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  1. I laughed. Hey man, smoke all of the beef you want when Texas comes to town. We usually do as well.
  2. Ha, bravo to Stewart for being willing to address it and provide the origin reason. He’s another rock star who has hit on my wife, in front of me and 8,000 other people, while he was in his 70’s. That dude is still chasing pussy.
  3. I’ve never heard the “Rod Stewart is gay” urban legend. That guy has slayed more pussy than entire NBA teams.
  4. I’d never heard that before. I laughed as hard as I have in months, through the entire segment. When Rome was like that, he was as good as anyone. In the late 90’s, one of the Austin stations picked up a syndicated show called “The Don and Mike Show” It was two irreverent guys talking shit about anything and everything and they were often hit and miss. They had a segment where they’d just rapid fire phone calls and people would voice their hot takes, the guys might interact, and then they’d go to the next call. I’m listening while driving one day and they flip to a call and it sounds like dead air but you can faintly hear something. One of them stops the phone guy from flipping and says “turn it up, there’s something there”. They turn it up and you can hear it clearly - cheeks clapping. That brought the house down on the show for the rest of the day. I was swerving in my car I was laughing so hard listening to their commentary from there, once they recognized the noise.
  5. Gerry’s been the leading voice across even the national $9.95ers on Sharma as potential college gamechanger at DT. Even he is surprised by how that guy looks. He wasn’t penciled in to be in the 3 deep rotation but he may force his way in.
  6. It’s been like 25/26 years, but if memory serves, part of the hook in the whole thing is that you never actually saw anyone killed.
  7. I would argue that Downs and maybe even Styles are more or less as important. The big deal with the DL is that they have almost zero depth and, without Houston, pretty much no experience. Without naming names, a try-hard newcomer on the defensive side hit Baxter late on a meaningless play. Pretty much altered the entire course of the season by being an idiot. I don’t think it matters now. That dude, with the way he went down and being carted off the field, he ain’t making it back for the opener. I was really hoping to play them at full strength, too.
  8. I haven’t gotten around to making an aggie football 2025 thread like I wanted to, so spoilered below is the first Gigem247 writeup on the first fall practice. Highlights: -remember the WR hype we fed y’all last season? We were just kidding. Those guys all sucked, except the ones who are returning. Guess what? This year’s WR is fucking awesome. -I skipped the backup QB section, honestly. I assume Reed will get killed or yanked at some point this season and another spare will become the next great aggie hype QB. -the interior OL all lost a lot of weight after Elko enforced bloating them up as fatasses heading into last year. The backups, though, it looks like they were given the “gluttony” from Seven treatment during the offseason. Holy shit.
  9. For last year’s UF game, the chefs grilled or smoked a 5 foot gator, I don’t remember how it was prepared but it wasn’t fried, and then also served fried gator bites. This is at the buffet for the south end zone suites. I thought it was a funny set up to go with everything else they served. The bites could have really been any kind of chunky white meat. The grilled or smoked stuff was unique and good though.
  10. I watched it a bit last night. I hear Doering on XM a lot. His demeanor actually changes when Texas is discussed. The SEC is in his blood as a walk-on fanboy who made it big for the gators from Gainesville and a dyed-in-the-wool SEC family that includes coaches. His career is covering the SEC. Texas having immediate success is an existential threat for who he is. Like, really, this is his life we’re fucking with here, somewhere in his subconscious. I listened to him one day talking about OU basically being a good boy for following their expected rite of passage by “not being ready for big boy SEC football” and now they’re suddenly figuring it out by finding an “SEC ready QB and OC”. What’s funny is what isn’t said - that Texas didn’t have to do that and it irks him to a high degree. It’s no coincidence that he’s talking up OU now. He fucking needs them to be good and for Texas to have a comeuppance. A lot of these SEC talking heads have similar backgrounds. Stinchcomb, Peter Burns, Alyssa Lang, Kubilic, Hester, etc. Hester, Lang, and Kubilic are great and they’re not big honks strictly for the SEC either. Hester has openly admitted he thought long and hard about going to Texas, which is true for those of us who were following back then. McElroy has admitted many times that he grew up loving Texas and all but says they’re one of his favorite teams. He was giddy about Texas joining the SEC. Many of these guys are far less biased. A few of them, however, fucking hate everything about Texas and what they’ve done so far. Doering is the lead dog on that front. It’s a DNA level thing for him because of his home grown biases about SEC sports, particularly football, and any challenge to his long held beliefs are a religious issue. He cannot say good things about Texas unless there’s a “but” and usually he just doesn’t say anything level or positive.
