work ethic issues or both. They're talking about playing DJ Sanders in a "key role" this season in the interior and Tarp confirmed that while also saying basically "hopefully not early though". Let's be clear here - DJ Sanders is a bad-bodied true freshman with S&C issues and no technique. Texas wanted him as a complete project who wouldn't touch the field for a minimum of 2 seasons. If ATM is playing that guy, they are well and truly fucked on defense. I know we've discussed this ad nauseum, but they really do not understand what a drop off in their front 3/4 is going to do to the rest of their defense. They're mostly in denial that there will be a drop off after losing 3 early round picks from the front 3/4, for starters. There's almost no analysis, beyond Tarp surreptitiously trying to let folks know, that a weaker front means the LBs are actually going to have make a lot of plays. Currently, per their discussion, they have a heavy rotation of Regis/Hicks and Onyedim/Evans and then Sanders is going to have to play, along with Landon Rink. I don't think any of those guys make the Texas two deep and Regis/Hicks would be fighting for the third rotation. An SEC LOS League front 3/4 indeed.
  18. Also, admitting that I couldn't see you because I was so far ahead of you is one of your greatest own-goals ever.
  19. I did that once. We were in a small plane over Baja. I couldn't let the other guy just jump and get away with it. It was like acid in my mouth. Underrated experience, really. Also, besmirching my honor with the implication of lies and damned lies is one thing, sir, but I'll not have you cast shade at the veracity of my triumph. If you want to relive it and have witnesses and recordings this time, name the time and place!
  20. I like Iowa State to win as well as Kansas and Hawaii. I haven't looked at Stanford's schedule but I've generally just assumed that they're going 0-12 unless they've lowered themselves to playing FCS schools like most of the rest of the pussies in FBS.
  21. This reminds me. I don't even remember how the footrace premise came about, whether I was shit talking someone or some other absurdity. The actual last footrace I was in was a 100 yard dash on a football field against @SydneyCarton. I beat the guy by 10 yards with our other friends pointing and laughing at him. I offered to wear a mini-parachute behind me to make the next race more competitive but he declined. You're normally fine. Don't be a pussy and get your feelings all hurt.
  22. Texas isn't the only team fucking around with putting an AA Safety in the Nickel role. OSU is trying to figure out Jordan Hancock's replacement. Hancock was a Swiss army knife for the OSU defense last year and guys like that don't grow on trees. No guys actually grow on trees, I guess, but you get the drift. Anyway, the most versatile guy on their defense these days is Caleb Downs. They're reluctantly giving him reps at NB. The problem with that is they are not in love with their back-up safety options. Should be interesting for Texas on 8/30.
  23. Your take was terrible in its logic and it was also uninformed. Shut the fuck up about it or own it, but don't be a bitch about it.
  24. The story at the time is that Mack was coming with Daboer and Daboer felt like he was a better for his offense. Alabama had committed serious NIL to Sayin and Daboer wanted to use it elsewhere, so he ran him off while they were both brand new to campus. Ohio State was waiting with open arms.
  25. Jay Valai is not only generally incompetent, but he is also one dumb motherfucker. Spoilered below is an interview with him where he attempts to shit more platitudes out of his mouth in under 30 seconds than any person has in logged history. Highlights: -Eli Bowen hurt his ankle in the spring and is still in a walking boot with 10 days before kickoff, but Valai isn’t worried about it, likely because he is too stupid to grasp the impact. -Gentry Williams is cemented as the other starter. Guy has struggled to stay healthy but the talent in the CB room is so barren that he’s a shoe-in from the jump to start again. -The Jacobe Johnson guy is one of their white stags. They’re constantly in pursuit of finding him in a place where he can actually contribute, and right now it is back to CB. -They talk up Courtland Guillory a lot but he hasn’t grabbed the other starting CB slot, yet. So a true JAG or a true freshman is going to be the day 1 starter opposite Williams. -All told, they only have 5 CBs on the roster and one of them is in a boot.
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