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The 247 mods just posted a write-up about the DTs this spring. They had to do so using the guidelines that The Elk requires for any personnel write-up, so, if you read them often enough, you can see where they're skirting subject matter. What does that mean? 1) No mention of GBD until a poster asked about him. Full write-up with no mention. Tarp comes back and says "Elko says that he's injured" or something to that effect. They've done everything they can to avoid discussing the guy this spring. 2) The SR Wisconsin transfer, Johnson, is physically overwhelmed for the position but he plays better then his physical attributes should allow. Because they're fucked at this position, he may actually be in the rotation. 3) The gigantic fat guy of Pacific Islander descent has lost weight without picking up any quickness or strength advantages, apparently. If he doesn't just lodge himself into the center of a play like a buttplug and stay stuck, he's a huge liability. 4) Albert Regis is their best hope to fill in for McKinley Jackson and Raikes. He can't stay healthy or display the ability to stay on the field for an entire drive, but he needs to really get some advanced shit done this season and play bigger than his size. 5) Jadon Scarlett is a wasted scholarship. 6) DJ Hicks looks terrific and is living up to his highly rated billing. 7) Shemar Turner may be forced to play inside this year, where he should have been all along. They will have to hope for better production than his dogshit numbers over the first 2 seasons. That's if he doesn't transfer. 8 ) They might be proper fucked at NT if they can't find a massive NT in the portal that they can outbid everyone for, which Tarp thinks to be unlikely. There's no one on the roster currently to match the quality that they've had for the last 6 seasons. They lost the wrong guys to portal. I honestly think that last bit might be too much, even though he's trying to be subtle, for Tarp to get away with on The Elk Pravda front. I won't be surprised if he gets thrown into the aggie media gulag for a few weeks. That's where they put reporters, naked, into a pillory and then flog him or her with a horsewhip while forcefeeding them giant cans of store-bought spaghetti until they either die of gluttony and shame, Elko-style, or confess the profound remorse and promise to never cross The Elk again.

I would not be surprised at all if he winds up at ATM or LSU.

Negged.

Listen, what in the fuck are you doing listing guys that haven't won a national title? And none of them have a tie to the longhorn program? How dare you, sir? If Texas doesn't hire ... Skip fucking Johnson, or moneywhip Kevin O'Sullivan or Tim Corbin then they are by gawd fucking this thing up. Also, David Pierce has taken Texas to 3 CWS and barely missed a 4th. All Texas has to do is win the rest of their series and the Big 12 tournament and they're into the NCAA tournament, hopefully with a 2 seed in the College Station regional. This discussion is ludicrous and you know nothing about baseball.

Yes, it's Helobious who must feel aggrieved that the two of us are aligned on something.

Ethics? Ethics in here? Since when is that a thing. I'm not unaware Blue was 3rd string last year in spite of being rated higher (before skipping his senior year) than JB and true Freshman Baxter named the starter. I thought it was purely on talent eval by Choice/Sark, I missed anything said about his character. Why didn't Sark say bye bye when he announced he was entering the portal? I don't think a RB that wasn't getting the touches he expected threatening to portal was any worse than a starting WR (no names here) doing the same after every season, just maybe a little less publicly? I already said to you that this has been hashed out, on multiple occasions, on this board. You aren't worth the effort for me to type more thoughts on the same subject out for just your benefit. Go do a search and find what you'd like, or continue to be ignorant, I don't care. Either way, since it is all I have, I'm going to start negging your bandwidth draining posts on this thread regarding this subject and your behavior. You've already been publicly depantsed and that doesn't matter. Neg is all we have left. If we were physically in the same room, I'd try farting in your general direction and would then escalate things to grabbing you by the ear and casting you out of the gathering so as to spare us all from further interactions with one of the village's loudest idiots.

What in the fuck does Levon Helm or being born a pauper to a pawn have to do with the 2024 transfer portal?

