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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Longhornfrenzy replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Bitch boy Key notes from Billy Liucci I don't think Ohio State vs. Notre Dame was the most enjoyable football. It got interesting for a little bit when Notre Dame did what I thought they were going to do and hung in there to make a game of it. I didn't think Ohio State was going to race out there. If you had told me the score was 34-23, I would have believed you. It made for some entertaining stuff in the fourth quarter, but by then, a lot of people probably tuned out because it was so slow and one-sided. It was an impressive performance from Ohio State. They were the best team in the country when it mattered most. They were the most talented team in the country all year. You could argue Georgia, Oregon and Texas for the most talented team, but I think it was Ohio State. Georgia has deficiencies on offense. Oregon, with the line of scrimmage and defense, didn’t have enough. Ohio State proved it against Texas. I saw people getting upset about Ohio State controlling the game against Texas, but they looked like the best team in every game they played. We saw it against Tennessee and that Michigan game woke them up. It's a completely different world of college football where you can lose two games, you can lose to your archrival, but you can reinvent yourself. We, as Aggie fans, need to recalibrate and understand that you can be Arizona State and be Texas and play in the national semifinals when nobody thought you could. You could be Ohio State — who went 1-2 in games where their fans cared the most — including losing to your arch-rivals in embarrassing fashion at the end of the season and still win the national title in impressive fashion. The regular season matters. Ask Ole Miss or Alabama about that if you don’t lose to Vanderbilt or Oklahoma. I do like the new playoff format because I think the best team in college football just won the national title. I don’t think they would have made the playoffs in the four-team format, so I like the fact that they won it. I like the fact that Arizona State could have beaten Texas and been the Cinderella story. I like the fact that James Franklin had a couple of chances to recreate his narrative. What I don't like is the way they do the seeding, and I think they need to look into changing that so schools like Arizona State and Boise State are not getting byes I'd rather just see them go to a 16-seed playoff. 12 is an awkward number anyway, I think a bye might be a disadvantage with the team playing the week before. The conference champions are not created equal. If we are going to pick the teams to make the playoffs, then we are perfectly capable of seeding them properly. Might as well make it 16, I think it will make it more fair and balanced. Ross Bjork can easily be talking about Michigan. He can easily be talking about Texas or Oregon, for that matter. Look, at Ohio State, he doesn't have room to talk about anyone spending money. If you look at the list of schools spending that much, the list includes Burnt Orange, the Buckeyes and it includes the Ducks. Michigan did it with the quarterback they got from LSU. I think they are about to go in. Nobody in Austin, Columbus or Eugene can stand on a soapbox about NIL. But he's right about one thing: Arizona State could have beaten Texas in the playoffs because they were just a great team. Ohio State did what they did because they had the talent, and when they took the loss to Michigan, they regrouped and said, "This wasn't good enough, and we are going to prove it.” Notre Dame's NIL is not paying what other teams are paying. It's not just that. You better have culture, a coach who understands how to piece together a roster and plug holes in both big and small situations. There's an art to it, and Ohio State had the best roster this year in college football. They recovered from an early season loss, didn't win their conference and recovered from a bitter late-season loss that would have derailed teams, but then they got into the playoffs and throttled everyone. They stood up on the one against Texas and said, "This is our season.” I like to see the best team win, even though I wanted Notre Dame to be the defending national champions when A&M plays them next year. Now, Texas will get to play the national champs for the second year in a row. Notre Dame would have deserved to win if they pulled it out, but they got a lot of teams with no offense down the stretch. They got Georgia without Carson Beck. They got Penn State. Even against A&M, as bad as they were in that game. Riley Leonard can't really complete a pass downfield. I think he completed one down the field to Jaden Greathouse. In those two games, two of Notre Dame's biggest games, he goes three quarters without completing one pass down the field. It was fun to watch him efficiently run quarterback power down the field to start the game. I thought they could maybe win it because they have the intangibles, but they were far from the best team in college football. I don't think Ryan Day is going to the NFL. Spring portal movement is what I am most interested in, especially with the number of players and agents that will agree to a NIL deal and then change their minds when they hear what teammates and players at other schools are making. I think that the spring portal window will be surprising. Other than that, it's just how much things will get fixed when the schools start paying from the court case. A&M will be north of $20 million, so to see when that gets across the finish line to pay student-athletes. I don't think we are going to see any major head coach movement. I think it should be a fairly quiet offseason for actual football stuff until the portal. I think it will be more active. I think the movement could reshape how you think of some teams. There might be teams, like A&M, who you move up or down in the preseason rankings based on the portal -
When Rodney took over, the program was in a state of chaos. RICE took us to overtime the day Beard got arrested. We barely beat a bad Stanford team, and only beat OU by 1. Then K-State beat us. It was ugly and most fans felt like the season was lost. It is easy to dismiss the year as Rodney winning with "Beard's team", but that team could have easily fallen off a cliff and missed the tournament completely. We closed the year winning 7 of our last 8 (and it could have easily been 11 out of 12 with close losses at Baylor and TCU. We hadn't been past the first weekend in 15 years, and Rodney got us to the Elite 8 (and some bad calls from making the Final Four). We also had two one and done NBA caliber recruits expected to sign. 100 out of 100 Athletic Directors would have given Rodney the job. He went out and earned it. That said, just about everyone I know expected his tenure to play out exactly as it has. We gave him a shot and with his tourney win last year, he delivered more than Shaka did in his six years with the program. But he is never going to be an elite coach. We will grind and struggle to make the tournament every year and occasionally put together a run. But we aren't a program that will be feared. We aren't ever going to be a top 5 team consistently. So for that, he has to go. The days of settling for mediocrity are over.
