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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Sir, that is a feline phallus..makes perfect sense why they would be impaled by such an implement.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
The thing that gets me is that I believe roschon got one carry after his td run (I might be wrong about that). Sark talks about being a run-first team. He talks about being able to run the ball when the defense knows you are going to run it. If that is the case, particularly when you have a young qb who is clearly struggling, in a game where you knew the wind would be a factor of some sort, why does your undeniable team leader, and most physical runner, not run the football? Did I miss something? In the Herman era, the maddening tendency was—unsuccessful 1st down pass, 2nd down extremely predictable run to try to salvage some yards/possession time, then screen/draw on 3rd and long. Now it’s the opposite. Sark seems to pull the ripcord if the 1st down run doesn’t gain at least five yards and resorts to airing it out the next two downs. Going into the game, I thought the idea would be about 50 carries to about 25-30 passes given the wind,the vulnerability of osu inside, and sheer number of snaps they’ve played over the past couple of weeks. I mean, the only fucking road game the man has won at Texas came when he abandoned the pass game and let bijan win the fucking game. You’d think with a bye coming up, they could weather a few more hits. Now, I’m going to go straight off the deep end here and give some psycho babble bullshit because I honestly am unsure how Sark’s game management can be so poor. The way he manages these second halves strikes me as the same sort of insatiable desire to chase the thrill that you see in addicts. The lack of impulse control a drug addict has chasing a high or a gambling addict has chasing a big payoff. I know it is a classic case of confirmation bias, but watching him continue to go to Quinn time after time after time reminded me of a degenerate gambler doubling down thinking his luck was about to change. In that way, I suppose Sark is certainly leaning heavily into his “all gas, no brakes” philosophy. Theoretically, the calls could have been the optimal choice, maybe the throws were there to be made, but that is only half of the equation. At some point you have to adjust your decision making when additional information comes available. It doesn’t matter how many people are in the box if your qb cannot deliver the ball to the open receiver. All you are doing is giving the opponent more time to find a way to beat you. You wanna stick with Quinn despite his considerable struggles? Fine, let’s ride the running backs, shorten the game, maybe throw in a couple wildcat sets if need be and manage the field position battle. Willing to give card a shot with the full allotment of plays? Cool, get him in there. Maybe work some shorter timing-based plays that he is confident running. I know we hated seeing so many hitches or stick routes in the Strong era, but I think we could maybe tolerate a few more these days. To me, the easiest throw to make in a windy environment is one to a stationary target who can have both eyes on the ball and maybe actually shorten the distance between himself and the ball. Put it right on him. Granted, if everything is sailing, hitches ain’t gonna work either. What bothers me the most in all of this is the fact that you know this is the last time you are going to have bijan and roschon. They have a handful of bullets left in the chamber in their time at Texas. To not fully lean on those two veteran guys in the second half of games where you have a lead seems like malpractice. You think bijan isn’t getting enough national attention? Feed him the fucking ball in a premier matchup against a top 25 opponent. Especially when the passing game, for whatever reason, just was not working. You have the best tandem in the country and roschon gets one carry after going 52 yards virtually untouched? I don’t understand how something like that happens. Heart and soul of your team.. Relegated to watching a freshman in his first true collegiate road game (first ever start out of state?) having possibly the worst day of his sporting career, struggle all the way to the finish line. I know he helped the rbs out a week ago when sark handed him the keys on 4th down, but those guys got it down there. Help the kid out. There is a way to win ugly, sark seems utterly repulsed by the idea of having to endure such torture. I don’t care if you are one play away from putting the game out of reach. It was evident early on that the likelihood of that play being made in the passing game was very slim. Scrap the haymakers, work the jab, move your feet, and win on the cards. Before the season, when considering what happened last year, I wondered if it was possible that Texas could go from one coach who was virtually identical to Scott Frost in terms of outward demeanor, to another coach who was virtually identical to him in terms of mental toughness/ability to finish..and which would ultimately be worse. I’m still unsure. I didn’t enjoy watching a fucking asshole get to 7-8 wins by consistently winning rock fights, but watching a more likable guy go .500 with these inexplicable second half collapses is fucking brutal. Like Mike Sherman brutal. Anyway, rest up, longhorns. Plenty of time to get right and still make a run down the stretch in spite of my tepid view of the head coach’s ability to win close games. Quinn, whatever the fuck you’ve been doing the past two weeks, for god’s sake, please stop fucking doing it. You’ve got people calling for Hudson to play, and it is seriously causing the very few people not pissed off by your own poor performance to lose their fucking minds and heap effusive praise upon 5-star backup Cade Klubnik, who went 2-4 for 19 yards and was helped out by a dumb personal foul on 3rd and 25 and another dumb penalty later in the drive which led to Clemson cutting the Syracuse lead from 11 to 5, then handed off to a guy who ran 50 yards for what was ultimately the game-winning td, as if it was some heroic effort that mere mortals (or measly third year 4-stars) could not possibly replicate (to say nothing of the head coach who made an executive decision to pull his struggling starter and lean heavily on a superior run game to grind the game down). It’s as ridiculous as the length of this screed.