This forum isn't a thoughtless mob and I don't pull any puppet strings. The reality is that you made an ass of yourself, as you often do, and you have no presence of mind to simply shut the fuck up, take the loss and move on. Thus, numerous people were climbing over each other to mock your bad takes and even worse lack of ethics in the discussion.

When in-person with someone and something brings up CDC and hiring Sarkisian, I just nod and act like, sure, there went CDC getting shit done again.

It always cracks me up when people want to credit Del Conte with the Sarkisian hire. Was he involved? Sure. Was he pulling the strings? No.

I feel like you guys are about to conjure the spirit of Bill In Sinton.

Tenet is dogshit wrapped in catshit. You can't even defend it without prefacing that you didn't know what in the fuck was happening either.

I only did cursory searches due to the volume of names, but when I looked up Russell, all I saw was Texas showing interest, an SMU commitment and a scheduled UF OV. Is he interested in ATM as well? Or is more like you or I having a strong interest in Natalie Portman, but her having other options that she'd prefer?

In browsing some of the recruiting updates on the aggie sites, it kind of dawned on me that there isn't a ton of serious overlap regarding recruiting targets in the 2025 cycle between Texas and ATM. Let's look at it. QB Lacey, Russell - ATM isn't on the list for either player. TB Stewart, Davison - ATM isn't on the list for either player. WR Ffrench, Moore, Lockett, Harris, McCutcheon, Choice - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. Kelshaun Johnson is giving ATM courtesy mentions but the guy has 5 OVs scheduled, yet nothing for ATM. Marsh - ATM leads big, but the family is trying to keep Texas interested and Texas doesn't want to burn bridges so they'll let him come around and such. This will be claimed as an ATM win and I will applaud it as well. TE Wilson - ATM wasn't on the list. Townsend, Armstrong - ATM is either in the lead or a serious contender in both recruitments. OL Mills, Coleman, Coleman, Brooks, Petty, Gaston, Langi - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. Fasusi - ATM is way behind Texas and OU. Newton, Thomas, Rogers - ATM is a serious contender for these players, but not a leader for any of them. DT Brown, Sharma, Autry, Charles, Wynn, Sims, Guidry - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. Williams - ATM is way behind Texas and LSU. Sanders - ATM and Texas are co-leaders. I don't know how highly this guy is ranked on either board, but I don't feel like Texas has made any kind of push. Edge Lowe, Jackson, Shanklin, Orogbo - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. LB Petitjon, Barnes, Tagoa'i, Cunningham - ATM isn't on the list for any of these players. CB Brew, Anding - ATM isn't on the list for either player. Sellers, Currie, Chester - Both Texas and ATM are on the lists with numerous other contenders for each player. Safety Williams - ATM isn't a serious contender. Phillips, Guillory - Both Texas and ATM are in serious contention for each player. So, while ATM is mentioned in some spots, the reality is that the only battles appear to be for a TE, an OL or two, a DT that neither school may want, 3 corners, and 2 safeties. That seems like nothing compared to various other cycles. In looking at ATM's 5 current commitments, Texas was polite around the Rink recruitment, but there isn't an ATM commitment that Texas would actually take. If I find the time and motivation, I'll check out OU and LSU in the same vein.

Couldn't just add the 's could he. I see trash like this typed out and I want to fucking vomit. It's not even a new syllable, you fucking twit. Nonetheless, I hope this guy goes elsewhere and smears his verbal vomit and overrated WR skills onto a different program. Disagree about the Oregon competition. Texas hasn't had problems beating Oregon out for guys under Sarkisian's watch, including 5* Baker in the last cycle.

ATM just got a commitment from yet another DE transferring from UCF. Dude was a team captain, but he amassed 47 tackles and zero sacks last season. Anyway, in reading the moderators on the aggie 247 site, it appears that they're gearing up for a number of new portal exits, particularly from the DL. The strongest part of their roster, with the most talent, is at Edge and DT. They're about to exchange more 4 and 5 stars heading out for more try-hards heading into the program. Another thing mentioned is that they're going to be 5 guys over the scholarship limit in August if they don't have more attrition. I was kind of surprised by this until I went through it quickly. They've swapped out a ton of highly ranked talent with a mediocre recruiting class and a bunch of transfers that zero top 15 programs would have taken. I don't think people, including here, realize just how shitty and untalented their 2024 roster is going to be. I type that without knowing whatever other harm will be done to them in the upcoming portal window.

