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Texas Recruiting Notes 2023: Strippers, Monkeys, and 5-Stars

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2 minutes ago, The Dog said:

That's a non-denial denial. 

Regardless I think someone leaked something in order to sabotage the recruitment. 

You are trying too hard. Kirkland is behind all of this, and his twitter activity confirms it.

1 minute ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

Are we really Walter Nolen-ing a low 4 star with 1 OL spot left?

Nolen isn't the kid that aggy got without visiting campus.

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Just now, _Leaf_ said:

Just because I've only had a few posts on this message board doesn't mean I haven't been following Texas recruiting for 'decades'. 

 

You can suck my dick if you to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me. 

You're right. It doesn't mean you haven't been following Texas recruiting for decades. Your thoughts on recruiting mean that you haven't been following Texas for decades...or you're just stupid. I mean...maybe both.

Speaking of stupid, "Suck my dick if you to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me" is an interesting attempt at English. 

1 minute ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

Are we really Walter Nolen-ing a low 4 star with 1 OL spot left?

The only people that are saying we are, are the same group that get ridiculed on here quite a bit for being wrong and/or vague. 

Ivins is a Florida-based 247 reporter.

1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

You are trying too hard. Kirkland is behind all of this, and his twitter activity confirms it.

My first statement was what you are saying. Chill.

3 minutes ago, _Leaf_ said:

You can suck my dick if you want to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me. 

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4 minutes ago, The Earl of Texas said:

Someone hurry to Costco so we can secure that Kirkland Signature.

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2 minutes ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

Are we really Walter Nolen-ing a low 4 star with 1 OL spot left?

I want any offensive lineman that Cristobal wants. 

2 minutes ago, _Leaf_ said:

Just because I've only had a few posts on this message board doesn't mean I haven't been following Texas recruiting for 'decades'. 

 

You can suck my dick if you want to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me. 

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7 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

There was something with bonnito and chip brown but I can’t remember it and can’t be arsed to look. 

Chip put out a hit piece on the Texas football program around NSD and it, supposedly, changed Bonnito's choice.

18 minutes ago, _Leaf_ said:

Why is everyone bending over backwards to defend Gerry Hamilton?

 

If you ask me, has has major used car salesmen energy.

He is the best recruiting guy, particularly for Texas, by a mile. He is a national guy for On3 as well, so if you would prefer to go listen to Ketchum go ahead. 

Just thinking about some things regarding the national ranks and some shit is flat out absurd.
The state of Alabama represents roughly 1.5% of the country's population. The consensus rankings have 10 Alabama players in the top 81. 12.35% of the top 81. 10% of the top 100. I realize more kids play football per capita in the south and that Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama have a higher amount of players per capita that come out and sign LOIs than anywhere. That all considered - get the fuck out of here with that shit. I see zero percent chance of those 10 guys all being properly rated.
For comparison, Texas represents about 8.7% of the US pop and has 18% of the top 100. CA is 11.8% of the US pop and 8% of the top 100. Minus IMG Academy guys, Florida is 6.4% of the US pop and 18% of the top 100.
I know there is a deserved skew to the South and Texas in rating football talent. It's just an amazing imbalance this year in Alabama relatively-speaking. Bama is slightly less than 10X skewed in football against their gen pop, where Florida is less than 3x and Texas is just above 2x for comparison.

Could be fuckery, but also could be that looking at total pop is misleading. Why_not_both.gif

More useful to look at the pop that is producing most of the players, which would be areas with black people in regions where high school and college football are important culturally. That will cause LA,MS,AL,FL to proportion up.
1 minute ago, The Dog said:
My first statement was what you are saying. Chill.

Then you are saying Kirkland leaked it to ruin his own announcement?

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1 minute ago, Sgt. Slaughter said:

Chip put out a hit piece on the Texas football program around NSD and it, supposedly, changed Bonnito's choice.

Directly on NSD and it cost us Bonnito and nearly Dele Adeoye...we got the wrong end of that split

3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Speaking of stupid, "Suck my dick if you to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me" is an interesting attempt at English. 

Don’t disagree with the sentiment, but I laughed really fucking hard reading this post from the king of typos….really fucking hard. Well done.

1 minute ago, Vertigo said:

He is the best recruiting guy, particularly for Texas, by a mile. He is a national guy for On3 as well, so if you would prefer to go listen to Ketchum go ahead. 

I would prefer to listen to Ketchum…if it concerns Buffalo wings or beef tallow recipes and such. Otherwise…GerryH seems fairly level-headed, and I’m an arms-length type recruiting follower 

5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

You're right. It doesn't mean you haven't been following Texas recruiting for decades. Your thoughts on recruiting mean that you haven't been following Texas for decades...or you're just stupid. I mean...maybe both.

Speaking of stupid, "Suck my dick if you to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me" is an interesting attempt at English. 

I'm sorry. I meant to say "You can suck my dick if you want to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me." Look again. I corrected it. 

 

 

1 minute ago, IDIOTsavant said:

Don’t disagree with the sentiment, but I laughed really fucking hard reading this post from the king of typos….really fucking hard. Well done.

I mean, I was shaking my head at the irony when I was typing it out. 

1 minute ago, _Leaf_ said:

I'm sorry. I meant to say "You can suck my dick if you want to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me." Look again. I corrected it. 

 

 

Take it from me, editing shit after the fact doesn't get you a pass around here. I'm sure a guy who's lurked for decades would know that already, however. 

6 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Then you are saying Kirkland leaked it to ruin his own announcement?

Maybe he figured leaking it and being discussed nationally for 24 hours would get him more publicity and name recognition than a completely surprise pick. 

