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1 minute ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:
South with 4 CBs this morning
Barnes, Harris, Stewart, and Fasusi.
He's out on a limb with Harris. I don't want that guy in the class if he is taken at the expense of other big time WRs.
While we're at it, I saw that Texas is bringing Marsh in for an OV. I hope that never materializes.
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Gerry posted his best class scenario for the week. The link is below. OTF is producing great content. The posters there remind me of the nightmares I encountered on 247 back in the day. Guys posting using their actual names, people making 4-6 consecutive posts as whatever mental diarrhea pours out of their head and onto their keyboard, posters getting really, really sensitive if your tone with them isn't boy scout level straight, and then just dumb concepts posted and debated repeatedly. So, caveat emptor if you follow the link.
-I find it interesting that he leaves Faheem Delane out but includes a number of high end OOS guys otherwise.
-He clearly thinks the shot is more than there to land Moore or he wouldn't be hammering him in the comments as a viable, difference-making target.
-People simply cannot wrap their head around Texas not really pursuing the giant clubfoot at Desoto. There is a juvenile understanding of what elite OLs look like, so the default is "that guy is huge! he must be awesome!"
-Davison, Moore, Ffrench, ZWilliams, Shanklin, Brew and JWilliams will all be serious NIL recruitments, to say nothing of the potential for that in a number of other spots. If one of the other schools in any of those goes nuts, it's unlikely that Texas lands them. That's important to remember in the context of who has a robust NIL set-up, like Ohio State or Oregon, versus those who do not, like OU and LSU. If LSU decides they have to have Moore, they're unlikely to land some other guys. And they have to deliver in uncomfortable ways already to sign Underwood. OU can't just toss ridiculous dough at JWilliams without facing real consequences everywhere else. Meanwhile, Texas and OSU likely are likely not interested in a bidding war on anyone, because they'll just hurt each other and strengthen the rest of the field. The Davison recruitment is probably more informative there than the Brew recruitment. OSU already has 2 5 star DBs in the class, so they'd be idiots to try and spike things on Brew.
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3 hours ago, Juicy said:
The penn state game was a bit of an outlier because JJ was hurt the week before at Maryland, and they ran the ball 27 straight times once penn state proved that they couldn't stop it.
In the penn state game they absolutely took it out of JJs hands, the rest of the season not so much.
For someone who claims to watch a lot of Michigan football, you should at least have a clue about their schedule.
Michigan played Maryland ... wait for it ... after the Penn State game. You fucking shill. The guy's performance, and the program's decision to take the ball out of his hands during that key second half against PSU, had zero to do with Maryland, or a fucking injury from the Maryland game. Your entire premise in this prior post is pathetically incorrect. Even for a clown like you, that shit is hard to do.
Negged. And shut the fuck up with the weak defending of your imaginary lover, JJ McCarthy. You can't do anything with the facts so now you're either turning to fantasy or gaslighting, neither of which the rest of us are interested in seeing clog up this thread.
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This thread keeps getting dumber and dumber. I hope many of you get kicked in the nuts this weekend.
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10 hours ago, Bevo said:
@closetojumping to where did your Bama friends end up going after Saban retired?
9 hours ago, MuellerHorn said:Yeah, I would have to imagine members of Saban's regime (machine) would be in demand if they wanted to move.
One does their own thing and has no need to go anywhere unless they’re bored and hate money. The other has had a ton of inquiries and isn’t interested in doing anything right now and can afford not to do so. They’re as worn out as one could be after that ride.
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I don't understand the question. The NCAA has backed off all NIL related investigations. It's open season. You could steal city hall. It's the wild west. Texas isn't going to do anything stupid or out of whack with its own ethos, but anyone worried about the wherewithal of the NCAA at this point hasn't been paying attention.
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3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Regardless if it was Sark's discretion or not it doesn't take away from what I said.....it would have been nice to have that for help on the defensive front. But I get it you have to be a pompous ass.
Also the bolded is very gruntling to hear. Lets go!
Also how is our side handling the Tenn/Virginia injunctions?
You lamented not having something specific for the DL in prior cycles. I responded stating that Sarkisian could have had whatever he needed for DLs and that he wasn't making it a specific point of emphasis, so lamenting not having anything for DLs is pointless.
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15 minutes ago, tokamak said:Would someone mind listing a "realistic best-case scenario" class? There's a ton of names floating around right now.
4 minutes ago, Bevo said:ctj did it maybe a week ago. To be honest, I think the list is changing too fast to get very close. We have all of these in state guy that kind of limits the upside of the class. Meanwhile we are swinging at the fences for elites around the country. We are getting positive feedback nationally and we have lots of NIL ammunition. The class will end up being a blend of in state and out of state and the top guys we are in on aren’t particularly close to narrowing their top schools, much less committing to a school. In June, we will have a much better idea of what our class will look like.