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The couple of enemies that were used against the left were easy targets that the left had no answer for. The dems want to save EVERYONE at once and in the mean time left too many spots to be attacked. In trying to save the world they lost everything. Pare down the base talking points of "wokeism" to win the office and then do the good you want to get accomplished. If its truly as good as you say then defend it at the next election. If its not, well... At some point the left has to understand that America hasn't gotten to where it needs to be and its not moving very fast, but it is moving. As you see we aren't afraid to go backwards if we don't like the path ahead. People are easy to manage if you talk to them and not at them. The dem message comes across as talking at us.
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1) Trump is going to live to be 105. That's the timeline we live in, the universe will be satisfied with nothing less. 2) He will be incapable of coherence within 3 years. That will not matter. At all. They won't hide it. They'll just declare that his ramblings are further signs of his super-next-level brain genius 535-D chess playing. 3) He is going to be functional president in 2028. They won't run him again. They'll do a Ma and Pa Ferguson routine. "Vote for the Ma, get the Pa." They'll run some stooge who will have the platform of "I will have our greatest and true president, Donald J. Trump, sitting at my right hand the entire time. His reign will continue under me." It will work. He will win. 4) Brisket's Laws will remain inviolate. It only gets worse, there is no bottom, this sort of thing always ends in blood, eventually.
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meh, whoever won our game was going to win the national championship. It is what it is. We choked it away.
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Texas Women’s Basketball 2024-2025 - We SEC Ready
Rickylovesweed replied to Pancho's topic in UT Sports
I'm betting Crooks is going to transfer after this year. She's never going to win anything at Iowa State. With Jones graduating, we will have a need at the 5 but not sure it's a fit as Crooks and Oldacre are pretty similar. Seems like we need a more athletic big if we hit the portal. -
2025 CFP National Championship - Ohio State vs. Notre Dame
kingkoopa6 replied to satyanash's topic in Football
Fuck it. Go dame. Dont wanna think about any more what coulda beens colt dont get hurt we crack bama Blake gets the int we crack Florida if ewers rifles in that pass to Mitchell we crack mich punch it in at the 1 and d goes to work and wins game we crack dame -
CA will fight like hell for their own climate regulation autonomy - if CA can win and hold it's own, their economy alone will dictate some positive policies that extend beyond CA. we can hope, but Trump Admin is coming for that autonomy. In the end, we are going to have to see most of the world convert to (i) nuclear, wind, and solar (with batteries), (ii) EVs, and (iii) we are going to have to bring costs down and turbo charge carbon atmospheric vacuums. There's a lot more but if we don't start sucking this shit out of the air with a massive filtration system we are just doomed. how on Earth the richest countries in the world aren't dumping money into this is beyond me.
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This semifinal was different in the fact we were going for the tie and could have still potentially lost. Last year we were going for the win which sucked balls when we lost. I for sure figured we were beating Michigan. We were a very bad matchup for them. This year notre dame is the sacrifice for whoever was winning our game.
