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closetojumping

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  1. I don't move around to certain sections of this site much, but the overall site is more or less my Internet home base. This thread seems like the place where folks discuss grief and the fog with that. I don't know if I am "grieving" per se, since I thankfully don't have a ton of experience with it and that's pretty far away from my overall disposition in general. That said, I feel like I just want to put a few of thoughts out there into the ether in some form of memory for some things. This has been a really dark seven days for me and I would like this terrible streak to end. Spoilered in order to not take up the whole thread page. My daughter lost her pregnancy in the second trimester last week. It's pretty crushing, obviously, for her and her husband. For me as a parent, it feels like a gut punch. I wish there was more I could do but she's 2,000 miles away. Thoughts and prayers it is. I think I'm going to write her a small letter or something in the hopes of helping her mentally a bit, but she's pretty fucking tough and might just roll her eyes at it. I don't know, probably doing it more for myself than anything and maybe that's selfish. A good friend of mine was in a one car accident on Friday night outside of Driftwood. Ran into a street light and never applied the brakes. Could have been drinking, or fallen asleep, or had a cardiac event. Not sure we'll ever know and not sure it's important at this point. They pulled the plug after parent visitations last night. I'd lost touch with him over these past 5+ years. He moved to the Austin area and was teaching in HS and kind of a Peter Pan type. I have a bunch of kids and businesses to help raise or deal with, and outside of the random texts associated to key dates and shared memories, we hadn't caught up in years. My last true conversation with him was after church at lunch. He couldn't figure out why two of his and my best friends had ostracized him from the group, or tried to, at least. So I ended up just delivering the painful truth to him about their reasoning, that it was likely permanent, that I didn't agree with them and they knew it, and still considered him my friend, but that he needed to move on for his own sanity. He was really upset and it was an overall grim conversation. I'd like to have talked to him in a better place than that being one of our last shared experiences. I don't have a long list of friends. He was one of them. He could call me for anything and vice versa, and it wouldn't have mattered how long it had been, we'd have done something for the other. Some of my wife's girlfriends were super good friends with him in current times and they're all pretty crushed and texting and talking about him. It's surreal to be something of a spectator since they came about their friendships with him in ways that never intersected with me, because he and I were running buddies for the better part of 15 years more than a decade ago. He was in my wedding. RIP John. You will be missed. My uncle died today. It wasn't unexpected, but it's just another bad thing packed into a short period. He did some very bad things to my mother when I was young, so I've never had much love for the guy. He died in near poverty, his offspring range from near homeless drunks to lower middle class blue collar types without savings. So I have the triple whammy of losing blood I've known and seen regularly all my life, having some pretty complicated mixed emotions about the man in totality, and my older brother informing me that he and I are going to have to split the funeral costs for a funeral I won't be attending, otherwise they're not sure what they can do. The money wouldn't matter except a lot of the negative shit I've experienced from the man when growing up involved him doing things driven by greed or financial incompetence that directly caused my mother and her kids harm, like kicking us out of a rental house he owned with one week's notice when my mom didn't have a job and we had nowhere to go. One of many. My mom is now spending her 4th straight day in the hospital and is battling several ailments directly related to her rapid decline in cognitive abilities and her ability to take care of herself. A year ago, she was perfectly fine. It's kind of shocking. I know many people have it worse. I'm not lamenting life, just a shitty 7 day streak in the middle of it. This thread seemed like the least "look at me" place for such a thing short of me writing this on a card and mailing it to Santa or something. I wanted to write this all down and organize this negative, melancholy bullshit in my head so that I can then put it all behind me in some manner.
  2. Yeah, that sounds right. I don't think the portal season has made anything better for those guys, either.
  3. “Emotionally invested” is a pretty loaded term. I’ve always loved recruiting as a means of following the program’s talent acquisition but I’ve never felt personally invested in a recruit’s choice or fate other than Vince Young’s (because I watched him in HS and thought he could transform Texas into a true title contender). I understand people feeling alienated, but there is an upside no one really seems to be examining openly. You know what “50% of the class” used to look like after 2 years? Dead weight. Guys who were never going to contribute just sitting around for the pussy and the free education. Now? Fuck off. Put the work in and contribute or go be fat, slow, and entitled somewhere else. On top of that, the portal actually helps fill in the gaps on the roster from some of those misses. If you’re a place like Texas, at least.
  4. I made peace with my own urge to start forming opinions on the 2026 landscape by deciding not to really think about anything until the portal is completely closed. That said, people on the FSU boards seem despondent. I think one of their big podcasters has stopped doing his show out of protest for them “giving up on 2026” or some shit. I haven’t done any review yet to have my own opinion other than it doesn’t sound great for them.
