Ewers or Bust- Lord have mercy I’m bout to bust

[hobbs 243]

I haven't been to Grandy's since sometime in the 1980s but, after all of this bullshit, I will be eating there today for karma purposes.

Actually kind of looking forward to it, but expect to be disappointed.

Hoping we'll only have to wait a few days before QE & friends are on board...then we can quit talking about cfs, cheese, hatch, cats, Horseshoe Bay curtains, lunch ladies, etc.

Edited December 8, 2021 by hobbs

[Orange&White 5,522]

Hoover's still has good CFS.

[Mitch Cumsteen 18,547]

If only this site had a forum to talk about food... 

[EZ$ 2,104]

7 minutes ago, Eggo said:

Anwar and Ketch are fucking mouth breathers who don't know fuck about shit. 

Yup, we need Kurt Bowels to start covering recruiting. 

[WinningIsHard 4,028]

5 hours ago, ztejas said:

Huh? Chicken fried chicken is chicken. Generally if a place serves both it's just listed as CFS and CFC. If I ordered a chicken fried steak and someone brought me a piece of chicken I'd have to grab the waiter. 

 

This is the only reaction for getting chicken when you order chicken fried steak 

[UncleBuck 6,453]

1 minute ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

If only this site had a forum to talk about food... 

This is it. $9.95 is the US average for lunch out. What, you thought the name was recruiting related?

[pearlandhorn 3,269]

Now it makes sense that the average surly poster is a 40+ fat guy.

[TexasToast 728]

[hobbs 243]

1 minute ago, pearlandhorn said:

Now it makes sense that the average surly poster is a 40+ fat guy.

Present🤚

[RollLeft 5,043]

Just now, TexasToast said:

Was expecting more cfs talk considering your handle. I dissapoint.

[IDIOTsavant 8,483]

4 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:

This is it. $9.95 is the US average for lunch out. What, you thought the name was recruiting related?

I have it on good authority that it's $25, sir.

[CowtownHorn 5,126]

13 minutes ago, TexasGolf said:

[Lonestar88 4,653]

7 minutes ago, Hornlover said:

Y'all do realize that lots of recruits are expected to be in for the unofficial recruiting weekend, right? Seems like a great time to have him in town. 

Nobody has said otherwise on this. Ideally you’d want him to commit before the visit or during it.

I’ll gladly take whatever we can get, but that’s what would be ideal.

[FloridaHorn 4,754]

11 minutes ago, stork642 said:

Wouldn’t it make since to have it released during the heisman trophy show?   

since what?

[closetojumping 62,596]

I knew the minute I heard about the visit that fucking Ketchum and his band of speds were going to eventually get wind and then immediately put it out there, with no consideration for whether or not that’s productive. They didn’t get this from anyone related to the effort on the UT end or Ewers end. They usually weasel this kind of thing from another recruit who is on a text string or something. Just fucking trash. 

Don’t think it matters? Well, now everyone knows an exact timeline. So if you wanted to intervene with a final pitch or offer addition, you’d know when to do it. It also dissolved trust between the two parties if the recruit doesn’t fess up. The Ewers end will think Texas is talking and vice versa when neither wants the courting process covered this time. In the last two days, Ketchum and his cronies have established a baseline for the offer to beat, when the big pitch is being made, and when the final decision is coming. 

[J.Peterman 137]

Honestly, the closer Ewers commits to the dead period the better.  If Ewers can swing Stewart last minute, and Aggie can't get in touch with him to try to re-bid....then that is likely the best chance we have of getting him to Austin as well.

We only have a few guys left we are targeting.  Ewers can and likely is talking to them all behind the scenes right now.  In fact, I think it is likely that his interest in Tech is a diversion tactic so that aggies don't pre-emptively bring more bags over to Stewart right now.

[Huckleberry 32,851]

Honestly, anyone who is paying Orangebloods at this point should be drawn, quartered, and then have their dismembered pieces tarred and feathered.

[Thiefery 4,995]

1 minute ago, J.Peterman said:

Honestly, the closer Ewers commits to the dead period the better.  If Ewers can swing Stewart last minute, and Aggie can't get in touch with him to try to re-bid....then that is likely the best chance we have of getting him to Austin as well.

