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I have a buddy who is friends with a connected LSU guy. That dude asked my buddy to get my opinion on House basically coming in and resetting things to the good ol'days. "House is going to end portal use and collectives, isn't it? This stuff isn't sustainable. " Just begging. Who would have ever thought that LSU, Bama, Georgia, Clemson and a handful of smaller schools would be aligning so tightly with the NCAA when it comes to compliance across the landscape. The funny part is that it hasn't really dawned on these programs and their fanbases how pathetic they look in all of this. It also hasn't really hit them yet that many other programs are fully happy to currently tell their side to go get goatfucked for all we care. Tennessee isn't whining. Texas isn't whining. Nor Auburn or Oregon or Ole Miss or Ohio State or Michigan. Florida and Miami seem fine with it. It's glorious. Go be poor somewhere else.
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Spoilered below is Bobby's thread of the day, focused on transfers out of Texas. tl/dr version is to expect some pain. Not a surprise.
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FSU Update: -Bidding in big to win Thomas Castellanos (BC) after he was moved to 2nd team in Boston and then quit, midseason. After DJU, this seems smart. -14 transfers out, so far. They're expecting others. One guy they're losing is the highly rated QB that they were keeping on the bench and grooming. Smart work. -3 guys have declared for the NFL. They signed 20 guys in a recruiting class ranked 20th. Their roster is decimated and they're hoping to arbitrage the portal again, even after this past season's utter failure on that front. These guys might be really bad for a while.
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Maalik Murphy unfucked Duke, works his next miracle at Oregon State
closetojumping replied to Zeus's topic in Football
Some of the posts on here are fucking crazy. Oregon? USC? Are you guys so far in the tank for a player that you can't see stupid when it is slapping you in the face? Lincoln Riley knows QBs and has helped multiple guys win the Heisman and go early in the 1st. He'll have his pick of the litter at the QB spot. Jesus Christ. Similarly, Oregon can buy whoever the fuck they want at QB. You think the guy they're going to put recruiting and NIL effort into is Maalik Murphy? This shit is bizarre. I get cheering for a dude when he goes elsewhere, but putting someone this mediocre up on a pedestal is ridiculous. Never mind, also, that the dude is a fucking statue. Have folks never watched the offensive schemes deployed by Riley or Stein?- 3175 replies
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Texas A&M Recruiting 2025: The Land of Melk & No Money
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
He has a PFF grade this year of 68.8. His run defense grade is below 50 and he was one of the worst run supporting safeties in college football. He's too slow to play CB and not physical enough at NB or S. I hope he sticks around. If he goes pro, I'm not sure what there is to like about drafting him versus other options. -
Collins was a nothing player at UF, but, hey the DL coach coached him, so there's that. Hudson going to ATM will be perfect. I doubt either side will be able to meet the other's expectations on the field. Off the field, Liucci and the others will do what they always do and oversell the guy, make up every excuse in the book for why he couldn't crack the depth chart at Tech, and then let national talking heads and their fanbase blabber on in the hype. We talked about both behavioral and physical issues with Hudson when he was a recruit. None of that has changed. He's a shittalking prima donna with zero elite skills or physical traits. He was overrated then, and he's overrated now.
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OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
The reality is, your coaching staff thought he was better than the rest of your options. Maybe you guys kill it in the portal, I don't know, but that's a perilous path in terms of baseline dependency given that many other schools are in the same boat. If someone enters the portal who is a true stud, it's not like that bidding war won't be insane and you guys might not be armed to win it. -
OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams
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Just so we're clear, you guys are cool cool cool with losing Walker, a young starter at CB, and Vickers? Lots of faith in Jai Valai to really work and develop those other guys, I guess, huh? -
This going to have to help dampen NIL enthusiasm at Missouri. This guy was paid a fortune to go there and he did jack shit, pouted, and left. The guy put up some stats in one game - against UMass. They weren't super impressed with how he handled himself in the locker room or offseason, supposedly. He thinks he should have been starting because ... 5 star. So he'll go get a bag somewhere else. I assume OU would like another shot with him. Or maybe that is just me hoping for more comedy.
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McAfee is also a polarizing figure on Gameday as well. I think he’s great, but a lot of old guys, at heart, at least, want him off of their Saturday morning lawns. Check out the next Gameday to probably be disgusted.
