2022 Fall Camp: Drippin'

[BigOrange1 6436]

3 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Don’t be naive.  Sark feeds their sources. My stance is fuck ketch and chip.  But everyone else?  They’ve hit soft on sark. So sark comes off as a douchebag to many.  Let’s hope he makes a bowl game this year.  

pretty sure you are the only one thinking this way.

[BurntOrange&White 39931]

49 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Btw.  First group to say Sark was going to get hired?  tfb.  First group to say it was going to be Ewers?  Tfb 

If I recall correctly they were pretty on point with assistant hires too

[DFW Horn 6123]

59 minutes ago, runthebone said:

What kind of FUCKING IDIOT would think we brought Quinn MOTHERFUCKING Ewers in via the transfer portal to sit behind HUDSON CARD, who SHAT himself repeatedly

9.95ers?

[The Beast 585]

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

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In the last hour I’ve had some new people reach out to me to shed some light on the events of the day. I don’t know them well but their stories are congruent so I’m inclined to believe them. I appreciate them for reaching out.

If they’re accurate, and I think they are, the read should have been Quinn Ewers was going to win the job, and probably even before the first scrimmage if not before camp. Yes, Ewers and Card have been pretty even throughout August but the staff had a good idea it was going with Ewers for at least the last week, but probably well before then.

How did we run bad info? Well, it aligned with what we were hearing about Card having the marginally better camp. It also aligned with some other, more private data points. We clearly over-weighted one particular source’s info. He has been very good to us in the past, and like I said, it aligned with some other stuff. Confirmation bias is probably the number one credibility killer in this line of work.

Given the context of this competition, it’s not very conventional. So even though we believe Card has been a little bit ahead on the field right now, it doesn’t mean he has clear advantages across the board.

We’ve heard one of the things that really tilted this in Quinn’s favor was the perception they’ll be able to rely on 12 personnel and run play-action to simplify Ewers’ decision making. He’s also been spending a lot of extra time with AJ Milwee and we can deduce that’s paying dividends in the minds of the coaches. And yes, he was really good in the red zone recently (but this was likely decided before then).

Very frustrating day personally. I care about being right almost more than anything else. Hopefully it was a good day for the program, though.

This is goddamn art work. 

[stork642 4498]

All media, specially 9.95s think they are celebrities and want to be the story when all they should be doing is communicating the story.  Their egos get the best of them and they start to think they are more important than they really are.   Sometimes they need to be reminded of their position in this dynamic.  Just report the news.  Stop trying to stir shit up for clicks.   

[closetohumping 17441]

3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

If I recall correctly they were pretty on point with assistant hires too

I don’t really remember that but they were way out front on Quinn and sark

[conVINCEd 21469]

4 minutes ago, stork642 said:

All media, specially 9.95s think they are celebrities and want to be the story when all they should be doing is communicating the story.  Their egos get the best of them and they start to think they are more important than they really are.   Sometimes they need to be reminded of their position in this dynamic.  Just report the news.  Stop trying to stir shit up for clicks.   

This is 2022 sir.  No chance of that happening.

[Sandbagging Steve 982]

1 hour ago, Murfdogg21 said:

@closetohumping should pay @closetojumping $9.95 per year for the next 100 years. 
 

[during the typing and tagging I learned there is a handle called @CloseToDumping and @ClosetedHorn]

closetohumping has both of those handles in his porfolio.

[DFW Horn 6123]

13 minutes ago, stork642 said:

All media, specially 9.95s think they are celebrities and want to be the story when all they should be doing is communicating the story.  Their egos get the best of them and they start to think they are more important than they really are.   Sometimes they need to be reminded of their position in this dynamic.  Just report the news.  Stop trying to stir shit up for clicks.   

How many practices were even open to these dipshits, anyway? They can't objectively report on what they haven't seen. Obviously, their "sources" intentionally blew smoke up their asses.

Nice work, Sark

[PatSolitanojr 518]

8 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

 

 

[EZ$ 2104]

So was all the talk of the QBs sucking and throwing picks all day misinformation too???

[thunderlounge 7825]

33 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

 

Ketch has been on record in saying he could give a shit about Texas.  He’s all about the money

And then wonders why his “sources” burn his ass.