  11. My response is that I generally agree. Conner was a constant joke his entire time on campus when it comes to the run game and I wrote that for 3+ seasons. Glad he got drafted, but the Cardinals are proven idiots. Majors wasn’t the starter at C for 4 years because he could run block. If Neto gets the LG role, he’s allegedly a force in the run game. Can he protect worth a shit? Clearly, Flood and Sarkisian value pass pro over run blocking, so hopefully he has his shit together. Hutson is objectively a better blocker overall than Majors was. Can he handle the calls and help with the pickups? That’s obviously critical to both run success and not getting Manning killed. Campbell is in a contract year and Goosby looked great when he played. Whether it’s Baker or Cojoe or Brooks that wins the RT role, it’s a Darwinian battle between very talented guys. Williams was a shadow of himself in the end, so give me any of the three choices as an even exchange, at worst, and with elevated depth. I think people underestimate the threat of a mobile QB. He doesn’t have to be running all over the field. He just needs to be accounted for and that changes a defenses approach. That, a healthy RB room, and the ability to actually complete deep passes on the regular take a good deal of pressure off of the OL early.
  12. I pulled multiple stunts like this on my mother. She was extremely trusting. This post made me laugh.
  13. Spencer Shannon broke 5.0 in the 40 during summer drills, sir. Let’s see you approach that.
  14. I could make that play. Any walk-on could as well. Let’s see it against live contact.
  15. First blockbuster injury of fall camp for OU and they haven’t practiced yet. Eli Bowen is not going to be available for fall camp and they are not disclosing the nature of the injury. That’s a pretty big deal given the weakness at CB outside of him. Bowen had an ankle injury in the spring and hardly practiced. They don’t know if this is a complication from that or something new. Where are you seeing this?
  16. Gerry is at practice and says that Baxter did not go through the team snaps and doesn’t look close to ready.
  17. I honestly don’t even know who in the fuck this is. Is it Dominick McKinley’s little brother? Either way, fuck this guy. Hat on the table when you didn’t get a visit?
  18. Here’s an article about how Venables plans to be physical during the fall camp and writes off the injuries from last year as some sort of weird aberration. The last quote of the article tells you everything you need to know and it is awesome.
  19. He had hernia surgery that he played through last season. I’m not sure he has shoulder surgery so much as he dealt shoulder issues in the spring but has felt fine this summer.
  20. I don’t think the hot blonds are willingly going after the giant fat guys that are generally broke at the clubs and parties.
  21. Bo Davis was paying Bama co-eds to sleep with recruits on recruiting visits when he was at Bama. Somebody started to chirp about it and Saban reluctantly had to send him packing. Later in his career, including his second stint at Texas, he was a surprisingly less effective recruiter. Weird.
  22. Texas was one of them. They thought they’d landed him and he was the WR “no one is talking about” that I was saying could be coming into the program. He’s a stud.
  23. Wait until you see them near one another. Butler got into the doghouse for one reason or another and there was the notion that he’d just transfer out and everyone would be fine with that after the spring. Didn’t happen. I assume we’re looking at a fork in the road starting today - he either turns mental and performance corners immediately, or we never see him in the field and he’s gone in December. They recruited Bolden in to return punts and be a contributor in the WR group. They didn’t realize they’d recruited and paid for a complete fucking lunatic on punt returns and couldn’t fix his approach. Trust is the number one thing they now care about on punt return. Butler is the best candidate talent-wise, by all accounts. Only one problem. They allegedly don’t trust him, at all.
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