Everything posted by Dbeasy
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
This thread stopped being fun somewhere between when it was started and the third post.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Lazy? Or a master at conserving energy. With the Out list, I can coach them to the ACC Title.
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Connecting at LHR
Last summer we took a train from london to Edinburgh. Worked great. Got to see cool countryside.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
I admire your optimism. The only problem with it is that we had the exact same situation last year and didn’t adequately address the OL, and the argument could be made that cost us a national championship last year. So being concerned about the OL is not just two guys from Michigan. And I bet you’re fatter than me.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
I would trade Coleman for three solid OL right now, straight up.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
What a weird situation. He briefly appears, doesn’t look bad, then disappears for the rest of the season. Then, re-signs. Maybe it’s a grades issue. Been living the college life too much maybe?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Take this fwiw. I’ve been talking with a guy who is good personal friends with people in the middle of the current Texas sh*tshow. There has been a belief that Texas’ roster overall isn’t good enough to compete with a few other programs (which is obviously true; we’ve all seen that). So in their efforts to remake the roster, they’ve been pretty aggressive and it’s domino’ing a bit to guys they don’t want to lose. They are doing their best to get those guys back, such as Williams. And for whatever reason, they still seem fairly positive about their ability to improve the roster more broadly. They don’t seem to be panicked. So that means either they have a lot of moving parts not visible, or they are so incompetent they still can’t see the mess emerging. Edit: or as my friend pointed out to me, they may just be giving him bs.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Agree
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ICE activity/raids
Visited this thread because I stumbled into a protest tonight here in Minnesota. Do the posters here realize that all of the early videos linked from this thread are now gone? Bluesky and twitter say “explicit content” and I wasn’t able to see them. The later videos thankfully were viewable.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Some have been realistic in distinguishing between OL and elsewhere, but others have been making blanket statements that “all is well”, which it’s not. And things are very close to not being just an OL issue with rumors of others headed to the portal they don’t want to lose.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
There may be a money issue, but there definitely is something else going on. There are way too many players hitting the portal or contemplating hitting it. This is a disaster and Sark is 100% responsible for it.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
When this mess first became apparent, that was my thought. When any executive staff starts smelling their own farts thinking they are going to win every deal, it’s a sign of immature, ineffective management. I was constantly bringing my sales team back to reality until I finally got a smarter more experienced guy in to lead the org. And I love how the “don”t panic” crowd continues to serve up their false bravado, as if they think the rest of us don’t realize they are just throwing shit out on a message board to try and look calm and collected, but meanwhile are clutching their favorite stuffed animal in a corner weeping. This is a train wreck. It’s okay to say that it is.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
The other positive from this whole portal thing is the hours of entertaining reading it provides in a month when I’d normally be ignoring Texas football. It’s been a great diversion during a few days where I needed to do some serious medical tests, which fortunately came good.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
It’s ALL Texas’ fault. Players around the country, in every program, were minding their own business, preparing for the spring semester, when they spied mountains of 5 star Texas players sprinting into the portal, like the 49 Gold Rush. As soon as they saw that, they too decided in a remarkably short period of time, to also enter the portal. Texas ruined college football.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
One positive from all of the portal lack of success is that Florida and Michigan have had to shell out a lot more money.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
It’s fantastic, and I don’t believe it.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
What about priapisms?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
I think most reasonable fans can understand missing on players in the portal, and losing guys off your roster because they can attract higher offers than the value given to them by the staff. Wisner looks to have been a good call. And the Texas strategy of going after Michigan talent made/makes a lot of sense given the coaching situation. However, everyone, especially coaches, should damn well know that teenagers are fickle, the portal is chaos, and anything can happen. The backup plans need to be in place and being executed. If the staff is pursuing plan B’s under the radar so as to not tip off other schools, then get it. It makes sense. As long as the plan B’s close. But if they really don’t have plan B’s, or didn’t do enough grooming of the plan B’s, then that’s just some stupid ass management. It shouldn’t even be 10 days before we see that. Given the criticality of the OL, plan B’s should be done by the end of this week.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
I guess we will learn in the next ~10 days whether Sark and Harris can manage this complexity on their own effectively, or whether they’ve ended up with a roster of 55 players and a bunch of cripples.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Dammit Satya, you gave me less than four hours of sunshine before reverting to form.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
Why is Ole Miss in flux?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
If even Satya doesn’t think we missed out on good OL here, then it must be true, and he has brightened my day.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!
And it proves he’s doing nothing in this thread but trolling. He’s unfunny, unknowledgeable, and his dog hates him. He should get a timeout from this thread for being a chode.
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My 2026 Health Insurance Premium Increase
We have the same issue. We both get care at Mayo Clinic, and no Texas ACA plans accept it. So despite being pretty well off financially and no need to work, my wife works so we have access to Mayo. It’s ridiculous. Oh, and Mayo costs are as low or lower than any other provider on Texas so it doesn’t even financially make sense.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!