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In scouting parlance, there's a notion that where a player was ranked and/or drafted matters years later when looking at the player's performance and expectations in the future. So if a 1st rounder, 4 years later, is busting down in A ball, another team may still trade for him at a discount because "somebody saw something". So what he's saying is that even though Reuben Owens plays like a pussy and can't pass block for shit, maybe he'll eventually turn some sort of corner because, hey, 5 star! In other arenas, this would be called "valuing loss".

Dude, you have a sweet bromance with Nahlin? Y'all are a perfect fit for another. You should just hang out over there and help him huff his farts while the Wells idiot gets visibly high by 10am on video and Ian Boyd puts everyone to sleep with a lunchtime breakdown of why the 4-4 needs to see a resurgence.

Peter Jinkens? Looks like it could be Anthony Wheeler.

Credit where it is due here, you’ve made a post in English and there’s an understandable point in said post. That considered, where are you gathering this? Have you been DMing with Ketchum again?

Why are you @ting me here, clown? Also, that shit already happened like 3 days ago. I wouldn't trust anything you hear about that idiot until the portal is closed, good or bad.

CB continues to be a mystery early in this cycle. There's Brew and then a bunch of question marks around who they really want.

Okay, yeah, I've confirmed that that isn't close to a valid number.

Texas isn't offering 2x $300 if I had to bet. I'll see if I can get some fact based guidance but no promises.

Thanks for clarifying. That was how I read what you were saying.

Listen, Captain Pedantry, it is right there in the text that I pasted from the email. That would definitely be a tsk tsk with a loss of 10 points out of 100 on your reading comprehension homework.

One of the things I've started entertaining myself with is tallying the number of times I see the term, and its adjacencies, "this/the/that young man" in given threads. It's fucking amazing how often it is popping up in either adulatory or scolding tones regarding the players. I feel like that immediately marks the poster as over 75 years of age or as a guy wearing a bow tie daily and buried in the bowels of some sad Fortune 1000's accounting or HR department and still living with his mother.

Auburn West is pretty good. If Texas is playing in the CFP, or playing for the NT, or, God forbid, winning the NT, I agree that they will be absolutely shitting themselves in panic. These guys involved in and around the top over there are trending towards Euro football hoodlum type of fanaticism. Particularly if they have the season I think they're going to have, notwithstanding surprising and crazy shit in this portal window that somehow benefits them.

Not long after asking the prior question, I also received clarity in an LHF email that also said this: TIMELINE April – Fans at designated giving levels may request Allstate Red River Rivalry and Away Game Tickets April/May – Online Seat Selection and Parking Selection During this time, add or upgrade your seat locations if you want and select your parking for the 2024 season. You will receive a selection date and time in mid April based on your priority points as of March 15, 2024. June 3 - Allstate Red River Rivalry and Away Game Loyalty Points Lock and Request Deadline June-July - Online Allstate Red River Rivalry Priority Ticket Seat Selection Beginning in late June, season ticket holders who qualify based on their membership level will get a selection date and time to select their seat locations for the Allstate Red River Rivalry. Late July - All season tickets will be sent via mobile delivery to your email address on file For additional questions, please contact the Texas Athletics Ticket Office at 512-471-3333 (Monday through Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Central).

I worked with a woman from Philadelphia for a few years. Great chick but very self-serious. At some point, "Yo, Jackie!! I soaked up Philly like a sponge!" was an appropriate line during a group meeting. She acted like she had no idea what I was referencing. Turns out, she was telling the truth. I didn't realize how regional JITB is. So then I had to show her the commercial and she did not appreciate it. I laughed.

Well, no. First I accused you of being an acolyte of Joe Dirt who leaves a wake of bad shit happening behind him. I feel like that's a pretty accurate image for those who haven't met you. Then I said you squat to pee.

