Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting

[Getafix 28682]

2 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

Just checking to see if anything is going on and see nothing but best western movie talk. I wish I knew how to quit this thread. 

 

It's a sickness.  There's no ramada for that.

 

 

[JBJ 3655]

1 hour ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

I'm surprised The Searchers hasn't been mentioned.  Great movie.

It has been mentioned a few times, but deserves another.  Beautiful movie.

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch/Johnny Depp) hasn't been mentioned.  Weird but good movie. Maybe not really a western?

[Soliver465 405]

Fort Apache should be on everyone’s list.

 

Silverado is also worry of mention.

[Fud 9552]

24 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

If we're including modern westerns, I'm going Hell or High Water and then No Country, by a nose.

[Newy25 7693]

7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Same, but logically we know nothing is going to happen until February. Devon Campbell announces and it seems that our staff is justifiably more focused on the transfer portal right now. 

And even in February most activity other than NSD will be with the 2023 class.

It definitely makes sense. We are waiting on a long shot with Matthews and that’s about it. Assuming Campbell is in the fold already. 

[Newy25 7693]

It’s not a movie but for me the best western media content is still Deadwood. 

[cdain3 3454]

@immamac

Delete this thread. It's gone to shit.

[SydneyCarton 48110]

Just now, cdain3 said:

@immamac

Delete this thread. It's gone to shit.

Avatar checks out. 

[Orange&White 5528]

Fuck all of you.

If some dares to accidentally post something about a '23 recruit in the '22 thread, they get shouted down by five posters in 2 seconds. If someone spends fifteen fucking pages about shitty movies, it is perfectly fine.

Just because nothing is going on doesn't mean you should fill the fucking thread with drivel. All that does is make it difficult to figure out when shit actually happens because you have to sift through 10 pages of faggotry and rambling.

When there is no rain for a few weeks, no one fucks up the rain thread with talk about movies and chicken fried cocks.

When no one posts food in the Shank thread, no fill the fucking thread with talk about harry goddamn potter.

There are threads for movies, there are threads for harry potter, there are threads for fucking cheese. Use those if that is what you want to talk about. Continuing to do it in this thread is stupid af.

 

[UncleSonny 6573]

18 minutes ago, Daichee Bell said:

raising Arizona (arguable) 

I like the movie, but I’d love to hear the argument about how Raising Arizona is a Western. 

[Fud 9552]

2 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

Fuck all of you.

If some dares to accidentally post something about a '23 recruit in the '22 thread, they get shouted down by five posters in 2 seconds. If someone spends fifteen fucking pages about shitty movies, it is perfectly fine.

Just because nothing is going on doesn't mean you should fill the fucking thread with drivel. All that does is make it difficult to figure out when shit actually happens because you have to sift through 10 pages of faggotry and rambling.

When there is no rain for a few weeks, no one fucks up the rain thread with talk about movies and chicken fried cocks.

When no one posts food in the Shank thread, no fill the fucking thread with talk about harry goddamn potter.

There are threads for movies, there are threads for harry potter, there are threads for fucking cheese. Use those if that is what you want to talk about. Continuing to do it in this thread is stupid af.

 

[SquishMitten 10415]

Y’all are right that was an exaggeration, I got too overeager to talk about something that wasn’t Harry Potter. Thinking back it’s probably not even my favorite recent western (No country for old men beats it) still probably in my top 5 personally. Tombstone is definitely in there, might be #1. Id probably round out the top 5 with Unforgiven and the good the bad and the ugly. Does Django count as a western? Cause I’d probably have to make room for that. If we are talking about underrated westerns I’d like to throw out Bone Tomahawk

What? No Cowboys and Aliens in your list?

[JesusSweatDuck 17784]

[closetojumping 62746]

6 minutes ago, Fud said:

I know I've got a ton of people on ignore so I lose track of some posters until I randomly see them quoted. The guy you quoted is humorless, angry, and uninformed. Like, forever as a poster, that's been who he is. The update you posted of him is illustrious of that. Maybe this thread sends him screaming back to his safe spot, which is apparently "the rain thread".  

[Gut Wagon 8083]

It's a Shane what's happened to this thread. 

[Huckleberry 33002]

6 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

What? No Cowboys and Aliens in your list?

I mean it was probably a case of expectations versus reality, but when my family insisted we watch Cowboys & Aliens for a family movie night years ago I was sure I was about to watch the worst movie in the history of movies. It wasn't that, so I actually didn't mind it so much. Now it certainly won't get anywhere near a list of my favorite movies in any category whether that's westerns, alien movies, Harrison Ford or Daniel Craig movies, or any applicable list I can imagine. But it somehow saved an evening by not being the worst movie ever made. I feel like its mid-40s ratings for both critics and audience on Rotten Tomatoes is pretty accurate, and that's pretty damn good when you were expecting a 5% movie to show up.