  5. One of my buddies is related to someone who’s been a part of this guy’s development. Good character player and the like but unlikely to ever touch the turf between the lines at Texas in any fashion. Hoping that guy’s wrong, of course.
  6. Wisner’s contract is heavily incentive laden at FSU, per people who talk to staff at FSU. We can argue the legality of that, I don’t think FSU cares. They’re going to be a bad team and they’re unlikely to pay Wisner even half of what his top outcome could be.
  7. Of all the wild and outlandish shit I have been involved with and told y’all about, this is the one that takes the cake? Okay then. No, I didn’t crack the code on TUS, but The Sixth Sense story is true. As much as @SydneyCarton would love to tell you I am full of shit, he’s likely heard the story from the other guy and/or could verify it from our text chain in like 60 seconds.
  8. Cute kid. He really did turn into a fat midget though. I was watching The Sixth Sense at the movies with my roommate (Greg Davis 3rd & 5 graphic guy) and it hit me in a scene that Bruce Willis was wearing the same outfit the whole time. “Bruce Willis’s character is dead. Must have been when the New Kid On the Block shot him. “ He thinks for a minute. “God damn motherfucking fuck! You just ruined it. “ He still brings it up. I consider it a career movie-watching highlight.
  9. Who is going to call Khalil first? Please record it when you do. Tell him to bark twice if he’s in Milwaukee or some such.
  10. This coming from a guy who once wrote in his neg rep comment to me something the gist of "I will kick your ass and then fuck your wife." So, yeah, no, and you're welcome.
  11. Am I on the right thread? Who and what are you referring to, here? I have met enough of you to know that the pic rule will be violated with impunity on my end.
  12. The Texas Ranger? Here is what I wrote on OTF about the same post. Come on, guys. This is p-hacking at its finest. There is no need for a "sample" when the sample is statistically irrelevant. Just tally the total groups for each team and deliver the actual real numbers. This guy didn't do that, and there's no explanation for how he went about doing what he did. Which 7 Texas incoming transfers were the sample? Which 14 exiting? Texas has demonstrably larger counts for both groups than 7 and 14, as do many of the other teams listed, including Ohio State. I can't even imagine how this guy would feel if he were to spend 5 minutes on this board. You are softer than you should be after all of these years, Hagbard. Also, I can see it now: "And every offseason, we require all of our players to do a class of tai chi for one hour a week. You will develop a powerful inner core and a sense of discipline. Some players have even displayed spiking estrogen levels, so there's that, too." "Coach, I have Ohio State on the other line. Gotta go. "
  13. Gerry's update this morning on De Sensi and a DT out of California that Baker has "discovered" for the 2026 cycle. I like this update and what it could mean for the class. Gerry said in a later post that, while he's only gotten to see a little of De Sensi so far, he looks like he has the athleticism to be a college OT. Apparently De Sensi was heavily weighing going to play for Yale before Texas and NW got involved, and he still might. **** Will Texas add to the 2026 recruiting class? The Texas Longhorns signed a Top 10 class in early December with 23 signees. At the time, there weren't any visible signs or conversations behind the scene that Steve Sarkisian and staff would add anyone else to class. OnTexasFootball can report that Texas is looking for developmental prospects on the offensive line and defensive line with scholarships going to 105. OTF is not saying Texas will use all 105, but the staff does now have a little flexibility to add 2-3 upside prospect on the lines. Offensive line prospect ... Angelo DeSensi (Lombard, Il./Montini Catholic) has been in contact with offensive line coach Kyle Flood this week. As has Northwestern and several other P4's. Northwestern coaches Chip Kelly and Jerry Neuheisel were by Montini Catholic Thursdsay. The 6-foot-5, 275-pounder has made a visit to Yale, and has a number of Ivy League offers along with New Mexico. Next up will be Flood heading to Lombard (west of Chicago) in the coming days to see DeSensi workout in person. Senior HUDL: http://www.hudl.com/v/2TJ2AJ 6-5, 275 dunking the basketball off the dribble on the fastbreak: http://www.hudl.com/v/2TNRyv Cali defensive lineman ... Defensive line coach Kenny Baker watched Elijah Ali (Downey, Calif./St. Pius X) workout Thursday while out west to see 2027 DL's. The 6-foot-4.5, 285-pound athletic interior prospect caught Baker's eye, without question. He's a raw player technically, but his athleticism combined with his frame and upside make him a legitimate developmental Power 4 prospect. San Diego State has offered, as have 3-4 others. Ali's recruitment took a hit duing the season due to being suspended for most of the season due to transfer rules.
