Everything posted by closetojumping
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Sean Miller is already losing me
I didn’t get to watch the Tennessee game, but it was clearly horrific by all reviews. It’s crazy to me that that same team could look so good these last two games. I feel like I’m mostly used to Texas basketball teams starting to get worse around this point.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
If you think the reason Richardson was treasured is a cannon for an arm, I don’t think you were paying much attention. What they all fell in love with was the overall athleticism within that frame. We mocked it all in that year’s draft thread and said he’d bust, but it was about some notion what he was an athletic wizard that drew all of the attention.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I'm being presumptive about what those guys got/will get, so don't take my thoughts about their situations as gospel. The only thing we "know" is that they didn't get offers that pleased them from Texas, although the Barnes offer wasn't low ball and he was coming back had dipshit not completely fucked up the meeting involving completing the deal. I don't think I was responding to your post specifically, which is why I didn't quote. The initial reaction across text strings, this board, the OTF board and Twitter has sort of been "meh, probably won't even stick around". OTF said that he's development more than depth, so yeah, they're still trying to fill at least 2 more spots. If this dude plays next season outside of garbage time, he's either really jumped up the learning curve, or Texas is already fucked. He was a bookend with Fodje in HS and folks liked them about the same. Fodje was forced into starting snaps early this past season and he barely passed as serviceable and sometimes just got his ass whipped against better defenses. I assume things would be better than that with Newman in Year 2, but it wasn't pretty in Norman this season and I'd prefer not see anything akin to that in Austin in 2026.
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Transfer OL Jonte Newman
He was a highly rated 4 star. Texas had him at their elite JR Day camp in 2024 and recruited him hard, but ATM locked him up early in the cycle and he shut his recruitment down. I'm sure they paid an arm and a leg for him, as Texas does for guys like that, and I'm betting that he didn't anything close to that in the portal from Texas or anyone else, so this is a good thing on the UT end. The aggies who aren't dipshits weren't any happier to see him hit the portal than we were when Brooks or Barnes entered it. He had like 10 snaps in 2 games. He's a developmental player, as most giant, raw OT prospects are.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Heading into this season, one of the big lamentations about the roster was that Flood hadn't taken enough OTs in the last few classes. I am not being critical of that take with this post, just pointing out that had Texas initially signed Newman, there wouldn't have been as much whining when Cojoe went down. Now Texas lands him and no one seems to give a shit and generally just assumes he'll vanish into the portal next cycle. Maybe that's the case, or maybe they still want to develop key roles inside of the org rather than just rely solely on the portal to fill needs when guys graduate or move on. One thing is likely - Texas won't have to push him to take a big pay cut after next season. They're starting low, so if they see development they like, he can certainly get a raise without having to bail. I feel like someone else is going to get that same trade with a few of the guys we didn't want to leave like Brooks and UK with Barnes.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
He's not costing much and Texas was interested in him last cycle when chose ATM. Dude apparently didn't like it there.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I'm guessing he was one of the visitors that they absolutely did not want being disclosed anywhere until the deal was done. This dude must have gotten to ATM and thought:
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I don't know how much weeping he's doing. Grinding his teeth over a lot of things, maybe.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
So Mason Babka and Terence Ciabatta visiting should really put this board at ease, then. These guys would be fucking saviors for our OL worries. This guy is good. Texas was after him during his recruitment, but I don't recall whether or not he visited, unofficially or officially.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
And horndfl said ... Nothing, you idiots. horndfl's dead, he's locked in my basement.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Correct. Houston Chronicle had a national, state and local one that I would read religiously each year. The Chron had a really good HS section back in the day. My parents kept the ones with my name in it, but lost them in moves along the way, apparently.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
No, but he did predict that they wouldn't go any farther in stardom as a band than being moderately well-known in the greater Seattle area. The first 3 songs on my randomized playlist for walking my dog this morning: -No Church In the Wild -Ventura Highway -Angry Johnny Outside of most reggae, all death metal and most country music between the years 1995-2010, I like just about anything. Enjoy it, you rat bastard. One day you wake up and the crazies start rolling onto the football board like its a fucking bathtub drain.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
TIL that Nirvana members were a part of TotD. Huh.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
They were a combo of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden before, I think, Pearl Jam got famous. Vedder picked up some of the vocals on Hunger Strike to help out Cornell, who didn't have the range that some of the song required. Vedder at the time was a relative unknown. That's going off of memory from an old interview I read or saw back around the time that Cornell committed suicide. Don't shoot me if Wiki or some other source says I'm wrong with authority.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Oh, wait, no way, you're kidding. He didn't just say what I think he said, did he? You meant Goosby, not Brooks, but yeah.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
