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Park Gothic

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  1. Reminds me that I need to buy myself and my son a set of matching burnt orange velour track suits. https://www.nycmode.com/products/sergio-tacchini-dallas-velour-track-jacket-50405-444
  2. https://aggieswire.usatoday.com/2024/08/23/texas-aggies-football-athletic-director-trev-alberts/ Texas A&M athletic director Trev Alberts 'hopeful' that Lone Star Showdown becomes annual There is no way this game isn't played annually. The SEC needs to get it's shit together and either switch to 9 conference games or figure out a way to protect rivalries.
  3. Holy shit. That guy is impressively calm.
  4. They're not wrong, but it also depends on the kid and on context. Some of the big, late flips in the '22 class were because of coaching changes. I don't think we can depend on that this season. When Hill committed to A&M in '23, I was still optimistic about our chances - the Aggies are a shitshow and I just didn't see them hanging on to a prospect wasn't a complete fucking moron. Are those kinds of shifts going to happen again this season? Do we want to bank on LSU or Oregon tripping at the finish line? My point isn't that you or anyone else is wrong when they say that there is still a lot of time until signing day and that Sark has been good at closing late in the game. Those are reasons for optimism. But I don't think that means there isn't any cause for concern either. It seems inarguable that it is better to have a guy committed to Texas at the start of the season than committed elsewhere - it's easier to hold onto guys than it is to flip them. I don't have any facts to back this up, but it also seems like NIL has reduced the amount of late season craziness. I don't know if they're signing contracts or it's just "a bird in the hand," but prospects feel like they're more locked into their commitments over the last few cycles.
  5. Regarding your first point - I mean relatively easy. You're absolutely correct that getting difference makers from the portal is expensive, but at least it's an option. Quality DL rarely go in the portal at all and the ones that do are usually already locked up. Getting good WR from the portal is expensive, while getting good DL is almost impossible. I'll admit that Mills looks good. I'm not worried about the OL as much as other rooms because Flood has a knack for development and knows what he wants in a recruit. If we're getting Floods OKGs then it's probably fine. Plus we have a lot of young talent in that room. I'm just curious about why the situation looks the way that it does, but others have shed some light on the subject. I'm still from Missouri on Williams. We'll see. Like I said, hard to be negative about landing a 5-star recruit but I'm willing to try. I'm not sure what you mean by "strawman" wrt to DT recruiting. People have been telling me for months that I'm pissing my pants over nothing. At any rate, I enjoy the discussion surrounding recruiting and to the extent that manufacturing a disagreement leads to that, whatever. I'm not losing sleep over it. And it's a slow day at work and I'm waiting on edits from a client. I got nothing to do but yell at clouds. I really appreciate you disagreeing with me. I sometimes worry that I'm being a fucking idiot, and having you on the other side of an argument helps dispel that sentiment.
  6. I'll make it as simple as I can because apparently I'm not explaining myself. That's on me. I want us to take a bunch of the money we're spending on WR recruiting on drop it in some DTs' laps. You should recruit all positions, but the staff seems to value WR to the detriment of other positions. The money, time, and attention we can lavish on recruits is a pie, and if we cut a bigger slice for one room then there's less pie left over for other rooms. DTs are fat and they like a lot of pie. We need to allocate more of it to their recruitments if we want to pull in the top prospects. So, to the extent the allocation of recruiting resources is a zero-sum game, I would rather us focus on DT more than WR. But that is not the same thing as saying "we should stop recruiting WR altogether" which would obviously be regarded.
  7. Yeah, I agree that panicking isn't warranted. And to be honest, I'm not panicking. The program overall is in good hands and the overall trend is solid. But I don't think that means we have to sit here and pump sunshine. If we want championships and a return to (maybe even improve upon) the halcyon days of 2000-2009, then we need to recruit well across the board. People say "it's only August" but I look at teams like Georgia and OSU who already have a full boat and don't understand why our fans don't expect the same thing. Or, even if not a full boat, I'd like to at least have some irons in the fire to be excited about. For a young guy, you have mastered the art of damning by faint praise. Thank you, this is helpful context. Some other posters have mentioned Mills as well and I agree that his tape looks much better than his ranking. My only thought is that St. Ignatius Prep in CA may not play the best competition, but that's not really a valid concern. I'll amend my comment to be slightly more positive about OL recruiting. And you are right about edge - the DE recruiting has been good. I'm old enough that I still think of those positions as "End" and "Tackle" but have gotten into the bad habit of using "DL" to refer exclusively to tackle. I more worried about the big guys in the middle of the DL. And I didn't write anything about DB recruiting because I can only dump so much sand out of my vagina in one post.
  8. I appreciate that you're making a ridiculous statement to illustrate a point, but I'll go ahead and point out that that isn't what I said. A more accurate way to phrase it would be that we are dedicating limiting resources like time and money to recruiting rooms that are fully stocked and more easily filled from the portal. I would prefer that we dedicate those resources to rooms that are thin and difficult to fill using the portal. I've read on this board and elsewhere that Sark and Banks direct recruiting for all positions, and that they don't value DL as much as they value WR. Or, at least, that they aren't interested in "overpaying" for DL, which seems more and more like that's just the market. That has resulted in a negative trend for our DL room. Or am I wrong and DL recruiting is going, like, super well?
  9. Thank you for telling me what month it is. Last month, someone was helpful enough to tell me that it was July. Before that it was June. And DJ Sanders and Myron Charles were still on the board. They aren't anymore.
  10. I'm going to stick my dick in the mash potatoes real quick. Getting Ffrench is great. But loading up on WR doesn't tickle my pickle anymore. It's too easy to get good WR from the portal and I'd rather win battles for talent that can really only be sourced from high school. Herman had highly ranked classes full of DBs and WRs, and that turned out to be a less than optimal strategy. Getting Brooks is great. The other OL commits in 2025 seem like bread and Brooks is a step up. But he's the exception that raises a question - why is there so much bread? Are we just suffering from our success, where good prospects see a crowded room and look elsewhere for quick playing time? Getting Jonah Williams is great. Hard to complain about pulling in a 5-star safety, especially when it upsets the Aggies so much. But I can't wipe from my memory all the times I read that he was more interested in baseball and that he wouldn't drop down to LB, even if that was a better fit. I'm not saying the kid will bust, just that there are a disconcerting number of caveats attached to this recruitment. If he went to the Aggies, what would we be saying? And we still have one fucking DL in the class. One. Some of y'all ripped on me for pissing my pants when we missed on guys like Brown and Zion Williams and I'm sure you'll rip on me again. Fuck you in advance. But at what point do we get concerned? Because that room is going to get really empty after this season and recruiting more 5-star WR isn't going to change that uncomfortable fact. I look forward to all the comments comparing me to genitals and/or the mentally handicapped. Cheers.
  11. "Cotton" is the name of the sponsoring company. Their actual business is in building renovation and roofing and shit.
  12. UK or KU, Wildcats or Jayhawks...they're both blue basketball schools so you can't fault him for getting confused.
  13. They should go back to the Big 12. That would really show those meanies in the SEC.
  14. "I'm a new character" is quite the line. If they are being tongue-in-cheek about his acting ability then it's pretty clever. But if not...
  15. Magellan shirts are for Aggies. Columbia's PFGs are for anyone who likes fishing and doesn't gravitate to the cheapest version of a nice thing.
  16. Ha ha, holy shit that’s brilliant. I can just see these stolen valor fucks walking around BCS like some North Korean generals.
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