  14. I have a friend who played women's soccer there. Smoking hot to this day.
  15. "the end"? In the long run we are all dead.
  16. Who said anything besides the OL room had a headless chicken situation going on? I didn't. I said the opposite.
  17. "The fix" wasn't a fucking plan. Christ. That what I was mocking, and have said so explicitly. There was no plan once the Michigan guys said " hahaha. jk." in a text and then ghosted Harris and Flood. People on here trying to give them credit for "the fix" are as naive as the $9.95ers are compromised on the same subject. I told the board what had happened and what was going to happen. Part of that is that things would be fine in the end. "But then closetojumping!?! Why does it even matter and why are you bitching about Harris if it got fixed?" If "the plan" is always allowing the overpaid, underexperienced dipshit GM to fuck things up and then everyone rally around to solve for it at the last minute, then hope is your strategy. That will catch up at some point, and if it was just the way things are, so be it, but this unnecessary. Frankly, it's actually forced. Not even feigning a desire to hang onto Glasscock when he took the Ole Miss role was dumb and it looks dumber every day. Are you at the point where you are just writing off the notion of developing guys on the roster and watching them play themselves into the 2 deep and starting roles? I know we're all chastened by the abject futility of The Connor Stroh Maneuver, but I'm not there yet for OL or any other spot. Having a 2 deep spot earned into by one of the guys signed as recruits to Texas should be fine.
  18. Yet another younger brother viewed as more of the spare and wound up being much better than his older sibling. I’m anxiously awaiting the 3rd Coleman triplet to rapidly climb the depth chart at whatever position he plays.
  19. What does Ohio State know about maintaining a strong RB room, though? These guys actually waited too long. We’ll see some of that going forward as well.
  20. Am I the only person that can't anything in Mittens' post here?
  21. Huh? I'm not here to correct misinterpretations on this level. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!! I am mocking the board denizens, not the staff. I already did that when it was obvious that Harris and Flood were caught with their pants down. I am not criticizing where we are ending up, and never said we wouldn't get here. Hell, I ran over BO&W and others for shitting their pants that the house was going to burn down more than anyone else here. It's just fucking amateur hour with how Harris and Flood handled it. They were forced by the NIL help and Sarkisian to sit down and regroup, after pulling their pants back up, of course. As to the backs, that perfectly illustrates the gap between a group with some thorough planning behind it and the OLs. "Guys won't enter the portal? Not ideal, okay, but we've been talking with these agents and seen these players on film, let's make it happen." vs. "Those motherfuckers pussed out. Sort the portal for IOL! Sort PFF for the highest graded returning Guards and Tackles, asap!!" Also, I have a tee shirt with that Tyson quote on it that I wear regularly.
  22. LOL at the lot of you clowns acting like this was "the plan" the whole time. We've witnessed execution to plans A, B and C at every other position group. OL has been a complete clusterfuck the minute the assumed transfers bailed out. But you guys need a "plan" to feel fulfilled with this stuff, rather than just enjoying it for the fucking chaos it's been. You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan"... even if the plan is horrifying. If, tomorrow, Sark tells the press that, like, a 4 star guard will portal away, or a truckload of tackles will be bid up, nobody panics, because "it's all part of the plan". But I say that one little duo of Michigan OLs will renege... well then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.
  23. His post was helpful. Yours is not.
  24. You're trying too hard on this one. The dude is a known diva, dating back to HS. Yeah, it's this kind of bullshit that worries me. I was worried about Lance Heard being contacted for the same reasons - dude is a selfish prick playing the ultimate team sport with the ultimate team unit within that sport. If his teammates don't like or trust him, that should be a red flag. Not a ton of CU folks are broken up about him leaving, outside of Deion. Deion did the whole "I'll raise you like a dad" thing and recruited him as such. Seaton handled his recruitment about as well as he's handled the rest of this stuff - he made sure he was the last major recruit to commit, dragging the process out and soapboxing repeatedly along the way about leaving his legacy and on and on. That locker room better be really, really tough to disrupt with some of the pure mercenaries Texas is landing/trying to land. If it goes well, you can have great outcomes. If it goes poorly, you' ve got late Jimbo Texas A&M. Justin Wells is high more often than not, allegedly. He's also not a guru connected to anywhere outside of east Texas. It's hard to tell with an update like the one you've paraphrased whether he's actually spoken to someone about this, or if he's just throwing his imbecilic opinion out there.
  25. With the exception of whatever the “he’s an old hippie” song is titled, the Bellamy Brothers were very clear about every other song they produced - each song was designed to get them as much pussy as quickly as possible. I assume it worked.
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