Everything posted by closetojumping
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Also, admitting that I couldn't see you because I was so far ahead of you is one of your greatest own-goals ever.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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!
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CFB Week Zero Preview: Tosaíonn Séasúr Peile na gColáistí 2025 le Farmageddon
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.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
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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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
While I have had my ass kicked plenty of times, I don’t think I’ve lost a fist fight to a grandpa yet. Of course, I’m now a grandpa, so some sort of first and potentially last would be happening.
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Hugh Freeze Auburn Football
Now y’all have made me look it up. Got that fastball by me.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
OTF is hosting a happy hour in Midtown in Houston tonight. I’m thinking about showing up and offering outlandish critiques of the coaching staff and various players in order to see how many old and middle aged men I can cause to stroke out or to challenge me to fist fights or 40 yard dashes.
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Hugh Freeze Auburn Football
What folks who are younger than most of us might have a hard time believing is that Auburn wasn’t even part of the national conversation. There was no SEC SEC SEC bullshit of note. No one watched those guys play that season and thought “yeah, they could beat Oklahoma or USC”. OU shit the bed against USC and hindsight tells those who weren’t there that an objective argument can be made in favor of Auburn being viable, but no one saw it that way then. SEC honks this morning are touting that team’s worthiness and it’s a joke. I saw Tuberville tweeting about being a champion. I don’t care about the politics, I just despise that motherfucker for his CFB profile. Boring, zero integrity, dumber than a sack of shit. His stunt leaving recruits at dinner in Lubbock to fly out to Cincy is spineless, dickless shit. And now that fucking asshole gets to claim being a national champion. If Greg Davis wasn’t a thoughtless, playcalling coward, I think Texas vs USC that year would have been a really fun game.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
I’ve told the story before, but I enjoy it so I’ll do it again here. OU punched down in 2022 on their first 3 opponents and looked like worldbeaters. The 3rd game was a routing of a hapless Scott Frost-led Nebraska team of failure. College Sports Sunday on XM 84 is hosted by Barrett Sallee and Tom Luginbill, then through now, and they were talking about all of the games from the day before. They were lauding how dominant OU looked and then pondering what their flaws might be. Then they have Chris Plank come on. Plank does work on shows for XM and he’s also either the color guy or sideline guy for OU radio broadcasts. While he went to Tulsa, he’s an absolute OU homer. He’s just on there gushing with those guys and then they ask him: “what is a worrisome flaw with this OU team?” Plank pauses dramatically and then says, “Gosh, you know guys, I don’t think there are any. “ That OU team finished with a losing record. These rubes do this every year and to Pato’s point, they’ve been rewarded for it for so long that they still can’t see the bullshit over the past few years and what’s currently going on in their regime. Guys on their sites are like “Teddy and Gabe are never gushing like this. They were giving out warnings last August.” No, they were not. Lehman and Ikard are in the tank and are the least objective commentators you could find for OU. Good summary of their current trap they’ve constructed for themselves.
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Hugh Freeze Auburn Football
“Well other people are doing it, so that justifies us doing it. “ No, the “current landscape” doesn’t make that nonsense any less embarrassing. But, hey, Auburn is the craziest and one of the historically dirtiest programs in all of CFB, so, yeah, fuck it. There’s zero reputational risk because if it wasn’t for low class, Auburn wouldn’t have any class at all.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
Durkin is now at Auburn for a second season and has yet to kill anyone. I agree that these idiots are being flippant about this with Fasusi. Surely the medical staff isn’t that stupid. Separately, Fasusi being a starter isn’t like Banks being a starter. This dude needs time. Them rushing him to the starting lineup because the other guys suck worse is quite the thing for their idiot gurus to tout.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Am I insane or is the absolute worst way to play a physical beast like Smith is with man press? It seems like you would have to be one bad motherfucker to regularly handle that guy on the LOS. I think Muhammad is a fine CB, but he’s certainly not a bad motherfucker physically.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
He had a heat stroke and they had to take him via ambulance to the hospital. Of course, they’re all saying he’s now perfectly fine. To be clear, I don’t think Wingo even passed out and the dude spent two nights under observation in the hospital and missed a week of practice. Things are handled differently up in Norman though.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Yeah, it's like people constantly have to play "hold my beer" when it comes to attempting to plumb new depths of topic banalities here.