We only have a few guys left we are targeting.  Ewers can and likely is talking to them all behind the scenes right now.  In fact, I think it is likely that his interest in Tech is a diversion tactic so that aggies don't pre-emptively bring more bags over to Stewart right now.

If Stewart and Kam show up this weekend.. 

[CowtownHorn 5,126]

4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I knew the minute I heard about the visit that fucking Ketchum and his band of speds were going to eventually get wind and then immediately put it out there, with no consideration for whether or not that’s productive. They didn’t get this from anyone related to the effort on the UT end or Ewers end. They usually weasel this kind of thing from another recruit who is on a text string or something. Just fucking trash. 

Don’t think it matters? Well, now everyone knows an exact timeline. So if you wanted to intervene with a final pitch or offer addition, you’d know when to do it. It also dissolved trust between the two parties if the recruit doesn’t fess up. The Ewers end will think Texas is talking and vice versa when neither wants the courting process covered this time. In the last two days, Ketchum and his cronies have established a baseline for the offer to beat, when the big pitch is being made, and when the final decision is coming. 

I just wish CDC would ban all of those MFers. Sabotage of the program, intentional or unintentional, should be met with a stiff penalty. Jesus.

Edited December 8, 2021 by CowtownHorn

[Gut Wagon 8,065]

1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Honestly, anyone who is paying Orangebloods at this point should be drawn, quartered, and then have their dismembered pieces tarred and feathered.

Hasn't that always been true? I mean, since at least the Pleistocene? Ketchum is literally the biggest tool in the shed. 

[rpspeed 1,363]

19 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

If only this site had a forum to talk about food... 

Too much recruiting talk over there

[WBT 20,561]

Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead

[Hiphopopotamos 20,869]

I guess we can assume that this Saturday visit (and the possibility of bringing friends) is what made IT & TFB so optimistic these last couple of days.

Lets hope Saturday is a chance for Ewers to recruit and then he can have his big moment when he recommits on Monday.

[closetojumping 62,596]

3 minutes ago, J.Peterman said:

Honestly, the closer Ewers commits to the dead period the better.  If Ewers can swing Stewart last minute, and Aggie can't get in touch with him to try to re-bid....then that is likely the best chance we have of getting him to Austin as well.

We only have a few guys left we are targeting.  Ewers can and likely is talking to them all behind the scenes right now.  In fact, I think it is likely that his interest in Tech is a diversion tactic so that aggies don't pre-emptively bring more bags over to Stewart right now.

I appreciate the earnestness of this post and the logic is sound. Here’s the problem - ATM doesn’t give one shit about the dead period. If you think they’re raised $1+million in bag money this cycle to watch key recruits slip through their fingers because of some rule that says they can’t do outreach for a given day, well, you’re out of your fucking mind. 

Fisher was hosting players and families on his ranch during the dead period of corona with impunity. At least Arizona State got reported for similar behavior, even if the NCAA did nothing about it. ATM was doing it loudly in the recruiting world and … nothing. These guys are desperate to be relevant and they think the time is now before Texas and OU can leverage the SEC and while LSU is in disarray. There is no dead period for ATM.  

Think about all of the chest beating ATM does regarding money for football. The loudmouths scream from the rooftops about how rich they are (they aren’t ) yet I bet if you look at their finances, they spend less on compliance as a percentage of their revenue than any other P5 program. Texas and OU have the opposite problem with compliance. The staffs have been literally tailed by compliance hacks when they leave campus. Meanwhile ATM probably has an intern heading up all compliance-related concerns. 

[Gut Wagon 8,065]

5 minutes ago, WBT said:

Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead

And the other one isn't Ketchum. 

[Johnny Sack 8,397]

11 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Honestly, anyone who is paying Orangebloods at this point should be drawn, quartered, and then have their dismembered pieces tarred and feathered.

I am a member.  About to cancel.  Really should have a decade or more ago, but just too lazy because it's a PITA.  

[derpyhorndog 2,557]

Morning, you degenerate fucks.
 

Extremely conflicted feelings this morning between the “it’s happening” vibes and news of this dragging out to the weekend. I’m coping with it by telling  myself that the 9.95’ers don’t know shit and Ewers is smart enough to realize that announcing “early” is critical to recruiting momentum — I just don’t see a weekend/Monday announcement as having enough juice to sway things in such a small window.

Suppose there’s some merit to the silent commit angle and working a select group of big-time recruits under some cover of secrecy, but going to baselessly ignore that possibility because it doesn’t mesh with my desires.