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Just how down is ou?
First off, (I hope I’m correct in assuming you are a sooner, otherwise what the fuck are you doing?) you guys have got to get off of this whole “Lincoln took all our good players” bullshit. OU fans act like they weren’t totally cool with it at the time (it’s fun to go to Twitter and type something like “Riley” “Venables” “upgrade” “soft” into the search bar and just read the results). Shit gets real and now the excuses come back in, but all we heard at the time was “we don’t need soft players, if you wanna follow your soft-ass, woke head coach, go right ahead.” Now coach “unbelievable buy-in” is actively campaigning to rid the program of more players on the roster. You cannot, in the portal era, make the argument that a coach doesn’t have his guys. You especially cannot make that argument and then advocate shipping more guys, who have ostensibly bought in, out of the program mid-season. If they didn’t fit, use the portal. It is in nobody’s interest to keep square pegs for round holes after spring ball. They are your players at that point. Doing it now makes leadership look ill-prepared and totally reactionary. Have you considered the fact that Venables came into that building with a turnaround specialist mindset when the team he took over had been incredibly successful and rather consistent? Rattler was gone regardless. The rest of those dudes didn’t leave immediately. Maybe they were already gone in their minds, but it’s not like OU didn’t have an opportunity to pitch them on staying. Second, I’m dumbfounded by sooner fans’ ability to literally call all of their defensive players stupid while bemoaning the fact that players didn’t want to stick around (considering they booed one of the guys they are wishing they still had off the fucking field). Brent had nine months to either recognize and adapt to his allegedly moronic defensive players, or do what he has been harping on since he took the fucking job—“develop those young men.” He apparently did neither. Imagine coming into one of the most stable and consistently productive organizations in the country and doing your damnedest to convince its people, who have been pretty damn successful under the prior regime, that everything is broken and a complete 180 is the only way to fix it. Especially when you and your staff (offensively at least) are fairly inexperienced and have fewer skins on the wall than the old guy. And, by the way, you also manage to find one of the most bizarre ways to run off the most seasoned element of offensive continuity on the team (who wasn’t a bad recruiter either) a month before the season. Venables and basically everyone cheerleading on the sidelines made a strategic blunder thinking you were going to convince a team that went 11-2 last year that they were “soft” and their culture was a disaster while selling themselves as upgrades to the old regime (let’s not even discuss all the petty bullshit that went on, and continues to happen, with regards to Riley. You dumb fucks put up a fucking highway sign (or petitioned to) for God’s sake..to commemorate a guy shining a giant fucking spotlight on why the state is so incredibly unappealing to live and thrive in, but whatever). You can certainly take that approach, but I wouldn’t expect much sympathy from those players when shit goes south. Third, yes, OU put up 34 on KSU, but they have not led a game at any point since Nebraska. What was the score of the TCU game when Gabriel went out? I think it was already a boat race at that point. The Arnold kid may be great. He certainly sounds good (I actually heard Hoover or Drumm say that OU may have won last Saturday if Arnold had somehow classed up and played, which was amusing. Also love how those dopes thought 1) they fooled Texas by having Gabriel warm up then running the wildcat when that is exactly what sark did weeks earlier 2) that it was a clever question to ask a real football coach whether he believed in the “concept of gamers”..what the fuck did you think the answer would be to that? “Yes, I think guys who don’t practice well or at all deserve to play in front of those who do”? I digress). However, I would caution you that Guyer has produced a lot of highly ranked high school qbs and their production in college leaves a lot to be desired. Charlie Strong himself was in a similar position to Venables with a Guyer qb who looked like a difference maker (granted it was a totally different