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William Bludworth

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  1. Agreed. His improv is weirdly a strength, which I'm totally fine with as long as he can keep it up, or we find gold and our line gels and gives him time.
  2. More like Connor Strohng, amirite?
  3. If they even tried this, that field house better watch it's back.
  4. Yeah, me too. Their 1 sack still pisses me off.
  5. Ah, OK. That's where my brain went after you post, but then I started to second guess myself. But yeah, it absolutely could be Ohio State/Indiana, which would be the weirdest fucking CCG I can remember. I think Cignetti is a fantastic coach, but, and again, jmo, Ohio State would beat them, too. The talent-gap is just too wide, unless Cignetti has just some unfathomable game plan with luck introduced. But remember, Oregon beat Ohio State last year, and we saw what happened when they met again. That was with Dillon Gabriel, 1.2k rusher Jordan James, Tez Johnson, a healthy Evan Stewart, Traeshon Holden, TE Terrance Ferguson, 1st rd OL Josh Conerly, Jr., 1st rd DT/DL Derrick Harmon, DL Jamaree Caldwell, S Jeffrey Bassa, DE Jordan Burch, etc. That was an absolute 20 pt beating in Eugene again. Just looking at talent recruiting rankings disparity, fOSU has double the amount of 5* talent than the second leader, which is Oregon at #2 and Penn State at #3. 4* talent it's Penn State, fOSU, Oregon. My point being is that 5*/4* talent makes all the difference (unless your name happens to be James Franklin, which if that's the case, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW $50M LOTTERY WINNINGS), which is why even if the Buckeye play Indiana, I don't think it will be some blowout because of Cignetti, but fOSU will win by 2 TDs. ------------------------------------------- Texas, for whatever reason, is the only team to have held both Jeremiah Smith (6-43), and Carnell Tate (2-59) in check (aside from a blown assignment which gave Tate most of his 2 catches for 59 yards all game with his 40 yd TD. Credit is due where it's due). I don't know if it's just talent meets similar/comparable talent (which I believe Littleton is) regardless of recruiting rankings (we did have Thorpe winner Barron in 2024), but it was Muhammad/frosh Littleton (absolute stud) covering Smith this year, and Kobe Black/Taaffe tasked with covering Tate, scheme, whatever the case. If you haven't gotten to watch Longhorns football, tuck away the name Gaceon Littleton. He'll be our next Thorpe winner before he heads to the first rd.
  6. I was just addressing the sacks, I didn't want to do any more digging on the others, but appreciate you did it for me. Pos rep Well now we know you aren't a Vic sock
  7. Well they don't play each other in conference, so why not? Am I having a brain fart?
  8. Well, you were sort of right, except we were the ones who got the 5 sacks, so...
  9. I'm in total agreement that no one outside of bluebloods or bluebloods adjacents will win it all. The gap will always be wide, no matter how much so and so (pick whatever team with billionaires who love to spend) throws money at the program. I don't even think Oregon will ever win it all in the next 15 years. People are free to disagree, but I just don't see it. They're a really good team, but they have an Ohio State problem, which is much worse than us having a UGA problem due to us and Georgia are similarly situated with recruiting/evaluating/deleopment/coaching (defensively for us atm), whereas Ohio State and Oregon and different due to development and Ohio State just gets better recruits 9/10 times, regardless of what the rankings say. Lanning has only started to "catch up" in rankings since 2023, but it doesn't matter, he has been their HC since 2021. He did win the conference in 2024, he got absolutely demolished, embarrassed in the playoffs. Oregon looked like they didn't even belong, much like SMU, Boise, Tenn, Indiana, and Clemson. I just don't see Lanning winning it all, and some will or can say Sark, too. Maybe I'm biased, but I can see Sark winning it all at some point, as long as he rids himself of Flood for a real o-line coach. Lanning is a weird guy. I'm indifferent to him, tbh. He's corny and shit, but whatever. Anyway, you see he has Dakorian Moore, who is a freak athlete, but there is a wide gap between Jeremiah Smith/Carnell Tate to Dakorian Moore/EvanStewart. There just is. Both Smith and Tate each have 500 yards receiving with Smith having 5 TD's and Tate with 4 TD's with a RS-FR QB, while Moore, who has a junior QB in Moore, has 338 yards and 3 TD's. Then if we get into the RBs, Ohio State is just on a completely different level. They have 3 RB's that they can use, similarly to Henderson and Judkins to put in and beat you with (Bo Jackson and Donaldson without question, and People's isn't a scrub), then you look at Oregon and see one RB with barely vier 259 yards rushing. By comparison, Ohio State has 3 over the 200 mark, with Jackson having 400+, Donaldson 200+, and People's around 207. Defensively tOSU is #1 in scoring D, and 4th overall, whereas Oregon is #8, allowing 250+ ypg. They'll meet in the CCG, and we'll see then, but Ohio State will win that game, imo.
  10. While one can say yes, you did bottle him up on the ground (even though he did have 2 rushing TD's), he caught 6 passes for 117 yards (so I wouldn't say you "bottled him up" overall), you guys played him in Sept, not January of 2025. He only got better and better as he adjusted to year two of FBS football. It's just the natural progression of athletes. He ended the season with 1700 yards @ 5.8 a clip, and 21 TD's on the ground, to go along with 45 catches for 605 yds and 3 TD's. He had 2,300 yards from scrimmage + 24 TD's in 2024/25 What you guys saw on Sept 21 to what we saw on January 1st are Jekyll and Hyde. My apologies, I misread it while working. Speed reading and working do not go hand in hand for me lol.
