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William Bludworth

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  1. 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
  2. Well they don't play each other in conference, so why not? Am I having a brain fart?
  3. Well, you were sort of right, except we were the ones who got the 5 sacks, so...
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Back at you for also knowing who he is, you sick freak.
  8. Well now we need to put them and aggy in a gladatior ring and see who dies first.
  9. Yeah, they've done a heck of a job with development from portal players. Kudos to them for that, for sure.
  10. 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.
  11. The real answer is if they were superior they would have used Gorilla tape and not duct tape. They're cheap and poor.
  12. 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.
  13. That was just the preface, sir.
  14. 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.
  15. Maybe just Hüsker Dön't next time
  16. 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.
  17. Right, and I'm in agreement regarding Georgia and aggy, but that's just a red herring looking away from what Danny Rolling, er I mean the Billy Napier dd to us. It's irrelevant about what we did right or wrong (keeping Stroh in/replacing him with Brooks down 3 scores), we got abused and gutted. Lagway made our DBs look below average, and ran the ball at will. It wasn't a talent issue, it wss a scheming issue, but at the end of the day a complete beating by an inept team is what it is. Do you think any of us want to acknowledge we lost to Billy Napier? Sark or PK? Fuck no. But it happened, and we have to kearn from it. It's not like they were Appalachian State or something, they have plenty of talent. They dumbed down the playbook and got not one, but TWO freshman WRs heavily involved, and they took us behind the woodshed. If Sark has neurons firing per every 15 secs, he should take notes to get OUR talented WRs, TE, etc, other than that 1 pass to McCutcheon, involved to mismatch against other teams. He's making it harder than it should be. He can run an NFL-like organization without all of the difficult bullshit these kids need to learn, which clearly is a problem, especially in the redzone.
  18. I'm definitely not writing him off until he's off campus. Until he hangs them up in college, whether that be due to injuries or he goes to the NFL, he's still in my good graces. I've seen him do some great things (great hands, blocker, runs through tackles), and we've all seen the lows. Every RB with talent has issues, generational or not (and no, I'm not even close to insinuating he's some generational back. That would be Bijan, AD, D. Henry, Bush), but he has talent, he just needs to toughen up, add muscle and strength, get back to being healthy. He's a really solid RB. Fuck the haters. #teamCB4
  19. If he even resembles MJ-D, that's a win on its own. That dude could ball. Great comp on just name/size comparison. Totally forgot about him, even though I was a fan when he played at both UCLA and the Jags.
  20. Seeing ou being so downtrodden and shitty makes my Justice Haynes miss travesty look like we won the golden ticket. Their Offense, and the RB room in particular are so shitty, it makes the ou Van Fleet area of diarrhea look like the Amber Room in St. Catherine's Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. We at least looked competent in the second half with replacing that walking fecal impaction with Brooks during Sark's dumbassary after being down 3 scores to that mouth breathing luddite, Napier. I sincerely hope and pray Burnt Vaginals gets at least one more year. That's all I want. Just one more year because next season we will be fucking back. This is how we should be feeling seeing them suffer after we wandered the desert for 12 years.
  21. OK. I mean, you are correct since I've only seen highlights and not an actual game. It just fascinates me since I haven't seen a kid his height truly make an impact at the highest of levels (meaning the SEC/B1G big boys). I don't view the Big XII as "big boy" football, so I'm erasing Duece Vaughn, and I do think this kid is Barry Sanders (he's truly and forever will be in a league of his own for all eternity). In your personal opinion, do you personally see him as an every down back in college and play for said big boys? You know more than I do about him, as I'm all speculation.
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