Everything posted by victory88
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Surly #Stonks
You had mentioned that you may sell a portion of your position when it hits $25, is that still the case? Or are we riding this up to $50?
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Remember when he was spewing that this was the most physical fall camp under Sark? Lmao
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
100%. RB was an issue last year. I know Wisner had 1000 yards but everyone that watched him knew he was not an inside runner. We should have gotten a proven guy in the portal. If Baxter wanted to leave, so be it. No point in betting on a guy that can't stay healthy more than 2 games in a row. The ROI on the Baxter NIL package has to be absolutely terrible.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
No, not at all. Sherman was a very good evaluator of talent. They recruited well while he was there. Herman was literally fired bc our recruiting went into the shitter. His last year, we were getting guys like Jaden Alexis, Casey Cain, Max Merrill. What Sark did with the Herman recruits was nothing short of amazing development. Herman didn’t do shit with his guys. Let’s not pretend like the roster was full of talent. Sark has been for the most part a good evaluator of talent and a good developer. The problem is we have a shit OL this year.That generally will be the case when you lose 5 of 6 starters over a 2 year period to the NFL. The back ups haven’t gotten many reps and nor were talented players sitting behind the initial haul of Banks and company. It is Sarks job to evaluate his roster and use the portal. This is where he fucked up. Same with our WRs. We have had 4 WRs ( should have been 5 with Bond), 2 TEs and 5 RBs drafted the last 223 years. He knows how to develop and recruit good talent. But he fucked up over estimating his room of Moore, Wingo, Livingstone. This shit is Sarks fault. But he also deserves the credit for turning around the program. Don’t discredit his success by pretending that we only won games because those were Herman’s recruits.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I still feel our boosters are motivated. Hell we just signed the #1 class and I can’t imagine that was cheap. I do think that with the house settlement, we cant just outbid and buy everyone like we were doing previously. Other teams can spend about the same money we can. I also think the mindset of us having to pay our guys to retain this roster was probably a bad move in hindsight. We should have gone hard after the Oregon OL, guys like Mario Craver, Noah Thomas, Branch. We should have gone hard after a RB instead of relying on Baxter who is made of glass. This staff over estimated who they had on the roster. I also feel Sark did not do enough to hire good support as far as analysts go. I remember when we brought in actual good coaches like Patterson, the special teams coach from the cowboys, the Wisconsin HC. I truly feel these guys thought that their same schemes would work and that we could just out talent everyone. He needs to hit reset button this off season on offense.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Unfortunately the problems we have cannot be fixed this season. You cannot fix an o-line as bad as this. Look at ou last year on offense. Unfortunately we don’t have play makers like Bijan, Rojo, Worthy, where we can just hand it to a guy and hope he can carry the team. Right now for this team, it’s Parker Livingstone as the guy that we are relying on to make plays.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
long post… Multiple things can be true. Sark isn’t a shit coach. Dude took over a dumpster fire. Won us a conference championship when we were in a 15 year drought, took us to another one, two back to back semi final appearances, multiple award winners, all Americans, and the most NFL draft picks in a 2 year span in Longhorn history. Oh yeah, we’re recruiting about as well as I can remember. He gets credit for turning the program around and the guy is going to get more time than he probably deserves to fix the mess we are in. The mess we are in is solely on Sark. This roster has had very little turnover as far as guys leaving. The roster is how he wanted it. These are his hand picked players, his coaches, his schemes. I personally feel this entire program went into this offseason entitled. Sark thinks he’s Saban/ Carroll running a NFL program. This is still college football where you need to get as many reps as possible to a young team. We have been resting players all spring, all summer, through fall camp, and through the first 3 games. When was the last time you had the same starting 11 play more than 1 game this season. It’s clear this offense has no chemistry. It’s clear that they did not hit the weight room hard. It’s clear the coaches gameplan all offseason was that we were just going to out talent teams and use our depth. We joked about Napier and Venables running hard practices while we took a NFL approach with load management. Well we now have a soft fucking program and a soft fucking culture. These guys looked shell shocked yesterday like they did against Arkansas. We have not hit rock bottom yet guys. This team through 5 games has no identity, no play makers, undisciplined, no mental strength. Sark is going to have to take a long look in the mirror. I was always for Sark calling the plays, but with everything a HC has to do, he needs to pass off the game planning and play calling to a good OC that can spend his entire time on scheming and calling plays. He needs to re-evaluate the O-line schemes. His entire offense is predicated on running the ball and play action. When we can’t run the ball, this offense is broken. Nothing will fix it until we run the ball. Whether it’s personnel or scheme, him and Flood have to figure out something new bc what they are trying