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  1. How many major conference championships have either one of those guys won? How many CFP visits? Countering your other dum dum positions on this, what's invalidating about being another Matt Campbell? I don't like the guy, at all, and I think he's a choker. That said, he's winning at a place that has been borderline impossible to win at, and he's had his teams borderline elite at times, including 2020 and 2024. Pointing to Campbell as some notion of failure for a young coach is fucking dumb. Also, "the odds are more likely" is a specious bulletin board argument that carries zero weight in a discussion like this. You have no fucking way to calculate odds against infinite variables with any credibility. Work harder at taking your position than trying to build off of that kind of garbage. Finally, Dillingham has done things sooner and at a higher level, at a program with higher fan affinity, fan affluence, and fan size. What an interested and talented coach can accomplish at Arizona State dwarfs what can be accomplished at ISU or Minnesota (this isn't 1960 in the Twin Cities).
  2. He's a 2nd or 3rd round pick and might be pushed higher due to scarcity. For reasons you bizarrely cite in regard to staying in college, he should go pro in this cycle. Allegedly, his family still feels the same way. Notre Dame is believed to be the one floating the big offer.
  3. Regarding both the landing of Shaw and the development skills of Baker, I've attached some screenshots from PFF for consideration. Note the yearly growth for each player. I don't view PFF as gospel and, frankly, some of their work on various positions is trash (mostly QB and CB), IMO. That said, it's one services comprehensive POV and interesting to review. Here you go:
  4. No thanks. He’s got shit hands and a shittier attitude.
  5. Generally speaking, never fucking root for a coach. Are you related to the person? No? Then get a fucking grip. Texas provides every resource imaginable for coaches to be successful on campus. Win or get the fuck out, you fucking loser. Maybe don’t get into a slapfight with your psycho fiancée or avoid just being generally mediocre at everything you do while embarrassing the entire program and fanbase by bawling about “horns down” on national tv. It’s infuriating. Losing to ATM by 20 in basketball should be considered an instant firing offense. Find your own way back to clean out your fucking office, as the bus is full, dummy. I’ll be cheering for the team the rest of the way, but if this dipshit wins something like 4 games in conference, I will accept the cold comfort that his performance will stick out like a sore thumb among the coaches on campus. They can then fire him without the media calling Texas a big bad meanie.
  6. Regarding the Branch brothers, I’m happy to see them elsewhere and assume that Zach Branch will continue to JAG out like a motherfucker with the idiotic offense at Georgia.
  7. Agreed about Mitchell and Golden.
  8. Maybe humiliation. Just being here regularly evokes that sense of pain for me.
  9. I don’t have a strong opinion about this QB class other than it looks weak with a bunch of wildcards. Nonetheless, I do find the continued elevation of Jalen Milroe to be perplexing. He just looks like a coach killer. If you’re ever dependent upon that guy to win games against comparable or better talent, good luck.
  10. I took my family to dinner for one of my kid’s birthdays and was upset that I was going to miss the game. Sounds like I was better off with the way it turned out. This really sucks. Texas should be better than they are at basketball by a long sight.
  11. I care in the sense that it would be nice for Purdue to resemble something other than roadkill when facing anyone in the Big 10. I know that’s not the norm, but watching them this year against Notre Dame and Indiana was truly disgusting. The bottom of the Big 10 is worse than a G5 conference slate and that shit needs to get fixed. The ACC is an unfixable mess, so it’s expected. The Big 12 and SEC field more competitive bottom dwellers than what the Big 10 put out there this year.
  12. I’m interested in seeing how desperate programs get over the next few years if Dillingham strings a few more winning-to-big-time-winning seasons together. ASU has money, right? The guy would like to coach there for 40+ years if you believe his interviews. I tend to buy it because ASU to him is like Texas to us. So why leave? What if some other place in the Big 2 with money decides to go nuts out of desperation? Say Florida? I don’t know. I actually buy the idea of that guy sticking to ASU if he keeps winning and has choices.
  13. The post of the guy telling the story of how he converted to ATM fandom and chose to go to school there accordingly - he left out the part where he excitedly applied to Texas and received his rejection letter 4 days later.
  14. I would be happy with this guy.
  15. You guys fixate on the dumbest shit. The walk-on QB is completely irrelevant. There’s actual portal stuff happening.
  16. It’s always fun when they get so unhinged that they forget that Texas … you know … actually played Texas A&M. Never mind that, let’s do the transitive property thing.
  17. They committed more than they currently have in NIL for the 2025 class as some sort of notion putting on a happy face. Then the rumblings of cracks in the facade started with possible transfers ahead of the bowl game and Byrne starts publicly begging for money. They’re not in a good spot, clearly, so they’ve begun pushing a narrative to anyone who will listen in the media that CFB is broken and politicians need to intervene to save it, or the conferences need to align and anoint Nick Saban as a benign and even-handed, highly paid commissioner.
  18. I’ve been across a number of 247 sites for cursory glances at threads mentioning Texas or Ohio State. Summary as follows: Desperately Need OSU To Crush Texas: -ATM, Oklahoma, Arizona State, Texas Tech, Missouri, Arkansas Want OSU To Win: -Bama, Georgia, LSU, Oregon, USC, Tennessee, Clemson, ?FSU? Bizarrely Attached To Some Notion of Conference Brethren: -South Carolina, Ole Miss, Miss State Need Texas To Win: -Michigan It is truly absurd how many of these fanbases think Ohio State is some friendly try-hard while Texas is a big bad meanie that doesn’t deserve to still be playing.
  19. I believe that RexAG86 posts on Surly as @Hagbard Celine.
  20. I have the same question. I can’t figure out what in the fuck happened on this trip for RPM. Is that him? Was that a guy on a livestream he was tracking? WTF.
  21. On a thread where these rubes are pining for the return of Denver Harris, Daddy98 flies in off the top ropes with an all time heater:
  22. Things are not starting well this offseason in Okieville. They’re down big sad on their boards and it’s glorious watching the pumpers try to pump up FCS transfers and the new dipshit DC from Clemson. What they really aren’t handling well is the rise of Texas:
  23. How should I know?
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