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closetojumping

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  1. Is this a triple dog dare, sir?
  2. It wouldn’t surprise me. The media has been really down on Texas due to the weirdness of the schedule and the team’s behavioral profile. Texas is SEC Iowa this year is the analog many talking heads have used to either justify the premise that Texas is overranked or that Iowa should be ranked. I do think Iowa is a lot better than recent vintages, but that’s because I’ve actually gotten to watch them. They play their standard great defense and special teams, but the offense is developing into being fully competent. They didn’t look like that at the beginning of the season. The Wetjen dude is really fun to watch, also.
  3. JFC
  4. I think it was 16 games due to the UT win, no?
  5. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! Also, I've stood in the second level crowd of Bryant Denny Stadium when they sing Dixieland Delight after the 3rd quarter, which I don't think they do anymore. It was quite a thing to behold. Bucket list kind of thing for a sports fan to experience.
  6. I'm really hoping that Manning doesn't play tomorrow. It has nothing to do with how he's looked in prior games. It's just hard to believe that the guy will be fully healthy and able to run the offense in just 7 days from the injury. There's a bye week next week. Just take another 2 weeks to get fully healthy and ready for Georgia.
  7. Channel groups will often have disputes with a service provider, irrespective of whether they're carrying sports on those channels. I've seen it with whoever own the Food Network and also with CBS' parent, I guess Paramount?, at some point. The big ones we all see are always Disney and Fox, of course.
  8. How often do you have to clean your tinfoil hat in order to keep it from causing your scalp to itch?
  9. 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!
  10. 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.
  11. With Bueckers gone, UConn is supposed to be even better? Wow.
  12. Dumdum didn't understand that the post he was responding to wasn't referring to OSU, but OU.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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