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I am just lazily going off of the generally accepted list of 8 blue bloods that someone wrote about in a defining book in its time. Hell, I donāt even remember the book but I am sure Google or Wikipedia would tell you. This list is generally who is being referenced from that original notion: (in no particular order) -Texas -OU -Nebraska -Alabama -Ohio State -Michigan -Notre Dame -USC I donāt remember the methodology or criteria and I am not convicted about this list changing or not. It just kind of exists for me. Itās no different than public Ivy designation. I donāt care if people want to move Miami of Ohio or William & Mary out or not, just tell me why and donāt remove Texas. Please and thanks. I havenāt bothered to research it myself, but my father, who is as big a CFB fan as any of us and played at Rice, has gone on at least 100 rants in my lifetime about the lack of merit in Penn Stateās history. Most of those rants predate Sandusky and Paternoās pedophile factory. The claim is that Paterno was a scheduling coward as an independent constantly set up his schedule for outcomes that he then didnāt get credit for from the voters, which then led to him perpetually whining in front of mics and cameras. Apparently, that pedo enabler threw a hissy fit in 1969 that Nixon awarded Texas the title live on tv after the Arkansas game. Texas responded by getting PSU invited to the Cotton Bowl. Paterno then called that a UT home game, declined, went to Miami and played in the Orange Bowl where he continued to bawl about Texas. Maybe the blue blood lable-ers are from the same era. The last paragraph. What in the fuck. I laughed. Absurd.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
2nd Scrimmage update spoilered below. Highlights: -The offense is now awesome. -Fasusi running first team. Thatās mostly due to an injury to their starter and no depth, but theyāre all spinning it that the guy is their Kelvin Banks. -Similar update for Fodje. Heās going to have to play this year, but thatās awesome news. -Still holding a bunch of guys out due to injuries. -
You canāt see it for the same reason you couldnāt get into Texas and wound up at Tech in the first place - you arenāt smart enough to see anything on your own. Even when something is spelled out plainly to help you follow things, your room temperature IQ gets in the way.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Ohio State insiders are talking more and more about Serevield moving from OG to LT āseamlesslyā. Right. Additionally, the Minnesota transfer, Phillip Daniels, might be their starter at RT. Theyāre acting like thatās a good thing but he was an also-ran for them in commentary from the spring and summer. Apparently he has gotten into a fistfight at almost every practice with someone. Finally, an insider reveals that Day is treating the Texas game like it is Michigan. āHe knows this game is a big deal nationally. ā Yes, please. Prepare for this game the same way y'all have been preparing for Michigan the last 4 years.- 8050 replies
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Lots of buzz out there today that the NCAA is dropping whatever they have left of a hammer on Michigan tomorrow. Ohio State boards are flat out giddy.
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How many lower leg injuries are ever actually āminorā?
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Jermichael was apparently the biggest issue in that recruitment. His ego and expectations sound as large as his child support obligations. -
Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
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I thought about putting both letters in caps but figured it would get figured out. I was taking a thinly veiled potshot at this threadās resident cyclone. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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Huh? She started as a student at the school newspaper for Indiana and covered the Knight story as it unfolded. He famously called a meeting with her and bullied her, threatening to get her expelled and other shit. She keep investigating and writing the story anyway. Sheās taken very seriously and for good reason. If that happens, every weak contrarian in the media will be picking them to win. It would be outstanding. I donāt think they beat both Auburn and Michigan though, maybe neither. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Washington passing Shannon has seemed preordained to me. Were it not for Washington missing the spring, I doubt it would have to be a thing. That said, I donāt think theyāre bullshitting us about Shannon being a good blocker. If they play him in situations, theyāre doing it because they want to, versus having to do so. -
Key, I think. I was hoping Texas would talk to him. Pundits have been harping on āMatt Rhule in Year 3sā as a thing. I assume he went to double digits or close at Temple and Baylor and they expect it at Nebraska. Fine by me. I would absolutely love to meet Nebraska in the playoffs.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
