Everything posted by SamMan
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
The Barefoot Contessa is very underrated
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
I like the Haynes kid. He’s a smooth, efficient runner. His style reminds me a bit of another former Bama RB from the state of Georgia—Kenyan Drake—with a less angular physique and maybe slightly less long speed. If there is one positive from this whole RB discussion, it’s that nobody seems overly concerned about possibly having to replace the entire starting offensive line. Based on our collective experience over the better part of two decades, that is an encouraging development.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Has that man ever spent more than a week farther west than Leavenworth?
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
I believe Connor Brewer did something similar at UVA before law school. Why does he have the same shit-eating grin and worrisome baldness pattern as Tom Herman?
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Thanks, I was trying to remember who the weirdo with the disconcerting jersey number was. Devin Brown. This guy reminds me of Desean Hales. He was a really good APB in HS. Never happened in college.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I will never understand how they got Ben Shapiro to agree to make an inspirational poster for children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Good on him.- Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Every time I see Rudy mentioned, I think about that time Texas played ASU in Omaha and they would not shut the fuck up about how his nephew was on their team. I think they even interviewed him in his seat when ASU got the lead…and then Augie gave one of his famous speeches between innings and Texas walked it off in the bottom of the ninth. All the Rudy’s sucked and I look forward to finding that clip before the game in Atlanta.- Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Braxton meeting with A&M:- Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Thread title could use a *ahem* buff. Might I suggest: Transfer Cycle 2024-2025: Fluff Bothwell Isn’t a Name, It’s a Strategy or Transfer Cycle 2024-2025: Helobious’ Fluff Bothwell Gambit- Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
I’m of the opinion that Mendoza, or more likely the Cal training staff, fucked that situation up. The kid jogged out of the tent with his helmet on while the targeting call was still being reviewed. ESPN had its cameras trained on it and the crowd responded to seeing him. They aren’t going to apply the penalty when that happens at a critical juncture in the game. I was happy to see Miami eventually shit the bed because the officials definitely gave them a couple of games early. I appreciate these posts because they (PFF) are the only poor schlubs who have actually watched (and evaluated) all these kids play, and can add at least some context to their raw performance numbers, even with a very limited sample size. Thank you, sir. You know, I figured B12 would be good for he and Arnold. Weigman needs to stay upright and Arnold needs time to process what he sees. Not entirely sure either offensive line is remarkably better at UA or MSU compared to OU for Arnold, but the Tigers have a ton of skill. Without Coleman, he would be walking into a situation in Starkville that resembles the one he just left in Norman. I have no idea what’s going on at UH on that side of the ball. If I was Hudson, I’d be taking a good look at returning to CenTex. Spav and that offense figured some shit out in the back half of the season. I’m interested to see if Lebby really wants to tempt fate with a second occurrence of the Guyer QB Curse. His former boss passed off his QB commit like the kid was that spooky ass video tape from The Ring a couple of weeks ago. Clearly, he didn’t want that evil. That said, I suppose Arnold has more SEC wins currently than that entire QB room. One more thing (SIAP):- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Who knew the Coen brothers were telegraphing exactly what would happen to the aggie football program some twenty years in the future, while absolutely nailing both the aggie character archetype + the essence of aggie absurdity in their film Intolerable Cruelty? *spoilers below*- 2025 DL Justus Terry
Can one of you smart fellows blend Sark’s face with Snoop’s and maybe just stick an SEC logo on Tyrese? Is Alan Sager still around? I remember loving something in that recruitment..- Texas Women’s Basketball 2024-2025 - We SEC Ready