That concludes the longest defense anyone has ever written for that movie.

Edited January 6, 2022 by Huckleberry

[closetojumping 62746]

It's probably not crazy that "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" hasn't been listed, but it was well done and highly entertaining because of its quirkiness. Numerous terrific actors in it, and it was all shot in Texas.

[Daichee Bell 2925]

7 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

I like the movie, but I’d love to hear the argument about how Raising Arizona is a Western. 

Modern western.  Cops, robbers, kidnapping, desert, yodeling, and a showdown with the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse. 

[Fud 9552]

Great modern western, if it qualifies 

[40acredropout 2902]

17 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

chicken fried cocks.

I lol'ed. 

[irishtexan 11521]

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Lone Star (def qualifies as a Western) all flew under the radar and are all excellent. 

[MoJames 8244]

9 hours ago, Fondren & Main said:

Tombstone and HoHW are fine westerns but they’re not even close to the best.  Hell, they may not even be top 10.  And, Unforgiven is dogshit.

I love it when people suggest someone is wrong on a subjective topic. It's cute.

[UncleBuck 6454]

18 hours ago, texifornia said:

Tremendous way to get kids to challenge themselves in reading level though

Trying to get my 6 y/o daughter to read The Silmarillion.

[UncleBuck 6454]

11 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

It's probably not crazy that "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" hasn't been listed, but it was well done and highly entertaining because of its quirkiness. Numerous terrific actors in it, and it was all shot in Texas.

I've watched it twice. Very good movie.

[Scholz 11944]

23 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

chicken fried cocks

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

OK - apologize for the recruiting content/threadjack.  Aggy just hired Durkin to be their DC.  I get NIL/bagman/etc. controls, but how is it not easy to recruit against a guy who basically got fired for abusing players?

[SydneyCarton 48110]

I doubt there's ever been a moment where one of us hasn't been annoyed scrolling through pages of either bad, bad takes from football board mouth breathers, or cheese puns, or geography shit, depending on the day we're having or our mood. That's just going to be the skin in the game. But watching guys show up to the thread, who never contribute anything of substance, bitching about having to boo hoo read some words to find out info when there isn't any, all the while having years of history as a clueless poster who can't understand much of anything is...chef's kiss. So fuck it, let the good times roll. 

[SydneyCarton 48110]

1 minute ago, Liquor and Poker said:

OK - apologize for the recruiting content/threadjack.  Aggy just hired Durkin to be their DC.  I get NIL/bagman/etc. controls, but how is it not easy to recruit against a guy who basically got fired for abusing players?

"I realize he killed a kid. But it's just one kid out of the hundreds, maybe thousands he's coached. What are the odds it will be you? The odds are worse you'll get in a car accident on the way to school. Hey, do you like 500K? Because we've got lots of bags of 500k and they LOVE 5 star recruits."

Edited January 6, 2022 by SydneyCarton

[Junior Bonner 6257]

Excellent change on the thread title. I’m glad I contributed to it. 

[UncleBuck 6454]

If you want to get an "ohhh shit I was not expecting that?" watch The Power of the Dog on Netflix.

Edited January 6, 2022 by UncleBuck

[hook me 2103]

how has Back To The Future III not been mentioned as a top 10 western? I just don't understand y'all sometimes.

[texifornia 57002]

2 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:

If you want to get an "ohhh shit I was not expecting that?" watch The Power of the Dog on Netflix.

I've heard really positive things about that one. Pretty excited to watch it.

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

1 minute ago, UncleBuck said:

If you want to get a "ohhh shit I was not expecting that?" watch The Power of the Dog on Netflix.

I watched that and never got there.  What was unexpected? 

Spoiler

The fact that he and Bronco Henry were lovers was telegraphed from the jump.  And they talked so much about leaving dead cows alone that as soon as the kid started cutting the hide off the cow in the canyon my wife said - oh, Benedict Cumberbatch is going to die of anthrax.

 

[hook me 2103]

9 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:

Trying to get my 6 y/o daughter to read The Silmarillion.

talk about a rollercoaster of a book. It's hours upon hours of "can't keep my eyes open" followed by a few chapters of "I can't put it down" that's just enough to keep you coming back for more.