has been figured out. Teams like fucking UTEP dominated our OL. Our WRs scare no one. We went from playmakers like Worthy, Whittington, Mitchell, Golden, Bond to a group of JAGs who do not have any elite traits. They are not bad. But the reality is that that we have 4 WRs in Wingo, Moore, Livingstone, Mosley that all show be WR3. None of those guys would beat out any of the guys mentioned above. As for defense, PK is going to get some slack from me. For two seasons, we have been elite. But at some point you gotta scheme pass rush. You can’t just man up and play and hope to out talent big name programs that recruit at our level. DT recruiting was completely mismanaged by Sark and Bo that we are now suffering from it. We had to bring in 6 portal guys bc we literally had 2 freshman DTs on the roster. This is going to get worse before it will get better. He’s not going to be able to wave a wand and this OL becomes magically physical. We are going to get beat by ou, uga, aggy and probably will be in toss up games against the rest. This is a 5-7 and 6-6 type team like the 2021 team. We are in full blown rebuilt mode again. He’s shown he did it once, let’s see if he can fix his own mess now. We’re going to have to be find some play makers on offense and some OL in the portal this offseason. Offense needs to be completely revamped. Defense I feel can still be good with our major changes. Sorry for the rant but this season just stings considering where this program was, how we were recruiting, the hype, having a Manning, having players in the program with the same coaches, same system, the #1 ranking… and this is the product we got. We are not even remotely competitive offensively in games against power 4 defenses. That won’t get fixed this season unfortunately.
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
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Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
Just remember, Sark gave them a light week the 1st week because of how beaten down they were from the gauntlet of Sam Houston, UTEP, and San Jose State. I’m glad our players have been well rested 1/3 of the way through the season. We will need those fresh legs if we are lucky to make the Alamo bowl.
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
- Texas vs. Florida- 2:30pm on ESPN
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
It is all mental for Arch. His mechanics breaking down in live action and him not seeing the wide open receivers is what is frustrating. That 1st drive he had plenty of wide open WRs for big gains and just decided not to throw it. IF he can get over this mental hump, we will start putting up big points. Get him some designed QB runs, roll outs, quick 1 read passes. Sark needs to start the game in a manner that Arch isn’t thinking. Just get him playing, once he’s loosened up, put more on his plate.
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Surly #Stonks
Well, let’s see if there may be some big news coming out about UUUU. A nice gov contract would help this bounce back. Probably going to be a rough day today.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Miami and LSU didn’t exactly mudhole Florida. If Florida even has a basic functioning offense, where their QB doesn’t throw 5 interceptions in a game, the outcomes of those games could be very different. What is going to be frustrating is that Miami and LSU got a lot of good will in the media for what now look looks like a very unimpressive win against UF. Let’s say we win by 10-14 on the road with a team that has its back against the wall, the media talking points will be that we barely got by a bad Florida team. But whatever, let’s go fuck them up.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Where did I say those weren’t good teams? I said there are no elite teams this year. You call Bama elite yet their defense looked looser than south Austin’s non 2 weeks ago. UGA struggled to beat a very average Tenn team. Those teams have weaknesses just like us and are very beatable.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Bama looked like shit against FSU and then comes and looks like a championship contender against UGA. LSU was elite after Clemson and then struggles to put up 20 points against Florida and Ole Miss. Penn State and Oregon didn’t look any better than us in our game in week 1. College football is wide fucking open. We have the defense and special teams to compete in every game. Our offense HAS to come together. Given that we’ve played the last few weeks missing most of our veteran starters, a base vanilla playbook, a young offense that needs some games to gel, it’s not a stretch to think that this offense is going to improve drastically come Florida and should improve week to week. While UF and ou can’t get their shit together on offense, they both have VERY good defenses. If we put up 24-30 in those games, that will be a very good sign that the offense is improving.
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Surly #Stonks
Yeah, the swings on this are like 8-10% each way daily, high volatility.
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Surly #Stonks
I read the same speculation about the congressional members visiting. Hopefully something happens soon as I’m loving the ride. Or was moving it… looks like it’s dropping hard now. Hopefully doesn’t drop under $15 but this stock was at 18.5 just a few hours ago.
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Surly #Stonks
My largest position was IBRX. My UUUU gains have at least off set my IBRX loss. So I'm at breakeven right now if I sell. I've just sat through enough 30-50% quick drops on these stocks over the years that I don't want to lose my gains by waiting too long. With that said, I'm still holding UUUU. If it breaks $20, I'm going to be tempted sell but this thing is hitting new highs every day so I'm enjoying the ride up.