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  1. Excuse you, sir? I'll not sit idly by and watch Dixieland Delight's good name get besmirched by some Internet dandy. Apologize for this transgression or the consequences will be swift and decisive!
  2. I had Directv and YTTV subscriptions until this morning. I read about YTTV/Google thinking they could fuck with Disney on a CFB weekend. Went into the app to cancel, they'd removed the "Manage Membership" option. Gone. On both my phone and in the app on my Apple TV. I had to use go to tv.youtube.com in order knock it out. Took me less than 5 minutes and felt great. I hope millions more do the same. In this blame game, I blame the company that is already raising pricing again and thinking that they can just shut off about half, or more than half, of the reason I subscribed in the first place.
  3. With Bueckers gone, UConn is supposed to be even better? Wow.
  4. Dumdum didn't understand that the post he was responding to wasn't referring to OSU, but OU.
  5. Thinking about this as an upset weekend, I am with you. I have been thinking the same thing. It's just got one of those looks to it, whether it happens or not. Some that I think could make sense: -Memphis @ Rice - Rice isn't hot garbage this year and Memphis just played their game of the year. Memphis also has Tulane next week, so this is a sandwich game and it's one of those weird Friday night roadies, too. Memphis is a big favorite, so this is probably farfetched. -Duke @ Clemson - Clemson is giving 3.5 but they haven't looked like a good team all year. Duke isn't great, but they're good enough to make Clemson actually earn it, and that hasn't gone well with Clemson this season. -Navy @ UNT - Navy does not have a good defense. UNT has a great offense. I get why UNT is favored. That considered, Navy is well-coached and they have a strong offense that is tough to defend. -Miami @ SMU - SMU has plenty of talent and plenty to play for, and this is a home game. They're getting 12.5 points? Wow. I just feel like Cristobal has another headscratcher or two left to lose this season. -Texas Tech @ KSU - Another road team giving up a TD or more. Tech is another program that always seems to find ways to lose games like this when the expectations are on them to produce. KSU has put some wins together and gotten healthier. I don't, KSU getting 7.5 at home seems like a lot. -Virginia @ Cal - The road team is giving up 4.5. Cal doesn't suck. Wilcox is a damned good coach. The travel, the expectations, this just seems like destined for failure on the Virginia side. They've scraped by some tight games and now they have to make this trip? -USC @ Nebraska - Another home team getting roughly a touchdown. Riley versus Rhule? Give me Rhule. I feel like Nebraska should be the team giving 6.5. -Ga Tech @ NCSU - Again, a road team giving up a decent number at 5.5. NCSU has a history of winning games they shouldn't at home. This one screams upset too. None of these underdogs would surprise me with a win.
  6. It's not like the plane story was ever public. We gossipped about it on the recruiting board, if memory serves. The biggest thing regarding Herman's wife that was ever a public story was her alignment with Zach Smith's battered wife and her aiding the woman during times of need. Also, she was smoking hot. I think these things happen everywhere. Cleat chasers and coat chasers often become girlfriends, wives, mistresses, you name it. Hell, the shit that was out there about Barnes was as scandalous as any of this two decades ago. I assume if we were all USC or Georgia fans, we'd have stories like this about coaches and players there as well. I can tell you that the shit coming out of Bama for 18+ years behind the scenes absolutely holds a candle to anything we can throw out there right now. Kiffin was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time! Players couldn't get a drink at the table.
  7. He ended up being despised by everyone. The players, the administration, almost every booster he met, the media, the $9.95ers who held recruiting influence, the trainers/street agents, high school coaches, you name it. I think it just became a thing where no one wanted to deal with his shit anymore.
  8. Thanks for updating us on you've been up to lately, and congratulations. What does this post have to do with anything? Who was talking about "first" regarding this discussion? That's more incel "look at me" bandwidth drain from you. No one pays attention to your constant spewing of banal thoughts and your overall disdain for logic.
