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God fucking damnit motherfucker. I've been happily lurking on this board for years but your disgusting fucking verbal flatulence about "but but but he's winner and he hurt his thumb :(" have forced me

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A good friend of mine who is a reader sent a text a couple weeks back saying he liked following portal recruiting more than high school recruiting. It’s definitely… different. We’re grateful for the intriguing content and it’s an absolute gift to Steve Sarkisian, but it also makes for a wild ride.

There’s still some uncertainty with readers and fans regarding Drew Sanders selecting Arkansas. I found out a little later than I would have liked he was dead set on playing a traditional linebacker role. Like Nick Saban and Pete Golding, his father thought Buck would be better but Sanders wants to play off the ball. Unless Barry Odom changes his scheme in Fayetteville, that’s really his only position going forward. It’s an odd calculation but he’s talented enough it will probably work to some degree. Wanting to play linebacker more than leveled the field for Arkansas.

With Texas landing Bama tight end Jahleel Billingsley on Sunday our eyes turn to yet another former teammate in linebacker Jaylen Moody. Moody visited Texas for about 24 hours on Saturday-Sunday before making his way to Arizona State. IT isn’t certain what Moody intends on doing. With that said, there is familiarity with Sark, Banks, and Flood and he is a take for Texas. This would seem to line up for the coaches to close out.

Barring a very late surprise, Texas is either done for this portal window or will add Moody.

IT heard things just weren’t going to work out with Georgia defensive back Latavious Brini.

Portal needs remaining (assuming Moody is a Horn): EDGE, WR, S, and maybe an OL or best player available. Fret not, the portal will hum once again later in the spring. Texas is still in great position to add immediate starter Ochaun Mathis.

This will fall on deaf ears, but more often than not patience is rewarded in this new era. There’s almost always someone else who fits what you’re looking for.

 

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11 hours ago, RGBIII said:

Screenshot that one for posterity. The power of the burnt ends

Mike Roach is Fucking embarrassing. I’ve never seen a human make a job look THIS hard

Certainty this is only arky centric and no one on Texas staff would ever be involved in something as vile as this 

Pretty sure schools pimping out coeds isn't a recent development. Most likely not in the manner of that tweet but I'm sure there are coeds to "show insert recruit name a good time". Probably football groupies on scholarship or "financial assistance". Wouldn't shock me at all. Heard it's been going on at Tech for decades. Didn't a Basketball coach get in trouble a few years ago for providing prostitutes for a recruit? Would anyone be surprised that the oldest profession in the world would be involved ed in a business as dirty as College Football recruiting?

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12 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

Pretty sure schools pimping out coeds isn't a recent development. Most likely not in the manner of that tweet but I'm sure there are coeds to "show insert recruit name a good time". Probably football groupies on scholarship or "financial assistance". Wouldn't shock me at all. Heard it's been going on at Tech for decades. Didn't a Basketball coach get in trouble a few years ago for providing prostitutes for a recruit? Would anyone be surprised that the oldest profession in the world would be involved ed in a business as dirty as College Football recruiting?

There was a rumor that a player from my high school in the early 2000s got to his hotel room during his official visit to Colorado and found a couple of coeds waiting for him.  Nobody really took it seriously until the Gary Barnett scandal broke...

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28 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

Pretty sure schools pimping out coeds isn't a recent development. Most likely not in the manner of that tweet but I'm sure there are coeds to "show insert recruit name a good time". Probably football groupies on scholarship or "financial assistance". Wouldn't shock me at all. Heard it's been going on at Tech for decades. Didn't a Basketball coach get in trouble a few years ago for providing prostitutes for a recruit? Would anyone be surprised that the oldest profession in the world would be involved ed in a business as dirty as College Football recruiting?

I know someone who is unabashed about being a 'hostess' while attending Wofford. 

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12 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

Nahlin reminded in the comments that Chris Adimora is still in the portal.   Does anyone remember if he was boat crew/malcontent/culture issue, or would he be welcomed back as depth?

 

 

Hope this does not cause a short-term ban, old Wescunt article that includes Adimora info...

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BJ Foster, Chris Adimora entering NCAA transfer portal leaves Texas thin at safety  (12/13/2021)

Texas Longhorns safeties coach Blake Gideon will oversee a rebuilt position room in the 2022 season following the Friday news that BJ Foster and Chris Adimora both entered the NCAA transfer portal, with Foster ending his up-and-down career on the Forty Acres by becoming a graduate transfer.

Combined with the departure of super senior Brenden Schooler, Texas will return only three players at the safety position — junior Jerrin Thompson, who has started seven games for the Longhorns, redshirt freshman JD Coffey, and sophomore Morice Blackwell, a converted linebacker.