[BornAndRaised 12281]

 

[Laxtonto 12080]

I think there are several of you that need to take a look at how Bama runs who gets the legit intel and how Sarks relationship with the 9.95 group prior to the Bama coaching rehab experience potentially contributed to his downfall.

 

If Sark is following the Saban media model, the 9.95ers are going to be pigeonholed to an occasional scoop in trade for favorable recruiting spin and any big story is going to get slipped to the legacy print media. A town like Austin, where UT is the lone show sports-wise, allows Sark (and Saban in Tuscaloosa for that matter) to dictate the flow of information and as shitty as they are of doing their job the local print media still have value to UT as a mouth piece to the casual fan. Some 9.95 dude on the internet does not.  Those guys will get the scoop from here on out for “official” news. After that, On3 purely off of contacts and long standing relationships and then everyone else.

 

The information game and using info as ways to butter up donors will never die, but expect leaks from within the house to be pretty well cut out and the occasional mole hunt to keep it that way. Look at Saban and Bama, and you will see Sarks vision of how the UT media will learn to behave or get starved out.

[taybo20 2825]

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

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In the last hour I’ve had some new people reach out to me to shed some light on the events of the day. I don’t know them well but their stories are congruent so I’m inclined to believe them. I appreciate them for reaching out.

If they’re accurate, and I think they are, the read should have been Quinn Ewers was going to win the job, and probably even before the first scrimmage if not before camp. Yes, Ewers and Card have been pretty even throughout August but the staff had a good idea it was going with Ewers for at least the last week, but probably well before then.

How did we run bad info? Well, it aligned with what we were hearing about Card having the marginally better camp. It also aligned with some other, more private data points. We clearly over-weighted one particular source’s info. He has been very good to us in the past, and like I said, it aligned with some other stuff. Confirmation bias is probably the number one credibility killer in this line of work.

Given the context of this competition, it’s not very conventional. So even though we believe Card has been a little bit ahead on the field right now, it doesn’t mean he has clear advantages across the board.

We’ve heard one of the things that really tilted this in Quinn’s favor was the perception they’ll be able to rely on 12 personnel and run play-action to simplify Ewers’ decision making. He’s also been spending a lot of extra time with AJ Milwee and we can deduce that’s paying dividends in the minds of the coaches. And yes, he was really good in the red zone recently (but this was likely decided before then).

Very frustrating day personally. I care about being right almost more than anything else. Hopefully it was a good day for the program, though.

This makes it sound like Card or Card’s dad was the source. Also how the fuck do they know about anything on the field? I don’t fully buy the practice reports, but I most certainly don’t think the football IQ of these writers is better than our coaches 

[PTINS 3467]

5 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

It serves them right. All they have done is undermine the program somewhat gleefully for dollar bills. I’m glad the locker room isn’t a source of leaks. I’m glad they were fed disinformation. They have done nothing but try and tear down the program they claim they give a fuck about. Apologize to your readers and for your shit reporting and fuck off stage left.

I agree w/ most of all of this except the apologies. Those fucking fucked fuckers can just fuck off.  It's nice to have multiple platforms covering Texas football, but I get tired of the constant negative crap. Glad to see 'em get played and choke on their own vomit.  

2 hours ago, Codaxx said:

I am going to steal from Babers on this point. Quinn was the one meeting Neyor, Manning, and Addison. Worthy changed his social media page to a picture of Ewers. Babers basically said Ewers won the locker room the moment he got to Texas. I am sure people have other reasons, but I thought that was an interesting data point 

Babers had a good take this afternoon. He knew Quinn was the guy simply because of the way the play makers reacted to him.  Worthy changed his picture the day Ewers committed; he knew who his QB was.  If it wasn't QE, Sark was gonna have some new locker room problems.

We need a QB who can hit a long pass. Its been 10 damn years!

You guys and gals are my heroes. Your wit and sarcasm, warped sense of humor, and passion for Texas Football always puts a smile on my face.

[McRib 102]

On 8/18/2022 at 5:42 PM, BrazilHorn said:

Fuck all this Card talk. Sark needs to name Ewers QB1, push his chips into the middle of the fucking table and go for it.

No QB "controversy" just get the fuck to work. Quit wasting reps with the ones on Card. Just stupid.