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

"I realize he killed a kid. But it's just one kid out of the hundreds, maybe thousands he's coached. What are the odds it will be you? The odds are worse you'll get in a car accident on the way to school. Hey, do you like 500K? Because we've got lots of bags of 500k and they LOVE 5 star recruits."

"And it's been a long time.  He basically has that out of his system at this point or wouldn't it have happened again by now?"

[Droopy 2626]

4 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

OK - apologize for the recruiting content/threadjack.  Aggy just hired Durkin to be their DC.  I get NIL/bagman/etc. controls, but how is it not easy to recruit against a guy who basically got fired for abusing players?

A kid died. Parents lost a son due to his negligence. I guess “abuse” fits but doesn’t tell the whole story. Fuck that guy. 

1 minute ago, UncleBuck said:

If you want to get a "ohhh shit I was not expecting that?" watch The Power of the Dog on Netflix.

No offense, but that movie was one of the most “can see it coming from a mile away” as far as storylines. The director was hitting the viewer over the head with what was coming. Visuals were nice though. 

[UncleBuck 6454]

1 minute ago, Liquor and Poker said:

I watched that and never got there.  What was unexpected? 

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The fact that he and Bronco Henry were lovers was telegraphed from the jump.  And they talked so much about leaving dead cows alone that as soon as the kid started cutting the hide off the cow in the canyon my wife said - oh, Benedict Cumberbatch is going to die of anthrax.

 

well....

Spoiler

not just him and bronco henry (though I didn't think it was that telegraphed, it could have been anything), but that him and the boy became close... in a way.

 

[UncleBuck 6454]

1 minute ago, Droopy said:

No offense, but that movie was one of the most “can see it coming from a mile away” as far as storylines. The director was hitting the viewer over the head with what was coming. Visuals were nice though. 

I guess I missed all of the signs. I thought it was going a different route.

[SydneyCarton 48110]

2 minutes ago, Droopy said:

A kid died. Parents lost a son due to his negligence. I guess “abuse” fits but doesn’t tell the whole story. Fuck that guy. 

No offense, but that movie was one of the most “can see it coming from a mile away” as far as storylines. The director was hitting the viewer over the head with what was coming. Visuals were nice though. 

I'm not sure it was the one death that got him fired. It was that plus the entire player uprising against him of SYSTEMIC abuse in his program. 

[Zhorn96 1773]

10 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

"I realize he killed a kid. But it's just one kid out of the hundreds, maybe thousands he's coached. What are the odds it will be you? The odds are worse you'll get in a car accident on the way to school. Hey, do you like 500K? Because we've got lots of bags of 500k and they LOVE 5 star recruits."

"and hey, at least it wasnt a video coordinator, right?"

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

Just now, UncleBuck said:

well....

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not just him and bronco henry (though I didn't think it was that telegraphed, it could have been anything), but that him and the boy became close... in a way.

 

I guess I thought it was telegraphed for this reason:

 

Spoiler

Jane Campion and Annie Proulx

 

[UncleBuck 6454]

Just now, Liquor and Poker said:

I guess I thought it was telegraphed for this reason:

 

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Jane Campion and Annie Proulx

 

I think that may be the case. I couldn't tell you who they were until after I googled them upon your mentioning them, I'm not big into film and moves tbh.

[IDIOTsavant 8497]

23 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Lone Star (def qualifies as a Western) all flew under the radar and are all excellent. 

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

7 minutes ago, Droopy said:

A kid died. Parents lost a son due to his negligence. I guess “abuse” fits but doesn’t tell the whole story. Fuck that guy.  

Fair enough - but it and the uprising underscore my question. 

Seems like a very aggy move though.  Toughen guys up and all that. "This is  Junction Boys 2.0!"

[Doc Reeves 6434]

This thread right now

 

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

23 minutes ago, MoJames said:

I love it when people suggest someone is wrong on a subjective topic. It's cute.

You're just wrong about that.  

[Newy25 7693]

How about the most insufferable western movies of all time? I would like to suggest Dances with Wolves, later remade into an alien version that was even more insufferable. 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

31 minutes ago, MoJames said:

I love it when people suggest someone is wrong on a subjective topic. It's cute.

Do you even surly, bro?

[Fud 9552]

9 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

Fair enough - but it and the uprising underscore my question. 

Seems like a very aggy move though.  Toughen guys up and all that. "This is  Junction Boys 2.0!"

He's also been pretty meh as a DC outside of 2021, except for when he was under Muschamp 

[Mdhorn 5972]

Probably belongs on the movie thread but The Salvation is a fun watch, as is the Proposition. Also would add the Man from Snowy River.  These aren't American Westerns in the American sense.