skill set) that would boost an anemic offense. In terms of the recruiting class, I’d note that Tom Herman signed the #3 class in the nation during his first full cycle as head coach. Having hope is a good thing, but anticipating a quick turnaround, when you are allegedly beating the dog shit out of the current team during the season in an apparent attempt to break them, is a fool’s errand in my opinion. In closing, I would just like to remind you that this is a Texas message board. When you wax philosophical about all the minor inconveniences of a new coach in year one—how the pieces don’t fit, but the new guy is gonna get it turned around despite the ghastly results (outside of #9 they fucking quit, on the field and in the coaches box, I’ve never seen anything like it), how the staff needs time to gel, etc. remember that your audience has made those exact same statements in the recent past and learned that no matter how self-soothing they are at the time, they only make you look worse when none of it is even close to reality. Believe us, you may think you have an idea of how this shit is supposed to go down because you’ve observed it from afar, but trust me when I say you have no idea what is likely coming. We’ve lived in the motherfucker for a goddamn decade. Case in point, I see a lot of OU fans are eating up the comments made by Venables (“I’ll help you leave”) and the players recently (“get off the bus”). Might I suggest you type “Texas Football Let’s Ride” into your search engine? It’s a facsimile of everything your coaches and players have said over the past few weeks, except you can actually analyze what those words actually materialized into. Anyway, while it is a source of tremendous entertainment for most people on this board, you might want to practice the power of positive thinking in silence, or elsewhere, if self-respect is something you value. Otherwise, please continue to talk to us about the vicissitudes of having a new coach trying to get the right players and change the culture of the program..we haven’t a clue what that would be like, and would love to hear you explain… Btw, I really don’t mean to be too much of an asshole. Personally, I am as shocked as most OU fans that their fate has turned so quickly, but I can’t say it hasn’t been welcomed with open arms. I’ve been awaiting their Icarus moment for quite some time, and I’m getting big Charlie Strong vibes..one can only hope. tl;dr
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Game Week- Texas Tech
I’m very late to the party, but I think the primary reason that guy hates Texas so much (among many others) is because I’m pretty sure he was the VTM mod making irrationally bold statements about how Beard would absolutely never leave tech for his alma mater. I’m paraphrasing here but he intimated that Beard would never in a million years leave because he was a living legend in Lubbock, and he had everything he needed right there courtesy of other local hero, Dusty Womble..Plus, it would certainly take an ungodly sum of money, and even then, he would definitely give good pal, Kirby Hocutt, a chance to match or counter. Dude spent the week leading up to Beard’s move taunting and ridiculing Texas fans as totally delusional, extolling the virtues of how loyal and committed Beard was to the program despite persistent reminders that he had bolted from UNLV literally as soon as a better opportunity arose and that there was a damn good reason his contract included a poison pill specifically meant to deter Texas from poaching him.. A poignant quote from that week (emphasis mine): ”Lastly, this is Chris Beard’s home. His family is here, he bleeds Lubbock, and he is a man who has embraced this university as his own. Anybody who thinks he sees Austin as more suited to him is insane.” ..and then it all blew up in his face—Beard was leaving, the difference in salary was negligible, a matching offer was irrelevant, and he had no interest in allowing good pal Kirby an opportunity to counter. It was over. The deal was done..consummated over an Egg McMuffin in Levelland or some shit with his new pal, CDC. The man’s pride suffered a catastrophic injury that day, yet no one was willing to let that dumb fuck forget how galactically stupid his takes were. Since then, he has been writing self-soothing soliloquies like his latest missive referencing PUF and other bullshit trying to convince himself more than anyone else that Texas (and athletic director CDC (btw, how pathetic is that?)) is evil incarnate and tech (and/or Lubbock) doesn’t suck. Frankly, I’m totally cool with this yutz and his ilk believing Texas is evil and its fans are arrogant pricks. Are longhorns supposed to be aghast at the assertion? He must not realize aggies have been proselytizing that shit for over a century. Get in line, bro. The pity party is already near capacity. Almost no Texas fan in the universe is going to be the least bit moved when you mercifully become untethered and have to get the fuck along on your own, but it is nice that you are finally getting there. Congrats, little baby, you’re all growns up! tl;dr tech fucking sucks & I’m the asshole
