Everything posted by Nigel Tufnel
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Henry Melton not doing so well
Pension can be taken at the earliest at age 55 and is dependent upon earnings. I worked with a former NFL player who if he took the pension at 55 it would have been about $77k/year. If he waited until 65, it would have been around $250k/year.
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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
I think this is key and nice to hear if true. A main difference between Sark as OC at Bama and his offenses here have been the difference in defenses. Saban even said it during the playoffs that Texas would have to play some man at some point. PK has been a "bend but don't break" DC. Saban teams were not and it seemed like the Bama offense got a couple of more bites at the apple than at Texas during a game.
- Dartmouth @ Texas Series Thread
- Dartmouth @ Texas Series Thread
- Dartmouth @ Texas Series Thread
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Surly kids applying / attending UT
Lil’ Nigella was one of the fortunate few that got their acceptance three weeks ago. Nothing more than good luck of being in the batch they actually processed. We have gotten over our shock and have been continuously asking each other “Can you believe that happened?” We are very proud and excited. She is waiting on a few more schools just to see how she feels. She has a spot in SRD so she is set for housing.
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2024 Youth Baseball - Every Kid’s a future MLB HOFer!!!
Our default was always to swing a bat thats weight is evenly distributed. At a young age they really can’t go wrong with that. They are too young to worry about end weighted, etc. CATs are end weighted (what big power hitters swing). A one or two piece evenly distributed aluminum works for almost every younger kid.
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Johntay Cook dismissed from the football team.
Seems like he should be further along by now. Always at the beginning of the book.
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Blended Families and Inheritances
A QTIP Martial Trust solves many of the step parent/step sibling issues. But (big “but”) you have to get the parent to do the planning.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Jay Rogers, current NFL coach and son of the University of Texas Recruiting Coordinator at the time, Randy Rogers was two years ahead of Brees. Westlake was undefeated with Brees as a Jr., then he hurt his knee and they lost their only game of the season without him. His senior year, they won state.
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
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Texas 2025 Roster
DM sent. He is well aware of the track times, etc. It is his first love.
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Texas 2025 Roster
Nyck Harbor is just about in a league of his own. He is a freak athlete among freak athletes. I’ve talked about this a bit in the Recruiting forum but there is definitely a “system” in place and it can be a crap shoot whether or not you are invited in. For just about every player it is a 50/50 prop as to their hit rate in college. We get wrapped up in the 4* and 5* that we forget that they are all pretty much 50/50. That being said, Lil’ Nigel (5’ 11 3/4” 170 lbs) ran 10.4 in high school, owns basically every receiving record at his 50+ year old 6A Houston high school, was 1st team all district for 3 years in football (18 offers), 2 time all district in baseball (5 offers), and district champ in LJ (24’), 100m, and 200m. He was basically ignored by several of the writers people follow on here. He even wrote a couple of them asking if they could actually rate him, but he couldn’t even get that. I had one of these guys joked with me about telling one of his crew not to bother sending him video of defensive ends if they were white. So, yeah, I get tickled when fans give immediate credence to the services like they are the experts. What the schools want more than anything are mature bodies that are ready to play now. We see most of these kids and we joke that they look like they are 30 years old, yep, that is what schools want.
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These Go to 11 - The Guitar Amp Thread
Just checking in here. Carry on.
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Texas Baseball 2025 - Your SEC regular season champions!!
Not same level, but Butch Davis leaving the University Miami for the Cleveland Browns is best I can remember off the cuff.
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Peach Bowl: Texas vs Arizona State, Jan. 1, 12:00PM, ESPN
Yep. Applications for 2025 freshman admissions at UT up 25% this fall.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Ironically reminds me of this old bit from Steve in the ‘70’s.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
That’s as good as anything out there. Fantastic.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Huh…waddaya know? I thought lead singer for Thin Lizzy died.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Actually he did, your are correct. But only after it had been lied about publicly. By all accounts he is a good kid and team player. Should end up in Miami.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Yeah, that is what the big boosters and fans have said online. But he didn’t. They are looking like the wizard behind the curtain trying to make it look like they have things under control. It’s a mess.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Past two years they had multiple QBs with NIL. He did not and won the job both years. Still didn’t get paid.
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2024 Texas High School Football
North Shore has 2 JV teams and 3 9th grade teams. They have large participation numbers. Westlake has 2 JV teams and 2 9th grade teams.
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CFB coaching carousel
This discussion is all well and good, but this is nothing more than Wilcox unfortunately being an old school typical defensive oriented head coach that wants to win games 13-3. This will be his 5th OC in 6 years. That’s Narduzzi level churn. It’s unfortunate, because he is a good guy. Internally, that program is being held together by duct tape and chicken wire.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
I am not predicting anything here, but OU hired a very HOT name in the biz. Last year, this kid was on a private jet to interview with a P5 school in the Carolinas and received two calls from P5 schools while on the plane.