Everything posted by Wulaw Horn
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
Predictions are hard, especially about the future.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
Could it all go to shit? Sure. But the Muschamp hire is great and an awesome data point that we aren’t fucking around and we got this and understand the parameters of the game now. I’m going to choose to be gruntled and optimistic right now and save panic until at least 1/10/2026.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
I mean, I think as fans of we had to nominate someone from this board to be a GM we’d want it to be CTJ and that would be bc he’s at least a borderline sociopath, right? Anyone analytical that can rip the bandaid off. Every bit of attrition we’ve seen so far is ripping the band aid off and we will be better absolutely everywhere we’ve seen attrition as compared to if we decided to “pay them what they want”. DC is also a huge step that direction. I thought Sark could succeed bc he’s got a lot he does well and Texas has a lot of advantages. I never dreamed he’d make this kind of turn as a GM type 5 years in. It’s pretty exiting
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
Have any of you that regret any of our guys going into the portal ever managed people? It feels like you haven’t. The biggest mistake, by far, I’ve ever made in my career managing ~100 people is letting sentiment get in the way and trying to work around and scaffold Rube Goldberg machines to try to make substandard people as productive as I need or want them to be, rather than have honest and difficult conversations and just do the things that need to be done to make the organization better. There is a reason that sociopaths like Meyer and Saban have so much success playing checkers, while most human beings do stupid stuff like pay Tre or LL and try to (usually unsuccessfully) mitigate their weaknesses. Maybe Sark got some balls and is acting ruthless and they got shoved out the door, or maybe he just got lucky that in resetting their actual market value nature took its course, but we will be so much better if this continues to happen as a college football have. We have resource advantages over almost everyone. If we combine that with ruthlessly accurate decision making we won’t fail to succeed. My shitty management instincts always got in the way of me making anything I had control over excellent. Instead, I had enough positive traits I could improve where I was at bc I have some inherent talent for big picture strategy and goal setting and direction, but it wasn’t like I was great at anything I did because of these failings. I didn’t start having lots of success in my career until I started managing nobody under me (not even managing myself) and just doing what I was good at. Then, I ended up in the top 100 nationally in my career. Texas is absolutely capable of squandering all our financial and resource advantages. It looks like we won’t. Celebrate. And I will say this if a certain WR moves on as well. All hail creative destruction.
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NIL Recruiting News Megathread
I would absolutely buy a national title with that kind of power all winnings.
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NIL Recruiting News Megathread
If you pay someone for work not performed that’s kind of on you, no?
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NIL Recruiting News Megathread
I mean- maybe. I’ve never had an employee with a non-compete. Figure it’s my job to make the workplace work for them and if I can’t or they suck attrition can be magical.
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NIL Recruiting News Megathread
Some are suing or threatening that. Doesn’t seem like a good idea to me but who knows.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
This has gone on long enough. I will personally mediate a rapprochement between yall over a bowl of queso mixed with salsa.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
Because your mother is a whore.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
I’m not saying it’s preordained and can’t happen. It’s just what I believe is most likely to happen one way or another. I think 2026 is a massive pivot point for the program.
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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
Need to also talk about Mac 1 and 2 and late stage Mack.
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2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
For sure.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
You were replying while I was editing to say everything you said originally was correct about Williams and who he has been. It doesn’t have to be him but I want a WR #1 for the reasons I said. could we make everything we have work in the secondary? Sure. I just see 26 as national title or bust. If it doesn’t happen next year for sark I don’t think it ever will. The Muschamp hire is awesome. I’m going to trust him completely. If he says we don’t need guys back there I believe him. He’s such a gift taking that job. If we win it all him and Sark could go on a serious run together. We just can’t leave any powder dry this offseason.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
Other then that though what would your problem be with brining him in? (This is my way of saying everything you said about him is accurate). But, there’s another plausible path where he gets his head right in a contract year, becomes a top 5 pick and has the greatest season by a WR in Texas football history (not an absurdly high bar). That’s not exactly implausible. The WR room next year has a very decent floor but I don’t believe in its ceiling as presently constituted. I really want a WR 1 badly if we want to be serious about being favorite to win it all next year as opposed to in the mix. We need 3 OL lineman, a really good RB a decent body at DT, and starters at LB, 1 CB and safety to set the floor of the team as playoff likely, but if you do all that and don’t get a day 1 WR are you laying points in the college semi’s? I think so.