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Jimbo 2023: Watch.The.Tape.
The thing about signature wins is that you have to consolidate them afterward. They may have had some “signature wins” but they then proceeded to shit the bed in subsequent outings. That program really is the exemplification of premature ejaculation. Poor things, they’ve been afflicted for eight decades now. It’s all they know. Btw, I’m a bit weird—the last two signature wins I associate with Texas are Michigan in the Rose Bowl (beating SC was a reiteration that VY is the greatest damn player to ever grace a college football field) and Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl (would’ve been OU that year if Gideon secured that interception in Lubbock). Both were consolidated the following season.
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Jimbo 2023: Watch.The.Tape.
I’m always impressed with how quick their mods are to suggest a direct conversation whenever they get the least bit of pushback. Not sure if it was mentioned before, but last week the texags host lost his shit with a YouTube poster during the show, challenged the poster to come say it to his face, later reiterated it in the comments, and then got reprimanded on air by Liucci for being thin-skinned and not moving on. It was entertaining.
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Roadkill vs trampling longhorns LHN 7 PM
My (long) take 24+ hours after—If you can’t see how a few very minor outcomes could have totally changed the trajectory of that game, you are probably going to have a very different outlook on how the game transpired. Traylor had his guys ready. He’s a pre snap penalty from possibly getting a td on the opening drive on two separate occasions. He’s a couple of offsides calls away from keeping Texas out of the end zone on their first score. If that happens, you are looking at possibly being down 21-0 in the first half before you even know what happened. They moved the ball at will in the first half despite their offensive line being depleted by injury seemingly every other snap. Second half, you are two (three really) passes off the receivers’ hands away from it being a very, very tight finish. Yeah, you look at the box score and it says Texas did what Texas should have done. The more discerning observer realizes that UTSA played quite well and performed surprisingly well on both lines of scrimmage for a good portion of the game (like we gave Texas credit for last week despite the 81 yd run, the 20 yd scramble, and the late sack of Card). Robinson hitting a couple big runs, Johnson making a circus catch and generally just being the baddest motherfucker on the field, and Card having a timely scramble were the difference on offense. The secondary play was average at best. They did a better job of tackling in the second half, but both corners were beaten badly on the same double move. I thought the line play was decent, but they were getting moved in the run game early, and if there were better athletes at rb, it could have been bad. Not sure what to make of the pass rush. I liked Moro’s intensity in the second half and Murphy’s effort throughout the game. I feel like even if the edges had gotten home more, the qb would have escaped and hurt them even more. He was as advertised. Seeing Bush or Ford in coverage makes me pretty queasy. It was a damn good win against a quality opponent, and the game was closer than most would care to admit for the first three quarters. The difference really was depth (which injuries exacerbated during the game), mental focus (untimely penalties & drops), and a couple of elite backs toting the rock. Credit to UTSA for playing hard. Credit Texas with keeping their composure and raising their game in the second half. There is no need to denigrate UTSA, Jeff Traylor (if you want to make doomsday predictions for his coaching career, at least get the comp right—it’s Chad Morris (or is it Art Briles, who just lucked into Kevin Kolb flipping to UH from OSU?