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Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?
deech replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
I guess I understand the pardons for the reasons discussed above. I still think they are a bad look - because they are obviously. Ultimately, the issue with the pardons for me (same with his son's) is not that they are warranted. It's the Dems waiting too long to go full on war. Slow rolling the prosecutions of Trump led us to Cannon who could then intentionally slow-play them until this election and here we are today. January 6th was an act of war and the Dems thought they could steer for the high road and win the election and this would all go away. If everyone thinks you are weaponizing the DOJ anyway - do it from day one before this stooge comes in and truly weaponizes it. -
And we weren't. The rash of injuries occured and then we fell down the table. Which has turned into 5 in 27 and if this holds 5 in 30. If you go back to just before this, the win against Man City pushed Spurs into 6th. We lost Vicario (the first of many) and the fall started.
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in the moments just after the game ended secn started their postgame show finebaum had the last word in the opening segment: +++ "what's going to haunt steve sarkisian all winter long is this: he could have beaten ohio state tonight, that is not in question and tennessee couldn't have and oregon couldn't have they were both out of the game so quickly even though Texas made mistakes, they couldn't pass block, they couldn't develop a running game consistently, they still had a chance to put this game in their hands and they let it all slip away i mean this was not the ohio state team we've been hearing about on national programs this was an awkward team that was affected maybe by the run and made enough mistakes to lose but they made the plays to win and it's really too bad for Texas because they could have won and should have won this game" +++ my take from the first edition of 12 teams is this: when you get to a final 4 after everyone has had to play at least one team that was good enough to get in, there is not that much difference in overall competitiveness; we saw that with domer and pedder going back and forth; we saw that with Texas inside the 1 with a chance to tie at the end of the game; as pawl said, this was not the all-galaxy jort we had been told was going to roll Texas fosu -8.5 is way too high i think it's a 1-score game freeman was a 4-year buckeye ryan day is a douche and karma is a bitch i'm taking comet and domer straight up fuck the line
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I just had a flashback to a bet I made with a douchebag Ag Comp Sci PhD, where he claimed the 'horns wouldn't do better than 3-3 at home in Mack Brown's first year. All we had to do for me to win would be to go 4-2. We went 6-0, with the piece de resistance being Ricky breaking the record on a 60-yard TD run. The joke was on me, though, I later had to let him in my house for a small baseball game-watching party where he paid off. He also ramped his douchiness up to 11.
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I was listening to the SEC channel on XM today during chauffeur hours for me. They had the PBP guy on for Bama and discussed the basketball team for a bit. Then Doering and Burns brought up the football team and the outlook for 2025. It’s always interesting to me when insiders for other programs get to forecasting and this session didn’t disappoint. The guy, Chris Stewart, couldn’t have sounded more entitled. While he admitted to having no clue who would be the starter at QB, he declared that they’d be better passing the ball and wouldn’t see a decline in the running game. Then he stated that the defense finished the season playing like a championship unit. WTF? Finally, he topped the whole thing off by saying that the schedule looked manageable and they’d be playing for titles next year. I’ll wait until after the spring portal period to really develop my own pov on their 2025 roster, but for sure they’re losing a bunch of Saban legacy talent to the NFL off this last roster. Milroe, who they all generally despise as a player and take for granted, Booker, and multiple defensive players will all be drafted. However, we can consider the schedule right now. For a team suffering from major talent attrition the last two cycles, I would not be taking a bunch of these games for granted. @FSU - yes, FSU just went 2-10, so maybe this is a walk, but they went hard, again, into the portal and Norvell is touting their comeback. ULM - the ULM staff seem like they might be really good at talent evaluation. Something to watch but of course Bama will win this game by 50. Wisconsin - Fickell is coaching for his job in 2025. I expect Bama to win, but this is a veteran roster at Wiscy. Also, if you really want a laugh, check out the Wisconsin schedule for 2025. Those poor bastards could legitimately go 2-10. It’s early, but they might have the hardest schedule in the country. Off @Georgia - this looks formidable but Georgia lost more off of their roster this offseason than damned near any team in the country. Vandy - sure this is a revenge game for Bama, so maybe they roll here. That said, Vandy is a veteran ball club and brings back the majority of the talent that beat Bama last year. @Mizzou - Based on returners, this is another toss-up game. Tennessee - Tennessee will be an overrated top 15 team in 2025 but this should be a hell of a game. @SCar - SCar will likely be favored in this game. Sellers is really good and so is the SCar defense. Off LSU - the tigers think they’re a title contender next year. I don’t see it, but the talent between these teams will be comparable. Toss-up. OU - OU returns a lot of experience and brings in a very good QB transfer. They’re going to win 8+ games in 2025 but will one of those be in T-Town? Maybe? Eastern Illinois - credit to Bama for playing two P4 non-con games but these FCS scrimmages are still shameful. @Auburn - Auburn is going to be much improved in 2025 and this is their jihad game. In order to get to the SEC title game, Bama likely needs 6-2 at worst and it could very well be 7-1. I see a 9-3 team at best and anything down to 7-5 won’t surprise me. People have rolled their eyes about the Bama program being victimized by gravity in discussions on this site. Well, collapses can happen quickly in CFB. They just had their worst record in 17 years and the recipe for things getting worse this year is there. It’s a different era now and the talent on the Bama roster isn’t top 3 any more. Further, their experience isn’t robust either.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
