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13 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

Oh I don't doubt that, but it did actually confirm it was when he was interviewed by the GM or whomever with the Dolphins. They asked about his mom being a prostitute (she's not), but it was a way to get a reaction and he walked out. The Dolphins fired him after it was released, I believe. Here's an article on it. There are several more, so I just picked one from a site I read. 

 

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/385246-dolphins-gm-asked-dez-bryant-if-his-mother-was-a-prostitute

That was bullshit anyway. They asked about his dad and he said his dad was a pimp. Then they asked about his mom and he said his mom worked for his dad. So of course the next question would be that. 

11 hours ago, DZX158 said:

The cowboys drafted 5’5 Deuce Vaughn in the 6th rd. If Blue runs in the low 4.4s someone will draft him in the later rounds.

I didn't realize Blue's dad is the director of scouting for an NFL team. If that's the case, then yeah he'll get drafted. 

In reality it'll all come down to the combine and his 40 time. If he runs in the 4.3s some team will take a flyer on him most likely. His production numbers were solid (outside of fumbles) with 14 TDs, but other than the fumbles the biggest thing going against him is he doesn't play special teams. RBs drafted in the later rounds have to play special teams. He needs to work on kick returns. 

13 hours ago, Bevo said:

Assuming we don't pick up anyone in the next few weeks, who will be our running backs in the spring? Gibson, Tre? Are either of the freshmen backs on campus?

With Blue leaving I think they will at least be looking to find a guy in the spring or if there's a PSU/OSU/ND guy they like that can be coaxed. Unless the staff really like where either Simon or Stewart are right now. Gerry said Ricky Simon should hit the '25 season at about 5'10" and 220 lbs.

Baxter's knee injury was a big unusual for a running back, but that game at OSU will be 13 months since the injury. He'll be ready to go barring setback. So Baxter, Wisner, and Gibson is a pretty strong RB room if all goes well. Could be rough to sell a portal guy on competing in that room. 

 

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1 minute ago, texifornia said:

He's a gamble that Ohio State is willing to take. Every coach and program has a different risk tolerance for different factors.

He seems like a safer gamble than some of the guys we have taken in the portal.

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6 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Wat 

Not looking at these two years as some kind of do or die window.
 

I’d rather not see Texas as a program that needs to go all in to try to catch lightning in a bottle over the short term because of this player or that player. I’d rather Texas expect to be among the last standing every year and putting in place whatever pieces might help with getting those last wins against other elite teams year in and year out. Alabama, not Auburn.  

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4 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Not looking at these two years as some kind of do or die window.
 

I’d rather not see Texas as a program that needs to go all in to try to catch lightning in a bottle over the short term because of this player or that player. I’d rather Texas expect to be among the last standing every year and putting in place whatever pieces might help with getting those last wins against other elite teams year in and year out. Alabama, not Auburn.  

We're not Ole Miss that has to marshall its resources for a big shot every five years. Success at Texas can feed into more success.

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4 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Not looking at these two years as some kind of do or die window.
 

I’d rather not see Texas as a program that needs to go all in to try to catch lightning in a bottle over the short term because of this player or that player. I’d rather Texas expect to be among the last standing every year and putting in place whatever pieces might help with getting those last wins against other elite teams year in and year out. Alabama, not Auburn.  

This sounds like battered Cowboy fan syndrome. You wouldn't take a shot at going all in to win 1 title at the hope of going on a Bama type run? I believe that for the 2026 portal class that we should go all in on that class to try and get a title with Arch as short term mixed with our long term HS recruiting propels us forward. 

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5 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Not looking at these two years as some kind of do or die window.
 

I’d rather not see Texas as a program that needs to go all in to try to catch lightning in a bottle over the short term because of this player or that player. I’d rather Texas expect to be among the last standing every year and putting in place whatever pieces might help with getting those last wins against other elite teams year in and year out. Alabama, not Auburn.  

We have a generational talent at QB in Arch. We should absolutely try to capitalize on that window.  Success brings more elite and generational recruits, which continues to keep us in contention.

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Just now, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

This sounds like battered Cowboy fan syndrome. You wouldn't take a shot at going all in to win 1 title at the hope of going on a Bama type run?

