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Hey, look man, you left. This place hangs by a thread even with guys like you here. Any minute and this place can start chasing its tail over the dumbest shit ever. Miami has more than Ruiz in NIL. They’ve got their reasons to be doubted but they’ve gotten better on that front.

I don't think they're moving anyone to TB. That considered, there isn't currently a shortage of backs. There might be, arguably, with other injuries, a need for someone to get involved with short yardage situations. How do midgets like Bolden or Niblett help there? Niblett solves nothing at TB. Good lord.

I went to check out whatever comments you guys were discussing regarding Gerry and Fasusi and couldn't find shit. Fasusi was shown a really good time in Norman. Texas, for better or worse, doesn't run the same type of visit these days. If that's enough to push him to OU, okay then. The guy isn't viewed as having a "football first" mentality but is still gifted enough that he could wind up in the NFL if he just keeps his shit together in college. He's a hard recruit to just write off, but there's more risk on him for a player of his athletic level than there should be. Conversely, Rogers is less physcially gifted but, as of his senior year, more interested than Fasusi is at excelling in football. Other thoughts from bullshitting with friends: Schlossnagle didn't honestly anticipate the opportunity to get Williams. Internally he was rated as a guy going pro and getting drafted high enough to justify it. Miami has an allegedly ridiculous offer out there to Ffrench. As of now, seems like Ffrench would still prefer to leave the state and not go somewhere OOS with a lot of family around, like, say, Baton Rouge. There's still a lot going on with the DT stuff. Plenty of reasons to be optimistic if you need to be, including missing on Sanders, IMO. I'm from Missouri on the Fabulous Kenny Baker Boy at this point.

I’ve always found the fact that DKR played at OU but became a UT legend to be pretty fascinating.

This isn’t English.

Texas has elite returners, an elite coverage game, and a top notch kicker. They’ve been in the top 10 under Sarkisian by most groups that measure ST overall. Thinking too 3 and maybe number 1 isn’t some sort of stretch.

Well, don’t think too hard on it then.

Oh come on, don’t be a pussy. Those other guys can go fuck themselves. I need some sooners to mock or read up on.

Maybe Elko is secretly growing a turtle shell on his back under those muumuus. With Sanders, he’s begun building his army of mushroom henchmen and he’s getting ever closer to launching his plot to capture a local princess or something.

Righty-Ooo on one of them. I don’t give a fuck how fast someone is - if the QB can’t accurately believe you’re going to be where you’re supposed to be, good luck fitting into the rotation for long with that as a problem. Ha. I think you know fully what I meant. Correct.

Great points. I didn’t give my post a lot of thought because of how weak I think the Big 12 scheduling is. WVU versus not just PSU but also Pitt is legit.

Couple of bigger transfers need to get their shit together and act like they know the playbook and want to fucking win. Sydir Mitchell wouldn’t make a 7 deep at this point. Maybe mix in a salad and some grilled food for like, maybe, the next half decade. Collin Simmons will be a double digit a year sack guy starting next year and should be disruptive early and often this season. Daniel Cruz is apparently a mean motherfucker on the field. Texas has a shot to have the overall best special teams in the country if the punter is even just average. It’s a complete wild card that remains an open question until one or two of them are facing live fire. Let’s hope someone has some cajones in Ann Arbor. I’m guessing Texas has to punt a bit in that game.

USC is going to cost the aggies a pretty penny, if nothing else. I think this was a storyline in Lost, but it’s been awhile.

I wish @Pdawg88 was still keeping up with the countdown.

Sadly, Okie State probably has the most respectable non-con in the Big 12 this year.

Look, man, if you've got a problem with my posting behavior, just put me on ignore let's move on without all of the personal attacks. Geez.