This exchange cracked me up.

There's some pretty funny stuff happening on the aggie sites, as expected. Posters have fully committed to the premise that 5 stars are bad. Not all posters, but many, and that's spilling into arguments among the posters about recruiting quality. The value in taking the position that 5 stars are bad is that, with Elko's recruiting approach, poster expectations are aligning with the mediocrity of what Elko is bringing in. Tom Loy showed up with a post stating that things are looking very promising for this guy: https://247sports.com/player/marcus-garcia-46144270/ The competition for this guy is limited to P4 also-rans similar to ATM and then there's the faded blue blood, Nebraska. I don't give a shit if a guy is a 3 star or a 5 star, provided the evaluators are people I trust. We've all lived the experience of this kind of shit, however. 3 star that no top 10 team is in on, taking them early, needing to add 30+ pounds to have a prayer of being effective in college, etc. I wouldn't want to go back to that for all of the rice in China. Anyway, here are some of the more enjoyable comments: analytical "ruxin said... (original post) A mid 3 star? I would hope we like our chances… - Come on. Stars are a Jimbo Fisher evaluation. We have a smarter staff who do their own evals. Look at the kid's measurables and film. And then remind yourself that actual professional coaches know a lot that we don't. Stars ain't the best yardstick. We get 5* busts and 3* breakthroughs. Ainias was a 3*. Speedy Noil was a 5*. Touting stars makes a person look like they are a tshirt fan. 9 upvotes" 313Aggie "Rgibson04 said... (original post) If your competitors are getting 4-5 stars, then we should at least match that - Michigan was ranked 14 in talent composit, Washington was 26th. The game has changed." MacIdaho "ruxin said... (original post) Yes, seriously.Is Denver Harris a bust? Maybe, but he was good enough as a freshman that he got picked up by LSU. His problem isn't talent. Same ... - Aggigeboy86 2 posts below your response to me hit the nail on the head. Most of them didn’t do good here. I don’t care if they had off the field issues or not. They weren’t near as productive as many other 5 star players have been in the past few years for other teams. That was the point I was trying to make. If they go somewhere else and do good they still didn’t do it here, which is what is important to me. Advani80 also understood exactly what I was trying to convey as well." dichotomic "2008 recruiting vibes. Great footwork, ankle flexibility, nice forearms" catorano "Can't have enough Garcias. They practically built Kyle."

The strength of their team is the bottomless depth on the DL and this is what they’re expending their resources on.

Today I learned about mottes and baileys and also the motte and bailey fallacy.

I somehow missed any discussion of Blue being some sort of team cancer, guilty as charged. No one said that either, dum dum.

Pro-tip: If you're going to call someone out then provide examples of why what I said is wrong. Nobody has done that so far.. No one is trying to go into any depth with you because you aren't worth the effort with this kind of bullshit. You're misinformed and blathering voluminously as though what you're spewing has any value for the discussion. It doesn't. You've been pathetically wrong here while first trying to cast aspersions with certitude, and now you're crawfishing with the bitch ass "tell me why I'm wrong" nonsense.

Browsing the board and occasionally posting isn't the same as paying attention. Guess I missed all the Blue controversy. I knew about him entering the portal, but also know he came back out pretty quickly. If the coaching staff didn't want him around he would be somewhere else doing his thing. The guy didn't enter the fucking portal. No one is arguing that the coaching staff wants the guy around. Get a fucking clue here, man.

You are on this board too frequently to not have read the 1000 discussions and updates, many contemporaneously, about Blue's travels to be this fucking ignorant. Holy shit.

You are wrong in every part of this post. It's kind of stunning.