No. Certainly not at the expense of tanking after that. 

I get that this isn’t a binary, but I’d rather see consistent success and consistent chances.

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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We have a generational talent at QB in Arch. We should absolutely try to capitalize on that window.  Success brings more elite and generational recruits, which continues to keep us in contention.

I’m not saying don’t try to capitalize on it. I’m saying don’t sell the future to try to do it and try to capitalize every year. 

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49 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

That was bullshit anyway. They asked about his dad and he said his dad was a pimp. Then they asked about his mom and he said his mom worked for his dad. So of course the next question would be that. 

I didn't realize Blue's dad is the director of scouting for an NFL team. If that's the case, then yeah he'll get drafted. 

In reality it'll all come down to the combine and his 40 time. If he runs in the 4.3s some team will take a flyer on him most likely. His production numbers were solid (outside of fumbles) with 14 TDs, but other than the fumbles the biggest thing going against him is he doesn't play special teams. RBs drafted in the later rounds have to play special teams. He needs to work on kick returns. 

With Blue leaving I think they will at least be looking to find a guy in the spring or if there's a PSU/OSU/ND guy they like that can be coaxed. Unless the staff really like where either Simon or Stewart are right now. Gerry said Ricky Simon should hit the '25 season at about 5'10" and 220 lbs.

Baxter's knee injury was a big unusual for a running back, but that game at OSU will be 13 months since the injury. He'll be ready to go barring setback. So Baxter, Wisner, and Gibson is a pretty strong RB room if all goes well. Could be rough to sell a portal guy on competing in that room. 

 

That’s kinda my point with the cowboys. They didn’t draft him because he was the best available at a position of need it was due to the relationship. If his grandson likes Blue (similar to DMO) Jerry will draft him. Jerry wanted Brooks badly last year. The grandson may have played a role in that as well.

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1 hour ago, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

He is coming off ACL/LCL surgery and had slight damage to his PCL that did no require surgery so who knows how up to speed he will be by fall camp or game 1. It is not a smart decision to rely on a running back room that consist of the following:

Tre Wisner
CJ Baxter - Injury mentioned above
Jerrick Gibson
Christian Clark - Achilles tear surgery. Also not smart to bank on him being completely ready to go by seasons star.
Rickey Stewart - True Freshmen
James Simon - True Freshmen

Our spring roster is essentially 4 backs, two of which are early enrollees. 

Gerry Hamilton and CJ Vogel are optimistic that Simon can run in between the tackles and handle short yard situations.

Here they're talking about early enrollees and I've linked it to where they start talking about James Simon. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

My bet is if he runs under a 4.35 he gets drafted in line the 6th or 7th round. If he doesn’t he’s udfa. 

You're also expecting David Aaron's big breakout game to be next week against a slow secondary for Iowa State. Just send that speedster deep! 

Gerald Hansen is about to use that elite speed to streak past the Oklahoma State secondary and propel us to glory!

If speed were all that mattered, sure, he's drafted late. Maybe the Raiders go for it. 

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15 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We have a generational talent at QB in Arch. We should absolutely try to capitalize on that window.  Success brings more elite and generational recruits, which continues to keep us in contention.

Bama thought they had that with Tua, then Mac was the one who got it done. 
Tennessee with Peyton, only for Tee Martin to do it. 

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Just now, Atticus said:

Bama thought they had that with Tua, then Mac was the one who got it done. 
Tennessee with Peyton, only for Tee Martin to do it. 

The guy wasn't writing with the notion that victory is certain. We all can concede that winning a national title, especially now with the playoff, is very fucking hard and will require either: 

1) a confluence of luck, skill, and schedule

or 

2) a loaded roster, the likes of which come along every 4-5 years for one team, and in today's era of the portal and NIL, we've yet to see evidence that that can continue to happen. 

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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

That was bullshit anyway. They asked about his dad and he said his dad was a pimp. Then they asked about his mom and he said his mom worked for his dad. So of course the next question would be that. 

I didn't realize Blue's dad is the director of scouting for an NFL team. If that's the case, then yeah he'll get drafted. 