While I wouldn't put a ton of stock into what I previously posted, I did post a class guess with some information behind it.
To Bevo's points, however, there is still a ton of churning going on at this point in the cycle. Once spring evaluations are finished and various groups of players have visited, we'll have a much better understanding of where this class is headed, and how it shakes out compared to other schools nationally.
I wouldn't say that in-state players are limiting the upside in this class at most positions. It's a pretty loaded 2025 class in Texas. There are high-end talents at OT, WR, TE, DE, LB, and CB in Texas this year.
Our expectation should be that this class is a solidly top 5 class, if not higher. Rankings stupidity *could* limit that but I doubt it.
Is that entitlement to have that expectation? No. Here are my thoughts on why Texas should finish no worse than top 5.
1) You are Texas and this is the most fertile recruiting territory anywhere. No class should ever be out of the top 10 unless it is a transition class.
2) You have an NIL war machine.
3) You played in the playoffs.
4) You are now clearly putting players in the NFL.
5) SEC
6) Excellent in-state class this cycle.
7) Sarkisian's offense.
Texas is going to get whoever they want at OL, TB, and WR. That, in and of itself, is a hell of a start.
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18 hours ago, Professor Chesney said:
Can someone explain why Terrion Arnold is getting projected in the top ten? Admittedly most of my perception is colored by him getting roasted by Texas’ receivers in September, but he doesn’t seem like an athletic freak and defaulted to pass interference whenever he was getting beat. He wasn’t even the best CB on his own team this past year.
Did seem great in run support though.
Alabama/Saban hype, great measurables, willingness to be aggressiveness in the running game. Those are things they're valuing him for, never minding the premise that he can't cover for shit and will get roasted repeatedly in the passing game. It's good that that shit isn't important at CB though.
I think Arnold is going to be the biggest bust of the non-QBs taken in the first round.
2 hours ago, Fud said:Greg Cosell talking about McCarthy-
"To me personally, just based on film, I did not see him as a first type player in terms of traits and talent"
"He was a system QB at Michigan"
"He's a developmental QB"
"Often at Michigan on 3rd and long the coaching staff took the ball out of his hands or threw a screen, and that always stands out to me when I watch tape
"He's not a high level arm talent guy, he needs his entire body to really drive the ball with juice, he needs that firm base"
"Talent wise you have some concerns about him"
When asked why people rate him so highly, "That M on his helmet and he wins"
That's a really weird take for one of the draft gurus. It's almost like he's reading this board and copying our idiotic shit.
Seriously, I think he's the only guy seeing McCarthy straight in this draft cycle.
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59 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:It seems pretty obvious that we have to get better at that....especially if you want to land the elite guys along the DL. Probably wouldn't have hurt to have created the pancake factory version for DL the year after pancake factory was instituted. But hindsight blah blah blah.
It's kind of stunning how clueless you can be while spending this much time on this site interacting with others who have actually been involved with this shit.
Everything after the Pancake Factory cycle has been at Sarkisian's direction. If Texas is short somewhere, which is a stretch, or hasn't appeared to prioritize something, that is due to how Sarkisian was managing the class. The same is true now. There isn't an NIL limit for Sarkisian in this cycle.
1 minute ago, MuellerHorn said:Thursday Morning Recruiting Nuggets (7:24 a.m. CST) (OTF - Gerry)
Thursday Morning Recruiting Nuggets (7:24 a.m. CST)
Thursday Morning Recruiting Nuggets
OnTexasFootball gets the morning started with Coffee & Football on the YouTube channel, and recruiting nuggets right here.
Akylin Dear, RB, Quitman (Miss.) High
OnTexasFootball spoke with the 4-star running back out of The Magnolia State.
Dear, 6-1 and 200 pounds, speaks with Texas running backs coach Tashard Choice every morning.
“He played in the league, so I know he can teach me a lot about the game. We talk every morning."
Dear said he plans to visit Texas either April 6 or April 20. Choice has mentioned both dates, as well as June official visit date possibilities.
Dear and family are on the way to the University of Florida today for a two-day visit.
The explosive and powerful back with contact balance has locked in an official visit to Texas A&M June 14-16. Ole Miss is considered the team to beat by many headed into the spring.
Isaiah Gibson, EDGE, Warner Robins (Ga.) High
OnTexasFootball 4-star Gibson spoke with Texas defensive line coach and area recruiter Kenny Baker earlier this week.
