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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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D3zii: Do you find it hard to hide the fact that you’re gay? SydneyCarton: What are you, what are you talking about? What!? D3zii: Look, buddy, two seconds ago, you were ready to give me a jump. SydneyCarton: A jump? (laughs uncomfortably for a few seconds) … I’m terribly sorry to disappoint you, D3zii. D3zii: Hey, but I don’t have a problem with it. I don’t care if you putt from the rough. SydneyCarton: What are you, “p-putting from the rough”? What on earth are you talking about? -
I guess it might have been discussed somewhere on this thread but not lately. Has anyone ever watched this Australian cooking show “My Kitchen Rules”? My in-laws are British and Irish so they’re always watching and suggesting various Commonwealth shows they find on Britbox or wherever and they told us about this one on Prime. We’ve watched almost two seasons and it’s pretty good, thoughtless fun.
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Bryce Dallas Howard was hotter in each of JW movies than ScarJo in this one. That’s an objective fact. I didn’t realize she’d gotten fat in real life until you sent resentful pics of her lately. Again, I don’t read celebrity gossip blogs like you do. Maybe just watch the movies? I doubt this is something not being discussed by others out there. I’m not saying that ScarJo is done for, as the recent pics you sent show a still hot woman. I’m just saying when you’re watching this movie, you might find yourself wondering if you’d have to butter her hips to get her through the bedroom door after luring her from the bar with a trail of Hershey’s Kisses and the promise of a large DQ Snickers Blizzard waiting for her when she got there.
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I’ve long thought that ScarJo is one of the most beautiful women on the planet, so if I am biased, it’s in a positive direction for her. I say that and then I stand by my argument that she’s a fatty in this one. Mostly like a crossfit fatty. She’s muscular with a layer of blubber. Big arms, etc. This movie was like the opposite of Match Point for me in terms of ScarJo movies. In that movie, Woody Allen clearly had a crush on her behind the camera and it showed. That might be a top 10 “hottest a woman has ever been on screen” movie. This new JW is the worst she’s ever looked. The camera hated her. That said, I said as much to @HenryJames and @SydneyCarton and other friends in a text string and then a vengeful Sydney immediately started spamming the text string with pics of ScarJo lately looking hot and calling me a meanie. Look, I don’t read celebrity blogs, so I missed the latest pics of the lady. Still, no fat chicks for me. I love the ladies of all sorts and always have, but she’s trending towards “nope” in this flick.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I don’t know who wrote it, but someone back on Hornfans once said of Bosworth and Switzer that “If I ever saw either of them walking down the road I was driving on, I’d risk my own life driving into the ditch or off the cliff in order to take them with me.” and that still about sums up how I feel about those two. -
Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: It's Miller Time
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I forgot, who did Indiana hire? -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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You get reductive sometimes and this is one of those instances. You’re being dismissive on something real and also ridiculous in your claims about your own knowledge of football history. I agree with your takes here. I have chosen not hire north of 100 people over the years because they came across as buffoons on social media, even if it was shit from high school. Beyond that, we’ve chosen not to even consider candidates from shithole opponents including OU, Baylor, and LSU. Petty? Maybe. Or maybe I like to like the people I work with and if you’re going to show me you’re a dislikable yapping dumbass, you can go elsewhere. Having dealt with other folks qualifying as unhealthy diehards the past few years, I can say that there are folks involved with hiring thousands of people between them who are far more extreme than my views on this shit. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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ND literally just outbid multiple teams, including Texas, for 2 different WRs. -
Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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I don’t see any reason to think they’re going to be better than 8-5 any time soon. I don’t see it this year and I’m not just now reviewing things on their end. They’ve done their usual shit where they pump their roster up to anyone who will listen. Elko’s absolutely done some of this himself. He hyped the shit out of his roster to different alumni groups and then to guys like Steele and Pate. Maybe he really believes it, I don’t know. My view is that OU is better for 2025 than people think. Their schedule is so rough that that may still only result in a 7-6/8-5 season. Conversely, everyone is giving ATM the benefit of the doubt for zero reasons. The roster is mediocre. The schedule is tough with all of the road games. I think they’ve finished worse than their preseason ranking in like 11 of the last 12 years with the fluky 2020 season in which they played a schedule that went 30-50 overall being the exception. Beyond 2025? They put together a good class for the 2025 cycle. They’re putting together a really good 2026 class that will be making more money walking in than any of the other classes. So does the cycle of another 20+ guys transferring out, including freshmen, continue when the calendar is near flipping to 2026? Does another mediocre season after The Elk and Liucci have run around telling anyone and everyone that they’re an SEC title contender cause the 2026 class to get picked apart by Texas, LSU, Tech and others? I think there’s a great shot of that. To bring this bloviating post to a finish, I personally just really see ATM trapped in a cycle of mediocrity of their own doing. 5-7 to 9-4 being the range from here to wherever “there” is.