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  On 6/5/2019 at 1:11 AM, closetojumping said:

On to controversy and miscellany:

-Two white WR coaches means Texas needs a black WR coach in order to compete for some of these recruits. It doesn't help that Mehringer is whiter than a motherfucker. Of course, go fucking moneywhip Brewster or Traylor if you've got to go full whitey. There are numerous qualified coaching candidates that can relate to some of the prima donna, showtime WR targets like Demas, Bridges, and Wease. Guys like that have mocked UT's staff. We lack the right guy(s) at WR coach and the results mostly bear that out. If that's taboo, sorry for triggering. This isn't political. It's recruiting, and people want to work with and commit to people that they think "get them". 

-20-23 in the class, with room to go after guys in the transfer portal, as it both giveth, and taketh away. I believe that they're grossly underestimating some attrition from the lower end of the depth chart, but whatever. Texas feels good about its talent level and won't be running players off, which is going to be an interesting contradiction with what is set to occur to the east of Austin in beautiful and lit College Station.

-Talk of lump sums at this stage being tossed around in big ways for recruits is not likely to be true. Visit money to handlers for UOVs, camps, OVs, sure. $100K? $200k? Not probable at this time of the cycle. If you just follow game theory logic and negotiating strategy, that move right now doesn't behoove a bidder at this stage anyway. Not saying big numbers won't close the deals, but it will go down more like Sanders last cycle, in the waning hours of mid-December and early February. 

As always, it's recruiting, nothing is ever certain, apparently even after the ink is dry these days. If something I mention becomes incorrect, I'll circle back if I notice it and/or remember it. I know some people are too dense to fathom the fluidity, but assume the rest of you get it.

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Nice new sig.

 

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  On 6/5/2019 at 12:31 PM, Katfid54 said:

Comma splice

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Technically, I think a comma splice is when two independent clauses are joined with a comma and without a conjunction. He has a conjunction but because it's followed by a dependent clause, he doesn't need a comma. Yet this isn't a comma splice, just an unnecessary comma. Maybe we should make a sentence diagram followed by a comma decision tree.

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  On 6/5/2019 at 1:10 PM, KYHorn said:

Technically, I think a comma splice is when two independent clauses are joined with a comma and without a conjunction. He has a conjunction but because it's followed by a dependent clause, he doesn't need a comma. Yet this isn't a comma splice, just an unnecessary comma. Maybe we should make a sentence diagram followed by a comma decision tree.

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Fuck me.  You're right.  I'm going to grammar timeout for the rest of the day.

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  On 6/5/2019 at 1:10 PM, KYHorn said:

Technically, I think a comma splice is when two independent clauses are joined with a comma and without a conjunction. He has a conjunction but because it's followed by a dependent clause, he doesn't need a comma. Yet this isn't a comma splice, just an unnecessary comma. Maybe we should make a sentence diagram followed by a comma decision tree.

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Yep, it's not a comma splice. The comma isn't grammatically necessary (comma could be used here as a pause) but its use is to indicate a pause for effect. Author discretion here allows for either. The fact that CTJ is taking a swipe at his detractors, I think makes the comma necessary.

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  On 6/5/2019 at 1:10 PM, KYHorn said:

Technically, I think a comma splice is when two independent clauses are joined with a comma and without a conjunction. He has a conjunction but because it's followed by a dependent clause, he doesn't need a comma. Yet this isn't a comma splice, just an unnecessary comma. Maybe we should make a sentence diagram followed by a comma decision tree.

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It is all one clause with a compound predicate.

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  On 6/5/2019 at 1:31 PM, rickyspub said:

Yep, it's not a comma splice. The comma isn't grammatically necessary (comma could be used here as a pause) but its use is to indicate a pause for effect. Author discretion here allows for either. The fact that CTJ is taking a swipe at his detractors, I think makes the comma necessary.

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Am is are was were be being been

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Posted
  On 6/5/2019 at 12:36 AM, RGBIII said:

Never realized how ridiculously racist the Illini mascot is. Might as well be chief wahoo drinking fire water and smoking a peace pipe while scalping a white devil 

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Eff that noise.  The attempt to remove every reference to Native American culture and history is the true racism.  I can see the issue with stuff like the Redskins, but the Illini, Seminole and Sioux are proud parts of geographical history of the schools they represent.

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Posted (edited)
  On 6/5/2019 at 2:21 PM, CBHorn said:

Eff that noise.  The attempt to remove every reference to Native American culture and history is the true racism.  I can see the issue with stuff like the Redskins, but the Illini, Seminole and Sioux are proud parts of geographical history of the schools they represent. 

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I generally agree, but it's important to have the tribes agree to it (like Florida State did). North Dakota and Illinois weren't able to convince them it was a positive portrayal.

Also having a white dude wear facepaint as the mascot is a bit iffy.