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2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
Yeah. I also watched the middle 1/3 of the season where we won 13 of his starts in a row and the previous 4 years where he reserved cy young votes every year. He shot the bed down the stretch no doubt. I think he got in his own head and isn’t cooked or anything. Lie I said- it’s an offer I would make him that he could take if he felt he had to, but it’s not likely he’d take it.
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2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
Frambers rep is worse with everyone else on here than me. He’s been a TOR guy that pitches a bunch of innings for years. I’d offer him 3/100 or something like that and walk at anything more. 2/70 would be fine with me too. Unless there’s a fair bit of development and draft this teams window ends in 2027. 2 years of Framber would make us legit World Series contenders through 27 and then it’s probably a rebuild. I’m aware that he’s not at all likely to take that- it if they are talking to him that would be my offer.
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2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
Blubaugh and Ullola are going to be good MLB pitchers. If they add JV with this deal as well they are fine. Unless they want to add an actual legit ace/2. But that has to be the deal or don’t bother just for depth. Brown, Burrows, JV, Javier, Arrighetti, blubaugh is absolutely fine for the regular season. That leaves you Ullola, Costanza, Gordon (France/ unless I missed him getting waived or something) and whoever else has helium in the minors as depth pieces, before getting Blanco and Wesneski back at all star break or so). Plus Dana’s dumpster diving over the off season. You can shred 3 of those arms (as long as one isn’t Brown) and still expect to get a MLB caliber start out of any of them. It’s missing a reliable co ace/two. If you aren’t going to do that don’t bother. glad to see the back of Melton. I hated that guy from the minute he was drafted.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - This Is Fine
This is the number for what we should always be wanting to retain from a previous roster and take into the next cycle- 40 or so you want to actively keep around headed into the the new roster cycle High School recruiting: Every year- Elite tackle, WR, Edge, CB, RB, Safety Every other year- Elite QB, TE, Guard, LB You should always sign 25 or 30. This would have you paying top dollar for 8 or so guys every year. The other 16-22 should be 3 star or low 4 star development types that you hope to hit on like 3 or 4 keepers and contributors per cycle and tell the other 12-20 to fuck off of or hang around and play for free. If you do that, then every year you should expect to be able to get by from the portal with 3 or so elite day 1 or 2 NFL talents to fill in where you busted and 7-10 rotational guys around the quality of the Purdue DT, or Spence from Arkansas. Guys that can play a role and add depth, but don't need to come in and be awesome they need to smooth out the rough edges of your roster. If they did this it should be a roster of 45 or 50 guys ready to play at all times with 10+ draft picks per cycle. That seems doable for 30M-40M a year on roster spend which is what I’d expect our number to be going forward. You need to enforce a development curve and don’t fuck around with sentimentality. I like telling Baxter and Moore to GTFO as a sign of that happening. We are in MLB territory now with windows, stars and scrubs and you hope you develop the “scrubs” enough to take 16 cracks at it a year and have them fill out 3-5 productive roster spots, while your stars play like stars and you tell them to GTFO if they don't
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The CFP ruined college football.
Same. My wife made me an office and tv watching room with 4 55 inch TV’s to watch at the same time. I don’t know that I will watch the first round other than to root against aggy.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Sure they will. But why would we?
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
ESPN paid 9 billion for this and also it’s supposed to be entertainment, so… no what the committee should be tasked with doing is making sure they screw up maximal enjoyment of college football both for this years playoffs while also fucking up fun September games longterm. It was aces dude!
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
And 65% likely. I had us as #5 of 5 sec teams in the playoffs. I thought OU getting to 10-2 is what knocked us out. That would have made me correct. But it wasn’t. They literally decided that all that mattered was counting losses so I was wrong. This whole thing was a probabilistic thread and as it turned out we were always never going beyond counting regular season losses regardless of what they said.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
I also thought it would be a good idea to write about my family living on the road out of an RV during Covid!
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
They won their conference so that doesn’t count. Wasn’t what he was saying.