  9. Why is everyone avoiding the idea that the time out could have been for rehab and the family, employer and friends knew as much? Everyone drawing the conclusion that one of the possibilities was a bender but not examining a rehab notion is odd. I've always assumed the break was due to some bad old habits resurfacing and the guy needing a restart. You don't have to post every thought that springs to mind on this site for you. Holding back even a little would you avoid embarrassing posts like this. Broken hand or not, Thompson mostly played mediocre to poor. There's a reason he continued to fail downward with every new stop. He just wasn't very good.
  10. It’s a good description but I think the offense is better than that. They can actually move the ball. Wetjen is a witch on returns and a dynamic guy with the ball in his hands. I personally think they’re going to beat Oregon, but I don’t know if I would bet on it. Iowa is currently the team everyone is comparing to Texas in regard to rankings madness, saying they have a better resume. I think both deserve a late teens/early 20s rank and other programs that don’t do anything super well should be more deeply reviewed.
  11. I offer a ton of positions. Oddly, they’re not all going to be right. Shocking. Nonetheless, when I offer info that isn’t my own, whether it is related to recruiting or certain programs where I make it clear that the info is sourced, how often am I wrong? Can you idiots who bring out the “closetojumping predicted this thing incorrectly!” trope understand the difference? Doesn’t seem like it. That’s a you problem. I am also usually pretty obvious in differentiating between my own position and that which I am passing on. I try to compel people to take a position by taking my own and attempting to be provocative in doing so. I enjoy fomenting discussion on this site. One of the downsides is that I have to hear this bullshit every now and then from posters who have never once taken that chance in their entire posting history, like you, here.
  12. I think you should attempt to coach me in my posting behaviors more. It might really alter my behavior going forward, and apparently that might impact the entire board. Let’s see how it works out! To be clear, libel involves malice intent and then proof of falsehoods being spread. I know because I have successfully sued for Internet libel, twice. Also, the onus is on the claimant even more so if they are a public figure, which Sarkisian certainly is. In my case, I’ve never implied that the break missing junior day involved a bender. I’ve argued the break was a result of a problem, allegedly, that was mounting towards the end of the season. It could have been for anything, of course. What I am certain of, and there is a public timeline to support this, is that considerable time was missed.
  13. It’s possible he’s a specific kind of alcoholic. One of my grandfathers could have a beer with anyone but that’d be about it. Almost. About every 2-3 years something would trigger him and he’d disappear for a 6-20 day bender that involved who the hell knows what. I was 6 when he died, so I’ve only heard the stories. They’re pretty wild. My grandmother would act like nothing happened. The Sarkisian stories kind of remind of these.
  14. To be clear, as this post was likely written while the one I posted before you was being posted, both posts are correct. Sarkisian's meltdown and alleged bender during SEC championship week was completely covered up by Saban and the Bama friendly media. Texas had no idea about that episode and while several media members on the Texas end do know about it, what the fuck were they supposed to do? That sounds like something I would have said when we were dismissing the Sarkisian rumors before NYD, 2021. It all sounded unbelievable, but I called one of my friends there. They literally said "there's no way" and then told me the SEC Champ week story and said what you referenced, "why would Texas go trade one addict for another?" Obviously we were all wrong and pretty shocked that Texas would, indeed, trade one addict for another. Also, while we're discussing various Bama/Saban stuff in regard to Sarkisian, I believe I did post that Saban, allegedly, was using Sarkisian's past against him on the recruiting trail. He was showing literal receipts to some folks, including the Manning family. Sarkisian and Saban publicly talk about mutual respect, but that was a low blow that allegedly hurt Sarkisian in very normal, human ways. Saban is a sociopath and a master at handling his public persona.