horn4life replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
The hickory is $6.75 a square foot before installation. I love the look of the hickory, but the speed and ease of LVP may win out. Simply as i like the uniform look. I may have to go back through and take another look at the higher end LVP. Another plus would be no concerns about additional vapor barrier because of pier and beam with LVP. How did they trim out the bottom edge around you rtub??? We went with a deep single basin on our kitchen remodel. Best decision I eve made. Except because of the depth of the basin I had to cutout and drop down my drain, in order to squeeze in a disposal. Which I got the shallowest one possible. But we cook a lot, and host a lot of family stuff. And the ability to put in sheet pans flat, and scrub them is nirvana. Well maybe not nirvana, but trying to clean big sheet pans in a double basin is a fucking mess. Also rewired the disposal so I could put in one of those countertop buttons next to sink. I did it because we had a three hole kitchen faucet and only two holes for the newer models. Either a cap, or cool button! Runs off air pressure, but solved a problem and I see them a lot now on higher end island builds in particular. It's a lot more rural in Temple/Belton than Austin and made me think perhaps a farmhouse sink. But I personally like the cleaner look of under mount stainless to match the appliances. So likely just big basin with left hand drain. That allows me to repurpose a cabinet from trash cabinet, but building slide out trash under right hand side of sink. Thanks again for the replies guys -
Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
SydneyCarton replied to closetojumping's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I'm rooting for ND, but it isn't for the fucking lulz. On a surface level, the playoff looks like more of a success if one of the Powers of the last decade don't win it. MIchigan last year was great, but going back to Ohio State this year can fuck right off. I'd say the same thing for GA, Alabama, even Clemson, etc. On a much more visceral level, I dont really want Ohio State boosters getting a good ROI in their fucking NIL investment. We don't need those fuckers feelng incented to keep throwing around 25-30 million a year in NIL.- 8997 replies
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Ou -2.5 did anyone really think we were going to hold on to a double digit win?
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All of this. No more of this "When they go low, we go high" business. I appreciate the sentiment of that statement, but it has become emblematic of everything the Dems have done wrong in the last 15 or so years. You can't win by being the nicer guy in politics any more than you can in spycraft, or the trenches of a football game. You're gonna have to get dirty, hurt some people, and not apologize for it. And it should really help when the other guys are an existential threat. These people's heads should be on spikes around the Capitol as a warning to others by the time this shit is through. I'm exaggerating, but not much.
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What if I told you that Jabari Smith going out just unlocked Jalen Green/Sengun/Amen as a viable top 3 and we don’t need Butler or Durant? We aren’t beating the Thunder this year. so let’s not take on $50m a year for 2-3 years. I won’t shit on a pick swap back + players for Durant or Booker. But I am willing to see just how far this team can get in playoffs. No one in the west scares me other than OKC and weirdly Golden State who might not make the play in. Our place in the standings validates this. Go win 54 and get a 2 or 3 seed and see how the chips fall in the playoffs. We will learn a lot about these guys in the playoffs that we don’t have a clue about now. Hope we have more Jimmy Butlers and fewer Demar Derozans but who is to know until they grind out a series or two.
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1- we will be better if Arch is better, and I think he will be 2- you rightly point out everyone else will be worse. Right now one site has us as the betting favorites to win the national title and another site has us as #3. I expect, when it all shakes out we will enter the season in August as no worse than 2 to win it all but I would guess 1. We will have the most talented roster going into the 2025 season in CFB, the same way Ohio State held that going into 2024, and the schedule sets up that we should view anything worse than 10-2 as an incredible disappointment. Could we lose at Ohio State or Georgia? Sure. But we will have the better roster both places. Any other loss on that schedule (OU sucks- Florida is the next best team and they are full of meh- arky and aggy suck, Kentucky and MSST- gimme a fucking break- we ain't losing those games- ditto Vandy) will be highly disappointing. 10-2 Texas playing in the SEC title game with Arch Manning at QB is definitely a playoff team, and by the end of the year we ain't young anywhere anymore. Terrible injury luck obviously changes the calculus.