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OU Football 2025 - Cheated Its Way To a Backdoor CFP Appearance
I have to tell you, the OU WR room is fucking abysmal. Spoilered below is an article from Sooners Illustrated in which they talk to Emmett Jones and he pines for the return of two guys who currently have no timetables for a return - Gibsons Javonnie and Jayden. Highlights: -Emmett Jones rated an FCS WR from UAPB as the top guy in the portal, apparently above names like Singleton, Key, Thomas, Barion Brown, Branch, Horton, you name it. No no, it was this Javonnie Gibson guy. Don't blame Jones if the guy doesn't come back soon enough and the WR room sucks again. It's all of those damned injuries again. -They've come close to simply no longer really discussing Jayden Gibson as a viable option for this season. -Burks has been both hurt and less athletic this fall camp. They'll still tout him in the media as a wizard who scored 3 tds against Temple and averaged less than 9 yards per catch last season, but they're far less enthusiastic about his output for this coming season. -I follow OU as closely as anyone and I am having a hard time thinking of names that are actually practicing for them right now at WR. Elijah Thomas and Manny Choice are freshmen getting reps. Some dude named Regan? Sategna is there. It's slim pickings, but no doubt John Mateer will elevate some of these scrubs to All Conference as he marches his way towards the Heisman.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Doering was talking about the Texas game in an interview on OffCampus on XM 84 a week or so ago. He said that the game last year was the low point in the season and an embarrassment to the Florida program. Napier heard about it from the admin before they got back on the plane and he heard about it from anyone who would see him until they went on their win streak. They've been pointing at this game from the end of bowl season and this is apparently the hottest ticket in Gainesville since Doering or anyone else can remember.
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
I guess y'all are right. I'm predisposed to taking aggies seriously when they're doing idiotic shit.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Already gave my thoughts, sir.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
The joke is going to be on everyone here when McJaggerson goes for 200 yards and 3 TDs against OU, then, after the game at the PC, he pulls off his mask and reveals that he's really been Agiye Hall in whiteface all along.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I certainly see risk with the UF game for reasons that you mention and for reasons like the potency of their offense, which I mentioned earlier. That said, I don't blame folks for not really getting amped about it yet due to the distance from here and now. There are a number of problems for UF ahead of the Texas game that work in UT's favor. 1) Their defense isn't anything special and Ron Roberts is an absolute buffoon. 2) Outside of RB, the depth across the entirety of their team is paper thin. Napier runs the same kind of physical practices that Venables runs, and he does so throughout the season. Injury issues at UF under Napier are a feature, not a bug. 3) Lagway may well be made of glass. He just started working in 11's yesterday. LIU is a scrimmage, but USF, @ LSU and @ Miami ahead of the Texas game will be physical contests and it's no secret that UF goes as Lagway goes. He's going to be a target and all three of those teams are going to have their hair on fire playing Florida, each for different reasons. Yeah, there's a bye for UF before Texas, but if Lagway gets the shit beat out of him, he might just simply be out. The OL better be as good as I think it is going to be if he's to stay upright. 4) As y'all discuss, Texas has nothing after OSU until UF, including a bye week itself. I know they work on OU scheming all year, and there will certainly be OU work put in during that month between OSU and OU, but Texas can also do plenty of work prepping for UF before UF week. 5) Sun Belt Billy is a fucking imbecile. I listened to him in an interview last week and it almost sounded like a Key & Peele skit. I think "and um", "and uhhh" and "you know" comprised more than 50% of what he said. He's buffoonish with decisions during games as well. I know that's not always a strong suit of Sarkisian's either, but we're talking orders of magnitude here.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I follow your general thinking, but I don't think 7 for 87 is "going crazy". I'm sure Day and Hartline have spent a ton of time working on offsetting some of Texas' coverage schemes they expect on 8/30, but I'm going to be pretty surprised if Texas trots out the same general approach on defense. Try to shut down Smith and make someone else beat you, sure, but I also think they want to force Sayin to win the game. Shut down the running game with new offensive personnel almost everywhere and bracket Smith all day. If Inniss, Klare and Tate team up with Sayin for a big day, I guess we tip our hats. I'm going to be stunned if Ohio State gets more than 250 yards of total offense, personally. I expect Sayin to finish the game with level of shellshock. OSU fans and mods aren't expecting any of that, but the majority seem to think that the Texas defense is going to be markedly worse than the one 9 months ago. That woman looks like she's wearing an African war mask. No thank you.