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It is really something when one ignoramus says something moronic, and then a second ignoramus wades in to the shitstorm of criticism and agrees, at which point ignoramus #1 gleefully doubles down with an even more asinine take, spawning a mutated love child of ignorance and stupidity that makes all of us dumber—the type of stink you can’t wash off.

It’s Fucking fantastic you cite the loss of DTD as a reason to be worried about the defense. Truly admirable straw grasping. Also, don’t make me go back and find one of your innumerable posts in summer 2022 incessantly bitching about our coaches rolling back the same shitty players from 2021, like… drum roll… Coburn, ojomo, and overshown.

First-team All-Pac12 spring rehab team. Real coach-in-the-training-room type of guy.

People on this board would legit have said “nah I’m good, too many mouths to feed” to Jordan Addison transferring here last year. Our 3rd WR had less than 10 catches last year.

perfect encapsulation of this thread. Drawing conclusions based on limited public info, when 90% of the action is under the table. impossible to know one way or the other.

We thought this in 2020 then they won the conference and we fired our coach

Here’s how this works people: rule 1: Refs will always favor their home conference, so SEC refs will screw us rule 2: but the exception is big 12 refs, who will always screw us and help OU. rule 3: unless it’s a down year for OU in which case big 12 refs will screw us and OU. rule 4: unless we are playing OU, in which case see rule 2. lot of ins, lot of outs, lot of what have you’s

Mandel’s source for that article was this thread

One of those guys committed to Baylor before sark was even finished at Bama. but go ahead and keep cherry-picking hypothetical players to fit your narrative. Definitely just as fresh as the last 100 times you’ve said it.

1. Or archery

Can someone explain why aggy is so happy about this? Are they just wish casting that Ewers is bad and the BMDs forced sark’s hand? seems like it’s backwards since Ewers is the 5-star generational QB that Sark handpicked out of the portal. Not sure sark would be unhappy about starting Ewers? You can thread the needle that there’s I situtional dysfunction so it’s actually a bad thing to start a generational talent, but seems like our entire program is aligned behind Ewers…

Quinn must’ve been barking calls today.

Let FCB post his hit pieces in peace, Sark! Jeez! leavebritneyalone.gif

Sorrell, Finkley, Burke (if he fills out) are your Bigger jack. Ovie, DJ Harris, Tapp, dorbah are your smaller Buck. Ojomo, Bledsoe, Swanson play the SDE. Walton is a buck after gaining 20 lbs. Gillette is a Sam in base 4-3.

Alabama runs a 2-4 with Anderson and Turner. talent and fundamentals make the scheme work. Even in the vaunted SEC

Christian Jones vs Arkansas, c. September 2021.

Methinks she doth protest too much

Feels like TJ Shanahan is a nice little microcosm of A&M: stumbles out to an early lead through fuckery, puffs his chest out, then proceeds to shit all over himself. They deserve each other.

Well, I guess you should take it as a compliment that your posts are usually substantially more accurate and informative than any Texas journalist, which is why I am latching onto them. It's not me giving your posts power, it's your own credibility. And point taken about my subjective standard. But to be fair, this conversation started with a subjective standard about what info should and shouldn't be posted about recruits.

So to be clearL: you do post non-public info about our coaches and program on Surly, just not the entirety of such info that ends up here?

Fuck Chip Brown has the same "my opinions don't sway recruits, I'm just spilling my thoughts" excuse for the Nik Bonitto situation. Wasn't he just relaying Herman's incompetence? Is it the 'journalist' credential, loose as that is for Texas journalists, that makes the difference?

And what if he comes to a board and sees non-public info about a coach, his sordid past, his slip-ups with assembling his staff, his defensive ignorance and incompetence? If that info is particularly negative, isnt the program going to have to deal with that? Im not talking about college radio and tv commentary, or random posters on this board. I'm talking about posters like you, who are viewed as the most credible and valuable posters on this website, with personal and deep ties not the program and BMDs, and access to non-public info. You have backed up your ostensible insider status with evidence and accurate prognostications, for the most part. Your posts have hte most impressions and responses on Surly. If anything, your contributions to recruiting give even more weight to your opinions, even if your actions seem contrary to your words. You can be the judge about whether your opinions on the coach matter, but to me they matter a lot more than most posters on this site.

I have learned things from Surly and CTJ in particular regarding Sark, assuming they are true, that I have never seen "publicly" on twitter or elsewhere. These go beyond "we lost 6 games and Kansas at home." Things like, the incompetence and timeline of his hiring of Mike Stoops, his total lack of understanding of defenses and defensive coordination (as relayed by people within the program), the lack of consensus for his hiring in the first place, the true depravity of his alcoholism and days at Washington (even his favorite type of tequila and associate nickname). There have been similarly non-public info about recruits: Jaydon Blue's "opt-out" excuse for quitting the team and then associated attempts to get back on the team, Evan Stewart's drug test as the reason for him not participating with the team. Neither of these were particularly bemoaned.

I was citing his 1) paragraph.

Your point wasn’t about protecting the privacy of recruits, it was the consequentialist point of ‘airing that info could cause the recruit to not go to Texas.’ Which I agree with. I don’t understand why you’d be ok with pushing a recruit away by synthesizing all of the negative data points regarding our head coach into a conclusive “he sucks”, but then be worried about some non public info about that recruit coming into surly being the cause.