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Y'all are reaching Lou Holtz levels of poor-mouthing your team and lifting up the future opponent. I'm starting to expect a Clemson vs App State kind of OU recovery against Tulane here. That considered, your OL is truly dogshit, your TBs define average, you have a MASH unit at WR, your TEs wouldn't even preferred walk-ons at Texas and the word from folks connected nationally is that you have a QB problem that you can't really address, as you can't run one guy off for another guy that the program proclaims as a future 1st rounder and then immediately dump said 5 star bust for his true freshman backup without creating all kinds of questions. So maybe it really is a close match-up. You got me.
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Just to put a bow the trip to Michigan, these are my thoughts for this thread in case we ever play them again. I expected their fans to be a lot like our fans. My view is that you have to go out of your way before or after a home game at Texas to find shitty Texas fans. I think we're hospitable and Texan through and through. When someone is behaving poorly and treating travelers shitty, they're usually managed by our own to shut that shit down. I've been to plenty of away and neutral games. Neutral games usually involve both teams mostly behaving themselves. Away games is a spectrum of truly terrible shitbags, like Texas Tech, over to mildly menacing or irritating but mostly friendly, like Bama fans before they lose. I've never been to Columbus (for a game) and I've heard enough over the years from UT fans and others alike to know that I won't be going next year and good luck to those who do. What I have heard, however, is how much better Michigan fans are in-person than Ohio State fans. Friends who went to the Texas/Michigan Rose Bowl have attested as much. My experience, and I am quite certain many other Texas fans' experiences (I saw the bullshit happening to anyone in burnt orange) doesn't match up to prior reports. My wife and I couldn't walk 50 feet among the crowds on Saturday morning without some dumbfuck, often fully grown adults, feeling compelled to run up and throw their hands in our faces, screaming "HORNS DOWN!!!" over and over as though creative or original. I don't give a shit about horns down. Say it, yell it, whatever. It's unoriginal, it's an okie hand sign, and it has become ubiquitous. What people can go fuck themselves on is the violation of personal space and damned near touching/hitting my face. When is this okay in any setting? One guy nicked my wife's cheek doing it and then his crew acted as if they were going to jump me and when I told them to fuck off. Beyond that, do these grown-ups not comprehend how stupid they look when they do that shit? Also, the constant screaming of stupid shit like "fuck matthew mccanaughey!!" to random strangers from fat girls who shouldn't be wearing skimpy outfits gets tiring from the jump. Inside the stadium, it's like the Rose Bowl. They don't have enough bathrooms because the stadium is so old. The connectivity is non-existent, like DKR in 2005 or something. The stadium itself is very cool, albeit tame. Their songs, including Victors Valiant, are all cool and they sing them well. I'd speculate there isn't a bad seat in the house and they do a good job with their scoreboards in terms of posting stats and scores. Concessions were as run of the mill as a stadium could have offered. After the game, Michigan people behaved much more like I expected. They were polite, docile, and defeated. No one talked shit for miles and many were complimentary and nice. There were at least 25,000 Texas fans at this game. Afterwards, I was proud to see none of the kind of shit talking that I'd witnessed Michigan fans doing before the game. I'm glad I did the trip to the Big House and can check it off of my sports bucket list. I wouldn't go again, having now done it once. That's mostly due to the trashy bullshit I witnessed in the pregame. Also, Detroit was fun and the MGM there is a solid place to stay.
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Texas A&M Recruiting 2025: The Land of Melk & No Money
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The problem here is that Napier recruited Mertz to come back for this season and then had him elected as captain. Everyone is writing those aspects off when considering the situation. Put yourself in that guy's shoes for a minute. We can all think what we want about Napier as a coach or person and I'm not some type of fan of the guy, but I can understand the inner conflict here for the guy as a man. That said, I also see the HC role in CFB as that of a "fiduciary" for the program, so he's still got overcome the personal issues and make the right choice for the organization. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
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The term "throwing the kitchen sink" about a school recruiting a Texas target should be interpreted as something beyond what is being said by the $9.95ers. Nebraska has made a strong NIL push for Terry. Where are you going to get developed better for the future these days, Nebraska under Rhule or Texas under Steve Sarkisian. Talking about WR and potentially/probably Flex TE. That is a factor to weigh when also considering some gap (currently) in the NIL pitch. Accordingly, I'd lightly pencil Terry into the Texas class, but nothing more. I'm by no means saying that you should be bearish here, either. Just saying this recruitment is still really processing. -
OU’s transfer champion from Washington, Geirean Hatchett, one of their starting OL, is now out for the season. Whoops. Just had surgery for a torn biceps.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
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He was a highly touted recruit who more or less freshman’d his way through his freshman year until the Arkansas game. He had 4 sacks in that game and was instrumental late in locking up the win. That game made him famous and set absurd expectations. If you actually look at his freshman year, you wouldn’t immediately call him the best defensive player in college football, but the media did that heading into last year. Then LSU used him as a QB spy and tried to act like he wasn’t a pass rush specialist. Outside of another Arkansas display of heroism, he had a mediocre year. Living mostly off of name recognition, he was again touted breathlessly heading into this season. Anyone actually watching and thinking sees a tweener capable of flashing. He’s not the best defender on his own team and shouldn’t be considered All SEC, much less All American, but I’m sure he will be. He was used as a Mike for parts of both of the first two games. -
Coach Sark Press Conference 9.9 - Sometime in the Morning - LHN App
closetojumping replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