It's funny, Sanders isn't the type of recruit a major program should be putting a bunch of money towards. He just isn't a high ceiling recruit and he has a low, low floor. But if you're losing all visible momentum in a recruiting cycle and are about to be shutout on multiple other recruitments that are far more competitive for higher end players, maybe the approach to score a victory, somewhere, anywhere, isn't that idiotic. The guy was supposed to announce tonight. Someone close to the recruitment decided to push it out early and shut everything down. I think Elko is an excellent defensive coach, but I've not seen a ton of evidence that he's a great developer of talent. Sanders is really, really going to need development. I'm happy he's heading to ATM.

You are a tough person to please, man. Sims/Charles/Sharma would be outstanding. That’s prayer-level shit at this point in time, though. As to solutions for a position group for a next season, in truth, everyone has that issue somewhere. Notre Dame is playing their 3rd transfer QB in 4 seasons due to similar issues, as an example. Texas has pieces for 2025 already and Sharma is as good as anyone could hope heading towards that season a freshman. Even one more dude of high quality decompresses needs given the portal. How many of you have watched the guy play? Liucci is the aggie hobo version of Geoff Ketchum. He has an uncanny ability to be completely wrong on everything with his program and has a loyal customer base constantly cheering him on as he does so.

We’ve been through this and there are many reasons why DT recruiting is on Sarkisian, Banks, and Harris. The first two have turned some position coaches into order takers and they’re picking the targets. Then Harris has seriously mishandled the work with the recruits’ camps and understanding what it takes to actually land these guys. That said, I have a very hard time not looking at the Sanders recruitment and absolutely seeing it as a Kenny Baker failure. No one handcuffed that recruitment. Do we find out more in a bit? Did ATM get wild here and Texas either wasn’t ready again or just decided it wasn’t worth it? Does that absolve the position coach from whiffing on this softball? I have been adamant that this recruit is a project and I’d be happy to see him going elsewhere. He’s built like a cupcake stuck on top of two toothpicks. He’s soft as Charmin. So, sure, ATM, go make some hay. Passing on Sims and Derry, two better prospects than Sanders who had Texas at the top of their list was fucking dumb. Are those guys All SEC candidates if they come to Texas? Maybe. Can they project well as quality depth? Yes they can. So maybe deciding that through sheer will of the recruiting leadership that the program will just fall ass backwards into 3-4 of the absolute best DT candidates in the country with an 80% close rate wasn’t a great strategy. Maybe go get some guys projecting a notch below that who could also develop if the DL coach is as awesome as advertised and not subject the program to either wild ass final days/weeks ahead of signing day that may or may not work out or the dice roll of pursuing the 1-3 awesome DTs that enter the portal and will cost seven figures for certain.

Man, Kenny Baker really is crushing it.

I’m terrible on defense. I’m basically the UH’s offensive output around 1989 with Carl Reese coaching my defense.

Oh, it gets dark. Mostly for my CPu opponents. I beat Alabama 79-42 earlier today and there likely wasn’t an imaginary Bama fan leaving their virtual stadium with their head up after that.

I wasn’t pinning the pining on you, just adding that to the commentary since there are those who do exactly that. See @GreenspointTexas ‘s numbnuttery following suit later in this thread. It’s bizarre. I had him having a great season his sophomore year and then he went down with an injury. The injury update comes back that he a lower back injury and his career was over. I kind of just stared at the screen for a minute. Only time I’ve lost a guy like that.

These concerns are merited for the people that like to worry, with you leading the pack, but Choice is an excellent coach when it comes to TB blocking (and overall) and both freshman can and will run inside and have the bodies for it. Red wore out his welcome. Choice has told people that he thinks there are 5 TBs on campus who will play in the NFL. That was in the spring with Red on campus and Choice sure to clarify that he wasn't counting Red among them. If there is any single coach on the staff that I trust in regard to reads like of his own group, it's Choice. People pining for Red are like people pining for Bozo the Clown at a kid's birthday party.

I respect Harbaugh's troll game enough to believe that, after he's simultaneously elevated the Chargers to their greatest heights since 1994 and alienated ownership to the point that they want him out, that he'll be ready for one more run in the NCAA, likely 5 years from now. He's a cheating shit head, but he's at least entertaining as a villain.