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OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams
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Hatchett, Walker, Anderson and Arnold were starters. They weren’t going to pay to keep Arnold but the other three hurt in some ways. While their WR/TE situation sucked, they didn’t want Sharp to leave. There are shittier guys on the roster besides the starting TE and leading WR. Vickers wasn’t some huge blow, but he played and guys behind him are still on the roster. -
People involved at Auburn went out of their way to ruin Harsin. They did this because he wouldn’t negotiate a soft exit after they moneywhipped him into the job and made a bunch of false promises. They turned on him overnight and they did everything they could to ruin him. I am not a Harsin person. I know very little of him. I do know people who have been involved with Auburn over the years. That program is extremely evil. My reaction when someone reveals that they’re an Auburn fan is akin to that of when someone declares that they’re a Baylor or Penn State fan. Fuck that place and its program’s existence.
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To be clear, this was investigated thoroughly and they were both exonerated. Auburn insiders attempted to ruin both people in order to be able to fire Harsin for cause. Auburn attempted to destroy a marriage, a friendship, and two lives so that they could attempt to find another coach on the cheap. The woman was guilty of being attractive and competent. Perpetuating this kind of shit every time this dude comes up helps no one and aligns people who do it with pieces of shit at Auburn. Look it up. Then stop doing shit like this.
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OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams
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One of the funniest things I’ve observed in the last two weeks is the serious ineptitude of Venables. They panicked and thought they might sign too many guys, so they trapdoored two recruits just ahead of signing day. Now, per their own boards, they’ve already lost 5 guys to the portal that they didn’t have in their math. Whoops.- 642 replies
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That’s absurd as a premise regarding the $15M for the portal. 1) $15M lands a complete roster for a year. Not Texas or Ohio State level, but next tier. 2) There isn’t enough quality in the portal to merit spending 1/3 of that. Texas was aggressive last year and didn’t spend close to that. There is a ton of misinformation out there about the portal and its trappings at this point.
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OU has 12 guys in the portal so far. That includes a starting CB, their leading receiver in Sharp, Nick Anderson, their 5 star starting QB, and two OLs who started this season. That’s not nothing.
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Texas A&M now has lost 17 players to the portal and 2 declaring early for the draft. They signed 25 guys in this recruiting cycle. I have no idea how many seniors are out of eligibility and moving on. I also have no idea how many scholarship players they had this season. That all said, I’m assuming they have quite a few guys they’re going to need to transfer to ATM or they’re going to be very short again. This was a problem last year and they ended up having to jagger up. If these guys don’t crush it in the portal, they are truly going to suck next season.
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Update on the greatest recruiting class of all time: Looking back at The Greatest Recruiting Class of All-Time, HOLLAAAA!!!!: Walter Nolen - gone Evan Stewart - gone LT Overton - gone Denver Harris - gone Jacoby Mathews - gone Anthony Lucas - gone PJ Williams - gone Jake Johnson - gone Smoke Bouie - gone Marquis Groves-Killebrew - gone Chris Marshall - gone Bobby Taylor - gone Ish Harris - gone Ethan Moczulski - gone Shemar Stewart - stayed - leaving early - draft pick Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy - gone Conner Weigman - gone Enai White - gone Bryce Anderson - stayed Kam Dewberry - gone Le'Veon Moss - stayed Malick Sylla - gone Donovan Green - stayed -got fat and slow after being hurt, getting married. rumored to be leaving in winter 2024 window Hunter Erb - gone Martrell Harris - gone Theo Melin Ohrstrom - stayed Jadon Scarlett - stayed - 8 snaps all year Jarred Kerr - stayed - 35 snaps all year Noah Thomas - stayed Mark Nabou - stayed 21/30. Moss, Nabou, Ohrstrom, Anderson, Thomas are the only true producers to have stuck it out. Anderson was a borderline 5 star and now might not be drafted. The others were mid-to-bottom of the class and have outshined the heralded highly ranked guys. This is the kind of class that destroys a program.
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There are some games in there where I’m going to have a hard time cheering for anyone. USC, Duke, Tulane and Navy, sure. Bielema or the whiners from SCar? Woof. I will hold my nose and cheer for LSU versus Baylor. Michigan over Bama? Bleh. Arkansas over Texas Tech? Terrible. I don’t really care about Vanderbilt and Ga Tech, I guess.
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