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Nagy telling Venables who to play is awesome. This keeps getting better and better.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Regarding OU's schedule: 8/30 5pm - Illinois State - Another season where OU courageously schedules an FCS school. Is anyone else a better midget-puncher than the fucking okies? They're going to look like a top 5 team as they win 84-7. 9/6 6:30pm - Michigan - My small write-up from a few weeks ago on Michigan for 2025 is spoilered below. I posted it on this thread when someone asked about them on page 1, but here it is again below. Bottom line is that this could be a defensive dogfight. Both defenses should be pretty good and ahead of both offenses, probably by a lot. Gaylord is a tough place to play, but Michigan is arguably more talented and experienced. This is a "show me" game for Venables, along with the RRS. If he wins this one, OU's pushing against their ceiling and might be looking at 9-3, even. 9/13 11am - @ Temple - Yep, OU is going to Philly. I honestly don't think that's a bad H/H/A deal, provided you like Philly. I personally dislike Philadelphia more than any other major city I've ever visited, anywhere on the planet. Angry, shitty people. Dirty overall landscape. Usually, the weather fucking sucks. But, hey, the history is awesome. I'm talking more about the city than Temple because there isn't much to discuss with regard to Temple. They return their atrocious QB and a 4 time transfer to challenge him, 3 OLs, the SHSU RB that followed new HC Keeler, and 2 CBs. That's all the starters. Temple opens against UMass, also with a new HC, and Howard. They'll be 2-0 coming into this game and the hype leading into will be through the roof. A mole rat's roof. 9/20 2:30 or nighttime - Auburn - A lot of people are sleeping on Auburn for 2025. Maybe that's justified, I don't know. Freeze has been a disappointment. Arnold has been a disappointment. But, Freeze has recruited really well. Auburn has, potentially, an amazing WR corps. They return 3 OLs, a likely 1st round pick at Edge and the entire secondary except Jerrin Thompson. DJ Durkin has yet to kill anyone there, also. This one should be physical. 9/27 - OFF 10/4 3pm - Kent State - Another brave scheduling match-up in the non-con on the part of OU. I assume Kent State will be the worst FBS team yet again, even with Delaware and Missouri State joining the ranks. 10/11 2:30 - Texas - Rubber meets the road for Venables with this game. I predict pain. 10/18 11am - @ South Carolina - SCar has two of the best players at their position in the country in Sellers (QB) and Stewart (Edge). They have to replace a metric ton around both of them. SCar is going to be overranked heading into this season and, by that, I mean they'll be ranked. Still, I'm sure they'll be a tough team and they certainly have no fear for OU after last season. 10/25 11am - Ole Miss - Yet another team that is likely to start the season ranked and will not finish the season as so. Kiffin has to replace almost every starter this season. I think Ole Miss is headed for an FSU 2024 type of year unless they really hit on all transfers. 11/1 2:30 or nighttime - @ Tennessee - Crazily, Tennessee will also likely open the season ranked. They lost most of their starters on offense and they're going to battle in the SEC with the former App State QB as their starter. Woof. They return most of their defense, but they lost 2 of the front four and Pearce. The front seven was the key to their team last season. 11/8 - OFF 11/15 2:30 or nighttime - @ Alabama - Bama returns numerous high quality starters, including Ryan Williams, Miller, and Proctor on offense. They also return Keenan JR, Lawson and most of the secondary on defense. Bama hosts LSU the week before and that might be a giant help to OU, coming off of a bye. The talent disparity in this game is gigantic. 11/22 11am - Missouri - Mizzou was a paper tiger in 2024 and everyone knew it. Once they were exposed later in the year, the bloom was off the rose for 2025 expectations. They lost key talent all over the field. I expect them to struggle to get to a winning record. 11/29 2:30 or nighttime - LSU - I did a write-up on LSU on a recruiting thread discussion and I've spoilered that below. The bottom line is that LSU is going to be good this year, but they're also not a top 10 team. Nussmeier gets a ton of credit for being a guy that can really hit a 10 yard out or dig decently. Outlook: I've continued to think that this team is better than they're getting credit for, and after thinking through the schedule, especially when removing brand vaneer for some of these teams, I'm still thinking that OU is a 8/5-9/4 team in 2025. That's probably good enough to keep Venables on as HC, and to keep us happy. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Regarding the OU Special Teams, here you go: PK: PK1 Tate Martell (SR); PK2 Austin Welch (SR) - OU pushed hard for numerous kickers this offseason and they whiffed repeatedly. The dude that Texas picked up from Texas State received a hard push from the OU staff. Luckily, he thought better of leaving central Texas for a suburb of Oklahoma City, for God's sake. Ultimately, OU had to settle on taking the former QB, who resurrected his career as a PK at UTSA, apparently. Dude went 19-23 last year and also 35-36 on EPS. Welch is yet another transfer from Kennesaw State on the OU roster. Is it a good sign if your program raided the storied Kennesaw State roster this spring? Probably not. Anyway, he sucked so badly this spring that Venables and Doug "Freakin" Deakin, the OU ST coach, had to go out and spend legit NIL money on the 6 time transfer Martell. P: P1 Jacob Ulrich (Soph); P2 Grayson Miller (SR) - Another Kennesaw State transfer, unbelievably, is Ulrich. Dude had a solid season last year punting for over 45ypp. He