I didn’t offer my own value judgment. I was passing on what I’ve witnessed for color to the ongoing discussion. I also stayed out of the stupid fucking argument you’ve created by whining about Arch Manning not “running the offense” on Saturday. But here is a value judgment - you are turning into a trolll with your behavior and that is very annoying. So I’m going through and negging every idiotic post of yours on this thread for being a bandwidth drain adding nothing of value to this thread. -
Coach Sark Press Conference 9.9 - Sometime in the Morning - LHN App
closetojumping replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
Michigan fans both at the game and since on Michigan Insider have been commenting on how nice Sarkisian is and what good sportsmanship the team showed. The TMI posters are basically thankful because they recognize that that game could have been 52-6 if we’d have wanted as much. I don’t think locker room material matters for this one. Michigan will have a different coach, staff and players when they come to Austin in 2027. -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
closetojumping replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
Can you fucking idiots keep the fixation with that rube and his “content” confined to the aggie thread, please? It’s a fucking beating to see it taken seriously anywhere, much less on more than one thread. -
The box score for this Okie State/Arkansas game is one of the craziest we’ll see all year. Didn’t get to watch because I was at the game in Ann Arbor so it’s hard to even understand.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
closetojumping replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
There is a ton of bullshit locked into the polls still. Does anyone really believe that 6 of the 7 best teams in the country are in the SEC? That Notre Dame should actually be ranked? That Okie State or KSU should have been moved up? -
Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
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He’s a zealot. I assume it would take a lot for him to walk away from the cult of Deion. -
I’m feeling like the Saints up 30 at the half is a good thing for 3 of us.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I assumed it was just a descriptive acronym for The Elk: -Glutton -Ruddy-faced -Inflated & Incontinent -Never Seeing His Feet Again -Dead Man Walking -
South Carolina is interesting. I watched them for 2 relevant quarters yesterday with low expectations. Their front 7 is either really good or Kentucky’s OL is dogshit. Probably a little of both. There is a fun chance that they are going to beat the OU OL the way OU players beat women. You’re OU, so of course you won’t go 5-7. It would be glorious, but a) we can’t have nice things and b) I don’t want to listen to and read from a bunch of SEC honks about how hard the SEC is. He lobbed that one up to you. Christ.
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For a program with perhaps the greatest bully fetish in all of college football, a near-loss to a bad UH team isn’t sitting well in Norman. Several injuries played out last night that Venables later downplay. Taylor, the desired starting RT, started and then got hurt again in the 2nd quarter and never returned. Gentry Williams has a hurt shoulder, let the game early and never returned. The starting center and first backup were both unable to go. The 3rd stringer was able to notch a personal foul late in the game to give the Cougars one more gasp at victory. I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about in regard to getting a completely new offensive line to gel against cupcakes early. 249 total yards and losing the TOP by 10 minutes to mighty Cougar High spells future success, no doubt.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
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I shouted violently at everyone in our area when that shit started, as did a few others. Died down quickly but it was fucking pathetic. -
Sub-Educated Cretins: The SEC screenshot mega-thread
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LSU got the girlfriend into school and she may well go there for free. I don’t know how strong the bond is between the two, but LSU took it seriously. Beyond that, Williams isn’t a top 5 target left on the DT board for two spots. They’re plenty critical of Kelly from what I’ve read. Haven’t looked in a few days, but after USC, Kelly was LSU fan’s main issue. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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There’s so much to love about their rationalizations. I think it’s one of the key elements to their collective make-up that makes them perennial losers. Sure, some guys can look at circumstances and work through how improve upon them honestly, but for the most part, they’ll always ignore what’s wrong, because it pulls on their insecurities, and then work on superficial and non-essential problems. One of my favorite things that they allude to lately is the lumping in of Georgia as some sort of issue for them in holding them back from their elusive rise to glory. They’ve played Georgia once since joining the SEC. Once! How the fuck has Georgia hampered anything for them? -
Game Week Thread Week 2, 2024: Texas at Michigan
closetojumping replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
That fat fuck was pulling himself off the field during drives in the first quarter. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
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I’ve read a little lately on that FSU 247 site. It is grim yet delightful reading. They are collectively in a very dark place right now. -
Game Week Thread Week 2, 2024: Texas at Michigan
closetojumping replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
This thread has added multiple tangents in the last two pages that are all terrible in their own right. You guys can’t help yourselves, really. A perfectly good football thread is now home to: -several asshats trying to spark up a good ol’Chris Simms debate -some stupid fitness dialogue -an asshole empties his shitter of a prediction here when there is an actual prediction thread for that fucking dildo of a human to go fuck up instead -people reacting to the asshole emptying his shitter -debates about how Michigan people behave regionally -and something about some guy who edged with a Michigan broad about a shitty I-Roc or something.- 970 replies
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Game Week Thread Week 2, 2024: Texas at Michigan
closetojumping replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
On Dusty and Danny this morning, Dvoracek took Texas -7 for one of his picks of the week. Kanell took Michigan +7.5 and the first half under of 21.5. I don’t know what to make of the total, really. Yeah it could be low scoring, but it could also get out of hand. 31-14 goes over and that’s not an insane score.
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