“We are just building the relationship. He said it’s (Texas) a great environment. From everything I’ve heard, Texas is great.”
Gibson, 6-4 and 245 pounds, said Baker talked to him about April 6 or April 20 visit possibilities. Gibson doesn't have a visit locked in, but does want to get out to Austin and take a look at Texas. A June official visit has also been discussed.
Gibson sports 37 offers with Georgia, Clemson and Oregon all in.
Derry Norris Jr., DL, Port Orange (Fla.) Spruce Creek
OnTexasFootball spoke with the 6-3.5, 270 pound athletic defensive line prospect Wednesday night. The Central Florida area prospect said it was both area recruiter Tashard Choice and defensive line coach Kenny Baker that made the offer March 5.
“They said how much they loved my film," Norris told OnTexasFootball. "What I do that impresses them athletically. And they said they like how I run track too."
Norris' first impression of Baker was a strong one.
“Great dude. Everything he was saying was exactly how I was raised. He’s going to get the best out of his players."
Choice and Baker are making a push to get Norris and family on campus April 6. And that visit is possible. April 20 is already spoken for with the Florida State Spring Game.
Norris has four official visits locked in, currently. Georgia Tech May 31-June 2 and N.C. State June 7-9 for sure. After that, the schedule could change. He currently has Minnesota June 14-16 and Purdue June 21-23. With March offers from Miami (Fla.), Texas, Texas A&M and Missouri, the current official visits are in the balance.
Texas is going to have 4 monster recruiting weekends unlike any we've ever seen, potentially. 4/6, 4/20, early June, and 6/22. It's starting to look kind of insane.
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I saw a movie once with, if memory serves, Ed Burns in it. It was called "The Sound of Thunder" and was so bad that it got shelved for years. I was bored at work at like 10pm one night and checked the movie listings and decided, "fuck it, I am seeing this". I've never met another person who has seen it. I walked out feeling like it was a fun time, but I've never even seen a thumbnail on the streamers for it since,
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I'm already at the point where I don't expect to see Weigman healthy by their conference schedule. Klein isn't calling an offense that protects the QB and that OL is absolute dogshit.
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On Shaggy one year, I want to say the JR day for 2010, I named like 17 of the 18 guys that committed within a few weeks, right before that weekend. At that point, some of us were pretty despondent. It wasn't a good thing that that shit was that predictable. Texas was beginning to lose many high end recruits who didn't want the push. On top of that, Texas was narrowing who they would take based on the player's willingness to shut things down. Not surprisingly, a bunch of centex and suburbanite kids were fine with the process.
Mack Brown became a bullying, star-chasing, lazy, thin-skinned bitch over a gradual period of time, but he really peaked from 2007-2011 with his recruiting classes being built on a house of sand. Before then, they were good or lucky (2006 class) and after that, the old man stench of death had just settled into the furnishings and facilities in Bellmont.
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1 hour ago, Hookem2147 said:
I just watched a game at Disch Falk Field where almost 1 out of every 3 people that attended were rooting for the other team.
1 hour ago, Hookem2147 said:The same thing happened in 2022.
46 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:When LSU comes to Austin for a 3 game series next year, Disch Falk will be 50% purple all 3 games.
Get a fucking grip. Jesus. You think you’re the only one seeing anything straight and it gets old.
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22 minutes ago, Fletch said:
Well, I turn 31 in March. So yeah pretty much. My first Texas baseball memory was going to an alumni game in like ‘98 or something. Followed the next 3 teams closely. Then I had a family friend playing for us in 02 so I went to an ocean of games while he was there from ‘02-‘04. And an ocean of games since then.
So basically yeah. My dad filled me in on UT baseball history from the 50’s to the end of the Gus days. That’s a lot of where my college and Texas baseball knowledge comes from
This is an old callback, but it’s Tuesday and I am coming down from coaching a tight 9U-10U late game, so okay.
Arizona was a power for a very long time. They won multiple CWS and have one of the winningest programs in CBaseball history. They’ve put more guys in the majors than like 6 programs. Sadly, they’ve won a CWS more recently than us. They can be a giant in the sport any time they give a shit enough to hire someone worth a damn.
They’re far more than a kinda power for a spell this century.
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14 minutes ago, Lonestar88 said:
No, as I said, I’m just guessing. They haven’t said publicly they’re a package deal. But if the two OL continue to rise, there will be more schools willing to take all 3, it won’t just be Tech.
Okay. I would assume Texas would pass rather than take the reach. They’re going to get whoever they want at OL.
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2 hours ago, Lonestar88 said:
The Coleman twins are actually the Coleman triplets. The 3rd brother is a DL who isn’t quite as big and won’t be as highly ranked as the other two. I’m guessing the biggest school willing to take all 3 is the one who lands them.