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Schtick or not, I fucking love it. Itās always acerbic and backhanded and then it spins you guys up to respond. And yāall usually make good points that i agree with, or least Al tries on his end. Itās work the occasional 3 minutes of my life. His work on the sooners is often even better. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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The most unbelievable part of Danielāsā 2023 season is that he was (mostly) uninjured while running amok. Cheap shot from fuckhead Dallas Turner aside. The Iggy hype the OSU boards are fomenting reminds me of the CB at Bama who was picked on constantly and then taken in the first round of the 2024 draft. Did that guy have a good rookie year? I remember debating him in that yearās draft thread. That image you guys have been quoting is hilarious. That looks like a 350 lb man getting easily ragdolled. -
Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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Elko is Fisher Part Deux regarding being a star chaser. For Georgia to not even feign interest on an in-state guy means thereās something seriously problematic. Is he a tweener? Is he a made gang member? Is he asking for QB money? It has to be something. -
And yet people on this site and idiots in the media think these guys are going to do something better than 8-4. Right now, 4 of their road opponents are ranked, and higher than ATM to open. That doesnāt include @Missouri who very well could be ranked when ATM shows up. So, yeah, sure this is the year they break through on the road and become a completely different program.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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I just find their ratings to be askew with CBs more than anyone. Iāll have watch guys, see them get picked on, and then theyāve got a higher grade than the CB on the opposite side of the field who the opposing team was avoiding like the plague. If memory serves, the returning starting CB for Ohio State had a higher grade last year than his drafted counterpart and the dude returning was holding/PI machine who was almost always in danger of getting burnt. -
I donāt disagree with this, for the most part. Texas misses out on guys every cycle because the player or the program realizes that Austin and the fishbowl of UTās brand would not be a good fit. It happens early in most of the processes but occasionally a guy will visit and then one or both realize, yeah, thereās a better fit somewhere else. Bussey, two cycles ago, fit that on both sides. Unfortunately for him, he chose ATM instead of somewhere like KSU that would have actually developed his 5 star talent. My one quibble there is that Tuscaloosa gets a lot of credit from folks as a small town. It is and it isnāt. Itās an hour from Birmingham and thatās a decent sized city. Driving from the airport to Tuscaloosa isnāt a drive through wide swaths of forest or farmland. Itās like driving through smaller and smaller suburbs to an exurb.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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I canāt speak for all of these malcontents, but weāve taken our kids to Disneyland or DisneyWorld every spring break for a decade through 2023. Weāve had fun every time. Although, I lost it on two different trips with strollers while being rushed to get on a bus. I tried to hammerthrow both into a lake. One wound up stuck in a tree and the other one landed perfectly upright, 3 feet from the water. Greg Davis 3rd Down graphic guy got the one by the water and broke it down and brought it onto the bus for me while I kicked dirt and then did the walk of shame with people murmuring and darting out of my way on the bus. The time it got stuck in a tree, my Kentucky football buddy climbed up and got it down for me. My wife and kids and his wife and kids took a different bus. Iām convinced to this day that strollers are designed by angry women who want to make dads look like fucking idiots. Both times I remember, while spinning with the stroller and ultimately letting it fly off into the air, thinking āthis isnāt going to end wellā. I use PFF a lot and pay the sub. I will say, theyāre weakest in their analysis with the secondary. Probably a function of access to footage or something. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Itās a 10 year oldās birthday trip, you dirty shitheel. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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I have never worn a jersey to a sporting event, as a fan, in my life. Surely I did not actually make a bet about wearing a jersey if McJaggerson rips off a good season. Right? Iām seeing it mentioned enough now that Iām paranoid I had some sort of delusional break and blindly agreed to stuff while mentally unconscious. That said, I will be wearing a āGrumpyā shirt as part of a themed trio at Magic Kingdom tomorrow, so I guess public humiliation via clothing is not impossible for me. I donāt think my wife posts here surreptitiously, though. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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This recruitment could be fascinating. Both schools passed on approaching ATMās offer. Heās not supposed to be even talking to other schools as part of how they allegedly structure those moneywhip deals. If I were betting on outcomes here, my money would be on ATM going bonkers on him right now and him coming out with a āshutting it downā tweet within the next 48 hours. If not, awesome. After Texas flips Henderson, LSU can always go nuts with a counter offer to Edwards as well. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Oh boy. Classic Burton. Anyone calling that dude a pumper simply hasnāt been paying attention. I can see him handwringing over it now.
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