247 links on transfers are shit. There are several hundred IOLs and over one hundred OTs in the portal right now without a new school identified as their destination, per folks who can actually see what's happening in the portal. I am not saying they're all the required "quality depth" required by so many here, just that the link and premise you posted are bullshit.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Well I do, so fuck him, and fuck you too.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Is that like "Hold me close young Tony Danza"? of Decadents.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Why does it matter? He hasn't started before, so he fucking sucks. I remember the handwringing in August when he went down regarding how that impacted depth. Now the guy will return for the 2026 season as a potential swing OT and no one wants the fucking guy. Got to find someone to chart on the roster above him from the portal, probably a starter at another P4 that we need to convince to get in the motherfucker.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
You guys are giving that absolute buffoon what he craves, attention. You’re helping legitimize his stupid fucking whining points and it's bandwidth drain. He’s a clown and you are all trending there by engaging with him on this stupid shit. “We need starter quality depth several levels deep on the OL or we don’t care about winning. “ Super realistic.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
The stupid is contagious here. It’s insane. We have seen, from prior years!, that the final enrollment date, @JesusSweatDuck , for a semester does not matter. There are exceptions. So why create a false premise? Does it move the conversation forward? As to the NFL roster or practice stuff, most of that was discussed in the offseason and preseason threads on the football board, and many of us here were not in favor of it. It wasn’t discussed in any depth on the $9.95er forum and BO&W is being disingenuous with his bullshit fucking claims otherwise. The idea he’s conveying in his comments right now is that he gets it and we’re otherwise in fantasyland does not deserve any further oxygen. I’m convinced he posts while wearing clown makeup. The continued panicking over OL depth here is nauseating. Texas is still working on some big answers to their rotation and then will sign, as with other positions, guys who can fill in the roster. Barring catastrophe for any team, no one is reaching regularly into their 3 deep for help at any position, OL and otherwise. This stupid fucking lamentation that Texas should have starter quality experience and depth behind, you know, the starters, is ridiculous and some sort of new portal horror porn kink for a bunch of you guys coming off as rubes. Right here in this thread a new phenomenon in CFB fandom can be witnessed. People are now panicking when the concept of playing a younger player to replace a starter is floated. New starters developed on the roster after being recruited to the school is how starting talent has been replaced for 150 fucking years. Now? Unacceptable. No talent recruited into the program can become a starter. If Texas loses a starter to the NFL, by gawd, he better be replaced from the portal with proven starter talent from the P4. If that isn’t the case, then Texas doesn’t give a fuck about winning and is happy being mediocre. Why even have a recruiting board with this level of hivemind idiotic thinking?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I wrote a synopsis on the OU recruiting thread. They’ve added a few but my opinions haven’t really changed. They are admittedly bargain hunters hoping to win by the magic of Nagy’s “eval advantage” and good luck with aaaaalllll that.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Bready McBreaderson could wind up at Texas due to the DC change and fall ass backwards into good money and a chance to change his trajectory and actually show everybody something. The portal and NIL can renew the life of a bust in one roll of the dice. No one should be more grateful for this shifting landscape than former 4 and 5 stars who have flamed out.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Negged for cumulative stupidity on this thread and also typing declaratively about something and being completely fucking wrong in multiple ways in just one post. 1) grad transfers are no longer treated differently. 2) no one has to be signed somewhere by the end of Friday night or this weekend in general. Jesus Tittyfucking Christ.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
They had a plan. Plan A. It flopped. They’ve been scrambling at OL ever since. We might wind up okay, but that will only be through some luck and moneywhipping. How is it not obvious to the whole lot of you jackasses that Brooks was paid heavy freight during his freshman year, had a terrible offseason, a terrible season and then was surprised by a rather large pay cut offer to resign? Hope is that dipshit’s strategy in the portal. That’s it. Likely his best offer is the one he just walked away from at Texas. They didn’t trust their eyeballs with Ojo and fell into the starfucking trap that they’re susceptible to each cycle. Gerry and Bobby have been the only $9.95ers locally or nationally who have repeatedly shit on Ojo’s rating and said he’s a project. Meanwhile, since committing to Tech, he’s underperformed his rating during his senior year and had opposing coaches talk shit about him to anyone that would listen and also gotten his shit wrecked repeatedly at the AA showcases. How can you be this involved in recruiting and roster building and still not have a fucking clue how the portal works? Texas can land depth, bread and/or Seaton weeks after the portal closes. And God damn, motherfuckers, they can sign and add guys at any position all the way up to the last add/drop day of the fall 2026 semester as long as they portaled as of 11:59 on Friday night. Portaled means applied their intent, with the school being required to then submit their paperwork within 48 hours. Not a single fucking entrant has to be signed by that time, by anybody.