Gideon has also helped oversee the additions of several 2022 recruits, including Aledo’s Bryan Allen Jr., currently the third highest-rated recruit in the class, and versatile Denton Ryan standout Austin Jordan, who could play a number of positions in the secondary. Additionally, Texas remains in pursuit of Larry Turner-Gooden, a top-200 prospect from California who was formerly committed to Arizona State.

So the Longhorns are only on track to feature a little more than a two-deep chart at safety while replacing three players with starting experience in the Texas secondary. While the biggest question is whether the losses will represent addition by subtraction, there’s no doubt that the way Foster and Adimora ended their Texas careers represented major disappointments.

The cousin of former Longhorn standouts Quentin Jammer and Quandre Diggs, Foster arrived as a seemingly can’t-miss prospect who was part of the historic 2018 defensive back recruiting class — a consensus five-star prospect, Foster was ranked as the No. 24 player nationally and the No. 3 safety, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.

Foster’s career began with promise after he arrived in Austin from Angleton, too, as he started six games and recorded 46 tackles, nine tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and two forced fumbles, along with an interception, as a true freshman. Over the middle, he was a hard-hitting enforcer. As a box safety, he was difficult for offensive linemen to deal with and a frequent visitor to opposing backfields with the ability to finish plays.

Then Foster battled through a shoulder injury as a sophomore that severely impacted his tackling ability, forcing offseason surgery after all his statistics declined.

When new defensive coordinator Chris Ash arrived with a different coaching staff, Foster struggled to adjust. A fractured hand punching his car during the offseason didn’t help. Neither did quitting the team midway through the season-opening win over UTEP, though then-head coach Tom Herman ultimately allowed Foster to rejoin his Texas teammates. Foster finished the season with 45 tackles over nine games, including two starts.

Another coaching change went better for Foster as he regained his role as a starter and set a career high with 47 tackles and three interceptions in 2021. But with defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski regularly employing two deep safeties, Foster rarely had the opportunity to play in the box where he was so effective early in his career. In Foster’s final game at Texas, he was benched after taking a bad angle on Kansas State quarterback Will Howard’s 71-yard touchdown run that head coach Steve Sarkisian assessed as featuring poor effort from multiple players, including Foster.

The poor angle and inability to catch Howard represented the final, enduring image of Foster’s career on the Forty Acres.

Adimora’s third and final season with Texas was notable by his regular absence from the rotation. Listed as the second-team safety behind Foster, Adimora lost the starting nickel job to a resurgent Anthony Cook after starting all 10 games there under Ash in 2020. Adimora was solid in that role, producing 46 tackles, three pass breakups, and an interception, but played sparingly at safety in 2021 despite the starters struggling and the resulting obvious frustration by the coaching staff — the California product only made 11 tackles in eight appearances.

Now Gideon will either need to coax development out of his returning players or hope the incoming freshmen are ready to contribute. Pulling someone with experience out of the transfer portal may loom as a necessity with the uncertainty among the returnees.

Thompson’s sophomore season failed to capitalize on the flashes he showed late in the year as a freshman in starts against Kansas State and Colorado, games during which he recorded his first career interception against the Wildcats and then led the Longhorns in tackles against the Buffaloes with six stops, including five solo.

Schooler and Thompson rotated frequently at the safety spot opposite of Foster, and while Thompson forced a fumble, broke up three passes, and had 41 tackles overall, his miss on Oklahoma quarterback Caleb Williams on the 4th and 1 touchdown run in the Cotton Bowl both changed the complexion of that loss and was representative of Thompson’s overall struggles as a sophomore.

A top-10 safety nationally from Kennedale, Coffey is still a blank slate in terms of his collegiate career after maintaining his redshirt in 2021 by appearing in four games. Known as a solid tackler with good range and ball skills in high school, Coffey may need to emerge as a contributor in 2022 barring any more additions at the position.

Recruited as a linebacker, Blackwell moved to safety during the season and eventually emerged in a third-down specialist role, but there are questions about his top-end speed and coverage ability that could limit him to roles near the box in the short term. If those concerns remain throughout the offseason, the ability of the Texas defense to stop the run with the defensive front could impact Blackwell’s ability to see the field in 2022.

So Allen may also need to prove his capability as a rotation player immediately as a near top-100 prospect nationally. The Aledo product has experience as a single-high safety with strong instincts and the ability to consistently take the right angle as a tackler. Top-end speed in college could be a concern, but he certainly played fast enough in high school.

