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Oh come on. How many years have I taken Texas straight up when OU was giving points? I’ll take the $50 though.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

Yo, we betting this year? How much?

It's awesome seeing them really lean in to Georgia beating Texas in two weeks. They view it as a given. I am not dumb enough to think it can't happen, but things change. Georgia and Bama don't own 3 deeps that could beat everyone else's starters. In the inverse, Texas has been in build-mode. Georgia has missed on a lot of game breakers and they've got a culture with some off-field toxicity. We'll see how they handle another tough road outing where the talent on the field is matched or better at every position.

Oatis was good as a freshman. He’s regressed. Is it coaching? Attitude? Injury? No idea.

I think you're one of the lawyers here, but if not, someone else will chime in on this - the contracts drag out for many months, up to a year, and that's what happens elsewhere including Texas. That said, they allegedly have some really draconian components to theirs that may not even be enforceable? But whatever it is, aggies think they've created some ways to hold money back when they feel like it with NIL. I'll have to really grill a friend on what the hell happened truly with Sims. It's bizarre and almost seems to be coming from the UT end. The $9.95ers won't even discuss the guy now. To be clear, there aren't any gotchas in the Texas NIL docs. Player shows up, handles their appearances in a timely manner, etc., they're getting their NIL irrespective of on-field results through the term of the agreement.

Why would a bad Florida team, running a gauntlet and on the road in a sandwich game between actual rivals for them, be a trap opponent for Texas? I’ve seen this mentioned all offseason and it just doesn’t pass the smell test. Anything can happen, but that doesn’t spell “trap game” by the definition of the term.

I think he’s pretty good. I damned sure would take the guy over Lane Kiffin. Kiffin’s ceiling looks pretty much like hovering around 10 wins at a low pressure locale like Oxford and never beating anyone of consequence. Maybe, being in Mississippi, he’s become a big Faulkner guy and this is performance art and he could go somewhere else and actually win something. I doubt it. Deboer has accomplished more than Kiffin, regardless, and that shit can’t be credibly disputed. No one wants to declare the death of Alabama as a national power more than me. I’ve done it on multiple occasions, dating laughably back to Shaggy. I hope we’re on to something here. That said, I think Deboer was the best hire they could have made under the circumstances. His recruiting class doesn’t indicate a falter. Maybe they’ll shit themselves a few more times and it will portend the dawn of a better era for the rest of us CFB fans.

Thanks for the well wishes, good sir! We’ll let you know how everything turned out in mid-January.

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Yep. They’ve connected to a few recruit camps in which people around the recruit need that money right now. Future gains be damned.

What the fuck on Ohio State having a better resume than Texas right now. That’s a laughable position. You can’t devalue a Michigan win while lifting up an Iowa win. Michigan State is the same kind of ass as Mississippi State. Akron, Western Michigan and Marshall all blow the same way ULM, UTSA and CSU do, only the OSU opponents are even worse.

Folks aren’t worried about it or surprised. Dude’s brother plays for them and he told Texas about it a while ago, supposedly. I agree it’s “not ideal” but I don’t think it should be considered worrisome. I assume he’ll be at the Texas/Arkansas match-up as well.

We are less than 1/3 of the way through the full college football season and there is exactly one SEC team with an undefeated record. This conference is dickless and overrated.

Moore is undersized and hasn’t dazzled. He’s been good as a contributor and I’m glad he’s at Texas. I just don’t think he’s done enough to get drafted. Lot of season left, though. Personally, he’s like a hobo version of Corey Moore from Va Tech 20-ish years ago. I don’t remember if that dude even got picked.

“Well ackshually, according to my calculations, we need to reserve having an opinion as fans here, guys.” Right. How about we just hold off and catch you back up after the season is over? You dipshits that post stuff like this, why bother clicking on a thread about current rankings and polls?

I think we are really good. That said, you cannot exclude Ohio State from that same level unless you just haven’t watched them. Those are the two fastest teams in the country. Discounting Michigan is silly. That game was blanketed in drama heading into it. Defending champ, 110,000 people, Gameday and Big Noon, mega hype. Their defense has at least 3 first round picks and likely other draftable guys. Then Texas played “name that score” and walked out of there casually. It’s bullshit to denigrate that. Let the pundits and aggies do that.

Negged because you are an unentertaining troll with a terrible schtick. Go get fucked, dummy.

Given how Nahlin fucking crushed the Denver Harris recruitment out of North Shore, I think we should absolutely go all in on buying that loser’s latest POV.

No.

No bet at this stage. Like I said before, I want to see more of the season. A month from now, I think we can argue numbers again and see if there is a bet there. That would still be 6 months from the draft.

It’s relative, really. Improving Arkansas’ offense from last year is the lowest of bars. They had a worse OL than ATM and it rivaled any FBS program out there in terms of terrible. Enos was a laugher of a hire and then was fired mid-season while challenging students to fights over email. KJ Jefferson continued his regression of getting worse every season in his career and Sanders canceled his own season. You and I could improve upon that as Co-OCs. That said, there are at least 50 hires that could have been made with more current and sound resumes than Petrino. Boosters forced that hire and many times, those guys are victimized by prior relationship biases and nostalgia.

The main decision maker was friends with Fisher and friends with Elko. This came through supporting them in the bag game and going on trips and such with them. As it became clear, in their minds, that Fisher had to go, the money had veto rights since they were footing the buyouts. Bjorn/Bjork promised a big name. No one was interested. DeBoer didn’t even take a call with them. Bjorn/Bjork felt like Stoops was a big name and did the deal without checking on the veto. Liucci hated the deal and was buddies with both the money and Elko. Stoops was nixed while flying down. The Elk was then trumpeted as their big boy hire and then spin began.

This kind of thing being celebrated by those idiots is akin to ATM and Arkansas fans being excited about Bobby Petrino. These guys are retreads heading in the wrong direction of their careers. Harrell should start looking for new industries and career paths, as bad as he’s been. Getting shitcanned midseason at a P4 backwater like Purdue has to be rock bottom, right? Nope. Working as an analyst for a terrible OU OC who is also on the verge of getting the heave-ho has to be even lower, I guess.

You just referenced the notion that 20 longhorns could get drafted in the upcoming draft in the prior paragraph. I think we can all gather that you’re a “homer and a honk“ without you spelling it out. Blue declared before this season that this is a “contract year”, so, yeah he won’t be back. Maybe he does his thing and once again redeems himself through the rest of the season. He’s outdone himself before, of course. As of right now, he’s a JAG and will not get drafted. There are at least 30 guys I’ve seen listed ahead of him on the draft eligible TB lists. This is a deep class for TBs. Guys you need to stop listing if you’d like for the rest of us to stop pointing and laughing: 1) Hayden Conner. GTFO. 2) Holmes. He does not possess an elite skill and is undersized. As to Campbell, that guy is steadily losing playing time already. And he’s a guard. And he’s got mixed film. If he leaves, might he get drafted late? I guess there’s a shot. Will it have been a poor decision? Yes. There’s good money available if he wanted to return and Flood wanted him back. I guess I’m still deeply skeptical when it comes to Majors, Broughton, Gbenda, Campbell, Blue, Holmes, Mukuba, and Bolden. Hell, Golden isn’t a sure thing either. Conner hasn’t made a block in the running game in his fucking life. He has more whiffs on film than Rob Deer. I see 9 as the likely number and 12 the ceiling.