  15. I haven’t read or posted in this thread since Saturday until being summoned by the quoted post below. So, no, I’m not a part of whatever is going on here. If the posts I wrote on Saturday are being questioned, I don’t care. If someone wants to question my bonafides on program info, that’s their right. I’m not being paid and I’m not a professional journalist, so it’s hard for me to get worked up about any of it. You’re inferring something from posts at the time, because I don’t think I said something explicitly. That considered, anyone who believes the narrative that Sarkisian doesn’t drink anymore is living in fantasyland. The week of the SEC title game in 2020, Sarkisian went awol at Bama. Disappeared. The pressure between game prep, Auburn and Texas wanting interviews, it was all apparently too much. That came directly at the time from someone who worked with Saban and Sarkisian at Bama and was part of Saban’s inner circle as his longest-tenured Bama employee. Anyone who thinks the Texas job is less of a pressure cooker than that is making the choice of being willfully naive.
  16. OU's offensive grades and snapcounts for the Ole Miss game are below. Highlights: -Not in the notes, but also of note, Kendal Dolby and Taylor Tatum are awol. Venables said even recently that both would be playing soon. They're expected by OU posters to enter the portal. Tatum was a 5 star that they lauded as a win over Texas. Another 5 star bust at OU. -Also not in the notes, but multiple OU OLs who did not play are rumored to also be entering the portal. -Fodje and Fasusi had brutal scores for the game. If you watched, you saw Fasusi getting his asswhipped on a snap by snap basis. We talked about this in this thread before the season, but OU and its talking heads were all talking fondly of Fasusi being a monster ahead of the season, as though every 5 star true freshman OL can play like Kelvin Banks. Fasusi needed time and the fact that they were going to count on him was going to be a problem. We were right, they were wrong. -Fodje played exclusively at RT. The guy is a Guard. They're absolutely fucked on their OL, and I don't see that changing after this season. -OU registered one sack. While they blitzed a majority of the game, they struggled to get pressure and got home just once. -They tried to get Mateer to be something he's not, which is a downfield passer. It failed laughably with zero completion beyond 20 yards on 9 attempts. Mateer has 7 TDs and 6 INTs through 7 games played. The national media is still speaking of this guy as a potential Heisman winning player. If you've watched this guy at all, you know that that is utter nonsense. He's a mid-tier P4 QB at best. -The young CBs played really well in this game. Their experienced and hyped safeties? They did not play well. Peyton Bowen is turning into another 5 star disappointment for OU. He's not a bust in the sense that he's a proven starter for them, but he is not the dynamic playmaker that earned him the 5 star ranking coming out of HS.
  17. I forgot to answer my asterisk in the original post. *I don’t know whether this trivia is factual, but I feel like it almost has to be. Somebody factcheck me though.
  18. Well, I was in my bag while writing all of that, so some hyperbole might have been used. Have you not watched and SCar this year, though? That OL is abysmal.
  19. "God DAMN you, closetojumping!! Do not do this!!" Over the course of the last two months, the patrons of this board have gone from feeling their oats and scheduling dinner reservations in Miami for next January to a bunch of sobbing twats, scared of their own shadow and counting future losses as though these things are certain. It is time we pull ourselves together. Texas is playing Vanderbilt, for fuck's sake. I don't care how highly rated those dorks are, they haven't played in Austin since 1903. Texas didn't even have a stadium then and most of our grandparents weren't even alive then. Things change, but opponents coming to town and having their heads handed to them is a longstanding tradition in which every reader here is rooted. This season and this team has been shit on and shoved down by every talking head and voter in the media since the lofty #1 preseason ranking was vaporized in week one in Ohio. Boo hoo. The team hasn't quit yet, and they're finally heading home. This year's schedule has only exacerbated the distorted view that college football nation and our own fanbase has of this team. They lost by one score on the road to Ohio State, who no one has played close since. Then they played 3 cupcakes