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  1. I feel like the venn diagram between sauce guys and gravy guys is something trending towards a perfect circle. @RomaVicta This: “If you're a slob sporting a suit adorned by a button missile with the safety off, you better bring the yuks. Elko knows his audience. They're the ones who struggle with Blue Collar comedy.” I legit lol’ed at that. Just outstanding.
  2. I thought that's what I did? Should I have thrown in calling him "Turkish" for good measure?
  3. Did Mississippi State not travel well?
  4. Iowa fucking blows. They had multiple pick opportunities against Howard and failed on most of them. He was trying to give them the ball. They're slow on the edges and Higgins is more than a smidge overrated. On top of all of that, Ferentz is a bitch on the sidelines. He chooses to punt and duck more than any coach in the country. Multiple decisions to punt on 4th and 1 around the 50 while facing a significantly better opponent. You have to take chances there. I'm guessing the HC being spineless isn't a part of any models, but that can certainly determine outcomes. What game has Dan Lanning won in which the opponent had comparable talent or better? I believe that answer is "none". Why do people think anything should change now? I expect Ohio State to beat Oregon's ass. Conversely, everyone is expecting Penn State to roll Lincoln Riley's USC because now the OL is a mess in Los Angeles. Penn State under James Franklin has been pretty good at beating the teams they're supposed to beat and shitting themselves against the big boys. Franklin is 13-25 against top 25 opponents at PSU. He's brutally terrible against top 10 teams - 3-17. I know USC isn't ranked, but they've got the talent to be there. If they put it together at home and score early, how does PSU handle playing from behind and 3 time zones away? I think this one could be an upset.
  5. Liberty's pathetic schedule: -Campbell (FCS) -@New Mexico State -UTEP -East Carolina -@App State (cancelled) -FIU -@Kennesaw State -Jacksonville State -Middle Tennessee -@UMass -Western Kentucky -@Sam Houston State These pussies scheduled an FCS school, went out of their way to avoid scheduling a P4 school, and play 3 other schools that were very recently FCS teams (SHSU, Kenn State, Jax State). Last year, they had a similar schedule. They campaigned for inclusion in the NY6 bowls and they got it, without having beaten a team with a pulse. Oregon killed them 45-6 in the biggest snoozer of a bowl game of the year. They weren't competitive for any moment in the game. They're starting to push for inclusion in the CFP. Childers was heralding them as a force this morning on Full Ride. Conference USA is the worst conference in the country, and by a wide margin. Reject these gutless impostors and tell them to enjoy the Bahamas Bowl and fuck off otherwise. Or let them be the 12th seed if Texas is seeded at 5. Thanks.
  6. This is why I said concerns about formatting should be kept to yourself. This is an irritating and unnecessary post that is also unintentionally ironic. You're admonishing my posting approach while calling me "holier-than-thou" in a condescending manner simply because my post wasn't to your liking. Ridiculous. I know how to post in plain text. I often also incorporate bold formatting for key sections when I post. Sometimes, I don't have the time or inclination, and I really don't care if that impacts dozens of luddites or corner cases affected by such matters. In short, when I throw a dog a bone, I don't need to hear how it tastes. I'm not getting paid to post, much less for taking the time to copy paid subscriber content from elsewhere and post it here for others to consume.
  7. Some injury related stuff from SI covering Venables this week as well: -Anthony won't be back for weeks. He had another scope done to "clean some stuff up". They tried to rush him back and it cost him and them. -Farooq and Burks won't be playing this week unless they pretty much force them to do so. "We'll see how those two do in a few days." -Farooq gets out of a walking boot this week. This is after surgery after the Temple game. What they don't tell you is that Farooq was recommended surgery after a similar injury in the spring, but due to pressure from the staff, he passed on it. The reinjury in the Temple game shouldn't be a surprise. -Burks' injury has not been disclosed formally. It's believed to be a "soft tissue injury in the lower body". If you believe that, did he pull a groin, calf, quad or hammy? It could easily be an ankle or knee thing, IMO. Burks isn't ready to go but they're pushing him to play this weekend. -They pushed Anderson back before he was ready, then he suffered further injury. Notice a trend? Remember any of this from the past? Notice who is running the program and who is running the S&C? Anyway, I assume we'll see some truth tomorrow night since the SEC requires it of them.
  8. A handler wants to get paid irrespective of what else gets paid to the player. I am hoping Texas waves this one away.
  9. Spoilered below is a great breakdown of where OU sits nationally and within the SEC in myriad stats, some advanced and some standard (from Sooners Illustrated). The net-net is that OU sucks, and here they suck in about every way measurable. They have solid sack and TO numbers, but even those are buoyed by either outlier performances or really terrible teams. If the turnover margin is -2 or better for Texas, this is likely a spread cover trending towards blowout. I think I'm going to do a mudhole since this thread and others are starting to show some true pussyrubbing from the community. As such, I'll tie some of this in and give other thoughts around things like the invincibility of Hawkins and how much meth Venables smokes before witnessing at his local Church of Christ or coaching on Saturdays. Anyways, enjoy, and I didn't convert to plain text since the bold formatting helps and, if you don't like that, keep that shit to yourself: Also, one of the film nerds should contribute to the community and show some clips from the Auburn game identifying how Hawkins is currently a one-read-and-go guy, because that's what he is. I wonder how different the Texas defensive approach in this game is going to be compared to the Bama game last year? Young mobile QB not used to reading defenses, OL that can be managed towards domination, no truly scary skill position threats, etc. Feels like some similarities are there for UT.