There also can be a heavy dose of choppy waters to navigate even if we're not losing half the starting lineup, which you're apparently wetting yourself over. While you've been on leave for your annual visit to the nuthouse, there's been a solid transfer candidate discussion. There is going to some serious ebb and flow starting next week that will involve some pain even if it doesn't meet your squatting to pee standard of losing half the starters. Also, it will have its positives.

Guys, are the seat-picking times you're alluding to for OU? If so, that makes me nervous since I haven't been given a time. If it's for seats in DKR, nm since that isn't relevant to me.

They are convinced with a 12 team playoff they can be the 3rd team from the SEC to sneak in. Tbh with their Charmin soft schedule (and a lot of luck) they do have an outside shot at it. Personally I think even Mizz or BloU have a better chance than aggy, but don't tell them that. They don't have a vague shot at the CFP. If you feel better than that about it, we should place a bet. I will take all comers for any bet size that Texas A&M isn't making the fucking playoffs in the 2024 season. Window's open. Also, the SEC will get 4 or 5 teams into this cycle and most others.

I don't think they actually want to be big portal shoppers, but we'll see. I know fatigue is a thing over there right now and Elko is telling the money exactly what they want to hear right now, and he may well believe it. Apparently, the Junction Boys spirit is alive and well in aggieland. Due to the notion of culture rot, Elko is being forced to tear the whole thing down to the studs so that he can replenish the program with "his guys" and the kind of blue collar work ethic that oh so many aggies fantasize about seeing others exhibit. That's going to lead to some pain over a few cycles of the portal and recruiting, but they'll be playing for SEC titles after that. Right.

Thanks for pulling up in your I-Roc, jumping out before it's come to a stop in your mesh tank top, cut-off jorts, and checkered vans and conjuring that terrible shit on this thread.

I went and checked out Bama's draft history from 2009-2023. They've had a ridiculous amount of TBs taken in the first 3 rounds during that time, but they don't really have a streak longer than 3 or 4 drafts in which one was taken. Looks like they might get one taken late this year in Jase McClellan.

So that'll make seven. Next year you have Banks and Ewers almost seeming like locks to tie that prior period. Other emergences could obviously drive well north of that. It's a good time to be a fan.

I have a good friend who played at Kentucky during the Mumme/Leach years and he has some great stories. He also has excellent CFB and NFL connections because of a lot of folks around that program during that era went on do shit in coaching, sports journalism/media, and administration around the game. We're taking he and his wife, also a UK alum, to the game this year and they're getting us tickets together for next season. It's weird, there is a zero percent chance I will consider going to the Ohio State away game in 2025 and yet I can't wait to go to the Kentucky away game instead. I've never been to that area and folks who have rave about it.

Ourlads has him in the 2 deep, fwiw. They don't want that guy leaving and they do a really good job of helping him with academic support and such that his mother allegedly really values, so there's that as well.

I also posted this on the aggie thread in the football forum, but recognizing that some of you elitists don't visit there: The Elk has confessed to his audience, after the first aggie scrimmage, that things are ... not so great right now. https://247sports.com/college/texas-am/longformarticle/texas-a-m-football-notebook-aggie-coach-mike-elko-says-team-remains-a-work-in-progress-230249778/#2404181 "I am a coach, so I do not know how to sugarcoat all of this stuff," Elko said. "It is not great right now, because they are not comfortable in it yet. That is part of spring. It is just learning how the system works, taking more and more reps of it. "The challenge that we will have coming out of spring ball is understanding where we are and having a phenomenal summer so that when we get back to fall camp, practice one, we are 100 days better and not taking any steps back." Spoilered the full article in case the link is subscriber only: For the tl/dr crowd, Weigman isn't working out as much as Elko thinks he needs to, so Elko is hinting that he might not be QB1 after the spring; Reuben Owens is a pussy who still can't pass protect and goes down immediately on contact; Bryce Anderson is a safety and they don't know who the other safety will be, nor do they have a clue who the corner will be; outside of Nick Scourton and a guard from Kansas, they are in deep shit regarding transfer talent.