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Because Kirk Bohls put a number out there. This is how reporting works. No one has time or the means to figure out what the truth is. So what they look for instead is someone authoritative they can cite. This isn't limited to sports. War reporting is especially bad, but it's any topic, really. How many deaths were there in the battle yesterday? I don't know, but the Russian ministry of defense reports this many. Same thing happened with Ohio State last year. Before the season the athletic director says they'll have a payroll of $20m, so everyone in the world said they had a payroll of $20m. The payroll was well north of that. Closer to $25m. But that doesn't matter because the athletic director stated before the season in an off hand way it was $20m, so everyone in the world could quote that and be covered. When people say Texas has a payroll of between $35m to $40m, they say according to the Houston Chronicle, and that's about the end of their fact checking. Nobody else covering a team has put a number out there, so Texas makes headlines. That's how it works.
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1946, to be exact. Jim Tatum's sales pitch to the OU board of regents was that he would pay veterans returning from WWII to play for OU, and build a football powerhouse. Unfortunately for him he took an unlimited budget and exceeded it. They fired him after one year and put Bud Wilkinson in his place who managed the money better. Tatum is also the only head coach they've hired since WWII other than the (also) one year Schnellenberger. Everyone else they hired as assistant coaches. Most of the time as internal promotions.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Well, maybe to the average fan. But to us obsessives they're never lost. I'd like to think we have a new generation of obsessives coming through. -
That's depressing.
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I'd argue Gerry Hamilton, but since Gerry hitched his wagon to Bobby's a long time ago, that makes Bobby the best by extension.
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How does that sound bad? The only time I'm not doing 17mph over is when I'm at a stop sign or traffic light. Ok, ok. School zones. I live in Houston, so that makes a difference. Here I feel like I'm going the speed of traffic. I travel anywhere else and I stick out like a sore thumb.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Full Roster Weaponization
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I think we're projecting on a group of people we don't know, who all could very well have different reasons for what they do, even different depending on which transfer we're talking about. I mean, that's what message boards are for. One thing that sucks about the internet is I used to engage in guy talk around facts that none of us in a group knew the answer to, which meant the conversation could go around in circles forever without any of us knowing the answer. Fucking Google cuts that shit short real quick. But subjective things we can't possibly know the right answer to? Bring that shit on! -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
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Maybe. What I will say is that all it takes is a handful of posters to behave in an unhinged manner and suddenly according to some the whole board thinks that way. -
Regardless of the charges, he was in jail from 3am to 7:30 pm or thereabouts. That's going to leave a mark. You can beat the time but you can't beat the ride.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Mackovic dipped his toes in recruiting other areas. Well, his assistants did, in any case. Ricky Williams case in point. Eric Metcalf recruited us as much as the other way around. But we've never really flexed as a national recruiting power the way other schools do because of the perception we didn't have to. There was also the fact high school coaches ran recruiting in the old days in many ways. You had to stay on their good side or you weren't going to have much of a chance with their players. A good way to piss off that fraternity was to bring in a bunch of out of state players. Everything is so transactional now. Not just NIL, although that's obviously a critical part of it. But high school coaches have seen their influence diminished by trainers, 7 on 7 programs, and other 3rd parties even before agents got involved. One of the big reasons why Texas was so fiercely opposed to A&M heading to the SEC is that as an institution Texas spent decades trying to keep the SEC out of Texas as a prominent presence. But once A&M broke that seal the floodgates were opened. We'll never go back to the days of instate schools dominating Texas recruiting. At the end of the day Texas and the coaching staff at UT do not owe their loyalty to high school coaches. Their priority is to build the best roster they can. There are going to be years where different positions of need are going to have a weak in state class. I love the idea that Sark and company have created enough in roads in hotbeds outside the borders that they can go get the best regardless of geography. There was a feeling that in the 2000s Mack Brown had an opportunity to do the same thing. The brand after 2005 had never been hotter. Vince in football, TJ Ford and especially Durant in basketball. Baseball winning a national championship. Instead he sat on his laurels and allowed Saban to take the recruiting momentum away from him while he acquired a lot of summer camp bread to build recruiting momentum, and ended up with very average classes that were overrated because the commits had "Texas" next to their name. This is honestly the best I've felt about the program in my lifetime. I was too young for the glory wishbone era. But I remember the 70s, and all the decades since. This is the best shape the program has ever been in during that time in terms of long term sustained success. It feels like this is the way it always was supposed to be, and we even got a little glimmer in the mid 2000s. But that was a mirage, and I knew it at the time. This feels good, man.- 3411 replies
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"I have a Tuesday meeting I'd like to invite you to, Nick." Steve Sarkisian, probably.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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I'd still rather never play them in anything ever again, but if we're going to, I like it that we're telling them to squeal like a pig.
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