Okay Mr. Bianco, why did you wait this long to tell Sark your announcement strategy? 

[RollLeft 5045]

Just heard.  This is nice way to end the day.  

[ousux 5597]

One of those you can drive to HEB and pick up a case of Shiner while looking baller af, the other is a one trick pony that's likely to explode. Which do we want?

[Nope 3114]

 

[Hermanator 7043]

12 minutes ago, PTINS said:

I agree w/ most of all of this except the apologies. Those fucking fucked fuckers can just fuck off.  It's nice to have multiple platforms covering Texas football, but I get tired of the constant negative crap. Glad to see 'em get played and choke on their own vomit.  

Babers had a good take this afternoon. He knew Quinn was the guy simply because of the way the play makers reacted to him.  Worthy changed his picture the day Ewers committed; he knew who his QB was.  If it wasn't QE, Sark was gonna have some new locker room problems.

We need a QB who can hit a long pass. Its been 10 damn years!

That's why if he did indeed go with Card it meant Ewers was way worse from a preparation standpoint than any of us thought when he transferred.  That's why the idea of going with Card was so devastating. It would have meant Ewers wasn't what he was made out to be.

 Sark called in favors to get Ewers here and paid because he didn't believe a QB he could win with was on campus. 

[Mason Ramsey 3373]

Anyone know what time the scrimmage is tomorrow?

[BurntOrange&White 39931]

1 minute ago, Mason Ramsey said:

Anyone know what time the scrimmage is tomorrow?

10am 

[ousux 5597]

Fuck the nerds. He didn't come here to play school. Footbaw is about gittin' er dun.

And Coors light, doobs, sloots..

And tooling around in an $250k Aston Martin DBX. Some college experiences are different than others

[Rimbo 25926]

2 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

Nahlin admitting he was played. Beautiful.

[El Compadre 766]

6 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

Looks like Jason Schwartzman and McLovin had a kid and carbo loaded it

[CastHorn 811]

So Ewers was not a pick machine the past few weeks?

[JesusSweatDuck 17781]

What a massive bitch

[Hermanator 7043]

15 minutes ago, CastHorn said:

So Ewers was not a pick machine the past few weeks?

Probably not. Assuming all the info these people put out was just fabricated bullshit from whoever Sark tasked to feed it to them

[touchthemonolith 646]

The notion that Sark deliberately played Ketch/OB on this is really silly to me. Sark knows Hudson. He's worked with him week in and week out for two years now. He knows his family members on a first name basis. He's seen him work his ass off for months, waiting to get word about Sark's decision. Sark knows what this decision meant to a kid that means a lot to him.

If Sark actually decided to leak to the press that Hudson was going to get the job (knowing he intended to do the opposite) just to fucking destroy the kid the next day, then he's an absolute fucking sociopath. And to what end? To find a leak? To embarrass a reporter?

Ketch wasn't the victims of some intricate, cloak and dagger scheme by Sark to deceive him--Ketch is just shit at his job.

[TexasEx 1667]

4 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

What a massive bitch

 

[Da Fino 2781]

What a massive bitch

Incredibly insecure.

[Hermanator 7043]

27 minutes ago, touchthemonolith said:

The notion that Sark deliberately played Ketch/OB on this is really silly to me. Sark knows Hudson. He's worked with him week in and week out for two years now. He knows his family members on a first name basis. He's seen him work his ass off for months, waiting to get word about Sark's decision. Sark knows what this decision meant to a kid that means a lot to him.

If Sark actually decided to leak to the press that Hudson was going to get the job (knowing he intended to do the opposite) just to fucking destroy the kid the next day, then he's an absolute fucking sociopath. And to what end? To find a leak? To embarrass a reporter?

Ketch wasn't the victims of some intricate, cloak and dagger scheme by Sark to deceive him--Ketch is just shit at his job.

Either:

It had nothing to do with Card. Card is there every day in practice he knows tbe truth. It's to set these parasitic asshole reporters straight and get them in line. To let then know they're a trash industry and if they want any access at all they need to come to heel. 

Or

These fucks just make shit up and every time one puts something out the others immediately copy it so they all see credible. But they're all just full of shit and have no sources. 