/s) not Charlie Strong), or Hudson Card (he’s QB2 for a reason; what’s the fucking alternative?) for that matter. I’d say they all performed admirably, but right in line with where they were expected to perform. Good game. Now let’s focus on stomping the dog shit out of tech in front of all of their syphilitic fans, and stop bitching about how the backup qb, who is playing through his own injury, and who was the same qb we saw last week and most of last year, sucks. On Card—Stop acting like you had higher expectations for the kid when you knew or should have known what to expect for quite a while now. Some of you sound a lot like the aggies last year. He’s not Ewers. Sark knows that. Everybody knows that. Ewers is hurt, that’s why Card is in. He’s still at Texas. He certainly didn’t have to be. He’s doing the best he can (while injured) and he’s not turning the ball over (btw, a QBR in the 70s isn’t bad & Worthy definitely gave up on one of the deep balls). Deal with it..or be prepared to happily watch Wright or Murphy, if he weren’t injured, play like qbs who have never thrown a pass at the collegiate level (as we’ve seen, Ewers is the exception in this scenario). It can always be worse. Card is not fantastic, particularly on the deep balls. We knew that going into fall camp. Does it limit the offense in terms of what the defense has to protect against? Absolutely. It’s not ideal. We get it. It is what it is. Let’s move on and hope Ewers has a swift recovery.
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Sark's budget
Good. This is good. Are we supposed to be ashamed? This is how recruiting works in most organizations, particularly at the corporate level. This is how it works in lobbying. Fuck, this is largely how it works in dating. What’s the point of having an advantage if you don’t fully utilize it? Spend that fucking money. Ntm, the AD probably saved a bit on the fairly low key re-recruitment of Quinn. The department will see considerable returns from Arch being at Texas. That kid is the biggest boon to Texas Athletics since Kevin Durant in terms of visibility, and he will spend a lot more time on campus. You think Georgia didn’t see returns on their investment over the past few years? Who are the difference makers on the team currently? Ewers, Bijan, Worthy, Sanders, Banks, Overshown? 5-Star guys recruited by every national program. You do what you have to in order to distinguish yourself amongst your competition in those recruiting battles, and it’s not like they have a recent track record of overwhelming success to lean on. Put your best foot forward. Spend the money. I say add another million and transport the entire ProKick contingent each year so Banks et al. can hand pick the next Dickson (the family ties route didn’t work). Buy a few cases of Vegemite to leave under their pillow at the Four Seasons and you’re golden. I’m leery of the “let’s raid Texas Wesleyan” strategy, even if Texas is now 1/3 in Aussie punter hit rate. Keep swinging. And yes, I do believe the low-rent Ed Hochuli wannabe is a Big XII official. And he fucking sucks too.
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Sark's budget
No, fuck that guy. He likes to beat his chest every time tech does anything slightly productive, but most of the time he is busy being a petty little bitch toward other fan bases in order to drive engagement because their own product is shit. His own followers fucking despise him because he is the biggest fairweather fan around and will turn on tech as soon as they struggle. His support of tech is largely contingent upon how well they are doing relative to Texas, and he still carries a grudge re beard despite claiming their new coach was the brains behind the operation all along. He also tried to dunk on Texas baseball after tech lost in regionals..it didn’t go well even among his own followers. What that moron doesn’t realize is that tech has been ranked in the AP top 25 for exactly TWO WEEKS (none consecutive) in the past EIGHT fucking YEARS, the most recent of which was four years ago, and that eight years of futility includes a period when they had a future nfl hc and a future nfl mvp leading the program. They suck, he sucks, and we don’t owe those semi-literate sacs of herpes fluid a goddamn thing once we leave the conference. Fuck them.