Also, chicken fried steak is chicken?!? WHAT THE FUCK?? Never go full regard. 

[Vito Andolini 9,125]

45 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Used to crush that in high school driving to Tennessee to visit relatives.

“I’d like you to meet my wife and sister”. And there was one girl standing there. Not a thumb between them, godammit.

—	Bill Hicks on Tennasseans/Henry James’s family

[Huckleberry 32,851]

2 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

I am a member.  About to cancel.  Really should have a decade or more ago, but just too lazy because it's a PITA.  

Better hurry, horse is on its way.

[hook me 2,092]

2 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

I am a member.  About to cancel.  Really should have a decade or more ago, but just too lazy because it's a PITA.  

make sure you go down in a blaze of glory calling out Ketch & his idiocy before you do

[Fug 540]

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Edited December 8, 2021 by Fug

[DanTheHorn 4,922]

1 hour ago, TexasRenegade said:

The irony of this is that Roadhouse calls theirs country fried sirloin....

 

https://www.texasroadhouse.com/global-menu/country-dinners

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You can eat at Texas Roadhouse in almost every state. There are over 460 locations in 49 of 50 states, plus the restaurant has expanded internationally, opening five locations in the Middle East.

Maybe they call it country fried sirloin for all the folks that kept asking if the chicken fried steak was made with chicken breast or chicken thigh.

[stork642 4,498]

23 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:

since what?

Cents?

[theaveragejon 988]

4 minutes ago, Fug said:

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[Chuckie Finster 22,694]

3 minutes ago, derpyhorndog said:

Morning, you degenerate fucks.
 

Extremely conflicted feelings this morning between the “it’s happening” vibes and news of this dragging out to the weekend. I’m coping with it by telling  myself that the 9.95’ers don’t know shit and Ewers is smart enough to realize that announcing “early” is critical to recruiting momentum — I just don’t see a weekend/Monday announcement as having enough juice to sway things in such a small window.

Suppose there’s some merit to the silent commit angle and working a select group of big-time recruits under some cover of secrecy, but going to baselessly ignore that possibility because it doesn’t mesh with my desires.

Also, chicken fried steak is chicken?!? WHAT THE FUCK?? Never go full regard. 

I think us recruiting nerds hear "Quinn plans to sway recruits" and imagine a world where recruits from all over the country see on Twitter that Quinn has committed and scramble to schedule last minute visits with the staff.

It's much more likely that Quinn's idea of swaying recruits is a select few that he has already texted to tell them to come to Austin with him this weekend.  Anything on top of that is gravy.

[Mother mopar 3,318]

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[Barbacoa 1,934]

14 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I knew the minute I heard about the visit that fucking Ketchum and his band of speds were going to eventually get wind and then immediately put it out there, with no consideration for whether or not that’s productive. They didn’t get this from anyone related to the effort on the UT end or Ewers end. They usually weasel this kind of thing from another recruit who is on a text string or something. Just fucking trash. 

Don’t think it matters? Well, now everyone knows an exact timeline. So if you wanted to intervene with a final pitch or offer addition, you’d know when to do it. It also dissolved trust between the two parties if the recruit doesn’t fess up. The Ewers end will think Texas is talking and vice versa when neither wants the courting process covered this time. In the last two days, Ketchum and his cronies have established a baseline for the offer to beat, when the big pitch is being made, and when the final decision is coming. 

I don’t know if it’s really considered good news, but the staff (and so I assume Ewers as well) knew there was a good chance it would leak once they started telling recruits Ewers will be there this weekend. I was told straight up- hopefully orange bloods and 247 don’t find out until we are closer to the weekend. It’s really unbelievable at this point, and I think there’s a good case to broach the idea of pulling orange bloods credentials. So many people I talk to use orange bloods and have no idea the trouble they cause. It would be nice to even just see their hand get slapped which would “start the conversation” like Ketchum says. 

[JesusSweatDuck 17,781]

1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I think us recruiting nerds hear "Quinn plans to sway recruits" and imagine a world where recruits from all over the country see on Twitter that Quinn has committed and scramble to schedule last minute visits with the staff.

It's much more likely that Quinn's idea of swaying recruits is a select few that he has already texted to tell them to come to Austin with him this weekend.  Anything on top of that is gravy.