Can’t wait for the ND game. Hannah Hidalgo is my favorite player to watch going back to her days as a recruit (another player I’ve enjoyed following over the years is Harvard’s Harmoni Turner, from Mansfield—also a fearless lead guard with plenty of swag). I absolutely love her game. If there is a player, outside of Rori, who exemplifies the type of player that Vic’s system demands, it’s Hannah, imo. She’s great. You guys are going to call me crazy, but I view Hidalgo and Caitlin Clark similarly…just not how you think. Everybody wants to talk about “generational talents” and “can’t miss prospects”…in 2020, that player was Paige Bueckers. She was that player even after her freshman year, when she won National POY. In 2023, JuJu was that player. And she has gotten all of the ESPN love, which I am pleased to see because I was certain that the only black girl (also from Sierra Canyon) that would command Sabrina/Paige/Caitlin-level coverage tragically lost her life nearly five years ago. If you go back and look, the superlative freshman campaigns that JuJu and Hannah had last year were very similar to what Paige and Caitlin turned in as freshmen. Though both were top five recruits, Caitlin and Hannah were mostly overlooked by stargazers. It’s why I am as excited for the Aaliyah C. Texas already has signed as the one whose commitment is still outstanding. And why (pedantically) I don’t particularly care for the Chavez-Clark comparisons—though they may be somewhat similar stylistically, it’s still not really fair to compare the two. Anybody looking for a “can’t-miss generational talent” would have likely missed Caitlin altogether, because Paige was considered that player by a wide margin (which was largely warranted, imo). Hell, there were some who thought HVL was the second best guard in that loaded class. I’ll admit that I was higher on Lexi Donarski than most if not all of the guards behind Paige and Caitlin (Turner was also in that class). Nobody expected Hannah to win the Staley Award (sure, they didn’t want to give it to Clark four years in a row, but still), ACC POY, and be the best perimeter defender in the nation last year. Likewise, nobody expected Madi B to be the best Texas freshman to take the floor since my friend, Tiff Jackson (RIP), much less for her to win B12 POY. If you watched the SC-ND game, it would be hard to argue that Hannah wasn’t the best player on the floor (particularly in the first half), despite the presence of JuJu, plus three other gals predominantly mocked to go in the top five-ish picks of next year’s draft (Kiki, Miles, Citron), and all the pregame fanfare. I guess my point is that the strength and quality of the women’s game has grown exponentially over the past decade, and it has been great to see the depth of talent increase year after year…and Hannah needs more love. As for Notre Dame itself, they laid an egg vs Utah, but as stated previously, I think Texas will get their best version. They are a very good guard-oriented team, who are still missing Westbeld. Gonna be a great matchup. I’m of the opinion that a talented two-way big (Stewie, A’ja) is still way more valuable than an offensive dynamo (Diggs, Plum) at guard currently. At least until the skill level reaches the threshold where pace and space are more ubiquitous, which is where things are moving, albeit not as quickly as the men’s game. They just have an outsized effect on the margin for error on both ends of the floor at present, which I think is kinda what you are getting at. Most college teams can’t score consistently away from the basket, and don’t move the ball efficiently enough to get good shots (NC State could). Cardoso/Boston, Reese, Brink, Cox/Brown are a huge reason why their teams have gotten rings the last five tourneys. They are efficient scorers, effectively suppress the opponent’s ability to get high percentage looks around the basket, and eliminate second chance opportunities. I think Vic would tell you that as good as Victoria Vivians was, and how great Morgan William’s shot was, his teams made back-to-back finals because McCowan was down there cleaning shit up on both ends. When you have two really talented bigs that contribute on both ends, your gunner can go 1 of 19 in a winner-take-all championship final and still walk away with the trophy. I really like the team Vic has put together. Jones is an efficient big. I think Oldacre has all the tools to be dominant inside if she keeps working. I’d like to see those two stay out of actions away from the basket as much as possible, where they don’t have to extend and move laterally too much. I love what Moore and Carlton bring overall, they can move a little bit, and I might be the higher than anyone around here on what Jordan Lee can be. I’ve been super high, maybe too high (I don’t know), on her for a long time. She and Justice are only going to get better. We know what the other guards can do. Great squad. Apologies for the length of this. I didn’t mean for it to be a dissertation. I don’t post in here a ton, but I appreciate the updates and discussion.- OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams
I was going to ask this question in the OU thread on the FB board last night.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
- 2026 RB Raycine Guillory Jr
I truly hope he does better than the last one with a similar recruiting storyline.- Tell me about Texas Tech
