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Park Gothic

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  1. Anyone unironically posting or agreeing with SEC Mike is a fucking moron.
  2. Fuck. Fellas, I gotta eat some crow here. Apparently the lot value for that house was $1.25 million - https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4702-112th-St-Lubbock-TX-79424/69209899_zpid/ That seems absurd, yet oddly in keeping with the topic of this thread.
  3. Man you know that house costs like $300k, max. With the primary benefit being that you can go shit at home if the need arises while you are hammering down a tomahawk and several small batch bourbons.
  4. If he's going there to start then I don't see the problem. We need OL, even if it's just depth. That's peak male form. Fine dining establishment
  5. That just sounds like pay-for-play with extra steps. I'm not entirely on board with your sentiment, but I agree about one thing - if the difference between the guy's listed height / weight and actual height / weight is so small that you can't see it for yourself on film, does it really matter? If he says he's 6'5" and it turns out he's 6'3", but otherwise he's a player, who gives a shit?
  6. I'm at the point that I want us to just take a couple of guys at OL, even if they aren't starter caliber. Call it the best of who's available and willing. Fuck Flood and whatever criteria he's using, we need some people in that room. Doesn't have to be today, but I hope someone somewhere has started the process of figuring out who those guys might be.
  7. This is one thing I don't understand, especially from a school like UCLA. How is it not standard practice to write a thank you note to the donor who is bankrolling the player? The player doesn't ever have to write it, just have someone ghost write something and the player can sign. How can you have an organization of professionals, many of whom are specifically tasked with maintaining relationships, and no one thinks "hmm, maybe we should right a thank you note to TROY FUCKING AIKMAN." How. Right after I graduated from college and started working at the capitol, it was things like this that made me realize that people really are stupid and no one is actually in charge.
  8. Hey, don't talk that way to the resident porn-bot. It's never going to happen, not until the government steps in to regulate college sports. This is the closest thing we'll ever see to pure, free market mechanics in our lifetime. You gotta embrace the chaos and accept that we are unwilling participants in one of the most interesting macroeconomic experiments of the modern age. Imagine what it was like to live through the Dutch tulip mania - that's us right now.
  9. You've got 80,000 posts on here, brother. You ain't going anywhere. You thought Sydney was being sarcastic about something? Sydney? He's such a lamb, I don't know how you could make that mistake.
  10. So Kobe Black is not in the portal, but he's considering it, because we have not named him the starter for next season?
  11. "We can still scrape the bottom of the barrel" is a cold comfort.
  12. I was talking about this at lunch with a fellow Texas recruiting obsessive. We both decided that something has to be up with Flood / Sark / the OL room. Putting my homerism aside, this is an excellent program in a great city. We have consistently been putting OL in the NFL since Sark arrived. We have plenty of money and have not been tightfisted in our offers for quality OL. It's tempting to chalk it up to simple incompetence - we put all our eggs in the Michigan basket and it fell through, and we didn't bother tampering with anyone else. But it seems like it's more than that. It seems unlikely that Flood and Sark, both of whom have plenty of experience in this sort of thing and have had success in the past, are just dumb. I don't mean it as a conspiracy theory or anything. But something stinks about this whole situation. There are just too many quality OL across the CFB landscape for it to be this hard for Texas to bring in a few. Even a dumb coach should be able to land a few without trying that hard.
  13. There's a joke about how unimportant size is and my ex girlfriend, but I'm too tired to sort it out right now. Seriously though, this is college football. Measurables matter but it's not like the NFL. Taking a somewhat smaller guy who knows the position, is well developed, and has other soft skills is not a bad thing. Think about the little madman we had returning punts last season, Silas Bolden. Remember the play he made in the RRSO? Guys who don't fit the mold physically can still contribute. I'm not saying we should start 5 midgets, but taking a flyer on one of two even if its just to add quality depth seems like a good idea.
  14. As a donor myself, I will not abide you shit talking my peers.
  15. Malapropisms are the lowest form of bait. You're better than this.
  16. People would have (rightly) complained that we wasted money and overpaid to retain those guys. Quality contributors but not worth the amount of money they were asking for (Wisner) or actually received from another school (Lefau). Sad to see both of them go but they were not worth the ask. Maybe I would have just bit the bullet and overpaid, but it's not my money. Coaches don't want multi-year contracts any more than the players do. Because they want to the option to push guys out if they don't meet expectations. But I definitely agree about the need for a professional GM rather than a biddable yes-man.
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