If he lands Banks, Dewberry and Stewart that would be fucking amazing.  I'd take 2/3 and still be really fucking excited.

[Rip76 4,925]

F’ing day crew.

[Gut Wagon 8,065]

1 minute ago, Barbacoa said:

I don’t know if it’s really considered good news, but the staff (and so I assume Ewers as well) knew there was a good chance it would leak once they started telling recruits Ewers will be there this weekend. I was told straight up- hopefully orange bloods and 247 don’t find out until we are closer to the weekend. It’s really unbelievable at this point, and I think there’s a good case to broach the idea of pulling orange bloods credentials. So many people I talk to use orange bloods and have no idea the trouble they cause. It would be nice to even just see their hand get slapped which would “start the conversation” like Ketchum says. 

If not for the resulting tsunami, I'd rather we just use a D9 caterpillar to push him into Lake Austin. 

[immamac 42,839]

14 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

I am a member.  About to cancel.  Really should have a decade or more ago, but just too lazy because it's a PITA.  

I can't believe I just pos repped you. 

[JesusSweatDuck 17,781]

1 minute ago, Gut Wagon said:

If not for the resulting tsunami, I'd rather we just use a D9 caterpillar to push him into Lake Austin. 

Think a D9 has enough power?  We might want to pony up for a D11T

[SA-KC_Horn 1,295]

1 hour ago, rpspeed said:

Monday? how bout that Shoneys breakfast bar

Fucking covid killed the last Shoney's in SA late last year.

That was my old skool spot.

[derpyhorndog 2,557]

4 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I think us recruiting nerds hear "Quinn plans to sway recruits" and imagine a world where recruits from all over the country see on Twitter that Quinn has committed and scramble to schedule last minute visits with the staff.

It's much more likely that Quinn's idea of swaying recruits is a select few that he has already texted to tell them to come to Austin with him this weekend.  Anything on top of that is gravy.

I admire the effort and completely understand the reasonable logic (and likelihood) of this take, but again, with that said, choose to selectively ignore for personal reasons. Please respect my decision. 

[dieucla98 2,942]

4 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

If not for the resulting tsunami, I'd rather we just use a D9 caterpillar to push him into Lake Austin. 

Would have to be Lake Travis. Lake Austin is constant level, it would cause unheard of levels of flooding.

[Johnny Sack 8,397]

6 minutes ago, immamac said:

I can't believe I just pos repped you. 

Welcome to the dark side.

[Gut Wagon 8,065]

2 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

Would have to be Lake Travis. Lake Austin is constant level, it would cause unheard of levels of flooding.

Constant level until Ketch's bloated carcass impacted. They'd be pulling kayaker bodies off the top of Mt. Bonnell. 

[Harvdog 2,287]

1 hour ago, The Beast said:

Henry’s in San Angelo has a fine CFS with yellow gravy. I highly recommend it.

Henry’s also had the white avocado sauce with their chips.  Henry’s was awesome in San Angelo

[NoName 16,351]

and the all time classic:

[derpyhorndog 2,557]

Bumping this. I need another hit of second-hand insider speculation. My thirst will not be satiated, I will not relent. @Ravishing Rick

Spoiler

20 hours ago, derpyhorndog said:

Because fuck it, why not, another hit of speculation:

Found a plane (Tail No. N512LL) that's wiped itself from FlightAware. It just touched down on the east side of Austin Bergstrom on a trip from Dallas Executive. It's co-owned by the McMinn Law Firm and the CEO of an Austin-based property management company.

The founders of those firms/companies are both UT alumni, and one of them (Jason McMinn) was a Spur. The flight took off from Dallas right about noon today, roughly 15 minutes after LotusCorn posted the news re Ewers purportedly from the Spurs group chat.

20 hours ago, Ravishing Rick said:

ha!  I grew up with Jason McMinn in Waco and we played baseball together for years.  Will text and revert!

19 hours ago, derpyhorndog said:

@Ravishing Rick

15 hours ago, derpyhorndog said:

Given the dearth of speculation/updates, figured I'd note that I messaged @Ravishing Rick to see what is buddy said re Ewers. Message was read an hour ago (no reply) and Rick is live on surly, which I can't read to mean anything other than put QE in the calculator. Going to sign off and pass the torch to night crew in comfort with that knowledge.