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  1. 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.
  2. 1) since when do you care about airing negative recruiting narratives that could affect recruits considering Texas? Isnt telling everyone who will listen that ‘our coach is an incompetent loser who will never win more than 7 games’ going to affect recruits?
  3. If I’m Addison And there is a substantial lack of promises kept, I’m opting out and heading to the draft healthy. Teams are desperate for elite WRs.
  4. Best parts: 1. the solution to negative media coverage is “get more Aggies on the media.” Just need more loyal party members to echo the ministry of truth, is all. 2. The cognitive dissonance of trying to abide by jimbos “we didn’t pay players, we don’t really even have NIL” with “why are we so behind on NIL, we have the most money”
  5. After 6 months of telling everyone and anyone in earshot that sarklossian and his merry band of loser fuckwits are quite possibly the most incompetent, useless, pathetic group of failed-upwards coaches that had ever been assembled, having committed coaching negligence so egregious so as to border on criminality; after six months of repeating this, the chant has become so effective that surlyans are now convinced that Mike Fucking Stoops would be a step up in coaching accumen. Bravo Dr. Frankenstein, look upon your monster. Contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold.
  6. Criticizing someone for “not being the sharpest tool in the shed” with a quasi-illiterate post is always fun
  7. So we’ll win in spite of Sark with recruiting and offense, even though recruiting and offense are the main things Sark brings to the table. got it.
  8. This is like suggesting that North Koreans are free to say anything they want because whatever they say will be what Kim Jong Un wants them to say.
  9. You are absolutely dripping with “Sark hasn’t done anything good” bias if you believe both that: (1) Kelvin banks would automatically be AT LEAST a 3-year starter at Bama and UGA, and (2) Banks couldn’t be “just a functional online man who can help make our line average” as a freshman on par with other portal options. I understand you’ve got your hill of we suck and all of our good players are transfer risks because sark sucks so we’re fucked either way, but come on dude.
  10. So Sark didn’t address the OL at all because his #1 OL recruiting class won’t contribute this year, but also one of his 5-star OL recruits would be a at least a 3-year starter at bama. Makes sense. got it.
  11. "But I'm not calling for him to be fired."
  12. Are you aware of how fantastic of a malapropism this is?
  13. Also just the momentum of coming off a year where he actually played football. The guy balled out after having his senior season cancelled and being a summer enrollee with a new staff. Incredible. He now gets an entire offseason being WR1 in the same system. Exciting.
  14. It can bit more nuanced as far as best 5 vs best overall unit. Assume best 6 in order is Angilau, Banks, Campbell, Jones, Majors, Conner. I may decide that Campbell plays RT better than Jones, and Conner plays G better than Jones, so Jones becomes my sixth man. Banks - Angilau - Majors - Conner - Campbell. The "best 5" mentality might have hurt us in 2020, when Kerstetter moved to C. Inserting Majors theoretically could have produced a better unit. Hindsight, tho.
  15. Yancy would never allow this. He demanded cleats on at all times, even in the showers.
  16. I wonder how sustainable it is for Saban to continue this trend of bringing in sure-fire starters from the portal and pushing out young studs. Seems faustian, but if anyone can make it work it's him.
  17. To be clear--in addition to Ewers, Watts, Billingsly, Neyor, Mathis, Brini, Moody--in the portal you would like to add: OT, OT, C, Edge, ILB, TE, DL, DL, DL. 16 total transfers. Am I missing anyone?
  18. 1. Your "taking reps" idea is colored a lot by hindsight. The main mission going into the season was to win enough games to positively impact recruiting. Looking back, we should have been focused on playing young guys and developing for 2022. Given the mission, the best guys needed to play until a 'plausibly spinnable' season (7-5) was out of reach, which was the loss to Kansas. Also needed to foster a meritocracy, so if Dunn was better to start the year, you play him. Barron became the starter at the end of the year anyway. Pretty sure Crawford was hampered by injury all year. 2. I agree with portal needing to be definitive upgrades, but only once the roster construction has normalized. Were not in the emergency 'there are literally no EDGE players' situation from last year that necessitated taking 3 JAGs just to fill a room with bodies. But, for positions where depth is still an issue it does make sense to take guys that may not be definitive upgrades, but who will for sure impact the 2-deep. And OU only would have had 1 RB without Gray, so they were definitely in better shape with him. I agree with your general portal sentiments, but right now portal is a really effective tool to normalize and upgrade the roster.
  19. The first rule of the Transfer Portal is you dont worry about numbers. The second rule of the Transfer Portal is you dont talk about numbers. The third rule of the Transfer Portal is if you do worry and talk about numbers, don't be a fucking idiot and have a fucking clue. See rule 3, above. To reiterate: don't be a fucking idiot and have a fucking clue.
  20. Never is a strong word. And him still being here in that case is not exactly a ringing endorsement. To me--and although I have no evidence for this I'm sure the coaches must feel the same way--the thing that currently makes me most doubtful of Card's future is his mixture of great athleticism and piss-poor scrambling running ability. Even if he's taking sacks and missing throws, I would have a bunch more confidence is he's torching teams for 10 yards at a time running and showing off some athleticism. His ability to turn wide-open 10 yard running lanes into nail biting 2-yard gains was flabbergasting. Sees defender 10 yards away and turns straight into the sideline, no pump fakes, no jukes, no COD, no head fakes, no cuts. Never seen anything like it from a "dual threat" QB with viable traits.
  21. Defensive end was clearly the weakest position on the defense this year. That made the rest of the defense look terrible. 2020 Ossai and Jones made first-year-LB DMO and Juwan fuckface Mitchell look above average. The drop-off in EDGE production in 2021 was astronomical. Thornton would consistently do nothing. Ovie would sometimes make a play, bust most other times get blown off the ball so bad an entire side of the defense would get compromised. The defense managed to play average football when Jones was healthy. The rest of the time, hapless.
  22. Your take isnt lazy, it's nonsensical. By your logic: Texas has "lottery-type odds" to land multiple 5-star OL, because Texas has never landed multiple 5-star OL. So if Devon Campbell commits to Texas, then we should automatically have doubts about his ability and rate him as a 4-star, because a 5-star OL is already committed. Nonsensical.
  23. "2022 Transfer Thread - Quinfinity War" He Is Inevitable
  24. Burke is a weird case as far as rankings. Skewed data set. Flew totally under the radar until late this year, expected to play a different sport. Started stacking offers mid-season. The kid didn't even get ranked until December 3, 2021. He's a consensus 3-star, but On3 has him as 4-star. Gerry says he will be in an On3 top-150 player. Absolutely dominated in the playoffs, consistently. I wouldn't view him as 'just another 3-star' when making predictions about him.
  25. This malapropism is hilariously fitting.
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