The only downside of legal NIL to me was knowing players would figure this out and try to increase their early career NIL value by being more flamboyant. 

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12 minutes ago, _Leaf_ said:

Just because I've only had a few posts on this message board doesn't mean I haven't been following Texas recruiting for 'decades'. 

 

You can suck my dick if you want to be disrespectful just because you disagree with me. 

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Just now, Huckleberry said:

Maybe he figured leaking it and being discussed nationally for 24 hours would get hom more publicity and name recognition than a completely surprise pick. 

The only downside of legal NIL to me was knowing players would figure this out and try to increase their early career NIL value by being more flamboyant. 

The Texas recruiting guys have been around forever. I wouldn't imagine they would be taken by a last minute no-visit out of state ploy.

Just now, SydneyCarton said:

Take it from me, editing shit after the fact doesn't get you a pass around here. I'm sure a guy who's lurked for decades would know that already, however. 

Truth be told, it's been more like one decade. I think I'm well-acquainted with all the 9.95ers though. I don't like GH. What can I say? Maybe I'm wrong about him. He just doesn't strike me as very honest.

The only 2 people I truly listen to are Gerry and Bobby. The rest throw shit at the board or are slow on the draw. 

1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Maybe he figured leaking it and being discussed nationally for 24 hours would get him more publicity and name recognition than a completely surprise pick. 

The only downside of legal NIL to me was knowing players would figure this out and try to increase their early career NIL value by being more flamboyant. 

I don't know if I see this as a byproduct. He gins up his twitter follows by...how many that will make a material difference to whatever NIL deal awaits him when he hits the campus of his choice? Eh. I've got other reasons for thinking this isn't really a direct correlation, but I'm not sure that's for here.  On the other hand, I'm sure many kids will certainly try that strategy...but good luck being on the OL. 

Just now, _Leaf_ said:

Truth be told, it's been more like one decade. I think I'm well-acquainted with all the 9.95ers though. I don't like GH. What can I say? Maybe I'm wrong about him. He just doesn't strike me as very honest.

I don't know how you can hate on him with Geoff Ketchum in the wild...

1 minute ago, _Leaf_ said:

Truth be told, it's been more like one decade. I think I'm well-acquainted with all the 9.95ers though. I don't like GH. What can I say? Maybe I'm wrong about him. He just doesn't strike me as very honest.

That you, Ketch?

1 minute ago, _Leaf_ said:

Truth be told, it's been more like one decade. I think I'm well-acquainted with all the 9.95ers though. I don't like GH. What can I say? Maybe I'm wrong about him. He just doesn't strike me as very honest.

Thanks for dropping by ketch.

12 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

The only 2 people I truly listen to are Gerry and Bobby. The rest throw shit at the board or are slow and the draw. 

Adjusted the above, because "Throw Shit At The Board And Slow On The Draw" is motto worthy, imo. 

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Just now, The Beast said:

Thanks for dropping by ketch.

Now that hurts my feelings.

4 minutes ago, Vermin said:

The Texas recruiting guys have been around forever. I wouldn't imagine they would be taken by a last minute no-visit out of state ploy.

My theory is based on actually picking Texas. If he's not then he's only made himself more well-known to a fanbase (sponsor consumer base) that won't be interested in paying him for his likeness. 

And it's also based on trying to think, or not think, like a high school senior to be. 

4 minutes ago, Vermin said:

The Texas recruiting guys have been around forever. I wouldn't imagine they would be taken by a last minute no-visit out of state ploy.

The no visit part is what bothers me about this. Up above, I said that it would not make sense for him to commit without visits.  I apologize to the Board. I forgot that we are dealing with 17 year old kids. But would the Texas staff even take a no visit commitment? 

Does he even have an offer?

2 minutes ago, _Leaf_ said:

Now that hurts my feelings.

Speaking of possible misdirection, there’s only one way to be sure: 

What do you do in this situation?

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Therefore what Jimbo photoshops has joined together, let no Kirkland separate. 

6 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said:

Speaking of possible misdirection, there’s only one way to be sure: 

What do you do in this situation?

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I don't know but that looks mighty tasty.

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Roach didn't put a crystal ball in because he didn't know what was going on until Gerry reported it. 

 

26 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I want any offensive lineman that Cristobal wants. 

I want any offensive lineman that Flood wants.

24 minutes ago, turtlepond said:

I would prefer to listen to Ketchum…if it concerns Buffalo wings or beef tallow recipes and such. Otherwise…GerryH seems fairly level-headed, and I’m an arms-length type recruiting follower 

I see what you did there

This whole thing is very confusing. I am getting veklempt. 

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Just now, Vertigo said:

This whole thing is very confusing. I am getting veklempt. 

*verklempt. 

1 minute ago, ClubWhatever said:

Gerry.  Dude. 

you getting worked.

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If Kirkland is going to OU and drumming up this stuff just to stick it to Texas, fuck him. Dude will be a bust and good riddance.

If Kirkland goes to Texas, what a wonderful, heartwarming way to fuck with everyone else. Future HOFer and upstanding citizen. 

I did that right, right? 

 

He's not even visited Austin? Doesn't sound like a commit that would stick 

2 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

If Kirkland is going to OU and drumming up this stuff just to stick it to Texas, fuck him. Dude will be a bust and good riddance.

If Kirkland goes to Texas, what a wonderful, heartwarming way to fuck with everyone else. Future HOFer and upstanding citizen. 

I did that right, right? 

 

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1 minute ago, 6th Street said:

He's not even visited Austin? Doesn't sound like a commit that would stick 

You're confusing Austin with Chernobyl East Texas. 

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