- 811 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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There seems to be some growing belief that the numbers in the bag game have changed or something. “half a mil” was an entire budget most years for most of the bag game programs. They all started screeching when NIL unlocked payrolls at wealthier fanbase programs, like Texas, Michigan and Notre Dame. They don’t suddenly have more bag game money than they did 5 years ago. That’s part of why I’m rolling my eyes about the bag game concerns. There’s always going to be some chicanery in each cycle for a pittance of what players can now legally make because dark markets rarely totally disappear. There are still bootleggers selling moonshine, after all. The bigger risks, in my mind at least, are institutional cheating through rev share scams and the newer NIL big swinging dicks not named Texas just continuing to do whatever the fuck they want to do and the NCAA/House clearinghouse police not doing a damned thing about it. The “Saban Discount” was real and it existed precisely because a number of the better recruits aren’t uninformed, blind idiots. These guys have all kinds of counsel around them and many of those around them are actually trying to help. Maybe not as altruists, maybe not always due to blood or love, but they’re there, giving guidance around the player’s future. That is, of course, not all of the recruits and your point stands with a portion of them, just not even a majority, really. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Just shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you’re talking about. This take is dumber than a bag of rocks. -
Two things can be true at the same time. I can enjoy the Turntine commit and still enjoy making fun of the futility that is the Texas Tech football program. Hell, your whole athletic program. You’ve never won a fucking thing that anyone cares about and Texas has owned you in every sport worth discussing. See softball: 2025, as the most recent example. Anyways, I was just posting in agreement with you. Why on earth would Texas Tech ever want to play daddy again in anything? You made a great point.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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When I was 22, straight out of college, I got a commission check for $9k in one pay period. When I deposited the check, I kept $3k of it in order to see what that amount of money looked like. I’d seen pots in gambling at gatherings get above $2k, but never higher. I went back to my office and put it down in front of me and counted it like 4 times with the door closed. Getting offered $5M as a guy who just turned 17, I don’t know how you don’t take that money and never look back. I don’t think that is a low IQ move. That part of the story isn’t something that causes judgment on my end, at least. They’re going to play him as a true freshman. That money doesn’t sit the bench. He’s not going to get any time to develop and he’s technically terrible with no hip flexibility. He’s probably ruined his career by making the choice he’s made, so hopefully he’s careful with that $3+M that he winds up with after taxes. -
Why on earth would you ever want to play Texas again? We all agree that that would be fucking ludicrous from a tech fan perspective. We beat you guys like a borrowed mule for the better part of a century. I’d say good riddance to daddy treating me that way as well.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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There are people involved with recruiting who have been saying that this guy is bad news for months. You’re letting the player and his family off the hook. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I don’t mean pull an offer. I mean state openly the minute Tech is involved that if the player entertains them at all, Texas is out. See above. Not sure questioning the past month, but just noting the reality of Tech’s behavior in the market and what that should mean for Texas any time they’re involved. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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This is now the 2nd recruitment, at least, in which McGuire has leveraged a recruit’s status to make a fool out of Sarkisian and Texas. I’m not sure what the recourse is, but off the top of my head, telling a recruit if they’re going to visit Tech in any way shape or form, Texas will remove their offer seems like a possible path. Couldn’t do that with most places, but Lubbock and Tech are special circumstances due to the shithole, dumpster fire nature of that place and regime. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Nothing ahead of 7/1/25 is subjected to House compliance/clearinghouse/rev share allocation shit. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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He signed the deal before July 1st. No impact on rev share. It’s all Double Eagle, it sounds like. Or maybe that’s just year 1. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Fire the agent? What? I want to hire that guy and see what he can get me in the open market. He must be some sort of wizard or warlock or some shit. Wow. I didn’t realize it was that bad. Texas probably stays aggressive on Utu if they’d have had better clarity. Still, like Mack with Perrilloux, signs of seriously bad character and playing Texas for leverage were there all along. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Ojo was apparently not very straight with the staff. I’m interested to see how interested they are in him down the line when he inevitably enters the portal. They were interested in Hudson or Stewart with similar histories. -
This is correct. TOF is not attempting to make a profit. Just no longer working as a 501(c)3 since House excluded that as a legitimate vehicle going forward.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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You referenced the “absolute” tone, so not a knock, but sure, Sarkisian and team have signed enough now that ultimately being perfect on hit rate becomes impossible. Regarding Campbell, I might be alone on this one, but given that he was a 5 star as an OG, I am inclined to give both the services credit for still rating him that highly and the staff if he winds up getting drafted in any round, but for sure any round better than 6. He got a low round draft grade last cycle, allegedly, so he’s got a shot to hit the mids if he has a great year. 2:15 -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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You act as if the posters in this thread had previously been hyping Ojo as some sort of next version of Banks. Maybe I missed that. You can go back pretty far in this thread and find references to guys we trust, like Gerry, not being as high on Ojo as the rankings would suggest. It’s not going to be posters on this board who hammer Ojo from the #1 OL ranking to finishing somewhere in the national 150-ish overall range. Are you implying that when those rankings change that it’s a conspiracy among the ratings services? Or are you just too stupid to follow the logic knot you’re tying in some sort of pathetic effort to seem contrarian?
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