 

[Fud 9552]

29 minutes ago, touchthemonolith said:

The notion that Sark deliberately played Ketch/OB on this is really silly to me. Sark knows Hudson. He's worked with him week in and week out for two years now. He knows his family members on a first name basis. He's seen him work his ass off for months, waiting to get word about Sark's decision. Sark knows what this decision meant to a kid that means a lot to him.

If Sark actually decided to leak to the press that Hudson was going to get the job (knowing he intended to do the opposite) just to fucking destroy the kid the next day, then he's an absolute fucking sociopath. And to what end? To find a leak? To embarrass a reporter?

Ketch wasn't the victims of some intricate, cloak and dagger scheme by Sark to deceive him--Ketch is just shit at his job.

I think there’s a decent chance that after Card got most of the first team reps yesterday, some people assumed that meant that he was trending towards getting the job without realizing that the plan was to then give Quinn the majority of the reps today, and then after Sark said that he knew who the starter was, they read the tea leaves as that being Card 

[Fud 9552]

3 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

Either:

It had nothing to do with Card. Card is there every day in practice he knows tbe truth. It's to set these parasitic asshole reporters straight and get them in line. To let then know they're a trash industry and if they want any access at all they need to come to heel. 

Or

These fucks just make shit up and every time one puts something out the others immediately copy it so they all see credible. But they're all just full of shit and have no sources. 

 

They have plenty of sources. The issue is not having the right sources at the right moments

[TommyGufano 6021]

2 minutes ago, Fud said:

They have plenty of sources. The issue is not having the right sources at the right moments

Anyone can have sources

[CloseToDumping 6]

3 hours ago, closetohumping said:

I already paid ctj.  Ctd needs to pay me now

Pay you for what? 

[justhookit 4191]

18 minutes ago, Fud said:

They have plenty of sources. The issue is not having the right sources at the right moments

Well yeah, because the only right source is Sark himself. Christ we have mouthbreathing idiots here on this board and at the 9.95’s. Not directed at you.

[justhookit 4191]

5 minutes ago, CloseToDumping said:

Pay you for what? 

The blowjob?

[D3zii 3678]

Casey Cain! 
 

that’s it, that’s the post!! 

[Zeus 6022]

1 minute ago, D3zii said:

Casey Cain! 
 

that’s it, that’s the post!! 

I am told the receiver room does not like parking boots.

[Irieguy 1059]

1 hour ago, CastHorn said:

So Ewers was not a pick machine the past few weeks?

Your troll game is weak. 

[Rimbo 25926]

4 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Guys like ketch and chip deserve it.  Roach and IT I don’t think so.  IT from what I’ve seen are pro sark guys. Thought this was sort of shitty of sark

[Kormit The Frug 134]

[Surlian 79]

I remember TFB mentioned Sark and Ewers first, and they did get some of the assistants - I remember them teasing the DC hire and within 2 hours Surly figured out it was probably PK based off what they were saying 

[BurntOrange&White 39931]

The amount of dick sucking the IT members are doing to Nahlin for his Ewers thing I posted earlier is funny.

[stork642 4498]

1 hour ago, Da Fino said:

Incredibly insecure.

Much like the belt he wears.  

[MichaelDicksonFanClub 2904]

Gonna be incredible how much Ewers and the offense improve in the scrimmage reports

[Horn of Gabriel 1614]

 

I mean...the jokes are writing themselves at this point...

That's the parody account right?  Right?

[touchthemonolith 646]

1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

These fucks just make shit up and every time one puts something out the others immediately copy it so they all see credible. But they're all just full of shit and have no sources. 

 

Ketch deserves every bit of mockery headed his way for shitting the bed this thoroughly. That said, I can't bring myself to think he just straight up invented a source and spouted bullshit. I think most people thought it'd probably be Quinn (for good reason); that's why the story blew up in the first place. If you're gonna straight up lie about knowing the outcome of a QB battle, why stake your service's reputation (lol) on the underdog winning? Why not have your fake source just say "Sark is strongly leaning Quinn and it's a matter of time. The talent and upside are too much." 

There's probably a kernel of truth tucked away somewhere in what he reported. But that kernel probably came from someone with no idea what they were talking about--which he then incompetently investigated and irresponsibly published because, and this is key, he's a shit reporter.