ranked 35th nationally in NPA. Seems solid. As to Miller, there isn't anything you could tell me that I wouldn't believe. What the fuck does anyone know about a backup punter? My understanding is that he spends his summers in Rangoon, taking luge lessons. This spring, he was caught in the quad wearing a meat helmet, otherwise nude with a freshly shorn scrotum, with a Zoroastrian named Vilma chasing him whilst carrying a burlap sap and a thick reed. KR: KR1 Isaiah Sategna (JR); KR2 Taylor Tatum (Soph) - Sategna is a better PR than KR, but he did both at Arkansas and OU needs a guy. Tatum returned a few last year and, given that they're breaking their bank to start the previously discussed Jadyn Ott at RB1, Tatum needs something to do if he's not going to get restless. PR: PR1 Isaiah Sategna (JR); PR2 Peyton Bowen (JR) - Sategna has averaged almost 10ypc as a punt returner, and that's solid. He was 11th in the country in 2023. Bowen averaged 8.36ypr last year, is coming off of turf toe surgery, and struggled at times with judging punts correctly. Bowen made multiple boneheaded decisions to catch or not catch punts last year. ST Coaching and Outlook: OU brought in Deakin from SDSU before last season and OU's STs made a big jump overall on the season. They went from 127th nationally in ST Efficiency in 2023, to 41st in 2024. That's pretty terrific in terms of improvement. He's going to have to work some magic to have OU at or better than that level in 2025. They lost most of their key contributors in every facet of their group, save Bowen at PR and he was likely the worst of the lot. Fun note about Deakin is that the OU SID team must really not like or give a shit about the dude. He's the only person on OU's roster of players, coaches, and analysts, at least as far as I saw, without a bio on their site: https://soonersports.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/doug-deakin/1211 . Deakin played at SDSU as a walk-on and then coached their for 14+ years before heading to Norman. His SDSU units finished in the top 10 of STE nationally 3 straight years before he split in 2024. -
They kicked a starting CB off the team a few years ago. I think he went to Georgia, won a national title, and then got drafted.
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For anyone else ever reading this, avoid Ann Arbor except for the game itself. Stay at the MGM Detroit, uber to and from the game (it's a breeze), take in the food scene in Detroit and eat at some of the terrific trendy places that have emerged, bet on some other games, play some craps, and go to a couple of the cool museums. Ann Arbor is overrated as all get out.
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Okay, then, Mr. Mallory, then why does Rice play Texas?
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I didn't know who this guy was until I clicked on the link. Wow. -
GJ Kinne: The next great offensive mind of CFB?
closetojumping replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Kinne doesn't sign enough Mexicans to Helobious' liking, so he views his entire ethos with disdain. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Am I the only guy who is going to be really surprised if Texas doesn't wind up signing at least one quality RB in the 2026 class? It just seems farfetched that they go 0-fer at a position like that. Maybe they have to dig deeper in their evaluations to find a new fit, but there's time for a brand and program like Texas with this recruiting staff and the NIL machine. Discussion about not signing an RB seems absurd. Evaluating the 2026 RB room is even more ludicrous. The odds are there's 2, maybe 3 guys from the current roster as part of that group.- 7416 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
If it was about proximity, I’d have mentioned as much. Don’t insert it. His dad is as much in favor of him getting all the money he can as the kid. Fuck both of them and I hope he rots in USC purgatory with Riley if he goes that route. If Oregon, fuck him there too. He has everything he needs at Texas. -
Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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The aggie recruiting blitzkrieg!!! Well timed in mid-June. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
My initial thinking is that they might be using the majority of the House allocation for recruiting. That would be fucking nuts. As to your question, I don't know. They went apeshit with the 2022 class before NIL was fully formed. They bought that class for like $8M and left everyone scratching their heads and vowing vengeance. This time around, they don't have some endless spigot and everyone else is overtly paying players, too. They might be catching Texas off guard with wild offers for Texas targets out of the blue here. Turntine and Krempin wouldn't surprise me, as I said, because they're trying to go nuts against the Texas head to heads. I can't say Ojo would be anything but a complete shocker. I'm also questioning how sustainable this is for the duration of the cycle if Texas decides to ramp up. Problem is, that might risk blowing up rooms and the roster, so that might be really stupid. If ATM is saying sayonara to their pre-existing roster for the sake of recruits after this season, good luck with that approach. Regardless, this is following the template of the 2022 class and the same money isn't behind it. These idiots might really be using the House deal mostly for recruiting 2026 players. Obviously, this season is going to matter a whole fucking bunch. Players don't want to go somewhere mediocre and be mediocre, no matter how much money is being thrown at them.- 7416 replies
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The good thing about a match-up with Penn State is that I'd enjoy printing a burnt orange "JoePa Knew" shirt and wearing it to the home game.