that no one cared to even cover or watch for the most part. While our fanbase yawned and Manning struggled, everyone else just read box scores, watched some clippings on Twitter and IG, and formed definitive opinions that Texas sucks. A bad loss to lackluster Florida in The Swamp didn't help the program's cause. People excused OU because of the Mateer injury, even though he played and said he was fine, and then beat two SEC teams on the road. After two fucking decades of hearing mouthbreathers tell us what a grind every SEC game is, especially on the road, Texas has received zero credit for going back to back weeks and beating Kentucky and Mississippi State in their backyards. So were folks just lying pieces of shit overhyping a top-heavy, otherwise mediocre conference? Or is everyone just full of shit and resentment now and can't give Texas credit where it is due? I've heard multiple talking heads yesterday and today claim that Texas is done and simply not a good team this year. "I expect Vanderbilt to expose Texas as a fraud this weekend." - Nicole Auerbach, AP voter who did not vote for Texas this week, but voted for her alma mater, Michigan, who lost to OU and has the same 6-2 record as Texas. The good news is that the game still gets to get played. Texas has gone the longest stretch without a home game of an P4 team in the last 25 years - 6 calendar weeks.* It is time for home-cooking. "But CTJ, Vanderbilt is actually good this year!" This Vanderbilt team is fine. Are they good? No. This team is a by-product of a gritty QB with some talent around him on offense, a well-schemed defense and an absolutely dreadful schedule. Vanderbilt is currently 7-1. In the non-con they played Charleston Southern in the FCS, a 3-5 Va Tech, 1-7 Georgia State (Sun Belt) and 4-4 Utah State (Mountain West), who also lost to New Mexico and Hawaii by similar scoring differentials. In those 4 games, Vanderbilt outgained their opponents by 1,083 yards. This Vanderbilt team can punch a midget, that much is certain. How about in the SEC? That's a different story. They've played at South Carolina, at Alabama and then hosted LSU and Missouri. SCar, as predicted, was wildly overrated and sits at 3-5. They have a worse offensive line than Texas. Bama looks like a top 5 team. LSU just fired their coach, in part, for losing to Vanderbilt. Missouri's qb suffered a gruesome lower leg injury and was carted off the field in an inflatable cast while the game was tied 3-3 and Missouri was threatening to score. In these 4 games, including Vandy outgaining LSU by 74 yards, Vanderbilt was collectively outgained by 195 yards. This Vanderbilt team has been playing with a guardian angel watching over them all season. The devil always gets his due, and that payment will be made this weekend at DKR. "Now closetojumping, Diego Pavia is a winner. He's got moxie! He rallies his whole team around his aura and energy!" It was only this week that I learned that "Diego Pavia" literally means "overrated hobo" when translated from Mexican to English. Look, there is no doubt that Pavia is a born and proven leader. That's great for a marginally talented team playing either teams with less talent, teams with comparable talent, or teams who are asleep at the wheel. Luckily for Texas fans, this Texas team has awakened. Suffering near deaths on the road with their backs against the wall, the healthy pulse has been found and the adrenaline is kicking into high gear. All this team is going to hear all week is how they have no choice, even if slightly favored due to home field advantage. They're going to hear the Pavia talk constantly. They're getting asked about him at the press conference today. There will be more of it throughout the week. They'll be reminded of the near loss last season. DIEGO MANIA!! and Vanderbilt is for real!! are memes and topics all over social media. Texas players are being bombarded with this propaganda. Meanwhile, sweet baby Diego has escalated his shittalking and showboating with the press. He continues to state that Vanderbilt is winning the national title. He stated this weekend after the Missouri game that he should be a frontrunner for the Heisman. No one is huffing their own farts with more vigor right now than The Macho Vato. We'll see how much grit is left when Colin Simmons tells Pavia from across the LOS "I'm going to be the last thing you see, bitch!" and then lays the dude out for a sack. Moxie and grittiness carry one only so far against motivated and superior talent. Vanderbilt hasn't faced a defense like Texas. Bama and Mizzou both offer up