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  1. He had hernia surgery that he played through last season. I’m not sure he has shoulder surgery so much as he dealt shoulder issues in the spring but has felt fine this summer.
  2. I don’t think the hot blonds are willingly going after the giant fat guys that are generally broke at the clubs and parties.
  3. Bo Davis was paying Bama co-eds to sleep with recruits on recruiting visits when he was at Bama. Somebody started to chirp about it and Saban reluctantly had to send him packing. Later in his career, including his second stint at Texas, he was a surprisingly less effective recruiter. Weird.
  4. Texas was one of them. They thought they’d landed him and he was the WR “no one is talking about” that I was saying could be coming into the program. He’s a stud.
  5. Wait until you see them near one another. Butler got into the doghouse for one reason or another and there was the notion that he’d just transfer out and everyone would be fine with that after the spring. Didn’t happen. I assume we’re looking at a fork in the road starting today - he either turns mental and performance corners immediately, or we never see him in the field and he’s gone in December. They recruited Bolden in to return punts and be a contributor in the WR group. They didn’t realize they’d recruited and paid for a complete fucking lunatic on punt returns and couldn’t fix his approach. Trust is the number one thing they now care about on punt return. Butler is the best candidate talent-wise, by all accounts. Only one problem. They allegedly don’t trust him, at all.
  6. Man, you guys can overreact to shit in a hurry. Taaffe is not moving to NB for the base defense. I will shit a golden cowboy hat and light BO&W on fire if that happens. Regarding punt return, the options that would have been a net addition to the current roster talent were attached tonight mediocre receivers looking for 7 figures. Beyond that, Banks himself dials up PB calls way more often usually than last season. Akina is a big punt block guy too. I want to see more punt block efforts, personally, so this is great news.
  7. I really like Florida’s young skill talent on offense. If Lagway can go, with the experienced OL and the Wilsons and Baugh and the like, the O side should be pretty damned good. With Roberts still involved on the D, I see little room for optimism there. In any event, thanks for the thoughts on Lagway’s health.
  8. Spence is also bigger than Moore by an inch or two and 10-15 pounds. I think the difference is that they rotate way more heavily with the front 4 than with the LBs. They just need more guys at Edge and the dude allegedly has an excellent pass rushing talent.
  9. Good thoughts from Burton today, feeding off of the media sessions yesterday:
  10. Swamp247 is saying that Lagway will miss at least the first two weeks of practice. Allegedly, he has a calf strain and they don’t want to risk an achilles tear. I am not on there enough to really know, like basically I might check something with news like this, so basically never, but I think the guys talking about this are insiders, given how they’re being regarded by other posters, and not mods since they don’t have any mod tags. Has this been reported elsewhere? Apparently Napier has an Elko-esque history of being purposely misleading and opaque with injury updates. @gatormarc @Gatorubet @Zeus Not sure who else are regulars that are also gator fans.
  11. The question about Arbuckle is a good one that we don’t really discuss or see discussed. The guy is 29 and has coached one year at WKU and 2 years at Wazzou. How many sophisticated and talented defenses has he had to call plays against? How many experienced DCs with P4 backgrounds has he faced? The guy at Michigan is known for a long career of exotic blitz design. PK is no spring chicken. Durkin killed a guy and all, but he’s not lost as a DC at Auburn. Wommack has been a DC for 8 years, 3 of which were P4 and an HC for 3 seasons. Baker at LSU isn’t one of the highest paid assistants in the country because he sucks. So and so forth. In every one of those situations, one guy will be going through the experience for a first time.
  12. Here’s more fanciful nonsense where they analyze 5 of their questions going into the fall camp, apparently feeling good about each expected solution.
  13. Our coaches pulled a guy off the soccer team to be our kicker. A bunch of our guys grew up with him (I didn’t) and largely considered him a complete pussy. I thought they were too hard on him and he was doing fine with FGs early in the year. Game 7 or 8, we’re hosting Galveston Ball for our fucking homecoming. This was when they were a football factory that rivaled some of the famous Miami high schools. We’re down 55-7 and our coach decides to kick the field goal from the GB 20 yard line. The holder gets a bad snap and the ball bounces up to the kicker. The GBall defenders are coming at him in full force. He panics and starts running in the opposite direction. At around the 50, he just throws the ball behind his back, while running full speed towards the GBall end zone, at the GBall defenders. One of them picks it and houses it. Funniest shit on a football field I’d scene since earlier in the same game when Casey Hampton threw our center at our QB for a strip sack and fumble TD return.
