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closetojumping

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  1. They just flipped the Michigan 2024 game from home to away as a bone to throw to Fox. The OSU away and home were always sandwiched between the Michigan games.
  2. Where does one fly into for Georgia? Atlanta? I don’t see a United Houston to Athens flight. Same question for Lexington, KY.
  3. I can’t bring myself to go for Indian when only in NOLA for short stints. Clancy’s ended up figuring some things out and we’re in on Thursday. Haven’t been to New Orleans since the Sugar Bowl. Staying at Hotel Monteleone for the first time in years. Should be fun. Hitting La Petite for brunch on Saturday. GW Fins, Clancy’s, Peche at night.
  4. The safety is good and the DT would be a 20 snaps a game guy. Good players from shitty teams are drafted into the NFL or portal by good teams every cycle and end up being excellent. Patrick Mahomes never won a fucking thing coming up the ranks at shitty schools before leading the Chiefs to numerous titles. Hudson Card was hailed as a winner coming into the Texas program and has done nothing but suck in college. It’s a silly take.
  5. If the title is adjusted, it could just be the UNC football and also Mack Brown thread. They play every year and might even be significant every now and then.
  6. Do you watch Johnny Be Good on a loop or something? Outside of one-offs and "anecdotes", what I said is correct. What you continue to write is ignorant fan fiction. Do you think a bunch of the athletes who actually graduated winding up as realtors and podcasters is a sign of anything? Hint: it's not indicative of millionaires and billionaires randomly paying large sums to them to go to work with them and be buddies. Also, knowing some of these guys on the player side over the years, randomly, the position you can't let go of here would be insulting to them.
  7. Mitchell has made over $500k since joining Texas. He was not about to get anywhere near $250k to stick around and be a tub of goo with a shitty work ethic and a bad attitude. No one "encouraged" him to leave, but the guy has a higher opinion of himself than anyone at Texas does. So now, Sydir Mitchell can: and I am here for it.
  8. The projection here is assuming that you know anything about what I think about Murphy. I don't "begrudge" the guy anything. I bedgrude the morons on this board, like you, who feel compelled to treat the Maalik Murphy with kid gloves that aren't afforded for virtually any other player. It reminds of the Applewhite fanboys back in the day. As to Murphy, I've always wished the guy good luck and said he was a mediocrity who quit on his team for money. More power to him and I'm not rooting against him. As to the "carry on" bit, thanks for reinforcing my point, if unwittingly.
  9. It is bizarre. The only non-bizarre part of it is that many of us knew this was happening. Sitting here with only 5 guys, all 1 or 2 year guys, heading into the 2025 season is weird and I'm at the point in which I see plenty of blame lying with Davis and how he recruited the DT room. The word has been 3-4 DTs in the portal, and I've been saying it here. I'm now curious to see who these players are and if they were lined up at all, or if it's just been assumed that the right guys would be there.
  10. My point wasn't that he'd visit or even wind up at MSU, but that it wasn't a locked up thing and that Auburn was very much a player. I read the OU 247 board enough to be able to understand, to some degree, who knows things and who doesn't. One of the non-$9.95er guys that seems to know someone involved with Arnold has been saying Auburn even when the mods were touting the MSU deal. Apparently, Lebby's been saying it's a done deal without actually checking with the Arnold camp.
  11. I guess it's kind of a regret-free thing. The guy put up elite numbers, he won't cost much at all, he's probably happy for the opportunity to be a role player and ST guy. None of that is bad and there's roster space for sure. I'm guessing, even if they land him, they try to find another LB with production at a higher level as well. LB is going to be somewhat of a tough sell in that the starters are now entrenched and good.
  12. I take your posts seriously and don't always call you the village idiot. I feel like I am one of the nicest posters on here when it comes to you. This post I'm quoting hurts, sir.
  13. I don't need your permission to carry on, even if I've hurt some feels in there for you. The hagiographic pleadings from Murphy fanboys like to gloss over the simple fact, not framing, that the guy quit on the team. You can put all of the language and reasoning around it in an attempt to make that simple fact hide in the background, but it is still a fundamental fact. He quit on the team at a critical moment in time, not "doing right by Texas", actually the fucking opposite, and you cannot dispute that fact with any credibility. To your claims, the portal doesn't close for playoff teams until after they've ended their run. He could have waited. Duke gave his agent a now or never offer, so rather than play things out, they jumped. They're doing it again this year. If you think that Sarkisian was excited for the guy to leave, or that the team cheered him on out the door, then you're further in fantasyland that I thought. The Maalik Murphy Fanboy phenomenon is one of the more ridiculous things I've witnessed in longhorn netdom over the last 2+ decades. The guy was a nothing at Texas. He actively attempted to lose one of the only games in which he played. He quit during a playoff run for a money grab while receiving NIL at Texas. He had discipline issues that limited him earlier in his career. "But he was liked by his teammates though!" So what. That's a lot of guys when the culture is right for a program. Then he goes to Duke and he's a turnover machine. Then he quits during bowl season and goes out for another grab. And you idiots are still bizarrely cheering the guy on. I'm waiting for the fucking canonization process to begin, for Christ's sake.
  14. I don’t know anyone who owns businesses and just hires random ex football players for the hell of it, myself included. That’s fan fiction. This notion that Maalik Murphy, who quit on his team last year while in a key role, and who quit on his team this cycle ahead of the bowl, is just going to win employment because he played QB, is ignorant and laughable. That shit is reserved for all time greats loyal to a particular school. You know absolutely nothing about the subject matter in which you’re providing certitude.
  15. His camp is supposedly getting mid to late round feedback. He’s plummeted over the course of the season, regardless of any other QBs.
  16. “I don’t think we’ll ever ‘really’ know what happened here. It looks super serious and ‘they’ don’t really want us to know what happened to force sweet Maalik’s hand. “
  17. “real story”? The same entity that pushed him to go into the portal before the playoff last year, as Texas’ backup QB, is the same entity pushing him into the portal now. And Murphy is complicit. They’re grabbing as much money from the highest bidder as they can. Feigning confusion about this just makes you guys look like dipshits.
  18. In my early days of following Texas football on the 360 boards, some article came up about Switzer and Bozworth. A poster, and I don’t remember the handle, wrote in response the very colorful position of: “If I were driving around a dangerous mountain curve and saw Barry Switzer and Brian Bosworth walking to get a gas can filled, I’d hit the gas and take them both out as we all tumbled into the ravine. I’d die laughing and I hope I could see their faces as we plummeted. “ I’ve stolen that premise many times since.
  19. Dude, Arnold is visiting Auburn this weekend and they lead for him. Where are you getting the MSU shit, unless you’re alluding to dated stuff from OU idiots making assumptions. Links please.
  20. Trayabum is a do-not-want. He took the bag and then quit while suiting up. Let him go pull that shit somewhere else.
  21. Jagger JJ Hester (WR) has entered the portal at OU. The mods on their 247 board are warning that Gibson (ACL) and Burks (spine, or lack thereof) could be in the portal shortly. That would leave them with Brenan Thompson, Andrel Anthony, and freshmen, I think. Something is clearly wrong in the WR room and with the S&C/medical staff.
  22. My view is that Zion Williams and Sanders won’t amount to much in college. Sims looks like a player.
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