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Jimbo 2023: Watch.The.Tape.
While reading their rage posts about King over the past two weeks, I remembered that I saved a post I read from those dolts when he was named the starter a few weeks ago: “It was never a battle. Fisher always knew. Just wanted all the QBs to work off their asses and compete at highest level.” My first thought was—Weigman gave up a senior year of baseball and possible draft opportunities and Johnson left LSU for a fucking charade? I’ve since been trying to decide which is worse—King being demonstrably better than the other two guys, or Jimbo (and his rotation of nominal qb coaches) being incapable of accurately assessing the capabilities of the guys in that room…Then I realized the ambiguity over where the incompetence resides is the very essence of aggie fandom—it is seemingly undetectable yet somehow omnipresent (them settling on the explanation that “new army not passing it back” is to blame is just the cherry on top).
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I just want to say, on the eve of reaching page 100, many thanks to @texifornia for creating the thread and largely maintaining the flow of screenshots. This is some of the most entertaining content anywhere. Thank you to everyone for contributing in this space. I just finished revisiting page 75 and it has gotten better with age.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Right, Texas fans cherry-pick single outcomes to define entire seasons…that’s fucking rich coming from a team who hasn’t had an opportunity to play in an actual season-defining final game (we won’t talk about how they did when it was just the eternal scoreboard on the line..) since the Packard 120 was the most popular car in the country, Gone with the Wind was the #1 film, Over the Rainbow was the hottest song topping a smashing hit from the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Hitler kicked things off on the cover of Time as its Man of the (previous) Year..Stalin was on the cover the week they won the championship in 1940. Ever since, cherry-picking otherwise meaningless individual game successes is exactly how you describe the entirety of their fucking major men’s athletic programs. We’re still hearing about the heroics of 2012 in Tuscaloosa despite the fact they shit the bed in Baton Rouge. And how Johnny refused to lose against duke..yes, duke in his final game. We continue to hear the bullshit fucking seven OT game vs lsu was a cfb instant classic despite a bogus call at the end of regulation and that somehow all the points they scored over ELEVEN periods of football are indicative of an awesome offensive display (yes, you scored 74 in eleven..ou scored 77 in three). And, you would think that they were totally hosed by the playoff committee for the second straight year last year after they defeated the mighty crimson tide because they casually forget to mention they lost to ole miss and lame duck lsu (having lost to arky and the other miss previously) after that triumphant victory and then those fucking cowards refused to play wake in the bowl..which they never include in their tales of last season. One team from that game last year played for the national championship, the other printed shirts to celebrate the upset win..but it’s the longhorns who assign value to meaningless results.
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FSU/LSU from the Superdome - 6:30 pm ABC
That was hilarious. I swear it looked as though some of those players were trying to throw the game. Could this game wind up being like Texas beating ND, where both teams ended up being shit? I follow FSU in part because, like Nebraska, they are one of the few teams that have slipped in stature as much as Texas has over the past several seasons, and basking in their misery is therapeutic given how shitty the past dozen years have been. Anyway, their fans have not been very optimistic about the team’s prospects this season. They were feeling a bit better about this game as the week progressed, but I’m not sure exactly how much anybody should take away from it.
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FSU/LSU from the Superdome - 6:30 pm ABC
I’ll never forget being at the tcu vs lsu opener at Jerry world awhile back when the massive Jumbotron broadcast a busty coed bouncing right out of her tube top to the entire stadium (possibly the tv audience as well) after a big play. I’m pretty sure it can still be found on tiger droppings.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2023: Strippers, Monkeys, and 5-Stars
Somebody was talking recently about athleticism (or elite measurables) at the position re Robinson. Weren’t Irby’s numbers off the charts coming out of hs? Btw, his was the second ugliest injury I’ve witnessed (smu’s rb had his femur snapped in a shitty bowl game I was at about a decade ago). I was surprised he made it back on the field two or three years later. Wasn’t he the recipient of Shipley’s trick play td pass vs a&m? Had to be devastating losing to Shipley’s arm and McCoy’s legs..