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Your 2021, 2022, 2024 & now 2025 directors cup champions.
closetojumping replied to SDG's topic in UT Sports
I want titles. Everyone cheering for a team or program wants that. That isn't title-ism. Title-ism is the premise of demanding titles and then claiming program or team failure when a title isn't achieved every single season. I invented the term for a special form of idiotic fan who cannot be happy and is insufferable about it for those around them. I came up with it for one my brothers, and you embody the same bullshit on this site. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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He was at Duke for 2 years and was actively involved with recruiting signees in the 2021-2023 recruiting classes while at ATM through the end of 2021. -
I thought about Michigan State. Given that Texas never schedules them in anything, I just assumed they were persona non grata irrespective of hundreds of molestations by the doctor and the coverup. The preseason magazines do not have a favorable outlook for Maryland this season. One of them has them finishing below Purdue on the season. While I follow CFB as a hobby trending toward religion, I didn't really pay much attention to Maryland last year or their roster ins and outs this offseason, so that was surprising. If Locksley trending towards a tumbledown, we should hurry up and fit them in irrespective of other P4s being scheduled. I kid ... mostly. Seems like last time Texas had other P4s on at the same time as Maryland and it didn't go so well.
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Texas Women’s Basketball 2024-2025 - We SEC Ready
closetojumping replied to Pancho's topic in UT Sports
When is someone going to start a 2025/2026 thread? That's what we're typing about now. Do I need curse the season and do it myself? You idiots will not enjoy the frequent title changes based on my mood and kneejerk reactions to single games. -
Your 2021, 2022, 2024 & now 2025 directors cup champions.
closetojumping replied to SDG's topic in UT Sports
No one gives a fuck what you think about women's T&F for 2026. You don't know anything more about it than the rest of us. They're not far removed from a national title and they're expected to be competing for another one next year. "Competing" doesn't mean win it or it's a failed season, doofus. Your entitled title-ism is tiresome on every board in which you post. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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How many paint chips does one have to consume in order to look at the Texas 2025 schedule and say out loud "yeah, that's an easy schedule"? These posters are a special form of stupid. -
Am I the only idiot that would like to play Maryland again and fix what Herman broke the last time? Same. I like that Texas will play damned near anyone, anytime, anywhere, but chooses not to do so with PSU, Baylor, UH and Tech. At least, that’s how I like to think the admin is thinking about it.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Perry-Wright will get a double down offer from ATM this weekend. Them doing the same with Turntine and/or Krempin wouldn’t surprise me either. They’re going to over weight spend towards some high end guys that will hold their nose and go to CS. Guys that they’re competing with Texas for? Even better. They think they’re going to be good this year, they’ve convinced themselves of that. Then they’re hollowed out with attrition due to eligibility in key spots, specifically OL. So it looks like the plan is to win big and sate the masses, imbalance the payroll towards youth and cycle back to whatever they do this year in a few years. They’re going to suck this season, however. You have to really squint to find 8 wins. I think they’re staring down the barrel of another 2022, personally.- 7416 replies
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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“1 more out of 10” should be “1 more out of 11”. I think “big time marquee teams” gets a little conflated in these discussions for most people. If Texas is scheduling better half P4 teams or Notre Dame, that’s cool with me and I’d bet many others. I could get my head around Purdue or Arizona or Wake Forest, but I’d prefer Michigan State, Kansas State, NC State and higher in those conferences.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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This is a good point and it’s almost a constant with how the SEC honks cover Texas in every sport and damned near every subject. I imagine it could take these mouthbreathing rubes decades to get a handle for how things are now going to work. The dynamic has changed, dummies.- 7416 replies
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
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