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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
McGriff from Ole Miss for those wanting the surprise spoiled. https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/auburn-football/wesley-mcgriff-auburn-tigers-ole-miss-rebels-hire-db-coach-2019/
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2019 Texas Football Season - "#8 Go Fuck Yourself Bitch"
We don’t have a roster packed with returning starters, but we have been on a steep upslope of talent/development combination since Herman took over. Instead of wondering who will line up where there should be an OT, we now have problems like whether our uber-talented S will have to function as an LB in a shuffle that keeps our decent-not-great 2nd year LB on the bench. We’re not the ‘05 team yet, but we look good to me.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
Auburn decommit season should start no later than 12/1/19. If word gets out about the new coach prior to the iron bowl thrashing, the schedule might move up. If it is an exciting hire, that could mitigate things.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
Is that like post hock ergo propter hock— the fallacy that things went to hell because you are too leveraged?
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
We reason (and rightly so, it would seem) that Texas does not deploy its divitiae alumnorum in an organized fashion to buy players. We benefit from unofficial and undirected support like $100 handshakes and "good jobs" for players. Is that about the extent of it? Does Herman work as hard to prevent it as Mack ostensibly did? Try to avoid learning what he doesn't want to know? How would we know how much "visit transportation assistance" and other SEC-style "love" springs up organically to help our team?
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Non-Texas Recruiting 2021
Sorry, I thought he was born and brought up in the US (Hawaii). I was using "overseas" to refer to foreign countries.
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Non-Texas Recruiting 2021
Honest question: who was the last overseas prospect to succeed on a high level as a D1 QB? Somehow my gestalt impression is that is unlikely to work out, no matter how physically freaky he is.* *until he transfers to OU for his last year of eligibility
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2019 Texas Football Season - "#8 Go Fuck Yourself Bitch"
Is that what our OL wore under their uniforms circa 2010-2017?
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
JT King played for Bible and coached against DKR. He opined that Cherry was the best coach we ever had.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Yeesh! I hadn't realized it was that bad. Pitt at 7-6 (6-2) was in sole possession of first place of the Coastal Division. And UNC beat them last year.
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The way too early 2019 LSU at Texas game discussion
The difference is that LSU will have a lot more talent bumbling on the field.
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LSU @ Texas Analysis: LSU Offense
Hopefully prescient. Better still would be quick strike leading to jumped receiver screens and pick 6s.
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Uniform Pron
Is that like when OU has a "cream out" or aggy has a "moron out?"
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
You must not work at a hospital
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
For those who need a reminder, almost is just a special case of NOT NOT losing to Kansas in the context of a team that otherwise had a great season is generally a poor comparison for LOSING to Kansas as part of an otherwise craptastic season. It is very aggy to play the, "assume every other part of the past doesn't change, but switch this one variable in a way that helps my argument, and voila!" game. Mack was mailing it in at the end, but using 2004 as a mitigating factor for 2016 scores zero points with me.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Truth. We aren’t “withstand[ing] the surge.” Instead we are “show[ing] them what they signed up for.”
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting
No Horns down
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CFB 2019 season prep haiku thread of dominance
The eyes of Texas are ready to beat your ass all the live long day
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
We may just get new data points for those wanting to continue this exciting line of inquiry. Strong will be starting year three of his USF Bulls stint, having created a 7-6 juggernaut out of the 11-2 dumpster fire he inherited. Meanwhile, to count to 7 wins for UNC prior to this year, you’d have to go all the way back to 11/5/2016. Can Mack stop the pain this year and manage 6 wins? Can Charlie? Tune in December 2019 for the answer.
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Non-Texas recruiting: 2020
Go put on your best jorts, get that last can of spam out of your pantry, light the couch back up, and have yourself a rust-belt recruiting wake.
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Jimbo 2020: Strangers with Candi
I’ve never been bored enough to troll this place by pretending to be an aggy who is pretending not to be.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Only he knows his motivation. My point was that he deliberately, assuming he was astute enough to understand the terms, signed a deal custom crafted to let USF and him take advantage of his former employer. The employer that had already paid him handsomely for what can honestly and without exaggeration be described as statistically the worst anyone has ever done in his former position. Over the course of more than a century. There is a word for guys who do this, and it is not “nice,” and it is not “good” (at least not in the sense of upright and virtuous). He’s gone, and I wish him well. I personally bought into the “good guy” image at one point. But we don’t really have objective evidence of his heroic virtue, or even exceptional virtue.
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LSU @ Texas Analysis: LSU Offense
LSU is going to be talented and dangerous. They have all the pieces on D needed to turn a game ugly. That said, their O, as noted above, lacks the brain trust or track record to suggest they are well equipped to keep up with a top 10 opponent if the D isn’t serving some turnovers. UGA turned it over twice to Texas and 4 times to LSU last year, taking none in return. Texas turned the ball over 3 times to Maryland and only 8 times since. Recent performance suggests that neither team is likely to give a lot away in that department. If the turnovers are few, as I suspect, and if I’m looking for a team that is more likely to manufacture some offense in the face of good D, Texas looks like the one. I think this game comes down to whether we see Maryland Sam or most-of-2018 Sam. The former means LSU wins, while the latter forces the Tigers to earn points, points too few in the end to get it done.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2021
I have some complaints about Herman and co, but one of them is not a pattern of lazy or inept evaluations. I’m interested to see how these early TE (/ATH) takes end up fitting in.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
And he structured his USF contract to fuck Texas. Because that is what good guys do when they give their best but come up just short of previous worst in history and so get fired.