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Man, fuck you for opening this wound. Such a frustrating game to watch, in no small part because Penix and crew were just downright incredible that night. They missed/dropped several plays against Michigan they were making on us. I've been of the opinion that 2026 is probably the year. We're breaking in a lot of young talent at the most important positions next year. Essentially the whole offense including QB, C, and both OT spots; interior DL, now it seems like CB. Texas is talented enough and the schedule sets up in a way they we should be looking at a ~10 win regular season, contention for the SEC championship game, a playoff berth, and being fun to watch for sure; but the chance of drawing a head scratcher on a given Saturday is always higher dealing with that volume of change and inexperience. But 2026 we're talking Arch Manning and Ryan Wingo at the height of their powers and a year of experience for the rest of the WR/TEs, veteran OL, veteran secondary, bunch of talented Year 2-3 DTs, veteran LBs despite the probable loss of Anthony Hill (God, imagine if he came back) all led by a third year Collin Simmons... with another probable top 5 class coming in. There's a world where the 1.1 and 1.2 picks in the 2027 NFL draft play for the same college team. Long way out but we could seriously be monstrous. So I don't think these are mutually exclusive ideas. Yeah. Breaking in one new corner against Ohio State was already a challenge. Breaking in two new corners and being thin-ish at Safety against Ohio State is... probably not going to be fun. It hurts no doubt but fortunately it should never be worse than it is that first game. Well, this is the rub isn't it? People get this image in their head because Texas fans have this weird fetish about being the biggest, richest, etc. In reality Texas is a program at the top tier of NIL - or at worst tier 1B if the idea is Oregon, Michigan, and Ohio State are just out here truly out of their minds. "The" vs. "a" has a profound difference in meaning. I'm no insider but it's not hard to grasp that we're at the top of the SEC in NIL and still have all of the natural football recruiting advantages that come with being the flagship university in the state of Texas. We'll be alright. Anyone thinking we could simply buy unquestioned dominance or having some difficult moment of reckoning realizing we can't, that's on you.
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cook should probably get the liz truss-head of lettuce treatment at each of his subsequent stops. such a disappointment. i thought he was going to play a devonta smith role when we signed him. not necessarily heisman winning career but playing the role smith played in the sark offense in 2020 of speedy playmaker in space. oh well. get your shit and your life together, cook.
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Helm was decent at blocking when we weren't asking him to block a DE or DT by himself. That just isn't a matchup most TEs are going to win.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
I Plead Da Fif replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
With the 12 team playoff, we’re going to have to wish for his downfall then, which I can’t do either. I would root for 3 if he’s on ND next year, but then we end up playing ND in the playoffs and that’s going to be a rough day either way as a Texas fan. We had the right idea with Quinn, it just didn’t happen how we all wanted it to. Saying 3 isn’t good is some of the dumbest shit on this site. QE had his warts, but 4th & 13 from the 28 I’ll remember forever. 3 wins over our rivals in the first year of SEC. The Michigan game that I went to will be an all time sports memory for me. We don’t have Arch without Quinn. I could go on. Yes he struggled at times, but there are very few exceptions to the fact that of all the teams we played with Quinn at QB over his 3 years, the team we faced would have rather had 3 as their QB than their own. Hell, every team we played this year probably would have rather had Quinn as their starter, including over Carson Beck or Will Howard. Quinn has been the most positive impactful player to the Texas program since Colt McCoy and I don’t think that’s really up for debate. Ehlinger was a gamer and a great representative of the program, but the results pretty clearly speak for themselves. I hope you’re ready for Arch to throw around 10 ints next year. First year starter that is aggressive with the deep ball. Bound to happen. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
William Bludworth replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Sark is an offensive guy, so I highly doubt that he would have any input on the defense. I'm Sark's press conference he admitted Quinn wasn't healthy all season, so we can chalk that up to some issues. But it he didn't come back, we lost a few more games and our chance at the CFP, as good as Arch looked against the poors, he wasn't going to win all of those games. Right now, as we sit here, a 75% healthy Quinn is better than a 100% Arch based on playbook knowledge. Yes, Quinn made mistakes and self-sacks himself, which is fucking annoying to all of us; if Arch went in and fucked up a game just imagine how much our fan base would hang themselves. It's the Texas QB paradox.
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