Sand aggy has already offered all 3.
I don’t think that’s likely, based on a couple of things I’ve read. Do you have them saying anything like that somewhere?
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27 minutes ago, Getafix said:
I hope Texas lands Terry, just like most everyone else here. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if Texas soft-pedals this recruitment akin to Bussey last year and others before that. The tweener recruit, where no one on the staff is convicted enough to stump for the guy, is going to get less of a push than "their guys" for each group. I've heard WR, Edge and TE for Terry with Texas. None of those have been discussed with certainty.
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28 minutes ago, ousux said:5 hours ago, TexArcher said:Any chance Arch is holding out for a bigger payout here?
Nah, my guess is it's something similar to not taking NIL money until he's a starter. He will be in NCAA '26...or whatever tf they call it if the NCAA goes belly up.
21 minutes ago, ousux said:3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:Wonder if not giving his last name rights to EA to protect any trademarks or copyrights of “Manning” the family has was a factor?I could be wrong, but I think this falls under the "won't be doing NIL deals until he's the starting QB" thing, and he does opt in for next year's game. In any case, does it really matter? He isn't the only opt out, just the only one anybody gives a shit about.
Incorrect. Read the fucking thread.
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19 minutes ago, Vertigo said:
This is really a very simple thing that the media is going to take and run with for no other reason than it is the offseason. He has declared publicly, as has his agent and parents, that he won't do any NIL deals until he is the starting QB at Texas. Is he the starting QB at Texas? *checks notes* no. I respect the decision. It also does increase the desire to see him in the game, and I could see EA going after him next year with a more lucrative package if he decides to not opt in again.
Besides, I anticipate that thousands of people are going to create a backup QB at Texas named Starch Tanning.
I wouldn't lend much credence from here forward around the "no NIL until he is the starting QB" line. That simply isn't true moving forward and I am not speculating.
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7 minutes ago, immamac said:
I still think it's stupid to opt out, that doesn't mean I think anyone is selfish or whatever. It's just stupid. having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense. Moron = a stupid person.
I think it lacks common sense in it's entirety to not opt-in to the single largest NIL deal of all time, for no effort, with extremely limited scope and an obvious pop culture implications. There is actually no (brand) drawbacks to doing it, but it's not like it's bad if you don't opt in.
I strongly disagree with the monetary portion of this having anything to do with anything and it actually makes Arch seem more like a dick to say something like that vs just leaving it his own business.
That's all because you are an idealist. Someone that opts in, or several of them, is going to be getting paid $600 to be on the cover, referenced and viewed repeatedly on social media, ESPN, commercials, etc. That is worth far more than $600 to Arch Manning. Agents for other big names could well be saying the same thing to their client. You are giving EA an absurd discount on your actual NIL value. There aren't many guys that can claim that, but Arch Manning can. He'd be a moron to opt-in unless the money is right. This isn't Soviet Russia and guys don't need to make idiotic sacrifices personally for some naive notion of collective player/people good.
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Childers was just on Full Ride carrying @immamac’s water and calling Arch Manning a selfish idiot who hasn’t done anything and should opt-in for “the good of the fans” and such.
Why is it anyone’s business if a player opts out? Some guys have very legitimate reasons to avoid it, and $600 is meaningless to guys bringing in millions.
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My boy walked off a Friday night game with a double in the gap and then threw a kid out from the hole as the other team rallied in the second game to end it. 10U in the NIT.
They opened as the 16 seed out of 64 and were in the top bracket facing the #1 seed on Sunday. That #1 seed is familiar and is owned and run by Cal McNair. My son, on numerous teams, has run into that group of boys many times and I’ve coached a few of the kids.
It’s weird, I have never seen a questionable call go against that team, ever. Our mild mannered coaches, the top 2, ended up getting tossed by game’s end. My son’s team took a big lead early and then watched it get given away. I have only seen a handful of games at any level of sport where I actually believed bullshit was happening. Sunday looked a lot like Enrico Pallazzo was the field ump. Comfortingly, that team was blown out in the following game.
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8 hours ago, LonghornSean said:
I feel like this is what you say when you know injuries are taken into account when they name the field of 68. Just get past OU and the Big 12 tournament claiming a sprain and then, whoops, turns out it’s an ACL.
2 hours ago, TxTower said:Looked worse than sprain. Whatever it is, the question is how long before he can return?
Time for Shedrick and Mitchell to stand up.What time is that? It feels like the kind of time that runs into infinity without materializing but hopefully you’re right.
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I laid it all out already. It's in the thread somewhere.