In reality it'll all come down to the combine and his 40 time. If he runs in the 4.3s some team will take a flyer on him most likely. His production numbers were solid (outside of fumbles) with 14 TDs, but other than the fumbles the biggest thing going against him is he doesn't play special teams. RBs drafted in the later rounds have to play special teams. He needs to work on kick returns. 

With Blue leaving I think they will at least be looking to find a guy in the spring or if there's a PSU/OSU/ND guy they like that can be coaxed. Unless the staff really like where either Simon or Stewart are right now. Gerry said Ricky Simon should hit the '25 season at about 5'10" and 220 lbs.

Baxter's knee injury was a big unusual for a running back, but that game at OSU will be 13 months since the injury. He'll be ready to go barring setback. So Baxter, Wisner, and Gibson is a pretty strong RB room if all goes well. Could be rough to sell a portal guy on competing in that room. 

 

* James Simon (power back)

* Ricky Stewart (APB)

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Go ahead. Let’s have a neg off. Your whining here about something that is readily part of the miasma of discussion in this thread is as much of a drag as us discussing a guy’s draft prospects who may still also declare himself to the portal. 

That’s an over the top reaction due to your own personal preferences. 

Yes, I'm sure my objection will start pages of discussion that nobody cares about just as the speculation about Blue's draft spot did before it. 

I would have thought that you were using "whining" ironically considering the nature of your own post, but I see you didn't get the light-hearted spin I put on the notion of negging someone. Sad that you miss the irony in your whiny post.

There's also irony in you defending boring derailments as you, as well as I, have whined about them.

By all means, a nuclear neg-off. You get me. I love that.

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2 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Yes, I'm sure my objection will start pages of discussion that nobody cares about just as the speculation about Blue's draft spot did before it. 

I would have thought that you were using "whining" ironically considering the nature of your own post, but I see you didn't get the light-hearted spin I put on the notion of negging someone. Sad that you miss the irony in your whiny post.

There's also irony in you defending boring derailments as you, as well as I, have whined about them.

By all means, a nuclear neg-off. You get me. I love that.

Negged.

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4 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Or let him go under center in goal line situations for a Hurts tush push play.

I think this is something that every team should have moving forward. The play is pretty much unstoppable whether you decide to use a QB, backup QB, or even a TE body to run it. Just practice it and have the package ready to go.

1 minute ago, Hookem2147 said:

We tried to QB sneak against Clemson and fumbled. 

Alright back to transfers.

It fumbled because we had Conner at center and he botched the snap. Also that was a traditional QB sneak, not the tush push. 

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24 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

You're also expecting David Aaron's big breakout game to be next week against a slow secondary for Iowa State. Just send that speedster deep! 

Gerald Hansen is about to use that elite speed to streak past the Oklahoma State secondary and propel us to glory!

If speed were all that mattered, sure, he's drafted late. Maybe the Raiders go for it. 

You know NFL teams like natural traits that are elite- low 4.3's are elite for RB's, probably gets someone to take him at the ass end of the draft. I agree with you in principle that he's well down the list of draftable running backs this year, for sure, and lean toward he doesn't get drafted unless he burns up the track.  14 TD's in big time ball including 5 in the last 4 games isn't nothing. He's a gadget player that hasn't helped himself on special teams like K Robinson did, but if he's fast enough he's certainly has a chance to get drafted.  Him, Holmes, Connor, Gbenda all slot the same way to me- unlikely to get picked but I wouldn't be as shocked as if I woke up with my head sewed to the carpet. Of the 4 of them he's the most likely to get taken if he puts up good numbers at the underwear Olympics.  

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

In a few months when it's page after page of cheese jokes or some stupid shit, you'll be begging to hear more about Blue's potential 40 time. 

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But I won't be looking much at this when we're between portals. Well, I'll check in from time to time for CTJ's mean posts about me.

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6 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

You know NFL teams like natural traits that are elite- low 4.3's are elite for RB's, probably gets someone to take him at the ass end of the draft. I agree with you in principle that he's well down the list of draftable running backs this year, for sure, and lean toward he doesn't get drafted unless he burns up the track.  14 TD's in big time ball including 5 in the last 4 games isn't nothing. He's a gadget player that hasn't helped himself on special teams like K Robinson did, but if he's fast enough he's certainly has a chance to get drafted.  Him, Holmes, Connor, Gbenda all slot the same way to me- unlikely to get picked but I wouldn't be as shocked as if I woke up with my head sewed to the carpet. Of the 4 of them he's the most likely to get taken if he puts up good numbers at the underwear Olympics.  