  11. I am vexed at the Filasame injury. Regarding Hutson, Robertson should be an upgrade because whatever Flood puts out there in the beginning, the second option is always better. The only thing Stroh hurt is the bed he lies on. It's also the only time he's ever done anything laterally at his time in Austin.
  12. Back at you for also knowing who he is, you sick freak.
  13. Well now we need to put them and aggy in a gladatior ring and see who dies first.
  14. Yeah, they've done a heck of a job with development from portal players. Kudos to them for that, for sure.
  15. Introduction: Appreciate the rational response, and yeah, it will always be the default about Lubbock, yada yada yada, but at the same time it's true in a sense because y'all haven't done it - yet. If McGuire can get you guys to the playoffs, more than a few times, then it all becomes moot. Location comes fourth to winning, putting players in the league, and money. I also agree that this tech team would beat that ASU team, but Skataboo would work your D-line to the point of exhaustion on your part. He is an alien. Levitt, while I think is good, people, Gerry and Bobby included (if you've never watched OTF) sucked him off. That game was Skataboo. I don't hate tech like a lot of people here so seeing them in the playoffs would be pretty cool. But I am dying on the hill that once/if you make the playoffs, and don't play us if we're on another side, going against a peer team with the level of talent to Texas with mostly 4/5 stars will matter (I'm talking long-term, not this specific season), hence why I said the playoffs are the ceiling (which is better than what, 124 others who don't make it?). All in all, while I still think you guys are playing high school teams, right now I do believe you could compete in both the SEC/B1G this season due to no one standing out aside from Ohio State, Bama, and maybe Oregon/Indiana (I don't care about their loss to Indiana, those dudes are fast and physical). No team will be undefeated in either conference anymore unless they get the James Franklin special from last year that only he could fuck up. The Big XII is different simply because tech 1) has done a tremendous job in the portal/recruiting, and 2) everyone else in conference, aside from maaaaaaaaybe ASU are WAC-level, unless Utah can turn back the clock, but Whittingham is 65, fixing to retire in less than 3 years, and he's not Cignetti, who himself seems to be an alien. This year will be fun going forward.
  16. The real answer is if they were superior they would have used Gorilla tape and not duct tape. They're cheap and poor.
  17. Yeah, I'm gonna disagree on that chart, Lou. Stroh is not "baseline competent". He's barely cognitively functioning. I watched him against Florida just to punish myself and when the ball was snapped, all he did was move his legs up and down and then the DT just shoved him aside like he was nothing more than getting in the way of someone trying to get in on a gonzo hooker bang. There was no lateral movement other than their DT doing it for him. All he could do was fall backwards. Literally the worst IOL I've ever seen. He made Tray Allen look like Larry Allen or Will Shields.
  18. That was just the preface, sir.
  19. We'll see if he sticks. It's 2027 and it's retarded to even be taking commits this early, even for us. I hope Epps sticks, but if he doesn't it's not like I'll be surprised. Money may bring kids to commit, but more money will get a kid to decommit, especially if the other team is winning and putting players in the league. I expect and hope this year is an outlier, and Flood is "encouraged" to move on after the season. Same with Banks. It's past time to upgrade.
  20. Maybe just Hüsker Dön't next time
  21. I don't care what Campbell thinks. Buying these players might make them believe they're gonna be Bama, but the reality is they're just dressing up as Auburn for Halloween every cycle without the championships. They'll get 5-7 mostly 4* recruits, with maybe one or two 5*, but the rest will be nothing but 3* filler, so I don't know why anyone thinks Campbell will be making much of a difference just because he's spending their budget on one-two 5* every cycle. Good for them for making the top 25 in recruiting at #23 (one spot ahead of SMU) so far. They have one 5* and four 4* recruits and fourteen 3*. I don't know how many more they plan to take, or if they'll just go portal heavy, but then what about the portal? More money spent. Being a billionaire is great I'm sure, but overspending on a recruit like Ojo who is a project is retarded. 2027 they have one 5*, a top fifty 4*, one top 200 4*, and a 3*. Drops will happen, risers will come, so already spending like that is dumb af. I get it, the tech grads/fans here love Lubbock, but the rest of us who graduated from Texas or are Texas fans and attend games, did it for not just academic reasons, but Austin, which sells itself. This is what Campbell doesn't understand. Most of these recruits don't even know about Lubbock, don't care about Lubbock, or don't want to sign some ridiculous contract binding them to a school and/or team they may not want to be at in the middle of nowhere who play no one, hence why the top 10 teams in recruiting each year have between three to six 5* and fiftenen to twenty 4* with around six 3* on average, and it's always the same teams, with the outlier here or there (aggy). Campbell thinks their money can get them there, but he's being delusional. We know this. Tech fans on this board know it. If they make the playoffs, that's great for them, but once they're seeded against a team stacked with damn near 4/5* talent, they're going to look out of place and get embarrassed. Just like SMU and Boise, and ASU before we started getting players hurt/injured in the game for their "miraculous comeback." The ceiling is the playoffs, not championships, because that will absolutely never happen as long as the Texas', Bama's, Oregon, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and Georgia's of the world still exist. But Cam Skataboo was a fucking beast.
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