Jordan primarily played cornerback at Ryan with proven sub-11 speed in the 100m that should allow him to remain at the position in college while possessing some NFL upside, but the need at Texas could force a position change. Since Jordan projects favorably at both cornerback and safety, he may train at safety where the team needs him most before the coaches figure out the best long-term spot for him.

Whatever happens to close out the 2022 recruiting class in terms of adding another high school safety or two or mining the portal for a contributor, the safety position will look much different for the Longhorns in Gideon’s second season back at his alma mater.

If that group actually represents an improvement in on-field play will depend on how well Gideon can coach his players up or whether Texas already has an instant-impact safety in the 2022 class or in the future pipeline.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Longhornlove said:

Pretty sure schools pimping out coeds isn't a recent development. Most likely not in the manner of that tweet but I'm sure there are coeds to "show insert recruit name a good time". Probably football groupies on scholarship or "financial assistance". Wouldn't shock me at all. Heard it's been going on at Tech for decades. Didn't a Basketball coach get in trouble a few years ago for providing prostitutes for a recruit? Would anyone be surprised that the oldest profession in the world would be involved ed in a business as dirty as College Football recruiting?

Tennessee got busted for this under Kiffen. I can almost guarantee there is a hotty toddy contingent as well. Arizona State should take notes, the football players would never leave the state. 

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1 hour ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

Nahlin reminded in the comments that Chris Adimora is still in the portal. 

Does anyone remember if he was boat crew/malcontent/culture issue, or would he be welcomed back as depth?

 

Probably lack of buy-in, but I bet he couldn't come back now even if he wanted to. The numbers! 

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1 hour ago, Longhornlove said:

Pretty sure schools pimping out coeds isn't a recent development. Most likely not in the manner of that tweet but I'm sure there are coeds to "show insert recruit name a good time". Probably football groupies on scholarship or "financial assistance". Wouldn't shock me at all. Heard it's been going on at Tech for decades. Didn't a Basketball coach get in trouble a few years ago for providing prostitutes for a recruit? Would anyone be surprised that the oldest profession in the world would be involved ed in a business as dirty as College Football recruiting?

 

jamarkus mcfarland does not approve.

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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

There was a rumor that a player from my high school in the early 2000s got to his hotel room during his official visit to Colorado and found a couple of coeds waiting for him.  Nobody really took it seriously until the Gary Barnett scandal broke...

Good friend of mine official’ed there the same weekend as Darrell Scott in ‘07. Said once the team went out the tunnel to the field there was a bunch of joints left behind for them to smoke before taking their seats. High, high reviews from the friend.
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Just now, Huckleberry said:

A little weird. Maybe he wants to get into coaching? 

What I thought/posted elsewhere

Dabo heavily promotes from within rather than makes new hires, so getting a head start for a likely great GA job by being an emergency backup QB for a year is a good start to a coaching career 

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5 minutes ago, hook me said:

Keep this up & they may end up with a better QB room than TTU!

Tech's QB room has since been weakened by future first rounder Colombi's transfer, but Donovan Smith and Tyler Shough remain the likely first two QBs off the board in the 2023 NFL draft. All-time QB room. 

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1 hour ago, Fud said:

What I thought/posted elsewhere

Dabo heavily promotes from within rather than makes new hires, so getting a head start for a likely great GA job by being an emergency backup QB for a year is a good start to a coaching career 

I'll be shorting Clemson hard.

Their "big name" hire, DL coach to replace Bates, is another former Clemson player (he seeming did well in his one year at Auburn). Successful organizations strengthen themselves by bring in new ideas and critical voices. Nepotism at this level is a recipe for groupthink.

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6 minutes ago, RaysBoomBoomRoom said:

 

 

If he's talented, surprised he's not following Napier to Florida...  The three programs that are confirmed to have offered McCaskill since he put his name in the portal last week are USC, Mizzou, and the Miami (OH) Redhawks.

Also:  "McCaskill's cousin Malik McDowell plays at Michigan State and his uncle is Spartans basketball great Steve Smith." 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

 

If he's talented, surprised he's not following Napier to Florida...  The three programs that are confirmed to have offered McCaskill since he put his name in the portal last week are USC, Mizzou, and the Miami (OH) Redhawks.

Also:  "McCaskill's cousin Malik McDowell plays at Michigan State and his uncle is Spartans basketball great Steve Smith." 

 

 

He may have trouble beating out the other LB we should have taken. 

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2 hours ago, Fud said:

Time is a flat circle

 

Let me get this straight:  he knows he will be riding the pine, but his abiding love for Dabo and Clemson runs so deep that he is swapping a Northwestern education and the promising future that entails  for a cow college credential?  How many concussions did this guy suffer?

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