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2022 Fall Camp: Drippin'
Catching up on the thread—Were you being hyperbolic here? With all due respect, if you think Billy Pittman ran a 4.9 his entire career, you are out of your fucking mind. His speed was extremely affected after his knee got fucked up in the national championship. He never regained the explosiveness, but 4.9 his whole career is preposterous. I believe he ran in the high 4.5s after that injury and was signed as a udfa with the chargers. He wasn’t the fastest guy, and they did have good chemistry, but you do not finish second in the fucking nation in ypc if you can’t outrun somebody at some point. Between the injury in the rose bowl and the fumble going into the end zone vs tosu, the trajectory of his career diverged and he never was the same after. Nate Jones with Colt? Yeah, I could see that comp. Hell, John Harris somehow had a stellar senior season catching passes from Swoopes.
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2022 Volleyball - Stacked as Hell
I’m sorry, I just saw this. Unfortunately, I was not in attendance. I just got psyched up reading the updates. Totally agree with everything you said re the setters, the different MB cast this year, and size at OH. Size kills in the middle. I think about BYU and Nebraska having those gargantuan MBs. Definitely a different look to the blocking aspects of the game. Hooker was the most freakish OH I had ever seen, but Elliott has had a complement of ridiculously athletic and taller players there nearly every year. Not that it matters, but for some reason I always want to assume Parra is Bricio despite the fact that Elliott clearly made reference to Neal when Parra signed. My brain just pictures her on the serving line and nowhere else, so I appreciate the point about her on the block with Caffey. I also have to say, I appreciate the explanation about bigger setters. I have watched a lot of broadcasts and lurked a bit on the vball message boards, so I am sure I’ve heard or read something about it before, but I’m thankful for you sharing it again here. I know there was a lot of discussion on that very subject when we went from collins (whom I thought did a more than admirable job pitching at her size, but have no idea if that is accurate) to shook..oh, and UK definitely abused Gabriel in that match. I also echo @TwiceHorn re Fleck’s importance to this team reaching its potential overall. I have followed the team for quite a long time, but I am still very much a novice, so I too really appreciate the discussion you and @Js1 and others provide here be it personnel, strategies and tactics, or general news. The only issue I’ve had with Elliott is just that his teams are so talented, but there always seems to be that one team that they don’t match up well against, they know the matchup is a problem, yet they are simply unable to muster whatever it takes to overcome that barrier. I thought they had gotten past it in the 2020 season after soundly beating Nebraska and Wisconsin, but I was discounting UK. Texas has been extremely fortunate, and when you have the talent at such a level where you only have to worry about two or three other teams, that is a damn good problem to have. I wished they had the mental fortitude to finish those tough ones, but I know that is bs on my part because I have seen Elliott’s teams dig deep and win close matches (frankly, where I’ve turned the match off). The truth is that there isn’t another coach I could even think of that I would rather have at Texas. I don’t know how geno gets his teams to be so ruthlessly efficient while simply bludgeoning their weak conference opponents, but even he has struggled to close the deal in the tourney since Stewie & co graduated (granted, after four straight, matching what Rose did in vball). Like you said, Elliott has been extremely consistent. If he wins another championship, the perception changes. I hope this is the year.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I remember when Muschamp beat them in college station in 2012 (manziel’s first game?) and he said something like “disappointing all these people is a lot of fun.” Personally, I’d point to a career record with only two losses registered as more indicative of a “Jordan-esque” will to win, but then I’d show the tape of vy bringing his team back from down 28 at the half in Stillwater, the 4th and 18 conversion in Lawrence, the crazy flip pass to benson with four guys wrapped around his legs in Fayetteville, and the late 4th quarter game-winning throw to limas in the loudest part of the horseshoe to add color to his two clutch rose bowl mvp performances (both of which featured a game-winning drive in the final two minutes to complete a comeback)..but to each his own. When you think about the fact that he went through that entire final season with Nordgren as the ONLY backup (pretty sure one of the mccoy twins was nominally ahead of colt at the time), in the context of the last twelve years, it adds to the “Jordan-esque” aura of vy. Note: To think bohls witnessed all of that (excluding the USC game) and still decided to fuck vy is rage-inducing. That motherfucker had seen the best player in college football perform up close every goddamn week for two fucking seasons. What a dick. Manziel was great, but he was more like Allen Iverson.
