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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
So Kobe Black is not in the portal, but he's considering it, because we have not named him the starter for next season?- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
"We can still scrape the bottom of the barrel" is a cold comfort.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
lol- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
As a donor myself, I will not abide you shit talking my peers.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Don't threaten me with a good time.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Malapropisms are the lowest form of bait. You're better than this.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Fewer- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
1) It happens all the time for HS recruits. Every cycle. Take your pick of any blue chips here: https://www.on3.com/college/texas-longhorns/football/2025/commits/. We outspent all competitors for these guys. 2) We haven't done it in the portal this cycle yet. There is still plenty of time. Cam Coleman is a very obvious example. Last cycle we pulled Kanu from OSU who they definitely wanted to keep, Watson who was a freshman AA and had other big suitors, and Endries who was a coveted TE. I'm sympathetic with your frustrations, but your problem is with the coaches' strategy, not our checkbook.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
My take on this general point is less that this is only happening to us and more that it shouldn't be happening to us because we're Texas. We are better than other schools and shouldn't have to deal with the same bullshit. In other words, Texas is exceptional. That's probably overstating my point a bit, but it does seem like we should be able to retain guys like Barnes while looking to fill out the position room. Anyone who does this can get fucked. But if there are "thousands of options in the portal," why have we only pulled a single one on offense? I get that there are another 10 days until the portal closes, but at some point this shit starts to feel like musical chairs. The song is ending and seats are filling up. C'mon now. You know this isn't true. Don't be a prisoner of the moment.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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Sad thing is, a bunch of fuckwits on this site say the same thing about us in 2023/2024. "We woulda won a NATTY if it wasn't for that traitor Collin Klein incompetent Steve Sarkisian sabotaging our offense" is an unironic take I've heard dropped several times on the football board.- Texas Roster 2026
I generally agree with your sentiment. But I'll add a few rays of sunshine that I hope brighten it up a bit. We've done a solid job of meeting our needs in the other two phases (defense and special teams). The DB from Rutgers is a known quantity to Orphey and Muschamp likes what he sees, so that's especially good. I'm also higher on the TE from MSU than a lot of people - I think he will set a solid floor for that room, which has a lot of inexperienced talent. Also, the track of this portal season as it relates to OL is similar to how things went with DT last season. We shoot our shot at top targets (last year, the two DTs from Michigan) but can't overcome the homefield advantage. So we move on to our next targets, who all turn out to be pretty good. The timing of these things matters, and going to our second options late in the process isn't necessarily bad, as the home school has less money available to dedicate to retaining guys they didn't know were in jeopardy. I'm not saying that is what is happening, but the pattern is similar and we could see Sark use the same strategy. Maybe we miss out on our top OL targets, but there maybe a few others waiting in the wings that will still be a nice pickup. Regarding RB...I hope someone pops up late. I just don't see a quality every-down RB going in the portal at this stage, but we're retaining Clark and maybe we can get by with a player who throws a solid jab if not a knockout punch. Regarding WR, I don't really think we need Coleman, at least not at the price he's commanding. Losing him to Tech and losing him soon would almost be a good thing, because we could focus on meeting more pressing needs. I think Sark is distracted by the shiny object and would like it off the board so we can move on. Oh good, another sock for one of you fucking idiots.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Indiana, Michigan, LSU...- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
This sounds like a joke, but it's coming from you, so I assume it's serious? Because if Codaxx is making jokes then we have truly entered unchartered waters and CTJ's thread title feels eerily appropriate.- Transfer CB Bo Mascoe
No. This is the correct "person humping machine" gif: - Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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