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  1. Day 4 practice notes spoilered below. Highlights: -Quelle surprise! Deion Burks has found his way off of the field via undisclosed injury. -Injuries are piling up across the board for the okies already. They're being quiet about whatever the injury is to the starting RT, Simmons. He wasn't even at practice today. -A starting CB is in a boot, the potential starting NB/Cheetah is having problems with his previously broken lower leg, 4 WRs are on the sideliness, a key DT rotation guy, 3 TBs and 2 TEs. Seems fine. -Kanak apparently ran the wrong route call during a drill, which made me laugh. -Jay Valai coaching for them also made me laugh.
  2. First time ever to be preseason #1 in the Coaches Poll. That is cool shit. Sucks about Cojoe. There's always a few guys for each team that go down in fall camp, so I've been preparing for a few mentally. Didn't want it to be a potential starter at RT.
  3. Guys, if you don't end the chili talk, with or without beans, a bunch of the psycho food snobs from the Food & Travel board are going to wind up manifesting here and really nauseating this thread.
  4. Hendrix. Yeah, Dylan wrote it, but there’s only one meaningful version of that song. Poseurs like Dave Matthews Band and U2 can get fucked. I’m someone who rolls the dice every now and then.
  5. In the quiet of an offline conversation, Sarkisian is capable of expressing genuine disdain for the ATM football program. He’s not a fan of Elko either. A lot of it carries over from Fisher and Elko fucking the state of affairs for everyone while he was still at Bama. A lot of their bullshit about him with recruits and the media (feeding negative shit to their people in the media and the national guys) started when he was there and carried over to Texas. Fisher is a piece of human shit. Excluding Elko from that label for the time being, but he’s not some jolly kind man just because he’s fatter than Santa Claus. So it is funny to me that the aggie fanbase is so desperate to hate him. They have a pathological need to both deify their coaches and vilify the Texas coaches. Sarkisian will never say a negative thing about them in public, yet they’ll manufacture their anger because of some psychological shortcoming as a fanbase that only they possess. In any event, he gets them in ways it only took the bonfire game for Mack Brown to comprehend. I think he’s going to do everything he can to blow them out everytime Texas plays them.
  6. Sir, the first three songs on my walk this morning were “A Bar Song”, “Pancho and Lefty”, and “All Along the Watchtower”, none of which were new and playing when I was in high school. How dare you!?!
  7. He’s now at Mississippi State where he is yet again about to have a big year.
  8. SC’s favorite go-to shirt is a burnt orange mesh. Think of Scott Glenn’s character from Urban Cowboy. I think he was wearing a classic mesh while he was beating the shit out of Sissy. That plus cargo shorts and his Hey Dudes and he’s a joy to be seen around.
  9. I wouldn’t expect it. I haven’t really thought about one for this game. Maybe Georgia or Florida if the general mood is interesting for one.
  10. We all knew where that was headed, but it sucks anyway. I wanted that guy. I don’t think 2025 will have a big impact on this cycle’s recruits for stable big time programs, but Oregon is going to be overrated this year. I assume they’ll start out 4-0 because they open FCS, Okie State, NW and Oregon State. Then they go to PSU, off, and host Indiana. Indiana wasn’t a fluke. They’ll be a better than .500 team and maybe much better than that. Their HC is legit. Then they go across the country to Rutgers, get Wiscy, off and then go to Iowa. Then they host Minnesota, USC and finish at Washington. That’s not a weak schedule. Beyond that, they’re relying on Moore who is getting the benefit of the doubt as a bounce back after legitimately having one of the worst true freshman seasons in a quarter of a century at UCLA in 2023. They replace most of their OL, the RB, 2 of 3 WRs. They lose their front on defense and multiple guys on the backend too. They’re going to be ranked in the top ten because their name is Oregon. I can see an 8-5 season if I squint.
  11. Measurables, not someone’s projection.
  12. What is he listed as? I saw York’s fall measurements were 5’10”, 227. He’s small but slow, yet I keep seeing people listing their version of Tiny Dynamite as some sort of mid-rounder. Lefau is way better than that dude.
  13. I don’t have numbers in front of me, but Simmons and Hill combined for 7 FF. That’s a pretty good start, if repeated.
  14. The OSU guys are trying to be soft about it, but apparently the OSU defense looks dramatically better than the offense, mostly due to QB and OL play. I think that was also the story in the spring. They did matchups 1’s vs 1’s, 2’s vs 2’s today and the defense was kicking the offense’s ass. A bright spot for the offense was when Smith beat Devin Sanchez deep by 5 yards for a TD.
  15. Of all the guys who have transferred since Sarkisian took over, Gullette and Walton were guys they wanted to keep. I think they’d both be struggling for oxygen in the Edge and LB rooms now anyway.
  16. I was going more for John Hammond about Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park. Messed up the quote a bit though.
  17. Bobby dropped this in his update today: ”There’s a little positive chatter behind the scenes on recruiting. Texas is gaining some confidence on a pair of players currently committed elsewhere.”
  18. Update for today from Bobby with some interesting takes on the younger players. ***** Texas will hold its fourth practice of training camp later today. It’s scheduled to begin at 6:30pm, just like last night. The first two practices were held in the mid-afternoon of the Texas heat. They’re meant to get a team prepared for the worst conditions. The team got a real feel for that. One Texas player was severely dehydrated and subsequently missed the next couple of practices (yes, I know who it is, but, no, I’m not going to name them). Bottom line, the message from coaches is clear: stay hydrated, get your rest and treat your body right because this is an extremely taxing sport, especially in the middle of summer. ** There’s a little positive chatter behind the scenes on recruiting. Texas is gaining some confidence on a pair of players currently committed elsewhere. ** There are so many talented young players on this roster, a few of them are already looking to leapfrog talented veterans or at least solidify a spot in the rotation either as a starter or key back-up. Those players (so far) include: - WR Daylon McCutcheon - TE Emaree Winston - OL Nick Brooks - DT Josiah Sharma - DE Lance Jackson - NB Graceson Littleton Others to watch for: - WR Michael Terry - TE Nick Townsend - OL Jackson Christian - DE-DT Justus Terry - CB Kade Phillips* - S Jonah Williams* * Neither Phillips nor Williams practiced the first two days. But both have been received positive reviews through summer training, enough so to merit inclusion on this list. ** KJ Lacey, Jamie Ffrench, Kaliq Lockett, Jordan Coleman, Zelus Hicks, Myron Charles, and Bo Barnes all look the part early but are not situated to make a major positional impact early. However, Hicks and Barnes could absolutely be major contributors on special teams. Lockett might also get some early run there, too. He was surprisingly good as a gunner and blocker in early punting practice reps. ** We’ll keep our ears to the ground for more practice notes for you. Hook’Em!
  19. Oregon State plays at Texas Tech and then at Oregon in mid-September. It would be great if Murphy could guide them to a win in one of those games.
  20. Something worth tracking this month is the audience that Ohio State is building for the Texas game with recruiting visits. They’re talking about over 100 2026 & 2027 recruits. We usually overlap in recruiting 5-10 elite guys.
  21. I don’t remember this but this post made me laugh. I need to see the post and those around it. I was dogging the guy’s character and watching people shriek for a good 6 months. People who did the work knew this clown was going to fail.
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