  10. No offense or anything, but your school claims like 15 fake titles. The idea that they wouldn't claim one that is actually legitimate while claiming shit from the 1910s and 20s is comical.
  11. Most of them are socks. They say and do shit that you can’t find Texas fans doing anywhere else, on or offline. I saw a guy the other poo-pooing the RRS atmosphere compared to other SEC experiences. Other guys talking about Sarkisian being unstable and assuming 3 or more losses left due to the SEC grind. Not only is the site full of the simplest dumbasses in sports, their socks are shitty and unfunny too.
  12. Anybody know the degree of the injury he incurred on the last catch late in the game? Hoping it’s nothing.
  13. You’re a tough crowd of one. I look forward to his stuff each week. I thought it was good. Jesus. Friends of mine who have gotten to look behind the curtain of Georgia over the years say that there is a foul odor starting to reek from the inside there. These are people that like the staff (not Bobo) and have sung their praises over time. They know their shit. My theory is that once NIL and the portal started leveling the playing field, Georgia broke away from established criteria when evaluating the upper tier of recruits and started taking character problems. They’ve taken guys over the last 3+ years that others, who also had the pick of the litter, punted on. Other folks don’t fully agree or disagree and say that that position is somewhat self-serving. So be it. Fun to believe though.
  14. It was a poorly constructed model in earlier days of that kind of digital community. The notion was a central site, BC, with satellite sites leveraging the same tech and “management guidance” with content specific for various niches (fanbases or recruiting). Sounds okay, right? Problem from there is that Dunlevie decided to cut only himself and Scipio in on the ownership structure and he didn’t raise any money. He didn’t do that in a corrupt manner. It was known early and wasn’t worth a fight for those also contributing. I was starting my own thing and tapped out when we got serious about needing to write content to kick off. Came back to longhorn netdom a year later when things were going well and wrote a lot over there for the fun of it. Others did there and elsewhere on the other sites. The problem is that the model required a lot of cajoling and haranguing from Dunlevie to get other people to keep producing timely content and they didn’t have skin in the game. So you had a lot of sites not producing for other schools, and a lot of pressure on folks who viewed it as a friendship lark. That leads to bringing in weaker and weaker writers who are taking stabs because they’re excited to be included. There was also an emerging frankenstein issue with traffic and ethics and monetary needs when success was emerging elsewhere that Dunlevie couldn’t really manage. So they exited and probably made a little dough and had an earnout to boot. They have too many holes on defense, lack the depth they’ve relied on to help soften that issue when it used to occur, and their offensive line is a mess. They’re losing somewhere else before having a chance to play in the title game.
  15. Oh come on. How many years have I taken Texas straight up when OU was giving points? I’ll take the $50 though.
  16. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
  17. Yo, we betting this year? How much?
  18. It's awesome seeing them really lean in to Georgia beating Texas in two weeks. They view it as a given. I am not dumb enough to think it can't happen, but things change. Georgia and Bama don't own 3 deeps that could beat everyone else's starters. In the inverse, Texas has been in build-mode. Georgia has missed on a lot of game breakers and they've got a culture with some off-field toxicity. We'll see how they handle another tough road outing where the talent on the field is matched or better at every position.
  19. Oatis was good as a freshman. He’s regressed. Is it coaching? Attitude? Injury? No idea.
  20. I think you're one of the lawyers here, but if not, someone else will chime in on this - the contracts drag out for many months, up to a year, and that's what happens elsewhere including Texas. That said, they allegedly have some really draconian components to theirs that may not even be enforceable? But whatever it is, aggies think they've created some ways to hold money back when they feel like it with NIL. I'll have to really grill a friend on what the hell happened truly with Sims. It's bizarre and almost seems to be coming from the UT end. The $9.95ers won't even discuss the guy now. To be clear, there aren't any gotchas in the Texas NIL docs. Player shows up, handles their appearances in a timely manner, etc., they're getting their NIL irrespective of on-field results through the term of the agreement.
  21. Why would a bad Florida team, running a gauntlet and on the road in a sandwich game between actual rivals for them, be a trap opponent for Texas? I’ve seen this mentioned all offseason and it just doesn’t pass the smell test. Anything can happen, but that doesn’t spell “trap game” by the definition of the term.
  22. I think he’s pretty good. I damned sure would take the guy over Lane Kiffin. Kiffin’s ceiling looks pretty much like hovering around 10 wins at a low pressure locale like Oxford and never beating anyone of consequence. Maybe, being in Mississippi, he’s become a big Faulkner guy and this is performance art and he could go somewhere else and actually win something. I doubt it. Deboer has accomplished more than Kiffin, regardless, and that shit can’t be credibly disputed. No one wants to declare the death of Alabama as a national power more than me. I’ve done it on multiple occasions, dating laughably back to Shaggy. I hope we’re on to something here. That said, I think Deboer was the best hire they could have made under the circumstances. His recruiting class doesn’t indicate a falter. Maybe they’ll shit themselves a few more times and it will portend the dawn of a better era for the rest of us CFB fans.
  23. Thanks for the well wishes, good sir! We’ll let you know how everything turned out in mid-January.
  24. “Well, I don’t have a reasoned rebuttal because I really did make an idiotic first post. But this poster made me mad though … … I’ve got it!!! I’ll go original and call him a cunt!! Yes, that’s it! That’s how I win the Internet today!!”
  25. Yep. They’ve connected to a few recruit camps in which people around the recruit need that money right now. Future gains be damned.
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