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  On 6/5/2019 at 2:21 PM, CBHorn said:

Eff that noise.  The attempt to remove every reference to Native American culture and history is the true racism.  I can see the issue with stuff like the Redskins, but the Illini, Seminole and Sioux are proud parts of geographical history of the schools they represent.

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I'm pretty sure Sioux is a derogatory term used by surrounding tribes to describe the Lakota. I think it means "enemy" or something similar. so, maybe not so proud. JS

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  On 6/5/2019 at 2:21 PM, CBHorn said:
Eff that noise.  The attempt to remove every reference to Native American culture and history is the true racism.  I can see the issue with stuff like the Redskins, but the Illini, Seminole and Sioux are proud parts of geographical history of the schools they represent.



I'm not gonna CR this thread up but I have to go on record that this is a profoundly ignorant take. I'll leave it at that.

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Mike Roach: JaQuinden Jackson's commitment could be first step in winning Dallas

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  On 6/5/2019 at 4:36 PM, satyanash said:

Mike Roach: JaQuinden Jackson's commitment could be first step in winning Dallas

 

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Didn't put the Samples/Duncanville connection together until reading this. Guess I had glossed over that part in anything else I've read about Ra'Shaad. Though I'm still on the Ra-Shaad wagon, I'll slow down a bit. His father being JQJ's coach couldn't have done anything but help tremendously in his recruitment (orrr, is that the point?)

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  On 6/5/2019 at 5:16 PM, Fud said:

I don't see them. Servers are probably down 

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JQJ dropped 33 spots and Chris Thompson dropped 162 spots.  Bryson Washington dropped a bunch as well.  Parr not in top 250 anymore.

Jahari Rogers is now #189

Majors moved up 53 spots and Alford made a big jump.

Jaylon Jones dropped 21 spots.

Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

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  On 6/5/2019 at 5:40 PM, Elmer_Fudd said:

JQJ dropped 33 spots and Chris Thompson dropped 162 spots.  Bryson Washington dropped a bunch as well.  Parr not in top 250 anymore.

Jahari Rogers is now #189

Majors moved up 53 spots and Alford made a big jump.

Jaylon Jones dropped 21 spots.

Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

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Are you just looking them up individually, or is there a link yet? 

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  On 6/5/2019 at 5:40 PM, Elmer_Fudd said:

JQJ dropped 33 spots and Chris Thompson dropped 162 spots.  Bryson Washington dropped a bunch as well.  Parr not in top 250 anymore.

Jahari Rogers is now #189

Majors moved up 53 spots and Alford made a big jump.

Jaylon Jones dropped 21 spots.

Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

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wow

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  On 6/5/2019 at 5:40 PM, Elmer_Fudd said:

JQJ dropped 33 spots and Chris Thompson dropped 162 spots.  Bryson Washington dropped a bunch as well.  Parr not in top 250 anymore.

Jahari Rogers is now #189

Majors moved up 53 spots and Alford made a big jump.

Jaylon Jones dropped 21 spots.

Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. 

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Well that's just odd all around

Posted
  On 6/5/2019 at 5:40 PM, Elmer_Fudd said:

JQJ dropped 33 spots and Chris Thompson dropped 162 spots.  Bryson Washington dropped a bunch as well.  Parr not in top 250 anymore.

Jahari Rogers is now #189

Majors moved up 53 spots and Alford made a big jump.

Jaylon Jones dropped 21 spots.

Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

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Did Thompson go to a Rivals camp and hve like the worst testing numbers ever? Dropping 162 spots is insane,

 

Also, Rivals' ranking of Dorba has been hilarious.

Dec 18: #172

March 19: Outside 250

Now: #90.

I have no idea what could possibly cause them to move him all over the rankings like that.

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  On 6/5/2019 at 5:13 PM, UncleBuck said:

Didn't put the Samples/Duncanville connection together until reading this. Guess I had glossed over that part in anything else I've read about Ra'Shaad. Though I'm still on the Ra-Shaad wagon, I'll slow down a bit. His father being JQJ's coach couldn't have done anything but help tremendously in his recruitment (orrr, is that the point?)

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This is the kind of hard hitting analysis we've come to rely upon from you, Buck. 

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  On 6/5/2019 at 6:33 PM, Burt Macklin said:

Did Thompson go to a Rivals camp and hve like the worst testing numbers ever? Dropping 162 spots is insane,

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He can't cover worth a shit in camp settings which are tough for cover corners much less box safeties. He's good at real football though, one of the better safeties in runs support you'll come across 

I think top 250 or wherever he'll end up is fine 

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  On 6/5/2019 at 6:43 PM, Fud said:

He can't cover worth a shit in camp settings which are tough for cover corners much less box safeties. He's good at real football though, one of the better safeties in runs support you'll come across 

I think top 250 or wherever he'll end up is fine 

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I'd love it if Thompson could bulk up to 220-230 lb. range and be a LB for us.

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