blueprints to controlling Pavia that Texas can replicate. Keep Pavia in the pocket and shut down the run. Make them beat you by forcing Pavia to sustain drives with his arm, which he cannot do. LSU couldn't stop the run and that killed them. If Missouri doesn't lose contain to the backup TB who then goes 80 yards for a score in the 3rd, among many ifs (don't lose your QB for the season, catch a hail mary inside the end zone, not 3 inches short of one, maybe actually successfully kick more than one field goal, etc.), the defense does well enough for Missouri to win. Teh Major Applewhite and I Am Sam Ehlinger both had moxie and grit. Man, they were so good against lesser and/or sleepy opponents. Without superior firepower for either of those guys, how many wins did they tally up against similarly or more talented teams? They both finished around or below .500 in those match-ups. "Have you seen the Texas offense, CTJ? Have you seen this OLine? You know that, now that Arch Manning is finally putting it all together, he's in concussion protocol and is unlikely to play this weekend, right? You know that Vanderbilt has a good defense, too, right?" Oh ye coelenterates of little faith. Yes, I know that Arch Knoblauch is unlikely to play this weekend. Yes, the Vanderbilt defense has looked good in most of their games. Yes, the Texas offensive line has mostly been hammered dogshit. None of that will matter come Saturday, as The Matt Bomber Offense will be on full display. Caldwell was a quiet pick-up from the portal for this specific reason - at some point this year, Manning was likely to miss time. QB is a tough position and the SEC is a tough league. Caldwell has looked good all fall and has gained the trust of his team. His clutch moment this past Saturday only helps solidify that. More importantly than anything else, Caldwell's biggest strength is that he can actually complete most of the layups this offense can offer him. Now, will Ryan Wingo and Deandre Moore actually catch those layups? One can only hope. As to the OL, they've shown some signs of coming together. Their play in the second half of the MSU game might be a fluke, but we've seen similar glimpses in the second half of the OU game as well. If we complete a few simple passes throughout various drives, some wear and tear on a vastly outsized front 7 won't hurt things, either. I'll grant that I have less confidence and more hope, which is never a good strategy, when thinking about OL performance coming up, but just like rent on November 1, that unit is due. On the Vanderbilt defense, they're good, but they're not great. They don't force a ton of turnovers unless they're playing South Carolina and injuring Lanoris Sellers. They average less than 3 sacks per game. Vanderbilt does not have a singular dominant force on their defense. They're a collection of older players who are coached well. Texas has done well regarding turnovers this season and there's no reason to think that that will play out differently in this game. If Vanderbilt struggled to get to the passer against SCar and LSU, there's no reason to be overly worried about protecting The Matt Bomber this Saturday. "So what does it all mean, closetojumping?" Well, I am glad you asked. It means mudhole. Or, I should say, this year's version of the mudhole. Texas 31 - Vanderbilt 17. Hook'em
  20. Yes! Let’s put the women and children to bed and go looking for dinner!
  21. Come on. The best team they have played so far is Temple, at 5-3. Their schedule is the definition of “backloaded. They play: @UNT (7-1) @Notre Dame (5-2) South Florida (6-2) @Memphis (7-1) Army (3-4) Win 3 or more of those games and then they can whine if they’re not ranked.
  22. Yes, so it that you’re way of giving me karmic credit? If I could control CFB karma, Texas would win the title every year and Penn State and Baylor would not have programs.
  23. Strong work, guys. If I was getting credit for creating the loss, do I now get credit for the amazing comeback culture win? I feel like this thread ultimately willed Texas to the victory. Sweet. Also, y’all may want to hide your eyes this week, as the next thread I post could otherwise cause some wailing and gnashing of teeth.
  24. Boosters in college sports function akin to the ownership group in the pro sports. You’re trying to make the case that there is nothing like a booster issue in the NFL and that is silly.
  25. Thanks. I meant “30”, not 39, btw. Fixed it in my post after seeing it quoted. Keep trying, buddy. You’ll get there eventually.
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