Respectfully, a reasonable player of his stature wouldn’t go to Tech in the first place. Like CTJ said, this result was fairly predictable. I’d argue that decision alone provides some insight into his overall mindset and competitive character. From that perspective, it is a bit easier to believe at least some of the blame for his underperformance resides with Micah. Frankly, I fail to understand how a kid (with such immense talent) who took a fair bit of money to walk into an advantageous playing situation, somehow couldn’t earn any reps, his bankrollers somehow didn’t inquire as to why one of their biggest investments wasn’t getting any burn (or were given a satisfactory explanation), yet somehow it is clearly the coaches’ fault that this super stud couldn’t get on the field even when he was healthy. Coaches aren’t in the habit of deliberately not playing the players that give them the best chance to win. That makes as much sense as the “Joey was restraining Kittley to protect his defense” argument. Correct me if I’m wrong, but one of the persistent postgame questions I heard was, “why didn’t you feed your All-American RB more to control TOP and maintain field position consistently throughout the game?” Another was, “why do you keep going for stupid fourth downs in your own territory? Don’t you know how tough that is on your defense?” I imagine their last two games coming against two of the very worst P4 defenses in nearly every metric played a significant role in their increased output. That’s harsh. They haven’t cracked the top 25 since Alan Bowman was a true freshman (he just finished his sixth season). Alan Bowman spent more time in the top 25 (one week) at Tech than Mahomes did in his entire collegiate career (never). The last guy to spend consecutive weeks there was a true freshman walk on named Baker Mayfield in 2013. Joey had a chance to break through two years ago, but he promptly shit the bed vs Wyoming in the opener. They were a poorly thrown fade route away from losing to ACU (filled with a bunch of Tech castoffs) in regulation to open this year. With that in mind, I think they might give a lifetime contract to the first coach who can achieve the seemingly unattainable feat of being a top 25 team for at least one week…or maybe just not shit down his leg vs a powderpuff in week one.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Dude looks like a middle-aged drag mother whose wig is in the shop…or maybe I’m just seeing this resemblance from the bitch tits up:- Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Same guy (on Quinn Saturday): Life comes at you fast (~22 hours)…- Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Guys, I am a Mack Brown defender. Why? If you are interested, see below:- CJ Baxter, "To the Texas Brotherhood"
- Texas Women's Soccer
Big shout out to Lexi Missimo on her superlative Texas career. Same to Trinity Byars. Two of the very best to ever do it. I wish things could’ve gone better for them in the postseason, but I’m glad they both decided to come to Texas and stick around for four years. Excited to see what they will accomplish going forward. Best wishes to all the outgoing seniors, as well. That’s a good group of girls. No comment on the coaching situation.- Game Week 13: Kentucky at Texas
I’m a sucker for HC press conferences. I watch a ton of them. My top two pressers every week are Kenny Dillingham and Neal Brown. I don’t know either of them, but they strike me as more accessible than most HCs, and fairly thorough and direct in their responses to questions. I’m actually surprised at how much hate that man receives in Morgantown constantly. I like the guy, but I also don’t really care if they win or lose. On a side note, Kirby Smart is a total asshole in his pressers, but sometimes I wish Texas fans would watch them and apply what he says about his team and football in general as if he was speaking about the Longhorns. Lexington and Columbia, SC are the two games I can’t wait to attend. I second the notion that Seattle and Madison are desirable. I have a half sister who lives in Seattle, and her mother is a UW Law grad (huge Warren Moon/Oilers fan which made January 1993 in my family interesting, but that’s a story for another day), so that would be fun, especially if Texas could actually beat them. I wouldn’t mind Bloomington now that they are respectable. I also wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to go to SLC or a return to Provo or Boulder if they showed up on the schedule. I really like Louisville. Went there for the Derby several years ago and had a great time. Back on the topic of Kentucky, or on Texas this week, at least, I’d like to hear Sark’s assessment of the punt game. Seems like they are ceding a lot of hidden yardage there this year.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
I was under the impression that UTBOY was a middle aged white guy from Desoto who wears tall tees and starched jean shorts? Maybe I was hallucinating, but I could’ve sworn he showed up on one of the streams at Terry Black’s in Dallas a year or two ago. I seem to remember laughing when Gerry identified him. - Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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