  14. I can’t tell you how many movie snobs have told me this over the years. With the memory of that trailer, in that moment, I can’t fathom it and refuse to soil the memory finding out otherwise. Dude, I was in my early 20’s, knew it was just a movie, and still was plenty scared. People who weren’t there at the time will never understand it. That period of film had some amazing endings. BWP, Seven, The Usual Suspects, The Sixth Sense. That’s a few of them, with more for sure. Come on.
  15. I went to see it about 3 weeks after it was out. The Internet was useful, but a lot of people were still not using it ubiquitously the way everyone does today. Accordingly, a lot of folks were still confused as to whether it was real, or based on a true story, or just great marketing. Using common sense and the Internet, me and my buddies understood that it was good marketing and just wanted to see the phenomenon and what it was all about for everyone. We weren’t really expecting to be actually scared. Whoops. The theater was still packed to the gills. “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” trailer happened and I exploded into laughter, and that got contagious. Once the movie started, the mood changed really, really quickly. At various points people were running down the stairs to the exits. I don’t remember anyone puking though.
  16. People who saw it at the theater will never forget it. People who saw it at home all say it was trash. That movie has the biggest split in opinion based on viewing setting that I have ever seen.
  17. Position battle breakdown. A little whistling past the graveyard going on with this one.
  18. Pavia reminds me of a couple of vatos locos I grew up playing ball with in all 3 major sports. I love that dude. He truly has leadership magic. That said, sure, I hope Texas beats his ass by 50. I assume LG is going to be a thing too, right? Folks, we’re in deep shit here. Even Codaxx is drinking the koolaid.
  19. I expect the 2025 defense to be better for a few reasons. 1) The offense isn’t going to constantly pull a disappearing act and run through a second half streak of turnovers and 3 and outs. The Arizona State game is a classic example of an offense fatiguing its own defense and almost costing the team the ball game. 2) Elite pass rush. Texas can send ballers in waves from the edge or the second level. I am comfortable expecting Hill and Simmons to remain elite and that will enable the entire front to feast. 3) Elite talent on every level. Simmons, Watson, Hill on the front 7. Muhammad and Taaffe behind that. That’s to say nothing of the other guys also being highly regarded for the most part. Where is an actual weakness that isn’t just handwringing? Like I said, if we have all of this stud talent and experience all over the field then it’s either a top 3 defense that puts the fear of God in opposing offenses or what the fuck are we doing here?
  20. Is that Strait? Ketchum’s homerism and, at that time, willingness to hoist his lardass into his vehicle and attend HS games actually paid off here. He was begging for Texas to pursue Strait. Also, everyone wanted Kendrick Turner. I think that dude was a top 150 recruit. His issues were mental and folks just didn’t evaluate that aspect well back in the day.
  21. The pressure from the DEs, OLBs and Hill has a chance to be elite. If that’s the case, it’s going to make the DTs look really good since only so many guys can be double-teamed or a focal point in protection. Beyond that, as Codaxx pointed out, there is legit talent within the DT room and a lot of it will be here for more than 2025. People discount January, but the staff thinks he’s a difference maker and is a likely starter. I am not really sure why we’re not excited about him. He checks a lot of boxes. Watson is supposed to be a stud. The other guys aren’t chopped liver and they’re likely to be able to redshirt the freshmen, if they want to do so. Scipio also pointed out the important aspect of turnovers being somewhat random as well. Yes, there are ball hawks. There are also roles that get more chances and Star is one of those. An elite pass rush will also translate into picks. It wasn’t like Mukuba was a turnover force at Clemson. I think expecting turnovers to be on par with 2024 on the defensive is reasonable. Either this is going to be an elite defense starting multiple All Americans or what the fuck are we expecting?
  22. The guy would have to just decide that he preferred Texas for reasons other than money. Texas isn’t being outbid by Oregon right now. He’s coveted by everyone recruiting him as one of their highest guys on the board regardless of position. Think of him less as a safety and more of a potential wizard. He can cover like a corner and he can see the future like the best safety prospects every 5 years or so - Ed Reed, Earl Thomas, Mathieu, Downs. He’s also a bad ass returner. That comes from someone that graded all of those other guys and sees him in that light and has confirmed where he is on everyone’s boards. If Texas landed him, he’d be 1b to Atkinson’s 1a and, yes, I know that Texas is signing some amazing talent in this class.
  23. It sucks to not land Benjamin. That guy looks good. All Dogs Go To Heaven is a movie I watched with my oldest daughter probably 20 times in a one year period. Good lord.
  24. I ate there a few weeks ago. Extremely loud. Otherwise, the food was top notch.
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