I don't know how often PFF updates their big board, but they do update it regularly. Currently, they have Golden as 23rd on the board for all of draft eligible CFB players. 

For RBs, they have 29 players ranked in their top 300. Blue is still not listed as one of those top 29 RBs for the draft. Trevonte Citizen, formerly of LSU and currently at McNeese State, is the 282nd ranked player and last TB listed. There are names up and down the list that we'd all recognize, and plenty of them are also very fucking fast. 

Not saying it can't happen for Blue, but he better hurry up and get on that grind, cousin. 

2 minutes ago, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

Reading another site it seems like the USC OG could decide within the next 24-48 hours with Oregon and Texas being the primary contenders. Anthony Evans name is now one to watch as well. 

What other site? Your handle is new, albeit your posting behavior familiar, and we don't know what to trust coming from a post like this. You could be citing any idiot.

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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

I don't know how often PFF updates their big board, but they do update it regularly. Currently, they have Golden as 23rd on the board for all of draft eligible CFB players. 

For RBs, they have 29 players ranked in their top 300. Blue is still not listed as one of those top 29 RBs for the draft. Trevonte Citizen, formerly of LSU and currently at McNeese State, is the 282nd ranked player and last TB listed. There are names up and down the list that we'd all recognize, and plenty of them are also very fucking fast. 

Not saying it can't happen for Blue, but he better hurry up and get on that grind, cousin. 

What other site? Your handle is new, albeit your posting behavior familiar, and we don't know what to trust coming from a post like this. You could be citing any idiot.

Golden at 23 for all players? That's absolutely wild.  I'd be thrilled for him if he made it into the second round- pretty happy for him to be a 3rd round guy.  I didn't have Blue in my last draft post speculation so, yeah agreed. He better get some serious track coaching skills and figure out how to kill that 40, which is dumb, but still apparently a thing.  I'm glad he declared as opposed to the transfer portal from a selfish perspective as I'd rather see someone else take his spot at RB and/or whatever NIL resources he would command, but I also didn't want to see him go get 1800 all purpose yards somewhere else and never put a ball on the carpet.  He either adds another longhorn to the draft or doesn't make us look bad by succeeding elsewhere. Win/win.  

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8 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

What other site? Your handle is new, albeit your posting behavior familiar, and we don't know what to trust coming from a post like this. You could be citing any idiot.

Idk what it says bc paywall but Bobby has an update on OTF, maybe that's where

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4 hours ago, immamac said:

the only problem I had all night was the 2 inexplicable plays. 

1) Complete prevent idiot shit before half leading to score from Henderson.

2) 2nd and goal from the 1. 

2 completely unjustifiable playcalls in any world. Not even hindsight is what makes those bad calls, they were pure dogshit.

Texas is coming back strong or even stronger next season. Early enrollees just got to campus. Sark will figure out how to stop getting cute inside the 5 and put points up. 

Here's my issue with Sark - we're about to be in year 5 with him and we still can figure out how to score and put teams away like we should be doing. I'm hoping it doesn't snowball like Riley at USC where he refuses to let anyone else call plauers, even to the detriment to the program. 

4 hours ago, Tex Long said:

 A statement we've heard about Steve, early and often, is that his play-calling shows no tendencies.

But for the second time at least, we've had defenders from a team we just lost to say "we knew what their plays were gonna be when they showed their formations". That was Captain Jack recently, and a UGa guy after the regular season loss.

Sawyer even added "we knew they like to run that toss sweep there."

Not showing a trend is a trend.

Steve, you're showing yourself to be a damned fine HC.  Quit trying to prove you're still the Man when it comes to the Offense... everybody gets it and everybody agrees. You need to find an OC who can implement your strategies in practice, game planning, and play calling. And you need to not micromanage that person. 

Do it.

Agree with all 8f this. Dude just needs to leave his ego at the door and just go find a bright mind to take so much responsibility off his plate. 

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