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2022 Fall Camp: Drippin'
Two of the very best to play the position ain’t bad. That hit reminds me of the one JC put on AJ Hawk in the ‘shoe.
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2022 Fall Camp: Drippin'
Is it true that he played for four different hs teams in four years? If so, it seems like 12 months might be about as long as people are willing to expend the energy trying to get him on track with little progress. With all due respect, after five years, he might need to help himself.
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2022 Fall Camp: Drippin'
Oh, my apologies. I knew you weren’t that dense.
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2022 Fall Camp: Drippin'
Of course not. He was splitting time..on a team that played in the national championship the year before. What does starter at rb even mean? He was being talked about as one of the few players who would be a candidate to go direct from hs to pro if Clarett’s lawsuit was successful. I’m pretty sure he still went for over 100 in that first lollipop game, then he went for 200 against ut, and finished the season second in heisman voting as a true fucking freshman. But no, he wasn’t a day one starter, but he became the starter and played a lot, which, if you believe some of the stories, is why Mack didn’t land him. Will do. I hate the term.
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2022 Fall Camp: Drippin'
Goddammit, which one of you motherfuckers ran over God’s dog? Seriously though, people need to get this “generational” bullshit out of their fucking heads. It is used too much and the way it is used should really only apply when assessing a player in retrospect (ask yourself—was brady generational when he was splitting snaps with Henson? Was Rodgers generational when he was playing at a juco? Three-star mahomes?). It is a descriptor utilized generally when talking about physical talent and much more applicable in sports where one-on-one ability is taken into account. That is the antithesis of what the qb position entails. Basketball? Absolutely. Baseball? Sure. Tennis/Golf? Yep. I can see a RB (Peterson) or WR (Moss, Calvin Johnson) getting that tag. I can see a freak athlete on defense getting it (LT, Deion). In my opinion, the only arguable generational qb (ie. dominated his peers in hs, walked into a college program and did not miss a beat, becoming one of the best at his position early in his college career) I can think of is Lawrence. I’d put Vick and VY in that category, but that had more to do with their ability in space or when the play broke down. So, can Quinn deliver the football in ways most of his peers cannot? I think that’s fair, but that is only half of the fucking equation at best. Btw, most “generational” player in football right now? Justin Tucker.
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2022 Volleyball - Stacked as Hell
If you were creating a fantasy team just based on anecdotal info (with some random ties to the last championship Texas team), this one is as good as it gets—nba bloodlines, nebraska-trained (super) veteran, ucla all-American, Hawaiian flavor, Mexican serving specialist, Setter from Colorado, Bay Area MB, MB named Molly (I know RS), east coast OH, homegrown talent, national champions, olympians, usnt coaching experience, and Wonder Woman herself leading the charge. 2012 was so long ago. And honestly, 2009 still sticks in my craw. Texas, and Elliott specifically, have had way too much talent pass through Gregory to only have one banner over the past two decades to show for it. I’d argue it has been the most talent-rich program on campus, certainly of the last fifteen years, if not the entirety (swimming always has an argument here, but Eddie is also the most consistently excellent SOB in collegiate athletics). The talent is there, it always has been. The finish is what has been missing. So, here’s to hoping this talented team (I don’t see any obvious holes in this one, but I’m a lay person) finds its chemistry early, stays relatively healthy, finishes every match this year (in the tourney at the very least), and puts a fucking end to the championship drought. I’m ready.